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- 1917 JTA Russian President Vladimir Putin said that at least 80 percent of the members of the first Soviet government were Jewish... referencing the library of Rabbi Joseph I. Schneerson, the late leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement... Widely seen as the first Soviet government, the Council of People’s Commissars was formed in 1917 and comprised 16 leaders, including chairman Vladimir Lenin, foreign affairs chief Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin, who was in charge of the People’s Commissariat of Nationalities
- 1999 UNZ ... as the Russian president (Putin) set about consolidating power on one side of the world, he embarked on a project to supplant his country’s existing Jewish civil society and replace it with a parallel structure loyal to him. On the other side of the world, the brash Manhattan developer (Trump) was working to get a piece of the massive flows of capital that were fleeing the former Soviet Union in search of stable assets in the West, especially real estate, and seeking partners in New York with ties to the region. Their respective ambitions led the two men—along with Trump’s future son-in-law Jared Kushner—to build a set of close, overlapping relationships in a small world that intersects on Chabad, an international Hasidic movement most people have never heard of. Starting in 1999, Putin enlisted two of his closest confidants, the oligarchs Lev Leviev and Roman Abramovich, who would go on to become Chabad’s biggest patrons worldwide, to create the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia under the leadership of Chabad rabbi Berel Lazar, who would come to be known as “Putin’s rabbi.” ...
- 1999 Wikipedia...Kuang-Chi has participated in Chinese government initiatives, including the Go Out Policy of investing in international technology and the One Belt One Road Program of engaging with countries in the "Silk Road Economic Belt". In 2016, Kuang-Chi set up an international fund operating out of Shenzhen and Tel Aviv, Israel. The fund planned to invest up to US$300 million as of 2017 ... investment
- notes: Ari Fleischer — White House spokesman for Bush on 9-11; “dual citizen” of US and Israel; connected to the extremist group called the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidics Fleischer was the co-president of Chabad's Capitol Jewish Forum. He received the Young Leadership Award from the American Friends of Lubavitch in October, 2001. see also Eric Cantor, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Joe Lieberman ... Jewish members of Congress regularly attend seminars conducted by a Washington DC Lubavitcher rabbi. The Assistant Secretary of Defense, Paul D. Wolfowitz, the comptroller of the DoD, Dov Zakheim (an ordained Orthodox rabbi), and Stuart Eizenstat, former Deputy Treasury Secretary, are all Lubavitcher groupies. ... The most prominent backer of the Lubavitchers on Capitol Hill is Senator Joseph Lieberman (D.Conn.), an Orthodox Jew, and the former candidate for the Vice-Presidency of the United States. The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), has commended Chabad Lubavitch "ideals" in a Senate floor statement. ... Julius Zakheim (Zhabinka), born in the Ukraine (1870), was a Russian rabbi who married a relative of Karl Marx. He was a Menshevik/Bolshevik and played a leading role in the 1905 turmoil that paved the way for the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. (also the father of Dov Zakheim, Pentagon comptroller 9/11/2001)
- notes: Solzhenitsyn /Guardian ... that its Jewish population should be as offended at their own role in the purges as they are at the Soviet power that also persecuted them. ...
- 2011 FBI.gov... in 2011, Lieber was recruited and employed by the Chinese to conduct scientific research, publish articles in the name of Wuhan University, and recruit top international scientists to work for them as visiting scholars, all the while he was still working at Harvard and receiving millions of dollars in taxpayer funded grants for his research. Lieber even went as far as signing a five-year agreement to set up a joint nanoscience research lab between Wuhan University and Harvard—without Harvard’s knowledge or consent. And when Harvard finally confronted him about it— he allegedly lied to them. Now some of that grant money could be in jeopardy, along with the fruits of his research that we’re at risk of losing to China. It’s a clear-cut case of a conflict of interest, and unfortunately, it’s not an isolated incident.
- 2012 KrebsOnSecurity...According to Columbia, Md.-based threat intelligence firm Cyber Engineering Services Inc. (CyberESI), between Oct. 10, 2011 and August 13, 2012, attackers thought to be operating out of China hacked into the corporate networks of three top Israeli defense technology companies, including Elisra Group, Israel Aerospace Industries, and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. ...According to Columbia, Md.-based threat intelligence firm Cyber Engineering Services Inc. (CyberESI), between Oct. 10, 2011 and August 13, 2012, attackers thought to be operating out of China hacked into the corporate networks of three top Israeli defense technology companies, including Elisra Group, Israel Aerospace Industries, and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. By tapping into the secret communications infrastructure set up by the hackers, CyberESI determined that the attackers exfiltrated large amounts of data from the three companies. Most of the information was intellectual property pertaining to Arrow III missiles, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), ballistic rockets, and other technical documents in the same fields of study.
- 2012 KrebsOnSecurity... The Comment Crew is the same hacking outfit profiled in a February 2013 report by Alexandria, Va. based incident response firm Mandiant, which referred to the group simply by it’s official designation — “P.L.A. Unit 61398.” In May 2014, the U.S. Justice Department charged five prominent military members of the Comment Crew with a raft of criminal hacking and espionage offenses against U.S. firms....
- 2016 IPWatchDog...Patently Surreal: The Obama Strategic Plan on IP Enforcement ... It is almost impossible to believe this report is the work product of the Obama Administration. The section on patents, which begins on page 134, reads like a cross between a Monty Python skit and a Soviet era, propaganda laden news report ... Simply stated, the Obama Administration can write all they want about the importance of the patent system and how patents are critically important for innovation, but the reality is that the future of American innovation has been forfeited (or at least heavily mortgaged) by a calculated, intentional, and willful dismantling of the U.S. patent system for the benefit a handful of politically well connected companies that helped President Obama get elected and then re-elected. ...
- 2017 Oct-Apr 2019 Factcheck.No Link Between Harvard Scientist Charles Lieber and Coronavirus..In one case ... Yanqing Ye, a 29-year-old who studied at Boston University from October 2017 to April 2019, admitted to being a lieutenant in the Chinese army. She allegedly lied about her ongoing position in the military to get her visa, and while in the U.S. researched American military projects and compiled online information about two professors working in the fields of computer security and intelligent robotics. Ye was indicted on four counts, including visa fraud, making false statements, acting as an agent of a foreign government and conspiracy....The other case involves Zaosong Zheng, a 30-year-old Chinese national who had conducted cancer research at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and attempted to smuggle 21 vials of biological specimens (for cancer research) out of the country.
- 2018 Jul ..Cen...n late March, the U.S. Justice Department indicted nine Iranians and accused them of breaking into the computer systems of 144 U.S. universities and 176 foreign universities in 21 countries. The hackers worked at the Mabna Institute, an Iranian government-sponsored body set up in 2013. Its purpose, prosecutors said, was to help Iranian universities, scientific organizations, and research groups steal access to non-Iranian scientific resources. ... Between 2013 and 2017, the hackers waged a phishing campaign targeting more than 100,000 academic email accounts. They succeeded in compromising the accounts of about 8,000 professors, prosecutors said. The hackers then allegedly used the pilfered credentials to steal research and other academic data, such as journals, theses, dissertations, and electronic books. The hackers’ shopping list included information in all fields of academic research. Prosecutors calculated the value of the pilfered research to U.S. universities at about $3.4 billion. In all, they said, the hackers stole 31.5 terabytes—about 35 billion pages—of academic data. ... Testifying before a U.S. Senate intelligence committee hearing in February, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray said the institutes are “one of the many tools they take advantage of” to access U.S. technology. He warned that China is using Chinese students and academicians on campus as spies.
- 2018 Jul ..Atlantic.....The U.S. Is Worried About China’s Investments—This Time in Israel The U.S. has long warned about encroaching Chinese influence around the world. And it’s touching America’s closest allies. KATHY GILSINAN JULY 11, 2019 Enjoy unlimited access to The Atlantic for less than $1 per week. Sign in Subscribe Now ETIENNE OLIVEAU / POOL / REUTERS Link Copied Updated on July 12 at 2:38 p.m. ET U.S. national-security officials have for years warned developing nations about the dangers of allowing Chinese investment in their countries. But now the Defense Department is worried about China’s investments in one of America’s closest allies, Israel. China’s ultimate aim, defense officials fear, is the same as the one it has pursued in Africa, East Asia, and elsewhere: to chip away at America’s influence. For the U.S., a Chinese incursion in Israel, which cooperates with Washington on some of the most sensitive national-security issues—including Iran’s regional activities and the ongoing fight against the Islamic State—is especially concerning ... within three years, a Chinese state-owned company is expected to operate part of the Haifa port, near an Israeli naval base that serves as a frequent port of call for the U.S. Navy’s Sixth Fleet. China’s investment in the port prompted a rare objection from the U.S. Navy to Israeli counterparts ... certain commercial deals, particularly in the technology sector, could be a back door to Chinese spying in sensitive national-security realms.
- 2018 Jul ..Breitbart.....Six Ways China Uses Economic Villainy to Edge Out Competitors ... Much of China’s intellectual property theft is, however, entirely legal and actively aided by the Chinese government. Sometimes foreign companies are required to hand over technology as a condition of doing business in China. Other times they are forced into “partnerships” with Chinese companies that copy their designs and appropriate their proprietary data. ... The Pentagon published a report in September expressing concern about the large number of Chinese researchers and technology experts hired by American universities and corporations, a practice that began as an effort by American employers to game the system and obtain highly-skilled labor at bargain prices but may have created an enormous institutional security vulnerability ... Debt imperialism: Western governments have denounced China’s vast Belt and Road infrastructure project as a form of debt imperialism. Stated simply, China proposes enormous transportation and energy projects in developing nations, pressures them into taking out loans from Chinese banks they can never repay, and creates permanent dependency upon Chinese firms and their engineers to keep the projects running. Critics, including local opposition in the targeted countries, compare the practice to old-fashioned colonialism. ...
- 2019 Jul 23..TimesofIsrael...Representatives from dozens of Israeli companies will journey from Tel Aviv to the Chinese city of Jinan in the coming days in search of investors willing to pump money into their firms. The group, which will be meeting investors at a one-day conference, are part of a surging crop of Israelis who are looking toward the east for funding. But they are doing so at what some might consider a particularly awkward time, as concerns over Chinese investments around the world have reached a fever pitch over trade imbalances, intellectual property theft, spying and the Asian tiger’s larger ambitions in the world.
- 2019 Jul 23..Yahoo...FBI: 1,000 probes into Chinese intellectual property theft ... the problem has been exacerbated by Beijing's "Thousand Talents" program which offers financial awards to Chinese professionals overseas who bring advanced technology back to China. ... In June the US Department of Energy moved to block its scientists from participating in the "Thousand Talents" program in order to protect US competitive strengths and national security. Wray said the Chinese government is using "not just government officials, but private sector entities, non-traditional collectors, etc, to steal their way up the economic ladder at our expense."
- 2019 Jul 24..CGTN.....'We don't steal': China slams FBI's intellectual property theft accusation
- 2019 Jul 24..Breitbart......FBI Director Wray: 1,000 Open Investigations into Chinese Intellectual Property Theft ... told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday his agency has almost a thousand open investigations into intellectual property theft, almost all of them “leading back to China.”... “The difference between the Chinese government and its private sector is not really a difference.” ...
- 2019 Sep..Breitbart...Tech Entrepreneur Explains How Wall Street Sells Us Out to China ... A US and a Chinese flag wave outside a commercial building in Beijing, 09 July 2007.… Foreign states — including China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia — procure intellectual property (IP) developed in America via venture capital (VC) operations, explained entrepreneur Jim Phillips, CEO of NANOMECH and founder of QuSHELL, in a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Rick Manning .. 60 to 65 percent of the GDP valuation is based on intellectual property. We’re having it stolen, just non-stop. You hear about it in the news, but you don’t hear a lot about how to prevent it.” ... China employs tens of thousands of hackers as part of its mission to displace the United States and broader West, ... “[FBI told me] they’ve got 40,000 to 50,000 armed — literally — in-uniform hackers that are coming up against you,” stated Phillips, “and there are other countries out there, too.” ... “Tech transfer commercialization,” explained Phillips, is a term describing foreign acquisition of IP — either via theft or procurement — originally owned or held by American individuals or businesses. “It’s $600 billion to a trillion dollars a year we’re losing as a country,” said Philips of America’s IP losses.
- 2019 Oct 6..KPIX/CBS...FBI Warns U.S. Colleges of China Security Attacks, Intellectual Property Theft ... the U.S. warned allies around the world that Chinese tech giant Huawei was a security threat, the FBI was making the same point quietly to a Midwestern university. In an email to the associate vice chancellor for research at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, an agent wanted to know if administrators believed Huawei had stolen any intellectual property from the school.
- 2019 Oct 12..Breitbart.....Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said on Friday that he and other officials will “call out” China for “foreign interference in universities” and cyberattacks used to steal intellectual properties. ... Dutton also criticized China’s Belt and Road initiative of “roads, railways and seaports … being built to facilitate trade and link China’s economy to two-thirds of the world’s population, with about 7,000 projects to be completed in more than 70 Asian, African and European countries,” ... “The cyber world that we’re on the cusp of is hardly imagined by many Australians,” Dutton said. “5G, the internet of things, the connectivity, buildings of devices around the world that will be upon us within a matter of years is part of the reason the Government made a decision not to allow certain vendors into the 5G market.” ... Prime Minister Scott Morrison declined to confirm if China was behind a cyber attack on Canberra’s Parliament House ahead of the May election, after reports emerged intelligence officials had concluded that was the case. ...
- 2019 Dec 10..Breitbart...Apple recently told a federal court that it has “deep concerns” that two Chinese-born former employees accused of stealing trade secrets may attempt to flee to the communist country before their trial if not closely monitored. ...Prosecutors argued during a hearing on Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California that Xiaolang Zhang and Jizhong Chen should continue to be monitored as they pose a potential flight risk. ...
Three Apple employees were present to support prosecutors during the hearing including Anthony DeMario, a strategic adviser to Apple’s global security group and veteran of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) .
Despite the threats to its intellectual property, Apple continues to do business in China. In October, investors praised CEO Tim Cook for his dealings with the communist country....
- 2019 Dec 27..NationalInterest...China Might Have Stolen The Secrets To Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense..(did Israel actually assist?) ..
A cybersecurity firm reports that Chinese hackers have stolen technical data for the Iron Dome rocket-defense system from Israeli computers.
Maryland-based Cyber Engineering Services detected the cyber burglary, according to cybersecurity writer Brian Krebs.
“Between Oct. 10, 2011 and Aug. 13, 2012, attackers thought to be operating out of China hacked into the corporate networks of three top Israeli defense technology companies, including Elisra Group, Israel Aerospace Industries, and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems,” Krebs writes. CyberESI believes the culprits were the “Comment Crew,” a hacking group sponsored by the Chinese military. Mandiant, a Virgina-based cybersecurity firm, has further identified this group as “the 2nd Bureau of the People’s Liberation Army General Staff Department’s 3rd Department, which is most commonly known by its Military Unit Cover Designator as Unit 61398.” Unit 61398 has been so aggressive in stealing American secrets that the U.S. Justice Department indicted four alleged members last May. The FBI wanted poster shows two of the men wearing what appear to be Chinese military uniforms. ...
- 2020 Jan 27 ChemistryWorld...Theft of universities’ secrets fuels US crackdown on Chinese talent programmes ... The US Justice Department (DOJ) announced just before Christmas that it had reached a $5.5 million (£4.24 million) settlement with the Michigan-based Van Andel Research Institute over allegations that it failed to disclose that the Chinese government was funding two of its researchers....
- 2020 Jan 28 VeteransToday...Harvard Chemistry Professor Arrested, Handcuffed, And Accused Of Lying About Ties To China. Charles Lieber, Chair of Harvard’s Department of Chemical Biology, led a Chinese research group focusing on the use of nanotechnology to identify viruses.
- ...On January 28, 2020, Lieber was charged with two federal counts of making a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement about his links to a Chinese university. According to the Department of Justice's charging document[78], there are two counts of alleged crime committed by Lieber. First, during an interview by DoD on April 24, 2018, Lieber was asked whether he was involved in the Thousand Talents Program. Lieber stated that "he was never asked to participate in the Thousand Talents Program", adding that "he 'wasn't sure' how China categorized him." The DOJ believes that Lieber's statement was false, because an intercepted email dated June 27, 2012, from Wuhan University of Technology ("WUT") included a contract for Lieber to sign. Second, in November 2018, the NIH inquired of Harvard University about Lieber's foreign affiliations. In January 2019, Harvard interviewed Lieber and reported to NIH that Lieber "had no formal association with WUT" after 2012. The DOJ believes Lieber's statement was false. Lieber was charged with two counts of violating 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2), one on April 24, 2018, and one in January 2019 for making the allegedly false statements. During his arraignment, authorities executed search warrants at the home and office in Lexington, Massachusetts. The charges against Lieber carry a sentence of five years in federal prison and a quarter million dollar fine. Lieber has been placed on paid administrative leave by Harvard.
- 2020 Jan 28 Zerohedge...Harvard Chemistry Chair & Two Chinese Nationals Arrested For Lying About China Ties, Smuggling "Biological Material" ... - a federal court unsealed indictments against Harvard professor and Chemistry Department Head Charles Lieber, along with two Chinese nationals. One is a Boston University researcher who was once a lieutenant in the People’s Liberation Army, according to prosecutors, and the second was a cancer researcher who tried to smuggle 21 vials of biological materials in his sock - allegedly. ....Though the official charge was lying to investigators, Lieber's actions look like an unvarnished attempt at espionage, complete with an extremely seductive monetary reward. ... Lieber was reportedly paid $50,000 a month by Wuhan University of Technology for participating in its "Thousand Talents" program, and was given more than $1.5 million to establish a lab and do research at Wuhan University of Technology, according to federal prosecutors in Boston, according to WSJ. ... According to prosecutors, Lieber deliberately lied to defense department officials about his "foreign research collaborations." When Defense Department investigators asked Mr. Lieber in 2018 about his foreign research collaborations, he told them he had never been asked to participate in the Thousand Talents Program, the complaint said. But Mr. Lieber had signed such a talent contract with Wuhan University in 2012, the complaint said. NIH also asked Harvard about Mr. Lieber’s affiliation with Wuhan that same year, the complaint said. After interviewing Mr. Lieber, Harvard told NIH in January 2019 that Mr. Lieber had no formal affiliation with Wuhan after 2012 and that he had never participated in the Thousand Talents Program, even though Mr. Lieber had a formal relationship with the university through 2017, the complaint said. In conjunction with the program, Mr. Lieber became a “strategic scientist” at Wuhan University of Technology, according to the complaint. For “significant periods” from 2012 to 2017, his contract called for a $50,000 a month salary on top of $150,000 in living expenses paid by WUT, it said. He was also awarded more than $1.5 million by WUT and the Chinese government to set up a research lab, it said. “The charges brought by the U.S. government against Professor Lieber are extremely serious,” a Harvard spokesman said Tuesday. “Harvard is cooperating with federal authorities, including the National Institutes of Health, and is initiating its own review of the alleged misconduct. Professor Lieber has been placed on indefinite administrative leave.” ...not long after news of the arrests hit the press, another report surfaced claiming China had rejected President Trump's offer of assistance to contain the coronavirus - even as Wuhan is in desperate need of supplies.
- 2020 Feb 3 Sofrep...In federal indictments that were released on Tuesday, Ye, Dr. Charles Lieber, Chairman of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, and Chinese national Zaosong Zheng, were accused of spying for China and hiding their connections to the Chinese government. Lieber, who was arrested Tuesday morning, was charged with one count of making a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement. From 2012 to 2017, Lieber became a “strategic scientist” at the Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China and during that time took part in the “Thousand Talents Plan”. That program seeks foreign talent to willingly give up information from their own countries to the Chinese. ... Lieber is considered a pioneer in the realm of nanoscience and his research is an integral part of the ambitious program of Elon Musk to supercharge the human brain with nanotechnology...Chemistry, nanotechnology, polymer studies, robotics, computer science, biomedical research — this is not an accident or a coincidence,” U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling said in a press conference earlier this week.
- 2020 Feb 10..Breitbart...Prosecutors charged four members of a secretive electronic-espionage branch of the People’s Liberation Army with breaking into the networks of the Equifax credit reporting agency and stealing the personal information of 145 million Americans. ... The four — members of the People’s Liberation Army, an arm of the Chinese military — are also accused of stealing the company’s trade secrets, law enforcement officials said. “Unfortunately, the Equifax hack fits a disturbing and unacceptable pattern of state-sponsored computer intrusions and thefts by China and its citizens that have targeted personally identifiable information, trade secrets, and other confidential information,” Barr said. ... The Obama administration in 2014 charged five Chinese military hackers with breaking into the networks of major American corporations to siphon trade secrets.
- notes: Chabad ... According to the Jerusalem Post of October 19, 2001, "Chabad is a potent force: 2,600 institutions around the world, large numbers of English-speaking rabbis, control of most of Judaism in Italy as well as the chief rabbinate of Russia (its Russia budget alone is $20 million a year). It is an organization with immense world-wide financial resources . . . In fact, Chabad is a movement of monumental importance. Observant Jews are profoundly dependent on its emissaries all over the world . . . its rabbis dominate or are poised to ... The Jewish Virtual Library tells a similar story: "More than 3,700 emissary couples work in more than 100 countries worldwide. Since 1995, more than 400 shlichim (emissaries) were assigned to new posts and more than 500 new Chabad institution [sic] have been established, bringing the total to nearly 2,600 institutions (seminaries, day camps, schools, etc) worldwide. According to headquarters, almost one million children participates [sic] in Chabad activities worldwide in 1999."... Upon seizing the reins of government, the new Noachide leaders will move quickly to implement a full agenda of reform. All economic and technological aid to the Communist ... Bloc, including the PLO, will be terminated immediately. Full support will be given to Israeli forces to reinvade PLO-controlled areas, with military assistance offered where necessary. Jewish courts (the batei dini of the rabbis) will be granted full legal sovereignty over Jewish citizens within each country, who will no longer be subject to the authority of gentile courts. The pre-existing Noachide judges and courts will replace the existing court system of each country, and the legal code will be drastically rewritten to conform to halacha [Jewish law] . . . And law and order will be fully restored through the establishment of internal security measures, again in accordance with Torah law... source NFU
- 2020 Feb 19 South China Morning Post.... The Trump administration is adopting increasingly aggressive tactics in its bid to counter Chinese theft of trade secrets with the arrest of a prominent Harvard professor and high-profile investigations into top universities. The move against one of the nation’s foremost scientists – Charles Lieber, chairman of the Harvard chemistry department – and the threat of criminal charges against Harvard, Yale and other prestigious universities over reporting violations has sent shock waves through the staid scientific establishment. ... Lieber is Caucasian. He and leading universities are also being accused of failing to disclose ties to China rather than actual espionage or industrial theft. ... and ... US Education Department investigations into top colleges and universities for failing to disclose some US$6.5 billion in foreign gifts from China and other countries in violation of federal law. ... Thousand Talents Plan was launched in 2008 to recruit foreign scientists ....Lieber’s arrest dovetails with Washington’s aggressive “China Initiative”, which began in 2018. Earlier this month, the Trump administration launched a “whole of society” counter-intelligence strategy to further guard against Beijing “stealing our technology and intellectual property in an effort to erode United States economic and military superiority”, the administration said...FBI agents are investigating an estimated 1,000 China-related cases from its 56 field offices, Wray said, while US attorneys in five cities oversee their prosecutions. Law enforcement authorities have arrested 19 people in such cases since October, compared with 24 the previous year. ...
- 2020 Mar 1... Lubavitch...13 Chabad Houses Across China Launch a Week Long Campaign to Boost Financial Support due to the Coronavirus Crisis ... Just a month ago, China was home to 10,000 Jews. Today, amidst the outbreak of the Coronavirus, the Jewish population in China has dropped to approximately 250 residents. ...no foot traffic at 13 Chabad houses...funding for these vital institutions has all but dried up, leaving these thirteen integral Jewish centers in crisis.
- 2020 Apr 2... HarvardCrimson...Three Harvard Teaching Hospitals Report High Numbers of Coronavirus-Infected Employees ... Three Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals — Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital — have reported high numbers of coronavirus cases among employees. ... As of Tuesday afternoon, 115 employees at Brigham and Women’s had tested positive, according to the hospital’s COVID-19 webpage. In addition, the hospital is currently housing 43 COVID-19 inpatients, 17 of whom require intensive care. There are also 28 admitted patients under investigation for potential coronavirus infection. ...
- 2020 Apr 12... YouTube.... China Admits Engineering CoVID-15/SARS For USAID/Thousand Talents Program/PREDICT Program $375M Grant Funding: This work was jointly funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (81290341, 31621061) to ZLS, China Mega-Project for Infectious Disease (2014ZX10004001-003) to ZLS, Scientific and technological basis special project (2013FY113500) to YZZ and ZLS from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDPB0301) to ZLS, the National Institutes of Health (NIAID R01AI110964), the USAID Emerging Pandemic Threats (EPT) PREDICT program to PD and ZLS, CAS Pioneer Hundred Talents Program to JC, NRF-CRP grant (NRF-CRP10-2012-05) to LFW and WIV “One-Three-Five” Strategic Program (WIV-135-TP1) to JC and ZLS. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. What host reaction do you think may be a cause of death in COVID-19 cases? Charles Lieber participated in Thousand Talents program.
- 2020 Apr 26..StrategicCulture...Facebook Says Israeli Spyware Company Ran Vast Hacking Operation in the United States ... Lawsuit reveals extent of Israeli spyware company’s U.S. operation ... Last October, Facebook (which owns WhatsApp) sued NSO over the breach, claiming that the company was unable to break Facebook’s encryption, but infected the phones of many users..However, in this week’s court proceedings Facebook attorneys demonstrated how the company purchased server space in the United States. Forbes’s Thomas Brewster reports that NSO had a contract with California-based QuadraNet and used its server over 700 times during the attack. “Facebook’s lawyers then revealed a handful of subdomains – sip.nsogroup.com, sip.qtechnologies.com, and sip.2access.xyz – that were all hosted on IP address Amazon servers from at least January 2, 2019, through at least November 24, 2019, which encompassed the dates of the attacks,” writes Brewster...Israeli Minister of Defense Naftali Bennett publicly celebrated the fact that the Israeli military had worked with NSO in developing a system to give each citizen a score for determining their chance of getting COVID-19...
- 2020 Apr 26..ActivistPost...I...CV-1984: China Rolls Out Test Of Digital Currency In Four Cities, Western Businesses Testing ... After the coronavirus caused China to shut down most of its businesses, and cities, the country is now striking back hard by releasing a digital currency and national blockchain. China’s central bank The People’s Bank Of China, began testing its new digital Yuan’s interface on April 14th with one of its largest banks, the Agricultural Bank of China, rolling out a test UI. Two weeks later, there are reports that a pilot has been launched. Nineteen restaurants and retail establishments including popular Western restaurant chains like Starbucks, McDonald’s and Subway are participating in the test, Bitcoin.com reported. The test run is taking place in at least four cities in China—Shenzhen, Suzhou, Chengdu and Xiong’an, according to China’s central bank which confirmed the test of its new digital Yuan officially called “Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP)” to the Wall Street Journal.
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