Latest S2 Update on Ukraine

[727Sky]

Reportedly the ship was being towed to dock but has sunk.

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

Reportedly the ship was being towed to dock but has sunk.

I am not pro Russia, but doesn't all of this show that the Russian's are not being as aggressive as they could be?

I am sure Russia has more than one ship. And I don't think they would use the best they have to rein in the Ukraine, when there are much bigger fish in the ocean waiting for them to exhaust their resources.

I am not a military war expert, but I would not use up my resources on the Ukraine, and if the Ukraine started to become more than a nuisance, while I wait for them to run out of support, from milking all of my enemies dry, then I would just take off the gloves, and bring the whole thing to screaming halt in less than a week.

It is not like they are trying to win a popularity contest, and they are not sending out constant request all over the media, and the internet, asking for donations or resources.

The media can't have it both ways. They can't keep saying the Ukraine is winning and Russian is weak, and has been defeated, and humiliated, then keep reporting on how weak and destitute the Ukraine is, so keep sending your money and your weapons.

I call BS on all of it.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Psychological warfare hits another level of darkness...

Ukraine is scanning faces of dead Russians, then contacting the mothers (WaPo story)

Ukrainian officials have run more than 8,600 facial recognition searches on dead or captured Russian soldiers in the 50 days since Moscow’s invasion began, using the scans to identify bodies and contact hundreds of their families in what may be one of the most gruesome applications of the technology to date.

The country’s IT Army, a volunteer force of hackers and activists that takes its direction from the Ukrainian government, says it has used those identifications to inform the families of the deaths of 582 Russians, including by sending them photos of the abandoned corpses.

The Ukrainians champion the use of face-scanning software from the U.S. tech firm Clearview AI as a brutal but effective way to stir up dissent inside Russia, discourage other fighters and hasten an end to a devastating war.

But some military and technology analysts worry that the strategy could backfire, inflaming anger over a shock campaign directed at mothers who may be thousands of miles from the drivers of the Kremlin’s war machine.

The West’s solidarity with Ukraine makes it tempting to support such a radical act designed to capitalize on family grief, said Stephanie Hare, a surveillance researcher in London. But contacting soldiers’ parents, she said, is “classic psychological warfare” and could set a dangerous new standard for future conflicts.

“If it were Russian soldiers doing this with Ukrainian mothers, we might say, ‘Oh, my God, that’s barbaric,’ ” she said. “And is it actually working? Or is it making them say: ‘Look at these lawless, cruel Ukrainians, doing this to our boys?’ ”

Clearview AI’s chief executive, Hoan Ton-That, told The Washington Post that more than 340 officials across five Ukrainian government agencies now can use its tool to run facial recognition searches whenever they want, free of charge.

Clearview employees now hold weekly, sometimes daily, training calls over Zoom with new police and military officials looking to gain access. Ton-That recounted several “‘oh, wow’ moments” as the Ukrainians witnessed how much data — including family photos, social media posts and relationship details — they could gather from a single cadaver scan.

Some of them are using Clearview’s mobile app to scan faces while on the battlefield, he said. Others have logged in for training while stationed at a checkpoint or out on patrol, the night sky visible behind their faces.

“They’re so enthusiastic,” Ton-That said. “Their energy is really high. They say they’re going to win, every call.”

The company, Ton-That said, first offered its services last month to Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense after he saw Russian propaganda claiming that soldiers captured there were actors or frauds.

The system had primarily been used by police officers and federal investigators in the United States to see whether a photo of a suspect or witness matched any others in their database of 20 billion images taken from social media and the public Internet.

But about 10 percent of the database has come from Russia’s biggest social network, VKontakte, known as VK, making it a potentially useful tool for battlefield scans, Ton-That said.

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Ton-That said the company’s sole ambition is to help defend a besieged country. But he also acknowledged the war has helped provide a “good example for other parts of the U.S. government to see how these use cases work.”

“This is a new war,” he said. And the Ukrainians are “very creative with what they’ve been able to do.”

Irrespective of the ethics of sending mothers pictures of their dead sons, this appears to be a data harvesting scheme by Clearview.

Clearview AI is used in Indiana Department of Corrections photos sent to prisons via snail mail or through prison tablets. The photos are then cross-referenced against social media/dataset sites like classmates, etc. The new datasets and connections are then sold to LEO.

If you send a picture to a prisoner, and someone you are connected with via facebook sends a photo to a separate prisoner, any shared contacts on social media between you & four people are now flagged by CVAI (and thus law enforcement).

"The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It" (18 January 2020)

Clearview AI aims to put almost every human in facial recognition database (Feb 2022)

The controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI reportedly told investors that it aims to collect 100 billion photos—supposedly enough to ensure that almost every human will be in its database.

"Clearview AI is telling investors it is on track to have 100 billion facial photos in its database within a year, enough to ensure 'almost everyone in the world will be identifiable,' according to a financial presentation from December obtained by The Washington Post," the Post reported today. There are an estimated 7.9 billion people on the planet.

As the Post noted, "Clearview has built its database by taking images from social networks and other online sources without the consent of the websites or the people who were photographed. Facebook, Google, Twitter, and YouTube have demanded the company stop taking photos from their sites and delete any that were previously taken. Clearview has argued its data collection is protected by the First Amendment."

The increase in photos could be paired with an expanded business model. Clearview "wants to expand beyond scanning faces for the police, saying in the presentation that it could monitor 'gig economy' workers and is researching a number of new technologies that could identify someone based on how they walk, detect their location from a photo or scan their fingerprints from afar," the Post wrote.

Clearview is facing various privacy lawsuits and lost an important ruling Monday in a case over whether the company violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act by collecting and using facial images without people's consent. A federal judge "rejected Clearview's First Amendment defense, denied the company's motion to dismiss, and allowed the lawsuits to move forward," the Electronic Frontier Foundation wrote yesterday. "This is an important victory for our privacy over Clearview's profits."

A long list of dystopian movies come to mind.

[727Sky]

War is a dirty cruel business especially when war fighting is turned against the non combatants..IE you, me, and mothers

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Sunk Russian Flagship May Have Carried Nuclear Warheads: Report

On Thursday, the Moskva, Russia’s Black Sea flagship, sank after an explosion, raising fears that the ship may have harbored nuclear warheads, a so-called “broken-arrow” incident. Ukraine claimed it had struck the ship with two Neptune cruise missiles fired by a coastal battery; Russia claims an ammunition fire contributed to the sinking.

“Mykhailo Samus, director of a Lviv-based military think-tank; Andriy Klymenko, editor of Black Sea News; and Ukrainian newspaper Defence Express all warned today that the Moskva was designed to carry warheads which could be fitting into the nose of its supersonic P-1000 missiles – designed to take out American aircraft carriers,” The Daily Mail reported.

From a supposed piece of the "True Cross" to nukes. Might as well throw in Templar's treasure to the Holy Grail.


Where's Howard Hughes, when you need him...

Glomar Explorer - the CIA and Howard Hughes' Attempt to Raise a Sunken Russian Submarine

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Reportedly the ship was being towed to dock but has sunk.

I am not pro Russia, but doesn't all of this show that the Russian's are not being as aggressive as they could be?

I am sure Russia has more than one ship. And I don't think they would use the best they have to rein in the Ukraine, when there are much bigger fish in the ocean waiting for them to exhaust their resources.

I am not a military war expert, but I would not use up my resources on the Ukraine, and if the Ukraine started to become more than a nuisance, while I wait for them to run out of support, from milking all of my enemies dry, then I would just take off the gloves, and bring the whole thing to screaming halt in less than a week.

It is not like they are trying to win a popularity contest, and they are not sending out constant request all over the media, and the internet, asking for donations or resources.

The media can't have it both ways. They can't keep saying the Ukraine is winning and Russian is weak, and has been defeated, and humiliated, then keep reporting on how weak and destitute the Ukraine is, so keep sending your money and your weapons.

I call BS on all of it.

The Russian advancements are special military operations. It is not the intent to occupy. There is a plan that includes collecting evidence on certain crimes that have taken place. Including funded gencocide (paramilitary black sun cult groups / bioterror labs etc.

This  against the NWO and clean up operation. The removal of a puppet government installed after Soros backed social change and manipulation. Human trafficking hub (and the rest)..Deepstate money laundering center. All directly linked to the  officialdom in the USA that are now in hot water with the Durham investigation. The rabbit hole does not stop there either.

Enjoy the show

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Psychological warfare hits another level of darkness...

That use of the Clearview AI like that is pretty messed up stuff.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

As the scorched Earth turns...

Some good views of Russian strikes on a claimed NATO weapons depot in Lvov: https://www.bitchute.com/video/44FoCSN5aYWV/

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Wait for it ...

[727Sky]

The big bolder rock of war is starting to move down the slope, which is very hard to get to rolling, however once it picks up speed it is best to get out of its' way.