Yaacov Apelbaum wrote an amazing investigative piece in September 2019 that is more relevant and timely now. He provides photographic and video proof of how a certain segment in Ukraine has penetrated the U.S. political system. Did you know the following:
- Adam Schiff relied on Igor Pasternak, who was born in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and graduated from Ukraine’s Lviv Polytechnic National University, to raise funds for Schiff’s congressional campaign. Pasternak is a naturalized American citizen.
- Igor Pasternak is tied directly to Nancy Pelosi and Ukraine’s network in the United States.
- Pasternak’s company, Aeros, partnered with the Government of Ukraine in 2015–The Government of Ukraine and Aeroscraft Corporation (Aeros) held a press conference today in Los Angeles, revealing further details about the cooperative partnership to strengthen the border protection agency of Ukraine with additional wide area situational awareness capabilities. The partnership with Ukraine, Aeros, and UkoBoronProm first announced in Kiev earlier this month will see the Ukraine-Russian border protected by a series of Aeros made Elevated Early Warning Systems (EEWS). Senior Ukrainian officials were joined for the conference today by Aeros’ CEO Igor Pasternak and CA State Assemblyman, Matt Dababneh (45th District).
- Notes from the desk of Yaroslav Brisiuck’s the Ukrainain Chargé d’affaires in Washington DC suggest that Democrat operative Alexandra Chalupa could be a long term Ukrainian intelligence asset
- Alexandra Chalupe was involved actively with a Michael Avantti, Linda Sarsour, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, and the August 2020 effort to impeach president Trump.
- Alexandra Chalupa’s Ukrainian handler was Okana Shulyar. Chalupa held multiple intelligence briefing and debriefing sessions regarding president Trump with her handler Okana Shulyar .
- The Atlantic Council is tied closely to Ukraine and Adam Schiff is engaging in intelligence collection and political patronage in Ukraine with his collaborator Geysha Gonzalez (who paid for Schiff’s aid trip), an expert on disinformation, misinformation, and false information, and the Deputy Director of the Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council.
These are not manufactured linkages. Yaacov’s research and evidence pull the curtain back on the Ukrainian corruption that infects Washington, DC.
Here is Yaacov’s piece:
Running for Congress? Short on cash or donations? No need to worry. Now, you too can finance your campaign through a Ukrainian arms producer/exporter. Igor, for example, can host the fundraising events in his $million Washington DC brownstone. He will even throw in the Ukrainian Hors d’Oeuvres, Vodka, and Cigars.
Image 1: Igor Pasternak’s luxury home in DC where in 2013 Adam Schiff used him to host a fundraiser for his congressional run
And the best part is that you never have to worry about paying him back for any of these favors, because it’s all free, no strings attached. After all, everyone knows that Ukrainian arms producers/exporters float the election campaign of congressional candidates like Adam Schiff, and Loretta Sanchez and socially and politically hub nob with Nancy Pelosi because they are just so cuddly.
If you don’t buy any of this, then the following Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, and Alexandra Chalupa linkage agrees with you.
Image 2: Igor hedging his bets at President Trump’s inauguration?
Image 3: How Pasternak floated Adam Schiff’s 2013 election to Congress and his linkage to Nancy Pelosi and the Ukrainian influence network in the US.
Image 4: NADATS a division of Igor Pasternak’s AEROS corporation offering armed blips and surveillance towers with ITAR controlled thermal cameras and personnel tracking radar packages. A 2016 visit by Lindsey Graham, John McCain, and Amy Klobuchar to the Ukrainian ATM machine.
Image 5: Notes from the desk of Yaroslav Brisiuck’s the Ukrainain Chargé d’affaires in Washington DC suggest that Alexandra Chalupa could be a long term Ukrainian intelligence asset.
Image 6: Alexandra Chalupa, Melanne Verveer, and Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur’s Ukraine linkages. Chalupa held multiple intelligence briefing and debriefing sessions regarding president Trump with her handler Okana Shulyar and other Ukrainian embassy diplomats like Andriy Telizhenko.
Image 7: Alexandra Chalupe with a small sampling of friends like Michael Avantti, Linda Sarsour, Andrew McCabe, and their on-going activity to impeach president Trump.
Image 8: Pasternak with President Victor Yanukovich and President Obama
Why offer free Hors d’Oeuvres, Vodka, & Cigars?
| 1 | 10-2013 | The roof of Pasternak manufacturing hangar collapses after he got $35M from the US military and NASA. “The accident is a blow to the hopeful collaboration between the Department of Defense and NASA.” |
| 2 | 03-2014 | Pasternak receives a “Certificate of Honor” from the Ukrainian embassy in the US. The press release cites Pasternak’s “significant contributions to bilateral cooperation.” |
| 3 | 03-2015 | The House Intelligence Committee ranking member Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) joins House Speaker John Boehner in a letter to the White House pushing for arms sales to Ukraine. |
| 4 | 03-2015 | The US announces it is stepping up non-lethal military assistance to Ukraine with a $75 million package that includes armored Humvees and surveillance technology. |
| 5 | 09-2015 | Pasternak’s company, Aeroscraft Corporation, AKA Aeros, issues a press release, announcing a cooperative partnership between Aeros and the Government of Ukraine. “The partnership with Ukraine, Aeros, and UkrOboronProm, first announced in Kiev earlier this month, will see the Ukraine-Russian border protected by a series of Aeros-made Elevated Early Warning Systems (EEWS).” |
| 6 | 09-2015 | Government of Ukraine buys Pasternak’s blips using US taxpayers’ money. |
| 7 | 02-2016 | In addition to the $50 million grant Pasternak receives from the Pentagon to develop prototypes for delivering US military cargo, he also benefits from the $75 million aid package to Ukraine for providing weaponized airships to monitor Ukraine’s borders. |
| 8 | 10-2017 | Pasternak’s Aeroscraft, the American firm partnering with the Ukrainian Weapons manufacturer UkrOboronServis to produce M16s. |
Sourcing
Identifying Igor Pasternak as Ukrainian and as an arms producer/exporter is based on multiple sources including official ATF documents and press interviews with Igor Pasternak. For example, an article titled ‘New Ukrainian M4-WAC47 rifle ‘a strong political message to Russia’ written by Illia Ponomarenko, published January 28, 2018 (using Pasternak as the source) states:
“UkrOboronProm’s (One of Ukraine’s largest arms producers)…signing a memorandum of cooperation with the Aeroscraft (Pasternak’s company), a major aviation and weapons producer founded and directed by Ukrainian immigrant Igor Pasternak.”
In another publication, on July 8, 2016, the KievPost reported:
“Pasternak found himself walking on Kyiv’s central square, Maidan Nezalezhnosti, where the central protest camp was based. “(At that moment) I understood that I am a Ukrainian,” Pasternak said during an interview on Ukrainian television’s Espreso TV shown on April 2015. Before seeing the EuroMaidan protests, he identified as an American. Pasternak then started to visit Ukraine every month or two. In January, he signed a contract for Aeros to supply Ukraine’s State Border Service with a surveillance system to monitor the Sea of Azov.”
References
Please Join Igor Pasternak: Adam Schiff Fundraising Invitation RSVP
Schiff’s staffer travel to Ukraine: Travel cost was covered by the Atlantic Council
Aeroscraft a major weapons producer founded and directed by Ukrainian Igor Pasternak
CEO to Watch: Pasternak identifying himself as a Ukrainian
Producing Ukraine’s New AK-M16 Mashup Rifle: Pasternak’s involvement in an arms deal
Providing surveillance equipment sale to Ukraine: Pasternak’s Ukrainian contracts
Ukraine to Buy 7.62 x 39 mm M16s… from Blimp Impresario?
FEC Complaint: DNC-Chalupa accepting assistance from Ukrainian embassy officials in
Andriy Telizhenko Interview: Ukrainian diplomat confirms working with Chalupa in official capacity
The Mechanics of Deception: The Network, Actors, and the Genesis of the Steele Dossier
Image 9: A sampling of Igor Pasternak’s US real estate
Image 10: The Chalupa family ‘political consulting business’
Image 11: The Pelosi Voronovych (Woronowycz) linkage part-1
Image 12: The Pelosi Voronovych (Woronowycz) linkage part-2
Image 13: The Atlantic Council Ukraine linkage showing that Schiff is engaging in intelligence collection and political patronage in Ukraine and his collaborator Geysha Gonzalez (who paid for Schiff’s aid trip), an expert on disinformation, misinformation, and false information, and the Deputy Director of the Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council.
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Geysha Gonzalez the Deputy Director of the Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council discussing issues related to Russian information warfare during the 2016 elections.
Image 14: The Pelosi Jihadi linkage. A profile of one Ukrainian jihadi NGO which is a front for the Turkish intelligence services.
Image 15: The Gigapixel mosaic was one of the image sources used in the Pasternak face match searches. Source: CNN Trump Inauguration.
Image 16: Multi-classifier verification for Nancy Pelosi’s identity using face recognition, hair parting style, body features such as hand geometry and age spots (on right hand), and the ‘tight lips’ facial expression
*** Update 10/17/2019 ***
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes – Who will Fact Check the Fact Checkers?
Shortly after uploading this post, I was contact by Saranac Spencer Hale, an an investigative reporter with Factcheck.org. Saranac asked me via email to verify that the images in the post were authentic. She also inquired about the face recognition and AI based analytics and wanted to know how the technology worked. I provided her with the details and even demonstrated the Sentinel AI capabilities by running it against one node of her social network (using her email address as the entry point).
After providing her this information, she never responded to my emails or gave me an opportunity to comment about what she was going to publish. Several days ago, she posted a misleading report that falsely claims that I’ve misidentified Randy Credico as Igor Pasternak (the man Nancy Pelosi is shanking hands with in the middle of Image 15).
The fact is that Credico wasn’t event tagged or identified because he was irrelevant to the linkage. The main reason why this image was used is because it contained several of Pelosi’s characteristics that the AI classifier used to verify her identity. These included her face recognition, hair parting style, body features such as hand geometry, the age spots (on her right hand), and the ‘tight lips’ facial expression.
It is clear from the content of Saranac Spencer Hale’s misleading post and its deliberate mischaracterization of the facts that it was designed to attack the Ukrainian linkage between Igor Pasternak, Adam Schiff, and Nancy Pelosi, and to down play Pasternak’s role as an ‘arms dealer’. It is also noteworthy that Snoops.com came up with and identical article shortly afterwards that recycled all of the arguments made by Factcheck.org. This suggests a close collaboration between these two platform and is a good illustration of the MO of internet facts checkers who in reality are little more than progressive political damage control tools and information warfare units that whitewash inconvenient facts.
For the sake of transparency and to allow others who may want to get a first hand view into how the Internet fact checking industry works, I am posting the email thread with Saranac Spencer Hale below:
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Sara,
I have read your fact check and would like to reference this comment:
“Apelbaum told us through email that his company used facial recognition technology to identify Pasternak — although incorrectly in Credico’s case.”
Your statement of me misidentifying Credico as Pasternack is both dishonest and deceitful. I have never claimed to identify Randy Credico as Igor Pasternack or labeled him as an arms dealer. None of my images show Credico with Pasternack’s name.
The image that you are referencing as being a misidentification was used to confirm the identity of Nancy Pelosi. The relevance of the image with Credico is that it contained the following Pelosi reference objects:
- Pelosi’s age spots visible on her right hand (shaking hands with Randy Credico)
- Pelosi’s hand geometry
- Pelosi’s hair parting style
- Pelosi’s facial expression, specifically, her ‘tight lips’
These and other features were then used to confirm Pelosi’s identity in the image with Mr. Pasternak.
I was transparent with you about how our technology works and even went the extra mile to demonstrate the process on a person in your network. I expected that you would have had the decency and give me the courtesy to respond to your false claim before you published your article.
But I guess, that is not how professional fact checkers with an agenda operate.
Best regards,
Yaacov
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From: xxx@xrvision.com
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2019 4:51 AM
To: ‘Spencer, Saranac Hale’ <saranac.spencer@factcheck.org>
Subject: RE: Reporter from FactCheck.org
Hi Sara,
I wanted to follow-up on my last email. Will you be publishing the confirmation of the FR search you inquired about?
Also, find attached a sample run of the Sentinel AI against one person you know. The search used FR, object classifier, and GIS engine, and text analytics. We constrained the parameters to a 60 seconds search, a single relationship node, and the detection of deepfake content. We also striped the search linkage and removed adult content, drugs, and firearm related matches found.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Yaacov
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From: xxx@xrvision.com
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2019 3:55 PM
To: ‘Spencer, Saranac Hale’ <saranac.spencer@factcheck.org>
Subject: RE: Reporter from FactCheck.org
Hi Sara,
The high level overview of the FR process is:
- Ingest any image source (real-time streaming video, video in files, newspapers, images, microfiche, illustrations, CCTV, mobile phone, etc.)
- Optimize the image (poor exposure, illumination, stability, rain, or fog, etc.)
- Reconstruct the image (remove occlusion, compensate for counter detection methods like sunglasses, fake beard or mustache, hats, and scarf)
- Create a 3D facial object so that it can be manipulated in space
- Perform a wide range of analytics on the object including face recognition, age, race, gender, emotional state. We can also plug-in custom analytic such psychiatric and medical indicators
- Fuse and enrich the detection with other sources
I hope this helps,
Yaacov
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From: Spencer, Saranac Hale <saranac.spencer@factcheck.org>
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2019 2:29 PM
To: xxx@xrvision.com
Subject: RE: Reporter from FactCheck.org
Great – could you tell me how this technology works? Do you use standard news video footage? Also, were you able to confirm the identity of Igor Pasternak in the photo where he is shaking Nancy Pelosi’s hand?
Thanks, again,
Sara
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From: xxx@xrvision.com
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2019 2:24 PM
To: Spencer, Saranac Hale <saranac.spencer@factcheck.org>
Subject: RE: Reporter from FactCheck.org
Hi Sara,
Thanks for reaching out. Yes, we did utilize our Sentinel AI face recognition and video analytics platform on the Gigapixel mosaic and confirmed the identify of Igor Pasternak.
Yaacov
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From: Spencer, Saranac Hale <saranac.spencer@factcheck.org>
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2019 2:14 PM
To: Information@XRVision.com
Subject: Reporter from FactCheck.org
Hello –
I’m a reporter at FactCheck.org, a U.S. fact checking organization. A recent claim has been circulating online based, in part, on graphics with your logo on them. Here’s a link to the story that began circulating the claim and the graphics: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/09/breaking-update-speaker-pelosi-and-adam-schiff-connected-to-prominent-ukrainian-arms-dealer-photos/
I’m wondering if your company did, in fact, use facial recognition technology to identify the people indicated in the graphics. I’m particularly interested in whether or not you contributed to the image that’s attached.
You can also reach me by phone at 215-573-9195
Many thanks,
Sara
Incredible research , but with the democrats operatives running wild to stem the unstoppable november loss , will they attack you personally and your site after this post ?
I am not sure sure there will be a midterm election, and if there is it might m 100% mail-in and we will all know what the results of that will be. The Rinos like McConnell, Graham, Romney and the rest have all been on the receiving end of the election fraud for many years, which is why no one wants to look to closely at 2020.
Patriot (FBI) Front is a dry run, to show to everyone what a threat we are. Before November I would not be shocked to see a mass casualty event carried out by another FBI front group to give an excuse to cancel the election. They will say “Russian involvement” in the group. Bombs away.
Nothing is beneath these people. They do not care how many others die as long as they keep their wealth, position and power. They will no doubt sacrifice a few of their own what Oliver Stone refers to as “sacred victims”. It will be a great opportunity to jettison some troublesome players, maybe even take care of the Democrats “Kamala Problem”
They are desperate and brutal and have no principles except to themselves.
At that point Larry’s site will be taken down along with a host of others.
I just got a mail-in ballot here in Maryland.
No doubt a few more copies were delivered to you friendly neighborhood Democrat NGO for the midnight mail services.
It doesn’t matter. There is nobody out there to change the scenario. Do keep up the good work on following the cash flow; it is good to know what these jokers are up to, dems and dumps alike, in hopes that someday we can turn the tide on these scum, you included Donald Dump the June 6th Coward in his General mode and designer coat and winter gloves; you paid to get out of the draft coward.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/top-ranking-senator-declares-punishing-putin-assad-will-never-be-over:
“Idaho Republican Jim Risch was among those attempting to connect the situations of Russia and Syria, arguing that “autocrats are watching our actions.”
“Current and future autocrats are watching our actions. We cannot send the message that we will forget these atrocities over time and welcome Assad back to the international community,” Risch said. He suggested this would send a message to Putin. That’s when he stressed “this will never be over” – referring to US plans to punish and isolate both Assad and Putin.
At a hearing on US policy in Syria — i.e. US military occupation & crippling sanctions — GOP Sen. Jim Risch declares that, like Ukraine, “we can’t have this end… this is something that’s got to go on for a long time.”
Asst. Sec. of State Barbara Leaf agrees. pic.twitter.com/YZsVVskj7s
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) June 9, 2022
Risch said, “We can’t have this thing end – just as what’s happened in Syria… but we can’t have this end and say ‘OK it’s over’.”
“No it’s not over, this will never be over until people are held to account for what they’ve done… this is something that’s got to go on for a long time” – this as already the US has hit both Russia and Syria (which in Syria’s case started years prior) with unprecedented sanctions.
Sen. Risch further lambasted some US allies for recent reported efforts to reestablish positive diplomatic relations and communications with the Assad government in Damascus.
In March for example, President Bashar al-Assad made his first trip to the United Arab Emirates since the Syrian war began in 2011, where he was given red carpet treatment.
Syria was exactly the same script as Ukraine, except this time money went to the the jihadis of ISIS to buy a proxy war with Syria to eventually get at Russia.”
There you go: A perpetuation of proxy wars paid for by NATO and a $700 billion budget plus (really a blank check).
Putin for President of the USA!
A meteor the size of Volkswagen dropped in the right place would solve this problem quickly.
The mail-in ballots are absolutely a source of fraud and it was used to hand the election to Biden and some other candidates. There is normal ballot harvesting – illegal in most states – wherein the register senile people, crack heads, etc and then fill out and submit their ballots. Then there is also just plain fake ballots that are filled out by operatives under fake names/fake registrations. This has been proven to my satisfaction in NY and, I understand, in other key states. In fact, it may have happened in all states for select races. My understanding is that the evidence for all of that is going to be released when all ducks are in a row. Maybe not in time for mid-terms, but definitely prior to 2024.
We must stop the mail-in ballots. If we don’t, we do not have a democratic process and we are stuck with whoever the deep state wants to stick us with. The deep state seems to have very poor judgment.
No one is shocked that these Rinos and Dems are whores, but it is astonishing what cheap whores they are. The Ukrainians probably get 50,000% ROI on these creeps.
Complacency is as bad as participation…
There is plenty of that to go around, this is why I maintain that the Republicans are not going to save us, the Red Wave is a fraud.
They are cheap whores for any given trick they perform. However, they perform a lot of cheap tricks. They make bank on volume. It’s what they do all day, every day.
This is an amazing report. I am sending links to everyone I know.
Your experience with the “fact checkers” is typical, Steve Kirsch actually recorded a conversation with one. She wan’t qualified to fact check that she was getting wet while standing out in the rain.
Lee Stranahan has been reporting a lot of this on Sputnik Radio.
In Image 8, I believe that is not Pasternak with Yanukovitch. Igor is speaking with (probably) then-Ukraine-Pres, Petro “The Chocolate King” Poroshenko.
Yeah, I was going to point out the same thing myself. Yanukovich was the president who was overthrown by the State Department and Pravy Sektor on the Maidan in 2014.
Speaking of censored, Strategic-Culture.org sends me via email the week’s list of articles, then i track ’em sown on alt sites. Here’s some news:
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/06/09/british-mercenaries-ukraine-sentenced-death-pro-russia-separatists/
I saw that. There is probably no benefit top putting two hapless idiots in front of a wall. I’m better this will be leveraged by Russia to let these morons go home in return for something good. The political ramifications at home are substantial and would be the final nail in BoJo the Clown’s Administration
Great research expose.
It’s already established that the US government is a cartel. No term limits. Hereditary seats. Both parties eating like pigs. Insider trading by Congress was legal until about a decade ago.
Can you imagine the ability to make money if you know exactly what’s going to happen? That’s how most of these dirty bunch got rich. Schiff is sickening. Bare faced liar. Pelosi at least you can acknowledge her complete evil iron persona. But Schiff was the face of Democratic Party in russiagate. Lying po faced weasel with bad facelift.
The fact is no one is held accountable for the lies, the set up of Trump, or for paedo Einstein connected politicians etc. List goes on.
Soros has been methodically funding prosecutors, AGs and judicial caliber lawyers for years. Cleverly ensuring that undesirable cases don’t even get a hearing. Strategically he has been very smart in state capture at many levels.
The US justice system is no longer an independent arm of government. It has become the plaything of political parties and billionaires.
I expect this expose will simply join all the others swept under the carpet.
The influence of the US makes its collapse of democracy, via the collapse of the separation of state and independence of the 3 arms of government, a global concern. It’s systems are wide open to local and foreign undue influence.
Short of a re visitation of the constitution egterm limits, dark PACs and restoration of objectivity legal requirement in media (removed by Bush), it’s hard to see a way back. I doubt the US public is ready to throw the whole rotten lot out. The political class has captured the country and the partisan divide leaves little room for alternatives.
Two party states are ultimately more dangerous than one party states as they rely on division and demonization while actually behind the scene most are in bed together.
The one party state has no one else to blame. It is entirely responsible. This oddly, counter intuitively makes one party states more sensitive to public sentiment. I am not saying they are all great places to live. But UAE, Rwanda, Russia, China, Libya under Gadaffi, enjoy better standards of living than some so called two party democratic states (Ukraine, South Sudan).
If the US cannot restore the separation of powers and vote out this current bunch, it’s in serious trouble.
Has anyone posted the results of the midterms yet?
Or is that after the upcoming unannounced visit?
Why of course a Blue Wave with all the Rinos re-elected.
While we want to push Ukraine to some pedestal, the simple truth is that the territory known today as Ukraine was NEVER a proper functioning community, let alone a country., thus, a breading ground for all kind of outside forces (if you can name them they’ve been in Ukraine).
This is not where you want to raise your kids, and as usual the little guys are paying.
I hope Russia, will make some order, and give that territory the well deserved, break to get on with their lives.