>>19902345

TYB

Gaza infrared heat sources. Nov 5 2130 Zulu and 2145 Zulu.

https://zoom.earth/maps/satellite/#view=31.491232,34.445743,11z/date=2023-11-05,21:30/overlays=heat

https://zoom.earth/maps/satellite/#view=31.491232,34.445743,11z/date=2023-11-05,21:45/overlays=heat

>>19902560

https://ollielballinger.users.earthengine.app/view/ship-detection-tool#lon=32.2868;lat=32.9921;zoom=9;

>>19902658

That's easy anon. Water droplet on the camera lens.

In a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, Freese and her colleagues suggest that a "Dark Big Bang" may have "occurred when the universe was less than one month old.

https://futurism.com/second-dark-big-bang

It’s not typical for the Justice Department to get involved in breaking up local prostitution rings, but the sex-network bust federal prosecutors announced on Wednesday wasn’t an ordinary operation.

The sex workers catered to the well-to-do, powerful and influential professionals of Washington and Boston who now face public exposure and criminal sentences.

Prosecutors announced the arrest of three people who operated the prostitution ring out of luxury apartments just outside Boston and in McLean, Virginia, a suburb of Washington and one of the most expensive cities in the U.S.

In a public statement, Justice Department officials only named the three men arrested for running the operation.

The clients’ identities were kept secret, but it’s unlikely they will be shielded for long.

The Justice Department’s decision to get involved in the case, say those familiar with the process, centers on the list of powerful “johns” or clients.“This is all sad stuff, but it rarely rises to the level of the Department of Justice,” former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told The Washington Times. “This is exactly the type of case that had it not been for the johns, it would probably just be handled locally.”

Federal prosecutors decided not to leave the case to the police departments in Fairfax and McLean, Virginia, or Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts.

A 60-page affidavit provides clues as to why the Justice Department has taken on the case.

It described a wide array of customers, among them politicians, military officers, professors, lawyers, pharmaceutical and tech executives, scientists and government contractors with security clearances. They visited prostitutes in McLean and the Massachusetts cities of Watertown and Cambridge in apartments costing $3,700 in monthly rent.

Clients were required to provide not only their full name and other identifying information but an employer reference.

Many of their names are now in the hands of the Justice Department.

“Prosecutors love to go after high-level folks because they can make a name for themselves,” Mr. Rahmani said.

Special Agent Zachary Mitlitsky, the lead investigator, said he believes there are potentially hundreds of “yet to be identified” customers from different professions. He made a point of explaining why the Justice Department has not named any of the men — yet.

“I do not do this for purposes of maintaining their anonymity, but instead do so because our investigation into their involvement in prostitution is active and ongoing,” Mr. Mitlitsky said.

Criminal justice experts say it’s likely federal prosecutors are working on plea agreements in exchange for cooperation from those they have identified as the brothels’ clients.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/nov/11/feds-peruse-client-list-of-powerful-johns-after-bu/

Operators last name Lee. Likely CCP blackmail intelligence/influence campaign.

Xi Jinping’s ‘Old Friends’ from Iowa Get a Dinner Invitation

Jennifer Jacobs

Sat, November 11, 2023 at 12:25 PM CST·4 min read

(Bloomberg) – A group of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “old friends” from Iowa have been invited to a dinner he will attend in California next week — 38 years after they welcomed the then-unknown party official for a hog roast, farm tours and a Mississippi River boat ride as they showed him how capitalists do agriculture.

“This has been a heck of a journey — we can’t figure it out. We don’t even know why he likes us!” said Sarah Lande, an 85-year-old Muscatine resident who has maintained connections with Xi since he made his first visit to the US as the leader of a food processing delegation from China’s Hebei Province in 1985.

“But we’re eager to meet with him, too. We’re regular, everyday people,” Lande added.

Xi’s warm and enduring bond with the Midwesterners he first encountered nearly four decades ago stands in contrast with the suspicions and acrimony that have characterized relations between the two largest economies over the last few years.

Both Xi and President Joe Biden, who plan to meet Wednesday during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco, have taken recent diplomatic steps to ease the strains.

The Iowans’ invitations for the reception and dinner, on the sidelines of APEC, came through the the National Committee on US-China Relations and the US-China Business Council, in coordination with China’s embassy, Lande said.

The Iowans haven’t been told if they’ll get a private audience with Xi, who was 31 when they met him.

Terry Branstad, a former Iowa governor and US ambassador to China, has also been invited, according to an aide.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/xi-jinping-old-friends-iowa-153212217.html