Feds Say They Uncovered Prostitution Ring Serving Politicians, Military Officers, And Tech Execs
November 9th, 2023“Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before” —The Smiths
Via: Epoch Times:
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts has announced the arrests of two men and one woman suspected of operating a multi-state prostitution ring whose alleged client list includes elected officials, military officers, and executives at technology and pharmaceutical firms.
On Wednesday, acting U.S. Attorney Joshua Levy announced the arrests of Han Lee, a 41-year-old woman from Cambridge, Massachusetts; James Lee, a 68-year-old man from Torrance, California; and Junmyung Lee, a 30-year-old man from Dedham, Massachusetts, on suspicion of operating multiple brothels in Massachusetts and Virginia.
Federal investigators allege these three individuals operated a pair of websites that advertised professional photography appointments at high-end apartments rented by the three defendants. Investigators believe these photography sessions provided a front service, and the designated properties provided a controlled location at which women hired by the three defendants could transact the illicit sex services.
Mr. Levy’s office claims it has identified “a wide array of buyers” of this alleged prostitution ring’s services. Mr. Levy did not name any of the suspected clients in a Wednesday press briefing, but a Nov. 6 affidavit described a list that includes elected politicians, professors, lawyers, doctors, accountants, scientists, and executives for technology and pharmaceutical companies, along with other business executives. Boston-based Department of Homeland Security Agent Zachary A. Mitlitsky, who swore on behalf of the affidavit, said the client list also includes military officers and government contractors who possess security clearances.
Billions Of Copies Of Residual DNA In A Single Dose Of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine
November 9th, 2023Via: Epoch Times:
A new preprint study up for peer review finds billions of residual DNA fragments in the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine vials.
The lead author of the study, molecular virologist David Speicher, who has a doctorate in virology, told The Epoch Times that their study is “the largest study” on residual DNA in COVID-19 vaccines to date.
“In our study, we measured DNA copies of spike, ori (origin of replication), and SV40 enhancer genes,” he told The Epoch Times. “The loads of SV40 enhancer-promoter, ori, and virus spike in Pfizer are up to 186 billion copies per dose.”
The spike he refers to is the DNA sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, which can be transcribed to spike mRNA to be used in the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines to be translated to spike protein. The other two DNAs—SV40 enhancer genes and ori—help facilitate the replication of spike DNA.
However, the final mRNA vaccines should only include RNA and not residual DNA instructions for spike production.
The researchers sequenced the gene material in 27 mRNA vaccine vials from 12 different lots. Nineteen vials were from Moderna, and eight were from Pfizer.
“Further work is needed to investigate if anything in these vaccines is actually integrating into the human genome and what effect that may have,” the lead author wrote.
Four Current and Former L.A. Sheriff’s Department Employees Died by Suicide in a 24-Hour Span
November 9th, 2023Via: Los Angeles Times:
The suicide deaths of four current and former Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department employees over a 24-hour span have prompted a plea from Sheriff Robert Luna urging deputies to check on the well-being of their colleagues and friends.
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There is no indication that that the deaths were related or that foul play was involved, but department sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation said the third and fourth deaths were discovered as word of the earlier deaths were spreading through the agency.
Canon Unveils More Affordable 5nm Lithography Machines to Challenge ASML, Order of Magnitude Cheaper
November 8th, 2023Via: Extreme Tech:
Dutch-based ASML rules the roost for the machines fabs use to create today’s most advanced semiconductors. Its gigantic fabrication devices, which resemble computers from the early days that took up entire rooms, can cost over $100 million each—a price the company can demand given its position atop the industry. Now, Canon is looking to disrupt ASML’s dominance in this market with a lithography machine of its own. The company claims it will cost substantially less, theoretically democratizing silicon fabrication by making it more accessible.
Canon hopes to make a dent in the silicon fab industry with its new fabrication system, which utilizes a unique approach to crafting semiconductor wafers. Its fabrication device is called the FPA-1200NZ2C, and it uses nanoimprint lithography (NIL) technology instead of photolithography like ASML offers. The difference between the two technologies is photolithography uses lasers to project a design through a mask onto the wafer, whereas Canon’s device imprints it like a stamp.
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…it will be offered for “one-decimal place less” than a traditional machine from ASML. For example, an ASML machine with an equivalent line pitch would sell for roughly $150 million, meaning Canon’s device could be sold for just $15 million.
World’s Best Night Vision Goggles
November 8th, 2023Via: Veritasium:
DHS Created Stanford ‘Disinfo’ Group that Censored Speech Before 2020 Election
November 7th, 2023Via: New York Post:
New emails show officials at the Department of Homeland Security created a Stanford University “disinformation” group that censored Americans’ speech before the 2020 election, according to a House Judiciary Committee report exclusively obtained by The Post.
The House panel’s 103-page staff interim report says never-before-seen emails and internal communications were obtained from the group, known as the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), and show how it worked with DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to flag, suppress and remove online speech in coordination with big tech companies.
One of EIP’s founding partners — the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab — described CISA’s central role in the alleged censorship effort in a July 31, 2020, email.
“I know the Council has a number of efforts on broad policy around the elections, but we just set up an election integrity partnership at the request of DHS/CISA and are in weekly comms to debrief about disinfo,” the lab’s senior director Graham Brookie wrote.
The staff report says, “[T]he federal government and universities pressured social media companies to censor true information, jokes, and political opinions.
“This pressure was largely directed in a way that benefitted one side of the political aisle: true information posted by Republicans and conservatives was labeled as ‘misinformation’ while false information posted by Democrats and liberals was largely unreported and untouched by the censors.”
Insurance Industry Execs ‘Alarmed’ by Surge in Deaths Among Young People – But Stop Short of Blaming COVID Shots
November 7th, 2023Via: The Defender:
According to InsuranceNewsNet, insurers are especially concerned by data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that show “mortality rates alarmingly rising for different categories,” including younger adult mortality rates that are up more than 20% above historic norms in 2023.
U.S. Debt Interest Bill Rockets Past $1 Trillion a Year
November 7th, 2023Via: Bloomberg:
Estimated annualized interest payments on the US government debt pile climbed past $1 trillion at the end of last month, Bloomberg analysis shows. That amount has doubled in the past 19 months, and is equivalent to 15.9% of the entire Federal budget for fiscal year 2022.
The figures are calculated using US Treasury data which state the government’s monthly outstanding debt balances and the average interest it pays.
ISRAEL TO CONTROL GAZA ‘INDEFINITELY’ AFTER WAR
November 7th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge:
The Biden White House has lately floated a plan that would see international peacekeeping forces control the security situation in the Gaza Strip once the war is over, which is premised on the total demise of Hamas, proving no small task especially given the immense network of miles of tunnels the group can utilize.
The post-Hamas “day after” has also been subject of proposals out of some leading Congressmen. There was speculation at first that Israeli leadership might welcome this, but a new televised interview with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu which aired Monday night reveals different thinking in Tel Aviv. Netanyahu asserted it is Israel which will have “security responsibility” over the Gaza Strip for some ‘indefinite’ amount of time after the conflict is over.
“I think Israel will for an indefinite period have security responsibility,” Netanyahu told ABC News. “We’ve seen what happens when we don’t have that… security responsibility, what we have is the eruption of Hamas terror on a scale that we couldn’t imagine.”
The Fentanyl War
November 7th, 2023Via: Task & Purpose:
