Announcement of Further Measures to Promote Peace, Security, and Stability in the West Bank
Canadians: we should be demanding that parties named in this executive order also be included in Canada's OSFI list of designated persons and entities.
US Treasury Press Release: Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated two cybersecurity experts affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) for providing ISIS leadership and supporters with cybersecurity training, enabling their use of virtual currency, and supporting the terrorist group’s recruitment. Additionally, OFAC designated an ISIS financial facilitator involved in transferring funds to ISIS-affiliated individuals in Syria.
🔗 https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2056
US Treasury Press Release: the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the United Kingdom are taking joint action against a network of individuals that targeted Iranian dissidents and opposition activists for assassination at the direction of the Iranian regime. The network is led by Iranian narcotics trafficker Naji Ibrahim Sharifi-Zindashti (Zindashti) and operates at the behest of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS). Zindashti’s network has carried out numerous acts of transnational repression including assassinations and kidnappings across multiple jurisdictions in an attempt to silence the Iranian regime’s perceived critics. The network has also plotted operations in the United States.
🔗 https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2052
US Treasury #OFAC imposing sanctions on two entities and identifying as blocked property two vessels that used Price Cap Coalition service providers while carrying Russian crude oil above the Coalition-agreed price cap. https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20231012
US Treasury #OFAC designates 28 individuals and entities involved with the international proliferation of illicit drugs, including a #China-based network responsible for the manufacturing and distribution of ton quantities of #fentanyl, methamphetamine, and MDMA precursors.
US Treasury #OFAC sanctions Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former president of #Iran, "for having provided material support to the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), an entity concurrently designated by the Department of State."
US Treasury #OFAC sanctions 29 individuals and entities in connection with the violent suppression of nationwide protests in #Iran following the death of Mahsa “Zhina” Amini in custody of its ‘Morality Police,’ and the regime’s continued efforts to detain dissenting voices and restrict access to a free and open internet. https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20230915
US Treasury #OFAC sanctions Abdelrahim Hamdan Dagalofor his leadership of the RSF in #Sudan, "an entity whose members have engaged in acts of violence and human rights abuses, including the massacre of civilians, ethnic killings, and use of sexual violence." https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20230906
Periodic reminder that if you ditch the zero-trust part, if you admit that trust matters even a tiny bit, you can ditch the consensus algorithm and run the entire blockchain exercise on one shitty five year old Android phone. A firstgen raspberry pi would be overkill. Seven transactions per second wouldn’t have stretched a 486 on dial-up in 1996 and the whole stack is an embarrassment.
@bhawthorne@mhoye so it it actually practical as a #Payment system, because the people behind it actually designed it with that single goal in mind without being reliant on a single point of trust or failure.
And unlike #Bitcoin or #Ethereum one can't taint your account with illegal funds, which is so rampant since the #TornadoCash ban that even #TreasuryDept's #OFAC recognized "#Dusting" as digital equivalent of throwing feces at a restaurant's windows....
US Treasury #OFAC sanctions the former governor of the central bank of #Lebanon, Riad Salameh, saying his "corrupt and unlawful actions have contributed to the breakdown of the rule of law" in that country. https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20230810
US Treasury #OFAC sanctions eight individuals and five entities and identifying one aircraft as blocked property on the third anniversary of #Belarus authorities’ falsification of the 2020 presidential election and the crackdown on the protest movement. https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20230809
#Treasury#FinCEN knows about the first suspicious doald trump Executive Order trump signed as POTUS that I think hooked him up with his mob boss to use in case they needed to plan an attack on something like the US Capitol.
Department of the Treasury (Treasury), has documents regarding General License No. 1 that addressed sanctions related to the Russian Federal Security Service impacting Executive Order #EO 13694 of April 1, 2015.
Treasury and its Office of Foreign Assets Control #OFAC.
Republican operative Billy Barr's daughter was installed at FinCEN ... she oversee MONEY LAUNDERING AND ASSETS RECOVERY.
WHO IS BARR PROTECTING?
Remember Billy purjured himself in congressional TESTIMONY and ran cover for trump crimes and LIED ABOUT THE MUELLER REPORT.
US Treasury #OFAC sanctions 10 individuals, including several Sinaloa Cartel members and fugitives, as well as one #Mexico-based entity related to illicit fentanyl and other deadly drugs trafficked into the US. https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20230712
US Treasury #OFAC announces a settlement with Swedbank Latvia in which the bank has agreed to remit more than $3.4 million to settle its potential civil liability for 386 apparent violations of #Crimea sanctions. https://ofac.treasury.gov/media/931911/download?inline