Former Mercyhealth Executive Sentenced to 3 1/2 Years for Kickback Scheme
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwi/pr/former-mercyhealth-executive-sentenced-3-12-years-kickback-scheme
Philadelphia Woman Sentenced to 109 Months in Prison for $100 Million Securities Fraud Scheme
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/philadelphia-woman-sentenced-109-months-prison-100-million-securities-fraud-scheme
If men could get pregnant, this wouldn’t even be a conversation.
This decision isn’t about strengthening families - it’s about extremism. It’s about control.
We will fight for the right to choose.
https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1521934666877464577
I once had a dream I was eating a giant marshmallow and when I woke up my pillow was gone!
Moscow announces new evacuation attempt at Azovstal plant
The Russian military will halt its activities at the besieged plant for three days straight to enable the evacuation of civilians
The Russian military has announced a new unilateral pause in its operation at the Azovstal steelworks plant in Mariupol, promising to open humanitarian corridors for civilians said to be holed up at the facility for three days straight. The steel plant remains the last stronghold under the control of Ukrainian servicemen and members of the neo-Nazi Azov regiment in the city.
“In accordance with the decision of Russia’s leadership, based on the humane principles of the Russian Armed Forces … we will open a humanitarian corridor from the territory of the Azovstal steel plant to evacuate civilians (workers, women and children), whose presence in the underground facilities of the plant has once again been claimed by Kiev,” the military said in a statement late on Wednesday.
The humanitarian corridor will be open for three days, from Thursday to Saturday, functioning from 8am to 6pm Moscow time every day. Civilians evacuating from the plant will be free to go anywhere, should they desire to evacuate into territories under Ukrainian or Russian control. On Sunday, several hundred civilians evacuated from bunkers in Azovstal in a humanitarian effort facilitated by the United Nations and the International Red Cross.
https://www.rt.com/russia/554982-mariupol-azovstal-humanitarian-corridor/
All US internet service providers are ordered to block streaming piracy sites
A broad, sweeping order.
In case you were wondering, website blocking at ISP level is alive and well in the US, although the practice is normally associated with authoritarian regimes who impose all manner of internet bans, often blanket in nature.
What is happening now regarding the attempt to remove three “pirate” sites from the internet is a blanket ISP-level blocking: a federal court has issued an order saying all 96 ISPs in the US must suppress three sites accused of streaming copyrighted material – Israel.tv, Israeli-tv.com, and Sdarot.tv.
We obtained a copy of one of the rulings (they were identical) for you here.
In addition, should these sites switch domains to bypass this situation, those must be blocked as well.
The operators of the sites remain anonymous and have not taken part in legal proceedings; meanwhile, the US court acted on a filing submitted by Israeli copyright holders – United King Film Distribution, D.B.S. Satellite Services, HOT Communication Systems, Reshet Media, and Keshet Broadcasting. Specifically, the infringement was treated using the anti-circumvention provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
US District Judge Katherine Polk Failla also ordered that those who try to access the three sites, or their future iterations, should instead be redirected to a landing page set up by the Israeli plaintiffs, that displays information in English and Hebrew. This page advises those who may have been “harmed in any way by the decision” that they can file a motion to the Federal Court in the Southern District of New York.
The decision, which came in three separate but nearly identical orders, additionally contains permanent injunctions not only against the unknown defendants but also companies whose services they use or will use going forward, such as Google, Cloudflare, GoDaddy, Namecheap.
Money has also been awarded to the plaintiffs – $7.65 million per case. But the judge noted that not only the identities of those operating the three sites but also their “ill gotten gains” have remained well hidden.
The ruling doesn’t stop with affecting the sites themselves, US ISPs, hosting, CDN, VPN, DNS, and other providers, such as web designers, advertisers, but also banks and other financial services, who have been ordered to cut off the defendants from their bank, PayPal, and other payment service accounts.
https://reclaimthenet.org/all-us-internet-service-providers-are-ordered-to-block-streaming-piracy-sites/