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After mass firings, the IRS is poised to close audits of wealthy taxpayers, agents say - ICIJ
The upheaval undermines the agency’s quest to tackle high-end tax cheating.Spencer Woodman (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists)
It is now illegal to transmit personal information of EU citizens to cloud infrastructure in the #US as they won't be protected by the #GDPR.
Many European service providers will have to move quickly to avoid fines, but eventually #EU data will be held in the EU, benefiting companies in Europe, and supporting #DigitalSovereignty.
That means AWS, Azure, Google and iCloud can lose a sizeable chunk of their customer base if no moves are made. I am all for it.
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-can-no-longer-base-your-government-and-society-on-us-clouds/
It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds - Bert Hubert's writings
The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds.Bert Hubert's writings
#USAFacts has a Sankey diagram that shows the money that came in during 2024 and how the revenue was distributed.
According to data from U.S. Treasury Department, $4.9 trillion came in mostly through taxes and $6.8 trillion went out. The difference, $1.8 trillion, contributes to the deficit. It will be interesting to see what this diagram looks like after this year is done (if the data exists).
https://usafacts.org/government-spending/
US government finance statistics, charts, and trends | USAFacts
Get data-driven insights into how governmental revenue and spending affect American lives and programs. Get insight into Congressional and judicial decisions, programs like Medicare, Social Security, foreign aid, and more.USAFacts
https://www.bundle.app/en/finance/a-palm-oil-company-a-group-of-us-financiers-and-the-destruction-of-peru's-rainforest-f2e31ab1-f043-446a-acbf-1ab5635d7853?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
What motivates Americans to eat less red meat?
Limiting red meat consumption is key to a sustainable and healthy diet, yet Americans are among the world's largest consumers of red meat.ScienceDaily
#NASA Administrator Bill #Nelson on Friday called for an investigation into a Wall Street Journal report that #SpaceX founder and Donald #Trump ally Elon #Musk and Russian President Vladimir #Putin have been in “regular contact” since late 2022.
The report raises national security concerns as SpaceX’s relationships with NASA and the #US military may have granted Musk access to sensitive government information and US intelligence.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/25/politics/elon-musk-vladimir-putin/index.html
Oh, the Founder of Mastodon takes the final and last Step to get more Profit out of it by babbling about something with creating a Non-Profit organization in the US because of their Taxes...🙄
Just my humble opinion on the matter at hand. 😉
#Mastodon #Fediverse #US #Taxes #Money #Profit #NonProfit
@Gargron @roblen
A third of US deer have had COVID—and they infected humans at least 3 times
New study builds on data suggesting white-tailed deer could be a virus reservoir.Ars Technica
U.S. to send real-time satellite and sensor data to Canada to help detect wildfires
#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #climate #canada #USA #US
U.S. to send real-time satellite and sensor data to Canada to help detect wildfires
U.S. Department of Defense began sending real-time data to Canadian authorities FridayReuters (The Globe and Mail)
However, #LifeExpectancy also heavily depends on your eating habits (and others).
The #MediterraneanDiet seems much more effective than assumed:
we all remember the pictures from #Bergamo in the #Pandemic of 2020. #Italy's healthcare is not great, nor is #Greece's, or the ones in the #LatinAmerica.
