#cnbc

[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

Hi, I've reblogged other posts discussing this, but I thought it might be good making my own post with links to various sources suggesting that

Anonymous Sudan is probably lying through their teeth about their motivations; they are most likely affiliated with Russia and are not associated with Sudan. They are currently communicating in Arabic and Sudanese, but seem to have spoken in Russian before someone wondered why the fuck a seemingly Sudanese group was speaking Russian.

This is not the first time this group has attacked American territory; there were early Microsoft outages in early June. These attack seems to have ceased after appearing intermittently for while and I'm pretty sure Microsoft is currently running okay, although of course they still have more resources than ao3's volunteer staff.

The attack is possibly motivated by political forces, but it seems to be more about U.S-Russian shit than homophobia, considering their range of past targets, not that anything is certain with these fuckheads.

Microsoft was told to pay ransom (like I think ao3 might be being told now) but I couldn't find anything suggesting that they did.

The important thing if you want to find out more is to keep looking shit up and see what overlaps from a lot of different sources, since this is a fluid situation, and to not trust a word AS says about what they want and what they're capable of.

If anyone who knows anything about hacking shit wants to chime in, please feel free!

#microsoft #false flag #anonymous sudan #ao3 #ao3 down #links #cnbc #russia

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Public-school students in Massachusetts are set to get free lunch and breakfast thanks to a new 4% tax on people's earnings above $1 million.

Massachusetts in 2022 voted for a constitutional amendment to tax high earners. It went into effect at the beginning of 2023.

State House News Service, an independent news wire, reported that $1 billion of the state's record $56.2 billion fiscal budget for 2024 will be funded by its new 4% tax.

Gov. Maura Healey signed the budget on Wednesday, making Massachusetts the eighth state to adopt a plan for free school lunch since the expiration of federal free school lunches that had emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The outlet reported that a portion of the $1 billion expected to be gathered from the new income tax would be used to provide all public-school students in Massachusetts with free breakfast and lunch, if they want it.

WCVB reported that state lawmakers agreed to allocate $523 million of anticipated revenue from the new tax on education and set aside $477 million for transportation.

In February, President Joe Biden urged lawmakers to pass his billionaires' tax proposal, which would impose a minimum 20% tax on households with a net worth of more than $100 million.

Unlike Massachusetts' new tax, which is on income, the proposed billionaire's tax is aimed at wealth.

Jared Bernstein, a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, told CNBC the proposal would target "big corporations and the wealthiest Americans," while protecting people who made less than $400,000 a year from tax increases.

Biden also signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law in February, which included a 15% minimum tax on corporations earning more than $1 billion.

#us politics #news #business insider #2023 #massachusetts #tax the rich #tax the 1% #tax the billionaires #tax the wealthy #billionaire's tax #biden administration #president joe biden #free school meals #State House News Service #Gov. Maura Healey #Jared Bernstein #White House Council of Economic Advisers #cnbc

[reality-detective]

FDA finds new manufacturing lapses at Eli Lilly plant

Is this the beginning of the end or will it all be swept under the rug? You Decide 🤔

#pay attention #educate yourselves #educate yourself #knowledge is power #reeducate yourself #reeducate yourselves #think about it #think for yourselves #think for yourself #do your homework #do some research #do your own research #ask yourself questions #question everything #news #cnbc

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

🚩🚩🚩

#CNBC #no shit sherlock #red flags #nonbinary #non binary #narcissism #drama queen #mental health issues #narcissistic personality disorder #toxic people #religion is a mental illness

[izooks]

Trump’s own former VP refused to endorse him; he is warning of a “bloodbath” if he loses; and he has pledged to release violent insurrectionists from prison.

Yet all of this will be forgotten within a few days. The news cycle will move on. The pundits will turn back to Joe Biden’s age, and the border, and the economy, and the rest. Will any newspaper editorial boards call on Trump to quit the race? Nope. Will any elected Republicans? Don’t. Be. Silly.

One explanation for our ongoing normalization of a thoroughly abnormal Trump comes from Brian Klaas, an American political scientist at the London School of Economics. In a nod to the immortal words of Hannah Arendt, he has coined a new and revealing phrase: ‘the banality of crazy.’

As Klaas wrote in October, “the press has succumbed to what I call ‘the banality of crazy,’ in which they breathlessly report on every minor Biden gaffe, but barely cover Trump calling to execute generals or shoplifters. This numbing effect helps Trump — and warps American politics.”

#gop #democrats #vote blue #republicans #vote biden #democracy #fuck trump #maga 🧠 = 🐶 💩 #bloodbath #fox news #cnbc #abc #nbc #cbs #msnbc #Trump the fraud

[oldshowbiz]

1996-1997.

Late Night with Conan O'Brien reruns on CNBC.

#late night with conan o'brien #conan o'brien #talk shows #CNBC #cable

[posthumanwanderings]

Why XBOX Failed in Japan

#XBOX #CNBC #microsoft #Y2K gaming #Japan #tech

[nando161mando]

Didn’t you hear guys? It’s our fault the economy isn’t doing well.

#cnbc #news #media #victim blaming #mainstream media #neoliberal capitalism #capitalism #millenials #business news #fascism #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #anthony albanese #albanese government #eat the rich #eat the fucking rich #poverty #slavery #wage slavery #anti slavery #antiwork #anticapitalistically #anti capitalism #antiauthoritarian #antinazi

[mind-your-beez-wax]

CNBC

Truth Social owner Trump Media will begin trading under DJT ticker Tuesday

#cnbc #douche social #mind your beez wax

[dontfightyourwaralone]

#march 2023 #2023 #articles #cnbc #jennifer liu #workers rights #employment #mark takano #four day work week

[howlongis1instant]

I need support so badly, why can't I find the people who share my feelings? I know they have to be out there.. I want to have children so badly. I've wanted children since I was far too young to have any. I've envisioned my future as a mother and imagined who my children might be and what I might name them. But at this point I don't think I will have any. I'm not infertile, which is the majority of support groups I can find, but I know I can't provide the life I would want for my kids. I'm not willing to compromise things that are important to my parenting style to accommodate the world we live in. I don't have the money, power, or access to the support I would need if we did have kids. That's not going to change anytime soon. It's devastating to understand that I likely won't become a mom. Who can I talk to about it? I don't want to group myself in with people who are infertile because I know my struggle is not the same as theirs. But talking to people who plan to have or already have children often offends them under the impression I think they shouldn't have kids. Which is not the case. I'm not judging anyone else's choices, I just need someone who feels the same as me. Please.

#childless #childless not by choice #cnbc #motherhood #neurodivergent #autistic #autism

[capitalism-is-a-psychopathy]

"Wow, can't wait for the psychopathy of 2024 to bring us even more streaming bundles to choose from! Just what we needed, because a dozen options weren't enough. Thanks, 2024 🙄 #streamingoverload"

#CNBC #Business #Sarcasm #Psychopathy #Capitalism #Danger #Humanity #Empathy

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

The nation’s millionaires and billionaires are evading more than $150 billion a year in taxes, adding to growing government deficits and creating a “lack of fairness” in the tax system, according to the head of the Internal Revenue Service.

The IRS, with billions of dollars in new funding from Congress, has launched a sweeping crackdown on wealthy individuals, partnerships and large companies. In an exclusive interview with CNBC, IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said the agency has launched several programs targeting taxpayers with the most complex returns to root out tax evasion and make sure every taxpayer contributes their fair share.

Werfel said that a lack of funding at the IRS for years starved the agency of staff, technology and resources needed to fund audits — especially of the most complicated and sophisticated returns, which require more resources. Audits of taxpayers making more than $1 million a year fell by more than 80% over the last decade, while the number of taxpayers with income of $1 million jumped 50%, according to IRS statistics.

“When I look at what we call our tax gap, which is the amount of money owed versus what is paid for, millionaires and billionaires that either don’t file or [are] underreporting their income, that’s $150 billion of our tax gap,” Werfel said. “There is plenty of work to be done.”

“For complex filings, it became increasingly difficult for us to determine what the balance due was,” he said. “So to ensure fairness, we have to make investments to make sure that whether you’re a complicated filer who can afford to hire an army of lawyers and accountants, or a more simple filer who has one income and takes the standard deduction, the IRS is equally able to determine what’s owed. And to us, that’s a fairer system.”

Some Republicans in Congress have ramped up their criticism of the IRS and its expanded enforcement efforts. They say the wave of new audits will burden small businesses with unnecessary bureaucracy and years of fruitless investigations and won’t raise the promised revenue.

The Inflation Reduction Act gave the IRS an $80 billion infusion, yet congressional Republicans won a deal last year to take $20 billion of the funding back. Now they’re pressing for further cuts.

The Treasury Department said last week it estimates greater IRS enforcement will result in an additional $561 billion in tax revenue between 2024 and 2034 — a higher projection than it had initially stated. The IRS says that for every extra dollar spent on enforcement, the agency raises about $6 in revenue.

The IRS is touting its early success with a program to collect unpaid taxes from millionaires. The agency identified 1,600 millionaire taxpayers who have failed to pay at least $250,000 each in assessed taxes. So far, the IRS has collected more than $480 million from the group “and we are still going,” Werfel said.

On Wednesday, the agency announced a program to audit owners of private jets, who may be using their planes for personal travel and not accounting for their trips or taxes properly. Werfel said the agency has started using public databases of private-jet flights and analytics tools to better identify tax returns with the highest likelihood of evasion. It is launching dozens of audits on companies and partnerships that own jets, which could then lead to audits of wealthy individuals.

Werfel said that for some companies and owners, the tax deduction from corporate jets can amount to “tens of millions of dollars.”

Another area that is potentially rife with evasion is limited partnerships, Werfel said, adding that many wealthy individuals have been shifting their income to the business entities to avoid income taxes.

“What we started to see was that certain taxpayers were claiming limited partnerships when it wasn’t fair,” he said. “They were basically shielding their income under the guise of a limited partnership.”

The IRS has launched the Large Partnership Compliance program, examining some of the largest and most complicated partnership returns. Werfel said the IRS has already opened examinations of 76 partnerships — including hedge funds, real estate investment partnerships and large law firms.

Werfel said the agency is using artificial intelligence as part of the program and others to better identify returns most likely to contain evasion or errors. Not only does AI help find evasion, it also helps avoid audits of taxpayers who are following the rules.

“Imagine all the audits are laid out before us on a table,” he said. “What AI does is it allows us to put on night vision goggles. What those night vision goggles allow us to do is be more precise in figuring out where the high risk [of evasion] is and where the low risk is, and that benefits everyone.”

Correction: The IRS has collected $480 million from a group of millionaire taxpayers who had failed to pay. An earlier version misstated the amount collected.

#us politics #news #cnbc #2024 #irs #internal revenue service #Danny Werfel #taxes #tax evasion #private jets #audits #Inflation Reduction Act #treasury department #Large Partnership Compliance #eat the rich #tax the rich #tax the 1%

[reaperlight]

#news #cnbc #11/05/2033 #tw: food issues #Youtube #video #rice #rice shortage #supply chain issues #climate crisis

[unwrapping]

#cnbc #yahoo

[oldshowbiz]

#CNBC #cable