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IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig speaks during a Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee on Capitol Hill. | Sarah Silbiger/Pool via AP
By Brian Faler
05/20/2021 12:20 PM EDT
Updated: 05/20/2021 03:04 PM EDT
President Joe Biden is proposing to double the size of the IRS, by hiring nearly 87,000 new workers over the next decade, as part of a sweeping plan to chase down tax cheats.
The hiring spree, part of a bid to increase IRS funding by $80 billion, would be phased in to give the department time to adjust, the Treasury Department said in a report Thursday.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/20/irs-funding-boost-489830
The Carabinieri (/ˌkærəbɪnˈjɛəri/, also US: /ˌkɑːr-/,[1][2] Italian: [karabiˈnjɛːri]; formally Arma dei Carabinieri, "Arm of Carabineers"; previously Corpo dei Carabinieri Reali, "Royal Carabineers Corps")[3][4][5][6] are the national gendarmerie of Italy who primarily carry out domestic policing duties. It is one of Italy's main law enforcement agencies, alongside the Polizia di Stato and the Guardia di Finanza. As with the Guardia di Finanza but in contrast to the Polizia di Stato, the Carabinieri are a military force. As the fourth branch of the Italian Armed Forces, they come under the authority of the Ministry of Defence; for activities related to inland public order and security, they functionally depend on the Ministry of the Interior. In practice, there is a significant overlap between the jurisdiction of the Polizia di Stato and Carabinieri, although both of them are contactable through 112, the European Union's Single Emergency number.[7] Unlike the Polizia di Stato, the Carabinieri have responsibility for policing the military, and a number of members regularly participate in military missions abroad.
1930s and 1940s
During the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini (1922–1943), the Carabinieri were one of the police forces entrusted with suppressing opposition in Italy.[12] During the same period, while part of the Italian African Police (mainly in the late 1930s), they were involved in atrocities[13][14][15][16][17] in colonial Italian East Africa during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. During World War II they fought in their function as military police against the Allied forces, and against Yugoslav partisans as part of the Italian occupation force in Yugoslavia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carabinieri
The Sturmabteilung (German: [ˈʃtʊʁmʔapˌtaɪlʊŋ] (listen); SA; literally "Storm Detachment") was the Nazi Party's (National Socialist German Workers' Party) original paramilitary wing. It played a significant role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s. Its primary purposes were providing protection for Nazi rallies and assemblies, disrupting the meetings of opposing parties, fighting against the paramilitary units of the opposing parties, especially the Roter Frontkämpferbund of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), and intimidating Romani, trade unionists, and especially Jews.
The SA were colloquially called Brownshirts (Braunhemden) because of the colour of their uniform's shirts, similar to Benito Mussolini's blackshirts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung
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Jul 8, 1975Otto Skorzeny, the hulking, scar‐faced Nazi Elite Guard colonel who bedeviled the Allies in World War II with a daring rescue of Mussolini, with confusing subterfuges and with a false assassination…
Otto Skorzeny, Nazi Commando, Dead; Rescued Mussolini From Italian Peak
By Lawrence Van Gelder
July 8, 1975
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/07/08/archives/otto-skorzeny-nazi-commando-dead-rescued-mussolini-from-italian.html
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/rediscovering-obamas-irish-roots
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/im-irish-joe-biden-bbc-reporter_n_5fa71475c5b6f21920dc63f4
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Xelensky & LiX
The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation said that Zelenskyy "has focused the eyes of the world on