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#audit

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Gen. Patton: "The best #audit is a swift victory, but until then, eliminate corruption like clearing a minefield."
@DailyWire #Zelensky interview:
⚔️ Verification rose 14%→42%
⚔️ US-supplied checks rose 41%→87%
⚔️ 1,850 #NATO + 620 #Ukrainians trained
⚔️ 94% record alignment
⚔️ Only 37 irregularities (€8.1B each), mostly due to urgency, not fraud.
Oversight strong. "Losses happen, but transparency wins." - NATO Audit 2025

I was talking to a colleague last week about what REAL #StrategicAutonomy would mean.

For software in critical infrastructure, I think it would include military hardware-like contractual provisions, requiring eg the full #audit and #escrow of all source code, including for updates… and the right at any time for governments facing supply/continued operation threats to use that escrowed code to recreate their own versions of the software, and use them until the supply threats are removed.

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Day 12 cont 💰🧧🇨🇳

The #Liberals have a candidate problem continued:

“Liberal #candidate #ScottYung and party officials have declined to answer detailed #questions about whether his use of #Chinese celebrities and a public relations firm in the 2019 #StateElection complied with official #guidelines, as the Liberal party confirms an #audit of campaign disclosures.

A private dinner at a “luxurious venue” in #Sydney to raise #CampaignFunds for Yung, featuring the former Liberal prime minister #TonyAbbott, has also been cancelled without explanation.”

“Wishing the talented young Chinese Mr #RongSicheng [Scott Yung] has great success ahead and a boundless future! All the best! I’m #ZhangTielin from #Beijing, #China.”

The cursed Liberal Christian name “Scott” strikes again.

#AusPol / #LNP / #Bennelong / #Kogarah <theguardian.com/australia-news>

The Guardian · Bennelong Liberal candidate declines to say whether Chinese celebrity endorsements complied with guidelinesBy Henry Belot
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Only fair.

#NewYork spent $959 mil to build and equip a plant that #Tesla . . . leases for $1 a year. Tesla operates a solar panel and auto component factory at the site, according to The New York Times.

“The new bill would require an #audit to ‘identify waste, fraud and abuse committed by private parties to the contract,’ a statement from the lawmakers said…. It would determine if Tesla was meeting job creation targets, making promised investments and honoring other parts of the deal.”

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" #DOGE appears to have completely eschewed the existing processes for actually rooting out waste, #fraud, and abuse.

“An #audit that follows Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS)... That is the gold standard for how you audit the #government.”

There are generally five phases of a GAGAS audit, the auditors tell WIRED: planning, evidence gathering, evaluation, reporting, & follow up."
wired.com/story/federal-audito

#ElonMusk#Musk#Coup
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‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE

WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how #government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.
wired.com/story/federal-audito

"federal #auditors with years of #experience... say that DOGE’s actions are the furthest thing from what an actual #audit looks like...

“Honestly, comparing real #auditing to what #DOGE is doing, there’s no comparison... None of them are auditors”

#ElonMusk#Musk#Coup

I’m starting to think that anyone who designs or builds systems that handle data should do a basic bookkeeping course that covers how double entry works.

The accountants managed to work out for us since the 13th Century that if you move money from A to B, both A and B need an audit entry describing the movement each way. Write only - nothing is removed. Yet I don’t see an equivalent teaching in the various system design books, despite this concept being fundamental to any system that needs (financial and non-financial) auditing capabilities.

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It would require the #IRS to initiate an #audit of the justices’ tax returns each year, release the results & make the tax filings public. Nominees to the court would have to disclose 3 yrs of tax returns.

Another measure would allow a two-thirds vote of the court to force a fellow justice to #recuse from a case.

#law#SCOTUS#ethics