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Ironless Rotor Cycloidal Planetary Actuator

In my last SCARA arm project, I had a very frustrating experience designing high torque/high accuracy gearboxes for the Nema 23 stepper motors I used.
Caden Kraft

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My favorite DOS spreadsheet was As-Easy-As. It's probably still my most-favorite spreadsheet ever. 🤓

I recently interviewed As-Easy-As coauthor Paris Karahalios about how the spreadsheet got started (analyzing Chernobyl data!) and growing TRIUS Inc.

It's a long interview, but a super interesting one with loads of detail! 👍

coachingbuttons.com/2025/07/14…

🌐 coaching buttons . com

As-Easy-As spreadsheet showing new features and functions

Coaching Buttons

coachingbuttons.com

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Une trentaine de pays dont la Bolivie, la Colombie, Cuba, le Honduras, la Malaisie, la Namibie, le Sénégal et l’Afrique du Sud du Groupe de la Haye se réunissent à La Haye pour décider de mesures concrètes contre le Génocide du peuple palestinien.
Ils affirment être « guidés par les buts et principes énoncés dans la Charte des Nations unies, ainsi que par la responsabilité de toutes les nations de défendre les droits inaliénables, y compris le droit à l’autodétermination, qu’elle consacre pour tous les peuples ».
rfi.fr/fr/moyen-orient/2025071…

Bande de Gaza: plus de trente pays réunis à Bogota pour des mesures concrètes contre Israël

À l’initiative du Groupe de La Haye, un « sommet d’urgence » se tient ce 15 juillet à Bogota en Colombie pour déclarer des « mesures concrètes » et tenter de mettre fin au drame qui se déroule dans l’enclave palestinienne depuis octobre 2023.
Anne Bernas (RFI)

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Εξεταστική για τον ΟΠΕΚΕΠΕ από την εποχή του Χαλκού 3000π.χ. έως σήμερα. προτείνει η κυβέρνηση με αναφορές στον βασιλιά Μίνωα που σύμφωνα με στοιχεία της ΝΔ είχε ξεκινήσει το φαγοπότι των επιδοτήσεων στην Κρήτη

reshared this

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Πρόταση της Νέας Δημαγωγίας για εξεταστική επιτροπή για τον ΟΠΕΚΕΠΕ από την ίδρυση του το 1998.

Έχω αντιπρόταση.
Γιατί χρειάστηκε να θεσπίσει ο Σόλων τη Σεισάχθεια?
Ποιοι τα φάγανε?

#δεν_υπάρχει_ελπίδα
#Ελλαδα_του_41 %

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Lol! The DEP bas been covering this up for years! Telling people they must be seeing bobcats. That ain't no bobcat!
nypost.com/2025/07/13/us-news/…

Bat-wielding Rochester man describes close encounter with 'serious' mountain lion on his block: 'It said rawr!'

“I don’t play with lions, I don’t play with tigers, bears, nothin’ with the wild,” Curtis Jones told a local TV station.
Alex Oliveira (New York Post)

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Epstein’s Dead So Why Is His Bank Account STILL Moving Millions!?! w/ Nick Bryant

The Jimmy Dore Show

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Epstein’s Dead So Why Is His Bank Account STILL Moving Millions!?! w/ Nick Bryant

A February 2024 report revealed that millions of dollars were mysteriously transferred from Jeffrey Epstein’s bank accounts after his death, raising suspicio...
YouTube

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Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian suffered minor injuries in an Israeli air strike on a meeting of the Supreme National Security Council in Tehran on June 15, a senior Iranian official said.

The assassination attempt targeted the heads of the three branches of government in an effort to overthrow it, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The strike was carried out shortly before noon during a meeting attended by the heads of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the government along with other senior officials.

The semiofficial Fars news agency also reported new details on the assassination attempt during Israel’s 12-day war with #Iran, which was first announced by the Iranian president in an interview released on Monday.

The session was taking place in the lower level of a government facility in western #Tehran when the attack started, Fars reported. The building’s entrances and exits were hit by six missiles to block escape routes and cut off air flow.

Electricity was severed following the explosions, but Iranian officials managed to escape through a pre-designated emergency hatch, including the president, who is said to have sustained minor leg injuries while evacuating.
aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/13/i…
#IsraelTerroristState #imperialism #war


Iranian president lightly wounded while escaping Israeli attack

More details emerge on June assassination attempt on President Masoud Pezeshkian and other officials by Israel.
Al Jazeera

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"Si la rage émergeait dans le 15e arrondissement de Paris, on commencerait probablement par regarder vers l'Institut Pasteur avant d'imaginer que des renards enragés se promènent avenue de Suffren"


#science #coronavirus


Origines du Covid-19 : anatomie du virus, ces éléments étranges qui sèment le doute

Enquête scientifique aux origines du Covid-19, épisode 1. Sciences et Avenir raconte comment, cinq ans après, les scientifiques sont de plus en plus nombreux à questionner l'émergence zoonotique (dite "naturelle") du virus.
Camille Gaubert (Sciences et Avenir)

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US Uses Hate-Group to Deport Palestine Advocates tn.ai/3353701

US Uses Hate-Group to Deport Palestine Advocates

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The United States government confirmed it is using Canary Mission, a notorious pro-Israel website, to target and expel pro-Palestinian activists, drawing outrage from civil rights groups accusing Washington of weaponizing anti-Pales…
Tasnim News Agency

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This Epstein mythology is not more important than keeping my real enemies out of power. I don't like either party, but this MAGA thing has accomplished more of what I want than any other movement.

The Jeffery Epstein Saga | DAVID CHAPMAN LIVE

The Right Wing Influencers have lost their mind over the Epstein case. I break it down here. 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYar...
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🇰🇵 Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea:

"The world must not remain neutral in the face of this genocide. It must stand with the oppressed, lest the time comes when it faces injustice and is abandoned by the world. Everyone must unite against America and Israel. Freedom for Palestine 🇵🇸"

#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten #SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli #canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon

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Israeli communications satellite Dror 1 successfully launched aboard SpaceX rocket haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0…

Israeli communications satellite Dror 1 successfully launched aboard SpaceX rocket

The Israeli-made satellite, launched from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX rocket, is set to restore and enhance Israel's satellite communications capabilities, nearly a decade after the loss of Amos 6 dealt a major blow to the country's space industry
Hagai Amit (Haaretz)

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📢 La cultura demana al Govern embargament d'armes a Israel per via Reial Decret llei:

‼️Més de 1200 persones del món de la cultura han signat una carta exigint un embargament d'armes integral a Israel

rescop.org/eu/bds/la-cultura-p…

eldiario.es/cultura/oliver-lax…

efe.com/cultura/2025-07-14/mun…

#EmbargamentAIsraelJa
#EmbargoYa
#StopArmesAmbIsrael


Oliver Laxe, Alba Flores, Luis Tosar y Sorogoyen, entre los más de 1.200 profesionales de la cultura que piden a Sánchez el embargo de armas a Israel

"El mundo no puede mirar hacia otro lado mientras el pueblo palestino es aniquilado", manifiestan los artistas en el documento
Laura García Higueras (ElDiario.es)
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Catweazle

@davetortoise, I've never had done it in a phone.
Andisearch said

Yes, it's possible to run different operating systems on mobile phones through virtualization and emulation, though with some limitations:

For Android phones:
- Ubuntu Touch can be installed directly on compatible Android devices like the Google Pixel 3a/3a XL and Fairphone 4[^1]
- Linux distributions like postmarketOS, Mobian, and Manjaro ARM can run on specific phone models[^11]
- Windows 10/11 can be virtualized using QEMU, though performance is very slow and not practical for daily use[^19]

For newer Android 13+ phones:
- Windows 11 ARM can run in a virtual machine thanks to improved virtualization support[^13]
- According to developer Danny Lin, who demonstrated Windows 11 running on a Pixel 6: "Windows 11 as a VM on Pixel 6" is possible through Android 13's standardized virtualization system[^13]

For running Android within Android:
- VMOS allows running a virtual Android environment inside your primary Android system, complete with Play Store access and root capabilities[^24]

The key limitations are:
- Device compatibility is restricted to specific phone models
- Performance may be significantly slower than native OS
- Not all hardware features and peripherals are supported
- Installation can be complex and may require technical knowledge

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Lumumba's Africa. Decolonization Summary. Episode 58 | RT Documentary odysee.com/Decolonization_Summ…

Lumumba's Africa. Decolonization Summary. Episode 58 | RT Documentary

With the end of the colonial era, African states gained independence, adopted their own flags and national anthems. Yet true freedom remained elusive. The colonial powers never fully withdrew from the...
Odysee
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Proletarian Rage

Video: #Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos cheered as arrives for #police interview over anti-#genocide #protest

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#UK #repression #Israel #Palestine #justice #UKpol

A large crowd of protesters cheered and embraced 87yo Jewish Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos as he arrived a Charing Cross police station, where he had been summoned for police questioning over a peaceful anti-genocide march on 18 January that police falsely claim ‘forced’ its way through police lines. Despite abundant video evidence showing the protesters were invited through, more than twenty people have so far been charged.


Video: Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos cheered as arrives for police interview over anti-genocide protest

Starmer keeps targeting Jewish people in his war on free speech and protest rights about Palestine and Israel Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos on his way to Charing Cross police station, where he w…
SKWAWKBOX

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🇺🇦 Ukrainian doctor drives a child’s heart through Russian attack to perform a life-saving transplant

#Ukraine

ctvnews.ca/world/russia-ukrain…


Ukrainian doctor drives a child’s heart through Russian attack to perform a life-saving transplant

Kyiv was burning as Dr. Borys Todurov sped through the city in an ambulance, undeterred by the deep thuds of explosions and the terrifying sounds of Russian drones flying overhead. He was determined to deliver his precious cargo: a human heart.
CNN Staff (CTVNews)

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The NYT just called a lynching of an American citizen a “clash.”

x.com/imraansiddiqi/status/194…

#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten #SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#antiPalestinianracism #canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon #freePalestine #GazaGenocide #IsraelTerroristState #StopGenocide
#palestina #StopAIPAC #IDFTerrorists #DismantleZionism

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HBD to Stuart Christie—anarchist, publisher, and revolutionary. At 18, he was arrested for an attempt on Franco’s life. Later, he helped relaunch the Anarchist Black Cross and Black Flag magazine. He was also arrested and acquitted in the Angry Brigade trial, and built ChristieBooks, archiving radical history. Learn more and explore related titles here: blog.pmpress.org/authors-artis…

Stuart Christie - PM Press

Stuart Christie, 10 July 1946-15 August 2020 Glaswegian anarchist, writer and publisher. Arrested in Madrid, aged 18, in possession of plastic explosives to be used during an attempt on the life of the dictator Franco.
PM Press

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How I'm sending incremental Btrfs snapshots on a Asustor NAS to a LUKS disk

Hi, I recently finished setting up my Asustor NAS, and I found the snapshotting setup in it a bit confusing, so I'm writing this as a quick reference that might be hopefully useful to others.

For context, my device is a AS1102TL, and it's running ADM 4.3.3, but I imagine it should apply to all recent Asustor devices.

First of all, the reason I picked Asustor instead of e.g. Synology... it's because it was not clear if the latter actually supported LUKS full disk encryption on an external usb hd. In Asustor you have to ssh into your NAS, but you can definitely do it.

The only gotcha: If you created the LUKS volume recently on another system, it's likely that it'll be using Argon2 for key stretching. A memory-intensive algorithm, for which the 1GB of memory provided by my AS1102TL is not enough. The solution is simply to add another key with a different algo, e.g. PBKDF2, or just create the volume on your Asustor. Either way, you're going to be able to read and write it both from the NAS and another Linux on your pc.

$ sudo $(which cryptsetup) luksOpen /dev/sdb1 encrypted # "encrypted" is just the name that I gave to the device, pick anything... remember the `-S` flag if you need to select a key in a different slot
$ sudo mount /dev/mapper/encrypted /mnt/USB1
... do what you want ...
$ sudo umount /mnt/USB1/
$ sudo $(which cryptsetup) luksClose encrypted

Unfortunately, this doesn't mean that once mounted, the disk will be integrated in the ADM ui (you're not going to be able to see it in the "External Devices" ui, nor be able to select it as a destination in the "Backup & Restore" ui).

Normally, mounted external drives are available on paths like /share/USB0, /share/USB1. Maybe it could be possible to mount (or symlink your mount point for) your disk there, to make it usable to ADM, but by default /share is an immutable loop mount of /volume0/.@system/sharebase.loop

$ lsattr -d /share/
-----i------- /share/

Trying to workaround that with chattr and maybe manually modifying sharebase.loop felt a bit more risky than needed, so I didn't attempt that (the ADM ui doesn't provide a btrfs send functionality, so it's not very interesting for our purposes anyhow).

Now, you have two different approaches to accomplish incremental backups of btrfs snapshots, one where you just create them yourself from the CLI, and one where you can try to reuse the snapshots created in ADM.

  1. Create snapshot from the cli


sudo btrfs subvolume snapshot -r /volume1 /volume1/.@snapshots/v20250710-0951

pick a parent snapshot, and send the incremental changes:
sudo btrfs send -p /volume1/.@snapshots/v20250710-0936 /volume1/.@snapshots/v20250710-0951/ | sudo btrfs receive -v /mnt/USB1/

I'm using the same naming convention, and same location that is used for snapshots created by ADM (you wouldn't get conflicts anyhow, unless you're creating another one in the exact same minute).

I recommend the -v verbose flag for btrfs receive, otherwise you're not going to see progress while the operation is ongoing.

That's it! Of course, the first send will have to happen without specifying a parent with -p, to do a full clone.

  1. Reuse snapshots created in ADM

There are two problems with this: the snapshots created by ADM are not read-only and they are mounted right under the toplevel.

To address these issues:

sudo mount /dev/md1 -o subvol=/ /mnt/rootvol
sudo btrfs property set /mnt/rootvol/v2025079-2324/ ro true

then pick a parent snapshot, and send the incremental changes:
sudo btrfs send -p /mnt/rootvol/v2025079-0824/ /mnt/rootvol/v2025079-2324 | sudo btrfs receive -v /mnt/USB1/

As above, use the -p and -v flags as needed. That's it!

If you're wondering why did we have to mount the / subvol, you can try without:

You can mount the snapshots directly in ADM's Snapshot Center, by toggling the Preview toggle for a snapshot. In that case, they are still going to be RW, though mounted as RO. You can deal with that by remounting: sudo mount -o remount,rw /volume1/.@snapshots/v2025079-2324/ && sudo btrfs property set /volume1/.@snapshots/v2025079-2324/ ro true,

You can then try to send the changes, but what you're going to get is:

$ sudo btrfs send -p /volume1/.@snapshots/v2025079-0824/ /volume1/.@snapshots/v2025079-2324
ERROR: not on mount point: /volume1/.@snapshots/v2025079-2324

The error is a bit confusing (you have mounted the volume! why is that not good enough?), but you can get a bit of clarity with btrfs subvolume list.
$ sudo btrfs subvolume list /volume1 -qua
ID 256 gen 159842 top level 5 parent_uuid -                                    uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 path <FS_TREE>/base
ID 258 gen 151914 top level 5 parent_uuid -                                    uuid 5039c206-1a89-dc45-a9fe-43f8959cb672 path <FS_TREE>/.iscsi
ID 259 gen 159840 top level 5 parent_uuid -                                    uuid 06d46207-9aa2-2944-ba38-e5736963ec12 path <FS_TREE>/.@plugins
ID 2758 gen 157876 top level 5 parent_uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 uuid 256c36c5-7033-a945-a2db-b6a334a8419f path <FS_TREE>/v2025079-0824
ID 2759 gen 157859 top level 5 parent_uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 uuid 88942ee6-8b52-3d4d-b972-5de2d6764728 path <FS_TREE>/v2025079-2324
ID 2762 gen 159833 top level 256 parent_uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 uuid 6d636914-35a0-3f42-9486-bf5d673b94c5 path base/.@snapshots/v20250710-0936
ID 2763 gen 159836 top level 256 parent_uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 uuid e99df217-4946-a740-bba9-99f64f1a0d69 path base/.@snapshots/v20250710-0951

Now, compare with the output when listing /mnt/rootvol:
$ sudo btrfs subvolume list /mnt/rootvol/ -qua
ID 256 gen 159867 top level 5 parent_uuid -                                    uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 path base
ID 258 gen 151914 top level 5 parent_uuid -                                    uuid 5039c206-1a89-dc45-a9fe-43f8959cb672 path .iscsi
ID 259 gen 159840 top level 5 parent_uuid -                                    uuid 06d46207-9aa2-2944-ba38-e5736963ec12 path .@plugins
ID 2758 gen 157876 top level 5 parent_uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 uuid 256c36c5-7033-a945-a2db-b6a334a8419f path v2025079-0824
ID 2759 gen 157859 top level 5 parent_uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 uuid 88942ee6-8b52-3d4d-b972-5de2d6764728 path v2025079-2324
ID 2762 gen 159833 top level 256 parent_uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 uuid 6d636914-35a0-3f42-9486-bf5d673b94c5 path <FS_TREE>/base/.@snapshots/v20250710-0936
ID 2763 gen 159836 top level 256 parent_uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 uuid e99df217-4946-a740-bba9-99f64f1a0d69 path <FS_TREE>/base/.@snapshots/v20250710-0951

as you can see, the snapshots created in ADM are directly under top level 5 and if you list them under /volume1 (which is just the mount point for the /base subvolume), they are not found directly underneath (despite them being mounted there), which is why you see them being under their own <FS_TREE>.

Conversely, the ones that you can create directly from the cli under volume1, appear as top level 256 and they are under /base if you list the subvolumes under /mnt/rootvol.

I hope this has been useful.

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berdario

PS, while I was closing the dozens of tabs that I opened to investigate how everything fits together, a note on what I wrote earlier:

this doesn’t mean that once mounted, the disk will be integrated in the ADM ui (you’re not going to be able to see it in the “External Devices” ui, nor be able to select it as a destination in the “Backup & Restore” ui).


mounting the disk on a path already accessible by ADM file explorer doesn't work because of permission issues, similar to the immutable flag that you can see with lsattr... but someone on Reddit had another workaround:

reddit.com/r/asustor/comments/…

I mounted the opened device to another path already accessible by ADM file explorer. I don't think it will matter where really. But in my case I made two partitions on an external USB drive. The first partition is a small exFat formatted (10GB). The second partition takes up the rest of the drive and is formatted with cryptsetup (LUKS). Finally, to use this I open the LUKS device and mount it to a location in the first partition (which is automatically mounted by ADM)

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#UK #invasion is continuing

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Thistle Immigration Hotel - Barbican - #London - Abusive Residents - Boycott in the future


Thistle Immigration Hotel - Barbican - London - Abusive Residents - Boycott in the future

Thistle Hotel - Barbican - London... Many guests are abusive. They have entered the country illegally and still choose to talk to us and treat us like S#!t. The Police that turned up were good as gold. I will only give credit where it is due and th…
BitChute

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An American Beaten to Death in the West Bank by 'Settlers' eir.news/2025/07/news/an-ameri…

An American Beaten to Death in the West Bank by 'Settlers'

Today, a funeral for a 20-year-old American man was held in the occupied West Bank. He was beaten to death on Friday, July 11. Sayfollah Musallet was “brutally beaten to death” by a group of Israeli racist thugs, otherwise known as “settlers.
David Shavin (EIR News)

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Jerusalem Water Authority:
Last night, a group of Israeli settlers stormed the Ein Samia wells, causing widespread destruction and rendering the entire site inoperable. All systems have gone offline, resulting in a total loss of communication and control.
The Ein Samia wells are the only source of water for dozens of Palestinian villages and communities. The damage caused puts thousands of lives at risk and constitutes a deliberate attack on critical civilian infrastructure.


#EU #US #US-israel #US-israel-terrorism #Israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine

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#mafia #macronie

🔴 C’est une affaire que l’Elysée préférerait ne jamais voir ressurgir. Depuis huit ans, la justice enquête sur l’organisation d’une soirée qui s’est déroulée le 6 janvier 2016 à #LasVegas autour du ministre de l’Economie de l’époque, un certain Emmanuel #Macron. Le juge d’instruction, Serge Tournaire, a fini ses investigations et doit désormais décider s’il demande un procès pour les protagonistes de l’événement, dont l’ex-ministre du Travail Muriel #Pénicaud. Accusée de « complicité de favoritisme », celle-ci conteste sa mise en examen devant la chambre d’instruction.

Retour dix ans en arrière. En novembre 2015, les conseillers d’Emmanuel Macron cogitent sur un déplacement de leur champion au plus grand salon de l’innovation numérique au monde à Las Vegas. Une occasion pour lui d’incarner la start-up nation et de rencontrer de riches entrepreneurs alors qu’il s’apprête à créer son parti En Marche avec la présidentielle en ligne de mire. « Habituellement, les ministres se contentaient d’un petit pot, mais là les ambitions étaient plus fortes », observe un haut fonctionnaire de Bercy.

Infraction au Code des marchés publics
Afin de financer la soirée, le cabinet d’Emmanuel Macron se tourne vers l’agence publique Business France, alors dirigée par Muriel #Pénicaud et dotée d’un confortable budget de communication de 9 millions d’euros. Problème : l’entité va sous-traiter l’événement à l’agence de com’ #Havas Paris pour un total de 380 000 euros sans mettre d’autres sociétés en concurrence. Soit une infraction caractérisée au Code des marchés publics…

Une décennie plus tard, pas question pour Muriel Pénicaud de porter le chapeau. Face au juge en octobre 2023, elle a assuré que la soirée avait été entièrement pilotée par sa directrice de la communication Fabienne Bothy-Chesneau, « une cadre dirigeante avec une rémunération de 12 000 euros quand la mienne était de 13 000 euros », précise-t-elle. Avant de poursuivre : « Jamais jusqu’à début mars 2016, je n’ai su que la totalité était confiée à Havas. On me l’a caché sciemment. »

Des mails compromettants exhumés
Au fil de leur enquête, les policiers ont pourtant mis la main sur plusieurs mails qui montrent que l’ex-patronne de Business France avait un œil sur le bon déroulement de la soirée. Le 19 novembre 2015, elle indique à une conseillère d’Emmanuel Macron que « Business France prépare activement Las Vegas ». Le lendemain, après une réunion d’une heure et demie entre ses équipes et le cabinet du ministre, elle reçoit un premier canevas de la soirée avec la mention d’un budget prévisionnel de 300 000 euros.

De quoi prouver sa connaissance du coût de la soirée et de la nécessité de passer un appel d’offres avec mise en concurrence ? « Un budget de 300 000 euros ne veut pas dire une commande publique par Business France de 300 000 euros, il y a très souvent plusieurs cofinanceurs », argue-t-elle. Une version contestée par Fabienne Bothy-Chesneau, mise en examen pour « favoritisme », un mois plus tard devant le même juge : « Muriel Pénicaud a été informée que Havas s’occupait de tout et du budget. Et elle savait bien qu’il n’y avait pas eu d’appels d’offres. »

Pour se dédouaner, Muriel Pénicaud met en avant un audit réalisé après coup, à sa demande, par le cabinet EY qui la met hors de cause. Mais l’avocat de Fabienne Bothy-Chesneau pointe que les auteurs de l’audit n’ont jamais entendu sa cliente, qui avait quitté Business France entretemps, alors que les autres membres de la direction ont pu s’expliquer et… modifier le contenu du rapport d’audit. Pis, ils ont même pu explorer la boîte mail de Fabienne Bothy-Chesneau pour ajouter des éléments à charge. « Le rapport d’audit n’a pas été réalisé à la suite d’une enquête interne rigoureuse, objective et impartiale », tacle l’avocat dans une note.

Pression des conseillers d’Emmanuel Macron
Un point semble faire consensus : la soirée a été préparée dans l’urgence. Avec des conseillers d’Emmanuel Macron qui multiplient les doléances : refus d’une soirée exclusivement organisée par le Medef, demande d’un lieu plus central que l’année précédente, échange avec une star de la tech américaine, etc. En trois semaines, le budget prévisionnel bondit de quelque 150 000 euros. « Fais vite, il faut que le cabinet soit content », serinait Muriel Pénicaud à Fabienne Bothy-Chesneau selon ses dires.

Une précipitation qui a empêché le lancement d’un marché public en bonne et due forme ? « Il n’était matériellement pas possible d’organiser cet événement en respectant scrupuleusement les procédures d’achats, avance le responsable du contrôle interne de Business France face aux enquêteurs. Soit il aurait fallu savoir dire non, soit demander aux organismes de tutelle les dérogations idoines. » « Si un appel d’offres avait été lancé, cela aurait tué le projet », lâche carrément un salarié d’Havas.

Signe de la panique : à la veille de Noël, le directeur financier de Business France doit utiliser sa carte bancaire personnelle pour bloquer la réservation de l’hôtel The Linq à hauteur de 64 000 dollars. « Je risque l’interdit bancaire et je ne vais pas casser mon assurance-vie pour financer la French Tech hors process, y a des limites », s’énerve-t-il. Avant que Muriel Pénicaud permette son remboursement en faisant passer la facture en note de frais.

Havas accusé de « recel de favoritisme »
Au cours de l’enquête, le juge s’est aussi penché sur d’éventuelles collusions entre les dirigeants de Business France et l’agence de communication Havas. Le directeur d’Havas Paris Fabrice Conrad affirme qu’il était persuadé que la soirée de Las Vegas s’intégrait à un « contrat-cadre » que son agence avait remporté quelques mois plus tôt pour une campagne de promotion de Business France. Et qu’il n’y avait donc pas besoin d’une nouvelle mise en concurrence. « Je suis en charge de l’opérationnel. Je ne suis pas un juriste », se défend-il.

Un argument « difficilement audible » pour le responsable du contrôle interne de Business France qui estime qu’« Havas Paris savait qu’il s’agissait de deux opérations de communication distinctes, y compris sous l’angle budgétaire ». Le 15 décembre, à trois semaines de la soirée, Fabrice Conrad s’inquiète d’ailleurs par mail de l’absence d’un « go budgétaire » de Business France. Autant d’éléments qui ont conduit le juge à mettre en examen Havas Paris, puis Fabrice Conrad en avril 2024, pour « recel de favoritisme ».

Le haut management d’Havas avait été convié aux agapes de Las Vegas. Le 1er janvier 2016, un responsable de l’agence de com' informe une conseillère du ministre que « M. Yannick Bolloré [le PDG d’Havas] a eu M. Macron au téléphone qui l’aurait invité au dîner prévu mercredi à Las Vegas ». Dans un autre message, Fabrice Conrad indique à Stéphane Fouks, le vice-président d’Havas, que « Muriel serait ravie de t’y voir ». En 2014, quelques semaines avant sa prise de poste chez Business France, Muriel Pénicaud avait déjà déjeuné avec Stéphane Fouks pour avoir ses conseils.

La candidature du neveu
Plus gênant, en août 2016, la patronne de Business France poussera la candidature de son neveu pour un contrat d’apprentissage chez Havas. Une demande que Fabrice Conrad relaie au responsable des recrutements avec ce commentaire : « C’est un GROS client et donc une candidature à BIEN traiter. » Après un premier échec de son neveu, Muriel Pénicaud insiste. Le directeur d’Havas Paris lui promet alors « de le faire entrer en contact avec d’autres structures du groupe ». Le neveu décrochera finalement un contrat de onze moins au sein de la holding du groupe Bolloré, relève le juge.

Dernier détail piquant : ce n’est que dans l’avion du retour qu’Emmanuel Macron semble se soucier du coût des festivités. « Le ministre souhaiterait (moi aussi) savoir combien coûte la soirée », écrit Muriel Pénicaud à sa directrice de la communication le 8 janvier. Une demande que Fabienne Bothy-Chesneau juge « étrange » : « Je pense qu’à ce moment-là elle réalise le problème et se couvre ». Un peu tard peut-être.

Laurent Lasselin

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You can’t judge a star by its protoplanetary disc


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This image tells the story of redemption for one lonely star. The young star MP Mus (PDS 66) was thought to be all alone in the Universe, surrounded by nothing but a featureless band of gas and dust called a protoplanetary disc. In most cases, the material inside a protoplanetary disc condenses to form new planets around the star, leaving large gaps where the gas and dust used to be. These features are seen in almost every disc – but not in MP Mus’s.

When astronomers first observed it with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), they saw a smooth, planet-free disc, shown here in the right image. The team, led by Álvaro Ribas, an astronomer at the University of Cambridge, UK, gave this star another chance and re-observed it with ALMA at longer wavelengths that peer even deeper into the protoplanetary disc than before. These new observations, shown in the left image, revealed a gap and a ring that had been obscured in previous observations, suggesting that MP Mus might have company after all.

Meanwhile, another piece of the puzzle was being revealed in Germany as Miguel Vioque, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory, studied this same star with the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Gaia mission. Vioque noticed something suspicious – the star was wobbling. A bit of gravitational detective work, together with insights from the new disc structures revealed by ALMA, showed that this motion could be explained by the presence of a gas giant exoplanet.

Both teams presented their joint results in a new paper published in Nature Astronomy. In what they describe as “ a beautiful merging of two groups approaching the same object from different angles ”, they show that MP Mus isn’t so boring after all.

[Image description: This is an observation from the ALMA telescope, showing two versions (side-by-side) of a protoplanetary disc. Both discs are bright, glowing yellow-orange objects with a diffused halo against a dark background. The right disc is more smooth and blurry looking. The left disc shows more detail, for example gaps and rings within it.]

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Gaza’s Hunger Games


by Chris Hedges

Israel is weaponizing starvation. The objective is to dismantle all remnants of civil society and reduce Palestinians to herds of desperate scavengers who can be driven from historic Palestine ...


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Teresa Sindelar always knew she wanted to be a part of human spaceflight, but she was unsure how to make that dream a reality until a chance encounter with former NASA astronaut Tom Stafford when she was 11 years old. The pair met in a local jewelry shop near Sindelar’s Nebraska home, where Gen. Stafford […]

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Written by Bob Dylan and made famous by Joan Baez in this 1968 version.
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Joan Baez : Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word

From her 1968 album, "Any Day Now: Songs of Bob Dylan", Joan Baez sings "Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word," a song Dylan has never officially released. Joan B...
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