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How to Login Into the Inmate Financial Services?

Cash is not permitted to be carried by prisoners. Commissary credits are thus their only choice. Commissary credits can buy clothes, snacks, toiletries, and other things. By working in prison or having money paid online by a family member, inmates can earn commissary credits. One of the greatest places to deposit money for commissary credits is Inmate Financial. Family members can quickly add money anywhere in the world using a computer. You can pay with a credit card from Visa, Mastercard, or Discover via inmatefinancial.com. 

How to sign up at Inmate Financial? 

You must first register an account before you can buy commissary credit. Making an account with Inmatefinancial is simple. To complete the procedure, you need to adhere to a few straightforward instructions:

You must first go to Inmate Financial's official website.

You can also access the website directly by clicking this link, inmatefinancial.com.

Then select the Sign Up link on the homepage.

Next, provide your first and last names.

Your email address.

Make a password next.

For confirmation, you must type your password again.

Press the Continue button after that.

An email with a security code will be sent to you.

On the designated box, you must input the security code.

Select the Validate option after that.

How to buy Commissary Credit? 

Commissary Credit can be bought quite easily. You must register before you can purchase. Once you have registered, proceed as directed below to finish the process:

Go to the Inmate Financial website first.

You can access the website directly by clicking this link, inmatefinancial.com.

After arriving at the homepage, select the Buy Commissary Credit option.

Next, fill in the boxes with your username and password.

Select the Remember Me checkbox if you are using a personal device.

Click the Continue button after that.

How to reset the password? 

To access the Inmate Financial account, a password is a crucial identification. You are unable to access your account without your password. In any case, if you can't remember your Inmate Financial password, follow these steps:

You must first go to the Inmate Financial website.

You can also access the website directly by clicking this link, inmatefinancial.com.

Next, select Login from the menu.

Next, select the Forgot Password link.

Put your email address in the space provided.

After that, press the Send button.

The steps to reset the password will be sent to you through email.

The Final Consideration 

Make sure the name you submit precisely matches the name on your visitation application when you create your account using the Online Inmate Trust Account Deposit program. There are various steps that you have to do before opening an Inmate account. However, if you find anything difficult to understand regarding premier services, inmate deposit or inmate financial services, you can also visit OpenKit.io for more specific information. 

[feathered-serpents]

Ah Watcher moving to a streaming service. I have some DEEPLY mixed feelings on this.

On one hand, they've presented themselves as "anti-capitalist members of the leftist club" for essentially their entire careers. Going as far as to push anti-capitalist ideas front and center in MANY episodes of their shows. I absolutely understand how the audience they built by doing that is feeling betrayed by them doing a very very obvious financially motivated choice! It feels scummy! It feels like you've been lied to.

But I also understand that Watcher is a business.

Not only is Watcher a business, it is an independently run business, trying to make money solely off of YouTube advertisments, merch, and patreon. Given the production value of the stuff it makes, that's hard. Because the reality is it is INCREDIBLY hard to make money in this way, you are essentially scraping together as many pennies as you can through as many means as you can to try and keep everything afloat. That's for creators trying to support just themselves and a few members of their family. A whole company? Not sustainable. Not with what they make.

If they wanted to keep expanding, or maybe even wanted to stay afloat at all, their options were: Better monetize their content (streaming) or get bought out. And I think they COULD have gotten bought out, but we saw what happened to Rooster Teeth. Indies getting bought does NOT always end well and puts you under a lot of restrictions as you now need to appeal to your parent company, which could shut you down at any moment if you aren't proving profitable enough for them.

So... I get why Watcher did this. Do I think they approached it in the best way? Honestly, I'm not sure, they're leaving all their videos up, and they're still posting premieres to YouTube, so there won't be NO free content at all, but this will alienate a large part of their audience.

It's a complicated situation, but I don't think we should treat it as "corporate greed" on the same level as giants like Disney and HBO. It's hard to be indie in this world, and who knows if this gamble will even pay off. We're going to have to wait and see

[8flix]

Before you go. Any comments on byler? 🎤

Ah, yes. The byler predicament. Allow me to muddy the waters even more.

But first, a disclaimer: to be clear, I have no conclusive/confirmed information about season 5. What I know are inferences made from previous leaks, combined with what we now know as fact.

A little more on that before I get to Byler:

The leak came from outside of Netflix; a third-party private company that offers closed captioning services (as confirmed by Forbes, then eventually Netflix). The leaked videos of Heartstopper Se3 and Arcane Se2 are low resolution (640x266 / 640x480) encodes of unlocked edits (ie: edits that are subject to change at the network's discretion), and devoid of VFX. If you're a fan of either show, don't waste your time because it will only spoil the finished product.

That being said, I doubt that there is any video of ST5 episodes 1 through 3, as purported by the so-called "hacker" (I use that in "quotes" because any schlub with an email address could have accessed the server without restriction -- the login app had no restrictions to the inhouse videos).

So, aside from the fact that Netflix will aggressively pursue civil and criminal charges against the source (if they ever find the person) -- a threat that any legit hacker would certainly ignore (unauthorized access to a computer network is already a federal crime, regardless of whether or not something was "taken" and/or released publicly) -- I think there won't be any video of ST5 leaked because it doesn't exist.

A legit hacker would have released it already, defying both Netflix and the FBI, and in such away that would make tracking them down impossible. What is there to lose? Nothing for a legit "hacker." And let's be honest: this wasn't a "hack" of top-secret government documents. And the "hack" will not cause long-term financial damage to a publicly traded company like Netflix. In an election year, the Feds have more important cyber criminals to go after than a scriptkiddy looking for notoriety in the Fortnight Discord app.

Realistically, it's doubtful more than a cease-and-desist letter from Netflix to that Twitter influencer dude, and perhaps firing the IT guy who forgot to flick the privacy toggle on the login app at the closed-captioning company, will come to fruition. And like I said, a legit hacker has zero fucks to give, so threats of a civil lawsuit or prison time would mean nothing to them because their OPSEC would be 100%.

Also, it's my belief that no videos of ST5 will come out because of how TV series are made. Principal photography of ST5 is around 12 months (December 2023 - December 2024). That's a 5-day work week, 16-hours per day. Not including holidays, reshoots, and unforeseen delays, about 48 - 50 weeks in total -- so, about 250 - 300 days of shooting (a movie is often 30 - 120 shooting days). Post production -- which includes editing, music, VFX rendering, ADR, etc. -- will take at least 6 months. For a $200 million series like ST5, 4 - 6 weeks of per-episode-editing is not unheard of. Stranger Things is arguably a Netflix legacy. It's not only going to be protected, but perfected.

Season 5 is being released in two-parts. Part 2 will likely still be in post-production when Part 1 is released. To give you an idea of how close producers come to hard deadlines for series: I watched (legit) screeners of Locke & Key Se2 -- the final two episodes -- before they were complete -- 2 weeks before the world premiere. It's that close.

ST5 shoots chronologically, with some exceptions. Meaning, they film in order of episode. (Movies, on the other hand, film according to scene and schedule -- scenes that take place in the same location, but spread throughout the movie and take place on different days, are shot consecutively). The leak happened in late June (apparently), which would mean that episodes 1 through 3 would have been shot and edited by May. That's not realistic. Like, at all. If I were a betting man, I'd say that episode 1 is still being edited as I write this. There is still 4 months of principal photography remaining.

My expectation is to see trailer #1 during the Super Bowl in February. And October 31, 2025 as a release date for Part 1.

My expectation is a December release for Part 2.

Hardcore hype and teasing for 10 months.

This is my guess; based on personal experience with shows and movies that are not Netflix properties.

Okay, so, Byler...

If you believe the 2022 "definitely not leaked Se4 scripts" are definitely real... then Will is "fully resigned to knowing that he’s just ripped off the Band-Aid." #Byler, as we know it, will never come to be and #Mileven is endgame.

Or, if you believe the "definitely not leaked Se4 scripts" are definitely cap, then Byler is, in fact, the real endgame.

Given the circumstances, I am obviously the former. And, as much as I hate to say it, Will and Mike will never be a couple. 99% confident about that one.

Whichever side you take, in the words of Dr. Emmet Brown, "You're not thinking fourth dimensionally." (hint)

Will Will find love? No. There are bigger plans for Will. Conversely, there are plans for El that go way beyond teenage love. Again, if you believe the fake scripts to be real, then it will become apparent in ST5 that Will and El share a unique connection. My inference is that they are related. If not in the current timeline, then in the alternate timeline and reality (that will be revealed in Se5). "Young versions" of "Will, El, Mike, and the others," have already been cast to appear in Se5. But, IMAO, they're not the "young versions," but the alternate timeline/reality versions. Back to the Future, and Terminator are huge influences. As is the JJ Abrams movie "Super 8" (watch the movie, there are so many similarities with it, and Stranger Things).

I'll also add that there were scenes filmed in 2020/2021 that were meant to be included in season 5. I think -- if memory serves -- it's in or at a church and touches on the theme of "occult murders". So, I wouldn't be surprised if Eddie Munson makes an appearance.

In my professional opinion as a writer (excluding what I may or may not know about ST5): regardless of what scripts you've read -- official, unofficial, fake, real -- the series endgame has already been revealed on screen. I'll explain:

In general terms, for any television series with a definitive finale, and a pre-determined ending, writers follow a blueprint: specific plot points that must revealed along the way so that the story makes sense to viewers -- even to those with conflicting opinions.

If the writing is done correctly, then (for example) when something is revealed in episode 25, viewers will experience a lightbulb moment: "Oh yeah, I remember the references during episodes 2, 5, and 15."

So, using the Byler vs Mileven plotlines, it's plausible that either outcome is still possible. That's the brilliance of Stranger Things' writers' room (I say that sincerely).

Clues have been dropping since episode 101. Spoken dialogue, secondary dialogue, music selection (read the lyrics), character names, specific dates, shooting locations, pop culture references, carefully choreographed shots and scenes, numbers, dates, background props... Everything contains a piece of a puzzle that reinforces what is already known, and reveal what will soon become obvious.

Seriously, I don't know the ending of ST. And honestly, in my experience, it's more likely than not that only the Duffers and a small handful of Netflix/21 Laps execs know the real ending. For a series as big as Stranger Things (with an estimated season 5 budget surpassing $200 million), don't be surprised if more than one ending is filmed. Certainly, more than one has been written. It's not uncommon to leak misleading (but highly plausible) information on purpose. Netflix marketing peeps are top in their field, and outside-the-box thinkers.

What I do know is that the endgame -- be it canonical or other -- will completely blow you away and go down in history as Netflix's most watched finale.

Or, it will be the biggest let down since The Sopranos ending -- the first one AND the do-over.

[myrebelancestorsdiedforme]

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Embarking on a Groundbreaking Journey

Allen and Melissa are currently in contract and looking to close the acquisition of the resort property by mid-September. Development will commence immediately thereafter, including the installation of state-of-the-art social wellness hydrotherapy pools that can accommodate 200-300 people at a time.

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[toxicnotebook]

Full list of work SAG-AFTRA members will not do during the strike:

●Principal on camera work, such as: ○ Acting ○ Singing ○ Dancing ○ Performing stunts ○ Piloting on-camera aircraft ○ Puppeteering ○ Performance capture or motion capture work;

● Principal off camera work, such as: ○ ADR/Looping ○ TV Trailers (promos) and Theatrical Trailers ○ Voice Acting ○ Singing ○ Narration, including audio descriptive services except as the services may be covered by another collective bargaining agreement referred in the Notice to Members Regarding Non-Struck Work ○ Stunt coordinating and related services

● Background work ● Stand-in work ● Photo and/or body doubles ● Fittings, wardrobe tests, and makeup tests ● Rehearsals and camera tests ● Scanning ● Interviews and auditions (including via self-tape)

● Promotion of/publicity services for work under the TV/Theatrical Contracts, such as: ○ Tours ○ Personal appearances ○ Interviews ○ Conventions ○ Fan expos ○ Festivals ○ For your consideration events ○ Panels ○ Premieres/screenings ○ Award shows ○ Junkets ○ Podcast appearances ○ Social media ○ Studio showcases

● Negotiating and/or entering into and/or consenting to: ○ An agreement to perform covered services in the future ○ Any new agreement related to merchandising connected to a covered project ○ The creation and use of digital replicas, including through the reuse of prior work

● Performing on a trailer for a struck production or other ancillary content connected to a struck production

This strike effectively stops the ENTIRE entertainment industry. No shows. No movies. No premieres. No award shows. No fun little interviews. No signings at con. Nothing. Even the tabloids are going to be affected by this.

I just CANNOT imagine how greedy and short-sighted the AMPTP must be to think a dual strike is something they can outlast when many of the major studios are already experiencing serious financial trouble. You really think you can ride this out when the 2023 box office is already weak? When the 2020-2022 box offices were even weaker? When streaming services are just not growing anymore?

Who the fuck is going to watch whatever trash you come up with when there are no real names attached and no meaningful way to promote it?

It's just baffling.

Another excellent article: “Orange Is the New Black” Signalled the Rot Inside the Streaming Economy from The New Yorker

[liminalweirdo]

So according to this article, the Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford wants to end the wastewater surveillance program.

Having no information on the spread or prevalence of COVID 19 significantly impacts disabled, immunocompromised, and COVID-vulnerable people, including the elderly, those who have undergone organ transplants, people with intellectual and/or neurological disabilities, asthma, heart conditions, and those with autoimmune conditions, as well as BIPOC, trans and queer people, the homeless population, as well as people who are struggling financially or are in public-facing jobs with high customer overturn such as food services and sales.

Please spread this message or contact the Premier of Ontario here or email him at Premier@ontario.ca

The phone number is 416-325-1941 and TTY is 1-800-387-5559

[onlydylanobrien]

Dylan O’Brien Sets ‘Twinless’ With James Sweeney Directing & Starring; Republic Pictures Takes Global On Three Point Capital & David Permut Production

EXCLUSIVE: Dylan O’Brien is set to headline in James Sweeney‘s dark comedy Twinless, which the latter wrote and will also star in. Republic Pictures has taken global rights to the movie. Cameras are currently rolling on the movie in Portland, OR. O’Brien will executive produce.

The pic follows two young men who meet in a twin bereavement support group. An unlikely bromance develops between them. Twinless follow Sweeney’s directorial debut, Straight Up, which notched the filmmaker a Best First Screenplay nom at the 2021 Independent Spirit Awards.

Three Point Capital is financing the film with Ali Jazayeri, David Gendron and Liz Destro also serving as EPs.

Twinless is produced by Academy Award nominated producer David Permut and Permut Presentations (Hacksaw Ridge, Face/Off) whose most recent Netflix movie, Rustin, garnered Colman Domingo a Best Actor Oscar nomination.

Miky Lee (Parasite) Vice Chairwoman of CJ and who most recently executive produced the Oscar nominated film Past Lives, serves as EP.

Permut Presentations Director Of Development Alex Astrachan co-produces.

Permut said, “I was absolutely knocked out by James’ first film Straight Up and was determined to work with him. I immediately responded to the originality and provocative concept of Twinless. The dark comedy depicts complex characters in such an irreverent, emotional and hysterical way. The chemistry between Dylan, who portrays the role of identical twin brothers, opposite James’ character is absolutely combustible.”

O’Brien’s most recent film is the independent feature Ponyboi, in which he plays a villainous pimp and small-time drug dealer, recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He will next be seen in the upcoming films SNL 1975 (from director Jason Reitman) as Dan Aykroyd, Caddo Lake (from the writing-directing team of Logan George and Celine Held, and producer M. Night Shyamalan), and Anniversary (a thriller co-starring Diane Lane, Kyle Chandler, Zoey Deutch and Phoebe Dynevor). The $1.7 billion grossing star is well-known to audiences from his work in The Maze Runner franchise, as well as the hit MTV series Teen Wolf.

Permut also recently produced the Paramount+ series hit, Lawman: Bass Reeves from Taylor Sheridan, which stars SAG nominee David Oyelowo. His upcoming high priority slate includes Being Heumann written and directed by Academy Award winner Sian Heder (CODA) at Apple, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ (Little Miss Sunshine) film The Invite, and Face/Off II at Paramount, the sequel to Permut’s 1997 hit film, to be directed by Adam Wingard.

Sweeney is repped by UTA, 2AM and Brecheen Feldman Breimer Silver and Thompson. O’Brien is repped by WME, Principal Entertainment, and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Feldman, Rogal, Shikora & Clark and Permut is repped by John Tishbi at Pearlman & Tishbi.

Three Point Capital, established in 2009, is a financier and service provider in the film, television, and commercial industries. They have financed over 400 films, including The Butler, Clerks III and the Oscar-winning Manchester by the Sea. They most recently provided funding for the upcoming Michael Keaton starrers Know Goes Away and Goodrich, the Nicholas Cage starrer Longlegs, the Tina Fey/Jon Hamm comedy Maggie Moore(s) and the recent Sundance premiere Rob Peace.

Paramount Global Content Distribution is revitalizing the former Republic Pictures label, originally founded in 1935. The newly branded acquisition label will leverage Paramount Global’s vast worldwide distribution channels, across home entertainment and third-party distribution platforms to distribute a wide range of acquired films. Republic Pictures is an acquisition-only label under Paramount Pictures.

Source: deadline.com

[exnori]

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[orlaogden]

Jim Carter and Imelda Staunton supporting SAG-AFTRA strike

Jim Carter: I’m here today as an Equity member of 50-odd years to stand behind SAG-AFTRA. I fully support it. Most Equity members do, because their fight is our fight. What they’re doing is absolutely right and I applaud them.

Jim Carter: We’re not being paid properly for our work. Streaming services take our work and we have no control over where it’s shown or how many people see it. They’re not open about how many people see things so we don’t get properly recompensed for it. That’s ridiculous. Our performance isn’t just for the premiere and opening night; it’s for as long as it lasts, and we should be fairly recompensed for that.

Imelda Staunton: SAG-AFTRA strike isn’t an American problem, or an English problem but rather a global problem. [The] streaming services seem to be paying themselves and not the creatives. The issue of AI is here. We need to talk about how it’s going to affect people’s financial circumstances. Most actors and most writers and performers seem to be at the bottom of the pile when the pay packet is issued, so I think that needs sorting out as soon as possible.

Source

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[thebusylilbee]

Homard bleu et macaron rose, décor royal et meilleurs vins pour plus de 150 invité·es : les images de la réception majestueuse de Charles III, en septembre 2023 au château de Versailles, avaient immédiatement alimenté la question. Combien d’euros la présidence de la République avait-elle déboursé pour organiser un tel événement ? La réponse est désormais disponible : 474 851 euros, d’après la Cour des comptes.

Dans leur rapport annuel sur les comptes de la présidence de la République, publié lundi 29 juillet, les magistrats financiers alertent sur la forte augmentation des dépenses du chef de l’État, notamment en ce qui concerne les frais de déplacement et réception, en 2023. L’Élysée a bouclé cette année-là son exercice en déficit (8,3 millions d’euros sur 117,2 millions de résultat), ce qui n’était pas le cas de l’exercice précédent (excédentaire de 300 000 euros).

« Si plusieurs facteurs externes expliquent ce niveau de dépenses non anticipé (inflation, activité présidentielle conditionnée par le contexte international) », la Cour des comptes alerte aussi sur une nécessaire « vigilance accrue » face aux « facteurs internes » qui ont conduit à ce dérapage. À la fin de l’année, les dépenses de la direction chargée de l’organisation des événements, des déplacements et de l’intendance ont été supérieures de 7 millions d’euros par rapport au budget prévisionnel.

Le choix d’organiser le « dîner d’État » en l’honneur de Charles III au château de Versailles a fortement pesé dans la balance, la présidence de la République ayant dû externaliser de nombreuses prestations : traiteur extérieur (et non cuisines de l’Élysée) pour 166 193 euros, « extras » embauchés pour le service pour 100 428 euros, scénographie et montage pour 42 720 euros, ou encore 42 515 euros de vins, champagne et autres boissons. 

Le coût total de la soirée (474 851 euros) ne prend pas en compte les autres dépenses liées à la « visite d’État » – le plus haut rang protocolaire – organisée pour la venue pendant trois jours du souverain britannique en France, ni les frais d’annulation (80 000 euros) de la première visite, repoussée en raison des mobilisations contre la réforme des retraites. « La France entretient des relations diplomatiques soutenues avec de très nombreux pays qui organisent des événements équivalents lorsqu’ils reçoivent le chef de l’État », se défend la présidence de la République.

Des déplacements de plus en plus onéreux

Un autre « dîner d’État » a coûté près d’un demi-million d’euros : celui en l’honneur du premier ministre indien Narendra Modi, le 14 juillet 2023, au musée du Louvre. Là encore, le choix de la présidence d’organiser le repas en dehors du palais de l’Élysée – à l’inverse des réceptions du président américain Joe Biden ou de l’émir du Qatar en 2024 – a coûté cher : près de 173 000 euros de traiteur, 72 000 euros d’« extras », etc. Pour une note globale de 412 366 euros.

À titre de comparaison, deux autres réceptions organisées à l’Élysée – le dîner d’État pour le président mongol et celui pour le Forum de Paris sur la paix – ont coûté 62 000 et 67 000 euros. « Cette comparaison entre les dîners souligne le rôle majeur du choix du lieu dans le coût total de chaque événement », relève la Cour dans son rapport.

Plus encore que les réceptions, ce sont les déplacements d’Emmanuel Macron qui grèvent le budget. Dans son rapport, la Cour des comptes interroge un paradoxe : le président de la République ne se déplace pas beaucoup plus qu’avant mais ses déplacements coûtent de plus en plus cher au contribuable. À titre d’exemple, le coût moyen des déplacements nationaux du chef de l’État a quasiment doublé depuis 2018, culminant l’année dernière à 60 462 euros.

À une échelle plus large, l’évolution des dépenses donne même le vertige. En 2016, pour la dernière année pleine de son quinquennat, François Hollande s’est déplacé 142 fois, pour un budget global de 17,7 millions d’euros. En 2023, Emmanuel Macron a effectué 112 déplacements qui ont coûté 23,2 millions d’euros. Autrement dit, le coût moyen d’un déplacement présidentiel est passé de 125 000 à 207 000 euros en sept ans.

Comment expliquer une telle hausse ? Sans nier le poids de l’inflation sur certaines lignes de dépense, l’institution de la rue Cambon charge lourdement le fonctionnement de l’Élysée, soulignant « le nombre de déplacements, l’évolution de leur structure et la taille des délégations », mais aussi « des problèmes d’organisation interne ».

L’explosion des frais de déplacement résulte directement des choix politiques opérés à l’époque par Emmanuel Macron. Après un premier trimestre passé cloîtré à l’Élysée, en proie à un mouvement social massif contre la réforme des retraites, le chef de l’État avait fait de sa capacité à occuper l’espace un enjeu politique central : il s’agissait de montrer qu’il n’était pas empêché, malgré l’impopularité de sa réforme, et de reprendre la main d’un quinquennat considérablement embourbé.

Une tournée en Océanie à 3 millions d’euros

« Je dois me réengager dans le débat public », avait-il prévenu fin avril. La suite avait été à l’avenant : en quelques semaines, le président de la République était allé discuter déserts médicaux dans le Loir-et-Cher, lycée professionnel en Charente-Maritime, reconquête industrielle dans le Nord, attractivité de la France dans les Yvelines, souveraineté industrielle en Ardèche ou encore transport aérien en Seine-et-Marne.

Fin juin, il avait tenu à passer trois jours à Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) pour balayer les dossiers de la cité phocéenne. Le déplacement a coûté 342 828 euros à l’État, un budget « particulièrement onéreux » selon la Cour des comptes.

Laquelle critique également le prix excessif de deux autres visites officielles, en Corse en septembre (278 209 euros) et à Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) en décembre, pour visiter le siège d’Airbus (205 022 euros). La tournée en Océanie (Nouvelle-Calédonie, Vanuatu, Papouasi), au cœur de l’été, bat des records (3,1 millions d’euros), talonnée par celle en Afrique (1,9 million) au printemps.

En plus de leur nombre, c’est le faste et la dimension des déplacements que l’institution place dans son viseur. Pour la visite d’État d’Emmanuel Macron en Chine, en avril 2023, l’Élysée a affrété deux avions A330 pour transporter une délégation pléthorique, où figuraient notamment l’ancien premier ministre Jean-Pierre Raffarin, grand ami de la Chine, ou l’ancien ministre socialiste Jean-Marie Le Guen, membre du conseil d’administration de l’entreprise Huawei. À l’arrivée, en plus de la voiture présidentielle transportée sur place, cinquante véhicules avaient été loués pour déplacer le convoi présidentiel.

Avec le transport et l’hébergement, plusieurs frais annexes sont venus alourdir la facture de cette visite, à l’instar des prestations audiovisuelles confiées à des sociétés privées (55 084 euros). Au total, l’escapade chinoise a coûté 1,8 million d’euros, révèle la Cour des comptes, qui pointe au passage le décalage entre le budget prévisionnel et le coût réel du voyage. Une hausse de 40 %, selon l’instance, traduite par un surcoût imprévu de 520 000 euros. 

Une différence loin d’être anecdotique, aux dires de l’institution administrative. Le rapport pointe ainsi à plusieurs reprises les « problèmes d’organisation interne » à l’Élysée, évoquant par exemple les multiples annulations et reprogrammations de dernière minute. « Bien qu’il existe des contraintes spécifiques à l’activité présidentielle, il ressort que les arbitrages à différents niveaux sont souvent rendus tardivement, ce qui ne permet pas de respecter le processus défini et contraint à un fonctionnement dans l’urgence », souligne la Cour des comptes.

Annulations et reprogrammations

La multiplication des annulations n’est pas que le fait du président de la République : elle découle aussi, pour l’année 2023, de son impopularité. Le mouvement social contre la réforme des retraites a poussé l’Élysée à annuler plusieurs déplacements et voyages prévus. Elle ne saurait toutefois être résumée à ce contexte. Depuis son élection en 2017, Emmanuel Macron a habitué ses interlocuteurs, partenaires et collaborateurs à une instabilité permanente. Plusieurs ministres ont ainsi raconté à Mediapart, ces dernières années, leur lassitude face aux contre-ordres de dernière minute venus de l’Élysée.

En tout, douze déplacements ont été annulés en 2023, un record si l’on excepte l’année 2020 rendue exceptionnelle par le contexte sanitaire. Sans entrer dans ces considérations, la Cour des comptes rappelle un fait : ce fonctionnement a un coût pour le contribuable, 832 328 euros de pertes pour l’année 2023. À elle seule, l’annulation du voyage prévu en Allemagne en juillet 2023 a coûté 429 100 euros à l’État, celle de la visite en Suède en février, 180 150 euros.

En guise de préconisations pour l’avenir, la Cour des comptes suggère à l’Élysée, entre autres, de mieux anticiper l’agenda présidentiel et de plafonner la taille des délégations. Elle encourage aussi la présidence à modérer le recours aux missions préparatoires, ces voyages de collaborateurs d’Emmanuel Macron destinés à « tâter le terrain » et à préparer sa venue.

Car ces missions coûtent cher, soulève le rapport. Avant de se rendre au Brésil, cette année, Emmanuel Macron a envoyé quatre équipes différentes préparer les quatre étapes de son périple. Trop souvent décidées au dernier moment, ces missions préparatoires ont un prix, encore plus lorsque les conseillers présidentiels décident de prendre l’avion pour gagner du temps.

Ainsi de celle censée préparer l’hommage rendu à Roubaix (Nord), en mai 2023, à trois policiers tués par un automobiliste. « En dépit d’une règle édictée d’effectuer en train les trajets inférieurs à quatre heures », l’équipe d’Emmanuel Macron a pris un vol commercial pour atteindre la ville nordiste. La présidence « tiendra compte des remarques de la Cour pour améliorer son organisation et ses dispositifs internes », a répondu l’Élysée, assurant être « mobilisée pour gérer avec efficacité son budget dans un contexte d’une part inflationniste et d’autre part géopolitique et politique qui influence l’agenda de l’exécutif ».

Ilyes Ramdani et Antton Rouget

[tarjeismoeworknews]

Article about new season of Furia.

Google translation:

"Finally you can stream Furia season 2: - A thriller about the world we live in right now

Erlend Lundgård

FilmwebPublished:

22.04.2024

The thriller series takes viewers through Europe's darkest corners, into a world of violence, politics and technology. We met the actors from Furia season 2!

The second season of this Norwegian conspiracy thriller has been postponed for a long time, and now it's finally here! The series has found a new home on Prime Video, and this season, among others, Tarjei Sandvik Moe and Maria Mena have joined the acting team!

We follow Ellen ( Ine Marie Wilmann ) and Asgeir ( Pål Sverre Hagen ) on a mission to arrest one of Europe's most wanted masterminds of right-wing extremism and electoral fraud. Asgeir and his daughter are hiding from the dangerous Moldovan Ziminov in the far north of Norway.

Here they are drawn into a stream of violence, politics and AI-driven psy-ops that intend to tear Europe and NATO to shreds, before the Norwegian NATO commander resigns. Their worst nightmares unfold as their true identities and darkest secrets are revealed.

Ine Marie Wilmann plays Ellen, and she can reveal that the character goes through an intense journey this season.

- There was a time when I thought "and this too?!"

She also says that working with the series has made her more concerned about the world, and that she has become much more aware of the importance of protecting our institutions and democracy. Tarjei Sandvik Moe does not recognize that .

-No, I have realized that the world is fucked without this series. Furia is kind of just… It rubs it in.

One of Tarjei's biggest challenges in the series is the name of his character. He plays the state secretary Tarje, which is one letter away from his real name, and led to confusion on the set - made worse by the fact that Ellen and Tarje's father is called Terje, and is played by actor Terje Strømdahl .

- It was one thing for us Norwegians, but the Polish crew, they were like "Tarje tarje tarjaaaa!"

Furia comes from series creator Gjermund Eriksen ( Mammon ), and does not shy away from themes such as right-wing extremism, conspiracy theories or artificial intelligence.

Peiman Azizpour is back after a brief appearance in the first season as Jonas, a state secretary and former AUF leader.

- Jonas has survived terror, i.e. Utøya. He will fight for and stand up to talk about what has happened.

While the first season was launched on Viaplay, the series has now found a new home. After being completed for several months, the season was postponed due to financial problems at Viaplay, and now the streaming service Prime Video has bought the rights. Furia is the first of five Norwegian drama series to premiere on Prime Video this year.

The postponement has been a source of frustration for several of the actors, and Pål Sverre Hagen is relieved that the series can finally reach the public.

The Furia universe is, after all, a thriller that is about the exact time we live in right now, so it was probably time to get it out into the world.

The first three episodes of Furia Season 2 are available now on Prime Video, with new episodes being released weekly.

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[reality-detective]

Just to let you know things ARE happening behind the scenes, I'll leave this here 👇

Operation Warp Speed Architect Arrested

U.S. Army Rangers on Saturday arrested Operation Warp Speed architect Moncef Slaoui, the Moroccan-born pharmaceutical mogul who in May 2020 spearheaded the administration’s efforts to poison 300 million Americans by January 2021, a source in General Eric M. Smith’s said.

Slaoui largely flew under the radar throughout the Plandemic. The media seldom mentioned his name, focusing instead on publicly influential figures like Fauci, Birx, and Collins, articulate public servants who spoke better English. Our source said Slaoui was relegated to media obscurity because the administration thought he looked shady and that Americans wouldn’t trust him.

And Americans would have been right not to trust a man who spent 30 years as GlaxoSmithKline’s head of vaccines department and was working at Moderna when Trump picked him to helm Warp Speed. At the time, Trump called Slaoui “one of the most respected men in the world in the production and, really, on the formulation of vaccines,” but was merely parroting what subordinates Michael Pence, Alex Azar, Admiral Brett Giroir, and Robert Redfield told him. They and others, our source said, were part of a major conspiracy to deceive President Trump into putting Slaoui in charge of OWS.

Slaoui faced criticism for holding $10 million in Moderna stock options and working as an advisor to Brii Biosciences, a firm with sizable Chinese investments. To avoid a conflict of interest, he begrudgingly resigned from those positions, then began working with then-Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar—who praised Slaoui as “arguably the world’s most experienced and successful vaccine developer”—to hasten Warp Speed.

Our source said that Slaoui, despite resigning from Moderna, continued receiving payouts exceeding $56 million after the FDA granted Moderna emergency-use authorization on December 8, 2020.

However, the military was less interested in Slaoui’s financial motivations than his knowledge that Moderna’s experimental vaccine had killed 34 of 600 Phase II trial participants in June 2020. White Hats, our source said, now have a wealth of evidence—physical and digital documents authored by Slaoui—proving he knew the vaccine caused myocarditis and potentially lethal blood clots but never publicly disclosed that information, even after Trump personally asked him if the shots were truly safe and effective.

“We have a treasure chest of incriminating evidence on Slaoui. This guy was one of the biggest violators of the Plandemic. We got a letter he wrote to Pence, saying he knew vaccines would kill people and that they could blame Trump for pushing Operation Warp Speed on the public. We have tons more that will be made available when he faces a military tribunal and hopefully gets hanged. We had more than enough proof to get him,” our source said.

The arrest, he added, came after Gen. Smith talked with Colonel J.D. Keirsey, a White Hat council member and commander of the 75th Ranger Regiment, the U.S. Army’s premier light infantry unit and special operations force within the United States Army Special Operations Command.

On Saturday morning, Rangers bashed down the door to Slaoui’s 7,500-sq-ft home in Zebulon, North Carolina. One of his three sons, Hussein Mohamad Abdul Slaoui, was present and pulled a pistol on the Rangers. He was shot dead, and the Rangers took Slaoui into custody. He shouted, “sayantaqim li allah,” or “Allah will avenge me,” as the Rangers shoved him into a civilian vehicle.

“We got him. We got the bastard,” our source said. “He’s just one of many. But we’re chipping away at them.”

As an aside, Slaoui was fired from chairman of the board of directors of Galvani Bioelectronics, a subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline, in March 2021 after several young male employees accused him of sexual harassment.

[mariacallous]

World Brief: U.K. Conservatives predicted to lose snap elections

The United Kingdom will hold snap parliamentary elections on Thursday that are expected to end the ruling Conservative Party’s 14-year hold on power. This is Britain’s first national election in almost five years and will determine all 650 seats in the House of Commons, the lower house of the U.K. Parliament. Experts predict a landslide loss for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, with the Conservatives expected to lose more than two-thirds of their parliamentary seats and Sunak likely to become the first sitting premier to be defeated in his own district.

Sunak became prime minister in October 2022, the third Conservative to hold the job in just under two months. Unlike former Conservative leader Boris Johnson, who won Britain’s last general election in 2019 by a massive margin, Sunak’s approval rating is a mere 18 percent—making him one of the most unpopular prime ministers in Britain’s history.

Labour leader Keir Starmer is therefore expected to take the helm. As the country’s former top prosecutor and opposition leader since April 2020, Starmer seeks to impose taxes on private school fees, reverse the Rwanda deportation plan, and address bogged-down public health services.

“A politically dominant Starmer will attend the G-7 as a leader in total political control, in stark contrast to his counterparts in France and Germany, Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz, who are facing high disapproval ratings and struggling to pursue their governing agendas,” former Labour advisor Mike Harris argued in Foreign Policy.

The sluggish U.K. economy remains voters’ No. 1 concern. The Conservative Party began its more than decadelong tenure in power during the fallout of the 2008 global financial crisis. Under Sunak, though, inflation slowed to 2 percent this year through May after peaking at roughly 11 percent when he first took office. Other key issues for voters include long wait lists with Britain’s National Health Service, unauthorized immigration across the English Channel, the housing crisis, and climate change.

Successive political scandals within the Conservative Party—what FP’s Sasha Polakow-Suransky termed the “Nightmare on Downing Street”—have also damaged its credibility. Johnson resigned in 2022 after attending Downing Street-hosted parties during the COVID-19 pandemic while the rest of the nation was under lockdown. Liz Truss briefly took over—but quickly left after a disastrous economic proposal. And Sunak has faced his own controversies after several staffers allegedly engaged in insider betting on when Thursday’s snap elections would be scheduled for.

Combined support for the country’s two main parties is only at 63 percent, the Financial Times reported last Tuesday—marking an all-time low since Britain’s two-party system emerged after World War I. This has led to the rise of smaller parties, including the far-right Reform U.K. party, led by Nigel Farage; the environmentalist Green Party, led by Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay; and the centrist Liberal Democrats, led by Ed Davey.