No more news today. But if you’re looking for something to do besides fireworks and that light lager you people seem to enjoy so much, take a listen to the first episode of ‘The Campaign Trail’ podcast.
Otherwise, enjoy your day and happy 4th!
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A fundraiser to help the family of the policeman who shot the migrant-background teen ‘Nahel M’ in Nanterre, Paris, last week has received more than €1.4 million ($1.5M USD) after Jean Messiha – a former advisor to populist leader Marine Le Pen – created an appeal on GoFundMe on Monday.
Demands have been made to remove the GoFundMe page, though GoFundMe refused to comply. “Currently, this campaign complies with our terms of use as the funds will be paid directly to the family in question. The family has been added as a beneficiary and therefore the funds will be paid directly to them,” said a spokesman for GoFundMe to POLITICO on Monday.
The campaign has thus far received nearly five times more than a similar fundraiser created for Nahel M’s mother, who told the media that her “heart aches” after learning of the fundraising.
Nahel’s death sparked violent riots across France and Western Europe, with more than 1,300 arrests on Friday, and a further 700 on Saturday, as well as 45,000 police officers being deployed by the French government to quell the unrest.
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Major benefactors to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis – Morteza ‘Mori’ Hosseini and his wife Forough – have donated tens of thousands of dollars to a political action committee (PAC) funding the Democratic Party leaders, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and the lead impeachment manager against former President Donald J. Trump, Jamie Raskin.
Hosseini’s donations to the Iranian American Political Action Committee – Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans (PAAIA) span from 2004 to 2011, under his name, as well as aliases “Morteza Hosseini Kargar”, and “Morteza Hosseini-Kargar“. During the same period, the PAAIA PAC funded various Democrat groups, including Friends of Hillary (Clinton) and Friends of (Anthony) Weiner.
To the extent the group has given money to Republicans, the sums appear far smaller, and the donations have ended up in the pockets of groups supporting former Republican leader Paul Ryan, neoconservative Dan Crenshaw, and Never Trumper Ben Sasse.
Far and away, the group – which brags of its work with globalist, D.C. think tanks – donates mostly to Democrats including massive sums of cash to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).
PAAIA itself appears to have been openly critical of Trump’s travel ban, as well as slamming the 45th President for ending the Iran deal (the JCPOA) which enriched Iran’s Islamist regime under the false pretense of slowing nuclear weapons development in the nation.
And Hosseini’s association with the PAC did not end in 2011, when his name disappeared from the donations list. Instead, his wife Forough, recently appointed by DeSantis to the Florida Children and Youth Cabinet in 2019, currently serves as the Board Chair of PAAIA, and remains a contemporaneous donor.
Hosseini often lets Governor DeSantis and his wife use his private jet, and was brought to the attention of The National Pulse by DeSantis staffer Christina Pushaw and Jeremy Redfern, after the pair publicly panicked about a report into a $92 million COVID cash dump from DeSantis that aids Hosseini’s property developments.
Pushaw has gone so far as to dispute accurate descriptions of Hosseini as “Iranian”, complaining that “by ‘Iranian,’ they mean an American citizen, of Iranian heritage.” Hosseini’s own biography boasts of his Iranian birth, and he has been featured on websites such as ‘ImIranian.com’ since 2011.
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Not only is this an absolutely appalling look for the Florida Governor, but it might actually be something he needs...
The United States’ largest poultry processor is removing its ‘no antibiotics ever’ from the company’s tagline and will reintroduce certain antibiotics to its products as a means to save money.
Tyson Foods, which processes around one-fifth of all chicken in the United States, initially pledged to remove antibiotics from its products in 2017, yet has reversed its decision because fewer people now want to buy meat that was more expensive, in large part thanks to “Bidenflation” and the government’s mishandling of the economy.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) suggests limited use of antibiotics in meat production despite antibiotics having been used in the industry for decades to prevent disease outbreaks amongst chickens, pigs, and cattle and assist them in gaining weight faster. Moreover, there are growing concerns about the rapid development of bacteria resistant to antibiotics in the meat.
Tyson plans to use ionophores as antibiotics, which control coccidiosis in poultry. However, researchers such as Assistant Professor of Biology at Carleton University Alex Wong, among others, have demanded a [s]ystematic investigation” into the possible dangers of using ionophores in relation to human health.
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The Michigan House of Representatives has passed new hate speech legislation which criminalizes misgendering if someone feels ‘terrorized, frightened, or threatened’ by words, with offenders potentially facing up to five years imprisonment or a $10,000 fine.
Bill HB 4474 – passed in the Michigan House on June 20 – could make it a felony to intentionally “intimidate” someone for, among other things, using the wrong pronouns. The bill also extends to a number of “protected classes,” including race or color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or national origin.”
By “intimidate,” the House means “a willful course of conduct involving repeated or continuing harassment of another individual that would cause a reasonable individual to feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened, and that actually causes the victim to feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened.”
However, the bill does not offer an objective definition against which intimidation or harassment can be held. Therefore, it is up to the interpretation of the listener as well as the local prosecutor to determine whether what was said was indeed intimidation.
Bill HB 4474 is “part of a [continued] effort by Democrats in the state [of Michigan] to advance a pro-LGBTQ+ agenda in their first months in power,” reports The Daily Mail.
“Make no mistake about it. Those advocating for this legislation will wield these policies as a weapon capable of destroying conservative expression or viewpoints grounded in the sacred,” adds Professor Emeritus William Wagner.
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