Israelis Killing Kids With Headshots; NLRB Under The Gun

Zerohedge has picked up on a story that, I believe, I referenced not long ago. It’s very disturbing, although not at all surprising—it’s been going on for many years. Basically, Israelis are deliberately targeting children in Gaza, claiming it’s all the kids’ fault for being in a war zone. Get it? These kids wouldn’t get shot in the head if they simply went away. This is what our Congress applauds:

US Doctors Stunned By Number Of Gaza Children With Headshot Wounds

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called Israel the "most moral army in the world," but a high volume of deeply troubling wounds seen by American surgeons volunteering in Gaza is casting doubt on that claim. 

Dr. Mark Perlmutter, an American surgeon with heavy catastrophe-zone experience, is among those stunned by the civilian devastation they've recently witnessed in Gaza, and especially by a high volume of what appear to be precision rifle-fire wounds on children -- including toddlers. 

"All of the disasters I've seen, combined – 40 mission trips, 30 years, Ground Zero, earthquakes, all of that combined – doesn't equal the level of carnage that I saw against civilians in just my first week in Gaza," Dr. Mark Perlmutter, an orthopedic surgeon and vice president of the International College of Surgeons, told CBS's Sunday Morning. 

What most struck him was his observation that the overwhelming majority of the patients he and his team treated were children:

"I've never seen that before. I've seen more incinerated children than I've ever seen in my entire life, combined. I've seen more shredded children in just the first week … missing body parts, being crushed by buildings, the greatest majority, or bomb explosions, the next greatest majority." 

Perlumutter, a Jew who grew up in New Jersey and who now lives in North Carolina, was also disturbed what what he attributed to precise rifle fire directed at children, some of whom were "shot twice." 

"I have two children that I have photographs of that were shot so perfectly in the chest, I couldn't put my stethoscope over their heart more accurately, and directly on the side of the head, in the same child. No toddler gets shot twice by mistake by the 'world's best sniper.' And they're dead-center shots."

His description of the phenomenon was confirmed to CBS News by more than 20 other doctors who'd recently visited Gaza. An American doctor had such a problem grasping what he was seeing that he double-checked using CT scans, saying he "didn't believe that this many children could be admitted to a single hospital with gunshot wounds to the head." 

An American doctor treated this 10-year-old who'd been shot in the head and received a craniectomy a month earlier (Dr. Feroze Sidhwa via Politico)

A Virginia anesthesiologist said he saw an estimated 30 single gunshot wounds to children in just two weeks. A doctor based in gunfire-heavy Chicago described the horrific conclusion he reached as the pattern emerged on the treatment tables in front of him: 

"I thought these kids were in the wrong place at the wrong time, like sadly, some of the kids we treat in Chicago. But after the third or fourth time, I realized it was intentional; bullets were being put in these kids on purpose."

Surgeon, Dr. Mark Perlmutter, on what he witnessed in his first month in Gaza. On @CBSSunday

“No toddler gets shot twice by mistake by the world’s best sniper.” pic.twitter.com/wAoRWaNngo

— Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا (@SMohyeddin) July 22, 2024

An Israeli Defense Forces spokesperson assured CBS News that "the IDF has never, and will never, deliberately target children," while cautioning that "remaining in an active combat zone has inherent risks."

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Moving on. The SCOTUS’ decision doing away with Chevron defererence” for administrative agencies is quickly taking effect.

Elon Musk Just Had a Federal Agency Ruled Unconstitutional

Obviously there will be appeals. Nevertheless, the Admin State is already being disrupted:

Elon Musk's SpaceX turned a smallbore squabble about an alleged unfair labor practice into a massive assault on the administrative state that could result in the entire enforcement structure of the National Labor Relations Board being declared unconstitutional. In an opinion released Thursday, US District Judge Alan Albright of the Western District of Texas, a Trump appointee, ruled that SpaceX "has demonstrated a substantial likelihood of success on its claims that Congress has impermissibly protected both the NLRB Members and the NLRB ALJs from the President’s Article II power of removal." 

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Judge Albright's decision followed a July 10 ruling in which he granted an injunction against any NLRB action until the agency's constitutionality is established.

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There is a long way to go before the NLRB has its windows shuttered and its doors nailed shut, but now that agency is on the defensive. There are other cases in which Amazon and Trader Joe's are making the same argument in progress. Given the history of rulings on the subject, the Roberts Court is likely to agree.

It’s a revolution.