07/06/18 Overnight Links

OKCFriday: Ervin Yen cites stance on pot and immunizations for primary loss

The Independent: Majority of doctors who oversee FDA drug approval receive payments from companies they monitor, report shows

And more: MedicalXpress: What Big Pharma pays your doctor

The Guardian: Goodbye to Scott Pruitt, the worst EPA administrator of all time

The Verge: London police chief ‘completely comfortable’ using facial recognition with 98 percent false positive rate

Motherboard: Leaked emails show cops trying to hide emails about phone-hacking tools

Reason: School strip-searches 22 sixth-grade girls because a cop thought they were hiding $50 in their underwear

Also Reason: Facebook algorithm flags, removes Declaration of Independence text as hate speech

Techdirt: Police chief tries to blame newspaper shooting on the loss of social media monitoring tool, but it doesn’t add up

Activist Post: Mainstream media admits FBI groomed terrorist for 4th of July attack, gave him supplies

The American Conservative: Where the Right when wrong on criminal justice

The Intercept: An American century of brutal overseas conquest began at Guantanamo Bay

UNZ: Feeding the monster: Washington’s spinelessness enables Israeli brutality : A recent story illustrates just how horrible the Israelis can be without any pushback whatsoever coming from Washington objecting to their behavior. As the United States is the only force that can in any way compel Israel to come to its senses and chooses not to do so, that makes U.S. policymakers and by extension the American people complicit in Israel’s crimes.

The particularly horrible recent account that I am referring to describes how fanatical Jewish settlers burned alive a Palestinian family on the West Bank, including a baby, and then celebrated the deaths while taunting the victims’ surviving family when they subsequently appeared in court. The story was covered in Israel and Europe but insofar as I could determine did not appear in any detail in the U.S. mainstream media.

Israeli Jewish settlers carried out their shameful deed outside a court in the city of Lod, chanting “’Ali was burned, where is Ali? There is no Ali. Ali is burned. On the fire. Ali is on the grill!” referring to the 18-month old baby Ali Dawabsheh, who was burnt alive in 2015 by Jewish settlers hurling Molotov cocktails into a house in the West Bank town of Duma. Ali’s mother Riham and father Saad also died of their burns and were included in the chanting “Where is Ali? Where is Riham? Where is Saad? It’s too bad Ahmed didn’t burn as well.” Five year-old Ahmed, who alone survived the attack with severe burns, will have scars for the rest of his life.”

Author: S. Smith