>the Kingsmen trilogy
the exploding heads one is muh fav! set to the drums of the 1812 overture ! ! !
and the people eating one… but whats yhe third one anon?
Eragon
https://www.rt.com/news/609751-us-downs-own-jet-yemen/
US shoots down own jet while bombing Yemen
The F/A-18 was downed by the guided missile cruiser USS Gettysburg over the Red Sea
The US Navy inadvertently shot down its own F/A-18 fighter jet in a friendly fire incident over the Red Sea, the Pentagon announced shortly after issuing a press release about another successful bombing raid against alleged Houthi targets in Yemen.
The F/A-18 was shot down by the guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg after taking off from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, US Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed early Sunday morning. The two Navy pilots were able to eject from the fighter jet and were recovered safely, although one sustained minor injuries.
The incident occurred just as American and British aircraft conducted new bombing raids targeting alleged missile storage sites and command facilities in Sanaa to disrupt and degrade Houthi operations, according to a CENTCOM press release issued earlier on Saturday night.
“During the operation, CENTCOM forces also shot down multiple Houthi one-way attack uncrewed aerial vehicles and an anti-ship cruise missile (ASCM) over the Red Sea,” the US military stated.
“The operation involved US Air Force and US Navy assets, including F/A-18s,” it noted.
Hours later, the US military admitted that the USS Gettysburg had “mistakenly fired on” the F/A-18 but did not specify which weapon was used to shoot it down. An investigation is currently underway to determine the exact circumstances of the incident. The commander of the cruiser serves as the air defense commander for the strike group, responsible for detecting and neutralizing incoming threats.
American forces, along with several allies, have been conducting Operation Prosperity Guardian, a mission to protect merchant traffic in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden from Houthi threats, for the past 14 months. The group claims to have downed several MQ-9 Reapers, but the loss of the F/A-18 marks the first time a crewed American aircraft was lost during the mission.
https://www.wnd.com/2024/12/450000-being-paid-by-school-that-forced-teacher-to-resign-over-its-gender-fantasy/
$450,000 being paid by school that forced teacher to resign over its gender fantasy
A school district in Jackson Township, Ohio, is having to pay $450,000 for forcing a teacher to resign over its gender fantasy – that boys can become girls and vice versa.
It was the Jackson Local School District in Ohio that demanded faculty members personally participate in students’ “social transitions” by calling them by names and pronouns that were not theirs.
“No school official can force a teacher to set her religious beliefs aside in order to keep her job,” explained ADF lawyer Logan Spena. “The school tried to force Vivian (Geraghty) to accept and repeat the school’s viewpoint on issues that go to the foundation of morality and human identity, like what makes us male or female, by ordering her to personally participate in the social transition of her students.
“The First Amendment prohibits that abuse of power, and Jackson Local School District officials have learned that comes at a steep cost. Vivian resisted this unconstitutional demand and explained that her Christian faith made her unable to participate in her students’ social transition, and she has received just vindication for taking this stand.”
School officials had forced Geraghty to resign when she declined to participate in the ideology of transgenderism.
A lawsuit was filed on her behalf two years ago and now a settlement has been reached, involving payment of $450,000 in damages and lawyers’ fees.
She had taught English at Jackson Memorial Middle School in Massillon until district officials demanded her resignation because she wanted to refrain from speaking in a way that would violate her religious beliefs, the ADF explained.
“Geraghty’s sincerely held religious beliefs and scientific understanding govern her view that a person is male or female based on sex, not personal identity, and participating in a student’s social transition violates those beliefs by forcing her to communicate messages she believes are untrue and harmful to the student.”
ADF lawyers pointed out they also recently settled a similar case in Virginia for $575,000 and for three teachers who now are being granted accommodations as school employees.
Beside the issue of faith, following the science disproves transgenderism as being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the DNA level and does not change.
https://www.rt.com/russia/609756-putin-world-war-three/
Putin says if World War Three is underway
Moscow will always respond to any escalation by the West, the Russian president has stressed
The threat level is rising globally, but there is no need to scare people with talk of World War Three, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.
During an interview published by Russia 1 TV journalist Pavel Zarubin on Sunday, Putin was asked if the extensive involvement of the US in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine meant that WWIII has already begun.
“You know, one should not scare people,” the president replied. However, he added that “there are many dangers, and they keep increasing.”
“We see what our current opponents are doing. They are escalating the situation,” Putin said after Zarubin mentioned plans by the administration of US President Joe Biden to drastically increase the amount of weapons deliveries to Ukraine during his final weeks in office.
“If they want it so much, if their life is so bad, let them escalate,” the president stressed during a conversation recorded after his end-of-year press conference on Thursday.
Russia will “always respond to any challenge” coming from the West, he insisted.
“And when our current opponents - and maybe potential partners - will finally hear, understand and realize this, it seems to me that at that point the realization will come that what is needed is to seek compromises,” he said.
Moscow is ready to try to rebuild ties with the US and its allies, but it should only happen “without harming our interests,” Putin pointed out.
no table
https://www.rt.com/russia/609750-ukraine-cia-chief-zelensky/
CIA chief pays ‘last visit’ to Kiev
Democrats sent the outgoing spymaster to tie up loose ends, Moscow has suggested
Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns has made yet another unannounced trip to Kiev, likely his final before stepping down from his position, according to Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky.
Zelensky disclosed the meeting in a Telegram post on Saturday, highlighting the significant role Burns has played in supporting Ukraine during its ongoing conflict with Russia.
“Bill Burns paid his last visit to Ukraine as CIA director. We have held many meetings during this war, and I am grateful for your help,” Zelensky wrote, accompanied by a photo of him shaking hands with Burns.
The Ukrainian leader acknowledged that such high-level meetings are typically kept confidential, but emphasized the importance of highlighting their continued communication.
“Usually, such meetings are not reported publicly, and all our meetings – in Ukraine, in other European countries, in America, and in other parts of the world – took place without official information. But now, after the last visit, it is worth saying openly,” Zelensky said.
Burns has held the position of CIA director since March 2021 and is set to leave his role after the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump, scheduled for January 20.
Trump has nominated former National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe to succeed Burns. Zelensky has expressed his commitment to maintaining contact with the new leadership at the CIA.
Throughout the conflict, the United States has been Kiev’s most crucial sponsor, providing the bulk of financial and military support as well as intelligence.
The visit by the US spymaster comes at a critical juncture, as Trump has pledged to quickly end the Ukraine conflict, raising concerns in Kiev that it could not only face a decline in aid but also an audit of the billions of dollars it received from Washington under President Joe Biden's administration.
Russia's Foreign Ministry suggested that Burns' trip aimed to warn Ukrainian authorities against sharing potentially compromising information with Trump's auditors.
Senior Russian diplomat Rodion Miroshnik described Zelensky as a “weak link” and suggested that Burns sought to ensure he would not disclose any sensitive “evidence of illegal actions by American officials related to the Democrats and Biden.”
“Burns came to Kiev to tie up loose ends and coordinate actions with Zelensky for when Trump begins his review of the multi-billion-dollar US budget spending on Ukraine,” Miroshnik told TASS on Saturday.
“The Democrats hardly expect Zelensky to keep his obligations to them, which is why they sent Burns,” the diplomat said, noting that Kiev is the most vulnerable link in the chain of corruption that has seen billions of US taxpayer dollars thrown “into a bottomless pit.”