US Fighter Jet Shot Down Over Red Sea In Disastrous 'Friendly Fire' Incident

The two pilots ejected after their F/A-18 fighter was hit and have been safely rescued in Red Sea waters, with one of the pilots suffering injuries.

The Associated Press and ABC News are reporting the following details after official CENTCOM confirmation:

Two U.S. Navy pilots ejected safely over the Red Sea after their F/A-18 fighter aircraft was mistakenly shot down early Sunday in what military officials are calling "an apparent case of friendly fire."

One of the pilots has minor injuries, according to a news release from U.S. Central Command.

The guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg, which is part of the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, mistakenly fired on and hit the aircraft, that was flying off the USS Harry S. Truman, according to the news release.

CENTCOM says it is investigating the incident. Again, it is clearly bizarre given the aircraft had just taken off from the same carrier strike group of which the USS Gettysburg is part.

"The F/A-18 shot down had just flown off the deck of the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier," Central Command indicated.

The US military was conducting an assault against militants in Yemen at the time of the incident. AP details further, "The U.S. military had conducted airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels at the time, though the U.S. military’s Central Command did not elaborate on what their mission was and did not immediately respond to questions from The Associated Press."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-fighter-jet-shot-down-over-red-sea-disastrous-friendly-fire-incident

TOM RENZ: The Omnibus CR Funding Bill —The WHO Treaty in Disguise

Did you know that the omnibus CR funding bill that GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson put forward would have enshrined a number of aspects of the WHO Treaty into law in America?

Did you know it expanded COVID lockdown law to other diseases? Did you know it reiterated and strengthened laws that provide legal immunity for vaccine manufacturers?

I’m guessing you didn’t because almost no one did but all these things are true and Congressional leadership seems hell bent on bringing it back. While a full evaluation of everything this nightmare does let me offer a few examples of the shadiness as a means of explanation.

Hundreds of pages of this continuing resolution spending bill were dedicated to health policy. Why? The purpose of the bill is to keep the government funded – temporarily – until an actual budget could be passed (I know – ha ha).

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/tom-renz-omnibus-cr-funding-bill-who-treaty/

Tesla's Market Cap Nears Half Of Global Auto Industry

Tesla shares just reached a new all-time high following Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election, propelling the company to a massive $1.5 trillion valuation as of December 18, 2024.

This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Marcus Lu, highlights the most valuable automakers by market cap worldwide as of Dec. 13, 2024, based on figures from CompaniesMarketCap.com.

Aide To California Politician Arrested, Accused Of Conspiring With Chinese Spy To Infiltrate US Politics

The FBI on Dec. 19 arrested a close associate of a local California politician, accusing him of scheming together with a recently sentenced Chinese spy to amplify China’s influence in the U.S. political circle.

Sun Yaoning, also known as Mike Sun, was the campaign manager and close personal confidante to a Southern California city council member that the Chinese authorities supported, according to a newly unsealed complaint.

The 64-year-old has worked closely with Chen Jun, or John Chen, who a New York judge sentenced to 20 months in November for bribing the IRS against Falun Gong, a faith group that the Chinese regime has spent 25 years trying to suppress in China and globally, the document shows.

In conversations with Chinese officials following the politician’s election in November 2022, Chen referred to Sun and the California politician as part of a “basic team dedicated for us,” according to the filing.

“Mr. Sun has been my helping hand in the Chinese community since 1997,” Chen was quoted as telling one Chinese official in January 2023.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/aide-california-politician-arrested-accused-conspiring-chinese-spy-infiltrate-us-politics

PM signals stepped-up fight against Yemen’s Houthis, saying they ‘threaten world order’

Indicating the start of a stepped-up campaign against the Houthis in Yemen, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that “just as we acted forcefully against the terrorist arms of Iran’s evil axis, so we will act against the Houthis.”

In a video statement released after the meeting of his security cabinet in Safed, Netanyahu stresses that Israel is not alone in operating against the Houthis: “The US, and also other countries, like us, see the Houthis as a threat not only to world shipping — but also to world order.”

He also tells Israelis to continue following instructions from the IDF’s Home Front Command, after a ballistic missile launched by the Iran-backed group impacted a playground in south Tel Aviv early yesterday morning. Several people were wounded and extensive damage was caused by the strike.

A short while later, the IDF carried out intense airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen, though the operation had been in planning for weeks, and jets were already in the air when the missile was launched.

Later on Saturday, the US also said it struck targets in Yemen’s rebel-held capital of Sanaa.

In his video statement, Netanyahu promises that even though the operation against the Houthis may take time, the results will be the same as Israel’s campaigns against other Iranian proxies in the region, including Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The Houthis have launched more than 200 missiles and 170 drones at Israel in the past year. According to the IDF, the vast majority did not reach Israel or were intercepted by the military and Israeli allies in the region.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/indicating-stepped-up-campaign-against-houthis-netanyahu-says-yemeni-rebels-threaten-world-order/

Israel Police receive complaints against Sara Netanyahu for witness tampering

The complaints were filed in response to a call by the team of Democrats MK Naama Lazimi.

Dozens of people filed police complaints on Sunday morning against Sarah Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over alleged witness tampering in her husband’s criminal trial, which were revealed on the Uvda television show on Thursday.

The show revealed text conversations between Sarah Netanyahu and Hani Bliveis, a longtime close aide to the prime minister and his wife who fell out with them shortly before her death from cancer in March 2023.

The texts, whose authenticity could not be independently verified, showed that Sarah Netanyahu ordered Bliveis to organize protests and social media smear campaigns against political and other rivals.

One of them was Hadas Klein, a key witness in what is known as Case 1000, where the prime minister allegedly inappropriately received hundreds of thousands of shekels worth of cigars and champagne from billionaires Arnon Milchan and James Packer.

The complaints were filed in response to a call by the team of Democrats MK Naama Lazimi. Lazimi herself demanded following the show that Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara ordered a criminal investigation over Sarah Netanyahu’s actions.

Klein has already filed a series of civil suits against threats and smear campaigns against her by supporters of Netanyahu. However, the connection to Netanyahu’s inner circle was not apparent until now.

Undergoing trial

Two members of Netanyahu’s media team, Yonatan Urich and Ofer Golan, are currently ongoing a trial over alleged witness tampering of Shlomo Filber, a key witness in Case 4,000.

The Uvda show revealed a series of other questionable actions conducted by Bliveis at the direction of Sarah Netanyahu.

These included encouraging then Israel Police regional commander Dep.-Ch. Danny Levy, who is now the Israel Police commissioner, to increase enforcement of COVID-19 laws against protestors against the prime minister, and commending Levy for the use of violence against them; ordering protests against the Netanyahu’s Caesarea neighbors, the Farkash family, whose son Tom, a pilot, was killed in the Second Lebanon War; ordering protests against then-Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit and prosecutor Liat Ben-Ari for indicting the prime minister; and more.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-834441

Israeli man vandalises entrance to Palestinian Christian village ahead of Christmas

In a separate act of vandalism, Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque in Salfit in the occupied West Bank

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-man-vandalises-entrance-palestinian-christian-village-ahead-christmas

“The Zionists Have Won In Syria”, Says The Turkish Opposition

Let’s start with the fact that the former speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and one of the founders of Ak Party, Bulent Arinc, stated that – “Israel is the one who benefits the most from what is happening in Syria.” In an interview on EKOL TV, Erdogan’s former ally explained that

“What will happen in Syria worried us in the past and worries us today. Our late Hoca Erbakan and people who expressed their views on Syria in the past also held the opinion that the disintegration of Syria would be harmful to Turkey. Suddenly Israel came to Damascus. And it seized the Golan Heights and water resources. It burned their ships and bombed their planes. There was no noise.”

Then, the Chairman of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) Ozgur Ozel made a statement on the Syrian issue, where he explained that – “Erdogan did not win in Syria, Israel and the United States won. A transition period has begun, during which it is unclear to what extent this will serve Turkey’s national interests.”

Further, the Chairman of the Independent Turkish Party (BTP) Huseyin Bas, assessing the latest developments in Syria, Huseyin Bas explained:

“All the obstacles to the order that the US and Israel wanted to establish in the Middle East for more than 40-50 years have suddenly been removed. Now Israel wants to rule over the natural resources there by making an agreement with Cyprus, which is opposite the regions it controls. I see that tomorrow you will sacrifice this Cyprus to the ambitions of America and Israel and turn it into a toy, do not do this.”

https://southfront.press/the-zionists-have-won-in-syria-says-the-turkish-opposition/

Sycophantic WSJ 'Interview' With Netanyahu Spells Disaster for Israel's Hostages in Gaza

In a self-aggrandizing article in the Wall Street Journal this weekend, Benjamin Netanyahu avoided mentioning the 100 hostages held captive in Gaza because they don't fit his 'total victory' narrative

In the 14 months that have passed since the October 7 attack, Benjamin Netanyahu has largely refused to give any interviews to the Israeli media. The only exceptions were two appearances on Channel 14 – his own televised Pravda – where admiring loyalists gushed over him and were on the verge of giving him an on-air massage. Questions about his responsibility for the deep failures of that day, which led to the death of some 1,200 Israelis, weren't presented.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-12-22/ty-article/.premium/netanyahus-sycophantic-wsj-interview-spells-disaster-for-israels-hostages-in-gaza/00000193-eeff-d685-a5d3-efff61f80000

SNL BANNED Sketch About Israel Control Of U.S. Politicians!

https://youtu.be/_1yp87ewo3M