this week and we can put this first element up on the screen. An FA18 fighter jet fell off the side of a US aircraft carrier and sunk to the bottom of the Red Sea. What we know from reporting out of the the US from the Navy is that or they claim this is what they claim and we'll talk about this.
They claim that the aircraft carrier was making a a sharp movement to avoid Houthy fire. Now, we know from Houthi officials that they did indeed say that they launched a drone and missile attack on the Truman carrier group. Mhm.
Uh and I spoke to uh somebody who served on an aircraft carrier and he said, "Yeah, those things I think they 30 30 knots like they they they get they get moving at a serious clip and when they start to I don't know if you can totally come about in an aircraft carrier, but when when those when they start to turn, they do bank and you have to have everything kind of secured. " According to the Navy, uh they were hauling this thing out of the hanger, a hanger at the time, uh when it started to bank because I guess they weren't planning on banking. Now, these are super fast missiles, so it's kind of uh I'm a little skeptical that even the fastest aircraft carrier can move fast enough to get out of the way of a missile.
Who knows? What do I know? Uh all we know is that this $70 million fighter jet uh was is now at the bottom of the Red Sea.
Yeah. Yep. So we don't have healthcare.
Yeah. But we do have now we have a sunken fighter jet. It raises a lot of questions.
Do we have fighter jet insurance and were we current on it? Yes, that is one of the questions that comes to mind. Was it paid off?
Call from Progressive. What if we had just finished paying this thing off when it rolled off the side? The All State guys should start doing commercials fighting the And you know how you know that's how it goes when you have a $70 million fighter jet.
The second you make your last payment, it rolls off the side of the aircraft carrier. Many such cases. Uh ju just for fun, um let's put up uh E2 here.
This is the War Powers Resolution. It is not actually okay constitutionally for this carrier group to even be in these waters. Yep.
According to the Constitution, the Congress is vested with the power to declare war. According to the War Powers Act, you cannot enter. It sounds into hostilities to say according to the war powers.
You can't do this. So beyond that, you can't do this. I'm just saying you can't do this.
Oh, 100%. Uh so if and what they are entered into hostilities right now y they they are in a place where they know they're going to get shot at and if they don't want to get shot at they're able to leave that area like there's no reason they have to be there or and Congress has not authorized it. Now maybe that implicates the insurance policy.
Insurance policy you probably have to be current on your uh on your alignment with the your constitutional war powers. And so the insurance policy is the taxpayer. They're not paying for this FA18 when all state gets the bill.
Do they This is They'll claim this under the umbrella of an AUMF like a 20 plus year old AUMF. I don't even know if they bother anymore. Yeah, they're not even trying.
Yeah. Yeah. And our allies aren't there.
So a the AUMF authorizes us to fight al-Qaeda wherever we find them. The problem in Yemen is that our allies are al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda are fighting the Houthis, right?
So that that's not that's not going to fly either. Well, you'd think. Uh, so did you just say that's not going to fly?
Pretty good. I did not even I did not even do that one on on purpose, but wow, it really worked. Um, into less amusing, but even more uh disturbing perhaps development out of Yemen.
We can put this uh next element up on the screen. So there are, as you know, as everybody knows, a bunch of amateur oent people out there who go around monkeying with Google Earth and posting things that they find and declaring them to be interesting to the world. If that's your hobby, fine, enjoy yourself.
You know, social media, go ahead. There are some people who have been going around uh looking at Google Earth images of Yemen and claiming to have been able to spot Houthy missile launch sites or Houthy bases. Okay.
Again, I guess like if that's how you want to spend your time, go ahead and do that. So, a couple of accounts posted the the exact coordinates of what they said was a a missile, you know, some type of base/missile launch situation in a quarry in Yemen. We can put this next element up on the screen.
And the US struck that precise coordinate. This is wild. killed.
The reports are and uh uh Shu al- Moawasi who's our reporter in in SAS confirmed for us that this that this area just outside of SA was was struck. Uh a sign significant number of civilians were killed. the the reporting is eight.
Uh and so we know that this person posted this image post posted these coordinates and then the US struck these coordinates and that there was nothing there like we all know this. Now what was the time lapse between a couple weeks? couple weeks.
And so the question then is, is this the strangest coincidence ever? Or is Sentcom pulling targets from random Twitter users? Weirder and striking them.
Weirder possibility, what if somebody at Sentcom has a burner that they're floating coordinates out onto? I think this is a person that's in Holland. They know who this person is.
It's like a woman who's just interested in this stuff. Like also they're wrong. Like they blew it.
Like this they they killed civilians. Like they didn't they didn't get this right. And so uh this person posted screenshots of donations that she made to um Doctors Without Borders and a Yemen uh charitable group.
Yeah. As sorry. To start, I have made two donations.
One to MSF Islam Frontier and one uh the Yemen data project totaling 500 euros like as an apology basically for accidentally getting some people killed. Now, I'm not even that angry at this person because it's Sentcom that should not be grabbing information for this person. This is a really weird account.
I'm going through it right now. Bucky Hand. It's very strange.
It's very very weird. It's it's it's like it's almost like a a Belling cat type, right? But it's just a random personish, but who knows?
The response that mirrors the way I feel about it was from somebody who said, "We don't want your donations. We don't need them. Just stop publishing false aerial photos.
You're publishing civilian areas as military zones and causing the killing of our people. even if we assume that they are military zones, why are you hostile to us? What is your interest in this?
And so that's that's actually the question I have too. It's like why are you doing this? Mhm.
So I reached out to this account. They did not hear back. I did not hear back.
I also reached out to Sentcom um to ask if it's the case and there was another um account as well that had posted this the same query like so I reached out to ask are is it the case that you're pulling these from Twitter. Yeah. Um it it it certainly is the case.
We know that at least for some of their and we know this from sources uh around the Pentagon that they are pulling we we do know for sure they are pulling some of their damage assessment from Twitter because that's that has circulated in the Pentagon like after a strike there'll be some social media account like posts from that are not US you know government or US military accounts just random people some of these some of these are just strident like anti-huthy partisans um and they'll say this is what happened in in the strike and that and Sentcom will use that in their analysis. So we do know that they are willing to use um what they euphemistically call uh open source intel and and whatever I mean presumably whatever led this opensource intel collector who interestingly has ceasefire now in the bio I saw that yeah ceasefire where in in the bio the bio of I know but it's like where do they want a ceasefire? Yeah, it's it's very odd.
Yemen and learning. Why are you putting up coordinates bomb? So presumably obviously whatever led this account to that spot could potentially be leading Sentcom to that spot.
I mean it wouldn't necessarily have to be a coincidence. Yeah. Except it was a total blunder.
Like it was right. It was just a misreading. It's very very weird.
It's an incredibly deeply strange story. I'm glad that you asked the government about it because if they're pulling this stuff and it's wrong from Twitter accounts, I mean, I guess it's one thing if it's right. It's still very odd if it's right.
Um, if they're actually getting it from Twitter and not just sort of following the same breadcrumbs, but deeply, deeply strange situation. And you can understand how it's going to land with people in Yemen. I mean, it's it looks to people in Yemen like complete casual um destruction.
Yes. And uh it's also completely ineffectual. I mean it's it's effective at killing innocent people.
Um but when it comes to actually degrading uh the capacity of of the Houthis to fire at at ships, it's simply simply not effective. We just they just tilted an aircraft carrier and knocked a uh what do they what do they call it? A Hornet, whatever to the bottom of the bottom of the Red Sea.
A $70 million $70 million plane. Meanwhile, uh the the Houthies in an interview with Shuabe, um a top official there was effectively responding to Trump and Hexath who said that if the Houthies stop shooting at American ships, we will stop shooting at them. This Houthi political leader on the record told Drp Site News, "We will stop.
You stop attacking us and then we will stop attacking you. " Done. Agreement.
Our problem is with Israel. And they're not even asking Israel uh to enter into a ceasefire at this point. They launched this renewed siege of of shipping because Israel was blocking aid into Gaza.
So if Israel would just allow aid back in, now at this point they want Israel to return to the ceasefire terms that they had they had agreed to. But that's it. Their beef is with Israel, not with us.
And so um they have accepted our offer. Yet here we are bombing innocent people, trying to degrade their capacity, not doing it. And right now, it's just kind of funny that this ship I mean, isn't sort of funny that this ship fell off the aircraft carrier.
Trump could get somebody killed like that. Also, that could have been a lot worse. I just found at Vleki Han cited in West Point's a report from West Point's combating terrorism center uh interesting as a reliable the quote ever resourceful analyst at Flecky Han.
This is a West Point paper. Yep. All right.
Well, this is pretty strong confirmation that this account is considered credible. What What was it called? Uh it's ever reliable.
Ever reliable. Ever reliable. Well, not always.
Ever resourceful. Ever resourceful. Yes.
Okay. They're they're resourceful. They're using Google Earth.
This was in the case of It says the ever resourceful analyst at Vyhon's use of purchased commercial satellite imagery. And this is from last year, so it's not like an old paper or anything. Um, and it's cited actually in the footnotes of this report from West Point.
So, yeah. So, okay, they so they are they do actually think this person is credible. that that that ups the likelihood that they relied on this person's uh Google Earth imagery to launch this erroneous and deadly air strike uh close to 100%.
So what this means is that the military is paying attention to this particular open- source account, right? So it would make it that's a much stronger I mean yeah exactly uh se separately uh and also relatedly and we won't I we were we were going to put up some of this uh video but we decided we decided not to because even even blurring it it's it's just too it's just too graphic. Um but the Ye the Houthies announced that uh one of the air strikes and we don't know where they got the coordinates for this one.
Um that the US had said hit uh a Houthi base actually hit an African African migrant detention center and so far it the death toll is at least 68. like we we struck a detention center filled with people and the images that have come out of it of bodies mingled with the rubble are are just are gruesome and horrifying. So, you can go find them if you want to.
We were going to play it just so that you didn't have to take our word for it. Uh but I think you probably trust us enough at this point that we can tell you that it happened. We we did that.
Mhm. I mean the video if people go pull it pull it up. Yeah, you can find it.
Recommended viewing unfortunately in a very in very tragic way. Recommended viewing. So up next uh protest and counterprotests in uh Crown Heights in in Brooklyn on Thursday night led to uh a what became it was becoming a national scandal.
The way that uh a a mob of pro-Israel protesters assaulted uh two two different women. One of them uh is going to do her first uh video interview um and share some of her own footage that she captured uh while this mob was uh pursuing her. So stick around for that.
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