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  • Rob Reiner's words on Charlie Kirk murder echo sadly after director's death

    12/15/2025 6:29:34 AM PST · by where's_the_Outrage? · 40 replies
    HuffPost ^ | Dec 15, 2025 | Ron Dicker
    Rob Reiner’s moving remarks about the killing of Charlie Kirk went viral after the famed director and his wife Michele were found dead Sunday in their Los Angeles home. Both had stab wounds, according to reports. Reiner, who directed such movie hits as “When Harry Met Sally” after notably playing “Meathead” Michael Stivic on TV’s “All in the Family,” appeared on Piers Morgan “Uncensored” in late September following Kirk’s assassination at a Utah rally earlier in that month. Reiner, a liberal political activist, paid more than lip service to the shooting of Kirk, a get-out-the-vote advocate for young conservatives, when...
  • A Chanukah Terrorist Attack in Australia

    12/15/2025 2:18:18 AM PST · by texas booster · 22 replies
    FrontPage Magazine ^ | Dec 15 2025 | Daniel Greenfield
    This is a special time for Christians, Jews and for the Muslims trying to kill them. On October 9, 2023, the Sydney Opera House was supposed to be the scene of a Jewish solidarity rally with the victims of the Oct 7 Islamic massacres in Israel. Muslim mobs instead took over, waving terrorist flags and screaming, “Where are the Jews” and F___ the Jews” while the authorities did nothing. Despite the widespread availability of videos and eyewitness accounts, the authorities and the media vocally denied it ever happened. Arson attacks at two synagogues, one of which was set on fire...
  • Police release man detained earlier in connection with deadly Brown University shooting, mayor says

    12/14/2025 8:07:59 PM PST · by DoodleBob · 42 replies
    CNN ^ | December 14, 2025 | N/A
    Police will release a man detained in connection with yesterday’s deadly shooting, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said late Sunday night. What we know so far • The person of interest detained in connection with yesterday’s deadly shooting at Brown University has been identified as 24-year-old Benjamin Erickson of Wisconsin, multiple law enforcement sources tell CNN. • Sources said earlier that the person of interest was found with a revolver and a small Glock handgun in his room at a hotel in Coventry, Rhode Island. A CNN crew was at the hotel when law enforcement swarmed the location early this morning....
  • 805 Patriots' 100th Rally Celebration, December 13, 2025

    12/14/2025 6:57:24 PM PST · by Fiji Hill · 2 replies
    Youtube ^ | December 14, 2025 | IMovieLord
    805 Patriots, a conservative activist group in the 805 area code west of Los Angeles staged its 100th rally, featuring cars festooned with flags and signs, on Saturday, December 13. A convoy of cars formed up at Pepperdine University in Malibu. Then it proceeded down the Pacific coast to the Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, 40 miles to the southeast.
  • Roomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy, to go private after buyout

    12/14/2025 6:24:04 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 25 replies
    Channel News Asia ^ | 15 Dec 2025
    Roomba vacuum cleaner maker iRobot said on Sunday that it had filed for bankruptcy protection, and would go private after being acquired by Picea, its primary manufacturer. The company, which raised concerns about staying in business in March, filed for bankruptcy in the District of Delaware as it grapples with macroeconomic and tariff-related uncertainties. iRobot faces competition from Chinese rivals such as Ecovacs Robotics, which offer advanced features at lower prices.
  • FReeper Canteen ~ The Berlin Airlift Part 1 - The Beginning ~ 15 December 2025

    12/14/2025 6:00:24 PM PST · by Kathy in Alaska · 52 replies
    Serving the Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | The Canteen Crew
    Our Troops Rock! Thank you for all you do! For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~ The Berlin Airlift Part 1: The Beginning All info and photos from this website. For the next few weeks, on Mondays, the Hall of the Heroes threads will be about the Berlin Airlift and its heroes. I hope the story inspires you like it does me! The Berlin Airlift PRELUDE TO CONFLICTAt the end of WWII, a...
  • Revealed: The second man who tried to stop the Bondi Beach terror gunmen - as his best friend describes the moment he died a hero

    12/14/2025 2:50:26 PM PST · by naturalman1975 · 28 replies
    Daily Mail (Australia) ^ | 15th December 2025 | Candace Sutton
    A man who survived the Bondi Beach attack has described the moment his best friend died a hero while trying to stop the alleged gunmen. Reuven Morrison, who serves as an assistant at Bondi's Wellington Street synagogue, put himself in harm's way after meeting his friend Vladimir at the Hannukah event at Bondi Beach on Sunday. An emotional Vladimir, who says he would have been caught up in the gunfire if he hadn't needed to find parking, said of the shooting: 'I saw everything and now my best friend is dead. He died in front of me.' Vladimir, who is...
  • ‘Father and son’: Sickening new Bondi massacre details emerge (both gunmen now named - Naveed Akram, 24, and Sajid Akram, 50)

    12/14/2025 2:29:10 PM PST · by naturalman1975 · 51 replies
    news.com.au ^ | 15th December 2025 | Megan Palin , Benedict Brook , Bronte Coy and Frank Chung
    A father and son have been identified as the shooters behind the terrorist attack at Bondi Beach that has left at least 16 people dead. Naveed Akram, 24, and Sajid Akram, 50, opened fire on a Jewish Hanukkah event shortly before 7pm on Sunday. The 50-year-old was shot and killed by police, while the 24-year-old was shot before being taken into custody in a critical condition. The death toll on Monday morning has risen to 16, including a girl, 10, and man, 40, who both died in hospital. NSW Police say the dead range in age from 10 to 87...
  • Person of Interest ID’d in Brown University shooting that killed two, injured 9

    12/14/2025 1:37:20 PM PST · by CFW · 68 replies
    NYPost ^ | 12/14/25 | Joe Marino and Ronny Reyes
    The person of interest taken into custody Sunday in connection to the deadly mass shooting at Brown University has been identified as Benjamin Erickson, law-enforcement sources told The Post. Erickson, 24, was nabbed at a local hotel room after a gunman opened fire at the Ivy League institution’s Providence, RI, campus during a final-exam study session Saturday. The shooter was armed with a handgun and fired more than 40 .9mm rounds during the chaos, law-enforcement officials said.
  • Australia Bondi Beach gunmen who killed 15 after targeting Jewish celebration were father and son, police say

    12/14/2025 1:22:31 PM PST · by Cronos · 33 replies
    BBC ^ | 14th December 2025
    New South Wales Police say 15 people, including a child, were killed in a shooting at Bondi Beach on Saturday - their ages range from 10 to 87 The attack happened while an event was being held to mark the start of Hanukkah - police say they're treating it as a terror incident The two gunmen were father and son, police say. The 50-year-old man also died at the scene while the 24-year-old remains in hospital in critical condition Prime Minister Anthony Albanese calls the attack "an act of pure evil" that "deliberately targeted" the Jewish community One video gives...
  • How fears of being labeled 'racist' helped 'provide cover' for the exploding Minnesota fraud scandal.

    12/14/2025 8:30:31 AM PST · by Carriage Hill · 42 replies
    Fox News ^ | 12.14.2025 | Andrew Mark Miller
    In the aftermath of the massive Feeding Our Future scandal and broader allegations of systemic fraud in Minnesota’s social programs, a troubling theme has emerged: accusations of racism repeatedly used to deflect scrutiny, intimidate investigators and stall accountability.
  • In Australia, Jew-Hate Is Out of Control

    12/14/2025 5:01:11 AM PST · by WhiteHatBobby0701 · 60 replies
    The Free Press / Ten News Australia / CBS News ^ | 21 January 2025 | Alex Ryvchin
    When I was shaken awake by my panicked wife, around 5 a.m. on Friday morning, to the news that our former home had been the target of an antisemitic attack, I was upset—but not shocked. That’s because there is nothing unusual about what happened. As co-CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, I spend my days advocating for my country’s Jewish community—which numbers around 120,000 people. And since October 7, 2023, I have woken many times to news like this. Staff, journalists, and politicians have all called in the small hours to inform me that a synagogue is burning,...
  • House passes bill nullifying Trump’s anti-union EOs

    12/14/2025 4:21:46 AM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 88 replies
    Government Executive ^ | 11/12/25 | Erich Wagner
    The House voted 231-195 on Thursday to pass legislation that would nullify President Trump’s efforts to strip more than 1 million federal workers of their collective bargaining rights, sending the measure over to the Senate, where its prospects are less rosy. Twenty Republican lawmakers broke ranks to support the Protect America’s Workforce Act (H.R. 2550) on the floor. Introduced by Reps. Jared Golden, D-Maine, and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., the measure effectively nullifies Trump’s March executive order barring unions at more than 40 federal agencies under the guise of national security and bars federal agencies from terminating any union contracts that...
  • Police say person of interest in custody over fatal shooting at Brown University

    12/14/2025 4:07:07 AM PST · by Governor Dinwiddie · 78 replies
    Fox News ^ | December 14, 2025 | Steven Sorace
    Rhode Island police say they have a person of interest in custody in connection with the Brown University campus shooting that left two students dead and nine others injured, Fox News has learned.Investigators plan to release more details at a 7 a.m. news conference.
  • Andrew Bolt: It seemed inevitable that the normalising of an insane Jew hatred would have deadly consequences, and here they are (Australia)

    12/14/2025 3:51:26 AM PST · by naturalman1975 · 38 replies
    news.com.au ^ | 14th December 2025 | Andrew Bolt
    The war on Jews has spread from Israel to the bloodied sands of Bondi. This is our October 7. So with more than 12 people reportedly murdered in Australia’s worst terrorist attack can we finally stop it with the lies and the evasions? Here’s lie one. Standing on the scene of the carnage, a rabbi reportedly dead, a shocked local councillor was still telling a journalist the area was so wonderfully, peacefully multicultural. That, frankly, is bullshit. Multiculturalism has become a curse. We have become a nation of tribes, and we’ve seen very clearly that one of those tribes includes...
  • Time magazine snubs Charlie Kirk, names AI 'architects' as 'Person of the Year'

    12/13/2025 9:00:50 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 24 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 12/13/2025 | Ian M. Giatti,
    Conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly slams 'genuinely wrong' pickTime magazine is facing backlash from one of conservative media’s biggest voices over its decision to snub Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk as its “Person of the Year” despite Kirk’s death marking the first major political assassination in the U.S. since the 1960s. Instead, the century-old magazine gave its annual award to a collective of tech titans leading the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, framing the year as a tipping point when the technology "roared into view" with irreversible momentum. Time's announcement, unveiled Thursday, celebrated the "Architects of AI" as the magazine's 2025...
  • Republicans Unveil Obamacare Alternative As Subsidy Deadline Looms: The Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act

    12/13/2025 8:54:14 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 36 replies
    Red State ^ | 12/13/2025 | Joe Cunningham
    House Republicans released legislation Friday aimed at lowering healthcare costs through expanded insurance options for small businesses and unprecedented transparency requirements for pharmacy benefit managers, setting up a crucial vote next week as enhanced Obamacare subsidies expire at year’s end.The Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act, introduced by Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa-01), is the GOP's alternative to Democratic proposals as Democrats push to extend expiring ACA premium tax credits that help 22 million Americans purchase insurance.Speaker Mike Johnson announced the measure would receive a floor vote next week, though GOP leadership indicated moderate Republicans seeking subsidy extensions may...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Sunday Chapel ~ GIVING IT ALL YOU'VE GOT ~ 14 December 2025

    12/13/2025 6:00:24 PM PST · by Kathy in Alaska · 46 replies
    Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | The Canteen Crew
    GIVING IT ALL YOU'VE GOT Ever hear the expression "Giving it the whole nine yards"? Do you happen to know where it comes from? I used to think it was a sports term. "Not so", say several experts. But there seem to be at least two schools of thought on the phrase's origin. Both seem plausible. I'll let you decide. One explanation says that it's an expression from the construction trade. A full truck load, according to this rationale, will dump nine cubic yards of sand or gravel at your work site. In such a case, I suppose the...
  • New ‘Hate Speech’ Bill Targets Canadians’ Freedom of Speech and Religion

    12/13/2025 2:58:12 PM PST · by Engraved-on-His-hands · 32 replies
    The Daily Signal ^ | December 13, 2025 | Kevin Stocklin
    Left-wing Canadian lawmakers are working to introduce a new bill that would end existing protections for people of faith against prosecution under national “hate speech” laws. Canada’s Criminal Code, which bans what the government deems “hatred against any identifiable group,” contains a so-called religious exemption that protects Canadians who “in good faith” cite religious texts or beliefs. But the left-wing Liberal and Bloc Québécois parties are currently negotiating new legislation, Bill C-9, with an amendment that would remove this exemption.
  • Bombshell Cannabis Study Reveals Hidden Risks of Medical Pot That May Actually Outweigh Any Benefits

    12/13/2025 1:01:45 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 92 replies
    New York Post ^ | Dec. 13, 2025 | McKenzie Beard
    A bombshell new report found “insufficient evidence” to back up most of its supposed benefits — and raised serious red flags about hidden risks. “Patients deserve honest conversations about what the science does and doesn’t tell us about medical cannabis,” Dr. Michael Hsu, an addiction psychiatrist at UCLA and lead author of the study, said in a statement. SNIP Even though more than half of users try it for acute pain, Hsu and his team found no solid clinical evidence that it works. Current guidelines don’t recommend cannabis-based treatments as a first-line option for pain management.