Although anti-gun activists in the US cite Australia as a violence-free utopia due to the nation’s strict firearms laws, a recent tragedy in Sydney shows that nowhere can be completely protected from those intent on doing evil. A Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach ended in chaos, with a dozen people reported dead and even more hospitalized after gunfire rang out Sunday evening. Fox News provided some initial details: Police added that they found evidence of multiple improvised explosive devices in a vehicle near the scene of the attack. “We have our rescue bomb disposal unit there at the moment working on that,” he said. Israeli President Isaac Herzog acknowledged the attack while speaking at an event in Jerusalem recognizing immigrants’ extraordinary achievements on Sunday. “At these very moments, our sisters and brothers in Sydney, Australia, have been attacked by vile terrorists in a very cruel attack on Jews who went to light the first candle of Chanukah on Bondi Beach,” Herzog said. “Our hearts go out to them. The heart of the entire nation of Israel misses a beat at this very moment, as we pray for the recovery of the wounded, we pray for them and we pray for those who lost their lives.” Footage of the event soon began to circulate widely on social media, including a clip of an individual apparently disarming one of the shooters in heroic fashion: Australian Mass Shooting At least 12 are dead & 29 injured after Naveed Akram — a radical Islamic terrorist — opened fire on a Hanukkah celebration. Don’t let the media whitewash this: This is terrorism. This is radical Islam. Stop allowing migrants from countries that hate… pic.twitter.com/te7TxeruHE — ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) December 14, 2025 An absolute hero in the white shirt.No idea who he is but as others ran for cover he ran up and tackled the Bondi beach gunman and disarmed him.He should be given everything Australia has in the way of honours.A true legend and hero. Rest in peace all the victims. pic.twitter.com/8Bu7ad8lsh — CraiginEngland (@ghost_wales) December 14, 2025 This is Ahmed El Ahmad. He disarmed the gunman on Bondi beach and likely saved many lives. He did it while the other terrorist was shooting at him and was hit twice. I hope this hero makes a full recovery. pic.twitter.com/5vacqHf5Rq — Heidi Bachram (@HeidiBachram) December 14, 2025 Australian officials were quick to condemn the act, as the Associated Press reported: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese declared it “an act of evil, antisemitism, terrorism that has struck the heart of our nation.” “This attack was designed to target Sydney’s Jewish community,” the state’s Premier Chris Minns said. The massacre was declared a terrorist attack due to the event targeted and weapons used, Lanyon said. Hundreds had gathered for the gathering at Bondi Beach called Chanukah by the Sea, which was celebrating the start of the eight-day Hanukkah festival. Chabad identified one of the dead as Rabbi Eli Schlanger, assistant rabbi at Chabad of Bondi and a key organizer of the event. Chabad is an Orthodox Jewish movement that is known for its outreach to non-religious Jews. It runs scores of centers around the world that are popular with Jewish travelers and often sponsors large public events during major Jewish holidays. Video footage filmed by onlookers appeared to show two gunmen with long guns firing from a bridge. One dramatic clip apparently filmed by a member of the public and broadcast on Australian television channels showed someone appearing to tackle and disarm one of the gunmen, before pointing the man’s weapon at him. Here’s some additional coverage of the incident and the heroic interference that helped bring the massacre to an end:

California has served as a petri dish for bad, big-government policies for generations, and one recent example has Americans of all stripes up in arms. Republican State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio addressed a policy providing in-state tuition to illegal immigrants in California while Americans are forced to pay tens of thousands of dollars more if they aren’t residents of California. In a recent social media post, he denounced the practice as unfair, deriding leftist California leadership for prioritizing undocumented aliens over the Americans students who want to attend college in the Golden State: Here’s the same video in a different format as backup: HOLY CRAP! Democrats approved a system in California ensuring illegal aliens are prioritized for taxpayer tuition OVER US citizens. pic.twitter.com/mzSpEOJ4GW This is a complete and utter betrayal. “California Democrat politicians have now enacted a new rule that treats… — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 10, 2025 Of course, DeMaio isn’t the only one calling foul. The White House has taken notice of this trend and hopes to put an end to it at the federal level. As the Associated Press reported: The Trump administration has sued California for providing in-state college tuition, scholarships, and state-funded financial aid to students who aren’t legally in the United States. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, alleges the practice harms U.S. citizens and encourages illegal immigration. Among the defendants are the state, top state officials, and the state’s two public university systems, the University of California and California State. President Donald Trump’s administration has filed similar lawsuits against policies in other states, including Illinois, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Kentucky and Texas. Half the country now has similar laws to California’s. In June, after the administration sued, Texas ended its decades-old law. And Florida last year scrapped its law that allowed in-state tuition for high school graduates who weren’t in the country legally. Plenty of other social media users were similarly incensed: FACT: California gives out HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of dollars to undocumented immigrants to attend college. That’s hundreds of millions of OUR taxpayer dollars to subsidize college for non-Americans. How about using those tax dollars for the fire victims that @GavinNewsom is… — Hunter Eagleman (@Hunter_Eagleman) December 10, 2025 Unfortunately, California isn’t alone. States from coast to coast have been experimenting with such policies for years. 18 states are offering in-state tuition at colleges for #IllegalAliens — this is unconstitutional because US citizens from out of state have to pay out-of-state tuition!Is there no American citizen student/parents who care #Illegals get preferential treatment?! @TheJusticeDept pic.twitter.com/IgYK7Zp2R1 — California Condor (@Condor_Law) April 14, 2019 For that reason, the Trump administration’s decision to take on California has attracted widespread attention and support: Federal government sues California, claiming state-funded scholarships and loans for undocumented students violate federal law. pic.twitter.com/DzP07ISfQ3 — Robert Gouveia Esq. (@RobGouveiaEsq) December 11, 2025 Here’s some more about the White House’s lawsuit, per Inside Higher Ed: “California is illegally discriminating against American students and families by offering exclusive tuition benefits for non-citizens,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement. California marks the sixth state the federal government has sued over such policies, but unlike some of the others, California plans to fight back. The state is home to more than 102,000 undocumented students, who have been permitted to pay in-state tuition rates since 2001 if they met certain requirements. Undocumented students have also been allowed to access state financial aid for more than a decade, according to the Higher Education Immigration Portal. Newsom has repeatedly pushed back on the Trump administration’s policies, including immigration crackdowns. The DOJ filed another lawsuit against the state on Monday, after Newsom signed a bill banning face coverings for federal immigration agents. The DOJ also recently sued Newsom and California Secretary of State Shirley Weber over the state’s redistricting plan. Bondi said in her statement that the DOJ will “continue bringing litigation against California until the state ceases its flagrant disregard for federal law.” But Newsom isn’t backing down. “The DOJ has now filed three meritless, politically motivated lawsuits against California in a single week,” Marissa Saldivar, a spokesperson for the governor’s office, said in a statement to Inside Higher Ed. “Good luck, Trump. We’ll see you in court.” By contrast, Texas and Oklahoma, faced with similar lawsuits this summer, swiftly sided with the DOJ, quashing in-state tuition benefits for their undocumented students. The Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education also agreed to stop offering in-state tuition to noncitizens in September, a few months after the DOJ sued, but the legal battle is ongoing. A judge recently allowed a group of Kentucky undocumented students, represented by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, to intervene in the case. Legal fights in Minnesota and Illinois have also continued as the states defend their in-state tuition policies against DOJ challenges. Here’s some additional on-air discussion of the Trump lawsuit via Fox News:

Police are currently searching for the suspect in a truly horrendous and seemingly random attack on an innocent, churchgoing mother at a park in Savannah, GA. On Wednesday evening, 46-year-old Ashley Wasielewski was taking a walk in the park after going to a church Christmas program, when a stranger came up behind her and poured chemicals over her head. Wasielewski suffered second-degree chemical burns on her scalp and face, as well as her hands and legs. She is now being treated in a burn center. Here’s what we know about the horrific attack: Backup here if needed: The acid attacks from the Third World have now reached the United States. Savannah, GA woman followed into a park and doused with chemicals after leaving church this week. Police are looking for a young black guy captured walking near the scene. Just horrific. pic.twitter.com/4YRm8qxRPQ — johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) December 13, 2025 Here are some more photos of the injuries Ashley sustained: Justice For Ashley Wasielewski, whose injuries cover half her body, including her scalp, face, hands, and legs This is our new America…. pic.twitter.com/x3E58iQYMc — Amy Mek (@AmyMek) December 13, 2025 Absolutely terrible. Please pray for this poor woman and her family. The New York Post has more: Ashley Wasielewski, 46, was walking laps around Forsyth Park in Savannah Wednesday night after attending a Christmas program at a nearby church when a stranger approached her from behind and poured the corrosive liquid over her head, according to her devastated friends and family. She let out a blood-curdling scream as the chemical burned her skin, ate through her clothing, and melted her car’s key fob in her pocket. “She was instantly like, ‘Why are you pouring water on me?’ And then her skin started to burn,” said her close friend Connor Milam, who described Wasielewski as a giving person who often volunteered in her community and provided essential items to the homeless. “She looked down and her pants were starting to burn off her body. She started screaming. They didn’t rob her. They didn’t take anything from her. This was a random person in the park who went out of their way to disfigure another human being.” Wasielewski was rushed to the Augusta Burn Center, where she’s being treated for second- and third-degree burns over half her body, including her face, scalp, hands and legs, according to her son Westley. The concerned son said he learned of the attack from a good Samaritan who came to his mother’s aid, adding that he could hear her wailing in agony over the phone. “We don’t know who did it,” Westley said. “She doesn’t have any enemies. She is a friend to everyone.” At this time, we don’t know who committed this heinous crime. Police released a photo of a person of interest in the case. But, they also say he’s not currently being treated as a suspect. From The Daily Mail: Law enforcement were still searching for the acid attack’s perpetrator, whose identity remained unknown. A photo of a man in a black hoodie featuring a cartoon rabbit was shared by police on Thursday, although he was not currently a suspect. ‘It’s someone that we want to speak to that was in the area at the time,’ Robert Gavin, the Savannah assistant chief of police, said at a press conference Friday. Gavin added: ‘He might have information that’s important to this case.’ He said that given the horrific nature of her injuries police had not ‘tried to sit down and get too much information’ from Wasielewski. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) were helping investigate the attack. Police said Wasielewski did not know her assailant. Chemical attacks like this — especially on women — are sadly, relatively common in third-world countries. The type of evil, barbaric attack is intended to disfigure a person. Unfortunately (and infuriatingly), it appears that these attacks have now spread to our country. Acid attacks on white women has become common in Europe. It is now happening in the USA. It is most commonly committed by migrants from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Nigeria and Uganda. When will liberal women start voting with their own safety in mind? pic.twitter.com/Qnwrz6c7Lj — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) December 13, 2025 This cannot be tolerated in the United States of America. And yet, you don’t see the MSM reporting on the attack, at all. Just imagine the outrage if a white man did this to a black woman! DC_Draino made a good point: If we start seeing face-disfiguring acid attacks in America, you are going to see support for mass deportations skyrocket amongst women. This barbaric practice destroys people’s faces. https://t.co/9QTNg9u7Pb — DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) December 13, 2025 Anyone who believes attacking someone with acid is justified — ever — needs to be deported immediately. Your thoughts?

If you’re a KISS fan, you might be taking a second mortgage as the “hottest band in the land” seems to be on a mission to release a series of box sets from their past. This Alive! 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition celebrates the band’s original 1975 release that rocketed Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Peter Criss, and  Ace Frehley to the top of the charts and made their live version of “Rock And Roll All Nite” an anthem for the ages. This fourth album from KISS is not only an iconic live recording of the era, but also one that truly elevated the four-piece make-up-wearing hard rockers to superstardom. Surely, KISS and their record company Casablanca needed the shot in the arm Alive! gave them. Although the band was establishing a solid reputation as a bombastic live act not to be missed, their studio releases were not selling. Because their live performances were far more appealing, releasing Alive! seemed a logical, if not last-ditch attempt to save both the band and its label. And it worked. The performances here draw specifically from shows at Detroit’s Cobo Arena, the  Cleveland Music Hall, Iowa’s RKO Orpheum Theatre, and the Wildwood Convention Hall in New Jersey. With the extras offered here, it is important to note these specific shows. KISS producer Eddie Kramer completed new mixes of these gigs, plucked from the original multi-track tapes, with no overdubs, across the 16 tracks that make up the original Alive!. Beyond the remixes of this seminal release, there are five rehearsal tracks from Davenport, as well as the sets plucked from the aforementioned shows. As you’d expect, the set has lots more ‘Kollectibles’ like a 100-page hardcover book, unreleased photos, a reprint of the press kit, a T-shirt iron-on, to name but a few goodies. Sure, the shows here might feature the same set lists pretty much, but there are differences to discern when listening to this set as a whole. The “KISS Jam” from the rehearsals in Iowa set is not something you are going to hear every day. All this on four CDs or eight LPs, with a Blu-ray Disc to boot. With that, dare I say, the Alive! 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition box set might make you feel ever more alive. ~ Ralph Greco, Jr. Purchase Alive! 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition

Though they initially struggled to follow up The Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd proved they were up to the task in 1975 with Wish You Were Here. Like its predecessor, a 50th anniversary celebration is in order, with respect to new mixes, previously unreleased tracks, and enough goodies to fill three LPs, two CDs, a box set, and a single Blu-ray Disc. Together and separately, this is Wish You Were Here 50. In addition to the original album, you get 25 bonus tracks — nine studio outtakes and 16 live tracks from Floyd’s Los Angeles Sports Arena concert on April 26, 1975, captured by DYI taper Mike Millard. This is the first time Millard’s recordings are seeing official release. If you pick up the deluxe box set, you’ll get all the extras, plus a fourth clear vinyl LP, Live At Wembley 1974, a replica Japanese single of “Have A Cigar” and “Welcome To The Machine,” hardcover book with photographs and liner notes, comic book, Knebworth concert poster, the usual accoutrements. The 2011 Immersion box set of Wish You Were Here had much of the same material, with added swag like marbles (!) and a scarf. There’s always a trade-off. Wish You Were Here is arguably the last Pink Floyd album where Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright, and Nick Mason were in total synchronization. There was disagreement early on about what it should be — a regular collection of songs or a conceptual piece? Inevitably, an idea around the demands and futility of the music business was adopted. The group’s former frontman Syd Barrett was cast as the ultimate victim. He even made an appearance at the sessions to confirm it. Waters’ lyrics addressing the plight of his old friend and bandmate framed by Gilmour’s four-note motif and Wright’s multi-layered keyboards turned “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” into an instant classic. The nine-part opus is split in half with Parts I-V beginning the record and Parts VI-IX finishing it off. In between, there’s Waters’ dystopian “Welcome To The Machine” whirling around layers of synths. “Have A Cigar” kicks in with a snarl that only an outsider like Roy Harper could muster. The album’s title track is a simple Gilmour acoustic piece with succinct lines from Waters like “We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl” that encapsulate the entire essence of the record. As poetic and hopeful as it is melancholic and sad. On the Wish You Were Here 50 Blu-ray Disc, the album’s 1975 stereo mix, 1976 quad mix, and 2009 5.1 mix, which were all featured in the Immersion box, are joined by Steven Wilson’s 2025 Atmos mix. If you have the right system, sampling the three multi-channel mixes provides insights you may not have heard before. They each successfully enhance the album’s ambience and sonic blast to infinite possibilities. Wilson took on a second assignment of cleaning up the live recordings. Pink Floyd apparently didn’t bother to properly record any of their shows from 1975, so the underworld was scoured for a decent audience recording. Mike Millard’s tape from the Los Angeles Sports Arena is regarded by Pink Floyd fans and bootleg enthusiasts as one of the best (though strong arguments can be made for tapes from Boston Gardens and Ivor Wayne Stadium in Hamilton, Canada, the final stop on the tour). Millard’s stealth taping methodology, meticulous nature, and reputation within the bootleg community loom large over the legacy of this particular show, so it only made sense for Wilson to apply what he calls a little “fairy dust” without the aid of gimmicky AI on a low-generation recording sourced from a TDK 90-minute cassette tape. The results are impressive. An A/B test between the original Millard recording (see YouTube) and the Wilson upgrade reveals a wider stereo spread, heavier bass, more clarity on the drums, and a general improvement on the overall aural atmosphere. Not having to suffer through the three minutes of tuning that appears on the original tape is a nice bonus. Two sets of rarities offer alternate, demos, and different takes of each of the album’s songs. The “Wine Glasses” portion of “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” is the first of two other versions — an early instrumental mix and a new stereo mix with all nine parts joined together. Novel as it is, the original album’s fade out of the first half into “Welcome To The Machine” and then from “Wish You Were Here,” a fade into the second half is a tough cycle to break. Especially if you listen to the album with any frequency. The alternate of “Have A Cigar” with both Waters and Gilmour cojoined on the lead vocals explains the line in the sand over who in the group should have sang it. It’s just not that easy to shake off Harper from the final product. The demos for “Welcome To The Machine” represent the song’s development, while the instrumental mix of “Wish You Were Here” with a touch of pedal steel is a strong reminder of just how tightly balanced the melody and structure are. You could almost say the same about the other version featuring violinist Stéphane Grappelli. The Immersion box set has three additional live tracks — “Shine On You Crazy Diamond,” “Raving And Drooling” and “You’ve Got To Be Crazy” — originally recorded for the BBC in 1974. The Wish You Were Here 50 deluxe box set has a fourth LP with the Wembley “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” on one side and “You’ve Got To Be Crazy” on the other. It’s another trade-off to keep Pink Floyd hardcores scrambling to fill gaps in their collections. The Blu-ray is rounded out with videos that include concert films of “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” and “Welcome To The Machine,” plus a short film by Storm Thorgerson, one half of the Hipgnosis design group responsible for many of Pink Floyd’s album covers and iconic imagery. Even though the films are dated, they provide a visual element to music already blooming with cinematic tendencies. Without any actual watchable concert footage from 1975, it’s about the best you can expect. Wish You Were Here 50 is the last entry for 2025 in the continuing stream of Pink Floyd reissues. As Atmos mixes seem to be all the rage, the next logical multi-channel release is The Wall. James Guthrie’s 5.1 mix has been standing on deck for years, and one can only imagine what sort of Atmos “fairy dust” Steven Wilson could add to the album’s bluster and thrust. Add that and whatever else they might do to Meddle or Obscured By Clouds. Even The Final Cut is a viable candidate for expansion if Roger Waters has his way. If Sony has their way, the Pink Floyd catalog will keep “riding the gravy train” for as long as there’s an audience. ~ Shawn Perry Purchase Wish You Were Here 50  

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a letter to Australian officials warning of antisemitism in the country months before a terror attack target Jews at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach. Netanyahu wrote to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in August warning of an “alarming rise of antisemitism” and pointing out a “lack of decisive action by your government to confront it.” In the attack on Sunday, two gunmen killed at least 11 people and injured dozens more at a celebration attended by thousands of people. Families gathered at Bondi Beach in Sydney to welcome the first night of Hanukkah. The attack is the deadliest antisemitic attack against Jews since Hamas’ October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel. Netanyahu noted “a campaign of intimidation, vandalism and violence against Jews across the free world” waged by “pro-Hamas extremists and left-wing radicals.” The Israeli leader said the “campaign has intensified” under Albanese, noting a string of recent antisemitic incidents in what Netanyahu described as an “epidemic” of antisemitism. “Your call for a Palestinian state pours fuel on this antisemitic fire. It is not diplomacy, it is appeasement. It rewards Hamas terror, hardens Hamas’s refusal to free the hostages, emboldens those who menace Australian Jews and encourages the Jew-hatred now stalking your streets,” said Netanyahu. Netanyahu praised President Donald Trump, offering Trump’s treatment of pro-Hamas immigrants in the United States as an example. The Trump State Department, led by Marco Rubio, has rescinded visas of immigrants who have voiced support for Hamas following the terror group’s attack against Israel. “Prime Minister, antisemitism is a cancer. It spreads when leaders stay silent. It retreats when leaders act. I call upon you to replace weakness with action, appeasement with resolve, and to do so by a clear date: the Jewish New Year, September 23, 2025,” wrote Netanyahu. “History will not forgive hesitation. It will honor action.” The Labor PM of Australia was warned pic.twitter.com/BrqZtk7SMJ — Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) December 14, 2025 Netanyahu spoke about the letter from Dimona, Israel, on Sunday, rebuking Albanese for a lack of action taken after the Israeli prime minister’s warnings. “Instead, Prime Minister, you replaced weakness with weakness and appeasement with more appeasement. Your government did nothing to stop the spread of antisemitism in Australia. You did nothing to curb the cancer cells that were growing inside your country. You took no action. You let the disease spread. And the result is the horrific attacks on Jews we saw today,” said Netanyahu.

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The first successful human implant of a 3D-printed cornea made from human eye cells cultured in a laboratory has restored a patient’s sight. The North Carolina-based company that developed the cornea described the procedure as a ‘world first’—and a major milestone toward its goal of alleviating the lack of available donor tissue and long wait-times […] The post First Human Cornea Transplant Using 3D Printed, Lab-Grown Tissue Restores Sight in a ‘Game Changer’ for Millions Who are Blind appeared first on Good News Network.