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France issues vouchers for firewood

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© Sebastien Bozon / AFPA firewood dealer in Wissembourg, France, December 15, 2022.
French residents who use logs, wood chips or pellets to heat their homes can now receive between €50 ($53) and €200 ($212) from the government to help them cope with the energy crisis.

The "exceptional energy voucher" program launched on Tuesday is designed to help lower-income families survive the winter as the price of firewood has risen by 30% this year, officials said.

Funds can be received by applying online through a government-run website. The sum depends on the family's income, the size of the household, and the type of fuel used.

The French parliament allocated €230 million this month to aid people struggling to buy firewood. At least 2.6 million households are eligible for the program, according to the Economy Ministry.

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Libs of TikTok shows her face for first time in epic Tucker Carlson interview

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Speaking with Tucker Carlson in a Tuesday episode of Tucker Carlson Today, the creator of the popular Twitter account Libs of Tiktok Chaya Raichik revealed how the LGBTQ community has become a "cult."

"I think there's something so unique about — the LGBTQ community has become this cult and it's so captivating," Raichik said in the pre-taped interview revealing the largely anonymous Twitter user's identity. "And it pulls people in so strongly, unlike anything we've ever seen. And they brainwash people to join, and they convince them of all of these things, and it's really really hard to get out of it, it's really difficult."

"And there are studies on this, there's been a lot of reporting on this, about people, parents who are like, my child is starting to say, you know, that they're non-binary or transgender, or whatever, and what do I do, how do I stop this?"

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The identity behind the viral Twitter account Libs of TikTok was revealed on Tuesday's "Tucker Carlson Today," putting a face to the formerly anonymous creator, Chaya Raichik, whose profile has caused a stir among left-wing ideologues while raising awareness about the goings-on inside America's classrooms for some time.

"When my account started growing, I realized the hatred that the Left has and their violent nature, and I was like, 'I am going to remain anonymous' ... and I have remained anonymous until my account was doxxed," Raichik told Carlson during the Fox Nation episode.

Raichik, who had been doxxed by Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz earlier this year, had remained anonymous due to backlash over her controversial account, which assembles a collection of TikTok videos from leftists, exposing their hypocrisy and radical ideology.

"This is information you should have but have never had until Libs of TikTok bothered to put it into one place and show you."

"For doing that, the person who runs Libs of TikTok has been the focus of a lot of hate and many threats. So many that person has remained anonymous," Carlson said Tuesday before revealing her identity.

Raichik said though her name and location were shared when she was doxxed, her photos never leaked.

"I never did any in-person events, and I'm choosing to do that now because I feel like, over the past few months, I've done so much. I've helped educate people. I know that I've helped create legislation to tackle some of these issues, and I think I've done all I can, and I am ready for the next step," she told Carlson.

Raichik said her account's fame has led parents' groups to seek out her help, as well as requests from others who want to learn how to expose and push back against the Left in similar ways.

"I was restrained from doing all of those things [while being anonymous], and I'm ready to do them. I think that I'll be a lot more effective when I'm not so anonymous anymore, and I'm excited."

She added that while she has already made plans for speaking engagements in the upcoming months, she hopes to become increasingly involved in pushing back against the types of leftists she spotlighted with her account.

"I want to do all I can and help people to fight this," she said.



Family

UN human rights chief demands Taliban stop oppressing women and girls, 3 NGOs pull out

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On Tuesday, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights Volker Türk urged the Taliban to drop the numerous restrictions they've placed upon the women and girls of Afghanistan.

In addition to the many female-only limitations already enforced in Afghanistan, over the past week the Taliban has banned girls from secondary school, and women from attending university or working in Non-Governmental Organizations.

"No country can develop - indeed survive - socially and economically with half its population excluded," Türk said in a statement. "These unfathomable restrictions placed on women and girls will not only increase the suffering of all Afghans but, I fear, pose a risk beyond Afghanistan's borders."

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Three major international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) announced on Sunday that they are halting their work in Afghanistan following the Taliban's announcement that it is prohibiting women from working for these types of organizations.

Save the Children, the Norwegian Refugee Council and CARE International said in a joint release that they are demanding both men and women be allowed to continue participating in their "lifesaving assistance" in Afghanistan. They said they will suspend their programs there while they gain "clarity" on the announcement.

"We cannot effectively reach children, women and men in desperate need in Afghanistan without our female staff," they said. "Without women driving our response, we would not have jointly reached millions of Afghans in need since August 2021."

The NGOs said the Taliban's decision will also affect thousands of jobs as the county is in the midst of an economic crisis.

The Taliban's decision came as it also announced women will not be allowed to attend universities in the country nor religious classes in mosques in the capital of Kabul.



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Biological male who slaughtered family over transgender identity marked as 'female' in Maine prison

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Andrew Balcer was just weeks away from his 18th birthday when he slaughtered his mother, father, and the family dog on Halloween night in 2016
A biological male who murdered his family after they didn't support his transgender identity has been quietly marked as a "female" in the Maine prison where he's being held, according to Reduxx. Andrew Balcer has been transferred to the Maine Correctional Center (MCC) in Windham, a mixed-sex facility where he will be housed with women.

Balcer was just weeks away from his 18th birthday when he slaughtered his mother, father, and the family dog on Halloween night in 2016.

After allegedly telling his mother that he was having trouble sleeping, he stabbed her in the back as she went to embrace him, going on to kill his father and their pet chihuahua Lily.

Comment: Housing violent male offenders with females is an absolute recipe for disaster and only serves to endanger those women. To take a quote from this article:
"There is certainly no rational reason why a male serial predator should be housed with women, many of whom have a history of being abused by men. Offenders are sent to prison as punishment. They are not sent to prison to be punished; and locking these women in with violent men is cruel and unusual punishment. It is well established that men and women have vastly different patterns of criminality. It is a basic fact that men are physically stronger than women, and that they regularly take advantage of this fact in every imaginable context to dominate and abuse women."
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Bad Guys

National Guard bans Buffalo residents from streets amid blizzard, blackouts, looting, 35 dead

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Residents of Buffalo, New York have been barred from driving as blizzard conditions continue to batter the city, and the state's National Guard has been called in to enforce the ban.

The winter storm has resulted in dozens dead, mass blackouts, and rampant looting, as officials struggle to contain the situation.

According to WYRK, on Tuesday the New York State National Guard announced that they would be sending at least 100 military police officers to the Buffalo area to enforce the city's driving ban.

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The Buffalo Police Department launched an anti-looting unit that has already made eight arrests in the wake of a deadly winter storm that buried the city in snow over the Christmas weekend.

"This isn't people stealing food and medicine and diapers. They are destroying stores. They are stealing televisions, couches, whatever else they can get their hands on. They're opportunists," Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said at a press conference on Tuesday.

"All you're doing is destroying the resource you have when you need to go to the store again and buy food or whatever else that you need. You're destroying your community. It will not be tolerated."

Police are rolling out plainclothes detectives as part of the new anti-looting unit and partnering with the Erie County District Attorney in their efforts, according to Gramaglia. The city is also under a driving ban with military members called in to help enforce the rule.

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown skewered looters on Monday, saying that "these aren't even people in distress."

"People who are out looting when people are losing their lives in this harsh winter storm is just absolutely reprehensible," Brown said. "I don't know how these people can even live with themselves, how they can look at themselves in the mirror. They are the lowest of the low."



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Western media admit Ukraine had a motive to axe Nord Stream

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© Sputnik / Grigory Sysoev
After The Washington Post broke that there is zero evidence Russia blew up its Nord Stream pipelines, the New York Post has suggested that Moscow's alleged decision to repair the damage dealt a further blow to the theory Russia was behind the September sabotage attack.

The Nord Stream pipelines story caught the headlines again on Monday, with the American mainstream newspaper alleging that Nord Stream AG had begun pricing out the cost to repair the pipe and restore gas flow.

Dubbing the September sabotage attack "a wartime mystery," the media raised the question of why, if Russia bombed its own pipelines - as Western press has asserted to its readers for months, it would begin the expensive work of repairing them.

The Nord Stream infrastructure consists of four pipelines. Nord Stream 1, a pair of offshore natural gas pipelines running under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany that became operational in 2011. Nord Stream 2 envisaged doubling the annual capacity of the initial project to 110 billion cubic meters. It was completed in September 2021, but Germany hesitated to certify it being under heavy pressure from the US, which opposed the Russia-led project from inception. Eventually, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz suspended its certification on February 22, 2022. On September 26, three of the four pipelines were blown up by unknown perpetrators.

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Bizarro Earth

France has marketed its World Cup defeat as an anti-racist victory

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© Kiran Ridley/Getty ImagesFrench football fans cheer on their team on the Champs Elysees as France play Argentina in the final of the Fifa World Cup on December 18, 2022 in Paris, France.
The French football team may not have scored enough, but French politicians certainly have.

I have never been a football fan, but I tremendously enjoyed the World Cup final in Qatar. It was a great game. In my local bar in Moscow, everybody was for Argentina - including myself, a Frenchman, though that's mainly because I love tango.

The Argentinian players, with all their tattoos, seemed like the members of some Honduran gang. And their somehow Italian ability to fall every time they encountered the hair of an opponent was a good reminder that it is really just a show. When the French coach, Didier Deschamps, substituted Giroud, Griezmann, and Hernandez for Thuram, Coman, and Camavinga, I had a blast, as it didn't really seem like a game of Argentina v France as much as Italy v Cameroon.

But the real circus has been taking place in the French political arena. While the Washington Post was complaining about the lack of black people on the Argentinian team, France has been having its own reinterpretation of the last days of this tournament.

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Arrow Down

ABC News producer dies from sudden heart attack at 37

Dax Tejera
© ABC/Danny Weiss
ABC News producer Dax Tejera died Friday from a sudden heart attack at the age of 37.

Tejera had been the executive producer of the Sunday morning political affairs program This Week with George Stephanopoulos since 2020.

ABC News president Kim Godwin sent a memo to network staff on Christmas Eve announcing Tejera's death, the Hollywood Reporter reported.

The memo, in part, reads:
It's with a heavy heart and great sadness that we share that our friend and colleague, Dax Tejera passed away suddenly of a heart attack last night.

As EP of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" Dax's energy, passion and love for that show, ABC News, and you, shined every Sunday morning. That same love was extended to his precious girls.

Our thoughts are with his wife, Veronica, the couple's two young daughters, and the entire Tejera family.

Bad Guys

Trans Against Groomers director SUSPENDED from Twitter after saying trans is a 'mental disorder'

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© Sara Higdon/Twitter
UPDATE: Twitter notified Sara Higdon that her appeal request is under review. Higdon has no plans to delete the tweet, and is launching a second appeal.

The Trans Against Groomers group's Director of Communication Sara Higdon had her Twitter account locked on Monday.

A tweet from the group to Twitter owner Elon Musk reads, "our Director of Communications was just locked out of her Twitter account for saying that we shouldn't stigmatize mental illness?"

Comment: So is this trans 'woman' actually saying that she has a mental illness? And that it should not be stigmatized,but accepted. In a sane would, the course would be to try to lead such people back to reality, not indulge them.


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15 facts which prove that a massive economic meltdown is already happening right now

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Economic conditions just keep getting worse. As we prepare to enter 2023, we find ourselves in a high inflation environment at the same time that economic activity is really slowing down. And just like we witnessed in 2008, employers are conducting mass layoffs as a horrifying housing crash sweeps across the nation. Those that have been waiting for the U.S. economy to implode can stop waiting, because an economic implosion has officially arrived. The following are 15 facts that prove that a massive economic meltdown is already happening right now...

#1 Existing home sales have now fallen for 10 consecutive months.

#2 Existing home sales are down 35.4 percent over the last 12 months. That is the largest year over year decline in existing home sales since the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

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