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Britney Spears’ Father Files to End Conservatorship

After nearly a decade and a half, pop star Britney Spears’ father has filed to end his daughter’s conservatorship, which gave him unilateral control over the 39-year-old entertainer’s purse strings.

Jamie Spears filed the requisite paperwork in the Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

“As Mr. Spears has said again and again, all he wants is what is best for his daughter,” the legal document states. “If Ms. Spears wants to terminate the conservatorship and believes that she can handle her own life, Mr. Spears believes that she should get that chance.”

Before it can move forward, though, Judge Brenda Penny, who oversees the case, will have to sign off on ending the 13-year conservatorship.

David Glass, a certified family law attorney not associated with the Spears matter, told Fox News that, given Jamie Spears is asking for “the entire conservatorship to be vacated,” it will put pressure on co-conservator Jodi Montgomery “to either explain how Britney is still mentally ill or go along” with ending the conservatorship entirely.

Montgomery stated in early August she has concerns, according to TMZ, about Britney Spears’ “recent behavior and overall mental health.” At the time, Jamie Spears claimed the co-conservator frantically called him on July 9 to say Britney Spears was “spiraling out of control.”

Jamie Spears’ filing Tuesday comes weeks ahead of a Sept. 29 hearing over a petition submitted by Britney Spears’ attorney to have the pop star’s father removed from the conservatorship. The singer’s dad, it should be noted, signaled in an Aug. 12 filing that he planned to step down as conservator over his daughter’s finances, although he offered no timeline on when his authority would lapse.

Britney Spears has sought to be freed from the conservatorship several times.

It was established in 2008, when the “Gimme More” singer began struggling very publicly with issues of mental health, likely made worse by an over-the-top media constantly documenting and critiquing her every move.

In mid-June, Britney Spears delivered a passionate speech in court begging to be released from the conservatorship, which has garnered a lot of press attention and has sparked the “Free Britney” movement made up of fans eager to see the entertainer regain full autonomy over her life’s decisions.

“I just want my life back,” Britney Spears said June 23. “And it’s been 13 years, and it’s enough. It’s been a long time since I’ve owned my money. And it’s my wish and my dream for all of this to end without being tested.

During her speech, Britney Spears also made clear her desire to make her own decisions regarding her medical and therapeutic care, stating at the time she has been compelled, as part of the conservatorship, to take certain medications as well as use an intrauterine device for birth control against her desires.

Jamie Spears, for his part, called for a court investigation into those claims, noting such decisions were not in his purview, given he had stepped down as conservator over his daughter’s person — a position now held by Montgomery.

The filing this week notes that Britney Spears was not aware she could file her own petition to end the conservatorship, which she has not yet done. It does state, however, that Penny’s decision to allow “Oops!… I Did It Again” singer to hire her own lawyer, Mathew Rosengart, shows the court trusts Britney Spears with making big decisions, adding that evidence to date has “demonstrated a level of independence” on the entertainer’s part.

In an Instagram post published this week, Britney Spears thanked fellow pop star Iggy Azalea for her support, writing, “God bless you and thank you for all your kind words.”

Azalea broke a non-disclosure agreement earlier this year, when she condemned the allegedly restrictive rules placed on Britney Spears as part of the conservatorship.

The two entertainers collaborated in 2015 for the song “Pretty Girls.”

“It’s basic human decency to, at the very least, remove a person Britney has identified as abusive from her life,” the Australian rapper wrote in July. “This should be illegal. During the time we worked together in 2015, I personally witnessed the same behavior Britney detailed in regards to her father last week and I just want to back her up [and] tell the world that: she is not exaggerating or lying.”

Australia Revives Nazi-style “Quarantine Camps” to “Keep People Safe”

Back in February of this year, The New American reported on the opening of “COVID jails” in Germany, where repeat quarantine offenders were detained in a juvenile detention center in the state of Saxony. Modeling a similar approach as the Germans, who fenced off sections of a refugee camp and kept inmates under police guard, the government of Australia’s Northern Territory has resurrected a former mining camp — described as “a stylish, innovative and sustainable accommodation village” on the facility’s website — where people returning to the country after traveling across state lines or abroad are required to quarantine for 14 days in the now state-supervised and -sponsored facility.

Australians forced to stay — at their own expense — in the splendid bush of the Outback at the Centre for National Resilience, formerly known as the Manigurr-ma Village, are seemingly healthy people. The facility, praised on its developer’s website for its “award-winning urban design,” boasting “tropical courtyard buildings, green space corridors, landscape zones and parks,” situated on the outskirts of the city of Darwin is today anything but a comfortable respite for those looking to escape the routine of their normal, everyday lives.

Footage taken from inside the facility did not show people enjoying leisurely activities such as “swimming, cycling, beach volleyball and indoor cricket, to improve and maintain their health and fitness,” as illustrated on the facility’s website. Instead, an inmate at the Centre described disturbing conditions, wherein he is “waiting patiently to be fed,” adhering to the state-imposed rules of quarantine. Moreover, should captives of the “village accommodations” violate the rules of quarantine, their stay could be extended another 10 days, and they could face thousands of dollars in fines.

According to the Northern Territory Government:

International and interstate travelers (from designated hotspots) who are eligible to enter the Northern Territory are required by law to undertake 14 days of quarantine in state supervised accommodations under the Public and Environmental Health Act 2011. The accommodation is determined by the Northern Territory Government.* 

Individuals entering into mandatory supervised quarantine in the Northern Territory will be charged a rate of $2,500 per person or $5,000 for a family of two or more people for 14 days. 

Any person found breaching quarantine regulations will be liable for fines.

So far, two supervised-quarantine facilities exist in the Northern Territory: The Centre for National Resilience in Howard Springs, Darwin; and Alice Springs Quarantine Facility in Alice Springs. Travelers are required to enter facilities “closest to their entry in the Northern Territory unless otherwise directed by the Chief Health Officer or their delegate.”

A troubling TikTok video that went viral online shows Australian Jeremy Longdon at the Howard Springs facility, standing outside his room awaiting a meal to be delivered. “I’m just waiting patiently to be fed,” he said, visibly distressed. “It’s like when you shake the bag of dog treats, and the dogs come running. We’re always outside waiting.”

Using his camera phone, Longdon panned the facility property showing one-story, cabin-like structures that chillingly recall a “nicer version” of the barracks at Auschwitz for anyone who has visited the German death camp.

Longdon described a scary police presence, with cops hovering nearby, waiting to catch inmates with their masks pulled down. In the video, he explained a “tense” situation involving a woman in a “cabin” across from him, who pulled down her mask “for about five seconds” in between sips of tea. “The cops came around literally on the dot,” he said, quoting the woman who told the officer, “I’m just drinking my tea.” “Well not now you’re not. Put your face mask on,” said the officer, according to Longdon.

The Howard Springs facility requires citizens to remain in their “allocated rooms” or “veranda space” unless given permission by an officer on duty. Inmates are not allowed to interact with others in the facility, unless it is a family member also in quarantine. Upon arrival, each person receives a “resident booklet,” which states that they must remain “at least 1.5 metres away from any person in the facility,” and wear a face mask when outside the room unless authorized by an officer. Residents also must comply with any directions given by an officer and are not allowed outside the “quarantine zone” unless escorted by an officer.

According to local news reports, the quarantine camp is among the first of its kind in the Australian Commonwealth. Yet another, larger facility in the Orwellian-named area of Wellcamp, expected to hold up to 1,000 beds, is now under construction near the city of Toowoomba, in the northeastern region of Queensland.

Australia Health Minister Greg Hunt, who has led the country’s response to the coronavirus since March 2020, has allegedly deemed the Wellcamp facility “unsuitable,” yet Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk appears to have circumvented federal authorities and forged ahead with the “urgent” project.

Contracted to build at Wellcamp is property development and investment group Wagner Corporation. According to Palaszczuk, the facility will symbolize a “commitment by the Wagner family working with the Queensland government to say to the people of Queensland, ‘we want to keep you safe,’ and the best way to keep you safe and to keep Delta out of Queensland is to build as quickly as possible a regional quarantine facility.”

“We are up against a highly infectious Delta variant that’s sweeping the world,” said Palaszczuk in a video announcement. “We don’t know what’s next. We need to get these facilities up and running and everybody has seen how successful Howard Springs is.”

Wellcamp was expected to be completed by the end of August, providing what officials in Queensland say is a much-needed reprieve for hotels in the area experiencing a surge in reservations since the mandatory quarantines began earlier this year.

According to 7News, Palaszczuk told reporters that Wellcamp would be “a great boost for our defense against the Delta virus in this country and, in fact, I believe we need regional facilities right across the country.”

“We are going to be dealing with Delta for some time, and if we want to open Australia, we want to open our states up, regional quarantine facilities are the second part of the answer — the first part of the answer is vaccines.” Such unprecedented actions by the Australian government are no doubt leading people worldwide to a very dark place, yet Australians know well not to complain, for fear of being arrested by the authorities. As writer David Hiscox wrote, “the lockdown of everybody is being transitioned into the ‘lockout’ of the unvaxxed.” 

Americans have repeatedly been warned, but should the people decide not to stand against the unconstitutional vaccine and mask mandates, certainly the harassment and captivity will be coming here next.

Canada Election: Trudeau Pelted With Stones as Protests Continue Along the Campaign Trail

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was targeted by protesters throwing what appears to be handfuls of gravel — small stones — during the latest demonstration the Liberal Party leader has faced on the campaign trail.

Mr Trudeau was attending a campaign event in London, Ontario, on Monday when he and his entourage were confronted by yet another protest that saw some in the crowd throw rocks or gravel at him as he attempted to get on his campaign bus.

According to a report from Canadian public broadcaster CBC, which identified the projectiles as gravel, Mr Trudeau spoke about the incident a short time later, saying that he had not been injured.

The incident is the first time since the start of the Canadian election campaign that protesters have attempted to physically assault the Liberal leader. But Trudeau has been followed by protests across the country during the campaign, some of which have led to the cancellation of election events over alleged safety concerns.

Opposition party leaders were quick to condemn the attempted assault on Trudeau, with Conservative Party (CPC) leader Erin O’Toole stating: “Political violence is never justified and our media must be free from intimidation, harassment, and violence.”

Many protests have been linked to those opposing coronavirus vaccine mandates and vaccine passport programmes, including a Liberal policy to ban unvaccinated people from air and train travel.

Trudeau commented on the protesters on Monday, saying: “Yes, there is a small fringe element in this country that is angry, that doesn’t believe in science, that is lashing out with racist, misogynistic attacks.”

“But Canadians, the vast majority of Canadians, are not represented by them, and I know will not allow those voices, those special interest groups, those protesters — I don’t even want to call them protesters, those anti-vaxxer mobs — to dictate how this country gets through this pandemic,” he added.

Maxime Bernier, the leader of the populist People’s Party of Canada (PPC) and the only major party leader against vaccine passports in the campaign, also condemned the attack on Trudeau in London, saying: “Some idiot threw pebbles at Mr Trudeau yesterday. I condemn it. Words are our weapons. But physical violence is ALWAYS wrong.”

Bernier also pointed out that no other political leaders had condemned an assault on him last week by a man who broke an egg over his head during a campaign stop. The populist criticised Trudeau and far-left New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jagmeet Singh over their ambivalence towards certain kinds of political violence in the past.

“Leftists always had a soft spot for violence. Trudeau and Singh praised a communist mass murderer and they’re fine with that,” Bernier said, referencing both Singh’s and Trudeau’s prior praise for former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

“But when we push back against the systematic attack on our rights and freedoms by this leftist psychopath, they say WE are dangerous??!” Bernier added.

Canadians are scheduled to take to the polls on September 20th, and so far, polls are showing it is unlikely Trudeau will win a majority of seats in the House of Commons and may even lose to the Conservative Party.

Anxious staffers mute Biden’s remarks

Some staffers in the Biden White House would rather miss their boss speak in public than endure another gaffe, according to a new report. 

Anxiety about what President Joe Biden might say if he takes questions from the media drives some in the White House to mute him or turn off his public appearances altogether, Politico reported Tuesday, citing White House officials.

“I know people who habitually don’t watch it live for that reason,” an unnamed official told the outlet for the report, which focused on occasions when Biden strayed from messaging crafted by the West Wing. 

Biden has made frequent flubs during press events and other public appearances by losing his line of thinking, stumbling , and forgetting names.

The president mistakenly referred to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as “Jennifer” during an event in August, and in March, he said “President Harris” when referring to Vice President Kamala Harris. 

On Tuesday, Biden asserted during a briefing about the damage incurred from Hurricane Ida that tornadoes are called something else now. 

“The members of Congress know, from their colleagues in Congress, that, uh, you know, the, looks like a tornado, they don’t call them that anymore, that hit the crops and wetlands in the middle of the country, in Iowa and Nevada. It’s just across the board,” Biden said at a press conference in New Jersey. 

Biden occasionally shrugs off reporters’ inquiries by telling the press that his staff directed him not to take questions, suggesting officials seek to minimize the number of those incidents. 

Michael Gwin, the director of Rapid Response for the White House, told the Washington Examiner that Biden “deeply values” the press’ role and asserted that Biden frequently makes himself available for questioning. 

“As the president has shown over and over since he announced his candidacy more than two years ago, he’s the most effective communicator for his vision and his agenda,” Gwin said in a statement.

Some Republicans have seized on Biden’s verbal miscues and overall posture, saying his public appearances indicate the 78-year-old president is out of his league. 

“I think he’s either going to resign — they’re going to convince him to resign from office at some point in the near future for medical issues — or they’re going to have to use the 25th Amendment to get rid of this man,” Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, a former White House physician, said in July.

‘Strong Pro-Life State’: South Dakota Governor Signs Executive Order Banning Abortion Pills

The move by South Dakota to restrict the use of abortion pills comes in the wake of the introduction of a controversial abortion law in Texas, which bans the termination of pregnancy after six weeks.

Governor of South Dakota Kristi Noem announced on Tuesday that she had signed an executive order prohibiting telemedicine abortions and restricting chemical abortions in the state.

“The Biden administration is continuing to overstep its authority and suppress legislatures that are standing up for the unborn to pass strong pro-life laws”, Noem stated. “They are working right now to make it easier to end the life of an unborn child via telemedicine abortion. That is not going to happen in South Dakota”.

She also vowed to continue working with the legislature and her “Unborn Child Advocate” Mark Miller to “ensure that South Dakota remains a strong pro-life state”.

Under the new order, abortion pills can only be prescribed after an in-person examination by a state-licensed physician. It also prohibits the distribution of abortion-inducing drugs via courier, delivery, telemedicine, or mail service.

Many welcomed the decision, among them Catherine Glenn Foster, president and CEO of Americans United for Life.

“This is no longer about ‘a woman and her doctor’, but a woman – or girl – and a stranger on the internet. States can no longer depend on the FDA to regulate abortion drugs in any meaningful way, and I am pleased to see Governor Noem step up for her state. Abortion is never safe, but it’s far more dangerous when women are abandoned by physicians and left to manage their complications alone”, Foster said.However, some observers, including social media users, lambasted the executive order, especially in light of the recent Texas abortion law that bans the termination of pregnancy after the sixth week – a time period during which a woman often does not notice that she is pregnant.

The Texas abortion law has drawn backlash, with the Biden administration joining the choir of critics, as the president decried the legislation as “almost un-American” and pledged a federal response to it.

We Caught Him: Fauci Now Facing 5 Years in Prison

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci has assured Americans he has their best interests in mind. However, a new report calls his credibility into serious doubt.

The Intercept reported it obtained 900 pages of documents describing the work of U.S.-based health organization EcoHealth Alliance.

The documents reportedly included a grant proposal funded by the NIAID to research bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

Remember the early months of 2020, when we were told the coronavirus originated from a bat in Wuhan, China? That is the very coronavirus, of course, that proceeded to shut down the entire world for the next year-plus.

Now we have reports alleging that the United States used federal money to fund research on bat coronaviruses in the very city where the infamous COVID-19 coronavirus originated.

If this sounds suspicious, that’s because it is.

Fauci himself knows how suspicious this all is. That’s why he tried to quell concerns by saying in July the NIAID did not fund so-called “gain-of-function” coronavirus research in Wuhan.

According to the New York Post, Fauci admitted in a May 2021 congressional hearing that the National Institutes of Health approved $600,000 to the Wuhan Institute of Virology “to study whether bat coronaviruses could be transmitted to humans.”

“But Fauci emphatically denied that the money went toward so-called ‘gain of function’ research, which he described as ‘taking a virus that could infect humans and making it either more transmissible and/or pathogenic for humans,’” the outlet reported.

Twitter thread, the Rutgers University Board of Governors professor of chemistry and chemical biology, Richard H. Ebright, said this characterization of the funding provided by the NIH is simply dishonest.

“The materials confirm the grants supported the construction — in Wuhan — of novel chimeric SARS-related coronaviruses that combined a spike gene from one coronavirus with genetic information from another coronavirus, and confirmed the resulting viruses could infect human cells,” Ebright wrote.

“The materials reveal that the resulting novel, laboratory-generated SARS-related coronaviruses also could infect mice engineered to display human receptors on cells (‘humanized mice’).”

Indeed, The Intercept reported coronavirus research was performed on “humanized mice” at the biosafety level 3 lab at the Wuhan University Center for Animal Experiment.

That research took place under one of the grants funded by the NIH titled “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence.” EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak was heavily involved in the research performed under this grant, according to the documents.

Constructing viruses that can infect “humanized” cells in mice sure seems to fit Fauci’s stated definition of gain-of-function research. Ebright said the documents are enough to prove Facui lied about federal funds not being used for such research.

“The documents make it clear that assertions by the NIH Director, Francis Collins, and the NIAID Director, Anthony Fauci, that the NIH did not support gain-of-function research or potential pandemic pathogen enhancement at WIV are untruthful,” he wrote in the final tweet of his thread.

According to Sections 1621 and 1001 of the U.S. Code, anyone who willfully lies in a congressional hearing, whether or not they have taken oath, is subject to a prison sentence of up to five years.

In all likelihood, the left will come up with more reasons to excuse Fauci for his probable crimes. But by the letter of the law and according to these documents, Fauci ought to be staring down a prison sentence.

Ultra-rich Jeff Bezos seeks to ‘reprogram’ human cells with new investment

A new report links Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to a group of scientists trying to find a technology roadmap to the Fountain of Youth.

The report Saturday in the MIT Technology Review features Altos Labs, a Silicon Valley company that is conducting anti-aging research.

“Some people briefed by the company have been told that its investors include Jeff Bezos,” the report said.

It said the former Amazon CEO, who has an estimated net worth of more than $200 billion, has a longstanding interest in research about aging.

The MIT Technology Review said that in his final letter to Amazon shareholders, Bezos — who recently went into space as a publicity gimmick for a space tourism business he wants to grow — quoted musings about life and death published by biologist Richard Dawkins in a book titled “The Blind Watchmaker.”

“Staving off death is a thing that you have to work at,” Bezos wrote then, adding, “More generally, if living things didn’t work actively to prevent it, they would eventually merge into their surroundings, and cease to exist as autonomous beings. That is what happens when they die.”

Altos Labs will include on its staff researcher Shinya Yamanaka, who in 2012 shared a Nobel Prize for his work on reprogramming,

“Although there are many hurdles to overcome, there is huge potential,” Yamanaka said.

The quest to defeat aging is drawing attention — and cash.

“There are hundreds of millions of dollars being raised by investors to invest in reprogramming, specifically aimed at rejuvenating parts or all of the human body,” said David Sinclair, a researcher at Harvard University, according to the MIT Technology Review.

“What else can you do that can reverse the age of the body?” he said. “In my lab we are ticking off the major organs and tissues, for instance skin, muscle and brain — to see which we can rejuvenate.”

Manuel Serrano, a researcher in genetic engineering who will leave a position at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine, in Barcelona, Spain, to work for Altos Labs, said profits are not the short-term goal.

“The philosophy of Altos Labs is to do curiosity-driven research. This is what I know how to do and love to do,” Serrano said. “In this case, through a private company, we have the freedom to be bold and explore. In this way it will rejuvenate me.”

“The aim is to understand rejuvenation,” he said. “I would say the idea of having revenue in the future is there, but it’s not the immediate goal.”

Alejandro Ocampo, a professor at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, is an admitted skeptic, according to the report.

“I think the concept is strong, but there is a lot of hype. It’s far away from translation,” he said, noting that reprogramming cells causes vast changes not fully understood. “It’s risky and it’s a long way from a human therapy.”

Ocampo said money is being thrown around too soon.

“I think it’s moving too fast. I don’t know if we should have five to eight reprogramming companies — it looks too quick,” he said. “How many papers have there even been in in vivo reprogramming? It’s the same as the number of companies.”

However, Ocampo said, the possibilities of reprogramming technology are intriguing.

“You can take a cell from an 80-year old and, in vitro, reverse the age by 40 years. There is no other technology that can do that,” he said.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

AP Forced to Issue Correction on Fake News About Ivermectin

Falsely claimed 70% of calls to Mississippi Poison Control Center were about ivermectin.

The Associated Press was forced to issue a correction after it falsely claimed that 70 per cent of calls to the Mississippi Poison Control Center were about people ingesting ivermectin to treat COVID-19.

The actual number was 2 per cent.

Whoops!

From the AP:

“In an article published Aug. 23, 2021, about people taking livestock medicine to try to treat coronavirus, The Associated Press erroneously reported based on information provided by the Mississippi Department of Health that 70% of recent calls to the Mississippi Poison Control Center were from people who had ingested ivermectin to try to treat COVID-19. State Epidemiologist Dr. Paul Byers said Wednesday the number of calls to poison control about ivermectin was about 2%. He said of the calls that were about ivermectin, 70% were by people who had ingested the veterinary version of the medicine.”

As Chris Menahan notes, NPR also amplified the fake news, reporting that, “The department said that at least 70% of recent calls to the state poison control center were related to people who ingested a version of the drug that is formulated to treat parasites in cows and horses.”

NPR has yet to issue a retraction of the fake story, which was circulated countless times, while the retraction will only be seen by a fraction of those who read the original.

Over the weekend, Rolling Stone faced massive humiliation after it asserted that there were so many patients “overdosing” on ivermectin that Oklahoma hospitals were being “overwhelmed” and gunshot victims were going untreated.

They were forced into an embarrassing walk back after the Northeastern Hospital System Sequoyah issued a statement clarifying that it “has not treated any patients due to complications related to taking ivermectin,” which “includes not treating any patients for ivermectin overdose.”

Once again, the original story went viral while the revelation that it was fake news largely only trended in conservative news circles.

The Rolling Stone article appeared to be part of an effort to smear podcast host Joe Rogan, who said he had used ivermectin as part of a cocktail of treatments to successfully fight off a COVID-19 infection.

National Park Removes “Glaciers Will Be Gone by 2020” Signs

Establishment narrative debunked once again

A national park has removed “glaciers will be gone by 2020” signs because the “global warming” prediction never came true.

Glacier National Park made headlines when it removed park signs meant to highlight “climate change” predictions by the U.S. Geological Survey.

The park attempted to save face by claiming the glaciers “are still shrinking:”

Kurzmen says Glacier National Park will work with the U.S. Geological Survey to monitor the glaciers and update the remainder of the signs as necessary.

The glacier warning isn’t being removed entirely, she told CNN. Instead, the new signs will say: “When they will completely disappear depends on how and when we act. One thing is consistent: the glaciers in the park are shrinking.

A 2019 Twitter photo shows the original signs before they were changed:

In related news, Arctic ice levels are the highest they’ve been in nine years, according to satellite imagery.

Additionally, Antarctic sea ice is also above normal.