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Morissette, 47, was a pop star in Canada in her youth, appearing on the children's television sketch comedy "You Can't Do That on Television" for five episodes when she was in junior high school before she made it big.These scandals aren't limited to the US, it has become pretty common knowledge that throughout the world, but particularly in the West, countless numbers of high profile and influential people have been involved in child rape and sex abuse, and their peers and the establishment have gone to great lengths to cover it up. And these aren't just recent crimes, they've been ongoing for at least half a century."About three-quarters of the way through the movie, Morissette broaches the topic of sexual abuse during her earliest years of fame," the Post reported, adding:Who she is referring to remains unclear; Morissette does not name any of her alleged abusers. But she says she issued calls for help and implicates the music industry in not listening.
"I'm going to need some help because I never talk about this," she begins, before plunging into the topic.
"It took me years in therapy to even admit there had been any kind of victimization on my part," she says. "I would always say I was consenting, and then I'd be reminded like 'Hey, you were 15, you're not consenting at 15.' Now I'm like, 'Oh yeah, they're all pedophiles. It's all statutory rape.'"
Morissette said that people in the industry had ignored her in the past. "I did tell a few people and it kind of fell on deaf ears," the singer said. "It would usually be a stand-up, walk-out-of-the-room moment."
Before the movie debuted, Morissette announced she would not attend the premier.
"It is unclear which aspects of the film she finds problematic," the Post wrote. "Through much of the movie, the singer-songwriter, now 47, is an enthusiastic interview subject, reflecting on her years as generational avatar.

"We've been thrown a major curveball here, but we're in the fight making sure Florida is not short-changed on these monoclonals. That's going to be front and center for us. ... We're going to fight like hell to make sure our folks get what they need."DeSantis said it was important that treatment of COVID is considered just as viable as preventing the virus.
"The bottom line is this: COVID is a treatable illness. And we have to never go back to the days where particularly high-risk people get infected and were told to just go home and hope they don't get deathly ill."
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials told The Washington Post that the agency would "determine the amount of product each state and territory receives." That decision will ripple primarily across red states in the South.See also:
The Post noted that 70 percent of the current mAb supply is shipped to Alabama, Florida, Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia and Louisiana. All but Louisiana have Republican governors.
Christina Pushaw, DeSantis' press secretary, said:"We were happy to see that Biden's COVID plan announced last week included a 50 percent increase in monoclonal antibody deliveries to states this month. So it's surprising and deeply disappointing to see that the Biden administration would break its promise just a week later and cut mAb allocation to Florida, so they aren't even providing half of the doses of live-saving treatment that COVID patients in Florida will need.Monoclonal antibody treatment was what former President Donald Trump received after he contracted COVID last year. The federal government then bought up the mAb supply in the closing days of the Trump administration and planned to distribute it to states through the HHS.
"But the governor is committed to ensuring that everyone who needs the treatment will be able to get it, even if we can't count on the Biden administration."
According to DeSantis' office, that system worked fine. That changed on Tuesday - without warning.
U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, a Texas Republican, wrote Becerra to demand answers about the shift because his state was affected as well. He told The Blaze:"The last thing HHS should be doing is impeding on providers' ability to best serve their patients, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. This recent HHS order will further prevent doctors from being able to treat their patients and prevent their patients from receiving the care they need when they need it."
"The federal government should not be in the business of dictating healthcare. The American people deserve answers on why and under which authority HHS made this decision.

Defying a president from his own party — face-to-face — is the strongest indication yet Manchin is serious about cutting specific programs and limiting the price tag of any potential bill to $1.5 trillion. His insistence could blow up the deal for progressives and others.It seems as if Biden's play here was to say to Manchin:
Axios was told Biden explained to Manchin his opposition could imperil the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that's already passed the Senate. Biden's analysis did little to persuade Manchin to raise his top line.
"That's a nice infrastructure deal you have there, and it would be a shame if anything happened to it."
"At the request of the President of the Republic, I have decided to immediately recall our two ambassadors to the United States and Australia to Paris for consultations. This exceptional decision is justified by the exceptional gravity of the announcements made on 15 September by Australia and the United States."He added that the partnership is an example of
"unacceptable behavior between allies and partners, the consequences of which affect the very conception we have of our alliances, our partnerships and the importance of the Indo-Pacific for Europe."Brian Aggeler, the acting U.S. ambassador in Paris, was called to the Foreign Ministry and told that France's representative, Ambassador Philippe Etienne, would be returning home indefinitely for discussions over the U.S. action and the French response.
The French and Indian foreign ministers spoke over the phone on Saturday, vowing to deepen their strategic partnership now that Paris' ties with the US and Australia have been strained by a submarine deal debacle.See also:
France and India will "work on a joint program of concrete actions to defend a truly multilateral international order," French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and his Indian counterpart, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, said in a statement on Saturday. Released by the French foreign ministry, it also said the two had discussed the situation in Afghanistan and the Indo-Pacific.
The diplomats have vowed to continue building strategic partnership based on a "relationship of political trust between two great sovereign nations." Le Drian and Jaishankar agreed to meet in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session next week.
Paris furiously protested the new arrangement between Australia, the US and UK, known as AUKUS. Le Drian called the ditching of French-Australian submarine program "a stab in the back."
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