Disgraced businessman Ron Brierley jailed over child abuse material

Disgraced multi-millionaire Ron Brierley has been sentenced to a maximum of 14 months in jail for the possession of child abuse material.

The 84-year-old's age and health were taken into consideration during sentencing, with Brierley to serve at least seven months.

Brierley's defence team told 9News there will be no application for an appeal made today.

The businessman was on the way to Fiji when he was stopped by Australian Border Force officials at Sydney International Airport in December 2019.

He later pleaded guilty to three charges related to almost 47,000 images found on his laptop and several USB devices found on him and at his Point Piper home.

The former head of the Bank of New Zealandwas knighted in 1988 for his contribution to business and the community.

He was forced to forfeit that knighthood after he entered guilty pleas.

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https://www.9news.com.au/national/ron-brierley-sentenced-to-maximum-14-months-in-jail-for-possessing-child-abuse-material/599d962d-15e0-48da-a219-4542dfbeac7f

Head Of Pentagon’s ‘Foreign Arms Sales Division’ Resigns, Immediately Gets Job Leading Boeing’s ‘Government Services Sales Team’

First civilian to lead the Pentagon's DSCA reportedly told colleagues overseeing foreign arms sales was her "dream job"

Heidi Grant will leave her position as director of the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency, which oversees foreign arms sales at the pentagon, on Nov. 6. Before officially stepping down, she has already landed a job overseeing the “defense, space and government services sales teams” at Boeing, and will start work for the aircraft and missile manufacturer just two days later on Nov. 8.

In a press release, Boeing boasted that “Heidi Grant, director of the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), has been selected to lead Boeing’s defense, space and government services sales teams. She will join the company Nov. 8 as vice president of Business Development, leading the organization previously known as Global Sales and Marketing (GSM).”

“Heidi brings extensive experience in global strategy and competitive positioning across the life cycle,” Boeing President and CEO Leanna Caret stated. “We look forward to working closely with her as we compete, win and grow our business around the world.”

“In her current role she is responsible for the administration and execution of U.S. Department of Defense security cooperation programs and activities involving defense articles, military training and other defense-related services,” the statement continued. “She began her U.S. Department of Defense career in 1989 and held key roles with the departments of the Navy and Air Force, Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff and two combatant commands with assignments from base to headquarters levels, including an overseas assignment.”

Grant, who became the first civilian to lead the DSCA in August 2020, reportedly told colleagues that overseeing U.S. foreign arms sales was her “dream job.”

Various U.S. defense manufacturing corporations were confirmed to have employed members of the Chinese Communist party in 2020:

Multiple international news outlet today have confirmed the existence of a list of nearly 2 million Chinese Communist Party members that contains many hundreds of thousands of names of individuals who live and work in the West, including at top defense contractors, medical research and supply companies, financial institutions, and other critical roles throughout the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia.

In the United Kingdom, and potentially the United States, The Daily Mail confirmed that Rolls Royce, HSBC, Jaguar Land Rover, Boeing, Airbus, French defense contractor Thales, HSBC, Standard Chartere, Pfizer, AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline all employ members of the CCP.

https://nationalfile.com/head-of-pentagons-foreign-arms-sales-division-resigns-immediately-gets-job-leading-boeings-government-services-sales-team/

Netflix Re-Launching Assange Smear Days Before Court Date

Caitlin Johnstone responds to Netflix’s revival of a 2013 documentary that WikiLeaks, at the time, refuted as irresponsible libel.

Netflix will begin streaming a brazen hatchet job on Julian Assange and WikiLeaks for its American subscribers on Oct. 24, just three days prior to a significant court date in Assange’s fight against extradition from the U.K. to the United States on Oct. 27.

“You can stream We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks on Netflix starting Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021, at 12 AM PT / 3 AM ET,” Netflix Schedule reports.

We Steal Secrets was a “documentary” that is now so outdated after its 2013 release that one of its central characters, Chelsea Manning, is referred to by a dead name throughout its entirety. Why choose this specific moment to release it?

Well it doesn’t make much sense at all, if the timing wasn’t deliberately geared toward damaging Assange’s reputation in the nation whose government is trying to extradite him for exposing its war crimes. Assange’s October court date was set way back in August and Netflix didn’t announce it had scheduled to begin streaming this film until two weeks ago.

After all, We Steal Secrets was so egregious in its spin that not only did WikiLeaks supporters like World Socialist Website and journalist Jonathan Cook pan it as a smear at the time, but WikiLeaks itself went to the trouble of publishing a line-by-line refutation of the mountains of propaganda distortion heaped on the narrative by filmmaker Alex Gibney.

“The title (‘We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks’) is false,” WikiLeaks writes at the beginning of its response. “It directly implies that WikiLeaks steals secrets. In fact, the statement is made by former CIA/NSA director Michael Hayden in relation to the activities of US government spies, not in relation to WikiLeaks. This an irresponsible libel. Not even critics in the film say that WikiLeaks steals secrets.”

“Gibney’s latest release — We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks — is something else again,” World Socialist Website wrote in 2013. “The 130-minute feature is a political hatchet job against Julian Assange and dovetails with the media and US government campaign against the WikiLeaks web site. Whether Gibney has shifted to the right or simply revealed the fatal limitations of his liberal ‘oppositional’ views is a matter for a separate discussion. In any event, his newest work is an effort at disinformation.”

“The job of a good documentarist is to weigh the available material and then present as honest a record of what it reveals as possible. Anything less is at best polemic, if it sides with those who are silenced and weak, and at worst propaganda, if it sides with those who wield power,” critiqued Jonathan Cook at the time.

https://consortiumnews.com/2021/10/14/netflix-to-re-launch-wikileaks-smear-3-days-before-assange-court-date/

China’s Economic Crisis is MUCH Bigger Than Expected – It’s Property Market, Largest in the World, Is Collapsing

The situation in China is much worse than originally thought. The largest property market in the world is set to collapse and the ramifications will impact the entire world.

We’ve been discussing China’s economic issues for years. Recently this was even discussed with Steve Bannon at his War Room.

We now have information that the situation is worse than we thought. For starters, the China property market is the largest market in the world at $62 trillion USD per a recent report from Goldman Sachs.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/breaking-exclusive-chinas-economic-crisis-much-bigger-expected-property-market-largest-world-collapsing/

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