He was once a filthy rich high-flying titan of Australian business - until he was caught with 40,000 child porn images. Now disgraced Ron Brierley shuffles down the street alone, clutching a walking stick

Ron Brierley, 84, pleaded guilty to possessing thousands of child abuse images

The New Zealand businessman, worth $200 million, had his knighthood revoked

He was stopped on his way to Fiji and police then searched his Point Piper house

Brierley was jailed for 14 months but released after four months due to ill health

He was spotted on Friday cutting a lonely figure in Sydney's eastern suburbs

Multi-millionaire corporate raider Ron Brierley was once feared across Australia, the United Kingdom and his native New Zealand as a ruthless businessman.

Three years ago he was caught attempting to board a plane in possession of thousands of child abuse images and five months ago he was released from prison.

On Friday the 84-year-old was spotted alone and looking forlorn in Sydney's eastern suburbs with his head down, slowly making his way along Bronte Road in Waverley.

Brierley was wearing shorts and leaning heavily on a walking stick as his shuffled past Waverley Local Court and police station.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11016413/Ron-Brierley-shuffles-Sydney-street-release-jail-child-porn-offences.html

House Passes Bill to ‘Protect’ Interstate Travel For Abortions and ‘Codify’ Abortion Protections

The House of Representatives on Friday passed a bill to ‘protect’ interstate travel for abortions in a 223-205 vote.

The House also passed bill that would ‘codify’ abortion protections after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade.

Axios reported:

The House on Friday passed a bill to protect people who travel out-of-state to access abortion care in a 223-205 vote, following last month’s Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

Driving the news: House lawmakers also passed a bill that codifies abortion protections that used to be guaranteed by Roe into federal law. That law had already passed the House in 2021 but failed in the Senate.

The big picture: Without Roe, states have the authority to regulate abortion at any point during pregnancy. Several states have already moved to ban or heavily restrict access to the procedure.

Blue states have enacted protections in anticipation that red states will enact laws prohibiting their residents to travel elsewhere to get an abortion.

Details: The Ensuring Access to Abortion Act, introduced by Rep. Lizzie Fletcher (D-Texas), looks to prohibit states from interfering with Americans’ interstate travel to access abortion care.

The bill sets protections to health providers who perform an abortion on out-of-state patients, to the patient, and to anyone that helps someone travel for the procedure.

The Women’s Health Protection Act (passed in a 219-210 vote), authored by Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.), prohibits states from banning abortion before viability. It also bars them from requiring a patient to “make medically unnecessary in-person visits” before getting the procedure.

Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a bill to protect interstate travel for abortion.

The Democrats need at least 10 Republican Senators to pass the House bill on abortion.

Manchin and Sinema have both stated they will not nuke the filibuster so the Democrats are pretty much SOL.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/house-passes-bill-protect-interstate-travel-abortions-codify-abortion-protections/

Sri Lankan PM Ranil Wickremesinghe sworn in as interim President, vows to restore law and order

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim President until parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office.

Key points:

Ranil Wickremesinghe says he will initiate steps to curb presidential powers and strengthen parliament

He says he will also restore law and order and take legal action against "insurgents"

The process to elect a new president and prime minister for the country could be done in about seven days

The Speaker of Sri Lanka's parliament said Mr Rajapaksa resigned as president effective on Thursday and politicians would convene on Saturday to choose a new leader.

Their choice would serve out the remainder of Mr Rajapaksa's term ending in 2024, Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana said.

He expects the process to be done in seven days.

Mr Wickremesinghe will lead the country in the meantime.

With Mr Rajapaksa forced out, pressure on Mr Wickremesinghe was rising.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-15/sri-lankan-pm-wickremesinghe-sworn-in-as-interim-president/101243892

Report Shows $44 Billion of COVID Money Was Sent to States that Pushed CRT in Schools

Never let a good crisis go to waste. Democrats used billions of dollars of COVID money to push the Critical Race Theory (CRT) in US classrooms.

The Daily Caller reports:

Roughly $44 billion of President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan COVID-19 relief bill was sent to states that implemented elements of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in their school districts, according to a new report from One Nation America (ONA).

The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP) authorized the U.S. Department of Education to spend more than $120 billion on the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) to assist school districts in re-opening from the COVID-19 pandemic. The report by ONA, a conservative policy advocacy group, found that several Democratic-run states used the ARP ESSER funding to subsidize programs that taught the tenets of CRT, such as implicit bias training for faculty and diversity, equity and inclusion programs, in school curriculums in 13 states.

CRT holds that America is fundamentally racist and teaches students to view every social interaction and person in terms of race. It advocates for the pursuit of “antiracism” through the end of merit, objective truth and the adoption of race-based policies.

This report was shared on social media.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/bombshell-report-shows-democrat-states-spent-44-billion-covid-money-push-crt-schools/

Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Buys Millions In Chip Stocks Right Before Vote On Massive Chip Subsidy

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul bought up to $5 million in stock of a computer chip company ahead of a vote on a bill next week that would hand billions in subsidies to boost chip manufacturing, a financial disclosure shows.

Paul Pelosi purchased 20,000 shares of Nvidia, one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies, on June 17, according to the speaker’s disclosure report released Thursday. Now, senators will convene as early as Tuesday to vote on a bipartisan competition bill, which allocates $52 billion to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing and gives tax credits for production, Reuters reported Thursday.

“It certainly raises the specter that Paul Pelosi could have access to some insider legislative information,” Craig Holman, a government affairs lobbyist for the left-wing think tank Public Citizen, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “This is the reason why there is a stock trading app that exclusively monitors Paul’s trading activity and then its followers do likewise.”

Nvidia is a multinational corporation that designs and manufactures graphics processors and other technology, and is heavily reliant on semiconductors. The House passed a bill in February that included $52 billion in domestic subsidies for the semiconductor industry, and chip companies, including Nvidia, demanded Congress in June move forward on finalizing semiconductor subsidies for domestic manufacturing.

“The conference is stuck. And so it seems to me there are a couple of ways out of this, potentially,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Tuesday, noting that the bill would have a better likelihood of passing without the $52 billion funding for semiconductor manufacturing.

Republican South Carolina Rep. Ralph Norman told the DCNF the “optics” of Pelosi’s stock disclosure “are horrible.”

“Obviously Speaker Pelosi would be aware of the timing of this legislation over in the Senate,” said Norman. “On the heels of that vote, for anyone in her orbit to purchase seven-figures worth of stock of an U.S.-based chip manufacturer just reeks of impropriety.”

Paul Pelosi, who was charged with two alcohol misdemeanors in June after getting in a driving collision that led to his arrest, also disclosed that he sold up to $250,000 worth of Apple stock and up to $5 million worth of Visa stock. The speaker’s husband is an avid stock trader and purchased more than $6 million worth of Nvidia call options in 2021, filings show.

Pelosi’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/07/15/pelosis-husband-massive-amount-in-chips-stock-before-expected-senate-vote-subsidies/

https://dailycaller.com/2022/07/15/pelosis-husband-massive-amount-in-chips-stock-before-expected-senate-vote-subsidies/

Former Municipal Director of Finance Pleads Guilty to Misappropriation of $2.5 Million

https://www.justice.gov/usao-pr/pr/former-municipal-director-finance-pleads-guilty-misappropriation-25-million

Former White House Physician Says “Biden Won’t Finish His Term”

“His mind is too far gone.”

Former White House physician Ronny Jackson says that Joe Biden “won’t finish his term” because “his mind is too far gone.”

Jackson, who served on the White House medical team in the mid-2000s and served as personal physician to both Barack Obama and Donald Trump, made the remarks on Twitter.

“Biden won’t finish his term. EVERYONE knows he’s unfit for the job. His mind is too far gone. This can’t go on any longer. He needs to RESIGN!” tweeted Jackson.

The former physician, who is now a Texas Congressman, made the comments after it was revealed that Barack Obama had sent Jackson an email chastising him for questioning Biden’s cognitive ability.

“I have to express my disappointment at the cheap shot you took at Joe Biden via Twitter,” Obama wrote, adding, “It was unprofessional and beneath the office that you once held. It was also disrespectful to me and the many friends you had in our administration.”

“You were the personal physician to the President of the United States as well as an admiral in the U.S. Navy,” Obama noted, asserting “I expect better, and I hope upon reflection that you will expect more of yourself in the future.”

Jackson responded to the email further during an appearance on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show.

https://youtu.be/6kSgsP-penk

https://summit.news/2022/07/15/former-white-house-physician-says-biden-wont-finish-his-term/

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