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The organiser of the Boobs on Bikes event is giving away 12,500 vouchers for pornography DVDs in a move that has outraged womens’ rights groups.
Steve Crow, who has several pornography businesses, said he was doing the giveaway at the Boobs on Bikes parade which is due be held in Auckland on Wednesday
For more go to article by Sarah Harvey, Sunday Star Times. 7/08/2010
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4001833/Porn-giveaway-causes-outrage
Internal Affairs Minister Nathan announced on 29 June three new appointments to the Film and Literature Board of Review. Dr Don Mathieson has been appointed as President of the Board with Andrew Caisley as Deputy President. Dr Laurence Simmons also joins the Board.
Wellington lawyer Dr Mathieson is well qualified for this role. He is Queen’s Counsel and a former lecturer who currently works as a part-time Special Counsel to the Parliamentary Counsel Office.
“Mr Caisley is a founding partner of law firm Kiely Thomson Caisley. He has longstanding experience in theatre and arts organisations having served on the Council of Creative New Zealand, the Silo Theatre Board and as the founding Chair of New Theatre Initiative.
“Dr Simmons is Deputy Head of the Film, Television and Media department at the University of Auckland. He is fluent in Italian and is the author of many books, articles and other publications. Dr Simmons was awarded a Senior Fulbright Fellowship in 2002.
“All new members have been appointed for terms of three years.”
http://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new+appointments+film+and+literature+board+review
CNN refreshingly devoted an entire segment on Wednesday’s American Morning to highlighting pornography’s destructive impact on society, especially Internet porn. Guest Gail Dines, professor of sociology and women’s studies at Wheelock and a self-described “radical feminist activist,” detailed the harmful impact of pornography on men’s sexuality, and anchor John Roberts even cited a study that found that 56% of divorces “involve one party…who has an obsessive interest in pornographic websites.”
The full transcript of John Roberts’s interview of Gail Dines from Wednesday’s American Morning began with Roberts stating: “If you spend any time on the Internet, it’s hard not to notice just how prevalent pornography is. There are 420 million Internet porn pages, 4.2 million porn websites, and 68 million search engine requests for porn each and every day- pretty staggering numbers”.
Article by Matthew Balan. Wed, 07/28/2010 – 19:16 ET
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2010/07/28/cnn-highlights-pornographys-destructive-effects-society#ixzz0vXNuoXqj
Taking leave of one’s moral senses is not without a due penalty, just as
taking leave without pay for two months has a financial penalty. Every
act that is motivated by moral debauchery, deception, treachery etc. has
moral consequences that impact on the mental and spiritual state of both the
perpetrator and the intended victim. [Read more…]
Section 385 of the Companies Act 1993 empowers the Ministry of Economic Development to ban company directors for up to five years who have a history of unsuccessful ventures. David Bruce Crow of Inglewood is sole director of Buildwise Ltd (In Liq) and also directs 435 Devon Ltd which faces imminent strike off from the Companies Office Register because of his failure to file the company’s annual return that was due on 30 April 2010. Here is yet another unsuccessful business venture involving one of the Crow brothers that appears soon to be hitting the proverbial fan and splattering its detritus and entrails around the legal and business community in New Plymouth. (Both David and Steve Crow were directors of 435 Devon Ltd when in purchased the New Plymouth RSA Devon Street property for $1.9M).
Unpaid creditors such as the New Plymouth and District’s Returned and Services Association Inc. owed over $50,000 in unpaid interest on a $1.525 Million second mortgage and PMIT Nominees Ltd owed about two months interest on a $375,000 first mortgage they provided, could both well be left high and dry surrounded by detritus and debt entrails.
Conceptual Drawings adorn the 435 Devon Ltd website – seeking to paste a veneer over the vast cracks that hold the masonary of hubris and bravado together. Even a three year old -out-of-date – logo of an Architecture firm is affixed to each “concept plan” and the claim is made that ” The Architects are currently working on conceptual drawings with a number of options being considered”. One wonders if they have ever been paid. This firm has had no involvement in the project for about three years.
Stephen (Steve) Peter Crow who owns 50% of the shares of 435 Devon Ltd has claimed on national TV that hundreds of thousands of dollars of his and his brother’s money has been spent on architecture plans for the 435 Devon Street property that the company purchased for $1.9 Million. The planned Crow complex was called “Te Ara” (translated “The Pathway”). A better translation might well be, according to one local Maori elder: “The path to liquidation or receivership and a director’s banning”.