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SOCIETY FOR PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY STANDARDS INC.

Adoptee spurred battle for law reform to enable access to birth information

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On 12 January 2011 Rev. Keith Clifton Griffith MBE sadly passed away after a short period of illness and will be sorely missed by his wife Helen, three sons and their respective young families. Our Society executive, one of whom had known Keith for almost 40 years and was able to attend Keith’s funeral held in Porirua, are so grateful for his valuable contribution to our Society’s direction as set out in our revised Constitution (see Objectives tab on our website homepage or go to www.societies.govt.nz and search under Inc. Soc. No. 217833).

Keith, who was guest speaker at our Society’s AGM held on 30 June 2010, and who in 1988 was awarded an MBE for services to adoption research, publications and formation of adoption support networks; emphasised in his address the importance of adopting three guiding principles in all charitable work: truth, openness (or transparency) and integrity. The Society executive has sought to follow his advice and we found his AGM talk involving his account of his own charitable work, most inspirational. [Read more…]

How to Make Donations to the Canterbury Earthquake Appeal

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To the Canterbury Earthquake Appeal: ANZ (account no. 01-1839-0188939-00) or National bank (account no. 06-0869-0548507-00).

To the Red Cross: redcross.org.nz/donate or via grabone.co.nz/christchurch as the Red Cross site has been crashing.

To the Westpac Canterbury Care Fund in partnership with the Salvation Army: either at branches nationwide or to the account no. 03-0207-0617331-00

To the Salvation Army Earthquake appeal: salvationarmy.org.nz or 0800 5300 00.  For more go below: [Read more…]

Was Christchurch Earthquake Man-Made? – Uncensored Magazine launched by Steve Crow

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The latest issue of Uncensored Magazine which was originally launched by “controversial businessman and publisher Steve Crow (best known for his popular Erotica Adult Lifestyle Expos)” back on 12 September 2005, makes the claim that the latest 6.3 magnitude Christchurch earthquake could have been man-made. The editor, Jonathan Eisen, in a posted website comment dated 25 February 2011, rather than treating this claim as absurd speculation, presents it as a REAL possibility and makes the pernicious and defamatory claim that the New World Order (NWO) bankers want NZ impoverished, and have somehow funded the “HAARP job” [High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project] that supposedly caused this earthquake and the major one that struck in September last year.

The Society believes that New Zealanders will be outraged at such nonsense being propagated via this magazine and its website. At a time of such national tragedy, the propagation of such vile conspiracy theories is reprehensible, undermines the public good and sows the seeds of confusion and discord.

Editor Eisen wrote on 24 February 2011 in what has been billed as one of the magazine’s “top stories”:

Looks like the Christchurch disaster might well be another HAARP job. What better way to totally bankrupt the country, destroy our welfare state, our social safety nets, education and health, and steal all of our remaining assets? ….. The NWO bankers want NZ impoverished, like the rest of the world, and now they’re “going for broke”.

In a veiled reference he even ties our Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. John Key, into the absurd conspiracy when he writes of the NWO: ” their banker PM is carrying out his orders. There’s a good reason they used to call him “The Smiling Assassin” in London. [see ref. 1 below for explanation of this ‘nickname’]

Clearly such accusations are defamatory and all New Zealanders would be outraged by this ridiculous ‘explanation’ of the earthquakes and their origin in a NWO plot involving John Key. [Read more…]

Sex and Violence Overlap

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UNITED STATES. Scientists have discovered a link between aggressive behaviour and sexual arousal. Sex and violence are controlled by two overlapping brain circuits that appear to act as a “mental switch” designed to make the two behaviours mutually exclusive, researchers found.

However, the intermingling of the two sets of neurons creates a delicate balance in which too many or too few connections between neighbouring brain cells could blur the boundaries. [Read more…]

Whimp’s threats to sue – appalling and should be ignored

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A banned company director has recently targeted a number of New Zealanders with threats of legal proceedings being issued against them if they don’t follow his demands – an action described by a promiment business leader today as appalling. [Read more…]