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‘Shady’ porn site practices put visitors at risk – BBC News

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Intense competition means porn sites compete for visitors. Visitors to porn sites are at serious risk of being exploited by cyber criminals, a study has suggested. It found that many sites harboured malware or used “shady” practices to squeeze money out of their visitors. By creating their own porn sites researchers found that many consumers were vulnerable to known bugs and loopholes. Competition among porn sites makes the online adult industry ripe for abuse by hi-tech criminals.

For more go to:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10289009.stm

Blue Chip founder banned as company director for 5 years – TVNZ

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Blue Chip founder Mark Bryers has been banned from directing or managing any company in New Zealand for five years.

The decision from the Deputy Registrar of Companies Peter Barker comes after the Ministry of Economic Development provided a report alleging mismanagement. [Pornographer Steve Crow was banned as director for 4 years for the same reasons under section 385 of the Companies Act 1993].

Anyone who has been a director of more than one failed company within five years has to satisfy the Registrar of Companies that their management of the companies’ affairs did not contribute to the companies’ demise. [Read more…]

Corruption Watchdog to Investigate Labour Party Minister’s expenses

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The Independent Commission Against Corruption will probe a 2008 trip to the Middle East by former Labour minister after a government report found he misused public funds.

The report says the taxpayer footed the bill for airfares, meals and other transportation worth nearly $6000.

The Minister’s trip was reviewed after the Minister was accused of misusing money and failing to declare free flight upgrades

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/corruption-watchdog-to-investigate-macdonalds-expenses-20100610-xznx.html?autostart=1

Corrupt Criminal “Snouts in the Troughs” – Not fit for leadership

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“Ministers spend our money on booze, porn, spas, golf and flowers”. (Dom Post 11 June).  MPs can lose their jobs if convicted of a criminal offence that attracts a prison sentence of three months or more.

“The question is has any of these [credit card spending] acts come within the purview of the Crimes Act?” former Labour party MP and lawyer Mr John Tamihere told the media.

Ministers who have rorted taxpayers by charging their ministerial credit cards for viewing sleaze porn movies in hotel rooms, purchasing flowers and massages for a homosexual partner, and indulging themselves with much bigger ticket items, should face scrutiny within the purvue of the Crimes Act, suggests Mr Tamihere.

Theft as a public servant is how most New Zealanders view the actions of Shane Jones MP and other MPs who have rorted the system while serving as Ministers. Major employers such as Flectcher Building and Telecom have confirmed through their respective spokespersons that the misuse of company credit cards in this way in their busineses would lead to offending employees being dismissed or disciplined. Just paying the stolen money back is just not sufficient ‘punishment’. (Note: In the UK the former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith lost her job after revelations that her husband had charged one porn movie to taxpayers).

And what about the free interest on the purchase of these these sleazy ministers have garnered for themselves?

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Mt Albert Brothel shut down following complaint

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Neighbour’s complaint shuts down brothel. NZ Herald Thursday 3 June 2010

A Mt Albert resident’s complaint about “strange men knocking at his door” has led to Auckland City Council using a technical clause in planning rules to shut down a brothel in a residential street….

Mr Bindon complained to Auckland City Council, and now the manager of the house has been given three weeks to shut the place down.

In April, an application for a brothel licence for a proposed “love motel” on Auckland’s North Shore was rejected after complaints from residents.

In the same month, the opening of a brothel across the road from a school in West Auckland provoked outrage. Waitakere MP Paula Bennett promised to see if anything could be done to remove the premises.

For full story: See: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/local-government/news/article.cfm?c_id=250&objectid=10649296