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Steve Crow – NZ pornographer claims porn is not harming society – “It’s a fantasy, that’s all it is”.

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Dr Michael Flood, a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Wollongong, is challenging the porn industry to move away from what he says are increasingly aggressive depictions of sex. He said porn was shaping social attitudes among young men, encouraging them to view women as sexual objects.

New Zealand pornographer Steve Crow said he agreed that pornography was becoming more extreme.

“But the market is demanding more and more extreme stuff. You can put the softer stuff out there, but people don’t buy it.”

Stephen (Steve) Peter Crow, a banned company director, argues that pornography was not harming society. “It’s a fantasy, that’s all it is.” [Read more…]

“The Truth gig is over …[it] was too far gone, a legacy of the mayhem caused by David and Steve Crow” says Editor

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The Truth Newspaper to stop publishing. On a day that saw Mediaworks call in receivers, it emerged that tabloid newspaper The Truth will cease publishing after more than 125 years.

Staff at the national weekly [described recently by Winston Peters as a “scurrilous” mag ” chocker with sex adds” promoting “people trafficking”] have been told it will not publish a print edition on Thursday, and may never publish one again.

Truth, which first published 1887, was thought to have lost a major advertiser last week, prompting its owners to pull the plug.

Truth Weekender general manager Russell Beaumont told Fairfax Media “the owners and shareholders have said we should pause for a cup of tea”.

“We’re having a break, we’re not in receivership, we’re just pausing.”

All creditors and contributors would be paid, he said.

Editor Cameron Slater [photo below] had done an outstanding job since taking over last year, but attracting advertisers had proved difficult, Beaumont said.

Photo credit: http://tumeke.blogspot.co.nz/2013/01/cameron-slater-1-labour-party-0.html

Cameron Slater

Cameron Slater Stuff News 17/06/13

Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/8806303/The-Truth-newspaper-to-stop-publishing

Slater, who also operates the controversial Right-wing blog, Whale Oil, would not confirm the closure when contacted,

referring all media  media inquiries to Dermott Malley who co-owns the paper.

Dermott Malley

Photo of Dermott Malley. Source: http://nz.linkedin.com/pub/dermott-malley/a/a32/b21

Malley said only “You want the truth from Truth? You’ll get the truth”, before ending the call.

Slater eventually wrote on his blog [www.whaleoil.co.nz] that the “gig is over” – blaming the tabloid’s demise on those that went before him.

“Some time in the future I will tell my story of  the wild ride the last six months have been…in the meantime I want to thank the editorial and production staff I worked with, you were great.

“Bottom line is that Truth was too far gone, a legacy of the mayhem caused by David and Steve Crow. Again I will leave that story for later.”

                                                                                      

 Stephen (Steve) Peter Crow  #                                             David Bruce Crow top right. Steve Crow below ## 

# Photo: 3 News.co.nz April 27, 2011.

“Porn King looses legal battle”                                                                      ##     Photo: Stuff News

The newspaper’s other owner, Matthew Horton, was not available for comment as he was on a flight from Australia.

Slater, who made a name for himself baiting Left-wing pundits on his controversial blog, was brought on as editor in October last year.

At the time he promised to reshape the “tired old business model” that had led the newspaper industry into deep decline, and planned to ditch the paper’s seedier advertising format in favour of main street advertisers

Source:

The Truth Newspaper to stop publishing

Story by Jason Krupp and Kevin Norquay. 17 June 2013. Fairfax NZ News

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/8806303/The-Truth-newspaper-to-stop-publishing

Cameron Slater’s Blog “New Zealand’s #1 Blog”

http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2013/06/yup-its-true-the-truth-gig-is-over/#more-99311

For Background see:

https://www.spcs.org.nz/2010/liquidation-of-truth-publications-ltd-conflict-of-interests-phoenix-companies/

https://www.spcs.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/Diagrams/Truth-Publications-Ltd-Diagram.pdf (dated 8/07/2010)

https://www.spcs.org.nz/2010/truth-publications-ltd-in-liq-outstanding-filing-obligations-re-insolvency/

https://www.spcs.org.nz/2010/what-is-left-for-creditors-of-truth-publications-ltd-in-liq/

https://www.spcs.org.nz/2010/truth-publication-in-liq-owes-622000-outstanding-filing-obligations/

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Truth rejuvenation became too hard – Horton.  By Georgina Bond

Republished as:

NBR gets the good oil on Truth

http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2013/06/nbr-gets-the-good-oil-on-truth/

Quote:

Mr Horton, who owns a 50% stake in Truth, says the newspaper had continued to lose ground with advertisers and readers over the last few years.

“It had taken a very seedy turn over the last five years and I think that probably cost the paper a lot of sales…..

Management changes earlier this year, when original owners handed over the reins to the Crow brothers David and Steve, had been disruptive.

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Background: From Liquidator’s First Report. Filed with on Companies Office website on 09/07/13

In 2011 Multimedia Solutions Limited purchased adultspace.co.nz and arranged for Truth Weekender Limited to manage this site.

At the end of May 2012 Pravda Limited, owned by David Bruce Crow, purchased 50% of the shareholding in Truth Weekender Limited and he became the sole director.

In March 2013 David Crow resigned as a director and his shares were transferred to Onyx Capital Limited. Dermott Malley was then appointed director.

A major advertiser withdrew their support in June 2013 and Dermott Malley made the decision to cease to trade

Steve Crow Stripped of Erotica Expo Venue

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PORN KING STEVE CROW told to look elswhere for Erotica Expo site – [marketing hardcore pornography] – Manukau Courier

First Steve Crow had to can his Rugby World Cup Boobs on Bikes Parade because no one wanted it, now the porn king is being stripped of the venue for his Erotica Lifestyles Expo.

After 12 years, Auckland’s ASB Showground will no longer play host the adult entertainment expo after a contract between the two parties ended.

“Their contract expired and we’re not renewing it. The show had seen better days and had dropped off in popularity,” ASB Showground’s chief executive Mark Frankham said.

Speaking at the Auckland Council’s culture arts and events forum on Tuesday, Auckland Agricultural, Pastoral and Industrial Shows Board chairman Dave Scott said the board, which owns the showground, had been trying for a long time to show Crow the door.

“It’s taken us several years to move him out legally and we’ve forgone a bit of income to do that,” he said. [Read more…]

John M Carr Profile, charity, 50 cal guns, tax, alpacas and porn IP connections

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John M Carr CPA, a Private Customer – TW20f0F6YsujM – of Tel West Network Services, Austin, Texas, USA, is responsible for a number of hardcore porn companies and their websites linked to Server I.P. 198.211.217.131 These include the website hotkiwis.com and its New Zealand partner businesses “Girl4u”, “Girls4u”, “NZXonline”, “EroticaExpo” and “Vixen” administered by his business partner New Zealand hardcore pornographer Stephen (Steve) Peter Crow.

John Malcolm Carr CPA

John M Carr CPA of CarrConsultingPA

 

Colour photos of John Malcolm Carr CPA of San Antonio, Texas can be found here:

Photo 1: http://www.carr.co.nz/images/jmc.jpg

Photo 2: http://www.bankler.com/AboutUs/JohnMCarr/tabid/130/Default.aspx

Photo 3: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnmalcolmcarr

This US citizen, who is sole director of two NZ registered hardcore porn companies – CVC Group Ltd and Eden Digital Ltd [Update: the latter in liquidation as of 22/11/11], as well as many other NZ companies, can be traced on the internet under Server Address  Telwest  Private Customer – TW20f0F6YsujM Texas Austin United States 30.2958, -97.8101 . The Server I.P. is 198.211.217.131 has a DNS server address: 127.0.0.1#53 Web ServerMicrosoft-IIS/6  Encodingiso-8859-1

See: US-based critic of economy [John M Carr CPA] has lots more to say

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=154653

Linked to the IP address 198.211.217.131 is the domain name johnmcarr.com which curiously contains his ‘Curriculum Vitae’ – with its most recent entry dated 1 April 2006 recording his purchase of Brass Magazine NZ Ltd. However, over the five years since that date, his – no doubt prolific – business activities etc remain unnaccounted for! [The IP address for johnmcarr.com has now moved to 184.172.4.10 as at 22 April 2012]

The companies schematic diagram below, updated on 25 June 2010,  is based on one taken from the Society’s December 2009 Newsletter (latest high definition version is available here n PDF format).

John M Carr Porn Company Connections

Source: https://www.spcs.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/newsletters/SPCSNewsletterDec2009.pdf

Mr John M Carr’s personal website “Profile” claims: “He has a 200 acre farm in rural New Zealand, running to the ocean and 11 miles of white sand beaches [sic] and is being developed as an agri-forestry venture.”  However, the Overseas Investment Office has been unable to trace any evidence for such an acquisition by him or the companies he directs or has directed.

Mr John M Carr’s  tax/book-keeping consultancy domain names: bbs.co.nz and bbstax.com were until recently, also located at IP 198.211.217.131 Now they have moved to IP address 184.172.4.10 as at 22 April 2012.

Of interest to the Society are the number of domain names including Adult industry appellations such as: “NZXgirls.com”, “downunderescorts.com”, “hotkiwis.com” and “allaboutporn.com” that are also found at this same IP address 198.211.217.131 – domain names that are still owned by Mr John M Carr/Better Business Services, Inc. (John M Carr is principal and owner of BBS Inc). His on-line gun toting business – www.50calguns.com – owned by Carr Business Services, Inc is also located at this same IP address:

See. http://web.archive.org/web/20110129060526/http://50calguns.com/

29 January 2011

The domain name “pacificalpacas.com” is also registered with Godaddy.com by John Carr’s Better Business Services and is found at at IP 198.211.217.131 as well as an apparently  defunct charity bbscharities.org which provides tax free status to all charitable contributions from US donors (bbscharities.org has Domain ID: D107134495-LROR and Admin ID: CR36314243).

See: http://web.archive.org/web/20110625062642/http://bbscharities.org/

25 June 2011

[Update: The domain  name pacificalpacas.com has now moved to IP address 184.172.4.10 as at 22/04/12, along with Mr Carr’s domain names bbs.co.nz bbstax.com and trampersfriend.co.nz. The latter is owned by his company PJ Digital Ltd].

A defunct US charity,  a 50 cal guns website, an alpaca fibre ‘export’ website and porn stars/escorts downunder websites may seem very strange and bizarre bed-fellows, but such is the broad vision of  this US-based investor. He has managed somehow to remain well under the radar while his hardcore porn business side-kick – now a banned company director – parades the ‘industry’ to the NZ public via “Boobs on Bikes” : pursuing personal titillation and profit (an advertised star of the forthcoming Boobs on Bikes/Erotica Lifestyles Expo is an import from John M Carr’s home city of San Antonio,  Texas). [Read more…]

NZXescorts, banned company director and Truth Weekender Ltd

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On 5 June 2011 the NZ Herald reported that banned company director Steve Crow – convicted and sentenced in the Auckland District Court on 24 May 2011 for breaching his four year banning order –  is now promoting a new web-based business: an escort agency (prostitution) – NZXescorts (Crow was sentenced and fined $5,000 plus court costs. He changed his plea to “guilty” after initially pleading “not guilty”).

However, the NZ Herald report did not note the fact that the NZXescorts website domain name, first registered on  21 March 2011, was listed by Crow’s close business associate and company director Dermott Malley, as being owned by a defunct company – Truth Publications Ltd  – a company which was struck off the Register of companies one month earlier – on 25 February 2011.  It was actually put into liquidation on 21 October 2009 and the auditor’s report showed it owed over $600,000 to creditors.  The registrant’s email was incorrectly recorded as dermott@truth.co.nz – (A defunct email – no longer valid – which Crow’s associate Dermott Malley used while he was a director of the now failed company).

The Domain Name Commission (DNC) was alerted to these errors by an alert NZ Herald reader who copied his correspondence to to the Registrar of Companies, whose decision last year had led to Mr Crow being banned as a director for four years – effective from 16 April 2010 .

Following notification of the errors, the DNC contacted Mr Dermott Malley and subsequently the registrant’s identity for NZXescorts was changed on 16 June 2011 to “Truth Weekender Limited”. In addition the registrant’s contact email was upgraded/corrected to dermott@truthweekender.co.nz (Dermott Malley, along with John Andrew Pin, is currently one of the two directors of Truth Weekender Limited.).

The association between “Porn King” Steve Crow and Truth Weekender Ltd, which owns the domain name of the NZXescorts business, is abundantly clear.

The NZ Herald article points out that Mr Crow intends to use his forthcoming “Boobs on Bikes” Auckland event to promote the new on-line escort business. [This will assist Mr Malley and his co-director John Andrew Pin, to promote their NZXescorts agency that is supported through The Truth Weekender].

The NZXescorts website states that the business is “part owned by Truth Weekend Limited, Skin Magazine, NZX Magazine, Erotica Lifestyles Expo and Vixen Direct”.  The latter three hardcore porn businesses are closely asociated with banned company director Mr Steve Crow while the first two Adult ‘entertainment’ businesses are closely linked to Mr Dermott Malley.

The NZXescorts website states: “… the opportunity [for prostitutes] to advertise not just here but also in New Zealand’s only dedicated weekly adult entertainment guide Truth Weekender/Skin Magazine”.

The close business associations between banned director Steve Crow and Dermott Malley in the porn industry/escort agency industry is very transparent on the public record.

The sex industry “skinescorts” agency website is owned by Multimedia Solutions Limited – a company directed by Dermott Malley, Matthew Horton and John Andrew Pin (All three were directors of the now defunct company  Truth Publications Limited). Skin Magazine is part of Truth Weekender.

For details on Multimedia Solutions Ltd and company links see:

https://www.spcs.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/Diagrams/Truth-Publications-Ltd-Diagram.pdf