Swedish parents are allowed to smack their children, as long as they do not hit them too hard, a court in southern Sweden has ruled.
Ystad District Court was ruling in the case of a couple accused of assaulting their daughter. The pair were accused after the girl, 5, told a nurse at a medical check-up that she had been hit.
In subsequent interviews the girl told police: “When daddy came home from work and was very cross, he hit me on the bottom and it hurt. “Mummy also hit me on …

Two more companies have responded to the concerns of Family First NZ and other concerned family groups and parents by withdrawing any future advertising from TV3’s offensive and pornographic Californication series.
“Both Subway and Castrol have withdrawn their advertising following another highly offensive episode of Californication last night,” says Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ. “This follows on from the six other companies and a government department withdrawing their advertising following the first episode. They were Burger King, CRC, Finish Dishwashing Liquid, Cadbury, Flight Centre, Ferrit and the …

Letter from a Christian Citizen — $5 for DVD and book
Includes FREE DVD: Imagine (there’s no God).
https://store.creationontheweb.com…….
Atheists are becoming more combative, attacking the Christian faith like never before. When one such militant, Sam Harris, wrote his book Letter to a Christian Nation, it became a run away best-seller. Wilson’s response demolishes Sam Harris’s fallacies, in the process becoming one of the most concise, logical and best Christian defences ever written. One Amazon.com reviewer said that it ‘should be a staple of any apologetics program and is great for Christians …

Press Release from the Society for the Promotion of Community Standards
http://www.spcs.org.nz/2007/chief-censor…
The latest Annual Report of the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) tabled in Parliament yesterday, raises serious issues about its use of tax-payer funds ($3,458,777 held at 30 June 2007) and its lack of disclosure regarding its classification processes, particularly in relation to its clearance of well over 1,000 degrading and gratuitous hard-core pornographic DVD and video publications for “adult entertainment” (R18). Chief Censor Bill Hastings, his deputy, Ms Nicola McCully, and their team of over about 17 …

Microsoft are finally competing with the Apple trinity — that is, Apple iPod, Apple iTunes (client software for your PC or Mac) and Apple Music Store. So, how are Microsoft competing?
Well, they are copying Apple’s ‘trinity’ model of course.
First they have their Zune MP3 players. You can see them here. (Wikipedia has a page on them here.) Very iPod-like if appearances are anything to go by. A friend has a first-generation Zune and I was very surprised how good the device was, after all the negative comments I had …

New report published in UK insurance industry magazine warns of abortion/breast cancer link – why are New Zealand women still not being fully informed?
The November edition of the UK insurance industry magazine, The Actuary, has published a forecasting report* on breast cancer which shows that abortion has a carcinogenic effect which leaves women more susceptible to contracting breast cancer.

Press Release: New Zealand National Party
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0711/S00243.htm
Paula Bennett MP, National Party Associate Education Spokeswoman (Early Childhood)
It’s time for Chris Carter to give an unequivocal assurance that Sunday schools and gym crèches are going to be safe from the meddling of his Ministry, says National’s Associate Education (Early Childhood) spokeswoman, Paula Bennett.
“His officials have already wrecked the exercise regimes of hundreds of parents by closing the crèches in 10 gyms because they didn’t comply with stringent licensing regulations.
“Chris Carter has admitted that Sunday schools breach the Education Act as …

1 October 2007 a Degar House Church Christian Preacher man named Siu Blok died from torture by Vietnamese authorities. He was videotaped giving an illegal prayer blessing and reported to police by another religious group who are sanctioned by the government. It is Vietnam’s plan to “divide and conquer” the independent house Churches. He was buried on 4 October 2007.
Pray for Siu Blok’s family and church. Pray for various ethnic minorities in Vietnam that they would stand strong in the most precious faith in Christ.
Source: here.

For a number of years the Society has been calling on all New Zealand ISPs (Internet Service Providers) to block ALL overseas based websites that host child pornography AND hard core pornography (NZ-based websites containing “objectionable content” including child porn are illegal under NZ censorship laws). Gay rights activists, paedophiles, homosexuals wanting to ‘hook up’ with underage school boys or view ‘bare-backing’ films, those addicted to hardcore pornography and all those who make a living from marketing such moral filth, have rubbished the Society’s call for the implementation of such …

…I do not believe that there will be a Muslim Martin Luther reforming Islam. In truth, bin Laden, the Iranian Ayatollahs and the Saudi Wahabbis are the ‘reformers’ who are bringing Islam back to its original “pure” state. I suspect that anyone wishing to democratize and modernize Islam will have to re-write the Koran, leaving out 26 (of the 114) Chapters, or suras, dealing with holy war, fighting Islam’s enemies, chopping their heads off, and etc. Of course then it would no longer be Islam — perhaps a “Reformed Islam”, …

From Kiwiblog (http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2007/11/dia_to_list…):
DIA to list child porn sites for voluntary blocking
The DIA has announced it will make available to ISPs a list of websites hosting child porn, allowing ISPs to black access to them.

Christian News NZ calls on all ISPs in this country to immediately action this black list and block all child pornography from entering NZ.
We would like the list to go further however, to block all pornography from entering NZ.
Pornography aids in the destruction of the family unit, and irresponsible ISPs are giving a helping hand …

Flight Centre have announced that they are withdrawing any future advertising from TV3’s offensive and pornographic Californication series.
They join five other companies, Burger King, CRC, Finish Dishwashing Liquid, Cadbury and Ferrit.
The message is clear to TV3. Ditch the programme.
More at www.familyfirst.org.nz

The evidence emerging from the ongoing Al Dura trial in France indicates that Western journalists are fully aware that some of the footage they use in their reports on the Mideast conflict is staged, charges Richard Landes. When confronted with the pervasive evidence of staging in the case of Al Dura, the reaction of France 2, which ran the story, has been essentially that “everybody does it.”
http://pajamasmedia.com/2007/11/mideast_journalisms_public_sec.php
UPDATE: Watch the video

Sunday Schools could well be in the firing line under Labour’s new review next year.
National Party Associate Education spokeswoman Paula Bennett says Chris Carter is dissembling.
“Only a couple of days into the job and he is trying to back away from Labour’s unpopular policy to close Sunday schools and other child minding services, like crèches at gyms.
“If the brand new Education Minister has changed Labour’s policy on regulating all child minding services, he should make that position clear. According to official answers, Sunday Schools are in the gun.”

Ful story …

Press Release
Friday’s Manawatu Standard had two front-page examples of the long-established and growing industry of institutionalised child abuse.
First, a local school was so consumed by its commitment to administrative rules that a student was banned from attending and from “getting an education”. And second, the Ministry of Education looks the other way while a college principal sexually abuses students.
This is on top of the other two most recent nation-wide indications of this Ministry targeting children for destruction: releasing a dumbed-down School Curriculum and appointing a sodomite …

Two companies have responded to the concerns of Family First NZ and other family groups by withdrawing any future advertising from TV3’s offensive and pornographic Californication series.
“Cadbury and Ferrit who advertised during the initial episode have both indicated that they have instructed their advertising agencies to ensure they do not advertise during this programme again,” says Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ. “In their letter to families who contacted them, Cadbury said ‘we were unaware of the explicit nature of the program, which we do not …

Saturday 17 November, Queen Street, Auckland. 10.30am.
9 November 2007
I am pleased to announce that I have today lodged an application with the Auckland City Council to lead a protest march down Queen Street, Auckland.
The council have confirmed it is my democratic right to do so, and the march will leave from Aotea Square at 10.30am and proceeding to Britomart Place.
I and others will be protesting about the combined effect of the Electoral Finance Bill and the recently introduced Appropriation (Continuation of Interim Meaning of …

www.familyfirst.org.nz
MEDIA RELEASE
9 November 2007
Family First is shocked and disgusted with the actions of the Ministry of Education who knew about allegations of sexual abuse at Hato Paora College but did not instruct the school to contact police.

“It is quite incredible that schools will rush to CYF to report a hand-smack yet are willing to hide a far more serious case of sexual abuse,” says Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ.
“Both the Ministry and the Board of Trustees failed to contact the …

Ok, here is the boycott list from Family First. My family doesn’t use all of these, but we will remember for a long time the names of these companies. So, for us this means: no more Burger King, no more Cadbury Chocolate, no more Finish Dishwashing Liquid, not sure what the alternatives to CRC are, move off Vodafone when possible and don’t use the Flight Centre.
Companies who advertised during the programme (and their contacts) :
Businessmentor.org.nz 0800 103 400 Email: bmnz@bitc.co.nz
Ferrit.co.nz 0800 FERRIT (337748)
Genesis Energy 0800 300 400 …

Seumus Milne’s op-ed blames Israel and apologizes for Hamas.
HonestReporting has previously debunked the misleading charge that Gaza is ‘under siege’. Yet, The Guardian’s Seumus Milne headlines his op-ed “The siege of Gaza is going to lead to a violent escalation”. Milne does not take long to reveal where his sympathies lie, referring to “rockets fired by Palestinian resistance groups”. Since when is the firing of Qassams from Gaza schoolyards (see video here) against civilian targets in Sderot and the surrounding region an act of resistance and not terrorism?
http://www.honestreporting.com…