Issue 14 Feature articles Satire explained Satire Some of you may have seen the cover from the high-brow liberal US magazine The New Yorker which depicts Barack Obama and his wife dressed as terrorists fist-bumping in the Oval Office, burning the American flag, with a portrait of Osama looking over them.  The cover is satirising the US right-wing's attempts to paint the Obamas in this negative light and it was not the New Yorker's intention to propagate the myths, just make fun of them. However, due to people being unabl... Read More >> Middle Earth report Evil vs. Good: Middle-Earth hits an unknowing Auckland flat In all my years of travelling and flatting, I thought I had seen a fair share of the dramas that come with having to share a living space with people you probably haven't met before. I've experienced the creepy guy with no social skills, the chronic note-writer, the compulsive cleaner, those that never cleaned at all, the never-ending partier, the sly food-pincher, and the all-time classic, the vocal nymphomaniac. From all of this I thought I had come out the other side with a vast... Read More >> Multinationals ARE Multinationals REALLY GOOD For Us OR ARE THEY TARNISHING THE WORLD with the phenomenon globalisation? Multinationals are massive corporate companies that make money by spanning the globe. Their method is to utilise the most efficient way to mass-produce the commodity they market, as the labour and resources they use are provided by the developing world. Professor of Business Ethics at Harvard Business School Joe Badaracco explained it in the documentary ‘The Corporation' as, "a group of individuals worki... Read More >> News this week Harvard Invites AUT Business Student AUT's Business School is on the way to being a premiere global business school. This is evident through an email that was sent to one business student, Michael Teoh, last May. The email came in the form of an invitation by Harvard University for Michael to attend the biggest Harvard Business Conference outside of America, to be held at Malaysia this year. Michael is majoring in Marketing and International Business. "It is a small step for me, but a quantum leap for AUT students t... Read More >> What's on in Politics Winston is facing some tough questions over the people that have been giving him cash. Allegedly, Owen Glen, some rich guy, gave NZ First a $100,000 "gift" which was not declared to the registrar of pecuniary interests and the Prime Minister. Apparently when Winston held up that big "no" card, he didn't actually know as his lawyer had not informed him of the donation a few days later. Why your lawyer wouldn't tell you that I don't know. Rodney Hide has made a compla... Read More >>