While Google’s “Don’t be evil” mission statement must surely rank as one of the most hypocritical in corporate history, they have plenty of stiff competition in the Evil Corporation stakes. Facebook, Disney, Twitter: the list seems endless and mostly centred in Silicon Valley. Amazon might well be right
Swati Nagar Auckland University of Technology The COVID border restrictions might be saving lives but they’re also threatening the livelihoods of New Zealand farmers, unless a way can be found to allow Pacific Island seasonal workers to return and pick the crops. Since its inception in 2007, the Recognised
We are all justified in breathing a sigh of relief that the economy seems to have survived the COVID pandemic reasonably well. Not all sectors, of course. International tourism and education have suffered terribly, and the hospitality sector is also still in trouble. Nevertheless, it is no time to be
In nature’s coolest collage experiment, Platypuses are like the result of throwing together the leftovers from a bunch of other animals. They’re the only mammal to lay eggs, they have venom in their feet, they don’t have nipples so they sweat milk to feed their young, and
Alison McIntosh Tracy Harkison Auckland University of Technology Maria Gebbels University of Greenwich Prison food and fine dining aren’t usually mentioned together. But various initiatives around the world are changing that, with restaurants located within jails offering both culinary satisfaction and opportunities for positive social change. Prison catering and
I always tell anyone who asks that the battle for equal opportunity was won in the 1970s. By then, employers had no right to fail to employ anyone on the basis of gender, religion, race or colour. These rules have existed in the Western world for decades; in New Zealand,
One of the most surprising excrescences of modern woke-ism is the emergence of the “woke corporation”. I mean, aren’t corporations the “Masters of War”, run by “Sgt Dow-Jones”? Corporations, in the “progressive” worldview , are the very agents of capitalism, who, according to the celebrity leftists of Team America: World
ACT Party “The Australian Government is going all out to pinch our workers, while our Government won’t lift a finger to support industry,” says ACT’s Primary Industries Spokesperson Mark Cameron. “Kiwis are being promised $2,000 if they complete six weeks’ harvesting in Australia’s regions. Meanwhile, our
Labour’s new approach to international tourism is a shocker. The media loves to call Trump crass, yet they don’t seem to mind when Stuart Nash, Labour’s Minister for Tourism, demonises some international tourists with the extremely crass comment that they “shit in our waterways”. What a fine
Anca C. Yallop Auckland University of Technology Most people these days are aware that what they share online is both valuable and vulnerable. Data privacy has become a major concern for consumers and corporations alike. The issue will come to a head when New Zealand’s Privacy Act 2020 comes
The opening of the UAE market to Israeli agricultural produce comes weeks after the two countries signed the historic Abraham Accords to undertake reciprocal initiatives to establish diplomatic and business links, promote investment and tourism and launch direct flights. The Fresh Market in Dubai’s Ras Al Khor area, opened
Whenever you see a dog or cat on a Vegan diet you know it is not the unfortunate animal that is the vegan but the owner and it looks like Purina is jumping onto the insect protein bandwagon so that virtue signalling owners can talk about how Snuffles is on
Simon Black Bahia Beach, Puerto Rico sovereignman.com In early 1948, a group of US Air Force officers were working on a secret research project in the California desert codenamed MX981. The purpose of MX981 was to test how extreme gravitational forces from fast-moving fighter jets would impact the human
Marcus Roberts mercatornet.com Marcus Roberts was two years out of law school when he decided that practising law was no longer for him. He therefore went back to university and did his LLM while tutoring. He now teaches contract and torts law. Aside from law, his passions include reading
Michael Rectenwald mises.org/wire/google-election Michael Rectenwald was a Professor of Liberal Studies at New York University (retired). [This is the transcript of the eponymous talk presented at the Mises Institute’s Ron Paul Symposium on November 7, 2020, in Angleton, Texas.] “Don’t be evil” may no longer
