Archive for April, 2014

Millions of Brits forced to survive on food donations

Millions of Brits forced to survive on food donations

Nearly a million people have been forced to survive on donations from food banks, according to a new report. A worrying 913,138 people sought emergency food supplies in the last year, due to poverty. The report highlights the plight of the working poor – those people who are in full-time employment, but are unable to afford the essentials such as[Read More…]

Wheat on the verge of destruction by a fungal disease

Wheat on the verge of destruction by a fungal disease

It has recently been reported by experts that a fungal disease is threatening to destroy wheat. Researchers in both Europe and Africa have been frantically racing to develop a resistant grain variety to try and halt the likely spread of the air borne spread of the fungus across continents. Scientists have warned, “Wheat is facing a serious threat from a[Read More…]

Who is helping the UK’s working poor?

Who is helping the UK’s working poor?

There is nothing shameful about getting help from people when it is really needed. But when a family needs to rely on handouts to eat, then it becomes another contentious issue of concern. Recently at the Akashic Times, we covered the Trussell Trust’s report on how more than 900,000 people were given emergency food, and this coincides with those seeking[Read More…]

Raimundo Arruda Sobrinho pictured with Shalla Monteiro, who helped him to transform his life

‘Damned is the man who abandons himself’. A story of hope

The conditioned is in many ways a timeless story. It is a story about how love, but most of all hope, can help to overcome the most dire of conditions. Raimundo Arruda Sobrinho is a poet and a philosopher, but until very recently, very few people knew who he was and most people simply looked the other way. You see,[Read More…]

Michael Ruppert

9/11 investigator reportedly “commits suicide”

Recently it has been reported that an investigative journalist who spoke out against the official version of 9/11 has committed suicide. This was the cause of death given by the authorities. Michael Ruppert, a 63 year-old former narcotics investigator with the LAPD gained widespread controversy and undoubtedly ruffled a few feathers when he stated that that the CIA and American[Read More…]