Legislation

Atos to access NHS data

Atos to access NHS data

Atos will soon be given the powers to directly access the records of millions of patients across the UK, it has been revealed. The controversial firm has attracted widespread criticism after assessing millions of terminally ill and disabled patients across the UK as fit to work. Some of those patients died shortly after the Atos medical assessment. While that does[Read More…]

Australian govt forces owners of tattoo parlours to be fingerprinted

Australian govt forces owners of tattoo parlours to be fingerprinted

Last week,the Akashic Times revealed that both New South Wales and Queensland had proposed legislation to force individuals to register their tattoos with the state government. We were inundated with angry emails from nameless individuals claiming that the story was nonsense. In an ironic way they are right. The law is not as bad as we stated – it’s actually[Read More…]

Prince Charles accused of bullying village after invoking ancient law to mine under their homes

Prince Charles accused of bullying village after invoking ancient law to mine under their homes

Prince Charles has been accused of bullyboy tactics after invoking an ancient law to acquire the rights to mine underneath the homes of residents in a Cornish village. Residents of Stoke Climsland village spoke out after each of them received a letter from the Prince of Wales’s Duchy of Cornwall estate to mine underneath their houses. He is even trying[Read More…]

Maha Rahim was denied custody of her son based purely on the country she is from

US judge denies custody to Puerto Rican mother after claiming the island is too dangerous

A Puerto Rican mother has spoken of her anguish after losing a custody battle, purely because of where she comes from. Maha Abdel Rahim, a former university professor was arrested in December after refusing to return her toddler to her ex-husband in mainland US under a court-ordered agreement. Puerto Rican police were acting on a court order issued by authorities[Read More…]

Obama has admitted to smoking marijuana in his younger days

Obama admits ‘marijuana less harmful than alcohol’

Marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol, according to the President of the United States. This is a fact that many have known for sometime, but one which the authorities, are still to a large extent, willfully ignorant of. Speaking in an interview with the New Yorker editor David Remnick, Mr Obama said that while he does not encourage marijuana[Read More…]