Posts Tagged ‘true activist’

McDonald’s Replacing Employees With Robots. They Are Getting Desperate!

Image Credit: Flickr /Consumerist Dot Com | Modified by True Activist McDonalds has been scrambling to slim down their budgets after seeing their profits fall drastically in recent years. One way that they are finding to cut costs is by replacing employees with robots, just as many grocery stores across the world have started doing. In […]

How to Make Organic Sunblock in Your Kitchen

In this episode we teach you how to make your own high spf, water proof sunblock from organic and natural ingredients for pennies on the dollar compared to buying it off the shelf. Ingredients include- zinc oxide (sunblocking agent), coconut oil (soothes and conditions skin), bee’s wax (waterproofing agent), and tea tree oil (soothes and repairs […]

Oregon criminalizes permaculture; claims state ownership over all rainwater

There’s nothing more refreshing than standing in a cool, summertime rain shower. Or bathing in the warm sunlight on a crisp spring day. Or inhaling the cool autumn air, fresh with the scent of turning leaves and pine needles. These things — rainwater, sunlight, air — have long been assumed to be not only free, […]

Coca-Cola to be booted out of Bolivia

Coca-Cola, one of the planet’s giant corporations, is to be unceremoniously booted out of Bolivia. The announcement was made by Bolivian Minister of External Affairs, David Choquehuanca, who stated that the date chosen, December 21, coincides with the end of the cycle in the Mayan Calendar, the end of capitalism and the start of a culture […]

Oregon criminalizes permaculture; claims state ownership over all rainwater – ponds and swales restricted – jail time for violators

There’s nothing more refreshing than standing in a cool, summertime rain shower. Or bathing in the warm sunlight on a crisp spring day. Or inhaling the cool autumn air, fresh with the scent of turning leaves and pine needles. These things — rainwater, sunlight, air — have long been assumed to be not only free, […]

Decentralized currencies thriving in Greece during Euro crisis

JG VibesActivist Post Since the market crashes and bailouts that took place in 2008 it has been no secret that the world economy is on shaky ground. For years, those of us who were concerned about the future have been wondering and speculating as to what mediums of exchange would replace the sinking debt based […]

Vitamin D revealed to be miracle anti-cancer ‘drug’

(NaturalNews) A new study published this month finds that the hormonally active form of vitamin D, Calcitriol 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3), inhibits the growth of many kinds of cancerous cells, including breast cancer, indicating that vitamin D3 can be useful in treating and even preventing a variety of cancers. Authors of the study said that caner cell […]

39 Facts About Poverty That Will Blow Your Mind

Every single day more Americans fall into poverty. This should deeply alarm you no matter what political party you belong to and no matter what your personal economic philosophy is. Right now, approximately 100 million Americans are either “poor” or “near poor”. For a lot of people “poverty” can be a nebulous concept, so let’s define […]

A Crash Course on the Internet Piracy Debate: Infographic

Lawmakers continue to push for strict Internet control legislation at the behest of establishment mega-media. Congressmen such as Lamar Smith have even gone as far as to propose government IP Czars to supplant the wave of private copyright trolls filing frivolous lawsuits. Despite the government’s history of failed attempts to control the Internet, the legal […]

House passes Ron Paul’s ‘Audit the Fed’ bill

A bill introduced by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) to audit America’s central bank, the Federal Reserve, passed the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly Wednesday afternoon by a 327-98 vote. Paul’s ongoing efforts to call for increased transparency in the Federal Reserve have become a hallmark of his tenure in Congress and of his current campaign […]

Authorities Seek to Destroy Couple’s Edible Landscape

Will international activism save this couple’s garden from a town code? Heather Callaghan Activist Post People are hungry, economies everywhere are tanking. The answer to that problem used to be “do what you can on your own.” In America, it was the now iconic Victory Gardens. In Montreal, Canada there is a move to defeat […]

Monsanto and Recruiter Sued Over U.S. Worker Exploitation Scam

Joe WrightActivist Post Seven Texas farm workers are alleging a range of crimes committed by biotech giant Monsanto.  Courthouse News Service is reporting that lead plaintiff Jose Cardenas has filed a lawsuit against Monsanto recruiter Milo Inc. and Milo Inc.’s president, as well as Monsanto itself.  Cardenas is one of seven field workers who are attempting […]

Cybersecurity ‘Compromise’ Distracts From Destruction of Internet Freedoms

Susanne Posel, ContributorActivist Post Last week, “compromise legislation” was brought before the US Senate that will enable federal agencies to assess cyber threats while giving them “permission” to exchange information with corporations “under certain conditions” under the justification of better protecting corporations from cyber-attacks. Although the threat has not manifested as of yet, President Obama stated that: . […]

Coconut Oil Preventing and Reversing Alzheimers

Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia are on the rise, with over 5 million people suffering from the disease in the U.S. It is costing the country $148 billion annually—and pharmaceutical companies wouldn’t have it any other way, as their profit margins continue to increase. While we tend not to worry about diseases that […]

U.S. Writing New Syrian Constitution

Tony Cartalucci, ContributorActivist Post The US State Department, via the “US Institute of Peace” is working directly with Syrian “opposition” groups to formulate a “government” to put into place, if and when NATO covert military operations succeed in collapsing the Syrian state. The report written by Foreign Policy magazine titled, “Inside the quiet effort to plan […]

Pots, Pans and Other Solutions

In Iceland, the first European country to wake up to an economic crash, people became aware that they could and should intervene in society and started demanding more democratic participation. The payment of bank debts by citizens went to referendum. The government was forced to create a Council to write a new constitution: a citizens’ […]

New Cybersecurity Proposal: Privacy Vulnerabilities

Rainey Reitman and Lee TienEFF For months, we’ve been raising the alarm about the serious civil liberties implications of the cybersecurity bills making their way through the Senate. Hours ago, we received some good news. A new bill called the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 (S 3414) is replacing the prior Lieberman-Collins Cybersecurity Act (S 2150). This new […]

Banned in the UK! BBC fights for right to air riot docudrama

The BBC is considering making an appeal against a court order which stopped it from broadcasting a dramatized film on last year’s riots in London. The film, which features actors portraying anonymous rioters sharing their experience of the events, was due to be broadcast on Monday evening, but was banned by a court order hours […]

An Abundant World

Do you remember the movie Spaceballs? There is a scene in which President Skroob, played by Mel Brooks, reaches into his desk drawer to open a can of clean “Perri-air” after assuring a news agency that “there is absolutely no air shortage whatsoever.” While it may seem ludicrous that there would ever be a scarcity of clean […]

Nationwide austerity protests hit Spain

REUTERS / Sergio Perez Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards have taken to the streets across the country to protest the latest batch of austerity measures. Public employees, trade union members and fed-up citizens marched in over 80 Spanish cities on Thursday. Demonstrators carried flags and banners decorated with scissors, symbolizing the country’s harsh spending cuts. […]

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