The Acorn – 82

Posted on April 11, 2023March 14, 2024 by winter oak

Number 82

In this issue:

Targeting the enemy
Growing revolt against smart tyranny
Who are the real “extremists”?
Mikhail Bakunin: an organic radical inspiration
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1. Targeting the enemy

The invasion of BlackRock HQ in Paris on April 6 by a crowd of angry protesters and strikers revealed to the world that something very important is happening in France.

From a long distance, it may look like just another trade-union-led fightback against an increase in the retirement age.

From a closer distance, it might be evident that more general grievances against the Macron regime have temporarily amplified that union-led struggle.

But, in reality, it goes a lot deeper than that.

The revolt is a continuation, in fact, of the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) uprising, which began in November 2018 and only came to an end with the Covid clamp-down.

Many Gilets Jaunes, unlike the top-down sold-out left, were involved in the massive wave of protest against vaccine passports that swept across the country in 2021.

Although the GJ uprising could itself be seen as the continuation of previous struggles, such as those against the Loi Travail or in support of the ZAD at Notre-Dame des Landes, it represented a significant shift, which alarmed the authorities.

The movement was essentially uncontrollable, accepting no leadership or centralised structure, and also broke through the usual left-right divide, being a generalised revolt against the system.

The response of the Macron regime to the revolt only deepened the split between government and people.

The contempt, smears and brutal police violence unleashed against the GJs by the ruling clique, together with a refusal to take their demands seriously, shocked a large part of the French public.

This didn’t look like the kind of modern “Western” government that we are all used to, which likes to pretend to represent the people and to respond to their concerns.

Instead, Macron came across as a nasty tin-pot dictator, throwing his weight around with arrogant impunity.

Exactly the same thing has been happening in 2023. The government ignored weeks of massive and peaceful protesting, forced the law through parliament without a vote and then started banning demonstrations and mutilating protesters with military-style repression.

This looks less like a “liberal democracy” than a colonial government of occupation, determined to “put down the natives” at any cost.

And this, of course, is exactly what it is!

France is not run by representatives of the French people, but by representatives of the global money power, the criminal gang which owns pretty much everything, everywhere.

This power has decided to ditch the pretence of democracy so as to accelerate its control, under the pretext of various “emergencies”, whether Covid or climate.

Having bought up the mainstream media, it was confident that the overall picture could never be seen by the ordinary men and women it so despises.

But it is being seen.

All across the world, people are grasping that their local political chiefs are pawns of the WEF.

They know, as well, that the WEF is just one part of a global institutional network including the likes of the UN, the WHO, and Commonwealth.

They are fast finding out that these bodies are entwined with financial organisations such as the IMF, the World Bank and the Bank for International Settlements.

These entities, like pretty much every single multi-national corporation, are controlled by the financial nexus built around BlackRock and Vanguard.

This is the entity that rules France, as it rules almost every other country.

It has managed to grab this chilling and unprecedented degree of global power by stealth, by hiding its existence behind front after front after front.

But now, in its impatience, it has made itself visible to the extent that striking rail workers in Paris know exactly where to find it.

The game has changed. The emperor is known to be naked and the people are turning on him in disgust and in anger.

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2. Growing revolt against smart tyranny

Rebellion is also in the air in the UK, a country in which the social movement against neoliberalism was pretty much destroyed during the Thatcherite 1980s.

Here, instead, people are reacting to the severe loss of freedom darkening the horizon of the near future.

Lockdown authoritarianism tipped people off to the system’s sinister technocratic agenda, with the result that they are resisting the thin end of the totalitarian fake-green “smart city” wedge.

The Daily Mail describes “a growing revolt” across the UK against 15-minute cities and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, with “fuming locals” setting fire to the planters being used to close roads.

Some 300 local schemes are being set up and the newspaper reports popular resistance in Rochdale, Oxford, Hereford, Brighton, Bath, St Andrews, Jesmond, Warrington, Southsea and Leith.

It says the government is “under pressure” to scrap what is in fact the preliminary stage of 5G-based Fourth Industrial Revolution geofencing.

People are speaking out all over the place, from Thetford to Glastonbury, and momentum is building for what now is clearly the priority focus for pro-freedom campaigners.

Concern is being increased by the co-ordinated way in which various strands of the same authoritarian agenda are being ushered in at the same time, while anyone who makes a connection between them is immediately dismissed as a “conspiracy theorist”.

For instance, the scrapping of pay-and-display parking machines, in favour of apps, is another step into a future in which smart phones, or more invasive forms of “connectivity”, are essentially compulsory for everyday life.

And people have been horrified to discover that thousands of trees are being felled, under various pretences, because they block the 5G signals needed to run the Internet of Things, the Internet of Bodies and everything else in the planned “smart” (“Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology”) digital concentration camps.

In Plymouth, for example, more than 100 trees were chopped down under cover of night, despite what the city council itself admitted was “overwhelming” public opposition, with a court injunction coming too late to halt the worst destruction.

Council bureaucrat Giles Perritt gave the game away when he told the BBC they had to “get on with this scheme” because “our core priority has to be creating a smart, business-friendly, attractive, city centre”.

The terms “smart” and “business-friendly” speak for themselves, while presumably Perritt’s aim is to make the city “attractive” to impact investors and other global financial parasites, rather to the human beings (and birds!) who actually live there.

With similar measures being imposed across the world, it has become obvious to growing numbers that we are up against the next phase of the Great Reset, the system’s acceleration of its monopolistic control through 4IR technology.

Opposition to the technocrats’ Trojan Horse was a key element of the successful March 25 Real Left conference in London, where the whole city, including its suburbs, is due to be enclosed within an expanded Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez).

To avoid being fined, residents are invited to sign up for the “Auto Pay” scheme which will helpfully “bill you automatically for the number of charging days your vehicle travels within the Congestion Charge area and, if it doesn’t meet the standards, the Low Emission Zone (LEZ) and Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ)”.

Authorities have already admitted that Ulez number-plate-reading cameras could be used to impose “per-mile” charging across London.

Transport for London is using the Ulez expansion as the excuse to install a further 2,750 cameras.

With “smart stations” on the London Underground being trialled by the same body, you don’t have to be the reincarnation of George Orwell to see what sort of dystopian future is being lined up for us all.

A “No 2 ULEZ” rally is being being held in London’s Trafalgar Square on Saturday April 15, from 12 noon to 3pm.

Meanwhile, others prefer to cut the cables on the surveillance cameras that are intended to police the restrictions!

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3. Who are the real “extremists”?

by Paul Cudenec

After a few decades, you can get quite used to your opinions being perpetually categorised as “extremist”.

You watch what you say to work colleagues and certain family members, you express yourself anonymously or pseudonymously, you seek refuge with like-branded individuals and mentally set yourself apart from society as a whole.

This, of course, is what the label is intended to achieve: the marginalisation, stigmatisation and, eventually, criminalisation of dissenting views.

I have long been aware of the nature of this device and have sometimes sought to turn it into a badge of honour.

In the 1990s I penned an unpublished (and probably unpublishable!) novel called The Extremist and later nodded in the same direction with the sub-title of 2019’s No Such Place As Asha (“an extremist novel”).