Number 111
- When the rule runs out
- The Filton Four and global Judaic law
- The Forgotten Path
- Twenty years of anti-industrialist publishing
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr: an organic radical inspiration
- Acorninfo
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here)
The way of thinking imposed on us by “modern” industrial society is sold to us as scientific, mathematical and rational.
It casts aside our ancestors’ conviction that the world is alive and full of wonderful mystery in favour of the flat insistence that it merely operates like machinery, according to hard and fast rules that “experts” claim to have identified.
But this is simply untrue, since all rules have their limits and cease to apply beyond a certain scale or circumstance.
Take, for example, an apparent rule associated with the number 37. When you multiply it by a certain other number, the digits of the result will eventually add up to that very number.
So:
1 x 37 = 37… 3 + 7 = 10, 1 + 0 = 1
2 x 37 = 74… 7 + 4 = 11, 1 + 1 = 2
3 x 37 = 111… 1 + 1 + 1 = 3
4 x 37 = 148… 1 + 4 + 8 = 13, 1 + 3 = 4
5 x 37 = 185… 1 + 8 + 5 = 14, 1 + 4 = 5
6 x 37 = 222… 2 + 2 + 2 = 6
7 x 37 = 259… 2 + 5 + 9 = 16, 1 + 6 = 7
8 x 37 = 296… 2 + 9 + 6 = 17, 1 + 7 = 8
9 x 37 = 333… 3 + 3 + 3 = 9
10 x 37 = 370… 3 + 7 = 10
11 x 37 = 407… 4 + 7 = 11
12 x 37 = 444… 4 + 4 + 4 = 12
13 x 37 = 481… 4 + 8 + 1 = 13
14 x 37 = 518… 5 + 1 + 8 = 14
15 x 37 = 555… 5 + 5 + 5 = 15
16 x 37 = 592… 5 + 9 + 2 = 16
17 x 37 = 629… 6 + 2 + 9 = 17
18 x 37 = 666… 6 + 6 + 6 = 18
So far, so good. But after we pass the number of the beast, things start to go wrong, because:
19 x 37 = 703… 7 + 3 = 10
It sort of half-works again for 20, although we need to multiply the result by 10.
20 x 37 = 740… 7 + 4 = 11, 1 + 1 = 2 (x 10 = 20)
And the triple digits characteristic of 37 keep adding up appropriately right until the cusp of 1,000:
21 x 37 = 777… 7 + 7 + 7 = 21
24 x 37 = 888… 8 + 8 + 8 = 24
27 x 37 = 999… 9 + 9 + 9 = 27
But otherwise, and beyond, it is a mess. The “rule” no longer works because we have passed beyond the very limited context in which it applied.
In the same way, I wonder at what point the literal impossibility of infinite “economic growth” in a finite world will suddenly become all too obvious to everyone.
I wonder what level of “debt” owed by every country in the world – to cheating bankers who conjured up the original “money” out of thin air – will explode in the faces of the usurers.
And I wonder just how far a tiny cabal of psychopaths can push a deranged plan to gain total control over the whole of humankind before billions of people wake up and say “no!”.
Their rule, and their rules, cannot go on for ever.
2. The Filton Four and global Judaic law
[Plus audio version]
Friday June 12 2026 was a dark day in English legal history, on which four people were jailed as “terrorists” despite obviously being nothing of the kind.
Worse still, they had only been convicted of minor charges, with the jury not informed that they could go on to be sentenced for “terrorism” by judge Jeremy Johnson.
Three days later (and the timing is probably no coincidence) the Court of Appeal ruled in the government’s favour over its outrageous designation of Palestine Action as an illegal “terrorist” organisation, declaring that the ban is, in fact, lawful.
What is particularly disturbing is that this twisting of the country’s judicial system has quite clearly been carried out on behalf of a power which is essentially foreign but which has permeated and corrupted national institutions to their very core and whose tyrannical grip on society, in Britain and elsewhere, is becoming ever more arrogant and blatant.
The criminal case was that of the Filton Four – young activists who took direct action against an Elbit Systems factory which makes weapons used in Israel’s genocide in Gaza (and beyond), in which extensive damage was caused and one police officer slightly and unintentionally injured while trying to stop them.
Declassified UK reported shortly after the sentencing: “Four Palestine Action activists have been sentenced to a combined total of more than 25 years in prison, after a judge ruled that they could be treated as terrorists.
“Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, and Fatema Zainab Rajwani were convicted of criminal damage last month in relation to a raid against an Israeli arms factory in Bristol in 2024. At their sentencing hearing at Woolwich Crown Court today, Judge Johnson (pictured) agreed to apply a ‘terrorism connection’ to the case under the Sentencing Act.
“Head and Kamio were given six years, Rajwani received five years and eight months, and Corner was sentenced to eight years and eight months. Gasps could be heard from the public gallery as the sentences were delivered, as some family members cried”.
The sentencing was swiftly condemned by many, including at least one representative of prime minister Keir Starmer’s own party. Labour MP for Leeds East Richard Burgon said: “The sentences handed to four young activists for taking direct action at an Israeli arms factory are completely disproportionate and wrong. They’ve been sentenced for a ‘terrorist connection’ they were never charged with. A clear miscarriage of justice and dangerous precedent”.
Journalist Jonathan Cook said: “This is the first time in British legal history that anyone has been sentenced as a terrorist for damaging property. It’s a very dark moment in an increasingly authoritarian Britain… this was always a show trial”.
He pointed out that the judge effectively overturned the jury’s conviction of the four anti-genocide activists for criminal damage and sentenced them as terrorists instead.
“As one of their barristers pointed out, the four defendants were initially arrested by police on suspicion of involvement in an act of terrorism. But the prosecution decided not to charge them with terrorism offences because it knew no jury would ever convict them based on the evidence.
“Instead the Crown held two trials: a sham one for the jury, and the real one conducted in secret by the judge. That is not justice. It is a show trial worthy of the worst tyrannical regimes”.
Another journalist, Matt Kennard, remarked: “Remember what the Filton actionists did. They decommissioned the machinery of genocide, the moral equivalent of destroying Zyklon B canisters at Auschwitz. A British judge is now sentencing them as ‘terrorists’ for it”. He added: “The jury that convicted them had no idea this would be introduced at sentencing. Sick and lawless”.
Amnesty International UK said: “It is completely disproportionate to punish protesters for criminal damage as if they were terrorists, a sentence which stays with you for life. The defendants in today’s case were sentenced as terrorists because prosecutors want to make an example of them… The use of terrorism laws against direct action protesters must end”.
Journalist Barry Malone described the sentencing as “utterly chilling”, adding that “this is a Britain becoming more authoritarian because its government is so slavishly devoted to supporting another country’s genocidal campaign” and author Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu declared: “We must fight the evil power Israel and Zionists hold in Britain”.
Dr Rahmeh Aladwan commented: “Destroying private ‘israeli’ weapons used in a genocide gets you a longer sentence than child grooming in occupied Britain. For the first time, activists are sentenced as ‘terrorists’ for property damage. This will go down as one of the most unjust cases in British history”.
While the usual Zionist troll accounts were activated on X to pour scorn on such concerns from a supposedly “patriotic” British perspective, the serious implications of the case have also been noticed by some people in nationalist circles, who have realised that the same methods could well be used against them as well.
For instance, Mark Collett, once of the British National Party and now leader of Patriotic Alternative, has written an article about the case which Dr Aladwan describes as “brilliant”.
Here he says that the judge seemed to have circumvented the age-old English legal tradition of jury nullification by holding back information from the jury, ensuring that the jurors did not know how severe the punishment would be if the defendants were convicted.
He adds that Mr Justice Johnson also put in place a number of other pre-trial rulings that prevented the defendants from being able to defend themselves properly.
He barred the defendants’ barristers from inviting the jury to apply the principle of jury equity or from even informing the jury that such a principle exists. “Justice Johnson even went as far as to restrict the defence from introducing evidence regarding Elbit Systems’ role as a weapons developer or its connection to the Middle East conflict. When a juror asked if they could acquit because the defendants believed they were preventing genocide, Justice Johnson answered ‘no’…
“This again takes the English legal system a step further away from trials based on evidence, facts and testimony, and closer to Soviet-style show trials where ideology, supposed motivations and political bias play a disproportionate role in the outcome…
“What’s more, a judge has attempted to set a new precedent that intends to ban defendants from speaking openly in court about their own motivations and from bringing up key facts that surround the case and place their actions in a wider context…
“Finally, it is obviously worth noting that this landmark case and its irregular ruling involves punishing those who have acted against the state of Israel and Zionist interests. This is clearly part of the current political and legal shift that aims to intimidate and criminalise those who protest against Israel’s political and military actions…
“This clearly is not simply intended to serve as means of punishment, but is yet another way that the British establishment hopes to scare people into silence and gag those who wish to talk about Zionist power”.
Important light is shed on the wider undermining of the English legal system by Brian Gerrish of UK Column in the first issue of the independent news outlet’s new printed magazine, The Column.
In an article entitled ‘Leveson: the fall of jury nullification and the rise of Star Chambers’, he zooms in on the sinister role being played by “Sir” Brian Henry Leveson (1949-), whom he describes as “a retired high court judge to whom successive governments have given review tasks in relation to the law of the land”.
In 2012 this man headed the Leveson Inquiry – Report into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press which led to the creation in 2014 of the Independent Press Standards Organisation CIC (IPSO).
Noting longstanding criticism of this body, Gerrish adds: “IPSO – Leveson’s creation – has faced renewed scrutiny over its handling of the Jewish Chronicle, which published fabricated material about the war in Gaza that some argued had inflamed the conflict and disrupted negotiations to return hostages.
“Perhaps significantly, IPSO declined to launch a formal standards investigation, issuing no penalties and no comprehensive report into the failings. Rather, Jewish Chronicle staff received generous and repeated ‘re-training’ to improve their reporting abilities. Was this due to IPSO’s incompetence, nepotism, or collusion? We will most certainly never know”.
Leveson then moved on to head the 2015 Review of Efficiency in Criminal Proceedings in which he encouraged the replacement of juries with judges in some instances and an increase in judge directions to juries.
Gerrish remarks: “Surprisingly, or perhaps not, Leveson makes no mention of judges fully briefing juries as to their real power and responsibility in the court by means of nullification, or the ability to give any verdict according to their conscience, over and above what the law may deem lawful or unlawful”.
In October 2019 Leveson (pictured) was appointed Investigatory Powers Commissioner, which means he “is now responsible for reviewing the use of investigative powers by public authorities, such as intelligence agencies, police and local authorities”.
Gerrish explains that UK Column sounded the alarm during the Covid period about the implementation of legislation linked to Leveson’s post.
It drew attention to a report from the House of Commons and House of Lords Joint Committee on Human Rights which warned: “The Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill provides a statutory basis for a variety of public authorities to authorise informants, covert agents and undercover officers to engage in criminal conduct […] by explicitly making authorised conduct ‘lawful for all purposes’…
“There is no express limit within the Bill on the type of criminal conduct that can be authorised. This raises the abhorrent possibility of serious crimes such as rape, murder, or torture being carried out under an authorisation”.
Gerrish comments: “To suggest that Leveson is ignorant of this dangerous and outrageous position is just not credible. His intelligence and extensive career surely demonstrates that he is fully aware that he now oversees ‘lawful’ lawbreaking at the highest levels of the state, and that he is fully prepared to help administer and facilitate that state lawbreaking system”.
Having also highlighted the alarming trend of trials being held in secret, as part of a “fast-tracking” drive, and making a comparison with the hated Star Chamber (1485-1641), Gerrish turns to Leveson’s Independent Review of the Criminal Courts, published in two parts in June 2025 and February 2026, which basically proposes the progressive replacement of juries with a combination of professional judges and AI.
And he draws our attention to the cover of Part One, which features a quotation (‘When justice sleeps, justice is cancelled’) attributed to the Talmud. He questions why Leveson, who is Jewish, gave this such prominence and asks: “Why are there no additional religious quotes from the Bible or indeed the Quran?”
Broader context is given to Leveson’s nefarious long-term activities by Jana S Bennun, in an article published online on Friday June 12, the day that the Filton Four were sentenced.
This concerns an event to be held in Jerusalem in November 2026 which, she warns us, is “designed to launch an international Noahide court system and reshape Western civil law”.
She provides a link to the event website and the immediate impact is chilling for anyone aware of the judeo-supremacist Noahide agenda. “You Will Stand Where History Begins Anew”, it states. “The First International Congress of Noahides. Community leaders from six continents. One founding moment”.
Bennun describes the event as “a highly organized assembly designed to build a worldwide Noahide judicial and political structure” and stresses: “The shift from just ‘abstract’ religious ideas to a real, functioning global Noahide legal system is happening right under our noses”.
“They are openly planning to draft a binding universal charter, elect councils across six continents, and officially launch the First International Rabbinic Court, or Beit Din.
“Led by Rabbi Oury Cherki (pictured), this supreme legal body will use regional judges to oversee a strict, three-stage process where non-Jewish people make official legal declarations, locking themselves into a centralized authority based in Jerusalem”.
The conference’s website is quite explicit about this project for imposing global Judaic law from Israel, stating in the FAQ section: “The International Beit Din is the rabbinical court being formally established at the Congress… The Beit Din will receive halachic [Jewish law] questions from Noahide communities worldwide and provide unified rulings from Jerusalem”.
Bennun comments: “What makes this incredibly alarming is how deeply it is plugging into top level Israeli government diplomacy. The grand finale of this event is scheduled to take place at Beit HaNasi, the official residence of the President of Israel.
“Delegates from all over the world will read a formal declaration in their own languages and hand the signed global charter directly to the Israeli president to secure official Israeli state recognition.
“This kind of political backing is exactly what I have been warning about. For decades, American politicians have been quietly slipping recognition of these Noahide concepts into congressional resolutions and education acts, slowly setting the stage to present these codes as the official moral foundation of our civil laws and global governance…
“We are watching a well financed, highly organized global Judaic network go live in real time, complete with its own international finance committee, mandatory fees, and a unified curriculum.
“Individuals are being pressured to stand before this newly formed Rabbinic Court to receive an official compliance status, completely subordinating themselves to a Jewish group of judges… A dangerous system of Noahide global control is being built right before our eyes under the fake banner of universal moral unity”.
Free the Filton Four! Free the world from judeo-supremacist control!
This is Tobin Owl’s contribution to Nevermore’s excellent Against the Rising Tide of Nihilism series.
For the insatiable oligarchs running the shitshow, engineering the noosphere, designing the future and the past, all roads lead to transhumanism.
Revolutions upon revolutions, wars upon wars, lies built on lies — everything designed to break up old foundations, to leave men compassless, to clear the way for the New Order where nothing but machinations of greed prevail.
We were told we were overthrowing princes, but we merely handed the crown to a different mob, from the religious monarchs to the irreligious, from men of noblesse oblige to men of no commitments save to themselves. The tearing down and building up of new ephemeral dystopias branded as freedom or utopia has been a near 400 year project of Enlightenment.
The new god, Science, was born in a humble inn in Holland, reared in England, grew up in Germany and America. Industrial Revolutions I, II, III and now IV. World Wars I, II and teetering on III, Darwin, social darwinism, eugenics, neodarwinism, H.G. Wells War of the Worlds, extraterrestrials and UFOs — all take turns hoisting the New Idol.
Any who refuse to bow down will be tossed under the omnibus.
If it depresses you take your meds, so you can go on living your meaningless, lacklustre existence.
We’ve all but surrendered our imagination, our hope, to the sterile visions of the Schwabian cabal. Growing up under their sway, unwittingly we thought they were our own. They chased us to the towns and cities where we’d forget that life even existed in any other form than grasping at ghosts. They fragmented us in cubicles so we’d be dependent on their machines and forget we had each other. They divided us so we’d despair of ever having a say. They took us out of the Web of Life and entangled us in their own.
The sylvan glories of yonder stretch of woodland renew themselves each autumn, regal as ever. It is only the old enchantment that is gone, banished by the matter-of-fact deity.
Asks the kindly Great Pan,
Was it really necessary, after all, that we two should part company so early? May you not have taken a wrong turn somewhere, in your long race after your so-called progress, after the perfection of this be-lauded species of yours?
Quotes from Kenneth Grahame, Pagan Papers, as cited by Paul Cudenec in Great Pan and the gap into Elf-land
4. Twenty years of anti-industrialist publishing
We would like to congratulate the small French publishing house La Lenteur, which means ‘slowness’, on reaching the impressive milestone of 20 years of existence. Winter Oak has carried reviews of a couple of their books in recent months – Kostas Papaïoannou’s La Prolétarisation des paysans and Jean-Marc Ghitti’s La Terre confisquée: Critique de l’aménagement du territoire and here we translate their own description of their two decades of activity, illustrated by their own artwork.
La Lenteur publishes works which consider the technological roll-out as a main source of the prevailing political fatalism. The decades-long development of ever-more powerful machines and computers is everywhere increasing exploitation at the workplace and alienation in daily life. Far from liberating humankind, modern Technik has tied people to the social body in an unprecedented and regressive manner.
La Lenteur emerged from the practice of writing in support of anti-industrial actions or perspectives. We distributed these texts mainly outside the world of bookshops. In 2004 we had taken part in the writing of the booklet Etats généraux de la servitude (‘General states of servitude’), which was about radical groups’ opposition to the corporatist movement Sauvons la recherche (‘Let’s save research’ – supporting state funding for scientific research). From this opposition was born the group Oblomoff, whose arguments opposing the role of science in capitalist society were also expressed in booklet form.
Involved in the anti-advertising movement, in opposition to the introduction of biometric machines in schools (and elsewhere) and in the student movement against the contrat première embauche (CPE, ‘first employment contract), we were a little group of friends committed to a radical critique of industrial society… and noticing repeated difficulties in distributing this critique.
We were notably coming up against the inability, or even refusal, of the left (Attac, Le Monde diplomatique, trade unions, parties, groups) to consider consumerism, techno-science and the degradation of the environment as political problems of utmost importance.
Our criticism of the digitalisation of the public realm collided with the requirement for activist efficiency and an unconcealed enthusiasm for new communications technology.
Coming from the left, if only through our families, our friendships and our meeting-places, we were particularly struck by the power of this psychological repression and we realised that a few stunts or actions of the kind we were taking part in would not be enough to provoke the urgently needed debate on the divorce between technological progress and human progress: in an era with no immediate prospect of an emancipatory uprising, we had to get down some fundamental work contributing to a change in the atmosphere.
Since the creation of the publishing house, we have never had recourse to “social media” or electronic forms of payment, neither have we created a website or worked with Amazon. This is in the interests of coherence, rather than of purity, and perhaps because all that does not interest us: we do not know how to do it and we have no desire to learn how.
We are convinced, moreover, that the production and circulation of ideas critical of the industrial system are doomed to failure, sooner or later, if they remain or become dependent upon the means which the system so “generously” provides.
We find ourselves on the defensive around this issue, like all human beings who share our awareness, and we have to own up to a certain number of contradictions, seeing that books are not produced without industrial means.
If it is difficult to imagine not using the internet at all to exist in the “book chain”, we remain determined not to use PayPal, Hello Asso, Instagram or YouTube, so as to avoid feeding, even on a small scale, services which, by reinforcing everybody’s isolation, have created a context of general disempowerment which favours, among other things, the rise of right-wing forces.
In doing so, we perhaps lose, in the short term, a public and some sales, but we know that we have kept going until today thanks to bookstalls mounted in every corner of France, to countless letters from readers and to dozens of displays in bookshops.
5. Seyyed Hossein Nasr: an organic radical inspiration
The latest in our series of profiles from the organic radicals website.
“There is today no philosophy of nature”
Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1933-) is a contemporary scholar and philosopher who calls for the revival of humankind’s sense of connection to nature and the cosmos.
He wrote in his book Man and Nature: The Spiritual Crisis in Modern Man: “Today, almost everyone living in the urbanised centres of the Western world feels instinctively a lack of something in life.
“This is due directly to the creation of an artificial environment from which nature has been excluded to the greatest possible extent. Even the religious man in such circumstances has lost the sense of the spiritual significance of nature”. (1)
He added: “There is today no philosophy of nature… One can say with even greater regret that there is also no theology of nature which could satisfactorily provide a spiritual bridge between man and nature”. (2)
Nasr’s philosophy is completely odds with the industrial capitalist concept of “progress” which regards ever-increasing production, consumption and, therefore, destruction as the only aim worth pursuing.
He wrote: “The sense of domination over nature and a materialistic conception of nature on the part of modern man are combined, moreover, with a lust and a sense of greed which makes an ever greater demand upon the environment.
“Incited by the elusive dream of economic progress, considered as an end in itself, a sense of the unlimited power of man and his possibilities is developed, together with the belief, particularly well developed in America, of boundless and illimitable possibilities within things, as if the world of forms were not finite and bound by the very limits of those forms”. (3)
With the physical reality of industrialism had come the mechanistic conception of the universe which took the Western world totally away from “the holistic and organic interpretation of things”. (4)
Nasr noted that calls to address the environmental crisis often mentioned changing means of transport, cutting the use of fossil fuels and so on: “Few ask, however, why it is that modern man feels the need to travel so much… Why must modern man consume so much and satiate his so-called needs only outwardly? Why is he unable to draw from any inward substance?” (5)
Born in Tehran, Nasr comes from a family of Sufis. One of his ancestors was Mulla Seyyed Muhammad Taqi Poshtmashhad, a famous saint of Kashan, according to The Nasr Foundation. (6)
For many years a professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University in Washington, DC, he follows the perennialist tradition, which sees a universal human spirituality beneath the surface level of the world’s religions.
He was greatly influenced in this direction by being introduced to the work of René Guénon, the Sufi metaphysician and leading critic of Western industrial capitalist society.
He also had access, in the USA, to the library bequeathed by Ananda Coomaraswamy, the anti-imperialist and anarchist scholar.
The works he discovered there also led him to meet other exponents of the philosophia perennis, including Frithjof Schuon.
Like them, Nasr regards spiritual connection as the key to restoring humankind’s harmonious relationship with nature.
He stressed: “The metaphysical knowledge pertaining to nature must be revived and the sacred quality of nature given back to it once again”. (7)
Nasr sees in the Chinese tradition of Taoism “a devotion to nature and a comprehension of its metaphysical significance that is of the greatest importance”. (8)
But he argues that Islam, the ‘green’ religion, is more environmentally orientated than other faiths.
He said in a 2014 radio interview: “The Qur’an addresses not only human beings, but also the cosmos. It is much easier to be able to develop an environmental philosophy. Birds are called communities in the Qur’an. Human beings, bees, it is so easy to develop an authentic Islamic philosophy of the environment”. (9)
In Man and Nature he wrote that the aim of the sage was to be in harmony with nature “for through this harmony comes harmony with men and this harmony is itself the reflection of harmony with heaven”. (10)
In Islam, said Nasr, “man is the channel of grace for nature; through his active participation in the spiritual world, he casts light into the world of nature. He is the mouth through which nature breathes and lives”. (11)
Nasr, who studied the metaphysics of Georg Hegel, agrees with the German philosopher that one of the problems with modernity is its fragmented view of reality, which lacks any understanding of an all-embracing whole.
He interprets the Vedic idea of Maya, usually translated as illusion, to refer to the separation which hides from our sight the greater holistic reality.
Nasr explained in the essay ‘Scientia Sacra’: “Maya is the source of all duality even on the principial level causing the distinction between Essence and the Qualities.
“It is also the source of the dualism between subject and object even on the highest level beyond which there is but the One, in which knower and known, or subject and object, are one”. (12)
Video link: Seyyed Hossein Nasr – Can Many Religions All Be True? (3 mins)
Audio links: Seyyed Hossein Nasr – Islam and the Environment (54 mins)
The Metaphysical and Cosmological Roots of the Ecological Crisis (1hr 30 mins)
1. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Man and Nature: The Spiritual Crisis in Modern Man (Chicago: ABC International Group, Inc, 1997), p 17.
2. Nasr, Man and Nature, pp. 36-37.
3. Nasr, Man and Nature, p. 19.
4. Nasr, Man and Nature, p. 70.
5. Nasr, Man and Nature, p. 4.
6. www.nasrfoundation.org/biography.html
7. Nasr, Man and Nature, p. 14.
8. Nasr, Man and Nature, p. 83.
9. Islam and the Environment, CBC Radio,
www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/islam-and-the-environment-1.2914131
10. Nasr, Man and Nature, p. 85.
11. Nasr, Man and Nature, p. 96.
12. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, ‘Scientia Sacra’, The Underlying Religion, An Introduction to the Perennial Philosophy, ed. Martin Lings and Clinton Minaar (Bloomington, Indiana: World Wisdom, 2007) p. 126.
“The contemporary world order is one of privatized empire – a global system directed by oligarchic networks that merge financial, corporate, and philanthropic power. The old tools of empire – conquest, debt, and propaganda – still exist, but they’ve been sanitized and repackaged in the humanitarian vernacular of development, equity, and sustainability”. Sharp and clear analysis from ParaGov.
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“Millions still work in sweatshops, mines, or as ‘helpers’ overseas because they’ve nowhere secure to live independently. Free land erases that leverage. No basic‑needs desperation means no human trafficking, no exploitation. Workers become voluntary collaborators, not coerced labourers”. TheworldIdreamof blog calls for “Free land at birth as a solution to the world’s problems”.
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“Fraud is in fact a pathetically inadequate word to describe the literal planned theft of the world’s entire natural resource base by the global oligarchy. There are no words to describe such a crime because nothing comparable in history has occurred”. Rusere Shoniwa reviews Iain Davis’s latest book, The Technocratic Dark State.
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“To explain the essence of Glafia’s [global mafia] 500-year global domination project, I often use a quote by Lord Acton (1834-1902), ‘one of the most learned people of his age’: ‘The issue which has swept down the centuries, and which will have to be fought sooner or later, is the people versus the banks’. So, our problem is not Left versus Right, communism vs. capitalism, democracy vs. autocracy, or any other dichotomy propagated by the Western establishment’s official narratives”. Mees Baaijen provides a useful overview.
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“Disappointment with James II – who vehemently opposed the political dominance of financiers – was so great among England’s bankers and merchants that many of them helped finance Willem’s invasion…. The result was the violent and treacherous imposition of an entirely new world order. Referred to as a ‘revolution’, the invasion was the decisive triumph of anti-Christian, greedy liberalism in the guise of Protestantism and laissez-faire. It marked the transition from a monarchical form of government to the rule of international financial power”. Dr Martin Erdmann looks at the reality behind England’s “Glorious Revolution” of 1688.
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“The genocide in Gaza, the open pursuit of Greater Israel, the documented regime-change operations of the CIA and Mossad now openly admitted are the predicted outcomes of a system that has evolved to serve the same interests for centuries”. Kamran Qureshi points us straight to the heart of the matter.
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“Never, in all history, have the world’s peoples organized in a massive common effort to protest and halt abuse, oppression, and genocide committed by a government against another people, as they have in apartheid Israel’s aggression against the Palestinian nation. It’s not hatred for Israel and its people that drives the protests; it’s more anguishing; an uneasy and gruesome feeling, similar to confronting a serial killer”. Dan Lieberman expresses what many of us are thinking.
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“The recent accounts of rape and systemic torture by the Sumud Flotilla participants from all over the world testifies to this sexual perversion and sadism being a societal norm in this depraved pedophile haven”. Vanessa Beeley is, of course, referring to Israel.
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“The fundamental shift is that the majority of the population, and above all younger people, now realise that they are governed by a political and media class which acts in service of a zionist project which is truly evil” – Craig Murray explains how ‘Zionism Has Poisoned the UK’s Central Nervous System’.
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“We are in trouble. We are surrounded by people who seek to curb our free speech and our right to assemble and they have weaponised antisemitism to do it. The problem is, our top cop, Prime Minister and an assortment of compromised politicians, media outlets and bought ‘patriots’ all support it. Even typing this could find the police at my door for the second time in a week. They are dangerously over-zealous in their obedience to Israel and our citizens are paying the price. It is not antisemitic to say Israel is ‘running the UK’. It is anti-Zionism and that is protected in UK law. Don’t conflate the two, that’s antisemitic. British people are not a priority in our own country. Our politicians, police and media are compromised. These people are Israel First and they are harming us”. Journalist Sonia Poulton was not afraid to speak truth during Covid and the same clearly remains true today.
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“I have said it before and I will say it again. These people prefer to see with only one eye, hear with only one ear, and think with only half a brain” – Iurie Rosca describes the kind of supposedly freedom-loving anti-globalists who cheer on the corrupt and authoritarian globalist regimes in Russia and China.
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“For a long while now, I’ve rejected the idea of progress. I believe it is another human story – a fiction we tell ourselves to lend meaning to our lives and, often unconsciously, to rationalize the insane decisions of the modern world”. Elisabeth Robson writes about ‘The Circle and the Arrow’.
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“Humanity is not a cancer. Civilization is the state in which the cells which are humanity behave in a cancerous way. Edward Abbey wrote ‘Growth for growth’s sake is the ideology of a cancer cell’. The ideology is the disease pattern, the populations it moves through are the tissue which becomes diseased”. Important insights from Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue.
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“The system isn’t broken, it’s specifically built this way so that when this happens, when people lose their lives, we suffer, they prosper and everything continues as normal for them”. On the ninth anniversary of the Grenfell tragedy in London, Karim Mussilhy speaks out on Double Down News, along with Terry Edge, the UK government whistle-blower whose warnings we relayed in The Acorn in 2023 and 2024.
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“Dissident flowers through the cracks, maybe that’s what we can call ourselves”. Hrvoje Morić of Geopolitics & Empire interviews Winter Oak contributor Mike Driver, who warns against fake opposition like “Zack Farage and Nigel Polanski”.
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“If governments are ever allowed to succeed in rolling out digital ID – even if it’s through the back door via under-16 social media bans – we will find ourselves living in a giant open-air digital prison, from which it will be virtually impossible to ever escape”, warns Valerie Anne Smith. “But they can only succeed if humanity complies with their agenda. DO NOT COMPLY”.
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“Albania is not for sale!” is the message from massive protests in Albania, sparked by the theft of their people’s land by Donald Trump’s Zionist son-in-law Jared Kushner. They are demanding the removal of prime minister Edi Rama, who colluded in the shady deal, and an end to corruption and exploitation. It is worth noting that Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump “discovered” the island in question while travelling on Nat Rothschild’s luxury yacht, which Rama also visited. Furthermore, an article in Forbes from 2016 (linked by Leo Hohmann) explains that in the 1990s Donald Trump was helped out of a massive debt problem by one Wilbur Ross, who was “head of Rothschild Inc’s bankruptcy advising team”. Meanwhile, Paul Craig Roberts says that Donald Trump has committed “high treason” with his presidential edict which redefines “sedition” as criticising Israel or Jews, thus destroying the cherished American First Amendment. Do the Albanian protests mark the beginning of humankind’s badly-needed uprising against the vile zio-globalist slavemasters? We can only hope so!
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“Coerced to the social pattern, the individual can only harden to some figure of living death; and if any considerable number of the members of a civilization are in this predicament, a point of no return will have been passed”.
(For many more like this, see the Winter Oak quotes for the day blog)
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Huge thanks, Paul, for these much needed breaths of pure air. Your writing (and references) are my essential reading in this tipping point era.
Btw, very much relishing your latest book ‘Welcome to the New Resistance!’
Keeping my eyes and ears open to recommend your work. Slim pickings these days!
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Cheers. That’s good to know.
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