On February 6, 2025, the 100th Acorn dropped from the Winter Oak, ten years to the day after the bulletin was launched. In this document, editor Paul Cudenec marks the occasion with a look back at a decade of this newsletter’s output on a year-by year basis, from which a striking overview emerges.

2015: ENEMIES OF PROGRESS

Our very first Acorn, which came out on February 6, 2015, was very much concerned with the fight against industrial “growth” and “development”, focusing on struggles against road-building plans in West Sussex, East Sussex and Bristol.

The theme continued in the subsequent 18 issues published that year (we’ve slowed down a bit since!).

In March, for instance, we wrote about the announcement of a big roadbuilding programme by Highways England, whose list of “strategic outcomes” included “supporting economic growth” and “opening up new areas for development”.

Our article declared: “All the smooth talk about making roads safer and reducing congestion is a barely disguised cover for its real mission of expanding capitalist infrastructure and thus increasing private profit at the expense of the public and the environment”.

We also covered anti-road protests in Turkey and in Australia, where authorities were clearing the way for a motorway to be driven across an Aboriginal heritage site “older than the pyramids”.

There was a lot of coverage of the battle against fracking that had been ongoing in England for several years.

Indeed the threat was starting to be seen off – for the time being, anyway! – and we reported that a June decision by Lancashire County Council was a significant victory for frack-free campaigners and had been described as “a Waterloo for the fracking industry”.

We placed fracking in a broader context, insisting that our real enemy was “infrastructure” and “the death-cult industrial capitalist system itself“.

And we wrote: “There are some ‘enemies of progress’ out there who strangely don’t welcome the prospect of contaminated water, soil and air, of devastated countryside, of lorry-congested roads, of a night sky constantly lit up by flares and of the occasional frack-induced earthquake”.

The label “enemies of progress” – a badge I am still proud to wear – came from a leader writer in The Daily Telegraph, who in 2013 also described anti-fracking protesters in Balcombe, West Sussex, as a “shrieking chorus of environmental zealots”, a “travelling circus of protest”, “eco-loonies” and “new Luddites”.

I’m happy with that last one, as well!

On the environmental front we also expressed our support for Plane Stupid and its battle against a threatened expansion of Heathrow Airport, Earth First!, Reclaim the Fields, and Via Campesina, an international movement that was declaring “No to the false solutions of green capitalism! Sustainable family farming now!”

We reported on protests against lignite mining in Germany, against the “phoney COP21 climate summit” in Paris, on the resistance of the Nasa people in Colombia to private ownership of their ancestral homeland, on indigenous resistance to logging in Canada and on massive and bloody demonstrations against a $10 billion copper-mining project in Peru.

We also cited a Mexican anti-industrial group called the Pagan Sect of the Mountain which said it was “continuing the fiercest conflict inherited from our ancestors against progress and artificiality”.

There were regular mentions for the Anarchist Action Network, which adopted The Acorn as its unofficial mouthpiece and for a long time reposted each issue on its own website.

We also included plugs for various anarchist bookfairs, for the Anti-Fascist Network in its actions against Tommy Robinson’s (Zionist-funded) EDL, notably in Brighton, for Class War in its campaigning against gentrification in London, for Occupy Democracy, the Open Spaces Society and the Love Activists in Liverpool.

We wrote about protests against the DSEI arms fair in London’s Docklands, against the G7 in Germany, against the Bilderberg summit in Austria and against NATO war games in several southern European countries as well as the November 5 “Million Mask March” in London.

We also ran a piece about the “full-on resistance movement against capitalism and its infrastructure” that had emerged in France, with notice of a forthcoming talk by Le Comité Invisible, famed authors of The Coming Insurrection, in Brighton.

We subsequently reported on a massive demonstration, of some 20,000 people, against the opening party of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt and a Mayday protest in Milan “focused on the opening day of Expo 2015, an extravagant six-month ‘world fair’ celebrating the corporate wealth built on the exploitation of workers and the destruction of the environment”.

We also published reports on two rooftop occupations that shut down the Kent factory of Israeli arms company Elbit Systems.

The Acorn expressed a certain ambiguity regarding the “left”.

In September we commented on the British Establishment’s reaction to Jeremy Corbyn’s election as leader of the Labour Party.

We stressed that we didn’t see his politics as “particularly radical or interesting” – “he is happy to work within the putrid parliamentary system and to acknowledge its legitimacy, along with that of the ‘law’ and the monarchy”.

And yet, we added, Corbyn had suffered “relentless attacks” and prime minister David Cameron had just described him as “a threat to our national security”, using a phrase that observers regarded as evoking “the language of Hitler and Stalin”.

At the same time we were exposing “fake ‘left-wingers’ who hate the alternative media” and expressing a growing frustration at the state of what was supposed to amount to an opposition movement.

We described a big but lifeless anti-austerity demo in London as “depressing” and watched with disbelief as sold-out trade unions got behind both the fracking industry and the proposed Heathrow expansion on the basis that these would provide “jobs”.

Declared The Acorn: “We need to break out of the reformist strait jacket that ‘left-wing’ thinking has put us in. We need to throw off the blinkers of its restrictions and inhibitions and look clearly and boldly into the eyes of the industrial-militarist-capitalist beast before thrusting a stake through its putrid heart”.

The so-called “left” was also serving the interests of Capital in France, and we reported on a general strike being staged against a new law drawn up by the ruling Socialist Party, which was all about encouraging “economic growth” – “working hours are to be increased, with Sunday working normalised in the way it already is in the UK, and bosses’ powers strengthened”.

The legislation in question was known as the Macron Law, with the minister responsible being Emmanuel Macron, the former Rothchild banker and future president who was to feature in many more Acorn bulletins and Winter Oak reports in the years to follow.

A glimpse into the murky activities of the global mafia came in a special Acorn investigation into so-called “sustainable transport” funding in southern England which was being diverted into a project that was blatantly nothing more than a make-over for an urban shopping centre.

Decision-making about the allocation of this state funding was, we discovered, in the hands of a company called WSP Global Inc whose previous projects had included The Shard in London, Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok and Trump Tower in New York, where it was also involved in the rebuilding of the World Trade Center.

Repression was a recurrent theme in the first year’s haul of Acorns and we drew our readers’ attention to “the increasing fascisisation of the UK and other ‘democratic’ Western states”.

Some of this repression was directed at fellow anarchists, such as those arrested by the Spanish state on suspicion of belonging to a “criminal organisation” in the form of a non-existent “network” invented by the police, or those in the UK who had been targeted by spy cops.

We quoted an anonymous anarchist leaflet in France explaining: “We hate the police. Because they are the armed wing of the thing that is slowly and surely killing us. Because the police will always be an obstacle between the life we have and the life we want”.

And we noted that the French high court had upheld the criminal conviction of 12 political activists for “inciting hate or discrimination” because they had handed out leaflets calling for a boycott against Israel as a means of ending the decades-long military occupation of Palestine.

In the UK, we reported, authorities had produced propaganda claiming that young people who questioned official state narratives might be “extremists”.

The leaflet, handed to parents in London, claimed danger signs of so-called radicalisation included “showing a mistrust of mainstream media reports and belief in conspiracy theories” and “appearing angry about government policies, especially foreign policy”.

We commented: “Numbed slack-jawed conformists gawping apathetically at the TV set are, presumably, the ideal non-extremist citizens of tomorrow”.

In another Acorn we wrote: “While the state is trying to win acceptance for its idea of ‘extremism’ by linking it in the public mind to ‘Islamic terrorism’, it clearly also applies to anyone who dares cock a snoop at the neoliberal corporate megamachine, as we can see from the remit of the National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit, for instance.

“The technique is Orwellian and essentially simple. The system declares itself to be a democracy and therefore anyone who opposes the system is anti-democratic! This is much the same as declaring yourself to be God and that therefore anyone who challenges your absolute authority is working on behalf of Satan!”

We voiced concern about “the future being lined up for us by the industrial prison-system”.

And we sounded the alarm about “smart spies in our homes” as part of a so-called internet of things “where privacy, freedom and, indeed, humanity will be consigned to the past and we will all be reduced to the status of permanently monitored and controlled slaves to a techno-industrial global state that will make Orwell’s nightmare look like a whimsical daydream”.

With police-state repression increasingly being carried out in the name of “anti-terrorism”, we pointed out that this phenomenon was not at all what it claimed to be – “it is in fact the deliberately misleading label given to a global psychological war waged against most of humanity by a controlling elite”.

Indeed, we said, terrorism itself is often carried out by the state itself, as was the case in the 20th century with the Gladio network which, while exposed most fully in Italy, operated across Europe, including the UK, where the conflict in the north of Ireland was an ideal training ground.

We stated: “The worrying lack of knowledge and understanding, even in radical circles, of the extent to which terrorism was secretly deployed by the capitalist system from the 1940s to the 1980s sadly means that there is little to stop it using the same techniques again today”.

And we warned that we were up against “a cult of power for the sake of power, growth for the sake of growth, which will do anything – literally anything – to ensure its own preservation and expansion. Murder, lies and hypocrisy are part of its very essence and we would do well never to forget that”.

2016: AGAINST CORPORATE DICTATORSHIP

Resistance to the industrial system’s endless assault on our lives and our world was at the centre of the second year of Acorn bulletins.

We reported, for instance, on the ZAD land occupation at Notre-Dame-des-Landes in France which was spearheading determined opposition to plans for a new Nantes airport – including a 60,000-strong demo which some friends and I were able to attend.

We explained: “Since it was established in 2008, the ZAD at NDDL has become much more than an eco-protest camp.

“It is a symbol of resistance, an autonomous zone where the cops stay away and people are able to experiment with different ways of living, growing their own food, baking their own bread, publishing their own newspaper, running their own radio station and, most recently, setting up their own library”.

The airport threat was eventually seen off, as indeed was the oil drilling opposed by the Leith Hill Protection Camp in Surrey, England, which The Acorn visited, as well as continuing to report on the struggle against fracking across the UK.

We remarked that the attempts of the British state to impose this Blitzkrieg industrialisation of the countryside against the wishes of the public was one of those moments when “the fog suddenly lifts and a large number of people see that they are not living in the green and pleasant land of a benign democracy at all, but in the concrete and razor wire prison camp of a corporate dictatorship”.

Another of those moments was, of course, to occur four years later!

The Acorn carried news of a proposed sell-off of public downland in East Sussex, anti-nuclear protests in Bure, France, the “No THT” campaign against high-voltage power lines in the French Alps, the anti-mining struggle in Germany’s Hambacher Forest, indigenous resistance to dam-building in Malaysia, the NO TAV campaign against the high-speed rail line threatening the Italian Alps, and the massive battle against the thousand-mile Dakota Access Pipeline being built to carry fracked oil across North America.

We warned about the threat of transhumanism and quoted activists who had targeted the Google HQ in Germany to highlight its involvement in the sinister phenomenon as declaring: “Transhumanists are convinced that the way out of a world which they have decisively destroyed is the transition from human to machine”.

But at the same time we were increasingly aware that many supposedly “green” campaigners were not interested in trying to halt the destruction wrought by the global mafia’s “development” bulldozer.

We lamented: “The absurdities of the mainstream ‘environmentalist’ movement were tragically plain to see around the tepid COP21 mobilisation in Paris”.

And we added: “It is a worrying trend of our times that too many environmentalists are taken in by the lie that ‘alternative’ energy sources and techno-fixes are all that are needed to save the world, rather than the destruction of the entire money-based industrial capitalist system that is choking it to death”.

The Acorn ran several pieces by Rob los Ricos, an American anarchist famously jailed following a Reclaim the Streets festival in Eugene, Oregon, on June 18 1999.

He urged: “Let us prepare ourselves to turn our backs on this civilization of mass destruction and make something magical, something incredibly beautiful and nurturing.

“If we don’t, the human race will be gone, and we’ll have lost everything. The next couple of decades will determine our collective fate, for all time”.

Meanwhile, we continued to include reports on the same groups and causes as in 2015, plus news of an anarchist summer camp in Austria, anti-gentrification protests in Berlin and opposition to the G20 in Hamburg.

We were also greatly interested in the Nuit Debout occupations and associated protests sparked by the Loi Travail (labour law) in France.

We observed that it was “quite clear that the hated reforms are being violently imposed on the French people at the behest of the global financial elite”.

As one statement from protesters explained: “What is being born here has little to do with the labour law. This law is just the tipping point. The one attack too many. Too arrogant, too blatant, too humiliating. The surveillance laws, the Macron law, the state of emergency, the stripping of nationality measures, the anti-terrorist laws, the penal reform project and the labour law all add up to a system. It’s one big project to bring the population to heel.

“Everyone knows that what makes a government retreat is not the number of people on the streets, but their determination. The only thing that will make a government retreat is the spectre of an uprising, the possibility of the loss of total control”.

And we published a first-hand account from a participant in the April 28 protest in Marseilles.

“The crowd surged down the road and through a gate leading to the railway sidings and on to the main railway line close to Marseilles St Charles station. Planks, tyres and other objects were dragged on to the rails and set on fire. 400 protesters were on the line. The infrastructure was well and truly blocked”.

We stressed in our round-up of worldwide May Day action: “Although the people, the tear gas and the police batons were all very real, the day is a symbolic annual incarnation of a battle that goes on for 24 hours a day, 52 weeks of the year.

“This is the battle between us and them, between the exploited and the exploiters, the peasants and the squires, the workers and the bosses, the have-nots and the have-too-muches”.

But there were more signs of acornic frustration at the limits of the UK-based activist milieu with which we were still largely identified.

For instance, we wrote in March: “The British state is a ruthlessly violent criminal organisation that will stop at nothing to push the interests of the rich elite that owns it.

“This plain and unpleasant fact should always inform the thinking of anybody who dares to stand up to the system – and yet, all too often, activists slip into a naïve liberalism that simply cannot cope with the grim truth”.

We added in April: “There is no point in trying to reform the system by removing the parts which are corrupt, because the whole thing is rotten to the core. It is, in itself, nothing other than corruption!”

In particular we bemoaned the way that fear of being contaminated by “conspiracy theories” was severely restricting analysis and understanding on the so-called “left”.

Referring to the research of author Robin Ramsay, we recalled: “When elements of the ‘radical’ Right in the USA started criticising the US-dominated military-industrial complex, or ‘New World Order’, in the 1980s and 1990s, some on the Left turned and ran”.

We were pleased to work with Gianfranco Sanguinetti – a Situationist comrade of Guy Debord – in translating and publishing an article he wrote about the November 2015 terror attacks in Paris, which explored “the masquerade ball, the shadow theatre, the fool’s game, the showmanship, the dramatics and the ‘mainstream’ narrative”.

We also had questions to ask about the “terrorist” attack in Nice, France, and we noted that the British state’s direct involvement in terrorism in Northern Ireland had been exposed by an official investigation into the murders of six Catholic men in 1994.

Continuing the state terrorism theme, we carried a report on the “Na i Ffair Arfau Caerdydd” campaign against the Cardiff Arms Fair, where exhibitors included BAE Systems, the world’s third largest arms producer, which “supplies Israel with the tools to wage war on the Palestinians”.

And we investigated the activities of globalist politician Baroness Cox, an admirer of the Israeli state and, in Craig Murray’s words, “a prominent supporter of organisations which actively and openly promote the ethnic cleansing of all Palestinians from Gaza”.

We reported that one of the most sinister of these organisations was Jerusalem Summit, whose website declared two decades ago that the idea of a Palestinian state must be “removed from the international agenda” and that “the de-legitimization of the Palestinian narrative becomes a vital prerequisite to any comprehensive resolution of the Palestinian issue”.

The Acorn drew attention to attempts by Zionists to have all criticism of Israel treated as offensive “anti-semitism”.

“When activists from London Palestine Action carried out some subvertising on the London tube last month, putting up posters criticizing Israel’s apartheid policies against Palestinians, Israeli politicians described them as ‘anti-semitic’ and ‘inciteful’.

“Oxford University Labour Club’s support for Israeli Apartheid Week was also classed as ‘anti-semitism’ by right-wing Zionists given a platform by The Guardian“.

Making the connection with the smears against Jeremy Corbyn, we concluded that the “anti-semitism” smear was being used as a general ideological weapon against the system’s enemies.

And we noted that this phenomenon was already in evidence in 2003 when a certain Roger Cukierman labelled the anti-globalisation movement “an anti-semitic brown-green-red alliance”.

If opposing globalisation and its industrial development is “anti-semitic”, what does that tell us about the entity behind globalisation and industrial development?

At the time we described Cukierman simply as a “French Zionist banker”, but I think it would be useful to add a little more information on him, direct from Wikipedia.

“He served as the President of the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives de France (CRIF) and is Vice President of the World Jewish Congress.

“From 1963 to January 1999, he worked at the Edmond de Rothschild Group. He served as its chief executive officer in France from 1993 to 1999”.

2017: PARASITES IN POWER

“We live in a ‘representative democracy’, but whose interests do our political leaders really represent?” asked The Acorn in January 2017.

“The answer has been more obvious than ever in the UK in recent weeks, with the government’s announcement of a ‘Modern Industrial Strategy’.

“It is adding an extra £4.7 billion to the money it already bungs to its boardroom sponsors in the guise of so-called research & development funding. This ‘investment’ will go to areas such as AI, ‘smart’ energy technology, robotics, and 5G wireless.

“Business and Energy Secretary Greg Clark says the strategy will ‘drive economic growth across the whole country’. In case you hadn’t noticed, ‘economic growth’ equals business profits at the expense of you and your environment.

“When the government says that Britain is ‘open for business’, it really means that it is whoring out the population and the countryside to the highest bidder”.

Compare and contrast with Keir Starmer’s hand-over of the UK to BlackRock, as covered in the first Acorn of 2025!

We had some harsh words to say about those untouchable Fat Cats who push through all this economic “growth” (of their bank accounts!).

“The vampires of industrial capitalism are entirely ruthless about the living flesh off which they feed, whether the human beings they exploit or the nature they despoil.

“They are particularly callous regarding anything to do with our culture, the people’s culture, which they regard as an irritating obstacle in the way of their never-quenched red-fanged thirst for profit and power.

“These self-obsessed social parasites simply don’t care if their schemes destroy communities, displace whole populations from their homelands, trample all over sacred sites across the world.

“And just because Britain was the country where the curse of the Industrial Revolution was first unleashed, don’t imagine these life-hating sociopaths have any more respect for our own cultural heritage.

“If they did, how could they be planning to pierce a tarmac-and-concrete hole through the heart of Stonehenge, symbol of England’s mystical past? How could they envisage inflicting the toxic industrialisation of fracking on Sherwood Forest, legendary home of Robin Hood, incarnation of the age-old fight by England’s dispossessed against injustice and tyranny?”

A shocking reflection of the grimness of a society built on industrial greed came from data released by the NHS under a Freedom of Information request, which revealed that hundreds of children in England aged six and under were being prescribed anti-depressants.

Pretty much every issue of The Acorn in that year carried reports from the frack-free frontlines and we described the fracking industry as “a corrupt mafia-like entity linked to the state”.

On the same public-private theme, we reported on protests against a controversial Cardiff event which campaigners said “totally blurs the boundary between government and the arms trade”.

DPRTE (Defence Procurement, Research, Technology & Exportability) was organised by BiP Solutions, a private company “deeply embedded within Ministry of Defence (MOD) operations, running its Defence Contracts Online, through which all MOD contracts valued at £10,000 and above are advertised”.

Established in 1984 “to facilitate business between the public and private sectors”, BiP Solutions had enjoyed a “sixteen-year relationship” with civil servants at the MOD in London.

We also covered protests against NATO in Brussels, against the G20 in Hamburg, against transhumanism in Bordeaux and against commercial logging in a primeval forest in Poland, as well as popular uprisings in French Guiana and Paraguay.

In addition, we shared the wisdom of Ran Yunfei, a Chinese philosopher and dissident who had already spent time in jail for his opposition to the ultra-industrialism of the “People’s Republic”.

He said: “The destruction of the environment in China is the doing of a disastrous government and political system. The development model is based on GDP growth, without concern over the consequences for the environment”.

The Acorn reported on the struggle for Catalan independence and picked up on one factor that might help explain the “alarming levels of repression by the central Spanish state”.

Spanish politician Juan Carlos Girauta had told The Jerusalem Post: “The independence movement is led by violent radicals who are as anti-Israel as they are anti-Spanish… An independent Catalonia would be in the hands of extreme anti-Israel groups. In contrast, the constitutionalist camp is solidly pro-Israel”.

The ongoing theft of our freedom was a matter of concern throughout the year.

We reported that local authorities in the UK were using the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act to gather evidence via secret listening devices, cameras and private detectives – including spying on people walking dogs, feeding pigeons and fly-tipping.

“When the law was introduced, the government said it would only be used when absolutely necessary to protect British people from extreme threats. Surprisingly enough, it was lying”.

And we highlighted a report from police monitoring group Netpol which “confirms and usefully exposes the extent to which the police act as taxpayer-funded private security for private business interests”.

Free speech and free thought were also increasingly being stifled, we warned, even within political movements that were meant to be staunch defenders of those values.

“The problem seems to be that anarchists today are forever looking over their shoulders to see if they are being watched by what is essentially an internal Thought Police, self-appointed custodians of a flattened-out and narrowed-in version of anarchism”.

This pseudo-anarchism did not approve of anyone “exposing the covert machinations of the military industrial complex, of talking about the ‘one per cent’ or the ‘banksters’, of challenging the capitalist cult of technology, of using any kind of ‘populist’ language.

“A pedantic and humourless ideological puritanism, masquerading as radicalism, limits itself to calling for the system to be made fairer, more inclusive or more democratic and is suspicious of anyone who dares to challenge the fundamental assumptions of power”.

And we asked: “Where is the passion? Where is the rage? Where is the desire? Where are the calls to insurrection, to revolution, capable of stirring up a powerful groundswell of contempt for the self-defined centrists and everything they represent?”

We identified the existence of a “Fake Left”, which we suggested was the product of a “war of ideas” carried out by the system against its opponents.

After the sabotaging from “within” of the London Anarchist Bookfair, we quoted a response on the 325 website as saying: “We’re pissed off that anarchists feel it’s so much more important to target another anarchist with unpopular views, than to attack institutional structures of our oppression”.

The author complained about certain so-called anarchists’ “ignorance of the long history of state agents using divide and rule tactics against dissidents – from COINTELPRO to Stasi ops”.

We also wrote about 77th Brigade, the British Army’s social media psyops unit whose “dark arts include destabilising opponents of the British state by starting whispering campaigns among their supporters and potential supporters”.

Incidentally, Wikipedia tells us that the brigade “was named the 77th in tribute to the 77th Indian Infantry Brigade, which was part of the Chindits, an Indian Army guerrilla warfare force led by Orde Wingate who used unorthodox tactics against the Japanese in Burma in World War II”.

And we learn: “Wingate was a dedicated Christian Zionist”.

The Acorn explored the way in which the UK was ramping up its attack on online freedom, seizing on the excuse of “terrorist” attacks.

After an incident on Westminster Bridge the state tried to outlaw encrypted messaging and was also considering legislation to force firms to “take down extremist material” from the internet.

And after the infamous Manchester Arena event, now proven to have been a hoaxed false flag “bombing”, we related how prime minister Theresa May “was very quick to ramp up the terror alert status to ‘critical’ and send the army onto the streets”.

Interestingly, the most chilling media comments came from three journalists who, during Covid, would position themselves as great defenders of freedom.

Katie Hopkins, who “was sponsored through her university education by the British Army’s Intelligence Corps”, called for a “final solution” to what was being presented as an Islamist menace, and Allison Pearson of The Daily Telegraph tweeted: “We need a State of Emergency as France has. We need internment of thousands of terror suspects now to protect our children”.

In November 2024 Pearson was investigated by police for a post showing an image of two police officers standing next to two men holding what appears to be a flag of the Pakistani political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.

She tagged the Metropolitan Police alongside the words “how dare they” and added: “Invited to pose for a photo with lovely peaceful British Friends of Israel on Saturday police refused. Look at this lot smiling with the Jew haters”.

“Lovely peaceful British Friends of Israel!”

Turning back to 2017, Spiked editor Brendan O’Neill struck an equally fascistic note when he declared that “there is a strong justification for hate right now”.

We noted that O’Neill, like Spiked as a whole, had a particular love of industrialism and had complained that protesting in defence of the environment “contributes to the increasingly mainstream hostility to economic growth”.

We pointed out that he has also condemned the “leftish set’s warped, myopic anti-Semitism” and “the way in which attacking Israel has become a means of being derogatory about Jews”.

O’Neill’s Wikipedia entry described him as “a keynote speaker for the pro-Israel advocacy organisation StandWithUs”. That line has now disappeared from the website, though it can still be seen in the internet archives.

Meanwhile, in France, former Rothschild banker Emmanuel Macron had become president and within a few months his labour “reforms” were prompting strikes and protests across the country (I’m actually in this photo, by the way!).

The Acorn remarked: “France seems in some ways to be at the point the UK had reached in 1984, when Europe’s first neoliberal state, under Thatcher, deliberately took on and defeated the miners in order to break the resistance of the trade union movement.

“As in the UK in those days, the neoliberals are making a calculated bet on the physical supremacy of their power.

“They are happy to use the full legal force of their system to crush dissent, the full physical force of their police and military to attack dissidents, the full psychological force of their tame media to conceal what is happening, to spread lies and disinformation, to smear their opponents”.

We also reported that Macron had announced that he wanted to further extend the country’s State of Emergency, for the sixth time since the Paris attacks of November 2015, and bring in unspecified new “anti-terror” laws.

And we commented: “Rabid support for industrial capitalism, bitter opposition to environmentalism, anti-Muslim rhetoric, hysterical calls for ‘action’ in response to terror attacks… Funny how so many of these people seem to be reading from the same centralised script”.

2018: RESISTANCE AND PSYOPS

The Acorn year kicked off in January with a call-out for two big European protests.

The first was against the Davos meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), with Swiss activists aiming to “take the future into our hands instead of leaving it to the rulers… Let’s put our resistance on the streets!”

The second was 500 miles to the north, in Hamburg, focusing on the chilling levels of repression unleashed by an increasingly fascistic German state against those who had protested at the globalist G20 summit in the city.

We wrote: “While the shocking images of police brutality may have faded from the public’s mind, the repression continues, with ongoing police raids, arrests and prosecutions.

“On December 5, police carried out 24 raids on leftist and autonomous infrastructure across Germany, seizing laptops, mobile phones, and other means of communication”.

A call for resistance came from Berlin’s Rigaer 94 squat: “The state will always end up demanding fascism. With the same tactics, they try time and time again to delegitimize resistance by branding it criminal, antisocial, and apolitical.

“The time of comfortable protests is long gone. Today, German society has arrived at an extreme it hasn’t reached in over 80 years. Determined and angry, despite the repression, we will fight against the ruling order!”

A couple of issues later we were relaying the call for protests against the global mafia’s G7 summit in Montreal, Québec.

Said the local resistance network: “What the G7 Summits actually do is decide the world organization of the capitalist economy according to the interests of the banks, and the oil, agri-food, pharmaceutical, technological, armaments, and other large conglomerates.

“The G7 is proving to be one of the neoliberal states’ symbolic meetings that legitimize the richest 1% of the world’s population by creating and maintaining social and economic inequalities”.

And we also gave advance notice of protests against the 2019 G7 summit in Biarritz, against the G20 and IMF in Argentina and against a fascistic and militaristic EU “security” conference in Salzburg, Austria.

We reported on a battle in a working-class district of Brighton, England, to stop a new housing development being built over a designated local nature reserve, protests which blocked the US air base at Ramstein in Germany, and the death of journalist and campaigner Steffen Horst Meyn during the eviction of an anti-mining protest camp in Germany’s Hambacher Forest.

We also featured a campaign in Italy against the environmentally-destructive Trans Adriatic Pipeline project which, with the help of a 1.5bn euro loan from the European Investment Bank, aimed to bring gas from Azerbaijan via Greece and Albania.

The Acorn highlighted protests against the Welsh government’s plan to build a new motorway south of Newport, costing taxpayers at least £1.5 billion, and against a 550m euro toll motorway project near Strasbourg, pushed through by the French state and its corporate chums Vinci in spite of public inquiries coming out against it.

We also covered a protest in Brussels which declared: “Free Farmers from Free Trade Agreements! MERCOSUR, CETA, JEFTA are a deathblow!”

Buoyed by news from France that the mighty battle against a new airport near Nantes had achieved victory, we insisted that “people power can defeat fracking”.

But there was still work to be done and we reported that “the fight against fracking in the north of England is to be dramatically intensified with three months of intense direct action against the sinister and toxic industry”.

We also interviewed an Irish frack-free campaigner, who asked: “How could our government even consider giving permission to an industry that industrialises vast swathes of countryside and that has left a toll of death and destruction in every community where it has gained a foothold?”

She added: “To learn just how corrupted our authorities have become by corporate power, I’d advise everyone to invest themselves wholeheartedly in an issue like fracking where the links between a corporate-controlled government, a corporate-controlled media and a corporate-controlled police force fast become apparent”.

We were, in 2018, initially encouraged to see the emergence “out of nowhere” of what appeared to be a dynamic new environmental protest movement.

But we were already citing “question marks” regarding the fact that Extinction Rebellion’s supporters included notorious fake-left shill George Monbiot and concerning the movement’s “strangely deferential attitude to the police”. More was to come on XR in 2019.

In 2018 a label that now features on our masthead first appeared in The Acorn, when we included an extract from my essay ‘Organic radicalism: bringing down the fascist machine‘.

We examined an article on the ongoing US military occupation of the Japanese island of Okinawa and looked at the threat of 5G, “which is aimed to imprison us within a totalitarian Internet of Things, involving everything from automated cars to smart meters, tracking and controlling every detail of our home lives”.

The Acorn drew attention to news that Israel was arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine.

“The Tavor rifles being used by the Azov militia are produced under licence from Israel Weapon Industries, and as such would have been authorized by the Israeli government. This is just the latest instance of links between Israel and the extreme right in Europe”.

We also explored the then-recent emergence in the USA and then Europe of the term “fake news” and a US Senate report claiming that “social media platforms are a key conduit of disinformation that undermines democracies”.

This was unveiled by veteran Democrat politician Ben Cardin, known for his vehemently pro-Israel stance.

As Glenn Greenwald pointed out, “Cardin’s crowning achievement came last year when he authored a bill that would have made it a felony to support a boycott of Israel”.

Cardin launched the report at the HQ of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, which had been leading the propaganda campaign against so-called fake news, partly through its front organisation, the Alliance for Securing Democracy.

We wrote: “On Wednesday March 22, 2017, the German Marshall Fund’s Brussels Forum was staged at the Microsoft Center in the Belgian capital. Many very worthy liberal and democratic organisations were represented, such as Google, ExxonMobil, Centrica, Chevron, BP, Deloitte, Raytheon and NATO.

“It must have been quite a party. US Special Operations Command were there, and the US National Counterterrorism Center. And Israel Broadcasting. And the Mission of Israel to the European Union. And the European Association of Mining Industries”.

It’s that familiar single global mafia again!

France had already witnessed, in 2015, the shocking conviction of 12 protesters for “hate speech” which consisted merely of wearing T-shirts declaring “Long live Palestine, boycott Israel”.

And its president, former Rothschild banker Emmanuel Macron, now announced plans to counter “fake news” during elections by allowing state judges to block websites or user accounts.

Somewhat letting the cat out of the bag regarding the real political agenda behind the “fake news” meme, he declared: “Thousands of propaganda accounts on social networks are spreading all over the world, in all languages, lies invented to tarnish political officials, personalities, public figures, journalists”.

Greenwald had previously reported that Facebook had admitted to deleting accounts at the direction of the US and Israeli governments.

The Acorn also took a look at the propagandising efforts of a London outfit called 89up, which described itself as “Europe’s first impact agency” and was involved in spreading allegations of “Russian propaganda” affecting British politics.

Michael Harris, sole director of 89up, extolled the virtues of billionaire globalist George Soros in a 2016 newspaper article and admitted: “Yes, many of the campaigns I’ve worked on previously have been part-funded by Soros”.

And he tweeted in 2018 that Soros “is in my humble opinion one of the 20th centuries [sic] great heroes”.

Our investigations further touched on the Philip Cross scandal, in which Wikipedia entries had been systematically edited for political ends by some kind of self-appointed thought police, and the issue of police infiltration of dissident political movements.

Mixed in with all this, we said, was a witch-hunting phenomenon which, under cover of being on the “left”, “condemns others as being somehow right-wing, reactionary or, increasingly, ‘anti-semitic'” – a smear being rolled out “with desperate regularity”.

We added: “But the truth is the exact opposite. The witch-hunters are themselves part of a pro-war, pro-US, pro-Israel, neoliberal network and are attacking their targets not from the left but from the right. They in fact object to anyone who is critical of the neoliberal system and its imperial wars”.

More light was shed on this issue by Greenwald’s investigation, based on classified documents, of the UK’s GCHQ and its initially secret unit, JTRIG (Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group).

He wrote: “These agencies are attempting to control, infiltrate, manipulate, and warp online discourse, and in doing so, are compromising the integrity of the internet itself.

“Among the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable.

“The official document lists different kinds of operations it uses against dissidents: Infiltration Operation, Ruse Operation, Set Piece Operation, False Flag Operation, False Rescue Operation, Disruption Operation, Sting Operation”.

Anyone wondering why radical groups (known to be heavily infiltrated by the state), so often split and fall apart may be interested to see the emphasis on “destructive organisational psychology” and on “identifying and exploiting fracture points”.

Making several references to stage magicians in its presentation document, JTRIG proudly showcases its “Gambits for Deception”.

The dirty tricks used by the corrupt global mafia go a lot further than that, of course, and a good example came from documents just released by the Irish government under its 30-year rule, we said.

These included a 1987 letter from the loyalist terrorist group the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) addressed to the Irish PM Charles Haughey.

The loyalists claimed their organisation was used by MI5 and MI6, backed up by British Army special forces, from 1972 to 1978 and again in 1985.

The UVF told Haughey: “In 1985 we were approached by a MI5 officer attached to the NIO (Northern Ireland Office) and based in Lisburn, Alex Jones was his supposed name… He asked us to execute you”.

The Acorn remarked: “The existence of these pseudogangs and psyops, and the way they are deployed by the secret state, is key to understanding the world around us”.

2019: THE VIOLENCE OF THE SYSTEM

A massive people’s uprising in France made the headlines in The Acorn throughout 2019.

We explained: “The Gilets Jaunes, or Yellow Vests, movement in France is the most important political phenomenon to emerge in Western Europe so far this century.

“It has smashed through the barriers of political stagnancy and sterility which so often disempower and stifle spontaneous expressions of popular discontent”.

I had been already covering the revolt on the Winter Oak site and elsewhere (such as the Morning Star, oddly enough!) at the end of 2018 – you can find a collection of various articles and translations here, if you’re interested.

A January 20 Acorn piece reported: “For the tenth weekend running, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets all across France in the Gilets Jaunes or Yellow Vests revolt against neoliberal capitalism – and this in the face of unprecedented state violence and oppression.

“President Macron’s pathetic attempt to take back the initiative with his ‘Grand National Debate’ has been exposed as a sham, with his regional roadshows protected by armies of riot police – deployed to keep at bay the people he is supposed to be listening to!”

We commented that it had been interesting to see the system in panic mode in France, being forced to work through every step of the emergency disinformation procedures as the Gilets Jaunes revolt gathered more and more momentum.

“To start with, the Gilets Jaunes were just a passing nuisance. Then they were right-wing extremists, or left-wing extremists if the message was being aimed at a right-wing audience. After that, they were violent thugs and village idiots. Then it was all a flop and dying out. Then they were suddenly threatening armed revolution. They subsequently switched back to being fascists again…”

In short, the message to ordinary French people from “the well-groomed and arrogant” Parisian ruling class was “that they were nothing but uneducated riff-raff who deserved to be shot”.

And there was a very real physical side to this contempt. We revealed: “The first six months of the Gilets Jaunes uprising alone saw 2,448 protesters injured. Of these, 24 lost an eye and five had a hand blown off by police grenades”.

We were beginning to see more clearly the nasty entity behind the lies and the violence in France and elsewhere.

“Let’s be clear about this: the system exists. You can call it what you like – The Establishment, The Thing, The Matrix or the Industrial-Military-Prison-Propaganda-Complex – but it exists.

“It is the system that is always looking at new ways to monitor us, to control us, to infiltrate our lives, to direct our thoughts, to crush the tiniest possibilities of our freedom and resistance.

“It is also the system, of course, that insists that the system does not exist, that we should not confuse the many trees of its oppression and control with an overall wood that could be termed an entity.

“It says that anyone who talks of the system is a conspiracy theorist liable to start spouting all kinds of deranged, maybe anti-semitic, nonsense.

“The system says this because it knows full well that the rest of us – the powerless nobodies it so despises – will never be able to effectively challenge the system if we don’t even know that it exists”.

In another article, we said the scenario the system fears most is that people stop believing the myth that we live in democracies.

“Instead they see reality as it, as it has been for a long time: a criminal gang of professional liars, manipulators and thieves successfully holding millions of people in a state of thralldom, and being prepared to use unlimited violence to hold on to their power”.

Under the heading “Everybody expected the Neoliberal Inquisition” we looked at certain smears that were increasingly being used against dissidents.

We remarked: “Once accused of ‘anti-semitism’, the victim is faced with a dilemma similar to that of the famous ducking stool – if you drown you are not a witch and if you don’t then you are a witch and you have to be burned alive.

“If the person accused of anti-semitism admits guilt and apologises, not only will they not be left alone, but they will also have surrendered important political ground and will have set a precedent for the next absurd denunciation.

“If they deny having said anything wrong, this denial will be regarded as a further offence of perhaps even greater severity”.

Responding to a somewhat ridiculous French smear attack on anti-industrial thinking, we commented: “We are supposed to believe that it is industrial society which stands for life and health, thanks to the marvels of its pharmaceutical industry, and that it is its heartless opponents who threaten to bring death and misery to millions”.

We identified several pseudo-left gatekeepers of the system who “try to define the limits of our resistance, tell us all when we are going too far, whip us back into line when we begin to question the official narrative of infinite industrial growth, of humanitarian warfare and emancipatory technology”.

Not only did we report on the 2019 anti-WEF protests at Davos, where demonstrators had declared that “the infinite greed for profit and power that is seen at the Forum in Davos has no limits”, but we also later relayed the call-out for the January 2020 mobilisation.

The Acorn informed our readers about protests against the G7 in the Basque city of Biarritz, involving the Gilets Jaunes, about protests in Berlin against the European Police Congress and about a UK national day of action against Israeli-owned weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems.

We covered opposition to the mining industry in Brazil and the threat that “the bright blue seas of western Greece will be turned into oil fields” thanks to the government selling vast areas of sea and land for oil and gas drilling by companies like Energean, “with close ties to the Israeli government and Israeli corporations”.

Our bulletin also drew attention to an eye-opening account of life for workers in China: “Uprooted from the land, peasant-workers have to take jobs in the electronic, garment, construction, or service industries whose low wages force them to work punishing hours of overtime. They live in crowded dormitories, under CCTV surveillance and the constant threat of eviction if they protest”.

We described the threat of new industrial destruction in Mexico, with schemes including the Mayan Train, the “development” of the Tehuantepec Isthmus and massive commercial tree farms.

Resistance was expected. In a letter to their sisters across the world, Zapatista women declared: “We’re going to fight with all our strength and everything we’ve got against these mega-projects. If these lands are conquered, it will be upon the blood of Zapatista women”.

We further reported on grassroots resistance to the widespread destruction of trees in Indian megacities Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi and the sale of forests for profit in Guatemala, using the fake-green Trojan Horse of so-called “Protected Areas”.

Trees were also threatened by a proposed dam in South Wales. Said campaigners: “It will devastate our beautiful woods and destroy ancient woodland”.

And the same was true of a project to build a theme park on the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond in Scotland. This would have been built on public land sold off to the developer.

Commented the Save Loch Lomond campaign: “This is about protecting our world-famous environment but it’s also about the fundamental question of who owns Scotland and who our beautiful country is for”.

In September 2024, by the way, the campaign finally saw off the dreadful proposals. Hurray!

We also explored why more than 110,000 trees had been chopped down in three years by councils across the UK.

We concluded that it was not a coincidence that cities like Newcastle, Edinburgh and Sheffield, where thousands of healthy trees had been massacred, were all 5G trial areas.

Campaigners were warning that it looked as if “millions of trees” faced being felled in the UK alone to ensure continuous signalling for self-driving buses, cars and trains and all the rest of the smart nightmare.

The Acorn covered resistance to the 5G roll-out in Australia and Switzerland and the UK – plus notably in France, where “guerrilla warfare” had begun against the system’s “smart” fascism.

And we called for a “final push against UK fracking” after a legal victory that led campaigner Joe Corre to tell the media: “I’m pretty confident we’re going to win this war, and we are not going to have fracking in this country”.

Our April bulletin saw the first appearance of our current masthead, declaring The Acorn to be an organic radical bulletin, following the launch of our sister organic radicals website.

We also featured the first in the series of organic radical profiles which continues to this day, showcasing Judi Bari.

That month also saw a break-through moment for us in terms of our relationship to the “climate” movement that was gathering a lot of media attention.

In January we had already been asking why “climate change” was taking up such a large part of the “environmental” movement’s attention, when there were so many real and obvious threats to nature to be addressed.

We mused: “Surely it couldn’t be because the climate change movement is being insidiously manipulated by elements of industrial capitalism itself?

“Could it really be the case that genuine environmental activists, arrested and locked up for their courageous actions, are being used as human cannon fodder for a global marketing campaign?”

In March we were on the same track and noted: “Disturbing evidence keeps emerging about the way the environmental movement, particularly the climate justice element, is being hijacked and manipulated by big business”.

By April 11 we had somehow relapsed into naivety and were generously giving “climate” movement Extinction Rebellion the benefit of the doubt and publicising its protests!

But 12 days later we published a special Acorn report about what we were now calling “Rebellion Extinction”.

This stated: “The integrity of XR as an organisation was dealt a fatal blow on Easter Monday, when its Twitter account started plugging links to a new website called XR Business, which had been announced in a letter to The Times“.

We took a look at various dodgy individuals who had signed the letter supporting XR, which included Paul Polman, the former head of Unilever who had just, as I now know, joined the board of trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation, part of the Rothschild empire.

By the end of the year we were writing about “Greta Thunberg: the billionaires’ favourite”.

The global figurehead for the climate movement had been credited by Time magazine with creating “a worldwide movement calling for urgent change”.

But the kind of change involved, we noted, had been indicated earlier that year when Thunberg was pictured, alongside Jane Goodall, in front of a sign promoting the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” so favoured by the Davos Gang.

2020: WE ARE THE 99%!

The Acorn began 2020 merrily pursuing the same issues that had interested us in previous years.

We reported on a battle in Amsterdam to protect a green space threatened by the Schiphol Area Development Company, on Indian forest dwellers’ movements, and growing opposition to a massive sand and gravel quarry in Essex, England.

We also warned about the further industrialisation of our food, with the announcement of “the fruit of the future”, which would be artificial and “made out of 3D-printed cellulose skins and filled with a healthy mix of vitamins and minerals”.

We asked: “Is this the future we really want? If not, what are we collectively going to do about it? These are surely the big questions for the decade to come…”

Coverage continued of the Yellow Vest rebellion: “No sooner had the Gilets Jaunes revolt in France begun, at the end of 2018, than the corporate media confidently informed their public that it was running out of steam and would soon disappear.

“At the start of 2020, not only has the revolt not disappeared but it has evolved and grown into something even more powerful and widespread.

“A huge movement of strikes and protests against the regime’s ‘work-until-you-drop’ pension ‘reforms’ has swept across French society”.

In February anti-system activists, including Gilets Jaunes, invaded the Paris HQ of BlackRock, taking the police by surprise and barricading themselves in the building for the whole morning.

We commented: “This infamous multinational corporation, very close to President Emmanuel Macron, makes billions in profits on privatised pensions.

“Coincidentally, of course, Macron’s neoliberal regime is pushing through controversial pension ‘reforms’ in the face of massive opposition”.

I can add today that BlackRock is part of the global racket operated by the Rothschilds, the bankers of whom Macron is famously a (former) employee…

In other news, we announced that the so-called “green” agenda of the World Economic Forum (WEF) was coming under attack as its annual January Davos summit got underway.

“A new international campaign has been launched which alleges the WEF is guilty of spearheading a bid by corporations and financial institutions to ‘monetize’ nature on a global scale.

“An online statement from the ‘No Deal for Nature‘ alliance, whose slogan is ‘life is not a commodity’, has already won the support of several academics and campaigners”.

The campaign was warning that the package of policies known as the “New Deal for Nature” was being promoted not only by the WEF, but also by the United Nations (UN), the World Bank and the controversial WWF.

The UN had admitted it wanted to “advance a new political agenda” involving “increased promotion of innovative financing that supports green infrastructure”.

We noted that the New Deal for Nature “is an entirely corporate phenomenon, which uses the language of ‘sustainability’ to promote a 21st century version of the state-backed capitalism historically favoured by the Fascist and Nazi regimes.

“We hear talk of ‘exponential opportunities’, ‘the investment of trillions of dollars’, and a ‘transformation unlike anything humankind has experienced before… a fusion of technologies that is blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres’.

“One thing that is totally clear to us is that this scam is corporate to its core. It has nothing to do with either ‘nature’ or ‘people’ and everything to with racking up state-facilitated big business profiteering, exploitation and control”.

Even at this stage we were coming under attack from “anarchists” who objected to us exposing the fake-green climate scam as well as, it appeared, US-led imperialist designs on Iran.

A sniffy individual from Freedom Press in London told us: “Sorry but I have very little time for conspiracy theorists, and you have proven time after time that you are one. Will give you a mute now, can’t see why I should bother any more”.

We remarked that we had great difficulty in identifying with so-called radicals who “appear to be incapable of critical thinking or independent thought, preferring to adhere slavishly to the latest groupthink orthodoxy, even when this makes no sense at all”.

This phenomenon was, of course, soon going to get considerably worse!

By the time the March edition of The Acorn came out, something had changed in the world and we were writing about “fighting the coronazi clampdown”.

We were, a little prematurely, encouraged by news of rioting in Brussels and looting in Sicily and Panama and declared: “Resistance looks set to spread as the clampdown continues”.

Right from the start of Covid, The Acorn wasn’t mincing its words.

“We don’t want your ‘new normal’. We don’t want the ‘smart’ fascist future you have been trying to sell us for so long and which you are now trying to force upon us with lies, fear and all your infrastructures of control.

“We don’t want to be little submissive cogs in your machineries of greed and exploitation. We don’t want to be told how to live and what to think.

“We want you to know that we are free and will remain so unto the grave. We want you to realise that when our time comes, we will make you pay for what you are doing to us. And we want to remind you that there are very many more of us than of you”.

We wrote: “There had already been signs, before the coronavirus panic, that neoliberalism was shedding its fake-democratic mask and was preparing to switch to fascist mode. And now we are well on the way. The global ruling elite have declared war on our freedom”.

And: “These are not easy times in which to be alive if, like us, you cherish freedom and truth. The last few months have seen us dragged into a nightmarish totalitarian world.

“No sooner had ‘lockdown’ been lifted, than masks were imposed. The spectre of a compulsory ‘vaccine’ hovers darkly on the horizon.

“All this symbolism of submission, of craven conformism and dehumanised obedience, would be hard to take at the best of times. But when all of this naked authoritarianism is justified by blatant lies, the situation becomes still more outlandlish”.

As we should have suspected from previous exchanges, the “anarchist” response to the Covid coup was generally shocking, as I explained in a couple of articles on the Winter Oak site and another in The Acorn, where I expressed my disbelief at how supposed freedom-lovers could “suddenly become authoritarian robots, mindlessly repeating the lies and demands of the system”.

But we weren’t entirely alone in our stance and The Acorn ran a piece by our anarchist comrades at the South Essex Heckler, who warned: “People who may think they’re doing the right thing by supporting restrictions on movement and gatherings, as well as increased tracking and surveillance are actually supporting the creation and enhancement of an apparatus that will completely screw our lives and freedoms”.

We also featured a contribution from Marion, a long-time anarchist from Brighton, who commented: “I wonder when anarchism stopped meaning people taking charge of their life and started meaning submitting to whatever the authorities decide is right”.

We reported how, in the face of the craven Covid compliance of much of the “left”, the wave of angry opposition to the Covid coup was flooding across the usual political divides, notably in Germany.

And we added: “In the USA, there have been sizeable protests against the shutdown. The flag-waving and pro-business elements in this libertarian wave are a little off-putting for us, to be honest! But the determination of large numbers of Americans to stand up to tyranny is heartening.

“Could it be that, from now on, the only political fault line that really matters is between those who support and bow down to the new life-crushing global techno-dictatorship and those who rise up to resist it?”

In August we were expressing hope that people were finally seeing through the lies and “are ready to stand up to the 21st century tyranny of newnormalism”.

While we focused on London demonstrations, we reported significant protests in Madrid, the Canary Islands, Warsaw and Montreal.

In September we wrote: “From Belgrade to Montreal, from Dublin to Warsaw, from Auckland to Hull, thousands upon thousands of people are saying ‘no’ to the capitalo-fascist new world normal.

“We are delighted to report that so many protests are breaking out, that we can hardly keep up any more…”

These included Covid resistance in Croatia, Switzerland, USA, Canada, the UK and France, where the Gilets Jaunes were back on the streets.

On September 27 we brought out a special Acorn photo report of a massive London demo by our friend Max Hogster, entitled “We are the 99%!”.

We noted that the Met Police had assaulted the peaceful crowd on the basis that a “risk assessment” had been breached and we commented: “They seemed blissfully unaware of any irony in weighing in with truncheons to attack perfectly safe and healthy people under the pretext of protecting ‘health and safety’!”

In October we homed in on Italy: “‘Libertà, libertà, libertà!’ they have been shouting across the peninsula, from Lombardy down to Sicily. ‘Freedom, freedom, freedom!'”.

But the battle for freedom had also broken out on the streets of Barcelona, Prague, Warsaw, Brussels, Berlin, Dublin, Toronto, New York, Brisbane and Melbourne.

We added: “There have been dangerous outbreaks of democracy in places including Leeds, Belfast, Edinburgh, Bournemouth and Liverpool, which saw two protests in two days. And, of course, the big events in London continue”.

And we remarked: “Our international revolt against the would-be slavemasters will come neither from left nor from right, but from below!”

The next issue appeared in December and we related: “Since our last Acorn bulletin came out, there have been thousands on the streets of the UK. This has not just been in London, but also in the likes of Manchester, Bristol, Liverpool, Brighton, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Neath, Stroud and Bournemouth.

“All over Europe, too, people are rising up against the 0.001% and their police state. From Rome to Leipzig, they have been showing their dissent”.

We listed resistance – and repression – in Berlin, Paris, Montpellier, Nice, Bordeaux, Florence, Cosenza, Reggio Calabria, and Genoa, with protests sweeping Denmark, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, Albania, Ireland, Austria, Serbia, Argentina, Malawi, South Africa, Australia and the USA.

In parallel to all the demonstrations there had been direct action, with 5G phone masts torched in the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands.

We said: “If we all hold our nerve in the face of everything, we will prevail! Together, in joy and determination, we will defeat the dictatorship”.

The last bulletin of the year also announced the creation of Winter Oak’s Great Reset page, featuring a link to the much-read essay ‘Klaus Schwab and his Great Fascist Reset‘, which had been published that October.

The Acorn continued to keep readers abreast of matters not directly related to Covid, such as calls to physically oppose the EU-China Summit being held in Leipzig and news of resistance to the HS2 rail line between London and Birmingham, described by campaigners as “one of the largest and most damaging infrastructure projects our country has ever seen – representative of everything we are seeking to change within this toxic system”.

We also reported that Wangan and Jagalingou tribal warriors in Australia had served mining giant Adani with an eviction notice for illegally trespassing on their land with its Carmichael Coal Mine, declaring: “This eviction notice marks the start of a new phase of our resistance to Adani’s destruction of land, water and culture”.

But much of our coverage clearly tied in with our opposition to the Great Reset and its Fourth Industrial Revolution.

We plugged the forthcoming “Three Days Against Techno-Sciences” gathering in Italy, included an article about resistance to 5G from our regular contributor Jan Goodey, looked at research into Bill Gates by Jacob Levich and cited Vanessa Beeley’s warning that behind the COVID-19 drama was “an entire pharmaceutical complex potentially protecting its own interests over any genuine concerns for the health and welfare of global populations”. This involved The Gates Foundation, the World Bank and the British Government, she said.

We referred to a very thorough analysis by Iain Davis on the Off-Guardian site presenting evidence “which strongly suggests the State and the MSM, adhering to a globalist agenda, have colluded to mislead the public into believing the COVID 19 threat is far greater than it actually is”.

And we quoted Quarantyranny, a remarkable 30-minute video from the Book of Ours team in the USA: “This is a war. Not a war on a pandemic but a war on the people. This is corporate authoritarianism. This is fascism. We are nothing more than torture victims at the hands of these emotional terrorists”.

We also pointed people towards translations of the work of German Covid dissidents and 22 medical experts whose opinions on Covid contradicted the official narrative, provided info about the environmental dangers of all the disposable face masks as well as the ill effects of wearing them and introduced Alison McDowell’s crucial insights into the “new game where the poor can be gambled on as investment commodities”, aka impact slavery.

The Acorn also recommended an article by Gregory Sinaisky on ‘Fabricating a Pandemic – Who Could Organize It and Why’.

He wrote: “Foundations often collaborate closely with the CIA, but it would be incorrect to say that the foundations are controlled by the CIA. It is rather that same people who control the foundations, also control the government – including the CIA.

“The plutocrats have huge resources and many thousands of trained professionals to perform these tasks. Therefore, they are very likely to have the appropriate tools required to create a false pandemic”.

2021: TIDE TURNING, FOG LIFTING

“The bad guys are winning” warned Peter Hotez on the Nature website in the USA in the spring of 2021.

By this, the propagandist meant that citizens across the world were successfully seeing off the full tyranny that the global mafia had hoped to impose under cover of “Covid”.

Hotez, the proud recipient of a B’nai B’rith “distinguished achievement award“, called for “a high-level counteroffensive” against the “peril” of people wising up to what was going on, describing those of us concerned about the Covid jab to be “new destructive forces” involved in “anti-science” and comparable to “global threats such as terrorism, cyber attacks and nuclear armament”!

As The Acorn remarked: “A year after the start of the Covid crisis, the fault lines of major social conflict are becoming apparent.

“On the one side, authorities are ramping up the repression as they seek to push us all permanently into their New Normal of techno-fascist global slavery.

“On the other side, as the Great Reset agenda becomes more widely noticed and understood, resistance is growing, albeit largely under the radar of corporate media subservient to the dictatorship”.

A big focus of that Acorn year was a series of massive demonstrations in London.

Overseas observers were noting “increasing signs that the British public are growing frustrated with the constraint” and seeing that there was “palpable restlessness among members of the public”.

After the enormous June 27 demo in the UK capital we cited a report by Joanna Sharp in the Off-Guardian explaining that these demonstrators were a million miles away from the usual stereotypes.

“It is hard to generalise about age, but the majority seemed over thirty, though many with their children; both young and early teens. In terms of class and ethnicity, they are the most diverse human gatherings I have ever seen, and probably the most representative of the UK population.

“The powerful know that anti-lockdown resistance is equivalent to the French Yellow Vests. They are not protesting for abstract political reasons, they are fighting – peacefully for now – for their lives, their livelihoods, for their children and grandchildren – and they are not going away”.

We noted: “The Freedom March was ignored, minimised or maligned by the mainstream media, whose subservience to the official agenda has reached surreal depths”.

We reported on resistance and state repression in the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, France, Australia, New Zealand, Lebanon, Canada and the USA as well as in Germany, Portugal, Sweden, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Ireland, Bulgaria and Serbia.

In Romania thousands of protesters took to the streets of Bucharest, chanting “Freedom!” and “Down with the mask,” and bearing the message “Say no to forced vaccination!”

In Warsaw, Poland, protesters, mostly without masks, carried banners with slogans like “Stop compulsory vaccination”, “Stop the plandemic” and “Stop genetic therapy”.

Police used stun guns and tear gas against the freedom campaigners. A government minister said it was “scandalous” that they had defied Covid rules and talked of “zero tolerance” of such dissent in future.

On a contrasting note, we wrote: “A festive element is also becoming increasingly apparent, as the movement overspills traditional ‘political’ forms and turns into a deeply-felt revolt of life against the Great Reset transhumanist death-cult.

“This spirit of resistance is very encouraging, whether it takes the form of a street party in New York, a supermarket rave in the Netherlands, or the ‘Still Standing For Culture’ initiative in Belgium which is set to defy restrictions and reopen 150 venues”.

In France, the carnival flavour to the defiance of totalitarianism came with unauthorised pro-freedom festivities in places such as Marseilles and Les Vans in Ardèche (I was at that one!).

There were also flashmob performances of the song Danser Encore by HK et Les Saltimbanks (who had performed at Les Vans), an anthem of freedom and joie de vivre, which spread further afield to Réunion, the French-ruled island in the Indian Ocean, Brussels (with the actual band), Switzerland, Barcelona, Madrid, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy.

As the year went on, there were growing protests against the vaccine passports that were now being imposed, such as in Brussels, across Italy, where it was called the “green pass”, and notably all over France, as I detailed in a series of on-the-spot reports on the Winter Oak site.

In November we reported: “In Rotterdam, Netherlands, angry protests against vaccine passports broke out”.

We said revolt also flared up in the Dutch capital, The Hague, where surveillance cameras were pulled down and smashed by a jubilant crowd and the unrest then spread to Leeuwarden, Groningen and Enschede.

“The same day a vast crowd assembled across the border in Brussels, Belgium, and so-called ‘violence’ occurred as people stood up to the local hired enforcers of brutal global authoritarianism.

“The weekend saw a remarkable and unprecedented show of opposition to the Great Reset tyranny, in countless countries across the world.

“There were particularly impressive turn-outs in Australia, where more than mere ‘thousands’ took to the streets. Reports suggest that there were 500,000 or more in Melbourne, which has endured the worst levels of repression, at least 300,000 in Sydney, 250,000 or more in Perth, 150,000 in Brisbane, 100,000 in Adelaide and 30,000 in Cairns”.

As the year came to an end, we detailed how thousands of people were still out on the streets, notably all across Germany, but also in Spain, Austria, Guadeloupe, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Greece, Denmark, Peru, Australia, New Zealand, Israel and even Siberia.

The battle against the vaccine passports was successful (for now), to the evident anger of the ruling clique.

We wrote: “The global technocratic coup d’état known as the Great Reset has been planned for at least a decade, probably longer.

“The mafia in power are therefore not going to abandon it lightly, especially since they are very aware that they only have a narrow window of opportunity to push it through on the back of the Covid pantomime”.

Comments like those of Hotez cropped up time and time again, with demands from politicians for critics of the jabs to be thrown off social media, not to say excluded from society.

Behind much of this was a shadowy organisation called the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which, despite the American spelling of “Centre/Center” in its title, is a UK-based organisation.

We observed: “The CCDH previously came into prominence for its role in stoking up the Labour Party ‘anti-semitism’ controversy in the UK. Its patron is Rachel Riley, the pro-Israel TV presenter who notoriously smeared Jeremy Corbyn”.

In an interview shared by The Acorn, dissident artist Jordan Henderson pointed out that the Covid operation was all about the subjugation of the general populace.

He said: “The subjugation of a human or group of humans by another human or group of humans is the common denominator to those things universally regarded as evil; murder, torture, rape, genocide, and slavery, all involve one human or group of humans being forced under the authority of another human or group of humans”.

We cited a warning from Million Belay and Bridget Mugambe that “the massive resources of the Gates Foundation have had an outsized influence on African scientists and policymakers, with the result that food systems on our continent are becoming ever more market-oriented and corporate-controlled”.

We also described how, following the mysterious death of Tanzania’s anti-lockdown president John Magufuli, the BBC reported with satisfaction that the country would now be “put back on the global map”.

A translation was provided by Jeremy Loffredo and Whitney Webb: “The country’s future is now set to be determined by Tanzanian politicians with deep ties to the oligarch-beholden United Nations and the World Economic Forum”.

We also looked at author Naomi Klein, describing how the once-influential figure in the anti-globalisation/anti-capitalism movement “is no longer warning us about the global ruling class’s ‘Shock Doctrine’ but, cynically and hypocritically, helping to advance it”.

We tried to amplify the dissident voices of Jennifer Bilek – “transhumanism is the single most important thing to resist if we are to stop the deconstruction of our species” – and of Henna Maria – “the future of humanity is literally in our hands… We will not be silenced and we will not allow our children to become the slaves of a pharmaceutical technocratic dictatorship!”

And we passed on Tessa Lena’s alarm-call: “We really are in the middle of a power grab by billionaires!”

The Acorn reported on a call-out to resist the G7 in Cornwall and on Landscapes of Freedom’s mass trespass for the right to roam across the South Downs in Sussex.

We highlighted a wave of French sabotage attacks on the 5G network and also expressed our solidarity with activists from 325 magazine, who had met with police-state repression on account of their uncompromising opposition to techno-fascism.

Dutch police raided a data center and seized their nostate.net server as part of a criminal investigation into “terrorism”.

Said 325: “This was not just an attack by the Dutch police, but was done in coordination with the Counter Terrorism Unit of the United Kingdom in connection with their recent repressive attacks upon the anarchist circles in this country.

“It is also no coincidence that this repressive attack occurs now after our recent publication of 325 #12 – Against the Fourth and Fifth Industrial Revolutions.

“This publication that we feel hits to the core of what the states and capitalism are pushing forward, before and even more so now, under the cover of the Covid-19 pandemic, is a direct threat to their plans of subjugation, of robotosizing and automizing everything”.

Not for the first or last time, we attempted to explain the complicated UNSDG-linked financial plan behind the system’s techno-totalitarian agenda.

We wrote: “In so many ways, the whole Covid ‘pandemic’ drama has been one massive smokescreen. Even the controversy and battles over lockdowns, masks and medication conceal a much bigger and much darker operation.

“Ultimately, World Economic Forum boss Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset is about launching a new era in which 99.9% of the world’s population are locked into a digital slavery system.

“To understand what lies behind this, and how it would be profitable for the 0.01% parasite class, it is crucial to understand impact investment”.

As Alison McDowell explained: “Financiers are going to claim they’re doing positive things with their portfolios by configuring asset allocations to align with ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance), and that’s where the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals come in.

“It is the sustainability goals that will open the door to smart city infrastructure with facial recognition, cashless economies, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence”.

We also pointed readers towards a podcast by Taschi in Australia. This exposed, amidst talk of a “shadow mental health pandemic” due to the effects of lockdowns on kids and teenagers, an impact investment firm called Orygen which aimed to cash in what it called “mental capital”.

And who were Orygen’s partners in their lucrative bid to “improve global youth mental health”? Yep, that’s right. The WEF.

We summed up at the time: “While 2020 was a year of shock, fear, outrage and anger against the Blitzkrieg declared on humanity under the Great Reset, 2021 had a slightly different flavour.

“Those previous elements were still present of course, often renewed and amplified by the latest lies and impositions of the global mafia.

“But there was also an increasing sense of clarity, a feeling that certain long-held hunches were being confirmed, certain long-identified pieces in the jigsaw fitting together to provide an illuminating overview, that the fog was finally lifting on the sordid reality of the contemporary world”.

The Acorn listed “Ten Things We Have Learned During the Covid Coup”, which are worth revisiting here:

1. Our political system is hopelessly corrupt. Virtually all politicians are hopelessly corrupt. No political party can be trusted. They all can be, and have been, bought.
2. Democracy is a sham. It has been a sham for a very long time. There will never be any real democracy when money and power amount to the same thing.
3. The system will stop at nothing to hold on to its power and, if possible, increase its levels of control and exploitation. It has no scruples. No lie is too outrageous, no hypocrisy too nauseating, no human sacrifice too great.
4. So-called radical movements are usually nothing of the sort. From whatever direction they claim to attack the system, they are just pretending to do so and serve to channel discontent in directions which are harmless to the power clique and even useful to its agendas.
5. Any “dissident” voice you have ever heard of through corporate media is probably a fake. The system does not hand out free publicity to its actual enemies.
6. Most people in our society are cowards. They will jettison all the fine values and principles which they have been loudly boasting about all their lives merely to avoid the slightest chance of public criticism, inconvenience or even minor financial loss.
7. The mainstream media is nothing but a propaganda machine for the system and those journalists who work for it have sold their sorry souls, placing their (often minimal) writing skills entirely at the disposition of Power.
8. Police are not servants of the public but servants of a powerful and extremely wealthy minority which seeks to control and exploit the public for its own narrow and greedy interests.
9. Scientists cannot be trusted. They will use the hypnotic power of their white coats and authoritative status for the benefit of whoever funds their work and lifestyle. He who pays the piper calls the tune.
10. Progress is a misleading illusion. The “progress” of increasing automisation and industrialisation does not go hand in hand with a progress in the quality of human life, but in fact will “progressively” reduce it to the point of complete extinction.

2022: DEFYING THE GLOBAL PSYCHOPATHS

“Everywhere, just everywhere, the rumble of discontent and defiance has been growing louder and louder,” declared The Acorn in 2022.

We added: “As the system ratchets up its full-spectrum assault on our lives and our freedom, protests and uprisings are breaking out all over the world and against all the various aspects of the Great Reset, whether rising bills and prices, draconian laws or land grabs.

“This unprecedented popular revolt has confused some journalists, with one report on a massive demo in Prague claiming that ‘the far right and far left joined forces to rally against the country’s pro-Western Czech government’. But in reality, everywhere, we are simply seeing the people rising up against global plutofascism!”

One of the biggest fronts in this war was in Canada, with the Truckers for Freedom convoy.

We wrote: “The huge crowds of ordinary people lining the highways and, at the time of writing, packing the streets of Ottawa, have given hope to dissidents across the world.

“Needless to say, the system has launched a counter-offensive of smears and lies. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, it has again wheeled out its tired ‘far-right white supremacist’ meme to try to discredit this very broad-based freedom movement.

“This magic smearing wand cannot work for ever. The more widely and inappropriately it is used, the more clearly it reveals itself for what it is”.

Further south, the roadblocks had still been springing up in Guadeloupe, as the French colony continued its uprising against vaccine passports and general social misery.

Even further south, determined freedom protesters succeeded in forcing the Bolivian state to suspend the requirements for vaccine passports in public places.

Europe notably saw a huge January demo targeting the EU in Brussels, during which angry protesters forced riot cops to run away into the city’s metro system.

Protests in France and Germany were continuing and people were on the streets for freedom in Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, the Basque Country, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Romania, Bulgaria and Poland.

Australians displayed their resistance to the new technocratic world regime in Brisbane, Perth and Melbourne and in the UK the popular opposition which had been in evidence since 2020 kept going strong with big protests in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow.

We said: “A clear message has been sent to the World Economic Forum and its gang of worldwide criminals”.

The good news, we added later, was that “the narrative is cracking on every front” and we shared a heartening video of students at AgroParisTech in France denounce the fake-green industry they had been trained to serve, calling for mass “desertion” and saying they “refuse to serve this system”.

The Acorn also covered the eventually-successful resistance to a Center Parcs plan to build a 900-lodge “holiday village” in ancient woodland in West Sussex, England.

And we reported that all those who had been struggling for the best part of a decade against the threat of fracking had breathed a sigh of relief when energy firm Cuadrilla, which had met spirited public resistance at Balcombe and elsewhere, announced that it was permanently abandoning its UK shale gas sites.

Meanwhile, we noted that some clued-up groups had been targeting specific Great Reset infrastructure with their protests.

In Gloucester, England, campaigners braved pouring rain to voice their opposition to a smart city project, while in France, a touring “Technopolice caravan” was warning people of the threat of surveillance society and protesters disguised as “chimpanzees of the future” disrupted a transhumanist event in Lille.

We also relayed the news that “a Bill Gates Foundation supermarket in the Netherlands that focuses on new-age foods like plant protein meat has spontaneously caught fire in the middle of the night”.

With Klaus Schwab at Davos hailing “the global agenda” that would improve – or bring about? – “the state of the world”, we quoted Michael Driver as saying: “Technology has deluded the Davos drone into believing he has a tool of the gods. A hubris as old as man…

“The opposition is making the flawed assumption that this project is doable. In fact, the future is resistant to shaping. What we should all be preparing for is the failure of the WEF’s programme. This should be a cause of profound optimism”.

However, another element complicated the overall situation in 2022.

We observed in March: “The weeks since our last Acorn bulletin have seen a dramatic shift in the system’s narrative.

“While the Covid story remains ongoing, it has largely been replaced by the frenzied hysteria over events in Ukraine.

“It seems rather convenient that, at the precise moment that the ‘pandemic’ scam was unravelling and the Great Resist against this global coup growing greater than ever, attention so suddenly switched elsewhere!”

Referring to an astute report by Winter Oak contributor Najm Al-Dīn, we said: “The Ukraine-Russia conflict clearly represents a continuation, by other means, of the Great Reset agenda and will help push forward all the technocrat slavemasters’ pet projects from ‘green’ energy to lab-grown food and, of course, their holy grail of compulsory digital identities for all”.

We warned readers not to fall into the trap of taking sides: “It is possible, after all, to be aware at one and the same time of NATO’s provocative expansionism and of the historical links between the militarist Putin regime and the World Economic Forum, which saw a WEF Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution being set up in Russia as recently as 2021”.

We stressed: “Development is still destruction even when it is called ‘sustainable’. Bankers are still bankers, whether they have offices in London, New York or Moscow. A ‘multipolar world order’ is still a world order and still very much the enemy of humankind”.

It was pleasing to see that the inspirational anti-globalist Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico, shared our position.

Having converged on the city of San Cristobal de las Casas, in their biggest demonstration for many a year, they declared their opposition to both the Russian invasion of Ukraine and NATO imperialism.

“There are big capital interests at stake, on both sides. As Zapatistas, we do not support one state or another, but those who fight for life against the system”.

The Acorn also drew attention to Iain Davis’s warning that elements of the Ukrainian military were “full-blown neo-Nazis”.

He said: “They continue to receive the unwavering support of NATO aligned governments and, in turn, these governments serve a globalist network of public-private partnerships”.

And we described an “anti-system convergence” uniting the fight for freedom and against war, notably in Italy and Germany.

Cause for concern was evidence of a land-grabbing exercise being carried out in the name of environmentalism and “reducing nitrogen emissions”, with agriculture its target.

As Najm Al-Dīn pointed out, food shortages “will offer a major boon to the synthetic biology industry as the convergence of digital technologies with material science and biology will radically transform the agricultural sector and encourage the adoption of plant-based and lab-grown alternatives on a global scale”.

We likewise quoted blogger The Feisty Adélie, who wrote: “A vast network of corporations and institutions works together to push the world into accepting synthetic food…

“From the perspective of appreciating nature as a perfect system, there really is nothing more profane than poisoning manure and replacing animal protein with lab grown meat”.

In reaction to this threat, Dutch farmers, inspired by the Canadian truckers, blocked city streets, motorways and airports and teamed up with German farmers to block border crossings.

Farmers in Italy were also in action, declaring: “We are not slaves, we are farmers!”

More land-grabbing, again under a false “green” flag, was going on in Africa, a central focus for the global mafia’s neo-imperialism.

We wrote: “Fortress or colonial conservation, set to expand massively if governments agree to protect 30% of the planet this year, is marketed to the public as a New Deal For Nature, a Paris Agreement for Nature or Nature Positive.

“In January, the Tanzanian government renewed efforts to seize 1,500 km² of legally registered village land from Maasai pastoralists, who have sustainably stewarded the area for generations”.

We explained that the government plans would displace more than 70,000 Maasai pastoralists from their ancestral land to create a wildlife corridor that would be used for trophy hunting and tourism.

The Acorn exposed the totalitarian agenda behind Smart Cities revealed in a brochure issued by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat).

We said the title of the 80-page publication was, in itself, disturbing: “Centering People in Smart Cities: A playbook for local and regional governments”.

And we commented: “Maybe the title of the brochure could be translated, in plain and truthful English, as ‘Imprisoning People in Digital Concentration Camps’?”

The brochure described a 2019 UN resolution stating that “digital technologies have the potential to facilitate efforts to accelerate human progress, and ensure that no one is left behind in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals”.

We noted that “accelerating human progress”, from the forked tongue of the global mafia, means nothing more than accelerating their control and profit by means of technological tools.

The Acorn explained: “Global power has used Covid to get us all used to online work, to QR codes, to the need for a digital identity in order to access state services.

“This process, aimed at locking us down in a panopticon of constant surveillance and total control, is set to rapidly accelerate in the years to come if we don’t manage to stop it.

“We are being pushed towards a Chinese-style social credit system, where everything that we consume and do in life is measured, calculated and evaluated by the authorities, with conformity rewarded and dissidence punished.

“This totalitarian nightmare is already being rolled out in Europe with the digital identity wallet championed by European Commission president Ursula Von der Leyen”.

We were being herded into “a world of artifice, sterility, emptiness and toxicity, built on a pathological craving for ever more wealth, power and control”.

Growing awareness of this threat, and of the global mafia behind it, was being countered by a #ThinkBeforeSharing campaign launched on the Unesco website.

We remarked: “Unesco is, of course, an agency of the United Nations, the global body which is pushing, with the World Bank and the World Economic Forum, the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 agenda, aka The Great Reset”.

Among the thought crimes highlighted as part of this inquisition, under the heading of “antisemitism“, was “linking an alleged conspiracy to Jewish individuals or groups (e.g. the Rothschild family or George Soros, a philanthropist) or the State of Israel”.

Alongside the threat of censorship, another widespread concern was the utter failure of what Cory Morningstar called “the Pfizer left” to mobilise against the system’s dictatorship.

She stressed: “The Western left abandoned the working class long ago. It now serves as a de facto lobby group for capital and corporate power”.

We also quoted Phil Shannon of the Left Lockdown Sceptics (now Real Left), who said: “The left needs to stop being suspicious about the word ‘freedom’ and it also needs to stop running an ideological purity ruler over the grass-roots makeup of the Covid freedom movement”.

And Christian Parenti concurred: “The left has turned its back on liberty. Worse yet, the left now campaigns against freedom. This has devastating social, political, and economic consequences; and the left’s failure to acknowledge and understand this will haunt it for years after the pandemic”.

Covid had made it plain that we had been left with an “opposition” that was not actually opposed to the agenda of the global mafia and had instead been co-opted to advance it, a “left” that refused to even knowledge the existence of that mafia’s system, let alone challenge it.

The Acorn stated: “It is hard to fully grasp the sheer monstrosity of the system under which we live. Most people simply cannot imagine that anyone could deliberately inflict untold misery and death on others, purely in pursuit of their own selfish goals.

“The powerful individuals who pull the strings in this world are not like us and therefore behave in ways which we cannot begin to fathom.

“They are psychopaths, utterly lacking in empathy for their fellow humans and addicted to the taste of blood and power.

“In their vile arrogance, they imagine themselves better than all the little people, all the peasants, all the nobodies and failures over whom they merrily trample in their quest for yet more wealth and glory”.

Over the months, we pointed readers towards a “razor-sharp analysis of the psychology of the Great Reset” from blogger Margaret Anna Alice, a fascinating radio interview with Justin Walker on the control exercised by the banking system and Whitney Webb’s scrutiny of Ghislaine Maxwell, accomplice of paedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, and her place at the centre of an “influence operation and web of businesses, linked to organized crime and intelligence”.

And we once again tried to spark some real opposition to the impact industry, which is such a key aspect of the global mafia’s Great Reset assault on our lives.

We wrote: “For those of us who do not move in the high-finance circles of global impact imperialism, it appears almost as an abstract subject, a disembodied economic theory with little connection to the real world.

“But, make no mistake, the victims of its ruthless and two-faced ‘philanthropic’ exploitation are very real and will also be very numerous, if this parasitical growth is allowed to take hold of the coming generations of humankind.

“The perpetrators are very real, too, even if they take care to mask the true nature of their activities from the general public”.

We explained that many of the worst impact vampires would shortly be gathering in London, heart of the impact empire, and we profiled some of those that would be attending.

I recommend a perusal, but to suffice to say they were – and no doubt still are – interested in “dedicated climate impact investing”, “private equity and venture capital”, “identifying and implementing opportunities for private sector-led economic growth” and “measurable, positive impact alongside compelling financial returns”.

And they had emerged from the criminocratic sewers of impact guru Ronald Cohen’s Big Society Capital and Bridges Fund Management, Citi Social Finance, the European Investment Fund, arms dealer Lockheed Martin, CDC Group (the UK state’s development finance institution), the International Finance Corporation, the UNDP Sustainable Finance Hub, the G7 Impact Taskforce, Allianz (the insurance giant that has backed both the Nazi and the Zionist genocides), JPMorgan, The Rockefeller Foundation and The World Bank.

The Acorn reflected: “It was not obvious to us all, to start with, that climate capitalism was linked to the Covid operation, that war in the Ukraine was linked to the Great Reset, that the pope was linked to the transhumanists, that left-wing ‘intersectionality’ was linked to the impact investment agenda, that Charles and the British ‘Crown’ were very close to the global financial mafia, that the United Nations and the World Bank had been working together for decades to deliberately impose a ‘development’ agenda that benefited financial interests at the expense of humankind and nature”.

But now it was clear, we said, that we were dealing with “a vile clique of power-hungry psychopaths lying and intimidating their way towards their goal of total global domination”.

2023: SMEARS AND REVELATIONS

The Acorn in 2023 featured some important deep dives into the toxic reality of a world run by global organised crime.

One of these was a special report entitled ‘Chemicals, cancer and corruption‘.

Having been contacted by a whistleblower who had worked for the British state, we revealed that “thousands of adults and children could be suffering from cancers and other serious illnesses because of the UK’s collusion with the powerful chemicals industry”.

Terry Edge told us: “I’ve tried to back out of this issue, but I won’t give up while the entire population is being poisoned for profit”.

The scandal involves the use of toxic flame retardants in home furnishing, which are used to meet legislation imposed in Britain and Ireland but not in Europe and the USA.

As well as poisoning people in their homes on a daily basis, with children particularly vulnerable, they also worsen the overall effects of fires, as they did in London’s 2017 Grenfell Tower disaster, which killed 72 people and left many others with long-term health problems.

When The Acorn looked to see who was behind this outrage, we discovered the involvement of the Israeli chemicals industry and of Vanguard, part of the Rothschilds’ global empire.

Another deep dive was my piece ‘Cogs of corruption and control‘, based on a look at a supposedly African “privately held” business called Vanguard Economics Ltd in Rwanda.

The firm’s interest in Rwanda was made clear by the way that it regarded young people, who make up more than 60% of the total population, as “valuable resources for the country’s development” – as human capital, in other words.

I discovered it had just launched the Vanguard Economics Young Impact Associate scheme in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, that its bosses had a background with the World Bank and the international “development” scene and that its “partners” very much reflected that same affiliation, including as they did the Rockefeller Foundation and the World Bank.

And I remarked: “One single multi-faceted self-concealing worldwide public-private empire is behind this vile agenda”.

Another important issue addressed in The Acorn was the alarming prospect of a world without mothers.

We reported: “The eugenicists behind test-tube babies and surrogate motherhood now have their sights on genetic engineering and artificial wombs which would cut women out of the reproductive process”.

We quoted an article by Silvia Guerini in a special edition of the French review Ecologie & Politique in which she argued that while the current justification for the technology was on medical grounds, helping people who could not have babies naturally, the long-term goal for the industry was no doubt to make artificial reproduction the norm.

Guerini warned: “The use of your own body would be considered a sign of social inferiority and poverty. A natural mother would be considered potentially irresponsible, like mothers who currently opt for home birth, refusing the hospitalisation and medicalisation of the process… Natural childbirth would first be treated as irresponsible, then criminal”.

When this excellent edition of Ecologie & Politique was published, four members of its own editorial committee publicly attacked the contents.

They labelled the contributors “reactionary”, tried to imply some kind of connection to “the rise of the extreme right” across Europe and dropped in a random reference to “nostalgists for fascism”.

All of this, we pointed out, was to say that the dissident contributors had “a moral duty to shut up and toe the authorised ‘left-wing’ line”.

The attacking authors insisted: “The alliance between feminist movements, LGBTQI movements and environmental movements can only be made by getting rid of a retrograde vision of nature, including human nature”.

It didn’t take much researching to discover that all four of these propagandists worked for the French state and associated “think tanks” or “foundations”.

The same kind of smears were also being rolled out against those opposing embryonic smart city projects in the UK.

This movement was gaining some momentum, with The Daily Mail describing “a growing revolt” against 15-minute cities and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, and the expanded Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) in London.

There was a big rally in Trafalgar Square, surveillance cameras were sabotaged here and there and in some places people set fire to the planters being used to close local roads.

Like the Covid freedom protests, these acts of public rebellion had to be tarnished and marginalised by the system.

The BBC was later forced to admit that its claim that “far-right” groups had been involved in protesting against ULEZ was nothing but a lie.

In Oxford, the presence of one or two members of the “far right” in a diverse protest allowed the same smear card to be played.

This alleged “threat” was also used to manipulate people from the “left” into forming a small “counter-protest”.

Another claim from the back-to-front “anti-fascist” camp was that anti-technocracy protesters had uttered “anti-semitic tropes”.

We wrote: “As we know, this is now applied to any reference to a threat from globalised central control or any mention of the Great Reset, openly launched by Charles III and yet still described as a ‘conspiracy theory’ by the powers-that-shouldn’t-be”.

Over in Commonwealth Canada, the system’s media were likewise desperately trying to depict opposition to 15-minute Cities as unfounded paranoia.

We looked at one ridiculous propaganda piece in a local paper which complained that “conspiracy theorists have expanded their scope beyond the COVID-19 pandemic and focused on another convoluted web of misinformation”.

And we also reported on an alert issued in Australia over the dangers of censorship, following the attack on dissident publication New Dawn by Commonwealth neighbour New Zealand, as previously reported on the Winter Oak site.

Sonia Hickey wrote: “If we are determining that something is ‘misinformation’ or ‘disinformation’ simply because it argues against a popular, majority-driven narrative, or presents a divergent, perhaps contrary point of view, then we might as well say RIP to democracy”.

US journalist Helen of desTroy weighed in with some articulacy on the issue, warning: “The idea is to graduate a generation for whom privacy is alien, dissent is criminal, obedience is a competitive sport, and turning in your parents for wrongthink is second-nature, all justified by the vague nonspecific crisis that has been looming in the background since they were born.

“The censorship of New Dawn, the university witch-hunts against Dr. Coles and both Millers, the absurd white supremacy conspiracy bill, are all symptoms of the same totalitarian virus gradually sucking the will to resist out of humanity”.

I myself was targeted by a few unpleasant paragraphs on the Montreal Counter Information website.

In predictable fashion, this condemned my exposures of the agenda behind the Great Reset, including the collaborative role of “anarchists” and the “left”, as “full-throttle conspiracy mongering”.

Moreover, because I had dared to criticise the Rothschilds and challenge the transhumanist/transgender industry, I was apparently guilty of “propagating far-right conspiracy theories about Jewish bankers and trans people”.

A little digging revealed that behind the smears against me and fellow dissidents lay the usual global mafia networks.

I concluded: “The lesson from all of this is that people, particularly those on the ‘left’, urgently need to wise up. They have to understand that the smears against us dissidents are false flag operations.

“They appear on ‘anarchist’, ‘environmentalist’ or other ‘left’ websites and are couched in the appropriate language, passing themselves off as condemnations of the ‘far-right’, ‘antisemitism’ or ‘fascist drifts’.

“But the source of the propaganda is identical to that of the funding channelled furtively down to these public-facing groups and individuals.

“Both money and smears issue from a secretive global network of ‘philanthropy’, ‘charity’, ‘impact’, ‘umbrella groups’, ‘consultancies’, ‘foundations’ and ‘funds’ closely tied to national and international institutions.

“The likes of Montreal Counter Information and Freedom News like to pretend they are punching ‘up’, against a threat emanating from some kind of international ‘far-right’ conspiracy, whereas in fact they are punching ‘down’, against free-thinking rebels, on behalf of the ruthless global criminocracy”.

A similar note was struck by Dr Phil Bevin, in a piece we quoted in The Acorn: “In their alliance with the NGO-intelligence complex, the climate activist Left has become what it has claimed to oppose; it is the twenty-first century successor to Rhodes and Rockefeller and constitutes the vanguard of Western imperialist crony capitalism”.

Meanwhile, the system was again flexing its authoritarian muscles in France, in the face of a conclusive public rejection of its pension “reforms”.

We commented: “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”.

The invasion of the BlackRock HQ in Paris by a crowd of angry protesters and strikers suggested that people were well aware of the identity of their enemy.

In England, thousands turned out to protest against the move by a wealthy hedge fund manager to limit public enjoyment of Dartmoor.

And a Festival of Resistance against corporate arms dealers was staged in London outside DSEI, one of the world’s biggest weapons fairs.

Campaigners said: “This is where those who profit from war, repression and injustice do business. This is where we can stop them”.

The Acorn reported on, and I also spoke at, an anti-WEF conference staged in London by Real Left and the fifth international “Three Days Against Techno-Sciences” event in Italy.

We expressed solidarity with Acorn contributor Jan Goodey, jailed for protesting, under the draconian new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, and passed on Katherine Watt’s warning that “the World Health Organization is not a health organization, it’s a military organization”.

We also wrote how French mathematics professor Romain Couillet had called for all research on AI to be halted and for the digital world to be dismantled, declaring: “This world is beautiful and we should be grateful for it, develop our capacity for empathy and return as far as we can to a direct relationship with nature and against artificial and technological development”.

Following a key article on the Winter Oak site exposing the reality behind BRICS, The Acorn confirmed its conclusions by looking at the 2023 BRICS declaration, in which the term “sustainable development” featured no fewer than 21 times and “inclusive” 17 times.

It even promised: “We will look to identify solutions for accelerating the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”.

We commented: “Again and again, the Great Reset programme crops up in the declaration issued by this supposedly brand-new and independent alliance of nations. This is quite clearly the same old system that has been running the show for a very long time now!”

Alongside this, we ran a most enlightening report from Corporate Watch UK on China’s SAFE Investment Company.

One of China’s sovereign wealth funds, ultimately owned by the “communist” People’s Bank of China, it was revealed to have shares in the likes of Shell, BP, AstraZeneca, GSK, Rio Tinto, Tesco, Lloyds Bank, the UK’s National Grid and the London Stock Exchange.

These insights were reinforced in the November issue, which featured articles entitled “China is globalist” and “BRICS and the bankers”.

That same Acorn included an article by David Rovics called “Gaza: manufacturing consent for slaughter”, summarising propaganda techniques being used to excuse Israel’s land-grabbing genocide that had just got underway.

For instance: “Whenever discussing the history of Israel and Palestine, always focus on the Nazi holocaust that caused so many Jews to want to leave Europe, and tie this in with the history of Jewish settlement of Palestine in such a way that suggests an inevitability about this whole process, and some kind of suggestion of a connection between Palestinians and Nazis, despite no historic connections really existing”.

We pointed readers to an interesting video interview of former British MP Chris Williamson by Mike Robinson and Vanessa Beeley of UK Column, which explored the subversion of real democracy by the Israel lobby, the military-industrial complex and the deep state.

And we shared an important observation from Iain Davis: “No national electorate on Earth has ever given their democratic mandate for the UN to create a global governance regime to serve the interests of private capital. But that is precisely what it has done”.

We also featured Davis’s warning about the threat to our freedom from central bank digital currency (CBDC), Elizabeth Nickson’s startling revelations about Natural Asset Companies (NACs), which “will be owned, managed, and traded by companies like BlackRock, Vanguard, and even China” and Nancy Robertson’s identification of a BlackRock/Vanguard “metastasizing monopoly“.

The ever-increasing exposure of its nefarious activities, despite all the censorship and smears, was evidently rattling the global mafia.

We noted that the WEF’s Global Risks Report 2023 identified “worrying developments” that were apparently “eroding the resilience and stability of the global system”.

Among these was “mounting citizen frustration” which it warned could lead to “secession and anarchism”!

The Acorn endorsed writer Paul Kingsnorth’s conclusion: “The modern experiment has failed. The tower is coming down. There are opportunities to be found in all of the cracks that are spreading upwards from its foundations. In the rotting of the old world is the seed of the new”.

2024: ZIONISM AND THE CRIMINOCRACY

Just as the Covid coup in 2020 had revealed to millions the existence of the global mafia, so did the Israeli genocide that began in October 2023 – and the “official” worldwide response to it – reveal the Zionist nature of that mafia.

In 2024, the horrifying news and images from the Middle East, plus the blatant complicity of “the international community”, forced more and more people to cross the Rubicon and clearly identify the source of the problem, as was related in The Acorn throughout the year.

Said Mike Robinson of UK Column: “This regime, which is cracking down on dissent, is the same regime which is behind the blowing-up of people in Gaza, it’s behind the blowing-up of people in Ukraine and we need to recognise very quickly who the enemy actually is and act accordingly”.

Rapper and journalist Lowkey noted: “Pro-Israel forces currently have control of NHS, Foreign Office, Home Office and Ministry of Defence data. Your data”.

Ben Rubin identified Keir Starmer, now the UK’s prime minister, as not only a staunch supporter of genocidal Israel, but also personally linked to the Rothschilds, who were effectively the founders of the Israeli state.

UK diplomat-turned-dissident Craig Murray wrote: “Sometimes the blindingly obvious is worth saying out loud. Whether I am fighting for Julian Assange, fighting to save Palestinians or fighting the massive wealth gap in western society I always find I am fighting against precisely the same people and forces”.

Dr Syed Mujahid Kamran noted: “The wealthiest families on the planet have striven systematically and secretly for a One World Government under their absolute control.

“Using the wealth that they have acquired through usury and manipulated wars, these families have, among other things, established universities and institutes which they control”.

Glenn Diesen described how fake intellectuals working for dubious corporate “think tanks” exercised undue influence on both public opinion and government policy through their ubiquitous presence in the mainstream media and academia and through their authorship of official policy reports.

He explained that their job was to manufacture consent for the goals of their paymasters — notably weapons manufacturers and oil companies who profit from war.

Sophie Cooke wrote about corruption, BlackRock and the “public private partnerships” that are the basis of corporatist rule, concluding: “What appears to be the case is that important decision-making positions within a government or a public sector body can now be occupied by people who are working for private interests”.

And Candace Owens asked whether the global criminocrats were systematically placing paedophiles and their victims in power, so they could control them, and suggested a link to the Rothschilds.

We’re not just talking about “the West”, either. Iurie Roșca described its pantomime villain/enemy Vladimir Putin as a “mediocre person” who was essentially just a front man for oligarchs and the Zionist lobby.

And former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky named none other than the late Lord Jacob Rothschild (pictured) as the ultimate beneficial shareholder of Russian interests during privatisation.

The Acorn also recommended a new book – The Predators versus the People by Meeuwis T. Baaijen, who wrote that his ten years of deep research into what was going wrong with the world had revealed that “in brief, it’s the globalist banker dynasties plotting to steal our planet, freedom, and future, which they do by proxy, or in other words, by deceit”.

Part of this deceit involves infiltration and control of what appear to be “opposition” movements.

Academic David Miller revealed in a video how Zionists controlled both “anti-fascism” and the “far right” in the UK.

And he wrote: “Zionist-funded US think tanks financed and ran key elements of the European ‘Counterjihad’ movement, including the English Defence League.

“This illustrates how the fostering of the Counterjihad movement was part of a Zionist attempt to transform the far right, to co-opt it to advance the objectives of Greater Israel”.

The same appears to be true of the “freedom” movement that emerged during the Covid period, which explains the strange hostility to pro-Palestinian protesters from some of its higher-profile figures.

Wrote Chris Rea of the Real Left: “The movement is riddled with informers, gatekeepers, controlled oppositionists and saboteurs. The movement must be on permanent high alert and call out these disruptive influences loudly and publicly”.

And the dubious connections of two high-profile UK “pro-freedom” campaigners – Toby Young and Laura Dodsworth – were explored in an important two-part article by Rusere Shoniwa on his blog A Plague on Both Houses.

He revealed that they were both founders of a company called British Friends of Israel Limited and commented: “A Zionist proclaiming to be concerned about ‘freedom’, whether it’s bodily autonomy, free speech or economic freedom, is more dangerous than a fully paid-up Covidian totalitarian since the ‘freedom’-loving Zionist is a wolf in sheep’s clothing”.

“Zionism has always fomented anti-semitism” said Max Blumenthal of The Grayzone, talking to Judge Andrew Napolitano about the Israeli “pogrom” hoax in Amsterdam.

Any criticism of mass-murdering Israel was automatically being classified as “anti-semitic” by the global mafia in 2024 – and being violently attacked by its state-funded enforcers.

We reported in May: “Massive student protests and encampments against Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, most notably in the USA, have been met with brutal violence, tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades by the system, with military vehicles even deployed against unarmed and non-rioting people in a nauseating show of authoritarian repression of all criticism of the Zionist entity.

“Inevitably the young peace protesters have simultaneously been branded ‘anti-semitic’ by the criminocracy and its propaganda outlets”.

Anyone wondering who or what lay behind the police attacks on the student protests might like to take a look at events at the Sapienza University in Rome.

Revealed L’Indipendente: “On Wednesday 17 April, the academic senate voted in the direction desired by the Rothschild Foundation, confirming cooperation with Israeli universities, while the large student protests were harshly repressed by the police”.

In the UK, the state was becoming increasingly fascistic in its repression of dissident voices, particularly those criticising Zionism, rolling out its spurious “anti-terrorism” laws to do so.

Journalist Richard Medhurst and campaigners Sarah Wilkinson, Natalie Strecker and Zoe Rogers were among many to have been on the receiving end.

I wrote in September, in an Acorn piece which was also turned into a video by Drs Sam (pictured) and Mark Bailey: “The reality that conspiracy deniers cannot bear to see, and that those in power want to keep hidden, is that our society is dominated by one single giant global organisation.

“I have seen this time and time again through all the joined dots, all the revolving doors, all the zig-zagging public-private career paths that are incomprehensible unless they amount to a series of internal transfers within one single entity.

“This mega-organisation is not one that aims to do good for us or for our world, which is why it has to take such pains to conceal its existence and its activities.

“It is an unimaginably vast, ruthless, greedy, destructive crime syndicate which has grabbed global control by means of lies and usury, blackmail and bribery, manipulation and murder”.

Of course, pointing out the existence of the Zionist criminocratic conspiracy was, like criticising Israel, also automatically labelled “anti-semitic”, as I had myself again experienced, this time from “anti-capitalist” media in France.

David Rovics exposed the absurdity of this toxic accusation – which is, along with “far right”, the go-to term for smearing dissidents these days – in a wonderful song called “You must be an anti-semite”.

We added to this by asking whether it was really “anti-semitic” to write a booklet exploring the power and activities of the Rothschilds, while carefully stressing that this was being done despite rather than because of their Jewish identity, or to paint a mural declaring that “the New World Order is the enemy of humanity”, in which some of the depicted criminocrats are Jewish.

The wide misuse of the “anti-semitism” label against non anti-semites was also being used to justify claims of an alarming “rise in anti-semitism”.

As journalist Jonathan Cook pointed out: “A rise in ‘Jew hatred’ is all but inevitable if you redefine antisemitism, as western officials have recently done via the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s new definition, to include antipathy towards Israel – and at the moment when Israel appears, even to the World Court, to be carrying out a genocide”.

Pink Floyd star Roger Waters, the victim of a Zionist cancel campaign, was having none of it: “The contention that I’m an antisemite because I’ve stood up against the attempted genocide of the indigenous people of Palestine is dead in the water. The people of the world have seen through the wall of hatred and tissue of lies”.

The “anti-semitism” fearmongering also serves to increase the hold of Zionism over the Jewish diaspora.

Remarked Catherine Austin Fitts: “More than one Jewish friend or ally has fallen into the trap of insisting that they must support the syndicate killing them because the syndicate is protecting them against rising anti-Semitism — when, in fact, the syndicate is also engineering the evidence of such.

“Remember the old WC Fields snake and snake potion joke? The salesman markets his snake potion with the help of the snake he also carries with him”.

The Acorn published an article by Crow Qu’appelle about the US anarchist martyr who set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy, entitled “Aaron Bushnell is dead! Long live Aaron Bushnell!”

And we pointed those wishing to take action against companies in the UK which were arming Israel’s genocide to an interactive map of locations where F35 jet components were made, produced by Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT).

We added that a new report by CAAT on the “Military-Industrial-Academic Complex” revealed deepening ties between UK universities and the arms industry.

The Acorn amplified the powerful message from anarchists in Spoleto, Italy: “Let’s boycott, undermine, sabotage the war industry! The enemy is not the exploited on the other side of the front, but the politician, the manufacturer, the banker who gets richer with our blood!”

We also covered the blocking of a motorway in Venaria, Italy, by anti-G7 protesters, who burned effigies of criminocratic puppets Emmanuel Macron, Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden.

We carried news of a week of action against global capital and its wars in Prague, Czech Republic, and described an “extremely violent” police attack, using teargas and heavy machinery, on nature-lovers trying to stop the destructive advance of the totally-unnecessary but highly profitable A69 motorway between Toulouse and Castres in France.

We also drew attention to a series of articles by Iain Davis on the “bizarre” trial of Richard D. Hall, the researcher who concluded that the 2017 Manchester Arena “bombing” was a hoax false flag staged by the deep state.

We also cited a Twitter/X post by D.D. Denslow reporting that some 3,000 ULEZ surveillance cameras were disabled, damaged, or disappeared in London during the previous year.

“The Blade Runners are at the forefront of a multi-faceted peasants revolt… mass non-compliance is our way out of this, with more people waking up every single day. We are winning, but shit is about to get a little tougher. So remember we the people are the ones with the power”.

Acorn readers also heard that a war is being waged on small farmers by a combination of Big Business and the state, according to a campaigner from Brittany, France.

Later in the year, French farmers came out from their fields in numbers to resist the imposition of the proposed European Union–Mercosur “free trade” agreement.

We also reported: “Animated by the same rebel spirit as the truckers’ revolt in Canada, German farmers are currently rising up against the globalist tyranny.

“Inevitably, this massive and well-supported revolt is largely being ignored by corporate-criminocratic media and, where it is acknowledged, is being smeared as involving ‘rightwing extremists’. Do they really think this mendacious device will work for ever?”

Other highlights were an article by Escapekey exposing “the Great ‘Green’ Fraud“, a piece on “Questioning Childhood Vaccines – Observations from India” by Deepika and a translated article from Le Postillon in Grenoble, France, about lithium batteries – “a fake-green catastrophe“.

We referred to a piece by Colin Todhunter on “Net Zero, Fake Green, the Digital Panopticon and the Future of Food” in which he wrote: “Did Larry Fink, the top man at BlackRock, suddenly develop a conscience and become an environmentalist who cares about the planet and ordinary people? Of course not”.

From Australia and New Zealand came news of “Managed Retreat”, a global mafia plot to herd us all into centralised smart-city digital slave camps under the excuse of “climate change”.

Campaigner Kate Mason warned: “People will be unable to get insurance and secure mortgages once the climate risk is calculated on their properties/towns”.

Jennifer Bilek was sounding the alert on the transhumanist agenda, calling it “the most extreme form of gaslighting I have ever seen perpetrated against the human population”, a “corporate coup” which was “allowing technological intrusions into our biology that will radically change us as a species”.

Kit Knightly was pointing to the threat of CBDCs, central bank digital currencies: “Global government is the endgame. We know that. Total control of every aspect of life for every single person on the planet, that’s the goal”.

And we gave an approving mention to former England footballer Matt Le Tissier, who observed of the ruling mafia: “They fear the electorate realising that our government are crooks and every day the numbers are growing. It’s beautiful to watch the awakening although if we could speed it up a bit that would be great”.

The Acorn also invited Darren Allen to sound ‘A Fanfare for Anarchism“. He wrote: “Like nature, anarchism will emerge by itself when the conditions for doing so allow it — is already emerging, reaching through the cracks in the pavement of the system”.

For our part, we proposed an ABC of opposition to the criminocracy.

A. Opposition to its money-making ‘development’ racket.
B. Opposition to the institutions that impose its central control.
C. Exposure of the existence and activities of the criminocracy to as wide a global public as possible.

Meanwhile, our friends at The Stirrer wrote: “One thing we are doing our level best to do is to encourage people to start quietly withdrawing their consent for the system to carry on functioning as it is”.

And we were very much in agreement with US singer-songwriter Oliver Anthony when he said: “I think the only way we ever return to normal is by exiting from this dystopian technological nightmare… I hope that we can start going back to the old way”.

2025: THE STRUGGLE GOES ON!

The 99th issue of The Acorn came out in January 2025, a month before our 10th anniversary.

It was published on the first day of the year but I can exclusively reveal that it was entirely written in 2024 and, unsurprisingly, continued in very much the same vein.

It described how the British population was under attack from Keir Starmer’s regime, which even appeared to want them dead and was poisoning their food, freezing them to death, polluting their water, bombarding them with radiation, jabbing them to death and encouraging them to commit suicide.

We noted that Bill Gates, who in 2009 convened a summit of billionaires with the priority of tackling “overpopulation”, was one of the first big names who came to visit Starmer in London after he became prime minister.

The Acorn judged that Starmer had made “an ostentatious show of allegiance to the global mafia” by appointing Bilderberg/WEF regular “Lord” Mandelson – a friend of Jeffrey Epstein and listed in his notorious Black book – as ambassador to Washington and by filling the House of Lords with Zio-Labour cronies.

We also drew attention to Starmer’s announcement that the UK would be “working in partnership with leading businesses, like BlackRock, to capitalise on the UK’s position as a world leading hub for investment”.

We wrote: “BlackRock is a Rothschild entity and, coincidentally, Starmer, his Jewish wife and their family belong to London’s Liberal Jewish Synagogue, long associated with the Rothschild family”.

And we quoted one astute commentator as saying: “Starmer has sold the UK’s future to the absolute worst criminally corrupt corporate organization on the planet”.

When you add to that our bulletin’s reports on the corrupt Olympic mafia, the “near-unbelievable” persecution of Covid dissident Reiner Fuellmich by the German state and the historical evidence of the late Norman Dodd concerning the power of international bankers, a familiar picture is revealed by its content.

However, I wrote of my frustration that so many people out there simply cannot or will not see the reality of what we are facing and the urgent need to unite against it.

“Indeed, those who consider themselves opponents of the status quo often regard others who attack the system from a different angle as being their principal opponents, rather than the system itself”.

As The Lies are Unbekoming website explained in a masterful summary of my booklet The Single Global Mafia which was included in Acorn 99: “The various actors (foundations, banks, corporations, NGOs) may appear to be performing independently or even in competition, but they’re all following the same master script, using different stages (finance, health, technology, development) to implement the same overall plan, while carefully maintaining the illusion of independence and competition for the audience”.

This report will be announced in the celebratory 100th issue of The Acorn, alongside some reflections on what the decade-long overview can tell us.

And what of the months and years to come?

In the criminocracy’s planned future of “systemic change” leading us into “inclusive” digital concentration camps where our battery-chicken lives will be tightly controlled for their greater financial profit, there will be no room for dissent and there is no guarantee that voices like ours will be heard on the internet in years to come.

But we at Winter Oak will keep on for as long as we are physically able, in the enduring hope that our little acorns will find a receptive soil and become part of a mighty forest of organic resistance to the foul global mafia.

You can also listen to Paul Cudenec reading this year-by-year accounts:

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025