Here I share some more material from the latest Acorn bulletin which I edit over on winteroak.org.uk. These fragments, in their apparent variety, in fact all point to one overall picture with which my readers will by now be familiar…

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Arms firm in police bribe scandal

Arms firm BAE Systems tried to bribe British political police into infiltrating a group trying to stop war crimes, Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has revealed.

Evidence in the Undercover Policing Inquiry recently showed that BAE Systems, the UK’s largest “defence” (war) company, offered the Metropolitan Police money to spy on anti arms trade campaigners following the 1996 Seeds of Hope Ploughshares action which caused £1.4m damage to Hawk aircraft.

Four women were acquitted of criminal damage charges on the basis that they were preventing a greater crime by taking action to stop BAE Systems exporting the aircraft to Indonesia for their use in war crimes against people in East Timor.

The information was disclosed during the questioning of former Detective Chief Inspector Dell on July 1 2026. Dell managed the Special Demonstration Squad/Special Duties Squad (SDS) between 2001-2005, and worked on C-squad – the Special Branch department that dealt with protest – prior to this.

During questioning about the links between private companies and police spies, Dell stated: “I remember someone on C-squad telling me that BAE Systems had suffered another attack…BAE had offered the Branch money to finance, so resources could be put into this”.

Dell denied that Special Branch took the money: “Even though the Branch could well have done with the money, they made the offer to the Commissioner, obviously, and it had to be declined”.

It appears likely that this refusal led BAE Systems to take matters into their own hands. The Seeds of Hope action took place in 1996, and by 1997, BAE Systems had embedded its own corporate spy, Martin Hogbin, at CAAT. Hogbin remained at CAAT until 2003.

However, this also didn’t stop the police’s SDS spying on CAAT throughout this period. HN3, cover name “Jason Bishop”, was also authorised to target CAAT. Former Detective Sergeant Ron Gilbertson, HN49, stated that Bishop was “authorised to target CAAT because the group was known to hold protests and demonstrations, which had the potential to result in serious public disorder”.

Bishop also targeted Disarm DSEI, the coalition group organising against the DSEI arms fair, and was close friends with CAAT’s media coordinator, Emily Apple. However, documents revealed in the inquiry show that anti arms trade campaigners weren’t targeted because of the threat they posed to public order, but because their protests “could influence the financial wellbeing of the state”.

CAAT’s Emily Apple said: “BAE Systems went to extraordinary lengths to spy on anti arms trade campaigners, and intrude into our lives. This is a private company essentially prepared to bribe the police for information about its critics. There are serious questions that the Inquiry needs to investigate about the complicity between successive governments, the police, and arms companies to repress our right to protest in order to protect a trade that is complicit in multiple genocides and human rights abuses.

“However, it’s important to remember that this is not historical. The power of the arms trade to influence both government and policing policy is in evidence today. This is shown clearly in the proscription of Palestine Action, with documents detailing meetings Elbit Systems had, not just with the Home Office but with the Attorney General’s office, about how to crack down on protesters.

“Successive governments have tried to label our protests as unlawful or undemocratic. However, it is the arms trade, the government, and the police that are profoundly undemocratic, repeatedly subverting the law to repress, surveil and harass our protests”.

Meanwhile, BAE Systems Inc. has agreed to pay a $36 million civil penalty to resolve US allegations involving 104 violations of arms export rules, reported Eurasia Business News on August 14 2026.

“The settlement, announced by the US State Department, concerns unauthorized exports of defense-related technical data and equipment, including one instance involving China”, it wrote, noting that this follows a longer history of US enforcement against the company.

“In 2010, BAE Systems plc pleaded guilty to conspiracy-related charges and agreed to pay a $400 million criminal fine”.

Sheeple

by Red Pill Poet

Trained to heed at whiplash speed
its shepherd’s every beck and call

a rigorously-mis-if-informed-at-all
       conditioned-to-never-question
              drilled-to-mindless-perfection
                     conformity-addicted flock

       is one   which is by design
       not simply beset with cognitive rot
       but is  from all indications   unable
                     to exercise critical thought;


is     as if from some sinister fable
a flock whose mesmerized members
are     as a matter of Pavlovian course

the sort of invaluable
              fabulously malleable
                            well-behaved slaves

who’re inarguably key to the scheming
criminocracy   at large and in charge
       in its ceaseless push
       to shape  and orchestrate opinion

by insidiously triggering
exquisitely predictable emotions
in a meticulously brainwashed populace

finely programmed to lie wide open
       to even the most painfully obvious
of its treacherous shepherd’s
                            manipulative methods.

Acorninfo

In an essential hour-long video, Steven Ben-Nun presents the shocking reality of the Noahide Laws, the global legal infrastructure through which judeo-supremacists aim to reduce “goyim” to a condition of debased servitude to the “chosen” people in their totalitarian New World Order.

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“A government that wishes to criminalize political opposition does not need new laws. It needs new readings of the laws it already has, prosecutors instructed to charge aggressively, and judges willing to ratify. Each of these conditions now exists. The legal theory that just sent nine Americans to prison for terms longer than most murderers serve was authored by an Israel-funded think-tank researcher, adopted by the Justice Department, and ratified by federal judges”. Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez describes “The Mussolini Playbook In a Texas Courtroom” with regard to defendants now known as the Prairieland Nine.

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Journalists in Britain (as elsewhere) are being sacked and blacklisted if they dare to criticise Israel and/or Zionism. An excellent half-hour conversation between former LBC radio journalist Sangita Myska and Richard Sanders confirms yet again the grim reality of the judeo-supremacist occupation. Wake up, it’s not a “conspiracy theory”!

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Recommended viewing: an important August 2026 edition of UK Column News in which Ben Rubin and Brian Gerrish describe how England and its way of life are being systematically destroyed in the interests of a psychopathic and parasitical global mafia (our phrase, not theirs!).

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“The government serves money and that’s all there is to it… Now we’re going to be integrated with another country, we will become Israel-America. And we don’t have first amendment rights, which means the constitution cannot protect us. I don’t know if there is any better definition of tyranny”. This is the stark warning from Dr Paul Craig Roberts, who was associate editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal and was appointed by US president Ronald Reagan as assistant secretary of the treasury for economic policy.

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“The whole world has to isolate this rogue Apartheid genocidal maniac, serial killing, pathologically lying state, isolate it and shame anyone who goes there. Israel is exposed, Zionism is on its last leg and only exists on the weight of its own collapsed propaganda”. A hard-hitting short video from Abby Martin via Double Down News.

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“The Problem with Anti-Zionists”. In this interview with Propaganda & Co, Dr Rahmeh Aladwan explains how sensibilities with regard to Jewish anti-genocide allies are stopping people from spelling out the true nature of the supremacist enemy.

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“While we, brothers in blood and faith, are killing each other, our commanders on both sides of the front speak in Hebrew. I am glad that the world has already understood that in Kiev the power is controlled by the Zionists. But I am sorry that very few have yet realized that in Moscow the power is also in the hands of the Zionists”. A crucial insight from the late Alexey Mozgovoy on the reality behind the Russia-Ukraine conflict, as cited by Iurie Rosca.

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Israeli and Zionist interests – the “Epstein Network” – are deeply enmeshed in the surveillance-state totalitarianism rapidly being rolled out in the USA, points out Whitney Webb in an interview with Chris Hedges.

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“To fully liberate ourselves from this slave system, we have to wake others to see it too. If most everyone understood that we were born into a slave system run by psychopaths, I am pretty sure that the system would collapse. I believe that the monsters running the system know this, they see a lot of people waking up and this is why they are building a digital prison around us now”. Binky La Rue hits the nail on the head.

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“Any Conspiracy pundit who studiously avoids any of the antis in this list may well be a Pied Piper, whether they know it or not. You must be: Anti-imperialist; anti-colonialist; anti-System; anti-Establishment; anti New World Order; anti-Multipolar World Order; anti-UN; anti-Sustainability agenda; anti-Zionist; anti-Covidian; anti-Pandemic ‘awareness’; anti-medical coercion of any kind; anti-Left/Right Punch and Judy show; anti-Climate Alarmism; anti-Geoengineering; anti Digital ID; anti-CBDCs and all crypto currencies; anti-AI; anti-Fourth Industrial Revolution; anti-all political parties…” Rusere Shoniwa looks at the dangers of certain kinds of limited “opposition”.

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“A criminal group has long been ferrying children from Ukraine to Great Britain where they get into the hands of pedophiles, high-placed representatives of the British establishment”. This is the claim from Vasily Prozorov, former Lieutenant Colonel in Ukrainian intelligence – and who would be surprised if it were true?

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“As China’s government and Chinese corporations are very much part of the global public-private partnership, its institutional innovations are moving us all closer to the UN’s sought-after smart city-state world”. A reminder from Iain Davis that globalism really is global and that the “multi-polar” option is a sham.

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James Corbett conducts a fascinating interview on what goes on behind the scenes at Wikipedia with its co-founder Larry Sanger, who has now been definitively banned from involvement with the site because of his criticism of its pro-system bias. Sanger’s Encyclosphere site is worth a look.

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“British taxpayers – not the monarchy – remained on the hook for at least 175 years for the loans that the British government took out to fund the £20 million compensation paid to enslavers. Taxpayers didn’t finish paying off these loans – worth billions in today’s money — until 2015”. Fascinating insights into the British state’s involvement in the slave trade from Edward Spannaus.

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“The need to create, dominate, and control, or to increase desire and pleasure either through domination or modern rituals such as consumer culture necessitating excess resource extraction, did not exist in organic societies”. Useful analysis from Harvey Kropotkin.

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“Being against the system doesn’t just mean engaging in reactive activity to events. It’s also about showing the kind of world we want to move towards and fight for. It’s about building the social and community structures we need, so that when revolution does come, we have the foundations ready for the new world we want”. As usual, we very much agree with Dave Amis of The Avon Stirrer.

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Acorn quote:

“The great ability of those who are in control in the modern world lies in making the people believe that they are governing themselves”.

René Guénon

(For many more like this, see the Winter Oak quotes for the day blog)

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