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Blindspot 107 Election 24 - Bye Bye Freedom as parties promise MORE Statism in South Africa Rough Bunker 42 non-consensus number 107 Script… Buiteboer // From Bunker 42 www.buiteboer.co.za 19/4/24 Every state is a despotism, be the despot one or many Max Stirner By interrogating political party manifestos for the 24 elections in South Africa Blindspot discovers, unanticipatedly, that most of them agree on MORE State, MORE regulation, MORE control, MORE serfdom, MORE state failure State as constant, and contested territory. Much may have changed constitutionally, socially, culturally, economically since the turn to a democratic system in 1994, but, one historical constant remains: the state.

Blindspot 106 - Iran defeats Israel’s Iron Dome, Niger kicks US forces out, DRC & Africa’s WWI Buiteboer // From Bunker 42 www.buiteboer.co.za 16/4/24 Iran defeats Israel’s Iron Dome - Ahmadinejad’s dream coming true (20 years later?) Niger - like the French, Americans now frogmarched out of Africa DRC & Africa’s First World War The hardest part of war is not always the actual acts of fighting and bombing associated with it, but, the narrative wars, wars of interpretation and explication, wars of perspective and expert analysis twisted in favour of this or that power player active in the shooting & killing fields. This is what we are confronting today, narrative wars relating to what actually happened, and the implications of Iran’s strike on Israel. Iran defeats Israel’s Iron Dome Unlike the narrative from the USA, Europe, and Israel that the Iranian counter-attack on Israel was a failure, it seems Scott Ritter, has a totally different view. In fact, he describes it as one of the biggest acts of military demonstration in recent decades. As we have also covered in Blindspot before, Iran’s inclusion in the SCO, and most recently BRICS, signalled a breakthrough for the country and established it as recognised regional power. And now, if we listen to Scott Ritter, it clearly has the technological, and military potential to counter Israeli air defences, and other threats it might want to pose to the Islamic Republic. The Ukraine response - envy While this all went down, the extent to which US, French and UK forces lent a helping hand to Israel in the face of the Iranian attack, left President Zelensky, well, jealous. Basically meaning, why don’t western partners directly deploy their aircraft, and personnel in the defence of Ukraine, like they did for Israel. Like the French, US forces frogmarched out of Niger If anyone still thinks major power rivalry is confined to the ‘big ticket’ conflicts of our era such as Ukraine, Taiwan, or Israel/Gaza, well, then think again. As covered in Blindspot 82, before, the west African countries of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso all, in the course of the past two years, have systematically kicked the French forces, and their diplomats out of their countries. Now, the US forces stationed in Niger are facing the same fate as their French counterparts, with Russian forces, trainers and air defence systems are being deployed to Niger. Still think major power rivalry is not unfolding in the blindspots of contested African countries? Well, think again! Links P de Kock. 2023. Uganda pays DRC for war damages - remembering Rwanda’s 1994 genocide and Africa’s First World War. Leadership Magazine. https://riskrecon.co.za/?p=960

Blindspot 105 - Israeli AI Assassination System: Autopilot’s Disease… Russian forces on Golan Heights while more SADC forces die in DRC Buiteboer // From Bunker 42 www.buiteboer.co.za 8/4/24 #105 covers a number of Blindspots hiding in plain sight! - The state of the Gaza genocide - in numbers - +972 Magazine expose - Israel’s AI assassination system - Russian Military Police deploy on Golan Heights - The posthuman and a 21st century disorder - Autopilot’s Disease - Scott Ritter on the collapsing Ukrainian Defence - More SADC forces die in the DRC - Found on the interweb: Russian 3x3 wheel drive motorbike - Update on Bunker 42 vegetable project

Blindspot 104 The transparency of evil in a new age of terror Buiteboer // From Bunker 42 www.buiteboer.co.za 26/3/24 Terror, terrorism, two words the world has grown accustomed to. Over-used, and under-defined, it is necessary, for a moment to pause at the edge, where this word marks the beginning of an abyss. Terror traces a line in mind sands where meaning shifts, political alignments are set adrift, and meaning is either over-coded, or, completely lost in a sea of foaming non-sense. In this Blindspot we are engaging with more than just recent ‘news events’. We ask what is terror, and what is its relationship to information, in the age of the dictatorship of the digitosphere as Buiteboer explored in Searching for Madness in the Method. In this era of asymmetric warfare, turbulence in global politics, and re-alignment of the global system itself with the appearance of a multipolar world order, it is necessary to pause at the edge, and take stock of the sources of terror afflicting the human condition. The transparency of evil, in this era, is evident in the daily dose of bad news dished up by IDF as it continues its campaign of genocidal state terror. In Moscow, recently, we saw the horrendous head of terror peak out from behind its curtain of secrecy to mow more than one hundred concert goers down.