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BLINDSPOT SPECIAL 3.4 For the free chapter go to: https://buiteboer.co.za/2022/06/25/exhibit-z-smoking-as-criminal-offence/ The clandestine BRICS R2P mission to South Africa, 2020, to save smokers from the SEEBESEM (Smoker-Evaporator-Electronic-Beam-Enhanded-System-En-PetfoodMultiplicator) The nuts & bolts of the prophetic short story from the long ago time and place of 1998, penned by Prof Jan Kalahari aka Ian Liebenberg. In Blindspot Special 3.3 we covered numbers VI to VIII of the summarised sections of the translation of Prof Kalahari’s story. We have therefore covered all elements of his original short story. NOW, in the final and finally very last part we get to the long promised expose of: The clandestine BRICS R2P mission to South Africa, 2020, to save smokers from the SEEBESEM (Smoker-Evaporator-Electronic-Beam-Enhanded-System-En-PetfoodMultiplicator)

BLINDSPOT SPECIAL 3.3 - COVID-19 Power Grabs Exposed [Ctd] for the full free chapter - go here - https://buiteboer.co.za/2022/06/25/exhibit-z-smoking-as-criminal-offence/ The nuts & bolts of the prophetic short story from the long ago time and place of 1998, penned by Prof Jan Kalahari aka Ian Liebenberg. Which features as Exhibit Z in Buiteboer’s book - Searching for madness in the method. The officially non-redacted translation, into Machiavellian Inglish, of: Rook as misdadigheid en Sigmund die Fraud herkoloniseer Afrika [Smoking as Criminal Offence and Sigmund the Fraud Recolonises Africa] We share this, free & gratis this to celebrate the fact that in June 2022, the South African High Court of Appeal, ruled, like the Western Cape High Court, in December 2020, that the ban imposed on the sale of tobacco products, as part of COVID-19 lockdown and national lock-up procedures, was in fact, unconstitutional. This means South Africa’s cabinet has a minister declared doubly unconstitutional by the courts! In Blindspot Special 3.2 we covered numbers I to V of the summarised sections of the translation of Prof Kalahari’s story. In Special 3.3 we will look at the remaining remainders of smokers as so prophetically predicted by Prof Jan Jakkahari: I - Back to the future of 1998 II - Smoking declared a crime & constitutional changes afoot III - Democratic South Africa gives birth to: Project for the Total Suppression of Habitual Smoking- and other Nicotine Related Smoking Disorders IV - Techno-science to the rescue V - Creation of Tactical Counter-Smoke Strike Units to wield SEEBESEMS to turn smokers into cat & dog food pellets VI - A National Dragnet of Super Sensitive Smart Smoke Detectors - Switched ON - 1 January, 2000 VII - D-Night (2 January 2000) - deploying the Tactical Counter-Smoke Strike Units operationally on an unsuspecting bang babalaas smoking public VIII - Minister of Health declares success as Newspapers report on 3 January, 2000, that 787 Smokers Snuffed Out in Millenial New Year “Operation Stompie Surprise”

BLINDSPOT SPECIAL 3.2 THE PROF KALAHARI STORY TRANSLATION SUMMARY The officially non-redacted translation, into Machiavellian Inglish, of: Rook as misdadigheid en Sigmund die Fraud herkoloniseer Afrika [Smoking as Criminal Offence and Sigmund the Fraud Recolonises Africa] The nuts & bolts of the prophetic short story from the long ago time and place of 1998, penned by Prof Jan Kalahari aka Ian Liebenberg. We encourage all to read the full free text of the chapter, verse and story shared here. But, for those averse to reading more than 170 characters on a screen we shall endeavour to summarise in voice & video form. In Part 2 we cover the summarised sections of the translation of Prof Kalahari’s story we are covering here: I - Back to the future of 1998 II - Smoking declared a crime & constitutional changes afoot III - Democratic South Africa gives birth to: Project for the Total Suppression of Habitual Smoking- and other Nicotine Related Smoking Disorders IV - Techno-science to the rescue V - Creation of Tactical Counter-Smoke Strike Units to wield SEEBESEMS to turn smokers into cat & dog food pellets

Blindspot #041 - BRICS get its own ‘SWIFT’ & Eurasia as Noah’s Ark of a failing hyper-inflated world economy? Buiteboer // From Bunker 42 www.buiteboer.co.za 24/06/22 BRICS 2022 Summit - Russia's System for Transfer of Financial Messages (SPFS), an alternative to SWIFT - declared open to BRICS member banks; - Chinese president speaks out against military blocks & their expansionism (NATO) - de-Dollarisation continuing - BRICS basket of currencies to form Reserve Currency! Grand scale changes are continuing to unfold as the global system is torn in two. We give an update on developments that illustrate how economic war actions against the Russian Federation are now spurring Eurasian, and BRICS nations on, to deepen cooperation.

Blindspot Special 3.1. -> COVID Power Grabs Exposed For Part One text and quotes - https://buiteboer.co.za/2022/06/22/b-spot-special-3-p1-south-africas-unconstitutional-2020-tobacco-ban-re-visited-via-1998/ The Ongoing Legal drama of South Africa’s Unconstitutional Ban on the sale of Tobacco /Smokable product (during pan(dem)ic lock-up of 2020) & present ‘Smoking Gun’ evidence of … How Vladmir Putin, Xi Jinping and a JV of Cuban Cigar Manufacturers saved smokers from extermination via clandestine mission delivered in Tupolev SU40 Long Range Nuclear Bombers straight from Moscow to Praetoria - South Africa. …………………………………………………………………………………… We share this, free & gratis. An extract from Buiteboer’s book - Searching for Madness in the Method: this is not a survival guide to autopilot’s disease and the turbulent twenties of the twenty-first century. on 21 June 2022, the text of the free chapter will begin to appear on www.buiteboer.co.za EXHIBIT Z Smoking as Criminal Offence and Sigmund the Fraud Recolonises Africa: The officially non-redacted, first time ever translation, into Machiavellian Inglish, of Professor Jan Kalahari’s short story We do this to celebrate the fact that in June 2022, the South African High Court of Appeal, ruled, like the Western Cape High Court, in December 2020, that the ban imposed on the sale of tobacco products, as part of COVID-19 lockdown and national lock-up procedures, was in fact, unconstitutional. This means South Africa’s cabinet has a minister declared doubly unconstitutional by the courts!

Blindspot #040 - Cold War 2.0: The USA adopts a ‘Countering Russian Influence in Africa’ law Buiteboer // From Bunker 42 www.buiteboer.co.za 16/06/22 1 - Welcome to Cold War 2.0’s African Chess board 2 - The Russian bogeyman a convenient pretext for US interference in Africa 3 - What does ‘countering Russia in Africa’ mean?

Buiteboer // From Bunker 42 https://buiteboer.co.za/2022/06/10/blindspot-039-resource-wars-incoming-us-african-command-africom-sets-up-shop-in-zambia/ 09/06/22 This week we continue, more or less, on in similar vein to the theme of military aid provided to the Ukraine, covered in Blindspot #038. Only in this case we take a look at the African continent. It is well known that the African continent often come in the cross-hairs of external powers, due to strategic natural resources. While the world’s attention is focused on the Ukraine conflict, and particularly the global fall-out thereof in the form of historically high energy, food, and generalised inflation, it is necessary to look at the larger balance- and presence of foreign military forces in Africa. Blindspot predicts that in the not too distant future strategic access to African commodities and resources will become a strategic headache for African decision makers.

Blindspot #038 - Western Weapons plowed into Ukraine Killing Fields & South African Mambas in the mix Buiteboer // From Bunker 42 https://buiteboer.co.za/2022/06/06/blindspot-038-western-weapons-plowed-into-ukraine-killing-fields-south-african-mambas-in-the-mix/ 04/06/22 A tsunami of western weapons have been flowing into the Ukraine, not only since 24 February, 2022, but since advent of conflict in 2014. Today we are looking into three interconnected stories: - Global military spending - Data on military support and western weapons washing over Ukraine - How did South African Mamba armoured vehicles end up in Ukraine? We will find, for example, that in a mere five months (January to May, 2022), the USA alone had donated military hardware to the tune of $26bn to Ukraine, which is approximately 55-60%, of the total $41 billion, the whole African continent spent on arms in the year 2019-20 (according to DefenceWeb). 1. Global military spending in perspective Today we are talking hard numbers. Numbers of weapons, and numbers of money thrown at arms manufacturers by states as they bolster, boost, and maintain military posture and readiness. We take some indicators from SIPRI, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. These numbers lays the foundation for us zooming in on the western weapons, and money for weapons, washing over the Ukraine like a rather metallically explosive tsunami. In 2020 the USA’s military expenditure reached $778 billion, representing an increase of 4.4percent over 2019. As the world’s largest military spender, the USA accounted for 39 per cent of total military expenditure in 2020.” Russia’s military expenditure increased by 2.5 per cent in 2020 to reach $61.7 billion. This was the second consecutive year of growth. With a total of $59.2 billion, the UK became the fifth largest spender in 2020. Germany increased its spending by 5.2 per cent to $52.8 billion, making it the seventh largest spender in 2020. India ($72.9 billion), Japan ($49.1 billion), South Korea ($45.7billion) and Australia ($27.5 billion) were the largest military spenders in the Asia and Oceania region.

Buiteboer // From Bunker 42 www.buiteboer.co.za 31/5/22 Also featuring - @AwakenWithJP https://odysee.com/@AwakenWithJP:9 War obviously has a multiplicity of dimensions, however, today we zoom into only a few of the direct- and indirect dimensions and blindspots unfolding as the world watches their doomsday clocks ticking in the Ukraine. We cover Sri Lanka’s political crisis as canary in the coal mine of what is yet to hit weak, fragile, and failing states, on all continents, as wildfire inflation, and food shortages, lead to violent uprisings. This is why we once again argue for South Africa to maintain, as far as possible, a neutral stance on what has clearly become much more than a simple Russia-Ukraine war, but, an economic war (launched by Western nations) that is apparently hitting nations far beyond Russian borders the hardest. Lastly we look at Iran’s growing regional influence, this time in the form of an announcement made during May, in Tajikistan, of Iran establishing a drone manufacturing facility in the country. We see the latter as more signs of Iran’s rising in the region since becoming full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. This investment also sheds light on the growing importance of unmanned weapons systems, for the future of national security, warfare, and strategy.

Buiteboer // From Bunker 42 For a (much) more detailed blog - visit - https://buiteboer.co.za/2022/05/17/blindspot-036-the-end-of-neutral-nations-sweden-finland-goes-into-nato-war-gear-101/ We cover a question and an update in this Blindspot. The question, embedded in the title deals with Finland and Sweden giving up their neutrality in exchange for NATO. While the update is on why South Africa should ideally remain neutral (as far as it can) in the thick of a world at war - especially in the face of a massive ‘everything market bubble’ where US stocks are valued at more than 200% the value of the country’s GDP. Zerohedge warns that the mother of all bubbles, the everything bubble, is about to burst. Blindspot presents a slightly different reason why it is better for South Africa to remain more or less neutral as Eurasia and the West locks horns. As a country at the top of the world where major shipping lines cross (in case the Suez Canal gets randomly blocked by beached tanker again) it may be necessary to work all sides to maximum national interest. Well, that is now if there are politicians in the country willing to really bite the bullet and step into some Madiba Shoes! I - Sweden & Finland from neutral to NATO war ready While the world is watching the unfolding war in Ukraine, sparked by a much longer history of post-Cold War NATO expansion into Eastern Europe, and potentially Ukraine, two more countries that share borders with the Russian Federation recently raised their hands to join the club - Sweden, and Finland. The Swedish decision to join NATO is highly significant due to the fact that, since 1815, at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Sweden followed a policy of neutrality in global politics. Truly world changing events, decisions, and policies emerging around the world. https://buiteboer.co.za/2022/05/17/blindspot-036-the-end-of-neutral-nations-sweden-finland-goes-into-nato-war-gear-101/

Blindspot #035 - Iran & China stands together to counter (Western) unilateralism on the fringes of Eurasia Buiteboer // From Bunker 42 For a more detailed blog, visit -> https://buiteboer.co.za/2022/05/05/blindspot-035-iran-china-stands-together-to-counter-unilateralism-on-the-fringes-of-eurasia/ I Chinese Defence Minister visits Iranian Prime Minister (April 2022) As Blindspot has been arguing, Eurasian integration is anchored in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, with Iran as full member. While the headlines remain occupied with a mix of war in Ukraine, and the adverse asymmetric impact it has had on markets the world over, developments in and on the fringes of Eurasia continue. In the final week of April, the Chinese Minister of Defence, Wei Fenghe, paid an official visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Defence Aviation Space Insider (das)insider reports that during the visit, the Chinese Minister of Defence met with President Ebrahim Raisi. II We also cover the US dollar losing ground as global reserve currency, example - Israel adopting Chinese Yuan as part of portfolio of reserve currencies. https://buiteboer.co.za/2022/05/05/blindspot-035-iran-china-stands-together-to-counter-unilateralism-on-the-fringes-of-eurasia/

Blindspot #034 - Musk’s Starlink helps Ukraine war escalate in space Buiteboer // From Bunker 42 www.buiteboer.co.za 28/4/22 I We cover the militarisation of space, how Musk, Twitter’s liberator hero, is not necessarily a hero for Russian forces due to the Space X Starlink system being put to work for Ukrainian forces. We also look at how Russia illustrated, in 2021, how it can destroy a satellite in space, warning that, like the Chinese, and Americans, Russia has the technology to strike at targets in space from solid ground on planet earth (if need be). Blindspot looks at how Turkish drones, and numbers of destroyed Ukrainian military assets (including significant amounts of drones), and we wrap up with an economic war story, on how Israel announced recently that it will add the Chinese Yuan to its portfolio of reserve currencies. The latter ties in with the theme of Eurasia versus the West, and the bifurcation, or, tearing in two, of the global system. II From the perspective of a hot proxy war on the ground in Ukraine it is easy not to pay attention to the role of ‘space’ in this conflict. Former President Donald Trump officially launched the US Space Force, which was at the time interpreted as a direct act of militarisation of space. With Elon Musk deploying Space X’s Starlink internet constellation to provide ‘services’ to the Ukraine means that ‘the final frontier,’ space, as per Star Trek, has just become the final ‘wild west world war III’ frontier.

Blindspot #033.2 - There’s no delight in Turkish involvement in Ukraine war (mercenaries, drones & all) Buiteboer www.buiteboer.co.za 15/4/22 How can Turkey claim to be neutral and a 'friend' to all three parties - Russia, Ukraine, and NATO... it might be sitting on too many hot geopolitical pots at the same time? Is the question this Blindspot asks. The scale of both the direct human impact of conflict in Ukraine, as well as its continued acidic fall-out in just about all aspects of global markets, calls for a steady eye to identify the blindspots hiding in plain sight. In the case of this delivery of Blindspot we look at three stories to highlight something intriguing regarding Turkish involvement in the conflict. We therefore take and analyse but one specific slice of the much larger WWIII elephant in the room. Story 1 - Illustrates how, in 2021 already, news broke of Turkish drones being used against separatist forces opposed to the Kiev government. Let’s look at a clip from WION channel. Note also that Blindspot #009 covered Turkish actions in Africa, and how its drones are deployed against forces of General Haftar in eastern Libya. Story 2 - From 4 February, 2022, when Erdogan visited Kiev trying to strike a pose as ideal mediator between the two countries. Story 3 - From New Eastern Outlook raises disturbing questions regarding the role Turkey might be playing in facilitating the transfer of fighters from Syria, to back the Ukrainians. How can Turkey claim to be neutral and a 'friend' to all three parties - Russia, Ukraine, and NATO... it might be sitting on too many hot geopolitical pots at the same time!

This is Blindspot #033.1 - as promised Hot on the heels of Blindspot #033, this one follows the story of a truncated rendition of the history, and ultimate death, of globalisation, between the years 1990 and 2022. Larry Fink, President of Blackrock, announced to Blackrock investors that the Ukraine war marks the end of globalisation, as the world has known it, since roughly 1990. Subsequently the Russian Federation 'hooked' the Ruble back up to a 'gold standard' value, and China is dabbling in a Petro Yuan trade with Saudi Arabia... meaning, the days of the USD as global trading currency may be numbered. ja Nee fokkit, dit lyk my 'n snor is Meer nodig as 'n tjor in Praetoria... om Bernoldus Niemand nou lelik te prafraseer... www.buiteboer.co.za

Blindspot #033.1 - Yuri Gagarin ‘Cancelled,’ as BlackRock pronounces globalisation Dead On Arrival in a Ukrainean emergency room [This is Part 1 of Blindspot #033] By: Buiteboer www.buiteboer.co.za 30/3/22 Blindspot #033 - has got on earth nothing to do with Level 33 Freemasonry - even though recording of BS33.1 commenced at exactly 20:33hrs, of the 30th day, of the 3rd Month, van die d'jaar van onse d'jirre... twenty twentie tWooo - (2022)! And, the recording is exactly 8 minutes, 33 seconds short. A few quick references to show the extent to which frigmentation, as covered before on Blindspot, is still alive, very well, and kicking on- and far beyond, current world battlefronts. Firstly, Rachel Marsden argues that President Biden’s recent remark, in Poland, referring to President Putin, “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” risks changing the world forever. As with many ‘regime change’ operations in countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, to name but a few, the US president is ostensibly firmly in support of such a move on the Russian Federation. Secondly, a call has emerged to somehow ‘cancel’ the idea that Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space… Thirdly, a call emerged, in the thick of war inside Ukraine, from the Ukraine embassy in Nepal, for Russians to be banned from climbing Mount Everest. Now of course a Russian occupation of the Himalayas poses a major direct and imminent life & death threat to every Ukrainean citizen and woke citizens around the world pressing for isolation of Russia via social media handles! In fourth place, this Blindspot - Larry Fink, BlackRock President, declares globalisation dead on arrival in Ukraine. On 24 March, 2022, the Financial Times, runs with the headline: BlackRock chief Larry Fink says Ukraine war marks end of globalisation - Boss of $10tn asset manager warns about inflation as companies reconfigure supply chains. BlackRock is one of the world’s most dominant conglomerates, that can surely be said to be a major engine of globalisation just by the sheer length, breadth, depth, and significance of its integration into just about every market, around just about every corner, of planet earth. For Larry Fink to announce to investors, in his official annual 2022 investment letter, that globalisation is dead, as of the date of Russia’s intervention in Ukraine, can be likened to the announcement that Nelson Mandela will be set free from prison. Or, that in some parallel universe, the Queen of England had abdicated, and will without any further ado return the Cullinan diamond, and all the gold taken from South Africa since Cecil John Rhodes rode his horse across Rhodesia, will be returned to South Africa. Larry Fink’s announcement is akin to royalty going for broke, and abandoning imperial ships! It is like the moment in 1421 when imperial China decided to burn its fleet, and end its exploration of the planet (long before the Western Europeans woke up to a world beyond the next medieval plague-infested feudal town, or the Atlantic Ocean, for that matter). Blindspot #033.1 will soon pick up on these issues...

Buiteboer // Dr Petrus de Kock www.buiteboer.co.za 23/3/22 It is not only World War III, but, Economic War on the world population's collective stomach, and corporate ‘bottom lines’… It would seem, if one goes by the (un)intended consequences, and fall-out created in global markets, by the ‘war’ to sanction and isolate Russia ‘back to the stone age,’ by those opposed to its military operation in Ukraine, that it is not aimed at Russia alone, but is evidently a war on people's stomachs, gas tanks, global energy supplies, and ultimately everyone outside Ukraine and Russia, who have just about nothing to do with it in the first instance. More importantly, those cheering on these actions must know, they are feeding the inflationary monsters growing in global markets that can only lead to collective demise. This is not a ‘war’ to isolate Russia in response to its military operation in Ukraine. It is a world war on your stomach, and petrol tank. This Blindspot will illustrate the point by zooming in on a few recent headlines. - Martin Armstrong - interviewed by Alex Jones, 21 March, 2022. Leading Economist Warns Nuclear War is Part 2 of The Great Reset. https://archives.infowars.com/watch/?video=6238fe37dd18320fc28e72f1 - Moneyweb. 23 March, 2022. Oil climbs as NATO, EU summits raise specter of new Russia curbs. https://www.moneyweb.co.za/mineweb/energy/oil-climbs-as-nato-eu-summits-raise-specter-of-new-russia-curbs/ - France24 - 17 March, 2022. War in Ukraine sparks concerns over worldwide food shortages. https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220317-war-in-ukraine-sparks-concerns-over-worldwide-food-shortages - CNBC - 17 March, 2022. Audi expects ‘tremendous interference’ to global supply chain due to Russian-Ukraine war. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/17/audi-expects-war-in-ukraine-to-cause-tremendous-interference.html - Industry Week. 28 February, 2022. Expect a New Wave of Supply Chain Headaches with Ukraine Crisis, Bevy of Other Issues. https://www.industryweek.com/supply-chain/article/21234730/expect-a-new-wave-of-supply-chain-headaches-with-ukraine-crisis-bevy-of-other-issues - RT. 21 March, 2022. German production costs smash 70-year high: Data hasn’t factored in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. https://www.rt.com/business/552397-germany-producers-prices-record-high/ - RT. 23 March, 2022. German state agency reveals how gas shortage affects public life: The sudden drop in supplies will hit every crucial service, from hospitals to police. https://www.rt.com/news/552534-germany-gas-shortage-test/

Blindspot #031 - Kicking & Screaming: Is Ukraine dragging the world into a collective suicide pact? For more detail visit the Buiteboer blog... https://buiteboer.co.za/2022/03/15/blindspot-031-is-ukraine-dragging-the-world-into-a-collective-suicide-pact/ The impact of the Russian military neutralisation, and de-nazification operation in Ukraine, has by now, a mere three weeks later, reverberated to just about every corner of the globe. This impact comes not only in the form of ‘news’ from the frontlines. Commodities markets, oil, gas, nickel, gold, coal, corn, wheat, fertilisers - too many to mention, have spiked as markets panicked. In South Africa fuel prices are bound to sky-rocket, and consumers are warned that in about three months the price of bread might do the same. Look at some commodities headlines from the past three weeks: LME nickel stages a historic spike, trading above $100,000 a ton before paring gains and being subsequently halted on LME; From MiningWeekly: Palladium prices surged as the Russia-Ukraine crisis fuelled supply worries; The conflict is powering safe-haven gold back through the key $2 000 level; Spot palladium jumped 5.9% to $3 173.02 per ounce, resuming its rally after slipping from an all-time high of $3 440.76. This is not even scratching the surface.

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Blindspot #030 - Phase 3 of WWIII: Cold War 2.0 (or) Hot War Final.0/Zero? Buiteboer // Dr Petrus de Kock For more detailed blog visit: https://buiteboer.co.za/2022/03/08/blindspot-030-phase-3-of-world-war-iii-cold-war-2-0-or-hot-war-final-0-zero/ ... Blindspot aims to see the world others don’t, or, at least some of the dots others do not happen to connect. In the Blindspot version of relatively recent human history, an ‘event’ often touted as frightening prospect of things to come, is already with us, and has been so for quite some time, namely, World War 3. In the first instance it is necessary to understand that the global entertainment- and news-industries have weaponised this term, WWIII, over time. Either the trope WWIII is used as anchor for some edge-of-your seat war- or spy-drama, pitting forces against each other that may tip the planet into some biblically inspired form of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). Or, it is deployed as some Psy-op level collective fear mongering tool by states and leaders to subjugate subjects to the will and whims of elite wars fought with the blood of Joe Bloke and Jane Soap. Hence, as Blindspot we do not take the term WWIII lightly. In fact, we take it so seriously that in the Blindspot universe, we are already in Phase three of said war. In the next few minutes we will share why we propose such a preposterous idea, and also show the critical role Russia had already played in this game of grand masters since it set boots on the ground in Syria, on invitation of the government in Damascus, some years ago.

Blindspot explores some issues beyond the main headlines dominating the Ukraine-Russia confrontation. For a more detailed blog - https://buiteboer.co.za/2022/03/01/blindspot-029-cold-war-2-0-eurasia-led-by-russia-china-versus-the-rest/ Five segments of observations constitute the content of Blindspot #029, being: I - Welcome to Cold War 2.0: Eurasia (led by Russia & China) versus ‘the rest’ II - Why start out with Iran, China, Olympics and Taiwan, if the theme of the current Blindspot asks whether Ukraine will descend into a state of perpetual insurgency? III - Why do we ask whether Ukraine will, like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, and Syria, be turned into a site of perpetual insurgency? IV - Wolfstreet on the economic impact of the Ukraine invasion on the Russian market: panic & bank runs V - Ukraine-Russia conflict outcome: a re-militarised and dominant Germany in Europe!

Blindspot #028 - Bill Gates: Omicron ‘better than’ vaccines at Munich Security Conference For more detailed blog visit - https://buiteboer.co.za/2022/02/21/blindspot-028-bill-gates-says-omnicron-a-better-vaccine-than-the-jab-at-munich-security-conference/ We look at two stories from the Munich Security Conference - one on the Ukrainian president warning that Ukraine could withdraw from the Budapest Agreement (according to which it relinquished all its nuclear weapons in 1994). The second story is Bill Gates arguing that Omnicron is a better vaccine than the techno-scientific injections rushed on the planet... For more detailed blog visit - https://buiteboer.co.za/2022/02/21/blindspot-028-bill-gates-says-omnicron-a-better-vaccine-than-the-jab-at-munich-security-conference/

The blog contains more details - https://buiteboer.co.za/2022/02/06/blindspot-27-forces-of-frigmentation-at-the-beijing-winter-war-game-olympics/ It is about frigmentation - when the worst of friction and fragmentation combine to create conditions of conflict. Blindspot identifies a new sport code for the winter Olympics - Geopolitical warmongering... with two teams allocated: 1. The counter-NATO expansion team championed by Xi & Vladmir, 2. The anti Russia/China team led by Club Western World. Even the briefest of moments of ‘news’ bouncing like light pulses around the data-arteries of the digitosphere, are manifestations of frigmentation, like: In Canada truckers are bringing the country to a hyper-mobilised stand-still as the population of a ‘free country’ stand up against draconian medical measures imposed by an over-eager vaccine needle mandate wielding government. In Mali, thousands of people took to the streets on Friday (4 February 2022) this week to celebrate the expulsion of the French ambassador to the country, and to protest against ongoing European, and particularly French forces, deployed for the epic no-end-in-sight counter-insurgency operations this country maintains in the Sahel. Interestingly enough, Aljazeera reports that at these celebrations on Friday, people were waiving Russian flags and burned cardboard cut-outs of French President Emmanuel Macron. The above stories, and all of those to be covered in this delivery of Blindspot can be understood better when we incorporate a concept from Buiteboer’s Searching for Madness in the Method, being: Frigmentation. Frigmentation is a portmenteau word that brings together the best of all the worst acidic characteristics of the concepts - friction and fragmentation.

Blindspot #026 - BodyBombs Away! Taliban stands up a Suicide Brigade https://buiteboer.co.za/2022/01/21/blindspot-026-bodybombs-away-taliban-stands-up-a-suicide-brigade/ Blindspot #026 zooms into one story today. It is because the subject under consideration, or rather, the act under investigation, being Suicide Bombing, tends to leave very many unidentifiable spare parts in its wake. Blindspot admits that it is indeed a rather hugely disruptive subject. The story is rather straight forward. In the past week reports surfaced that the Taliban government in Afghanistan announced plans to stand up a Suicide Brigade. Of course, this brigade will be deployed for operations of a very special kind. A veritable one way operational street awaits these sacrificial soldierly lambs. And no, at the end of their days, they are most definitely not silent. Blindspot asks: Is it bravery, is it brutality, or is it just one more odd manifestation of the morbid fascination humans have with the invention of ever more gruesome ways of whacking each other? As the rest of the world is plummeting down the rabbit hole of unmanned and autonomous weaponry, the Taliban is going in the opposite direction… Meat Body Bombs. But, here is the question, now that the Taliban has stood up a Suicide Brigade, will this become a benchmark export, like the Poppy plant product it so well known for? And, with increasingly vicious Islamic extremist driven insurgencies in Africa, and very close to home in Mozambique and the DRC, will that export product, and more importantly the ‘idea’ thereof (not the Poppy, but the Popping Suicide Bomber export product/idea), make it into the doctrine of Islamic State fighting African government forces - including South Africa? It is not a question as to whether time will tell. It is a statement of fact, that time will indeed tell that the troop contributing countries fighting Islamic State and al Qaeda off-shoot elements in Africa, will increasingly fall prey to the Suicide Soldier! www.buiteboer.co.za

Announcement! www.riskrecon.co.za Today Blindspot is featuring an exciting new venture... RiskRecon Launch details: Date: Wednesday, 2 February, 2022 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 (Johannesburg) Livestream via Streamyard: https://streamyard.com/wk57fwyg68 // Or via Dr Petrus de Kock’s Linkedin page RSVP by 28 January by emailing: info@riskrecon.co.za Or, via our website (https://riskrecon.co.za/contact-us/) RiskRecon has the pleasure to invite you to the launch of the company, as well as a special report that focuses on the risk profile, systemic/state stability, and manifestation of state failure- and collapse, in South Africa. The RiskRecon partners, Dr KLM (Kingsley) Makhubela and Dr Petrus de Kock, are excited to invite you to the launch of a publication entitled: The South African case: local government failure as first stage of state collapse. This report presents an incisive analysis by two of South Africa’s foremost experts on issues of African politics and geopolitics, of a question on the minds of many South Africans, and external stakeholders. It is a compound question, being whether a combination of factors, including failure of local governments, insurrectionist forces, state capture, loss of trust and confidence in government/the state, rampant corruption at all levels of the state & SOEs, and economic deterioration, are creating conditions conducive for state failure and collapse to occur? The publication, based on factual evidence, provides citizens, and decision makers with sobering new insights into the red light warning signs that are flashing for the outlook of South Africa in the period 2022 to 2024, and beyond. RiskRecon Launch details: Date: Wednesday, 2 February, 2022 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 (Johannesburg) Livestream via Streamyard: https://streamyard.com/wk57fwyg68 // Or via Dr Petrus de Kock’s Linkedin page RSVP by 28 January by emailing: info@riskrecon.co.za Or, via our website (https://riskrecon.co.za/contact-us/)