7th May
Early Thursday morning, May 7, a relay antenna belonging to the operator Bouygues and a TDF transformer for digital radio broadcasting BFM caught fire south of Limoges, at a place known as “La Croix de l’Arbre.”
This media and telecommunications infrastructure was targeted because it is integral to the military industry and the imposition of digital technology throughout our lives.
For Bouygues, ongoing wars are just another source of profit. Through one of its subsidiaries, INEO Defense, it provides the French army’s communications infrastructure. As for BFM and RMC, their networks help turn us into spectators of the massacres in Palestine, Lebanon, and elsewhere.
War begins with social pacification and our acceptance of the hegemonic narrative disseminated by the media. We won’t dwell on BFM, which is well known for being one of the reactionary mouthpieces for industrial interests. Their narratives also accustom us to our powerlessness and define for us the enemy to be fought, whether internal or external. The war effort we reject is the one that seeks to make us accept social austerity as inevitable.
Yet the plundering and militarization of the world continue to face resistance. As demonstrated by the millions of people who took to the streets in support of Palestine and by all the acts of solidarity. Digital technology is being targeted as one of the pillars in the development of AI-driven remote control in military operations, as Israel is using it on a massive scale against the Palestinian people.
Furthermore, military exercises will be taking place in the region in the coming days. Let us not forget that when the military deploys, it is never merely an exercise but always an operation of psychological warfare designed to acclimate people to their presence and make them accept a state of permanent war.
Let us not remain indifferent.
Source: nantes.indymedia