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Image is of the Herðubreið tuya in northeast Iceland, formed when ice sheets covered Iceland thousands of years ago. It's not really relevant to the Grindavik situation but I think they look neat. The title also doesn't make much sense but I saw the pun and took it.


Off in Iceland, different kinds of tunnels are causing problems. Underneath the town of Grindavik in southwestern Iceland, not far from the capital of Reykjavik, tens of thousands of earthquakes are portending the movement of magma in tunnels underneath the peninsula, which could breach the surface and cause an eruption. The 4000 residents of the town have been evacuated as the magma has risen to less than a kilometer below the surface.^TRG^

Icelandic volcanism is pretty fascinating, with the country sitting on the mid-Atlantic ridge, the birthing line of new oceanic crustal rock running right down the Atlantic ocean for many thousands of kilometers, as well as a hotspot, an upwelling of mantle material of debated origin which also feeds otherwise-inexplicable volcanism in the middle of tectonic plates, like Yellowstone and Hawaii.

An additional factor here is the presence of glaciers. When a volcano erupts underneath a glacier, the melting water cools the lava rapidly, causing features usually seen in volcanoes that erupt under the sea like pillow basalts, but also unique features like tuyas, which are steep-sided but flat-topped volcanoes. The rapid melting of water can also cause glacial floods called jökulhlaups.

Icelandic volcanoes have had significant regional and even global impacts in the past. In 2010, the volcano Eyjafjallajökull, which was a volcano covered by an ice cap, erupted and the ash cloud spread across Europe, causing airline disruption for about a month which caused nearly $2 billion in total losses for airline companies - though this seems pretty quaint compared to the pandemic's impact on airlines in retrospect. Back in the 1780s, the Laki volcano killed a quarter of the Icelandic population due to sulphur dioxide causing massive crop failure and cattle death. This eruption's impacts spread to Europe and beyond, causing notable worldwide temperature drops and thus crop failures and may well have been a contributing factor to the outbreak of the French Revolution, which obviously heralded the death of the feudal order and the eventual primacy of capitalism in its place. That being said, any eruption at Grindavik is very probably not going to have any significant worldwide impacts - there are over a hundred volcanoes already in Iceland, and regular climate change is doing a great job at causing mayhem right now anyway. It's also still possible that there won't be an eruption at all, at least not in the short to medium term.


Friendly reminder: when commenting about a news event, especially something that just happened, please provide a source of some kind. While ideally this would be on nitter or archived, any source is preferable to none at all given.

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.


Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA daily-ish reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.

English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.

English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.


The Country of the Week is Iceland! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.

This week's update is here!

Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.

Links and Stuff


The bulletins site is down.

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists

Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Add to the above list if you can.


Resources For Understanding The War


Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.

Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.

Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.

Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.

On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.

Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.


Telegram Channels

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

Pro-Russian

https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.

https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.

https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.

https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.

https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.

https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.

https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.

https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.

https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

Pro-Ukraine

Almost every Western media outlet.

https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.

https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.


Last week's discussion post.


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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 29 points 11 months ago

It fucking sucks to the working people of Argentina that doesn't deserve that garbage as their head of state.

[-] puff@hexbear.net 29 points 11 months ago

The global transition from capitalism to socialism is going to take a long time. Don't panic about the outcome of one bourgeois election. Socialism is inevitable.

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[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 29 points 11 months ago

Well, we are gonna have then Argentinean Jan 6th in a few years.

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[-] DeDollarization@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 11 months ago
[-] jack@hexbear.net 29 points 11 months ago
[-] Cherufe@hexbear.net 29 points 11 months ago

Milei wins, Argentina meltsdown and Chile takes back the Patagonia

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[-] AlpineSteakHouse@hexbear.net 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Not to get too doomer but with Iran stating they're not going to intervene the most likely outcome to the whole conflict with Israel is the genocide of the Palestianian people.

Please someone tell me I'm wrong and there's some hope for the future. doomer

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[-] DeDollarization@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 1 year ago

Interesting article

"January 27th was also the annual "International Holocaust Remembrance Day", falling on the day of the Soviet Union’s liberation of the prisoners in the Nazi German slavery and extermination camp Auschwitz. The day is commemorated by a slew of imperialist organizations, from the US-regime controlled United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and NATO to the normalizing Arab regimes. Astonishingly, none of the official observance statements pay tribute to the Soviet Union or its Red Army, who actually liberated the Nazi camps and played the primary role in smashing the German settler project of turning Eastern Europe into a "new West Indies". Nor do they acknowledge the 27 million soviets who paid their lives in that struggle. Rather, the commemoration, which was only created 60 years after, only references that six million Jews were killed. In 2023, Russia was specifically dis-invited from the commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz—liberation without the liberators; history rewritten.

This is a manipulation of history to separate Nazi Germany from European colonialism and its centuries of extermination campaigns. The narrative of six million "sacred victims" exists ultimately to justify the imperialist's endless wars of aggression, now marketed under the catchphrase of "stopping genocide". The Zionist entity is but one front of this.

The same year that the US-led UN created "International Holocaust Remembrance Day" the UN also formalized the policy of "Responsibility to Protect" (R2P). R2P is the idea that the UN and the imperialist powers of the West have a “responsibility” to wage war in the case of genocide. Genocide of course is defined by them, and its application is always carefully contrived to serve their strategies. This “human rights” justification has been the basis for many crimes against humanity including the destruction of Libya.

R2P, the definition and weaponization of genocide, the Holocaust, and antisemitism are all deeply connected in liberal humanism. The official EU and liberal humanist position—codified in the “Prague declaration”--promotes the myth of “double genocide” that equates Nazism with Communism. It is a revisionism in defense of “the good Nazis” who fought against communism to create a Zionism for Ukraine. This lineage explains the Western defense of Ukrainian Nationalists who follow Nazi-collaborator Stepan Bandera whose OUN-B organization killed hundreds of thousands of Poles and Soviets and specifically targeted Jews. In 2022, both the United States and ‘israel’ hosted delegations from the Nazi Azov regiment, who are known to use 'Israeli' weapons.

This is not new. The Zionists also engaged in many economic, security, and migration agreements with Nazi Germany such as the 1933 Haavara (Transfer) Agreement between the “Father of Zionism” Ben-Gurion & Adolf Hitler.

We can conclude that "combating antisemitism" is a meaningless concept today. Its contemporary articulation has been shaped solely for the purposes of imperialist domination.

It’s time to stop saying “Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism”. This empty statement is repeated time and time again in the circles of Zionist ‘anti-Zionists’. The implication is that “anti-Zionism is not antisemitism, but yes, armed struggle against Jewish occupiers is reprehensible”. This narrative is an attempt to make the Palestinian liberation movement another toothless ‘anti-racist’ cause for Western liberal sponsors.

Palestinian Liberation will require the elimination of many Jewish occupiers in Palestine—that is an indisputable fact. Who cares if that fact is considered 'antisemitic' by imperialists?"

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Trump introduces a line of flavored teas called ZenCalm?

[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 28 points 11 months ago

The Israeli Ambassador to Korea sent a letter to the Green Party of Korea demanding they remove a banner that declared solidarity with Palestine and called for an end to the genocide of Palestinian people. The Green Party responded by tearing up the letter: https://nitter.cz/karaokecomputer/status/1725609803207348301

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 28 points 11 months ago

Does anybody have more info on armed Israeli quadcopters?

20h ago

Israel-Hamas war: "Drone sniper" firing at targets close to Gaza hospital, says British doctor - telegraph.co.uk

The Israeli military is using remote-controlled quadcopters equipped with rifles to patrol the perimeter of Gaza’s hospitals, say doctors. Ghassan Abu Sitta, a British-Palestinian surgeon working at the Al Ahli hospital in northern Gaza, said the drones were hovering in “the vicinity of the hospital” and were firing “single bullets”.

“We have had wounded come and say that it’s been firing at people in the streets,” he said in a voice message to The Telegraph on Monday. “We can hear it. This afternoon it was really spooky. It’s like a drone sniper and it flies very low.” Dr Sitta said he and colleagues sheltering in the hospital refer to the drone as the “quadcopter”. It is likely to be similar to off-the-shelf commercial drones but larger and with a gun mounted underneath.

The Telegraph has asked the IDF for comment.

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