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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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[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago

I guess Palestinians’ eyes aren’t blue enough and hair ain’t blond enough for the solemn bullshit they pulled for Ukkkraine

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[-] wheresmysurplusvalue@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago

University of Helsinki students occupied a building in support of Palestine. The university denied the request to use the space for the protest (unlike other protests this year) and so they called the cops. Pig walks in to a crowd of booing like

dafoe-horror

amid chants of "University, you can't hide, you're supporting genocide!"

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[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago

If you believed in the whole "racial purity is strength, our superior Zionist stock must survive" then why are you taking semen from the dead soldiers that have been blown the fuck out? They're surely the weakest ones. Completely counter to Darwin. Maybe if you let the Zionist ubermenschen program develop for another thousand years with the good soldiers then Israelis will evolve bioluminsence so that they can see in the tunnels.

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[-] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago

The story was reported by NY Post (reactionary) so I won't directly link, but there was a walkout by bus drivers in Northern Va, refusing to transport demonstrators to the Ethnic Cleansing rally. 300 people left on the tarmac is kind of a drop in the bucket, but it's nice to know that those drivers stuck to their principles

[-] IceWallowCum@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reports are coming in: Roger Waters has been working for Hamas since back in the 70`s

Run, rabbit, run!

Dig that hole, forget the sun

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago

Israel is hard at work turning a hospital into a horrorshow.

Israeli forces arrest two engineers at al-Shifa Hospital: Health ministry

The Palestinian Health Ministry says Israeli soldiers arrested two in-house engineers at al-Shifa Hospital.

The ministry said those detained are al-Shifa’s sole electric generator mechanic, and the only technician for oxygen stations who is present at the hospital.

- Al Jazeera

[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 59 points 1 year ago

Absolutely insane respect for the medical workers operating in the middle of a warzone with barely any supplies and the constant threat of being targeted by an IDF airstrike.

[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 59 points 1 year ago
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[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 59 points 1 year ago
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[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 59 points 1 year ago

Redditors are some of the most gullible people on the planet

[-] TheGamingLuddite@hexbear.net 59 points 1 year ago

Israel's image has decayed from a sleek, unscrupulous cold war gun runner to a kind of doe eyed looking Polish guy walking around aimlessly pointing at boxes of dried fruit and accusing them of terrorism during a military operation with a 99% civilian death toll.

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[-] VHS@hexbear.net 59 points 1 year ago

Reading a book about the occupation of the West Bank is turning me into the fucking Joker. I knew it was bad but this is fucking unreal.

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[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 59 points 1 year ago
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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 59 points 1 year ago

Xi's visit to California must be condemned, as it legitimizes the terrorist state of Amerikkka

[-] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago

The Canadian government has arrested Tarek Loubani, a doctor who was previously arrested by Egypt in 2013 for attempting to enter Gaza to provide aid, and in 2018 was shot in both legs by the IOF. He was arrested for...spraying ketchup on the wall outside of a Pro-Israel MPs office. What a joke of a country kkkanada

[-] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago
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[-] DeDollarization@lemmygrad.ml 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Germany Raiding Mosques

Police in Germany have conducted raids at 54 sites across the country as part of an investigation into an Islamic centre for alleged links to Iran and the Tehran-backed group Hezbollah. The Ministry of the Interior said Thursday’s operation primarily targeted the Islamic Centre of Hamburg (IZH) as well as five affiliate groups as hundreds of police conducted raids in seven German states.

And

Saudi detaining Hajj worshippers for supporting Palestine (sorry for instaspy link)

☠️🙈 move along nothing to see 🙈

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[-] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago

I 100% believe the Soviets would have done something to make the US fuck off by now, whether by supporting the Arab powers or similar intervention.

yeah im in my "missing the soviets" mood again how'd you know

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[-] Zrc@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago

Heartwarming: This Palestinian hospital was bombed by a trans woman

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[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago

BREAKING: congratulations to @yugopnik@hexbear.net for quitting his day job to focus on his own projects including The Deprogram. way to reclaim your surplus value

[-] CarmineCatboy@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

israel rn talking about why they can't find the tunnels

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[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 58 points 1 year ago
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[-] plinky@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago

Now hamas hq is in south gaza, the half-assery of israel ethnic cleansing ass-covering is only met by the quarter-assery of "free world" "journalists"

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[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago

First the Hamas 🔻 Second the Hizbullah ⭕️

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[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago
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[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

FLASHBACK: Back when Chávez called George W. Bush a coward, an alcoholic, genocidal and a donkey

Bring him back chavez-salute

The funny thing about the video is that the uploader pretended to show Chávez negatively, because he "uses anti imperialist rhetoric to dominate his people", but failed utterly because it shows Chávez being a giga CHADvez.

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[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago

So apparently San Francisco cleared a ton of Homeless camps to accommodate for Xi's visit and chuds are blown away. PatSocs like Jackson Hinkle who say homeless are like the landlords in China before the revolution are also celebrating how Xi somehow did it.

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[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just yesterday, John Kirby said the US had its own intel indicating the hostages were in the basement and that is was the Hamas HQ. Multiple Israeli politicians and US-funded IOF spokespeople have said they were in the basement and that is was Hamas HQ. In the new Sy Hersh article, his sources told him that the hostages were in the basement and that it was Hamas HQ.

So rest assured, it ain't going well for the IOF.

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[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1724976837086904382?t=woUMYWdYz6oBLb_kbd_klg&s=19

Today, I'm announcing that the U.S. and PRC are resuming military-to-military communications.

Clear and open communication between our defense establishments is vital to avoid miscalculation by either side and prevent conflict.

The world expects this of responsible countries.

The US, intentionally provoking China and stepping over their clearly delineated red line by sending Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan: why is the CPC so irresponsible?

[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago

Over 20 vehicles destroyed today, racking up W after W

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[-] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago

The Democratic party sicked the pigs on peaceful protesters, many of them Jewish, for demanding a ceasefire outside the DNC. Nitter link

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago

Israel's finance minister says the voluntary migration of the people of Gaza to the countries of the world is 'the humanitarian solution'

Literally what the nazis did when they tried to deport all their German Jewish citizens

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[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago
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[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago

In order to combats israels elite jizz retrieval unit Hamas must introduce the sterilizing microwave gun. They must not let the iof open up the cum gap, their strategic reserves of cum is already one of the largest in the world!

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[-] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"The ghosts of the Red Army fight on with palestine"

-a quote i stole from a russian guy I played CSGO with yesterday

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