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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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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago
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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago
[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago

CNN and MSNBC are going to shill hard for this shit all day long. And I expect that - somehow - there won't be any overhead footage if turnout is lower than the expected 10,000s.

March for Israel: Tens of thousands expected in DC today as security escalates for the unprecedented event | CNN

Israel retaliated by launching airstrikes on Gaza targeting Hamas, which often uses civilians as human shields. But the bombardment has also killed Palestinian civilians.

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[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago

According to right-liberal Danish minister of defense Troels Lund Poulsen, the EU will not reach its target of delivering a million artillery shells to Ukraine by March.

The minister is quoted for saying that "Hopefully we can get to the other side of half a million but it's hard to tell" and is calling the situation "serious".

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[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago

Anyone's company they work for visit Israel to learn about innovation? Mine has lol.

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Why is Blackrock picking the next head of the Bank of England? Deputy Governor will almost certainly be Governor later.

https://archive.is/uX8eg

spoilerA BlackRock Inc. executive will help choose the second most powerful official at the Bank of England, an arrangement that gives the world’s largest money manager a chance to help shape future policy direction by the central bank.

Downing Street has tapped Stephen Cohen, BlackRock’s head of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, to sit on a five-member panel reviewing prospective deputy governors for the BOE. The Treasury needs to replace Ben Broadbent, the bank’s deputy governor for monetary policy, who is due to step down in June. BlackRock manages billions of pounds of macro funds in the UK, which are sensitive to the central bank’s interest-rate policy. Broadbent, an economist and one of nine members of the committee that sets interest rates, arguably holds its next most important job after Governor Andrew Bailey.

The Treasury is seeking someone with “deep financial markets knowledge” and an understanding of how those markets interact “with the real economy,” according to an advertisement for the job that pays £288,700 ($360,500) a year.

Cohen will help draw up a shortlist and then interview selected candidates before making final recommendations to Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt. Carsten Jung, a senior economist at the Institute for Public Policy Research who used to work at the BOE, said the Treasury’s arrangement gave “the appearance of a conflict of interest — given the bank is responsible for policing the financial system and making a person who represents one of the most powerful players in the financial markets part of the recruitment process.”

The Treasury didn’t respond to questions about whether Cohen’s appointment posed a potential conflict. The department said it was seeking to solicit a variety of opinions about candidates for the job.

“Given the importance of this role, panel members were chosen who bring a diversity of thought across public and private sector, with deep expertise in financial markets and macroeconomics,” the Treasury said in statement. “Stephen Cohen was chosen as someone who meets this criteria.” BlackRock and the BOE declined to comment.

While the governance code on public appointments published in 2016 required assessment panels to include a member independent of the Treasury and bank, the department has only recently appointed members without prior government or central bank experience. The only similar example cited by people familiar with the process was Abrdn Plc Chairman Douglas Flint, who sits on the panel charged with reviewing candidates for an external appointment to the BOE’s Financial Policy Committee.

The Treasury wants to use more private sector experts on appointment panels to stamp out what it perceives as group think in policymaking, according to one person with knowledge of the situation. They believe that people like Cohen and Flint bring in a perspective less influenced by the culture of government. BlackRock has long enjoyed close ties with the UK government. Former Chancellor George Osborne was an adviser to the company between 2017 and 2021. Former Osborne aide Rupert Harrison is a portfolio manager there and sits on an Economic Advisory Council created by Hunt last year. The vetting panel Cohen sits on is led by James Bowler, permanent secretary at the Treasury. It also includes Sam Beckett, chief economic adviser at the Treasury; David Roberts, chair of the BOE court of directors; and Charlie Bean, a former BOE deputy governor for monetary policy. Time Pressure

Erik Britton, director of Fathom Consulting and another former BOE economist, said that Cohen’s role “presents a risk of conflict.” There should have been “some level of parliamentary disclosure or consultation process that set out the safeguards to minimize the risk of the perception of conflicts,” Britton said. Although the appointment doesn’t need to be announced until March, the potential for a general election next year is putting pressure on the government to fill it soon. Once the prime minister dissolves Parliament, appointment processes are frozen.

Applications were due in by Wednesday, with interviews slated to be completed by Jan. 12. Headhunter Korn Ferry is running the recruitment effort. Jung, at the Institute for Public Policy Research, said it’s unclear why a BlackRock executive had to be involved in the process. “There would have been a plethora of other options for people with a deep knowledge of financial markets who don’t have a current vested interest in bank policy,” Jung said.

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[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Gabon says the African Development Bank has lifted financial sanctions on it after President Ali Bongo was removed from power in a coup in August. Bongo served two terms as president after the death of his father in 2009, who himself ruled Gabon for 41 years.

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Two weeks ago U.S. President Joe Biden announced he would stop Gabon participating in the African Growth and Opportunity Act trade programme. It allows Gabon duty-free access to the U.S. market for its exports.

President Biden cited the country's inability to establish or make consistent progress in safeguarding political pluralism and the rule of law.

biden-troll

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[-] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago
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[-] ItsPequod@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago

New liberal ghoulishness just in from kkkanada (cw: discussions of sa) University of Alberta fires head of SA centre for signing a letter in support of MP Sarah Jama and supporting Palestinians. The farce of a discussion on r/onguardforthee is just awful.

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago

Anybody else having frustration with hitting walls on how far they can get with radicalizing libs who are pro-Palestine? A couple family members I’ve been talking to about Israel and Palestine are fully radicalized and on board with a one state solution and dissolving the Zionist entity but then as soon as the topic changes it’s back to square one.

One of them watched a 2016 PBS documentary on Syria and are talking about how much Idlib reminded them of Gaza and said Assad is as fascist, or worse, than Israel. I tried explaining to them that Israel was supporting Al Nusra / Al Qaeda jihadist rebels against Syria and that Syria is one of the thorns in Israel’s side. That Obama era propaganda just hit different, it’s fooling people to this day who see through Zionist shit. There really has been a breakdown in the propaganda machine

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[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago

The US fossil fuel story gets worse. For a solid 3-4 decades (1970s-2000s), US fossil fuel-based electricity production stagnated. However, with the push towards natural gas, total US fossil fuel electricity production has increased by 40% since 2010. We are driving head first into a climate catastrophe and the US is slamming the gas pedal.

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[-] Kaplya@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The famous figure of Borotba, Vlad Voitsekhovsky, suddenly passed away

(Borotba is a revolutionary Marxist organization in Ukraine, and one of the first to protest against the Euromaidan fascists in 2013)

On Sunday, November 12, one of the leaders of Borotba and the founders of the Ukrainian Red Army (UKA), Vlad Voitsekhovsky, suddenly died. He survived in the Odessa House of Trade Unions on May 2, 2014, went through emigration, captivity and fought against neo-Nazis with weapons in their hands in the Donbass.

We have repeatedly written about how he miraculously survived the mass beatings in the Odessa House of Trade Unions, about the repressions that fell upon him from the SBU, demanded his release and held pickets at the Ukrainian Consulate in Almaty.

Then we wrote: “None of the perpetrators of this mass murder were punished or arrested, and vice versa, those who tried to save the lives of their comrades, such as comrade and Borotba activist Vlad Voitsekhovsky, ended up in the dungeons of the SBU. Nazi formations and militants became part of the state apparatus, and it was with the massacre in Odessa that massacres began in Mariupol, Donetsk, Lugansk and other cities of Donbass and Eastern Ukraine.”

Our comrades were glad when, as a result of an international protest campaign, he was released and exchanged. Subsequently, Vlad Voitsekhovsky fought defending the people of Donbass. During the fighting, he received several shell shocks, which only worsened his health, which was already undermined as a result of brutal beatings and torture during the Odessa events, as well as during the period of imprisonment. Most likely, this was the reason for his sudden death on November 12.

Responsibility for his premature death, like many other activists who gave their lives in the struggle, lies entirely with the current Kiev regime, which established the Pinochet regime, banned communist ideology and all left-wing organizations and parties in Ukraine. Vlad Voitsekhovsky is another victim of this far-right terror!

We mourn this fiery comrade and express our sincere condolences to his comrades in Borotba, family and friends! He will forever remain in our memory, being a symbol of unbending will, principled struggle and will be an example for new generations of communists! Sleep well dear comrade!

Socialist Party of Kazakhstan

https://socialism.kz/index.php?newsid=960

[-] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago

Piers Morgan to Shakira: "But do your hips condemn Hamas?"

[-] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago

Breaking news from the Pro Israel Rally- lineup includes John Hagee apocalyptic mega church pastor who has some controversial theological views about the Jewish people, shall we say.

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[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago

A Pentagon official to Al Mayadeen

The drone launched from Yemen was heading towards the destroyer USS Thomas Hudner before it was intercepted

Ansarallah reaching based levels beyond comprehension

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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago
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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

A talking head on MSNBC just said "Hamas is marbled into the population..."

I'm stealing that. I wonder if I can come up with a Kobe beef joke.

[Edit: Oops.]

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[-] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago

Just watched an interview on Danish State Media (DR) with their China Correspondant about the meeting between Xi and Biden. According to the "journalist" Xi wants a meeting because China is trying to handle a bunch of crises such as "sluggish economy", "regional disputes with neighbouring countries", "A relationship with Russia that makes China unpopular in Europe" and "a relationship with HAMAS that makes China unpopular in the Middle East".

But remember, propaganda is something that only the bad countries do, and our journalists are getting critiqued by the left and the right, so that must mean that they are "objective".

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[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Germans of hexbear, please explain this absurd attire.

Also, lol lmao, state investment is unconstitutional. Deeply unserious country.

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Every time Biden opens his mouth his aides and the entire dem machine must pray he doesn't make an immense fuckup so bad even MSNBC (etc) can't help him clean it up.

Not the Onion Biden, jack - "It is not carpet bombing. This is a different thing... This is a different story than before, the indiscriminate bombing... It’s not like they’re rushing to the hospital knocking on doors, you know, pulling people aside and shooting people indiscriminately."

Joe Biden defends refusal to call for ceasefire - theguardian.com

Julian Borger

Joe Biden has presented an unapologetic defence of his refusal to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, arguing that Hamas presented a continuing threat to Israel and that Israeli forces were seeking to avoid civilian casualties. After a summit meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping, Biden told reporters:

Hamas has already said publicly that they plan on attacking Israel again like they did before, cutting babies’ heads off, burning women and children alive. So the idea that they’re going to just stop and not do anything is not realistic.

Reports that Hamas beheaded babies in the 7 October attack on Israeli civilians remain unconfirmed, though the brutality of the massacre in which some 1,200 were killed is not in doubt.

Biden also argued that Israeli forces had switched from aerial bombardment, which he seemed to acknowledge had been “indiscriminate” in parts, to more targeted ground operations, after more than 11,000 Gazans are reported to have died. He said:

It is not carpet bombing. This is a different thing. They’re going through these tunnels, they’re going into the hospital. They’re also bringing in incubators or bringing in other means to help people in the hospital, and they’ve given, I’m told, the doctors and nurses and personnel the opportunity to get out of harm’s way. So this is a different story than I believe it was occurring before, the indiscriminate bombing.

The IDF, Israeli Defence Forces, acknowledge they have an obligation to use as much caution as they can, in going after their targets. It’s not like they’re rushing to the hospital knocking on doors, you know, pulling people aside and shooting people indiscriminately.

Biden also suggested that a possible hostage deal was imminent, saying the Israelis had agreed to a “pause” as part of the deal, but then stopped short, appearing to acknowledge the uneasiness of secretary of state Antony Blinken, finally adding: “I’m mildly hopeful.”

The forcefulness of Biden’s defence of the Israeli military, is notably out of step with recent remarks by senior US officials, who have shifted their emphasis to appeals to the IDF to observe humanitarian law and avoid civilian casualties. It seemed to confirm reports that the president is more unreservedly pro-Israel than many in his administration.

For clarity - I edited it a tiny bit. It's 2023 and the net as we know it is hardly new and the year is not something like 2003. How is it that writers and editors still don't fully understand using quotes on the net???

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[-] MarxGuns@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What the shit, saw a news tidbit about Israel dropping leaflets on southern Gaza cities urging people to flee. That’s just more blatant ethnic cleansing.

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[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Inglorious Basterds but instead of scalps, Aldo Raine's troops each own him 100 IDF ball sacks.

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[-] StalinistApologist@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago

The American Multimillionaire Marxists Funding Pro-Palestinian Rage

"Neville Roy Singham and his wife Jodie Evans are China propagandists—and a primary source of the fury exploding on our streets."

Another hit piece on some apparently based Marxists.

I searched hexbear and found another one from nytimes a few months ago https://hexbear.net/post/282060

And a counterpoint piece

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