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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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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago

This painting but it's a Palestinian fighter walking into the giant ornate room where they store all the IDF cum

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I completely understand how Israeli propaganda could fuck up so badly that Americans are sympathizing with Hamas, but fucking up so badly they start sympathizing with Bin Laden is something else entirely.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago (4 children)

holy shit, norman finkelstein is going hard on twitter

https://nitter.net/normfinkelstein/status/1725145872407703716

Julius Streicher was the editor of Der Sturmer newspaper. He was hung at Nuremberg for abetting Nazi crimes. Shouldn't the Times editors and Mr Kingsley be held accountable for the dead babies in al-Shifa's incubators?

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Proof Dril is from the future

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Genocidal Kraut barbarians at it again:

Germany must perish

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (6 children)

new zoom background just dropped

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (13 children)

hexbear is guilty of doing Sperm Libel

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The original emblem of Likud showing Jordan as part of Israel has been revived.

This is finance minister Smotrich in a recent speech in Paris where he claimed that there is no such thing as the Palestinian people. The map is invoking the expansionist concept of Greater Israel, which is just Lebensraum but for Israel.

He is now calling for the "voluntary migration" (ethnic cleansing) of the civilian population of Gaza

The WSJ published his call to help do the ethnic cleansing.

Fascist country.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago

Xi Jinping: "After having traveled to the US, my suspicions are now confirmed - the vibes are definitely off"

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I regret to inform you that the tiktok zoomers have turned against Bin Laden after finding out he was a nepo baby

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I have been on hexbear for one month. I really like what u all have build here, Im gonna stay.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Sometimes I forget how good Africans are at deflecting Western edgelords. Saw one where the Westerner went with the usual, "Don't use any of the technology you have right now if you hate the West so much." The African responded saying, "Don't use your laptop, smartphone, car, or any other commodity you enjoy that uses minerals and other resources from Africa."

Another Westerner made jokes about the African Slave Trade. The African responded with, "It must feel terrible for your racist self knowing that you'll die an old man with at least one or more of your offspring or grandchildren having children with a black man. Your women can't resist us and the increasing number of mixed children prove it while your own population declines"

Second one went into iffy territory but I've learned that you can't worry about that when they're joking about the rape and murder of your people. Feeding into their bizarre fertility obsession always gets them worked up.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yemen acts on its word mere hours after making this promise to Zionist ships - while Arabs refuse to halt trade with "Israel". The traitorous Arabs will ignore this incredibly heroic act that puts them to shame & the West will downplay it to conceal the grave danger they're in.

I am fully Yemen-pilled. they suffered so much at the hands of Saudi and the West and didn't get 1/10th the amount of attention. I don't think anyone would have blamed them if they did nothing here, and they're still showing up for Palestine and taking action. rat-salute

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago

i like how the HAMAS HEADQUARTERS is less fortified than the average brazilian favela narcotics hq and less armed than the average american household

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (3 children)

wojak-nooo "Nooo, you can't say America deserved 9/11, 3000 innocent people died. You're a traitor and a terrorist"

"Anyways, here's why thousands of children deserve to be blown up"

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (9 children)

"A representative of something called "Destiny" contacted me. He never got back."

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Israel recently released new bodycam footage of a Hamas militant on October 7, which they claimed was proof of atrocities.

In it:

- The fighter kills 2 Israeli soldiers

- He then drives to a military base

- He participates in an attack on the military base and dies

It's literally evidence of them focusing on military targets.

here's the footage

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Germany doing clean wermacht, and saying hamas is worse than them, because they don't feel regret. What do they even study in history, i'll never know.

Just bad vibes from hitler corrupted pure german souls, and now they did a growth that killing jews is bad. Nothing else happened in ww2, all lessons learned.

So italy got meloni, japan never repented and germany now approaching same levels of discoourse, the gang is ready.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)
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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

BREAKING: Israel launches airstrikes on outskirts of Damascus

hate fighting a defensive war in which you have to bomb 4 different countries

this seems like a major escalation

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Xi, just enters his 3rd 5 year term (starting 2013) in a government that allows over a billion people to vote (at the least) for their local representative of 5,000 or less constituents. !!!!DICTATOR!!!!

Bibi, who has been leader of Israel since 2009, in a nation that makes sure nearly 50% of the 15 million people within its borders are not allowed to vote. A great democracy and friend to America.

I got it Joe joever

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago

After Bin Laden was killed, a teacher told us they buried his remains at sea and another kid just nodded and said "Like Megatron"

Nitter

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

seeing a lot of annoying liberals praising Mehdi Hasan recently for calling out the Israeli freaks he interviews. it drives me nuts because Hasan was one of the guys smearing Corbyn as an anti-semite. scumbags like him killed the only anti-zionist force in the UK and propagated the same bullshit Israeli propaganda that justifies their atrocities today.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (17 children)

I have bad news for people still paying attention to the Ukraine War. Unfortunately, it appears that the Ukrainian summer counteroffensive never actually happened. Yes, I know, this was shocking to me too, but:

A few days ago, the Kiev TV channel 1 + 1 reported that the Ukrainian army did not conduct a counteroffensive in the summer of 2023, and all the information about it was merely a brilliant psychological operation targeted against the enemy. The story made use of popular stereotypes to show Ukrainians in the most favorable light – as skillful and smart people, capable of finding an original solution to a difficult task.

The video was accompanied by memes popular in the late 2000s, which millennials would easily relate to.

The story was accompanied by the following comments: “The war is being waged not only on the ground and in the air, but also in the minds [of people]. In the future, Ukrainian psyops will be analyzed in textbooks. One of the most successful such operations is the ‘counteroffensive’. For several months, we deceived the enemy, claiming that we were conducting a large-scale offensive operation. Our cyber troops spread this information on the enemy’s social networks and [implanted it] in their minds. For several months, Russians have been subjected to a powerful psychological attack while our troops are getting stronger [and preparing] for a real counteroffensive.”

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

These women fight for freedom.

The Women's Brigade of the PLFP

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/14/jeremy-corbyn-hamas-terrorists-piers-morgan-talktv-israel/

In what experts can only describe as a "massive display of BDE", Jeremy Corbyn refuses to call Hamas 'terrorists' after Piers Moron asks him to 15 times.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't seen it posted here: Israelis completely demolished Palestinian parliament a couple of days ago.

It's clear that their goal is to destroy Palestinian statehood once and for all. One more example of how two-state solution is completely dead

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Guardian taking down the Bin Laden letter seems like just such obvious propagandist incompetence that Im wondering like who the fuck they have working there making these decisions.

Like on just the fundamental level, if the issue is individual tiktokers with a large reach creating a narrative around Bin Laden that is overly clean due to only focusing on the rational justifications for attacking America, removing the letter will not stop that. You've only made it so random people can't read the parts where he says that Jews control western economy because of usury, or how its wrong that America makes its own laws instead of following the law of god, which to an average person would be discrediting the other arguments by association.

And the thing is that almost every argument he makes such as the 1.5 million Iraqi children dead from sanctions, already has a readymade western "debunking" or dismissal, they could have fact checked Bin Laden, make his reasoning bunk by saying that he is lying about all the atrocities so therefore there is nothing for American voters to be held accountable for. Except now you've made the narrative that you are threatened by what the letter says, and if you fact check it now its like, ok you're still scared and trying to suppress it.

Like this just seems like it wouldnt be that advanced to consider and think about? Its just very basic stuff that Im saying IMO.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Israel never showed any proof of the decapitated babies. Went on to murder thousands of Palestinian babies. And now is asking you to believe them when a dozen ak's and some vests were found in the hospital means Hamas controls it...which means we have to shoot the women and children fleeing it.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (15 children)

WTF Putin pivoting to be pro-LGBT????

The Russian dictator also spoke out in support of representatives of the LGBT community.

Putin began by saying that in order to win cultural competitions in the West, he imagines it is necessary to "talk about, write or show something from the lives of sexual minorities, transgenders [sic] and other transformers".

Quote: "I’m going to say something unexpected: they too – these topics and these people – have the right to win [competitions], to show and to tell [their stories]. Because this is part of society too, it’s how some people live. It's bad if they are the only ones to win all these competitions – we don’t want that. But this desire for equality... this equality should be everywhere, in everything – especially cultural competitions."

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

~~From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free~~

From the Jordan to the coast, Israel will be toast

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Nelson Mandela visiting Gaza in 1999

Video evidence for the quote: "Choose peace rather than confrontation. Except in cases where we cannot get, where we cannot proceed, or we cannot move forward. Then if the only alternative is violence, we will use violence." This was along with a call for Israel to withdraw from all occupied territories.

This is a great video to show liberals. Use the whitewashing of leaders like Mandela against them.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The poetry editor of The New York Times Magazine has resigned due to the Israeli state's US-backed war against the people of Gaza.

my resignation - by Anne Boyer - M I R A B I L A R Y

Anne Boyer

Nov 16, 2023

I have resigned as poetry editor of The New York Times Magazine.

The Israeli state's U.S-backed war against the people of Gaza is not a war for anyone. There is no safety in it or from it, not for Israel, not for the United States or Europe, and especially not for the many Jewish people slandered by those who claim falsely to fight in their names. Its only profit is the deadly profit of oil interests and weapon manufacturers.

The world, the future, our hearts—everything grows smaller and harder from from this war. It is not only a war of missiles and land invasions. It is an ongoing war against the people of Palestine, people who have resisted through decades of occupation, forced dislocation, deprivation, surveillance, siege, imprisonment, and torture.

Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes the most effective mode of protest for artists is to refuse.

I can’t write about poetry amidst the "reasonable" tones of those who aim to acclimatize us to this unreasonable suffering. No more ghoulish euphemisms. No more verbally sanitized hellscapes. No more warmongering lies.

If this resignation leaves a hole in the news the size of poetry, then that is the true shape of the present. — Anne Boyer

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