[Al Jazeera] A volcano in southwestern Iceland has erupted for the fifth time this year. It is Sundhnukagigar’s most powerful eruption since the volcanic system became active three years ago.
The fiery spectacle began shortly after the end of an eight-week-long eruption that occurred between Hagafell and Stora-Skogfell on the same Reykjanes peninsula.
The lava fountains reached 50 metres (164 feet) high and the length of the fissure was about 3.4km (2.1 miles), the Icelandic Meteorological Office said in a statement.
Flights continued as usual at the capital Reykjavik’s Keflavik airport, according to the airport’s website.
Wednesday’s was the eighth eruption since 2021 on the peninsula, home to about 30,000 people after geological systems that had lain dormant for 800 years became active again.
Such volcanic activity has disrupted district heating, closed key roads and razed several homes in the Grindavik fishing town, to which only a few residents have returned since an evacuation in late 2023.
Iceland’s civil defence was put on high alert, police said, and authorities again ordered an evacuation of Grindavik.
The nearby Blue Lagoon geothermal spa, known for its large outdoor pools, was shut and its guests evacuated.
Residents refer to Iceland as the "Land of Fire and Ice" — a tribute to its otherworldly landscape of mountain peaks, ice fields and fjords, a seismic hotbed positioned between the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates.
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Maybe not a house but a perfect time to buy land!
[Al Jazeera] Colombia’s Congress has passed legislation banning bullfighting.
Lawmakers passed the bill 93-2 on Tuesday. Activists have spent many years seeking to prohibit the controversial blood sport, which is a centuries-old colonial tradition in the country.
The ban will be phased in over a three-year period, during which the state would be required to help find alternative employment options for the tens of thousands of people directly or indirectly dependent on the sector.
Reporting from Bogota, Al Jazeera’s Alessandro Rampietti said the bill had been greenlighted after "years of strenuous political battles".
The once popular tradition, introduced by Spanish colonisers, had been "losing fans in recent years" and had turned into a "pastime for a small elite", he said.
Juan Carlos Losada, a politician with the Liberal Party, told Al Jazeera that the ban would enable the country to re-evaluate the "culture of violence" it had inherited.
"The next generations will grow up in a country where culture will define things much more creatively than torturing animals for the amusement of a few insensitive people," he said.
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Very good, very...um, socialist. It's worth remembering that there was a time when the Bull was worshiped around the Mediterranean.
'Coincidentally', when there was a Sacred Bull in Memphis, men built the pyramids with heuristics and their bare hands. Ditto the Minoan bull dancers and what was created on Crete.
You may not want to watch it, or extend yourself to understand it. But somewhere in all those ruffled feathers it might be a valid question to consider just how many men you've ever met willing to face a Saltillo bull with a relatively flimsy sword.
[War News] Against the background of the attacks on the strategic early warning radars of a nuclear attack in the depths of Russia, the Russians issued - not by chance - a "nuclear map" of Europe, in which they also put Greece!
Moscow, using specific communication channels in recent days, finds that NATO is determined to pull the rope, now directly threatening the very survival of the Russian state, which is exactly what the FSB said yesterday.
Now Moscow is talking about "nuclear deterrence" measures, which means permanent deployment of nuclear weapons and targeting of NATO bases across Europe.
Read also: FSB to B.Putin: "NATO is training to hit us with nukes" - Now they threaten the very existence of the Russian state...
What the Russians are broadcasting in detail:
"Where are US tactical nukes deployed in Europe?
Currently, about 100 US tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) — intended for battlefield or limited strike use — remain at six bases in five NATO countries in Europe and West Asia, including:
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Moscow, using specific communication channels in recent days, finds that NATO is determined to pull the rope, now directly threatening the very survival of the Russian state, which is exactly what the FSB said yesterday.
...You know, I absolutely believe that's what the FSB said.
I also remember Operation RYAN: when the paranoid, delirious, dying Yuri Andropov was convinced that Exercise ABLE ARCHER was the cover for a first strike on the USSR, and the KGB was ordered to find the proof that it was.
It wasn't, of course. But the KGB knew better than to tell Uncle Yuri that, so they found it...and had Andropov not been so debilitated, he would have launched first.
All of which makes me wonder if Volodya isn't harboring the same thoughts.
Soviets dont exist, and govt doesnt enjoy a monopoly in having the majority of people believing the Russians are the New Soviets. As Skid said: In the post-war '50s, Americans believed the threat was credible.
Maybe we could try to calm the Russians by offering to pull them out. Win/win...
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Soviets dont exist, and govt doesnt enjoy a monopoly in having the majority of people believing the Russians are the New Soviets. As Skid said: In the post-war '50s, Americans believed the threat was credible.
The one thing linking Rurikid, Romanov, Soviet and now Putinist Russia is its relentless appetite for territorial conquest. No one cares what regime rules Russia. So long as it expands beyond its borders, coalitions will arise to oppose its ambitions. Always has, always will.
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Russis's problem isn't any given opposition, it's straight up population collapse.
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At various times these coalitions were headed by Batu Khan, Gustavus Adolphus, Napoleon, Hitler.
Nowadays, it's Biden.
Alexander, as great a commander as he was, would have been just another notable individual warrior without the path-breaking military machine his father Philip created. As indecisive and weak as Biden is and has always been, it's the well-trained and -armed military machine created by his predecessors that keeps Putin restrained. And Biden will be spending quality time under indictment once Trump takes the oath of office. At that point, Trump will likely give Ukraine everything it needs to win so we can wrap this up and be, if not friends, trading partners again.
Nothing personal - the Russians need to leave. We wouldn't stand for the Brits trying to rebuild their empire, and they're our friends. The Russians, as befitting their status as unreformed empire builders, have no friends. So long as they stay within their borders, we can at least be trade partners.
One difference is we just attacked two Russian early warning radars in that are part of Russia's ballistic missile defense. I say "we" meaning the Ukrainians using NATO-supplied weapons.
There has been diplomatic discussion about using NATO weapons to strike into Russia, way beyond the line of contact. War is war and turn-about is fair play right? But given the short supply of long-range weapons, it seems more useful to focus on strategic targets like refineries and factories.
Both radars are in the southern part of the country (Orsk and Armavir) and look south, not towards Ukraine. If you are facing a charging bear and have 6 round of bullet in your gun, do you go all-in for the bear or take time to throw a couple shots at the rattlesnake over in the corner?
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Old enough to remember when the machine was stating that such a move, endorsing NATO weapons to be used in in-country Russia strikes, would absolutely be provocative, and would not happen, because it would be provocative, and would never ever never happen so trust us Biden.
It appears the Swiss Mission conference to put together a list of peace demands is turning into what everyone predicted, that there would be so many rails done they could build a nuke train track all the way to Moscow, is already off track.
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One difference is we just attacked two Russian early warning radars in that are part of Russia's ballistic missile defense. I say "we" meaning the Ukrainians using NATO-supplied weapons.
There has been diplomatic discussion about using NATO weapons to strike into Russia, way beyond the line of contact. War is war and turn-about is fair play right? But given the short supply of long-range weapons, it seems more useful to focus on strategic targets like refineries and factories.
Both radars are in the southern part of the country (Orsk and Armavir) and look south, not towards Ukraine. If you are facing a charging bear and have 6 round of bullet in your gun, do you go all-in for the bear or take time to throw a couple shots at the rattlesnake over in the corner?
It all seems a bit provocative to me.
It would be provocative if the US had a routine record of nuclear strikes against its adversaries. Instead, it has fought multiple wars against non-nuclear adversaries lacking the power to retaliate in kind without using nukes. In fact, domestic constituencies have denounced attacks with large scale civilian casualties, including the conventional bombing of military facilities near Hanoi as war crimes. A US president who pulled off a nuclear first strike without losing a single US city would spend the rest of his life in prison. One who lost several US cities in retaliatory Russian strikes would probably be shot. Putin knows this - he certainly spent enough time as a paper pusher across the West German border in Dresden.
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Old enough to remember when the machine was stating that such a move, endorsing NATO weapons to be used in in-country Russia strikes, would absolutely be provocative, and would not happen, because it would be provocative, and would never ever never happen so trust us Biden.
Biden is a dove and always has been. The real bottom line is that Russian leaders are deterred from a nuclear first strike by the near certainty that they will die, and their nation might die with them.
Hitler was deterred from using chemical weapons, and he was a literal war hero who did not fear death. He had no issues with gassing helpless civilians, but balked at gassing Allied troops for fear of retaliation against his men. Putin has shown no evidence of physical courage. It's doubtful he possesses the heedless fanaticism to blow his own head off by nuking the US.
[IsraelTimes] Eritrean national being investigated for suspected murder, 20 others arrested over brawl that follows series of deadly incidents
A man was stabbed to death during a brawl in south Tel Aviv between migrant supporters and opponents of Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... ’s regime late Monday, police and medics said.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said five other people were maimed in the festivities, three of them seriously.
Police announced they arrested more than 20 people following the brawl, and are investigating a suspect, an Eritrean national, for murder.
More arrests are expected, and dozens of officers have been deployed in the area to maintain order, police added.
There has previously been similar violence among Eritrean migrants colonists in both Israel and elsewhere, including major festivities in Tel Aviv last September in which at least 170 people were hurt — including coppers.
Earlier this month, an anti-regime migrant stabbed to death a pro-regime migrant in a south Tel Aviv neighborhood. In September, an Eritrean man was stabbed to death in Netanya during a fight between migrants colonists, nine of whom were hurt, including a man who was severely maimed.
The string of incidents since last year has brought attention to the roughly 20,000 Eritreans who are living in Israel, after entering it illegally before the completion of a barrier along the Egyptian border in 2012. Israeli governments have taken a series of measures — some of which were blocked by the courts — to encourage the migrants colonists, many of whom contend they are refugees from war and oppression, to leave the country.
Most African migrants colonists arrived in Israel through Egypt in 2007-2012, before Israel built a barrier along the desert border. Few migrants colonists have arrived since that time.
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The wall along the Egyptian border was built because of the influx they were part of. There have been few new additions to the community since then. When in power the Netanyahu governments have tried to send them home for years, but the primarily-leftwing judiciary has repeatedly ruled against them.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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