Huge Monster Crater!!! Lava Explosions on another World – Iceland Volcano Eruption – 17 May 2021
posted in: Earthquakes, Famines, Pestilence, Disasters, News
Icelandic volcanic eruption – an awesome display of elemental power
posted in: Earthquakes, Famines, Pestilence, Disasters, News
Pandemic or no pandemic, the world will never standstill. That’s perhaps no clearer than in Iceland, where a volcano has awoken from a slumber that has lasted 6000 years, give or take a year or two. The glow from the … Read More
With An Eye On Russia, EU Opens ‘Military Mobility’ Project To NATO Allies
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell at a meeting of the bloc’s defense ministers in Brussels on May 6. John Thys (Reuters) The European Union has approved the participation of NATO members the United States, Canada, and Norway in a … Read More
Brexit: is it sustainable?
posted in: News, United Kingdom of Great Britain
Brexit with EU and UK flag by Christoph Scholz – Image licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license In January 2020, as Britain was about to exit the EU, a post appeared on the London School of Economics (LSE) blog musing about the mechanism … Read More
More migrants cross English Channel in small boats
posted in: News, Refugee Crisis Europe
More than 2,000 migrants have made the crossing by small boat since January – Leon Neil The Home Office said 49 people managed to cross the English Channel in three small boats on Saturday. The groups were apprehended just after … Read More
Eurozone enters double-dip recession
posted in: European Union, News
The eurozone economy performed marginally better than expected in the first quarter of the year but it wasn’t enough to prevent the single currency area from officially falling into a double-dip recession. The eurozone’s gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by … Read More
Mapping the migrant camps in Europe
posted in: News, Refugee Crisis Europe
Successful integration of refugees and migrants into their host society is at the core of the European migration strategy – at least, on paper. In reality their current living conditions show that they are far from meeting this objective. MIIR’s analysis … Read More
Warning to UK that EU will not hesitate to act if Brexit deal is breached
posted in: News, United Kingdom of Great Britain
The European Union’s top official warned that the Brexit trade deal has “real teeth” and Brussels will not hesitate to take action if Boris Johnson breaches its terms. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said she hoped the EU … Read More
Biden drops a genocide bomb on Erdogan
posted in: European Union, News
Biden’s curiously timed statement on WWI atrocity against Ottoman Armenians drives US-Turkey relations to a new low. Then US Vice President Joe Biden (L) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2016. Biden called Erdogan the day before making his … Read More
Pope Francis prays for 130 refugees drowned in Mediterranean
posted in: News, Refugee Crisis Europe
Debris from a dinghy that was supposedly carrying over 100 migrants are seen floating in the Mediterranean Sea northeast of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, Thursday, April 22, 2021. SOS Mediterranee, which operates the rescue vessel Ocean Viking, said late Thursday … Read More