Some of the Indonesian eruptions have permanently destroyed valuable agricultural land farmed by smallholders in semi-barter communities. For some, income from tourism becomes about their only source of revenue and they are forced to buy food for the household.
My wife’s hometown, Berstagi, has a volcano at each end, Sinabung and Sibayak. Sinabung is active all the time, but it limits itself to just letting off steam, although it is closer to the town. Sibayak is further out, some 15km from town. I climbed to the peak, solo in 1993, when it also let off just a little steam. About 10 years ago it errupted in a fairly major way and wiped out a complete village. The villagers have all been relocated into new houses. On a trip home to meet the family, we were stopped on the way into own and given masks. The whole town was covered in a layer fine volcanic ash, which turned to mud in the rain. We weren’t staying, and l told my wife she needed to get her mother out of town, instead of breathing in the ash, as the masks were the same basic masks we had during Covid.
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Volcanic ash is terrible for airplane engines, I can’t imagine it’s good for lungs.
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The ash from that unpronounceable Icelandic one that travelled the globe, stranding planes.
In 2011, I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to fly out of southern Chile because of that volcano that shut down select southern hemisphere places all the way to Australia.
More immediately, I’m gonna climb Volcan Acatenango to get a closer look at Volcan Fuego (an unimaginative but accurate name).
I may be some time.
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The trial is about to start of the man who decapitated a French school teacher. He was triggered by false information posted on social media by one of the teacher’s students, alleging discrimination against Muslims and denigration of Allah, cutting across Islam values.
The trial could trigger more violence from the Islamophobe thugs misrepresenting themselves as the upholders of Christian values in French society, fuelling the anti migration sentiment.
This is happening at a time when people are mourning the death of one of the Charlie Hebdo survivors, a horrific event in France.
There are parallels in England, when false news posted on social media triggered violence across England, driven by far right extremists.
Do the far right go around beheading teachers?
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French civilians have died in the streets repeatedly in the name of Islam.
Some societal concerns are hardly a surprise.
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ISIS hasn’t been destroyed as a movement and it has spread its influence to European countries.
As to France, it is not alone, but it has a dark history of State sponsored massacres, assassinations and torture, at home and abroad, sometimes in the name of religion, pitting Christians against Christians or Christians against Muslims. Present day France intervenes to prohibit costumes and religious ornaments of any faith in public buildings, in the name of a constitutionally secular State.
Macron has recently acknowledged and apologised for the role of France in the death of an Algerian national hero. It was an assassination. The Battle for Algiers was banned for a long time in France.
France is no saint, and yes ISIS are still a bunch of ■■■■■.
But what point are you actually trying to make? Are we trotting out ‘yeah but the crusades…’?
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The misinformation which was proven correct where the murderer of 3 young girls was recently charged with terrorism chargers? The murderer had risen and terrorism handbooks. That misinformation?
I’d say the protesters have been shown to be right.
I’m curious about this. Do you have a news article you can share on that?
The murder of those 3 little girls was the trigger of the summer riots in Britain.
Interesting.
There’s still a broken clock right twice a day thing that might have played out. If the social media storm that created the riots was inventing stuff, then the police later finding stuff that coincidentally fits some of the narrative still ain’t justified.
People who defend these muslims are the same type of people who stridently defended pit bulls.
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The government would have known these investigation findings early on. They get briefings from police no doubt.
The governments words and actions in the immediate aftermath poured petrol on the fire.
But the article says
Counter Terrorism Police have not declared the matter a terrorist incident, which would require evidence of a motive to be present.
So not a terrorist incident?
Edit- so there is charge possessing a PDF document of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing to or preparing an act of terrorism, contrary to Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
But not a terrorist incident is the confusing bit.
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Terror charges seperate to incident. It’s to do with possession of terrorism material.
A bit of a ‘■■■■■■ up kid likes ■■■■■■ up ■■■■’.
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Much later