Irontortoise's Profile
Retired seismic analyst, helped monitor CTBT and exposed true extent of unannounced US nuclear testing at NTS. Main interest now is chronicling Covid-19 pandemic thru data-driven analysis.
Location: Hilo, HI, USA
Groups: Foreign Policy & International Issues/Events
Diaries published: 1064 (68 days since last diary on Mon Nov 24, 2025 at 04:53 PM PST)
Comments posted: 5091 (63 days since last comment on Sat Nov 29, 2025 at 06:42 PM PST)
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Most Recommended Diary: A Long Dormant Volcano in Ethiopia Roars Back to Life, 39 comments, 193 recommends
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The Hayli Gubbi shield volcano in Ethiopia’s desolate Afar region near Eritrea unexpectedly erupted with a thunderous explosion yesterday (Nov 23) for the first time in at least 10,000 years — sending a column of ash more than 45,000 feet into the...
by Irontortoise
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- Per NBC news, state Sen. Michael Bohacek is voting against the upcoming redistricting bill. Source: www.nbcnews.com/… It’s not clear yet what impact this will have on the vote tally or its efforts, but Bohacek was quite blunt about his reaction to...8 comments 17 Recs
- The Erosion of the Guardrails: A Comparative Historical Analysis of the Rise of National Socialism and the Trump Presidency I. Introduction: The Fragility of Democratic Experiments The comparative analysis of the rise of Adolf Hitler in Weimar Germany...8 comments 20 Recs
- I don’t have much as this is breaking news. The suspicion that other Republican lawmakers might follow MAGA firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene out of Congress appears to have some foundation. U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) announced on Saturday that...80 comments 306 Recs
- WELCOME TO THE EVENING SHADE A SANCTUARY OF SANITY AFTER A LONG HARD DAY OF FIGHTING FASCISM YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS (Or NOT As the CASE MAY BE) AND EVEN MORE ...204 comments 40 Recs
- From Raw Story, Nov. 29, by Carl Gibson: Trump wrote in a Friday post to his Truth Social platform that he was endorsing Nasry "Tito" Asfura in Sunday's presidential election in Honduras, and that his administration would be "very supportive" of...54 comments 201 Recs
- The Wall Street Journal says the Trump/Putin peace plan is all about money. I’m shocked — SHOCKED! — that they would sell out Ukraine for 40 pieces of silver. 2/ According to the WSJ, talks between Trump's golfing friend Steve Witkoff, his son-in-law...60 comments 288 Recs
- In April 2022, US authorities extradited Juan Orlando Hernández from Honduras to stand trial for running a violent drug trafficking conspiracy and helping to smuggle hundreds of tons of cocaine to the US. In 2024, he was convicted by a New York jury...56 comments 97 Recs
- Like most people, the word “woke” is oxymoronic, depending as it does on some relative lack of consciousness. Now that a “kill order” was given by Hegseth and a GOP senator is now moving in that investigatory direction, the long big sleep may be over....42 comments 138 Recs
- There will be stories of the end of the Russo-Ukrainian war that will do justice to its wartime leader. Sadly it has yet to be written as not the biography of Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, but as histories of his presidency dominated by a war,...24 comments 106 Recs
- Russian dictator Vladimir Putin likes to fancy himself a scholar of both proto and modern Pan-Slavic history. In his twisted historiography, all things Slavic find their genesis in Moskva Rus. To him and his ilk like Alexandr Dugin, Kyvian Rus, the...18 comments 113 Recs
