A French “anti-hate” website claiming to catalogue far-right symbols has listed several mainstream Roman Catholic symbols, including crosses and the Sacred Heart of Jesus, alongside well-known Nazi devices.
The French “anti-hate” website Indextreme claims that it is looking to “observe, catalogue and publicize the graphic symbols used by the far right in France,” and places various mainstream Roman Catholic symbols alongside those of Nazism and other far-right ideologies.
The project, which was created by graphic designer Geoffrey Dorne and photojournalist Ricardo Parreira and has been promoted by the leftist French website StreetPress, lists many symbols broken up into various categories from phrases to animals, flags, gestures, numbers, and crosses.
In the section on crosses, the Nazi Swastika is highlighted alongside several mainstream Roman Catholic symbols, including the Jerusalem Cross (the Christian symbol for the city of Jerusalem), the Cross of Burgundy, the Cross Pattée and the Cross of Lorraine, which is seen on the flags on Hungary and Slovakia.
The Cross of Lorraine was also used by the anti-Nazi Free France led by General Charles De Gaulle during the Second World War who fought the Nazi regime along with the Allies.
The inclusion of the Cross of Lorraine echoes another “anti-hate” school booklet released last year in Canada by the Canadian government-funded far-left Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN), which claimed the World War Two-era Red Ensign flag was a symbol of hatred.
CAHN has also been alleged to have ties to the violent far-left group Antifa and last year a Canadian judge stated “CAHN did in fact assist Antifa and that the movement has been violent,” when proceeding to throw out a defamation suit lodged by a senior member of the far-left group against Canadian journalist Jonathan Kay.
Along with declaring various Catholic crosses as hate symbols, Indextreme declares that the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a major symbol of the Catholic church that represents the love of God for mankind, is also linked to the far-right.
“Today, the Sacred Heart is well-known thanks to the far-right political party Civitas, an offshoot of the Civitas Institute founded in 1999. Civitas is a nationalist, fundamentalist and Petainist movement. It is known for its anti-abortion, homophobic and transphobic positions,” the website states.
Even the early Christian Chi Rho symbol, which is credited as being used by Constantine the Great and became a Roman Imperial Insignia, is listed as being used as a far-right symbol by the two authors of the website.
The inclusion of mainstream Catholic symbols on a so-called “anti-hate” website comes as France has seen repeated and constant attacks on Catholic churches and cemeteries, members of the Catholic clergy and parishioners, including murders, such as the killing of Father Jacques Hamel in 2016.
In 2021 alone, more than 800 anti-Christian incidents were reported in France, including one incident that saw far-left Antifa extremists viciously attack a Roman Catholic procession in Paris that commemorated martyrs killed during the 1871 Paris commune.
Monsignor Denis Jachiet, Auxiliary Bishop of Paris commented on the violence saying, “We would have thought we were back 150 years ago. It’s surreal.”
“They clearly wanted to fight it out. They were Antifa,” he said and added, “They snatched the banners from our hands, knocked down the French remembrance flag, which they trampled on, punched the parishioners. They threw garbage cans, bottles, even wire fences at us.”
January 7 is the day of the annual tribute to Saint Genoveva, the patron saint of Paris, who saved Paris from the hordes of the Huns. Isn’t she worth a mass? And especially the torchlight procession that precedes it, which has been around for ages. For exactly 18 years.
No, it existed. The Macron-Darmanin dictatorship intervened… the lovers of Sainte-Geneviève must be French, must be right-wingers, must be identitarians….. A few hundred young Frenchmen paying homage to Sainte-Geneviève are enough to terrorise Macron. Thousands of Muslims celebrating Eid in crowded stadiums and mosques, on the other hand, don’t bother anyone in Macronie.
The pretext? You will laugh or cry, as the case may be. It’s about the match between France and Morocco. Kézaco? Yes, some Identitarians had decided not to let themselves be slaughtered by hateful and aggressive Moroccan fans… In France, self-defence is a crime. That’s simple, clear and plain.
And whoops! We ban the French from everything….
It remains to be seen whether the Identitarians will obey or try to circumvent this freedom-robbing ban to give the Saint the tribute she deserves, which has been customary for 18 years.
Outrage erupted in Kerala after several Muslim organizations alleged that a cultural program presented on Tuesday during the inaugural function of the state-run 61st Kerala School Arts Festival in Kozhikode allegedly depicted Muslims in a ‘bad light’ and promoted ‘Islamophobia’.
In the musical dance-drama program it was shown that the Indian army has captured a rifle-yielding terrorist who is seen sporting a Keffiyah, which is a traditional Arabic scarf, allegedly giving the impression that the terrorist is a Muslim. Malayalam Theatrical Heritage & Arts, in collaboration with Matha Perambra, directed the musical.
Local Muslim organizations slammed the CM Pinarayi Vijayan-led Kerala government for allegedly sanctioning an ‘Islamophobic’ program at the Kerala School Kalolsavam.
The allegedly controversial dance-drama was presented shortly before CM Vijayan inaugurated the annual event. Kerala School Kalolsavam is regarded as the biggest cultural event for students in Asia.
Indian Union Muslim League MLA K P A Majeed objected to the portrayal of a terrorist as Muslim, calling it a reflection of Islamophobia. “It is objectionable that a Muslim costume was portrayed as a terrorist in the musical sculpture presented in connection with the inauguration of the State School Art Festival. It is clear that it is not a coincidence that a Muslim dressed man was portrayed as a terrorist in a visual expression that speaks of brotherhood, religious harmony and patriotism. This is a true picture of islamophobia”, he wrote in a Facebook post.
“The image will have disastrous effect at a time when the government itself is spreading the ideology of hatred,” the MLA added. He demanded immediate action against the concerned people.
In a Facebook post, Fathima Thahiliya, a lawyer and former vice president of the Muslim Students’ Federation claimed that “CPM MLA from Kozhikode North, Thottathil Ravindran had seen the rehearsal of the program and yet did not find the musical ‘Islamophobic’. Ravindran was also invited to the BJP by its leader K Surendran.”
Samastha Kerala Sunni Yuvajana Samgham (SYS) in a Facebook post claimed that the ‘controversial program’ was a challenge posed to the secular society in Kerala and that the visuals did not match with the lyrics.
In its Facebook post, SYS dragged the RSS into the issue and alleged that the state education department should investigate and take strict action against those who ‘misused’ the Kalolsavam and officials who took a supportive stance to further the “agenda of the Sangh Parivar by depicting a terrorist should be a Muslim.”
It is pertinent to mention that Kerala School Kalolsavam is an annual event organised by the Government of Kerala. Started in 1956, the Kalolsavam features multiple art competitions for high school and higher secondary school students of Kerala. The Kalolsavam is monitored by the state Education Department. The event is conducted between December and January annually wherein several state-level competitions are organised.
Manga is a Christian in Nigeria, the most dangerous country in the world, where a Christian is killed every two hours. Manga had to be one of them. Twenty years old, Manga was returning home like every night after university. His mother was preparing dinner.
Men from Boko Haram, the Islamist group that has sworn allegiance to Al-Qaeda, raided his home. They took Manga, his father and brother out, while his mother and younger brothers locked themselves in another room. “Then they asked my father and the two of us if we were ready to deny Jesus and embrace Islam”, Manga testified to the NGO “Open Doors”. Manga’s father refused. “So they told us, ‘We will kill you.’ I answered them: ‘If you kill us, what do you gain?’.
Manga was then hit with the butt of a rifle and his father brutally murdered. ‘They beheaded him and put his head on his stomach, in front of my eyes.’ says Manga. ‘Then they tried to behead my brother.’ Manga watched helplessly as his family was slaughtered. Then his turn came. ‘They took a knife, with serrated teeth and tried to cut my neck.’. The young man was left on the ground, before his eyes the bodies of his father and brother. As if that were not enough, those of Boko Haram hung a bomb at the gate of the house, where Manga’s mother and brothers smaller ones were screaming in terror. They were rescued by neighbors.
But for the second year in a row, Nigeria has just been dropped from the US State Department’s list of countries committing the worst religious freedom violations in the world. For more than twenty years, the President of the United States has been required to annually review the state of religious freedom in every country in the world and designate those governments and entities that perpetrate or tolerate serious violations of religious freedom.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced this year’s designations on Dec. 2: No Nigeria. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom said it was “outraged” by Nigeria’s exclusion. Jude Arogundade, bishop of the diocese of Ondo, southwestern Nigeria, noted that “every time the US Democrats are in power they look away from the killings of Christians. It was very visible during the Obama administration.” And it is under Joe Biden, guarantor of the Emir of Qatar.
Every day in Nigeria 17 Christians are killed for their faith. Nigeria’s Silent Slaughter report reveals that from January 1, 2000 to January 31, 2020, there were 96,309 total deaths in Nigeria. Open Doors speaks of 13,000 churches destroyed. 43,000 Christians killed in twelve years.
And where is the European Union on these 100,000 dead? Nowhere.
What about the UN Human Rights Council? It is silent, on the other hand Qatar is part of it and is the 18th country in the world that most persecutes Christians.
And the UN Commissioner for Human Rights?
What about Amnesty International? Nothing.
They are all too busy attacking Israel.
“The investigation into acts of corruption within the European Parliament is an essential revelation: our institutions are in the crosshairs of Qatar, the main financier of political Islam in Europe, a drift that explains many of the battles we face… ”, wrote the French philosopher and MEP François-Xavier Bellamy.
Perhaps then the Brussels investigation into pro-Qatar corruption will also be able to shed light on the silence of the European Parliament on the persecution of Christians and more precisely on the case of the young Nigerian Christian Deborah Samuel, killed and burned by Islamists. Within the group of European Socialists & Democrats, shaken by the “Qatargate”, all the MPs refused to shed light on a “genocide” of Christians committed in the name of Islam.
And the same people in the European Parliament voted to condemn the killing of the journalist of Al Jazeera, a Qatari organ, and not that of Deborah Samuel. The European Parliament also voted a resolution on the persecution of religious minorities. But not before deleting this sentence about Christians: “Christians are estimated to make up the majority of all religiously persecuted and that 340 million Christians worldwide suffer high levels of persecution and discrimination, with over 4,500 Christians killed in 2020 alone because of their religion”.
So Marc Fromager, director of Aid to the Church in Need, is right when he writes in Le Figaro that Christians “think they have been sold for 30 barrels of oil by the political authorities of the West. They didn’t expect to be forgotten even by their brothers.” Oil barrels, gas pipes and now we also discover rooms full of cash. In Brussels, these days, we have seen to what level of corruption the “official Europe” has fallen.
After a 22-year-old Syrian migrant was convicted for beating his pregnant girlfriend and rubbing strong spices in her eyes, a Swedish court ordered his deportation from the country. However, now the Swedish Court of Appeal has reversed his deportation order and will allow him to stay in Sweden despite the vicious assault.
The man was initially convicted in the Ångermanland district court to nine months in prison and deportation, including for gross breach of the peace and subjecting his girlfriend to torture and abuse, among other charges.
The court found that the man beat his girlfriend in the face with a clenched fist, poured oil all over her body, and rubbed strong cooking spices in her eyes. The woman, who was pregnant at the time, suffered from bruising, swelling, and temporary loss of sight, reports Swedish media outlet Dagens Juridik.
On a separate occasion, the man accused her of infidelity while they were spending a night at a hotel. He then proceeded to punch her in the face and whip her with a charging cable. He also bit her nose twice and strangled her.
The district court ruled in its deportation order that the man be banned from Sweden for five years, pointing to the extreme violence of the acts, which indicated a high risk that the suspect would commit another crime upon his release.
The Court of Appeal for Lower Norland actually increased the sentence to one year and four months in prison, but it halted the deportation order. Given Sweden’s criminal justice system, in which convicts often spend far less time in prison than their original sentence, the man is likely to be back on the streets within a year, assuming he does not commit further offenses in prison.
The court found that the man is homeless, unemployed, and has engaged in repeated crimes in the past, which normally strengthens the case for deportation.
Remix News reported yesterday that four Eritrean migrants — convicted for violently gang-raping a 40-year-old Swedish woman and filming the attack — will also be allowed to stay in the country. The prosecutor in the case demanded deportation and a ban on entering Sweden for 15 years, but the judge denied the request.
The Greens are pushing to hasten the planned release of cannabis in Germany.
“The controlled release of cannabis is agreed in the coalition agreement. The Minister of Health must now present a draft law in a timely manner,” said Green health expert Kirsten Kappert-Gonther, who is responsible for the topic of cannabis in her parliamentary group, to the dpa in Berlin.
She did not want to make a prediction as to when it will be possible to legally buy cannabis in Germany. Until the Minister of Health presents a draft law, any statement would be pure speculation, she said. “I am committed to making it happen as soon as possible.”
The SPD, Greens and FDP had agreed in their coalition agreement to introduce “the controlled distribution of the drug to adults for consumption purposes in licensed shops”. Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) had presented the first concrete ideas for implementation in autumn.
However, it is not excluded that Brussels will veto the German plans in a so-called notification procedure (examination), should the Commission consider them to be contrary to EU and international law. The conservative parties which are against legalisation, are counting on this.
“A possible notification procedure must not delay the process any further,” said Kappert-Gonther. EU law cannot be used as a counter argument, she added.
Even the most aware Bharatiyas somehow seem to subconsciously consider all Turkic rule in Indian subcontinent as “Mughal” and that they ruled “India” for 1000 years. This is like saying all South Bharatiyas are same. Read on to understand the distinction and truth for once and for all.
Few facts you need to fully internalize to decolonize your mind from Marxist lies. Invaders never governed all Bharat – max 70%. The total was hardly 500 years split between a different sultanates. And it was era of “confrontation” not “slavery”. Bharatiyas finally won.
Delhi sultanate – Qutubuddin Aibak from Kyrgyzstan stated Mamluk dynasty in Delhi 1206 CE. This was followed by the Khilji, Tughlaq, Sayyid and Lodi dynasties which fell to Babur in 1526 CE. Other than raids for money and women, their influence didn’t go beyond Delhi, Punjab, UP.
Mughal empire – Started in 1526 CE and not 1000 years ago as people assume. By 1707 Aurangzeb died and empire collapsed within 10 years. By 1726 CE, Mughal emperor was a puppet under Maratha in a small area around delhi. This “empire” (mafia actually) lasted barely 200 years.
Bahamani sultanate/ Deccan sultanate – First independent Islamic rule in South by Ala Uddin Bahman Shah in 1347 CE. This later broke into 5 different Deccan sultanates Ahmadnagar, Bidar, Birar, Bijapur and Golconda. All of which were consumed by Mughal by 1687 CE.
Gujarat sultanate – A break off of the Tughlaqi empire this independent sultanate lasted from 1407 to 1573 CE after which it was consumed into Mughal empire.
Malwa sultanate – Founded by Afghan Dilawar Khan in 1392 and lasted till 1562 CE after which Akbar consumed it into the Mughal empire.
Nawabs of Awadh – Establishes in 1724 by a Persian called Sadaat Khan as semi autonomous body of Mughal empire after is collapsed post Aurangze’s death. It aas finished in mutiny of 1857 by British.
Bengal Sultanate from 1342 to 1576 was a Sunni Muslim break off from Delhi sultanate, with Bengali, Turco-Persian, Pashtun, Arab & Abyssinian elites.Its two prominent dynasties were Ilyas Shahi and Hussain Shahi Sultans. Eventually absorbed into Mughal empire as a “subah”.
Nawabs of Bengal – Bengal subah was richest Mughal subah covering Bengal, Bihar, Orissa. Surya Narayan Mishra converted to Quli Khan and started this independent nawabhood in 1717. It was over after battle of Plassey 1757 with only titular nawabs.
Nizams of Hyderabad – In 1724 Mughal weakened, and Asaf Jah became virtually independent. Later Hyderabad became a vassal of the Maratha Confederacy, losing a series of battles through the 18th century. British took over after that but till 1948 there was a titular Nizam.
Kashmiri sultans – Shah Miri dynasty was the first Islamist rule in Kashmir starting 1339 CE. Akbar eventually absorbed it into the Kabul subahand& Shah Jahan carved a separate subah. Post Mughal decline Kashmir also had Afghan Durrani rule.
Hyder Ali and Tipu sultan – This was a barely 40 a year blip in the radar of otherwise Mysore Hindu raja rule from 1760 to approx 1800. And even with this small opportunity Tipu did his best to Islamize and inflict barbaric atrocities on subjects.
So if you do the basic math, the first formal Islamic rule stats in 1206 (Mamluk) and by 1707 CE (post Aurangzeb) it’s all but over except titular pockets. Basic Math tells me that it’s 500 years not 1000. even this 500 years is only in certain areas well resisted by locals.
Next time anyone consciously or subconsciously lionizes them or says things like “we ruled you for 1000 years” etc., please send them to this article and correct them by saying “we whacked & kicked you out within 500 years”.
(This article has been compiled from the tweet thread originally tweeted by Itihasika – The Culture Zone (@itihasika) on January 1, 2023.)
A minor girl who was kidnapped from Duliajan area in Assam’s Dibrugarh district was recovered by police from Bongaigaon on Wednesday.
According to the reports, the 17-year-old girl was missing since December 31 and the family members lodged a complaint at Duliajan police station on January 1. Following the incident, a person named Manoj Bajaj tweeted about the incident and sought the intervention of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. Chief Minister Sarma also directed Dibrugarh Police to enquire into the matter.
In his tweet, Manoj Bajaj said that “one Marwari Hindu minor girl has been kidnapped by a married Muslim man under Duliajan police station.”
GP Singh, Special Director General of Police, Assam on Wednesday said that the girl kidnapped from Duliajan, Dibrugarh has been recovered at Bongaigaon and would be reunited with her family.
The four Eritreans convicted for aggravated rape. Photos provided by Swedish police and arranged by Swedish news outlet Samnytt.
Sweden’s gang culture will only become “worse and worse” as a new generation grows up in a world where involvement in drug dealing and gun violence is commonplace, a Swedish police officer told Norwegian news outlet Document.
The officer, who is only referred to as Niklas, revealed the extent of violence occurring on Swedish streets, particularly in the capital of Stockholm. He said the country had “lost its grip” on law and order, with gangs now effectively having a license to operate free from reproach.
Vulnerable children are often recruited at an early age to conduct the business of criminal gangs and see their involvement as a status symbol; parents, meanwhile, remain reluctant to intervene or seek support when such action occurs.
“Ten to fifteen years ago, it was about shoplifting when we were dealing with 14-year-olds, but now they deal in drugs and handle automatic weapons,” Niklas told the site.
“Older criminals use children to avoid being caught themselves, and for the children, it is a sign of status to be chosen. It starts as a cool thing for a kid who can’t see consequences and ends up getting involved in gang conflicts,” he added.
Niklas lamented the involvement of “very vulnerable” young children, many of whom are under the age of 15 and therefore below the minimum age for criminal responsibility in Sweden.
“Who should they turn to when they feel sick or regretful? To the school counselor who is there for an hour or two per week and is replaced every term?” he asked.
Recounting his own experiences with children absorbed into the criminal world and attempts by social services to intervene, Niklas said that while some social workers can be “brilliant, competent, and committed,” intervention by social services “can be a disaster.”
“The problem is that those who are skilled and committed burn out and eventually disappear,” he said, adding that it was not uncommon in areas with the most-reported gang violence for social worker turnover to reach 100 percent within a year.
Furthermore, the hands of social care workers are tied when parents refuse to cooperate, which is often the case for fear of retaliation, the police officer added. “Then you realize that nothing is being done.”
When asked how likely it will be that Sweden sees an improvement in the escalating issue going forward, Niklas remained pessimistic.
“There is no chance. It only gets worse and worse,” he replied, explaining that children are being brought up to “never talk to a police officer” and claiming “there is simply no respect for the police” in crime-riddled areas.
He refused to rule out the possibility of a serious incident occurring between gun-wielding minors and police officers because “that’s what reality looks like.”
“There are children handling loaded automatic weapons. They can find the trigger and have no objections; they can’t even spell the word ‘consequence.’”
HUNGA TONGA – HUNGA HA’APAI was an uninhabited volcanic twin island of Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean that existed between 2009 and 2022. The two islands, Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha’apai, merged into one island during an eruption in 2009. Twin Island was obliterated in the violent eruption on January 15, seen here. Many volcanic eruptions are followed by powerful lightning discharges and over 200,000 lightning flashes were recorded in the gas cloud (one can be seen th in picture). The reasons behind this phenomenon are debated. Some believe that it is about static electricity between spewed particles, others that the earth and everything on it, including humans, are more electromagnetically influenced/controlled than today’s science wants to claim. Still image: Tonga Geological Services
When the underwater volcano in the island nation of Tonga in the South Sea had its explosion-like eruption on January 15, 2022, a massive pressure wave, more powerful than the largest atomic bomb, spread through both the Earth’s oceans and atmosphere. The catastrophic event created a record-high ash and gas cloud that continues to spread over the earth.
Much worse is that it has dramatically reduced solar radiation over large parts of the earth and caused the temperature in the atmosphere to drop drastically, which affects agriculture in the southern hemisphere. A selection of available new data reveal that the authorities tried to hide the extent of the disaster. There is a historical connection that is relevant too.
THE CATASTROPHIC Eruption on January 15 is witnessed by Tonga’s geologists, who saw parts of their island nation devastated. Photo: Tonga Geological Services
On December 20, 2021, the underwater volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai, the name of the twin islands where it is located, began spewing ash into the South Pacific. Four weeks later, on January 15, 2022, the eruption reached a gigantic and powerful climax that generated a very loud supersonic boom. It was heard all over the Polynesian archipelago and as far as Alaska, 1 000 miles away. The eruption was more than 4 000 times more powerful than the 15 kiloton atomic bomb the US dropped on Hiroshima and the most powerful since at least the 1883 eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia, which triggered a global volcanic winter.
Researchers at the British University of Sheffield released a study (Díaz et al.) on August 9th that demonstrates that the Tonga eruption corresponded to an earthquake with a magnitude of 8,4 on the Richter scale or around 61 megatons of TNT/TNT. As a comparison, the largest atomic bomb ever tested, the Soviet Tsar bomba, had an explosive power of 50-58 megatons.
“We’ve never seen anything like it,” said Luis Millán, NASA/JPL Atmospheric Aerosol Science Scientist, on the huge gas cloud.
Initially, the worst was feared for the island nation of Tonga and its around 110,000 inhabitants, when all communication with the outside world was cut off after an internet cable on the seabed was destroyed. The main island is located 65 kilometers from the underwater volcano, but the feared giant tsunami did not occur, although it caused damage in the island nation where many buildings were destroyed, at least six people were killed and several are still missing today. The tsunami did not have a high wave, but it was still powerful enough to reach with large waves of low amplitude (wave height) the coasts of everything from Russia and Japan in the north to the United States in the northeast and South America in the east, where coastal areas were flooded in several places. For example, streets were flooded in Peruvian coastal cities, where two beachgoers also drowned by a two-meter wave that is believed to have been created due to special bottom conditions there.
Mainstream media reported on the outbreak with a focus on the island nation of Tonga and when contact was finally established, the focus ended up on details such as aid work being hindered by Corona restrictions, as Tonga was claimed to have just had its first known Corona case. The talked-about high tsunami wave never came and “the ash cloud was not that special even though it initially looked spectacular”, was the anticlimactic picture that was painted in many. In just a few days, the volcanic eruption almost completely disappeared from mainstream media reporting. However, it would later turn out that the disparaging information was not true at all.
57 kilometer high plume
In January and February, Swedish weekly Nya Tider had contact with well-initiated sources who, already in the first weeks after the eruption, claimed that what happened was much worse than it was portrayed and that it would have serious consequences for not only the southern hemisphere, but the entire earth’s climate. They went so far as to say that it was deliberately blacked out by the establishment and its media and that “scientists felt pressure not to be alarmist”. But since they wanted to remain anonymous and could not present concrete data, we then chose not to report on it.
Now, however, much of what our sources said earlier this year has come to light as a number of system media articles suddenly appeared at the beginning of November. Dozens of major mainstream media outlets suddenly went out with the information at the same time. For example, the British Daily Mail had an article on November 3 with the headline “Tonga’s underwater volcanic eruption produced the highest plume ever documented, reaching a height of 187 000 feet [57 kilometers], study reveals”.
The study in question was published the same day in the American scientific magazine Science and was carried out by researchers at the UK’s Oxford University and RAL Space, who used three geostationary weather satellites to precisely measure the height of the enormous plume. The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) is one of the most important English public research institutes working in particle physics, space science, astronomy, computer science, biology, medicine and chemistry. RAL was founded in 1957 and is affiliated with the British authority Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). RAL Space focuses on everything related to space, from 60 years of participation in several space programs to analyzes of measurement results from satellites.
“For me, what was impressive is how fast the outbreak was. It went from nothing to a 57 kilometer high cloud in just 30 minutes. I can’t imagine what it must have been like to see from the ground,” said the study’s lead author Simon Proud in the Daily Mail.
The Tonga eruption thus beat the record holder Pinatubo, a very active stratovolcano in the Philippines, which when it erupted in 1991 caused a plume that was 40 kilometers high. Research manager Proud says that they used a new way to measure the height more precisely called the parallax method, which is only “possible now that we have good satellite coverage”. He further explains that “it would not have been possible a decade ago”.
New measuring technology provides precise results
Previously, the temperature at the top of the plume was measured using infrared sensors on satellites and then compared the results with known standard temperatures at different heights. This can be done because previous ash and gas clouds have only extended into the troposphere, the first layer of the atmosphere, where temperature decreases with height. But the gas cloud from Hunga Tonga went all the way up into the third layer of the atmosphere, the mesosphere. Because the ozone layer absorbs ultraviolet radiation, the temperature in the stratosphere and mesosphere, the second and third layers, increases with altitude. So opposite to the troposphere, the atmospheric layer below.
To be able to measure the height of the gas cloud, Proud’s team developed another technique that uses the “parallax effect”, i.e. the distance difference to an object seen along at least two different lines of sight. It makes it possible to calculate the distance between the observers and the object. This measurement technique is not new in itself, but has not been used to measure the height of ash and gas clouds before. It was made possible by the fact that the location of the Tonga volcano is covered by three weather satellites, all at an altitude of just under 36 000 kilometers.
These are American GOES-17, Japanese Himawari-8 and South Korean GeokompSat-2A. Images taken by these satellites, with a known position, were then used to measure the height of the plume. In addition, they recorded images every ten minutes, which means the researchers were able to document changes in the cloud’s height, spread and trajectory.
Overall, this means that the measured record height is not estimated, or as with climate models pure data-generated guesses, but precisely measured. When the plume’s record height, enormous scope and subsequent spread over the earth became clear to the scientists, many also realized how serious the eruption in January was, is and will be for the earth’s climate. It was so alarming that in the spring they began to divulge figures regarding its consequences for the public.
45 times more than thought
What initially misled the public was that the ash cloud was not historically large, but in reality the eruption and its gas cloud, counting ash and water vapor combined, was the largest ever known in modern history. This is even though the 400 000 tons of sulfur dioxide, one of several gases Tonga released into the atmosphere, was only two percent of the amount that Pinatubo spewed in 1991.
According to a study from November by the New Zealand government research institute National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA ), the water vapor equivalent to 2,6 million swimming pools of Olympic standard was thrown into the atmosphere. This is remarkable as NASA as recently as early August estimated it to be “only” 58 000 swimming pools. Before that there were even lower numbers. It indicates that the scientists see something that makes them look for an explanation as to why the cloud is so large and therefore write down the constituent substances and gases of the plume. In this case with the water vapor, the estimate was increased by 45 times in just three months.
On October 24, the science magazine EOS, which belongs to Advancing Earth and Space Science (AGU), cited a research report by Schoeberl et al. (10.1029/2022GL100248). There, too, it appears that the amount of water vapor was the largest ever measured during a volcanic eruption. They write that up to 150 teragrams, or 150 000 000 000 kilograms, were shot up into the Earth’s stratosphere during the eruption.
The atmosphere and the earth’s surface cool
Water vapor made up a large part of the huge plume of ash and gas that rose to a height of 57 kilometers. Several months after the eruption, it could be noted that greatly elevated values of water vapor and sulfur-rich aerosol particles still remained in the stratosphere. The researchers base this on measurements made between January 15 and July 1 with NASA’s instruments on board the Aura satellite. The data show that as early as February, the water vapor and sulfur-rich aerosol particles separated into two distinct but overlapping air layers and spread until the end of June, as long as the measurement results were given. We therefore do not know what happened afterwards.
The researchers then write that “a surprising result” was that the gas cloud at a certain height, in the middle layers of the stratosphere, “remained in the southern hemisphere for 5.5 months, with very little material moving north of the equator.” That it did not spread as expected, even if it only concerned one of several altitude layers, further worsened the situation for agriculture in the affected areas. The researchers concluded that the unusually powerful eruption, which created such a high plume, is the reason for the enormous amount of water vapor that now remains in the stratosphere – something never seen before.
Nya Tider’s sources point out here that while system media and “research” will try to point to global warming, as water vapor is said to be a “greenhouse gas”, the actual belief is something completely different. An example of such misinformation is from the New York Times, which on September 22 wrote that the eruption “is expected to increase warming for several years until the gas dissipates”.
But the reality is quite different. The gigantic cloud of gas and ash – which has spread over large parts of the earth – blocks solar penetration and lowers the temperature, both on the earth’s surface and in the atmosphere. Scientists have been surprised by the cooling in the stratosphere.
Our sources’ claim is also corroborated by EOS/AGU who – for other researchers – write: “The data also revealed the development of an anomalous temperature drop in the mid-stratosphere of 3 to 4 degrees Kelvin through March and April, which appears to have been caused by the infrared cooling effects of the regurgitated water vapor.”
This corresponds to a reduced temperature of 3 to 4 degrees Celsius. We thus have both cooling in the atmosphere and, due to the reduced solar radiation, also on the ground surface. The consequent colder weather in itself also results in a shorter growing season and could threaten crops with frost damage. This evidently goes against the mainstream “global warming” narrative.
Photos and numbers are hidden
For reasons of space, we now choose to summarize our sources’ view of and conclusions about the outbreak and all available data, from which we have presented only a small selection above. However, the New York Times admitted something that even our sources warn about, that the gas cloud will affect us for a long time. But not that it will lead to a cooler climate on Earth.
By studying Pinatubo’s much smaller eruption in 1991, we can create a picture of what to expect. According to the study “The Atmospheric Impact of the 1991 Mount Pinatubo Eruption” by Self et al. published by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Earth’s average temperature dropped by 0,5 to 0,7 degrees Celsius as a result of the eruption in the Philippines in 1991. Two years later, the cooling effect was stated to be “as large as -0.4 °C”. Agriculture was very negatively affected by the Pinatubo eruption, but the Tonga eruption earlier this year was significantly larger – and thus has significantly worse consequences.
It is only when we see pictures taken from space that we get a true idea of how big the natural disaster was and is. In just one day, the ash cloud covered large parts of the earth, which was visible from, among others, the International Space Station ISS. But even though the ISS passes over the area every 1,5 hours, 16 times a day, there are only images from the first day. Our sources state that those taken later have been classified, as they show such a large ash and gas coverage that the scale of the disaster would be obvious to all. In the same vein, the news also disappeared from the world’s mainstream media.
Measurement data has also disappeared, and not least those showing the spread of the ash and gas cloud across latitude, north and south on the earth seen from the Tonga eruption. All authorities and organizations seem to have stopped reporting between March 1 and the end of June. One of the last to report was the New Zealand government research institute NIWA, which it did at the end of May (see chart).
Dramatically reduced solar radiation
We can state that the effects of the Tonga eruption – before the data was blacked out – are very serious. It affects all important growing areas in the southern hemisphere. Not only is it a very large area of spread for the gas and dust cloud, which has also crossed the equator and made it north to at least the Tropic of Cancer, but it has greatly reduced solar radiation to Earth since the eruption in January.
Solar radiation or insolation is a measure of incident solar radiation on the ground, i.e. the amount of solar energy on a given surface, and is expressed in Watts (power) per square meter (W/m²). The solar radiation has decreased over large areas by a dramatic 1-2 W/m2, which historically – including during the Little Ice Age (1430-1850) and its many volcanic eruptions – led to catastrophic consequences.
For example, during previous solar minimums, periods when the sun has unusually low activity, solar radiation decreased when it was at its worst by 1 to just over 1.5 W/m2. According to NASA, we entered a new solar minimum in December 2019, shortly before the Covid-19 pandemic was declared, and this solar cycle (number 25) will continue for about eleven years, until 2030.
For example, during the Maunder Minimum cold period (1645-1715), when the Great Belt froze so that Karl X Gustav could surprisingly march across the strait towards Copenhagen in 1658, the radiation dropped by around 1 W/m2. Combined with several volcanic eruptions, which become more frequent in connection with a solar minimum, it led to several years of crop failure and mass collapse. It has been estimated that a quarter of the world’s population died during that time. It was the last Grand Solar Minimum that hit humanity.
That the solar radiation after the Tonga eruption really decreased by as much as 1-2 W/m2 can be established based on the latest available figures from the end of February (Zhu et al. published in Nature on October 28, 2022). After this, they stopped reporting the explosive data.
By studying the consequences of Pinatubo’s eruption in 1991, we can assume that the spread of the Tonga cloud in the atmosphere will now affect solar radiation over mainly the southern hemisphere until at least April-May next year. It coincides with the current growing season in the Southern Hemisphere, where it is now summer.
Even after the spring of 2023, we can count on continued noticeable effects on temperature and agriculture at least into 2025.
