After not logging into ClimateJustice.social for a few days or so,
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While I waited I watched this hilarious Matt Green video 🙂

"Should They Give tRUMP a Nobel Prize"

https://youtu.be/DQVfJXNdfr0

Made me chuckle!

#MattGreen #comedy #tRUMP #Nobel

How Is Western Media Framing the Famine Catastrophe in the Gaza Strip? (Aljazeera)

https://institute.aljazeera.net/en/ajr/article/3230

"Since the outbreak of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip in October 2023, more than two million Palestinians have been enduring unprecedented humanitarian conditions. The ongoing Israeli siege, the wholesale destruction of infrastructure, and systematic obstruction of even the most basic humanitarian aid, along with continued bombardment and military operations, have created a humanitarian crisis described by the United Nations and international organisations as a “mass famine.” Israel has been accused of deliberately imposing starvation conditions on Gaza’s population to force displacement and expand a “genocidal environment” in the Strip.

In early July last year, a group of independent UN experts issued a press statement asserting that Israel was carrying out a “deliberate and targeted campaign of starvation,” labelling it “a form of genocidal violence.” The statement highlighted the growing number of child deaths from hunger and malnutrition as indisputable evidence that famine had spread throughout Gaza.

However, signs of famine had emerged just months after the war began on October 7. In the case South Africa brought before the International Court of Justice against Israel, the legal filing detailed how Israel had driven the entire territory to the “brink of famine”. The case includes expert testimony and reports from international agencies about rising hunger levels, even in so-called “safe zones.”

In the Palestinian context, especially in wartime Gaza, most major Western media outlets have avoided using precise legal and ethical terms like “famine” or “starvation,” opting instead for vague phrases such as “food shortages” or “nutrition crisis.” These terms dilute legally and journalistically defined realities of famine into merely potential crises.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the internationally recognized authority on food security, activated its “Famine Review Committee” in a March 18, 2024, report, citing strong evidence of deteriorating food conditions. The IPC confirmed that famine was “expected and imminent” in Gaza City and Northern Gaza and was likely to become reality between mid-March and May 2024. In its most recent report, dated May 12, 2025, the IPC stated that “the entire population of Gaza faces a critical famine risk,” according to Reuters.

Despite these well-documented indicators, much of Western media coverage has remained reserved in acknowledging this aspect of the ongoing catastrophe in Gaza, often avoiding the term “famine” even when legal and humanitarian criteria clearly apply.

This professional reticence becomes particularly visible in the limited Western media focus on Israel’s openly declared and methodically implemented starvation policy, though such actions are defined as war crimes and crimes against humanity in several early reports, notably Human Rights Watch’s December 18, 2023, report titled “Israel: Starvation as a Method of Warfare in Gaza.”

Famine or “Hunger Crisis”?

Vocabulary selection is a major form of media bias, particularly in situations where humanitarian disasters intersect with complex political and economic agendas. In Gaza, major Western media outlets have largely avoided using legal and ethical terms like “famine” or “starvation,” instead deploying more ambiguous phrases like “food depletion” or “nutrition crisis.” These terms reframe journalistic and legal facts as technical or logistical issues, thus limiting public empathy and solidarity.

This general hesitancy to label the complete collapse of food security in Gaza as “famine” is another instance of bias and obfuscation, shielding the perpetrator from accountability. Manipulating terminology becomes a tool to strip crimes of their legal gravity and blur accountability.

This reluctance is not merely a terminological issue or editorial choice, it is part of a broader system of fact reproduction under a capitalist media model that serves elite interests, even at the expense of journalistic ethics. Such framing influences public opinion by recycling vague narratives that downplay the crisis and deflect blame from the responsible party........

Ok Sarah - I ask
Why did you ever expect that being under a major tory with a rubber face would ever be better for the world?

Sarah Vine: How Brexit ruined my marriage to Michael Gove

Does Westminster make good people awful or does it attract awful people? As far as Sarah Vine is concerned, it’s the former – corrupting those with the best of intentions, turning them “mad and toxic.”

For twenty years, Sarah Vine was on the frontline of UK politics – married to former Secretary of State Michael Gove, friend (and later, foe) of the Camerons and a tabloid columnist. She witnessed Brexit up close – so close in fact, that it cost her her marriage.

In this episode of the Fourcast, journalist and author Sarah Vine talks to Krishnan Guru-Murthy about her new book, ‘How Not to Be a Political Wife’.

https://www.channel4.com/news/sarah-vine-how-brexit-ruined-my-marriage-to-michael-gove

#fuckingobviousifnotdeadinthehead