Whose sudden awakening to the horror of Gaza needed not one, but

TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY
journalists and media workers to be
KILLED BY ISRAEL
in
GAZA

before this pitifully unself-conscious headline appeared?

MFing Journalists.
#ThisIsNotJournalism
#ABCNews
#auspol #Gaza #Palestine #Genocide

Who gave us no-actor or passive-voice headlines "Palestinian children die" instead of "Israel kills Palestinian children"? Journalists.
Who have been excluded from Gaza for years, but make no complaint? Journalists.

A sovereign power *bombs* the local headquarters of an international relief organisation & it's described as "hits" as the last part of a tiny thumbnail.
It's a moral outrage, & it rates half a dozen mealy-mouthed synonyms at the end of a minor headline.
This is disgusting.
#ThisIsNotJournalism

even there the lede isn't 100,000 odd people marching, it's the police ending the march.
And hidden in the corner, oh yes, by the way, deaths from deliberate starvation, and, last part of the headline, Israel "hit" THE RED CRESCENT HEADQUARTERS.🧵

Those billion trees would have the same huge impact on the amount of CO2e in the atmosphere as reducing emissions by? Anybody guess?
Current emissions are of the order of 35 million megatons per annum.
To reduce that by one megaton (or 1 billion trees) is equivalent to 0.000003% reduction. Or SFA.

The numbers:
The tree used for estimates sequesters one tonne of CaCO3 in its lifetime. Which is around 500 years.
That's 120kg of Carbon, or 440kg of CO2e. In 500 years.
Or 0.88kg of CO2e per annum.
To sequester ONE megaton of CO2e per annum would need 1.1 BILLION trees.
🧵

I'm guessing this is rhetorical, but two obvious answers spring to mind (with the obvious underlying answer that we don't):
1. To add draconian powers and remedies that would be seen for what they are attached to existing legislation
2. So politicians can "do something" and appease lobbyists
3. BAU

Good question. I don't have an answer... Sadly I don't think Australians will march in the streets for Palestinians, at least not in the numbers necessary, and the ALP have 3 years. It's not our conflict (they think) unlike Iraq.
Raising public awareness so the pressure gets too great, perhaps.🤷

Dutts is auditioning to be Brian Pegmatite, in a spin-off “Life imitates Art”

I think that's #31. They've hidden the electrodes well.