Genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Jews begets genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians

Super horrendous violence and slaughter and concentration camps (learnt from us Brits in the South Africa War) by the 'Christian' Nazis in the 1930s and 40s soon led to the victims having learnt too well from us 'Christian' nations. Thus, their three terrorist gangs from '45 to '48 soon saw off the British Empire.  We were only too glad to leave it to the UN to sort out the ensuing mess over eight decades of war and hatred and retaliation.

Revenge upon revenge upon revenge has continued for 77 years - so far.

Only 'I Shall Not Hate' and non-violence is ultimately successful, if we all understand that it is better to be killed than to kill.

Question for Leader Patrick Harley on his one hour Live Facebook session

Is it sensible, let alone competent to be spending over £1 BILLION on only 10 Kms of tramway on some of the already built but unused 56 Kms of the UK's principal mainline railway "of national strategic significance", according to Network Rail and the Dept for Transport?

ANSWER:

Mr Weller is very passionate. Value for money is important. Regeneration opportunity. New footfall, businesses and housing. More money coming into Brierley Hill. It will be well worth it for this borough and be useful for year to come. We have two railway stations with Dudley in their name but neither are in the Dudley borough.

What are you doing about the unsecured Himley Environment Ltd (HEL) landfill site that is used by quad/dirt bikers and 4x4s?

You declared a Climate Emergency in 2020. What is your understanding of what is going wrong and what have you done to address the Climate Emergency over these last five years?

Patrick referred to Dudley Port station and Sandwell and Dudley station that are both in Sandwell. Patrick could have had a reinstated Dudley mainline railway line and station outside the popular Station Hotel at the foot of Castle Hill. Do you think that hotel should now be renamed Tram Stop Hotel?

Lord Peter Ricketts ...

Dear Alex

Lord Peter Ricketts, former British ambassador to France, former Chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee and the government's first National Security Adviser, spoke on 'Today' on Friday 16 May about sanctions on Israel's ministers and of tightening the arms embargo, scrapping trade talks with Israel and, instead discussing what happens after the war.  Ricketts is suggesting HMG should do something more dramatic like recognising the Palestine state, sanctions and embargoes.  Will you work on your government to that end, Alex?

Thank you for speaking up about the horrors for our fellow human beings waiting to be killed by Israel - like sitting ducks.  Israel who is a friend, an ally and part of our Western sphere of influence.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002c3jz

Listen from 1:52:15

The American led Western nations involvement in Palestine is brilliantly explained by Jeremy Bowen in his 2022 book, 'The Making of the Modern Middle East'. I'm re-reading it. On BBC Sounds, 'Indispensable Relations' is a fascinating listen about how America was caught up in Zionism from the early days of Truman's Presidency.

Lord Peter Ricketts feels its time for sanctions, embargoes and recognition of the state of Palestine to send a strong message to Israel over their violation and longstanding impunity in riding roughshod over the most basic of decent behaviours, like keeping to international law and upholding humanitarian and internationally accepted values.

Israel has gone rogue and must be urgently reined in, as Peter Ricketts describes.

Best wishes

Irresponsible, immoral and hypocritical to be ...

Irresponsible, immoral and hypocritical to be spending well over £1 BILLION of taxpayers' money for 10 Kms of trams diverted off the Dudley to Brierley Hill railway into the wealthy pockets of the Merry Hill owners.  They get millions of additional assets at our expense!

Over £1 billion to build 10.1 Kms of tramway.  70% is on and destroys the UK's last principal mainline railway that goes through three Black Country boroughs between London and Edinburgh.

Over £1 billion of our taxes are stolen from the poor who might have benefited directly if that money was used to help the poorest with food, housing and energy bills that they urgently need.

Over £1 billion to destroy housing land and nature to take it the 600 m distance from Merry Hill to Cottage Street, Brierley Hill.

These trees were felled this month to build the 400 m concrete and steel viaduct on the canal embankment:

 6 glorious white trees.jpg

Over £1 billion that could be used to give everyone the REWARD, the GIFT of using buses, trains, trams for FREE, as I have had for over 17 years as an OAP.

If the trams stayed on the principal mainline railway

 "of national strategic significance".pdf

the trams would still go into Brierley Hill from Dudley town but also go on to Stourbridge Jct and so connect three towns by 'back to the future' tramway and connect to the national railway network.

The tram is an incentive to increase footfall at Merry Hill with shoppers using the tram to get into Merry Hill instead of supporting their local businesses in Brierley Hill and Dudley town.

Hypocritical when you have declared a Climate Emergency in 2020, which  means you must spend on Climate compliant measures as your top priority.  NOT TRAM EXPANSION which is 3x more expensive for us to build than 46 other tramway schemes around the world, and so accelerates Climate ecocide!  Source:

 CNNCT Costs Comment September 2024.pdf

TIM WELLER

"One country gave away a second country to benefit a third"

It was Harry S Truman who suddenly found himself in the White House in 1945 on the death of Roosevelt and needing to decide whether or not to help the Zionists take over the land of Palestine.

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

A terrorist in one decade and a President or Prime Minister in a later decade.  Examples: Mandella, the new former jihadist who is now President of Syria - Ahmed al Sharaa.

MARK STONE US correspondent of Sky News wrote:

"The 33-minute encounter between President Trump and President al Sharaa in Saudi Arabia is perfectly symbolic of the message that is emerging from this trip: reconciliation and opportunity - the Trump way.

Just a year ago, the man who is now Syria's president was a jihadi military leader; an Islamist fighter whose group HTS and its precursor, the Nusra Front, had been aligned to al Qaeda and ISIS before turning on them.

The Americans had a $10m bounty on his head."

"My Kingdom is not of this world"

It is always good to read your perspective on things.  I have re-read it, too but, I still think my conclusion on being born in the most evil, destructive and ecocidal century that humanity has ever seen is correct.  And, it is the fault of the traditional, centuries old, Judeo-Christian nations than all the other world faiths put together.

As a result, all my life I have been a conscientious objector to the despicable arms trade and all things military.  All the military miseries in the world are entirely the fault of the men and women of violence who love to slaughter, in war, people like me.  So I am not impressed with them.  Not one little bit.  The world would be a happier place without those who espouse claiming land (or, MY sphere of influence) by force, coercion, violence.  They are the problem.  The Old Testament records it all so well and the New Testament shows how Christ's Kingdom is not of this world.

I and the other COs - Jesus Christ, glorious Gandhi, Donald Soper, Martin Luther King Jnr, magnificent Mohammed Ali (who went to prison for refusing to kill in Vietnam), Dalai Lama, Bruce Kent ... are part of the solution.

Where do you stand, Tony on Israel re-occupying all of Gaza to keep and to hold the lot, this time, permanently while it's business as usual for the West Bank?  From the River to the Sea We Will Have It All For Ourselves.

What's gone so wrong and how to put it right

Dear Ros

I was excused the weekly Grandma/Grandad duties with my Linda taking care of the youngsters on her own, yesterday and today.  Hence, I got to the FoE meeting yesterday.

I'm asking if you might ask our members if they would like to select, copy, paste this (or simply forward) and send it to:

customerservices@wmca.org.uk, 

customerservices@westmidlandsmetro.com

customerservices@tfwm.org.uk

STOURBRIDGE RAILWAY REMAINS FORGOTTEN, as roads clog with traffic

• The railway runs from Worcester to Derby via Stourbridge and Dudley town for 120 Kms.
• 56 Kms is ready built but is unused or partly used for 56 Kms between Stourbridge and Burton on Trent.
• Freight trains run from Port Talbot to Round Oak Steel, next to the Waterfront, next to Merry Hill.
• Elsewhere, passenger trains and freight trains run on the same track.  Why not our forgotten railway?
• Not even the Metro trams from Dudley town will use that railway into Stourbridge Jct station.
• INSTEAD, the trams will divert off it into Merry Hill when they should remain on the railway into OUR town.
• The wealthy Merry Hill owners are given a £1 billion asset tramway to make them even richer!
• That is the spectacular scandal of taxpayer generosity to the rich.
• This is the stupidity of wasting a total of some 100 Kms of railway in the West Midlands while we all get stuck in traffic jams and the Climate emergency worsens - by 40 years of Metro idiocy.

ACTION suggested to get out of the 44-year-old disastrous tram rut paralysis:

1. If work cannot be stopped from taking the tram off the railway onto the Dudley No 1 Canal embankment at Merry Hill, stop it destroying even more nature to accelerate Climate catastrophe.  Therefore, ...
2. Terminate the Dudley Tram at the Merry Hill tram stop not at Cottage Street, Brierley Hill.
3. In fact, far more sensible to keep the tram on the railway from Cinder Bank roundabout to connect it with the national railway network at Stourbridge Jct.
4. The freight trains will have to run at night.
5. The billions planned for more tram extensions must go to give everyone the totally Fare-Free Public Transport that I have had for the last 17 years.

Two of these trees remain after four were felled for the Merry Hill tram stop:

 6 glorious white trees.jpg

Their foolish plan shows the scale of the destruction and idiocy:

 WBHE plan for Merry Hill.jpeg

This map shows what is still left for railway TRAINS, not trams to be reinstated:

 Railfuture's full map.pdf

Positive, practical, sensible Climate compliant action here:

 Bus and businesses at the centre of a virtuous circle

Some fun at the expense of the bigwigs, here:

 Trumpland Transport in the West Midlands since 1981

Many thanks

to Cllr Gary Ridley, Opp Leader, Coventry CC

Thanks, Gary for the email.  Please read my attachments, below and see if they make sense to you!  What with the Climate Emergency, the economic travails of HMG and the plight of the poor, we cannot afford luxury trivialities, nice though they would be.

Please vigorously support what I am suggesting to keep public transport free for ALL as I have had for 17 years by opposing highly extravagant, over-indulgent, wealth-flaunting tram schemes - LR and VLR - that simply divert money away from more urgent and sensible priorities as here:

 Bus and businesses at the centre of a virtuous circle

A shocking record of failure, mix up and scandal is recorded here:

 Trumpland Transport in the West Midlands since 1981

Best wishes

'Precipice' - book by Robert Harris, describing the start of the war that started a century of wars

Such a brilliant title for the July/August 1914 catastrophe of the Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottoman Empire v France, Russia, British Empire War.

In those two months, Europe went over the edge, over the precipice and set in train European/American-initiated wars to this day.  The summer of 1914 saw the precipitous decisions of the Great Powers to bring an end to the peace that led to two World Wars, a Cold War and, to this day, the Russian/Ukraine War.

The Great War that ended the Peace for 111 years - so far.  Historian Margaret MacMillan called her book, 'The War That Ended Peace'.

Ian Duncan Smith, former Leader of the Tory Party said on 'Today' that the 1WW led on to the 2WW.  That started with rounding on Germany in 1919, rather than our statesmen, diplomats and politicians recognising that all of them had failed the people and needed to show some remorse for what they had brought upon the world.

So the unjust Treaty brought recriminations upon Germany with unfair retributions placed upon only that country.  Revenge was the order of the day as the Nazis rose to power and more slaughter became inevitable.

Next, godless Communism had to be opposed.  There was a Russia threatening our power as the top dog and our position as the Judge, Jury and Executioner of the world.  Nuclear holocaust was narrowly avoided when Russia tried to ape our side's installation of Jupiter rockets on the USSR/Turkey border.  Only one player is allowed to play that game and it can never be Russia, China or any other Power on earth.  That was the Cold War.

The end started in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall and ended in the 1990s by Gorbachev and other Russian leaders no longer wishing to play the Cold War game.  It came with the Warsaw Pact being disbanded as former Soviet satellite states sided with Europe and NATO.  Far too much to expect NATO to disband, too!

Putin came to Presidential power in 2000 and was already restless at the diminution of the former territories in the days of the USSR.  It seems that in the 1990s he felt that his predecessors gave too much away as former Soviet states became part of the EU and even NATO. Ukraine being invited to start the long journey to full EU membership was the final straw for Putin, especially with 'our' Revolution of Dignity in Feb 2014.

And so the Judeo-Christian nations continue their precipitous fall from grace.  Too often the militarisation of diplomacy, American-led domination in world affairs and the fueling of world wars with weapons exports.

We continue to live in dangerous times.

MIGRANTS - legal and illegal

Do they exist?  Or, is it a convenient way to denigrate and dismiss and discourage them from coming to these shores?  After all, this is our Land of English, Scots, Welsh and Irish who went all over the globe to bring them the Gospel of Salvation and Capitalism and made them little Colonial subjects and slaves to make our millions.

500 years of Empire building and slavery to make the Brits the owners of the biggest and best empire in the existence of the world.  We went there in exploration, trade and war to sort them all out.  And now they want to come HERE!  The cheek of it!

In India we did nothing over the two great Bengal famines of 1770 and 1943.  The last, out of fear, perhaps.  Churchill thought that if Japan invaded they would take the food meant for the Bengalis.  And, anyway, Indians were barely human and certainly no more than chattles/objects when being our unpaid slaves.

“The Bengal famine of 1943 was completely because of policy failure,” Mishra said.  Policy lapses such as prioritizing distribution of vital supplies to the military, stopping rice imports and not declaring that it was actually a famine were among the factors that led to the magnitude of the tragedy, he added.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/29/asia/churchill-bengal-famine-intl-scli-gbr/index.html#:~:text=This%20Indian%20family%20arrived%20in%20Kolkata%20in%201943%20in%20search%20of%20food.&text=Winston%20Churchill's%20policies%20caused%20a,the%20origins%20of%20the%20disaster.

In hotels, to be fair on ourselves, we did go so far as to put up notices asking English gentlemen to refrain from hitting the servants.  However, this did not restrain General Dyer (or, today's big friend Binni Netanyahu) from slaughtering the Indians who had the temerity to protest, unarmed, passively, totally non-violently on one occasion in Amritsar in 1919.  In fact, Daily Telegraph readers had a whip round and raised thousands of pounds to comfort the General when he faced some criticism back home.  He said that he only stopped shooting when his troops ran out of bullets.  Did he use the money to buy more ammo?

The Brits 'Greatest Britton Who Has Ever Lived', on BBC TV in the year 2000, was somewhat scathing over Indian independence leader, Gandhi who was the exact opposite of our 'Greatest Britton Who Has Ever Lived'.  However, no one recognised or gave him any credit for his very successful non-violence that made our Rule of the Indians like a walk in the park.  Albeit, some expense in ammunition lost in firing on them.  And in having to build railways to help our troops move around the vast sub-continent to control them more easily.

The Nationality and Borders Bill 2021 on asylum legislation is not consistent with an article in the 1951 Refugee Convention that specifically states that is not allowed to penalise asylum seekers on account of illegal entry or presence?  UN Relief Agency, many years ago said that our Cons/Lab governments' draconian asylum legislation was not consistent with the Convention and must be challenged in the courts.

Earlier this century, we allowed in 29,000 Afghan asylum seekers to become refugees and to stay in the UK.  The Afghan Resettlement Programme was modelled on the Syrian one.

Penalising asylum seekers arriving by boat and lorry is inadmissable and should be removed.  There are clearly not enough safe and legal routes for those fleeing war-torn countries and those escaping persecution and uninhabitable living conditions.

All this according to Peter Walsh and Dominic Casciani.

“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”

 "Either we get our numbers and our activities in harmony with the powers of the earth to support life or, collapsing ecosystems will do the job for us."

MEANS: We have to regulate our lifestyles to live in harmony with nature because we are part of nature.

Nature has the first and last word.

Life forms come and go over the millennia.  Some die out as others are born or evolved through natural selection.  The most successful live.  Those that can adapt to changing conditions.  Others become extinct.

It means we have to drastically reduce our burning of finite fossil fuels to cut back on GHG emissions.  Oil is too valuable to burn and must be used for 101 other purposes.

It means living like the Christ of the Gospels - living simply so that others may simply live; future generations and the poor, now.