Nazis of us all - if meaning using hatred and violence to further our cause, as has been the case for centuries

Dear Alex and team

It might be sobering for our side to recognise that we were responsible for the Nazis because they came from Germany, a Western European nation steeped in Christian tradition and the Bible. 12 years of terror, from 1933, for mainly Jews and all other minority communities which soon led to tens of millions dead around the world.  We cannot blame the Russians and the Chinese but only ourselves.  Many centuries of Christian persecution in Europe.

Indeed, our tiny island with pretensions well above our station in the world would have been overrun by Nazi Germany if the Russians had not beaten them at Stalingrad* and if the Americans had not come to our aid.  We were rescued by both nations.

We cannot blame the Russians and the Chinese but only ourselves for the 126 years of religious violence in the unHoly Land, which culminated in our facilitation of the Jews/Zionists taking over Palestine in violation of international law that states that no country can take possession of land by violence/aggression.  The Jews did not wait for agreement and compromise with Palestine and the Arabs but just went marching in, with the Christian West funding the war of 1948 and every subsequent war.

Our side, we, are the new Nazis in laying waste to Gaza and still keeping the Gazans in the most appalling conditions in their cold and unusually wet winter in flimsy tents and still being picked off as cold blooded murder continues. This is ​y​ou and I, with STILL nothing like BDS against our great friend and ally​ doing the war crimes!

There is never any criticism of ​us​ white Caucasian, Judeo-Christian nations.  Nor for Germany for fueling Israel's aggression ​by exporting the second largest quantity of armaments after the USA.  The UK was to blame for the 1948 seizure of land by the Jews/Zionists.

We are the greatest threat to world peace with unpredictable and unbalanced men like Trump, followed by constant talk of our national security, and more of our GDP being spent on warfare. China just gets on with being the workshop of the world and leading the way on renewables.

Our track record for centuries of coercion, force and violence culminated in our side in the 20th century being the most destructive and evil in the history of humanity.

TIM WELLER

* The battle is commonly regarded as the turning point in the European theatre of World War II,^{[43]  Wikipedia}

Midland Metro Mess

John Drake  4 days ago

Very Superior beings or so they thought, refused to listen when asked to reopen Wolverhampton low level to Birmingham Snow Hill railway, they ignored the rail linked Dudley flyer heavy rail line to Merry hill too

The same superior beings used £ millions of West Midlands Tax payers’ money to buy European trams that broke down in the rain and replaced them with more European Trams whose brand new Chassis cracked

Those superior beings in the local councils & WMCA wouldn’t listen then they’re not listening now, their hard left wing ideology comes before common sense That unloosening bad judgment has left us with their £2+ billion unusable and not fit for purpose Tram transport mess

Emma Marshall

 Very well done, Emma. I particularly liked, “My faith teaches me not to compromise on truth or integrity. Through my work with local charities, I see the reality of what people in Redditch are facing every day — hunger, homelessness, mental health crises, and broken systems."

Thank you for your help for me, as here when I wrote on 17 Jul 2023:  You were brilliant last Thursday in mentioning the Kiddermnster bus station slum disgrace in full council to Mike Rouse. You also stood up to Fran and explained things to her so well. I watched you on the recording and that was just what was needed. WELL DONE.  I will continue to pursue the matter - if you could, too please! Worcs CC is losing out to the hundreds of millions spent on transport in the W Mids for luxury schemes (which have also destroyed two mainline railways) that are very nice but hardly essential, especially in the light of the climate/nature crises.

Today I went to pay my respects at the Holocaust Memorial. It’s a stark reminder of where hatred and dehumanisation can lead. Tragically, persecution is still a reality for so many across the world today — Christians in Nigeria, Congo, Mozambique, Sudan, Somalia and Eritrea; Persians in Iran; Uyghur Muslims in China; and countless others whose suffering rarely makes the headlines.

We’re also witnessing, in real time, how quickly antisemitism can surge when society lets its guard down.

So how do we confront this hate? For me, it starts with choosing to talk to people who see the world differently — with respect, honesty, and a willingness to listen. We won’t always agree, and that’s okay. Understanding each other’s perspectives is the first step toward breaking down division. And who knows… we might even discover some common ground along the way.

You wrote, Emma, "Tragically, persecution is still a reality for so many across the world today — " Yes, indeed! For me, it is persecution and violence by all faiths, by all nations and especially by the powerful and wealthy nations like our own, for many centuries. The last century was the most destructive and evil in the history of humanity, courtesy of the Judeo-Christian nations and contrary to the life and teaching of their founder and rabbi. We must learn to live in peaceful co-existence with one another, sharing out the resources of the world or, we will all perish as fools.

I like the blanked out soldier firing his automatic weapon to kill or maim. From my reading, that behaviour has no place in the four Gospels' of Jesus Christ. It must be blanked out from the lives of each of us, I believe.

Democracy is normally a rubber stamping exercise

Democracy, as we saw with bus franchising, involves a 500 pages report for senior councillors to read in an effort to understand the arguments.  The public had the opportunity to read in the papers and online all about the bus consultation process.  This is not democracy.

Who decided to start the whole expensive process, anyway?

Democracy is a rubber stamping exercise by volunteers becoming councillors who usually have full-time jobs which makes it difficult for them familiarise themselves with all the details of the lengthy reports that are placed in front of them by expert, professional officers.

They usually take the officers recommendations because it is so difficult to challenge, question and so, perhaps they feel, to be an irritant in the experts eyes.

With many matters there are no for and against statements which invites a debate and then voting.

Hence, wrong, foolish decisions are sometimes made.

We must adapt to smaller cars in future to save energy and rescue the planet.

Since cars seem to be doubling in weight every 50 years as the giant manufacturers try to sell us more steel, such that Paris has now banned big SUV cars, we must adapt to smaller cars in future to save energy and rescue the planet.

The conclusion is that China is on the right track with both battery and hydrogen vehicles.

Batteries are ahead and China is now dominating their manufacture, plus the delivery of battery cars. Hydrogen is more than 10 years behind. It does need a modest lithium battery to run effectively, but there is no doubt that long range taxis, trucks and buses will need hydrogen storage to travel a thousand kilometres per day. The rough rule of thumb still applies because of energy storage capacity:

A lead acid battery car runs for 1 hour

A Lithium battery car runs for 4 hours

A hydrogen car runs for 8 hours or as far as you want with more hydrogen cylinders; eg 18 hours for a bus shift

from Prof Kevin Kendal

"The subsidies for BEVS dropped in 2018 but the hydrogen car support continued and is still

going on, making China by far the biggest country in hydrogen vehicles, hoping to reach 50,000

by 2025, contrasting with UKs 500 hydrogen cars/buses. By the same token, the predictions from

2016 in Beijing have led to 400 hydrogen refueling stations in 2024 compared to 3 operating in

Britain during 2024. The UK invented both hydrogen fuel cells and lithium batteries but failed to

recognize the global need in a timely plan. As the Tory Government said repeatedly ‘We are

technology agnostic and do not pick winners’. Time has proved that UK bureaucrats and

politicians have been losers not winners.

Saving half the UK imported fossil oil bill of £63bn is worth doing.

"Of course, Norway understands that their valuable energy

will cease to be wasted in cars dumping heat, so that their expenditure on car power is being cut

by half. Their mission began in the late 1980s when A-ha, the famous pop-music group, started

to drive around in a small battery powered Fiat, gaining publicity for civil disobedience in illegal

parking and unpaid highway tolls. By 1996, Norway had reduced annual car registration tax for

BEVs, followed by exemption from road tolls in 1997. Other innovative measures, like the 2001

exemption from value added tax (VAT), cut the electric car prices even further. The result was that

the BEV VW Golf became cheaper than a gasoline Golf, but only in Norway. It seems amazing that

such simple incentives can achieve public support for BEVs. The conclusion remains that

governments in many countries like UK are either incompetent or deliberately pushing back

climate change for corrupt reasons. Surely, saving half the UK imported fossil oil bill of £63bn is

worth doing?                            Prof Kevin Kendal

The Dudley Tram fiasco is a Trump-like aberration, courtesy of the officers, councillors and MPs

Rudderless, Well-meaning Leader Patrick is a great improvement on Dangerous Deluded Donald Trump

This week, Councillor Harley said: “It could have been planned better, members and the public have to acknowledge this is not a Dudley Council project, we did not control the pace these guys moved.”  For decades, I have been warning leaders like Patrick, cllrs and MPs of their shameless, stupid incompetence in converting railways and bus routes into tramways - and, for the highest costs per Km of any other tram scheme in the world. *

"It could have been planned better"  said Patrick Harley, who is exactly the leader responsible for the bad planning.

• Since 1981, all our councillors over these 45 years have been meticulously planning the Dudley Tram to Merry Hill Shopping Centre.
• Patrick and the leaders' plan has always been to put trams on the Black Country Railway in order to get the mainline railway up and running again!  Have you ever heard of such a cuck handed way of doing things?!
• Always planning for trams to take over the UK's last London to Edinburgh mainline railway with a 56 Km 'Mind the Gap' in the ready built railway where there are no trains between Stourbridge Jct and Burton on Trent via Dudley Castle Hill.
• Dudley Leader, Cllr Fred Hunt told me in all seriousness in the 1990s that it would be up and running through Dudley town by the year 2000.  That was 26 years ago and it's STILL not open - AND, a tramway on an existing, ready-built, important railway too, of all things!!

"the public have to acknowledge this is not a Dudley Council project"

Donald Trump does not know what he is talking about.  Nor does our Patrick Harley.  It has been a Dudley Council project from the start to the glorious, ignominious finish - a finish that never comes!

• Patrick and the other six W Mids council leaders, plus Mayors since 2017, have always been responsible for Midland Metro.  It was Cllr David Sparks of Dudley Council and Cllr Phil Bateman of Wolverhampton Council who started the bizarre scheme to rebuild the tram network, that they had destroyed  20 years earlier, by using the railway network.
• Over the decades, all the councillors have had presentations at their committees about Metro from time to time.
• I have sat in on a few of them and I never heard a word said against the trams.  All the councillors accepted their coming instead of putting back commuter and regional trains.
• The councillors living near to the six Dudley destroyed railway lines all voted for roads, every kind of building imaginable and for trams to be put on them instead of trains, which had been so successful for 100 years!
• Yet, they wanted trams, first, in order to get the TRAINS BACK!!**
• Only Cllr David Stanley has expressed pretty lily-livered criticism, compared to my more robust offerings.

"we did not control the pace these guys moved” sounds so Trump-like in dear Patrick shovelling off the blame to everyone else but himself.  Leader Patrick had the power to control the pace.  He failed to use it.

• Patrick knows full well, as part of the WMCA/TfWM Senior Leadership Team, he has been at the very heart of Metro developments destroying our regional and commuter railways.
• Patrick is the guilty man.  He is to blame.
• Patrick should have been actively working to find out what the hell first Centro and then TfWM have been up to over these 45 years.
• He should have been cracking the whip and vigorously arguing for the immediate suspension of over £1 billion of taxpayers' money disappearing down the plug hole, for 10.7 Kms of tramway destroying 120 Kms of the double track railway between Worcester and Derby, one of only two north-south railways between Brum and the Irish Sea.

*  

 CNNCT Costs Comment September 2024.pdf

**  "Light rail investment provides the basis for restoring heavy rail services at the appropriate time."  Tom Magrath, Passenger Services Director, Centro in a letter to me, dated September 2000.

TIM WELLER

Mix up over capacity, constantly and always!

You can only alleviate capacity constraints on the WCML by building an exact duplicate intercity line to stop at all the stations of the present one.  NOT a high speed line which means that trains are too fast to stop at the stations on the intercity line.  Is that right?  YES!

High speed can never duplicate the intercity line because the stations are far fewer on the HS line.

"HS2 doesn't duplicate and wasn't intended to duplicate. There is no need to duplicate, but there is a need for more capacity especially going further north than Birmingham

"The west coast line is old and in a poor condition, it can't really be widened because it goes right through big towns and cities like Coventry

"When I use Avanti I often go from Birmingham to Euston, i don't  need a train that stops at other stops to do this, so passengers like me will go on HS2 which allows more capacity to be used on the old line. Is that hard to understand ? The old line will be used mainly by stopping trains."  David Gaussen

Therefore, intercity stations like Coventry will get a worse service. A downgrade for the old intercity line and for the old intercity towns bypassed by super-duper HS2. I'm not impressed, David.

Even less impressed with what follows, which everyone in Railfuture have also got behind over these last 45 years!

You have all overseen the destruction of the very correct Beeching closures which I'm sure he never intended or expected to be obliterated. 

200 years ago tramways were turned into railways. RailNOfuture has fully supported our two former mainline railways being used for trams. Oh dear, oh dear! Fast forward to the past.

Trumpland Transport. 

 

Trumpland Transport in the West Midlands since 1981

If it ain't the Nazis laying waste the land with slaughter, it's the Israelis (you and I, again!)

 Thanks so much, John.  Not one good, proper, evangelical, born again, Bible-believing Christian, it seems, agrees with me over USA/UK/Europe/Israel's behaviour towards the Palestinians.  I think, only your good self and a retired Methodist minister have expressed concern to me in writing.

There remains a guilty silence from my one-time neighbour, Leon Evans, the Senior Pastor of Lifecentral in Halesowen (the former Zion Christian Centre).  My son and his family attend the church.  The church and my son (with both our wives) are all firmly on the side of Israel and they believe that the Lord is working his purposes out for the Return of Jesus Christ, after Armageddon, in the unHoly Land.  Armageddon has certainly arrived for battered, flattened, wiped off the face of the earth, Gaza.  All this with the full support of the 'Christian' West as we all piled in to help with our weapons, apart from WMD.  I also want Jesus to return, immediately but, the non-violent Christ of the Gospels.  Seemingly, too much to ask!

Lifecentral is easily the biggest and loudest church in town with even a mighty Christmas jamboree of a fun fair with big equipment hired in Somers Square in the town centre once a year.  John Bunyan would call it Vanity Fair (my name for the merry-go-round of billions of GHG emissions from Metro/HS2 fiascos and mix ups galore!).  Lifecentral is rarely, if ever, seen at meetings and events of our Churches Together in Halesowen because they are a cut above the rest of us and, because we are ecumenical, I suppose.  (GHG = greenhouse gas)

I will copy Lifecentral into this for them to correct me - please!  Linda has just told me that Lifecentral does indeed take part in the yearly ecumenical Week of Prayer for Christian Unity - BUT, by incorporating their normal, every Friday morning prayer session into the Churches Together calendar for this week of praying for Christian unity.  However, their prayer session is always at 6.30 in the morning, on EVERY Friday every year, and Linda is the only one who attends out of all the other churches in town once a year.  Hardly surprising at 6.30 am.  The other churches have their prayers each day, in this Unity week of the year, at a less unearthly hour but never to be seen, I expect, is a single Lifecentral member, let alone one of their pastors/leaders.  Only Linda goes to theirs and it's always all men, apart from one dear Afro-Caribbean sister in one year!!

I would value your thoughts on what I have written, below:

3 short Christmas reflections - nothing changes and revenge every time

Our Judeo-Christian War on the Palestinians must be reinforcing Putin's conviction that in attacking Ukraine (for becoming part of the West) he is truly attacking Nazis.  (Our side slaughtering Palestinians and laying waste their scrap of land reminds me of what our side did under the Nazis.)

One December 2025 Radio 4 'Crossing Continents' is showing evidence that the 20% Israeli Palestinians are becoming the new Jews, ripe for persecution by the 80% Israeli Jews. 

You and I are the problem in this sad world of ours. Only our side must dominate, and be The World Power Of All Time. Sharing and balance and toleration are all totally unacceptable!

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I now think that Russia needs its own Monroe Doctrine and, somehow, needs to be rehabilitated into the community of peace loving (or, more realistically, war hating) United Nations. I am currently watching four 59 mins documentaries called 'Putin, Russia and the West' on BBC iPlayer. Very revealing over Western interference and over enthusiasm that our culture/democracy/religion is the only true one and, therefore, must dominate throughout the world!

I have also found a book by a former BBC Russian correspondent, Martin Sixsmith and his son(?) Daniel Sixsmith, called 'Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War', extremely helpful. This is from Amazon:

"An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War.

"Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet communism, the West convinced itself that liberal democracy would henceforth be the dominant, ultimately unique, system of governance - a hubris that shaped how the West would treat Russia for the next two decades. But history wasn't over.

"Putin is a paradox. In the early years of his presidency, he appeared to commit himself to friendship with the West, suggesting that Russia could join the European Union or even NATO. He said he supported free-market democracy and civil rights. But the Putin of those years is unrecognisable today. The Putin of the 2020s is an autocratic nationalist, dedicated to repression at home and anti-Western militarism abroad. So, what happened? Was he lying when he proclaimed his support for freedom, democracy and friendship with the West? Or, was he sincere? Did he change his views at some stage between then and now? And if that is the case, what happened to change him?

"Putin and the Return of History examines these questions in the context of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics of aggression: the enduring terror of encirclement by outsiders, the subjugation of the individual to the cause of the state, the collectivist values that allow the sacrifice of human lives in battle, the willingness to lie and deceive, the co-opting of religion and the belief in Great Russia's mission to change the world." 

The other quite superb book you might already know is the 2022 published, authoritative guide to the Middle East: 'The Making of the Modern Middle East' by the brilliant, articulate, fair, level-headed and, speaking in such moderate/reasonable tones - Jeremy Bowen, the BBC's International Editor. Bowen is despised by the Israeli lobby but that, for me, is a badge of honour.

No protest over Iran's murderous behaviour; only over Israel's murderous behaviour! WHY?

"Fascinating to observe the almost total silence from loudly pro-Palestinian celebrities & media figures re the courageous Iranian protestors risking their lives for freedom and democracy. Suggests their hatred of Israel overrides intellectual honesty and principle." Piers Morgan

Hooman Majd

@hmajd

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Jan 14

Oh come on, Piers. People protested Gaza because their

governments were militarily, financially, and morally

supporting the carnage, and they wanted to pressure

their governments. No western country supports the

Islamic Republic.

Protesting against Iran in the west has zero effect on its

calculations.