to Paul Webb

Thanks Paul for this. Let's meet up tomorrow morning, Saturday 24 October at En Cafe at 1000 hrs. Linda and I are supporting this Iranian cafe, now in its second year because it is smart, superb coffee and food and, for me, I do so strongly object to what Netanyahu and Trump, plus the rest of the Judeo-Christian world, are doing in attacking Iran. Yet another illegal, immoral and totally counter productive war which simply ups the anti. Not the best way to make friends and influence people!

Zionism is racist but also far, far worse!

For me, Zionism since 1945 has been using terrorism, aggression and warfare to get and to hold Palestine. It is obviously racist, too as the white, Western nations have been for many centuries with piracy on the high seas, followed by slavery and taking over other countries for the best of all possible reasons.

Our racist claim seems pretty tame in comparison!

Strongest El Niño coming

Households in the UK are being told to stock up on food to prepare for extreme weather as the ‘strongest El Niño event in a generation’ develops. Along with the effects of climate change, El Niño could make 2027 the hottest year on record, and it also means that the risk of a colder winter in the UK is much higher. The council will be working to make sure Birmingham is ready, but you can check out this page to learn more about its impacts and what to prepare for. 

The vicious, nasty/Nazi-like behaviour of our side proves the point

that Zionism, semetism, liberal democracies and all of us who so boastfully uphold the International Rules Based Order, are no better than war criminals.

The Muslims have a much better track record over the slaughter of humans than the self-righteous Judeo-Christian world.

Lord Ian Austin, the former Dudley Labour MP called me an antisemite because I oppose the obvious immoral and law breaking behaviour of Israel, America, Britain and the rest of the Judeo-Christian world.  It has gone on over many centuries and, in particular, over the last 126 years of our wars around the world especially, with introducing not one but two World Wars to poor heaving humanity.  You can't blame the Communists or the Muslims or the atheists/agnostics.  Just the faithful believers.  SHOCKING!

"Imagine there's no countries. It isn't hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace."  John Lennon

Imagine no country to kill or die for

There is no such thing as the perfect man by Teddy Swims

The Jews of Israel have taken on the racism, the cruelty and the casual callousness

that we Western Christian nations have shown to them and many other peoples for centuries. Of course Zionism is racism. The Zionists, the Jews, the Israelis are valuable members of the West and racism and violence is the way we do things to maintain our supremacy in the world.

What we are doing to the native populations of the Middle East over the last 126 years is the most serious and biggest issue of that century and of this.

Our side was responsible for the first holocaust against the Jews in that century.  We could not even be bothered to bomb the railway lines to the concentration camps, such was our racism and hatred for the Jews.  And T E Lawrence had even shown us how to blow up railway lines against the Ottoman Empire in the 14-18 War, too!

In this century, we and the Jews are responsible for the second holocaust against Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians and Iranians.  Plus of course our totally unjustifiable aggression, occupation and slaughter of the innocents in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.

Our foreign policy is nothing to be proud of.  It is wicked and shameful and breaks international and natural law.  I think, Iran is correct in calling America and her Western is Worst allies, "the Great Satan".

Founded out of aggression and war and forced expulsion

Israel was founded out of aggression and war and forced expulsion.  But she was on our side.  Eventually on our side, after many centuries of our persecution, anti-Jewish racism and Western horrors perpetrated on Jews.

We Brits used our laws and armed forces to limit the numbers of Jews allowed to enter Palestine between the wars and after.

But funding by mainly the USA led the Jews/Zionists to gain the upper hand over the Palestinians and Arabs from 1945 onwards and in every subsequent war to the present day.

The lands on the E side of the Mediterranean has been a cauldron of division and hatreds and conflicts for thousands of years.  Probably, since before Abraham moved into the Levant/Canaan.

The Arabs certainly refused to accept the compromise from the UN in 1947 over two states living side by side.  This was a disaster for both sides but especially for the Palestinians - the Nakba (catastrophe and, ever since).  Violence, strong arm tactics and aggression 'paid' - but to the everlasting detriment of both sides but more to the Palestinians who are the biggest victims of our side (the Judeo-Christian nations).

Both sides are racist, both sides use coercion, force, violence and war.  But this has been the human condition from the start.

The two state solution for mutual Jew/Arab hatred is impossible.  Only a S African like state, perhaps may work.  Jewish supremacy lessens and Palestinian/Arab representation rises in an evolutionary process over many decades/centuries - if humanity can last that long. 

We human have proved that strong arm tactics can win over the opponent's strong arm tactics.  One strong tribe or nation can be ousted by another.  But what a way for us hopeless humans to conduct ourselves on our one and only planet!

From Rich at Hafodowen

RICH in black; self in blue.​

I’m interested in the whole climate question and consider it of vital importance. However, I’m very sceptical of the mainstream science since it has so consistently failed to deliver the many promised catastrophes. 

What were the "many promised catastrophes"?

I’m also sceptical because every one of the promised catastrophes has increased taxation and control while delivering nothing.

Which taxes have increased?

In what ways are you more controlled by government, Rich?

Please don’t think I don’t take climate change or man’s potential contribution to it seriously.

How has your behaviour changed as you have taken climate change seriously?

However, my background is engineering and the greatest lesson in engineering is to understand the problem before attempting to solve it.

I’m sceptical of government involvement in any scientific question.

What is the problem, Rich?

I saw a great illustration which took approximately the following form: Joe Blogs is a professor of zoology. He wants to spend his summer sitting in a treehouse watching squirrels. So he submits a research grant request to study the mating habits of said squirrels and is summarily turned down. So instead he resubmits but wants to study the effects of climate change on the mating habits of said squirrels. The grant is made. Now when asked about climate change, he knows that his funding depends on keeping up the climate change narrative so if asked he’ll talk at length about how climate change is a threat to his squirrels. He’s now a climate change scientist with absolutely zero knowledge of atmospheric physics or climate science.

Would that person really have the temerity to misdescribe his/her job title in this way? 

Do we all go where the jobs are?

Do we all like to run with our ideas and fund them if we can?

This is not a real example but does demonstrate how quickly and easily the involvement of government with agendas and narratives to sell, can corrupt and degrade science.

Is involvement of governments simply men and women like you and I?

I’ll say again, I care about the environment, climate and the potential for man to spoil them.

How do you show you care?

However, as long as government is involved, we’re guaranteed to spend more money and do more harm than good​.

Would you agree that government is people like you and I?

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BUT SELF here:

This is helpful in understanding your point of view, Rich. Please could you answer these questions:

1) What are your sources of information?

2) Do you ever listen to or read what the BBC or ITV/ITN put out?

3) Have you ever read or listened to anything from the World Met Office, Copernicus or the United  Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)?

4) Can you please give me an example of a Climate Emergency catastrophe, as you would define it?

5) Did you see Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth?

6) What were the false facts in that film?

7) Did you see the Peoples Emergency Briefing film with a host of eminent people sounding off?

8) Have you read anything about why national, regional and local governments have declared Climate Emergencies?

9) What is your "understand(ing) of the problem before attempting to solve it."?

10) Have you read the history of Climate Science in Wikipedia or other authority?

11) Do you have examples of scientists who have bowed to "corrupt and degrade science"?

12) What has any government around the world done to minimise Climate impacts which have been a wrong use of taxpayers' money to "do more harm than good"?

13) What role is there for individuals to act and how?

14) What do you make of Trump's insistence that we must use and burn as much oil, coal and natural gas as we can lay our hands on?

15) How does your energy bill at Hafodowen compare with your previous one?

16) What were your reasons for moving, please?

17) What was Land  Rover/JLR learning from driving over that very well frozen lake on the USA/Canada border?

18) Are governments doing the right thing in moving away from combustion to electric vehicles?

19) What are their reasons?

20) When are you planning to buy an EV?

21) The new electric £130 K Land Rover?! You'd get a discount, Rich.

VERY MANY THANKS   Tim

Zionism is a form of racism; as is my society and forefathers over centuries. And I am implicated.

 I am a child of a Judeo-Christian world which, for centuries has been the dominant, controlling and violent force on this planet.

Exploration of this world - and I have had 78 years of exploring my own island - has led to taking over other peoples without a by your leave.  Dominating, mainly black peoples around the world and using coercion, force, violence and warfare at the drop of hat.  A ridiculous phrase to use to describe the popularity of the most heinous behaviour which we, supposedly upright, honourable, God-fearing Whites have heavily used.

Hebrew morality from the Old Testament has been not only prominent but universally used being the most immediate to hand - forever the only thought.  New Testament teaching in the Gospels from the best Jew who has ever lived, pretty totally ignored for 2,000 years - only, ever tiny honourable exceptions.  We don't let people live and let live but colonise and enslave them and leave them to die or to work for us for free - but their hovels come with the job, too.

Only this week have I learnt, from historian David Olusoga, that our nation was using red hot irons to brand black men, women and children with the name of our slave company - South Sea Company.  How despicable.  Treating them like cattle.  Recognising that, we even put an 'h' for humanity in the word to call slavery chattel slavery!

For 78 years we have allowed our side to takeover land that our very close religious relatives, the Jews gained and then held by coercion, force, violence and war ever since.  No waiting for tortuous, interminable talks to get some kind of extremely difficult compromise but we surrendered the UN mandate and left it to the Jews and Arabs to slog it out for Money, Weapons and Slaughter to decide the issue.  So 78 years, so far, of the most shocking example, after our European Christian holocaust, of humanity's inhumanity to its own kind.

En Cafe Halesowen

TOP cafe is in heavenly Halesowen - En Cafe, opposite parish church and old Market Cross. Persian cuisine and coffee in new, spotless cafe with panoramic window to woodland and 900 year old church! How's that for a view?

To Rich of Hafodowen

You say the current is weakening because of glacial melt from Greenland. This must be due to warming temperatures only partly offset by the "cold blob". Our planet is warming from our fatal addiction for burning finite fossil fuels. This has given us a fool's paradise, with the unfortunate downside for us humans of a runaway greenhouse effect. Exactly like our twin or sister planet Venus with its thick atmosphere of greenhouse gases. Venus is warmer than Mercury although it's further away from the sun than Mercury thanks to its runaway greenhouse effect. Courtesy of Wikipedia which can also be wrong, like me. I'll check!

You sound like a Climate sceptic, Rich? A happy state to be in!

May I ask why you both moved to Hafodowen?

Do I remember it was from outside Cambridge? Please correct me.

My wife and I have been in Halesowen for 50 years in the same small eco-house. Thus 3-4 kWh per day averaged out over a year, with gas done away with in 2023.

Tim

from Haaretz:- "A Decade Ago, These Jewish Scholars Broke With Zionism. Time Proved Them Right"

I think these comments from Haaretz readers seem fair enough to me.  LJ4A is Liberty Justice for All.

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026-10-04/ty-article-opinion/.premium/a-decade-ago-these-jewish-scholars-broke-with-zionism-time-proved-them-right/000001a1-03a0-d6fb-a9ab-87aae7ad0000?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=Content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=1f842748b2

CB

• 07:32

"modern Hebrew has been revived; Israeli television punches above its weight; there has been a robust ingathering of the exiles." No mention of what the Palestinians have lost, but that is Zionism. As an American I have seen my country of 375 million, the light of the world after WW2, completely forget about liberty and justice for all and be turned upside down to fully support ethnic superiority and cleansing by Israel (1/40th the population) with all the military, financial and diplomatic power of the US, this country sinking to the floor of world public opinion with Israel as a President declares himself a Zionist, a traitor to LJ4A! All the while Jews in the US have flourished in every field, have become disproportionately billionaires and the toast of the arts. For Zionists that is not enough: Destroy Palestine's land and people and the US morally to do it. But America's liberation from Israel is in progress, irreversible, prompted with the eye-opening genocide in Gaza.

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Noam

• 05:47

Today the Green Party in Britain voted to call Zionism a form of racism. It should have also pointed out that the roots of the cruelty of Israelis are in the Old Testament, a barbaric and racist book, which is taught in Jewish religious and secular schools

The Jewish god commands the Jews to slaughter innocent men, women and children of various nations, such as, Amalek, Midian, seven nations of Canaan, etc. In the Passover story, the Jewish god kills all the firstborn Egyptians, including babies.

Also, read Exodus 11:4-5, Numbers 31:17-18, Deuteronomy 7:1-2, Deuteronomy 20:13-17, 1 Samuel 15:3. And read Book of Joshua and end of Book of Esther. Those who speak of nice Jewish prophets should read of the prophet Elisha, 2 Kings 2:23-25. Children mocked Elisha because he was bald. He cursed them; 2 bears came out of the woods and killed 42 children.

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Sabra

• 04:24

The creation of a Jewish state was essentially forced on the Jews by virulent antisemitism experienced around the world for over 1500 years throughout Christian Europe and (to a somewhat lesser degree) throughout most Arab Muslim nations. The clear message was: If you want to remain alive you need to leave and get your own place. So the creation of the state of Israel was an historical imperative, and it was very successful. Now the question is, how can we make the best of this difficult situation we are all trapped in?

We believe reconciliation is still possible. It starts with a declaration by the World Zionist Organization recognizing the injustice of the Nakba and acknowledging proportional responsibility.

Israel is strong and can afford to be magnanimous, especially given the paramount Jewish value of Truth.

CB Sabra

Nazi Germany accomplished much before WW2 began. The economy took off, joblessness ended, Germans felt proud, but nobody would justify Nazism for anything positive it accomplished in light of the injustice of its nature. So it is in this article when mentioning developing modern Hebrew, an ingathering, etc. Also, Injustice does not excuse a following injustice. Jews were not forced to go to Palestine to displace the natives by any means and without end (78 years and counting). Most wanted to go to the US. The cleansing of Palestine was a deliberate decision by a fanaticism, Zionism, that would brook no alternative. The only answer is one state for all the people, the solution the US found to its own ethnic cleansing atrocity.

to WMCA Digital Communications Officer Claire Boden

Abandon tram expansion in the W Mids and use the BILLIONS to bring in regional Fare-Free Public Transport for ALL and not just​, for mainly​, the elderly like me.

Buses are better directly on roads without the railway tracks which "bus on rails" trams ​use running on tracks on the roads and mainline railways (​bus on rails quote from UK Tram promotion group at Tram HQ, 16 Summer Lane​ at the time of the Croydon tram crash in 2016)

Enhanced Bus Partnership (EBP) worked well and the millions for bus franchising would have been better spent for EBP to entice and reward car commuters who leave their motors at home. 

This happy band of brothers

PHOTO at 5 am today standing up against the killing machine, courtesy of the lovers of violence and destruction.

Courteous behaviour from the lovers of nonviolence wrapped up in foil, as the poor Police slow, then shudder to a halt, in their arrests of hundreds and call it a day after hours of arresting them. Who do YOU think deserves a medal?