Friday 9th October 2015

BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling

At five – discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six – straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers

Listen live http://www.bcfmradio.com/player

Apologies – sporadic problems with the BCfm website ‘listen again’ facility – shows failing to appear since before Christmas 2014. BCfm audio files usually available 12 hours after TX. Any probs mp3s should be on alternative links below by about 9 pm on tx date.

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First hour: [sorry the first hour seems to have ‘disappeared’ – see apology above] News review: with Conservative councillor Chris Windows and freelance journalist Sam Downie: Chris’s comments around accusations he was homophobic at the time when he was nominated to be Lord Mayor; NHS in surprise £2bn deficit, announcement delayed until after this week’s Tory party conference –  jobs, services cut, waiting times, junior doctors pay and strikes;  Health Secretary retreats on junior doctor pay cuts;  new Great Western train times ‘slower than the 1970s’ claims RMT union – delays, new Hitachi trains, unions, disabled passengers and less staff, technology taking over from people; Tory Party Conference – clip of ‘rock star’ intro to Cameron’s speech – steel wall surrounding conference, sabotage at MP Charlotte Leslie’s house, postal vote fraud and democracy;  Cameron’s speech – drone strikes – Corbyn supporting terrorism and a threat to national security – Syrians coming to Britain, Corbyn – more joining Labour Party; clip Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech – Labour and the economy – members of the public being tortured by Iain Duncan Smith’s DWP through withdrawal of benefits leaving them destitute; clip of Germaine Greer on Question Time discussing cancelling of debt – banks in state control, RBS shares sold off;  clip of John Pienaar on BBC Radio 5 Live discussing Cameron’s speech with Boris Johnson immediately after Cameron speech, stage management signifying Cameron’s Bullingdon Club chum Boris Johnson will be the next Prime Minister – media bias and spin.
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Second hour: investigative reports: refugee crisis special: Interview with Tim Tate, author and documentary film maker – he discusses this week’s child sex abuse episode of Panorama ‘The Truth’. Evidence Tory Home Secretary Leon Brittan possessed child pornography but was ‘let off’ and he was never going to stand trial for it. How Mark Watts’ Exaro News agency in London began with a £5m loan which they are now about half way through. Why was so much evidence of a VIPaedophile ring missing from this ‘What’s The Truth’ Panorama? The media are having to investigate crimes that should be properly investigated by the police. London’s LBC radio reports paedophile investigation was shut down the night before mass arrests were due to be made. From Africa to Bristol: migrants, refugees and organised crime: Discussion with Alex Perry, journalist and author of ‘The Rift, A New Africa Breaks Free‘, and Katie Hope from Bristol Refugee Rights about the refugee crisis and immigration in general: Africa’s economic migrants, why they come, and why more are coming now;  people coming from refugee camps;  criteria for being a refugee;  general economic migrants; Russians bombing ISIS; migration good for economy;  clip from speech by Theresa May – getting migration down;  people smuggling and organised crime making loads of money – Italian mafia; Kevin Boylan (report below) discusses what he heard from refugees when he was on holiday in Lesbos and since in news reports about English and German speaking commandos boarding refugee boats with M16 assault rifles and trying to stop the progression of refugees to Greece – shadowy EU military-like border agency called Frontex; Mafia kingpin Ermias Ghermay Mastermind: The evil genius behind the migrant crisis, making a fortune; The millionaire people smugglers who laughed when they heard hundreds had died: Police hunt cruel traffickers making a fortune from deadly Mediterranean crossings in Libya. Banning things in demand such as travel to Europe is an opportunity for organised criminals like Ermias Ghermay; EU law; is there a solution?
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Kevin Boylan’s report on the ‘German Commandos’

Vice News’ film ‘Europe Or Die’ completed in early 2015 – episode ‘Death Boats to Greece’, part 1 (it gets specific about the commandos towards the end, where the AI representatives interviewed seem to be aware)

Article by Sputnik News from August 2015, reports increasing interceptions of migrants by clandestine ‘pirates’ in the northern Aegean:

Article on Yahoo News from July 2015 addressing the commandos more directly, indicating that they might be special forces (also talks about such instances being on the rise)

See also Julian Assange speaking about Wikileaks’ release of an internal EU paper dated 13.05.15, discussed by EU defence ministers and led by the UK, that includes plans to take direct military action against migrants coming from Libya:

This was followed up with pieces appearing in the mainstream press (Sept 2015) after the summer refugee crisis about plans to reinforce Europe’s borders with far reaching security elements – for example:

Another possibly related link is by IPI Global Observatory from March 2013, which talks about FRONTEX’s ever-increasing powers, making the force essentially ‘an independent actor with legal autonomy’ from the humanitarian law restrictions placed on the EU. Also discussed are its military wing, known as RABITs or ‘rapid border intervention teams’.

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Friday 2nd October 2015

BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling

At five – discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six – straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers

Listen live http://www.bcfmradio.com/player

Apologies – sporadic problems with the BCfm website ‘listen again’ facility since before Christmas 2014. BCfm audio files usually available 12 hours after TX. Any probs mp3s should be on alternative links below by about 9 pm on tx date.

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First hour: News review: with Green Councillor for Clifton Jerome Thomas. Transport – Metrobus; Mayor Ferguson; secrecy and openness at Mayor Ferguson’s Bristol City Council; independence from influence for those in charge – business influencing government, Merchant Venturers; clip from conference speech by John McDonnell, Shadow Chancellor – team of economists to review Treasury policy, there’s no such thing as an independent Bank of England, terms of reference to include employment, wages, not just interest rates. tax evasion, growth in the economy, green economy, circular managed economy, EU and fishing; clip from Jeremy Corbyn’s conference speech – Tory gerrymandering – Electoral Commission; SSI steel manufacturers closure in Teeside – de-industrialisation of North, economic crisis; clip from Corbyn speech – closure of Thai owned SSI steelworks in Middlesbrough Britain has an investment crisis – economic problems, ant-austerity, housing crisis; Corbyn speech – trident – UN Security Council, how Corbyn getting on so far; Kerry McCarthy being a vegan – animal welfare, Common Agricultural Policy; Bristol Post favouring Mayor George Ferguson – incorrect reporting; Lib Dems want a new referendum to decide whether we want a Mayor or not; VIP paedophile ring – BBC Panorama programme next Tuesday – The VIP Paedophile Ring: What’s the Truth? – Clip of John Mann MP saying the VIPaedophile scandal is going to be huge. VIP’s Jimmy Savile, Peter Jaconelli, Peter Hayman, among those MP’s accused are Rhodes Boyson who was a gay sadomasochist, Harvey Proctor, Sir Keith Joseph, Cyril Smith, Leon Brittan, Michael Portillo and Peter Lilley.
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Second hour: investigative reports: nuclear engineer John Large on Hinkley, Fukushima and missing nuclear weapons. Russian strikes against ISIS in Syria Wall Street Journal said Russians bomb ‘moderate’ Al Qaeda. Among seven areas that Syrian state media listed as targets of Russian strikes, only one—an area east of the town of Salamiyah in Hama province—has a known presence of Islamic State fighters. The other areas listed are largely dominated by moderate rebel factions or Islamist groups, such as Ahrar al-Sham and the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front. Interview with John Large, former Nuclear Engineer – he discusses the Hinkley Power Stations, Hinkley C has run into serious problems since the pressure vessel Fukushima and missing nuclear weapons, some of which have fallen in the sea: safety issues of power stations; nuclear bombs made from plutonium from power stations; Japan’s Fukushima tsunami disaster of March 2011 four-and-a-half years ago – radiation in sea, honesty of Japanese government, no planning for ‘remote’ events; black market for nuclear weapons; nuclear plants targets for terrorist groups; risky advanced technologies – who decides whether risk is acceptable? Interview with Marion Shoard, author of ‘This Land is Our Land‘, she discusses the history of British land ownership, present rights of access to land, and the housing crisis: the Normans, Domesday book and feudalism; making money out of land – capitalism; Scotland – brutality of highland clearances; Ireland, the famines and the Irish Land League; common land, cows on Minchinhampton Common in Gloucestershire; housing – the economics of keeping house prices high; solutions possibly through Land Value Tax. www.marionshoard.co.uk
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