Friday 6th March 2020

At six – discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After seven – straight talking and investigative reports

BCfm’s weekly Politics Show with Irish Republican Labour activist Martin Summers

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First hour news review: with Labour councillor for Easton Afzal Shah and Libdem Councillor for Whitchurch Park, Tim Kent. Tim Kent: two thirds of local policing cut; getting rid of the specialist drug team; Chief Constable, Andy Marsh; police use of facial recognition software; there is ‘nothing to do for young people’; magic money tree and government cuts of 40% in local government and youth provision funding down 90%; Temple Island development, YTL and the 17,000 seat arena; Temple Island; badly-redacted PDF of Temple Island; L&G invested £250,000,000 in Temple Quarter for 525 buy to rent homes; HMRC at 3, Glass Wharf; Bristol only core city that’s a net contributor to the exchequer; no affordable housing Finzel’s Reach; Bristol General Hospital; developers dictate what is and is nt affordable; developers want 20-25% profit margins; 30-40% social housing is what’s needed; Metrobus doesn’t come to Easton; Metrobus is the beginning of more public transport; doesn’t go to Temple Meads;
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Second hour Investigative reports: including discussion on Middle East wars and the secret 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement between Britain, France, Russia & Italy. Metrobus failures continued, with Afzal Shah. The Bristol diesel ban, congestion charge, Bristol Energy; solar power and the Metro mayor; sustainability;

Afzal Shah on India and Pakistan; populism; Muslims a ‘threat’ to India; mobs rampaging through Delhi; Modi’s 2002 Gujurat riots; Muslims are now third class citizens in India; Mohammed Ali Jinnah: Long before the British invaded and seized control of the subcontinent, Muslim armies had conquered the settled populations in the rolling flat land that stretched from the foothills of the Hindu Kush to the city of Delhi and the Indo-Gangetic Plain and eastward to Bengal; Mogul emperor Akhbar; Taj Mahal; Red Fort and Urdu language; Mountbatten’s responsibility; fake Indian websites;

Coronavirus economic impact of a pandemic; use of property bubbles to alleviate deficits; Japanese feudal system; Germans and Japanese; today’s fallout from Winston Churchill’s secret 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement; Erdogan Putin Idlib peace agreement; Erdogan and Modi; Justice and Development party in Turkey and Kurdisan; arms deals and foreign policy; international agreements are becoming less reliable, torn up, Donald Trump and Boris Johnson not seen by Putin as ‘Deal Ready’; history of the Peloponnesian wars, Syracuse, Sicily;

Tax havens with a union jack on the flag; banking fines are just a cost of doing business; further crash coming? Free market policy would mean letting the banks collapse; nationalising the commanding heights of the economy; in 1980s Savings and Loans scandal 1000s of bankers were jailed;
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The British Kangaroo Court Proceedings Against Julian Assange

Britain is currently holding an obscene show trial against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The hearing is designed to end with the extradition of Assange to the United States or with his death. In the U.S. he would be accused of a conspiracy to reveal secrets and put into jail for the rest of his life.

Over the years Wikileaks has revealedmaterial on many important issues. As Patrick Cockburn remarked: With WikiLeaks, Julian Assange did what all journalists should aspire to do.Wikileaks provided the material its sources revealed to partner media who profited from it, but then went on to betray Assange. As Kit Klarenberg wrote a few days ago: ‘They Should Be In Jail’: How The Guardian and New York Times ‘Set Up’ Julian Assange.

Those who are not familiar with the false case against Julian Assange should read this interview with Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, who provides detailed insight. In Melzer’s learned view Assange, as the main editor of Wikileaks, has not committed any crime.

Melzer has also written at his medium page about the case:

• Demasking the Torture of Julian Assange
• State Responsibility for the Torture of Julian Assange

The false ‘rape’ case in Sweden which was used to incarcerate Assange is also detailed in Marcello Ferrada de Noli’s book: Sweden’s Geopolitical Case Against Assange 2010-2019. It can bedownloaded for free.

That the current extradition case against Assange is crooked and that a bad outcome is likely assured can be deducted from the persons behind the current proceedings. Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis at Declassified UKhave done some digging:

• REVEALED: Chief magistrate in Assange case received financial benefits from secretive partner organisations of UK Foreign Office
• UK minister who approved Trump’s request to extradite Assange spoke at secretive US conferences with people calling for him to be “neutralized”

Craig Murray and Kevin Gosztola are in the court room to document the proceedings. Gosztola tweets live (day 1, day 2, day 3) from the Woolwich courthouse in London and provides daily write ups at Shadowproof.com:

• Assange’s Defense Details CIA-Backed Espionage Operation, Trump’s Politicization Of Justice Department
• Assange Extradition Hearing: Chelsea Manning’s Grand Jury Resistance A Major Hurdle For Prosecutors

Ambassador Craig Murray publishes daily summaries at his site:

• Your Man in the Public Gallery – Assange Hearing Day 1
• Your Man in the Public Gallery – Assange Hearing Day 2

George Galloway held a speech yesterday about the abstruse processes around the hearing. The video of it is here.

One hopes that the British court will not extradite but free Assange. Unfortunately that seems currently unlikely. But the case will be fought hard and over many month and sometimes good things do happen.