Friday 31st January 2014

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

First hour: News review with Gary Hopkins, Lib Dem councillor for Knowle, and chair of Resources Scrutiny Committee. The council budget – £500m a year, and cuts – about £25m a year over the next three years; First Bus increased use and profits and how the LibDems plan to make improvements to Bristol’s buses; Tory, Ian McKellen (who lives in Limehouse, East London) and alleged anti-gay comments by proposed Lord Mayor Chris Windows; Kerry McCarthy lead a delegation to the Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia to counter what she calls anti-gay propaganda; 15 student protesters accosted by private security and arrested in Birmingham University; conservatives in Worcestershire deny poverty exists in UK despite food bank usage tripling in one year and national use of food banks set to hit one million people in 2014; charges dropped by Iceland supermarket against people taking food from skips, police return food to Iceland only for them to put it in the bin again; PMQs Ed Miliband – Tories had said 50p tax rate set in stone and then dropped it; PMQs – ‘wrong kind of recovery’ fuelled by property bubble; PMQs – flooding on the Somerset levels; dreadful response to flooding by overpaid Chair of the Environment Agency, Chris Smith; total incompetence of Chris Smith’s Environment Agency (EA) mismanagers leaving Huntspill CLOSED so North Levels cannot drain into the sea; opinions of Somerset levels Muchelney residents Chris Matthews and Bryony Sadler from Flooding on the Levels Action Group (FLAG); Mark Carney, head of the Bank of England, warns Scots they will have to pay if they want a Scottish pound.
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Second hour: Interview with Ian Fraser, journalist, blogger and author of ‘Shredded: The Rise and Fall of RBS‘ He discusses banking, fraud and the terrible practices of RBS – including Global Restructuring Group (GRG) deliberately engineering the default of viable companies and then asset stripping them, pension funds fraud, and persecuting individuals who try to bring legal cases against them. Descent into mass criminality in the City of London who now seem to have resorted to being attractive as the most criminal financial centre in the war where everybody knows that nobody will be prosecuted for any crime. CPS, SFO and City of London police are so corrupt that Prosecutions for crimes taking place in the City of London are now only taking place in the US: SFO left shamefaced after US nails City fraudster. Commercial Lending in the UK is unregulated. Ed Pennings of State Street overcharged clients by £12.2m = Gross Misconduct, fined £23m on 31st January 2014 by Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). HBOS Nine charged with blackmail, etc. etc. Andrew Bailey, no. 2 at Financial Services Authority (FSA) knew Co-operative bank had liquidity and capital problems but pushed through the bank as preferred bidder for sale of Lloyds branches agreed with the European Union (EU). NatWest Three committed massive fraud at Enron. Lawrence Tomlinson’s November 2013 report into GRG: Royal Bank of Scotland’s Derek Carlisle of Global Restructuring Group (GRG) said “We will destroy you and your family” and did. GRG’s ‘malicious’, ‘vindictive’ and ‘nasty’ intimidate solicitors saying “We’re going to hound you”. Martin Summers discusses the recent tapering of quantitative easing in the US, the effect of this on the emerging stock markets of the BRICS countries, the world’s commodities markets and a possible impending financial crash. The director of UK surveillance agency GCHQ Ian Lobban stands down – due to revelations of criminality within by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden? Edwin Black’s ‘IBM and the Holocaust’, Nazis used databases and computers for mass genocide, and consolidated databases like the one for NHS medical records (opt out here). Former US Marine Ken O’ Keefe on ‘The People’s Voice’ internet TV channel, discussing 9/11 as a False Flag operation.

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Friday 24th January 2014

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

First Hour: Review of the weeks news with Tim Kent, leader of the Lib Dems and councillor for WhitchurchPark. LibDem peer Lord Rennard touching up various women – have the Lib Dems dealt with this properly? Has French president Hollande’s socialist experiment failed? – no quantitative easing in France,  the Euro, and a right-wing German government;  a Sheffield study says real unemployment may be 3.5m, a million more people than official figures due to so many not being on benefits;  PMQs Ed Miliband – 13 million in poverty in Britain today – even though Britain 7th richest country in the world Speenhamland system for supplementing incomes of the poor to help them buy bread – now its Housing benefit they need; Funding plan for Bristol’s £91 million arena agreed – can Bristol afford it? Will local people be able to afford to use it? Building and operating jobs for local people?  KPMG being investigated for auditing Co-op Bank fraudulently;  Gordon Anglesey, former Chief Police of North Wales, arrested and interviewed about child sexual abuse at state care homes in the 1970s and 80s;  PMQs The Trussell Trust food banks – rents too high;  bedroom tax and a loophole in the law;  PMQs utility bills and direct debit costing poorer people £150 or so more every year; why should the poor pay more? Private and personal NHS medical records and other data being put onto a central database for sale to drug and insurance firms by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Link to opt out here
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Second Hour: Daphne Havercroft from South West Whistleblowers Health Action Group  (SWHAG). Sean Turner inquest: parents call for independent inquiry into hospital – Coroner concludes there were ‘lost opportunities’ in four-year-old’s care at Bristol Royal children’s hospital – Results of inquest into suspicious deaths on Ward 32. Liam Nevin, Bristol City Council’s legal chief, formerly worked for North Bristol NHS Trust and saw them through the Southmead Hospital Private Finance Initiative (PFI) which is costing the taxpayer millions of pounds. Dr Perter Harrowing is Asst Deputy Coroner was formerly head of legal services at UHB NHS Trust, lots of connections between ‘independent’ coroners service and the NHS. Charlie Cooper’s article in the Independent saying billions of pounds of cuts to NHS are the main problem.  Kevin Phillips, Chairman of Avon and Somerset Police Federation, discusses the recent story of how the federation needs to change. How the federation is funded, it’s structure, and an attack by this right wing government, seem to be problems. Plebgate, privatising and the potential merging of police authorities also covered. Mike Birkin, from South West Friends of the Earth (FoE), discusses the flooding of the Somerset levels whether this is due to climate change or sabotage by the Environment Agency. Ancient ‘Lake Villages’ near Westhay on the levels and Glastonbury. Fracking in the Mendips covered – government gives out new round of exploration licences. Martin Summers round up of hot spots round the world: World Economic Forum (WEF) Davos – will they tackle rising inequality or just discuss it? Syria peace talks – Sarin chemical weapons attack came from rebel controlled area and accusations of 11,000 rebels tortured by the Syrian government. China works with mercenary firm, Blackwater XE founder Eric Prince; Mexican drug cartels and US DEA agents having scores of secret meetings, far too close, even working together; riots on the streets of Kiev in Ukraine as the older Ukrainians and Eastern Ukrainians lean toward Moscow and Younger Western Ukrainians prefer Brussels.
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17th January 2014

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

First Hour: News review with Daniella Radice, Bristol Green Party leader and councillor for Bishopston. The badger cull cost £4000 per badger but £50m 2007 DEFRA report to justify cull cost £27,000 per badger – total £30,000 per badger! Green party cabinet member Gus Hoyty Toyty and the bedroom tax; Traders and Residents Against Sainsbury’s at Horfield (TRASH) campaign to stop a Sainsbury’s being built in Bristol Rovers’ Memorial Ground at top of Gloucester Road – football, planning gain and corporate raiders in the football world; Ed Miliband’s speech about bringing more competition into banking – zombie casino banks still not dealt with, bonuses and short-termism; Is £38m of Bristol City Council public money for Bristol Arena justified? Arena costing total of £91m. City Deal, Public Property Board is chaired by the Mayor of Bristol and has representatives from the Homes and Communities Agency, Government Property Unit, Bristol City Council and two representatives from the Business Community, Local Enterprise partnership; Bristol 24-7 coment page Economic vision blind to closing gap between Bristol’s rich and poor: Until we address the real problems of equality of opportunity, the city will never realise its true economic and social potential, writes Tessa Coombes. PMQs Milliband and Cameron on housing – building firms sitting on land; PMQs Tessa Munt on fracking and bribes to local government; FoI request Guardian: Emails reveal UK helped shale gas industry manage fracking opposition: Government officials accused of cheerleading for fracking by sharing ‘lines to take’ and meeting for post-dinner drinks: LibDem Tory Coalition government departments with a very cosy relationship with Fracking companies pushing fracking; former LibDem Energy Secretary Chris Huhne was not so friendly. European elections coming up in May: UKIP leader Nigel Farage on the United States of Europe and Goldman Sachs controlling what is now totally undemocratic Greece – The Green Party stand on how unbridled immigration affects Britain from Europe.
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/73838

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Second Hour: Interview with Chris Bollyn, freelance photographer, author and journalist. He used to work for US newspaper American Free Press, and covered Bilderberg in early 2000s as a photographer. He has written books on 9/11 and had trouble with undercover cops. He was not let in to UK recently due to this trouble. Further revelations from Edward Snowden on the NSA – devices planted in laptops enabling surveillance and text message surveillance – no legal basis, NSA leaks: British spies were given access to US ‘Dishfire’ system that reads hundreds of millions of texts from around the world. NSA infiltrated more than 100,000 offline computers using covert devices, say leaks: The intelligence agency reportedly inserted radio-transmitters into computers via spies and unwitting users to crack disconnected devices. Stasi State, US internet companies losing business. Jewish American Edwin Black who wrote ‘IBM and the Holocaust’ – Prescott Bush trading the Nazis. The corruption of Britain: UK’s key institutions infiltrated by criminals: Investigations editor Tom Harper’s story in The Independent about criminal groups infiltrating the Metropolitan Police using Freemason lodges – Scotland Yard investigated this in Operation Tiberius. Follows on from Project Riverside from the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). UK politicisans’ and armed forces chiefs’ Iraq war crimes go to the top as Public Interest Lawyers two year long report to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. Seamus Milne on George Galloway’s Saturday Russia Today show Sputnik – discussing Thatcher government’s use of security services to crush Arthur Scargill and the miner’s strike who nearly won the battle to save the pits fairly. Roger Waters, lead singer and Pink Floyd guitarist compares Israel to Nazi Germany, says treatment of Palestinians by Israelis is like the Holocaust.
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/73839

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