Friday 28th March 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 Conservative Councillor for Horfield @Claire4horfield Claire Hiscott. Lloyd’s fined $100bn in US for mis-selling, and Santander fined £12m in UK for £7bn of mis-selling – not really any deterrent; PMQs sensible for top earners, whose wages are going up and up, to pay more tax – further financial crash, quantitative easing; HSBC and soaring pay packets – CEO now on £8m a year! Money laundering and drug cartels; the bedroom tax has failed on every count – 2/3 people affected are disabled and cash savings by government proving minimal; poor families hit by welfare reforms running up £52 debt every week – cuts don’t make economy grow; clip of Nigel Farage and Nick Clegg debate on EU – immigration, half British laws from Brussels; 5700 ‘bad quality’ new homes on the old Filton airfield site, South Gloucestershire -transport infrastructure; Another secret Met corruption probe revealed the Met Police, operation Zloty, corruption and shredded documents – organised crime have infiltrated the Metropolitan  police.
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Second hour: Ukraine – the extreme right wing in Kiev – the killing of Oleksandr Muzychko aka Sashko Billy, leader of Pravi Sektor far right Ukraine party. Transantlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) – proposal corporations can sue governments if their decisions affect their business. Conspiracies surrounding this. Voxpop by Marina Morris about Ukraine. Marina Morris introduces her new website aimed at helping people navigate their way in the modern world www.mpersonality.com. The missing Malaysian Airways aeroplane MH370 – Former Home office security adviser Sally Leivesley asks was it the world’s first cyber hijack? Certainly lots of evidence of Information Warfare ‘news management’. Maldives and Rolls Royce stories drowned out by an avalanche of denials by people who cannot know whether what they said was untrue. Possible pressure on China over the UN Security Council vote and Malaysia who have not been doing what the IMF want. Links to Venezuela and Ukraine. NATO is ramping up tension all over the world. News management and military Information Operations over disappearance of Malaysian 777 flight MH370. Iqbal Tamini, Bristol based Palestinian journalist, discusses the middle east: Egypt – the Muslim Brotherhood – 500 supporters to be executed; Qatar’s isolation by other Gulf States and their TV station Al-Jazeera; terrible treatment of women in big US ally Saudi Arabia; Turkey PM Erdogan and a leaked phone call where a staged attack is discussed so he has an excuse to attack Syria. Clip from Dutch documentary ‘The Israel Lobby’ Evangelical Christian Zionist, Pastor John Hagee, supports Israel with 22,000 infiltrators of the US state – he wants a confrontation with Iran, however killing is not Christian! Paul Mason’s World War One: 3 of 4, The Revolutions.
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Friday 21st March 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 John McInally, National Vice President of Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union with 250,000 members. 15 times more people are members of unions than political parties and unions are more democratic – how big and how democratic is PCS? Universal Credit fiasco with millions of pounds being spent on IT systems that will never work; Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) cutting back jobs of those that collect the taxes of the rich; George Osborne’s 2014 budget this week – PCS respond with ‘Britain Needs a Pay Rise’. Privatisation, quantitative easing, potential crash; Ed Miliband’s response to the budget – Tories out of touch with housing and energy bills, cost of living crisis – Labour just ‘austerity light’; BBC Question Time this budget week arguably had THREE Tories on the panel and one in the chair! Danny Alexander, a LibDem said to be out-Torying the Tories, China and Russia holding a lot of West’s debt; LEAP 20/20 who say US have orchestrated Russia/Ukraine crisis which is aimed at bouncing the EU into trade deal Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the US which means when the dollar crashes so it will bring the EU down with it; BBC Question time panel bias on budget week with THREE Tories: former director of Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) Think Tank Jill Kirby, Stockholm Syndrome LibDem Danny Alexander MP who’s said to have ‘out Toried the Tories’ & Tory MP Dominic Raab, then there is BBC Question Time presenter David Dimbleby who, as Boris Johnson pointed out, is a member of the Oxford Bullingdon Club to which he, George Osborne and David Cameron also belonged. Paul Davies –BCfm’s Sport Editor – on approval granted to sell Bristol Rover’s Memorial Stadium, at top of Gloucester Rd, to Sainsbury’s, appeal pending; HS2 high speed railway plan – The Independent’s Mark Leftly explains that many millions have been spent before it’s even approved – nationalisation of railway;  Bill Gates says jobs will be replaced by software bots in the future so why can’t we all benefit from time saving technology? PMQs Kerry McCarthy on the cost of living crisis and Tony Benn.
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Second hour: Crimea votes to be part of Russia in a referendum. Putin’s speech – far right elements in new Ukrainian government. Catherine Ashton, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs (unelected), on the recent Crimea referendum.  Marina Morris, who is Ukrainian, gives her opinion on recent events in Ukraine and Crimea.  PMQs Ed Miliband and David Cameron vilifying recent Crimean referendum. Housing interview with @policytessa Tessa Coombes, former Bristol City councillor, blogger and writer for Bristol 24/7.  She discusses why there is such a shortage of affordable housing in Bristol and why Osborne won’t do anything about it.  Should be his top priority but Osborne’s budget this week does nothing to ease unaffordable rents & shortage of good value housing: Solving Bristol’s Housing disaster with former City Councillor & Bristol 24/7 columnist Tessa Coombes. Interview with Clive Menzies, from ‘Occupy London’ Economics Working Group, by our London correspondent Fran Scott. He explains their thinking on the power of the City of London and the influence of the EU and big corporations ‘hollowing out’ our democracy mentioning two films in particular Secret City and The Brussels Business. Italian ancient city state of Venice votes this week on whether Venetians want to secede from Rome. Credible sightings of missing MH370 Malaysian Airways 777 plane flying very low over the Eastern Maldives and heading South towards top secret US base at Diego Garcia.
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Friday 14th March 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 Afzal Shah, Labour councillor for Easton. Police not investigating theft of gold jewellery within the Bristol Asian community; what is socialism; Bob Crow speech last year at the Jim Connell festival in Ireland, by General Secretary of Rail Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) Bob Crow who died on Monday aged 52 – Tory privatisation and big business in control of the EU; The Media and the Political Process 2006 speech in Bristol by Tony Benn who died today aged 88; PMQs: Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Harriet Harman this week, Harriet asks question about privatisation of the NHS – NHS better under Labour; PMQs – the mess the three main parties have made over a public referendum on the EU, none of them are democrats; PMQs – Labour councillor voted in, in Clifton North, Nottingham – Liberals thrashed by the Elvis Bus Pass Party candidate; bombshell from the Bank of England – they shredded documents from time of financial crash around 2008.
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Second hour: Interview with financial journalist Nicholas Dunbar, author of 2011 book ‘The Devil’s Derivatives’, about the banking industry. Derivatives explained, and how money is made out of them – ‘the tail that wags the dog’; the four big accountancy firms and total failures of regulation of the banking system; the City of London and politics; despite causing the 2008 crisis the derivatives market has GROWN since 2008; financial crash; QE causing nervousness; and how to fix the system it. Marina Morris has just returned from her native Kharkov in Ukraine, gives a moving pro-EU view of what is happening to her city and her country. The crisis in Ukraine and the referendum in Crimea on Sunday – US secretary of state John Kerry – are Blackwater mercenaries in Eastern Ukraine? Were some snipers in Kiev right wing extremists backed by NATO? Interview with barrister Michael Shrimpton, who is going on trial next week for telling police about a nuclear bomb hoax at the London Olympics. David Powell, from South West Friends of the Earth looks at Somerset flooding, dredging, climate change – most of the highest rainfalls ever recorded have been since year 2000. Ideas about the missing Boeing 777 Malaysian Airlines MH370 that left Kuala Lumpur for Beijing. Rolls Royce explain that aircraft continued for 2,200 miles after it lost contact. Researcher hacks aircraft controls with Android smartphone in 2013.
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