Friday 25th April 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

Listen live http://icecast.commedia.org.uk:8000/commbrist.mp3

First hour: News review with UKIP councillor for Bradley Stoke Ben Walker and ‘Independents For Bristol’ councillor for Laurence Weston Jason Budd. Her Majesties Revenue and Customs (HMRC) plan to sell people’s tax data to private firms;  UKIP’s controversial election poster campaign;  Charlotte Leslie takes £17,000 donation from Bristol Port Company and campaigns against the proposed Bristol barrage;  council tenant from Knowle West found living in squalor with school-age children; 120,000 people taken off social housing register because ‘they don’t qualify’ any more to be on waiting lists, a convenient way to massage the homeless figures? Homelessness up; new houses at Filton – not enough infrastructure for them there, no pavements etc. War criminal & former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Bloomberg speech this week about extremist Muslims – Cassette Boy’s ‘Mash Up’ of this; Church leaders including the bishop of Oxford try to present Cameron with a letter about dealing with poverty in Britain – but Conservative party office in Witney call the police and doors are locked on the clergymen who have come straight from a Sunday service; James Patrick, courageous whistleblower about police crime figures being massaged, public and politicians being lied to, faces dismissal for ‘gross misconduct’ as he did not get permission to speak to press.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Phil Pope, one of the organisers of tomorrow’s Bristol Anarchist Bookfair, discusses anarchism and how he thinks society could improve as well as anarchist ideas about the state, government, community and policing. Also the cuts, police, immigration, capitalism and socialism discussed. Were recent attacks around Bristol really the ‘Informal Anarchist Group’, or a false flag to use as an excuse to infiltrate the anarchists? NATO’s Operation Gladio and other false flags used to fit up anarchists in the past. Clip of former top CIA officer John Stockwell, discussing CIA’s Operation Cyclone in Afghanistan in the 1980’s. Original NATO’s links to the SS and former SS officers according to former SS Panzer Corps commander and head of 1950s & 1960s SS veterans’ association (HIAG) Paul Hausser. The troubles in Ukraine and the far right. Interview with Granville Williams, from Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (CPBF), whose book ‘Big Media’ is out soon. He discusses media conglomerates, such as Murdoch and Time Warner, and also internet Titans such as Google and Amazon, Twitter and social media, the gagging bill, trade unions and Labour’s plan to limit media ownership. Do the owners and controllers of the media really call the political shots?
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Friday 18th April 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

Listen live http://icecast.commedia.org.uk:8000/commbrist.mp3

First hour: news review with Labour Councillor for Eastville, Mhairi Threlfall, Prostitution in Bristol and cuts to support services such as One25. Google criticised as totalitarian by German media baron Axel Springer. Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg actually told him “Those who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear” which reminded Springer of the Stasi and the Nazis. Another massive increase in food banks as PM David Cameron ‘does God’. Quantitative Easing (QE) and Printing Money. Problems at local firm Hargreaves Lansdown who, if the banks had not been bailed out in 2008 might now be on the dole. Why investors should leave Hargreaves Lansdown. Hargreaves Lansdown backs down over controversial new charge. Banks top complaints league table but Hargreaves Lansdown sees six-fold surge! Osborne best man’s hedge fund made £36m profit on Royal Mail. ‘Toyotal Recall’ more Toyota’s are recalled and we explore the dangers of computers coming between the driver and the controls. East Coast main line turns country’s most efficient profit for the taxpayer, not for shareholders.
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Second hour: Occupations of police and government buildings in Eastern Ukraine, talks between Russia, EU, US and Ukraine in Geneva agree protesters will disarm but Ukrainian occupiers say they will ignore the decision. Leaked phone call from Estonian foreign minister Umas Paets to EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton. Similar situations in Venezuela (2002) and Syria (2011). According to Dispatches documentary ‘Murder in St James’, PC Yvonne Fletcher was not killed from the Libyan embassy in (1984). Was she killed by the security services: CIA, Mossad or MI5. Executive Director of the Open Rights Group Jim Killock talks about next week’s surveillance legal action talk at St Werburgh’s Community Centre. Privacy not Prism – Challenging GCHQ in the European courts. Follow ORG Bristol on Twitter @ORGBristol. Who owns the media in Britain? Granville Williams from the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (CPBF) is preparing a new book on who owns the British media in the internet age.

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Friday 11th April 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

Listen live http://icecast.commedia.org.uk:8000/commbrist.mp3

First hour: no news review this week – Tony is at NUJ conference in Eastbourne. Martin & Tony look at economics historical context deliberately missing from the mainstream media. Tony will be continuing to request interviews with BBC Bristol Head of Centre Lucio Mesquita and Points West news editor Neil Bennett to discuss their running a week long advertorial for Bristol based (£300m annual turnover) financial services firm Hargreaves Lansdown at public expense.
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Second hour: how Britain came to be run by crooked City of London financiers and we by their agents in Bristol. What we can do.
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Friday 4th April 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

Listen live http://icecast.commedia.org.uk:8000/commbrist.mp3

First hour: News review with Glenise Morgan, Lib Dem councillor for Henleaze. Royal Mail sell off – a loss of £1.4bn to taxpayers (not £14bn as Tony mistakenly repeats!) – Ed Miliband in PMQs on Royal Mail sell off and – Vince Cable and a ‘gentleman’s agreement’ with 16 city investment companies who then just dump shares on the market taking an instant profit of around £16m; BBC Points West transmit a week of Hargreaves Lansdown advertorials for this £300m annual turnover financial service company based in Bristol. They sell for funds, broker shares and related products. Hargreaves Lansdown’s Tom McPhail’s BBC ‘reports’ have been giving supposedly impartial advice on pensions which they sell. BBC Bristol Head of Centre Lucio Mesquita was invited on to tonight’s show to discuss spending license fee payers money on advertising for Bristol’s biggest financial institution but he did not return emails, voice-mail message or phone calls. Next week we invite Points West’s ‘anonymous’ news editor Neil Bennett. Why don’t Points West have credits for producer, news editor etc. at the end of their show? Are they shy or are they fraternising with the Merchant Venturers and the private ‘city elite’ of financiers & Freemasons? Scotland Yard’s fraud squad investigation of Peter Hargreaves for not investing clients’ money in the shares they wanted; badger cull to new areas shelved; PMQs Jeremy Corbyn MP the impossibly high cost of private rents and he suggests it’s time for rent controls and regulation; PMQs – 25th anniversary of the poll tax – rates; bailiff powers cut; Clifton traders block Bristol city centre complaining about proposed residents parking scheme which will dissuade drivers from shopping in Clifton village; Bristol Mayor, George Ferguson, sells freehold to Bristol docks for £10m after a 150 year lease was sold in 1991 for £36m – George does a duff deal for his dock company Merchant Venturer mates? PMQs Cheltenham MP Martin Horwood asks is National Planning Framework working when it only listens to the money question and ignores 10,000 letters? Unfairness of planning – Unwritten rule of the planning system: “If we can tax it, you can do it”. Marina Morris’s voxpop asking people if they trust the police, which, with a few exceptions they generally do round here.
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Second hour: Interview with Andrew Fisher, former parliamentary researcher and author of ‘Failed Experiment and how to build an economy that works’, which questions the artificial economic ‘consensus’ in politics since the 1970s. He questions our so called recovery since the financial crisis in 2008, and gives his ideas to solutions to our economic problems.  Interview with Diana Scrafton who is part of a group TRASHorfield campaigning to stop Sainsbury’s being built on Bristol Rovers’ Memorial Stadium near the top of Gloucester Rd, Bristol, on the old Memorial Ground – which was meant to commemorate the dead of the 1st World war, now to be sold off for a supermarket to keep bankrupt Bristol Rovers going with a dodgy planning permission on a cheap greenfield site. Missing Malaysia 777 MH370: wife of high profile ‘lost passenger’, IBM Executive Philip Wood: ‘Governments are intentionally misleading us’. Interview with Sarah Bajc, wife of IBM Executive Philip Wood that was on missing Malaysian Airways plane MH370. She says all the experts she has spoken to think the plane has been taken. Zigzagging planes and avionics transponders switching off just like during the 9/11 attacks. Tony’s article Malaysia MH370: Who has means & motive to take a plane full of people? Martin Summers discusses other conspiracies relating to planes: Lockerbie; KAL007 over prohibited Russian Military airspace at Sakhalin in 1983 and the Underpants bomber. The motives and possible suspects who may have abducted flight MH370. Ukraine – NATO armed forces chief General Philip Breedlove discusses NATO’s role in Ukraine, and Russian troops on the border of Ukraine. Senate Intelligence Committee report claims CIA ‘covered up use of torture and misled US government about its value’. Interview with Clive Menzies from Occupy London economics working group on his three main answers, and reform of our present failed system – wealth divide, citizens income, 60% of world trade from a small dynasty of families, media control.
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