Friday 30th May 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 Cabot ward Lib Dem councillor Mark Wright: Who was 15th Century Bristol explorer Giovanni Caboto, or John Cabot in English? Vikings and Bristol fishermen may have discovered Newfoundland before he did. EU election results – UKIP, immigration and anti-EU parties, jobs, minimum wage, cost of living crisis; coalition hires debt collectors to get money off poorest – 4.7m cases of overpaid tax credits, work programme dodgy tactics; tax revenues up at £23bn as tax avoidance clamped down on – lots more stashed away; should Nick Clegg resign? EU debate; massive inequality as more than 1m homes in Britain are empty – macro economics, social housing, land value tax, council tax, empty offices; big four accountants – KPMG, Pricewater House Cooper, Deloite, Ernst & Young – criticised for inaccurate audits of the banks particularly up to financial crash; austerity cuts blamed for rise of violence in prisons – legal aid cuts, private prison agenda; Inclusive Capitalism Conference – Prince Charles and his influence.
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Second hour: Investigative reports with Charlie Skelton at Bilderberg 2014 in Copenhagen. Charlie Skelton, Journalist, phones in live from the 2014 Bilderberg Conference in Copenhagen.  More military minded participants this year – also intelligence, and technical, data analysis types. Ukraine is probably top of the agenda.  Bilderberg destroying democracy.  Ukraine discussed generally – Last weekend’s Ukrainian presidential election of Poreshenko, fighting in East Ukraine, Leap 20/20, EU deals with US not Russia, NATO Gladio structures.  Bilderberg discussed generally – list of participants includes Marcus Agius, husband to Catherine de Rothschild – oil interests, peak oil, petrodollar system, BRICS.  Chilcot Inquiry letters redacted.  US CIA caught using ‘medical vaccination programme’ to gather intelligence in Pakistan. Despite Snowden’s revelations about criminality the US set up a new intelligence gathering centre at USAF Croughton here in the UK. But Scrutiny of US airbases in Britain is stuck in the 1950s. The US fascist roots of Bilderberg. Austin Texas based presenter/producer of The Secret Truth radio show George Butler interviews Steven Kinzer,  author of ‘The Brothers: John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles’. Interview with author of ‘The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles And Their Secret World War’ by Stephen Kinzer
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Friday 23rd May 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 Jacob Rees-Mogg, Conservative MP for Somerset North East. Property rights to be removed to allow Fracking below peoples’ homes – fracking generally, water contamination, earthquakes, the economics of fracking, fracking bubble; housing bubble – London properties up by £10,000 in a month, half a million could face eviction, council housing, functional planning system, UKIP, immigration and housing; local elections – UKIP gain 140 seats, Labour gains seats but could have done better; economics – £100bn of QE, the pros and cons of QE, banking fraud, 1930s gold standard; young man kills himself because didn’t want to go on benefits after failing to get job – benefit sanctions, insecure part time work; Theresa May says public funding will be cut from Police Federation – crime falling? Prince Charles’s comment about Russian President Vladimir Putin behaving like Adolf Hitler. Jacob says “You’ve got to be very careful what you say about potential allies”.
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Second hour: Investigative reports about next week’s 2014 Bilderberg meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark. Prince Charles’s comment about Putin being like Hitler – referendum in Crimea, armed forces swear allegiance to monarchy; Ukraine and the far right Pravi Sektor, history of Ukraine, Stephen Bandera, intelligence operations and far right psychological warfare and Odessa, NATO and false flag terrorism, the upcoming Ukraine elections;  Davos – Russia and China and oil.  Interview with Will Stone, from the Avon and Bristol Law Centre.  He discusses employment tribunals and work discrimination cases – zero hour contracts, legal aid cuts www.ablc.org.uk. The Bilderberg Group meeting is coming up next weekend and this is discussed:  the control of energy and the petrodollar system; lobbying opportunities for multinationals, cartels, TTIP (Transantlantic Trade and Investment Partnership);  Leap 20/20;  Ukraine; democracy and Bilderberg.  Final part of Paul Mason’s The People’s First World War – The Aftermath:  Hungary and Bavaria – Rosa Luxemburg, Germany and the SPD, revolution;  Treaty of Versailles;  birth of Turkey;  1919 -1920 economic crash and Russian civil war; long term social impact; the human cost; seeds of WW2; lessons for today.
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Friday 16th May 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 Conservative Councillor for Westbury-On-Trym Alistair Watson – Six shy or orgerwise uncommunicative and unforthcoming councillors are up for re-election – Bristol City Slackers 2014: 3 Conservatives, 2 LibDems and 1 Labour councillor: Bishopsworth: Kevin Quartley (C), Brislington West: Peter Main (LD), Filwood: Chris Jackson (L), Lockleaze: Sean Emmett (LD), Stockwood: David Morris (C) and Stoke Bishop: John Goulandris (C). Charlotte Leslie, Conservative MP for Bristol North West, is being investigated for £17,000 cash for questions – should taxpayers fund political parties? Transparency of party funding; largest UK jobs growth for 43 years – but are these low wage, low productivity jobs and are many ‘self-employed’ really unemployed just being persuaded to claim tax credits as if they had an income? Stitching-up claimants is all part of the job, says Jobcentre insider. Benefit sanctions and underhand tactics Job Centre staff are encouraged to take; Bristol’s housing benefit bill increases 57% since 2010 mostly to working people; PMQs Part Time jobs….; Labour MP for Bristol East Kerry McCarthy asks about tax avoidance by Tory supporter Gary Barlow – tax avoidance generally, Prime Minister David Cameron’s father Ian was a pioneer of tax avoidance in the early 1980s; next week’s local and European elections both being held using different systems – first past the post and proportional representation – why vote when all the parties have such similar policies? PMQs Mark Hendrick MP– tens of thousands of ambulances waiting in queues for half an hour and over in hospitals – privatisation of the NHS; David Lowe, presenter of the ‘Singers and Swingers’ radio show on BBC South West bullied out of his job, his unintentional playing of the ‘n’ word in one of his songs;  PMQs the closing of Manston Airport in Kent – similar to Filton it is going to be built on; Avonmouth travellers are facing eviction from their home under the M5 but is this a legitimate lifestyle or not?
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Sunday Times Rich list – but how easy is it for the super-rich to hide their wealth and cultivate an aura of ‘invisibility’? How to stop the greed of the rentier class and heal Britain’s wealth divide. Interview with Kevin Cahill, journalist and author of ‘Who Owns Britain’, and former joint compiler, with Philip Beresford, of The Times Rich List. The Times Rich List is discussed and how it only covers the rich with visible assets – not the many who hide their wealth for example in tax havens. Also: police and the Mafia; land holdings; home ownership; The nineteenth century Irish Land League and their success in overturning the power of absentee landowners in Southern Ireland. land value taxation; home ownership and reduction in poverty; help to buy; UK billionaires and poverty in Wales; financial recovery built on sand. Fracking and the Rothschilds and Rockefellers investing with Dick Cheney in Genie Oil and Gas – The Wealth Fund and snapping up companies for peanuts, Martin looks at the possible fracking bubble, Ukraine. Clip from YouTube film ‘The Rothschild Myths’ purporting to explain the hidden wealth and ownerships of the Rothschild banking dynasty, including Reuters business information and news service, Associated Press and controlling interests in both the London Gold market and Royal Dutch Shell. Google and the ‘right to forget’, but is it just the rich and those who don’t like being reported on rewriting history (see below)? Clip from Fox News 2001, of Carl Cameron on Israeli company, Comverse Infosys, spying on US telecommunication networks. Newsweek International cover Israeli spying on the USA.
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Ministry of Truth?
An example of a court report which was recently ‘disappeared’ from the Bristol Post website:

Legal bid to stop video being seen
By Viccy Mathias – Bristol Evening Post – Thursday, July 10, 2008
A Bristol-based journalist has launched a legal action against a man she claims is a former lover. A High Court writ issued by freelance writer Christina Zaba, of Leigh Woods, says she fears former Western Daily Press reporter Roger Tavener will publish an intimate video made while they were having an affair.
Ms Zaba claims Mr Tavener has “harassed” her by email, letter and text message since their alleged relationship deteriorated, and she is concerned that he will publish the video or images from the tape on the internet or to third parties. Her solicitors say this would equate to a breach of her human rights.
She is seeking an injunction against Mr Tavener, of Clifton, to prevent him harassing her or making the video public. Mr Tavener was not available for comment when the Post tried to contact him last night.