Friday 27th June 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

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First hour: news review with LibDem councillor for Kingsweston Tim Leaman: Local empowerment; economy – national debt £1.3 trillion, City of London more powerful than the politicians; interview on Keiser Report with Ian Fraser, author of ‘Shredded’, about Fred Goodwin and RBS – is Deloitte auditing failure Fraud? Jimmy Savile – Richard Ingrams sacked from The Oldie, Leeds police breakfast clubs, Miles Goslett very nearly couldn’t get the story out, Prince Charles & Margaret Thatcher Savile’s friends in high places, why didn’t MI5 vet him? Blackmailing; police infiltrating and spying on anti-fracking groups – Special Demonstration Squad; NATO Secretary General, Rasmussen, accuses Putin of helping UK anti-fracking groups, infiltrating them for political ends and is laughhed out of court; Met Police incompetence – murder case; Bristol University survey shows marked poverty in Britain – and we’re the 6th richest country in the world; PMQs Ed Miliband – Andy Coulson a criminal – Leveson Inquiry, News of the World, court case independent both with close links to Cameron and Murdoch families? PMQs Cameron giving Andy Coulson a second chance – Ed Miliband and Chris Bryant “the prime minister’s only sorry because he got caught” – media and power; payday loan company Wonga saying sorry – fraud; PMQs dementia patient assaulted but no prosecution – CPS.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Lindis Percy, from the Campaign for Accountability at American Bases (CAAB), discusses American bases in Britain – RAF, NSA, NRA, CIA, Snowden, USAF Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire, USAF Croughton in Northamptonshire – no proper oversight from government. Britain as Orwell’s Airstrip One and Duncan Campbell’s Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier, Next Friday is 4th July, Independence from America day. Joanne Baker, from Child Victims of War, discusses the situation in Iraq and Isis – the attempt of Iraqi people to have a revolution depleted uranium, US and UK criminal conspiracy? Disaster capitalism, WHO report not published that links birth deformities and bombing. Hilary Saunders and Steve Timmins from Protect Our NHS explain their successful legal action which has forced Bristol’s Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to change its constitution to allow proper openness and public scrutiny. Both Bristol’s NHS Foundation Trusts are chaired by Merchant Venturer big businessmen, Merchant Venturers John Savage and Peter Rilett pushing privatisation from the top. Is there any future of for a privatised NHS and how can we make sure we pass this wonderful institution on to our children? The Mubarak regime is back in Egypt sentencing hundreds from the democratically elected government to death and jailing three AlJazeera journalists for seven years, president Morsi was deposed in a coup last year for taking on these crooked judges, US Secretary of State John Kerry signs a cheque this week for nearly $600m as some kind of sick reward for for Al Sisi’s authoritarian junta.
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Friday 20th June 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 & Glenn Greenwald on RTE about a year of Edward Snowden revelations: Potential new leader of the European Union: Cameron may fail to stop Jean-Claude Juncker getting EU president job throwing his weight around and making Britain unpopular – but is the EU democratic? Avon & Somerset Police Chief Constable, Nick Gargan, and allegations of gross misconduct but it turns out one of the allegations has not been made by the person involved, hearsay? Gargan was also part of Lady Diana inquiry in Paris but was suspended from that, Daily Mail appear to be dragging up 20 year old events in an attempt to smear Gargan. Why and what does he know about the death of Princess Diana? Benefit assessment firm ATOS has been found to lie in getting the DWP contract by Public Accounts Committee, about ability to fulfil contracts – delayed assessments and payments; Work Programme found worse at getting disabled people to work than previous system – Universal Credit catastrophe, ‘bailing out the rich and kicking the poor in the teeth‘; ‘Rabbit Hutch Britain’ – smallest properties in Europe, bedroom tax; Kelston (near Bath) A431 road closure – 10 mile detour but simple fix by local man stopped by Bath and NE Somerset council jobsworths, cuts; PMQs Charlotte Leslie – volunteering in Avonmouth, community pubs, air pollution and flies in Avonmouth, Bristol Port Authority, cash for questions (barrage); Iran hanging and jailing billionaire bankers for banking fraud; public sector borrowing rising – tax receipts weak, housing bubble, national debt £1.28 trillion, £200bn more than planned; more bankers dying – suicide?, JP Morgan; Whiteladies Road cinema to be opened again; UK spooks say monitoring of social media legal because companies based abroad; interview with Glenn Greenwald on surveillance state from RTE (Irish radio).
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Iraq and ISIS – Syrian revolutionary soldiers, weapons from Saudi Arabia and Qatar paid for by west. Was Iranian nuclear threat fabricated by Israel and America? PMQs Iraq Chilcot Inquiry. Ukraine – two Russian journalists killed, Russian gas supply stopped, Foreign Minister sacked. with Daphne Havercroft from SWWHAG  Daphne Havercroft from SWWHAG discusses the NHS – Bristol babies scandal, whistle blowing, PMQs cancer treatment targets missed for first time, PMQs £2bn deficit in English NHS trusts, PMQs closing of about 100 GP surgeries, teething problems at Southmead Hospital and expensive quarter of a million pound clock. & Mike Birkin from South West Friends of the Earth (FOE). Mike Birkin from South West FOE – Bristol Green Week, solar panels, Fracking – regulation is flawed, ground water contamination.
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Friday 13th June 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 St George West Ron Stone. Speedwell Pool. New labour councillors – Estelle Tincknell (Lockleaze) is now deputy leader of the Labour group on Bristol City Council (BCC) Speedwell Community Centre – Speedwell pool sold to property speculators – planning system; homelessness, housing, macroeconomics of this; Friday 13th October 1307:  former Knights Templar whistleblowers Esquin of Floyan, Bernard Pelet & Gérard of Byzol – Knights Templar arrested by King Philip IV of France – got their revenge by murdering all his decendents, his entire bloodline, nearly 500 years later in the French Revolution. Freemasonry, Tory ex-Mayor and child pornographer Philip Judd: Master Mason No1222 St. Kew Lodge in Weston-Super-Mare, Province of Somerset. Jack Lopresti MP for Filton and Bradley Stoke makes a promise on this show and breaks it. P2 Lodge – secret parallel government;  PMQs Ed Miliband – Birmingham schools and extremist Muslim doctrine – where did this extremism come from? Operation Cyclone, religion and schools, Is Birmingham schools scandal really a witch hunt by Ofsted who signed off these schools last year as ‘excellent’; PMQs Chris Skidmore, Tory MP Bristol – Jobfairs – unemployment, tax credits, zero hours contracts, figures fiddled;  PMQs Pamela Nash – 85,000 people affected by loan sharks in Scotland – is this really recovery?
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Second hour: Investigative reports: LibDem Election campaign chair Steve Comer asks why is Nick Clegg still leading the party after a series of electoral defeats – role of Bilderbergers Shirley Williams and Paddy Ashdown in selecting him and role of the press in toppling Charles Kennedy. William Cooper and the Masons’ Luciferian Philosophy… Steve Comer, ex leader of the Bristol Lib Dems, discusses why he thinks his party leader Nick Clegg should go: cuts; deferred graduate tax – student fees; Charles Kennedy;  Bilderberg LibDem ‘grandees’ Shirley Williams and Paddy Ashdown backed Nick Clegg as leader and are still saying he should stay against the interests of the party. Kevin Phillips, Chairman of Avon & Somerset Police Federation: Theresa May’s ticking off of the Federation and withdrawing some of their funding; Freemasonry in the police; Hillsborough, Jimmy Savile – confidence in the police; arresting bankers and war criminals.  Freemasonry: voxpop from 1980s about Freemasonry where we hear that pliable people who are no good at their job are promoted to top positions because they are pliable Masons; Over on Wales politicians must declare their Masonic membership or commit a criminal offence. Martin Short, author of ‘Inside the Brotherhood’, discusses what is Freemasonry? – Police, City of London; recently elected Derbyshire County Council Labour group says council members must declare membership of Freemasonry. Derbyshire Tories get very upset. Freemasons in the police and changes to the police federation with Kevin Philips.
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Friday 6th June 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: As a newly elected councillor, Martin Fodor explains his history – recycling, social enterprise contracts; Bristol Memorial Ground sell off to Sainsbury’s – memorial of WWI; new proposed European President, Juncke, is from Luxembourg, a tax haven – is EU democratic? European Central Bank (ECB) may start quantitative easing – is Europe really recovering?; The Queen’s Speech – Iran, cutting taxes, fracking subsidised; Botnet Gameover Zeus – is it really a Russian or is this a ruse? former Weston Super-Mare former Conservative Mayor Philip Judd pleads guilty to twelve child pornography charges; Hinkley C Nuclear Power Station – fund used as a ‘social bribe’ – West Somerset Council went bankrupt in 2012 so was all this just art of strong-arming the local authority into accepting this new build nuclear station which is guaranteeing massive profits for France in China; Three months prison or fines for taking holidays within school term time – parents say this is ‘breaching family life’ – ‘Parents Want A Say’ group.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Interview with Jay Blackwood about Ukraine, which has a history of conflict: new Bristol Ukraine anti-fascist solidarity campaign. The Maidan ‘revolution’ or ‘coup’ of Saturday February 22nd 2014 and para-militaries seizing power; fascist parties Pravy Sektor and Svoboda; now National Security Chief Andriy Parubiy key figure behind Maidan protest security team then Kiev and Odessa attacks; Odessa massacre of Friday 2nd May 2014; media coverage; US interests; NATO exercises.  D-Day is being commemorated today. The Dieppe ‘mini D Day’ in 1942 which was a disaster for the Canadians, we look at the post D Day deals done with the Nazis before the end of the war for material such as Uranium 235 and Plutonium. The Red House Meeting of Thursday August 10th 1944 where Nazi industrialists prepared for after the war; Interview with Tim Saunders, former Army Officer, military historian, and author of ‘Nijmegen’ – he discusses the battle at Nijmegen in WW2, part of the failed Market Garden operation in September 1944 where Holland was being liberated from Nazi rule.
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