Friday 25th July 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

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First hour: news review with Bristol mayor George Ferguson. How is George getting on as Bristol Mayor so far – community projects, still chatting with the Merchant Venturers, they are doing very well out of the financial crisis, Lockleaze community project opened today with Conservative MP Charlotte Leslie but its sponsored by government services privatisation tagging fraud company Serco, should companmies like this be allowed to sponsor community events? What about arms firms? KPMG appropriate to ‘volunteer’ their help at ‘City Hall’; Bush Residential Home closure; Post Office sell off – sold the public short by a billion pounds; British GDP up but GDP per person down – QE or money printing; Balance of Payments, wealth divide getting bigger, George’s personal wealth around one million pounds; George’s new Bristol Council Commissions – Fairness, Housing, Sport, and Education & Skills – equality, living wage for council workers; Nick Horne, Chief Executive of Knightstone Housing Association, discusses ‘Local Enterprise Partnership’, Bristol Property Board and the Bristol Homes Commission‘ which he chaired, how open and accountable is the new ‘Bristol Property Board’, not very. Homelessness, social housing; petition of no confidence in Mayor’s resident parking scheme; Bristol LibDem’s petition for a referendum to to overturn office of mayor and return to the party system; the poorest in Britain live on average nine years less than the richest; Birmingham Muslim Schools ‘Trojan horse report’, just more Muslim baiting?
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Phone hacking and the police – Royal Family appearing in court, News International – private intelligence operation? The Metropolitan police Special Demonstration Squad, MI5 and MI6, Northern Ireland, whistleblowers. Clean up of Sellafield to cost £70billion – Hinckley, Nuclear Waste, depleted uranium. ISIS leader trained by Israeli Mossad; BBC Russia delete crucial MH17 interviews including eyewitness testimony; Ukraine – Prime Minister resigns, Ukraine military planes seen shadowing MH17 plane, why two Malaysian Airlines down? Possible reasons. Snowden says ISIS were trained by Mossad in an attempt to get all Muslim extremists in the world in one place. ISIS claims IT killed three Jewish teenagers, Hamas, Al Qaeda and MI6. The USA is insolvent – the Petrodollar System, the new BRICS bank, economic crash. Former CIA officer Robert Steele discusses runaway security agencies and the waste of tax payer’s money – democracy?  former CIA officer Robert D. Steele explains how to fight the crooks and war criminals within his old intelligence employers; Clip from Mike Maloney’s ‘Hidden Secrets of Money’ series, part 5. Hitlernomics: how Adolf Hitler came to power on a the 1930s German economic crisis. Economics and Hitler’s rise to power.
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Friday 18th July 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 leader of the Green group on Bristol City Council and Councillor for Bishopston Daniella Radice Bristol Mayor, George Ferguson, and how the new system is working in Bristol council – vote of no confidence – petition against mayor from outside council; Clifton residents parking -100 changes; Snowden – British spies are seeding internet with false info – waste of tax-payers money? – politicians in charge of secret services or other way round?; PMQs Cameron reshuffle – more women; ‘Today in Parliament’, Lord Cormack, Lord royal – Conservative Party paying part of a woman Minister’s salary – equal pay for men and women; PMQs Jack Straw – why dismiss the Attorney General?; PMQs and Labour MP Glenda Jackson delivers a broadside – why has Iain Duncan Smith been kept? Fiasco of welfare changes, particularly on the disabled – universal credit, food banks; TUC say unemployment rates higher now than before recession; PMQs when will Cameron publish his tax returns? – his father pioneer of tax havens, QE; Church of England votes for women Bishops; Archbishop of Canterbury resigns from male only club; new website that reviews rental properties www.rentalraters.com
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Malaysian Airliner down over Ukraine but what was it doing there? The Malaysian Airways airplane MH17 crash in Ukraine:  the Buk weapon that probably brought it down and who could have been in charge of this gun;  possible motives of different players – false flag?;  chemical weapons attack in Syria done by Turks and Saudis.  BRICS countries form ‘The Global Development Bank’, an alternative to the Bretton Woods System which the West have used to control world finance since World War II – the IMF and World Bank finally challenged. Bristol based Palestinian journalist Iqbal Tamimi discusses the recent Israel collective punishment in Gaza, Palestine conflict, real reasons behind it: Labour leader Ed Miliband’s support for Israel expresses just before attacks on Gaza and now silence, his close ties with Labour Friends of Israel and the fact that he is Jewish. He should be seen to distance himself from the acts of the Israeli military but he does not do so. The desperation of the Palestinian situation and the unfairness of the Israeli government; Hezbollah; Ramadan; ISIS;  Ed Miliband attends ‘Friends of Israel’ meeting.  Annie Machon discusses implications of the Edward Snowden revelations at this year’s ‘Independence from America Day’:  Snowden and how to rein in and regulate the secret services – MI5, MI6 and GCHQ. Dan Glazebrook breaks it all down in his new book ‘Divide and Ruin: The West’s Imperial Strategy in an Age of Crisis’. Dan Glazebrook analyses a new overarching strategy employed by U.S. and British imperialism since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of so-called Cold War. Limited by its relative decline in the context of the global economy and unable to sustain the Bush-like adventurism that led to the Iraq debacle, the Empire, argues Divide and Ruin, seeks now to rely primarily on proxy military forces against those it targets for regime change. The goal though is nothing other than the long-term weakening of any country that serves as a regional counter-weight to the absolute dominance of imperialism. From Glazebrook’s view, U.S. and British foreign policy should be viewed as a wrecking ball of sorts aimed at weakening the strongest and most independent players in the Global South.
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Friday 11th July 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

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First hour: news review with Bristol City Council’s Tory group leader and Hengrove Councillor Mark Weston. Westminster Paedophile enquiries and DRIP bill being bounced through the House of Commons on Monday. Bristol City Council committees – Resources – how the money is spent; the Bristol Mayor George Ferguson; Avon and Somerset Chief Constable, Nick Gargan’s ongoing suspension, is it a witch hunt? Gargan’s involvement with Princess Diana Inquiry. Voting percentages and democracy, voting trades unions; Sir Norman Tebbit explains there may have been a child abuse cover up in Westminster – Kincora Boys Home and blackmail, journalism and libel, Cyril Smith; Detective Sergeant, Jack Tasker who was investigating Cyril Smith MP, talks on Victoria Derbyshire’s BBC 5Live show – senior police took all the evidence but rather than taking over the enquiry they were shutting it down; former Parliamentary lobby journalist and editor of The Sun Trevor Kavanagh talks about paedophile civil servant Sir Peter Hayman and suggests links to Freemasonry, Paedophile Information Network (PIE) was based in the Home Office and funded by government in 1970s; Marc Dutroux scandal in Belgium linked to NATO paedophile ring. Terror threat blown out of proportion, says Sir Richard Dearlove, ex MI6 director general – false flag attacks, NATO, Gladio, Italian supreme court judge Ferdinando Imposimato – banking fraud, connections between banksters and security services, Iran Contra affair; Cameron’s new emergency DRIP law – ‘strategy of tension’, data retention; journalists freedom of speech under attack because suggestion people they are investigating should be contacted first; the nationwide public sector strikes.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Bristol Ukraine Anti-Fascist Solidarity, Giles Shorter and Patrick McInally, from Bristol Ukraine Anti Fascist Solidarity (BUAFS), discuss the fascists in government in Ukraine, and the separatists.  Should people take up arms against the fascists or is this dangerous rhetoric that would cause chaos, death and civil war? Neil Faulkner, editor of Military Times magazine, on the First World War and the 1969 Richard Attenborough feature film: Oh What A Lovely War! Interview with Neil Faulkner, editor of Military from a recent talk organised by Frome Stop the War Coalition, about WWI and a ‘no glory’ alternative to a right wing, Michael Gove style, line – lessons from WWI. Israel/ Palestine crisis over last fortnight – over 100 Palestinians dead, and about 4 Israelis dead – Israeli secret service Mossad have a track record of carrying out false flag attacks. Kidnappers of three Jewish boys were speaking Hebrew, false flags, United Nations say Gaza campaign is against international law, peace deal is being prevented. Fran Scott from London’s PaxVista TV reports on secret EU/US legal bloc deal, Fran Scott from discusses TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) – US and EU trade – companies will have ability to sue governments if they are a barrier to trade – democracy and standards down, European Round Table of Industrialists. The West through the eyes of North Korea.  North Korean propaganda film makes some interesting points about the west – Operation Paperclip and Nazi collaboration with NATO.
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Friday 4th July 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 leader of Bristol City Council’s LibDem group and councillor for Knowle Gary Hopkins. Bristol’s elected Mayor leaves city with democratic deficit. Nick Clegg and the leadership of the Lib Dems; Gus Hoyt, Swedish waste firm Boomeco, what was behind the Avonmouth flies, and waste sent abroad; flog off Bristol land to the Bristol Port Company in Avonmouth; Bristol Council committees, scrutiny, and the Bristol Mayor, George Ferguson who often does not appear to answer questions; volunteers asked to cut grass in Bristol – Bristol funding streams, council tax; Bush Residential Unit, Hengrove, for disabled children, is cut; residents parking; PMQs Charlotte Leslie – Bristol Rovers and the Sainsbury’s deal – WW1 Memorial Ground, planning gain; PMQs NHS waiting lists going up; PMQs Dennis Skinner – NHS nurses pay down, A&E problem, hospitals in financial difficulty – Bullingdon Club, Care UK; PMQs people in work haven’t got enough money to live off – Quantitative Easing (QE); cost of basic needs up 28% since 2008, earnings up 9% – couple and 2 children need £40,600 to stay above poverty line – minimum wage, crash, housing bubble; Tory billionaires summer party – Bahrain, policy and funding, Unions funding Labour; phone hacking – media coverage ignores victims, Andy Coulson jailed, Mafia.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Interview with Imogen Robins and Louis Herbert from Acorn Bristol who want better conditions in the rented sector in Easton particularly but all over Bristol – letting agents tenancy fees, PMQs: Diane Abbott MP talks about the housing crisis in – New Era Hackney which has been bought for £110m. High rent, housing benefit cuts, not enough social housing, PMQs Jeremy Corbyn MP– private rented sector in London and social cleansing, rent controls, housing supply and demand, immigration, rent seeking www.acornbristol.org.uk Lead singer of The Doors Jim Morrison’s death in Paris in 1971 and his Admiral father being a US Navy commander in Israel’s 1967 false flag attack on the USS Liberty. Admiral Morrison called for economic and military action against Israel as a response to the Liberty attack during the 1967 Arab Israeli ‘Six Day War‘ – False flags, COINTELPRO. Jimmy Hendrix and American Independence Day 4th July today, 4th July 2014. NATO and Operation Gladio – clip from 1992 BBC Timewatch programme ‘Operation Gladio’ by Allan Francovich – CIA protecting Nazis: the Butcher of Lyon in France helped to escape justice by the CIA and then he helped abduct Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara working for the Bolivian secret police. Interview with Adam Johannes, from Cardiff ‘Stop the War’ and ‘No NATO in Newport‘, discussing the NATO meeting coming to Newport in September. NATO international terrorists come to Newport. NATO terrorists coming to Newport, Gwent in September.
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