Friday 31st October 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 LibDem Councillor for Henleaze Clare Campion-Smith. Education in Bristol and scrutiny. Are LibDems really promoting ‘fairness’ in government? Powers of the mayor. Bristol Mayor George Ferguson criticises ‘Conspiracy Tony (Gosling)’ on the One Love Breakfast show with Pat Hart. Calling the power of Bristol’s ex Slave Traders the Merchant Venturers an ‘old story’. Labour party member John Savage, former Master of the Merchants, has begun many ‘partnerships’ between private and public in the city. Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) Merchant Venturer is chairing the LEP. Merchant Venturers have been invited to discuss their influence in the city onto the show. Disabled Drivers’ Blue Badge schemes, should the disabled be allowed to park in the new Residents’ Parking Zones? Evening Post supports the mayor. Decriminalisation of drugs. Most councils fob the desperate homeless off with nothing at all. 50 out of 87 local authorities gave homeless little or no help at all. Clare recommends StreetLink for rough sleepers. Are the poor being punished? Is the pope a Communist for wanting to redistribute wealth to the poor? UK/US regulators war game a major economic crash at the same time Quantitative Easing (QE).
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Second hour: Investigative reports: 26 years on, was the Lockerbie airliner bomb planted at Heathrow Airport? Were British intelligence services involved? New revelations about 1988 Lockerbie Pan Am Flight 103 bombing with Jim Swire, father of victim Flora. Discussion and clips from Allan Francovich’s documentary financed by Tiny Rowlands ‘The Maltese Double Cross’. Film blocked. Break-in at Heathrow airside the night before Lockerbie bombing. “Your government and mine know exactly what happened at Lockerbie, but they’re never going to tell”. Oliver North ordered Oswald DeWinter to lay a false drug trail to implicate Libya. Drugs cocaine and heroin on the aircraft. Dr Bill Chasey, Dr William Chasey persecuted in the US by the CIA for trying to get justice. Vincent Cannistraro detailed by Regan to run PR against Libya then appointed to be chief investigation of the Lockerbie bombing. Dr David Fieldhouse found a body that then ‘disappeared’ and was smeared by the police. Trouble at the Al Aqusa Mosque on Temple Mount as all visitors are banned by the Israeli government. 1991 Yorkshire TV Documentary (paid $500k for it but never shown) ‘Conspiracy of Silence’ about Republican Party Child Sexual Abuse at Boystown in Franklin Utah USA. Former Governor candidate for Nevada state, USA, Aaron Russo on real origins of feminism and the New World Order of the Banksters. German Air Force officer says Malaysian Airliner MH17 was not shot down by a ground-to-air missile.
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Friday 24th October 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 How former Independent and Western Daily Press journalist Chris Brown made his local news website Bristol 24/7 pay through advertising etc; Discrepancies over Mayor Ferguson’s involvement in ‘refinancing’ Bristol Ferry Boat Company – Council officers now refusing to answer questions at Scrutiny Committees which Mayor Ferguson also often fails to attend, The Bristol Arena by Temple Meads station is costing £90m at least £10m of which will have to be paid from the council budget but councillors and public still haven’t been shown the figures; The City Deal and Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) is way too secretive, run like a business but spending millions of pounds of public money; £200m Metro Bus project another ‘top down scheme’ with minimal, if any real public consultation – criticised by transport campaigners a tragic waste of money; clip of Rita Lynch, punk singer songwriter, on the reduction of beds in Bush Residential Care Home, Hengrove, for disabled kids – is the city council disabled bashing ‘as a matter of principle’? Residential parking;  British deficit up 10% on last year – deficit rising is why we have growth, taxation;  EU asking Britain for £1.7bn – positive vision of EU not heard much, immigration undermining wages;  Juenker won vote to get a new European Commission starting November – is it relevant? Is it democratic? Sanctions on Russia;  Bristol is European Green Capital for 2015 – head of operations sacked due to organisational chaos – Bristol2015.co.uk;  Bristol Arena has £10m black hole in funding – parking forgotten, figures not for public view;  Bristol Rovers sue Sainsbury’s for pulling out of Bristol Stadium plan;  Fiona Wolfe appropriate for historical child abuse by government employees inquiry? – enormous child abuse scandal at Kincora Boys Home in Northern Ireland is to be excluded from the inquiry, why? Tory Mayor of London Boris Johnson reminds us all that Chairman of BBCs weekly Question Time David Dimbleby was also a member of the elite Bullingdon Club to which he, David Cameron, George Osborne and many more now in power once belonged, Dimbleby says “but I’m not running for office”, no we can’t get rid of him from the BBC; In the US – a modern day Robin Hood robbed bank and gave money to people who lost their homes.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Interview with Robert Salisbury, author of ‘Die Dollar Die : The fall of the American colossus’.  He used to work in The City and discusses the casino banking system, and the potential fall of the Dollar:  auditors, toxic assets rated AA, rules not followed; spirituality; US provoking war to prevent death of the Dollar. Colonel Gaddafi and Libya: Libya was most advanced and independent country in Africa under Gaddafi; Libya Gold Dinar; Operation Southern Mistral 2011 war game; Libya in sights of ISIS; Libyan Islamic Fighting group backed by western intelligence services; Alleged Libyan involvement in Lockerbie crash and shooting of PC Yvonne Fletcher entirely fabricated; Dave Roberts on the positive aspects of Libya under Gaddafi; Homes for all; Direct Democracy; Libyan oil. Licio Gelli running Italy’s secret fascist government in the 1970s and 1980s through P2 Masonic Lodge, is a similar secret government in place here in Britain? Daniele Ganser, author of ‘NATOs’ Secret Armies’ on parallel governments: Italy and Operation Gladio; former Nazis used as spies in post WW2 Germany – ‘Stay Behind’ Armies in Germany; Ottawa shootings at parliament and war memorial this week “Ottawa shooter Zehaf-Bibeau has perfect modus operandi for typical directionless loser turned Intelligence Services informant “.  False Flag operations around Europe.  Russia Today shows documentary on downing of MH17 plane over Ukraine:  possibly shot down by cannon fire from SU25 Ukrainian fighter jets. Former Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray blew the whistle on Extraordinary Rendition torture flights ten years ago this week and they were used to create the war on terror, but now the preferred way to kill is using remote control drones.
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Friday 17th October 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 Green councillor for Ashley ward Rob Telford. Lord Freud thinks disabled are worth less than the able bodied, but he’s not the first top Tory MP to do so Philip Davies MP did too in 2011. TV Party election debates – other parties should be included; 40th anniversary of the re-election of Harold Wilson in October 1974 – a clip of Harold as new Prime Minister speaking on this occasion about nationalising land – MI5 and the far right in the army cooked up a story that he was a Russian spy and bullied him out of office –  election systems, manifestos, coalitions; Bristol’s duty to tackle homelessness which is increasing – austerity policies, housing; stock market jitters – Greek debt, Fed considering stopping QE, splitting banks never happened, political power of bankers; UK deficit up – a £25bn hole in income tax and tax offices closing due to cuts – QE, investment in green economy; recent pay squeeze the worst since Victorian times, according to TUC; figures showing a surge in economic growth due to a new EU accounting system – UK goes along with US & EU who are now fixing all the economic figures showing military spending as ‘an investment in the future’; Lord Freud and other Tories say disabled people are worth less than the minimum wage – disabled worst affected by austerity; Bush facility, Hengrove, for disabled kids, is having 10 beds cut to 5 beds; Chris Grayling’s Legal Aid cuts are illegal – KPMG, tax`cuts; housing developers event in London – protest outside by housing association tenants evicted for housing development; Morgan St, St. Pauls, Bristol – residents don’t have to pay for residents parking.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Jeremy Roe from Bully Banks; Jeremy Roe, from Bully Banks, discusses how banks mis-sold insurance to about 30,000 small businesses, causing many to go out of business and losing people their homes. Some redress has been made to some of these businesses after campaigning. www.bully-banks.co.uk helpline 01202 701047. Martin Upchurch on the new film about the 1984/5 Miners’ strike ‘Still The Enemy Within’; Martin Upchurch, has made a film about the 1980s miners strike – ‘Still The Enemy Within’. He discusses how in his opinion Mrs.Thatcher was trying to break the British workers movement – coal mining communities, British manufacturing, rising inequality, lessons to be learnt, reviving unions. Bristol Festival of Ideas – establishment approved ideas? Owen Jones and his new book ‘The Establishment’ criticised by Media Lens. Control of the media. Is Guardian writer Owen Jones a conscious or unconscious Gatekeeper? If he steps out of line might he lose his column?  Clip of Gareth Porter who wrote ‘Iran, a Manufactured Crisis’ – IAEA (International Atomic Energy Authority) was using Israeli intelligence documents as evidence of Iran nuclear weapons programme. Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scar by Gareth Porter
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