Friday 19th December 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: Marsh Farm, Bedfordshire and The Exodus Collective;  the rave scene;  cannabis oil could cure cancer – decriminalisation of drugs, HSBC and the Mexican drug cartels;  Hillsborough trial – police collude at Masonic lodge to shift blame – freemasonry  in Bedfordshire;  Dolphin Square and child sex abuse – links to Bedfordshire MPs and the brewing industry;  VIPs shut down police investigations into child sex abuse – Kincora Boys Home and secret services bribery;  Black Triangle campaign – how many people have died due to UK welfare reforms – callous, food banks;  economics – full employment versus keeping some unemployed, so people stay in jobs and to keep wages down – trade unions; PMQs OECD report says large inequality in incomes damages economic growth;  PMQs ambulance waiting times up.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Sydney, Australia siege of cafe by Islamic terrorist:  terrorists often mentally ill, vulnerable types easy to manipulate –  who is doing the manipulating?;  the shoe bomber; Gladio; 1993 attack on World Trade Centre – FBI gave explosives;  Canada, Australia – against ISIS;  catalogue of errors why Sydney terrorist not arrested; western intelligence services. Pakistan, Peshawar massacre in army school – 132 children shot, 150 people all together:  Taliban; west destabilising Pakistan; drone strikes. CIA torture report:  drones; US CIA mercenary Ray Davies killed Pakistani people; Syria;  doctors, Swigert and Dunbar, real names James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen. Who devised torture techniques made $81m – torture doesn’t work;  Operation Cyclone;  Cheney and Rumsfeld encouraged harsher torture in pursuit of Al Qaeda links to 9/11; underpants bomber. PMQs Tony Baldry (Freemason) – Karl Marx – Russia. Ukraine:  snipers at Maidan from current regime; Odessa massacre – Pravvy Sektor;  downed MH17 Malaysian Airways – probably by two Kiev military jets; NATO.  Russian economy and sanctions:  effects other economies;  clip Vladimir Putin at Press Conference – answering question about Russian soldiers in East Ukraine.  Glen from Marsh Farm discusses Bottom Up Development:  ‘takes a village to raise a child’; communities helping before problems arise;  The Organisation Workshop;  Acorn.  Clip of Russian documentary about Nazi, Martin Bormann – collusion to get Nazi loot.
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Friday 12th December 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: Transport and Housing with one of Labour’s Assistant Mayors Mark Bradshaw… Mayor Ferguson’s cabinet; living wage; £360m Bristol budget – budget decisions – public transport, housing and homelessness;  Greater Bristol Authority Metro Mayor;  difference between public or private transport  – East Coast Main Line being unnecessarily privatised next spring; UWE protest – occupied by students – Digital media student Josh Conner says ‘knowledge is not a consumer product and we are not your clients’ – student loan bubble, financial crash; markets nervous as Greece calls an election;  BAe Systems pulling out of Filton, Bristol;  Bristolians set to pay more for police – except there are less police;  OECD report – growth of inequality has had a negative effect on growth; Tory Home Secretary Theresa May police will be able to snoop on journalists phone records; GCHQ spying is ‘legal’ – snoopers charter.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Interview with Chris Stacey from UK child sex abuse ‘People’s Tribunal’, headed by eminent QCs Michael Mansfield and John Cooper – official inquiry not trusted, www.thepeoplestribunal.org.uk organised by survivors, Exaro News. Sexual abuse victim Chris Stacey from The Peoples Tribunal into UK Child Sexual Abuse. New ‘Master’ of Bristol’s Society of Merchant Venturers Chris Curling…  Interview with Chris Curling, new Master of the Merchant Venturers:  Bishop Mike Hill’s statement about Merchant Venturer slave trader Edward Colston’s business dealings being ‘speculation’ in front of hundreds of their schoolchildren ;  the slave trade;  charity fund of Merchant Venturers;  various ‘interests’ of Chris including being on the board of Bristol Water;  Ofwat says Bristol Water must cut it’s bills by 21% – public versus private water;  Ireland protest as they have to pay for water for the first time;  fracking adversely affecting water supplies;  the role of the Master of the Merchant Venturers.
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Friday 5th December 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: Chancellor’s Autumn statement and Bristol Arena discussed with Labour councillor for Windmill Hill Sam Mongon. Bristol City Council Scrutiny Committees; living wage; Bristol Arena;  Green Capital;  Osborne’s Autumn Statement – ideological cuts, Jonathan Freedland on BBC 5Live saying extreme cuts are a form of self-harm to the economy, pointing out that Labour’s Chancellor Alistair Darling said it would take two parliaments to balance the books; Ed Miliband PMQs – living standards going down;  rail and bus fares going up – First Group; Latest Edward Snowden: secret malware in European Union linked to US & British Intelligence – Regin; Dennis Skinner PMQs – Dennis Skinner says Tories added £430bn to National Debt, more than Labour spent in a century – international financial system broken, cancelling debt;  homeless young people on the rise; Three police officers and a PCSO face misconduct charge over death of  Bijan Ebrahimi in Bristol.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Noam Chomsky on the West’s post-war betrayal of partisans and workers movements. Noam Chomsky: hard-line critic of US foreign policy; professor of linguistics at MIT. End Game of WWII and Nazis being helped by western intelligence services for various strategic reasons:  Nazi Gold; Operation Paperclip, Reinhard Gehlen; NATO; Gladio; Svoboda Pravy Sektor;  ‘America’s Nazi Secret’ by US President Jimmy Carter’s FBI Special Prosecutor John Loftus author of America’s Nazi Secret; WWII US traitor Prescott Bush;  ‘OPJB’ by John Ainsworth-Davies (aka. Christopher Creighton) – Martin Bormann escape from Nazi Germany; South America and Nazis – Klaus Barbie in Bolivia; clip of John Ainsworth-Davies: First airing of Argentina-based British journalist Laurence De Mello’s exclusive interview with author of Op JB John Ainsworth-Davis aka. Christopher Creighton. MI6 ‘M’ Section cell: Ian Fleming, Desmond Morton, Winston Churchill, King George VI, Lord Louis Mountbatten, John Ainsworth-Davis. Sullivan & Cromwell money laundering; Former CBS News Europe correspondent Paul Manning’s book: Martin Bormann Nazi In Exile. Red House Meeting.  Post WW2 era: Lucky Luciano and the Mafia; communist threat and strong unions to placate people;  clip of Noam Chomsky. David Powell from South West Friends of the Earth: TTIP – business led trade deal between US and EU that will degrade regulations – suing governments, secret courts, NHS; doubts that Hinckley Point Nuclear Power Station is still going ahead as one of major backers is in financial trouble.
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