Friday 27th March 2015

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 leader Gary Hopkins. Residents parking zones – previous consultations; Bristol Arena – parking;  local media – South West Business News, Bristol Chamber of Commerce, same as news in Bristol Post;  Mayor Ferguson – referendum for mayor;  Jo Moss from Bristol Cannabis Club discusses medicinal uses for cannabis, legalising cannabis, and their Cannabis Education and Social Evening event tomorrow evening – Iran Contra, big banks and drug cartels, Spain and decriminalisation of cannabis; Longest serving member of the Conservative party & wartime MI6 code breaker Harry Beckhough dies aged 101. Former MI6 Nazi hunter Harry Beckhough’s 2008 radio autobiography part 1 and Christmas special part 2 and Harry’s Christmas news review 2012.  Harry Beckhough, former intelligence officer, business man and author, died last week at age of 101 – clips of him discussing meeting Winston Churchill, and being a spy in WW2  – also Hitler’s Treasurer Martin Bormann and Vatican’s Nazi ratlines to South America. EU making Britain’s laws. Zero inflation for the UK and will deflation affect us? PMQs Ed Miliband – Do Tories plan further cuts? Cameron asking Miliband questions as if Miliband is Prime Minister already. Miliband spontaneous or rehearsed. VAT and NI contributions – Tory failed plan for reducing immigration – cuts, damage to public services, ideological cuts, deficit, crash; Theresa May and crackdown on hate preachers – NATO; PMQs Kingswood MP Chris Skidmore – M4 link to Avon Ring Road.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Saudi Arabia led military action in Yemen:  ISIS; Syria; Iraq; Africom; Centcom; NATO. Crashing drones are exposing secrets about U.S. war operations:  US money to ISIS.  Germanwings plane crash throws spotlight on cockpit security: 150 more victims of 9/11 because of extra door security measures. US and NATO terrorism in Germany eg. Herrhausen assassination. Daniele Ganser, on Julian Charles show ‘The Mind Renewed’, discusses NATOs’ secret armies in Germany and who was really behind the Red Army Faction (RAF) and Baader Meinhof German terror gangs:  Gorbachev; Nazis; Red Army Faction; communism. Is Investigative Journalism Dead? With senior journalism lecturer at UWE Phil Chamberlain and TV documentary maker Tim Tate. Discussion: ‘Is Investigative Journalism Dead?’ between Tim Tate, documentary maker and author, and Phil Chamberlain, Senior Journalism Lecturer at University of the West of England (UWE) and author of ‘Blacklisted: The Secret War between Big Business and Union Activists. Will the internet do the job of big documentary teams? Paul Foot; investigative journalism being starved; enormous cost of hard-hitting investigations; after 1988 Thames TV documentary about the SAS executing IRA terrorists ‘Death on the Rock’ but Tories didn’t like it, Thames TV ‘lost’ their licence. Thatcher changed quotas for TV; Panorama, Dispatches;  Cook Report; lawyers; Boeing; ‘Blacklisted’ book by Phil;  child sexual abuse – Liz MacKean’s Savile piece pulled from BBC’s Newsnight editor Peter Ripon then subsequent story by Miles Goslett was refused by every national newspaper, finally published in The Oldie (whose editor Richard Ingrams was subsequently sacked); clip from Tim’s film ‘Conspiracy of Silence’ about child sexual abuse, FBI and The Franklin Scandal which was pulled from Discovery Channel;  does investigative journalism change anything? Watergate, US investigative journalist Michael Hastings killed investigating CIA spying on journalists and elected politicians.
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Friday 20th March 2015

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 Conservative councillor for Avonmouth Matthew Melias – Avonmouth – docks, sold off by council to private company, businesses;  Avon and Somerset Police and Wiltshire Police to share services for £30m savings;  Carriage Works plans – compulsory purchase, 5th Capital, speculators, social housing;  new free school in basement of  central library – poor light, Merchant Venturers;  Grant Shapps, Chairman of Conservative Party, a liar and a bully – did have second job after trying to sue constituent for saying so, telling truth, ministerial code, Chairman Shapps breaks it by lying and bullying, Leader Cameron breaks it by attending secret Bilderberg conference in Watford 2013; The Budget – £12 bn welfare cuts,  IFS asks how Tories are going to do this;  Greece leaving Euro and defaulting, crash, derivatives, oil price, property bubble;  Homes for Britain Rally – Ken Loach says how can sixth richest country in the world have 93,000 children in poverty? Social housing, mortgage boom and bust, the planning system; PMQs Ed Miliband and David Cameron: NHS and Tories’ broken promises – cuts; PMQs Fiona McTaggart, NHS cancer patient waiting lists up – cuts, QE money printing, banks; PMQs Theresa Pearce: long waiting times to see GPs, reorganisation of NHS, cuts; IPCC open 2nd criminal enquiry into Met police cover up of paedophile MP Cyril Smith and long list of allegations and names of high ranking and public figure paedophiles. Metropolitan Police, Scotland Yard, MI5 covered up VIP involvement (such as Cyril Smith) in child sex abuse; rising number of suicides in jails linked to spending cuts – special squads sent in to prisons every week to put down riots – less guards mean regular riots.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Matt Campbell who lost his brother Geoff in the 9/11 attacks challenging BBC in court over cover-up of real 9/11 terrorists – his brother Geoff Campbell was working as a risk consultant to Reuters who are ‘supposed’ to have told the BBC’s Jane Standley and Martyn Lewis about the collapse of WTC7 Salomon brothers building twenty minutes BEFORE it actually happened – BBC boss Richard Porter said it was a ‘genuine mistake’ Press Gazette’s Axegrinder says ‘Pull the other one Lizard Man’ – complicity under Terrorism Act 2000. Interview with Matt Campbell, whose brother died in 9/11 attacks – he has refused to pay BBC licence fee because he doesn’t feel 9/11 has been covered properly by BBC. Conspiracy Files, controlled demolition of buildings, Building 7, Gladio, NATO.  BCfm ‘Arabian Nights’ presenter Mohamed Makawi describes attempts by MI5 to intimidate and recruit him in the late 1990s and passes on advice for others they approach. Interview with Mohammed Makawi who presents BCfm’s Arabian Nights show – MI5 tried to recruit him years ago as he was part of the Muslim community – NATO, Operation Cyclone, CIA. Now occupied Stapleton allotments and smallholdings have been evicted Steve Satan from pressure group Rail Future gives his views on Bristol’s Metrobus proposal for Guided Rail buses costing around £100m. Steve Satan discusses the Metrobus plan – same kind of ‘misguided bus’ being cancelled in Nancy, France, trams, green?  Simon Lewis from Carriageworks Action Group describes forthcoming planning decision about Fifth Capital proposal to develop Carriageworks and Westmoreland House in Stokes Croft. Simon Lewis discusses the Carriage Works – derelict, 5th Capital, preferred developer, social housing. The Bristol Party also campaigning against luxury flats on the site. Rev. Stephen Sizer from Virginia Water Anglican church. Stephen Sizer, vicar who has been banned from discussing the Middle East, talks about heresy and hypocrisy of Christian Zionism and danger of Israeli Zionism. Netanyahu wins Israel elections. Osborne brings Britain into Chinese Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) the Chinese equivalent to IMF, much to the consternation of the US and IMF.
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Friday 13th March 2015

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: Proposed closure of Wick Road library – and other libraries with LibDem candidate for Brislington East Jos Clark. ‘We Care and Repair’ charity – increase in demand recently; people cannot afford to maintain the homes they own, LibDems recycling, Green Capital; Mayor Ferguson’s closure of Bristol libraries; local press – internet, Bristol Post, Ujima radio’s move from Seed Centre in St Pauls’ to ‘The Station’ in Bristol city centre which is run by ‘Creative Youth Network’ and set up by city elite Merchant Venturer and out of the stations ethnic minority heartland. Move is being presented as wonderful by Ujima directors but some volunteers are very unhappy the station’s moving out of the community it was created to serve; Mayor Ferguson – top down mayoral system is not democratic;  Metrobus – eviction of protesters from Stapleton allotments today – public transport, First Bus vs. Corporation Buses under municipal control; PMQs Ed Miliband – Cameron’s crooks in the heart of government: Lord Green and Andy Coulson bad choices for senior posts in government – Lord Green, Andy Coulson – taxpayers’ funding of political parties, hedge funds; PMQs Jacob Rees-Mogg MP raises issue of Magna Carta & the erosion of the right to trial by jury – Lady Diana & 7/7 London Bombing inquests; survey on the impact of elected Mayor on city; poorest areas have had the largest cuts to spending – what is tax for? Rates vs council tax, local Chewton Mendip based Lord Waldegrave and Victor Rothschild were behind the original 1980s poll tax proposals but although presented as a being stopped by protests poll tax really ended up little different from the Council tax we have today; people on benefits may be charged for appealing decisions – Universal Credit, sanctions, ATOS, bailing out the banks, coming crash;  Hillsborough commander David Duckenfield was in same Freemasons lodge as officer he replaced.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Mike Birkin from Friends of the Earth on fracking, Hinkley, Stonehenge and the Stapleton Metrobus eviction. Mike Birkin from South West Friends of the Earth: wisdom or otherwise of Bristol’s Metrobus, transport, trams;  fracking – oil prices low, affecting US fracking, bursting of the fracking bubble; Hinkley Nuclear Power Station – too expensive, not going ahead, New financial blow for Hinkley Point C project near Burnham-On-Sea: nuclear reactor manufacturers Areva may go bankrupt, but EDF play it down; A303 Stonehenge – Friday night and Sunday night rush hour for all the Londoners with second homes in the West country – big dual carriageway road tunnel planned underneath.  The supposed ‘Russian threat’:  Philip Hammond, Secretary of State for Defence, claiming this; Ukraine, Putin popular in Russia, demonisation of Russian president Vladimir Putin by West’s mainstream media, German economy dependant on Russian economy;  Putin’s State of Nation address – Crimea transferred to Ukraine in 1954;  EU commission chief, Jean-Claude Juncker, makes case for European army – Ukraine Maidan far right snipers, NATO false flags; Bilderberger MP and chair of the Defence Select Committee Rory Stewart on Russian threat;  former Director General of MI6 Sir John Sawyers on Russian threat – Russia feeling exposed and on defensive; war criminal Henry Kissinger – NATO and cold war strategy “inevitable”; Encouraging a new cold war with Russia… Defence Secretary Philip Hammond, Bilderberg’s Tory MP & chair of the Defence Select Committee Rory Stewart, MI6’s Sir John Sawers & criminal elite’s Henry Kissinger. Putin signs deal to create new BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) to take over from the IMF.  Interview with former USMC L-Col Alan Sabrosky on Press TV – Israeli military possibly part of 9/11 attacks:  building 7; secondary explosions at base of WTC towers; white vans – explosives and people cheering – arrested – Israelis; then released Israelis! Israeli company ran WTC security. Means, motive and opportunity… Israel did 9/11: Jewish former US Marine Corps officer & head of the US Army War College Alan Sabrosky
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Friday 6th March 2015

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 Conservative deputy mayor of Bristol and councillor for Westbury-On-Trym Geoff Gollop. Mayoral system and democracy; housing strategy, affordable housing, empty offices; health of local media – Bristol 24/7, Bristol Post; scrutiny by councillors; Becky Watts murder; UK household incomes near pre-banking crisis levels, think tank claims – QE, social security benefits, still long way to go; Bristol deputy Mayor, Geoff Gollop, opposes library closures – borrowing money, Arena, 6% people use libraries; £600bn bailout of banks, derivatives market bigger than 2008, Enron, the Smartest Guy In The Room (2005), economics, Gordon Brown; PMQs Ed Miliband – reluctance of Cameron to do TV debates – Linton Crosby; PMQs Seema Malhotra MP – tuition fees at Universities – Labour; shock 20-year life expectancy gap between rich and poor people – QE protects assets of the rich without filtering down into the real economy, Von Mises Institute free market, affordable housing; Douglas McWilliams – George Osborne’s advisor quits after video showing him off his head smoking crack cocaine in drugs den; Government row over ban on extremist speakers on university campuses Tories and Lib Dems argue over proposed free speech guidelines at centres of learning in wake of claims about former Westminster University student Mohammed Emwazi – if you offend me you’re banned? Freedom of speech for what you profoundly disagree with?
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Interview with professor Stephen Dorril from Huddersfield university, author of MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations, Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service. He discusses some of the ways MI6 work and mentions his forthcoming book on NATO ‘stay behind’ Gladio forces: clip of Mohammed Emwazi (Jihadi John) recorded in 2009 about MI5 coming to see him – explains how against 9/11 and 7/7 he was and annoyed MI5 were not very persuasive – more like bullying him – the police and secret services’ ‘prevent’ strategy totally failed – ex MI6 Director General Sir John Sawers gets 25 minute interview on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme last Saturday playing the role of the clergy or theologians in deciding whether Islam is compatible with 21st century capitalism – compared to cults changing peoples views, brainwashing; scrutiny of security services as Sir Malcolm Rifkind resigns the chair of Intelligence and Security Committee – secret service budget is going up; surveillance of people who go on to carry out terror attacks – Adebolajo, 7/7; IRA; clip from BBC Today Programme of Sir John Sawyers, former head of MI6; state terrorists – Gaddafi; SAS – Iraq killing on industrial scale from MI6, GCHQ information. Interview with Kevin Phillips, Chair of Avon and Somerset Police Federation: Prevent Strategy not working – preventing Muslim extremism;  police discipline; PMQs Diana Johnson –  16,000 job cuts to police preventing proper policing; Chief Constable Nick Gargan suspended with full pay – court hearing in April; custody suites; Crown Prosecution Service. Assassination of Russian neoliberal politician Boris Nemtsov in Moscow, Russia: with Ukrainian model girlfriend; was being followed the whole day; the assassin’s getaway car was from private security firm used by the Russian Finance ministry; happened just as world’s journalists were knocking off for the weekend and only skeleton staff left to analyse the killing while prepared campaign run in Western media pinning the blame on Putin? Putin actually has 85% popularity; was attack a NATO false flag;  Ukraine coup snipers;  Progress Party; evidence Yabloko Party took $2.5m from US Nemtsov progress party disagreed with Yabloko. Editor of Conspiracy Theory Research List (CTRL) and publisher at TrineDay Kris Milligan discusses Colonel Landsdale’s ‘lose scenario on Vietnam war which was all about drug-running. The history of Dutch, Scottish and US HSBC and opium smuggling in Vietnam war – also Afghanistan, CIA and drug smuggling.
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