Friday 31st July 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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Apologies – we’ve had problems with the BCfm website ‘listen again’ facility since before Christmas 2014. BCfm audio files usually available 12 hours after tx. Any probs mp3s should be on alternative links below by about 9 pm on tx date.

First hour: News review: with LibDem leader Gary Hopkins. Court case and payout from Boomeco company responsible for Avonmouth fly problem;  homeless man found dead in bin after sleeping there – Tory benefit policy wrong direction, PR, economy, austerity in Bristol;  the proposed Bristol Arena – traffic problem, cost, surveys and accuracy, co-operation with Councils that control areas of Greater Bristol; referendum for whether we want a Mayor or not; Bristol’s Tory leader, Mark Weston, calls for Avon and Somerset Chief Constable Nick Gargan to resign after sexual harassment misconduct hearings; nearly four-fold increase in homeless families in Bristol since Government’s welfare reforms – housing benefit cut; Centrica slashes jobs in UK with the excuse of falling gas and oil prices, and doubles its’ profits to £528m – buy £10k shares, never pay a gas or electricity bill again, Bristol Energy Company;  London property prices are being inflated by foreign criminals laundering money, warns The National crime Agency – deregulation of Banks;  HSBC bank closing accounts of Muslims as reported by Peter Oborne; HSBC, Muslims and Me; Sara Thornton, head of new National police Chiefs’ Council, said police may no longer attend burglaries;  Who is an extremist? Who decides who is an extremist? Extremists? Bristol’s ‘Prevent’ strategy kicked back to the government for itself being too racist, Muslims, western intelligence services arming and training groups, Yemen, is Cameron an extremist? Operation Stack chaos caused not by migrants but by Calais ferry strike – dispute between MyFerryLink and DFDS.
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Second hour: with former SAS soldier and Colonel in South Africa John Banks. Interview with John Banks, retired South African DSO Colonel who started in the British Army: whistleblower working with and US Colonel Oliver North in Honduras in drug running cartels run by the CIA – Oliver North, South Africa, war on terror and war on drugs a sham; ISIS Leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi Trained by Israeli Mossad, NSA Documents Reveal. supporting ISIS to destabilise Syria to overthrow Assad;  contractors earning lots of money from war; BAE scandals;  easy to close down money supplies to ISIS to stop them;  68 suicides of bankers in 9 months – knew too much;  Ukraine Maidan Square coup – NATO breaking promise pushing at Russian borders, MH17;  army morale, cuts and trusting politicians;  Saudis and bribes overseen by Tony Blair;  Imposimato and Gladio. Blackwater, Halliburton,Kellogg Brown and Root, Aegis, Ecolog: The War Profiteers. Interviews with John Potash, author of ‘Drugs as Weapons Against Us’:  drugs, black economy and CIA;  criminalising people;  Brian Jones, from Rolling Stones, dying in suspicious circumstances in pool;  drugs being pushed on left wingers and musicians by CIA to destabilise;  CIA and drug trafficking – Nazis and Operation Sunshine, South American Nazis Klaus Barbie & Josef Mengele, competition to CIA drug cartels squashed. Meirion Jones, from Panorama, says ‘Everyone on the right side of Savile argument has been forced out of the BBC‘.  Possible part from downed Malaysian MH370 aeroplane found – and sent to France for analysis:  normal procedure not followed; Malaysia wanting to indict Bush and Blair for war crimes and also question official story of 9/11.  UN inquiry into downed Malaysian flight MH17 – Russia veto it as not normal procedure.  Clip of Patrick Chalmers, author of ‘Fraudcast News’ and ex-Reuters reporter – he discusses Orwellian ‘group think’ in journalism.
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Friday 24th July 2015

Sorry, no 17 July show, due to BCfm harbour festival

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://www.bcfmradio.com/player

First apology – there have been problems with the BCfm website ‘listen again’ facility since before Christmas 2014. Any probs mp3s should be on alternative links below by about 9 pm on tx date

Second apology – Radio 4 all site down Fri so please follow alternative links below

First hour: News review: with shortlisted candidate for Labour mayor of Bristol Marvin Rees: Marvin is standing as a Mayoral candidate for Labour – he discusses the policies he would like to pursue as Mayor including tackling child poverty and more affordable housing; powerful groups outside of political system in Bristol including Merchant Venturers; UK government’s Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission 2014 ‘Elitist Britain’ report – download PDF – diversity of thought important, equality and diversity, German workers on boards of companies; voter registration – churches and ‘Operation Black Vote’ campaign; inclusive economic development – ‘The Spirit Level’ book; clip from Cameron’s fighting Islamic extremism speech – conspiracies and extremism – GLADIO and NATO, Ferdinando Imposimato, Northern Ireland, Mossad and white van at scene of 9/11, western intelligence agencies training ISIS; ‘Prevent’ programme or ‘Building the Bridge’ – community cohesion, economic inclusion; 380 deaths in custody in past 10 years – Theresa May orders probe into this – a high number of people from ethnic minorities, mental health, cuts to legal aid and benefits, police never get sent to prison; ‘Tory anti-strike laws are like Nazi Germany’, says Mike Whelan from ASLEF Union – Nazis banned Unions in 1933, trade unions good for economy; Labour votes for Tory welfare bill; government to sell off public land and other assets – property bubble bound to burst.
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Second hour: Bohemian Grove 2015 and Drugs as weapons against us. Interview with Sociology Professor Peter Phillips from Sonoma County University, California, USA – founder of Project Censored & author of dissertation: A Relative Advantage: Sociology of the San Francisco Bohemian Club (1994) – he discusses Bohemian Grove where rich and influential men, including politicians, meet once a year to have fun and network – Historical Development of Men’s Clubs In the United States and The San Francisco Bohemian Club (pdf) – The Cremation of Care Ceremony – where they dress in white robes and worship a huge concrete owl; list of politicians who secretly attend should be public information; policy conversations; earth-shattering initiatives such as The Manhattan Project which developed the first atomic weapons spawned at Bohemian Grove; Peter Phillips’ 2015 article: Global One Percent Celebrate at the Bohemian Grove. Oligarchy; media and stories that aren’t coming out; health and equality; global warming. More clips from Cameron’s fighting Islamic extremism speech: western intelligence agencies recruiting terrorists to fight in Syria; cut off funds from Saudi Arabia to stop ISIS; CIA’s Abdelhakim Belhadj now working for ISIS; bomb attack on Kurdish PKK independence rally in Turkey; Turkish planes bombing ISIS in Syria today for the first time; Operation Cyclone; IRA. This week’s Australian Channel 9’s ’60 Minutes’ documentary ‘Spies, Lords and Predators’ about British elite child abuse scandal – clip of abuse survivor from film, MI6 chief involved, murder of 15 year old Martin Allen, no proper investigation and no prosecutions. Conservative MP for Totnes Zac Goldsmith. VIPaedophile murder? 15-year-old son, Martin Allen, of the chauffer for the Australian High Commissioner vanished in London in 1979 and was last seen boarding a Tube train at Kings Cross station. Interview with John Potash, author of ‘Drugs as Weapons Against Us’, discusses MK Ultra and Co Intel Pro, intelligence projects designed to destabilise and minimise the influence of famous 60s musicians, including Jimmy Hendrix, whose co-manager, Mike Jeffery, worked for MI6, and John Lennon. Clip of US documentary film-maker Allan Frankovich discussing what the CIA is. Clip of Victor Marchetti and Philip Agee, former senior CIA officers, discussing the role of the CIA and how the US intelligence agency covers its bloody tracks – assassinations, covert ops, regime change and black ops ordered by White House with CIA deniability for cover, ‘CIA is like a rotary club version of the Gestapo’. Gangsters in powerful positions across the Western world.
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Friday 10th July 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

Listen live http://www.bcfmradio.com/player

Apologies – there have been problems with the BCfm website ‘listen again’ facility since before Christmas 2014. Any probs mp3s should be on alternative links below by about 9 pm on tx date

First hour: News review: with LibDem Councillor for Cotham Anthony Negus. How has the transition to Mayor gone? – scrutiny committees, unaccountable Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP); Metrobus and Arena; Libraries under threat; Bristol Energy Company. Osborne’s Budget: housing – clip of Abigail Davies from Tenant Participation Advisory Service (TPAS) discussing government’s plans for social housing, reducing security of tenure, private rented versus social housing, First Past Post versus PR voting system; Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) picks budget apart for the BBC says 13 million of Britain’s poorer families to be worse off after this week’s budget – taking more from the poor than the rich: regressive taxation, working tax credits, Tory lies on balancing deficit, the economy and banking system are bust. Will Greece do a deal with the Eurogroup, IMF and ECB? – Chinese stock market down, restructuring of debt, more independence with own currency. Christine Townsend discusses Bristol’s Academy schools and unlawful admission arrangements – Cathedral School, fragmentation of school system, council should prioritise ‘free school meal’ & poorer children. PMQs Teresa Pearce MP – 1m elderly not washed, dressed or fed properly; Ofwat says Bristol Water must cut it’s bills – Scottish Water nationalised; Nick Gargan, Chief Constable, has got his job back after sexual harassment case – Police and Crime Commissioner Sue Mountstevens.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Britain sleepwalking toward a police state with Basil Valentine from 21st. Century Wire. Interview with Basil Valentine, from 21st Century Wire – he discusses a creeping police state and cuts to civil liberties: Inquiries Act 2005; Civil Contingencies Act 2004; Tory government suggesting extremism or dissent could be criminalised; total surveillance; abolishing Human Rights Act 1998 would mean lowering protection for sexually abused children; western intelligence agencies behind terror attacks; cuts to Police but not intelligence services; new para-military SAS rapid reaction forces; TTIP in secret European court; cuts to legal aid;  social engineering;  the press – battle for people’s minds;  PMQs with Harriet Harman – the Human Rights Act 1998 is being watered down; the permanent government; BBC – government carving up BBC budget to cut corporation 20%; interview, by C4 News, with Rona Fairhead – head of BBC and Risk Director at HSBC; she hasn’t made a fuss about BBC budget cuts so is she being blackmailed or just dim? Free country? Access to law and freedom of expression. Basil Valentine can be seen and heard at www.21stCenturyWire.com Interview with Kevin Cahill, author of ‘Who Owns the World’  and journalist at Exaro News: Hillsborough; Met Chief Constable Bernard Hogan-Howe prosecuting journalists and gagging the press at public expense; establishment in crisis; PRISM and the USA spying on us being a criminal offence – Kevin is taking several corporations that are part of PRISM to court e.g. Microsoft, Google, Facebook; The companies, revealed by NSA’s whistleblower Edward Snowden to be using Prism to steal data are Apple, Microsoft (including Hotmail) Google, Facebook, Yahoo, YouTube, PalTalk, AOL and Skype. The CIA, NSA, GCHQ. Iran nuclear deal nearing a conclusion but US and Israel trying to scupper it. Remote Gordonstoun School in the Scottish Highlands – where various male royals have been sent – papers to do with allegations of child sex abuse have disappeared and teacher Derek Jones who was sexually abusing pupils has died in a car accident. The West is losing twitter battle so the British Army should use social media to spread lies. Hacks and spooks – 50% of media are working for NATO intelligence agencies.
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