Friday 28th August 2015

BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling

No show on Friday 21st August 2015 as I’m away at Hayling Island – World War Two commemoration of the life of SBU Cmdr. Harold Goulding DSO

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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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 Cllr Mike Wollacott Nottingham council used Childrens Home Inspector Joni Cameron-Blair to cover-up senior staff crime Suspended Avon & Somerset Chief Constable Nick Gargan is a victim of witch hunt, says Charlotte Leslie, MP for Bristol North and Ian Liddell-Grainger, Bridgwater MP;  HSBC and RBS technical glitch, so people can’t get their money – suspicious – bankrupt banks, possible crash last week bailed out by governments again;  clip of Steve Keen, author of ‘Debunking Economics’, discussing world economics including Greece, Germany and China;  city tycoon, Crispin Odey, makes £225m from the Chinese economic crisis;  stock up on canned food for stock market crash, warns former Gordon Brown adviser;  Ukraine crisis – creditors to ‘write off’ 20% debt – political – Greece not allowed debt relief; more than 4,000 sick people in Britain died within six weeks of being deemed ‘fit for work’ government finally and reluctantly admits; benefits shake-up aims to force a million disabled people into jobs – not saving money, political;  DWP admits deception, inventing quotes from fake ‘benefit claimants’ for sanctions leaflet; clip from BBC 5 Live – Joni Cameron Blair, a former children’s home inspector, reported many cases of child abuse to no effect; clip of Manchester Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy on Radio 4, talking to BBC’s Edward Stourton about how how he was encouraged by his superiors to lie in court and supposedly how policing has improved; car-hacking scandal – how a security loophole left thousands of vehicles vulnerable to thieves but VolksWagen tried to stop the public knowing about it;  Bristol becoming a more racist city; more divided; Queen about to become Britain’s longest serving Monarch ever, overtaking Victoria.
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Second hour: investigative reports: Kevin Cahill discusses various stories:  survivors question role of UK Home Office in child abuse inquiry – story by Leah McGrath Goodman in Newsweek;  BBC forced out team behind Savile expose, says ex-Newsnight journalist; former Tory MP Harvey Proctor – MI5, MI6 involved;  Northern Ireland – Bloody Sunday. With author of Who Owns Britain and journalist Kevin Cahill discussing his court cases against the NSA’s criminal PRISM programme stealing our private data Sketch Kevin wrote about his interactions with NSA;  PRISM and NSA paying computer companies for their information on people – e.g. Google, Apple, Microsoft.  US spends a 1/4 of $771bn a year military spending on private contractors such as Booz-Allen; ISIS and links to the Western intelligence services; Financial services industry shouldn’t be running the government Author of ‘Killing of the Host’ Michael Hudson talks to Amy Goodman on Democracy Now. Clip of Michael Hudson, author of ‘Killing the Host’, with Amy Goodman, about the Greek debt and the EU – upcoming Greek elections, economic warfare;  Bristol Water;  Ireland and economic crisis.  Event in Hayling Island as tribute to WWII hero, Cmdr Harold Wilkinson Goulding – who did secret activities in WWII:  interview with Captain of HMS Medusa harbour protection ship, Alan Watson, discussing COPP, SBS, and the start of ‘unconventional warfare’;  clip of brother of Jill Goulding, granddaughter of Harold, who arranged the event – unveiling the plaque; HMS Northney interview with RAM Seger, former SBS officer; COPP commandos got Martin Bormann out of Germany at the end of April 1945 according to book ‘Op-JB’, by John Ainsworth-Davis, pen-name Christopher Creighton, and he was taken to South America according to book ‘Martin Bormann: a Nazi in Exile’ by former CBS news correspondent Paul Manning. Major Desmond Morton’s secret April 1945 mission, Operation James Bond, to snatch Hitler’s treasurer Martin Bormann from Berlin described in Op JB. grandson Charlie Goulding talks about his grandfather’s war relics and we hear from Major ‘Ram’ Seeger head of the SBS veterans’ association too.
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Friday 14th August 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 – 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: Deputy leader of Conservative group and chair of ‘People Scrutiny’ Lesley Alexander. Mayor Ferguson making decisions and scrutiny by councillors; move from Council House to new Temple St building; Chief Constable, Nick Gargan, set for eight final warnings – hate campaign against him by ex-police officers group NARPO, former Chief Constable Colin Port and allegations against him; another referendum for Bristol Mayor possible – Gloucestershire committee system, pros and cons of having a Mayor; Bristol Green Party says welfare reforms will hit low income families who need housing benefit for high private rents – 2008 financial crisis and austerity, Labour didn’t overspend (look it up), reform to banking system; Jeremy Corbyn and Labour leadership – split Labour party?, PR; Iain Duncan Smith reforms – evictions, food banks, changed way child poverty measured; migration – is 500,000 a year ok? Illegal immigration, Calais ferry workers DFDS industrial dispute; benefit cuts – just 2 children covered now, time for sterilisation after two children? Churches don’t agree; 30,000 Muslims to pledge allegiance to anti-terrorism Caliphate – Cameron’s anti-extremism strategy – clip from speech- ‘grievance justification’, extremist groups armed and trained by intelligence services, Roland Dumas, Operation Cyclone, thought crime, oil pipe lines and regime change, Syria, Libya, further clip from Cameron speech – ‘glamorising ISIS terrorism’.
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Second hour: investigative reports: with Bill: Interview with Bill Woodhouse, former boater and acquaintance of Edward Heath – he discusses his meetings with him and stories he heard about his life: Heaths’ gay relationships and rumours scandals and cover-ups at Balliol College of blackmailing; at outbreak of WWII Heath goes on camping trip through Poland and into Nazi Germany with his alleged boyfriend and lifelong confidant banker Madron Seligman; Heath then joined an Anti-Aircraft regiment in Liverpool – were the Germans aware of convoy movements? In later life Heath was paid £212k annually by the Chinese government as ‘a Public Relations retainer’; Britain entered the EEC in 1974 under Heath’s premiership but Bill Woodhouse says he was worried ‘people are calling me a traitor’ – Double Olympic gold medallist Rodney Pattison was snubbed by Ted Heath but DID get his 1969 MBE contrary to what Bill says. Loss of sovereignty in the EEC and subsequent EU. Interview with David Powell from South West Friends of the Earth: the Chinese economy and devaluation of currency – currency wars;  low price of oil – a potential bubble, climate change, ISIS; fracking – local government planning decisions over-ridden by central government – contaminated ground water, leveraged market; Hinckley – expensive;  Tory scrapped loads of green policies;  website. China explosions – sabotage? investigation into downed MH17 Malaysian airliner in Ukraine – normal procedure not followed, satellite imagery;  more training by British Army of Ukraine troops;  Poland and NATO bases. Chris Bollyn discusses Israeli terrorism:  King David Hotel; Operation Black Sabbath and 9/11.
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Friday 7th August 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 – 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 Bristol mayor George Ferguson and Bristol musician mum Rita Lynch. How is Bristol budget spent; devolution; access to central government; housing; austerity – national debt and central government cuts; ‘If Mayors Ruled the World’ conference; cancellation of unpayable debt; Rita Lynch discusses reduction of The Bush respite care Centre for disabled children that her disabled son Jimmy attends – Mayor says he’s trying to spread the money further; ex-Avon and Somerset police chiefs say Nick Gargan must go – but who are they to talk? Don’t investigate thefts, assaults or hit-and-runs, police told; 69 year old Taunton mum died after being left in her own urine and faeces for eight days by private firm ‘Way Ahead Care’ – private profit from ‘caring’, do we value care enough; residents parking – pros and cons; referendum to decide whether we still want a mayor or not – Lord’s bill for a no-mayor referendum – is Bristol better off with a mayor? the £90m Bristol Arena – boost for local economy, parking; the £200M Metrobus plan – it apparently worked in Nantes; Local Enterprise Partnership – private company; allegations that secretive LEP is unaccountable and spend public money on their own businesses. Weston’s Winter Gardens sold to Weston College for £1 while Weston college get £15m grant of public money to refurbish it. Tories – Michael Howard fraud claims and Ted Heath child abuse accusations; new Tory government counter-extremist strategy.
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Second hour: Investigative reports – financial journalist Ian Fraser on this week’s guilty verdict for Libor trader – whistleblower Tom Hayes. Interview with Ian Fraser, author of FT ‘book of the decade’ ‘Shredded: Inside RBS – the Bank that Broke Britain’: trader (not banker) Tom Hayes is jailed for 14 years for Libor fixing, but what about his UBS bosses that encouraged him to do it by handing him their “Instruction Manual on Fixing Libor” entitled the “Guide to Publishing Libor Rates”? Who wrote and published that manual on how to rig Libor? Chief Executive of German Stock Exchange Carsten Kengeter was in on UBS Libor fixing meetings; Libor fixing? How does it affect us? What is theLibor rate? and how does fixing them effect us? Efinancecareers article by Sarah Butcher that names Tom Hayes’s colleagues also involved in Libor fixing, crossfit athlete Mirhat Alykulov, Tom Hayes’ former assistant from UBS in Tokyo is having a nice time now enjoying executive fight nights – shouldn’t they be jailed too? Goldman Sachs Offered Tom Hayes $3 Million Bonus to Quit UBS – Money laundering means fines that don’t even match the criminal profits made; UK has a glass ceiling for justice, banksters part of a criminal elite who make donations to Tory party who then appear to protect them from prosecution; Iceland has largely dealt with its crooked bankers by jailing them; RBS and some other banks not declaring profits and not paying any corporation tax; public sector banking? Tom Hayes’ father Nick Hayes letter in The Guardian: Tom Hayes sentence: my son’s integrity and self-respect are intact – Interview with Will Stone, from Avon & Bristol Law Centre – he discusses changes to legal aid: civil law, much employment law no longer eligible legal aid; discrimination getting worse; lawyers and solicitors complaining about cuts; new Criminals Court Charge; landlords and immigration checks. www.ablc.co.uk Clip of American journalist, Leah McGrath-Goodman, who was held at Heathrow and deported back to States – she was trying to look into child abuse accusations against Ted Heath. Leah McGrath Goodman, an American journalist expelled from Britain for investigating abuse allegations against Edward Heath, speaks to LBC. (link to this show’s January 2013 Michael Shrimpton  interview about Ted Heath allegedly abusing boys who were subsequently murdered)  Litvenenko trial – his book ‘Blowing Up Russia’. SAS in Syria dress as ISIS fighters in undercover war on Jihadis.
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