Friday 27th November 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 and Deputy Mayor Geoff Gollop. Mayor’s role; empty office buildings and high rents. Spending Review and Autumn Statement: £27bn to spend, but only a forecast; clip Osborne speech; achieving a surplus but spending going up; Bristol Council accounts; redistribution of wealth; clip Osborne on housing crisis solutions – prisons; what is affordable housing?; social housing, housing associations; government subsidising housing for ages; Bristol park bi-laws – homeless in tents out of parks; response to Osborne by John McDonnell, Shadow Chancellor – Tories killing off green energy initiatives, selling off all of Britain’s assets, Osborne’s Maoist policy – Nuclear Power Stations owned by Chinese Communist state; rebellion against Corbyn. The Bristol Carnival – interview with Cleo Lake, Carnival Director – future of Carnival, Merchant Venturers; Benjamin Abrahimi – videos released of him in police custody – told to shut up – racism?; Mayor Ferguson scraps regeneration of Bristol North Baths; young people and poverty – 60% under 25s said not going to vote in last election.
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Second hour: investigative reports: NATO country Turkey downs Russian SU-24 supersonic bomber. First NATO vs Russia act of war since 1990s and the Cold War. Interview with John Banks – former paratrooper, special operations and counter-intelligence colonel in South Africa: Russian SU24 shot down by Turkey – first time since cold war; oil trafficking – Turkmen militants working with Turkish government; Paris terror attacks – 5 targets hit but supposedly there were only 7 attackers – media anomalies – top of ISIS product of USA, Saudi Arabia and Israel; should we attack Syria?; will Bosphorus be shut down to Russians – cutting off Black Sea ports; Russian bombing of oil convoys; Bilal Erdogan, son of Turkish President, profiteering from oil taken out of Syria – MIT facilitating ISIS; PKK and the Kurds; who’s fighting who? Complicated; Paris -signs of a false flag attack; Assads’ brothers helped CIA take weapons into Iraq; Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein and dictators; Golan Heights occupied territory by Israel – oil and gas deposits being illegally exploited, pipeline through Syria; clip John Pilger on Russia Today’s ‘Going Underground’ this week, RT – Roland Dumas’s statement that UK initiated the uprising in Syria; media propaganda; what are the solutions? State of Emergency in Crimea – Pylons bombed. Interview with Bruce Gagnon from Space for Peace www.space4peace.org and Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, about how US is trying to dominate space: missile defence shield; satellites able to control and keep an eye on things; anti-satellite weapons; cyber warfare; Yugoslavia – US shut down air defence systems by cyberwarfare; Cuban Missile Crisis; George Freedman from Stratfor – taking down Moscow and Beijing – fight for resources – natural gas; balkanising of Russia; NATO breaking promises to Russia. Drone pilots whistleblowers – their money frozen.
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Friday 20th November 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 – sporadic problems with the BCfm website ‘listen again’ facility with some shows failing to appear 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 Green councillor Anna McMullen. Global capitalism and globalisation bringing British pay and conditions down to the lowest common denominator; Labour Behind the Label; why vote for Green Party?; Mayoral system; squatting; 2008 crash/bailout – Keynsian economics, bank reform, tax reform, investing in infrastructure; no funding for Bristol Carnival – clip of Jules Davis, former Creative Director of St Paul’s Carnival – if we paid £1.50 each could go ahead;  IDSs’ tougher fit-to-work tests coincide with 590 additional suicides, according to researchers – money saved trivial;  PMQs: Tulip Siddiq MP – junior doctors strike; NHS deficit up to £1.5bn – Tory privatisation agenda;  Vince Cable warns of ‘severe economic storms’ on the way – Martin’s economic crash perhaps; smart meters to double the cost of power at peak times – hacking into smart meters, Bristol Energy Company, nationalising energy; alternative media and mainstream media, Anna happy with Bristol Post etc. but Martin not.
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Second hour: investigative reports: with Chair of Avon & Somerset police federation Kevin Phillips – Interview with Kevin Phillips, Chair of Avon and Somerset Police Federation: 20-30% budget cuts to the police coming ion next week’s Chancellor’s autumn statement – PMQs Gordon Marsden; Iceland jailed 26 bankers, why can’t we?; the sacking of former Avon and Somerset Police Chief, Nick Gargan – supporters of Colin Port threatening BBC journalists; economic crime cases drop by one quarter in last 4 years; former Scotland Yard detective Rowan Bosworth-Davies – banks are an organised crime syndicate; Shoot to Kill policy, was it right with police murder victims Jean Charles De Menezes or Mark Duggan? ‘Mistakes’ made. Culture of police ‘impunity’. Last Friday’s Paris terror attacks: Cameron’s annual Mansion House speech announcing massive increases to GCHQ MI5 and SAS budgets to ‘combat terrorism’, his statement to the House of Commons; ISIS backed by Turkish intelligence service MIT backed by NATO, Saudi Arabia and possibly Western intelligence agencies; was this a false flag event carried out by NATO sponsored soldiers? Does Cameron need a UN resolution to attack ISIS in Syria? PMQs Angus Robertson – diplomatic unions formed after talks in Vienna at weekend; anomalies in the story; white blonde haired killer spotted at the Bataclan Concert Hall and another white man with an M-16 assault rifle at La Belle Equipe witnesses say two of shooters were clean shaven white people; exercises, fake passport ‘planted’ near suicide bombing scene, other terror attacks not covered as much by media – do white European or Black Arab/Asian matter more? Weapons being taken from Libya into Syria; NATO false flag track record; Former US Army Psychological Warfare officer Scott Bennett – military forensics: doesn’t seem like terrorists used AK47s, Scott talks to French Intelligence in March 2015 explaining how ISIS is being funded through Gulf States and Swiss UBS bank. and Geopolitics and the timing of this attack – what effect does it have on European policy – bring it closer to US policy in Syria; Wikipedia article and Twitter describing attacks allegedly went up online from a UK IP address before attacks started. Thorough discussion about last Friday evening’s Paris terrorist attacks where 130 died with help from former US Army Psychological Warfare officer and ISIS funding expert Scott Bennett
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Friday 13th November 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 – sporadic problems with the BCfm website ‘listen again’ facility with some shows failing to appear 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 Green party candidate for Bristol Mayor Tony Dyer – Economic crash, shares, Green Party economics, dirivatives, banking system;  what would Tony do as Mayor? He is Green Party candidate;  Metrobus;  austerity bad economics – welfare bill gone up, bedroom tax; Bristol Arena – public transport;  Bristol Carnival has not been given funding again;  shake up of Bristol wards – electoral register not accurate, poor excluded, gerrymandering, postal vote fraud;  Theresa May on BBC Today Programme discussing Extremism Orders – how define extremism?, Prevent Strategy, secret services and islamist terrorism;  clip of interview with Maz Saleem, daughter of Muslim man who was murdered by neo-Nazi Pavlo Lapshin, who arrived in UK five days earlier – police wouldn’t take CCTV footage from locals;  care home sector in meltdown  2013 murder of Mohammed Saleem in Birmingham by Ukrainian neo-Nazi Pavlo Lapshyn discussed by his daughter Maz Saleem who is worried that West Midlands police initially investigated the Asian community, even her own family as being behind the murder and refused to treat it as a racist or terrorist crime. Also failing to admit that more than one person was involved in her father’s killing and dismissing the presence of a large black SUV from which the murder seemed to be being organised.
Timeline: Mohammed Saleem 2013 murder and mosque attacks
24 April – Pavlo Lapshyn moves to Birmingham from Ukraine, after securing a work placement at software firm Delcam PLC.
29 April – Mohammed Saleem, 82, is killed by Lapshyn as he makes his way home from Birmingham’s Green Lane Mosque after evening prayers.
30 April – Mr Saleem’s daughter, Shazia Khan, tells ITV News the attack on her father was ‘shocking, disgusting and deplorable’.
1 May – Police appeal for community’s help in finding Mr Saleem’s killer.
10 May – Crimestoppers offers a £10,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of Mr Saleem’s killer.
21 June – A device placed inside a children’s lunchbox explodes at a mosque in Walsall. 150 homes are evacuated following the blast but nobody is hurt.
27 June – A man from Walsall is arrested in connection with the explosion but is later released without charge.
28 June – Explosion near a Wolverhampton mosque. Police discover traces of an explosion and debris on 18 July, the day of Lapshyn’s arrest. He confesses to planting the device, leading officers to the scene.
12 July – Most powerful device explodes outside a mosque in Tipton. The nail bomb explodes at 1pm, an hour before Ramadan worshippers begin prayers at the mosque. Police say the bomber getting the wrong time probably saved lives.
18 July – Two men, aged 25 and 22, arrested in connection with the mosque attacks across the West Midlands. A search of Lapshyn’s flat reveals bomb-making equipment along with incriminating literature and data on his computer.
20 July – Lapshyn, already in custody, is arrested for the murder of Mr Saleem after police uncover incriminating evidence on the computer seized from his flat.
22 July – 22-year-old man arrested in connection with the mosque attacks is released without charge. Lapshyn, 25, is charged with the ‘terrorist-related’ murder of Mohammed Saleem. Police also confirm a link between Mr Saleem’s murder and explosions at mosques across the West Midlands.
23 July – Pavlo appears in court charged with ‘terrorist-related’ murder of Mr Saleem and bomb blasts targetting mosques in the Midlands.
21 October – Pavlo Lapshyn admits murdering Mr Saleem, causing an explosion near a Tipton mosque and engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts between April 24 and July 18 this year. This included planting bombs near mosques in Walsall and Wolverhampton, researching locations to plant bombs and buying chemicals on the internet to make explosives.
Four Seasons Health Care, like Southern Cross care homes, to slash budget to fend off attack by US vulture fund – not enough government funding;  inquiry into police spying on Labour MPs – Corbyn included – Green Party also spied on – GCHQ, how free is our society now?
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Second hour: investigative reports: new Master of Bristol’s former slave trading Merchant Venturers, Tim Ross, installed at banquet after annual Charter Day service in Bristol Cathedral. Corporate City of London lawyer Tim Ross’ connection with Bristol City Council doomed waste contractor and blacklisting explained by ‘The Bristolian’ scandal sheet. Christine Townsend discusses The Merchant Venturers and local schools:  Colston Girls School Commemoration Day at Bristol Cathedral; Radical History Group; slavery;  fairness in allocating places at schools;  Merchant Venturers Charter Day at  Bristol Cathedral – Tim Ross new Master – jobs he’s had including Corporate Lawyer in City of London, part of Dolphin Society and Quartet Foundation – not enough transparency.  British paratroopers will lose their anonymity if they are charged with murder of civil rights campaigners on Bloody Sunday – planned by secret services, Lord Peter Carrington was Defence Secretary in charge of the Parachute Regiment during Bloody Sunday massacre of Irish Nationalists in 1972 but in September 1944 during WW2 Operation Market Garden he took a 17 hour break rather than driving his tanks to reinforce the Paratroopers down a clear road to Arnhem. Sir John Scarlett, former head of MI6, cashing in – on many boards including Morgan Stanley and Times Newspapers – VIP criminals – other spy chiefs who have cashed in too – Qatar – regime change hypocrisy. Death of Princess Diana:  Annie Machon, former MI5 officer, discusses how Al Fayed was possibly set up with a ‘straw man operation’ and Diana was assassinated; John Morgan, author of ‘The Paris London Connection’, discusses how the British royal family behaves like a cult.  Israel/Palestine: organs of dead Palestinians being taken; Israel strong hold over US.  Lufthansa longest ever strike but hardly mentioned in London press.  Russian doping crisis – geo-political warfare.Twenty years to the day since BBC Panorama’s interview with Princess Diana about her relationship with Prince Charles. What does former MI5 officer Annie Machon make of her death, was it murder? Australian author John Morgan explains why hew believes the British Royal Family has all the hallmarks of a cult.
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Friday 6th November 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 – sporadic problems with the BCfm website ‘listen again’ facility – with some shows failing to appear 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 Anthony Negus. Merchant Venturers Charter Day 2015 next Tuesday 10th November at Bristol Cathedral and Merchants Hall in Clifton, but what will be in Bishop Mike’s sermon? Bristol has 8000 homes with permission waiting to be built but thousands of already completed homes are not selling. One of the biggest housing bubbles in history about to burst? Referendum for Mayoral system or not? – democracy? Bristol Post consistently pro Mayor Ferguson who’s one of the city business elite, Merchant Venturers; Anthony Chair of Scrutiny – what it involves – leaves not being swept up from roads, park byelaws due to evict homeless in tents; October’s Housing Inquiry Day which Anthony co-chaired – delivery of affordable housing – social housing not happening, austerity agenda, ;clever debt; for building social housing; Britain heading for another 2008 style crisis but this time no bailout, it’ll all crash – article by Graeber – bank bail outs good or not?, growth GDP, economics, housing; 100,000 children homeless this Christmas says Shelter – emergency accommodation, social housing; PMQs Corbyn – veterans not enough money because of tax credit cuts – cuts to 3 million lowest paid in country, living wage not enough, universal credit, universal income; PMQs Ron Marsden – police cuts; Nick Gargan ex Avon and Somerset Police Chief Constable – stitch up – remains unchallenged; PMQs John Nicholson – plans to privatise Channel 4 – Murdoch.
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Second hour: investigative reports: Russian airliner down in Sinai, Home Secretary Theresa May sowing seeds of Gestapo-like police state in Britain, Latest from Kevin Boylan on the ‘German Commandos’ (see links below). The downing of the Russian A321 airliner in the Sinai desert: possibly a bomb in the baggage hold; if ISIS did it blame the West who is behind ISIS; Rita Katz from SITE releasing ISIS beheading videos and CIA; Al Qaeda; PMQs Newport MP Paul Flynn – Armistice Day, or Remembrance Sunday, should not commemorate unjust wars – Syria may be another one; Mossad, CIA, MI6 connected to ISIS; rumours workers in Sharm-el-Sheikh airport took £20 bribes to skip bag checks; Gouta chemical weapons attack involved MIT and NATO.  Theresa May’s speech about the Snooper’s Charter: necessary and law changed to make legal; Snowden, Liberty against it; Imposimato; out of control security services; all powers will be available for bulk data collection; MI5 admits bugging everyone in last 10 years anyway; The Database = Al Qaeda according to former foreign secretary Robin Cook who died in mysterious circumstances; Nazis used IBM computers and Hollerith punch cards to catalogue population ready for persecution; are the police keeping eye on security services, Martin hopes so; MI5 sprung him from Kenya jail then brought crazed killer back to UK to commit 2014 Lee Rigby murder in Woolwich – suspects called clean skins but weren’t. Kevin Boylan discusses reports he’s compiled of masked balaclava’s and armed ‘German Commandos’ attacking refugees in boats crossing the Mediterranean to Greece – possibly EU border security Frontex, or special forces, also known as ‘Rabbits’, an armed wing of Frontex. Portugal voted in a new socialist government but the President and international finance won’t allow it – private sector debts of banks, Bilderberg in control of Portuguese government.  Likely venue and date for next Bilderberg meeting 2016 – 19 to 22 May at Westfield Marriott in Chantilly, Virginia – Bilderberg are the terrorists, elite above the law. Ex-deputy Director General of MI6, George Kennedy-Young, is at centre of Whitehall VIP paedophile ring according to Geoffery Dickens Dossier which ‘disappeared’ John Mann MP has an original copy of it – political blackmailing. Richard Cottrell, ex MEP on how ‘modern journalism is dead’.
Kevin Boylan’s military attacks on refugees the Frontex ‘German Commandos’ story this week:
RT article on attacks that took place on October 6-7 – leading to Eva Cosse’s Human Rights Watch (HRW) report on the commandos – live footage of a commando attack in broad daylight captured by a CBS film crew that happened to be on hand as it occurred – Then a detailed account of commando activity in the Huffington Post from August that supports Kevin’s hypothesis of it being a) officially sanctioned at the highest level of European government, and b) conducted by mercenaries – Refugees claim rogue Greek coastguard are ROBBING them at gunpoint and puncturing their dinghies in the Mediterranean – then a report today by German NGO ‘Pro Asyl’ that Greek special forces are pushing back Syrian refugees – Migrants trying to sail from Turkey to Greece are increasingly reporting being attacked by gunmen trying to prevent them from reaching Europe, according to multiple sources – Finally unreported news about a mutiny by radicalised Greek soldiers from 38 army units who are refusing to collaborate with any more repression of the refugees
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