Friday 29th January 2016

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 Green Councillor Carla Denyer – Bristol City Council Service Director for Housing Nick Hooper to ‘confiscate unoccupied tents’ demands homeless sleep in doorways. Housing; social housing; Greens vision for the city; housing market; growth and GDP; economic crash; council tax to increase – rates, a regressive tax; Gary Neville to close ‘Hotel for the Homeless’ after spending £150,000 – property ladder; empty buildings to be used as housing for homeless – St. Mungos and their rough sleeping task force, increase in rough sleepers in city, Nick Hooper’s statement about evicting homeless in tents in parks; rising rents and low income (£1300 less a year), lead to soaring housing benefit bill of £25bn – productivity down, property bubble bursting; GE Healthcare – US healthcare giant makes fortune from NHS but pays hardly a penny in tax – nationalising pharmaceuticals; PMQs Corbyn – Google and their £300m tax deal with government – future deals may be private; plans for an Anti Margaret Thatcher Museum by Darren Cullen – antidote to the planned Thatcher Centre – things Thatcher did wrong – privatisation, deregulation of banks, creation of Al Queda; PMQs Margaret Ferrier – Osborne has missed his deficit reduction plan by a long shot – management of macro-economy; Iain Duncan Smith gives a blank cheque to Lawyers fighting bedroom tax cases – after two landmark cases won in court – right to buy of your social housing; PMQs Charlotte Leslie – prisons centres of radicalisation.
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Second hour: investigative reports: Breaking the Bullingdon Club Omertà: Secret Lives of the Men Who Run Britain: Vandalism, blood, and hookers. A Daily Beast investigation exposes the best-kept secrets of Britain’s most powerful men; the hidden archive; the club’s latest outbreak of destruction; new heavyweight members named and Prime Minister David Cameron’s hushed-up past. Bullingdon Club exposed by Nick Mutch – Nick Mutch, journalist, discusses the Bullingdon Club, who Cameron, Osborne and Boris were all part of:  just wealthy join club; ‘Omerta, Omerta’ – is the Mafia code of silence; list of influential people who have been members – almost all Tories and 75% went to Eton; encouraged to damage property – break the law – smash things up – so they have dirt on each other and will be afraid to tell tales lest their own deeds be revealed; Skull and Bones society at Yale University in the US; they are let off by the law and don’t suffer the consequences. Nick also writes at www.Byline.com – Ten years after the Bristol schools privatisation plan was hatched, BBC Points west reporter Martin Jones paints rosy picture of Bristol’s privatised secondary schools – Christine Townsend, former teacher and candidate for Mayor, discusses how the good news story of Bristol schools improving, is probably not as good as it seems:  Academy Schools; inequality in entrance for kids – some not taking enough ‘free school meal’ kids; clip of piece by Martin West on Points West, about how education has improved in Bristol in last 10 years; Reporter Martin West and BBC fail to mention creepy SW Schools Commissioner Sir David Carter was recently CEO of Academies’ ‘Cabot Learning Federation’ PFIs of new school buildings; The Bristolian allege Peter Price, Director of Cabot Learning Federation, condones detention of children in an empty room on their own with nothing to do all day for minor breaches of school rules. Draconian disciplinary systems in schools and permanent exclusion of badly behaved kids increasing; schools are being run like a business with children sitting on conveyor belts. Retired Russian General Leonid Ivashov says ‘there is no such thing as international terrorism’. General Ivashof, former Chief of Staff of Russian Armed Forces, says international terrorism does not exist – Al Qaeda funded by the West, Saudi Arabia No.1 supporter of Jihadis, Roland Dumas. Interview with Rose Crossland from Bristol CND Stop Trident, Stop The Bombing at Trinity Centre next Tuesday at 7pm about stopping Trident – is it possible to get rid of nuclear weapons? Privatisation of military. The Litvinenko murder: Scaramella – The Italian Connection… was it Mario Scaramello, part of Mafia and CIA agent, who really poisoned Litvinenko? Documentary about 1999 Moscow Ryazan bombings based on Alexander Litvinenko book ‘Blowing Up Russia’ banned by Vladimir Putin
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Friday 22nd January 2016

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 – BCfm audio files usually available 2 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 councillor Mark Wright. Britain exiting EU – mafia making money out of refugees, immigration, wages down, power accumulation;  Euro-federalists financed by US spy chiefs – in 1950s and 1960s – according to declassified documents – CIA, communism, Bilderberg, NATO, ‘Day of the Jackal’ film, Greece, economics;  Meeting of Full Council in Bristol – community centre sell off, Malcolm X Centre closure;  Dame Margaret Beckett report on why Labour lost May 2015 General Election – PR and popularity of Right, Green Party, rigged system, austerity;  Tory Party paid Lynton Crosby and Jim Messina nearly £3m for their 2015 General Election campaign – while Labour paid Axelrod £223,572 – mandatory state funding of Parties;  Tata Steel and 1000 job losses in Port Talbot, Wales – company losing £1m a week, Chinese steel;  PMQs Jonathon Edwards – Chinese Steel supported by State;  British people are proud of colonialism and the British Empire, poll finds – IMF and economic colonialism, British colonialism in Kenya in 1950s and 250,000 tortured to death;  PMQs Corbyn – scrapping of maintenance grants for poor people;  Government accused of’ ‘waging war’ on Parliament by forcing through key law changes without debate.
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Second hour: investigative reports: Did exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky kill Litvinenko and if so why? Davos millionaires consider what to do about massive ‘surplus’ global population. The conclusion of the Litvinenko murder trial – blaming Putin – but why would FSB use a traceable poison – Polonium 210:  ‘Blowing Up Russia’ book by Litvinenko – false flag operation set up by Berezovsky and possibly Putin and possibly backed by West – to prevent Communists getting back into power;  Polonium trail – Berezovsky’s office; Alleged ‘suicide’ of Boris Berezovsky in 2013 after he ran out of money; Berezovsky giving money to Duke of Kent; Litvinenko in pay of MI6; Yasser Arafat was killed by Polonium; Gadaffi – death of Yvonne Fletcher and ‘Murder in St. James’ Dispatches documentary – Lockerbie and ‘Maltese Double Cross’ documentary by Frankovich. #Davos2016: World faces wave of epic debt defaults, fears William White, chairman of OECD’s review committee and former chief economist of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) – wobbling stock markets – QE; five million jobs lost to AI/ Robots by 2020; difference between Davos and Bilderberg; Google and MI6 on steering committee of Bilderberg – Osborne, Goldman Sachs, increasing inequality.  PMQs Angus Robertson on Yemen – over 8000 dead and 25,000 casualties – 93% civilian. PMQs Nigel Dodds – Falklands should decide their own future – oil field. Do local firm Rolls Royce know more than they’re saying about ‘disappeared MH370 airliner? Landed in British Chagos Islands Diego Garcia? More MH370 evidence comes to light courtesy of Peter Myers.  DATA PACKETS sent to Rolls-Royce from MH370 engines, but it later suppresses this… (14) MH370 sent automated reports to Rolls-Royce – New Scientist & Wall St Journal, (15) Boeing & Rolls-Royce received data from MH370, but US Govt gagged them to stop intel leak to China, (16) MH370: data withheld out of reluctance to reveal military technology
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Friday 15th January 2016

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 – BCfm audio files usually available 2 hours after TX. Any probs mp3s should be on alternative links below by about 9 pm on TX date.

First hour: News review: with Labour councillor for Easton Afzal Shah. Human rights; custody visits – mental health; Stanford Prison Experiment; Avonmouth Docks sell off cheap at £10m by Mayor Ferguson to mates; Mayor Ferguson’s question time in Academy – how has he been, Mayoral system, Marvin Rees; Thangham Debonair to be Minister of Culture, Media and Sport – left wing Labour MPs, Jeremy Corbyn; genetically modified human embryos – eugenics, where draw the line?, designer babies;  PMQs Corbyn – sink estates to be rebuilt – ‘affordable housing’,  social mobility worse under Cameron, 2/3 of salary on rent, housing racket of boom and bust, Labour Party and housing policy, rich foreigners buying London property;  private water companies earn billions via rip-off charges – failure of Ofwat, Bristol Water told to cut prices 20% by Ofwat but didn’t, privatisation of utilities;  houses affected by flooding and in fracking areas cannot be insured – chemicals used in fracking in flood water, oil $30 per barrel, fracking bubble, Baltic Dry Index lowest ever, global slowdown, economic crash;  Christine Townsend discussing how schools could be forced to take local children;  cancer patients are becoming homeless – due to cuts in benefits.
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Second hour: investigative reports: Ian Puddick and Lawrence Hoo. Terrorist attacks in Ankara, Turkey and Jakarta, Indonesia:  false flag attacks? – both countries Western aligned militaries; ISIS a creation of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, and NATO intelligence services;  Rita Katz and ISIS films – she is based near NSA headquarters;  CIA faked Bin Laden videos – Al Qaeda set up by CIA;  history of Indonesia – military coup backed by Henry Kissinger against communists;  General Ivashof of Russian General Staff;  geo-political battles.  Iran and nuclear reactor:  PMQS Seema Kennedy – Iran nuclear deal; Phillip Hammond says 8000+ civilian deaths in Yemen are just an accident; John Kerry negotiating with Iran. Interview with victim of City of London Counter Terrorism Command police Ian Puddick, on Kroll, a private security firm, giving London counter terrorism command their orders:  City of London Police and Kroll setting him up – revolving doors between the two; CPS takes him to court, he wins; never mind private security what about private military Blackwater – will ‘help you fight a nuclear war’.  PMQs Sir Alan Duncan – the world economy may crash at $30 a barrel oil – RBS say its time to sell off all your shares, global downturn, crash. BALTIC DRY INDEX – Mayor candidate Christine Townsend discusses official (Colston girls & Merchant’s Academy) and unofficial (Cathedral School and City Academy) Merchant Venturer Schools. Laurence Hoo, Bristol poet, gives his view of the history of the slave trade in Bristol and the Merchant Venturers – the growth of Bristol was built on the suffering of African people.
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