Friday 8th 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

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

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.

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First hour: News review: with Green party leader Ani Stafford-Townsend. How is it going as leader of Greens? Council Tax;  floods;  lead shot – won’t be banned in Britain,  subsidised by EU; Bristol Malcolm X centre management to be evicted at the end of February – Bristol’s Merchant Venturer mayor taking on Malcolm X and St Paul’s Carnival, two important centres of Bristol’s Afro-Carribean community. Is the old slave trade racism and elitism resurfacing? Supposedly a council officer’s decision, not George Ferguson’s. Who believes that? Cuts in Bristol; PMQs Jeremy Corbyn – floods – building on flood plains, climate change, Paris COPP talks over climate change, smog in China, incentives for disasters, Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein;  clip of New Zealander and freelance journalist Nick Mutch discussing the Bullingdon Club;  Tatler Tory’s Freemason cronies – Mark Clarke goes to the same lodge as councillor who formerly worked for law firm chosen to conduct inquiry into bullying scandal – P2 in Italy, Ferdinando Imposimato; Tories accused of dodging media interviews – BBC, Tory press; Sky agrees to Corbyn’s idea of yearly political TV debate – but Tories aren’t interested – Tory sense of entitlement, Prince Charles can explode a nuclear bomb excluded from certain laws, democracy; PMQs – Ivor Efford – home ownership going down and down – hard to get mortgage; clip of Steve Norman from Avonmouth Community Action Group – Mayor Ferguson has sold off Avonmouth docks for £10m to Merchant Venturers Terence Mordaunt, David Ord and Ross Ancell when it is believed to be worth up to 100 times more.
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Second hour investigative reports: North Korea hydrogen bomb test – execution of Saudi sheikh Nima al nima – Tribute to Councillor Ron Stone – Hydrogen Bomb tested by North Korea:  story of the selling of lost nuclear bombs to various powers – major international arms dealers John Bredenkamp from Astra Holdings selling nuclear bomb to South Africa and Billy Rautenbach from Kilmersdown in Somerset. Erdogan cites ‘Hitler’s Germany’ as example of an effective form of government – hand of Mossad in Charlie Hebdo attack, Ergenekon Networks in Turkey, NATO, fallout from Arab Spring, execution of Sheikh Nimr el Nimr leader of Arab Spring uprising against ISIS-style Wahabis and Saudi Arabian ruling class, Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, contradictions of Western support in Middle East; Syria – what will happen? – Russia, Genie Oil Company in Golan Heights – Israelis. – Tribute to Ron Stone, Labour Councillor for 30 years, who died over the holidays – Fabian Breckels, Labour Councillor, and Grenville Johnson, chair of St George In Bloom and long time friend, discuss his life, loves and works: St. George in Bloom;  Neighbourhood Partnership; Meadow Vale Community Centre; Speedwell Pool; honorary Sikh; his photography; clip of Ron on Cameron’s claim that those who opposed bombing ISIS were terrorist sympathisers; Ron talking about housing policies for Bristol;  Ron on Freemasons in banks and the police involved in housing deals when standing as a parliamentary candidate in North Somerset.
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Dialect 6th January 2016:

1. Palestine – Worst racism/apartheid ever, with Peace Handlovski
2. Avonmouth – Corruption In Bristol Port Sell-Off? Steve Norman
3. Bullingdon Club – Nick Mutch on the return to Victorian Britain

• Alternative download http://www.bilderberg.org/2149-1-Dialect06Jan16.mp3

• Original download http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/84609
  

• Tony Gosling – Jan 7 1:44 AM – Avonmouth: Corruption In Bristol Port Sell-Off – Steve Norman
  Latest from the Israeli racist ‘ratchet-up’ in Palestine
• Summary: Peace Handovski plays football with the Easton Cowboys & Cowgirls sports and social club based at The Plough Public House – he’s just returned from Palestine and talks about witnessing some of the worst racist conditions Palestine has ever had to put up with. He is himself partly of Jewish ancestry so his take on the political and social situation there is particularly poignant.
• Steve Norman joins us tonight to talk all about about the sell-off of Avonmouth port to the Bristol Port Company and to Merchant Venturers by a Merchant Venturer mayor. He gives us a glimpse behind the fences as to what makes the port tick, and outside the terrible conditions in the village of Avonmouth he, and others, are doing their best to turn around.
• Nick Mutch is a New Zealander who studied at Christ Church Oxford and has been revealing deeper and deeper secrets of the undergraduates’ famous Bullingdon Club membership of which Conservative grandees Boris Johnson, Geoege Osborne and David Cameron were all members. He reveals they meet up periodically after they leave Oxford and some controversial colonial figures such as Cecil Rhodes were Bullingdon Club members too who appear to have been helping their rich friends into powerful positions – subverting democracy – for centuries.
• New download http://www.bilderberg.org/2149-1-Dialect06Jan16.mp3
  Old download – down at the moment http://www.radio4all.net/files/tony@cultureshop.org.uk/2149-1-Dialect06Jan16.mp3