Friday 5th Febuary 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 or http://stream.bcfmradio.com:7017/live.mp3

BCfm audio files usually available 2 hours after TX
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First hour: News review: with Independents For Bristol candidate Jane Whitehead. What is Independents for Bristol vision for Bristol?; are women better politicians?;  NHS care sector;  row over “missing” £8.3m of Green Capital money – former LibDem MP Stephen Williams discussing lack of transparency over money, Andrew Garrard: Merchant Venturer and the Chair of Bristol 2015, Christian Martin, and clip of Alexandro about funding for his hydrogen powered boats that helped get the Bristol Green Capital grant being cut;  Bristol region could have a Metro Mayor within the next few years – Northern Power House rubbish, referendum for not having a Mayor;  deaf campaign for new Bristol social club – after former one was shut;  Bristol street level drug dealers locked up in huge sweep – legalising drugs, HSBC and banking system propped up by drug money, Western intelligence services and drug smuggling;  PMQs John Mann on Cameron’s ‘EU deal’ – is that it? – banking system collapsing;  PMQs Corbyn – cut in ESA for cancer patients;  PMQs Stella Creasey – her trust spending £5m a week on PFI interest;  Mark Kerridge from Positive Money – survey showed only 10% of MPs know how banking works;  narcolepsy boy wins £120k swine flu vaccine damages.
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Second hour: investigative reports: exploding the myths around John Cabot with Dr Evan Jones from Bristol University’s Cabot Project. NATO Exercise of Russia attacking Baltic states on the BBC – Predictive Programming? Interview with Dr. Evan Jones, from The Cabot Research Project, Bristol University, discusses the history of John Cabot and others travelling across the Atlantic where they began the process of opening America up to European exploitation: Roman coins and sword found in Newfoundland; so who found America first? Historians claim they have found evidence Romans arrived in North America, more than a thousand years before Christopher Columbus set foot on the continent. The John Day Letter from Bristol informing Christopher Columbus of Cabot’s 1497 voyage. Italian merchants at Florence’s Bardi bank funded England’s discovery of North America. Various stories; enslavement and illnesses causing genocide to native Americans after Europeans turned up; Christopher Columbus; history of Merchant Venturers in Bristol; The Hanseatic League; Merchant Adventurers; ship building in Bristol; TTIP and modern global capitalism;  Alwyn Ruddock and documents she wanted to hold on to about John Cabot; Prester John and fake letter put out by Vatican – explorers gripped by these stories;  Amerigo Vespucci. Dr Evan Jones’ Cabot Project ….  World War III war game programme on BBC2 about Russians invading Baltic states – propaganda against Russia, NATO the aggressors; interview with Rona Fairhead chair of the oxymoronic ‘BBC Trust’, on BBC Andrew Marr show – she has no experience in media and journalism; clip of Anthony Sutton, author of ‘America’s Secret Establishment’, discussing The Skull and Bones Club – he considers it a conspiracy whose members are encouraged to believe ‘might is right’ to gain power.
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