Friday 27th May 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
Any probs mp3s should be on alternative links below by then

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLEPQ9FYU0U&w=560&h=315]

First hour: News review with leader of Bristol City Council Tory group Mark Weston. PCC elections – Mark was Tory candidate, £5000 fee to take part, why count took so long in Bristol, postal votes; Brexit – pros and cons, Boris for Tory leader?, single market and EU, Cameron lobbying for less regulations of banks, EU and regulations, banking system insolvent, QE and Bank of England, exports going down; Homelessness duty ‘would cost councils £44m’. interview with Crisis’ Head of Policy and Campaigns Maeve McGoldrick about report showing how you can solve street homeless problem with £44m and save £47m – More rough sleepers in Bristol than anywhere else in England, outside of London – reform of legislation, strategic prevention, pilot in Wales working, increase supply of housing including social housing MPs have been urged to grasp an ‘historic opportunity’ to make the most significant change to the law on homelessness in nearly 40 years. National homelessness charity Crisis is urging the MPs selected by today’s Private Members’ Bill ballot to champion a change in the law that will ensure homeless people in England can no longer be turned away to sleep rough by their council. The proposed Bill, put forward by an expert panel of council members, lawyers and housing experts, would see a reformed law introduced requiring all councils in England to take action to prevent people from becoming homeless in the first place. Crisis’ Homeless Prevention Bill (2016); PMQs Angela Eagle and George Osborne – EU referendum and Tory split – balancing books and getting rid of national debt, derivatives debt bigger than national debts, tax havens and taxing rich; PMQs Port Talbot steel works – tariffs on Chinese steel dumping, drop in demand; PMQs – high proportion of children brought up in care end up in prison.
Radio4All download pages
BCfm audio file
Radio4All audio file

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm1vv7OVtto&w=420&h=315]

Second hour investigative reports – US special forces becoming more involved in Syria – seen to have a Kurdish insignia on uniforms:  working with Islamic groups, what are battle lines in Syria?, bomb on bus by ISIS. Front page of Saudi newspapers – US blew up twin towers themselves on 9/11 to create ‘war on terror – Russians and Iranians know this. Former German Technology Minister and Defence Secretary Andreas von Bülow in 2002 discussing US culpability in 9/11 and Project for the New American Century: ‘In Search of Enemies’ book by John Stockwell about US constantly needing new enemies;  different theories of 9/11 LIHOP (Let It Happen On Purpose) and MIHOP (Made It Happen On Purpose).  Andreas von Bülow explains how Bilderberg works in German press: way of seeing who disagrees with Pentagon’s plans so you can subsequently get rid of them – remove them from power by fair means of foul – Bilderberg will be discussing Brexit and EU. Mike Sparks website – www.CombatReform.com – discusses what ‘President Trump’ will mean for US sponsored wars in Ukraine and Syria and the Military Industrial Complex (MilIndCom) playing ‘whack-a-mole’ with the ISIS ‘hornets nest’ they created and making billions of ‘kerching’: Ghouta chemical attack; Sabrosky – Israel involved in 9/11 – 5 dancing Israelis. Obama first US President to visit Hiroshima since WW2 nuclear bombing. Micro-chipping children – totalitarian police state? Florida propaganda to get your children microchipped: Several anti-microchipping websites: Katherine Albrecht – www.chipmenot.org – www.chipmenot.org.uk – Chippenham/Bath-based director Ken Loach wins 2016 Palme D’Or for film ‘I, Daniel Blake’ about the British benefits system in Job Centres and vicious Tory benefit cuts. Us Professor Michael Perelman discusses the early days of capitalism – primitive accumulation: Marx; depriving people of their rights; Adam Smith. Ya’alon quits Israel defence minister post, warning of ‘extremist’ rise under Netanyahu.
Radio4All download pages
BCfm audio file
Radio4All audio file

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObPn_mVG5A0&w=560&h=315]

Friday 20th May 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
Any probs mp3s should be on alternative links below by then

First hour: News review: this week’s Queen’s Speech and state opening of parliament. Kevin Cahill, author and journalist, joins Tony and Martin for news review. Interview with Rick Carey who has been occupying an Avonmouth council house that has been ‘sold off’ at auction by the City Council: Connolly & Callaghan owned hostels for the homeless and problems with them, they also own Hamilton House where the famous Stokes Croft Canteen is based and many other small businesses; will Bristol’s new Labour mayor Marvin Rees help withdraw the sale? Homelessness; housing bubble. Housing everyone in Britain would cost £44m, not £400m! The Queens Speech: Dennis Skinner; “Hands off the BBC!” economy on the mend? Really? Bristol house prices up 25% in a year, no high-tech manufacturing;  tax evasion – anti corruption conference, pro-Nazi abdicated British King Edward VIII was a tax evasion pioneer when he was exiled as governor of the Bahamas, US stopped Gordon Brown clamping down on tax havens, Al Qaeda, internal tax havens; £2.45bn NHS debt – PFIs, austerity obsession; Tory prison ‘reform’ – no investment, a mess;  Bill of Rights – no right to privacy, Syria and Roland Dumas.  Tory election fraud – 11 police forces investigating.  Queen 229 on rich list? Palace call Rupert Murdoch and the Queen slides down from 1 to 229 on the Sunday Times Rich List hiding her Crown Estate wealth – private and ‘public’ assets; Queen owns dolphins and is immune to prosecution – the powers you didn’t know the monarchy had;  prison officers taken hostage in Suffolk – leaked report – criminal justice system in crisis due to cuts.
Radio4All download pages
BCfm audio file
Radio4All audio file

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfuy6M9AKi8&w=420&h=315]
Second hour: investigative reports: with Vince Howard from Avon & Somerset Police Federation: Interview with Vince Howard, new Chairman of Avon and Somerset Police Federation: cuts to police officers – 700 gone – 20% – officer burnout, picking up work from other cuts e.g. mental health; is anyone too big to jail? Crown Prosecution Service – reasonable chance of conviction; Theresa May, Home Secretary, and the Police Federation conference this week in Birmingham – member subscription, insurance and services, property portfolio; Hillsborough cover-up – police used power for a cover up, Police complaints at the IPCC and accountability, blame culture;  a shortage of firearm officers? – policing by consent, tasers, terrorism, losing neighbourhood cops, ‘Shoot Through’ policy;  guns and drugs available in prisons;  police independent from intelligence agencies;  decriminalising of drugs;  should we pay more for police or should they do less?  100 year anniversary of 1916 Sykes-Pico Agreement: end of the Ottoman Empire; Balfour declaration; significance of oil. Mark Lane, US lawyer and author, died at 89 this week – he was famous for being the first person to question the official story of the killing of JFK: CIA didn’t like the ‘assassination theories’ he and others had been coming up with so deliberately popularised the term ‘conspiracy theory’ to belittle those questioning the official account. Clip of James Files recorded in prison explaining how he shot JFK along with others as part of a Chicago Mafia hit team which included Charles Nicoletti, Johnny Roselli; interview with Mark Lane, author of ‘Last Word, My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK’ (2011) discussing the secret group within the CIA, the IA, responsible for planned assassinations of heads of states and also details of killing of JFK and why he was killed. JFK assassination investigator Mark Lane died this week.
Radio4All download pages
BCfm audio file
Radio4All audio file

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDaw35LPEvI&w=420&h=315]

Friday 13th May 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
Any probs mp3s should be on alternative links below by then

First hour: News review: Bristol West MP Thangham Debbonaire’s battle with breast cancer – how to prevent getting cancer;  domestic violence – rehabilitation;  schools and children fulfilling potential; benefit sanctions unlawful – Tory austerity agenda doesn’t work, prioritising rich over poor, homelessness, regulation of rent;  Marvin Rees as new Bristol Mayor – diversity and commitment to housing;  BBC coverage of elections – Labour gained 18 council seats and Tories lost 47 councillors – first past post electoral system, proportional representation, boundary changes, election expenses fraud; London Mayoral election – Tory election ‘guru’ Lynton Crosby failed but knighted! Anti Semitic accusations against Sadiq Khan fail in London; interview with Steve Norman who is squatting a council house in Avonmouth that has been sold at auction – sale due to be completed by Wednesday 18th May; empty council houses;  Metro Mayor – devolution? Bath councillors vote yes to the money, no to the imposed metro mayor; shortcomings of the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP); in or out of EU? Thangam says in for protection against Tories and to prevent run down of British industry Airbus successes; blacklisting of construction workers – compensation is not enough and it’s not justice; Tories wanting to change BBC – BBC chief Rona Fairhead and convictions the HSBC laundered money for terrorists and drug cartels while she was chairman of HSBC’s ‘risk committee’; Tories have withheld key documents from election fraud investigation, taken to court by the Electoral Commission.
Radio4All download pages
BCfm audio file
Radio4All audio file

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxnCrBiYY0g&w=560&h=315]

Second hour: investigative reports: Iraq: bomb attack in Baghdad; Chilcot Report in July – Blair impeached? Western model of democracy imposed on middle east – Mullahs; Muqtada al-Sadr in Baghdad – Sunni and Shia building communities. Syria: leader of Hezbollah killed by Israel. Libya: US has two permanent military bases. Yemen: drones; ISIS moving in; Saudi Arabia, Mossad, CIA behind ISIS; Gulf News website – canal to carry oil through Yemen. Is UN useful? Better than nothing! PMQs Jack Lopresti – Afghanistan foreign policy.  Army officers using drones for targeted killing – committing murder? – RAF/USAF Waddington in Lincolnshire is UK based used by British and Americans to assassinate people and innocent bystanders in any part of the world, US military aircraft fly in and out of Waddington with no markings on. 9/11:  Saudi Arabian government employees were support workers for 9/11 attackers – according to 28 pages redacted from report.  Michael Flynn, former head US Defence and Intelligence Agency (DIA), said was ‘wilful decision’ to create ISIS – Dempsey, Seymour Hersh. Britain funds ‘rebel fighter groups’ propaganda war in Syria  – soft war, psychological warfare, strategic communication.  Hilary Clinton’s e-mails hacked by Russia – malware on her computer; Sarin gas signed off to Syria.  Snooper’s Charter:  PMQs Gavin Newland – UK surveillance state; Edward Snowden – surveillance didn’t know about, outside law; clip of Duncan Campbell on Snooper’s Charter and IP bill, Investigatory Powers Bill; Investigative journalist Duncan Campbell on BT being a listening network from beginning. From Gold-dollar to Petro-dollar to Narco-dollar 09May2016 by F. William Engdahl – the dollar going off the gold standard but being kept as the reserve currency – Panama papers and US now place to hide money. Corruption Conference – a sideshow.  Dima Rousseff, Brazilian President – manoeuvre to get rid of left wing in South America. Bilderberg in Dresden, Germany this year:  top 6 German ministers going.
Radio4All download pages
BCfm audio file
Radio4All audio file

Friday 6th March 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
Any probs mp3s should be on alternative links below by then

First hour: News review: and discussion of the conduct of mayoral and local elections with Bristol’s LibDem leader Gary Hopkins. UK Elections:  count taking place, open to fraud?; interference with ballot boxes filmed in US; PCCs a good idea? Sadiq Khan has won London Mayor – Zac Goldsmith’s comments accusing Sadiq of supporting ISIS libellous. PMQs Corbyn and Cameron – is he friends with Hamas and Hezbollah? – Explanation of Hamas in Palestine and Hezbollah in Lebanon – British culpability in Middle East, you have to stick to promises in difficult situations. Joseph Rowntree Foundation report found 1.25m people in UK ‘unable to afford food, heat or toiletries’ – Tory austerity ideological agenda, banking fraud, Roberto Saviano’s book ‘Zero Zero Zero’ says today’s multinational corporations and banks model themselves on drug dealing narco-cartels, John McDonnell dream team of economists.  Suspension of Ken Livingstone – clip of PM of Israel, Netanyahu, saying Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews – Norman Finkelstein on the Haavara Agreement between Zionists and Nazis,  Jonathon Pollard a spy who sold Israelis US secrets.  Barnet Council boss, Andrew Travers, will not resign over election fiasco – outsourcing to Capita, Bristol postal votes to Gosport.  Tory election fraud from last election in Gloucestershire – police investigation, Michael Crick’s reports, Christina Cooper discusses safety and security of e-balloting.  History of sell off of Bristol Port for around £50m – but it could be worth £1.3 billion?
Radio4All download pages
BCfm audio file
Radio4All audio file

Second hour: investigative reports: announcement that Sue Mountstevens has been re-elected as Avon & Somerset police and crime commissioner – Seymour Hersh – Hillary Clinton approved sending Sarin gas to Syrian rebels for 2013 Ghouta chemical weapons attack – Sarin gas deal set up with Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar – The Red Lines and the Rat Lines by Seymour Hersh. BBC Question Time discusses EU referendum – audience member discusses TTIP, EU and Bilderberg – with a view to Brexit. Bilderberg 2016 in Dresden – home to the German far right, criminal gangster oligarchs. Dresden home to Germany’s Pegida chief Lutz Bachmann, and German far-right leader Frauke Petry Analysing failures of BBC documentary Conspiracy Files about downing of MH17 in Ukraine: who is Bellingcat? – https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Bellingcat Bellingcat, Eliot Higgins, about his fake video analysis; various points about what BBC Conspiracy Files MH17 documentary got wrong: witnesses seeing a fighter jet attack the airliner, satellite reports of US not released, Air Traffic Control tapes not released by Ukrainian govt, far right defence minister Andriy Parubiy mysteriously sacked immediately afterwards, Black Boxes held by the British, Dutch referendum against Ukraine EU ‘Understanding’, SU-25 didn’t need to reach high altitude to fire missile, Air Traffic Control ordered MH17 to turn on northern flightpath toward warzone, many planes had been shot down in the war so what was 777 airliner doing over Ukraine airspace? No normal procedure to investigation, no post-mortem allowed on pilot as part of deal to deliver his body back to Malaysia. Russian view: Balanced Viewpoint? BBC Snubs Moscow During Making of MH17 Documentary. Interview with John Hendy QC, a Trade Union barrister, about the Tory Trade Union Bill. Proposed changes to union ballots, making them less democratic and setting higher standards for union ballots than his own general election, latest on blacklisting court cases. Interview with Nahella Ashraf stand up to racism Manchester – she discusses the Prevent strategy and how it’s mainly aimed at Muslims, secret police spying on schoolchildren, targeting Muslims like Hitler targeted Jews, finance for the programme targeted at Muslim areas and how Muslims feel threatened.
Radio4All download pages
BCfm audio file
Radio4All audio file

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F3dRmaSpvo&w=560&h=315]