Friday 12th August 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

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First hour: News review: Owen Smith history; Bristol West support Corbyn – bullying? Labour Party splitting, election boundary changes, changing electoral system; Corbyn comes to Bristol – speech by UNITE Steve Preddy about banker crimes – 1.42m members of UNITE, Unions roughly ten times higher membership than political parties and more democratic, GMB Union support Owen Smith; UKIP Lisa Duffy wants rules on wearing full face veil – French ‘burkini’ party cancelled after organisers receive death threats, ‘burkinis’ banned on Cannes beaches by French mayor; Corbyn in Bristol – clip from his speech about history of privatisation and wealth inequality – 3 day week, Thatcher; clip from Corbyn speech about housing crisis; Owen Smith won’t serve in a Corbyn cabinet; clip from Corbyn speech about sharing resources – pensions, free market capitalism; hospital chiefs confirm Grantham’s A&E will close overnight from Wednesday, nearest is Lincoln 35 miles away; return on UK government bonds turns negative – government bond markets and Q.E. explained, liquidity trap; election fraud allowed to take place in Muslim communities because of ‘political correctness’ – says report commissioned by Tory Eric Pickles; Gary Hopkins points out there’s been a big cutback of Bristol First Bus services – and not because they are loss making; Tory election fraud.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Erdogan turns to Moscow for help after possibly NATO backed coup attempt:  Syria;  Bilal Erdogan supporting ISIS;  gas pipe lines; are coup plotters ones that shot down Russian plane?; pre-emptive BBC website report 10pm night of the coup about Erdogan being a despotic president: ‘Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Turkey’s ruthless president’ Some refugees are terrorists deliberately coming to West? – NATO psychological warfare?  Israeli camera man Richard Gutjahr was in Nice and Munich when terrorist attacks happened – and his wife used to work for Mossad.  March 2016: Three London girls Shamima Begum, Amira Abase, both 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, join ISIS with help from Canadian secret services agent Mohammed al-Rashed – August 2016: British girl Kadiza Sultana, believed killed in Syria, ‘was too scared to flee Isis’! – media and reporting.  Alexis Jay who chaired Rotherham child abuse enquiry – which blamed Muslims and where no council employees or police were disciplined, let alone prosecuted after 1400 children were sexually abused over 15 years – is named new chair of VIP child abuse enquiry: twenty years ago today: the Dutroux scandal in Belgium where VIPs were sexually abusing children – used as blackmail by security services? – witnesses led to Dutroux but he was protected.  MK Ultra – CIA using those on edge of society and students for their own experiments – a clip from a 1979 film ‘ABC Close Up’ by Paul Altmeyer:  Nazis into CIA after WW2; Post-war Nazi MKULTRA at Colonia Dignidad in Chile.  US military ‘manipulated intelligence to downplay threat of IS’ – in Middle East Eye. Susan Lindauer discusses an Iraq peace dividend that could have generated profits instead of war.
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