Friday 28th October 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: Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP); Severn Barrage projects; as Labour gets fined over election expenses, the Tories election fraud scandal is being ignored; media firms forced to pay Gordon Anglesea £375k in libel damages tell of ‘bitter sweet’ moment he was convicted as paedophile – one of his victims who was not believed had committed suicide: Private Eye editor Ian Hislop says: ‘I can’t help thinking of the witnesses who came forward to assist our case at the time, one of whom later committed suicide telling his wife that he never got over ‘not being believed’ Gordon Anglesea was a Freemason. In 1976 Anglesea joined a masonic lodge in Colwyn Bay. In 1982 he became a member of Wrexham’s Berwyn lodge. He left in 1984 to join a new Wrexham lodge called Pegasus becoming its Master in 1990. Daily Mirror article; Bristol Metrobus scheme costs spiral = extra £13m – bad traffic in Bristol, public transport in Bristol;  homeless children up by 60% since the Conservatives came to power – 2/3 homelessness involve children, right to buy reducing council housing, high immigration;  UK public finances worsen, adding to Hammond’s headache; PMQs Corbyn – Brexit – when is PM going to have a plan?; low morale in 56% of Avon and Somerset Police – overworked, cuts, Volunteering? What are we paying Council Tax for? PMQs Christopher Chope – Dorset to merge councils discussed by Christopher Chope MP at PMQs and legal challenge as West Somerset council prepares to merge with Taunton Dean borough council – electoral register and boundaries;  a speeding driver is caught and fined every 12 minutes in Bristol area;  PMQs – Owen Thompson – ‘the jungle’ in Calais being dismantled; PMQs – Luciana Berger – mental health.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: cost of Hinkley C nuclear versus tidal power; Bristol Channel tidal vs nuclear power cost calculations: MeyGen Pentland tidal power scheme: cost £1.6bn, 384MWe = 400 turbines at £4m (0.96MWe) each. Hinkley C EPR (PWR) nuclear reactor: cost £37bn = 2560MWe. Bristol Channel tidal power scheme, approximate cost £10.7bn: 2560MWe = 2,667 turbines at £4m (0.96MWe) each. Paul Mobbs, former engineer and environmental journalist, looking at the choices between nuclear and tidal energy around the Bristol Channel and Severn estuary discusses alternative energies and power output, viability, finance costs and how economic ideologies of governments need to change before progress in these areas can really be made: the Severn estuary, along with the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia Canada share the world’s greatest tidal range at 50 feet or 15 meters the tide goes in and out, up and down twice a day; the Bay of Fundy Canadians are installing new tidal schemes there after successful past schemes; the Scottish tidal MeyGen tidal energy scheme that has just started; viability, energy output, and costs of a Severn barrage system as compared to Hinkley C nuclear power; the Atlantis, MeyGen, Pentland tidal power scheme in Scotland which will have 61 turbines; Paul’s calculations: Hinkley will generate 2560MWe on average, 0.96MWe on average is what each tidal turbine delivers. So to generate the equivalent power of £37bn cost Hinkley C we’d need 2,667 tidal turbines. Paul calculates if each tidal energy turbine costs less than c. £7m each, they could generate the same power cheaper than the planned Hinkley C nuclear power station; the tidal turbine generators apparently cost about £7.5m for four making tidal power around a quarter the cost of nuclear? Other estimates suggest the cost per turbine of large tidal schemes is around £4m per turbine, which is still around half the cost of Hinkley C nuclear power station. Fracking – banned in Ireland and Germany; ideology of constant growth; energy consumption only cut in recessions;  where are we heading with climate change? – the tipping point and ‘Armageddon’; supremacy of oil – manipulated – peak oil, Saudis selling large stake in state oil company, energy used to obtain difficult to get oil; zero-carbon power plant – carbon capture by Carbon Clean Solutions – although how much coal left? How Israel became the global hub for surveillance technology – Linux open source technology, drones and Israelis; Paul Mobbs’ website www.fraw.org.uk/mei; his book ‘Energy Beyond Oil’.  ‘VAXXED’, a 2016 documentary about the link between the Merck Inc. manufactured Measels Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism, the film was banned and had to be pulled from this year’s Tribeca Film Festival run by Robert de Niro – in this clip Dr Andrew Wakefield discusses the huge modern epidemic we have with autism, the US Centre for Disease Control (CDC) cover-up and some clear links to the vaccine. Asma al Assad, wife of Bashar al Assad, President of Syria, discusses why she hasn’t left Syria despite the civil war and reminds us of Western media propaganda/bias.
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Friday 21st October 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 Conservative councillor for Brislington East Tony Carey. Royal Navy engineer – British industry, whatever happened to British engineering; depleted state of British Armed Forces – the Falklands war; Russian military ships along the Channel – who would win fight in Syria? Brislington, Bristol issues – cleaning up woods, planning, Brexit and racism; First Bus, Bristol, to bring in Oyster cards and fares 15% more if you pay cash – permanent government and civil servants, bus stops brought back in-house, dogs compulsory chipped in Barking; Bristol’s rich list – Sir James Dyson moving factory abroad dodgy Hargreaves and tax-haven Landsdown; Scotland Yard Fraud Squad detective Rowan Bosworth-Davies interviewed Hargreaves Lansdown founder Peter Hargreaves three times under caution for allegedly using clients money and his insider trading tips to speculate on the stock exchange which is technically fraud and theft – Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump call each other puppets; Seymour Hersh says Clinton knew NATO involved in Sarin attack in Syria to set up Assad; Rigging the election Rigging the Election – Video I: Clinton Campaign and DNC Incite Violence at Trump Rallies – YouTube – secret recordings of the Clinton campaign;  PMQs Corbyn – NHS cuts and threats to A&E – NHS £2.45bn in deficit – are Tories killing NHS?;  Tories only just win seat in Cameron’s ex-constituency;  PMQs Theresa May accused of cover-up over child abuse inquiry concerns. It comes after a string of high-profile resignations from the inquiry into historic abuse – Historical Child Sex Abuse Inquiry.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: St Michael’s Church destroyed by fire, been waiting seventeen years for Bristol Church of England Diocese to find a use for it. Bristol Diocese Secretary, Oliver Home, discusses last weekend’s fire that burnt down St. Michael-on-the-Mount Church that has been empty for 17 years:  why not Church’s Conservation Trust building? A museum to the abolition of slavery? Or for community? Catalogue of neglect: St. John’s Conduit water supply which the Bristol diocese is responsible for was constructed by Carmelite friars in 1267. It delivered fresh water to the city centre continuously for over 700 years including supplying essential water to the population when the main supply was destroyed during the 1940/41 Bristol blitz. Yet Wessex Water works in 2010 have stopped it up and the diocese don’t appear to have even noticed. Communities demanding answers from Dean of the Cathedral about Diocese’ endorsement of ex-slave trading, now school & hospital owning Merchant Venturers. Christine Townsend and Dr. Roger Ball, from Bristol Radical History Group, discuss the Merchant Venturers and the history of Edward Colston, Bristol slave trader and money lender from the 17th century:  Merchant Venturers sponsor academy schools in city;  Colston Girls School and the Merchant Venturers’ coming Charter Day in Bristol Cathedral on Thursday 10th November – Colston’s ‘slave trader’ buns are given to schoolgirls – Counter Colston Group (CCG) letter to the dean of Bristol cathedral -history of Colston 1680s – 90s – ran slave trade in Britain;  Merchant Venturers should publish accounts; Dr Ball suggests some more worthy figures to remember are St.Wulston, Bishop of Worcester (c. 1008 – 1095), who abolished the trade in white slaves from Bristol to Ireland – and Thomas Clarkson (1760 – 1846), the main campaigner behind the Abolition movement which successfully campaigned to end the slave trade could be commemorated in Bristol instead – both helped stop slave trade; pre-charter merchants behind Cabot voyage to America says Bristol University’s prof. Evan Jones – which led to the Native American holocaust of 75-100 million native Americans; book by local historian Madge Dresser Slavery Obscured: The Social History of the Slave Trade in Bristol – Roger is part of Bristol Radical History Group (BRH) – and both he and Christine run the new Counter Colston group website. -> -> Nephew of Harry Pilkington, 1972 Bank of England director, Justin Walker discusses how his uncle attended the first Bilderberg meeting in 1954 and then became manager of Bank of England telling him never to trust the press or politicians, because the bank controls both.
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Friday 14th October 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 Cabinet member for homes and communities Paul Smith. Bristol’s council house stock historically being eroded by right to buy; re-balancing of communities – rich and poor in same areas; Mayor Marvin and his State of the City report – he discusses his vision for planning in Bristol; Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize for literature; Brexit – second referendum, what kind of Brexit; PMQs Corbyn – how Brexit is negatively affecting British economics; Bank of England says Brexit hasn’t affected economy as bad as they thought;  Tesco not buying Unilever products because the weak pound has made them too expensive;  HSBC warning over severe global banking crash – what can we do? – what is plan B? – nationalised banks;  PMQs Vernon Coker – French steel used for Trident – Port Talbot; UK has worst quality of life in EU – disparity between rich and poor – ‘The Spirit Level’ book; Killer clowns – from USA – psychologically spreading fear?  NATO using carnival masks in false flag terrorist attack in 1980s;  NHS – A&E crisis worsening – cuts to social services by Tories, PFI programmes, 2/3 of health trusts in deficit; PMQs Meg Hillier – NHS budget not sustainable – bed blocking, Bristol Council and care; police threaten legal action over lack of mental health beds; PMQs – Virgin Care – outsourcing services in NHS; Carbon Clean Solutions Ltd (CCSL) claim they have made carbon capture financially viable;  Microsoft Windows 10 woes – upgrading without you asking it.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Live interview with native American history Professor Anthony Hall who’s been suspended without pay from Lethbridge University in Alberta, Canada targeted by the Israel lobby because somebody shared an anti-Jewish post to his Facebook page. Professor Anthony Hall from a recent talk:  Is War Really A Remedy For Terror? We are lied to by media – 9/11;  Native American genocide.  Anthony Hall discusses his suspension from University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada – for linking 9/11 attacks to Israelis and Neo-Cons – and the smear done by ‘Canary Mission’ – his outlets – False Flag Weekly News – American Herald Tribune – German terror suspect – Jaber al-Bakr – kills himself in jail. Putin preparing for WW3 – Russia begins evacuation of 40 million people in huge drill – Syria: US Army Chief of Staff General Mark A. Milley – established world order in chaos, US superiority in end game.  Housing debate with Paul Smith – Bristol Cabinet member for Housing, Matthew Strange from Acorn, and Steve Norman: using empty council properties and building new council housing; private renting tenants and their rights – unscrupulous landlords and letting agents; Bristol Together – ex-offenders building properties;  The Big Housing Conversation debate; St. Mungos gets £1m a year from council – gathering intelligence on homeless; Bristol homeless – tents in park. Bristol housing debate with Steve Norman (Avonmouth), Matthew Strange (Acorn) & Cllr Paul Smith.
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Friday 7th October 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 Labour councillor for Hartcliffe and Withywood Mark Brain. Unions; 1000 job cuts at Bristol Council – but what are reserves of £150m for? £90m Bristol Arena – delayed – auditing of Bristol Council by Grant Thorntons; Government not selling off £3.6bn Lloyds Bank shares cheaply to public anymore – selling to City; Government urged to reveal National Debt of £4.8tn In a new paper Viral Acharya of New York University, Diane Pierret of the University of Lausanne and Sascha Steffen of the University of Mannheim calculate that HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds and the Royal Bank of Scotland would need to raise $185bn (£155bn) – state pensions liabilities; 4 biggest banks need £155bn capital to withstand another crisis – Deutsche Bank, economic warfare, QE is economic bubble-making heroin; Phillip Hammond speech at Tory Party Conference – Labour’s note ‘there’s no money left’ – but Labour bailed out an international banking crisis – austerity; Hammond speech – Ed Ball’s criticism of Tory policy wrong? – pain caused by Tory cuts; Theresa May speech at Conference – good things about GB – elite paying their way; Michael Crick interviews Theresa’s husband Phillip – who has job helping people avoid tax; Theresa May’s speech – Where are the Cameroons? – What about the men who used to run the show and delivered the first Conservative majority for 23 years. Our Political Correspondent, Michael Crick, has been in search of that endangered clan – the Cameroons – consumers and workers on boards – coming after tax avoiders; Marvin Rees, Mayor of Bristol, gives his State of the City address – worried about impacts of Brexit – 5 year plan for Bristol; fracking is given go-ahead in Lancashire: Tory minister Sajid Javid grants fracking rights after receiving funds from pro-fracking interests.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: US government spent over $500m on fake Al-Qaeda propaganda videos that tracked location of viewers. USAF stealth technology, bistatic radar, S400s & drones. Will Russian air superiority go unchallenged in Syria? Stealth-detecting bistatic radar is back in the news – Report prepared in the US by Rand Corporation says Australia’s biggest defence purchase, the F35 Joint Strike Fighter is inferior to Russian and Chinese rivals.  Syria: US has ended cooperation with Russia after broken ceasefires and West still backing Muslim extremists; UK Special Forces in Syria;  Deir ez-Zor attack; West at war with Russia;  70-80% Syrians support Assad;  air war – no fly zone;  UN envoy Staffan de Mistura said he would personally escort Al Nusra out of Aleppo – Russia thinks good idea. Bell Pottinger creating propaganda videos for US military in Iraq.  Only Sunnis allowed to live in Northern Iraq – El Alam.ir  Nobel Peace Prize given to Colombian, Santos.  The Syria’s ‘White Helmets’ have won ‘Right Livelihood’ award – but are they a propaganda network? short film about ‘The White Helmets – al Qaeda with a facelift’ by Hands off Syria and Steve Ezzedine – Boris Johnson’s speech at Tory Conference – Syria.  Stealth bombers –Western military industry and overspend – do Russians have air superiority in Syria as they have a more robust ‘no bribes’ socialist system for military procurement? Is Joint Strike Fighter F35 the scam Jet of the century? – ABC TV discusses this $20bn Jet – the Rand Corporation.  Venessa Beeley – talk ‘Bristol Open Inquiry into the UK Bombing of Syria’ at Arc Bar, Broad Street, Bristol on Friday 4th November. Liam Fox speech at Tory Conference – International Trade Secretary on post-Brexit trade agreements – SITA, TTIP.  Gary Webb, Investigative Journalist, discusses the CIA and drug dealing in the Iran Contra affair – ‘Dark Alliance’ film Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion – Gary Webb Interview (1998).
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