Friday 27th January 2017

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 Eastville Mhari Threlfall. EU and Brexit; PMQs Corbyn – worker’s rights; bid to protect worker’s rights blocked due to Tory MPs filibustering on love of radio for four hours – Tories backing out of International Labour Organisation; PMQs Chris Bryant – big subsidies to rich large farm owners – and some can’t get basic benefits – Common Agriculture Policy: May suggests UK’s richest aristocrat landowners will get farming subsidies funded by British taxpayer after Brexit – EU agricultural reform subsidising smaller farms to the CAP McSharry principle; McDonalds plan for Eastville – ‘No to McDonalds’ group: Bristol residents tell fast food chain McDonalds: Take your Big Mac, fries and go; rubbish and fly-tipping in Eastville – Bristol Waste Company – cuts; soon no money will come from central government – Council Tax is regressive; Chris Jones from Nelson, Wales, discusses how his sickness benefit has been stopped even though his doctor has said he is unable to work; PMQs Maggie Thrupp – funding for social care – cuts; PMQs Angus Robertson – Brexit and trade deals with US – food safety standards and NHS privatised to US; UK Trident test missile sent to US by mistake – were the Royal Navy ‘having a laugh’ by firing a Trident missile in the direction of the US during a ‘botched’ test launch of a multiple reentry nuclear warhead? – which countries need nuclear weapons? PMQs Ed Milliband – Trump and Paris climate change agreement; Bristol police taser black man in face – who was a community liaison person; 6 journalists arrested in Washington over ‘rioting’ at inauguration: At least 6 journalists arrested during police action amid anti-Trump protests – Cellebrite, an Israeli company, will ‘crack’ phones for local police; George Soros funds anti Trump women’s marches – but he and others fund a lot of things – everyone’s got an agenda; Kincora boys home in Ireland and child sex abuse – inquiry singles out police and church but not MI5.

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Second hour: Investigative reports: can we self-build our way out of Bristol’s housing crisis? Jackson Moulding of Bristol-based Ecomotive and Labour councillor for Eastville Mahri Threlfall discuss self-build: Ashley Vale self-build St Werburgh’s ‘haven’ in Bristol; Bristol Community Land Trust; shared equity housing; passive house – low energy cost home; Bright Green Futures – The Bower scheme in Grove Road, Fishponds; Bristol register for people wanting to build their own home: Join Bristol City Council’s self-build and custom house building register, find out about the Bristol Community Land Trust and funding for community led projects; Government give £60m a year for five years to support community housing;  Where to see co-housing projects in Bristol – see map (above). Trump’s first week in office – signing a stack of executive orders: examples of orders he has signed including resumption of Dakota pipe-line;  US system and democracy – what is Trump’s mandate? PBS: 2 executive orders Trump has signed in his first week; Theresa May meeting Trump;  trade wars – economic warfare.  Keith Preston from AttackTheSystem.com on Iran’s state broadcaster Press TV banned in the UK – US foreign policy especially with Russia, China and Iran – Pepe Escobar South China Morning Post article: Trump Will Try To Smash The China-Russia-Iran Triangle … Here’s Why He Will Fail The hand of Henry Kissinger suggests US foreign policy will use a ‘divide and rule’ strategy with Beijing, Moscow and Tehran. But this could backfire, spectacularly – divide and rule. Trump says it’s too early yet to make decision on moving US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.  Author of Christian Zionism: Road Map to Armageddon? Stephen Sizer discusses the six stages of Zionist takeover of Israel and Levant. Massive Israeli settlement programme in East Jerusalem.

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Friday 20th January 2017

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: Planning application complaint for Victoria Park, Bristol.  Metrobus – Mark is in charge of scheme: local rail and bus infrastructure; Cambridge guided bus – ‘misguided and bust’ – Nancy, France, guided bus – Light Rail Now.org – When will Metrobus be up and running and which routes?;  spiralling costs – £203m to £216m; and as Filton and Bradley Stoke MP Jack Lopresti points out, causing traffic congestion around Bristol; First Bus – or nationalised Bristol Bus Company recreated again? Cuts to Bristol Council – raise Council Tax or how about taking half of £31bn of richest in area? – Tory election fraud, evidence of overspend in 30 constituencies; Bristol Labour doing a good job? Robots will take over most jobs within 30 years – personal indebtedness, QE; PMQs economics of Brexit – powers of banks over politicians, Brexit and Trump; Fake News: BBC Trust rules Laura Kuenssberg inaccurately represented Jeremy Corbyn on shoot-to-kill response to the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Correction to 30th Dec show – discussed story relating to apparent Kiev air traffic control Twitter account – turns out was a deliberate fake account whose profile was subsequently edited revealing it not to be an official account but a sophisticated PsyOp. Fake News: clip of Emma Barnett on BBC Radio 5Live introducing Fake News ‘expert’ Melissa Zimdars – websites such as Zero Hedge, Natural News, and 21st Century Wire on fake news list. Frankfurter Alegemeine Zeitung editor Udo Ulfkotte, German journalist, who blew whistle on secret services media control, passes away at 56 – Udo Ulfkotte: Europe’s Courageous Journalism Voice Has passed away – clip of him discussing his time as journalist and PsyWar  – Trump inauguration – says he will rid world of Islamic terrorism – Interview with ‘The Saker’ blogger – former military advisor to UN: the UN and what it’s like; Western media propaganda machine – they don’t question enough; pros and cons of Trump foreign policy; Trump and the ‘Deep State’ – what does New World Order mean? IRA: Freddie Scappaticci aka. ‘Stakeknife’ was a spy  – clip from Press TV documentary on collusion between British Army and terrorists/death squads in Northern Ireland.
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Friday 13th January 2017

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 Green councillor for Frome on Mendip District Council Shane Collins – Hinkley C nuclear power station:  alternative energy cheaper than nuclear;  nuclear industry – EDF, Chinese companies, corruption and spying; nuclear industry and banks bailed out by public money;  you will be paid £40 if you switch provider – go to www.switchEDFoff.org.uk Politics of Mendip and Frome councils. NHS problems: BBC documentary ‘The Hospital’;  A&E crisis deepens – ½ of all hospitals in serious trouble; social care budget and local authorities cuts;  Roy Lilley on BBC 5Live, author of ‘Your Health and the Internet’, discussing local councils raising council tax to pay for social care; how to prepare industries for privatisation;  PFIs; Dr. Jackie Davis from Reform and research showing £10bn a year going on just operating NHS market.  Theresa May ‘s speech – injustices and mental health – with no answers.  Jeremy Corbyn’s speech – Brexit, EU rules and cuts to NHS.  Tristram Hunt, Labour MP, leaving.  BBC Points West – council tax rise by 5% but services will be cut, Arena delayed – taxes on wealthy people reduced – Mayor Marvin Rees on these cuts.  Severn Bridge staff sacked and cost of return crossing reduced to £3.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Israeli diplomat, Shai Masot, filmed undercover by by Al Jazeera Investigates reporters, plotted against government minister also had £1m slush fund to set up political groups in the Labour party. Interview with Craig Murray, journalist and author: Senior Israeli Political Attache Shai Masot was not on the official Diplomatic List so why hasn’t he been expelled? Craig Murray articles: Why Has Israeli Spy Shai Masot Not Been Expelled? Britain’s Most Undesirable Immigrant: Why Was Shai Masot Given a Visa? 2011 Adam Werritty and Liam Fox MP story: Liam Fox, Adam Werritty, and the curious case of Our Man in Tel Aviv – about matters concerning Israel not about them being gay; UK backing Israel; Trump admits Russia and others involved in hacking – his contradicting statements – people with direct link to story said not Russia; ‘fake news’; Wikipedia; information and psychological modern warfare; does propaganda work? George Orwell didn’t think so when he resigned from the BBC in 1943 – Operation Atlantic Resolve: Largest deployment of U.S. troops since Cold War arrives in Germany – NATO troops and tanks to borders of Russia; Trump may reset US and Russia relations; war good for business;  www.craigmurray.org.uk book ‘Sikunder Burnes: Master of the Great Game’ by Craig Murray – a biography of Sir Alexander Burnes. State backing of terrorism – White Helmets, Yinon Plan and Balkanisation of the Middle East. Donald Trump speech: jobs, drugs industry and Lockheed Martin F35 joint strike fighter plane – can he achieve all this? ‘deep state’ and military industrial complex;  far right republicans in Trump’s cabinet Donald Trump’s cordial tone towards Russia contrasts with many of his nominees including Rex Tillerson, Mike Pompeo, and James Mattis – they could remove him; Mad Dog Mattis, The Butcher of Fallujah: ‘Kremlin plotting to break NATO’; US backed coup in Turkey; Germany’s relations with Russia. Intercept – Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State to be, says Saudis need help bombing Yemen.  Specific evidence now not needed for Drone attacks.
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Friday 6th January 2017

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 Horfield Olly Mead – Chairing Bristol’s Audit Committee – other Bristol City Council auditing jobs;  care services in Bristol; empty old people’s homes – court case by ‘guardians’ against Camelot; fatal shooting of Mohammed Yassar Yaqub on the M62 in Huddersfield – We need to challenge authorities over killing of Mohammed Yasser Yaqub – January 4, 2017 A Letter To West Yorkshire PCC Mark Burns-Williamson and Chief Constable Dee Collins Following The Fatal Shooting of Mohammed Yassar Yaqub – Jean Charles de Menezes; BBC trust to review own decision upholding complaint about Corbyn ‘shoot-to-kill’ report; more than 1200 people complete council survey on budget plans for next five years;  two unexpected windfalls for Bristol City Council will ease budget crisis; Bristol City Council will stop asking for criminal history in job applications – declaring Masonic membership – Masonic oath is a threat of death: ‘I solemnly swear to observe, without evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation of any kind, under no less a penalty, on the violation of any of them than that of having my throat cut across, my tongue torn out by the root and buried in the sand of the sea at low water mark, or a cable’s length from the shore, where the tide regularly ebbs and flow twice in 24 hours.’ Bristol lowest earners are barely making enough to escape poverty – high rents; Bristol bin collections delayed because of huge amounts of Christmas rubbish;  MOD signs £140m contract for Airbus to maintain RAF fleet of A400m Atlas ‘workhorses’; Bristol Arena and Bristol Metrobus;  Theresa May’s new year speech; Corbyn’s new year speech; resignation of Sir Ivan Rogers as British Ambassador to EU – Queen-like New Year’s messages from Tory PM Theresa May and Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Church of England vicar, Reverend Andrew Ashdown, just back from Aleppo, says Syrians consider Russians ‘heroes’, says the nation’s mainstream London media have been providing support for ‘terrorist’ Syrian rebels – Interview with Reverend Andrew Ashdown, who has visited the Middle East regularly over the last 30 years, including Syria before and during the war – he says that the Western mainstream media narrative on the war in Syria has been hugely misleading: Christianity and Islam;  political agendas causing suffering; Russia withdrawing troops from Syria; detailed maps of the progress of Syria war on South Front; BBC Gordon Corera interview with outgoing CIA chief John Brennan says Russia is making Syria worse; Russians are considered heroes in Syria by Syrians; how Islamist extremist ideology works; message from Syrian people. CIA chief, John Brennan, admits the Agency’s role in Syrian war, on NPR radio. The US road map to balkanise Syria by Pepe Escobar – Oded Yinon plan.  Attacks on New Years Eve in Turkey:  conflicting reports on number of attackers; false flag terrorism; US warned Turkey of potential attacks. NATO sends 3,600 tanks across the Atlantic to Holland and Germany to deploy in the Baltics and Eastern Europe against Russia. – Russian warships dock in Philippines on ‘goodwill visit’: on CNN Philippines, Russia offers Philippines arms and close friendship – Philippines Jailbreak Frees More Than 150 Inmates, Prompting Manhunt – David Santos interviews Russian Ambassador to the Philippines Igor Khovaev; CIA overthrowing regimes all over the world. BBC Gordon Correra interview outgoing CIA chief John Brennan – aggressive Russian posture in cyber space. outgoing CIA Director John Brennan discusses Syria as well as Russian ‘hacking’ of the US elections – Americans can spot election meddling because they’ve been doing it for years – Paul Williams discusses Operation Gladio in Europe after WW2 – false flag attacks – 9/11.
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