Friday 26th May 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: Bristol West hustings with Annabel Tall, Conservative party; Molly Scott Cato, Green party; Stephen Williams, Lib Dems. Labour party candidate Thangam Debbonaire has said she will not be attending these hustings due to ‘a preexisting diary commitment’. Statement by Labour candidate Thangham Debonair; vote count from last election – Greens closest to Labour in 2015: the LibDems were almost twice as far (17%) behind Labour as the Greens were (9%) two years ago; Labour Party infighting – Corbyn’s policies;  is the election about Brexit? Do MEPs have any power? How EU works; Laura Welty, Bristol Disability and Equality Forum manager expresses disabled peoples’ concerns over Tories removing social care funding; Theresa May’s policies of people in care keeping only £100,000 of their house, triple lock on pensions being scrapped, and means testing winter fuel allowance; Education cuts protests on College Green, Bristol losing 1000 teachers, cutting education in cities but more for rural areas; Housing – house prices falling – housing crisis; Manchester terror attack – Salman Abedi was reported several times to anti-terror hotline; Corbyn’s speech today about British foreign policy playing part in terror attacks – failures in the ‘Prevent’ program; Theresa May To Create New Internet That Would Be Controlled And Regulated By Government: Prime Minister Theresa May wants government controlled internet; IFS says Tory and Labour policies don’t add up – Steven Williams tweet – EU directive where can’t send money to tax haven without declaring it first. Sunday Politics, Andrew Neil interviews Theresa May
Lynton Crosby’s silence over tax haven scandal is deafening
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Second hour: Investigative reports: including a look at whether UK secret services, MI5 and MI6, were complicit in Monday’s terrorist attack at Manchester Arena. Manchester terror attack:  was it timed to effect election? History of Western secret services backing Islamic terrorists – Gladio style pattern of destabilisation.  Interview with journalist Amandla Thomas-Johnson from Middle East Eye wrote article yesterday ‘Sorted’ by MI5: How UK government sent British-Libyans to fight Gaddafi – connections between Libya and Manchester; Britain’s foreign policy being main factor in terror;  security services turning a blind eye to terrorists travelling to Syria and Libya.  Manchester terror attack: British secret services interfering in Libya; bomber known by MI5 ‘up to a point’, what does that mean? Links to Syria chemical weapons attacks. Red Lines and Rat Lines by Seymour Hersh; NATO wants to go to war with Syria; bomber’s father Ramadan Abedi has been arrested – to keep him quiet? – he was Libyan Army Intelligence Officer and after moving to Britain was part of Libyan Islamic Fighting Group; Britain a major player in Islamic terrorism over the years.  The Bilderberg Conference is taking place next weekend in Westfields Marriott Hotel, Chantilly, Virginia, USA – Hannah Borno discusses the group and how you find out where they are meeting: Bilderberg is a secretive group of the richest and most powerful in the Western world;  they get funding as a charity; who is on the steering committee? Many hi-tech firms are on it now; Trumps’ links to Bilderberg;  what could be on the agenda? King Makers – Macron was there in 2014; by looking at Bilderberg can predict trends in world events.
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Friday 19th May 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 Hartcliffe Helen Holland and LibDem Councillor for Cotham Anthony Negus. Sex, Lies and Julian Assange, an ABC Four Corners documentary by Andrew Fowler and Wayne Harley, May 16, 2013. What is a Metro Mayor? Transparency; rape probe against Julian Assange dropped, but he will still face arrest for jumping bail if he leaves Ecuadorian embassy – good documentary from ABC TV ‘Sex, Lies and Julian Assange’ about the affair; Secretive NATO power elite political lobby group Bilderberg 2017 dates & venue CONFIRMED: 1-4 June Westfields Marriott, Chantilly VA 20151 – what are the main issues on the doorstep while canvassing for elections? – winter fuel allowance, Brexit and getting a good deal; Keo Films won a Bafta for ‘Exodus’ documentary about Syrian refugees – Shell Coe from this company is making another film about people on low incomes surviving on nothing – on the end of work as a route out of poverty – phone or text Shell if you want to be in her film 07465 733735 or email shell.coe@keofilms.com – protest against school funding cuts in Bristol area to take place in city centre from 11am tomorrow – Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s Manifesto Speech – with some of Labour’s policies; main points of Lib Dem Manifesto; Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May’s Manifesto Speech – with some of her policies – Brexit,
APOLOGIES – due to an occasional ‘technical malfunction’ of the BCfm server the first hour of tonight’s show took five days to appear on the BCFM ‘listen again’ system.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Interview with Steve Keen, economist and author – he has just brought a book out ‘Can we avoid another financial crisis?’ Debt deflation; austerity destroying GDP – mainstream economists; QE direct to public; which political party has good policies economically? Can individual financial crashes be contained? Private debt more of a danger than public debt;  clip of Michael Hudson author of ‘Killing the Host’ on banks ruining economies; recent global WannaCrypt RansomWare attack – online banking security, cashless economy;  Michael Hudson on the banking system taking over media and education like a parasite – Politico Financial Complex;  what would Steve do if he were chancellor? – plan for eliminating private debt; is there going to be a catastrophic financial crash?  Eran Efrati, a young Israel Defence Force sergeant in Hebron, says he felt like he was policing a form of apartheid and was terrorising Palestinians – on Abby Martin show on TeleSur English – The Empire Files – Israeli Army Vet’s Exposé – “I Was the Terrorist” – Elections in Iran – Hassan Rouhani vs Ebrahim Raisi. Exploding laptopgate – Story from March: The flight ban for exploding laptops is a classic protectionist scheme, Donald Trump’s leaking of classified intelligence to Russians ‘far worse than reported’ – Israel and false flag terrorism. US attacks pro-Assad forces: US air strikes in Syria: Why America really attacked pro-Assad militia convoy. Exclusive: For the Pentagon to suggest that this was a sideshow to Washington’s battle against Isis was to stretch the truth beyond credibility. Protests in Venezuela. British electoral system vs Iranian electoral system: Iran election: Millions vote in close race for presidency. Result could decide whether Iran’s detente with the West continues
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Milan Kundera

Friday 12th May 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: General Election campaign launch – news review with Mike Campbell from Protect Our NHS and former Sunday Times Rich List journalist Kevin Cahill. The Sunday Times Rich List has just come out: super rich persuading Times to put them up or down list, incl. The Queen; top ten all have assets in tax havens and only one British born; top 100s wealth has increased by 14% this year. The 29th Sunday Times Rich List, which lists the 1,000 wealthiest individuals and families in the UK, revealed that “this year’s 500 richest individuals and families are now wealthier than the entire top 1,000 were in 2016.” – inequality. Protect Our NHS – private health companies have money in tax havens, Pablo Escobar – invisible illegal economy; Bristol Volunteer Centre to close after 51 years; NHS not safe in Tory hands – worsening problems; NHS computers and others hacked – Google’s Deep Mind project; Smart Meters – £11bn to roll out and expensive glitchs in system – GCHQ to look at dangers of hacking system – scientists warned of health effects; £20m cyber security centre in London and PRISM; Data Mining – NHS Digital hacked today where our health records are kept – Peter Thiel, a creator of Palantir Technologies, that can profile a population and help you run your country – Microsoft donated $100m to NSA; Clinton Rogers report for BBC – an interview with Marine A, who killed an Afghan unlawfully – his lawyer Phil Shiner has been struck off; Theresa May’s campaign launch speech; Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign launch speech; Protect Our NHS meeting this Thursday (18th May) – will discuss how Tories are destroying NHS and how it can be sensibly funded; Prof. Tom Mills – ‘BBC: The Myth of Public Service Broadcasting Tom Mills – The Future of the BBC; Bristol housing charity tops list of of UKs most prosecuted landlords.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Today’s cyberattack on the NHS, just follow the money. Crowdfunding underground hospitals in rebel-held parts of Syria – threats of nuclear war in North Korea sabre rattling? Cyber attack on NHS – mass surveillance, European Courts; German army calls for searches of all barracks after Nazi memorabilia found – plan to do a shooting and blame it on Syrian asylum seeker – WW2, NATO false flag terrorism; Times Rich List – rich getting richer, poor getting poorer – The myth that work always pays is finally exposed; Prof. Kate Pickett from ‘The Equality Trust’ on BBC, she co-wrote ‘The Spirit Level’; clip from trailer of film ‘The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire’ about tax havens; Justin Walker – his uncle Harry Pilkington’s advice; Syrian doctors get crowd funding for hospitals; Yemen war – divide country?; North Korea accuses CIA of trying to assassinate Kim Jong-un with ‘biochemical substances’; China ‘tells citizens to leave North Korea’ as tensions with US escalate; North Korea ‘could destroy world with just three bombs’, regime apologist claims; Ethan Guttman from his film ‘The Slaughter’ – he discusses legal taking of prisoners organs by Chinese state.
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