Month: August 2017

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  1. Friday 25th August 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: Jack Lopresti cancelled; Council Tax Reduction Scheme – to help poorest – Bristol council tax consultation slammed as ‘cruel and immoral’ – possibly illegal Bristol City Council tax consultation – Bristol’s Labour mayor Marvin Rees will be leading a ‘surreal’ demonstration on Saturday 9th September against the cuts he himself is implementing – although Council now thinking of charging 25% which the Greens think is illegal;  Bristol mayor says city ‘is at breaking point’ and is calling people to protest – Tory cuts from central government;  Three MPs quit Bath University roles over vice-chancellor pay – Bath University’s robotic Prof. Dame Glynis Brakewell earns £450,000 a year;  Online retailer Amazon.com Inc said on Wednesday it would open a distribution centre in Bristol, south west England, in 2018, continuing a rapid expansion that saw its investments in the UK triple last year to over 400 million pounds ($513.96 million) – one of biggest tax evaders on planet and union busters – tax evasion;  question and answer from Manfred Petritsch – from All Smoke and Mirrors blog (in German) – asking which country is very close to Brussels but a tax haven not in the EU; Sasha Baron Cohen, in the personality of Ali G interviews Jacob Rees Mogg about class in 1999; local MP Jacob Rees Mogg bid to become the next Tory Prime Minister? RICH MOGG Tory rising star Jacob Rees-Mogg one of parliament’s richest MPs – raking in £1m this year – history of Rees-Mogg and family – Brexit; ‘Self-driving’ lorries to be tested on UK roads ;  Pound worth less than Euro in British airports as it plummets to 8-yr lows  – parity with the Euro and Swiss Franc, exports, balance of payments; Unlease, hell – Britain battles EU plans to ‘wreck’ UK car industry by stopping manufacturers selling service deals – Britain being punished;  Lord Rothschild – “Share Prices Are At Unprecedented Levels, This Is Not A Time To Add Risk” ;  homeless register used to locate illegals and remove them from UK; only 3% of foreign students stay in UK, contrary to popular belief; Critically ill two-year-old left homeless after repossessing agents forced to evict family;  British property divide revealed as over five MILLION own second homes despite 250,000 homeless  – immigration and housing;  clip from the end of Channel 4 documentary ‘Diana – in her own words’ soon to be removed from Channel 4 catch up website – Diana’s bodyguard Ken Wharf and her Private Secretary and former Royal Navy officer Patrick Jephson has no respect left for Royalty after what he’s seen.

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    Second hour: Investigative reports: Russia pays off balance of Soviet Union’s foreign debt – at the same time, Russia has written off a large part of the debt developing countries owed it e.g. Russia forgave more than $30 billion in debt owed by Cuba – British economy and QE. Barcelona terror attack – LIHOP or MIHOP:  interview with Chris Bollyn by Sean Stone on Buzzsaw – discussing 3 main operational areas of false flag attacks – architects, managerial, working – GLADIO – SITE website run by ex-Mossad Rita Katz.  Nelson’s Pillar in Dublin was blown up by the IRA in 1966 – Up Went Nelson song which became a popular hit. Journalist Alan Whicker interviewing people in Dublin about Nelson’s Pillar prior to the attack. Interview with Christine Townsend, from Counter Colston group, and William Brown, Secretary of Bristol Branch of National Union of Teachers: Bristol NUT on Twitter – spate of complaints and getting rid of statues in US;  Texas university removes ‘white supremacy’ statues overnight;  San Jose, California, city councilman considers removing Christopher Columbus statue;  Colston, slavery and Merchant Venturers;  teaching or misleading children about slavery; plaques and statues to Jimmy Savile removed;  expanding empires of Academies – more schools being taken over; ‘orphan schools’ – no-one wants to fund;  how teaching is different in commercially run Academy schools; anti-cuts march and rally on September 9th on College Green – a message from trades unions and Bristol mayor Marvin Rees to Central Government.

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Friday 18th August 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 LibDem councillor for Brislington West, Jos Clark – Tory MP Zac Goldsmith links Barcelona terror attack to Labour’s Momentum group – Operation Cyclone; Brislington local affairs; interview with Nola Edwards from Save Fox Hill in Bath – No justification for demolition of Foxhill estate – Facebook page – The author says Foxhill has changed enormously over the last 20 years – Curo housing association is thinking of selling off their flats to a private buyer; Ken Loach, filmmaker, gives a speech at Save Fox Hill event – market led vs public housing; ‘We Care and Repair‘ – they help repair properties of old and disabled;  Bristol council tax relief cuts could be ‘illegal’ say opponents – Petition: Freeze Council Tax; Bristol City Council consultation: should poorest families in Bristol pay council tax? – Metrobus – costs rising and rising – by £10m –  HS2 £111bn increase in cost;  Government focuses on lowest unemployment since 1975 as wages fall behind inflation again;  ‘Rees-Mogg is your British Trump’ Spanish media say Jacob is a mini-Donald ;  Saviour of the Tory party or ‘reactionary poison’? Will Jacob Rees-Mogg run for Tory leader, and what would he do as PM?; alleged letter Jacob Rees Mogg has David Cameron’s Secret Nuclear Weapons Deal Raised £17.8m for Conservative Party Funds – Sets Pretext for War – Moggmentum – poem by Ian Jenkins; – Jos Clark’s reccomended political programmes: 1. Rory Bremner, 2. BBC Radio 4’s Dead Ringers, 3. BBC Radio 4 Westminster Hour, every Sunday evening at 10pm 4. Talking Politics with David Runciman and Catherine Carr  every Wednesday – though Jos does, this show DOES NOT recommend either The Economist magazine or their podcasts – Google has quietly implemented a new algorithm which kicks all the true results off the first page of the Google search: Evidence of Google blacklisting of left and progressive sites continues to mount – Google Just Became the Engine of Censorship – Evidence of Google blacklisting of left and progressive sites continues to mount – all except mainstream press off first page – interview with Andre Damon from World Socialist website on RT saying this has affected traffic to their site.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Yesterday’s Barcelona terror attack: context and anomalies. Far-right and far-left clashes in Charlottesville, former Occupy Wall Street organiser Jason Kessler becomes Charlottesville white supremacist march organiser; US:  provocateurs – changing sides; What Every Radical Should Know About State Repression: A Guide for Activists, Victor Serge’s exposé of the methods of surveillance and harassment of political activists by the czarist police reads like a spy thriller. But as Dalia Hashad points out in her introduction, this book will have a resonance with political activists today who face a new wave of repression under the Patriot Act and racial profiling in the name of the “war on terror.;  should statues be pulled down? – confederate statues – history of US civil war – slavery in US; Slave Trader Edward Colston statue in Bristol but not abolitionist Thomas Clarkson; Nelson’s column in the Irish republic was blown up in 1966 by the IRA. Up Went Nelson: Irish song about blowing up Nelson’s Column in Dublin, Ireland. Barcelona terror attack: NATO intelligence services orchestrating terror attacks; Nice attack; vans hacked and controlled – shoot to kill; Frank Gardner – BBC security correspondence – reported attackers smiling as dying – was he duped with false information? Twitter users urged to post pictures of cats instead of attacks – to reduce independent photographic evidence on attacks? Proposals to begin profiling ‘Arab North Africans’ that hire vans; motives for attacks – West causing many thousands of civilian deaths from wars in Middle East – referendum in Catalonia for independence – BBC publish article about Syrian child terrorist travelling to Spain the day before the Barcelona terror attack: As the flight is called, the Syrian boy runs through the few phrases of Spanish he’s learned. The authorities may ask him questions, and he’s travelling on a fake Spanish passport. It’s cost more than €3000, bought from a chain of people smugglers who helped him escape from Syria, to Turkey and now into Europe – ISIS claims links to attack – SITE run by ex-Mossad Rita Katz; on Amaq news website – is Rita Katz simply an Israeli Mossad agent? Was this Barcelona terror attack simply carried out by fascist cells killing Muslims? All prime suspects dead again, no trials. Operation Gladio explained.  Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong jailed for six months ;  Hong Kong political activist Howard Lam says Chinese agents drove staples into his legs over message to footballer Lionel Messi .  Iran could quit nuclear deal in ‘hours’ if US imposes new sanctions says Rouhani. Interview with Jim Marrs, a 9/11 conspiracy scholar, who died recently: official 9/11 story is a ridiculous and wild conspiracy theory; only ever skyscrapers that collapsed on themselves; Building 7; maintenance engineers said there were multiple explosions in building and basement; Pentagon theory; books he wrote ‘Rule by Secrecy’, ‘Inside Job and ‘The Terror Conspiracy Revisited’
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Friday 11th August 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: Labour councillor for Brislington West Harriett Bradley. Sociology; immigration – is it sustainable about 1m people net coming in every 3 years? Housing – planning; former Elizabeth Shaw chocolate factory to be housing – include affordable housing? – housing racket, property bubble;  Nearly 160,000 households, estimated at just under a quarter of a million people, are experiencing the worst forms of homelessness across Britain, with rough sleeping forecast to rise by 76 per cent in the next decade; extracts from ‘Diana In Her Own Words’ documentary on C4 highest ratings of the year so far – including the suspicious death of Barry Mannakee, her body guard, shortly after having an affair with Diana; EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Will Prince Charles pass the throne straight to William? – Was the bodyguard Diana fell in love with bumped off? – Various suspicious deaths around Prince Charles: March 2009 Jude Richmond, a florist to Royalty and others, and her disabled daughter, were found drowned in a Cotswold Water Park lake near their home – supposedly suicide. May/June 2009 Sarah Champier-Lowe – florist for Prince Charles – was sacked weeks after her husband David Lowe was found dead in an estuary, supposedly having committed suicide. December 2012 Jacintha Saldanha – nurse that took hoax call in hospital where Kate was being treated for severe morning sickness – she committed suicide. Could, Would, Should Prince Charles Let Will and Kate Take the British Throne?; Source Claims the Queen Plans to Crown William & Kate King & Queen; Newcastle sex ring – People care more about being called racist than preventing child abuse, says Rotherham’s Labour MP; Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in Bristol today but member only event, party apparatchiks keep ordinary people away; Filton and Bradley Stoke MP Jack Lopresti says we should join US if war declared on North Korea; rumours about South Africa selling off it’s nuclear weapons at end of apartheid – including some to N Korea; David Cameron’s Secret Nuclear Weapons Deal Raised £17.8m for Conservative Party Funds – Sets Pretext for War; who will be next Tory leader after Theresa May – Jacob Rees-Mogg? Tories back ‘none of the above’ in survey over which cabinet minister should succeed Theresa May. A minister told The Independent the survey shows it is time to look beyond the Cabinet for the next leader – Bristol library closures; Bristol MetroBus costs rise £10m to hit £230m.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Bullying, secrecy and cover-up as Tories race to kill the National Health Service (NHS) – Dr Charlotte Patterson, Sue Kilroe, Alan Condon. None of the 25 or so senior trustees or executives of United Hospitals Bristol (UHB) NHS trust were available to explain NHS changes. Interview with Charlotte Patterson, retired GP, and Sue Kilroe, retired Health Policy Advisor, from ‘Protect Our NHS’ – facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ProtectOurNHS/ about the government systematically destroying the NHS:  Tory government quietly doubles number of NHS properties it is selling off; profits made from ill health; culture of silence in NHS – whistle blowers discouraged and blacklisting;  huge Tory plans to save/cut £300m in NHS with no consultation;  what can we do? revolving doors between private and public sector.  Interview with Allyn Condon, who lost his son Ben, when he took him with a common virus to Bristol Children’s Hospital – when he went through the process of finding out what happened he found the story regularly changed and he realised the process was to cover the NHS’s back – not to help him. Please sign our petition calling on the Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt and the Government to investigate Bristol Children’s Hospital to hold neglectful parties responsible for Ben’s death and the subsequent cover up and ensure other families don’t suffer the way we have.  Email Mark at benjamincondon@outlook.com –  Trump and North Korea:  NBC report saying N Korea may have miniature nuclear weapons;  what Trump actually said – ‘fire and fury…..’ etc; Dr Michael Bevacqua on BBC 5Live – about Guam Island which is 1/3 US military facilities.  US starts building strategic Black Sea navy base to Ukraine. Will there be a Nuclear false flag attack which is then blamed on N Korea?  Putin braves cold waters as he strips down to the waist in Siberia fishing holiday.
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Friday 4th August 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 Bristol North West MP Darren Jones. Family not political, grew up in Lawrence Weston, went to Portway School, reflects on beginning work at the House of Commons. Finds it more difficult to follow the news now he’s an MP. Bristol University develop software to detect fake news which includes the BBC and Daily Telegraph. Social housing on Tuesday evening’s Channel 4 news: 300,000 chldren due to be evicted, ‘They treat tenants as a nuisance’, Author of ‘Ground Control’ Anna Minton, Tory member of the London Assembly for West Central Tony Devenish, Architect Kate Macintosh, C4 news social affairs editor Jackie Long 14,000 people on Bristol waiting list, where are shop doorways and tents in the housing ‘market’? Government must intervene in housing, stop gerrymandering, shipping Labour voters out. The Channel 4 documentary, ‘Diana: In Her Own Words’, will reveal private recordings of Princess Diana at her most unguarded. The sensitive 90-minute film will broadcast this Sunday August 6 at 8pm on Channel 4. – With a fairy tale royal wedding, a soap opera love triangle and a tragic death that broke hearts around the world, Princess Diana’s story is still one of the most fascinating and scandalous in British history. –  Bristol’s newest MP Darren Jones says Tony Blair is his political hero on BBC Radio 5 Live – but is it a controversial choice?  New Bristol North West Labour MP Darren Jones: ‘I didn’t expect to win’  History’s lessons: from Bristol’s slave trade past to today’s debt & wage slavery, Mark Steeds’ proposal for a Welsh Back Bristol Slavery History Hub planned for the last two dockside buildings there by Redcliffe Bridge. Exhibition on history and culture of Bristol North West constituency, Mike Walker, Bristol Omnibus Collection: privatisation of Bristol Omnibus Company Bristol Tramways and Carriageways Company, ran through Bristol Joint Services, Bristol Tramways and Bristol City Council shared management. Up to 1986, bus operator would have to go to public enquiry to put fares up and services became unprofitable like railways before the Beeching axe in the 1960s. Darren supportsd municipal bus company. British Gas raises electricity prices by 12.5%. Experts fear rise will prompt another round of increases after Centrica sanctions average annual dual fuel bill rise of 7.3% to £1,120. Sleeper agent’ Kieran Maxwell, Royal Marine who made bombs for Irish republicans had 300 government and military targets as police admit his arsenal of mines, mortars and drugs are STILL hidden in tunnels around the UK. Royal Marine built bombs for the Continuity IRA at his grandmother’s house. He constructed 14 pipe bombs and two mines and could have built 19 more. The 31-year-old became the first marine to be jailed for UK terrorism offences. Judge jails him for 18 years, telling him he had betrayed his fellow marines – Army could be needed in prisons – former governor – A former prison governor says the government should consider calling in the Army to restore order in prisons. – Speaking to BBC Newsnight, Ian Acheson admitted the suggestion was “radical” and “controversial” but said “the risks of doing nothing are simply too high”. – 1972 Bank of England director “We control all press & politicians”. Justin Walker, Harry Pilkington – UK heading for a ‘smooth Brexit’ Mark Carney finally admits economy is NOT set to collapse, Mark Carney has reiterated the Bank of England’s belief that Britain is heading towards a “smooth” Brexit in 2019, despite downgrading its GDP forecast for this year and next. – Editing the human genome brings us one step closer to consumer eugenics. Hijacked by the free market, human gene editing will lead to greater social inequality by heading where the money is: ‘designer babies’. 
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Second hour: Investigative reports:  Now looks like the Military is going to take care of the usa government. They tried nice guys on the media but NOW 4 star General will be speaking with authority.. He is put in office today 7-31-18 – Ken Livingstone: Venezuela crisis due to Chávez’s failure to kill oligarchs. Ex-London mayor says wealthy families using power over trade to undermine Hugo Chávez’s successor, Nicolás Maduro – after the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9/11 The United States ruling class want to take over the world – how WWIII would start, a flashpoint between Russia and the US in the Middle East or Eastern Europe, followed by full scale war China coming in on the side of the Russians – China opens first overseas base in Djibouti (Bab Al Mandab opposite Aden, Yemen) – General John Kelly talks about human rights work as part of Southern Command SouthCom part of their plan to take over the world?? Pale face speak with forked tongue. What is US military doing in South America – Russia: US sanctions tantamount to trade war – US declare political war on Russia, ex-US senate foreign policy adviser James Jatras – Suppressing Press TV is deplorable – Ofcom should restore its licence now – sraeli PM Netanyahu under investigation for bribery. An Israeli court has said that two police investigations involving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could result in corruption charges. Prosecutors are also believed to be in talks with one of Netanyahu’s former top aides about testifying against him. Iran election and Qatar crisis set Middle East on edge as Saudi Arabia seeks to extend its influence. The US in particular must strike a difficult balance in a region going through a volatile period. Kim Sengupta reports from Tehran – Amnesty report details Tehran’s crackdown against rights activists. The report, titled “Caught in a web of repression: Iran’s human rights defenders under attack,” details how scores of activists — often labeled “foreign agents” and “traitors” by state media — have been prosecuted and jailed on spurious “national security” charges. The report highlights 45 cases, including anti-death penalty campaigners, women’s rights activists, trade unionists, minority rights activists, human rights lawyers, and activists seeking truth, justice and reparation for mass extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances in the 1980s. Saudi Arabia has asked a US judge to dismiss the lawsuits that hold Riyadh responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks and seek damages for the victims. Lawyers representing Saudi Arabia made the request in papers filed with Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, arguing that the plaintiffs had so far failed to generate sufficient evidence to subject the kingdom to the $100-billion lawsuits. Where is World War Three most likely to break out? William Stuart’s book The Invisible College series has just been launched: 9.11 to Armageddon covers the planning and the steps taken to launch us into WWIII.  Collapse of World Trade Centre Building 7.
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