Friday 12th January 2018

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 Redland and sacked cabinet member for Energy and Waste, Fi Hance. Breaking up of joint party Bristol Council cabinet – Mayor Marvin’s ‘thin skin’;  Bristol Council’s Energy and Waste committee and Health and Well Being committee; ‘transformation’ means cuts – Bristol Council cuts – top staff leaving and being pushed off Bristol Council;  Rough sleepers in Bristol city centre told to move belongings or have them taken away;  photographing in Bristol’s City Centre – what is the law? – public and private spaces –  Officer Ellis and his friends part of Kingdom litter enforcers – Anna Minton’s book ‘Ground Control’ – ‘It’s really shocking’: UK cities refusing to reveal extent of pseudo-public spaceTheresa May’s Botched Cabinet Reshuffle Confirms PM’s Weakness – Hunt wouldn’t go, Justine Greening refused to take Work and Pensions post;  Esther McVey took Work and Pensions post –  interview with her by Tony Livesey on BBC 5Live about disabled people;  NHS patients dying in hospital corridors, A&E doctors tell Theresa May; PMQs PIP claims and disability – Triangle Website7 comments by Esther McVey that led her to be called an ‘alarming’ choice for Tory benefits chief – she got rid of Remploy;  PMQs Corbyn – NHS and 55,000 operations cancelled; Jeremy Hunt co-authored book ‘Direct Democracy’ about privatising NHS; NHS ‘no longer able to meet standards in its constitution’, health boss tells Jeremy Hunt; PMQs less people want to be teachers – too much testing in schools; Grenfell fire: KPMG quits inquiry amid conflict of interest furore; interview with Joe Delaney from Grenfell Action Group – bloggers that predicted fire in 2016 – only c. £2,000 saved by Tory councillor Rock Feilding-Mellen on non fire-resistant cladding; Joe (@JoeDaFoneUK) recommends these links by and for Grenfell Tower survivors: Grenfell Action Group@GrenfellConnect – THis Is North Kensington – Lancaster West Estate – Unaccountable Policing around the shadow of Grenfell Tower – UCL to investigate eugenics conference secretly held on campus.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Israel air strikes and missile barrage designed to show it is still a player in Syria as Assad nears victoryRussian army repels attack by 13 militant drones, designed to look ‘home made’ on its Syrian compounds – MoDRussia knows who staged drone and ground attacks on Syrian base & it’s not Turkey says Putin – Russia says it has eliminated Syria rebels who attacked its baseUS spy plane circled between Russian airbase & port facility during Syria drone attack –  Xi Jinping tells army not to fear death in show of China’s military mightHow hackers could trigger nuclear war: Warning weapons that rely on new technology are vulnerable to cyber-attacks – Chatham House report – hackers could trigger WW3;  House of Saud: A Family at War Trailer – new documentary series by Mike Rudin – problems with Saudi Arabia;  Netanyahu’s son boasts of father’s gas deal at strip club  – Netanyahu and corruption,  Israeli government bots influencing social media, losing job if critical of Israel.  Testimony of William Black, an ex-regulator of banks in 2008 – how he was stopped regulating properly. KPMG: former mayor Ferguson had a KPMG volunteer;  they are working in Bristol City Council mayor’s office with Mayor Marvin Rees – and auditing Bristol Arena; Accountancy Control Fraudcrooked auditors, oligopoly of auditors PWC, unregulated auditors are not paid to tell the truth; PWC auditors banned in India – prosecuted in China, Hong Kong, and South Africa; NO ACTION against corrupt auditors! Greatest war criminals – Tony Blair: Martin’s podcast about Crimea history of Crimea war, tensions with Russia; George Michael on BBC Hard Talk in 2003 – on Tony Blair going to war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Frances Leader from Frack News discusses infiltration into political groups by: 1. police, 2. big business, 3. homeless, 4. lonely 5. media actors – Pitchford enquiry what to watch forUS Communist Party was massively infiltrated and destroyed by FBI agentsDonald Trump cancels February visit to UKDonald Trump denies using word ‘s***hole’ in Oval Office immigration meeting as senator present claims he did so ‘repeatedly’. Israeli racist settlers given permission to build 122 new homesAssange to be made citizen of Ecuador.  Treasury – Trump says okay for now but more Iran sanctions coming – Iran protests – Zero Hedge
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Friday 5th January 2018

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: with Labour councillor for St George Trooper’s Hill Fabian Breckles and former Bristol Mayor candidate John Langley. Jack Lopresti to call his son Brexit5,000 Bristol children could have free school meals taken away under new government plansA&E doctor apologises for ‘third world conditions’ at his hospital – gov. deliberately wanting NHS to fail?;  Conservative party’s refusal to admit plunging membership numbers is embarrassing, says Grant Shapps – dwarfed by trade union membership;  Labour calls on Tories to sack council leader who demanded homeless people be removed for royal wedding – he said homelessness ‘a voluntary choice’ – Universal Credit and homelessness;  Key part of Universal Credit benefit has quietly closed – what it could mean for youNHS winter crisis: Nearly 17,000 patients forced to wait more than half an hour in ambulances, show figuresNHS extends suspension of all non-urgent care as doctors warn of winter crisis – Officials estimate this could lead to up to 55,000 deferred operations; getting deficit down and austerity policy;  Bristol City Council faces almost £7million tax deficit – The council is looking to save £108 million by 2023 – Bristol businesses fighting cases against business rates; PMQs Tory criticism of John McDonnell borrowing trillions; Bristol Arena – is it going to happen? John Marriott, former civil engineer, discusses the problems, faster trains mean lowering capacity, they take too long to slow down and stop, no such thing as 250mph trains, not enough power in the electricity supply, stations not in city centres, only demand for one in severnteen seats on Birmingham to Manchester HS2 trains, flawed costs and engineering with HS2; Public Accounts Committee says HS2 lacks basic financial controls – cost of HS2 £111bn;  Toby Young quotes on breasts, eugenics and working-class people; Death of The Bristolian writer and social justice activist Steve Norman – his close colleague in ‘Homes For All’ John Langley offers a tribute to him.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: US ‘ignited’ Los Alamos bomb with Nazi nuclear know-how, Manfred Petritsch 2018 geopolitical analysis. Steve Bannon’s ‘Fire and Fury’ book about Trump: is Trump unwell and not up to the job? Guardian writer Michael Wolff infiltrated the White house to write Fire and Fury. Why did Trump trust him to? Rebecca Mercer, who funds Breitbart, and her hedge fund husband Rebecca Mercer married to Morgan Stanley man Sylvain Mirochnikoff, the ‘blow it all up billionaire’ couple, backed both Trump and Bannon; Trump on Twitter; Russia and Trump family. Protests in Iran: 1 policeman dead, 3 shot and 15 protesters dead; Fake news ‘bomb attack’ on Iranian pipeline in Baluchistan that never happened. Some pictures tweeted from Bahrain protests;  benefits taken away for poorer people in Iran; MEK – connections with Western Intelligence Services;  elections in Iran: Just who has been killing Iran’s nuclear scientists? – Anti-Netanyahu corruption Israel protests – every weekend – Netanyahu faces charges of corruption – apartheid bill and Palestinians seen as 2nd class citizens: Jewish Nation-State Bill: Israel’s Precarious Identity Is Palestine’s Nightmare. In some way, Israel behaves as if Palestinian Arabs – Christian or Muslim – do not exist. – Dozens of MEPs urge Israel to abandon ‘Jewish nation-state’ bill – Middle East Monitor.  Yemen: Saleh killed and split in Houthis; is Iran involved? Blockade. Interview with Manfred Petritsch who does ‘All Smoke and Mirrors’ Alles Schall Und Rauch blog: Nazis role in developing nuclear weapons and co-operated – geo-politics for 2018; BRICS in Pakistan – 1.5 m Afghan refugees to be sent back over next month; Could Pakistan eject 1.5m Afghan refugees over Trump tweet? Pakistan’s Asymmetrical Response To Trump Is A Clever Way To Flip The Tables On Afghanistan; no drones to be used in Pakistan – US gives Pakistan lots of Aid; Manfred discusses EU and Bilderberg – Nazis didn’t disappear after WW2, they just changed their tactics from military to economic.  ‘Confessions of an Economic Hitman’ – John Perkins discusses West trying to get rid of Saddam Hussein in IraqBreak up of former Yugoslavia by Germans and the US? James Blisset, former Canadian Ambassador to Yugoslavia, thinks this is the case and the US was behind it.  Charles Manson dies – Anton Chatkin discusses how ‘The Process – Church of the Final Judgement’ came to US from UK and Manson joined it. Anton Chaitkin is the son of Jacob Chaitkin, the legal cousel and strategist for the Boycott against Nazi Germany carried on by the American Jewish Congress in the 1930s.
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