Friday 23rd March 2018

BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling

As of February 2018 the show starts at 6pm, not 5pm. Is this inconvenient? Contact BCfm C.E.O. Pat Hart, and/or Tony

At six – discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After seven – straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers

Listen live http://www.bcfmradio.com/player or http://stream.bcfmradio.com:7017/live.mp3

BCfm audio files usually available 30mins, Radio4All 3/4hrs, after TX
Any probs mp3s should be on alternative links below by then

First hour: news review: Bristol Arena – with LibDem councillor for Cotham Anthony Negus – where is it going to be and do we need one? Behind Temple Meads – Parks – money making schemes and ideas to keep parks alive; what is Council under Marvin like? Cuts; libraries; Skripal case in Salisbury; Punk Paul’s plaque taken down from Bearpit by Bristol City Council – Bearpit Improvement Group was being run by Chris Chalkley and PRSC – but Council has taken licence from his group due to ‘criminal allegations’ against the homeless there – Bristol 24/7 interviewed Chris and others but failed to quote his views in their article, Bristol 24/7 owners and editors have a corporate anti-poor, anti-homeless agenda – Chris Chalkley discusses; Nana Kwaku Anyemang aka Balagun is in Bristol and giving a talk about activism in the black community at Malcolm X, next Wednesday 28th March, 7pm, about remembering the Bristol black uprising in 1980s and looking to the future for black communities – interview with Nana – racism in police in 1980s – Beechen Cliff school in Bath where they had a mock slave auction of a black schoolboy; PMQs – Jeremy Corbyn asks about schools and public services collapsing but Theresa May just replies about unemployment figures being down.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: First of two interviews from the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents’ Club (FCC): Ahed Tamimi: Palestinian slap video teen gets eight months in plea deal – John Bolton is new US Head of Security  – a strong neo-con warmonger; Gina Haskell is new head of CIA – pro torture; DNC hacker ‘Guccifer 2.0’ was reportedly confirmed as a Russian agent after forgetting to conceal his identity online – CIA capable of pretending to be others mimicking IP address – emails about Democrats to Wikileaks; Cambridge Analytica fiasco – SCL is parent company and also Palantir – much bigger players involved in Data Mining and working with governments on psychological warfare and influencing events;  PMQs Strategic Communication Labs as parent company – Tory funding and connections to StratCom Labs; Craig Murray’s article ‘The Deep State Breaks Surface’; Ian Austin MP, Labour, persuades Boris Johnson in likening Putin to Hitler;  Theresa May discussing EU agreeing on Russia’s culpability in Skripal poisoning – EU sends Russian Ambassador home; Evidence for Russia’s guilt? – Novichok or ‘some similar agent’ used – Porton Down has a copy of Novichok says ex army officer who used to work there; Vladyslav Voloshyn MH17 pilot ‘kills himself’; Campaigners and victims of political policing withdrew en masse from the Mitting Inquiry today, frustrated at the judge’s insistence on protecting the identity of police officers involved in deceptive relationships and infiltration of the Lawrence campaign. Undercover officers need protection from Greenpeace? You’re joking – Anonymity for the police is a privilege. I was undercover for years and can see this privilege is being abused in the spycops inquiry – Interview with David O Rear, a Journalist from Hong Kong:  economy failure after Hong Kong independence;  50 year deal  – how are China and Hong Kong going to merge;  freedom of press in Hong Kong; future for Christianity? Middle East and opinions of China and US; President Xi speak – criticising leaders; Umbrella Protests; changes in China in last/next 30 years;  Asian billionaires. David O’Rear moved from his native California to Asia in 1980, to Hong Kong where he worked in the areas of economic, political and business conditions analysis. After 18 years with The Economist Group, he accepted the post of Chief Economist at the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce in 2002. In 2015, he resigned to follow his wife to London, where he exercises his analytical skills on a more ad-hoc basis. David is a regular commentator on current events in print and electronic media.
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