Friday 1st June 2018

BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling

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

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First hour: news review: with cabinet member for Transport, Connectivity, Labour councillor for Eastville Mhairi Threlfall – also Lib Dem councillor for Central ward Mark Wright. Smart cities – Bristol now has smart sewers – smart meters – VISA payment disruption hits Europe. Pompeii’s Final Hours: the new evidence – Metrobus finally with us launched on Tuesday – cashless – Ashton Vale to City Centre and Temple Meads – guide rail is in the wrong place – lies from the council – South Bristol link road route has been dropped – Hengrove now not linked to the airport – West of England Metrobus team – First Bus have only taken on the M1, M2 and M3 Metrobus route – working with Karin Smyth MP to get the the South Bristol link route up and running – conflict of interest between First Bus’ bus and Metrobus routes. So they don’t want to run a Metrobus on routes where it will compete with their existing bus routes. Metro Mayor is against London-style bus franchising. Combined authority planning region’s transport but the wrong kind of franchising system. First Bus m-ticket app doing data mining, disastrous reviews on Google Play. Snagging issue – Use Travel West Card from i-points and bus which. Travellers in Greenbank View: Threat to Bristol’s ‘van-dwellers’ as council and police draw up enforcement policy. Interviews with neighbour Alva and Travellers David who lives in a vehicle and Sam in a canal boat. Helen Holland bins and toilets. Greenbank View is the epicentre of the Bristol housing crisis since squatting residential property. Outsiders have been causing trouble, squatting was a safety valve, they’ve taken it away. Travellers now have no political clout because they generally don’t vote. They propose several sites across the city that travellers can move around to. The problem is growing but the eviction is just moving the problem elsewhere. Anonymous Afghan refugee has been housed by St Mungo’s in Kensington House, St George but many other residents are using crack cocaine and heroin and alcohol and serous mental problems which is an extremely dangerous environment for vulnerable people.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: The resurrection of Ukrainian journalist Arkady Babchenko – Geoffery Dickens MP and UK Satanic Ritual Abuse. Shooting down of MH17 – track record of engaging – want to steer west into confrontation with the Russians – Maidan Square shootings – Ukrainian authorities have identified the Ukrainian citizen accused of being recruited by Russia’s secret services to organize a murder plot against self-exiled Russian reporter and Kremlin critic Arkady Babchenko. In a Kyiv courtroom on May 31, prosecutors accused Borys Herman of overseeing the alleged Russian plot. Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) says it thwarted the planned killing by working together with Babchenko to fake his death. Herman’s lawyer, Yevhen Solodko, confirmed that Herman was the director of a Ukrainian-German arms manufacturer called Schmeisser, describing the firm as the only nonstate arms-production enterprise in Ukraine. North Korea talks on/off but serious problem with different interpretation of term ‘denuclearsation’ of the Korean peninsula. Proxy diplomatic war between Beijing and Washington. Fragile VISA card payment system has a ‘glitch’ or is it a deliberate exercise by the banksters? Visa outage as millions of customers left unable to use bank cards across UK and Europe. Customers have reportedly been left unable to make chip and pin payments across the UK and Ireland. Labour warns Chancellor against further sell-off of RBS shares amid reports he would accept a significant loss. Philip Hammond rumoured to be planning to offload £3bn in stock, resulting in a multi-billion-pound loss for the taxpayer. Italian and Spanish political crises: What is the economic significance of the political turmoil in Spain and Italy? Some argue that the eurozone crisis is back. Are they right? US-Backed SDF Warns Assad Can’t Recover Territory Through Military Action. Spokesman: Offensives will lead to more losses and destruction. Responding to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s talk of forcibly expelling US forces from the country, and ultimately reuniting all of its territory under government control, the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said there would be no way Syria could recover their territory by military action. Geoffery Dickens MP burgled after handing paedophile dossier to Leon Brittan: Geoffrey Dickens, who handed the lost paedophile dossier to Leon Brittan in 1983, had two ‘very professional’ intrusions soon after, his son says. Child abuse files lost at Home Office spark fears of cover-up. Calls for ‘overarching, Hillsborough-style’ inquiry as it emerges that a total of 114 documents are missing from official records. Reflections And Warnings – An Interview With Aaron Russo.
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Friday 25th May 2018

BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling

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

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First hour: news review: with LibDems Gary Hopkins and Graham Douglas – By-election in Westbury-on-Trym; big issues in well-off Westbury-on-Trym and Henleaze; Colston Hall;  libraries closing; Bristol opposition groups unite to condemn Labour power grab – ways in which the power grab has happened and what has changed – Mayoral System problems – Cabinet Government; Labour sees proposed changes to Bristol City Council constitution passed amid onslaught of criticism over ‘power grab’. But the opposition did defeat Labour on plans to make the Lord Mayor a directly elected position and the party made a ‘u-turn’ on another proposal – Bristol Energy and Bristol Waste problems; potential illegal pay off of ex Bristol Chief Exec. Anna Klonowski – lack of transparency; protest against Universal Credit organised by Unite Community – Unite Community rallies in Bristol against Universal Credit across Britain – Kate discusses how her ESA and housing benefit was cancelled, saved from utter despair by her mother with a £300.00 bailout – Universal Credit failings – homelessness increase – Justin Thomas from PCS Union wants Social Security, and his staff to be trained properly not sacked; Ken Livingstone resigns from Labour Party: Ken Livingstone shockingly hints at RETURN to Labour Party within ‘COUPLE of YEARS’ – 1933 Haavara Agreement where Hitler did deals with Zionist Jews in the 1930s is a historical fact: The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine – his leaving speech;  Boris Johnson wants his own private Jet – prank call where Boris believed he was talking to Armenian PM.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: MH17 and Afghanistan: NATO allies re-blame Russia for downing of Malaysian airliner, most likely shot down by their Ukrainian fascist air force chums – Netherlands and Australia say Russia responsible for shooting down passenger plane MH17 – shot down by planes or Buk missile? Ukrainian pilot blamed for MH17 ‘kills himself’: Capt Vladyslav Voloshyn was blamed for the crash by Russian media and officials – anomalies of investigation – Andriy Parubiy: EXCLUSIVE: ‘Shoot at All Targets on Maidan’: New Evidence of Georgian Snipers – Bellingcat: Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat, Who is He? Everything You Need to Know – Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty cold war propaganda stations plug the NATO view. North Korea – summit cancelled by the United States just after Kim Jong-Un publicly demolished their nuclear testing sites, Trump pulls out of Singapore North Korea nuclear talks. Israel attacks Syria again aiding its ISIS proxies, trying to provoke war. Iraq elections – what Al-Sadr wants and his opinions.  Interview with Lucy Morgan-Edwards – worked in Afghanistan and saw it before and after 9/11 and then became a freelance Journalist: US – Afghanistan as a military base; US Neo-Conservative projects; Architects and Engineers for 9/11 truth; 9/11 Commission Report farce; NIST report; Operation Mockingbird, CIA take control of the mass media through owners, managers and ‘agents of influence’: Later that year [1948] Wisner established Mockingbird, a program to influence the domestic American media. Wisner recruited Philip Graham (Washington Post) to run the project within the industry. Graham himself recruited others who had worked for military intelligence during the war. This included James Truitt, Russell Wiggins, Phil Geyelin, John Hayes and Alan Barth. Others like Stewart Alsop, Joseph Alsop and James Reston, were recruited from within the Georgetown Set. According to Deborah Davis, the author of Katharine the Great (1979) : “By the early 1950s, Wisner ‘owned’ respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles.”; Academia and funding by big business; Justice Against Sponsors of Terror Act;  Lawyers Committee for 9/11 Inquiry; dodgy financial transactions pre 9/11; complicity of main stream media covering up 9/11; false flag bombs in Afghanistan; SITE intelligence and ISIS/Al Qaeda; her book ‘The Afghan Solution: The Inside Story of Abdul Haq, the CIA and How Western Hubris Lost Afghanistan. Iran should pay £6bn to victims of 9/11 – as they allegedly trained the 9/11 hijackers.  US stabilisation programme in Afghanistan a £5bn failure.

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Friday 4th May 2018

BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling

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

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First hour: news review: with Labour councillor for St George Troopers Hill Fabian Breckles. Local elections – disappointing for Labour? – anti-Semitism – media against Corbyn; election results;  Metrobus – up and running soon – TERRIBLE rating on Google Play for First Bus M-Ticket App – it just doesn’t work – cancelled sections e.g. not going to parkway – mistakes.  Outsourcing troubles: CAPITA, CARILLION, INTERSERVE and SERCO – Capita says it’s no Serco — whatever the rights and wrongs – profit warnings hidden; Capita top brass in line for turnaround bonus worth £10m – and it could be rise to a lot more;  Interserve about to collapse – Interserve landed with £40m bill from accountants and consultants; Lord mayor Lesley Alexander presides over Kafkaesque, shambolic Extraordinary Full Council Meeting to appoint senior council executive Mike Jackson on a salary of £165,000; PMQs Corbyn – with Tories you pay more and get less – 21,000 less police and 20% increase in crime in ONE YEAR Lawless London: murder rate soars by 44% & knife crime is up by over 20% in ONE YEAR  – – poverty – underfunding of Labour areas by Tory central gov.; ‘Defensive’, ‘fudged pledges’ and ‘divorced from reality’ – This is how opposition parties view Marvin Rees’ first two years ;  Bristol Audit – unelected now;  PMQs Universal Credit problems – fiasco; Vulnerable, sick and hungry: these devastating testimonies of people on Universal Credit are being used to fight Esther McVey’s benefits department in Court – PMQs – waiting two and three hours for an ambulance – Gov. deliberately destroying NHS – austerity and media reporting; PMQs sacked Home Secretary Amber Rudd pays tribute to the UK’s out-of-control Anti-Terrorist police.
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A reminder on #WorldPressFreedomDay that UK this year fell to 40th place in @pressfreedom indexhttps://t.co/OyJInsCIDi
The index measures ability of media to hold power to account. But how much lower UK would rank if it measured not only ability, but also willingness to do so

— Charles Shoebridge (@ShoebridgeC) May 3, 2018

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Second hour: Investigative reports: Elections in Lebanon – have to keep all factions happy – outside actors.  Erdogan – snap election – power grab? – US led coup backfiring – Turkey swing state – NATO – Erdogan buying Russian missiles.  Britain going to build anti-Russia alliance – Military Industrial Complex needs an enemy – John Stockwell book ‘In Search of Enemies’ – Putin defends Russia’s interests.  Theresa May says Skripal case definitely Russian state sponsored – or false flag event? – psychological warfare – geopolitics of situation – media changing opinions.  ‘The Media on Trial’ events around country – event cancelled by Leeds City Council – speakers are Venessa Beeley, Patrick Henningson – 20^th Century Wire, Peter Ford – Pro Assad British Syrian Society, Craig Murray – www.craigmurray.org.uk – Facebook and Twitter ‘shadow banning’ from social media. Michael Tyler – Google war algorithm.  Diamonds in the Cesspool – news websites that are good – How US news channels always report the same news, without checking facts  – then complain of social media always reporting the same ‘fake’ news, without checking facts.  Oligarchy vs democracy – are leaders picked? Democracies in UK, US, and Israel compared. US Special Operations troops in Yemen –  www..antiwar.com   also mass drone murder by West in Yemen and explosion in Afghanistan story – Weapons and medical supplies from Israeli intelligence to rebels in Syria?  MoD accidentally reveals British drones firing thermobaric missiles in Syria.  1994 speech by Anton Chatkin about the Freemasons and the British empire.
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