Friday 11th October 2019

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

BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling with Irish Republican Labour activist Martin Summers

February 2019 Ofcom complaint result: UKLFI exposed as creation of Israeli foreign ministry – Bristol Post article: BCfm cleared after being reported to Ofcom for anti-semitic conspiracy theories

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First hour news review: Guests: prospective parliamentary candidate Dawn Westcott from the Brexit Party; Kevin Cahill, author and journalist; Paul Hazelden from Bristol Homeless Forum (Jonathan Lee from Crisis Centre Ministries declined to appear or to give a statement on the three-fold rise in Bristol’s homeless deaths, saying the news story was ‘too raw’) Ben Richie from Bristol Housing Action Movement (BHAM) who do legal support work for squatters; Matthew Montagu-Pollock from Bristol Against Tower Blocks who have been looking at Labour mayor Marvin Rees’ mission to ‘build up’ on parks near Hotwells, the Western Harbour’, Bedminster and elsewhere in the city. Brexit – EU not democratic and too centralised.

Bristol has most homeless deaths outside London – up by a 1/3– what is cause of this? Strong communities on the streets; squatting and legalities, empty buildings; problems with tower blocks; veterans on the streets; A sanitised version of Question Time with Labour mayor Marvin Rees; Facebook live discussion with Marvin – plans for the Western Harbour Development at Hotwells; Bristol Sleep Out – with the homeless – Bristol Homeless Forum; numbers of homeless people much higher than registered; solutions to homeless problem around £20,000 could get all Bristol’s street homeless off the streets. Brexit looms, or does it? Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn says a No Deal Brexit at the end of this month will drive our country off a cliff edge and bring on an economic crash? EU say UK must pay billions even with a no deal Brexit.
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Second hour Investigative reports: Interview with @ David Hencke, freelance journalist, about VIP paedophile scandal and his research into notorious bed and breakfast Elm Guest House in Barnes, South West London, in the 1980s. Elm Guest House’s bisexual owners toleration of gay couples was a cover for child sexual abuse, particularly of young boys from a nearby state children’s home Grafton Lodge Children’s Home in Grafton Close, Barnes, near Richmond, London – Operation Fernbridge and David’s investigations – Chris Fay’s list of people coming and going from Elm Guest House was not ‘definitive’ – but police say Cyril Smith MP was definitely there; Elm Guest House & Richmond Press Cuttings, 1982-present – A Chronology With thanks to the Exaro team and murun buchstansangur at spotlightonabuse

Difficulties for journalists working on VIPaedophile stories; child sex abuse survivor Carl Beech who was recently jailed for perverting the course of justice and why his eighteen year sentence is so long;  successes of some non VIP prosecutions drowned out by Beech being ‘discredited’ in court; paedophiles Jimmy Savile and Bishop Peter Ball both had close ties to royal family who are the crown prosecution service responsible for prosecuting crimes – cover up close to the top;

former Tory MP and convicted sex offender Harvey Proctor walks out of a TV interview this week; Why is London Jewish ‘socialite’ and child sex trafficker Ghislane Maxwell still walking the streets? Mysterious death of Carole Kasir who owned Elm Guest House, doctor said at her inquest that she was unlikely to commit suicide; Bisexual Lord and ‘roving’ Lady Mountbatten now also believed to have been ‘sex criminals’ in their time; Kincora boys home scandal in Northern Ireland – information about sexual abuse there still not allowed to be released;  how to legally proceed with claims; websites Westminster Confidential at davidhencke.com

Bristol’s first Hong Kong protests – Phoenix and Molly, Hong Kong students studying at Bristol University, discuss first protests here, why Hong Kongers are so upset with their treatment by the Chinese authorities and are just fighting for a fair democracy and freedoms China wants to take a way such as through ‘reeducation camps’ and the social credit system which scores individuals electronically by how they behave and can restrict their job prospects and travel rights – Bristol Chinese community organise counter-demonstration waving Chinese flags – follow Bristol_HK on Instagram. 

SYRIA: Turkey, the Kurds and NATO explained by daughter of former UK ambassador to Syria Vanessa Beeley – Withdrawal of US troops from Syria: mass media say it’s terrible but is it? US withdrawal from N Syria, explained by @VanessaBeeley: Since Monday we’ve seen vast misreporting of the NE Syria situation – Turkey, a NATO member state, is challenging NATO by attacking U.S proxy forces occupying the region: Kurdish contras & the SDF. Donald Trump answers questions at Wednesday press conference.

Double-missile attack on Iranian oil tanker heading for Syria. 
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Friday 4th October 2019

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

BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling with Irish Republican Labour activist Martin Summers

February 2019 Ofcom complaint result: UKLFI exposed as creation of Israeli foreign ministry – Bristol Post article: BCfm cleared after being reported to Ofcom for anti-semitic conspiracy theories

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First hour news review: Mayoral system and Lib Dems pledge to scrap it; Thomas Cook going down – anything to do with Brexit? – business owners paying themselves huge bonuses before their business fails – putting others out of pocket; Bristol Quality of Life Survey results; will there be more or less jobs in Bristol engineering after Brexit? Uncertainty of Brexit affecting business;

Johnson explaining his new Brexit backstop agreement; Good Friday Agreement calls for army bases on border to be dismantled, not entire border – The agreement states that “the development of a peaceful environment… can and should mean a normalisation of security arrangements and practices.”The government committed to “as early a return as possible to normal security arrangements in Northern Ireland, consistent with the level of threat”. That included “the removal of security installations”; DUP given a bung and bought off by Tory Party? Backstop not necessary – examples of other borders; Corbyn on new backstop agreement;

Poll 48% No Deal vs. 35% Corbyn in power; 48% vs. 35% – UK voters prefer no deal Brexit to Jeremy Corbyn in Number 10 poll reveals – NEW RESEARCH suggests that UK voters would much rather have a no deal Brexit compared to Jeremy Corbyn being in Downing Street. Thangham Debonair, Bristol Labour MP, discussing when an election may be; revoke Article 50 petition in Bristol;

Homeless deaths tripled. The number of homeless people dying on the streets has risen by more than a fifth in the past year, according to the Office for National Statistics. The total deaths in the West Country has tripled in the past five years. The South West has the highest rate of deaths amongst rough sleepers outside of London. In Bristol alone, seventeen people died in 2018 – a significant rise on the year before – 88% of deaths were men in 2018. – local homeless charities, austerity;

Meghan’s letter to father printed in Mail – and subsequent court case; Harry’s speech in Africa; Revealed: The handwritten letter showing true tragedy of Meghan’s rift with father she says has ‘broken her heart into a million pieces’ – and why he feels forced to make the ‘devastating’ missive public  – Thomas Markle reveals full content of letter written to him by daughter Meghan. The Duchess of Sussex penned the anguish letter in response to public attacks  – Mr Markle, however, insists that Meghan’s letter is actually far from conciliatory.  He is speaking up after five friends of the Duchess gave anonymous interviews –

Stage managed Q and A session with Marvin Rees; Scotland bans smacking of children. Scotland passes law banning parents smacking children 
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Second hour Investigative reports: Trump talking to Zelensky, Ukraine President, on phone, about Biden: Here is the dirt Trump wanted from Zelensky about the Bidens and why Zelensky doesn’t want to give it to him — hidden by rampant falsehoods in the press September 28, 2019 by Eric Zuesse for The Saker Blog; Trump discussing his conversation with Zelensky and putting the transcript out. CIA – Intelligence Services too powerful.

Tom Wright, author of ‘Billion Dollar Whale’ about the 1MDB scandal in Malaysia, discusses this on BBC World Service: Jho Low, from 1MDB investment bank, worked with Najib Razak, PM of Malaysia, stealing huge amounts of money; murder of Kevin Morais; ‘Wolves of Wall Street’ film financed by money. PM of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, speech at UN conference – by what laws are sanctions applied? PM of Pakistan, Imran Khan, speech at UN conference – since 9/11 70,000 Pakistanis killed – trying to build bridges with surrounding countries.

New film out about GCHQ whistle blower Catherine Gunn ‘Official Secrets’ – she outed false information being used to start war with Iraq. Trailer  In 2003, Gun was working as a translator of Mandarin at the government intelligence agency, GCHQ, in Cheltenham. She was 27. The country, at the time, was being drummed into war by the Blair government, desperate to achieve the United Nations’ sanction for the imminent American-led invasion of Iraq. In January that year, Katharine Gun was copied into a classified memo sent to GCHQ by a senior figure in the NSA, its US equivalent. The memo was a top-secret request to monitor the private communication of UN delegates for scraps of information, personal or otherwise, that could be used to “give the US an edge” in leveraging support for the invasion. Katharine Gun leaked that memo to the Observer, in the belief that the revelation of the proposed bugging and blackmail tactics might be enough to stop the war. 

SUPERBRAINS SERIES 4 Anton Chaitkin – for Black History Month: Anton Chaitkin discussing the British starting the ‘Black Legend’ and the comparing of cultures Hollywood’s role in spreading the Spanish black legend. A new book explores how movies have emphasized negative aspects of Spain’s imperial past while playing down Anglo-American wrongdoing, often to support a political cause. Witney Webb discussing Jeffrey Epstein’s link to blackmailing tech giants silicone valley and intelligence.  
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