Friday 17th April 2015

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

First hour: News review with Cllrs Hibaq Jama (Labour), Christian Martin (Liberal Democrats) and Martin Fodor (Conservatives): Why should you vote? Differences between Lib Dems and Tories; Greens membership highest in Bristol and rising, nationally 60,000; Avon and Somerset police – cuts, 600 less officers than five years ago say the Avon & Somerset Police Federation, Labour would scrap Avon & Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner which costs £3,000,000 annually; traffic congestion in Bristol has improved – public transport, residents parking, road works; £200m Metrobus – will it make a difference? £13m to fix pot holes; Tory ‘right to buy’ plan for housing association tenants – radical individualism – housing crisis, more council housing needed; Bristol Arena – to cost in excess of £110m, inequality; migrant boat capsizes off Libya killing 400 refugees – oil in Middle East, Britain’s destabilisation of Iraq, Libya and Syria leading to the growth of ISIS, western intervention in Middle East; is mass economic migration bringing down pay and conditions? Refugees and economic migrants; Germany insists everyone who applies for a job must be able to speak read and write German. Interview with Derek Mead from new North Somerset First Independents party, standing in the elections – North Somerset Council and Weston-Super-Mare Council involved in corruption of selling off large public properties such as College and Winter Gardens for £1 – says his party will clean up politics; NHS financial problems – big hole in finances – privatisation.
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Second hour: investigative reports: Ole Dammegard, author of book ‘Coup D’etat in Slow Motion’ on the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. He discusses conspiracies behind the assassination of Prime Minister of Sweden, Olof Palme, in 1986: Gladio Network in Sweden; motives for killing Olof who was about to visit Moscow; Iran Contra; Sweden, Bilderberg and NATO; Swedish Wallenberg family: Jacob Wallenberg Bilderberg connections, likes to have maximum money and power with minimum visibility; recent terrorist attack in Denmark; false flags;  Bilderberg Meeting 2014. Ukraine: Interview with Alison Cahn, who was a researcher on documentary ‘Death on the Rock’, considered the last vestiges of proper investigative journalism: rise of conspiracy theories because death of proper journalism – questioning, can I prove this wrong?; journalism today; citizen journalism.  Interview with Ian Henshall, author of ‘9/11: The New Evidence’: involvement of Saudi Arabia; Israel; CIA protecting hijackers from arrest; Bin Laden family; military exercises on the day.
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