Friday 20th November 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

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Apologies – sporadic problems with the BCfm website ‘listen again’ facility with some shows failing to appear since before Christmas 2014. BCfm audio files usually available 12 hours after TX. Any probs mp3s should be on alternative links below by about 9 pm on tx date.

First hour: News review: with Green councillor Anna McMullen. Global capitalism and globalisation bringing British pay and conditions down to the lowest common denominator; Labour Behind the Label; why vote for Green Party?; Mayoral system; squatting; 2008 crash/bailout – Keynsian economics, bank reform, tax reform, investing in infrastructure; no funding for Bristol Carnival – clip of Jules Davis, former Creative Director of St Paul’s Carnival – if we paid £1.50 each could go ahead;  IDSs’ tougher fit-to-work tests coincide with 590 additional suicides, according to researchers – money saved trivial;  PMQs: Tulip Siddiq MP – junior doctors strike; NHS deficit up to £1.5bn – Tory privatisation agenda;  Vince Cable warns of ‘severe economic storms’ on the way – Martin’s economic crash perhaps; smart meters to double the cost of power at peak times – hacking into smart meters, Bristol Energy Company, nationalising energy; alternative media and mainstream media, Anna happy with Bristol Post etc. but Martin not.
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Second hour: investigative reports: with Chair of Avon & Somerset police federation Kevin Phillips – Interview with Kevin Phillips, Chair of Avon and Somerset Police Federation: 20-30% budget cuts to the police coming ion next week’s Chancellor’s autumn statement – PMQs Gordon Marsden; Iceland jailed 26 bankers, why can’t we?; the sacking of former Avon and Somerset Police Chief, Nick Gargan – supporters of Colin Port threatening BBC journalists; economic crime cases drop by one quarter in last 4 years; former Scotland Yard detective Rowan Bosworth-Davies – banks are an organised crime syndicate; Shoot to Kill policy, was it right with police murder victims Jean Charles De Menezes or Mark Duggan? ‘Mistakes’ made. Culture of police ‘impunity’. Last Friday’s Paris terror attacks: Cameron’s annual Mansion House speech announcing massive increases to GCHQ MI5 and SAS budgets to ‘combat terrorism’, his statement to the House of Commons; ISIS backed by Turkish intelligence service MIT backed by NATO, Saudi Arabia and possibly Western intelligence agencies; was this a false flag event carried out by NATO sponsored soldiers? Does Cameron need a UN resolution to attack ISIS in Syria? PMQs Angus Robertson – diplomatic unions formed after talks in Vienna at weekend; anomalies in the story; white blonde haired killer spotted at the Bataclan Concert Hall and another white man with an M-16 assault rifle at La Belle Equipe witnesses say two of shooters were clean shaven white people; exercises, fake passport ‘planted’ near suicide bombing scene, other terror attacks not covered as much by media – do white European or Black Arab/Asian matter more? Weapons being taken from Libya into Syria; NATO false flag track record; Former US Army Psychological Warfare officer Scott Bennett – military forensics: doesn’t seem like terrorists used AK47s, Scott talks to French Intelligence in March 2015 explaining how ISIS is being funded through Gulf States and Swiss UBS bank. and Geopolitics and the timing of this attack – what effect does it have on European policy – bring it closer to US policy in Syria; Wikipedia article and Twitter describing attacks allegedly went up online from a UK IP address before attacks started. Thorough discussion about last Friday evening’s Paris terrorist attacks where 130 died with help from former US Army Psychological Warfare officer and ISIS funding expert Scott Bennett
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