Friday 25th November 2016

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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First hour: News review: with LibDem councillor for Hengrove and Whitchurch Park Tim Kent. Metrobus – problems;  Metro Mayor – centralisation of power or devolution?  Child Sex Abuse Inquiry – complete rethink needed – Michael Mansfield QC discussing whether spanners in the works are deliberate – Shirley Oaks survivors will release 60 names of abusers in mid-December;  Michael Mansfield QC – Snooper’s Charter – ‘we have an Orwellian Society’ – Bristol Labour MPs, except Thangam Debbonaire, voted for it SEE LIST OF HOW MPS VOTED but Lib Dems and SNP against; Budget – Gov. to spend more on infrastructure – affordable homes – want to seriously tackle congestion? Cost of FREE public transport in Bristol would be £30 million annually; estimated £30bn of wasted NHS cash – spent on NHS market – investigation by Lib Dems in 2014;  Budget – UK borrowing £122bn more than predicted over next few years; Tory MPs just voted down a bid to reveal the impact of their £3.4bn welfare cut;  PMQs Angus Robertson – disabled benefits cuts;  UK rise in Neets – those not in education, employment or training;  PMQs Corbyn – NHS cuts and social care cuts – economy;  Scotland could trial Universal Income; PMQs  homelessness – austerity – Queen given £700m to do up Buckingham Palace.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Iraq truck bomb kills 100 people at petrol station – mainly Iranian Shia – Crisis Initiation, Amaq News Agency, SITE website, White Helmets.  Merkel with Obama – internet ‘disruptive’ force that has to be ‘contained, managed and steered’ by Government – Stratcom.  Labour’s ‘fake news’ crusader Michael Dugher wrote for The  Sun and quaffed ‘champagne’ and ‘oysters’ with Murdoch  – deliberate lies or mistakes in media – mainstream media not able to manipulate events like used to.  What to do about ‘fake’ news – by US investigative journalist Robert Parry, author of ‘America’s Stolen Narrative; founder of Consortium News – Fake news outlet Bellingcat’s NATO propaganda operation. Report urges UK to ‘map’, ‘challenge’, and expose public figures with Russia links – e.g. those who have worked on RT.  Harwell nuclear scientist Matthew Puncher, who discovered Russian investigative writer Alexander Litvinenko polonium poison, ‘stabbed himself to death with two knives’ after trip to Russia: polonium trail; Putin’s rise to power and Chief Russian Jewish Oligarch Boris Berezovsky who died in suspicious circumstances in London in 2013 – false flag bombings in Moscow backed by West to stop communism in Russia; ‘Blowing up Russia’ book by Litvinenko; NTV programme about this Alexander Litvinenko, who really killed him & why? After ANOTHER suspicious death we smash the Litvinenko polonium conspiracy to smithereens tonight – Background to Alexander Litvinenko poisoning and his 2006 book ‘Blowing Up Russia’ about the 1999 Moscow apartment bombings: The Rise of Putin and The Fall of The Russian-Jewish Oligarchs – Authoritarian Britain, Briefing 2: The 2008 bailout robbery and the death of capitalism – Money:  Gov. could print money and put it straight into economy; economic warfare – banks not tanks – political power – Desmond Morton;  Daniel Hopsicker in documentary ‘The Federal Reserve: Masters of the Universe’ – money as servant not master;  Bill Still from ‘Secret of Oz’ documentary – addressing money system;  2008 bank bailout biggest heist in history; WWII governor of the Bank of England Montague Norman – friend of Nazis – set up BIS; Steve Keen economist. – Professor Anthony Hall discussing the staged media event in Iraq when Bush said ‘mission accomplished’ – media as an advertisement to affect public opinion – ‘public relations’.
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