Friday 17th February 2017

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 or http://stream.bcfmradio.com:7017/live.mp3

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First hour: News review: Leadership ‘failures’ at Bristol City Council led to £29m deficit – phone discussion with former Mayor George Ferguson about this;  Government inflicts ‘horrendous’ £101 million cuts on Bristol because of Labour council, claims John McDonnell; protest over Bristol Council’s £101m cuts; Matthew Carey from BADACA discusses cuts in Bristol, and opinions on Jeremy Corbyn; Save Jubilee Pool, Knowle – cuts;  Metrobus – update;  Britain’s national debt poised to hit £1.7trillion – with interest payments approaching £40bn a year – housing bubble;  38,000 concrete segments to be built in Bristol for tunnels at Hinkley nuclear power station – problems with French nuclear power at Flammanville and others; Brexit Bulletin – Blair calls for a Brexit uprising – clip of Bloomberg interview with Tony Blair; Bristol’s ‘Brexit Businessman’ Arron Banks is tweeting again about Hillsborough – sparking more fury;  Tory councillor found guilty of being rogue estate agent for cannabis factory gang – legalising of drugs;  ‘Bristol Resilience’ strategies – Marvin Rees on Bristol City Council You Tube channel – Sarah Toy, Senior Resilience Officer, discusses her strategy to make sure Bristol will still be here in fifty years’ time.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Interview with Chris Taylor, Avon Fire Brigades Union (FBU) Brigade Secretary, and Vice Chair of the South West Region FBU: Yate Fire Station being downgraded;  Integrated Risk Management Plan (IRMP) used as excuse to cut fire service – FBU press release; Fire authority has ‘failed in it’s duty to safeguard the public’ 200 out of 900 firefighters have been lost since 2010 in Bristol area; austerity policies and alternatives;  10,000 firefighters have gone since 2010 – 1/5 of force. Bombings in southern Pakistan and Baghdad claimed by Islamic State kill more than 100. Trump accuses Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons – Netanyahu visit to Trump; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s father, Benzion Mileikowsky, was born March 25, 1910 in Warsaw, Poland. Roger Cook’s journalistic sting series, The Cook Report, ‘Dirty Bomb’, transmitted on Tuesday 9th July 1993, on ITV (Central Television) where they managed to obtain nuclear materials on black market for a ‘dirty bomb’; Israel’s illegal nuclear weapons, history of Syria’s Golan Heights, occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-day war; Trump discussing his ideas on Israel – 2 state solution? Trump’s National Security Adviser Michael Flynn squeezed out or ‘resigns’. ‘Marilyn, Hitler and Me’, the memoirs of longtime Evening Standard drama critic Milton Shulman – has chapter on Martin Bormann surviving WWII. Scott Bennett’s Shell Game report detailing Swiss banks, [download Scott Bennett’s ‘Shell Game’ report here] including UBS, financing of ISIS and Al Qaeda terrorist groups; Milton Shulman’s memoirs: IAN FLEMING, MARTIN BORMANN AND NAZI GOLD: Extracted from: Marilyn, Hitler and Me, The memoirs of Milton Shulman, Andre Deutsch (1998) – Distracting the world from Bormann, toward fictional accounts of Hitler’s survival: Simon Dunstan’s ‘Grey Wolf’ (2012), Jerome Corsi’s Hunting Hitler (2014) and Harry Cooper’s ‘Hitler in Argentina’ (2014) all spoilers to distract from Bormann’s survival – Interview with Scott Bennett, former Psychological Warfare Officer – he discusses how he worked at Rand Corp and Arab Spring was their Psychological Warfare ‘product’. Assassination of Kim Jong-nam – half-brother of Kim Jong-il.
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Milton Shulman’s memoirs: Further evidence Hitler’s treasurer Martin Bormann survived WWII. Disinfo campaign ongoing