Friday 30th October 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

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.

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First hour: News review: Shaker Aamer released from Guatanamo Bay US internment camp – Strawberry Fields forever, Penny Lane; US ground troops to Syria; Jihadi terrorism and western intelligence services; clip of Michael Meacher discussing a Project for the New American Century (PNAC) document he saw and their plans for manoeuvres to control oil from the middle east starting with a catastrophic event – 9/11?;  how Danny got involved in the Green Party; Students Union and how modern students are coping with money problems;  change to Bristol park laws affecting homeless in tents – affordable housing;  stall in house building – housing  bubble, can’t sell houses, council house building, speculators; PMQs Jeremy Corbyn – RIP Michael Meacher MP, tax credits cuts – politics and being compromised – real power, permanent government, corporate power;  House of Lords and tax credits; Tories and vote fixing – Individual Electoral Registration, redrawing constituency boundaries, US and voter suppression, students and voting; PMQs student debt – economics, regulating banks, ideological cuts; Chinese part fund Hinkley C nuclear power station – cost taxpayer more than £18bn;  Snowden and privacy.
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Second hour: investigative reports: Interview with Will Stone from Avon and Bristol Law Centre: living wage, minimum wage not rising enough, dodgy apprentice schemes; Universal Credit coming to Bristol next week – not enough money to stop destitution, benefits safeguarding economies, citizens income; 100 solicitors taking Ministry of Justice to court over changes to legal system – legal aid;  new unfair criminal court charges – fifty magistrates resigned. www.ablc.co.uk   0117 924 8662 at the bottom of Stokes Croft. 7/7 London bombings: Martin McDaid, former SBO, trained alleged bombers Mohammed Sidiqqe Khan and Shezad Tanweer – Martin Gilbertson told West Yorkshire police about them in 2003 two years before the 2005 bombings – they all worked at Iqra Bookshop in Beeston, Leeds; NATO and false flag attacks; bomb at Kurdish peace march; geo-political strategy of tension.  Interview with Laurence de Mello about 9/11 attacks and who made money from them: Larry Silverstein bought towers even though riddled with asbestos and got insurance on towers against terrorist attacks;  Imposimato – western intelligence agencies and terrorism.  Clip of Geoffrey Dickens MP discussing child sex abuse scandals, from ’60 Minutes’ Australian programme in 1980s: political blackmailing. Clip of William Cooper about Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff under Bill Clinton and his father being a former SS officer: Klaus Barbie; Reinhard Gehlen. William Cooper showing up inaccuracies from an Alex Jones show– Halloween 1938 and radio show psychological warfare.
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Friday 23rd October 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

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.

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First hour: News review: with Labour councillor Jenny Smith: Jenny Smith on politics in Bristol; Southmead and council estates; Cameron’s ‘counter extremist strategy’ – is Cameron’s government extreme? clash in Bristol between fascists and anti-fascists after demo by fascists – fascists scanning pubs late in evening looking for anarchists; one anti-fascist gets a broken jaw; Bristol journalist covering Nick Gargan (ex Police Chief) story is threatened by ex Bristol police group led by Colin Port (former Chief Constable) Sue Mountstevens, PCC for Bristol, has same solicitor, John Smith, as Colin Port so was taking bad legal advice; John Smith, chief executive of the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner; Colin Port worked on case of lawyer Rosemary Nelson’s murder in Northern Ireland – considered a cover up by some; first new bylaws for Bristol parks since Victorian times to be voted at full council on 12th Dec – could evict homeless in their tents from Bristol parks – Universal Credit benefit and other changes making people homeless Bristol has 300% increase in homeless in a year; PMQs Jeremy Corbyn – closure of more steel works, now almost entire industry; Cameron has no industrial strategy – collapse of British steel in past month;  PMQs Chinese dumping cheap steel on the market; PMQs Jacob Rees-Mogg – how dare House of Lords think about voting down withdrawal of tax credits – possible constitutional crisis; PMQs from Jo Stevens – tax credit cuts could force millions more to food banks; Is politics just theatre? What about Bilderberg and similar transatlantic policy ‘think-tanks’ which include politicians and press who never tell anyone what’s been going on inside, like a cult. Clip of veteran Labour MP and former cabinet minister Michael Meacher who questioned the war on terror and 9/11 who died unexpectedly and suddenly this week discussing the Bilderberg Group. Tony Gosling has uploaded Michael Meacher’s final twenty Tweets because his Twitter account has been mysteriously deleted.
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Second hour: investigative reports: Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, YouTube, AOL, Paltalk and Skype. Did Churchill use Nazi gold to finance Britain’s atomic bomb? Interview with Tayo Aluko about play ‘Call Mr. Robeson’, in Bristol in Redgrave Theatre: one man show about life of Paul Robeson, actor, singer and civil rights activist from around the 1950s onwards. Interview with Kevin Cahill – ‘Safe Harbour’ campaign has victory in European courts to stop US surveillance of Europeans – Kevin and Austrian privacy campaigner, Max Schrems, bring case: 9 key tech companies involved in spying – Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, You Tube, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, AOL, Paltalk, Skype; NSA paying some of these to collect data for them;“From the beginning, my investigations revealed a once-unimaginable scope of governmental surveillance, collusion, and concealment by the British and U.S. governments — practices that were always as much about domestic spying during times of peace as they were about keeping citizens safe from supposed foreign enemies, thus giving the British government the potential power to become, as our source that night had put it, a virtual “police state.” Duncan Campbell on Intercept – My Life Unmasking British Eavesdroppers – a life time work exposing GCHQ; geo-politics and ‘Safe Harbour’ ruling; ‘IBM and the Holocaust’ book by Edwin Black; how to stage a silent coup. Detective, Kenny McDonald, working on child abuse inquiry ‘Operation Midland’, to be replaced. Detective Chief Inspector Paul Settle at Select Committee says inquiry into Leon Brittan a ‘baseless witch hunt’ – he worked on Daniel Morgan murder and with John Yates. Haroon Aswat met two 7/7 bombers, Khan and Tanweer, in Pakistan – but this was kept quiet until Aswat was extradited to US. Interview with Laurence de Mello – EXCLUSIVE: Did Churchill use Nazi gold to build Britain’s atomic bomb?
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Friday 16th October 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

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.

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First hour: News review: with Lib Dem cabinet member Simon Cook. How council works differently with Mayor; Library changes; residents parking;  Simon and his acting career, playing in Dennis Potter’s ‘Son of Man’;  Police Chief Constable, Nick Gargan, has finally resigned – he was a reformer; Metro Mayors – City Regions – Manchester – devolved local government; events closing parks in Bristol – clip of possible mayor candidate next year Paul Saville discussing this – money to council for fun events; end of the ‘Wilson Doctrine’ – it is legal for GCHQ to spy on MPs – lawyers – journalists – clip of David Davis MP in PMQs on this – Watergate scandal when Republican party used secret services, NSA or CIA as a weapon against the Democratic party; clip of Snowden on Panorama discussing how smart phones are easily hacked – The NSA GCHQ secret Smurfs that hack into your smartphone – balance between paranoia and civil liberties, Snoopers Charter is an attempt by secret service signals intelligence criminals to make warrantless surveillance legal, hacking of Simon Cook’s Bristol City Council e-mail account discovered and council employee sacked; PMQs Jeremy Corbyn on poverty and the stopping of tax credits – Osborne and his fiscal charter passes through the Commons which limits parliament to endless austerity – damaging social policies of Tories; clip of Yannis Varoufakis on Question Time discussing how our personal budget is very different to running the economy of a country – if you stop people spending then tax receipts fall – possibly catastrophically – 2008 bailout, welfare state as cushion for economy, how a national economy works, 1929 crash and Roosevelt set up welfare state, Keynesianism; inflation below zero again; Bristol park by-laws – will stop homeless people sleeping in tents in parks and force them out of the public eye onto waste ground.
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Second hour: investigative reports: Bombs kill around 100 at peace march in Ankara – ISIS or the government? PKK and ISIS working with MIT and NATO;  Kurds and Turks fighting – 40,000 dead; Ergenekon – Turkish version of Gladio – top generals sent to prison;  NATO and false flag terrorism;  history of Turkey;  Syria;  what is the future?  PMQs Angus Robertson – failure of various UK military interventions and Britain not helping Syrian refugees enough – western intelligence services arming and training extremists in Syria. Cancellation of £6m government prison contract from Saudi Arabia. Syria and West wanting to remove Assad. What does ‘deep state’ mean? Where do some obviously untrue stories in press come from? Intelligence services sowing disinformation – Strat Com; author Frederick Forsyth on BBC ‘Start the Week’ reveals he worked for MI6 – about his fury at how he was expected, as BBC reporter in 1960s, to cover Biafra civil war – slavishly adherent to government. Dutch report on MH17 downed plane in Ukraine: Russian made Buk SAM missile – type Ukrainian government was using! misleading UK press reports; what about black box? Normal procedure for investigation not followed.  Two new suspects found connected to Lockerbie downing of PanAm flight 103 in December 1988: Allan Frankovitch’s  ‘Maltese Double Cross’ made for and eventually shown on Channel 4 Dispatches; Al Magrahi not guilty Israeli security clampdown against and killing of Palestinians; Al Aqsa mosque closed by Israelis general Middle East war a ‘final solution’ to Israel’s problems; fighting over use of Al Aqsa Mosque and borders.
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