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Friday 6th June 2014

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://icecast.commedia.org.uk:8000/commbrist.mp3

First hour: As a newly elected councillor, Martin Fodor explains his history – recycling, social enterprise contracts; Bristol Memorial Ground sell off to Sainsbury’s – memorial of WWI; new proposed European President, Juncke, is from Luxembourg, a tax haven – is EU democratic? European Central Bank (ECB) may start quantitative easing – is Europe really recovering?; The Queen’s Speech – Iran, cutting taxes, fracking subsidised; Botnet Gameover Zeus – is it really a Russian or is this a ruse? former Weston Super-Mare former Conservative Mayor Philip Judd pleads guilty to twelve child pornography charges; Hinkley C Nuclear Power Station – fund used as a ‘social bribe’ – West Somerset Council went bankrupt in 2012 so was all this just art of strong-arming the local authority into accepting this new build nuclear station which is guaranteeing massive profits for France in China; Three months prison or fines for taking holidays within school term time – parents say this is ‘breaching family life’ – ‘Parents Want A Say’ group.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Interview with Jay Blackwood about Ukraine, which has a history of conflict: new Bristol Ukraine anti-fascist solidarity campaign. The Maidan ‘revolution’ or ‘coup’ of Saturday February 22nd 2014 and para-militaries seizing power; fascist parties Pravy Sektor and Svoboda; now National Security Chief Andriy Parubiy key figure behind Maidan protest security team then Kiev and Odessa attacks; Odessa massacre of Friday 2nd May 2014; media coverage; US interests; NATO exercises.  D-Day is being commemorated today. The Dieppe ‘mini D Day’ in 1942 which was a disaster for the Canadians, we look at the post D Day deals done with the Nazis before the end of the war for material such as Uranium 235 and Plutonium. The Red House Meeting of Thursday August 10th 1944 where Nazi industrialists prepared for after the war; Interview with Tim Saunders, former Army Officer, military historian, and author of ‘Nijmegen’ – he discusses the battle at Nijmegen in WW2, part of the failed Market Garden operation in September 1944 where Holland was being liberated from Nazi rule.
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Friday 30th May 2014

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://icecast.commedia.org.uk:8000/commbrist.mp3

First hour: news review with Cabot ward Lib Dem councillor Mark Wright: Who was 15th Century Bristol explorer Giovanni Caboto, or John Cabot in English? Vikings and Bristol fishermen may have discovered Newfoundland before he did. EU election results – UKIP, immigration and anti-EU parties, jobs, minimum wage, cost of living crisis; coalition hires debt collectors to get money off poorest – 4.7m cases of overpaid tax credits, work programme dodgy tactics; tax revenues up at £23bn as tax avoidance clamped down on – lots more stashed away; should Nick Clegg resign? EU debate; massive inequality as more than 1m homes in Britain are empty – macro economics, social housing, land value tax, council tax, empty offices; big four accountants – KPMG, Pricewater House Cooper, Deloite, Ernst & Young – criticised for inaccurate audits of the banks particularly up to financial crash; austerity cuts blamed for rise of violence in prisons – legal aid cuts, private prison agenda; Inclusive Capitalism Conference – Prince Charles and his influence.
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Second hour: Investigative reports with Charlie Skelton at Bilderberg 2014 in Copenhagen. Charlie Skelton, Journalist, phones in live from the 2014 Bilderberg Conference in Copenhagen.  More military minded participants this year – also intelligence, and technical, data analysis types. Ukraine is probably top of the agenda.  Bilderberg destroying democracy.  Ukraine discussed generally – Last weekend’s Ukrainian presidential election of Poreshenko, fighting in East Ukraine, Leap 20/20, EU deals with US not Russia, NATO Gladio structures.  Bilderberg discussed generally – list of participants includes Marcus Agius, husband to Catherine de Rothschild – oil interests, peak oil, petrodollar system, BRICS.  Chilcot Inquiry letters redacted.  US CIA caught using ‘medical vaccination programme’ to gather intelligence in Pakistan. Despite Snowden’s revelations about criminality the US set up a new intelligence gathering centre at USAF Croughton here in the UK. But Scrutiny of US airbases in Britain is stuck in the 1950s. The US fascist roots of Bilderberg. Austin Texas based presenter/producer of The Secret Truth radio show George Butler interviews Steven Kinzer,  author of ‘The Brothers: John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles’. Interview with author of ‘The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles And Their Secret World War’ by Stephen Kinzer
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Friday 23rd May 2014

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://icecast.commedia.org.uk:8000/commbrist.mp3

First hour: News review with Jacob Rees-Mogg, Conservative MP for Somerset North East. Property rights to be removed to allow Fracking below peoples’ homes – fracking generally, water contamination, earthquakes, the economics of fracking, fracking bubble; housing bubble – London properties up by £10,000 in a month, half a million could face eviction, council housing, functional planning system, UKIP, immigration and housing; local elections – UKIP gain 140 seats, Labour gains seats but could have done better; economics – £100bn of QE, the pros and cons of QE, banking fraud, 1930s gold standard; young man kills himself because didn’t want to go on benefits after failing to get job – benefit sanctions, insecure part time work; Theresa May says public funding will be cut from Police Federation – crime falling? Prince Charles’s comment about Russian President Vladimir Putin behaving like Adolf Hitler. Jacob says “You’ve got to be very careful what you say about potential allies”.
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Second hour: Investigative reports about next week’s 2014 Bilderberg meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark. Prince Charles’s comment about Putin being like Hitler – referendum in Crimea, armed forces swear allegiance to monarchy; Ukraine and the far right Pravi Sektor, history of Ukraine, Stephen Bandera, intelligence operations and far right psychological warfare and Odessa, NATO and false flag terrorism, the upcoming Ukraine elections;  Davos – Russia and China and oil.  Interview with Will Stone, from the Avon and Bristol Law Centre.  He discusses employment tribunals and work discrimination cases – zero hour contracts, legal aid cuts www.ablc.org.uk. The Bilderberg Group meeting is coming up next weekend and this is discussed:  the control of energy and the petrodollar system; lobbying opportunities for multinationals, cartels, TTIP (Transantlantic Trade and Investment Partnership);  Leap 20/20;  Ukraine; democracy and Bilderberg.  Final part of Paul Mason’s The People’s First World War – The Aftermath:  Hungary and Bavaria – Rosa Luxemburg, Germany and the SPD, revolution;  Treaty of Versailles;  birth of Turkey;  1919 -1920 economic crash and Russian civil war; long term social impact; the human cost; seeds of WW2; lessons for today.
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