Friday 14th March 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

First hour: News review with Afzal Shah, Labour councillor for Easton. Police not investigating theft of gold jewellery within the Bristol Asian community; what is socialism; Bob Crow speech last year at the Jim Connell festival in Ireland, by General Secretary of Rail Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) Bob Crow who died on Monday aged 52 – Tory privatisation and big business in control of the EU; The Media and the Political Process 2006 speech in Bristol by Tony Benn who died today aged 88; PMQs: Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Harriet Harman this week, Harriet asks question about privatisation of the NHS – NHS better under Labour; PMQs – the mess the three main parties have made over a public referendum on the EU, none of them are democrats; PMQs – Labour councillor voted in, in Clifton North, Nottingham – Liberals thrashed by the Elvis Bus Pass Party candidate; bombshell from the Bank of England – they shredded documents from time of financial crash around 2008.
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Second hour: Interview with financial journalist Nicholas Dunbar, author of 2011 book ‘The Devil’s Derivatives’, about the banking industry. Derivatives explained, and how money is made out of them – ‘the tail that wags the dog’; the four big accountancy firms and total failures of regulation of the banking system; the City of London and politics; despite causing the 2008 crisis the derivatives market has GROWN since 2008; financial crash; QE causing nervousness; and how to fix the system it. Marina Morris has just returned from her native Kharkov in Ukraine, gives a moving pro-EU view of what is happening to her city and her country. The crisis in Ukraine and the referendum in Crimea on Sunday – US secretary of state John Kerry – are Blackwater mercenaries in Eastern Ukraine? Were some snipers in Kiev right wing extremists backed by NATO? Interview with barrister Michael Shrimpton, who is going on trial next week for telling police about a nuclear bomb hoax at the London Olympics. David Powell, from South West Friends of the Earth looks at Somerset flooding, dredging, climate change – most of the highest rainfalls ever recorded have been since year 2000. Ideas about the missing Boeing 777 Malaysian Airlines MH370 that left Kuala Lumpur for Beijing. Rolls Royce explain that aircraft continued for 2,200 miles after it lost contact. Researcher hacks aircraft controls with Android smartphone in 2013.
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Friday 7th March 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

First hour: News review with Doug Naysmith, Labour councillor for Avonmouth, and former MP for Bristol North West. Voting boundary changes in Bristol North West constituency. Doug is on Bristol’s Health and Well-Being scrutiny commission, George Ferguson has not appointed a proper health officer in the city, left situation vacant. LibDems had budget amendments ruled out of order by Bristol’s Section 105 Finance Officer. Home secretary announces Public Enquiry into police infiltrators during corrupted Steven Lawrence murder case. Ed Miliband and David Cameron agree about Ukraine at Prime Minister’s Questions; Lord Jacob Rothschild predicts financial markets wobbling dangerously in the next year – building more houses instead of ‘help to buy’; paper leaked by Cameron’s Deputy National Security Adviser shows Britain will not support military action against Russia in Ukraine because the City say so; PMQs Ed Miliband on Ukraine denouncing Russia’s actions – compared to the Cuban missile crisis; leaked phone call between Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet and Catherine Ashton from the EU, claiming doctor ‘Olga’ says some snipers in Kiev shooting protesters, were from far-right groups that are now in parliament; internet legislation blocking some search terms – could be used for censorship of legitimate searches; Fury as Tory party donors are handed NHS contracts worth £1.5BILLION under health reforms given to prominent Tory MPs who donate to Tory office – Sir Paul Ruddock gives £7000 to Tory Party for Landsdown Company contract; private company East Coast Ambulance Service goes bust – need FOI for contracting system; PMQs Kerry McCarthy – 40% of food wasted and food banks; PMQs Steven Mosely MP – youth unemployment down and apprenticeships; Iain Duncan-Smith accused of statistical foul play for the fourth time in a year – national statistics guidelines not followed; Government’s Universal Job Match – 350,000 jobs don’t fulfil website criteria and 11,000 jobs don’t exist.
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Second hour: Marina Morris Ukraine dispatch from Kharkov: Friday Drivetime’s Marina Morris is back this week from her native Ukraine and gives her view of the crisis and general opinion in her family and on the street in Kharkov. Ukrainians generally happy to be rid of Viktor Yanukovych’s corrupt regime and supporting the new government in Kiev. Ukraine discussed generally including Donetsk and China’s support for Russia at the UN Security Council. Former US Presidential Republican candidate John McCain, keynote speaker, at the AIPAC Conference. He discusses Ukraine and the middle east. Also discussed – Putin, Ukraine economy, Iran and Syria, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and lack of action by Obama. Also New York Orthodox Rabbi, Steven Veil, at the AIPAC Conference. He claims all rabbis are united for Israel, although there is actually a spread of opinion, particularly amongst Orthodox Jews many of whom reject Zionism. Tim Malnick, promotes next Saturday’s ‘Your Money and Your Life’ conference 2-5pm at St Michael’s Church Gloucester Road BS7 8NT between the ‘One In Eight’ and Bristol Tools. This is to inform people to think about issues of money and community – the psychology of money, value judgements. Clip from the banned film ‘Unlawful Killing’ about the death of Lady Diana – which is now on the internet for the first time.
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Friday 28th Febuary 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

First hour: News review with Charles Lucas, Conservative councillor for Clifton. He discusses wine and his main property business Alexander Hastings. Why so many empty offices in Bristol city centre? Property bubble, flattened buildings, business rate relief, council housing; HSBC and REWARD for FAILURE: RBS loses £46bn but still awarding £576m this year in bonuses; Bristol Arena going ahead; Max Wide – a serial outsourcer – being employed by Bristol Council; should Airbus stay in Filton – Alison Devonshire of group ‘BS10’ complains of the 8000 homes to be built there; PMQs – church leaders raising issues of poverty; the definition of child poverty to be changed; PMQs – HSBC bankers bonuses up and pay rise 140% – banking system bust – dependant on quantitative easing – property bubble; PMQs – constituent having to eat out of skips – food banks use up – low paid jobs; GCHQ web cam spying – Optic Nerve campaign hacking into Yahoo! webcams – revelation from Snowden – denial of service attacks; PMQs – is ATOS pulling out of incapacity benefit assessments? – 158,000 appeals upheld – penniless people made destitute may have to pay for appeals in future.
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Second hour: NATO-Russia tug-of-war in Ukraine. The troubles in Ukraine discussed. Is Ukraine one country? The history of Ukraine – maybe similar to Yugoslavia; far right elements of ‘protesters’; economic collapse; NATO; identical leaflets in Egypt and Ukraine; CANVAS. During Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union (USSR), and the subsequent German–Soviet War, millions of Red Army prisoners of war were taken. Some of them were arbitrarily executed in the field by the German forces, died under inhuman conditions in German prisoner of war camps and during ruthless death marches from the front lines, or were shipped to Nazi concentration camps for extermination. Some 3.3 million Soviet POWs died in Nazi custody, out of 5.7 million. This figure represents a total of 57% of all Soviet POWs and may be contrasted with only 8,300 out of 231,000 British and US prisoners, or 3.6%. Some estimates range as high as 5 million dead, including those killed immediately after surrendering. Ireland peace deal and the letters of immunity from prosecution: John Downey case – coincidence with events related to murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby. He was arrested, despite the peace agreement on the day of the Rigby murder. IRA weapons hand over; false flag attacks, was the Woolwich murder orchestrated by MI5 controlling the two African Muslim converts? British army’s Brigadier Gordon Kerr was carrying out these kinds of false flag attacks in Northern Ireland. Clip from 2004 documentary Aspartame – ‘Sweet Misery, A poisoned world’ about the detrimental health affects of aspartame – lobbying of governments. Paul Mason’s World War One: 2 of 4 The Slaughter. Discussion about 1st World War based on Paul Mason’s idea for a documentary ‘The Peoples 1st World War’. Part 2 The Slaughter: trenches and use of chlorine and mustard gas; naval warfare and blockade to hit the civilian population; 1 million dead in the 1916 battle of the Somme; Winston Churchill’s failed battle of Gallipoli which attempted to capture Constantinople in Ottoman Turkey; Brusilov offensive, prelude to revolutions. 20th anniversary of the death of US comedian Bill Hicks, on the JFK assassination ‘Go back to bed America’. 20th anniversary of the death of Texas comedian Bill Hicks.
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