Friday 24th May 2019

At six – discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After seven – straight talking and investigative reports

BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling with Irish Republican Labour activist Martin Summers

February 2019 Ofcom complaint result: UKLFI exposed as creation of Israeli foreign ministryBristol Post article: BCfm cleared after being reported to Ofcom for anti-semitic conspiracy theories

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First hour news review: Prime Minister Theresa May announces she will resign in two weeks time – with South West Brexit Party candidate Ann Tarr and Bristol City Council Libdem leader Gary Hopkins. British Steel goes into administration – dodgy role of Grey Bull asset strippers The EU’s role in the demise of British Steel, The final trigger for British Steel’s collapse into administration, however, was not low steel prices but arguably a demand from the EU for £120 million worth of payments under its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) – which is supposed to provide an incentive for heavy polluters to cut their carbon emissions. Under the scheme, heavy industries which face international competition are given free allowances of carbon credits to meet EU demands – a circular economy of paper which does rather little to help the planetPreparations for a no deal Brexit begin again Cabinet in no-deal Brexit row as Tories face election drubbing – Yesterday’s EU elections. Com-Res poll reveals 63% want Brexit with no deal and majority want Nigel Farage to lead the Brexit negotiations: Sunday Express Com-Res poll: BREXIT BOMBSHELL: Nigel Farage should lead Brexit talks with NO DEAL still on table – poll – NIGEL Farage is best placed to restore Britain’s self confidence and should lead the Brexit negotiations with the EU, a Sunday Express poll has revealed

Bristol Lloyds bank unit fraud allegations: Lloyds bank chairman dismisses allegations of criminality made by Noel Edmonds. The former Noel’s House Party host repeatedly asked Lord Blackwell how many ‘police forces’ were investigating the banking group.

Urgent letter on funding crisis endorsed by 547 schools: The stark letter to David Sterling notes that principals “universally report”: a lack of essential maintenance – significant reductions in monies spent on essential learning resources – increased costs being passed on to parents – reductions and, in many cases, termination of essential support services – increased class sizes – reduced teaching and learning support staff – reduced and, in some cases, total withdrawal of learning support for children with additional needs

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Second hour Investigative reports: the Real Rich List – Kevin Cahill on how the Queen and other aristocrats manipulate the Sunday Times Rich List. Corrupt Met police: Anti-corruption officers in Scotland Yard investigated over allegations of rigging disciplinaries. – BILLIONAIRES PREPARE TO FLEE THE COUNTRYBritain’s wealthiest individuals are preparing to leave the country amid belief Jeremy Corbyn will become Prime Minister, it was reported. Billionaires and multimillionaires are said to be making plans to protect their fortunes, which include moving their assets and businesses overseas, in preparation of tax increases should the Labour leader enter Downing Street. According to The Sunday Times, which today publishes its annual Rich List, individuals could take up to £1 trillion out of Britain amid fears over what has been dubbed ‘Corbygeddon’. The newspaper reported that the head of Coutts, the Queen’s bank, said clients were more concerned with Corbyn than by Brexit and that a tax expert had helped a number of people with a net wealth of more than £500 million, totalling more than £5 billion, leave Britain over the past year.

Who owns Scotland? The changing face of Scotland’s landownersPrince Charles attends secret meeting in preparation for TAKEOVER from Queen – PRINCE Charles is attending secret meetings in preparation to take over the Queen, Daily Star Online has discovered.

Row over re-prosecution of British soldiers from the Northern Ireland troubles: May blocks ‘amnesty’ for soldiers facing Northern Ireland Troubles allegations – A UK minister tells Sky News the PM was unwilling because it would have been necessary to offer the same amnesty to terrorists.Northern Ireland secretary Karen Bradley has denied she is “shying away” from her responsibility to help release compensation for victims of historical institutional abuse (HIA). DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds made the accusation in the House of Commons. Pressure has been building on the NI secretary to take control and push legislation through Westminster.

Facebook busts Israel-based campaign Archimedes Group to disrupt elections. Facebook said Thursday it banned an Israeli company that ran an influence campaign aimed at disrupting elections in various countries and has cancelled dozens of accounts engaged in spreading disinformation. Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, told reporters that the tech giant had purged 65 Israeli accounts, 161 pages, dozens of groups and four Instagram accounts. Although Facebook said the individuals behind the network attempted to conceal their identities, it discovered that many were linked to the Archimedes Group, a Tel Aviv-based political consulting and lobbying firm that publicly boasts of its social media skills and ability to “change reality.”- Who should have the Amazon domain? Brazil or the US tech giant?  Now’s your chance to tell ICANN how you feel about Amazon’s domain battle with the rain forest

Petition: Mayor Marvin Rees and Cllr Asher Craig, Bristol City Council: Pause Bristol’s 5G Rollout. Campaign created by Sally Beare. The 5G Appeal, signed by 233 scientists, states that “The current ICNIRP ”safety guidelines” are obsolete. All proofs of harm mentioned above arise although the radiation is below the ICNIRP “safety guidelines”. Therefore new safety standards are necessary. The reason for the misleading guidelines is that “conflict of interest of ICNIRP members due to their relationships with telecommunications or electric companies undermine the impartiality that should govern the regulation of Public Exposure Standards for non-ionizing radiation”. We believe Bristol City Council should invoke the precautionary principle and pause the rollout of this as yet untested technology.

Nicaraguan ambassador Guisell Morales-Echaverry visits Bristol with Bristol Nicaragua link and discusses US foreign policy towards the  State Department calls the ‘Axis of Tyranny’ – Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua which are being subdued by ‘economic terrorism’.

Kris Millegan, author of ‘Fleahing Out Skull and Bones on the Cabot families links to the secret society’s foundation Through the sponsorship of the Barings and also the Rothschilds, a number of leading New England families, some of whom had sided with Great Britain during the American Revolution, were brought into the opium trade as junior partners. These merchant families ran fleets of clipper ships and became in many cases fabulously wealthy as the result of their association with the British East India Company. Among these key New England merchant families were: Cabot, Coolidge, Forbes, Higginson, Sturgis, Lodge, Lowell, Perkins and RussellFLESHING OUT SKULL & BONES: Investigations into America’s Most Powerful Secret Society Paperback – 1 Sep 2004 by KRIS MILLEGAN (Author) This chronicle of espionage, drug smuggling, and elitism in Yale University’s Skull & Bones society offers rare glimpses into this secret world with previously unpublished documents, photographs, and articles that delve into issues such as racism, financial ties to the Nazi party, and illegal corporate dealings. Contributors include Anthony Sutton, author of America’s Secret Establishment; Dr. Ralph Bunch, professor emeritus of political science at Portland State University; Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin, authors and historians. A complete list of members, including George Bush, George W. Bush, and John F. Kerry, and reprints of rare magazine articles are included.Chillingly accurate 200-year-old letter predicts WW3 and final battle against Islam 

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Friday 17th May 2019

At six – discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After seven – straight talking and investigative reports

BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling with Labour Irish Republican Martin Summers

February 2019 Ofcom complaint result: UKLFI exposed as creation of Israeli foreign ministryBristol Post article: BCfm cleared after being reported to Ofcom for anti-semitic conspiracy theories

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First hour news review: with Conservative Councillor for Henbury and Brentry Chris Windows and Brexit Party co-ordinator for Gloucestershire Stuart Adair. EU election campaign.  Interview with Brexit Party coordinator for Gloucestershire, Stuart Adair: Brexit Party ahead in polls for EU elections – what are their policies? Should Theresa May go? Nationalisation vs. privatisation;  Probation service – Offender supervision to be renationalised; No Deal Brexit and it’s problems; Boris Johnson to be next Tory leader?

Leader of the International Paneuropean Union, founded in 1923 in Munich, Arch Duke Karl von Hapsburg from Austria says Brexit is his ‘reality TV show’ as he watches us trying to leave; International Pan European Union; Alan Brown discusses the origins of the EU being funded by CIA money to prevent Communism; PMQs British Steel and trade wars – Chinese steel; British Steel secures new funding from lenders to keep operating FT story; PMQs trade deals for single market version of Brexit; Labour and Tory Brexit negotiations gone nowhere;  PMQs Tories want Theresa to resign;  Brexit campaigner says he’s ‘very confident’ of proving Britain has ALREADY left the EU as he raises £58,000 for court battle and scoffs at government calling his case ‘hopeless’;

Demise of the Jeremy Kyle show – should Ofcom deal with this kind of TV too? PMQs Jeremy Corbyn – rich get richer and poor get poorer – Universal Income;  Reuters – Britain risks heading to US levels of inequality, warns top economist. Sir Angus Deaton says UK is at risk of extreme inequality in pay, wealth and health;  Bristol planning committees – student flats –

Theresa May in Bristol today for miserable launch of Tory European election campaign; Theresa May was in Bristol today to launch the Tory’s election campaign – here’s why only a handful of people were invited – Tory councillor Richard Eddy attacks Theresa May, but for all the wrong reasons?

Facebook closes 23 pages in Italian, with 2.4 million followers just before European elections – were these anti EU parties really spreading fake news and words of hate? – Half were in support of the League and the M5S – G4S ambulance crew members ‘accidentally recorded themselves saying they could ‘beat the f*** out of’ a mental health patient with a fire extinguisher then claim self-defence’.
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Second hour Investigative reports: with UWE history professor Peter Fleming and former US Marine Corps Major Scott Ritter. Interview with Medieval History Professor, Peter Fleming, from UWE: history constantly rewritten – examples of this; explanation of Middle Ages and previous Anglo-Saxon English Dark Ages; present technological revolution;  Wars of the Roses;  feudal system; Time, space and power in later medieval Bristol; Medieval Bristol was run by Merchants – Merchant Venturers – no Guilds in Bristol, merchants dominated the entire city ans didn’t tolerate any other power bases, and, incredibly, still do; medieval life expectancy around 50; Bristol as a Knights Templar port, Templar property transferred to Knights Hospitaller (later changed name to knights of Malta) who didn’t do black magic like the Templars; Biblioteca Pleyades: Although the crusaders are commonly thought to have been motivated by their deep Christian faith, crusades were actually wars inspired by avarice – Despite being born and raised in a Christian society, they adopted wholly un-Christian practices. Black magic rituals and rites and sermons of perverse content were common practice. Glastonbury Abbey and mythological King Arthur; Monasteries and Priories. all four orders of friars had establishments in Bristol; Cromwell did not demolish Bristol Castle and create Castle Park, it was the city corporation who wanted to build on the land after the civil war; Medieval conduits; In the news today, by coincidence Medieval manuscript code ‘unlocked’ by Bristol academic from Bristol University not from Peter’s UWE; Bristol Radical History Group.

Interview with Scott Ritter, former US Marine Corp Major about this week’s attack on oil tankers and a pipleine, threatening Persian Gulf oil supplies – he discusses US’s position on Iran at present: reasons for US demonising Iran; one Norwegian, two Saudi Persian Gulf oil tankers attacked; attack on pumping station on a Saudi Aramco oil pipeline; Iran nuclear deal – US in non compliance; do Iran have nuclear weapons? Iran nuclear deal: Tehran to lift cap on uranium enrichment. A year after US pullout from agreement, Iran says it is no longer committed to parts of the deal with world powers. Nuclear weapons on black market; is Israel safe with nuclear weapons? End of the US empire?

UK foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt ‘very worried’ US-Iran tensions could lead to war, as Saudi Arabia claims tankers were ‘sabotaged Jeremy Hunt says he’s worried about ‘conflict by accident’ with Iran; – ‘Potentially Imminent Threat’ From Iran Grips DCKey Saudi Paper Urges US to Attack IranUS Official Claims Iranian Missiles Spotted on Boats in Iranian WatersThere Is a ‘Real’ Risk of Miscalculation in US-Iran Tensions: ExpertTrump on War With Iran: ‘I Hope Not’Two Strikes Would Win War With Iran: US Senator Tom CottonUS to Announce ‘Deal of the Century’  after RamadanNo increased Iran threat in Syria or Iraq, top British officer says, contradicting US.
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Friday 10th May 2019

At six – discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After seven – straight talking and investigative reports

BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling with Labour Irish Republican Martin Summers

February 2019 Ofcom complaint result: UKLFI exposed as creation of Israeli foreign ministryBristol Post article: BCfm cleared after being reported to Ofcom for anti-semitic conspiracy theories

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First hour news review: Cabinet Member for Energy and Transport;  Bristol Energy moving into Energy Servicing – Smart meters not secure; City Leap Energy Programme – de-carbonising;  transport – Metro Mayor and bus franchising; Labour wants to help Mayor Marvin Rees set-up a Bristol-run bus company  Mr Rees said a council-owned bus company or franchise could ‘reduce car dependency’ possible Bristol run bus company; ideology of privatisation; First Bus and Smart ticketing Apps – (1) First Bus M-ticketing App (2.9) Sept 2018 – (2) First Bus Bus travel & times App (3.1) April 2019 – don’t work well; Bus Priority and Metrobus; Cashless Metrobus a good idea? Author of Brett Scott author of The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money (Pluto, 2013) discusses who benefits from a cashless society and the problems with it – automated financial technology; Political Prince Charles is in Berlin discussing why we should remain in the EU after Brexit – should he get involved in politics? Like his relationship with Jimmy Savile Prince Charles’s friendship with paedophile clergyman Bishop of Gloucester Peter Ball was ‘misguided’; VIP child sex abuse – used as blackmail against politicians; conviction of Detective Constables Sharon Patterson, 49, and Lee Pollard, 47, who hid evidence and forged documents because they didn’t want to investigate child sex abuse claims; PMQs  21,000 police cut since 2010;  Thames Valley Police investigated Avon and Somerset Police as they weren’t investigating Lloyds Bank and £1bn fraud; Rowan Bosworth Davies: Why the British Banking Industry has become identical with an Organised Criminal Enterprise; Mayor Marvin Rees discusses a Bristol congestion charge; Underground in Bristol? PMQs Local Elections – Theresa May should stand down – Brexit; Tony Robinson has quit Labour Party after 40 years – saying is now an antisemitic party run by a leftist clique; Universal Credit could be scrapped in trial of basic income across parts of UK.
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Second hour Investigative reports: Palestinians in Gaza firing rockets into Israel – but they claim they were responding to a cyber attack by Israel: Jackie Long on C4 News interviewing Michael Freeman, Israeli spokesperson, about whether Israel’s retaliation was proportionate – 1 Israeli, 19 Palestinians dead – 2 state solution? Britain needs to recognise Palestine as an independent state. Some musicians are boycotting Eurovision in Israel. Jeremy Hunt interviews Mike Pompeo, a Christian Zionist: Iran nuclear deal; Special Relationship; Russia won WW2 with 10 million soldiers dead by 1945 – British and US lost about 400,000 personnel each – we’re not taught that in UK – as Russia commemorates this with parades in Moscow – VE DAY The BBC has a pathetic hatchet job on Stalin;  US regime change in Iran; ‘Corbyn’s position on Venezuela disgusting’; Mike Pompeo very confused, is anti Zionism same as anti Semitism? US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “Its not anti-Zionism to critique an Israeli policy set. [really?] It is anti-Zionism to take positions which undermine the democracy that exists in Israel and the human rights there.” Dan Damon on BBC World Service interviews Prof. Mohammad Marandi = Professor Mohammad Marandi – Tehran University, Iran – unusually we get the Iranian point of view on BBC. US Carrier strike force transits Suez Canal. Russia must build own internet in case of foreign disruption – PutinUSAF Fairford B-52s in Gloucestershire over on an exercise we mentioned a few weeks ago  were practising a nuclear strike on Russia. Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammed Jared Zarif, discusses how US tries to use coercion rather than diplomacy. Top US Officials Meet on Possible Attack on IranUS Officials Continue to Falsely Accuse Iran of Planned AttackIran Calls for Strengthening Nuclear Deal, EU Rejects ‘Ultimatum’US Commander Says He Could Send Carrier Into Strait of HormuzTrump blaming John Bolton for failed Venezuela coup. Chelsea Manning released from jail. Daniele Ganser discusses reform of the UN – a good US Secretary General unafraid to speak ot on illegal wars is vital.

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