Friday 18th January 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

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First hour news review: with former Bristol Labour councillor and former council leader Helen Holland and Chris Chalkley. The future of Bristol Bearpit, James Barton Roundabout, which deputy mayor Asher Craig is planning to empty and rename ‘The Circle’ – Full Council Meeting this week discusses it: Lisa Furness from PRSC discussing a petition they have given to Council showing support for them to run it; Bearpit Improvement Group (BIP); antisocial behaviour has increased since council told BIG to leave and homelessness is increasing but nevertheless Asher Craig blames BIG for the increase in crime; ‘Marvin must die’ – Mayor finds death threat graffitied outside family home, but at a convenient moment for the Bearpit debate; Bearpit public art taken down – the Cube and the Bear; Asher Craig says the Bearpit Improvement Group has failed – too much crime in Bearpit; legal papers to PRSC to remove all structures from Bearpit; Asher Craig also ‘receives death threat’ Deputy mayor receives ‘death threats’ over future of Bearpit – Asher Craig’s vision for the Bearpit – ‘The Circle’ – space for everyone; no public toilets, a public health and dignity disaster defended by Helen Holland. Marvin’s One Bristol plan – Ambitious plan for Bristol revealed including drones delivery and 16-year-olds given the vote: criticisms of Marvin’s political rivals being excluded from the process and the meetings (hardly ‘One Bristol’!) and not enough about culture in the plan; congestion charge – public transport.  Brexit:  impact of no deal on local government – no deal report to scrutiny management: Bristol City Council Brexit No Deal Scenario Assessment. Officer Presenting Report: Tim Borrett, Director: Policy, Strategy & Partnerships;  Tony Blair calling for a second referendum; Jeremy Corbyn refuses to discuss Brexit deal with May until she takes ‘no deal’ off the table, which happens to be her main bargaining chip. PMQs Corbyn – Theresa’s deal not good enough – other problems from Tory cuts not to be forgotten;  BBC Question Time – prospect of ‘no deal’ gets a huge cheer from the studio audience.
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Second hour Investigative reports: with Lucy Morgan-Edwards: former Afghanistan UN worker and author of The Afghan Solution: The Inside Story of Abdul Haq, the CIA and How Western Hubris Lost Afghanistan, Dr. Lucy Morgan-Edwards, reviews the weeks news and other international issues: Integrity Initiative – funded by Foreign Office and MI6 – a psychological war outfit to ‘counter disinformation about Russia’ – also smearing Corbyn and others;  longer term plan of NATO – surround and isolate Russia – 3rd World WarA Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) minister is accused of misleading parliament, regarding the role of the Integrity Initiative. Integrity is an FCO-funded project that claims to specialise in countering disinformation. But from documents hacked by Anonymous and seen by The Canary, it’s clear that it’s also active in ‘psyops’ (psychological operations) across Europe and beyond. Now, a newly released hacked document shows that not only do Integrity and its sponsor (the Institute for Statecraft) work closely with the FCO, but Statecraft is advising that government department on its future direction. – Syria – Venessa Beeley on White Helmets, US pulling troops out;  After years of speculation, IDF chief admits Israel supplied Syrian rebels with weapons;  Netanyahu confirms strike on ‘Iran target’ in Syria was carried out by Israel; Trump devastation against Turkish economy;  Police State in UK – surveillance, security run by Israelis;  Yellow Vest protests in France – their demands – serious injuries not reported;  problems with vaccines – no proper regulation – ‘Vaxxed’ film very good – Andrew Wakefield discredited? – links to autism; further Yellow Vest demands – the money fraud, banksters control of politics – debt problems of the whole world now they have engineered;  Intelligence Services and the media – Afghanistan journalists – www.foreigndesk.co.uk is part of Integrity Initiative; Iran state TV presenter and top international journalist Marzieh Hashemi arrested by FBI and moved to Washington DCTrying to see between the lines of stories and untangle the lies Operation Mockingbird – mass media formal mind control programme – secret services censoring and planting stories, controlling what we see and hear in the mass media – Operation Paperclip, Operation Mockingbird and Frank Wisner CIA, NATO’s  secret warsMarie-Luce Storme, film maker, was at Yellow Vest protests in Toulouse – special force police starting riotsRAF veteran ‘admitted 1961 killing of UN secretary general ’RAF veteran ‘admitted 1961 killing of UN secretary general’ Exclusive: Cold case documentary casts new light on mystery of Dag Hammarskjöld’s plane crash.
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Friday 11th January 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

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First hour news review: with Labour Councilor for Brislington East Mike Langley: First Bus – Bus Unions, Bristol Buses before privatisation and with part privatisation, problems with First Bus, Tim Bowles – Metro Mayor, Maggie Thatcher and privatisation, Unions and conditions for bus workers used to be much better; Excellent new ITV Wednesday night Drama called ‘Cleaning Up’, starting at 9pm, where cleaners spy on City of London insider traders to make money – Struggling mum Sam discovers access to lucrative stock market information while working as a cleaner at Canary Wharf. Is this the answer to her spiralling debts? ITV Wednesday evenings 9pm – Council Housing and Right to Buy in 1980s;  Government needs to build three million social homes to solve housing crisis, finds landmark review – Corbyn government;  Alan Shane discusses closure of ADM squat in Amsterdam: Life in Amsterdam’s biggest squat – in pictures – Several children have been born and raised in the community that has grown up around the former shipyard – After 20 years, squatters occupying the Amsterdamse Droogdok Maatschappij former shipyard have been ordered to leave. Photographer Sanne Derks met members of the community, who say moving elsewhere is impossible – and a new ‘ADM Solidarity’ squat at 39-40 High Street, next to the Bristol Ticket Shop; Council run Bristol Energy made £8.4m loss – although if you use it an average saving of £200 a year could be made; Bristol Waste – not doing their job properly; Brislington Park and Ride – Buses in Brislington, First Bus App;  Full Council Meeting – Marvin Rees criticises auditors for saying £100,000 pay out to Anna Klanowski was questionable; PMQs Jack Lopresti – end of tolls on Seven Bridge – why no Prime Ministers’ Questions from Bristol Labour MPs? PMQs – 11 homeless died in York last year; PMQs Brexit – Dominic Grieve and Yvette Cooper amendment hopes to stop government spending on ‘no deal’ Brexit – are we really leaving EU on 29th? London pensioner jailed for accusing school parents of killing and eating babies – how the case of Sabine McNeil has been portrayed in press – she is jailed for 9 years for stalking and breaching a restraining order.
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Second hour Investigative reports: Interview with Anthony Hall, author of ‘Earth into Property: Colonisation, Decolonisation and Capitalism’: history of colonialism and capitalism in America and the treatment of Indians;  Cabot from Bristol and other explorers to America; Edward Colston and the slave trade; Royalty giving Indian territory away and creating corporations;  treaties with Indians; Native American genocide to marginalisation of Indians in N. America;  Osama bin Laden’s code name by US military was Geronimo;  the hunting down and killing of Osama bin Laden – theatre – Seal Team 6,  who did the hunting and killing, all died in mysterious circumstances;  9/11 and myths of Al Quiada – US Government working with Islamic extremists;  has War on Terror come to a halt after failure to oust Assad in Syria;  false flag and Yellow Vests – Strasbourg used to distract people away;  Israel lobby – any criticism of Israel as anti Semitic; International Relations academic and author Ron Mandel discusses the Transatlantic Israel Lobby – criticising BDS as anti Semitic is like McCarthyite witch-hunt; Integrity Initiative has £200m from Foreign Office – seen to be smearing Corbyn – has a smear report, done a hatchet job on our esteemed producer/presenter TonyHuawei employees arrested in Poland on spying charges – demonising Iran;  BBC Fake News – Jonah Fisher on the BBC World Service claiming there is a war going on between Russia and Ukraine – but what about the Minsk Agreement? The man who should be president, who had his nomination stolen by Hilary Clinton Bernie Sanders calls out Trump and the Mexico wall as a distraction from the real crisis in America which is economic: Trump and the Wall; US Government shutdown is actually Republican and big business bankster policy – minimal and bankrupt government.
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Friday 4th January 2019

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

BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling

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First hour news review: with LibDem councillor for Brislington West Jos Clark and former Sunday Times journalist Kevin Cahill. Jos becomes Lord Mayor in May 2019, what being Lord Mayor entails; what Council is like now under elected Mayor;  Bristol Arena;  Bristol transport; Rail fare increases: Charts explain passengers’ frustration ;  Paddy Ashdown dies – Paddy Ashdown: David Miliband killed off Lib/Lab coalitionOpening old rail lines  – that Beeching closed – HS2 to cost £111bn if it happens;  New Brexit ferry firm Seaborne Freight ridiculed over ‘copy and paste’ website; Warnings of no-deal ports chaos are ‘misleading’, industry boss says: Tim Morris who runs UK Ports says everything is under control; various Brexit scenarios – which will it be? – gambling on financial disasters; Foot and Heath discuss joining the EEC in 1970s – when Labour was anti EEC; PMQs – demands on Council resources and health budgets;  Bristol’s We Care and Repair, now called We Care Home Improvements – helping elderly live at home: Previously known as WE Care & Repair – We Care Home Improvements is a not-for -profit independent Home Improvement Agency (HIA) with charitable status. Our organisation provides home improvement and repair services in the Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset, Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire.; cuts – all goes back to 2008 banking bailout; PMQs – Lloyds persecute whistleblower and small businesses – other banks have done the same; Italy health czar resigns and blames ‘anti-science’ government – big pharmaceuticals provide a quality service? – MMR, the late 1980s Autism explosion and the not-so-discredited Dr Andrew Wakefield.
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Second hour Investigative reports: Stand off in US – who will win? JFK and the Mafia. JFK assassination – ITV: The Men Who Killed Kennedy film (1980). Lyndon Johnson’s girlfriend Madeleine Brown discusses why she thinks the government at the time killed JFK. James Files admitted to shooting JFK. Explosion in a block of flats in Russia: Magnitogorsk explosions likely to indicate wider terrorism threat from small Jihadist cells in major Russian cities; ‘Blowing Up Russia’ book by Poroshenko on how Beresovsky was responsible; Chechyn terrorism. 27 times the speed of sound: latest Russian hypersonic strategic missile makes US missile defenses ‘useless’. Putin’s New Year Address. Canada: 13 citizens held in China since Huawei executive arrestChina shuts leading underground Christian church, third this winterLangfang, in northern Hebei Province bans Santa ClausEx China Intelligence  Chief jailed. Tech giants:  Google wins lawsuit, can continue to use facial recognition tech on users without consent; surveillance by big tech is illegal – Supreme Court in Ireland on 21st January;  Sergeant At Arms and Facebook arrest seizing Zuckerberg emails story. Were German neo-Nazis in BND BfV or other intelligence responsible for leak of one hundred German government officials details hacked and put online – by far right terrorists or revenge for sacked head of German Intelligence Massen who removed because he was a neo-Nazi? Secret neo-Nazi plot in German army to slaughter left-wing German politicians Day XVienna Airport attack: German lieutenant who posed as refugee in ‘false flag’ terror plot could be part of neo-Nazi army network – Alarm over talks to implant UK employees with microchips. Russo discussing New World Order plan to microchip population. Brazil’s Bolsonaro Says He Is Open To Hosting A US Military Base + police immune to prosecution1970s Israel and Iran nuclear deals. Will Israeli president Netanyahu win next election? Israel’s Netanyahu refuses to resign amid corruption allegations – First ever landing on the Dark side of the Moon – beginning the China ‘space race’.
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