Friday 9th December 2016

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

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First hour: News review: with LibDem group leader and councillor for Knowle Gary Hopkins. Dr Saffron Karlsen: Why the Prevent strategy is harming integration rather than helping it in Bristol’s communities. Interview with Dr. Saffron Karlsen, lecturer at Department of Ethnicity and Citizenship at Bristol University – she discusses the Prevent strategy against Muslim radicalisation and says it is harming integration not helping it – this is in the wake of the Casey Review that showed there wasn’t enough integration between different communities in Britain: MI6 being involved in Muslim radicalisation; Muslims seen as guilty until proven innocent; state can be a terrorist too;  terrible human rights records of countries Theresa May is having dinner with.  Bristol Council – Budget not in good shape and no clear way through.  Labour comes 4^th place in Sleaford by-election – thought to be because of Labour’s mixed messages about immigration – Labour split, PR, does Corbyn have a cohesive vision?  Migration hits new highs – net migration from EU 189,000 in a year – immigration figures.  British workers living in poverty ‘at a record high’ – more social housing needed. 2000 disabled wrongly declared fit for work in 3 months.  Unknown rough sleeper, homeless man, found frozen in Birmingham. PMQs closure of a job centre and benefit sanctions – David Liddington taking Theresa May’s place – social housing within new housing developments. PMQs Emily Thornbury – what is the Brexit plan? – Labour rudderless. High Court injunction stops Mail on Sunday reporting police investigation into businessman.  PMQs strike of atomic workers over pensions at Aldermaston – why are nuclear weapons being privatised?
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Second hour: Investigative reports: privatisation of Network Rail who own and maintain the British Railways’ track – Bruce Williamson from Rail Futures discusses the privatisation of the rail track: Banks owning stock;  fragmentation of railway; PMQs Peter Bottomley – RMT Union and strikes on rail over Christmas; First Group debt in US; last 20 years rail passengers have doubled;  electrification of Great Western Rail; HS2. Europol. the EU and MI6 this week announced a new wave of terror attacks are expected across Europe to be blamed on ‘returning jihadis’. OPERATION GLADIO C (NATO & MI6 plotting to kill UK/domestic civilians and political opposition in terrorist bombs and blame attacks on ‘returning jihadists’?) Europol and new head of MI6 says a new wave of terror attacks to be expected across Britain and Europe – NATO arming, training and directing Islamic terrorists. Sibel Edmonds, FBI whistleblower, discusses OPERATION GLADIO B (NATO controlling Islamist groups and planning terror attacks blamed on Islamists) – in process now – prepare for a new wave of false flag terror attacks in countries surrounding Russia to encourage them to enter NATO. Boris Johnson allies defend him over Saudi Arabia comments – slapping down from Malcolm Rifkind – clip of Boris and what he actually said.  Roland Dumas, former French Foreign Minister, on French TV saying Britain asked if he wanted to join them in starting an armed uprising in Syria.  Alex Younger, new boss of MI6, discusses Syria:  war in Syria would end if MI6 backed Jihadis were gotten rid of; Russia and Assad creating more terrorists? Islamic terrorist attacks – such as Madrid, 9/11, 7/7, Paris, Brussels, Nice – evidence all these attacks have been part of ‘Operation Gladio C’ orchestrated by NATO Secret Services. Sibel Edmonds – mainstream media into less and less hands. Aldous Huxley discussing Brave New World, 1984, the state and the manipulation of opinion.
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Friday 2nd December 2016

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

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First hour: News review: with leader of the Conservative group on Bristol City Council and councillor for Hengrove and Brentry Mark Weston – Shaun Murphy, from ‘Protect Our NHS’, discusses fighting cuts and privatisation of the NHS: Clinical Commissioning Groups;  Sustainable Transformation Programme (STP) will cap NHS budget at £23bn a year; Lib Dem research showing £30bn wasted in NHS on dealing with new markets; NHS after WWII; nationalising pharmaceutical companies; PMQs STP moving towards private health insurance? PMQs South Tyneside Hospital and cuts – PFI deals; PMQs Corbyn – no extra money for social care in Budget; ¼ beds in Southmead Hospital – people who need social care in community. Snooper’s Charter gets Royal Assent:  song by Cassette Boy; can we trust the Secret Services with mass warrant-less spying powers? Is scrutiny of Secret Services enough? NATO and false flag attacks. PMQs Christians are worried to mention their faith in public – Theresa May uses the Bible to help her make decisions because ‘she is a Christian’. Bit are her policies Christian? Official report reveals the hated benefit sanctions regime costs taxpayers £153m more a year to run than it saves – poor paying for crimes of the bankers.  Bristol’s four homeless charities work together for the homeless this Christmas. NICE says getting rid of speed bumps could lessen air pollution. PMQs Grammar Schools.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Trump chooses James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis as his Defence Secretary: he wants to cancel deal with Iran; US bill HR6393 targeting Russian propaganda; he was in charge of US Centcom; his quotes on Iran.  Turkey declares war on Syria and Assad – is this start of WW3?  EU Commission reveals 5bn Euros European Defence Fund.  PMQs  Angus Robertson – End of Aleppo war in Syria – humanitarian crisis – West allied with Islamic extremists. 9/11: shock report reveals 9/11 tower did not collapse because of fire – report by group of top engineers from Alaska University; former National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) employee says Tower 7 investigation bogus – Govt. ‘denied evidence’;  Trump saying how 9/11 buildings came down was odd: says  “I happen to think they had not only a plane but bombs that exploded almost simultaneously.” Donald Trump: Only Explosives Could Have Brought Down World Trade Towers. Interview with Jackie Cannon about Cuba and the recent death of Fidel Castro: press coverage of Fidel Castro outside Cuba is not how people feel in Cuba; the history of Cuba from the Spanish colonisation to today – putting the need for a revolution in context and constant US meddling – including how the USS Maine ship being blown up in Havana Harbour in 1898 could have been a false flag attack as an excuse for US to intervene in Cuba – Cuban missile crisis; the future of Cuba – is the system safe? Trump on Cuba; US sanctions on Cuba and Cuban Adjustment Act not lifted; Jackie’s book ‘Cuba: One Moment in Time’. The story of Tory election fraud and overspending in 2015 election was first picked up by The Canary – a Bristol based website – Kerry Ann Mendoza from The Canary explains.
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Friday 25th November 2016

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

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First hour: News review: with LibDem councillor for Hengrove and Whitchurch Park Tim Kent. Metrobus – problems;  Metro Mayor – centralisation of power or devolution?  Child Sex Abuse Inquiry – complete rethink needed – Michael Mansfield QC discussing whether spanners in the works are deliberate – Shirley Oaks survivors will release 60 names of abusers in mid-December;  Michael Mansfield QC – Snooper’s Charter – ‘we have an Orwellian Society’ – Bristol Labour MPs, except Thangam Debbonaire, voted for it SEE LIST OF HOW MPS VOTED but Lib Dems and SNP against; Budget – Gov. to spend more on infrastructure – affordable homes – want to seriously tackle congestion? Cost of FREE public transport in Bristol would be £30 million annually; estimated £30bn of wasted NHS cash – spent on NHS market – investigation by Lib Dems in 2014;  Budget – UK borrowing £122bn more than predicted over next few years; Tory MPs just voted down a bid to reveal the impact of their £3.4bn welfare cut;  PMQs Angus Robertson – disabled benefits cuts;  UK rise in Neets – those not in education, employment or training;  PMQs Corbyn – NHS cuts and social care cuts – economy;  Scotland could trial Universal Income; PMQs  homelessness – austerity – Queen given £700m to do up Buckingham Palace.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Iraq truck bomb kills 100 people at petrol station – mainly Iranian Shia – Crisis Initiation, Amaq News Agency, SITE website, White Helmets.  Merkel with Obama – internet ‘disruptive’ force that has to be ‘contained, managed and steered’ by Government – Stratcom.  Labour’s ‘fake news’ crusader Michael Dugher wrote for The  Sun and quaffed ‘champagne’ and ‘oysters’ with Murdoch  – deliberate lies or mistakes in media – mainstream media not able to manipulate events like used to.  What to do about ‘fake’ news – by US investigative journalist Robert Parry, author of ‘America’s Stolen Narrative; founder of Consortium News – Fake news outlet Bellingcat’s NATO propaganda operation. Report urges UK to ‘map’, ‘challenge’, and expose public figures with Russia links – e.g. those who have worked on RT.  Harwell nuclear scientist Matthew Puncher, who discovered Russian investigative writer Alexander Litvinenko polonium poison, ‘stabbed himself to death with two knives’ after trip to Russia: polonium trail; Putin’s rise to power and Chief Russian Jewish Oligarch Boris Berezovsky who died in suspicious circumstances in London in 2013 – false flag bombings in Moscow backed by West to stop communism in Russia; ‘Blowing up Russia’ book by Litvinenko; NTV programme about this Alexander Litvinenko, who really killed him & why? After ANOTHER suspicious death we smash the Litvinenko polonium conspiracy to smithereens tonight – Background to Alexander Litvinenko poisoning and his 2006 book ‘Blowing Up Russia’ about the 1999 Moscow apartment bombings: The Rise of Putin and The Fall of The Russian-Jewish Oligarchs – Authoritarian Britain, Briefing 2: The 2008 bailout robbery and the death of capitalism – Money:  Gov. could print money and put it straight into economy; economic warfare – banks not tanks – political power – Desmond Morton;  Daniel Hopsicker in documentary ‘The Federal Reserve: Masters of the Universe’ – money as servant not master;  Bill Still from ‘Secret of Oz’ documentary – addressing money system;  2008 bank bailout biggest heist in history; WWII governor of the Bank of England Montague Norman – friend of Nazis – set up BIS; Steve Keen economist. – Professor Anthony Hall discussing the staged media event in Iraq when Bush said ‘mission accomplished’ – media as an advertisement to affect public opinion – ‘public relations’.
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