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Friday 2nd June 2017

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 Bristol city councillors Asher Craig (Labour), Geoff Gollop (Conservative) & Jude English (Green): What got you interested in politics? Trump leaving the Paris climate change agreement; school cuts – Bristol has £32m of cuts, some parents asked if can pay direct debit to school, protests in Bristol City Centre against school cuts; why do people not vote? Tories support Naylor Review – NHS buildings and land to be sold off half price – PFI deals;  is the general election about policies,  personalities, or propaganda? Unpopular Tory policies: dementia tax, cutting winter fuel allowance and breaking the pensions ‘triple lock’;  Tories Craig McInlay, Nathan Gray, and Marion Little are charged with election fraud –  money and manipulation; do some Tories want Labour to win election so they don’t have to deal with Brexit? Barry Lewis from Hartcliffe City Farm discusses how they need £15,000 a year to carry on – cuts from central government.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Bilderberg 2017 coverage with journalists Charlie Skelton and Luke Rudkowski – Bilderberg Conference is taking place in Chantilly, Virginia – interview with Charlie Skelton and Luke Rudkowski who are in Chantilly covering the conference:  less press outside conference than inside this year – spoon fed media; who stands out on attendee list this year? Bilderberg as King Makers – list of attendees in past who have then got important roles afterwards e.g. Macron recently; Henri de Castries, President of Institute Montaine, who backed Macron, is also President of Bilderberg;  Luke has been cornering attendees at airport – you can see his films online; Trumps’ closest advisers attend but no Trump? topics on their agenda are Trump, War on Information, and Russia – head of Ofcom is attending and many from intelligence community – Putin’s speech about wire services that make anti-Russian stories up;  could Bilderberg back Corbyn as they would prefer anything to a hard Brexit? Bilderberg as a consensus former – what is their vision for the future? looking at some individuals that regularly attend even when they have different jobs;  Charlies articles and Luke online. Interview with Charles Shoebridge, former police Special Branch and Army Officer, about failings of MI5 around the Manchester terror attack.  Shooting of PC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984 at Libyan Embassy in London – to set up a case against Gaddafi – ‘Murder in St. James’ Dispatches film about this. Charles Shoebridge discusses lack of MI5 and MI6 accountability – has their conduct been seen as a failure or an achievement? 50 year anniversary of 1967 Israel/Palestine 6 Day War that was the start of Israeli occupation The Six Day War has endured for 50 years. This conflict has caused untold misery for those living its consequences – the Israeli sinking of the USS Liberty was ignored by the US Navy, Golan Heights – oil concessions and support area for ISIS fighters.
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Friday 26th May 2017

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://www.bcfmradio.com/player or http://stream.bcfmradio.com:7017/live.mp3

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First hour: Bristol West hustings with Annabel Tall, Conservative party; Molly Scott Cato, Green party; Stephen Williams, Lib Dems. Labour party candidate Thangam Debbonaire has said she will not be attending these hustings due to ‘a preexisting diary commitment’. Statement by Labour candidate Thangham Debonair; vote count from last election – Greens closest to Labour in 2015: the LibDems were almost twice as far (17%) behind Labour as the Greens were (9%) two years ago; Labour Party infighting – Corbyn’s policies;  is the election about Brexit? Do MEPs have any power? How EU works; Laura Welty, Bristol Disability and Equality Forum manager expresses disabled peoples’ concerns over Tories removing social care funding; Theresa May’s policies of people in care keeping only £100,000 of their house, triple lock on pensions being scrapped, and means testing winter fuel allowance; Education cuts protests on College Green, Bristol losing 1000 teachers, cutting education in cities but more for rural areas; Housing – house prices falling – housing crisis; Manchester terror attack – Salman Abedi was reported several times to anti-terror hotline; Corbyn’s speech today about British foreign policy playing part in terror attacks – failures in the ‘Prevent’ program; Theresa May To Create New Internet That Would Be Controlled And Regulated By Government: Prime Minister Theresa May wants government controlled internet; IFS says Tory and Labour policies don’t add up – Steven Williams tweet – EU directive where can’t send money to tax haven without declaring it first. Sunday Politics, Andrew Neil interviews Theresa May
Lynton Crosby’s silence over tax haven scandal is deafening
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Second hour: Investigative reports: including a look at whether UK secret services, MI5 and MI6, were complicit in Monday’s terrorist attack at Manchester Arena. Manchester terror attack:  was it timed to effect election? History of Western secret services backing Islamic terrorists – Gladio style pattern of destabilisation.  Interview with journalist Amandla Thomas-Johnson from Middle East Eye wrote article yesterday ‘Sorted’ by MI5: How UK government sent British-Libyans to fight Gaddafi – connections between Libya and Manchester; Britain’s foreign policy being main factor in terror;  security services turning a blind eye to terrorists travelling to Syria and Libya.  Manchester terror attack: British secret services interfering in Libya; bomber known by MI5 ‘up to a point’, what does that mean? Links to Syria chemical weapons attacks. Red Lines and Rat Lines by Seymour Hersh; NATO wants to go to war with Syria; bomber’s father Ramadan Abedi has been arrested – to keep him quiet? – he was Libyan Army Intelligence Officer and after moving to Britain was part of Libyan Islamic Fighting Group; Britain a major player in Islamic terrorism over the years.  The Bilderberg Conference is taking place next weekend in Westfields Marriott Hotel, Chantilly, Virginia, USA – Hannah Borno discusses the group and how you find out where they are meeting: Bilderberg is a secretive group of the richest and most powerful in the Western world;  they get funding as a charity; who is on the steering committee? Many hi-tech firms are on it now; Trumps’ links to Bilderberg;  what could be on the agenda? King Makers – Macron was there in 2014; by looking at Bilderberg can predict trends in world events.
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Friday 19th May 2017

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://www.bcfmradio.com/player or http://stream.bcfmradio.com:7017/live.mp3

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First hour: News review: with Labour councillor for Hartcliffe Helen Holland and LibDem Councillor for Cotham Anthony Negus. Sex, Lies and Julian Assange, an ABC Four Corners documentary by Andrew Fowler and Wayne Harley, May 16, 2013. What is a Metro Mayor? Transparency; rape probe against Julian Assange dropped, but he will still face arrest for jumping bail if he leaves Ecuadorian embassy – good documentary from ABC TV ‘Sex, Lies and Julian Assange’ about the affair; Secretive NATO power elite political lobby group Bilderberg 2017 dates & venue CONFIRMED: 1-4 June Westfields Marriott, Chantilly VA 20151 – what are the main issues on the doorstep while canvassing for elections? – winter fuel allowance, Brexit and getting a good deal; Keo Films won a Bafta for ‘Exodus’ documentary about Syrian refugees – Shell Coe from this company is making another film about people on low incomes surviving on nothing – on the end of work as a route out of poverty – phone or text Shell if you want to be in her film 07465 733735 or email shell.coe@keofilms.com – protest against school funding cuts in Bristol area to take place in city centre from 11am tomorrow – Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s Manifesto Speech – with some of Labour’s policies; main points of Lib Dem Manifesto; Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May’s Manifesto Speech – with some of her policies – Brexit,
APOLOGIES – due to an occasional ‘technical malfunction’ of the BCfm server the first hour of tonight’s show took five days to appear on the BCFM ‘listen again’ system.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Interview with Steve Keen, economist and author – he has just brought a book out ‘Can we avoid another financial crisis?’ Debt deflation; austerity destroying GDP – mainstream economists; QE direct to public; which political party has good policies economically? Can individual financial crashes be contained? Private debt more of a danger than public debt;  clip of Michael Hudson author of ‘Killing the Host’ on banks ruining economies; recent global WannaCrypt RansomWare attack – online banking security, cashless economy;  Michael Hudson on the banking system taking over media and education like a parasite – Politico Financial Complex;  what would Steve do if he were chancellor? – plan for eliminating private debt; is there going to be a catastrophic financial crash?  Eran Efrati, a young Israel Defence Force sergeant in Hebron, says he felt like he was policing a form of apartheid and was terrorising Palestinians – on Abby Martin show on TeleSur English – The Empire Files – Israeli Army Vet’s Exposé – “I Was the Terrorist” – Elections in Iran – Hassan Rouhani vs Ebrahim Raisi. Exploding laptopgate – Story from March: The flight ban for exploding laptops is a classic protectionist scheme, Donald Trump’s leaking of classified intelligence to Russians ‘far worse than reported’ – Israel and false flag terrorism. US attacks pro-Assad forces: US air strikes in Syria: Why America really attacked pro-Assad militia convoy. Exclusive: For the Pentagon to suggest that this was a sideshow to Washington’s battle against Isis was to stretch the truth beyond credibility. Protests in Venezuela. British electoral system vs Iranian electoral system: Iran election: Millions vote in close race for presidency. Result could decide whether Iran’s detente with the West continues
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