Friday 3rd June 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 Labour Cabinet member for homes and communities Paul Smith: Paul is in charge of Homes and Communities on Marvin Rees’s new cross party cabinet; housing associations; Policy Exchange – free market think tank shown to be Islamaphobic by FAKING report on Islamic extremism – influential in setting housing policy; high rents; building council houses; Paul stopping all voluntary sale of Bristol council houses and land;  right to buy – housing associations, government will pay for half of house; Housing and Planning Act – housing policy to destroy council housing; getting a loan to build council housing; new Bristol Council housing development company; private developers supposed to have 30% affordable housing; how property speculation works – borrow against assets; casino economy world and housing; Bristol traffic congestion worst in whole country – Metrobus, First Group; Saturday rally in Bristol to support refugees – also far-right neo-Nazi rally – also Liam Fox MP and Nigel Farage turning up – a problem? Tory electoral fraud – Tories failed to block police investigations; EU referendum – can guarantee won’t be fixed?, Eurozone and EU difference; will Cameron resign after election whatever result; Cameron afraid to take part in head to head TV debates; electoral register fraudulent and new system is not working; Overstretched justice system failing victims and witnesses: The Public Accounts Committee report warns that the criminal justice system is close to breaking point.
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Second hour: investigative reports: Conspiracy author Andy Thomas on the Bilderberg meeting and this month’s EU referendum. Film of Israel soldier killing a Palestinian and kicking a knife towards him to set him up.  Israel supporting ISIS and Al Nusra Front. Interview with Andy Thomas, author, whose books try to inform people of what’s really going on in a manipulated and engineered world: origins of the EU and the occult; New World Order; EU to suit US and corporate interests; Bilderberg group meeting next week – designed to foster dialogue between Europe and North America – and set global policy; clip of Paul Craig Roberts on Julian Charles’s The Mind Renewed – EU creation of CIA; demonisation of Russia; EU Treaty; some unpopular EU plans being held back until after referendum; formation of an EU army – EU Battle Group already exists; is single market successful? NATO more of a threat than EU – Ukraine; banking crash, war with Russia, right wing – more of a threat than EU; IT ‘glitch’ on EU postal votes to foreigners – Gloucestershire-based XPress software; pros and cons of EU; lack of transparency www.truthagenda.org – Systematic rape and murder with impunity under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Nigel Josling at Deepcut barracks second inquest into the murder of private Cheryl James – I knew what was going on but I didn’t want to ruin my career by looking into it – suicide – cover up. Birmingham 6 cover up – clip from documentary.  Labour strikes in France. Battle of the Beanfield 31st anniversary this week
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Friday 27th May 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 Bristol City Council Tory group Mark Weston. PCC elections – Mark was Tory candidate, £5000 fee to take part, why count took so long in Bristol, postal votes; Brexit – pros and cons, Boris for Tory leader?, single market and EU, Cameron lobbying for less regulations of banks, EU and regulations, banking system insolvent, QE and Bank of England, exports going down; Homelessness duty ‘would cost councils £44m’. interview with Crisis’ Head of Policy and Campaigns Maeve McGoldrick about report showing how you can solve street homeless problem with £44m and save £47m – More rough sleepers in Bristol than anywhere else in England, outside of London – reform of legislation, strategic prevention, pilot in Wales working, increase supply of housing including social housing MPs have been urged to grasp an ‘historic opportunity’ to make the most significant change to the law on homelessness in nearly 40 years. National homelessness charity Crisis is urging the MPs selected by today’s Private Members’ Bill ballot to champion a change in the law that will ensure homeless people in England can no longer be turned away to sleep rough by their council. The proposed Bill, put forward by an expert panel of council members, lawyers and housing experts, would see a reformed law introduced requiring all councils in England to take action to prevent people from becoming homeless in the first place. Crisis’ Homeless Prevention Bill (2016); PMQs Angela Eagle and George Osborne – EU referendum and Tory split – balancing books and getting rid of national debt, derivatives debt bigger than national debts, tax havens and taxing rich; PMQs Port Talbot steel works – tariffs on Chinese steel dumping, drop in demand; PMQs – high proportion of children brought up in care end up in prison.
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Second hour investigative reports – US special forces becoming more involved in Syria – seen to have a Kurdish insignia on uniforms:  working with Islamic groups, what are battle lines in Syria?, bomb on bus by ISIS. Front page of Saudi newspapers – US blew up twin towers themselves on 9/11 to create ‘war on terror – Russians and Iranians know this. Former German Technology Minister and Defence Secretary Andreas von Bülow in 2002 discussing US culpability in 9/11 and Project for the New American Century: ‘In Search of Enemies’ book by John Stockwell about US constantly needing new enemies;  different theories of 9/11 LIHOP (Let It Happen On Purpose) and MIHOP (Made It Happen On Purpose).  Andreas von Bülow explains how Bilderberg works in German press: way of seeing who disagrees with Pentagon’s plans so you can subsequently get rid of them – remove them from power by fair means of foul – Bilderberg will be discussing Brexit and EU. Mike Sparks website – www.CombatReform.com – discusses what ‘President Trump’ will mean for US sponsored wars in Ukraine and Syria and the Military Industrial Complex (MilIndCom) playing ‘whack-a-mole’ with the ISIS ‘hornets nest’ they created and making billions of ‘kerching’: Ghouta chemical attack; Sabrosky – Israel involved in 9/11 – 5 dancing Israelis. Obama first US President to visit Hiroshima since WW2 nuclear bombing. Micro-chipping children – totalitarian police state? Florida propaganda to get your children microchipped: Several anti-microchipping websites: Katherine Albrecht – www.chipmenot.org – www.chipmenot.org.uk – Chippenham/Bath-based director Ken Loach wins 2016 Palme D’Or for film ‘I, Daniel Blake’ about the British benefits system in Job Centres and vicious Tory benefit cuts. Us Professor Michael Perelman discusses the early days of capitalism – primitive accumulation: Marx; depriving people of their rights; Adam Smith. Ya’alon quits Israel defence minister post, warning of ‘extremist’ rise under Netanyahu.
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Friday 20th May 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: this week’s Queen’s Speech and state opening of parliament. Kevin Cahill, author and journalist, joins Tony and Martin for news review. Interview with Rick Carey who has been occupying an Avonmouth council house that has been ‘sold off’ at auction by the City Council: Connolly & Callaghan owned hostels for the homeless and problems with them, they also own Hamilton House where the famous Stokes Croft Canteen is based and many other small businesses; will Bristol’s new Labour mayor Marvin Rees help withdraw the sale? Homelessness; housing bubble. Housing everyone in Britain would cost £44m, not £400m! The Queens Speech: Dennis Skinner; “Hands off the BBC!” economy on the mend? Really? Bristol house prices up 25% in a year, no high-tech manufacturing;  tax evasion – anti corruption conference, pro-Nazi abdicated British King Edward VIII was a tax evasion pioneer when he was exiled as governor of the Bahamas, US stopped Gordon Brown clamping down on tax havens, Al Qaeda, internal tax havens; £2.45bn NHS debt – PFIs, austerity obsession; Tory prison ‘reform’ – no investment, a mess;  Bill of Rights – no right to privacy, Syria and Roland Dumas.  Tory election fraud – 11 police forces investigating.  Queen 229 on rich list? Palace call Rupert Murdoch and the Queen slides down from 1 to 229 on the Sunday Times Rich List hiding her Crown Estate wealth – private and ‘public’ assets; Queen owns dolphins and is immune to prosecution – the powers you didn’t know the monarchy had;  prison officers taken hostage in Suffolk – leaked report – criminal justice system in crisis due to cuts.
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Second hour: investigative reports: with Vince Howard from Avon & Somerset Police Federation: Interview with Vince Howard, new Chairman of Avon and Somerset Police Federation: cuts to police officers – 700 gone – 20% – officer burnout, picking up work from other cuts e.g. mental health; is anyone too big to jail? Crown Prosecution Service – reasonable chance of conviction; Theresa May, Home Secretary, and the Police Federation conference this week in Birmingham – member subscription, insurance and services, property portfolio; Hillsborough cover-up – police used power for a cover up, Police complaints at the IPCC and accountability, blame culture;  a shortage of firearm officers? – policing by consent, tasers, terrorism, losing neighbourhood cops, ‘Shoot Through’ policy;  guns and drugs available in prisons;  police independent from intelligence agencies;  decriminalising of drugs;  should we pay more for police or should they do less?  100 year anniversary of 1916 Sykes-Pico Agreement: end of the Ottoman Empire; Balfour declaration; significance of oil. Mark Lane, US lawyer and author, died at 89 this week – he was famous for being the first person to question the official story of the killing of JFK: CIA didn’t like the ‘assassination theories’ he and others had been coming up with so deliberately popularised the term ‘conspiracy theory’ to belittle those questioning the official account. Clip of James Files recorded in prison explaining how he shot JFK along with others as part of a Chicago Mafia hit team which included Charles Nicoletti, Johnny Roselli; interview with Mark Lane, author of ‘Last Word, My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK’ (2011) discussing the secret group within the CIA, the IA, responsible for planned assassinations of heads of states and also details of killing of JFK and why he was killed. JFK assassination investigator Mark Lane died this week.
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