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 annuallyestimated £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 , who really killed him & why? After ANOTHER suspicious death we smash the polonium conspiracy to smithereens tonight – Background to Alexander Litvinenko poisoning and his 2006 book ‘Blowing Up Russia’ about the 1999 Moscow apartment bombingsThe Rise of Putin and The Fall of The Russian-Jewish OligarchsAuthoritarian 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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Friday 18th 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 Labour councillor for St George Central Steve Pearce – Trade Unions – history and why be part of one;  Brexit – Trump win – general move towards anti-establishment choices – breakaway movements;  Trump’s new team – Michael Flynn now National Security Advisor after James Clapper resignation – views about Putin and Russia;  Russian economics minister, Alexei Ulyukayev, arrested, under house arrest, for taking $2m dollar bribe; website for Steve’s West of England Joint Scrutiny Committee, West of England Partnership – which spends hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money on transport, housing and strategic planning. Discussing impacts locally of Hinkley Point C; MetroWest, Metrobus; pensions and 0% interest rates – people investing in property instead, Bristol housing plan;  PMQs Corbyn – Labour leader’s team not up to the job at Prime Ministers’ Questions, Jeremy Corbyn asking the same question six times – forgetting to include questions from members of the public and ‘Remoaning’ against Brexit, which most of his voters support 🙂 NHS plans to close hospitals and A&Es kept secret from the public, investigation finds;  GP closures could leave 5 million people without access to local practice; UK Armed Forces lose string of historic bases as MoD sells off another 56 sites; PMQs Lisa Nandy – Child Abuse Inquiry fiasco – Shirley Oaks Survivors Group decide to leave the Historic Abuse Enquiry led by Alexis Jay whose Rotherham enquiry led to no punishment, suspensions or prosecutions of police and social workers who let Rotherham abuse continue for years – NSPCC ‘coverer up in chief’ Peter Wanless and files on children’s homes he said didn’t exist kept secret for 100 yearsBristol Rich List – Kevin Cahill, former compiler of Times Rich List, analyses it – total approx. wealth of top 50 is £31.25bn – The Royal Family assets and wealth grossly underestimated by a factor of at least ten, tax evasion. Refurbishment of Buckingham Palace announced, to cost taxpayers £370m.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Kevin Cahill, author and journalist, joins Tony and Martin to review news.  History of Michael Flynn, new National Security Adviser, and James Clapper, who has just resigned as US Director of National Intelligence. Trump backs moving capital of Israel from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem – Sheldon Adelson, Casino Magnate, biggest funder of US politics and massive Trump donor. Trump talking about pulling out of NATO unless others pay up – but US makes money from arms deals with NATO countries. Israelis ‘Mezzuin Bill’ to ban Muslim call to prayer, so Jerusalemites recite call to prayer from their rooftops. Russia pulls out of Hague International Criminal Court (ICC) because they have rejected verdict of pro-Russian referendum in Crimea. Trump donated $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation – Trump family and Clinton family are friends.  Surveillance – Snooper’s Charter, which makes GCHQ’s multiple present illegal activities legal, has been passed into law: bill is 283 pages long;  surveillance by tech companies, telecommunications firms and intelligence – not by Police; Andrew ‘Nosey’ Parker, MI5 Director General and stories in media; PRISM; GHOSTHUNTER; GHOSTWOLF; MOONPENNY; Snowden revelations – RAF Molesworth and war crimes, illegal drone targeting.  Global Peace Award goes to murdered MP Jo Cox and White Helmet but would Jo Cox endorse White Helmets’ terrorism support role? Geopolitics story copied up and written by Lucy Pasha Robinson … who is a food writer. Bilderberg firms, Google Deep Mind and Palantir’s ‘Gotham’, will help you with your databasesEdwin Black, author of ‘IBM and the Holocaust’, discusses the huge database of Jewish people IBM developed for the Nazis in WWII.  Threat of cyber attacks. Massive BBC World Service propaganda expansion, greatest since WWII, but funding is being ended for BBC Monitoring. British government wants to tell everyone its version of events, but isn’t interested in learning from others, exhibiting a psychopath mentality.
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Friday 11th 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 Tom Baldwin, Trades Union and Socialist Coalition. What is the Trade Union and Socialist Coalition (TUSC); ‘Blairite’s’; Bristol District Anti-Cuts Alliance – cuts and Mayor Mervin Rees getting more money for Bristol;  snap general election;  Militant Tendency;  Council risks ‘turning Bristol into rubbish tip’ with massive increase in waste charges; Bristol street preachers to appear in court charges with religiously aggravated public order;  7 months of traffic chaos thanks to Metrobus roadworks – free transport; Bedford Prison riots – cuts;  Trump’s acceptance speech – Trump and his long-time Mafia connection: A Mafia Don with a Pompadour; Yvette Cooper on BBC Question Time discusses Trump, Putin and NATO – NATO supporting terrorism; Trump pulling out of TTIP; Charles Shoebridge – mainstream media hasn’t ability to swing elections anymore – but Clinton actually got more votes; BBC 5Live – Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis says anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are the same thing – Israel reneging on it’s promises – he also wants Ken Livingstone expelled for alleged anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: James Florey from Veterans For Peace UK on Armistice Day. Former infantry soldier James Florey from Veterans for Peace: veterans experience of war and what Armistice Day means for them; WW2 different to modern invasions – ‘war not the answer in 21st century’; Cameron comparing Putin to Hitler – Hedge fund investor ‘doubles money’  on 2015 Tower Of London poppies;  Royal British Legion – ‘remembrance’ and ‘war’ good business; Royal British Legion taking money from arms dealers; Robert Fisk likening the poppy to racism: The poppy has become a symbol of racism – I will never wear one again; BAe Systems supporting poppy appeal – Saudi Arabia and BAE Systems; VFPUK annual conference;  white poppy for peace – and remembers all who have died in wars; red poppy promoting war in last 10-15 years?; Syria: now Trump is in charge will war in Syria be different? National Security Obama directs Pentagon to target al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, one of the most formidable forces fighting Assad Film ‘Shadow World’ has just come out based on book by Andrew Feinstein ‘The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade’ – clip from trailer of film. Part of talk by British freelance journalist Vanessa Beeley, who has spent time recently in Syria – she discusses the White Helmets and how they are being used as a propaganda  outfit by the West and the West backed ‘rebels’ – media reporting of Syria lacking – e.g. Krishnan Guru-Murthy Channel 4 News report, embedded with Al-Nusra terrorists, uncritically reporting on them committing war crimes. SAS track and kill British Islamists in Iraq: SAS in Iraq given ‘kill list’ of 200 British jihadis to take out – Tony’s article about trafficking of London schoolgirls to Syria by Canadian Intelligence service: Did Canadian taxpayers foot Islamic State’s recruitment bill? Western intelligence services recruit British into terrorism – Redress Online – WBritish police prepare us: what to do if terrorist attack in Bristol. But what if its actually ‘Gladio B’, NATO fascists behind terrorism blaming attacks on migrants? Anniversary of 2015 Paris terrorist attacks – critical article on Aanirfan blog explains how we are manipulated by Western intelligence services.
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