Friday 13th 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: Bristol West MP Thangham Debbonaire’s battle with breast cancer – how to prevent getting cancer;  domestic violence – rehabilitation;  schools and children fulfilling potential; benefit sanctions unlawful – Tory austerity agenda doesn’t work, prioritising rich over poor, homelessness, regulation of rent;  Marvin Rees as new Bristol Mayor – diversity and commitment to housing;  BBC coverage of elections – Labour gained 18 council seats and Tories lost 47 councillors – first past post electoral system, proportional representation, boundary changes, election expenses fraud; London Mayoral election – Tory election ‘guru’ Lynton Crosby failed but knighted! Anti Semitic accusations against Sadiq Khan fail in London; interview with Steve Norman who is squatting a council house in Avonmouth that has been sold at auction – sale due to be completed by Wednesday 18th May; empty council houses;  Metro Mayor – devolution? Bath councillors vote yes to the money, no to the imposed metro mayor; shortcomings of the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP); in or out of EU? Thangam says in for protection against Tories and to prevent run down of British industry Airbus successes; blacklisting of construction workers – compensation is not enough and it’s not justice; Tories wanting to change BBC – BBC chief Rona Fairhead and convictions the HSBC laundered money for terrorists and drug cartels while she was chairman of HSBC’s ‘risk committee’; Tories have withheld key documents from election fraud investigation, taken to court by the Electoral Commission.
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Second hour: investigative reports: Iraq: bomb attack in Baghdad; Chilcot Report in July – Blair impeached? Western model of democracy imposed on middle east – Mullahs; Muqtada al-Sadr in Baghdad – Sunni and Shia building communities. Syria: leader of Hezbollah killed by Israel. Libya: US has two permanent military bases. Yemen: drones; ISIS moving in; Saudi Arabia, Mossad, CIA behind ISIS; Gulf News website – canal to carry oil through Yemen. Is UN useful? Better than nothing! PMQs Jack Lopresti – Afghanistan foreign policy.  Army officers using drones for targeted killing – committing murder? – RAF/USAF Waddington in Lincolnshire is UK based used by British and Americans to assassinate people and innocent bystanders in any part of the world, US military aircraft fly in and out of Waddington with no markings on. 9/11:  Saudi Arabian government employees were support workers for 9/11 attackers – according to 28 pages redacted from report.  Michael Flynn, former head US Defence and Intelligence Agency (DIA), said was ‘wilful decision’ to create ISIS – Dempsey, Seymour Hersh. Britain funds ‘rebel fighter groups’ propaganda war in Syria  – soft war, psychological warfare, strategic communication.  Hilary Clinton’s e-mails hacked by Russia – malware on her computer; Sarin gas signed off to Syria.  Snooper’s Charter:  PMQs Gavin Newland – UK surveillance state; Edward Snowden – surveillance didn’t know about, outside law; clip of Duncan Campbell on Snooper’s Charter and IP bill, Investigatory Powers Bill; Investigative journalist Duncan Campbell on BT being a listening network from beginning. From Gold-dollar to Petro-dollar to Narco-dollar 09May2016 by F. William Engdahl – the dollar going off the gold standard but being kept as the reserve currency – Panama papers and US now place to hide money. Corruption Conference – a sideshow.  Dima Rousseff, Brazilian President – manoeuvre to get rid of left wing in South America. Bilderberg in Dresden, Germany this year:  top 6 German ministers going.
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Friday 6th March 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: and discussion of the conduct of mayoral and local elections with Bristol’s LibDem leader Gary Hopkins. UK Elections:  count taking place, open to fraud?; interference with ballot boxes filmed in US; PCCs a good idea? Sadiq Khan has won London Mayor – Zac Goldsmith’s comments accusing Sadiq of supporting ISIS libellous. PMQs Corbyn and Cameron – is he friends with Hamas and Hezbollah? – Explanation of Hamas in Palestine and Hezbollah in Lebanon – British culpability in Middle East, you have to stick to promises in difficult situations. Joseph Rowntree Foundation report found 1.25m people in UK ‘unable to afford food, heat or toiletries’ – Tory austerity ideological agenda, banking fraud, Roberto Saviano’s book ‘Zero Zero Zero’ says today’s multinational corporations and banks model themselves on drug dealing narco-cartels, John McDonnell dream team of economists.  Suspension of Ken Livingstone – clip of PM of Israel, Netanyahu, saying Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews – Norman Finkelstein on the Haavara Agreement between Zionists and Nazis,  Jonathon Pollard a spy who sold Israelis US secrets.  Barnet Council boss, Andrew Travers, will not resign over election fiasco – outsourcing to Capita, Bristol postal votes to Gosport.  Tory election fraud from last election in Gloucestershire – police investigation, Michael Crick’s reports, Christina Cooper discusses safety and security of e-balloting.  History of sell off of Bristol Port for around £50m – but it could be worth £1.3 billion?
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Second hour: investigative reports: announcement that Sue Mountstevens has been re-elected as Avon & Somerset police and crime commissioner – Seymour Hersh – Hillary Clinton approved sending Sarin gas to Syrian rebels for 2013 Ghouta chemical weapons attack – Sarin gas deal set up with Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar – The Red Lines and the Rat Lines by Seymour Hersh. BBC Question Time discusses EU referendum – audience member discusses TTIP, EU and Bilderberg – with a view to Brexit. Bilderberg 2016 in Dresden – home to the German far right, criminal gangster oligarchs. Dresden home to Germany’s Pegida chief Lutz Bachmann, and German far-right leader Frauke Petry Analysing failures of BBC documentary Conspiracy Files about downing of MH17 in Ukraine: who is Bellingcat? – https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Bellingcat Bellingcat, Eliot Higgins, about his fake video analysis; various points about what BBC Conspiracy Files MH17 documentary got wrong: witnesses seeing a fighter jet attack the airliner, satellite reports of US not released, Air Traffic Control tapes not released by Ukrainian govt, far right defence minister Andriy Parubiy mysteriously sacked immediately afterwards, Black Boxes held by the British, Dutch referendum against Ukraine EU ‘Understanding’, SU-25 didn’t need to reach high altitude to fire missile, Air Traffic Control ordered MH17 to turn on northern flightpath toward warzone, many planes had been shot down in the war so what was 777 airliner doing over Ukraine airspace? No normal procedure to investigation, no post-mortem allowed on pilot as part of deal to deliver his body back to Malaysia. Russian view: Balanced Viewpoint? BBC Snubs Moscow During Making of MH17 Documentary. Interview with John Hendy QC, a Trade Union barrister, about the Tory Trade Union Bill. Proposed changes to union ballots, making them less democratic and setting higher standards for union ballots than his own general election, latest on blacklisting court cases. Interview with Nahella Ashraf stand up to racism Manchester – she discusses the Prevent strategy and how it’s mainly aimed at Muslims, secret police spying on schoolchildren, targeting Muslims like Hitler targeted Jews, finance for the programme targeted at Muslim areas and how Muslims feel threatened.
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Friday 29th April 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: party leaders Green: Ani Stafford-Townsend, Labour: Helen Holland & Conservative: councillor Alasdair Watson. Helen Holland, Leader of Labour; Ani Stafford-Townsend, Leader of Greens;  Alistair Watson in place of Mark Watson, Leader of Conservatives;  absent: Gary Hopkins, Leader of Lib Dems & Michael Frost, UKIP Councillor – didn’t come. 70 Councillors in 34 wards up for election in Bristol; Is politics a stitch up, as anarchists think? –  rich don’t pay enough tax and poor not looked after, people should participate in politics;  Bristol Arena – how long will it take to pay off £93m debt with interest? – jobs, Local Enterprise Partnership; Bristol £200m MetroBus project – compromise, only 3 an hour;  Metro Mayor – Bristol will be given £1bn bribe (over 10 years) if agree, West of England Partnership, strategic planning, referendum for Mayor and Metro Mayor;  Do councillors have any power, after the introduction of the Mayor?;  Have we got enough council houses? – interview with Anthony Palmer, ex-army, who is squatting one of council houses with son that was sold at auction by council – Pip n Jay’s Sleep Out with homeless, Paul Saville argues with Mayor Ferguson and lady who works in Broadmead interjects – condition and cost of private rented housing, Tory plan of Right to Buy; EU Referendum – In or Out?;  Labour Party and anti-Semitism.
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Second hour: investigative reports: Labour Anti-Semitism row – and international news round up: The recent result of the inquiry into Hillsborough – clip of investigative journalist Roger Cook (from Cook Report) saying was a ‘large scale heavy duty cover-up’. Port Talbot Steel Plant closure – public ownership, key part of national defence, Thyssen-Krupp, clip from BBC 5Live of Jonathan Aylen from Manchester Business School on Port Talbot steel works whose order book is already going to Ijmuiden Dutch Steel Works near Amsterdam. Bank crash.  Is there any anti-Semitism in Labour Party? “Hitler was supporting Zionism” Ken Livingstone suspended – clip of what he said; Nazi deal with Zionists in 1933, The Transfer Agreement – clip of news report about this and Edwin Blacks book; Zionist movement and Israel staying within it’s 1948 borders decided in UN; Marek Edelman, leader of Warsaw ghetto uprising; John Mann MP having a go at Ken Livingstone in front of BBC Millbank studios – was Livingstone set up?; Sanctions on Israel? Five most shocking quotes of Oliver Letwin – e.g. you can’t trust black people with money and white people don’t riot. UK industrial output slides, trade deficit widens on darker global outlook – banks insolvent, Britain most vulnerable to crash. DWP could be forced to publish secret details of benefit claimant suicides. Russia signs contracts worth $950m for Syria reconstruction – oil pipelines across Syria. 7,420 Egyptian civilians tried in Military courts martial under President Sisi – mostly Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim Brotherhood in Syria. Will Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff, be impeached – Olympics. Hillsborough and connections with Freemasonry – P2 Lodge, Operation Tiberius. Operation Market Garden during WWII at Arnhem during the liberation of Holland: Interview with Barry Wynne, former executive at one of first ITV 1950s franchises ABC TV, discussing his meeting with Colonel Oreste Pinto who told him about Dutch ‘resistance fighter’ King Kong or Christian Lindemanns – a German Abwehr spy and the Traitor of Arnhem.
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