Friday 12th Febuary 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 Bristol’s Libdem leader Gary Hopkins. Bristol Green Capital – where did the money go?; Bristol Cable investigation into Bristol 2015 Ltd spending public money on & with their friends and family; Bristol Carnival Committee, removal of trustees of Malcolm X Centre, Dance Centre lease removed; George Ferguson, the smiling control freak; On community groups: “If it’s not the mayor or something directly under his control he’s not happy with anything I’m afraid.” The spending … is all massively centralised”. “Organisations that are community based and real are being completely and utterly sidelined”. Local people and councillors on Neighbourhood partnerships “Are not being ALLOWED to make decisions”. “Mayor Ferguson has final word on all decisions; coming up Bristol Council Budget Debate; “Next week’s budget debate is, quite frankly, a bit of a charade”; Metro Mayor more right wing – the Mayoral system; Metro Bus; Independent paper to close and go online and Johnston Press to buy ‘i’;  media groups lose appeal against secret trial of Erol Incedal – FBI using patsies as terrorists for political means;  Clarke Shoes in Street announces major job losses, Shepton Mallet cider company closed – Baltic Dry Index, The Big Short film, derivatives; closures of courts and tribunals in England and Wales announced; PMQs Corbyn on housing crisis – solution of more social housing; how Cameron plans to destroy Britain’s social housing in 7 easy steps;  Paul Mason and how to solve housing crisis; PMQs disability tribunals – trauma to disabled people; clip of Michael Crick from C4 News about Tories overspending on election campaign and not declaring it.
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Second hour: investigative reports: Junior doctors strike and dispute – Two years on from Kiev’s Maidan coup US arming & training Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi Battalions – the arbitrary detention of Julian Assange, Swedish Doctors for Human Rights group link his accusers to the CIA and Swedish police – London is world’s Money Laundering capital. Interview with Dr. Richard Ibitoye, Neurology Registrar and Severn BMA chair for junior doctors – he discusses the strike of the junior doctors and how the government is asking too much of already stretched doctors:  clips of Jeremy Hunt, Health Secretary, on C4 News, discussing what he wants from junior doctors;  NHS comes top on healthcare survey and US the worst – private healthcare, NHS started after WW2;  Cameron just launched a privatisation ‘surge’ to end the NHS by the time he leaves office; Tory MP Oliver Letwin had a blueprint for privatising NHS. Julian Assange and the rape accusations:  UN believes Julian Assange’s detention is illegal; statement by Swedish doctors for Human Rights on Sweden’s rejection of UN ruling – the ‘woman accuser’ of rape was a former Swedish embassy employee and had been expelled from Cuba on charges of working for the CIA; PMQs Assange should go to Sweden for questioning and should pay for his own house arrest. Two years ago was the Maidan Coup, in Kiev, Ukraine – an update: Ukraine: Les Masques De La Révolution Canal+
Ukraine: Masks of the Revolution – documentary from Canal Plus the Ukrainian government have asked the French government to take it down; interview with Mark Sleboda from RT about the situation in Ukraine and the fascists that are part of the present government. Drug money saved the banks in the global financial crisis – City of London at centre of global drugs trade.
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Friday 5th Febuary 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 Independents For Bristol candidate Jane Whitehead. What is Independents for Bristol vision for Bristol?; are women better politicians?;  NHS care sector;  row over “missing” £8.3m of Green Capital money – former LibDem MP Stephen Williams discussing lack of transparency over money, Andrew Garrard: Merchant Venturer and the Chair of Bristol 2015, Christian Martin, and clip of Alexandro about funding for his hydrogen powered boats that helped get the Bristol Green Capital grant being cut;  Bristol region could have a Metro Mayor within the next few years – Northern Power House rubbish, referendum for not having a Mayor;  deaf campaign for new Bristol social club – after former one was shut;  Bristol street level drug dealers locked up in huge sweep – legalising drugs, HSBC and banking system propped up by drug money, Western intelligence services and drug smuggling;  PMQs John Mann on Cameron’s ‘EU deal’ – is that it? – banking system collapsing;  PMQs Corbyn – cut in ESA for cancer patients;  PMQs Stella Creasey – her trust spending £5m a week on PFI interest;  Mark Kerridge from Positive Money – survey showed only 10% of MPs know how banking works;  narcolepsy boy wins £120k swine flu vaccine damages.
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Second hour: investigative reports: exploding the myths around John Cabot with Dr Evan Jones from Bristol University’s Cabot Project. NATO Exercise of Russia attacking Baltic states on the BBC – Predictive Programming? Interview with Dr. Evan Jones, from The Cabot Research Project, Bristol University, discusses the history of John Cabot and others travelling across the Atlantic where they began the process of opening America up to European exploitation: Roman coins and sword found in Newfoundland; so who found America first? Historians claim they have found evidence Romans arrived in North America, more than a thousand years before Christopher Columbus set foot on the continent. The John Day Letter from Bristol informing Christopher Columbus of Cabot’s 1497 voyage. Italian merchants at Florence’s Bardi bank funded England’s discovery of North America. Various stories; enslavement and illnesses causing genocide to native Americans after Europeans turned up; Christopher Columbus; history of Merchant Venturers in Bristol; The Hanseatic League; Merchant Adventurers; ship building in Bristol; TTIP and modern global capitalism;  Alwyn Ruddock and documents she wanted to hold on to about John Cabot; Prester John and fake letter put out by Vatican – explorers gripped by these stories;  Amerigo Vespucci. Dr Evan Jones’ Cabot Project ….  World War III war game programme on BBC2 about Russians invading Baltic states – propaganda against Russia, NATO the aggressors; interview with Rona Fairhead chair of the oxymoronic ‘BBC Trust’, on BBC Andrew Marr show – she has no experience in media and journalism; clip of Anthony Sutton, author of ‘America’s Secret Establishment’, discussing The Skull and Bones Club – he considers it a conspiracy whose members are encouraged to believe ‘might is right’ to gain power.
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Friday 29th January 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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Apologies – BCfm audio files usually available 2 hours after TX. Any probs mp3s should be on alternative links below by about 9 pm on TX date.

First hour: News review: with Green Councillor Carla Denyer – Bristol City Council Service Director for Housing Nick Hooper to ‘confiscate unoccupied tents’ demands homeless sleep in doorways. Housing; social housing; Greens vision for the city; housing market; growth and GDP; economic crash; council tax to increase – rates, a regressive tax; Gary Neville to close ‘Hotel for the Homeless’ after spending £150,000 – property ladder; empty buildings to be used as housing for homeless – St. Mungos and their rough sleeping task force, increase in rough sleepers in city, Nick Hooper’s statement about evicting homeless in tents in parks; rising rents and low income (£1300 less a year), lead to soaring housing benefit bill of £25bn – productivity down, property bubble bursting; GE Healthcare – US healthcare giant makes fortune from NHS but pays hardly a penny in tax – nationalising pharmaceuticals; PMQs Corbyn – Google and their £300m tax deal with government – future deals may be private; plans for an Anti Margaret Thatcher Museum by Darren Cullen – antidote to the planned Thatcher Centre – things Thatcher did wrong – privatisation, deregulation of banks, creation of Al Queda; PMQs Margaret Ferrier – Osborne has missed his deficit reduction plan by a long shot – management of macro-economy; Iain Duncan Smith gives a blank cheque to Lawyers fighting bedroom tax cases – after two landmark cases won in court – right to buy of your social housing; PMQs Charlotte Leslie – prisons centres of radicalisation.
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Second hour: investigative reports: Breaking the Bullingdon Club Omertà: Secret Lives of the Men Who Run Britain: Vandalism, blood, and hookers. A Daily Beast investigation exposes the best-kept secrets of Britain’s most powerful men; the hidden archive; the club’s latest outbreak of destruction; new heavyweight members named and Prime Minister David Cameron’s hushed-up past. Bullingdon Club exposed by Nick Mutch – Nick Mutch, journalist, discusses the Bullingdon Club, who Cameron, Osborne and Boris were all part of:  just wealthy join club; ‘Omerta, Omerta’ – is the Mafia code of silence; list of influential people who have been members – almost all Tories and 75% went to Eton; encouraged to damage property – break the law – smash things up – so they have dirt on each other and will be afraid to tell tales lest their own deeds be revealed; Skull and Bones society at Yale University in the US; they are let off by the law and don’t suffer the consequences. Nick also writes at www.Byline.com – Ten years after the Bristol schools privatisation plan was hatched, BBC Points west reporter Martin Jones paints rosy picture of Bristol’s privatised secondary schools – Christine Townsend, former teacher and candidate for Mayor, discusses how the good news story of Bristol schools improving, is probably not as good as it seems:  Academy Schools; inequality in entrance for kids – some not taking enough ‘free school meal’ kids; clip of piece by Martin West on Points West, about how education has improved in Bristol in last 10 years; Reporter Martin West and BBC fail to mention creepy SW Schools Commissioner Sir David Carter was recently CEO of Academies’ ‘Cabot Learning Federation’ PFIs of new school buildings; The Bristolian allege Peter Price, Director of Cabot Learning Federation, condones detention of children in an empty room on their own with nothing to do all day for minor breaches of school rules. Draconian disciplinary systems in schools and permanent exclusion of badly behaved kids increasing; schools are being run like a business with children sitting on conveyor belts. Retired Russian General Leonid Ivashov says ‘there is no such thing as international terrorism’. General Ivashof, former Chief of Staff of Russian Armed Forces, says international terrorism does not exist – Al Qaeda funded by the West, Saudi Arabia No.1 supporter of Jihadis, Roland Dumas. Interview with Rose Crossland from Bristol CND Stop Trident, Stop The Bombing at Trinity Centre next Tuesday at 7pm about stopping Trident – is it possible to get rid of nuclear weapons? Privatisation of military. The Litvinenko murder: Scaramella – The Italian Connection… was it Mario Scaramello, part of Mafia and CIA agent, who really poisoned Litvinenko? Documentary about 1999 Moscow Ryazan bombings based on Alexander Litvinenko book ‘Blowing Up Russia’ banned by Vladimir Putin
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