Friday 4th December 2015

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.

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First hour: Quite a lot on this week’s Bomb Syria Commons vote tonight… News review: with Labour councillor Ron Stone. Labour ‘terrorist sympathisers’ as claimed by Cameron; Camden’s leaflet ‘Young people radicalisation: What are the signs to look out for?’ – including showing mistrust of mainstream media reports and belief in conspiracy theories ….link; Britain involved in supporting terrorism in Syria – Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas says the British invited him to join them in an invasion of Syria rebels in 2009 two years before the Civil war began; General Ivashov – 9/11; how to counteract radicalisation; ‘Momentum’ Labour group; Tory youth group bullying and suicide of young man; clip of Cameron’s speech from Syria debate – what ISIS or Daesh want; son of Turkish president Bilal Erdogan profiting from oil sales from Syria and ISIS – NATO and Islamic terrorism; Israel a crusader state? natural resources; clip of Corbyn’s speech from Syria debate; Operation Cyclone; clip from 2006 Tony Benn speech ‘Journalism and the Political Process’ at the Arnolfini; Hilary Benn pro-bombing speech and ‘fighting fascism’; are ISIS fascists? No they’re nothing like industrial elite Franco, Hitler or Mussolini, fascists, superficially similar evil methods but comparison just factually wrong. Homeless people in Newport  were charged £1000, now they may be given crates to live in; Liverpool Mayor, Jo Anderson, and his housing policy – may come to Bristol – empty council buildings used for housing; Minister will have final decision in Lancashire over fracking, what about here? Genetically Modified (GM) Salmon, Aqua Bounty, first GM animal approved in US for human consumption – but big retailer CostCo are refusing to stock it – TTIP and TPP pushing for not labelling GM foods so public are forced to consume it; pay gap between highest and lowest paid now ‘stratospheric’; British state pension one of the worst in world.
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Second hour: investigative reports: Jim from Bristol Stop the War is helping organise resistance to the Syria bombing campaign. Zionist fundamentalists behind Balkanisation of the Middle East. Interview with Jim from Bristol Stop the War discussing recent and upcoming actions against the bombing in Syria: phantom 70,000 moderate rebels; regime change against Assad; no clear strategy; closing border of Turkey; clip of Angus Robertson, from Syrian debate, with interjection from Yasmin Quereshi, part of Foreign Affairs Select Committee, saying possibly 10 – 15,000 moderate rebels; who is Jon Day? head of Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) who came up with 70,000 figure used to work for NATO; Liam Fox MP at debate speaking for the bombing; Gerald Kaufman MP at debate; Adeem Zahawi MP at debate; chemical attack at Gouta not done by Assad.  Clips from Panorama film ‘The War Party’ about the Neo-Cons in the US:  James Woolsey on the CIA role; Eliot Cohen about US defence policy board; Meyrav Wurmser and the Hudson Institute; US and oil in the Golan Heights; Al Baghdadi; UN Security Council resolution 2249 on Syria and legality of intervention. Banned Reverend Steven Sizer, author of several books on Zionism: the roots of Zionism; the Oded Yinon Plan; Zionist fundamentalism; moving US embassy to Jerusalem so is capital of Israel;  Saudi Arabia and Israel coalition; theology and apocalyptic clash between Jewish, Christian and Muslim; using God to further political aims;  link ISIS magazine. San Bernadino shooting – Gladio style false flag events carried out by private military companies (PNCs) and NATO special forces to scare population.
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Friday 27th November 2015

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 – sporadic problems with the BCfm website ‘listen again’ facility with some shows failing to appear since before Christmas 2014. BCfm audio files usually available 12 hours after TX. Any probs mp3s should be on alternative links below by about 9 pm on tx date.

First hour: News review: with Conservative Councillor and Deputy Mayor Geoff Gollop. Mayor’s role; empty office buildings and high rents. Spending Review and Autumn Statement: £27bn to spend, but only a forecast; clip Osborne speech; achieving a surplus but spending going up; Bristol Council accounts; redistribution of wealth; clip Osborne on housing crisis solutions – prisons; what is affordable housing?; social housing, housing associations; government subsidising housing for ages; Bristol park bi-laws – homeless in tents out of parks; response to Osborne by John McDonnell, Shadow Chancellor – Tories killing off green energy initiatives, selling off all of Britain’s assets, Osborne’s Maoist policy – Nuclear Power Stations owned by Chinese Communist state; rebellion against Corbyn. The Bristol Carnival – interview with Cleo Lake, Carnival Director – future of Carnival, Merchant Venturers; Benjamin Abrahimi – videos released of him in police custody – told to shut up – racism?; Mayor Ferguson scraps regeneration of Bristol North Baths; young people and poverty – 60% under 25s said not going to vote in last election.
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Second hour: investigative reports: NATO country Turkey downs Russian SU-24 supersonic bomber. First NATO vs Russia act of war since 1990s and the Cold War. Interview with John Banks – former paratrooper, special operations and counter-intelligence colonel in South Africa: Russian SU24 shot down by Turkey – first time since cold war; oil trafficking – Turkmen militants working with Turkish government; Paris terror attacks – 5 targets hit but supposedly there were only 7 attackers – media anomalies – top of ISIS product of USA, Saudi Arabia and Israel; should we attack Syria?; will Bosphorus be shut down to Russians – cutting off Black Sea ports; Russian bombing of oil convoys; Bilal Erdogan, son of Turkish President, profiteering from oil taken out of Syria – MIT facilitating ISIS; PKK and the Kurds; who’s fighting who? Complicated; Paris -signs of a false flag attack; Assads’ brothers helped CIA take weapons into Iraq; Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein and dictators; Golan Heights occupied territory by Israel – oil and gas deposits being illegally exploited, pipeline through Syria; clip John Pilger on Russia Today’s ‘Going Underground’ this week, RT – Roland Dumas’s statement that UK initiated the uprising in Syria; media propaganda; what are the solutions? State of Emergency in Crimea – Pylons bombed. Interview with Bruce Gagnon from Space for Peace www.space4peace.org and Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, about how US is trying to dominate space: missile defence shield; satellites able to control and keep an eye on things; anti-satellite weapons; cyber warfare; Yugoslavia – US shut down air defence systems by cyberwarfare; Cuban Missile Crisis; George Freedman from Stratfor – taking down Moscow and Beijing – fight for resources – natural gas; balkanising of Russia; NATO breaking promises to Russia. Drone pilots whistleblowers – their money frozen.
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Friday 20th November 2015

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 – sporadic problems with the BCfm website ‘listen again’ facility with some shows failing to appear since before Christmas 2014. BCfm audio files usually available 12 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 Anna McMullen. Global capitalism and globalisation bringing British pay and conditions down to the lowest common denominator; Labour Behind the Label; why vote for Green Party?; Mayoral system; squatting; 2008 crash/bailout – Keynsian economics, bank reform, tax reform, investing in infrastructure; no funding for Bristol Carnival – clip of Jules Davis, former Creative Director of St Paul’s Carnival – if we paid £1.50 each could go ahead;  IDSs’ tougher fit-to-work tests coincide with 590 additional suicides, according to researchers – money saved trivial;  PMQs: Tulip Siddiq MP – junior doctors strike; NHS deficit up to £1.5bn – Tory privatisation agenda;  Vince Cable warns of ‘severe economic storms’ on the way – Martin’s economic crash perhaps; smart meters to double the cost of power at peak times – hacking into smart meters, Bristol Energy Company, nationalising energy; alternative media and mainstream media, Anna happy with Bristol Post etc. but Martin not.
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Second hour: investigative reports: with Chair of Avon & Somerset police federation Kevin Phillips – Interview with Kevin Phillips, Chair of Avon and Somerset Police Federation: 20-30% budget cuts to the police coming ion next week’s Chancellor’s autumn statement – PMQs Gordon Marsden; Iceland jailed 26 bankers, why can’t we?; the sacking of former Avon and Somerset Police Chief, Nick Gargan – supporters of Colin Port threatening BBC journalists; economic crime cases drop by one quarter in last 4 years; former Scotland Yard detective Rowan Bosworth-Davies – banks are an organised crime syndicate; Shoot to Kill policy, was it right with police murder victims Jean Charles De Menezes or Mark Duggan? ‘Mistakes’ made. Culture of police ‘impunity’. Last Friday’s Paris terror attacks: Cameron’s annual Mansion House speech announcing massive increases to GCHQ MI5 and SAS budgets to ‘combat terrorism’, his statement to the House of Commons; ISIS backed by Turkish intelligence service MIT backed by NATO, Saudi Arabia and possibly Western intelligence agencies; was this a false flag event carried out by NATO sponsored soldiers? Does Cameron need a UN resolution to attack ISIS in Syria? PMQs Angus Robertson – diplomatic unions formed after talks in Vienna at weekend; anomalies in the story; white blonde haired killer spotted at the Bataclan Concert Hall and another white man with an M-16 assault rifle at La Belle Equipe witnesses say two of shooters were clean shaven white people; exercises, fake passport ‘planted’ near suicide bombing scene, other terror attacks not covered as much by media – do white European or Black Arab/Asian matter more? Weapons being taken from Libya into Syria; NATO false flag track record; Former US Army Psychological Warfare officer Scott Bennett – military forensics: doesn’t seem like terrorists used AK47s, Scott talks to French Intelligence in March 2015 explaining how ISIS is being funded through Gulf States and Swiss UBS bank. and Geopolitics and the timing of this attack – what effect does it have on European policy – bring it closer to US policy in Syria; Wikipedia article and Twitter describing attacks allegedly went up online from a UK IP address before attacks started. Thorough discussion about last Friday evening’s Paris terrorist attacks where 130 died with help from former US Army Psychological Warfare officer and ISIS funding expert Scott Bennett
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