Friday 18th August 2017

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 Brislington West, Jos Clark – Tory MP Zac Goldsmith links Barcelona terror attack to Labour’s Momentum group – Operation Cyclone; Brislington local affairs; interview with Nola Edwards from Save Fox Hill in Bath – No justification for demolition of Foxhill estate – Facebook page – The author says Foxhill has changed enormously over the last 20 years – Curo housing association is thinking of selling off their flats to a private buyer; Ken Loach, filmmaker, gives a speech at Save Fox Hill event – market led vs public housing; ‘We Care and Repair‘ – they help repair properties of old and disabled;  Bristol council tax relief cuts could be ‘illegal’ say opponents – Petition: Freeze Council Tax; Bristol City Council consultation: should poorest families in Bristol pay council tax? – Metrobus – costs rising and rising – by £10m –  HS2 £111bn increase in cost;  Government focuses on lowest unemployment since 1975 as wages fall behind inflation again;  ‘Rees-Mogg is your British Trump’ Spanish media say Jacob is a mini-Donald ;  Saviour of the Tory party or ‘reactionary poison’? Will Jacob Rees-Mogg run for Tory leader, and what would he do as PM?; alleged letter Jacob Rees Mogg has David Cameron’s Secret Nuclear Weapons Deal Raised £17.8m for Conservative Party Funds – Sets Pretext for War – Moggmentum – poem by Ian Jenkins; – Jos Clark’s reccomended political programmes: 1. Rory Bremner, 2. BBC Radio 4’s Dead Ringers, 3. BBC Radio 4 Westminster Hour, every Sunday evening at 10pm 4. Talking Politics with David Runciman and Catherine Carr  every Wednesday –  Google has a new algorithm – Google Just Became the Engine of Censorship – Evidence of Google blacklisting of left and progressive sites continues to mount – all except mainstream press off first page – interview with Andre Damon from World Socialist website on RT saying this has affected traffic to their site.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Yesterday’s Barcelona terror attack: context and anomalies. Far-right and far-left clashes in Charlottesville, former Occupy Wall Street organiser Jason Kessler becomes Charlottesville white supremacist march organiser; US:  provocateurs – changing sides; What Every Radical Should Know About State Repression: A Guide for Activists Serge’s exposé of the methods of surveillance and harassment of political activists by the czarist police reads like a spy thriller. But as Dalia Hashad points out in her introduction, this book will have a resonance with political activists today who face a new wave of repression under the Patriot Act and racial profiling in the name of the “war on terror.;  should statues be pulled down? – confederate statues – history of US civil war – slavery in US; Slave Trader Edward Colston statue in Bristol but not abolitionist Thomas Clarkson; Nelson’s column in the Irish republic was blown up in 1966 by the IRA. Up Went Nelson: Irish song about getting rid of Nelson’s Column in Dublin, Ireland. Barcelona terror attack: NATO intelligence services orchestrating terror attacks; Nice attack; vans hacked and controlled – shoot to kill; Frank Gardner – BBC security correspondence – reported attackers smiling as dying – was he duped with false information? Twitter users urged to post pictures of cats instead of attacks – to reduce independent photographic evidence on attacks? Proposals to begin profiling ‘Arab North Africans’ that hire vans; motives for attacks – West causing many thousands of civilian deaths from wars in Middle East – referendum in Catalonia for independence– ISIS claims links to attack – SITE run by ex-Mossad Rita Katz; on Amaq news website  is Rita Katz simply an Israeli Mossad agent? Operation Gladio explained.  Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong jailed for six months ;  Hong Kong political activist Howard Lam says Chinese agents drove staples into his legs over message to footballer Lionel Messi .  Iran could quit nuclear deal in ‘hours’ if US imposes new sanctions says Rouhani. Interview with Jim Marrs, a 9/11 conspiracy scholar, who died recently: official 9/11 story is a ridiculous and wild conspiracy theory; only ever skyscrapers that collapsed on themselves; Building 7; maintenance engineers said there were multiple explosions in building and basement; Pentagon theory; books he wrote ‘Rule by Secrecy’, ‘Inside Job and ‘The Terror Conspiracy Revisited’
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Friday 11th August 2017

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: Labour councillor for Brislington West Harriett Bradley. Sociology; immigration – is it sustainable about 1m people net coming in every 3 years? Housing – planning; former Elizabeth Shaw chocolate factory to be housing – include affordable housing? – housing racket, property bubble;  Nearly 160,000 households, estimated at just under a quarter of a million people, are experiencing the worst forms of homelessness across Britain, with rough sleeping forecast to rise by 76 per cent in the next decade; extracts from ‘Diana In Her Own Words’ documentary on C4 highest ratings of the year so far – including the suspicious death of Barry Mannakee, her body guard, shortly after having an affair with Diana; EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Will Prince Charles pass the throne straight to William? – Was the bodyguard Diana fell in love with bumped off? – Various suspicious deaths around Prince Charles: March 2009 Jude Richmond, a florist to Royalty and others, and her disabled daughter, were found drowned in a Cotswold Water Park lake near their home – supposedly suicide. May/June 2009 Sarah Champier-Lowe – florist for Prince Charles – was sacked weeks after her husband David Lowe was found dead in an estuary, supposedly having committed suicide. December 2012 Jacintha Saldanha – nurse that took hoax call in hospital where Kate was being treated for severe morning sickness – she committed suicide. Could, Would, Should Prince Charles Let Will and Kate Take the British Throne?; Source Claims the Queen Plans to Crown William & Kate King & Queen; Newcastle sex ring – People care more about being called racist than preventing child abuse, says Rotherham’s Labour MP; Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in Bristol today but member only event, party apparatchiks keep ordinary people away; Filton and Bradley Stoke MP Jack Lopresti says we should join US if war declared on North Korea; rumours about South Africa selling off it’s nuclear weapons at end of apartheid – including some to N Korea; David Cameron’s Secret Nuclear Weapons Deal Raised £17.8m for Conservative Party Funds – Sets Pretext for War; who will be next Tory leader after Theresa May – Jacob Rees-Mogg? Tories back ‘none of the above’ in survey over which cabinet minister should succeed Theresa May. A minister told The Independent the survey shows it is time to look beyond the Cabinet for the next leader – Bristol library closures; Bristol MetroBus costs rise £10m to hit £230m.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Bullying, secrecy and cover-up as Tories race to kill the National Health Service (NHS) – Dr Charlotte Patterson, Sue Kilroe, Alan Condon. None of the 25 or so senior trustees or executives of United Hospitals Bristol (UHB) NHS trust were available to explain NHS changes. Interview with Charlotte Patterson, retired GP, and Sue Kilroe, retired Health Policy Advisor, from ‘Protect Our NHS’ – facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ProtectOurNHS/ about the government systematically destroying the NHS:  Tory government quietly doubles number of NHS properties it is selling off; profits made from ill health; culture of silence in NHS – whistle blowers discouraged and blacklisting;  huge Tory plans to save/cut £300m in NHS with no consultation;  what can we do? revolving doors between private and public sector.  Interview with Allyn Condon, who lost his son Ben, when he took him with a common virus to Bristol Children’s Hospital – when he went through the process of finding out what happened he found the story regularly changed and he realised the process was to cover the NHS’s back – not to help him. Please sign our petition calling on the Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt and the Government to investigate Bristol Children’s Hospital to hold neglectful parties responsible for Ben’s death and the subsequent cover up and ensure other families don’t suffer the way we have.  Email Mark at benjamincondon@outlook.com –  Trump and North Korea:  NBC report saying N Korea may have miniature nuclear weapons;  what Trump actually said – ‘fire and fury…..’ etc; Dr Michael Bevacqua on BBC 5Live – about Guam Island which is 1/3 US military facilities.  US starts building strategic Black Sea navy base to Ukraine. Will there be a Nuclear false flag attack which is then blamed on N Korea?  Putin braves cold waters as he strips down to the waist in Siberia fishing holiday.
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Friday 4th August 2017

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 North West MP Darren Jones. Family not political, grew up in Lawrence Weston, went to Portway School, reflects on beginning work at the House of Commons. Finds it more difficult to follow the news now he’s an MP. Bristol University develop software to detect fake news which includes the BBC and Daily Telegraph. Social housing on Tuesday evening’s Channel 4 news: 300,000 chldren due to be evicted, ‘They treat tenants as a nuisance’, Author of ‘Ground Control’ Anna Minton, Tory member of the London Assembly for West Central Tony Devenish, Architect Kate Macintosh, C4 news social affairs editor Jackie Long 14,000 people on Bristol waiting list, where are shop doorways and tents in the housing ‘market’? Government must intervene in housing, stop gerrymandering, shipping Labour voters out. The Channel 4 documentary, ‘Diana: In Her Own Words’, will reveal private recordings of Princess Diana at her most unguarded. The sensitive 90-minute film will broadcast this Sunday August 6 at 8pm on Channel 4. – With a fairy tale royal wedding, a soap opera love triangle and a tragic death that broke hearts around the world, Princess Diana’s story is still one of the most fascinating and scandalous in British history. –  Bristol’s newest MP Darren Jones says Tony Blair is his political hero on BBC Radio 5 Live – but is it a controversial choice?  New Bristol North West Labour MP Darren Jones: ‘I didn’t expect to win’  History’s lessons: from Bristol’s slave trade past to today’s debt & wage slavery, Mark Steeds’ proposal for a Welsh Back Bristol Slavery History Hub planned for the last two dockside buildings there by Redcliffe Bridge. Exhibition on history and culture of Bristol North West constituency, Mike Walker, Bristol Omnibus Collection: privatisation of Bristol Omnibus Company Bristol Tramways and Carriageways Company, ran through Bristol Joint Services, Bristol Tramways and Bristol City Council shared management. Up to 1986, bus operator would have to go to public enquiry to put fares up and services became unprofitable like railways before the Beeching axe in the 1960s. Darren supportsd municipal bus company. British Gas raises electricity prices by 12.5%. Experts fear rise will prompt another round of increases after Centrica sanctions average annual dual fuel bill rise of 7.3% to £1,120. Sleeper agent’ Kieran Maxwell, Royal Marine who made bombs for Irish republicans had 300 government and military targets as police admit his arsenal of mines, mortars and drugs are STILL hidden in tunnels around the UK. Royal Marine built bombs for the Continuity IRA at his grandmother’s house. He constructed 14 pipe bombs and two mines and could have built 19 more. The 31-year-old became the first marine to be jailed for UK terrorism offences. Judge jails him for 18 years, telling him he had betrayed his fellow marines – Army could be needed in prisons – former governor – A former prison governor says the government should consider calling in the Army to restore order in prisons. – Speaking to BBC Newsnight, Ian Acheson admitted the suggestion was “radical” and “controversial” but said “the risks of doing nothing are simply too high”. – 1972 Bank of England director “We control all press & politicians”. Justin Walker, Harry Pilkington – UK heading for a ‘smooth Brexit’ Mark Carney finally admits economy is NOT set to collapse, Mark Carney has reiterated the Bank of England’s belief that Britain is heading towards a “smooth” Brexit in 2019, despite downgrading its GDP forecast for this year and next. – Editing the human genome brings us one step closer to consumer eugenics. Hijacked by the free market, human gene editing will lead to greater social inequality by heading where the money is: ‘designer babies’. 
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Second hour: Investigative reports:  Now looks like the Military is going to take care of the usa government. They tried nice guys on the media but NOW 4 star General will be speaking with authority.. He is put in office today 7-31-18 – Ken Livingstone: Venezuela crisis due to Chávez’s failure to kill oligarchs. Ex-London mayor says wealthy families using power over trade to undermine Hugo Chávez’s successor, Nicolás Maduro – after the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9/11 The United States ruling class want to take over the world – how WWIII would start, a flashpoint between Russia and the US in the Middle East or Eastern Europe, followed by full scale war China coming in on the side of the Russians – China opens first overseas base in Djibouti (Bab Al Mandab opposite Aden, Yemen) – General John Kelly talks about human rights work as part of Southern Command SouthCom part of their plan to take over the world?? Pale face speak with forked tongue. What is US military doing in South America – Russia: US sanctions tantamount to trade war – US declare political war on Russia, ex-US senate foreign policy adviser James Jatras – Suppressing Press TV is deplorable – Ofcom should restore its licence now – sraeli PM Netanyahu under investigation for bribery. An Israeli court has said that two police investigations involving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could result in corruption charges. Prosecutors are also believed to be in talks with one of Netanyahu’s former top aides about testifying against him. Iran election and Qatar crisis set Middle East on edge as Saudi Arabia seeks to extend its influence. The US in particular must strike a difficult balance in a region going through a volatile period. Kim Sengupta reports from Tehran – Amnesty report details Tehran’s crackdown against rights activists. The report, titled “Caught in a web of repression: Iran’s human rights defenders under attack,” details how scores of activists — often labeled “foreign agents” and “traitors” by state media — have been prosecuted and jailed on spurious “national security” charges. The report highlights 45 cases, including anti-death penalty campaigners, women’s rights activists, trade unionists, minority rights activists, human rights lawyers, and activists seeking truth, justice and reparation for mass extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances in the 1980s. Saudi Arabia has asked a US judge to dismiss the lawsuits that hold Riyadh responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks and seek damages for the victims. Lawyers representing Saudi Arabia made the request in papers filed with Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, arguing that the plaintiffs had so far failed to generate sufficient evidence to subject the kingdom to the $100-billion lawsuits. Where is World War Three most likely to break out? William Stuart’s book The Invisible College series has just been launched: 9.11 to Armageddon covers the planning and the steps taken to launch us into WWIII.  Collapse of World Trade Centre Building 7.
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Friday 28th July 2017

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: Tory cuts to the disabled; Bristol’s Labour mayor Marvin Rees lobbying central government; Global Parliament of Mayors; saving Knowle’s Jubilee Pool – creative ideas to counter cuts locally – libraries;  Council gives £270k of free money back to government after failing to spend it on vulnerable children  – ‘Magic Money Tree’ – Labour’s policies and could they work; PMQs – Sarah Jones – huge increase in knife crime – reduction in policing – Mayoral system.  Grenfell Tower: Gavin Barwell, former Minister of State for Housing, sat on fire safety report; 60 tower blocks are not fire safe – but we are not told which ones;  Councillors cannot keep jobs now corporate manslaughter charges being pursued, says Kensington MP.  Jacob Rees-Mogg now second favourite to replace Theresa May as next Tory leader  – Brexit – EU nationals will be free to work in the UK for years after Brexit, says Chancellor Philip Hammond; former Green MEP Patricia McKenna discusses arms industries controlling EU foreign policy through European Defence Agency.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: looking at Jerusalem’s role in the wider Middle East conflict including Yemen. The annual Tisha B’Av commemoration where Zionist Third Temple fundamentalists attempt to start building the Jewish Third Temple, which they hope will begin to the demolition of the al-Ḥaram al-Šarīf, Al Aqsa mosque. The only trouble is it could start a wider Middle East war between Zionists and Arabs: Israel ‘playing with fire and risking major crisis with Islamic world’, Arab League chief warns. This weekend is Tisha B’Av in Israel, the Jews annual mourning for the destruction of the second Temple in 70AD – is the Temple Mount and the idea of building a third Temple going to be a crucible for starting WWIII? Israel risks igniting ‘religious war’ over Jerusalem security measures, warns head of Arab League, The country is ‘playing with fire’ warns Ahmed Aboul Gheit. along with rising conflicts in the area? Dr Judith Brown discusses the terrible tragedy unfolding in Yemen – widespread famine and cholera: Russians sending food and medicine, humanitarian aid; West supporting Saudi Arabia; Saudi Arabia bombing water desalination plant. Interview with Rev. Stephen Sizer, author of ‘Christian Zionism – Road Map to Armageddon’  – he discusses the conflict in Israel and Palestine leading to a wider war: Zionism and Israel government wanting an exclusively Jewish state; Zionist lobby trying to conflate Antisemitism with criticism of the Israeli state: Anti Semitism is not really a social phenomenon, it is instead a multi million pound industry. The more we spend on the fight against it, the more incidents are ‘recorded’ to justify  further spending   Al Aqsa Mosque;  how to diffuse the situation? Interview with Gilad Atzmon, Jewish and Israeli jazz musician and author of ‘The Wandering Who?’ about Jewish political identity: he thinks Israel not an apartheid or colonial system – but worse – because Jewish Israelis just want the Arab Palestinians gone. Israel not a colony, but has had a series of ‘foster mothers’. Rev Stephen Sizer talks about Zionist ‘psychological warfare’ Hasbara manual, how to further the Zionist cause, borrowed from the ‘how dare you’ strategy of shoplifters to wrong-foot and buy time. The four levels or strategies: 1) ingratiate themselves, to get you to join them in their Zionist views, 2) intimidate and attack you anonymously 3) intimidate others, target friends, family and work colleagues and bosses to turn them against you, 4) attempt to incriminate critics with criminal holocaust denial, Antisemitism and accusations of racism. Changing the definition of Antisemitism to include criticism of Israel to criminalise expressing support for Palestinian human rights. How Israel is affecting Yemen – Saudi and Israeli politics – Israeli weapons sold to Saudi Arabia – why is Saudi Arabia funding UK terrorism? and now boycotting Qatar? Theresa May on holiday in Switzerland – where money to fund ISIS goes through banks. Gilad Atzmon – Israel/Palestine is one state dominated by a fascist ideology.
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Friday 21st July 2017

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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Watch out for the Israeli #apartheid government’s false flag attack in Jerusalem over next week as they prepare to go to war with the Arabs. pic.twitter.com/HTNIsw8rNL

— Tony Gosling ✈ (@TonyGosling) July 22, 2017

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First hour: News review with Green Councillor for Clifton Jermome Thomas and former Bradley Stoke Councillor councillor now standing to be UKIP leader Ben Walker: UKIP leadership;  Brexit – Top Goldman Sachs banker pushes Government to commit to urgent transitional deal – what does Brexit mean? – EasyJet moves to Vienna – where will we be in 2 years time?;  Labour blasts ‘failing’ government after UK deficit jumps in June – spend to protect economy;  UK crime rises at fastest pace in 18 years;  I dropped out of society to save my sanity – foreign aid, military spending;  British troops aiding Saudi Arabia –  Yemen has worst outbreak of Cholera ever recorded;  British troops still training ‘friendly rebels’ in Syria;  Al-Aqsa – Israel bars Muslim men under 50 amid protests ; PMQs Corbyn – 3.8m people living in poverty although working;  PMQs Dan Carden – 40% child poverty in parts of Liverpool – housing costs; Fire Safety Risk Management as a job – Grenfell Tower – building regulations – David Cameron said he wanted ‘Bonfire Of Regulations’ end to safety culture; Fire Risk Assessor for Grenfell, Carl Stokes, told council they might want to bury his report;  ‘Staggering’ rise in prison violence means youth jails are no longer safe, prison watchdog warns; Artificial intelligence bots, not journalists, to write our news: Press Association wins Google grant to run news service written by computers
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Second hour: Investigative reports: 9/11 victims appeal for Theresa May to release report on Saudi Arabia funding terrorism: Read the letter from 9/11 survivors urging Theresa May to release Saudi terrorism report. ‘The UK has a unique historic opportunity to stop this killing spree of Wahhabist-inspired terrorists’ – Mossad; ‘Secret Affairs – Britain’s collusion with radical Islam’ book by Mark Curtis; PMQs Caroline Lucas – Theresa should make Saudi report available.  Interview with Philip Marshall, author of ‘The Big Bamboozle’ – as a former pilot he discusses the anomalies to do with the 9/11 attack: why planes not interrupted by military jets? What evidence is there that Bin Laden was behind attack? What is this ‘intelligence community’ which has taken over the three branches of the United States government: executive, legislature and judiciary? He tried to fly a plane into pentagon on a flight simulator and managed it fourth go  – and he’s an experienced pilot; third in command at the CIA Buzzy Krongard placed ‘put options’ on airlines involved in the 9/11 attacks and made money as the share prices fell; Pirial Airpark – CIA operated airport in US desert – there was lots of activity here on 9/11; Bush and Cheney part of it? – Condoleezza Rice; attackers had seemingly unlimited funding from Saudi Arabia;  Iran Contra; Project for the New American Century – ‘new pearl harbour’;  Philip Marshall and his two children were murdered on 2nd January 2013, three months after his book ‘The Big Bamboozle’ came out. US ‘Furious’ Over Turkey Publishing US Troop Locations in Syria. Sean Spicer resigns as Trump press secretary after six months. Israeli General – We Won’t Let Iran Win the Syrian War.
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Friday 14th July 2017

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 Green party councillor for Cotham Cleo Lake – Acid attacks in London – Manchurian  Candidates  – Recordings Reveal FBI Gave Man a Rifle, Urged Him to Carry Out Mass Shooting to ‘Defend Islam’ ;  Bristol Carnival; Angry Grenfell Tower residents demand arrests and resignations at meeting;  Police officer charged with assault over Tasering of Judah Adunbi in the face; impunity – those above the law;  Documents from June and July 2014, seen by the Times, allegedly show that Grenfell Tower refurbishment consultants Artelia UK were pressured to reduce costs;  after end of 7/7 inquiry – questions not answered; Mayor Mervin Rees says Bristol must choose what to cut – Council Tax benefit reduction – civil unrest; PMQs Damien Green – where is Theresa? The great disappearing Prime Minister – Theresa May vanishes from the Tory website. Brexit – positive or not? – Metro Mayor;  PMQs  Caroline Flint – report shows National Grid made £3bn profit – energy prices not fair;  Shocked SSE customers billed £33,000 for one day’s gas after bizarre smart meter error;  One in five households DON’T want a smart meter – and millions worry they could lead to a cyber security breach;  My smart meter’s so ‘dumb’ I have to press seven buttons to get a reading;  Smart meter rollout could force household bills to rise, says supplier; PMQs high employment.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Interview with Brian Gerrish – producer of UK Column paper:  looking into Common Purpose (CP), a charity that does leadership courses – www.cpexposed.com – Common Purpose (CP) is a Charity, based in Great Britain, which creates ‘Future Leaders’ of society. CP selects individuals and ‘trains’ them to learn how society works, who ‘pulls the levers of power’ and how CP ‘graduates’ can use this knowledge to lead ‘Outside Authority’; Media Standards Trust, The Leveson Inquiry, and CP; did Marvin Rees take CP course? CP is secretive; CP uses ‘applied behavioural psychology’ as government ‘nudge unit’ does – Mind Space: Influencing behaviour through public policy; threats to UK armed services – EU sets timetable for tighter military co-ordination – ongoing plan to integrate European armies to make EU Army – cuts to British forces; Grenfell Tower;  www.ukcolumn.org ‘America’s War on Drugs’ – History Channel documentary: The 1954 Doolittle Report – CIA doing deals with the Mafia over drug-running; CIA, brainwashing and LSD. Saudi Arabia’s seige against Qatar continues – Gulf States Now Want ‘Restructured’ Al-Jazeera – they want to control the editorial policy of Al Jazeera.  Huge civilian casualties in Iraq and Syria.  Cholera in Yemen: ‘Cholera is everywhere’: Yemen epidemic spiralling out of control: Red Cross says there are more than 300,000 suspected cases in country where ‘civil war’ has decimated health facilities – Government refuses to release report into Saudi Arabia’s funding of Islamist extremism in UK .  Trump meets Macron, shadowed by Putin – France now more important than UK?  Soraya Sepaphor-Ulrich discusses Egypt and water wars. South African podcast and her article: President El-Sisi: Egypt’s Antihero and the Broader Regional Implications
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Friday 7th July 2017

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 city councillor Clive Stevens and former UKIP candidate John Langley. Justice For Grenfell’s Piers Thompson. Sustainable Business Engineering; UKIP; porn business; housing market crash. Grenfell Tower fire tragedy: Tory in charge of Grenfell Tower refurbishment investigated TWICE over his role; Grenfell fire risk assessor who was paid £250k for his work urged council to bury his fire risk report; Grenfell Tower fire inquiry chair heckled as he meets survivors; Grenfell survivors were told to sign council form that ‘could waive rights’;  The Justice4Grenfell agitators: campaign group tries to push Tower inquiry judge to resign; building regulations; C4 News – Jon Snow interviews Joe Delaney from Grenfell Action Group and Kevin Holrake MP; interview with Piers Thomson from Justice For Grenfell group – he lives near the tower and gives his personal experience of the tragedy and the failings of the council www.justice4grenfell.co.uk Facebook page: Solidarity with Grenfell – Grenfell United. Haringey Council sell off public land to private companies. Marvin Rees as Bristol Mayor: why don’t cities march on Westminster about cuts and the destruction of local government? No libraries or streetlights left in Britain by 2020 if austerity doesn’t stop, warns Tory local government chief: ‘We won’t be cleaning the streets we won’t be cutting the grass, we won’t be putting street lights on at all, your libraries will go, your pot holes won’t get filled up, ‘ warns Lord Porter Banking system collapse; Bristol’s poorest households and those on benefits could be forced to pay council tax; rich paying more tax. Bijan Ebrahimi – Police ‘failed’ murdered man for years. MetroBus boss quits council job days after report reveals cost has gone up again.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: former Tory MEP Richard Cotterell on Brexit – May’s Manchester Arena terror attack investigation and the mystery bomber. Interview with Richard Cotterell, author and former Tory MEP for South West Britain: Bristol Metrobus project manager resigns; Brexit – a disaster? Disagreement: Single Market Programme drawn up not by Margaret Thatcher but at Philips Electronics under Wisse Dekker; Theresa May and Tory Party – Cameron and Brexit referendum; Greece in EU and banks; threat of Brexit to Europe; Maastricht Treaty and Thatcher; EU and trade deal with Japan – Britain must now make separate deal with Japan;  where are we going to be in two years time? Big recession coming and Brexit helping it; would Corbyn get better reception at EU than Theresa May? No. Can we stop the coming financial and political cataclysm? Influx of refugees and immigrants into Italy and Greece; G20 – meeting between Putin and Trump? Nothing really happens at G20 – geo-politics of world.  Manchester terror attack: BBC’s Nick Garnett reports about the Manchester Arena attack; Islamists being funded by the West; links between Manchester and Libyan Islamic Fighting Group; bomb – military explosives or home made? Sky interview with Kirstyn Pollard with her daughter Holly who was at concert – a suspicious lady next to them was not dealt with by security and walked off before the end of the concert toward where the bomb exploded. Richard Cotterell’s book on terrorism ‘Gladio: NATOs dagger at the heart of Europe’ about rogue elements of NATO.
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