Friday 8th November 2019

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After seven – straight talking and investigative reports

BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling with Irish Republican Labour activist Martin Summers

February 2019 Ofcom complaint result: UKLFI exposed as creation of Israeli foreign ministry – Bristol Post article: BCfm cleared after being reported to Ofcom for anti-semitic conspiracy theories

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First hour news review: with Lib Dem former Bristol MP and Communities minister Stephen Williams. Stephen Williams was a Lib Dem MP for 10 years; is election about Brexit? FPTP voting system; Lib Dems not standing in Bristol West; Brexit and another referendum; what Stephen learnt as a minister;

Accuracy vs feverish mass media; – social media – sock puppet accounts; modern mass media – BBC; Boris and his ‘get stuffed’ comment – but what was he saying ‘get stuffed’ to? Jacob Rees-Mogg and his ‘common sense’ Grenfell comment – but was he really putting people in the burning tower down? Hundreds of Jacob Rees-Mogg supporters defend his controversial Grenfell comments. 

Eddie Dafan from Grenfell Action Group discussing failures of authorities; corporate manslaughter – cuts in fire brigade, laws not complied with.

Is Bristol’s mixed race Labour mayor Marvin Rees angling to join the ex slave trading Merchant Venturers? Merchant Venturers Cathedral Charter Day Monday 11th November – HTV Documentary – Bristol’s former slave traders now un-elected ‘movers and shakers’, the ‘great and good’ or the ‘Bristol Mafia’ secret society organised as in a Masonic lodge – 2014 interview with former master of the Merchant Venturers Chris Curling. (radio4all radio show version)

Joanna Booth, Journalist, discusses Mayor Marvin and his faith adviser Rachel Molano. Weston Harbour development.  Conservative election campaign – Boris’s speech. Diesel ban in city centre.
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Second hour Investigative reports: NHS is being privatised by stealth. Dr Bob Gill discusses this:  US private health care as example; corrupt pharmaceuticals; PFIs; New Labour.

Spain election. Catalan crisis and Franco’s legacy to shape the future of Spain. Jailed Catalan leaders and the exhumation of Franco’s remains are the two issues at the top of Spain’s election agenda. Democratic crises around world.

Labour and Tory political parties spending promises Tories and Labour warned over ambitious spending promises. Returning infrastructure investment to 1970s levels may be undeliverable, says IFS.  Economic situation of the wider world.

The New Colonialism: Bosco Ntaganda sentenced to 30 years for crimes in DR Congo: BBC Anna Holigan report on this; he says he was a revolutionary; compare him to Bush and Blair for war crimes;  West’s massacres around the world;  MI6 and the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba.

Iran enriching uranium again Iran will challenge nuclear deal ‘every two months’ unless Europe takes action, ambassador warns. Tehran’s commitment to the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty also at risk of being in ‘total jeopardy’ as it comes up for review next year. Iran holding a IEAA inspector. Brookings Institute. Which Path to Persia?” was written in 2009 by the Brookings Institute as a blueprint for confronting Iran.

NSA base – which is there illegally, Jonathan Sacoolas spying on British and other European citizens illegally too. Anne Sacoolas knocking down and killing young man near RAF Croughton while driving on the wrong side of the road – but what about her husband Jonathan Sacoolas who worked at the 

Vaccines: Gulf War Syndrome partly caused by untested vaccines given to military; Spanish Flu – More soldiers died during WWI from disease than from bullets. The pandemic was not flu. An estimated 95% (or higher) of the deaths were caused by bacterial pneumonia, not influenza/a virus. The pandemic was not Spanish. The first cases of bacterial pneumonia in 1918 trace back to a military base in Fort Riley, Kansas. From January 21 – June 4, 1918, an experimental bacterial meningitis vaccine cultured in horses by the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York was injected into soldiers at Fort Riley.;  people that have had combined vaccines more likely to die prematurely; $6bn and growing pharmaceutical industry; vaccination programmes as cover for spying.

Ladislas Farago discussing Hitler’s treasurer Martin Bormann. Mark Zuckerberg and Kevin Cahill on Facebook privacy.  
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Friday 1st November 2019

At six – discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After seven – straight talking and investigative reports

BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling with Irish Republican Labour activist Martin Summers

February 2019 Ofcom complaint result: UKLFI exposed as creation of Israeli foreign ministry – Bristol Post article: BCfm cleared after being reported to Ofcom for anti-semitic conspiracy theories

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First hour news review: with Lib Dem councillor for Brislington East Tony Carey. Tony Carey left Tories and joined Lib Dems – why he did this; Labour’s position on Brexit. Rhiannon Craft and Beccy Jesson are van dwellers in Bristol with different perspectives on why they chose to live like this but one thing’s for sure it’s a lot cheaper than the private rented sector; Bristol City Council new vehicle dweller policy; Twitter @RhiannonKACraft; Bristol Van Dwellers private Facebook group.

Grenfell Tower fire: Grenfell estate resident Joe Delaney discusses the failures of the fire fighters in charge, and Boris Johnson’s cuts to the fire service; the ‘stay put’ policy; Rock Feilding Mellen’s cladding choice; Boris Johnson as London Mayor saying ‘get stuffed’ to interviewer Andrew Dismore when questioned about cuts to fire service.

George Galloway on why Corbyn is so low in the polls; Eddie Dempsey, National Executive RMT Union, on how EU laws could prevent Labour’s nationalisation plans. Corbyn’s election campaign speech. Dr Bob Gill on how the NHS really is being privatised. –

Will UK’s first diesel free zone sink Labour mayor Marvin Rees’ electoral chances?  
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Second hour Investigative reports: Syria:  joint Turkish and Russian troops; Baghdadi supposedly killed – but was he backed by Western intelligence services? Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: Made and Killed by the CIA Trump says US is going to keep hold of Syrian oil fields for now; Libyan oil industry; energy wars. Nord Stream 2: Go-ahead for Russian gas pipeline angers Ukraine.  CIA-backed Afghan troops ‘committed war crimes’: report.  100,000 killed in combat in Yemen.  US military spending bills failed Senate.  Protests all around the world – Is a new Arab Spring unfolding in the Middle East? Israeli Soldier Gets Slap on the Wrist for Murder of Unarmed Child.

Alison Weir, from website ‘If Americans Knew’, Discusses Zionist terrorists in 1946 planning to bomb The Foreign Office in London: Members of the radical Zionist terror group the Stern Gang had decided to drop improvised bombs on the Foreign Office in Whitehall as part of their fight for a homeland. The full details of the extraordinary plot and the heroic Spitfire pilot from Birmingham who helped foil it have now been revealed by American Middle East expert Alison Weir in her new book about the tangled history of US-Israeli political relations, Against Our Better Judgement. Anton Chaitkin and Zionist false flag attacks being suggested by members of Zionist lobby the Bnai Brith in the early 1990s who then had their membership revoked; a series of bus bomb attacks just before Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli right came to power in 1996; The Lavon affair, false flag bombings in Egypt admitted fify=ty years after to have been committed by Israel : Israel planting bombs in Egypt .and blaming it on Egyptians.

Three bomb attacks up to last British General Election – Westminster Bridge, Manchester Arena, London Bridge – should we expect attacks during this 2019 election campaign? Police and MI5 missed chances to prevent Manchester bombing, MPs find. Committee finds failings in handling of case of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi. London Bridge attack: Victims’ families criticise authorities for clearing MI5 and police. Relatives of eight people killed in terrorist attack said security services had fallen short. 

Emily Bell, from The Tow Centre for Digital Media in New York, on dwindling journalists role in face of social media, and President Modi having no press conferences just rolling his message out on social media. ITN@s Robert Peston on social media and the fairness of mainstream media. Conservative Government accused misusing public funds for political Facebook ads.

James Files, former Chicago mob hit man, who claims to have killed JFK from the ‘Grassy Knoll’, discusses three attempts on his life around 1990 which he believes were ordered by the CIA. INTERVIEW WITH FORMER US 82ND AIRBORNE DIVISION SNIPER, JFK GRASSY KNOLL ASSASSIN AND CHICAGO MOB HIT MAN JAMES FILES 
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Friday 25th October 2019

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After seven – straight talking and investigative reports

BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling with Irish Republican Labour activist Martin Summers

February 2019 Ofcom complaint result: UKLFI exposed as creation of Israeli foreign ministry – Bristol Post article: BCfm cleared after being reported to Ofcom for anti-semitic conspiracy theories

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Martin Bormann quote

First hour news review: with Bristol’s Green party mayor candidate Sandy Hore-Ruthven and Brexit Party prospective parliamentary candidate for Gloucester, Richard Ford – Brexit: still stuck and what next? Proportional Representation (PR) or First Past The Post (FPTP) voting system; Mervyn King being interviewed on Sky – Ex-Bank Of England boss: UK is neglecting deep problems with economy – he discusses Brexit and the world economy; Jacob Rees Mogg and others in Parliament on Brexit and a general election ‘socialists running away from an election’? what do Labour want? At least one month delay appointing new EU Commissioners, because of financial irregularities of appointees; what’s going to happen next week with Brexit? Russell Brand interviewing alleged founder of Extinction Rebellion (XR), Gail Bradbrook, about her personal ideas and climate change generally; Green Party ideas for making Bristol carbon neutral – transport;  nuclear power; Bristol’s Labour mayor Marvin Rees’ State of the City Address – ‘Delivering for Bristol’ – about the positive changes he’s making in Bristol. But Marvin Rees is Bristol’s first ever political leader with such a ‘fragile ego’ and who appears not to be prepared to answer unscripted questions.
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Second hour Investigative reports: Interview with John Wedger, former Met Detective, about how society has to do something about powerful networks of criminal paedophiles preying on Childrens’ Homes.

Australian newspapers with text blanked out on front page as protest against controlling of  press – journalists and whistle blowers attacked.  Julian Assange treated appallingly in prison – he’s been put on tranquillisers and can now hardly speak: How the Trump Admin Used a Secret Livestream to Spy on Julian Assange;  ONLY COWARDS AND SADISTS SUPPORT THE PERSECUTION OF ASSANGE;  ‘Sex, Lies and Julian Assange’  good documentary.

BBC World Service – interview with Lisa Davies, Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald about why she decided to run a front page with blanked out text.  World Service – Dan Damon interviewing Lahav Harkov from The Jerusalem Post about the future of Netanyahu – and will Benny Ganz be any better?

Stephen Sizer, author of ‘Road Map to Armageddon’ – explaining how Zionists behave – and Gettman in audience about Jewish DNA and what does Jewish mean?  Biography of Stewart Stephen, Jewish journalist, who wrote first story about Martin Bormann being alive in The Express;  Stewart Stephen explaining he has evidence; deals made with Nazis by West after WW2; Ladislas Farago –  author of ‘Aftermath: Martin Bormann and the fourth Reich’; Lots of Nazis relaxed after the war in South America:

Jeffrey Epstein associates Ghislaine Maxwell—who has been accused of helping lure minor girls for Epstein to abuse—and Jean-Luc Brunel, a French man described as a modeling scout who also allegedly helped Epstein procure young girls, were traced to Brazil, according to a new report. Bormann’s skull found and DNA tested;  Stewart Stephen being hoaxed later on in his career. Harry and Chris – the Fear Song  
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Friday 18th October 2019

At six – discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After seven – straight talking and investigative reports

BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling with retired International relations professor Ron Mandel

February 2019 Ofcom complaint result: UKLFI exposed as creation of Israeli foreign ministry – Bristol Post article: BCfm cleared after being reported to Ofcom for anti-semitic conspiracy theories

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First hour news review: with Lib Dem Councillor for Brislington East and Lord Mayor, Jos Clark and Brexit Party PPC for Tiverton and Honiton, Ian Berkeley-Hurst. Also joining us is retired International relations professor Ron Mandel. Law and child protection;  Brexit;  politicians not coming on show; Jean Claude Juncker on the new Brexit deal made with Boris; how new deal is different; David Drew, Stroud Labour MP, on BBC, saying Lib Dems helped bring in austerity; Labour and Brexit; Louise Ellman – MP quits Labour over anti-Semitism concerns – criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism; Red faces at Hargreaves Lansdown following collapse of Neil Woodford’s investment empire;  Extinction Rebellion stopping tube trains and angry people pulling them off, report on BBC Points West; Harry and Chris song about the end of the world; Marvin Rees and his annual State of the City address – he has created six new thematic boards; losses of Bristol Energy; is it possible to be carbon neutral by 2025? as Extinction Rebellion say is necessary; Marvin on the climate emergency in his address and the blue plaque for  Bristol being ‘City of Hope’; Neighbourhood Plans scheme – Hengrove Park – Council riding roughshod over.
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Second hour Investigative reports: with retired biology and physics teacher Alan Jeffrey from the ‘Stop Hinkley’ campaign. John Potash does a review of book just out – ‘Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the 60s’ by Tom O’Neill – about drugs introduced to the rich and famous by the secret services.  Alan Jeffrey, from Stop Hinkley campaign, discusses how he got into campaigning against nuclear, and recent developments with the extremely expensive, ten years late, project:  fracking stopping in UK; how EPR technology works; plutonium to build bombs in the 1950s; book ‘Critical Mass’ by Carter Hydrick;  Fukushima and extra safety measures now bringing up costs; flooding dangers and climate change;  new renewable technologies coming in – tidal power and the Queen’s MayGen scheme in Scotland; nuclear waste;   pop up brothels opening near Hinkley C site; www.stophinkley.org – www.no2nuclear.com. Prometheus myth: Boris’s speech at United Nations about A.I. and Prometheus; The Prometheus Project; The Prometheus Legend. Rabbi Michael Lerner, author of ‘The Left Hand of God – taking back our country from the religious right’, discussing how self interest is subtly promoted in modern society to the detriment of us all. extract from Unwelcome Guests edition 522 – Catalonia riots – nine politicians imprisoned.  Ceasefire by Turkey against Kurds in Syria. 
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Friday 11th October 2019

At six – discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After seven – straight talking and investigative reports

BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling with Irish Republican Labour activist Martin Summers

February 2019 Ofcom complaint result: UKLFI exposed as creation of Israeli foreign ministry – Bristol Post article: BCfm cleared after being reported to Ofcom for anti-semitic conspiracy theories

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First hour news review: Guests: prospective parliamentary candidate Dawn Westcott from the Brexit Party; Kevin Cahill, author and journalist; Paul Hazelden from Bristol Homeless Forum (Jonathan Lee from Crisis Centre Ministries declined to appear or to give a statement on the three-fold rise in Bristol’s homeless deaths, saying the news story was ‘too raw’) Ben Richie from Bristol Housing Action Movement (BHAM) who do legal support work for squatters; Matthew Montagu-Pollock from Bristol Against Tower Blocks who have been looking at Labour mayor Marvin Rees’ mission to ‘build up’ on parks near Hotwells, the Western Harbour’, Bedminster and elsewhere in the city. Brexit – EU not democratic and too centralised.

Bristol has most homeless deaths outside London – up by a 1/3– what is cause of this? Strong communities on the streets; squatting and legalities, empty buildings; problems with tower blocks; veterans on the streets; A sanitised version of Question Time with Labour mayor Marvin Rees; Facebook live discussion with Marvin – plans for the Western Harbour Development at Hotwells; Bristol Sleep Out – with the homeless – Bristol Homeless Forum; numbers of homeless people much higher than registered; solutions to homeless problem around £20,000 could get all Bristol’s street homeless off the streets. Brexit looms, or does it? Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn says a No Deal Brexit at the end of this month will drive our country off a cliff edge and bring on an economic crash? EU say UK must pay billions even with a no deal Brexit.
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Guests at Elm Lodge Guest House – run by bisexual couple, Haroon and Carole Kasir

Second hour Investigative reports: Interview with @ David Hencke, freelance journalist, about VIP paedophile scandal and his research into notorious bed and breakfast Elm Guest House in Barnes, South West London, in the 1980s. Elm Guest House’s bisexual owners toleration of gay couples was a cover for child sexual abuse, particularly of young boys from a nearby state children’s home Grafton Lodge Children’s Home in Grafton Close, Barnes, near Richmond, London – Operation Fernbridge and David’s investigations – Chris Fay’s list of people coming and going from Elm Guest House was not ‘definitive’ – but police say Cyril Smith MP was definitely there; Elm Guest House & Richmond Press Cuttings, 1982-present – A Chronology With thanks to the Exaro team and murun buchstansangur at spotlightonabuse

Difficulties for journalists working on VIPaedophile stories; child sex abuse survivor Carl Beech who was recently jailed for perverting the course of justice and why his eighteen year sentence is so long;  successes of some non VIP prosecutions drowned out by Beech being ‘discredited’ in court; paedophiles Jimmy Savile and Bishop Peter Ball both had close ties to royal family who are the crown prosecution service responsible for prosecuting crimes – cover up close to the top;

former Tory MP and convicted sex offender Harvey Proctor walks out of a TV interview this week; Why is London Jewish ‘socialite’ and child sex trafficker Ghislane Maxwell still walking the streets? Mysterious death of Carole Kasir who owned Elm Guest House, doctor said at her inquest that she was unlikely to commit suicide; Bisexual Lord and ‘roving’ Lady Mountbatten now also believed to have been ‘sex criminals’ in their time; Kincora boys home scandal in Northern Ireland – information about sexual abuse there still not allowed to be released;  how to legally proceed with claims; websites Westminster Confidential at davidhencke.com

Bristol’s first Hong Kong protests – Phoenix and Molly, Hong Kong students studying at Bristol University, discuss first protests here, why Hong Kongers are so upset with their treatment by the Chinese authorities and are just fighting for a fair democracy and freedoms China wants to take a way such as through ‘reeducation camps’ and the social credit system which scores individuals electronically by how they behave and can restrict their job prospects and travel rights – Bristol Chinese community organise counter-demonstration waving Chinese flags – follow Bristol_HK on Instagram. 

SYRIA: Turkey, the Kurds and NATO explained by daughter of former UK ambassador to Syria Vanessa Beeley – Withdrawal of US troops from Syria: mass media say it’s terrible but is it? US withdrawal from N Syria, explained by @VanessaBeeley: Since Monday we’ve seen vast misreporting of the NE Syria situation – Turkey, a NATO member state, is challenging NATO by attacking U.S proxy forces occupying the region: Kurdish contras & the SDF. Donald Trump answers questions at Wednesday press conference.

Double-missile attack on Iranian oil tanker heading for Syria. 
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Friday 4th October 2019

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After seven – straight talking and investigative reports

BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling with Irish Republican Labour activist Martin Summers

February 2019 Ofcom complaint result: UKLFI exposed as creation of Israeli foreign ministry – Bristol Post article: BCfm cleared after being reported to Ofcom for anti-semitic conspiracy theories

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First hour news review: Mayoral system and Lib Dems pledge to scrap it; Thomas Cook going down – anything to do with Brexit? – business owners paying themselves huge bonuses before their business fails – putting others out of pocket; Bristol Quality of Life Survey results; will there be more or less jobs in Bristol engineering after Brexit? Uncertainty of Brexit affecting business;

Johnson explaining his new Brexit backstop agreement; Good Friday Agreement calls for army bases on border to be dismantled, not entire border – The agreement states that “the development of a peaceful environment… can and should mean a normalisation of security arrangements and practices.”The government committed to “as early a return as possible to normal security arrangements in Northern Ireland, consistent with the level of threat”. That included “the removal of security installations”; DUP given a bung and bought off by Tory Party? Backstop not necessary – examples of other borders; Corbyn on new backstop agreement;

Poll 48% No Deal vs. 35% Corbyn in power; 48% vs. 35% – UK voters prefer no deal Brexit to Jeremy Corbyn in Number 10 poll reveals – NEW RESEARCH suggests that UK voters would much rather have a no deal Brexit compared to Jeremy Corbyn being in Downing Street. Thangham Debonair, Bristol Labour MP, discussing when an election may be; revoke Article 50 petition in Bristol;

Homeless deaths tripled. The number of homeless people dying on the streets has risen by more than a fifth in the past year, according to the Office for National Statistics. The total deaths in the West Country has tripled in the past five years. The South West has the highest rate of deaths amongst rough sleepers outside of London. In Bristol alone, seventeen people died in 2018 – a significant rise on the year before – 88% of deaths were men in 2018. – local homeless charities, austerity;

Meghan’s letter to father printed in Mail – and subsequent court case; Harry’s speech in Africa; Revealed: The handwritten letter showing true tragedy of Meghan’s rift with father she says has ‘broken her heart into a million pieces’ – and why he feels forced to make the ‘devastating’ missive public  – Thomas Markle reveals full content of letter written to him by daughter Meghan. The Duchess of Sussex penned the anguish letter in response to public attacks  – Mr Markle, however, insists that Meghan’s letter is actually far from conciliatory.  He is speaking up after five friends of the Duchess gave anonymous interviews –

Stage managed Q and A session with Marvin Rees; Scotland bans smacking of children. Scotland passes law banning parents smacking children 
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Second hour Investigative reports: Trump talking to Zelensky, Ukraine President, on phone, about Biden: Here is the dirt Trump wanted from Zelensky about the Bidens and why Zelensky doesn’t want to give it to him — hidden by rampant falsehoods in the press September 28, 2019 by Eric Zuesse for The Saker Blog; Trump discussing his conversation with Zelensky and putting the transcript out. CIA – Intelligence Services too powerful.

Tom Wright, author of ‘Billion Dollar Whale’ about the 1MDB scandal in Malaysia, discusses this on BBC World Service: Jho Low, from 1MDB investment bank, worked with Najib Razak, PM of Malaysia, stealing huge amounts of money; murder of Kevin Morais; ‘Wolves of Wall Street’ film financed by money. PM of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, speech at UN conference – by what laws are sanctions applied? PM of Pakistan, Imran Khan, speech at UN conference – since 9/11 70,000 Pakistanis killed – trying to build bridges with surrounding countries.

New film out about GCHQ whistle blower Catherine Gunn ‘Official Secrets’ – she outed false information being used to start war with Iraq. Trailer  In 2003, Gun was working as a translator of Mandarin at the government intelligence agency, GCHQ, in Cheltenham. She was 27. The country, at the time, was being drummed into war by the Blair government, desperate to achieve the United Nations’ sanction for the imminent American-led invasion of Iraq. In January that year, Katharine Gun was copied into a classified memo sent to GCHQ by a senior figure in the NSA, its US equivalent. The memo was a top-secret request to monitor the private communication of UN delegates for scraps of information, personal or otherwise, that could be used to “give the US an edge” in leveraging support for the invasion. Katharine Gun leaked that memo to the Observer, in the belief that the revelation of the proposed bugging and blackmail tactics might be enough to stop the war. 

SUPERBRAINS SERIES 4 Anton Chaitkin – for Black History Month: Anton Chaitkin discussing the British starting the ‘Black Legend’ and the comparing of cultures Hollywood’s role in spreading the Spanish black legend. A new book explores how movies have emphasized negative aspects of Spain’s imperial past while playing down Anglo-American wrongdoing, often to support a political cause. Witney Webb discussing Jeffrey Epstein’s link to blackmailing tech giants silicone valley and intelligence.  
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Friday 27th September 2019

At six – discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After seven – straight talking and investigative reports

APOLOGIES: Multiple studio power and software failures mean we have no recording of tonight’s show – but you can hear all audio clips

The server which records BCfm programmes went down during a power cut which affected the whole of Easton Community Centre around 4pm, one hour before our programme began. The server was rebooted just after 8pm when we had finished

BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling with Irish Republican Labour activist Martin Summers

February 2019 Ofcom complaint result: UKLFI exposed as creation of Israeli foreign ministry – Bristol Post article: BCfm cleared after being reported to Ofcom for anti-semitic conspiracy theories

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First hour news review: with Brexit Party prospective parliamentary candidate for North Somerset Ann Tar and leader of the LibDem group on Bristol City council and councillor for Knowle Gary Hopkins. – Bristol’s top politicians not coming on show; may not be able to think on their feet when answering unexpected questions? High-risk Brexit; this week’s (deliberate?) collapse of Thomas Cook –  CQS Asset Management ‘hedge fund’, founded by Conservative Party donor Sir Michael Hintze, was behind the failed rescue bid – Brexit Donor Hintze Set to Cash In on U.K. Distress – and made money from it; Lloyds and RBS banks. Hedge Fund CQS Management – RBS – $250m CDS bets on Cook collapse – Peter Frankenhauser, head of Thomas Cook, saying sorry; economic warfare – disaster capitalism; Brexit Donor Hintze Set to Cash In on U.K. Distress;  conspiracy that we can’t leave EU;  Supreme court ruling and Parliament brought back – Johnson back in Parliament – Corbyn back in Parliament on how poorest will be affected by Brexit – election coming? Brexit and possible outcomes now;  no recess of Parliament for Tory Conference;  Labour Party Conference – policies they discussed;  British Airways strike; Michael Foot in June 1975 on Common Market not being democratic; Michael Crick on Sir David Steel giving a statement to National Paedophile Inquiry about not disciplining Cyril Smith despite knowing he was sexually abusing children; Darren Jones, Bristol Labour MP, discussing trigger ballots.
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Second hour Investigative reports: New York UN General Assembly :  Russians weren’t given visas to go to New York UN Conference; Venezuela’s Maduro didn’t go to conference;  UN discussing human rights violations in Venezuela;  Venezuela under attack;  Venezuela death squads; Bolivian leader Morales on their socialist system and being scathing about capitalism; Bolivian access to sea.

Impeachment of Trump – Jo Biden’s son, Hunter Biden,  in corruption scandal in Ukraine – transcript of Trump’s phone call to Zolensky – Business insider: A Ukraine gas company tied to Joe Biden’s son is at the centre of the Trump-whistleblower scandal  Global warming:  Greta Thunberg’s speech at UN Conference;  capitalism is killing us;  China one of biggest emitters; Bitter Lake and obsession with oil; privatisation of public transport, disaster capitalism;  Imran Kahn on problems with capitalism; money and corruption;  Imran Khan on Kashmir and not trusting Modi with nuclear weapons. More UN Conference: Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz – Iran a threat and must be stopped;  Mahmoud Abbas on apartheid against Palestinians in Israel – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday denounced what he called “arrogance and aggression” by the Israeli Government and called on the United Nations to push harder for the two-state solution to resolve the conflict. – Rouhani from Iran on a peace deal;  – Michel Ayon, President of Lebanon; – Boris Johnson on Google controlling our technological future. 
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