Friday 6th October 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
Listen live http://www.bcfmradio.com/player or http://stream.bcfmradio.com:7017/live.mp3
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First hour: news review: with leader of the Green group on Bristol city council Eleanor Combley. Why have we not got a Chief Exec. for Bristol? – diagram of new power structure Mayor Marvin Rees has brought out; Councillors hit back after Marvin Rees brands them ‘untrustworthy’ and ‘irresponsible’ – flaw to Mayoral model; Marvin on the BBC – role of Council has to change with a different ‘provider model’; Bristol Council Tax changes. Councillors concerned after secretive officers won’t discuss ‘potentially illegal’ changes to council tax. The Liberal Democrat and Green parties say they have ‘effectively been told never you mind, we’ll take care of this’ – illegal consultation done in Haringey where they didn’t look at alternative options – regressive tax; Councillors concerned after secretive officers won’t discuss ‘potentially illegal’ changes to council tax; Catalonia secession – capitalism failing – what capitalism produces; Philip Hammond’s speech at Tory Party Conference – Britain’s economy working – history lesson of the 1970s – Corbyn’s politics will take us back there – Thatcherism – break down of society – socialism for banks with £800bn bailout but privatisation everywhere else – nationalisation; Boris Johnson’s speech from conference – Brexit – Corbyn supporting Venezuela – what British foreign policy has supported over the years, arms sales to Saudi Arabia; US born London university academic Sarah Churchwell on BBC Question Time – Boris’s comments on Libya saying it’s got nice beaches once the dead bodies are cleared up; Theresa May’s speech at conference – housing and the ‘British Dream’ – terrorism and her cough.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Catalonia, Las Vegas and Israel’s GCHQ: Unit 8200 – Catalonia secession: dealt with appallingly; Catalan police chief leaves Madrid court; Crimea referendum; history of Spain and civil war; oligarchs and military interests running things not governments; corruption scandal of Spanish Government – Gurtel corruption case where top judges have been purged by People’s Party Rajoy and King Filipe; Craig Murray – I Am Obliged to Reconsider My Support for the European Union . Las Vegas shooting: leak of email on internet saying Paddock worked for FBI – fake or real? – ISIS claimed it on Rita Katz’s website; false flag terrorism; timings – from shooting to police turning up; was accountant with Lockheed Martin; Hispanic lady in concert saying ‘you’re all going to die’; local police saying he may not have acted alone; Australian tourists say they saw security guards chasing another man in security guard uniform being chased out of the Mandalay Hotel; neighbour says he didn’t do it and is a patsy; motives? – gun control agenda – police state. Talpiot – Europe’s hottest startup capitals: Tel Aviv – How Israel became a leader in cybersecurity and surveillance – Israeli Unit 8200 cyber security and spying; Reservists from top intel unit refuse to ‘operate against Palestinians’ – 43 members of Unit 8200 claim their work is used unjustly to maintain control over West Bank civilians; IDF denies abuses, says protest is politically motivated – disgusted by mass surveillance of Gaza; Abi Martin vox pop of Israelis: Abby Martin interviews everyday Jewish Israeli citizens concerning the plight of Palestinian people.
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Beginning his working life in the aviation industry and trained by the BBC, Tony Gosling is a British land rights activist, historian & investigative radio journalist. Over the last 20 years he has been exposing the secret power of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and élite Bilderberg Conferences where the dark forces of corporations, media, banks and royalty conspire to accumulate wealth and power through extortion and war. Tony has spent much of his life too advocating solutions which heal the wealth divide, such as free housing for all and a press which reflects the concerns of ordinary people rather than attempting to lead opinion, sensationalise or dumb-down. Tony tweets at @TonyGosling. Tune in to his Friday politics show at BCfm here http://www.thisweek.org.uk
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If the US secret services were involved with the Las Vegas shooter , the purpose could be to make America more of a police state or whatever gives our increasingly oligarchy government, more power to lessen our bill of rights in the US. btw, I am a democratic socialist, but i defend the second amendment . It is US culture responsible for our high homicide and violence rate . Everyone in Switzerland has to own a gun or several because they have no military and dependent on a civilian militia . The homicide by firearm rate in Switzerland is one of the lowest in the world . One of America’s greatest playwrights Tennessee Williams said or wrote( circa, said or wrote the following during the early to mid 20th century) he was overwhelmed by the violence “that underlay the American Ethos “
Nobody in Swizz is obliged to own a gun, they are allowed to have a firearm in their home but it certainly isn’t mandatory.
Also they do have an army with about 150.000 active personnel, 38th in the world.
I advise you do the same as I did some decades ago, don’t spread information that you haven’t verified personally, you’ll be amazed how much BS or inaccurate information is being forwarded by sources you though took care to be correct. For instance the source how told you the stuff about swizz.
swizz army info source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Armed_Forces
And I’m aware that Wikipedia also is a crappy source when it is on controversial subjects, it’s ok for uncontested information.
If you banned fire arms in the US the only people who would have them would be violent criminals and law enforcement and secret services . Psychologically there is little difference between violent criminals and American police officers and the secret service persons
continued : i myself don’t have any fire arms, but i still defend citizens of the US the right to own firearms