Month: November 2011

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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 and Marina Morris

For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.

First hour: News review with UKIP MEP Trevor Coleman. What is the European Union (EU) in Brussels, how democratic is it and how does it work? Disappointing German bond issue, latest bad news in Euro currency crisis. Westminster Hall debate: Does EU’s European Arrest Warrant herald a police state? Next week’s public sector strike (NAHT) (ISU). Prime Minister David Cameron fails to declare lucrative land deal with top military finance lobbyist; “It’s the Next Big Scandal waiting to happen“, to quote Cameron himself. Shocking 99.5% drop in new affordable housing in South & South West England since November 2010. Failure in private care for the elderly: The Cruelty of the Carers.
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Second hour: Lawyer Mark Shepherd: What became of Bristol’s Immigration Advisory Service which was suddenly closed? The Boarding School Bomber about so-called Bristol ‘terrorist’ Isa Ibrahim. Le Monde: Freemasonry of New York investment bank Goldman Sachs who have begun to place their own political leaders in European countries. Christmas gift suggestions: 1. New book, ‘The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade‘, Andrew Feinstein, author of a new book on the companies profiting from war; 2. DVD release of BBC TV ‘Shoestring’ (1979) radio detective drama series filmed in Bristol; 3. Earth Into Property about the history of empires since 1492, by Canadian Professor Anthony Hall.
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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 and Marina Morris

For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.

First hour: News review with Staple Hill Councillor Ian Boulton (Lab). Staring world wide banking collapse in the face; CEO of RBS Retail Brian Hartzer cheekily calls time on free banking; youth unemployment passes the million mark; owner BAE Systems says Filton airfield has been ‘loss making’ but BBC discovers it made £1.3m profit in 2010; Cribbs Causeway Christmas traffic jams; MoD spend £564m of equipment budget on consultants in 2009, nearly 100 times figure of £6m in 2006; Military Industrial Complex on warpath for public money; 11 of Bristol’s open spaces earmarked for sell-off could be saved but 38 others face being sold, Ron Stone for Labour & Mark Weston for Tories want local people to decide on all sites but LibDem Gary Hopkins and Green Cllr. Tess Green want 38 sold off without further consultation; possible vote of no confidence looms over Bristol City Council’s proposed green space sell-off; why won’t developers build homes on ex-industrial brown field sites; are Remembrance Sunday & Armistice day becoming propaganda for the ‘War on Terror?’; Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) on strike for inflation pay rise; locations of TV Licencing sites in Bristol; Somerset & Gloucestershire Council attempt to close libraries ruled unlawful at High Court; Zurich Insurance failing to pay out over August riots; EDF Energy customer service disaster invokes fury of Ofgem.
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Second hour: Author of ‘Untouchables‘ and former World In Action reporter Laurie Flynn on appalling policing standards in South East London and specifically around Stephen Lawrence case. 08:30 – Bristol’s great Business Rate scam, owners of business premises keeping offices empty & rents artificially high to fraudulently boost their balance sheets; mysterious demolition of part of Evening Post building and many others with Eddie James. 19:30 – Palestine bid for UN recognition and William Hague’s statement to the commons last week, visit of war criminal Tzipi Livni to Downing Street with Rita Candaluci of Bristol Palestine Solidarity campaign (PSC). 24:30 – Former Director General of MI5 Eliza Manningham-Buller joins other peers in calling for decriminalisation of Cannabis; Steve Barker from Legalise Cannabis Alliance; Cannabis Legal Support Service helpline: 01508 480528. 32:30 – Preparing for the latest battle in the tenth crusade? Iran and Syria next to be targeted by NATO & financial oligarchy, or as Peter Eyre describes it the New World Order. Christian Zionist religious fanatics explained by Irving Wesley Hall. 46:00 – His book is Earth Into Property, Alberta University’s Professor Anthony J. Hall looks at the process of globalisation since 1492; succession of psychological warfare wars to oppose terrorism; overcoming the monstrosity that is the ‘War on Terror’.
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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 and Marina Morris

For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.

First hour: Who are these ‘rulers of the world‘ Goldman Sachs? High Frequency trading distorting the markets, Bankers want to be loved: Barclays Chief Executive Bob Diamond proposes three ways to ‘rehabilitate’ bankers”. Was there any point in nationalising parts of RBS, Lloyds and other banks? Civil unrest unless we liberate the bankers from their cash: anthropologist Chris Knight. Foreign Secretary William Hague’s commons statement on Iran: yet more Middle East lies to prepare public opinion for an attack on Iran? Joe Foster & brother jailed but there was no ‘petrol bomb’ in Stokes Croft April riots. Late night arson attack on Bristol Conservative councillors Geoff Gollop & Kevin Quartley‘s cars. News review with ‘Occupy Bristol‘ daily news digest editor Polly Winch.
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Second hour: Employment law: Will Stone from Avon and Bristol Law Centre reads you your rights. Pouring toxic chemicals into the sub-strata in exchange for poisoned water, earthquakes and a little bit of gas, Friends of the Earth on Fracking. Trustworthy to build new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point upwind of Bristol? Two EDF directors jailed in criminal hacking conspiracy. Just Say Know? Bristol & Britain’s drug policy discussion and look at LSD with Danny Kushlick from Transform.
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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 and Marina Morris

For mp3s of all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.

First hour: Council committees & planning, police oversight, UK public spending cuts, Greek Euro crisis, rare interview with chief executive of Barclays bank Bob Diamond, Vincent Tabak’s alleged child pornography on his computer & witnesses to his addiction to sado-masochism deemed inadmissible in Jo Yeates murder case by Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), BBC cutting while Radio Bristol RAJAR listener figures market share is halved from 8.4% to 4.2% in last 12 months, Prime Ministers’ Questions on Business Growth Fund & directors pay up 49% in the last year, MPs and Lords take part in lobbying code of conduct debate in Westminster Hall, government’s private sector pensions offer, Prince Charles has used his veto to alter 34 new laws in the last decade and believes he is related to Vlad the Impaler aka. Count Dracula, criminals may have their social security benefits docked by £25 a week, news review with Green Councillor for Ashley, Gus Hoyt.
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Second hour: 02:00 – Hilary Burn from Stop Bristol Airport Expansion. 13:00 – 200th anniversary tonight of the first Luddite machine breaking action which took place in Nottingham with Dave King, technology must be our servant not our master, land rights and social justice movements such as Diggers Levellers, Chartists and Occupy Bristol and London LSX. 41:00 – From privatisation of land to creeping fascism & the privatisation of war. Money, Idealism, Compromise & Ego (MICE) or Bribery, Ideology, Blackmail & Flattery (BFBF) spies’ persuasion techniques and the privatisation of intelligence work with former MI5 officer Annie Machon, Private Military Security Companies (PMSCs). 48:00 – Information Commissioner says Common Purpose blacklist is illegal, Mike doing Freedom Of Information Requests regarding ‘leadership charity’ Common Purpose, worried that their graduates may be breaking the law by ordering training from the organisation they are still a part of. 59:00 Rioting as Tunisia’s popular Petition Party election wins are anulled.
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