Month: December 2011

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: UK vetos Euro treaty, so ‘accord’ signed without the UK… but are they re-arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic? Bristol’s annual care & health budgets slashed by £5m; closure threats to day care & Bristol City Council’s 11 residential care homes; will the new Open Data Institute be breaking the Data Protection Act? Sharing of private data with pharmecutical and healthcare companies. Survey says anger with police fuelled summer riots. Bristol’s Easter 2011 disturbances. Caught on Camera, top lobbyists boasting how they influence the prime minister, top lobbying firm Bell Pottinger using ‘dark arts’ to manipulate internet searches; The arms company, the oligarch (Boris Berezovsky) and the ex-PM’s sister-in-law: lobby firm’s Wikipedia hit list; news review with Bristol City Council’s LibDem Cabinet member for Care and Health, Councillor Jon Rogers.
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Second hour: China tells its navy to prepare for war; Rupert Murdoch’s Fox TV News broadcasts blazing Greek riot footage as if it was shot in this week’s Moscow election demonstration; relation between financial crisis and war. Is NATO ‘missile defence’ system starting a new arms race? Russian elections. Are Western Israeli/NATO special forces already attacking Iran? Tricky – Black Steel (1995). NHS whistleblowing safeguards are not working, new local safeguards from South West Whistleblowers Health Action Group (SWWHAG) contacts: SWwhistleblowers@gmail.com & 07971 968244. Tricky – Hell Is Round The Corner (1995); Will Stone from the Avon & Bristol Law Centre, UK Human Rights Act: human rights day tomorrow, Kenneth Clarke delays £350m legal aid cuts; EU Convention of Human Rights; Government slashes solar power tariff; alternative energy and Frack Off campaign’s anti-fracking action with Mike Birkin from South West Friends of the Earth
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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: Wednesday’s public sector pension strike is biggest in 80 years. 20,000 people march through Bristol city centre to Castle Park. Government are “Spivs and Gangsters who’ve never done an honest day’s work in their life”, a selection of speeches from the biggest political rally in Bristol since 1932. Coalition Chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn statement to the House of Commons, Ed Balls’ reply & news review with Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) Regional Vice-Chair Roger Thomas.
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Second hour: “Extraordinarily serious and threatening”, Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King very worried about Eurogeddon. IMF runs out of cash & politics of Occupy Movement: former Wall Street broker Max Keiser talks to Economist Karl Denninger of MarketTicker.org. Divide and rule policy leaves a bloody legacy, Tamil freedom campaigner Ram Selvaratnam talks about modern political history of Sri-Lanka (Ceylon). Former US General Wesley Clarke describes secret Pentagon plan to invade Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran. Earth Into Property by Anthony J. Hall. Convergence of the crises: 24 Pakistani soldiers killed by US helicopter gunships so Pakistan cuts off NATO’s Afghanistan supply lines. Prelude to war? Foreign Secretary William Hague closes Iranian embassy in London. Nuclear war looming at the same time as Eurogeddon. Do bankers have a nasty surprise for us after the crash: former Hollywood film producer Aaron Russo recounts Nick Rockefeller’s plan to replace money with human microchip (Verichip?) RFID implants. Ram’s recommended websites Act-Now.info & Tamil Solidarity.
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