Month: January 2012

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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: legacy of 1980s Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Bryan Gould: Blind Faith In Market Robs Nation Of Its Full Potential. When the crash comes the City Of London is going to collapse sucking in debt defaults like a black hole. Should Bristol City Council borrow £50m to tide us over until the next elections are past? Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech on ‘Socially Responsible Capitalism’. Quarterly unemployment figures reveal increase Labour leader Ed Milliband & Ed Balls set out their pro-cuts position. Who are the real benefit scroungers? The ‘lazy’ unemployed or the city bankers? Ed Balls replies to GMB & UNISON who are threatening to pull funding for the Labour Party. Education Secretary Michael Gove wants to make it easier to sack teachers, with Marina Morris’ teaching VOXPOP. Heated discussion about state and private education with Conservative Councillor for Avonmouth Siobhan Kennedy-Hall.
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Second hour: Tension rises in Syria as armed rebels fight with the government & Russians say they will not support Western intervention. Do NATO &/or Israel have special forces provoking war by conducting military operations inside Iran? Forest of Dean Wilderness environmental education centre in Mitcheldean occupied by Tom Forest & Reclaim The Fields, who want to stop Gloucestershire County Council selling it off. Pentagon commissioning research to manipulate social networking, Propaganda 2 and the rise of ‘nattative networks’. Journalistic ethics in the spotlight at the Leveson Enquiry but is it just a spectacle for the public? Does the our media serve the public with Magdalena Krupa from Bristol’s Ujima 98fm, Optimist World site recommended. Internet censorship. Discussion about consolidation of commercial local radio stations with BCfm’s station manager Phil Gibbons. James Murdoch, Jeremy Hunt and the Conservative Party colluding two years ago to cut the BBC. Granville Williams from the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom on changes to commercial ‘local’ radio and threats to BBC local radio. Sabine McNeill from Forum For Stable Currencies and Victims Unite about the money scam, The Forensics of Legal Fraud and miscarriages of justice.
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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: Origin of negative superstitions around ‘Friday the 13th’: arrest of 5000 Knights Templar (international bankers) in dawn raids by King Philip IV of France … on Friday 13th October 1307. Charges of heresy compiled with help from former Templar whistleblowers Esquin of Floyan, Bernard Pelet (Baron d’Alais?) & Gérard of Byzol (Caballero de Gisors?). Forced to resign: £50,000 insider deal by head of Swiss Central bank Philipp Hildebrand’s wife Kashya. Swiss bank whistleblower Rudolf Elmer hands over details of Swiss bank tax evaders to Wikileaks but is instead convicted of data theft himself. Bristol City Council borrow £50m to fill spending gap caused by the cuts. Prime Minister’s Questions: David Cameron and Ed Milliband spar over 9% rise in train fares. PMQs: Michael Meacher MP (Lab) points out that in 2 years the thousand richest people in Britain got richer by £137bn, this could be used to pay off the deficit and/or create a million jobs. ‘Spartacus report’ reveals fake consultation into benefit reforms for the most vulnerable in society such as the disabled and cancer patients. PMQs: Dame Joan Ruddock questions wisdom of cutting housing benefit. Bristol Speakers’ Corner on College Green every Friday lunchtime. Arbeit Macht Frei: Geology graduate Cait Reilly, who got her own work placement in a museum, forced to work for free in Poundland. Emma Harrison lives in luxury and makes £1.4m/yr from private schemes to get people off social security benefits, but not necessarily into work. PIP breast implants found to be made from industrial silicone but 140 year old private German company ‘TUV Rheinland’ reaffirmed official EU ‘CE’ kite mark certification in 2008. Stroud Mayor John Marjoram may be fined for not completing the census since it was sub-contracted to US defence contractor Lockheed Martin. Weekly news review with Cadbury Heath Councillor Martin Farmer (Lab).
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Second hour: Privatising Media Mind Control: British Army Psychological Warfare officers from 15 PsyOps (Chicksands, Beds.) headhunted by private Strategic Communications companies who pay them approximately twenty times more than the army to manipulate public perceptions. Prince Andrew’s Private Secretary working for Bell Pottinger who represent despotic regimes such as Sri-Lanka & Bahrain. Prime Minister David Cameron is visiting King Abdullah in Saudi Arabia today. Assassination of fifth Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan in Tehran. Bradley Stoke resident Lesley Cox & Martin Farmer (Lab) discuss BAe Systems’ cutting employers’ leases to drive them out, close Filton airfield and sell it off for housing, despite site’s history and future needs of employment in aerospace industry at the site. Secret society: should we be concerned that newly installed Filton and Bradley Stoke MP Jack Lopresti is a Freemason? He is invited to comment and/or to appear on this programme but does not return phone calls. BBC Southern Eye documentary ‘Anything To Declare’ (2000) shows Local Government Ombudsman taking stern view of freemasons failing to delare their masonic interest, using their votes to grant planning permission to masons in the same lodge. Look at CERN near Geneva and the Higgs boson ‘God particle’ with mathematician, system analyst and editor of victims unite website Sabine McNeill FRSA.
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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 Whitchurch Park Councillor and Executive member for Transport Tim Kent. The word Mortgage means ‘the grip of death’ in French. Debt at the heart of the financial crisis. Creation of money sub-contracted to the private sector, better for the Treasury to create debt-free money and spend it directly into the economy. UK finance chiefs expect double dip recession for 2012. US president Barack Obama plans to slash defence spending by half-a-trillion dollars. Cheaper ways to assassinate religious and political leaders with drones – looking to fight future wars with ‘click and kill’ technology but is it a war crime because no-one can surrender to a drone. Grant F. Smith: how Israeli financing of US politicians and publicatons is influencing the US economy and foreign policy. Convicted fraudster Gerald Ronson and hedge fund manager Paul Ruddock who made millions of pounds from the collapse of Northern Rock both awarded knighthoods. Is Diane Abbot MP a racist as she tweets ‘White people love playing divide and rule, we should not play their game’? Labour leader Ed Milliband forces her to apologise and former Labour and Respect MP George Galloway supports Diane Abbott. Tories bring return to 1890s University fees as tuition fees leap to £9,000 per year and government funding for higher education falls by half. Bristol Cathedral announce they will; be taking legal proceedings to evict the Occupy Bristol camp on College Green.
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Second hour: Super-buses, bus-rapid-transit planned for Bristol but Steve Satan from Rail Future has his doubts. Are these bio-methane powered guided buses as effective as trams and trains at getting people out of their cars? UK train fares have just risen by an average of 9% Britons pay up to ten times more that commuters on the continent to get to work by rail. Oil companies laughing at Bristol’s public transport being in a mess. Creating bio-methane fuel from Bristol’s food waste to power new guided buses. Significant rail transport investments by Bristol City Council being announced next week. The competition commission investigated Bristol’s buses and believe First Bus are profiteering. Police criticise Bristol’s bonkers bus-stops which stick right out into the road on showcase bus routes as ‘unsafe’, forcing cyclists and drivers to pull out into oncoming traffic. Credit cards to be used to pay bus fares? Revelation that MP for Filton and Bradley Stoke Jack Lopresti is a Freemason but what do Masons get up to in their secret temples at the bottom of Park Street? Investigative journalist Martin Short compares Freemasonry to a religious cult based on legend and lies, or a pyramid selling scheme. From a 1989 Granada TV documentary ‘Inside The Brotherhood’, ordinary people of Southend-On-Sea in Essex give their views on Freemasonry. Professor Anthony J. Hall, author of ‘Earth into Property: Colonization, Decolonization, and Capitalism‘. Washington at the core of an informal US empire justifying a permanent war economy. Fraudulent interpretation of 9/11 a diversionary tactic used by Israel to make its Middle Eastern enemies the enemies of the US and NATO. Requisitioning resources from indigenous people and dispossessing domestic middle classes. Great tragedy of our times that certain religions and peoples are demonised just as Hitler did in the 1930s and 1940s and we can’t believe Rupert Murdoch’s News International or the BBC, pollution of the mental environment and poisoning of consciousness. Professor Antony Sutton describes US dark forces The Order of the Skull and Bones at Yale University.
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