Month: July 2012

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: ‘Senseless’ threats to Bristol Remploy despite it making money; Conservative finance lead & deputy mayor Geoff Gollop says it shows lack of joined up thinking in Coalition government; Geoff, Peter Abraham & Barbara Lewis all in the running for Conservative mayor candidate, one will be chosen on 7th August. Empty offices in Bristol, but will Geoff be able to bring back growth and confidence & fill them with workers? Office for National Statistics and OBR announce 0.7% fall in GDP as commentators talk not of double dip resession but ‘slump’. Chancellor George Osborne is sticking to his deficit reduction plan but on camera looks, sheepishly, as if he did not believe his own words. UK is extremely vulnerable in the Euro crisis despite not being in the Euro zone. Banks are the fiancial services wing of the international drug cartels. Government minister says it’s immoral to pay cash in hand while super-rich stash $21tn in offshore funds out of the reach of the tax man. As the Americanisation of Britain continues Liberal democrats select former police officer and one of our ‘city slackers‘ who does not return emails or phone calls, Pete Levy, to run for Avon & Somerset Police Comissioner. Other candidates so far announced are Conservative Ken Maddock & Bob Ashford for Labour. Voxpop on Olympics security militarisation and G4S fiasco.
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Second hour: Marina Morris reports on latest developments in Syria with arms finding their way to the rebels through NATO country Turkey. Daily Mail reports that former SAS soldiers are training the ‘Free Syrian Army’ who have been killing people in Damascus over the last few weeks. Who might stand to gain from an attack at the olympics? Sponsors BMW made their money using SS slave labour in World War Two and have ‘taken over’ the iconic British Mini but will not pay reparations. Reference is German documentary The Silence Of The Quandts. Just published into English today is the Secret ‘Plan For Democratic Rebirth’ for a fascist Italy run by Freemasons, police, secret services and corporations of Italian Grand Orient masonry. It was discovered in the lining of Licio Gelli’s daughter Maria-Graxia Gelli’s suitcase at Rome Fiumicino airport 30 years ago this month.
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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: City slackers, named again. List of Bristol City Councillors who either do not respond to phone or emails or do not wish to share their views with us on BCfm’s politics show. Conservatives 36%; Liberal Democrat 28%; Labour 18% and Green 0%. Bristol freemasonry: we appeal for a copy of the Bristol Provincial yearbook, still not supplied as promised by Bristol freemason Conservative MP Jack Lopresti, which lists Bristol’s 2000 or so Freemasons in 50 or so masonic lodges. A vision for the city. Lax HSBC controls allowed Mexican drug cartels to launder £4.5 billion and David Cameron’s Coalition Government Trade Minister Lord Green was running the HSBC bank at the time. Criminals running the NATO zone banking system. £3.6m cuts mean nearly 200 people will be made homeless after Bristol City Council announces closure of 8 care homes, plus 130 job losses. Bristol has 20,000 homeless people, Tony Crofts suggests we should convert Bristol’s 1.75 million (not thousand, apologies) square feet of empty office space into 70-80,000 homes. IMF says the UK must boost government spending to save the economy and should relax spending cuts. Labour’s mayoral candidate, our guest Marvin Rees, branded naive and weak by LibDem Councillor Gary Hopkins over his appearance at last Saturday’s anti-EDL rally. Unemployment falls for the 4th month in a row down to 8.1%. BBC riots drama banned by judge, but it looks like it will eventually be screened. News review with Labour’s candidate for mayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees.
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Second hour: Bomb attacks rock Syrian security ministry killing two generals and more, were attacks timed to coincide withy UN Security Council vote? The best English language source of Syrian news, the excellent analysis from Syrian Arab News Service (SANA) website www.sana.sy is unavailable so NATO/Israeli cyberwarfare and psychological warfare may be going on. However the UN’s Syrian ambassador Dr. Bashar Al Jaafari’s speech on 19 July 2012, as Russia and China vetoed the US’s Syria sanctions resolution at the UN, is available. Head of German Secret Service Heinz Fromm resigns after covering up for a murderous domestic neo-Nazi terror group. Operation Gladio: Richard Cotterell and Daniele Ganser have written books and Alan Frankovich made a series of three BBC Timewatch documentaries on domestic terrorism carried out mainly in the 1980s by NATO and crypto-fascist Western Intelligence Agencies. Our own domestic counter-intelligence agency MI5’s Director General and Bilderberger Jonathan Evans said on Channel 4 News, before the G4S olympics security scandal story broke, that the only danger at the Olympics was from Iran, whilst we now know it was ‘wide open’ for any terrorist. Why would Evans make such a statement which could not be further from the truth? Strike action at Bristol Remploy this and next Thursday, appeal for supporters to join striking disabled workers’ picket next Thursday. Mass demonstrations of 400,000 people against the lack of democracy in Hong Kong 15 years after failed MP Chris Patten handed it to China. Repression and resistance in China: Wukan, a town of 40,000 people, sacks local Communist Party leaders and institutes a democratic system for three months before being repressed. Big increase in demonstrations in China which are illegal there. Sally Tang from Socialist Action  reports from former British colony of Hong Kong fifteen years after it was reclaimed by China. Petition to get Bristol’s extra £20m police funding; abolition of Avon & Somerset’s democratic police authority and replacement with elected Police and Crime Commissioners on the horizon and the G4S private security fiasco at the olympics. Implications for privatising the police. Kevin Phillips from Avon and Somerset Police Federation which represents 3000 police officers in our local force. Dave Redgewell from SW SERA discusses the effects of rail privatisation and the McNulty report deregulating and demanning national railways.
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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: BBC Trustee, Bilderberger and Chairman of Barclays Marcus Agius at the Treasury Select Committee. Would you trust this man with your money? Extract from The Keiser report: Financial journalist Ian Fraser explains how and when the rot set in at the City of London. Last City trial County NatWest ‘Blue Arrow’, (not ‘Blue Circle’, apols.) which took place in 1992. After a crooked Court Of Appeal aquittal Serious Fraud Office (SFO) allegedly said: “The message has come down from ‘on high’. There will never again be a prosecution of a high level banker or a mainstream city institution”. Deregulation of the City further opened the door to impunity: False accounting, defrauding clients and money laundering has been going on ever since. Olympics’ private security fiasco: Director General of MI5 and Bilderberger Jonathan Evans gives the all-clear, as does former QinetiQ boss & Bilderberger Pauline Neville-Jones, but 2 weeks later 3,500 soldiers are drafted into London Olympics security duty. G4S private security firm ‘let the country down’, according to Home Affairs select committee chair Keith Vaz. G4S whistleblower Ben Fellows, aka. Lee Hazledean, explains how sometimes it helps to see ‘the bigger picture’. Western Intelligence agencies fomenting terror to justify their own budget and as a political tool, such as in NATO’s Operation Gladio. English Defence League (EDL) march ”against Islamification of Bristol’ tomorrow. But are the EDL connected to Anders Beivik, to the Zionist movement & who funds the EDL? News review with Cllr Simon Rayner (Lib)
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Second hour: Was Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat assassinated by the Israeli Cabinet in 2004 with radioactive Polonium? Who are the West’s favourite Syrian government in exile, the Syrian National Council? Keith Allen’s ‘Unlawful Killing’ documentary about the assassination of Princess Diana has been censored by Prince Philip’s lawyers. Impossible to get insurance on the film but English language Iranian channel Press TV did review it in their CinePolitics series. Tax Havens: John Christensen from the Tax Justice Network. Annual tax evasion loss to UK exchequer is £70bn, plus £25bn in tax avoidance is lost. Lord Chancellor and Bilderberger Kenneth Clarke ‘blushes’ on BBC’s Question time as he pledges to close tax havens but does he really mean what he says? Three measures that need to be adopted: 1. Automatic Information Exchange when accounts are opened, 2. Require multinational companies to disclose their accounts in every country they operate. 3. Britain must stop blocking tax haven reforms. Eva Rausing, whose death was announced this week, used cruise ship ‘The World‘ as a tax haven. We must end non-domicile status for oligarchs etc., who live in Britain but don’t pay tax here. Shadow banking system of Structured Investment Vehicles (SIVs) explained. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney exposed as keeping his wealth in the Cayman Islands. Like Civil Service, the BBC are paying some staff to facilitate tax avoidance. Bristol ACTSA: Anti-Apartheid leader and former South African government minister Ronnie Kasrils launches the new book London Recruits edited by Ken Keable in the Colston Hall. Ronnie recommends documentaries Have You Heard From Johannesburg and Mandela Son Of Africa, Father Of A Nation.
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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: PCS union votes to fund anti-cuts candidates at the next general election. Attila the Stockbroker sings his recent song, ‘Looters’. Libor rate is the key rate in all financial transaction right across the globe. Barclays’ former Chief Executive Bob Diamond appears at the Treasury Select Committee. Co-founder in 1981 of Bristol based investment & stockbroking bank Hargreaves Lansdown is interviewed on BBC Radio Bristol. But former forces broadcaster John Darble fails to challenge Peter Hargreaves on why his ‘zombie firm’ is kept alive on public subsidy or the question of the morning, whether he thinks bankers should be locked up? The City of London and Wall Street investment banking parasite is devouring the public and society, its host. The banks can not be allowed to fail but neither can society, which is the highest political priority? Unemployment in EU now highest since the introduction of the Euro. Youth unemployment at 22.6% but an astronomical 52% of under 25s in Spain & Greece are now unemployed. It was the 2008 public bailout that kept his company going. Marina Morris looks at sexual abuse in state run children’s ‘care’ homes. Voxpop this week asks who is to blame for unemployment and what should be done about it. Defiance against debt bullies & locking up criminal bankers wins Iceland’s president Grimsson a record fifth term. News review with National Vice President of Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) John McInally.
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Second hour: Denials from Israel but it looks likely now that Palestinian leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Yasser Arafat was assassinated in 2004 was ordered by the Israeli cabinet using Polonium, a radioactive poison. Paraguay and Iran’s Straits of Hormuz. Hilary Clinton, acting as a ventriloquist’s dummy for AIPAC & Jerusalem, issues the same sort of bullying threats used by Hitler in the run-up to World War Two. Potential now for the Middle East to turn into a charnal house at any time, as illustrated by the downing of a Turkish Phantom jet in Syrian airspace two weeks ago. President Assad has proved in the recent referendum that he does have popular support in Syria. Any spark could set off a major war in the Middle East but the British Army is being slashed to its smallest size since the Napoleonic wars. Seventh anniversary of the 7/7 London bombings. Peter Power of Visor Consultants conducted an exercise on the day of 7/7 at the ‘same three tube stations’ that the bombs went off. The drill was conducted for former organisers of one of the world’s biggest arms fairs, DSEi in docklands, Reed Elsevier. Jerusalem desk of Associated Press reported that a warning of the attacks was given to Benjamin Netanyahu (Bibi) via the Israeli Embassy in London by Scotland Yard before the bombings took place. Kevin Cahill, author of Who Owns The World, tells us that 65% of British people own their own homes which, Kevin says, is the highest number in history. Political parties are petrified that homeowners get together they can if you’re working and paying your tax, for example the government should insure you against losing your job! Britain is still a feudal nation and only two countries grant land to their citizens in their constitution; Russia and one in South America. Obscene annual CAP payments of around £500k to Britain’s super rich whose ‘Rich List’ wealth is as follows: Duke of Buccleuch £2bn; Duke of Westminster £7bn; Prince Charles £1bn; The Queen £7bn. The Queen is the largest landowner in the world with 6.6bn acres. One sixth of the entire surface of the earth. David Powell Economics Campaigner from Friends of the Earth. Land grabbing going on today with mass evictions. 200m hectares of land over the last decade, 100 times the size of Wales, has been bought up in Africa and Asia over the last decade. New book on the subject is Land Grabbers, The New Fight Over Who Owns The Earth. £9bn of pension funds are investing in land grabbing the new, economic, colonialism.  
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