Month: September 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: News review with Conservative councillor for Westbury-On-Trym Alistair Watson. Conservative party are the worst in Bristol: ‘Bristol City Slackers’ named or councillors that refuse to answer emails or phone calls. Proportion of ‘slackers’ by political party: Conservatives 36% (5/14), LibDems 28% (9/32), Labour 18% (4/22) & Green 0% (0/2). BBC royal correspondant Frank Gardener spills the beans on Radio 4 Today programme about pressure being put on David Blunkett to arrest Abu Hamza. Why is Elizabeth Saxe Coburg Gotha meddling in politics? Police officers are being appointed to senior roles without being properly vetted, it has been claimed following an investigation into a deputy chief constable who hanged himself after sexual harassment allegations. But local Police and Crime Commissioner candidate Bob Ashford was forced to step down from the race after minor crime at the age of 13. After Hillsborough revelations South Yorkshire Police turned a blind eye to sex grooming gangs for more than a decade, confidential files reveal, The school which employs teacher Jeremy Forrest, who has disappeared abroad with 15-year-old student Megan Stammers, was at the centre of a scandal just three years ago after a teacher was found to groomed two female students. LibDem leader Nick Clegg delivers keynote speech at his party conference. Marina Morris reports on the necessity of family and unconditional love in Britain today and asks what Bristolians think about modern family values. A 21-year-old man arrested at a flat in Pimlico, central London, has become the first person to be jailed under the government’s anti-squatting legislation.
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Second hour: Global roundup with Martin Summers: A Turkish court convicted 326 military officers, including the former air force and navy chiefs, of plotting to overthrow the nation’s Islamic-based government in 2003, in a case that has helped curtail the military’s hold on politics. A panel of three judges at the court on Istanbul’s outskirts initially sentenced former air force chief Ibrahim Firtina, former navy chief Ozden Ornek and former army commander Cetin Dogan to life imprisonment but later reduced the sentence to a 20-year jail term because the plot had been unsuccessful, state-run TRT television reported. The three were accused of masterminding the plot. The dramatic conclusion to the case was entirely unreported in the UK national press. Imam El Mahdi and Jesus will soon return to banish the curse of corruption & restore justice in the world: Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad makes his final speech at the UN General Assembly as he finishes the second and last term as president. The Dark Art of ‘Conflict Initiation’: Patrick Clawson of the influential Zionist Washington Institute for Near East Studies openly suggests the US should provoke Iran into war. Just one in 50 victims of America’s deadly drone strikes in Pakistan are terrorists – while the rest are innocent civilians, a new report claimed today. The authoritative joint study, by Stanford and New York Universities, concludes that men, women and children are being terrorised by the operations ’24 hours-a-day’. And the authors lay much of the blame on the use of the ‘double-tap’ strike where a drone fires one missile – and then a second as rescuers try to drag victims from the rubble. One aid agency said they had a six-hour delay before going to the scene. 98% of Pakistan drone strikes are killing innocent people. A gross dereliction of duty: How Coalition defence cuts have left Britain terrifyingly vulnerable. Bristol land and housing co-op activist and editor of www.SpeakTruthToPower.net, Tony Crofts, discusses the acres of empty office space and compares it to Bristol’s appaling lack of housing. Discussion of how our society fails to deliver the right buildings & how office building owners can afford to leave them empty for years. Simon Bale from ISR, Churches for Work and Social Justice talks about the church is doing to address the growing social divide in Bristol and Britain, also discussing the strangely secretive process by which the new Archbishop of Canterbury is being chosen. One of the candidates was an oil industry executive until recently.
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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: Norwegian activist and blogger Torstein Viddal discusses shortcomings of his country’s police and security services on 22nd July during last summer’s Oslo bomb and Utoya island massacre of young Labour party activists by Neo-Nazi freemason Anders Breivik. First interpretation into English of elements of the Commission report which show a series of police and state security services’ shortcomings. Were there any policemen or judges in Breivik’s masonic lodges? Why did he only attend Oslo masonic temple for initiation ceremonies and not the rest of the year? How many lodges was he a member of? Discussion of Breivik’s peculiar ideological blend of Zionism and Nazism. Torstein’s flat in central Oslo is only 200 yards from the bombed government building and that day he was out taking pictures.
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Second hour: Investigative journalist and author of ‘Dangerous Ground’ Roger Cook describes how Rupert Murdoch’s News Of The World launched a smear campaign in 2000 and got 10 million viewers-a-week The Cook Report taken off the air by ITV. Roger describes some of his investigations: Terror In The Skies, the penetration of airport security and hijacking of airliners in the United States in the run-up to the 9/11 attacks; Hope For Hillsborough, South Yorkshire police misconduct and the Hillsborough disaster cover-up; Dirty Bomb, being offered former Soviet weapons grade plutonium & thermonuclear weapons on the Russian black market, the SS20 warhead Roger Cook was offered has a yield of 150 kilotons or 10 times the force of the Hiroshima bomb which killed over 100,000 people; The Truth Behind The Front, secret filming of racist Nick Griffin infiltrating the National Front; The Devil’s Work, satanic abuse circle around ‘The Sorcerers’ Apprentice’ shop in Leeds, Yorkshire run by Chris Bray; News International, an organised criminal gang conducting burglaries, not just hacking voicemails but tapping the phones of their legal opponents. How storage company Iron Mountain managed to destroy the film archive of The Cook Report. Appeal for people to put recordings they have of The Cook Report onto YouTube. Sinandei Makko, a Lands Rights activist from Tanzania is visiting Bristol this week. Makko is deeply involved in the current land conflict between the Maasai traditional livestock herders and the United Arab Emitates based Ortello Business Corporation (OBC). Almost 50,000 people face eviction from their land to make way for OBC tourists. Makko has lived and worked in Loliondo in the Serengeti National Park his entire life. US Army veteran and director of The Esoteric Agenda Ben Stewart discusses what attracted him to film-making and the global shift in conciousness he would like to achieve with his films.
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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 Green Party mayoral candidate Daniella Radice. US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke will print $40 billion every month, making money up out of nowhere, to try and generate jobs in US. Effect will be redistribution of wealth from the poor to the rich. The Bristol Pound £B launch party this Wednesday 19th September 2012 from 5:30 -9:30pm at St Nicholas’ Market, the top of Corn Street. Ian Fraser on David Cameron’s Reshuffle: Entrusting economic policy to ex-investment bankers is like puting the fox in charge of the hen-house. New planning minister Nick Boles’ crooked think tank Policy Exchange wants to see thousands of homes built on the Green Belt to boost the economy. Heated meeting Tim Boles Chairman of Winterborne Parish Council discuss public Frenchay Hospital land being sold off for commercial housebuilding. Tony Crofts gets figures from estate agent Alder King saying Bristol has 1.75m sq ft of empty office space, the equivalent of about 75,000 homes. Friendship as or more important than we realise: demise of the pub and community facilities due to economic depression, Tescos taking over public houses. Hillsborough disaster Independent Panel reports this week revealing: 164 witness statements altered by the police, 41 people could have survived. Former South Yorkshire police senior intelligence analyst Tony Farrell tells what his colleague Andy saw that day in 1989. Will the election of Police & Crime Commissioners in November turn Avon & Somerset police into a political football? EU Commission proposes to regulate UK financial markets bypassing the City of London. Alvin Masioma from Tax Justice Network Africa explains how tax havens like Jersey steal African resources and even help start Civil Wars. Max Keiser talks to investigative journalist and author Leah McGrath Goodman about her being banned from the UK for reporting on the Jersey sex and murder scandal. They discuss the $5 billion per square mile in laundered money that means Jersey rises, while Switzerland sinks.
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Second hour: UK/US information film Fracking Hell. Fracking, or Hydraulic Fracturing, in the Mendips: Frack Off campaign, Bristol anti-Fracking campaigner Zoe Smith from Hotwells convicted of Aggravated Trespass stopping fracking which caused eathquakes in Lancashire & Laura Corfield from Transition Keynsham. Various local campaigns such as Rising Tide & Frack Free Somerset. Meeting Tuesday 25th September 2012,  7–9pm in Wells Town Hall. Coal bed methane extraction planned for Keynsham. Fracking: drilling method ‘to be extended’ despite causing Blackpool earthquakes. US ambassador killed by a mob in Libya and Egypt, Yemen embassies also attacked over Californian Muslim hate film. Bur is it another PsyOp to ramp up tension for the benefit of intelligence services. EADS military mapping satellite software engineer, Al-Hilli family victims of contract killing in France. Former UK ambassador Craig Murray asks was it a Mossad military hit related to assassination programme of Iranian related nuclear scientists? Unreported news: President of Italian Supreme Court refers 9/11 attacks to International Criminal Court for investigation. Arab lawyers’ Union condemn censorship of Syrian TV on arab satellites. Gordon Duff from Veterans Today asks will Isreal really attack Iran or are Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s threats just scabre rattling? From Iranian channel PressTV which is censored in the UK. Rita Cangialousi from Bristol Palestine Solidarity Campaign. UN: Israel pushing Palestine deeper into poverty through water and land grabs. US Air Force veteran & messianic Jew Tim Cohen explores heraldry, something like a genetic code, and the centuries old power network of The Order Of The Garter founded in 1348, and asks is it the centre of a clandestine power network that is slowly extending across the world? Looking at Biblical prophecy in the Book of Revelation, Cohen believes Garter Knights represent the core leadership of the Prieuré de Sion, Freemasonry, Rosicrucians, Illuminati, Banking, Insurance, Television and Media. His book is ‘The Antichrist And A Cup Of Tea’.
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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 mayoral candidate George Ferguson: George’s role as a Merchant Venturer, part of the city’s merchant class elite. George pledges to leave the Merchants should he become Mayor. Horrific record of the Merchant Venturers profits from the Triangular Transatlantic Slave Trade not mentioned by our local paper The Post. Mayor will wrest control of a £1bn annual budget from party politics. Kingswood’s Tory MP Chris Skidmore calls British workers ‘the laziest in the world’ in new book Britannia Unchained. Endemol TV’s founder of ‘Big Brother’ and ‘Deal or No Deal’, Sir Peter Bazalgette made chairman of the Arts Council. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne booed at paralympics medal award ceremony. European Central Bank says it will buy up bad government debt to stop troubled government’s collapsing. European and World Value Survey shows Britain has a very low level of trust. Cameron announces big relaxation of national planning laws to ‘boost the economy’ by allowing developers to build where they like. Capacity public meeting in Frenchay Village Hall this week: public Frenchay Hospital to be demolished to make way for hundreds of private homes. Abandoned £30bn Severn Barrage scheme is to be re-examined by the government as a way to tap into tidal power. Half the phone hacking victims have still not been contacted by Scotland Yard and the total number has doubled this week, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Sue Ackers reveals to Keith Vaz on the Home Affairs Select Committee.
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Second hour: Freelance journalist Dan Glazebrook: with the passing of the Arab Spring and installation of President Morsi in Egypt does the new government reflect the will of the Egyptian people? 15th anniversary of Princess Diana’s untimely death in Paris last weekend, book: The Paris London connection, The Assassination Of Princess Diana. 11th anniversary of 9/11 attacks next week: UK campaign Reinvestigate 9/11 and book: Solving 9-11: The Deception That Changed the World. How’s the War on Freedom going as we approach the 11th Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks? Syria: Blogger Gari Sullivan in Bristol next week using personal examples, eye-witness accounts and exclusive material to share his experiences of Syrian life … & reflecting on the UK mainstream media lies. 7pm, Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft, BS1 3QY, Thursday 13th September 2012. See No Evil 2012 fallout: proprietor of the ‘Arc Bar’ on Broad Street Eddie James on Bristol’s urban arts, money & parapolitics, how fairly were Cultural Olympiad contracts awarded in the City. Does too much money go into too few pockets? NATO ‘bombing it’s own people?’ Former Bristol Tory MEP Richard Cottrell explains why the 1980s IRA attacks in Guildford and Birmingham may have been planned and carried out by MI5, MI6 or Army Intelligence to discredit the IRA. The latest interview about his book: Gladio, NATO’s Dagger at the Heart of Europe: The Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis
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