BCfm’s weekly politics show presented by Tony Gosling

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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

APOLOGIES: due to another BCfm ‘listen again’ error & BT Internet service failure there was no internet stream or listen facility – NOW ON THIS PAGE (BELOW)

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

First hour: News review with the newly elected Labour Councillor for St George East Steve Pearce. Ministers refuse to agree to cuts so Chancellor George Osborne still needs to tackle £8bn black hole after treasury agrees 10% spending cuts with seven Government departments. Voxpop on Mervyn King’s request that we ‘stop bashing the bankers’. Also former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney is about to start his new job as Bank of England Governor. He’s a Bilderberg group member so have people heard of Bilderberg and do they think he’ll be any better at the job? Revolving Doors: Failed former HMRC boss David Hartnett given job at one of the ‘Big Four’ auditing firms Deloitte. But could the job be considered as bribery for agreeing several dubious ‘over lunch’ sweetheart deals with Goldman Sachs, Vodafone etc. letting them off paying millions of pounds in tax? Questions for KPMG over audit of troubled Co-op Bank after accountancy firm failed to spot impending financial turbulence. BBC lose legal takedown attempt against my YouTube video of this show a month ago which criticised BBC Radio Bristol for using KPMG to deliver their ‘Business News’. That 7:30am Breakfast show slot has now been renamed ‘Money Matters’ but the point remains why would BBC managers or listeners trust KPMG? Bristol police stop EDL ‘Help For Heroes fundraiser’ march in St. George heading for Muslim parts of Bristol last Saturday night naming those arrested, pleading guilty and those charged. Revealed: The true size of the British jobs gap. The Resolution Foundation has performed an analysis of the total adult employment rate – which reflects the increase in the size of the population and the growth of the available workforce – and found that there remains a “jobs gap” of 930,000. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds one-third of Britons are too poor to ‘join in with society’ Many on lowest incomes cannot buy consumer goods, visit the cinema or go on holiday. Ailing Great Western rail franchisee & Bristol bus operator First Group’s chairman Martin Gilbert leaves as the struggling transport group tapped investors for £615m to cut a massive £2bn debt and share price falls 30% as profits slump.
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Second hour: South West Regional Secretary of the Fire Brigades’ Union (FBU), Phil Jordan, warns there is no way to sugar coat it, people will die in fires if proposed Coalition government cuts are implemented. He is a Gloucestershire fire-fighter and explains that even a few seconds extra getting to a fire can mean it spreads, making it impossible to tackle, or forcing terrible choices between saving lives and getting at the heart of the fire; Steve Timmins joins us from ‘Protect Our NHS’, he was at this week’s People’s Assembly against austerity meeting at the Malcolm X Centre in Bristol on Wednesday evening, He explains what the health lobby and Coalition government are doing to the NHS and looks forward to a National Assembly on Saturday 22nd June. Drones… Barack Obama makes a bad ‘joke’ to the Washington Press pack about killing his critics with a Predator Drone, ‘You won’t see it coming.’ he says. Just like the world’s first ballistic missile, the Nazi V2 in World War II (see above), no one killed by a V2 saw or heard it coming either. Chris Cole from Drone wars UK spoke in Frome this week, two US universities found drones kill only one ‘terror suspect’ for every fifty innocent civilians, tremendous profits are being made though out of drone murders by UK, US and Israeli firms, also by Lockheed Martin who sell their £50,000 each Hellfire assassination missiles to the US, UK & Israeli military; EU and William Hague agree to allow arms to be supplied to the Syrian terrorist networks. A security operation in Homs reveals Mossad, CIA and Blackwater are involved in the military violence in this part of Syria. President Assad of Syria does not want to end up murdered like Colonel Gaddafi so has threatened to attack Israel if the Israelis strike Syria again. Vladimir Putin keeps US Secretary of State  John Kerry waiting for three hours because Kerry refuses to discuss the global collapse in the bee population. Bilderberg 2013 in Watford linked to Middle Eastern wars, Bilderberg conference takes place in Watford next week but was chaired for first 20 years by former SS Officer Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands; many too believe Bilderberg is linked with a post-war secret ‘Fourth Reich’ financial power network, set up by Hitler’s deputy Martin Bormann, which uses killer corporations like Nazis used Panzer Divisions to take over markets, countries and territory. As spelled out in Paul Manning’s book ‘Martin Bormann, Nazi In Exile’ which is available free online as a PDF file or as a hardback book for over £150.
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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 Bristol’s first ‘Independents For Bristol’ Councillor Jason Budd who was elected as an ‘outsider’ to Kingsweston ward. Jason is a former Liberal Democrat who works for an event management company at Armada House and is a member of Bristol’s Junior Chamber of Commerce. Independents agree to abide by the Bell Principles of Martin Bell MP. The IMF visit the Treasury and advise Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne to cut less or the deficit will increase. This week’s all time stock market high but we have a flatlining economy. This is because all the Quantitative Easing, Printed Money, is going into the casino banking system and not reaching the real economy. Clip of King Mervyn, outgoing Bank of England Governor Mervyn King, on the economy, recovery, it seems, is ‘in sight’, whatever that means. Who is Mark Carney – his successor at the Bank of England who takes up his job in June – from The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Switzerland. The BIS was created after World War 1 to administer war reparations but used to fund Hitler and Nazism in the 1930s. A vote was taken at the Bretton Woods conference after World War Two but it still exists and Mark Carney chairs/chaired the Financial Stability Board of the BIS. The Tower Of Basel, is where this bank is head-quartered in Basel, Switzerland. Bristol pensioners revolt against plan for Residents’ Parking Zones; death of Ray Manzarek, from US band The Doors. Singer Jim Morrison’s US Navy Admiral father George Morrison thought to be responsible for the Gulf of Tonkin incident which began the Vietnam War. No wonder Jim said ‘My Father Is Dead.’ Bristol and the UK’s secret courts, The Court of Protection in the South West – if you are considered too ill to decide your own fate; Secret arrests, conflict between instructions from Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and the Home Office. Mervyn King again warns of problems with the ‘Help to Buy’ scheme – similar to sub-prime mortgages; Ownership of Schools and Hospitals built under Private Finance Initiative (PFI) schemes being handed over to banks as the interest payments become unaffordable; Health Select Committee Dr. Mike Clancy, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, talking about problems with A & E, is that being used as an excuse to privatise the National Health Service?;  Marks & Spencers’ M&S contactless payment cards stealing money from customers’ bank accounts – rights and wrongs of electronic money.
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Second hour: Refloating of the Bristol Ferryboat Company with Keith Hallett from the Bristol Community Ferry Boat Company,  and how the old ferry company has transferred into this because of financial problems.  People can buy shares and help keep this service going. www.bristolferry.com  0117 929 2333. The Bilderberg Fringe Festival and tomorrow night’s Warm Up Party at ‘Passing Clouds‘ Dalston E8 4AA after the anti-Monsanto march in London www.bilderbergfringefestival.co.uk. Bilderberg control most of the money in the Western World. Annie Machon, former MI5 officer, from Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) about global problems associated with the criminalisation of drugs, connections to the US alcohol prohibition from the 1920s, failure of the United Nations (UN) to address the issue stuck in a situation that suits the international criminal gangs. Analysis with Martin Summers of Wednesday’s car and knife attack which killed a serving soldier in broad daylight in Woolwich, South London. His attackers appear to have courted publicity in the 20 minutes it took for Metropolitan Police armed response team to arrive. These two men were close to the top of the UK terrorist ‘watch list’ so how did they manage to identify and track a soldier in civilian clothing and obtain a revolver and ammunition? Daphne Havercroft from South West Whistleblowers’ Health Action Group (SWWHAG) on resignations from Bristol Community Health Council, the much criticised replacement for NHS Direct the failing ‘111’ Service and this week’s A&E crisis.
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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

APOLOGIES: due to an internal BCfm tech error only the first half of the first hour of this show is available
LISTENER APPEAL: if you have a copy of the show please let us know and we will share a link here
UPDATE: after 2.5 days these shows have now appeared on the BCfm website – thanks Michael 🙂

First hour: News review with Birthday Party candidate who stood for mayor of Bristol and in the recent local elections Dave Dobbs. Dave is author of the book ‘Laughing Gas’. We hear about the falling membership in political parties since World War Two and ask what proportion of people are in Trades Unions compared to Political Parties? Membership of trades unions is 15 times greater than UK political parties. The politicians don’t control the game any more, if they ever did, the private bankers do. Money is not a finite commodity: How banks create money out of thin air then lend it out at interest. Fractional Reserve Banking a form of legalised counterfeiting, the economy, party politics, voxpop by Marina Morris on party leaders and party politics.  Mayor Ferguson today announced his new multi-party cabinet as follows: Cllr Mark Bradshaw (Lab) – Transport, Planning, Strategic Housing and Regeneration; ‘Bristol City Slacker’ Cllr Simon Cook (Lib Dem) – Leisure, Tourism, Licensing and Community Safety (policing); Cllr Geoff Gollop (Cons) – Finance and Corporate Services; Cllr Gus Hoyt (Green) – Neighbourhoods, Environment and Council Housing; Cllr Barbara Janke (Lib Dem) – Health and Social Care; Cllr Brenda Massey (Lab) – Children, Young People and Education. Labour’s demand for voting rights in cabinet over the mayor’s decisions has been agreed, but the mayor will still have overall decision-making powers – meaning he can override the wishes of a majority in cabinet if he wishes. Stories covered: night shelters closing because not classed as a dwelling so cannot get housing benefit; European Commission raids Shell and BP offices investigating evidence that petrol prices have been rigged for a decade – rigged to keep the rich wealthy, there is no free market. In the House of Commons Tory MP for Harlow, Robert Halfon and Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Caroline Flint on petrol price fixing;  All four Bristol MPs come out against mayor George Ferguson’s possible congestion charge; Stephanie Bottrill from Solihull committed suicide because she couldn’t pay the bedroom tax. In the House of Lords architect of this benefit reform Lord Freud tries to explain; German water cannons set to be approved for possible summer riots across the UK; Prince Charles supporting a despotic dictatorship in Bahrain with lucrative ‘Poundbury’ style eco-development deal.
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Second hour: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Moscow to try to persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree to his plans to get his friends in the US and the EU to invade Syria and Iran but gets a frosty response. Meanwhile another Russian fleet moves into the Eastern Mediterranean and Syria and Iran get a Russian upgrade to their anti ship missile systems. NORML conference at the Malcolm X Centre in Bristol this weekend on legalisation of soft drugs. Former MI5 officer Annie Machon is speaking on Saturday afternoon and former Scotland Yard Fraud Squad detective Rowan Bosworth-Davies is speaking about money laundering on Sunday. Drug cartels are now propping up the banking system. ‘Impunity for the UK ‘super-elite’ like in a ‘Banana Republic’. Former MI5 officer Annie Machon removed from UN discussion panel by Jewish organisation B’nai B’rith. Drugs, CIA, South America and corruption; US military’s ‘Unified Command Plan’ (see map above) which shows the Pentagon consider it their job to control the entire world; NATO zone banking system could be about to collapse. Bomb attack on the Turkish border this week but was it really the Syrian army who planted the bombs? The media say one thing so one is tempted to believe the opposite since NATO zone MSM is being used for pro-war propaganda. We heard from Chris Bollyn a couple of weeks ago about the Terry Gilliam Film ‘Brazil’ where terrorism is a ‘normal’ everyday occurrence and nobody ever knows who is really planting the bombs, this has become the daily reality in Iraq and a lesser extent Pakistan today. Are Iraqi people reminiscing about the pre 2003 days of ‘Evil Dictator’ Saddam Hussein when so-called terrorist bombs didn’t go off every day? Who is really planting these bombs? NATO? Israelis? Terrible and horrificly regular bomb attacks on Mosques in Pakistan and Iraq this week which mirror attacks two generations ago on Synagogues in Nazi Germany. Is this the old ‘divide and rule’ with a warmongering elite trying to set one religious community against another? Comparison with the former Catholic versus Protestant conflict in Northern Ireland. Malcolm Shabazz’s Suspicious Death… A grandson of Malcolm X, who was also a political activist, is killed in suspicious circumstances in Mexico. Independent journalist website Athens Indymedia exposing links between the far right Golden Dawn party and police – attempts to close it by Greek government. Julie Boston joins us from Friends of Suburban Bristol Railways (FOSBR) to discuss everything from the Portishead and Severn Beach lines to the projected electrification of the Bristol to Paddington line and the high speed HS2 link to Leeds via Birmingham. Excerpt from ‘straight to YouTube’ internet film The Road To World War Three  – next week Al Jazeera’s ‘The Secret Of The Seven Sisters‘
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