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BCfm’s weekly politics show presented by Tony Gosling

RT Op-Edge: Syria Crisis: From ‘Free’ West to fascist fire-starters in 60 yrs: Where did we go so wrong? The seeds of the West’s succession of bloodbaths in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and possibly Syria were sown in the final days of World War II.

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 Labour Councillor for Southmead Jenny Smith. saving Charlton Common, in between Filton and Southmead, Bristol;  the ‘Bedroom Tax’ is causing misery and forcing housing benefit up; child poverty is going up, and macro-economics related to this, sack present bank directors, new managers for Britain’s banks; Syria, Britain’s decision not to attack, and who was behind the chemical attack? The Somerset badger cull and the police shooting ranged being torched by anarchists or possibly agents-provocateurs?
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Second hour: Fracking in the Mendips; Round up of international news with Martin Summers. More in-depth discussion on Syria – will the US now attack or not? Israel selling the oil concessions on Syria’s Golan Heights and rights to (Rupert Murdoch and Jacob Rothschild’s) Genie Energy, which is on occupied Syrian land; this is illegal under international law; the Bahrain Independence Meeting as covered on Press TV but banned in Britain. Mike Birkin, from South West  Friends of the Earth, discusses Fracking in the Mendips, the problems with it, including radioactive waste, and extra tax breaks given to these companies by George Osborne in 19 secret meetings. Pippa King discusses civil liberties around fingerprinting, palmprinting, iris scans, biometrics and RFID tracking methods of schoolchildren. Pippa King on NATO 433Mhz RFID and Biometrics in schools without parents knowledge, by stealth.
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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 Councillor for Westbury-On-Trym and Deputy Mayor of Bristol Geoff Gollop. Geoff’s recent visit to Cuba and Geoff explores the pros and cons of life under communist Fidel Castro. After Libor, Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) fraud and Interest Rate Swap fraud this week we have ‘mis-sold’ fraudulent credit card insurance (CPP), more fraud from the banks; July 2013 figures out and deficit is going up, even with all the cuts, and an in-depth clear discussion on how this has impacted the bottom line, the national debt approaches £1.2tn and how all this impacts the real rather than the casino economy; Soldier ‘N’s letter at former soldier Danny Nightingale’s court Marshal claiming the SAS were involved in the assassination of Princess Diana in 1997. Danny Nightingale was keeping a firearm and ammunition but has has his former housemate ‘Soldier N’ simply lost the plot? Petition launched, aimed at Bristol Mayor George Ferguson, to close all strip clubs and lapdancing clubs in Bristol;  Guardian: NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ. Secret payments revealed in leaks by Edward Snowden. GCHQ expected to ‘pull its weight’ for Americans. Weaker regulation of British spies ‘a selling point’ for NSA. Investigative journalist Duncan Campbell on his prosecution by the secret state and GCHQ in the 1980s and his BBC Zircon film which showed GCHQ had been hiding expenditure from parliament. He suggests too that Michael Miranda’s arrest under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act was nothing whatever to do with terrorism, that GCHQ are afraid of public and parliamentary scrutiny, they might be caught out bluffing and deceiving parliament that they needed £1bn of public money when they didn’t at all, so is history repeating itself?
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Second hour: Former SAS soldier from UK Veterans For Peace Ben Griffin has just returned with former Royal Navy medic Mike Lyons from a speaking tour of the United States. After an MoD injunction in 2008 Ben is not allowed to speak about any of his experiences while in the British Army but you can watch or read his pre-injunction speech to Stop The War here. They also attended the national convention of their sister Veterans For Peace organisation in the US. Ben and Tony discuss former SAS soldier Danny Nightingale, now having his second court martial for illegal posession of ammunition and a firearm, who says he did a tour of duty in Syria but Britain has not declared war on Syria or vice-versa and is not allowed to have troops there…  Round up of international stories with Martin Summers: William Hague Is “Going To Nuremberg” If He Attacks Syria: This week’s apparent chemical weapons (sarin?) attack on the outskirts of Damascus in Syria – who did this? UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has been a member of Conservative Friends of Israel since he was 15 years of age. In an interview with the French TV station LCP, former French minister for Foreign Affairs Roland Dumas said: ’ I’m going to tell you something. I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business. I met with top British officials, who confessed to me that they were preparing something in Syria. This was in Britain not in America. Britain was organizing an invasion of rebels into Syria. They even asked me, although I was no longer minister for foreign affairs, if I would like to participate”. Press TV banned in Britain, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) appear to have simply told YouTube to disable Press TV’s YouTube account and they have done it! Former dictator Mubarak freed in Egypt;  protests against drone strikes in Yemen;  clip of former US intelligence linguist Scott Ricard on ‘banned in Britain’ Iranian channel Press TV about Israel attacking Syria being multiple unprovoked war crimes; clip of Oliver Stone’s son Sean Stone on Russia Today. Richest 1000 in Britain have each made an average of £35m out of ‘financial crisis’ in the last year. Remploy sacking and Bedroom Tax ConDem Coalition vindictive financial mismanagement: George Millman from ‘Bristol Against the Bedroom Tax’  promoting a protest on Saturday 24th August on College Green.  A petition is also being collected against this tax, go to this website to sign:  http://epetition.bristol.public-i.tv/epetition_core/view/NoBedroomTax  This unfair tax is discussed and how it’s not even going to save the government any money.  A clip of Mark Steel talking at The Peoples Assembly Against Austerity at London’s Westminster Hall… Who’s got all the money? It’s the poor! Let’s get the poor to pay off the debt caused by the bankers!
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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: Bristol City Council cabinet member for Education, Children and Young People, Labour Councillor for Southmead, Brenda Massey. Ofsted inspection of Bristol schools, cuts in youth service and expansion of Bristol Cathedral School. Cyprus president announces ‘Citizen’s Income’, which is UK Green Party policy, following economic disaster. Lib Dems and Tories hand back Fishponds’ former nurse Joan Edwards’ £520,000 bequest after outcry: Coalition parties return donation that was bequeathed by Joan Edwards to ‘whichever government is in office’ Prince Charles faces scrutiny by MPs over veto on laws: Parliament to examine heir to the throne’s little-known veto over any laws that affect his private interests. House prices picking up – but beware the north-south divide: Government hails rise as signal of economic recovery but critics fear a new property bubble. Rail users face price hike of £200 a year in move branded ‘bad for the economy’, Fares will rise by an average of 4.1 per cent in January, Increase is higher than pay rise majority of workers can expect, Cost of annual season tickets has risen more than 50 per cent in decade. Wages in the UK have seen one of the largest falls in the European Union during the economic downturn, according to official figures. UK wages decline among worst in Europe. Gas and electricity bills could rise by £140 before winter (despite energy companies making £3.3bn profits since last election). Price comparison website warns price hike could be on the way, Households warned bills could increase by up to 10 per cent before winter, Britain’s big six energy companies seen £3.3bn profits since last election. Gregory Lauder-Frost exposed: The Tory fringe group leader with Nazi sympathies , Right-wing views and criminal past revealed of vice-president of the Traditional Britain Group. Crowds on Demand: Rebels with a cause – if the price is right . The somewhat dubious organisation that will provide you with protesters to passionately promote your cause
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Second hour: Over 650 dead and 4,500 injured as army opens fire on peaceful Muslim Brotherhood camps in Egypt’s Raafa massacre. Frank Wisner Jr., son of CIA/OSS officer who ran ‘Operation Paperclip’, helping SS Nazis to escape justice in 1945 at the end of World War Two. PRI’s The World host Marco Werman talks with former US Ambassador to Egypt, Frank Wisner, about his view of the events, and how the United States should respond. Depleted Uranium expert and author of ‘Uranium in Iraq: The Poisonous Legacy of the Iraq Wars’ Joanne Baker explains World Health Organisation [link to WHO petition] is suppressing its own report into birth defects caused by UK & US radioactive ordnance, link to Child Victims Of War website. £8m of non lethal aid goes to Syrian Rebels but the real figure is much higher, CIA ‘running arms smuggling team in Benghazi when consulate was attacked’: The CIA has been subjecting operatives to monthly polygraph tests in an attempt to suppress details of a reported US arms smuggling operation in Benghazi that was ongoing when its ambassador was killed by a mob in the city last year, according to reports. CENSORED: Syrian TV news suppressed in the UK YouTube Syrian News in English  by former BBC Director General John Birt’s Eutelsat. Saudi Arabia has launched an offensive against anti-regime activists arresting many and sentencing some to years in jail. Total number of political prisoners has now surpassed 40,000 according to some reports. The crackdown has even forced a member of the ruling family to defect. RT Arabic spoke exclusively to Saudi prince Khaled Bin Farhan Al-Saud – who accuses the monarchy of corruption and silencing all voices of dissent. Hunting Humans In Bahrain With Shotguns Will Stone from Avon and Bristol Law Centre on ‘Zero Hours Contracts’ where employers don’t have any obligation to pay staff or even provide any work. Final dispatch from Temas Teani in Columbia’s Red Zone: Israel’s IDF is training assassins & torturers; China is buying up resources: Temas Teani reports from Columbia’s Mafia run police state against the backdrop of Santos/FARC ‘peace talks’ in Cuba. Two films: ‘Impunity’: A film by Juan José Lozano & Hollman Morris [film’s own website] and Impunity In Columbia part 1of2 – part 2of2
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