Month: August 2013

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: weekly news review with Labour Councillor for St George East Fabian Breckles.  Stories covered: History of the Socialist Fabian Society founded by George Bernard Shaw, Theosophist Annie Besant and others which has drifted to the right over the years; Tory failures have been successes for the super-rich; Barclays Bank close Somalia money transfer accounts, waging economic warfare in line with NATO’s policy of destabilisation? Our new feudal overlord ‘King Carnage’, Mark Carneys’ plan as new head of the Bank of England to keep interest rates low but he’s doing nothing to solve the liquidity trap so the economy will continue to fail; Bristol City Council security staff may be given handcuffs to deal with surge of anger from poor people being treated unfairly, preparing for a growth in violence from poverty not crime; population growth in Britain largest in EU, migration and people living longer; another leap to 1 million in zero hours contracts as used by McDonalds, strikes at US fast food outlets;  contaminated water at Fukishima may be frozen to prevent further leakage into the water table and the sea; Stephen Fry calls for next year’s Russian winter Olympics to be boycotted due to Putin’s stand on gay propaganda to children.
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Banned – English Language Iranian Channel Press TV were spuriously banned by UK’s Ofcom in January 2012 now Google have blocked new uploads to Press TV’s YouTube channel effectively censoring the channel in the UK

Second hour: Round up of international stories with Martin Summers. Ergenekon Network court case in Turkey comes to an end, hundreds of journalists and army generals jailed for planning national chaos and a coup, planting bombs and other false flag events, links to NATO’s Operation Gladio; Closer look at the chaos surrounding privatisation of Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) Abbey Wood, MoD procurement offices in Filton. Revolving doors or straight out bribery? Prime Minister David Cameron’s closest defence advisor Richard Freer goes to work for US firm which is bidding to take over Abbey Wood and other parts of the MoD; Serious Fraud Office (SFO) lost 32,000 pages of documents investigating BAe Systems; clip of Andrew Feinstein discussing BAe and their central role in global bribery and corruption; Saudi prince visits Moscow and offers to buy Russian weapons if Putin stops supporting Assad, Putin says no thanks; supposed surveillance of Al Qaeda ‘conference call’ leads to attack warning closing embassies across the Middle East and 7 or so deadly drone strikes in Yemen but is it all a psyop? Actually being a series of deadly drone strikes by the US killing innocent people; President Assad personally targeted for the first time in Syria while heading for annual Eid Mubarak prayers; banned broadcasters –  clip of Gordon Duff on Press TV talking about Stuxnet and Israel using software to spy on the US.  Dispatch from Columbia’s Red Zone: Coffee and cocaine, Temas Teani reports from Columbia’s Mafia run police state against the backdrop of Santos/FARC ‘peace talks’ in Cuba.

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Fri02Aug – 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 concentrating on Bristol, Kingswood and South Gloucestershire Youth Services and the NHS with Labour Councillor for Hartcliffe, Derek Pickup. Cuts to youth services in the city and the macroeconomics; NHS 111 service a ‘costly disastrous reorganisation of the NHS’ and Channel 4 Dispatches undercover filming at Bristol’s private contractor ‘Harmoni’; victory for local NHS campaigners: Jeremy Hunt, Health Secretary, has broken the law, loses court case on closing services, including A&E, at Lewisham hospital; private hospital in Stevenage, owned by Carillion, is sold back to the NHS due to incompetence; Money Advice Service survey shows over half of Britons are living over the financial edge, income does not cover outgoings; State owned bailed out bank RBS makes £1.4bn profits, and Lloyds £2.1bn but are these banking fairyland figures like back in 2007/2008? QE and fraud propping up an asset bubble; artificially inflated asset prices, Chairman of Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) Sir Ian Andrews, who refused to reveal the names of criminal blue chip companies and celebrities doing ‘hacking’ and ‘blagging’, resigns because he failed to declare his personal interest in a private investigation company; a government bee ‘expert’ has taken job with Syngenta who manufactures neo-nicotinides that are killing bees;  the BBC discussed.
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Second hour:  Round up of international stories with Martin Summers.  Stories covered:  Bradley Manning & Edward Snowden with clip of Daniel Ellsberg;  the NSA, GCHQ  and private security;  Press TV YouTube channel banned after Ofcom banned in Britain;  prison breaks in Libya and Pakistan; documents reveal £400m arms deal with Libya to let Lockerbie bomber free, a distraction from Magrahi appeal where CIA were going to be implicated;  Israel strikes on Russian ships in Syria; Pentagon incredulous at MoD proposing to privatise procurement at Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) to BAe and Serco at Filton, Firms bidding to award MoD contracts already work for the department they would take over. David Powell from Friends Of The Earth discusses Fracking in at Balcombe in Sussex and on the Mendips in Somerset – Cuadrilla & big energy companies such as Centrica poisoning the countryside and us all, flying in the face of basic common sense and democracy. Oil and energy firms manipulating oil markets to get NATO zone populations dependent on oil and the taxation it brings in to the Treasury
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