Month: November 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: Bristol City Council LibDem Deputy leader Christian Martin Link to Christian’s film ‘Cal’ councillor for Clifton East. Christian discusses his films he has made Cal and Shank;  Universal Credit and more mess ups £150m Universal Credit money written off this week by Iain Duncan-Smith which would employ 10,000 people for a year! Blaming wasted money on his secretary, should he lose his job? 5 disabled people win appeal to stop Independent Living fund being abolished – government breaking the law;  600.000 on JobSeeker’s allowance sanctioned – 2000 NHS workers lose jobs and are rehired – wasting time and money;  Bristol Rovers football stadium – judicial review and Sainsbury’s to be built  in deal; clips of GCHQ, MI5, and MI6 grilled at Intelligence and Security Committee and Andrew Parker, DG of MI5 – NATO terrorism – MI6 lead agency in creating Al Qaeda in Operation Cyclone [see feature film Charlie Wilson’s War] & Italian chief judge Ferdinando Imposimato blames intelligence services for domestic terrorist campaign in Italy; Marina Morris’s voxpop about Snowden leaks and our intelligence services, do people mind GCHQ listening to their phone calls and how do people avoid surveillance (changing phone numbers).
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Second hour: Avon & Somerset Police Federation’s Kevin Phillips on ‘Direct Entry’, Custody suite privatisation police cuts and Plebgate. Kevin Phillips, chairman of Avon and Somerset Police Federation discusses Direct Entry – when someone without police experience gets a top police job.  Also the privatising of probation, cuts, and Plebgate discussed. Mendips fracking update Mike Birkin from SW Friends of the Earth with Steve Dales from Hull on the Oxypod. Mike Birkin, from South West Friends of the Earth, discusses fracking, Hinckley, alternative energies, and up-coming events. Steve Dales, discusses the Oxypod, a pod like device you can attach to your water pipes that can decrease your heating bills by up to 30%. Sir John Sawers, the chief of MI6, Andrew Parker, the director general of MI5, and Sir Iain Lobban, the director of GCHQ in front of Sir Malcolm Rifkind and the Intelligence and Security Committee. Andrew ‘Nosy’ Parker, DG of MI5, and David Ormand, DG of GCHQ discussing how Edward Snowden’s leaks have threatened national security. Psychological Warfare: Mainstream media PsyWar. Strategic Communications is killing journalism with Tim Burt and Sven Hughes, former British Army Psychological Warfare Officer, from documentary ‘Big Boys Gone Bananas’ film [trailer].
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Link to previous Friday Drivetime shows http://www.bcfmradio.com/category/shows/drivetime/friday-drivetime

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 Horfield Claire Hiscott. Economics update on more fraud in the City of London, this time in foreign exchange markets, and George Osborne’s ‘decision’ not to split RBS. UNITE the Union and their protest against employers Ineos at Grangemouth refinery which was threatened with closure – intimidation or legitimate tactics?; Labour leader Ed Miliband questions why energy retail prices are going up around 10% while wholesale prices have hardly risen; claims Prime Minister David Cameron is a PR man for the energy companies, energy policy; should the Coalition be privatising the probation service? Government’s £1bn ‘Youth Contract’ branded a failure by government’s own advisers, Marina Morris’s voxpop, a health check on British democracy; who are the ‘permanent government’? the security services. City of London and Wall St; former News of the World editors Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and the phone hacking trial but are they just the fall guys and girls for Rupert Murdoch? News of the World reporter Sean Hoare, who died last year after ‘telling all’ to the New York Times, would have been a key witness in the case, dead men tell no tales; Jimmy Savile’s driver David Smith, 67, mysteriously dies the day he was due to appear in court and give evidence against paedophile protecting BBC staff and police officers.
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Second hour: Round up of international news stories with Martin Summers: Newport’s annual Chartist convention;  Cameron’s attack against the Guardian for Snowden leaks;  Lauri Love arrested for allegedly hacking NASA, the Pentagon and US army computers;  Kevin Cahill exposes secret US FISA court orders for US corporations Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft, to illegally steal UK data for NSA;  illegal drone attacks;  the secret services fomenting terrorism – Ferdinando Imposimato. US Secretary of State John Kerry’s ‘Brotherhood of Death’ Skull and Bones secret society: Why are the mainstream press peddling paranoid scare stories about peace loving nations like Iran and Syria when our ‘big guns’ nuclear ‘ally’, US Secretary of State John Kerry, is a member of and UK born Professor Antony Sutton is an expert on the ‘Brotherhood of Death’, Skull and Bones society at Yale University? Thousands of US leaders and businessmen are initiates of this society whose catch phrase is ‘Might is Right’. A clip of Sarah Gildea from her film The History of the World Economy, discussing how our immoral banking system specifically goes against the 10 commandments. A clip of Iran’s Press TV – banned by Ofcom, drone cases come into the courts in Pakistan – Lawyer Mirza Shazad Akbar discusses illegal drone strikes ordered by the as yet unnamed CIA station chief in Pakistan and how these are war crimes in several ways.
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Link to previous Friday Drivetime shows http://www.bcfmradio.com/category/shows/drivetime/friday-drivetime