27th December 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: news review Inside Housing front page: 300% increase in rising damp: landlords report a surge in mould complaints as squeezed tenants under-heat their homes, buy-to-let bubble is being reheated, general housing discussion; despite what leader of the opposition Ed Miliband says will Labour party really be able to intervene in energy markets? 30 years of idiotic policies have brought us to the brink of disaster; is Britain a democracy? Does the government ever decide on policy and how democratic is our first-past-the-post voting system? PM doesn’t have a majority of the votes and gets told what to do by the banks; London mayor Boris Johnson draws analogy between money and intelligence; Boris manoeuvring to be next Tory leader. ‘Boardroom greed is good’ appeals to the Tory party’s city funders and some voters. Cornflakes pack analogy. Spirit of envy is good. London is the ‘soft power’ capital of the world. Ex-soldiers jailed for six years for firebombing Grimsby mosque after Lee Rigby’s murder. US nuclear weapons boss Major General Michael Cary is sacked as commander of US 20th Air Force of ICBMs. Anders Breivik was not followed by Oslo police helicopter. Were private firm Craft security behind the Boston bombing? 25 years on what was really behind the Lockerbie bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988. Is it flu research or germ warfare in disguise? EU H5N1 flue vaccine tests could kill millions of people. Russian oil oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky who tried to do deals with Israel for Russian oil is released. Councils making £600m of surplus profit around the UK from parking charges. Councils being run like businesses. Protesters gather to fight plans to close 22 of Bristol’s 23 public loos. British society must not revert to “times of Charles Dickens” and leave the nation’s poorest families in desperate need of food and clothes, Action for Children has warned. It said the nation has already reverted to the poverty of the 1940s, and “can’t go back” further. Prisoners across Britain are banned from getting parcels and packages from families on the outside. This Christmas sees three times last year’s usage of Food Banks says the Trussel Trust. Western backed Egyptian military government declares majority group, the Muslim Brotherhood an illegal terrorist group.
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Second hour: review of 2013 ‘Privacy matters’: US NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden gives his Christmas Message comparing GCHQ and the NSA to George Orwell’s 1984 totalitarian states warning us of ‘the end of privacy’. O2 changes Cameron ‘porn filter’ after charity sites blocked. Open Rights Group (ORG) is monitoring UK blocking and filtering on new website www.blocked.org.uk Snowden story broke on the first day of this year’s Bilderberg meeting in Watford, UK. Michael Meacher MP explains why he felt politicians inside should report back to parliament and he insisted on the first parliamentary Bilderberg debate. Tony Crofts arrives to announce his office buildings to housing organisation AEOBhousePeople  now has £150,000 invested and money is rolling in at £10k per week, any investment from £50 to £20,000 is welcome. Death of US Investigative Journalist Michael Hastings, was he assassinated by the man he was investigating CIA Director John Brennan who has been using the US military to spy on the press. Independent Diplomat founder Carne Ross gives his views on the danger of hypocrisy of holding the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Sri Lanka. “You have to attack civilians, the people, women, children, far away from any political game so authorities can bring in a state of emergency” Daniel Bushell on Russia Today interviews Daniele Ganser about Operation Gladio. We hear telephoned death threats against Tony Gosling recorded with an app., from a terrorist group affiliated to the English Defence League (EDL) called the Jewish Defence League (JDL) classed as a terrorist organisation. Avon & Somerset police trace the number withheld call and interview the owner of the London house where the call originated.
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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 and Edward Snowden scandal exclusive with Kevin Cahill: UK citizen sues Microsoft over Prism private data leak to NSA News review with Kevin Cahill, journalist and author of ‘Who owns the World’. Kevin discusses journalism, newspaper barons Richard Desmond, Lord Rothermere and Rupert Murdoch. Land ownership in Britain with 1% owning over 70% of the land and 65% have a stake in the land either through a mortgage or owning it outright so 35% are landless. Bristol’s Mayor is urged not to evict people because of the bedroom tax; unemployment is down but too many jobs are part-time, low paid or insecure – tax credits, Quantitative Easing, asset prices, and tax havens; DWPs’ cruel benefit sanctions; Romanian and Bulgarian migrants taking British jobs because of EU rules. Kevin discusses in depth how he is suing Microsoft, Google and Facebook for giving their UK customers’ private data to the US spy agency, the NSA. Former MI5 officer Annie Machon explains how GCHQ and the UK secret services lie to parliament and why their mass data trawls are so dangerous for our freedoms won over hundreds of years in the West
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Second hour: Mark Goodway from Bristol’s Matthew Tree Project Food Store charity discusses food banks and the recent massive increase in need for these – Matthew Tree now has 6 outlets in Bristol. This is put mainly down to changes in benefits, including benefit sanctions. Mark talks of the broken people he sees and the vicious circle of cutting benefits leading to stress and health problems, and then inability to work. PMQs: Nick Betts MP asks PM about Children who have no food in the house over the whole weekend. MPs yell ‘Scrooge’ as Nick Raynsford MP tells PM the Archbishops of Westminster and Canterbury criticise Coalition government’s neglect of the poor. Matthew Tree based on Biblical St. Matthew, helps people mentally as well as with food. The EU offered Britain about £22 million for food banks but the UK cabinet and Prime Minister David Cameron has turned it down. Continuing to receive EU agricultural subsidies of tens of millions of pounds for The Queen, one of the richest people in the world. Martin Summers and a round up of international stories: Ukraine moves eastwards but keeps EU ties; US AfriCom, which is based in Stuttgart, Germany, and Western sponsored ‘sectarian’ wars in Africa bringing colonial troops in America’s Conquest of Africa: The Penetration of AFRICOM on the Continent. Inmates at Guantanamo Bay being ‘bribed’ with luxuries and pornography to work for the CIA – known as ‘Penny Lane’ and ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ programmes. Frome based Freya Lawton, from Peace Intention, discusses this new initiative harnessing what people really want, to help bring peace in the world.- Peace Intention website
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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: Explanation of likely ‘Knights Templar’ arrests on Friday 13th October 1307 as origin of the Friday 13th superstitions after Bath based astrologer Steve Judd on BBC Radio Bristol’s John Darvall show, produced by Nicki Ledgard, said at 10:20 that there was ‘no reference to Friday 13th before the 1880s’. Good documentary on the Crusades made by former Monty Python comedian Terry Jones. Private Eye‘s biggest local government planning fraud story since the 1960s John Poulson affair: Fraud, theft, death and planning conspiracy in Gloucestershire’s Cotswold Water Park – news review with LibDem Cotswold District Councillor Esmund Jenkins. Banking and Britain’s unpayable debts; Iceland jails four bankers and surges ahead economically; should MPs pay be raised? The huge gap between the rich and poor in Cameron’s Britain; a clip of Mandela’s lawyer, Lord Joffe, from Today in Parliament, explaining how courageous he was; Gil Scott-Heron’s 1976 song ‘Johannesburg’ from the album ‘From South Africa to South Carolina’. Esmond Jenkins discusses planning corruption around The Cotswold Water Park in forensic detail, involving large amounts of money. Dennis Grant was jailed in 2011 for fraud but Esmond believes there are others involved. Several people have died in the process including Stroud based Public Relations consultant and journalist Declan Cunningham who, we reveal tonight, wrote the Cotswold Water Park corruption stories up for Private Eye.
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Why the scourge of corruption in the Cotswold Water Park must be confronted – Cllr Esmond Jenkins

Second hour: Gloucestershire’s Cotswold Water Park planning corruption continues. Gloucestershire Freemasons: ten names handed to police who fail to investigate. Esmond Jenkins continues with his story about The Cotswold Water Park. He discusses what he believes is Freemasonry connections in the planning scandal. Clips of Martin Short who wrote ‘Inside the Brotherhood’ about police, the City of London and Freemasonry, also what is Freemasonry? Nikki Clark, from Stop Hinckley, explains why she is against nuclear power. Nuclear waste, how much it costs and how to deal with it is covered in detail – Cumbria may be a recipient even though the local authority voted against it. Also alternative energies, Blacklisting firm Amec is a potential contractor to build Hinkley C. Economics of nuclear energy, it can never pay and Britain is at least half a decade behind countries like Germany.  Stop Hinkley campaigner Nikki explains her reasons for opposing Hinkley C nuclear deal. Former MI5 officer Annie Machon explains the inner workings of GCHQ and dire implications of the Edward Snowden leaks for British democracy on radio channel Voice of Russia. Terrible dangers of today’s unaccountable intelligence services. Frank Sinatra song ”
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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 Labour Councillor for Lawrence Hill Hibaq Jama; death this week of Nelson Mandela, apartheid in Isreal/Palestine and Sri Lanka. As a Somalian Muslim she describes her family’s work in Somalis, how she got interested in politics and the present problems in Somalia being part of a Western militarised zone around Iran. Nelson Mandela, who died this week, communism, apartheid still growing in Sri Lanka and Israel/Palestine, social apartheid throughout the world and in the West under ‘austerity’, a clip of Mandela’s first interview on ITV in 1961 with Brian Widlake. What was the real role of now Prime Minister David Cameron’s 1989 sanctions busting trip to apartheid South Africa? The secret criminal sale of South African nuclear weapons before black majority rule and the ANC came to power – nuclear arms dealing conspiracy involving Prime Minister David Cameron, Leading Tory fund-raiser Sir Kenneth Warren from Kilmersdown in Somerset, former MI6 officer Stephan Kock, MoD weapons inspector Dr David Kelly, arms dealer and former Rhodesian special forces soldier John Bredenkamp, subsidiary of Astra Fireworks, Astra Holdings and former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Detailed in the four part article by Peter Eyre US and the UK lost 3 nuclear weapons each! Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4. Winter and the energy bill crisis; public sold £2bn short over Royal Mail by LibDem Vince Cable and Goldman Sachs; Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne’s Autumn statement: student loan book sold off, KPMG, with their dubious track record, trusted again by this government. Is Osborne out of touch with family economics in the real world? Ed Ball’s response; Marina Morris’s voxpop on the Pope calling capitalism the new tyranny. [audio: 201312061700] download [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q1EN5_9nIk&w=420&h=315] Second hour: investigative reports, Will Stone, from The Avon and Bristol Law Centre, discusses The Court of Appeal agreeing Work Capability Assessments discriminate against the mentally ill. Similar unfairness for the most vulnerable in society from Home Choice Bristol, the City Council’s housing bid and allocation service. Contracted out University workers and UK Student Unions being closed down, Students’ #CopsOffCampus campaign as police arrive to break up student demonstrations and occupations. Your rights as an employee. Europe’s biggest country Ukraine torn since the 2004 ‘Orange Revolution’ between East (Viktor Yanukovych) and West (Yulia Tymoshenko) Marina Morris, who is Ukrainian, reads a small piece about the problems in Ukraine – being pulled between Europe and Russia, and the power politics behind this; sad death of Winston Churchill & Desmond Morton’s private secret agent John Ainsworth Davis and his book, ‘Op JB’ about rescuing Hitler’s treasurer Martin Bormann at the end of the war, 1960s and 1970s UK television host Alan Whicker mentions Hitler’s Nazi treasurer Martin Bormann in Paraguay surviving after World War Two in a 1970 edition of Whicker’s World; Lord Carrington and Moffatt T. Burriss discuss Operation Market Garden, Lord Carrington’s refusal to advance from Nijmegen to Arnhem on the evening of Wednesday 20th September 1944, effectively ‘throwing’ Operation Market Garden, sacrificing the 1st Airborne battalion at Arnhem bridge and allowing the Germans time to arrange to get their looted valuables out of the country for Martin Bormann’s economic ‘Fourth Reich’. Former US Naval Intelligence talk show host William Cooper discusses a secret masonic ‘priesthood’, the Illuminati, operating behind the scenes manipulating world affairs for thousands of years. [audio: 201312061800] download

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