Friday 2nd May 2014

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
Listen live http://icecast.commedia.org.uk:8000/commbrist.mp3

First hour: News review with Rob Telford, Green Party councillor for Ashley Ward. Is a Green Party vote a wasted vote in a general election? – European elections, AV and PR voting systems; Northern Ireland – the arrest of Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein, Martin McGuinness says it’s the return of the dark side of political policing in Northern Ireland to influence this month’s election, Brigadeer Gordon Kerr and the Force Research Unit (FRU) MI5/MI6 supplying loyalist terrorists during the troubles; Bristol teachers resign due to new residents parking scheme; wind turbines – vested interests opposing them; 900,000 crimes in 2013, including rape, not recorded in police stats; stupid ‘target based’ policing influences police to distort the crime figures; PMQs Ed Miliband on 2013 privatising of the Post Office which lost £1.4bn of taxpayers money – Osborne’s best man’s hedge fund made millions; PMQs Bristol North West Conservative MP Charlotte Leslie discusses jobs – aspiring to ‘full employment’ but no full employment since the 1970s; US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer £64bn hostile takeover of UK pharmaceutical AstraZeneca – big US corporations like Kraft (who took over Cadbury’s in the same way and closed the Keynsham factory) and Pfizer behave like Panzer divisions taking over by ‘hostile bid’ not with tanks, guns and conventional armies, nationalising pharmaceuticals; problems with care homes – Judy Downey chair of Relatives and Residents Association, deregulation is killing the elderly ‘care’ industry, care workers conditions also not good; local councils have investments in fracking companies. download

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Second hour: Dutch journalist Philip Dröge, author of Bernhard Master of Spies, the Intelligence Career of Prince Bernhard: Was ex-SS Bilderberg chairman Prince Bernhard a Nazi spy in Whitehall? Interview with Dutch journalist Philip Droge author of ‘Bernhard: Master of Spies’. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands’ Nazi SS past and marriage to Princess Juliana of the Netherlands – comes to London when Holland is invaded by the Nazis in 1940 and shadowed by Ian Fleming of MI6 ‘M’ section, Desmond Morton, Mountbatten, OpJB and James Bond fame. Prince Bernhard sends double agent Christiaan Lindemans, known as agent ‘King Kong’, into Holland in early September 1944 just before crucial Operation Market Garden (see feature film & book ‘A Bridge Too Far’) but instead of going to prepare the Dutch resistance he reports straight to the German Abwehr (military intelligence). After the war Lindemans was arrested and interrogated by the British military intelligence and set to stand trial. But taken by the Dutch government to Germany where he died in mysterious circumstances days before the trial was due to commence. Bernhard reappears in 1954 in the Oosterbeek ‘witches cauldron’, where thousands of British paratroopers were massacred, as Chairman of the Bilderberg meetings for two decades. Then the Lockheed scandal of 1975 where he is disgraced, almost causing the death of the Dutch monarchy. Possibility that 2014 Bilderberg conference might not take place in Copenhagen, Denmark as many believe but in the Netherlands instead. Ukraine – fighting in Sloviansk, elections, civil war. Syria, elections in June. PMQs Susan Gilmore – Alex Salmond on admiring Putin. PMQs Liam Fox – on Ukraine and sanctions on Russia. Ukraine – moving of troops of Russia and NATO. Joseph Miranda, war game producer, discusses information warfare and Ukraine. Interview with Allyson Pollock, NHS whistleblower, and author of ‘NHS PLC : the privatisation of our health care’. The ‘private for profit’ sector doesn’t have a back up for risks and costs; a political (not financial) decision not to have NHS; ageing population not a problem – we can afford it; patient data being sold on from private companies; replicating US system which is inefficient. download

Sept 1944: Generals Brian Horrocks & Montgomery with Nazi spy Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands planning Operation Market Garden
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