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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: Wednesday’s public sector pension strike is biggest in 80 years. 20,000 people march through Bristol city centre to Castle Park. Government are “Spivs and Gangsters who’ve never done an honest day’s work in their life”, a selection of speeches from the biggest political rally in Bristol since 1932. Coalition Chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn statement to the House of Commons, Ed Balls’ reply & news review with Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) Regional Vice-Chair Roger Thomas.
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Second hour: “Extraordinarily serious and threatening”, Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King very worried about Eurogeddon. IMF runs out of cash & politics of Occupy Movement: former Wall Street broker Max Keiser talks to Economist Karl Denninger of MarketTicker.org. Divide and rule policy leaves a bloody legacy, Tamil freedom campaigner Ram Selvaratnam talks about modern political history of Sri-Lanka (Ceylon). Former US General Wesley Clarke describes secret Pentagon plan to invade Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran. Earth Into Property by Anthony J. Hall. Convergence of the crises: 24 Pakistani soldiers killed by US helicopter gunships so Pakistan cuts off NATO’s Afghanistan supply lines. Prelude to war? Foreign Secretary William Hague closes Iranian embassy in London. Nuclear war looming at the same time as Eurogeddon. Do bankers have a nasty surprise for us after the crash: former Hollywood film producer Aaron Russo recounts Nick Rockefeller’s plan to replace money with human microchip (Verichip?) RFID implants. Ram’s recommended websites Act-Now.info & Tamil Solidarity.
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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 UKIP MEP Trevor Coleman. What is the European Union (EU) in Brussels, how democratic is it and how does it work? Disappointing German bond issue, latest bad news in Euro currency crisis. Westminster Hall debate: Does EU’s European Arrest Warrant herald a police state? Next week’s public sector strike (NAHT) (ISU). Prime Minister David Cameron fails to declare lucrative land deal with top military finance lobbyist; “It’s the Next Big Scandal waiting to happen“, to quote Cameron himself. Shocking 99.5% drop in new affordable housing in South & South West England since November 2010. Failure in private care for the elderly: The Cruelty of the Carers.
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Second hour: Lawyer Mark Shepherd: What became of Bristol’s Immigration Advisory Service which was suddenly closed? The Boarding School Bomber about so-called Bristol ‘terrorist’ Isa Ibrahim. Le Monde: Freemasonry of New York investment bank Goldman Sachs who have begun to place their own political leaders in European countries. Christmas gift suggestions: 1. New book, ‘The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade‘, Andrew Feinstein, author of a new book on the companies profiting from war; 2. DVD release of BBC TV ‘Shoestring’ (1979) radio detective drama series filmed in Bristol; 3. Earth Into Property about the history of empires since 1492, by Canadian Professor Anthony Hall.
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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 Staple Hill Councillor Ian Boulton (Lab). Staring world wide banking collapse in the face; CEO of RBS Retail Brian Hartzer cheekily calls time on free banking; youth unemployment passes the million mark; owner BAE Systems says Filton airfield has been ‘loss making’ but BBC discovers it made £1.3m profit in 2010; Cribbs Causeway Christmas traffic jams; MoD spend £564m of equipment budget on consultants in 2009, nearly 100 times figure of £6m in 2006; Military Industrial Complex on warpath for public money; 11 of Bristol’s open spaces earmarked for sell-off could be saved but 38 others face being sold, Ron Stone for Labour & Mark Weston for Tories want local people to decide on all sites but LibDem Gary Hopkins and Green Cllr. Tess Green want 38 sold off without further consultation; possible vote of no confidence looms over Bristol City Council’s proposed green space sell-off; why won’t developers build homes on ex-industrial brown field sites; are Remembrance Sunday & Armistice day becoming propaganda for the ‘War on Terror?’; Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) on strike for inflation pay rise; locations of TV Licencing sites in Bristol; Somerset & Gloucestershire Council attempt to close libraries ruled unlawful at High Court; Zurich Insurance failing to pay out over August riots; EDF Energy customer service disaster invokes fury of Ofgem.
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Second hour: Author of ‘Untouchables‘ and former World In Action reporter Laurie Flynn on appalling policing standards in South East London and specifically around Stephen Lawrence case. 08:30 – Bristol’s great Business Rate scam, owners of business premises keeping offices empty & rents artificially high to fraudulently boost their balance sheets; mysterious demolition of part of Evening Post building and many others with Eddie James. 19:30 – Palestine bid for UN recognition and William Hague’s statement to the commons last week, visit of war criminal Tzipi Livni to Downing Street with Rita Candaluci of Bristol Palestine Solidarity campaign (PSC). 24:30 – Former Director General of MI5 Eliza Manningham-Buller joins other peers in calling for decriminalisation of Cannabis; Steve Barker from Legalise Cannabis Alliance; Cannabis Legal Support Service helpline: 01508 480528. 32:30 – Preparing for the latest battle in the tenth crusade? Iran and Syria next to be targeted by NATO & financial oligarchy, or as Peter Eyre describes it the New World Order. Christian Zionist religious fanatics explained by Irving Wesley Hall. 46:00 – His book is Earth Into Property, Alberta University’s Professor Anthony J. Hall looks at the process of globalisation since 1492; succession of psychological warfare wars to oppose terrorism; overcoming the monstrosity that is the ‘War on Terror’.
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