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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 Whitchurch Park Councillor and Executive member for Transport Tim Kent. The word Mortgage means ‘the grip of death’ in French. Debt at the heart of the financial crisis. Creation of money sub-contracted to the private sector, better for the Treasury to create debt-free money and spend it directly into the economy. UK finance chiefs expect double dip recession for 2012. US president Barack Obama plans to slash defence spending by half-a-trillion dollars. Cheaper ways to assassinate religious and political leaders with drones – looking to fight future wars with ‘click and kill’ technology but is it a war crime because no-one can surrender to a drone. Grant F. Smith: how Israeli financing of US politicians and publicatons is influencing the US economy and foreign policy. Convicted fraudster Gerald Ronson and hedge fund manager Paul Ruddock who made millions of pounds from the collapse of Northern Rock both awarded knighthoods. Is Diane Abbot MP a racist as she tweets ‘White people love playing divide and rule, we should not play their game’? Labour leader Ed Milliband forces her to apologise and former Labour and Respect MP George Galloway supports Diane Abbott. Tories bring return to 1890s University fees as tuition fees leap to £9,000 per year and government funding for higher education falls by half. Bristol Cathedral announce they will; be taking legal proceedings to evict the Occupy Bristol camp on College Green.
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Second hour: Super-buses, bus-rapid-transit planned for Bristol but Steve Satan from Rail Future has his doubts. Are these bio-methane powered guided buses as effective as trams and trains at getting people out of their cars? UK train fares have just risen by an average of 9% Britons pay up to ten times more that commuters on the continent to get to work by rail. Oil companies laughing at Bristol’s public transport being in a mess. Creating bio-methane fuel from Bristol’s food waste to power new guided buses. Significant rail transport investments by Bristol City Council being announced next week. The competition commission investigated Bristol’s buses and believe First Bus are profiteering. Police criticise Bristol’s bonkers bus-stops which stick right out into the road on showcase bus routes as ‘unsafe’, forcing cyclists and drivers to pull out into oncoming traffic. Credit cards to be used to pay bus fares? Revelation that MP for Filton and Bradley Stoke Jack Lopresti is a Freemason but what do Masons get up to in their secret temples at the bottom of Park Street? Investigative journalist Martin Short compares Freemasonry to a religious cult based on legend and lies, or a pyramid selling scheme. From a 1989 Granada TV documentary ‘Inside The Brotherhood’, ordinary people of Southend-On-Sea in Essex give their views on Freemasonry. Professor Anthony J. Hall, author of ‘Earth into Property: Colonization, Decolonization, and Capitalism‘. Washington at the core of an informal US empire justifying a permanent war economy. Fraudulent interpretation of 9/11 a diversionary tactic used by Israel to make its Middle Eastern enemies the enemies of the US and NATO. Requisitioning resources from indigenous people and dispossessing domestic middle classes. Great tragedy of our times that certain religions and peoples are demonised just as Hitler did in the 1930s and 1940s and we can’t believe Rupert Murdoch’s News International or the BBC, pollution of the mental environment and poisoning of consciousness. Professor Antony Sutton describes US dark forces The Order of the Skull and Bones at Yale University.
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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: Questioning Occupy Bristol. Iranian general staff conduct exercises in Straits of Hormuz making it clear that an attack on Iran would cut off the oil supply from the Persian Gulf to the NATO powers. Aircraft Carriers. Age UK : Care for the elderly in absolute crisis. Many elderly people being cared for in hospital. Printing money QE1 £200bn, QE2 £75bn equivalent to £4,200 per head of UK population. Solution to the crisis is government must decide what needs doing and find the money to do it. Labour leader Ed Miliband and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg give us their New Year messages. Soldier Edward Heal killed in Clevedon car accident because North Somerset council turned off streetlights to save money, ‘market state’ takes over. Two Greek financial crime prosecuters resign after Goldman Sachs government in Greece tie their hands. Two tier legal system in the UK. Arresting top financial criminals. One quarter of all abortions in UK are performed on girls under 20. US presidential campaigning begins and Republican front-runner Ron Paul speaks to veterans in Des Moines, Iowa. Biggest threats to our freedoms are from the Western political leadership. Free Syrian Army commander is former rebel military chief in Tripoli, Libya who spent much of his life in the Irish Republic and has an Irish wife. Stuxnet nuclear power station computer virus was built by Israel & US & aimed at Iran.
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Second hour: Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire army training area annual Imber peace vigil. Root and branch reform of money system, Bill Still’s The Secret Of Oz monetary reform film. Lobbying power of the City of London is overwhelming. Power of banks and credit rating agencies used to discipline the public. “If you don’t know what it’s about it’s about the money”. Finance needs to be moral or ethical and needs to be democratised, elected bankers. Ludicrous Diversion ‘explosive’ internet film about 2005 London bombings still not shown on UK TV. New types of public enquiry such as Leverson enquiry, Hutton report into David Kelly’s death and Chilcot enquiry into Iraq war are ‘trial by media’ but with fake evidence and no consequences. Police corruption: Impunity and international enquiry into assassination of Irish Republican lawyer Pat Finucane. Freemasons in the police and in the City of London, author of Inside The Brotherhood, Martin Short. P2 lodge as the secret government in Italy. Unlawful Killing: Keith Allen’s banned 2011 film about death of princess Diana shows German & Nazi family history of Prince Philip. Coffins returning to UK without public vigils since Royal Wootton Bassett name change. Bristol’s Filton & Bradley Stoke MP Jack Lopresti (Con) declared his membership of the freemasons secret society when he was a Bristol City Councillor. Why did he join a religious cult and might that affect his ability to do his job as an MP? The Doors, Five To One (1970). Jim Morrison’s US Navy father Rear Admiral George Stephen Morrison was in command of the 4th August 1964 Gulf of Tonkin ‘false flag ‘ incident which escalated the Vietnam War. Death in the US in July 2011 at 82 of retired LA FBI chief and ritual abuse investigator Ted Gunderson. Higgs boson: the God Particle or cover story for advanced nuclear weapon testing?
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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: International Political Economy masters graduate (Warwick) Polly Winch and Old Labour Oxford economist Martin Summers discuss mafia banking. British Bankers Association controlling the regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA). Are politicians stupid or part of a conspiracy? Martin reads from The Iron Heel by Jack London. Entire banking system based on ‘confidence’ so is money some kind of huge confidence trick? Has the Vickers report addressed casino banking? Banks fraudulent capital ratios need to be addressed to make banks viable. The Economist magazine compared to Brian Leslie’s Sustainable Economics magazine. There is enough wealth to go round but perversity of present disfunctional money system is widening inequality to sick proportions. Failure of police to prosecute for fraud, FSA and the the financial lobby, monetary reform and all matters economic.
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Second hour: Russia’s role in global politics. Vladimir Putin, his four-and-a-half hour long TV discussion and last week’s Russian elections. Was Prime Minister David Cameron a ‘fixer’ in an illegal South African nuclear arms deal in 1992/3? Origins of the word ‘Tory’ to describe the Conservative party. Terrorist or western intelligence bomb attacks in Iraq and Syria this week. Smoke and mirrors: Western police and intelligence services manipulating terrorists and planting bombs themselves? Similar history in Turkey, Italy (Operation Gladio), Northern Ireland and Egypt. The Clash, modern political story of Nicaragua, the Sandinistas and the Iran-Contra scandal. BBC Radio Bristol loses 50% (RAJAR: 8.4% to 4.2%) of their listeners and lose their way too in year to October 2011. BBC Director General Mark Thompson and Chairman of the BBC Trust Chris Patten quizzed on possible pro-EU bias by Public Accounts Committee. Resignation of North Somerset MP and Defence Secretary Liam Fox and the Adam Werritty and UK’s Israeli ambassador Matthew Gould scandal.
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