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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: Bristol Masonic MP Jack Lopresti promises Bristol Freemason’s Provincial Yearbook but fails to deliver. Bristol Freemasons holding an open day at their Park Street masonic temples next Saturday on 16th June. Will elected mayor help relations with neighbouring authorities? Conservative party seem by many as greedy, retrogressive, even ‘Victorian’. No mandate to privatise the National Health Service (NHS) in the interest of giant US private healthcare firms. Public & patient Involvement Forum, The Link, and Community Health Councils chopped and changed over the years to weaken patient power, a loss of patient representation. Resignation of Defence Secretary and North Somerset MP Liam Fox after signing British Harrier jets to Americans at knock-down price of £112m after a £600m refit. Euro crisis rumbles on with Spain now in the cross-hairs and German Chancellor Angela Merkl now demanding ‘United States Of Europe’ style political union as the price for her support and staying in the Euro. Far right growing in Greece with another election looming. Tensions developing between Greece and Germany over buried historical bodies. No mechanism for coming out of the Euro which makes it as difficult as possible. Greeks playing chicken with Germans. Bristol courts are running out of money to pay judges. Bristol University produce ridiculous report which suggests exercise does not help with treating depression. Who is to blame for South West’s ‘slave labourers’ on the ‘Work Programme’ sent to London to work free as Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Stewards? Is it  Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, ‘prime’ contractor Prospects, charity Tomorrow’s People or Close Protection UK? Culprit Prospects’ boss Ray Auvray is a former school careers adviser and one-time Lib Dem councillor who now earns £193k a year. Prime Minister David Cameron reads the New Testament lesson, Romans 12, on Tuesday in St. Paul’s Cathedral, at the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Service of Thanksgiving. Is Cameron challenged by Biblical sentiments? A declarartion of war on the police by the Home Office as Tom Winsor looks to be made H.M. Chief Inspector of Constabularies. Fraud Squad fails to raid a single suspect in the year 2011-2012. UK banks are sitting on £40bn black hole of undeclared losses. New French president Francois Hollande lowers French retirement age from 62 to 60. News review with Conservative councillor for Henbury Chris Windows.
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Second hour: Another massacre in Syria, this time in Qubair & Hama, but who is carrying out these killings? Western powers and their friends Saudi Arabia & Qatar in the Middle East backing the rebels. Assad instantly blamed by William Hague but does that indicate the Foreign Office are jumping to conclusions and even that MI6, or so-called allies the US and Israel, may be behind these massacres, trying to provoke civil war and regime change like in Libya? Middle East Correspondent for the Independent Robert Fisk not being heard in the British broadcast media. English language Iranian channel Press TV is now censored in the UK so here is this week’s clip from Gordon Duff of Veterans Today explaining that Al Qaeda is a fantasy and who we were not allowed to hear in the UK this week ‘for our own good’. Bristol’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) transport public enquiry with Bristol City Council’s Executive member for Transport, Tim Kent, and spokesman for Rail Future & BCFM presenter Steve Sa’tan. Tim Kent says the Bus Rapid Transit scheme will begin next year in two ‘Y shaped’ sections. South: from Long Ashton and Hengrove to the City Centre. North: from Cribbs Causeway and Emerson’s Green to the City Centre. Bill Still: monetary reform – The Secret Of Oz. Surveillance special: looking at latest developments in the creeping police state UK with privatisation of CCTV, behavioural detection, and social networking surveillance with our guest Big Brother watcher and Birmingham based No-CCTV campaigner Steve Jolly. Software companies making a fortune as they sell mobile phone and social networking surveillance software much beloved by control freaks’ private company the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), to the Metropolitan police.
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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 South Gloucestershire UKIP Councillor & former Bradley Stoke mayor Ben Walker who, after what he describes as an internal smear campaign, left the Conservative party this week. Report on financial viability of Bristol Remploy which is turning a profit but nevertheless under a 90 day consultation and facing closure. Remploy have not been alowed to hire new staff since 2008 even when vacancies come up and existing staff are having to work overtime. We hear from Tina Fellows, Paul Gane, Sue Marm, Doug Pine & Brian Williams. Scores of disabled workers at Remploy Bristol are facing redundancy. Irish vote ‘yes’ in European fiscal treaty referendum. Trying to resurrect the broken banks now seen as a mistake, & staving off the inevitable. A huge amout of financial scaremongering going on. Greece is in a fiscal prison. Early learning proposals from DoE say 2-5 year olds can have up to 15 hours in nursery a week, Marina Morris reports. Entire Chinese ruling class was shot in the 1940s because they would not give up their unfair share of wealth and power. Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt still in his job, as Labour may force Commons vote over alleged breaches of the ministerial code. Prime Minister David Cameron’s former Head of Communications Andy Coulson arrested for Perjury after testifying against Scottish Socialist leader Tommy Sheridan in another perjury case. John Lister, director of Health Emergency explains that doctors may have the power to keep the NHS exactly as it is and keep private profit out even after the present reforms are implemented. Health and Social Care bill sprung on the electorate two months after the 2010 General Election where David Cameron promised NHS staff there would be ‘no top down reorganisation of the NHS’. Ashton Vale opponents are facing a ‘hate campaign’. Bristol Anarchists sabotage railway signalling as part of their sedition programme to start a civil war. 
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Second hour: Massacre in Houla, Syria carried out, according to the UN, by ‘Shabiah’ fighters but it appears victims may have been government supporters. BBC use 9 year old photograph from Iraq on their website as if it was from Syria. Syrian government says 800 rebel fighters carried out the massacre and that the victims had refused to oppose the Syrian government. Did the UN question witnesses to the massacre by phone only? We are not hearing about massacres by pro-Western regimes. Israel hints that it may be behind the ‘Flame’ virus the data stealing virus which has been attacking nuclear systems and Siemens software. New York Times says the previous Stuxnet virus was created by US and Israelis and may have played a part in the Fukushima runaway nuclear reactor disaster. Bilderberg 2012. Reports on this weekend’s annual Bilderberg conference in the US of NATO’s totalitarian, super-rich, secret government. A look at some of the key participants in the venue where the NATO zone industrialists, royalty and bankers persuade pliable politicians to carry out their plans. Rothschild & Rockefeller families team up for some extra wealth creation. Two centuries old transatlantic dynasties, Rothschilds in Europe and Rockefeller in the US, team up to cash in on the present distressed markets, where they can buy up assets very cheaply and make a killing. Rothschild Investment Trust (RIT) Capital Partners has taken a 37% stake in Rockefeller Financial Services. Victor Rothschild was telling 1970s UK politicians who to appoint as the head of MI5 or MI6. What is Bilderberg? Opinion of author and senior journalism lecturer Stephen Dorril. ‘Martin Bormann, Nazi In Exile’ [PDF] book by former CBS WWII news correspondent Paul Manning reviewed by Martin Summers. Hitler’s deputy Martin Bormann and Nazi flight capital in the years during and after World War II. Dave Emory on his Spitfirelist podcast describes Red House meeting on Thursday 10th August 1944 in Strausbourg, attended by representatives of all main Nazi corporations, which set Bormann’s Nazi flight capital programme in motion. Where did all that looted Nazi wealth end up? Immediate co-operation between the Nazi Bormann network and select Jewish businessmen. Money talks, Nazi money talks, Martin Bormann is dead but his Nazi capital network lives on. Ed Michaud from Trident Research & Recovery describes the laundering of Nazi gold and securities through the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Sullivan and Cromwell law firm in New York. Daily Mail cover this year’s Bilderberg meeting. Gordon Duff from Veterans Today is one voice no longer heard in Britain since Iranian channel, Press TV, was censored by Ofcom in January 2012. Antidote to the Diamond Jubilee as we hear from John Morgan author of the new book ‘Diana Inquest: Who Killed Princess Diana?’ about the circumstances around the meeting of the royal family’s Way Ahead Group (WAG) on Wednesday 23rd July 1997 and why he believes it was there the decision was made, by senior members of the royal family, to assassinate Diana.
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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

For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.

First hour: News review with Ashley ward Councillor Gus Hoyt (Grn). Will the future Bristol mayor cut through bureaucracy or cut through democracy? Could the mayor even be an elected dictatorship? How is Bristol’s May Gurney waste contract working out? Recycling levels improving but complaints about far too much street litter just ‘blowing about’. Euro crisis and discussion about likely Greek departure from the Euro. Debts that can’t be paid won’t be paid. Insolvent banking sector needs to be wound up in an orderly fashion. Greens would focus on policies for schools, community centres and the NHS. Lessons to learn from Iceland which jailed bankers and politicians and Argentina which underwent total financial meltdown in 2000. Which? magazine survey finds all major supermarkets are using confidence tricks on customers with their fake ‘half price’, ‘buy one get one free’and other ‘special offers’. But who can destroy the power of the supermarkets especially when they are colluding on deceptive pricing? City of London banking regulator Andrew Bailey signals the end of ‘free banking’ but, as we hear, account charges and banks’ ability to make up money out of nowhere and lend it at interest should mean free banking. Banking should be run as a public utility, a public service for all. Banking sector regulators Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Financial Services Authority (FSA) are more propaganda outfits than regulators as they are funded by the banks. Bankers are not like chrities, like an old fashioned feudal aristocracy. Credit unions are a viable alternative which keeps the wealth in the local community. The Bristol pound to be launched soon. Music: Editor of New York’s Trends Journal The Gerald Celente Mix by Robin Carvell. LibDem MP for Bristol West Stephen Williams asks awkward Prime Ministerial Question this week of David Cameron about policies for growth. Speaker asks Cameron to retract unparliamentary language calling Labour’s shadow chancellor Ed Balls a ‘muttering idiot’ but Cameron only pays lip service to the speaker’s demand. We are now in a ‘double dip’ recession because you can not have growth and austerity at the same time. Bad language and behaviour at Prime Ministers’ Questions led, on this occasion by David Cameron himself. Gus doesn’t want to build new homes but bring 7000 empty homes back into use and wonders why any offices are being built when so many around the city are empty. Apparent pointlessness of the local enterprise zone (LEZ) at Temple Meads. Tory party funder Adrian Beecroft’s report suggests employers should be able to ‘fire at will’ which causes tension with LibDem coalition partners. English Defence League (EDL) planning to march on the same day as Bristol Gay Pride march on Saturday 14th July. We are told that marches will take place at different times so there will be no clash, if you believe that. Comparison to the marching season in Northern Ireland and tensions there. South Gloucestershire Council scraps cabinet system and goes back to the old committee system after accusations of abuse of power by the Conservative cabinet. Imagine if LibDem councillor Gary Hopkins had been made mayor of Bristol, he may have forced through the sell off of green spaces in Bristol. Mayoral candidate George Ferguson is the bookies’ bet to become mayor. BBC Radio Bristol audience plummets has lost 25% of its audience in the last six months after losing 50% from October 2010 to October 2011. BBC Radio Bristol’s former BFBS presenter John Darble’s simpering interview with corrupt Defence Secretary and North Somerset MP Liam Fox. Welfare to work firm A4E auditor Eddie Hutchinson says the company was set up to facilitate fraud for Tory party favourite and ‘families’ czar’ Emma Harrison. Gus brings to our attention a recent New Economics Foundation (NEF) report which suggests Britain should have a 21 hour working week.
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Second hour: Doctors and Scientists issue warning to NATO: A Nuclear Strike Could Starve The World because a limited nuclear war is being contemplated by the ‘Doctor Strangeloves’ in the Pentagon. Channel 4 Dispatches documentary Murder in St. James’ (1996) about the murder of PC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984 which was blamed on the Libyans but looks to have been a contract killing by a Berlin gangster, commissioned by US CIA and British intelligence services to discredit the Libyans.
Who Owns Britain? 1% own 71% of Britain & 45% own nothing at all. 40% of the 65% of UK homeowners in the UK are still paying off the mortgagage… but the cost to build a house should only be £6 a week. Journalist Kevin Cahill got interested in land ownership researching for the Sunday Times Rich List with the editor Philip Beresford. Rich List has severe limitations because the super-wealthy hide their capital in shell companies, numbered Swiss bank accounts and tax havens which do not feature in the Rich List. Inadequacies of the Land Registry which is constructed to conceal land ownership. Kevin’s book, Who Owns Britain (2002), took 13 years to research and write. BBC TV programme ‘Whose Britain Is It Anyway’ (2006) was based on the book but missed out fundamental aspects of Kevin’s findings. Freeholds are all in fact owned by the Queen so they are leases from the Queen in the small print of land title deeds. The Church of England have sold 2.1 million acres of glebe land slowly over the years. There is 60 million acres of land in Britain to share out among 62 million inhabitants. 1% of the population (159,000 families) own 71% of the land. Domesday book of 1086 was William the Conqueror’s ‘swag list’ inventory of resources to tax. William’s Domesday commissioners caused riots. There was a little known second domesday book of 1872. Do we really need land in a mercantile, money economy? 65% of families have a stake in their home either owning it or taking out a mortgage to buy it. US folk song ‘This Land Is Your Land’ (1940) by Woody Guthrie. Enclosure and privatisation of land in Britain by the wealthy but ordinary people had no vote.  If you could not graze your animals on common land or collect wood in the winter you were dead. The pressure of evicted peoples’ need for land as it was enclosed was taken off by the cities, the factories … and the colonies. The real cost of building a 6 bedroom house: 800 man-hours of labour plus 700 man-hours in materials is 1500 man hours or £15,000 at £10/hour. The repayments on a 50 year interest free loan would be about £6 a week. A home is a fundamental human right so how to make sure everyone has a home that nobody can evict you from? Fiona O’Cleirigh and Kevin are working on a second edition of Who Owns Britain which is due to be published in the Autumn. Did you know the Queen owns 1/6th of all the land on earth? Have you ever heard of the British Indian Ocean Territory, a land area of 15,000 acres which is now believed to be used as a secret prison for captives of the war on terror? Kevin Cahill, asserts that the main cause of most remaining poverty in the world is an excess of landownership in too few hands. He says private ownership of a very small amount on land – one-tenth of an urban acre or an acre or two of rural land – granted to every person on the planet has the potential to begin ending poverty. Kevin says the right to land is a fundamental human right and also wrote the book Who Owns The World (2006)
Tonight’s playout track is Hearts by L.S.G. – aka. German musician Oliver Lieb (1994).
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