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: PCS union votes to fund anti-cuts candidates at the next general election. Attila the Stockbroker sings his recent song, ‘Looters’. Libor rate is the key rate in all financial transaction right across the globe. Barclays’ former Chief Executive Bob Diamond appears at the Treasury Select Committee. Co-founder in 1981 of Bristol based investment & stockbroking bank Hargreaves Lansdown is interviewed on BBC Radio Bristol. But former forces broadcaster John Darble fails to challenge Peter Hargreaves on why his ‘zombie firm’ is kept alive on public subsidy or the question of the morning, whether he thinks bankers should be locked up? The City of London and Wall Street investment banking parasite is devouring the public and society, its host. The banks can not be allowed to fail but neither can society, which is the highest political priority? Unemployment in EU now highest since the introduction of the Euro. Youth unemployment at 22.6% but an astronomical 52% of under 25s in Spain & Greece are now unemployed. It was the 2008 public bailout that kept his company going. Marina Morris looks at sexual abuse in state run children’s ‘care’ homes. Voxpop this week asks who is to blame for unemployment and what should be done about it. Defiance against debt bullies & locking up criminal bankers wins Iceland’s president Grimsson a record fifth term. News review with National Vice President of Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) John McInally.
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Second hour: Denials from Israel but it looks likely now that Palestinian leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Yasser Arafat was assassinated in 2004 was ordered by the Israeli cabinet using Polonium, a radioactive poison. Paraguay and Iran’s Straits of Hormuz. Hilary Clinton, acting as a ventriloquist’s dummy for AIPAC & Jerusalem, issues the same sort of bullying threats used by Hitler in the run-up to World War Two. Potential now for the Middle East to turn into a charnal house at any time, as illustrated by the downing of a Turkish Phantom jet in Syrian airspace two weeks ago. President Assad has proved in the recent referendum that he does have popular support in Syria. Any spark could set off a major war in the Middle East but the British Army is being slashed to its smallest size since the Napoleonic wars. Seventh anniversary of the 7/7 London bombings. Peter Power of Visor Consultants conducted an exercise on the day of 7/7 at the ‘same three tube stations’ that the bombs went off. The drill was conducted for former organisers of one of the world’s biggest arms fairs, DSEi in docklands, Reed Elsevier. Jerusalem desk of Associated Press reported that a warning of the attacks was given to Benjamin Netanyahu (Bibi) via the Israeli Embassy in London by Scotland Yard before the bombings took place. Kevin Cahill, author of Who Owns The World, tells us that 65% of British people own their own homes which, Kevin says, is the highest number in history. Political parties are petrified that homeowners get together they can if you’re working and paying your tax, for example the government should insure you against losing your job! Britain is still a feudal nation and only two countries grant land to their citizens in their constitution; Russia and one in South America. Obscene annual CAP payments of around £500k to Britain’s super rich whose ‘Rich List’ wealth is as follows: Duke of Buccleuch £2bn; Duke of Westminster £7bn; Prince Charles £1bn; The Queen £7bn. The Queen is the largest landowner in the world with 6.6bn acres. One sixth of the entire surface of the earth. David Powell Economics Campaigner from Friends of the Earth. Land grabbing going on today with mass evictions. 200m hectares of land over the last decade, 100 times the size of Wales, has been bought up in Africa and Asia over the last decade. New book on the subject is Land Grabbers, The New Fight Over Who Owns The Earth. £9bn of pension funds are investing in land grabbing the new, economic, colonialism.  
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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: City council ‘slackers’ named: Councillors from whom I’ve had no phone response or who have otherwise expressed no interest in coming on the BCFM Politics Show. Proportion of ‘slackers’ by political party: Conservatives 36% (5/14), LibDems 28% (9/32), Labour 18% (4/22) & Green 0% (0/2). Conservative: Richard Eddy, Bishopsworth; Kevin Quartley, Bishopsworth; James Stevenson, Frome Vale; Alex Pearce, St George East and former banker and Cllr for Stoke Bishop John Goulandris. Lib Dem: Jackie Norman, Brislington West; Bev Knott, Bishopston; Patrich Hassell, Hillfields; Peter Levy, Horfield, Cheryl Anne, Horfield; Sean Emmett, Lockleaze; Sylvia Townsend, Redland; Mark Bailey, Windmill Hill and Alf Havvok also from Windmill Hill. Labour: Jeff Lovell, Filwood; Chris Jackson, Filwood; Barry Clarke, Hengrove and Phil Hanby who represents Hillfields. Britain is not a democracy. Former Lord Chancellor Lord Hailsham said in 1976 it’s an elective dictatorship. Pounds equal power! Libor fraud scandal Barclays bank thieves and fraudsters let off while their employer is fined a trifling £60m by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) + £230m from the US regulator. Chancellor George Osborne makes emergency Commons speech. Iceland jails fraudulent banksters. Nationalise banks. Applications to take children into care reach a new high. Prime Minister threatens to withdraw housing benefit from under 25’s. Julian blames New World Order for our current political crisis, too far gone for reform. VOXPOP: was privatisation of the railways a good idea? Clarence House accounts reveal public funding for Prince Charles increased by 11.8% during 2011/12 and 18% for 2010/11 and with this he employs 8 full-time PR spin doctors. News review with Somerset businessman Julian Parry.
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Second hour: Despite attempts at public reassurance from MI5 Director General Jonathan Evans and Channel 4 News Security Correspondant Simon Israel all is definitely not well at G4S. After last week’s viral interview we have week two of Lee Hazledean’s reports undercover at the London Olympics private security firm G4S. G4S are talking about ‘brand screening’ the spectators despite publicly saying it will not happen. Ian Horseman-Sewell, MD of Global Events, has said they will not brand screen. However during Lee’s training he was specifically told that if someone turned up in say a tee-shirt from a company who wasn’t sponsoring the Olympics then he would need to tell them to take off their tee shirt and turn it inside out, get changed into another or go home and change, as a condition of entry. If they turned the tee-shirt back the right way once inside the venue Lee was told they would be ejected from the Olympics. Lee’s been told that certain people called Internationally Protected People cannot be screened? IPP’s are anybody that LOCOG say they are! Surely everyone should get screened and treated fairly. This directly builds in room for a false flag operation. There is a sinister implication with non-British international firm G4S running the Metropolitan police force which of course is their ultimate aim as the New World Order security outfit of choice. Like the Nazi Gestapo who supplanted the German police in the 1930s. Why have we allowed G4S to increase their contract from £86m to a staggering £284m and they still want more. There has been no proper oversight whatever by our politicians so why not? How do you evacuate the Olympic stadium? How do you evacuate the Olympic park? G4S trainers told Lee about evacuating London but not discussed what the emergency procedures are for evacuating any Stadium in the event of an emergency. It is almost as though they want chaos. Remember Hillsborough Britain’s worst sporting disaster. Lee has had no training to do with how to screen people with physical disabilities. This is the Olympics and Para-Olympics and at no point has G4S, LOCOG or Contemporary International even discussed screening people with disabilities and how not to offend and strip those individuals of their dignity. How do you screen someone in a wheel chair? Lee has had no emergency medical training. The queues are going to be massive and if someone collapses the security officers won’t know what to do. They are relying again on a St John’s ambulance or paramedics hopefully standing right on scene. All security should have at least a first person first aid training which takes just one day.
Bristol Remploy workers Paul Gane and Mark Cambridge, both disabled, explain their situation as part of a viable business here in Bristol which has a full order book. Political hope with the Daily Express and others supporting their fight to keep their jobs. Further details at the websites of GMB and UNITE trade unions.
International situation in Syria getting worse and worse with mysterious attacks taking place this week on Syrian TV station and on the Syrian Justice Ministry. Reports of terrorists infiltrating into Syrian borders rather than these attacks coming from Syrians themselves. Maybe these terrorists are just coming home after fighting abroad 😉 Or more likely NATO’s Al Quaeda legions & Western allies in the Middle East are actually fuelling the civil war.
Confusion Marketing, direct debit mandate abuses and privatisation of utilities discussed. Julian Parry switches to E.ON but gets his first monthly energy bill for nearly £3000!
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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 & Marina Morris

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

First hour: Lane clearance in St. George was not included in the May Gurney waste, cleaning and maintenance contract. Marvyn Rees to be Bristol’s Labour mayoral candidate. Prime Minister David Cameron’s father Ian pioneered the abuse of Tax Havens and the Cameron family fortune was accumulated in Panama, Geneva and Jersey. Germans forced to allow printing of money in the Eurozone. Mexico G20 conference largely a waste of time, casino banking is gambling with peoples’ lives. So-called technical hitches at RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank with customers unable to withdraw their own money. Banking should be there to serve governments, the people, business. There must be no gambling with money we need access to. One third of the Troika, the European Financial Security Facility (EFSF), is based in a tax haven and impossible for MEPs to scrutinise. Boss of G4S predicts mass privatisation of British police, Ten more UK police forces are looking to outsource policing to private companies. All sounds a bit ‘Robocop’ and extremely dangerous. Private prisons also open to fascist abuse but being encouraged by Justice Secretary Ken Clarke. Labour leader Ed Miliband apologises for Labour allowing unlimited EU immigration, but these are empty words, he’s shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted. Average wage has been brought right down so benefits seem more generous. Comparing Jimmy Carr with David Cameron’s father Ian, who was a pioneer of tax havens in Panama and Switzerland, as soon as Margaret Thatcher lifted currency controls. Changes proposed to the examination system. Congratulations and unequivocal support for campaign to reopen Whiteladies Picture House. What is the future for radical internet publishing and will Julian Assange have to live permanently in the Ecuadorian Embassy? Is Assange’s treatment the beginning of real totalitarianism? News review with St. George East Labour Councillor Fabian Breckles.
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Second hour: The 2012 London olympics start in 4 weeks time. Exclusive interview with investigative journalist Lee Hazledean who is training undercover as a security guard for the London olympics with private security firm G4S. Lee is a filmmaker and investigative TV journalist. He has also been involved in major stories on the IRA and how British Army infiltrated the organisation and carried out false flag operations. He has managed to get undercover as part of the security team at the 2012 Olympics with G4S. He has found there is a media black out on all major news outlets to do with the Olympics unless the story is broken in a news paper or foreign news agency it’s unlikely to see the light of day. Security training and officers are so appaling that the safety and security of the London 2012 Olympics are in jeopardy. A few example’s: The security training is woefully inadequate run by a training company called Contemporary International. Lee has been assigned to work in a PSA (Pedestrian Screening Area) the main security for the stadiums. During an exercise he was asked to pose as a would-be terrorist and managed to get knives, guns and IED’s through security screening on every occasion and every exercise. The X-Ray operators have only two days of training, they aren’t trained properly and miss the most obvious prohibited items gun’s, knives, IED’s, ammunition etc. Bag and physical searchers again are missing dangerous weapons, trainees can’t use vital security equipment like the HHMD (Hand Held Metal detectors) they can’t even communicate properly with the public on a basic level. Worryingly the ‘Rapiscan’ walk through metal detectors don’t work properly and aren’t sensitive enough to pick up large knives, ammunition and other metallic threats. He was told that they would be set to go off only after 50 people have walked through to limit queuing time and to get spectators into the venue. So a Terrorist if they basically queued up would probably get through wearing a suicide vest. G4S are dragging the job centres to recruit the long term unemployed for security officers regardless of how suitable they are for the role. In classes there are drug deals going down, people can’t speak any English whatsoever and others who find people with disabilities offensive and are constantly making disabled jokes. People with no security experience are being rushed through training for their SIA licenses. People who haven’t even completed their SIA licenses yet are being picked to be Team Leaders over highly trained security officers, ex soldiers and ex police. Being a team leader is an important role as the first and last line of defence. Lee is concerned that weapons or worse will be getting into the games. However, what’s more disturbing is that uniforms are already going missing or being stolen from the uniform distribution centre/training facility. The training facility is an accurate mock-up of the actual security measures at the Olympic venues. Lee has witnessed several people taking photos on their mobile phones in the training facility and whilst they have been a few people caught by trainers most aren’t noticed. Even when they are caught they are just told to delete the photos and they continue on the training. We know that terrorists take surveillance photos to gain intelligence. Contemporary International claim that they have mobile phone ‘jammers’ in the facility, however trainers admitted to Lee that there were no ‘jammers’ at all, it was a verbal deterrent. The training facility is a non sporting Olympic venue and a terrorist target. Therefore G4S can’t even secure a school let alone the Olympic Venues.
Also there are plans for the evacuation of London, G4S are going to be at the forefront, as well as 100,000 troops coming in via Woolwich barracks made up of regular British Forces, American regular army and European troops. Lee was not told why there would be any need for an evacuation of the whole of London, they just said it was to be a “defining moment in the history of London”. This could just be a precaution but the public should be made aware of the foreign invasion which is taking place right now. The troops are being held across London in various barracks once they’ve been through Woolwich. Lee also had this information confirmed by an army doctor who was shocked at all the foreign troops coming into London. There is also a shipment of what are being described as casket linings, each casket can hold four or five people and 200,000 casket linings have been delivered we believe from America. This could all be precautionary in the event of a major terrorist attack. Also we were shown videos of drones attacking targets in Afghanistan and were told that drones will be patrolling the sky’s over London during the Olympics carrying out surveillance and search and destroy missions if necessary. Lee believes there is something fundamentally wrong with how the security for the Olympics is being implemented by G4S. With exactly 4 weeks to go until the games Lee feels he needs to expose the inadequate security in place in the hope that it can be improved so that the London 2012 Olympics can be a safe environment for spectators and Athletes alike, and not a cause for national and international embarrassment for Great Britain. 
Privatisation of Olympics’ security discussed in the context of private companies such as ICTS and Verint Systems allegedly facilitating or carrying out false flag terrorism themselves for private profit. Released documents reveal that Neo-Nazis helped carry out the 1972 Munich Olympics attack. In 2012 the Israeli Secret Service Mossad is active in Iraq under Jordanian cover so may be responsible for some of the recent atrocities.
The year is 1963 and the Israeli state does a deal with Nazi war criminals thereby ‘losing its soul’. We go back to the 1970s to pick up an incredible story of former Nazis living happily in South America and even putting out disinformation through the world press to cover their crimes: Why was Mossad chief Isser Harel forced to resign while hunting for South American Nazi SS war criminals in 1963? Adolf Eichmann had been kidnapped, put on trial in Jerusalem and executed but other Nazi war criminals Martin Bormann, Klaus Barbie and Josef Mengele were then allowed to comfortably live out the rest of their lives in Paraguay, Chile, Argentina and Brazil. 1978 World In Action documentary ‘The Hunt for Doctor Mengele’ which is available on a Network DVD World In Action II archive.
Playout tune: Papua New Guinea (1992) by The Future Sound of London 
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