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 Conservative councillor for Westbury-on-Trym Alastair Watson. Introduction from the councillor. Prospect of elected mayor of Bristol and police commissioner. Are Conservatives in the cabinet thuggish Bullingdon Club toffs who steal from the poor to give to the rich? News stories discussed: terror gang that allegedly plotted to blow up Houses of Parliament and London stock exchange plead guilty under ‘plea bargain’, terrorism laws and plea bargaining; water prices going up, benefits of water nationalisation considered; at Institute of Directors (IoD) meeting bankers ‘desperate’ to lend to small businesses; speaker tells David Cameron to withdraw ‘hypocrisy’ comment and disclosure of who get bankers’ top pay awards at Prime Ministers Question Time; Marina Morris presents the latest research on causes of coronary heart disease and we ask why UK has high CHD as a cause of death; Gloucestershire police federation in unprecedented protest agains cuts and Chief Constable says force is on a “cliff edge”; resignation of Energy Secretary Chris Huhne & implicaions for the UK nuclear energy peogramme; student loan chief exposed by BBC Newsnight as avoiding paying income tax; Google & Twitter begin national jurisdiction-based censorship; Nazi funded car makers BMW sponsor killer cold weather front.
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Second hour: Discussion with Martin Summers about the Middle East: Israel’s new ‘Depth Corps’ commando unit tasked with bombing and assassination attacks, war crimes within Iran – Also Iran and Syria. Mike Birkin from SW Friends Of The Earth discussing ‘A Living Heart for Bristol’ group, and the ‘Marine Park for South West England’, where new marine energy technologies could be based, and also discusses nuclear energy. Will Stone from Avon & Bristol Law Centre discussing the Bristol Big Issue seller from Romania, the benefits cap, and the geology graduate who had to do work experience at Pound Land. Interview with Ruth Brunt, outgoing Chief Executive of the North Bristol NHS Trust, including discussions on Foundation Trusts, PFIs, NHS reforms in the Health and Social Care bill, and what she would do to improve the NHS. Martin and Tony discuss PFI s and the NHS, The Beveridge report, economics, cuts, and who’s making all the money.
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Friday Drivetime – 27th Jan 2012

News review with Cllr Glenise Morgan (LibDem) & Political Economist Polly Winch, followed by focus on Iran with Iranian born Bristolian Mehrnaz Shahabi

First hour: Discussing the economy & possibility of simply refusing to pay bank debts; Bishops object to £26,000 Benefit Cap in the Lords; Cameron’s trip to World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland; discussion about rights and wrongs of having a Bristol mayor elected on 3rd May 2012 – text of the referendum question; Avon & Somerset briefing the press off-the-record that retired schoolteacher Christopher Jefferies was responsible for Joanne Yeates’ murder … with political economist Polly Winch and Henleaze councillor Glenise Morgan (LibDem)
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Second hour: Iceland’s success in taking back control of their economy and throwing off the political controls of the international banking cartel. “In this battle, I will tell you who my real enemy is: it doesn’t have a name, a face, or a party, it will never be a candidate, it will therefore never be elected. This enemy is the finance world. Under your eyes, in 20 years, the finance took control of the economy, society and even our lives.” French presidential candidate Francois Hollande paints picture of bankers as sinister unelected rulers. Iranian special with Bristolian Mehrnaz Shahabi: Iran hits back at EU with own oil embargo threat. Iran as a model for women’s rights in parliament and higher education. Breaking International Law White House allocates $400m to pay mercenaries and PMCs to start covert war inside Iran. Impossibility of the use of a nuclear weapon even if Iran were to aquire one. Manipulation of the International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA) to replace Mohamed ElBaradei and put US/Israeli stooge Yukiya Amano in place to condemn Iran. Occupy Bristol tats down and moves into ‘Phase 2′, with Occupy spokesman Tony Cripps and Bristol City Centre’s Arc Bar proprietor Eddie James. What, if anything, has Occupy Bristol achieved? Transport hub & stadium at Temple Meads? Alternatives to Business West/Merchant Venturer Grand Master & Chairman of UHB NHS Trust John Savage’s (and his tax exile friends’) vision for the city.
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Audio files for this show: CLICK HERE VOXPOP, Maryna Morris asks Bristolians if we agree with the benefit cap that, according to The Children’s Society, means 80,000 children could be made homeless for savings of £51m – of David Cameron lectures rich and powerful on solutions to the Euro crisis at Davos World Economic Forum 2012 in Switzerland – Labour leader Ed Milliband questions David Cameron at Prime Ministers’ question time – Foreign Secretary William Hague announces sanctions against Iran set to commence on 1st July 2012 – Labour Peer Lord Gilbert on supposed Iranian nuclear ambitions – Unelected EU Negotiator & High Representative for Foreign Affairs Baroness Ashton is leading sanctions negotiation with Iran – Cross Bench Peer Lady Afshar who was born in Iran – Spiritual implications of all this warmongering madness with Bishop Sean Manchester and WWII Deception Planner Dennis Wheatley. CLICK HERE

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: legacy of 1980s Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Bryan Gould: Blind Faith In Market Robs Nation Of Its Full Potential. When the crash comes the City Of London is going to collapse sucking in debt defaults like a black hole. Should Bristol City Council borrow £50m to tide us over until the next elections are past? Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech on ‘Socially Responsible Capitalism’. Quarterly unemployment figures reveal increase Labour leader Ed Milliband & Ed Balls set out their pro-cuts position. Who are the real benefit scroungers? The ‘lazy’ unemployed or the city bankers? Ed Balls replies to GMB & UNISON who are threatening to pull funding for the Labour Party. Education Secretary Michael Gove wants to make it easier to sack teachers, with Marina Morris’ teaching VOXPOP. Heated discussion about state and private education with Conservative Councillor for Avonmouth Siobhan Kennedy-Hall.
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Second hour: Tension rises in Syria as armed rebels fight with the government & Russians say they will not support Western intervention. Do NATO &/or Israel have special forces provoking war by conducting military operations inside Iran? Forest of Dean Wilderness environmental education centre in Mitcheldean occupied by Tom Forest & Reclaim The Fields, who want to stop Gloucestershire County Council selling it off. Pentagon commissioning research to manipulate social networking, Propaganda 2 and the rise of ‘nattative networks’. Journalistic ethics in the spotlight at the Leveson Enquiry but is it just a spectacle for the public? Does the our media serve the public with Magdalena Krupa from Bristol’s Ujima 98fm, Optimist World site recommended. Internet censorship. Discussion about consolidation of commercial local radio stations with BCfm’s station manager Phil Gibbons. James Murdoch, Jeremy Hunt and the Conservative Party colluding two years ago to cut the BBC. Granville Williams from the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom on changes to commercial ‘local’ radio and threats to BBC local radio. Sabine McNeill from Forum For Stable Currencies and Victims Unite about the money scam, The Forensics of Legal Fraud and miscarriages of justice.
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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: Origin of negative superstitions around ‘Friday the 13th’: arrest of 5000 Knights Templar (international bankers) in dawn raids by King Philip IV of France … on Friday 13th October 1307. Charges of heresy compiled with help from former Templar whistleblowers Esquin of Floyan, Bernard Pelet (Baron d’Alais?) & Gérard of Byzol (Caballero de Gisors?). Forced to resign: £50,000 insider deal by head of Swiss Central bank Philipp Hildebrand’s wife Kashya. Swiss bank whistleblower Rudolf Elmer hands over details of Swiss bank tax evaders to Wikileaks but is instead convicted of data theft himself. Bristol City Council borrow £50m to fill spending gap caused by the cuts. Prime Minister’s Questions: David Cameron and Ed Milliband spar over 9% rise in train fares. PMQs: Michael Meacher MP (Lab) points out that in 2 years the thousand richest people in Britain got richer by £137bn, this could be used to pay off the deficit and/or create a million jobs. ‘Spartacus report’ reveals fake consultation into benefit reforms for the most vulnerable in society such as the disabled and cancer patients. PMQs: Dame Joan Ruddock questions wisdom of cutting housing benefit. Bristol Speakers’ Corner on College Green every Friday lunchtime. Arbeit Macht Frei: Geology graduate Cait Reilly, who got her own work placement in a museum, forced to work for free in Poundland. Emma Harrison lives in luxury and makes £1.4m/yr from private schemes to get people off social security benefits, but not necessarily into work. PIP breast implants found to be made from industrial silicone but 140 year old private German company ‘TUV Rheinland’ reaffirmed official EU ‘CE’ kite mark certification in 2008. Stroud Mayor John Marjoram may be fined for not completing the census since it was sub-contracted to US defence contractor Lockheed Martin. Weekly news review with Cadbury Heath Councillor Martin Farmer (Lab).
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Second hour: Privatising Media Mind Control: British Army Psychological Warfare officers from 15 PsyOps (Chicksands, Beds.) headhunted by private Strategic Communications companies who pay them approximately twenty times more than the army to manipulate public perceptions. Prince Andrew’s Private Secretary working for Bell Pottinger who represent despotic regimes such as Sri-Lanka & Bahrain. Prime Minister David Cameron is visiting King Abdullah in Saudi Arabia today. Assassination of fifth Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan in Tehran. Bradley Stoke resident Lesley Cox & Martin Farmer (Lab) discuss BAe Systems’ cutting employers’ leases to drive them out, close Filton airfield and sell it off for housing, despite site’s history and future needs of employment in aerospace industry at the site. Secret society: should we be concerned that newly installed Filton and Bradley Stoke MP Jack Lopresti is a Freemason? He is invited to comment and/or to appear on this programme but does not return phone calls. BBC Southern Eye documentary ‘Anything To Declare’ (2000) shows Local Government Ombudsman taking stern view of freemasons failing to delare their masonic interest, using their votes to grant planning permission to masons in the same lodge. Look at CERN near Geneva and the Higgs boson ‘God particle’ with mathematician, system analyst and editor of victims unite website Sabine McNeill FRSA.
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