Yes, the Pentagon really does think it controls
the whole world -
http://www.defense.gov/home/features/2009/0109_unifiedcommand/
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After six:
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and Marina Morris
First hour: News review with Birthday Party candidate who stood for mayor of Bristol and in the recent local elections Dave Dobbs. Dave is author of the book 'Laughing Gas'. We hear about the falling membership in political parties since World War Two and ask what proportion of people are in Trades Unions compared to Political Parties? Membership of trades unions is 15 times greater than UK political parties. The politicians don't control the game any more, if they ever did, the private bankers do. Money is not a finite commodity: How banks create money out of thin air then lend it out at interest. Fractional Reserve Banking a form of legalised counterfeiting, the economy, party politics, voxpop by Marina Morris on party leaders and party politics. Mayor Ferguson today announced his new multi-party cabinet as follows: Cllr Mark Bradshaw (Lab) – Transport, Planning, Strategic Housing and Regeneration; 'Bristol City Slacker' Cllr Simon Cook (Lib Dem) – Leisure, Tourism, Licensing and Community Safety (policing); Cllr Geoff Gollop (Cons) – Finance and Corporate Services; Cllr Gus Hoyt (Green) – Neighbourhoods, Environment and Council Housing; Cllr Barbara Janke (Lib Dem) – Health and Social Care; Cllr Brenda Massey (Lab) – Children, Young People and Education. Labour’s demand for voting rights in cabinet over the mayor's decisions has been agreed, but the mayor will still have overall decision-making powers – meaning he can override the wishes of a majority in cabinet if he wishes. Stories covered: night shelters closing because not classed as a dwelling so cannot get housing benefit; European Commission raids Shell and BP offices investigating evidence that petrol prices have been rigged for a decade – rigged to keep the rich wealthy, there is no free market. In the House of Commons Tory MP for Harlow, Robert Halfon and Labour's Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Caroline Flint on petrol price fixing; All four Bristol MPs come out against mayor George Ferguson's possible congestion charge; Stephanie Bottrill from Solihull committed suicide because she couldn't pay the bedroom tax. In the House of Lords architect of this benefit reform Lord Freud tries to explain; German water cannons set to be approved for possible summer riots across the UK; Prince Charles supporting a despotic dictatorship in Bahrain with lucrative 'Poundbury' style eco-development deal. [audio: 201305171700] download
Yes, the Pentagon really does think it controls
the whole world -
http://www.defense.gov/home/features/2009/0109_unifiedcommand/
Second hour:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Moscow to
try to persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree to his plans
to get his friends in the US and the EU to invade Syria and Iran but gets
a frosty response. Meanwhile another Russian fleet moves into the Eastern
Mediterranean and
Syria and Iran get a Russian upgrade to their anti ship
missile systems.
NORML
conference at the Malcolm X Centre in Bristol this weekend on legalisation
of soft drugs. Former MI5 officer Annie Machon is speaking on Saturday afternoon
and former Scotland Yard Fraud Squad detective Rowan Bosworth-Davies is speaking
about money laundering on Sunday. Drug cartels are now propping up the banking
system. 'Impunity for the UK 'super-elite' like in a 'Banana Republic'.
Former MI5 officer Annie Machon removed from UN discussion
panel by Jewish organisation B'nai B'rith. Drugs, CIA, South America
and corruption;
US
military's 'Unified Command Plan' (see map above) which shows the Pentagon
consider it their job to control the entire world; NATO zone banking system
could be about to collapse.
Bomb
attack on the Turkish border this week but was it really the Syrian army
who planted the bombs? The media say one thing so one is tempted to believe
the opposite since NATO zone MSM is being used for pro-war propaganda. We
heard from Chris Bollyn a couple of weeks ago about the
Terry Gilliam
Film 'Brazil' where terrorism is a 'normal' everyday occurrence and nobody
ever knows who is really planting the bombs, this has become the daily reality
in Iraq and a lesser extent Pakistan today. Are Iraqi people reminiscing
about the pre 2003 days of 'Evil Dictator' Saddam Hussein when so-called
terrorist bombs didn't go off every day? Who is really planting these bombs?
NATO? Israelis? Terrible and horrificly
regular bomb attacks on Mosques in Pakistan and Iraq this
week which mirror attacks two generations ago on Synagogues in Nazi
Germany. Is this the old 'divide and rule' with a warmongering elite
trying to set one religious community against another? Comparison with the
former Catholic versus Protestant conflict in Northern Ireland.
A grandson of Malcolm X, who was also a political activist,
is killed in suspicious circumstances in Mexico. Independent journalist
website
Athens Indymedia exposing links between the far right Golden
Dawn party and police - attempts to close it by Greek government. Julie
Boston joins us from
Friends of Suburban Bristol
Railways (FOSBR) to discuss everything from the Portishead and Severn
Beach lines to the projected electrification of the Bristol to Paddington
line and the
high speed HS2 link to Leeds via Birmingham. Excerpt
from 'straight to YouTube' internet film
The Road
To World War Three - next week Al Jazeera's
'The Secret Of The Seven Sisters'
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After six:
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First hour: news review with leader of the Conservative group on Bristol City Council and councillor for Stoke Bishop Peter Abraham. Last week's local elections; Nationally the Tories lost 10 local authorities & 273 seats, UKIP picking up much of their vote due to policies on Europe and immigration; cuts and economics - national debt has nearly doubled since Coalition government was elected in 2010. A clip of Jane Taylor from UNITE at last Saturday's May Day Trades Union 'Workers' Day' Rally in Castle Park, Jane proposes more council house building to kick-start the economy and provided much needed housing. Bristol Mayor opens new office space – but according to local housing campaigner Tony Crofts' website 'Speak Truth To Power' we already have 2 million sq. ft., equivalent to 60 acres, of empty office space in Bristol; The Queen's Speech - influence or power? She owns more land than anyone on the planet but still got an extra £5 million pay rise in 2013 – What was NOT in the Queen's Speech was a register of lobbyists, promised by Cameron before and after the general election, discussed; Privatisation of the probation service, national press has come to Bristol to ask why as we have some of the best rates of curbing re-offending; Police said not to be involved in Jimmy Savile case - vox pop by Marina Morris about who is to blame for the Jimmy Savile fiasco, BBC, police or Savile himself? On the release of today's internal report by West Yorkshire police about cosy 'Friday morning club' breakfast meetings between their officers and Britain's worst ever paedophile, Jimmy Savile. The report said 76 crimes involving 68 victims relating to Savile had been committed in the West Yorkshire area, but added that none of the offences had been reported before the former DJ’s death in October 2011. The report also revealed the youngest of those victims was five years old at the time and eight others were aged nine or younger. Victims' lawyer brands temporary Assistant Chief Constable Ingrid Lee's report as 'pathetic' too. Martin reminds us that Savile spent over a decade of New Year's Eves at Chequers with Margaret Thatcher. [audio: 201305101700] download
Second hour: Filton and Bradley Stoke MP's December 2012 trip to Saudi Arabia and UK/Saudi arms deals discussed with author of The Shadow World, Inside The Global Arms Trade, Andrew Feinstein. Corruption, the Serious Fraud Squad, ‘National Security’, and politicians paid huge sums as conduits. Al Yamamah and SangCom UK/Saudi arms deals' bribery investigations dropped by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) with Chancellor George Osborne, incredibly, able to veto SFO investigations. Freemason & Conservative MP for Filton and Bradley Stoke Jack Lopresti had an expenses paid trip to Saudi Arabia in December 2012, what might his role be as a UK Saudi arms deal breaker? BBC4 changing the name from 'Exile, A Myth Unearthed' to 'Jerusalem An Archeological Mystery Story' by Israeli born filmmaker Ilan Ziv, then dropping his film about the myth of Jewish 'right to return altogether after lobbying from the Israeli government and the Zionist lobby within the BBC; we hear from the banned station Press TV and they cover clashes this week at the Al Aqsa Mosque which is allegedly on a site venerated by Jews too which the Israeli army want to take over even though it it the third most sacred site in Islam; Russian SS300 anti aircraft SAM missiles being sold to Syrian government after Israeli jets or artillery bombed or shelled Syria this week, a provocation that clearly violates international law and could lead to war between the two states; UK and US 'look the other way' not condemning Israel. Adam Kokesh, a 31-year-old former United States Marine who has long spoken out against military intervention in Iraq and other controversial issues, is planning what he calls an "Open Carry March on Washington" to "put the government on notice that we will not be intimidated & cower in submission to tyranny." So will there be an armed protest march to Washington to mark Independence Day on 4th July? Minot Missile Base in North Dakota got a D grade inspection report with insubordination rife and launch codes possibly going astray or compromised... so 17 military ICBM launch officers have been sacked. Can Britain feed itself? with Somerset farmer, former National Farmers Union (NFU) rep for Somerset and the man behind Puxton Park, Derek Mead. Derek, along with all dairy farmers, has suffered after the 1980s demise of the Milk Marketing Board which guaranteed a minimum price for milk. Discussing why he left the National Farmers' Union because it represents the interests of supermarkets and the food industry not farmers. Before that, helped set up Farmers For Action which blockaded supermarket distribution depots. The cartel-like power of Supermarkets to use milk as a 'loss-leader' impoverishing farmers, EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidies, the plight of small farmers, farmers' relations with Somerset walkers and we ask: can Britain still feed itself or are we too reliant on imports? US photographer and author of Solving 9/11, Chris Bollyn, gets into a scrape with Bilderberg security back in Belgium in 2000 after daring to ask questions of some of the participants and taking a picture of George Soros with Carl Bildt. [audio: 201305101800] download
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discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around
the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
and Marina Morris
First hour: Bristol Local Election results 2013 and news review with former mayor candidate for the Green party and new Councillor (announced today) for Bishopston, Daniella Radice. Chris Brown's website Bristol 24/7 has best election results coverage: Labour now largest party in Bristol as LibDem vote collapses. 'City Slacker' news: LibDem on Mayor Ferguson's cabinet Simon Cook retains his Clifton East seat by 17 votes while Cheryl Anne loses her Horfield seat to Labour in 27.5% turnout. Not satisfied with 'volunteering' their help for mayor George Ferguson to 'help him' make decisions about the City's budget, financial services firm KPMG have their tentacles into BBC Radio Bristol 'volunteering' a 7:30am 'business news' for the BBC Breakfast show but failing to reference a report talking up the economy promising 200,000 jobs about to come to Britain, but who wrote this report and why have the BBC given up their editorial independence? KPMG have a terrible track record, and are embroiled in several scandals including criminal insider dealing in the US, falsifying the accounts of HBOS, undervaluing HBOS junk assets by 7000% and are being investigated for price fixing with the 'big four' financial services firms. The chairman of publicly owned Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Sir Philip Hampton, has said the bank will be ready to return to the private sector next year. Martin Summers disagrees and Daniella doresn't think the public will get as much for the bank's shares as we paid for them. The Cayman Islands will in future share information on taxes with the UK and other countries. Bermuda and other British tax havens have signed agreements on sharing tax information, the Treasury has said. UK Uncut expose in court the “sweetheart” tax deal which saved Goldman Sachs millions of pounds which they agreed with Tax people HMRC to save Chancellor George Osborne from “major embarrassment”. A £255m project to turn the former Courage brewery in Bristol into homes, offices and shops has gone into receivership. Work at the Finzels Reach site halted some time ago but now receivers have been called in after developer HDG Mansur defaulted on a loan. Transport protesters gathered outside City Hall to condemn the city council over lack of consultation on transport issues. They claim the council only pays lip service to people's views before taking final decisions. David Mock, from the traffic and transport subgroup of the Greater Area Neighbourhood Partnership, claimed their views about a new showcase bus route were not considered relevant by council officials. Simon Brookes, who has been campaigning for the removal of a bus lane in Westbury Road, said: "Consultations are a sham, e-petitions are being ignored, and as a result of that, there can be one conclusion – the electorate's views are being ignored." Tory Councillor John Goulandris (Stoke Bishop) claimed the city council had a hidden agenda to "slow the city down so the excuse of congestion charging can be introduced". Frack Free Somerset organise meeting in Ston Easton, Somerset, about proposals to pump toxic chemicals into the Mendip Hills. Local people described "seeing nothing like it" in the village for the past 16 years with the number of people that attended. And so it came to pass. Despite near universal professional opposition and strong political pressure, the Section 75 regulations that explicitly open up the NHS to competition law were approved in the House of Lords last week. A three-line whip on Liberal Democrat peers ensured a majority of over a hundred, with Baroness Shirley Williams speaking warmly of "an exciting new direction" for the NHS. The rage expressed across social media forums is unlikely to disappear but what can opponents do next? http://www.nhsforsale.info - http://www.keepournhspublic.com - http://protectournhs.wordpress.com [audio: 201305031700] download
Second hour: We are joined by Director of the London based Centre for Dissociative Studies, psychotherapist specialising in trauma Valerie Sinason, who has interviewed five of Jimmy Savile's victims and 500 other victims of ritual abuse. After the Daily Express headline Jimmy Savile Was Part Of Satanic Ring in January 2013 Private Eye magazine published another anonymous hatchet job on her entitled 'SATANIC PANIC - Familiar Ritual ' in the Feb/Mar 2013 edition implying Valerie and victims she has spoken to were 'making it up, or 'mad'. Valerie explains the horrible reality behind these types of abuse and explains that many people, including presumably Private Eye editor Ian Hislop, find it difficult to believe people could behave like this. Valerie explains that abusers use a cruel tactic of: 'the worse the abuse is the less the authorities and press will believe them'. Latest on the FBI's and the mainstream media's Boston Marathon bombings cover-up from US freelance journalist Chris Bollyn who has written a book 'Solving 9/11' on the 9/11 attacks and an article on Boston: 'Terror as Theatre'. Chris suggests that Terry Gilliam's 1980s film 'Brazil', about the government controlling the population through terrorism [see video above], may be closer to reality than we think. UN accuse US of torture over force-feeding of Guantanamo bay detainees... 130 refusing food - 23 being force fed, Guantanamo lawyer found dead in apparent suicide. Iraq: April is record month for carnage with 700 dead and 1600 wounded - as the Arab League warned in 2003 US and UK have indeed 'opened the gates of hell' in Iraq. Meanwhile US Secretary of State for Defense, Chuck Hagel, confirms he is considering arming Syrian rebels. Martin points out the US military are already arming Al Qaeda in Syria via Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states. As the NATO zone Bilderberg Conference Mafia cartel prepare to meet in Hertfordshire in the second weekend of June, Hannah Bono announces the first ever Bilderberg Fringe Festival with comedians, talks and music. Honorary President of the Italian Supreme Court Ferdinando Imposimato has published evidence that Bilderberg organised terrorist atrocities in Italy's 'Strategy of Tension'. National Vice-President of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) John McInally gives us a taste of the critique of the Coalition government to be heard at the annual May Day rally tomorrow in Bristol's Castle Park. [audio: 201305031800] download
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After six:
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and Marina Morris
First hour: Bristol 'City Slackers' Simon Cook (Clifton East) and Cheryl Anne (Horfield) LibDem councillors standing for re-election. News review with Cllr. Helen Holland (Lab), who is also leader of the Labour Group. National Labour poll down to 35% while UKIP surge continues in Opinium/Observer poll. Next Thursday's elections are discussed and also some economics - UK budget deficit barely falls in 2012/13, more pain ahead - fell to £114.2 bn in the tax year which ended in March. This equates to 7.4% of GDP or economic output, down from 7.9% in 2012/13. Britain's total net public debt, excluding the direct costs of bailing out the country's banks, is still much higher than before the financial crisis at a record £1.186 tn or 75.4% of GDP. Cuts have brought a loss of £450 a head to every person in Bristol; 'the multiplier effect' of the cuts. Stories covered: Food Banks have tripled in the past year, more than 350,000 people turned to food banks for help last year, almost triple the number who received food aid in the previous year and 100,000 more than anticipated, according to the Trussel Trust, UK's biggest food crisis charity - PMQs clip of this; PMQ clips of how the rich are getting richer; Bristol North West MP Charlotte Leslie criticises Bristol City Council who top of the national league for 'Gagging Clauses' or, as the Bristol Evening Post calls them 'compromise agreements' and demands they stop the practice which has cost Bristol City council tax payers £1m over five years, used to silence sacked Coroner and his staff and bring in what anonymous silenced staff member calls 'a puppet coroner'; First Bus won't run CND anti-Trident ad. which explains the nuclear missile system's cost: £100bn and fail to reply to letter asking them to explain; 'Big four' accountants, including KPMG, 'use knowledge of Treasury to help rich avoid tax', draw up laws on tax and then advising their clients how to avoid this tax; voxpop on the elections by Marina Morris and discussion of why more than half the people asked do not see the point in voting. [audio: 201304261700]
Second hour: Round up of international stories with Martin Summers: have chemical weapons been used in Syria, and if so, by which side? Revealed: George Osborne’s secret veto on fraud inquiries, SFO poised to drop investigation into claims of Saudi arms bribes. Conservative Chancellor George Osborne and cuts to the Serious Fraud Office (SFO); Jack Lopresti, Tory Freemason MP for Filton and Bradley Stoke, caught changing his story... admits to representing UK weapons manufacturers in Saudi Arabia:
From Private Eye: ANOTHER gaggle of Tory MPs has paid a friendly visit to the authoritarian Saudi Arabian government, according to the latest register of MPs' interests. This is the second recent Tory trip to Saudi, after four Tory MPs went on shindig with the sheikhs in December. In February Eye 1334 pointed out apparent errors in the way one of them, Filton MP Jack Lopresti, described his trip: Lopresti's entry in the MPs' register failed to mention that it was arranged by the UK Defence Forum, an arms-industry-funded group. Lopresti also claimed to have met "various human rights groups", which seemed unlikely. Lopresti has now corrected his entry: he now acknowledges the role of the UK Defence Forum and all mention of "human rights groups" has gone.
UN torture expert's visit postponed again by Bahrain regime as protests continue around this weekend's Grand Prix; Martin asks if it's okay for bloody revolution in Syria why not in Bahrain too? More cracks appear in the official Boston bombings story; Tamerlan Tsarnaev apparently arrested naked in handcuffs without injury last Thursday evening, so how was he killed and his body mutilated? Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was apparently not 'on the run' but at college during last week. Secret super-elite Mafia dons Bilderberg cartel meeting in Hertfordshire, the Logan Act in the US which prohibits politicians from having private meetings like this; similar civil service code in UK; Birmingham terror plotters sentenced but they had no bomb making equipment, capability and no targets; Mike Birkin from South West Friends of the Earth, discusses the 'Carbon Bubble' alternative energy, 50th anniversary of the Beeching Report railway axe, local railways and EDF's plan for a projected nuclear power station at Hinkley Point. Interview with thriller writer and WWII deception planner Dennis Wheatley about witchcraft and black magic for Walpurgis night on Tuesday 30th April. BBC4 censor documentary on history of Palestine/Israel, 'Jerusalem: An Archaeological Mystery Story' by Jewish filmmaker Ilan Ziv, which suggests the present Jews have no 'right of return' to Palestine since they are not related to those exiled by the Romans in 70AD. [audio: 201304261800]
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 deputy leader of the Conservative group on Bristol City Council & councillor for Hengrove, Mark Weston. Stories covered: Maggie Thatcher’s funeral; IMF puts pressure on George Osborne with criticism of cuts: IMF warns Osborne to moderate austerity due to lack of growth – further conversation on the economy; Npower Admits Paying No Corporation Tax for Three Years and their prices went up by 10 % - privatisation versus nationalisation; Jobless leap 'fitting tribute' to Thatcher; wages not rising in line with inflation – unemployment discussed; 2,000 insurance jobs axed at Aviva; Bristol Post/Evening Post gets new website but it's less user-friendly than the last one and not on news services such as Google News; Local financial advisers Hargreaves Lansdown' success shows no sign of slowing - at taxpayers expense? £500 per week benefits cap trial begins in London, cap to be rolled out across the country in July; Philippe Sands QC Quits LibDems Over 'Corrosive' Secret Courts Bill, secret courts overturn Habeus Corpus Act 1679 this is the wicked work of Bilderberger & 'minister without portfolio' in Cameron's cabinet Kenneth Clarke MP; MMR vaccine – Measles outbreak shows why we must get our children vaccinated, but we hear from Dr Andrew Wakefield explaining he believes parents should be able to choose single vaccines and the problems with the original MMR vaccines, two of which were almost immediately withdrawn, Wakefield says import of single vaccines shoud not have been banned. [audio: 201304191700]
Second hour: What were private security firm 'Craft' doing at the scene of the Boston marathon bombings? Are the NATO zone Mafia dons, the Bilderberg Group, coming to Watford this June? Military Industrial Complex, bankers, NATO politicians, royalty, oil barons, media & IT barons and the BBC will be represented but may once again fail to report on the meeting. Head of the Italian Supreme court Ferdinando Imposimato [Italian original] publishes book with evidence the Bilderberg Group have been behind Italian terrorist campaigns. Terrorists who plotted to blow up army base with explosives on toy car jailed for 44 years, Four 'toy car' terrorists from Luton jailed at Woolwich Crown Court; 20th anniversary of the siege of the Branch Davidians' community in Waco, Texas, with commentary and report by local comedian from Austin, Texas, Bill Hicks. Green councillor for Ashley Gus Hoyt discusses his role in mayor Ferguson's cabinet, the role of KPMG adviser Matt Payne in the cabinet and local priorities for the Green Party. Conspiracy Scope YouTube channel upload retired US Army Colonel and author L. Fletcher Prouty talking in 1992 about the British East India Company and colonialism. [audio: 201304191800]
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
First hour: news review with South West LibDem MEP Sir Graham Watson who is based in Langport Somerset. Stories covered: Cyprus - it’s natural gas resources and loans from Moscow; Graham discusses his role in the EU, the European Arrest Warrant, and other EU issues; voxpop by Marina Morris on the European Union – Graham Watson mentions positive achievements of the EU - the Euro, economic collapse, Economists Milton Friedman, former member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) David Blanchflower’s article reminding us of what his colleagues explained after the 2010 election, George Osborne's austerity cannot and will not work. The 1986 Big Bang; parties celebrating Mrs Thatcher’s death; voxpop by Marina Morris about Maggie Thatcher and further discussion; Sheffield Hallam University report on welfare cuts - £19 billion a year out of the economy, the north hit worse; Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) police now failing to confirm who they are arresting based on 'Leveson recommendations' citing Chris Jefferies case where he was then accused of the murder of Jo Yeates. However Avon & Somerset police are being sued by Jefferies for wrongly arresting him and possibly briefing the press that he was the murderer. Police state being ushered in? Severn Barrage and bankruptcies of two founders; KPMG face audit inquiry over the failure of HBOS bank having failed to spot £47bn of losses in the company's accounts in successive audits; Lord Berkeley tables private members bill calling for the annual £18.3m Prince Charles’ 120,000 acre Duchy of Cornwall estate to be given to Cornwall residents. [audio: 201304121700]
Second hour: Was Margaret Thatcher's 1986 'Big Bang' responsible for the banks collapsing in 2008? Monetary reformer and former Bank of England employee turned international consultant Muhammad Rafeeq. Wikileaks release searchable index of 'The Kissinger Cables' from and to Nixon's Secretary of State Henry Kissinger who had a secret foreign policy of coups, massacres and death squads. Senior Italian judge says he has evidence that Ken Clarke's secret Bilderberg club were behind terrorist attacks across Europe as part of Operation Gladio. Anders Breivik massacre relatives prepare to sue Norwegian police & authorities. Julian Parry discusses the legacy of Margaret Thatcher who died on Monday. Several of the same individuals who removed Maggie over her attitude to European EMU integration involved in alleged illegal South African nuclear arms deal with Astra Holdings headed by former MI6 officer Stephan Koch. BBC make a documentary with The Guardian to mark the decade since the start of the Iraq war in March 2013 but then fail to screen it. Its content exposes appalling crimes by US Colonel James Steele in Iraq. America's Hired Death Squads and Torture Teams Are Still Operating in Iraq - A 15-month investigation exploring war crimes long denied by the Pentagon lays out the tragic truth. James Steele: America's mystery man in Iraq - video. Next Saturday sees Bristol's Anarchist Bookfair 11am-6pm at the Trinity Centre at the East end of Old Market. [audio: 201304121800]
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
First hour: news review with Labour Councillor for St George West Peter Hammond. Discussion with Peter on why he had to stand down as Labour leader, how Labour have managed to influence the Bristol City Council's annual budget e.g. getting extra money for Speedwell Pool and Community Transport. Latest on the criminal bankers including clip from Russia Today's 'The Keiser Report' about a class action in the US brought against Libor fraud banks – case dismissed by US judge; HBOS malfesance story today too with mild 'slapped wrists' for multi-billion pound fraudsters; Can work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith really live on £53 a week including bills? The Queen gets a £5 million pay rise as the 'Civil List' is replaced by the 'Sovereign Grant' – is Queen Elizabeth the real Vile Product Of Welfare UK as quoted from this week's Daily Mail Headline? Owen Jones and Ruth Porter on Channel 4 news discuss this 'Philpott' welfare debate – DFS in Bristol get 1200 applicants for 9 jobs, Costa Coffee in Nottingham get 1700 applications for 8 jobs, Joseph Roundtree Foundation report that the UK has 6.5 million people looking for full time work that does not exist – Iceland has increased welfare benefits because that helps the economy to grow in a crisis; staggering leaks of confidential documents reveal secrets of the rich tax evaders who hide cash offshore (mainly from the British Virgin Islands) –estimated at £21 trillion; Trident - costs £100 billion for about 25 years - clip of Bruce Kent, veteran CND campaigner on being spied on by Cathy Massiter, discussion about Peter Hammond being blacklisted by the Economic League and Bruce Kent and CND being spied on; documentary all about this from the 1980s as part of Channel 4's 20/20 Vision Series with Hugo Young; Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE)s £10.5 million mis-selling (fraud) Ofgem fine; wheels coming off the wagon as North Somerset Council stop enforcing parking offences - a symptom of ‘private affluence and public squalor’; Unite the Union air the prospect of a 2013 general strike. [audio: 201304051700]
Second hour: North Korea threatens nuclear attack on USA, but did William Waldegrave, Ken Clarke, David Cameron and other senior Tories collude in supplying these ex-South African nuclear weapons onto the black market? Peer admits MI6 officer Daphne Park arranged the assassination of Congo’s first independent leader Patrice Lumumba; massive increase in heroin trafficking from Afghanistan - one million deaths from heroin now estimated since the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan by NATO, the US and UK. Martin explains how, why and when the CIA and MI6 began to be major drug smugglers and reccomends two websites CIAdrugs and NarcoNews. Anne Lemon teaches in Clevedon and is on the National Executive of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) who had their annual conference over Easter. She explains the union's view on Free Schools, Academy Schools and the new National Curriculum and tells us about a mayday rally taking place next month in Castle Park which is organised by local Trades Unionists. SMART METERS - Big Brother or helpful technology? we are joined by David Saunders of Bristol Power and Mike Mitcham of the Stop Smart Meters campaign. - Who is president Bashar Al Assad of Syria's English wife Asma? She is not heard from on British mainstream media but seems to come across as an intelligent and compassionate stateswoman [audio: 201304051800]
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 Communist Party of Britain member from Somerset Ken Keable and 17 Trades Unions support the 'People's Charter' and the People's Assembly Against Austerity this coming June. Daily Worker and Morning star newspapers. Religion and politics. Current strength of Russian Communist party. 1956 Hungarian uprising and 1968 Czechoslovakian invasions crushed by force. Also is the Communist party electable? Lack of demand in the economy, Libor style oil and gas price fixing. Former 'partner in crime' of Vladimir Putin, Russian Oligarch Boris Berezovsky, is found dead at his Berkshire home a month before he was due to testify at the inquest of Alexander Litvinenko. Motives for MI6 and the Russians for killing him. Michael Meacher MP's budget speech on Monday evening where he says the budget is designed to dismantle the welfare state, there is no macro-economic strategy. Tory London mayor Boris Johnson interviewed by Eddie Mair for the Andrew Marr show taclked on his character and called 'a nasty piece of work' Boris disputes this. Ken Clarke's Secret Courts bill passes the House of Lords which is the first time in 800 years to undermine Habeus Corpus, that means those held unlawfully in custody can be released. Bilderberger and Minister Without Portfolio Ken Clarke accused of misleading parliament saying the secret courts bill was no threat to Habeus Corpus. Cyprus banking colapse - Faisal Islam describes Mario Monti's plane full of 10bn Euros flying in from Frankfurt to Larneka and G4S distributing the cash. [audio: 201303291700]
Second hour: investigative reports. Interview with lawyer & former Scotland Yard Fraud Squad detective for 12 years Rowan Boswell-Davies who submitted evidence of widespread organised crime in the City of London under US, EU, Australian and British definitions of Organised Crime to the Parliamentary Banking Commission chaired by Andrew Tyrie. This evidence was initially 'lost' by the Commission and after Rowan contacted Mr Tyrie they found it again. They have suggested the evidence might have to be 'redacted', or blanked out, so Rowan has published it in full for the public to view online. Mr Boswell-Davies believes that unless the authorities institute a series of criminal trials and convictions of 'blue blood' City bankers, the 'Princes of the City', will continue to defraud the nation, loot and bring about an eventual collapse of the national economy and the pound. He has identified the 'Blue Arrow' trial as the most important city fraud case where the message went out that it was 'open season' for city fraudsters, that they would never again be prosecuted. This trial had rattled the 'self-regulating' City criminal club and they then knocked back the police and went back to a tame, pre Sir Robert Mark, system of 'light touch' regulation by their friends. Rowan explains who should be arrested and put on trial, as well as why and how to do it. TWO EURODOLLAR COLLAPSE SCENARIOS: We then explore, following the Cyprus crisis, two scenarios of a Euro/dollar collapse, one positive where the government get a grip on the crisis and one negative where they don't. 1. The trigger for the crash, 2. the almost instantaneous crash itself, 3. a few days later the crucial point where the government do, or do not, get a grip on the crisis and act decisively providing cash and food, 4. a few weeks later, 5 a few months later and 6. they cannot say they didn't know because we have just told them ;-) Jesse Ventura's 'Death Ray' show in his Conspiracy Theory series in the US. Bristol activist Tom Woodhead arrested and beaten up by the Israeli police then deported for peacefully demonstrating. Blindfolded and believes he was subjected to a mock execution. [audio: 201303291800]
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After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
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First hour: George Osborne's Budget 2013. News review with Eastville LibDem Councillor & former leader of Bristol LibDems Steve Comber. A green light for UK banking fraud: RBS & Barclays LIBOR and HSBC Money Laundering, how much did they make and how much was the out of court settlement? Steve Comer, former leader of LibDems in Bristol & LibDem councillor for Eastville, reviews the weeks news with Tony and Martin Summers. Discussing cuts in Avon Fire Authority which Steve Comer sits on including a halt to recruitment of fire-fighters. This week’s 2013 budget and clips of (VIDEO): Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne coughs and flounders during the budget speech as he confesses that December’s Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) growth forecast of 1.2% has been downgraded this week to 0.6% – National debt looks likely to double under this government from £800bn to £1.6tn. Martin points out Coalition are fiddling figures to make it look like deficit is going down, Steve says we need to borrow to invest, locally there are some schemes to do this; ‘Workfare Makes You Free’ - Labour Party abstain from obscene retrospective Workfare vote after government and Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) caught breaking the law forcing science graduate Cait Reilly to work in Poundland for free; Bristol West LibDem MP Stephen Williams at PMQs about £10k tax threshold; Two Hinkley Point nuclear power stations given planning permission – subsidies discussed, choosing what to back in the ‘free market’; Hugh Bailey at PMQs asks Prime Minister David Cameron to scrap the bedroom tax entirely - Mayor George Ferguson says Bristol City Council won't evict those who can't pay; Anglican bishops, with the exception of Nigerian Elf oil shark & city banker Archbishop Welby, opposing benefit cuts – cutting benefits in a crisis stupid, better to introduce a citizens income. Royal Charter to be set up to regulate the press but clause quietly inserted to prosecute bloggers and this starts looking like an unnecessary establishment fix-up. [audio: 201303221700] download
Second hour: former financial editor of the Scottish Sunday Herald now London based blogger Ian Fraser on the Big Bang open season on fraud indicated by the Court Of Appeal overturning four fraud convictions in the County NatWest Blue Arrow rights issue where dealers fraudulently misrepresented the share price. European Central Bank (ECB), European Union (EU) & International Monetary Fund (IMF) or Troika impose one off tax of between 6% & 10% on Cypriot bank accounts in exchange for bailout. Blue Arrow, County Nat West trial, rights issue for Manpower buyout; financial bribes for Libor rigging. Libor ‘Rain Man’ dealer Tom Hayes was known to be the best Libor fixer in the business. Hayes' pay package more than doubled from $2m to $5m when he moved from UBS to Citi bank, however, he was fired by Citi in September 2010 and in December 2012 he was arrested by London's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and bailed without charge. Separately, he was charged with wire fraud, price-fixing and conspiracy by the US Department of Justice and his extradition requested. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, Hayes is now turning queen's evidence, 'singing like a canary', and seeking to prove to the authorities that Libor rigging was condoned at the highest levels at his former employers. Jennifer Arcuri, a close friend of Hayes, said he is helping police with their inquiries. He believes he's innocent, Arcuri told the WSJ. She added that trying to rig Libor was common industry practice. It was like spanking children in the 1970s – condoned from the top. Libor trader Roger Darin also charged with conspiracy, wire fraud and an antitrust violation; Robert & Vincent Tchenguiz are suing the Serious Fraud Office for more than £200m following the agency's investigation into their role in the collapse of Iceland's banks, this case could destroy the SFO. Financial press too close to the city, being taken on jaunts & jollys by them; Cyprus and contagion, painting the European Central Bank as Europe's new feudal overlord. Interview with Labour’s former mayor of Frome Bob Ashford, who was barred from standing for Police and Crime Commissioner because of a minor offence committed when a teenager. His campaign to change the law is called Wipe The Slate Clean www.wipetheslateclean.co.uk - Strange that senior police officers, officers of all ranks, even Chief Constables and Assistant Chief Constables are not even vetted, many have serious criminal offences on their record and new recruits are not vetted. Marina Morris Voxpop where she asks whether or not you actually trust the police, Jimmy Savile and phone hacking have undermined trust in the police for many Bristolians. International stories briefly covered with Old Labour Oxford economist Martin Summers: Texan man elected in Istanbul as Syrian opposition 'Prime Minister' Ghassan Hitto; appears that chemical weapons have been used near Allepo in Syria by the Free Syrian Army, UN investigating. US and NATO preparing for intervention in Syria. Iraq war started ten years ago this week on WMD lies from German secret service BND’s agent Rafed Al Janabi, codename ‘Curveball’. [audio: 201303221800] download
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After six:
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First hour: Bedroom tax; Kingswood Tory MP Chris Skidmore blames Labour for NHS failings at Prime Minister's Questions; Introduction to Mark Wright, Lib Dem councillor for Cabot ward. Discussion includes former Energy Secretary Chris Huhne going to prison, Schools minister David Laws' £40,000 MP's Expenses scandal fine, LibDem leader Nick Clegg overturning LibDem party democracy on secret courts and the LibDem spring conference. Martin Summers is asked what he thinks about next week's budget and the wisdom of cuts. Clip of Liam Fox and his cutting tax and benefits plans for the economy. Universal credit & the more developed Citizen's income as proposed by the Green party here in the UK and newly elected Grillo in Italy. PMQ clip of Miliband and Cameron on the bedroom tax from last week vs. the way Cameron is treating the bankers. Discussion including how the local council and housing associations will probably pick up the debt of rent arrears. PMQ clip of Ian Murray - will the PM personally benefit from millionaires tax cut? NHS Chief Executive Sir David Nicholson is determined to rub the public's noses in his invincibility and contempt for his critics according to the Daily Mail. He says he wants to support whistleblowers but his new deputy, Dame Barbara Hakin stands accused of helping to authorise £500,000 to silence a hospital chief executive who was sacked after warning that targets were threatening lives. Councillors for hire who give firms planning advice One Tory councillor in East Devon, Graham Brown, boasted: “If I can't get planning, nobody will.” The councillor claimed he preferred to keep a low profile, but had “access to all the right people for the right clients”. He added: “[I] don’t come cheap. I mean, there are jobs that I do for £1,000, and there are jobs that I do for £20,000 … if I turn a greenfield into a housing estate and I'm earning the developer two or three million, then I ain’t doing it for peanuts.” The Daily Telegraph’s investigation also looked at the activities of Indigo Public Affairs, a lobbying company. In Newcastle, Greg Stone, a Liberal Democrat councillor who works for the firm, boasted that the company had “a good chance that via our network someone will know someone who knows somebody” at every council. “Tricks of the trade” used to gain approval for developments included making sure planning committees included “friendly faces”, he said. New head of legal services at Bristol City Council Liam Nevin spent more than 23,000 of taxpayers' money on an attempt to ban the press from reporting details of a controversial fostering case. New Pope, a German Jesuit from Argentina. The Archbishop and the oil sharks: A 'slick' young Justin Welby, Elf Oil the crooked 'Monsieur Africa' and a £6bn mission to snap Nigeria's oil riches - with catastrophic results. [audio: 201303151700]
Second hour: Kevin Phillips, chair of the Avon and Somerset Police Federation, discusses the recent vote on whether police would strike or not. Vote was 69% locally & 81% nationally in favour of the right to strike. Drusilla Sharpling, from HMIC, says police appeared to be reluctant to investigate Savile because of his high public profile in this week's report. The Jimmy Savile case, phone hacking, Hillsborough, the police are discrediting themselves. Why aren't fraudulent bankers & traders being arrested, in Iran fraudsters are being executed Low morale in the police. Round up of international news with Martin Summers: As the smoke clears after Saudi Arabia's latest mass execution by firing squad... Charles and Camilla fly in. The Prince isn't expected to raise the issue of human rights with his hosts. Perhaps he should. Queen's Sri Lanka visit for Commonwealth CHOG meeting 'grotesque'. Disaster in Syria as Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov flies into London to talk to Foreign Secretary William Hague, believes UK will break international law if we supply weapons to non-governmental actors, or terrorists, in Syria, particularly embarrassing because they kidnapped UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights, Syrian army seem to be winning the 'civil war'. 9/11 'mastermind' living in posh Bristol City Centre flat? Correction. No, his flat is, in fact, in London. Security records of cars passing through a checkpoint at the Prestancia gated community indicated that Mr Abdulaziz al-Hijji and his wife Anoud’s home, 4224 Escondito Circle, Prestancia, Sarasota, Florida, had been visited a number of times by Mohamed Atta, the leader of the 19-strong hijack team, who piloted American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Centre in 2001. The logs also indicated that Marwan Al-Shehhi, who crashed United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower, and Ziad Jarrah, who was at the controls of United Airlines Flight 93 when it crashed in a field in Pennsylvania, had visited the house. A decade after the world's worst terrorist attack, which claimed the lives of 3,000 people, Mr al-Hijji is resident in London, working for the European subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s state oil company. Described as a career counsellor, he is based in the offices of Aramco Overseas Company UK Limited. Israeli president Shimon Peres comes to the EU to try to persuade them to ban Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation. Royal visits to two regimes of the worst abusers of human rights in the world. The death, possibly by CIA poisoning, of Hugo Chavez, land reform and fantastic results of his government for general health and wellbeing. Mike Birkin from Friends of the Earth discusses EDF Energy pulling out of a court case where they were attempting to sue protesters. Sustainable energy and the Energy Bill. Japan betrayed to help US fight Russia at the end of World War Two: 1992 BBC Horizon documentary 'Hitler's Bomb' & Carter Hydrick's book Critical Mass, about the 1945 US/Nazi Uranium & Plutonium deal [audio: 201303151800]
International Women's Day - no show
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After six:
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Bristol City Slackers March 2013: the MPs
Labour, Bristol South, Dawn Primarolo MP
Conservative, Bristol North-West, Charlotte Leslie MP
Conservative, Kingswood, Chris Skidmore MP
First Hour: News review with Labour Councillor for Southmead Jenny Smith. Influence of the owners on journalism at the Evening Post and discussion on the rights and wrongs of the bedroom tax. Tony's March 2013 list of City Slacker MPs (see above). What are these new 'negative interest rates' – rich people buying up assets; massive cap on bankers bonuses announced; Muhammad Rafeeq, former bank of England employee on Britain's plummeting financial reputation in the world; KPMG adviser to mayor Ferguson and present Competition Commission's investigation into auditing fraud and price fixing – big companies and banks keeping several sets of books, looks like Big Four will be found to have been committing fraud and hoping nobody will notice; the Mayors first budge t has £35m of cuts. Britain's AAA credit rating cut last Friday evening; MP for Filton and Bradley Stoke Jack Lopresti took a £6,600 trip to Saudi Arabia in December paid for by the Saudi government and reported by the TheyWorkForYou website and Private Eye but in a climate of illegal arms deals and considering his Filton connection with arms manufacturer BAe Systems what was he up to there? clip of Ed Miliband at PMQ discussing the New Statesman article by Anthony Seldon; clip of sharp former Labour leader John Smith at PMQs vs. John Major in 1993; Tiny number of multinational giants dominating the global food market. [audio: 201303011700]
Second Hour: Transport adviser to Bristol mayor George Ferguson & Bristol Friends of the Earth campaigner Pip Sheard quit but returned a week later as an adviser. She talks tonight about Bristol's plagued bus rapid transit (BRT) system, cars, congestion charge, buses and trains. Pip is a volunteer on Bristol mayor George Ferguson’s advisory group for transport. She discusses the Bus Rapid Transit System, smart cards to get people on buses, the 'bonkers bus stops' etc. Round up of international news stories with Martin Summers: British secret services want to keep evidence secret at Alexander Litvinenko inquest delaying it by another six months, what have they got to hide? The book ‘Blowing up Russia’ offers clues to the possible motives behind the killing, to cover up false flag terrorism. 9/11 court case in Horsham with Tony Rooke, BBC TV documentary producer Mike Rudin in the frame under Section 15 of the UK Terrorism Act 2000, Article 3, for aiding and abbetting terrorism. A voxpop by Marina Morris, do people believe the story about the death of Osama Bin Laden in Abbotabad, Pakistan in May 2011? Discussion about who Osama Bin Laden was working for and when he really died. Nafeez Ahmed on the seven myths of the Iraq war as wrongly reported by BBC TV's sinking 'flagship' Newsnight on the tenth anniversary of the war. British Foreign Secretary William Hague and new US Secretary of State John Kerry discuss Syria on Monday. Discussion of the Skull and Bones society at Yale University which John Kerry was initiated into in 1966, including a unique recording of screams and chant of 'The Devil Equals Death' at of one of their Skull and Bones initiation ceremonies. The 1974 Portuguese revolution, extract from this week's Dialect interview with Enrique Ribiro. Interview with Victoria Brittain about her new book Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War On Terror. [audio: 201303011800]
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discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around
the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
and Marina Morris
First hour: BBC Strike on Monday, Father of the Chapel at BBC Bristol Matthew Hill explains why the National Union of Journalists have withdrawn their labour. BBC have a history of blacklisting employees in collaboration with MI5 in the 1980s 'Christmas Tree Files' episode. Deadlier than 7/7? Officers swoop on three Islamic extremists Irfan Naseer, Irfan Khalid, and Ashik Ali who are supposed to have masterminded a suicide bomb plot “bigger than 7/7”, but were there plea bargains in this case and was there an element of entrapment as in so-called US terror plots set up by the FBI? 'Helping MI5 ruined my life': Man whose house was used as spy base in airliner 'liquid bomb plot' sues Met for wrongful arrest. Constantinos Alexandrou gave up his home to MI5 - a move he claims cost him his relationship. The justice and security bill is 'a chilling affront to British justice'. Secret courts being pushed by Ken Clarke, should have no place within our judicial system. Mayor's plea for Bristolians to come together to save money on electricity bills. Bristol Switch and Save is a new not-for-profit collective buying scheme where residents and small businesses on a domestic tariff can join together to get a better deal: visit www.bristolswitchandsave.org.uk Families can be better off on benefits than in work, says Bristol City Council-run advice line. The Family Information Service, based in Easton, is designed to provide statutory advice to parents on everything from child minding regulation to finding play groups, but manager Wendy Jackson said that most of the advice given now relates to the affordability of child care provision. Advisor Jessica Kelly, who specialises in giving young mums this sort of sensitive financial advice, said the team never directly encourage parents not return to work. But she added: "There can be situations where, if a person took a job for just a few hours per week they could end up being financially worse-off than being on benefits. Bristol has highest child poverty figures in south west. A quarter of all children in live in poverty, a new report claims. When given by constituency Bristol South has an even higher level of deprivation, with 29 per cent of children living in poverty. UN official alarmed by rise of food banks in UK. Britons' reliance on handouts could represent human rights abuse says Olivier de Schutter, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. “The right to an adequate diet is required under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (IESCR),” Mr de Schutter told The Independent. “Governments have a responsibility in ensuring adequate diets.” Nottingham Costa Worker picked from 1,700 applicants for just eight jobs at new coffee shop Just 3 of the jobs - with wages from £5.40 to £10-an-hour - were full-time Some rejected applicants had more than 15 years experience in retail More than 1,700 job hunters applied for just eight vacancies at a new cafe it emerged today - highlighting the extent of the employment crisis across Britain. So where did it come from? The answer is simple. The bill is the idea of the very people it will most benefit – the intelligence services, civil servants and government ministers – which is why they are lobbying like hell for it. Amnesty International, JUSTICE, Liberty and Reprieve say Secret courts threat graver than ever after government overturns Lords amendments to Justice & Security Bill Tory MP Andrew Tyrie warns that government is in danger of 'closing down access to the truth' Ken Clarke, the minister without portfolio in charge of the legislation. Anger over £1m pay deals for rail bosses as fares keep going up Information obtained under the Freedom of Information Act showed executives at Go-Ahead, FirstGroup and Network Rail were getting deals worth more than £1m when assorted bonuses and other benefits were taken into account. Meanwhile, a passenger satisfaction survey published today by consumer magazine Which? shows that more than half of the companies running Britain's train network were given scores of less than 50 per cent. The research showed that only 22 per cent of train users felt the service they received was improving, despite rising ticket prices. It was revealed last month that ScotRail boss Stephen Montgomery received a £54,000 pay rise, taking his salary up to £333,000 in 2012. The company is owned by FirstGroup, where chief executive Tim O’Toole was paid £846,000 last year, plus a £134,000 pension contribution and £75,000 as benefits in kind. Accounts showed that, in the year ending March 2012, FirstGroup made an operating profit of £110.5m on its UK rail business. The FirstGroup chief executive's remuneration package was worth more than £1m last year. The American executive left a lucrative job with London Underground – where he earned the CBE for his response to the London 7/7 bombings – to join FirstGroup. [audio: 201302221700]
Second hour: Forget Oscar Pistorious - 9/11 and Philip Marshall Murder/Suicide? A Trip To Murphys Philip Marshall allegedly shot his two teenage children Alex Marshall (17) and Macaila Marshall (14), his dog, and then himself inside his home in Murphys, California, while his “estranged” wife was out of the country. A former guest on Coast to Coast with George Noory, Marshall’s bio for that site states “Marshall has researched 30 years of covert government activities, a revolving door of Wall Street tricksters, media moguls and their well funded politicians into every branch of our government. Post 9/11, Marshall has led a comprehensive, ten year study into the tactical plan used by the 9/11 hijackers and is the leading aviation expert on the September 11th attack.” The same biography also describes Marshall as a “former government special activities contract pilot.” Bilderberg attendee Amazon 'used neo-Nazi guards to keep immigrant workforce under control' in Germany Amazon is at the centre of a deepening scandal in Germany as the on-line shopping giant faced claims that it employed security guards with neo-Nazi connections to intimidate its foreign workers. ARD television channel made the allegations in a documentary about Amazon's treatment of more than 5,000 temporary staff from across to work at its German packing and distribution centres. The film showed omnipresent guards from a company named HESS Security wearing black uniforms, boots and with military haircuts. They were employed to keep order at hostels and budget hotels where foreign workers stayed. “Many of the workers are afraid,” the programme-makers said. The Brussels Business documentary is shown on English Language channel Russia Today which looks at Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) in Brussels. Revealed: UK sells arms to Sri Lanka's brutal regime despite litany of rights abuses The sales indicate how far President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government has been welcomed back into the international fold by Britain, despite the behaviour of his armed forces during the brutal last few months of the 2009 civil war. The conflict was the culmination of a 30-year conflict with violent Tamil Tiger separatists and resulted in the deaths of between 60,000 and 100,000 people over a four-month period, most of whom were civilians. Sen. Lindsey Graham says US drones have killed nearly 5,000 people. For the first time ever, a senior US senator has publicly announced the number of victims of America's ever expanding drone war - and apparently it's even bigger than some independent researchers have suggested. “We've killed 4,700,” the Council for Foreign Relations says Senator Graham told the crowd. “Sometimes you hit innocent people, and I hate that, but we're at war, and we've taken out some very senior members of Al-Qaeda.” International financial consultant and former member of staff at the Bank of England Muhammad Rafeeq (part 2) (part 3) on his experience doing Data Processing (DP) at the bank in the 1980s converting the old paper system of guarantees to a new electronic version. He believes our core understanding of banking is deliberately misleading, misunderstanding to the core. The City of London is like a cult, now a criminal cult, with positions on the banking boards going only to Old Etonians. Banking slavery, he says, is the norm, with a tiny financial elite keeping the population in bondage. We just had a brief respite since the second world war. Most people prefer to wait for the train crash to happen rather than work to stop the crash happening. Criminal elite defrauding the public through figures of of £70-80 trillion in the Libor scandal yet not a single person has gone to court. There is no longer any moral hazard to fraud in the City of London. Martin Summers describes Britain as having become a 'Mafia State. [audio: 201302221800]
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discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around
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After six:
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First hour: Tonight's guest United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) councillor on Bradley Stoke Town Council Ben Walker defected from the Conservatives to UKIP about a year ago and Conservative councillor at Bradley Stoke Keir Gravil resigned this week. Discussion on BAe Systems' closure of Bristol's historic Filton airfield and the continuing failure of developers to get planning permission from South Gloucestershire Council to build housing on the old runway. The 'Big Four' 'financial services' firms KPMG, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte & Ernst & Young all subject of Competition Commission (CC)'s investigation into price fixing and fraud. CC have missed two deadlines already for delivering their report on these four powerful companies who signed off insolvent bank's accounts as healthy in the run-up to the 2008 crash. Discussed with Old Labour Oxford economist Martin Summers. A 'volunteer' from KPMG, Matt Payne, has been recruited as advisor to mayor Ferguson. Horse meat being passed off as beef scandal: Horsemeat found at Bradley Stoke meat firm Greencore labelled as beef for human consumption this morning. Environment Secretary Owen Patterson reports to the House of Commons; Stephen Williams in PMQs asks question about Christian Aid event around tax evasion, profit reporting and transparency - only with doubtful political will it ever happen; Gareth Thomas in PMQs: 4000 fewer police on London's streets after the first two years of the Coalition government; Stephen Powell in PMQs on the millionaires tax cut in April he asks Cameron directly whether he benefited personally from this tax break but Prime Minister David Cameron refuses to answer. What does this tell us about the present political class who seem to be running the country in their own personal interest; Is it good in the modern NHS when a patient dies because it frees up a bed? Former NHS Chief Executive Gary Walker from Lincolnshire NHS Trust and gagging clauses, NHS culture needs to change, general discussion on gagging clauses including those imposed by the BBC and by Bristol City Council's head of legal services Stephen McNamara on sacked Avon Coroner Paul Forrest; Bristol Port boss David Ord is a Conservative donor and denies directly lobbying the PM against building the Severn barrage; voxpop by Marina Morris on the newly introduced law allowing gay marriage, many Bristolians asked don't think it's a good idea. [audio: 201302151700]
Second hour: A round up of the weeks international news with Martin Summers. a court case about 9/11 is coming in Horsham, Sussex on Monday 25th February where Anthony Rooke of Christians for 9/11 Truth is suing the BBC for aiding and abetting terrorism under Section 15 Article 3 of the Terrorism Act 2000; North Korea conducts underground nuclear test this week so where did they get their nuclear weapons? Could it be lost plutonium or enriched uranium or even complete warheads from Russia or the NATO countries? Martin explains that the Conservative party may have been involved in a secret fundraising deal to illegally sell nuclear weapons back in the early 1990s and reminds us that Central TV investigative journalist Roger Cook was offered former Soviet SS20 warheads on the black market. Syrian rebels may now be training to attack Britain says Tory Foreign Secretary William Hague at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) but Martin Summers is doubtful and asks why would they when they want to oust Assad & Britain has helped train them & supply them with weapons? Severe water shortage brewing in the middle east according to US satellite surveys by NASA. Will Stone from Avon and Bristol Law Centre about a disabled client of his Dan Glue who was bullied by French company employed by the Department of Work and Pensions ATOS, who were paid £112.4m of public money to carry out 738,000 assessments in the last two years. The bedroom tax will lead to evictions as people are unable to pay their rent, Will advises them to come to Avon & Bristol or another law centre as they may be able to stop evictions. Stupidity of evicting people from a cheap two bedroom home into a non-existent one-bedroom home that may not exist and be more expensive. Zaki Dogliani, a student deputy editor news section of the student magazine Epigram, discusses the magazine and some stories he has recently covered including the marketisation of the University. Miko Peled, who wrote the book 'A General's Son', explodes myths of the state of Israel including fake Biblical excuses for building illegal settlements and double standards over the 'right to return'. Interview with Steve Jolly from www.no-cctv.org.uk about new principle of "surveillance by consent" that the recently published "Surveillance Cameras Code of Practice" now up for consultation. New Argus drone which has an ultra-high resolution camera for putting entire domestic cities under permanent surveillance. BBC on strike on monday over compulsory redundancies as these are unnecessary and used by management to sack people for political reasons. [audio: 201302151800]
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discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around
the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
and Marina Morris
First hour: Non story of the week: RBS fined disappointing £380m over Libor, no directors arrested or jailed. News review with Conservative Councillor for Westbury-On-Trym and Deputy Mayor of Bristol Geoff Gollop. Mayor George Ferguson's three 'volunteer' budget advisers: Matt Payne from financial services firm KPMG which signed off accounts of bankrupt banks pre 2008 & is being investigated for fraud by the Competition Commission, Sean Cater from privatised utility firm Wessex Water & Malachy Reynolds from bankrupt chocolate firm Elizabeth Shaw. Privatised 'Work Programme' providers fraudulently pushing benefit claimants into self-employment to get 5 figure bonuses and reduce jobless figures. You can download the podcast of this BBC Radio 5 Live programme. Will Osborne’s bedroom tax add more to social security bill? Yes says Channel 4 News. Ed Miliband tackles Cameron at PMQs. Findus lasagne products made from 100% horse meat - France, Poland and Ireland appear to be responsible and this lie not picked up in the UK but in Ireland. Recessions compared by the National Institute for Economic and Social Affairs (NIESR): In May 2011 it became clear this is worst recession for at least a century, 5 years into the 1930s depression growth was 7% higher than 2008 to now; no recovery until 2018 warns NIESR; Iraq war activists to get £4000 compensation over 2003 protest; Metropolitan police behaving like UK Stasi: dead children's identities used by Scotland Yard police for undercover infiltration of lawful political groups. [audio: 201302081700]
Second hour: investigative reports - Financial crimes: click on this to read Paul Manning's book on the Fourth Reich Mafia Finance Network - Round up of international news stories with Martin Summers: trouble between Japan and China; corruption of the Spanish Prime Minister Rajoy being paid from the secret slush funds of private developers; Russian military conscription is being introduced for all new young migrants. Campaign for Accountability of American Bases (CAAB) February 2013 newsletter is just out and contains much to be concerned about including a list of RAF bases which contain only one or two, or ZERO RAF personnel: RAF Croughton 1, RAF Fairford 0, RAF Welford 0, RAF Barford St John 0, Blenheim Crescent 0, RAF Lakenheath 1, RAF Feltwell 0, RAF Menwith Hill 3. RAF Mildenhall 4, RAF Alconbury 1, RAF Molesworth 2. Figures revealed in answer to a parliamentary question by Conservative MP for Rayleigh and Wickford, Mark Francois. Link to the indomitable CAAB website. Interview with Daphne Havercroft from South West Whistleblowers' Health Action Group (SWWHAG) concerning recent deaths at Mid-Staffordshire Hospital and systemic failings of the NHS. 'Business' mentality at the top of Bristol NHS questioned: Bristol UHB Trust chaired by Merchant Venturer John Savage and UHB Trust chaired by Peter Rillet, also a Merchant Venturer. Mike Birkin from South West Friends of the Earth discusses Centrica's pulling out of the UK Nuclear Power programme and Cumbrian nuclear waste site refused planning permission. What does this mean for the prospects of new nuclear at Hinkley Point? In 1973 Mike attended a lecture by William Sargant, author of the book 'The Battle For The Mind' and was impressed with his analysis of cults such as voodoo and how they use rituals to alter members' thinking. Transfer of these techniques to tell people what to think in the global political arena through the mass media. Journalist and writer for the Guardian and New Statesman Dan Glazebrook on this week's assassination in Tunisia and the way the so-called Arab Spring is playing out as a fight between Chinese and NATO interests in harvesting the continent's resources. Dan gives his opinion on who will win this colonial military and economic conflict as it plays out, and why. [audio: 201302081800]
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and Marina Morris
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First hour: Difference between Debt and Deficit explained as UK Deficit begins to grow again. News review with LibDem Councillor for Knowle Gary Hopkins. Iceland's president Grimmson vindicated for refusing to pay debts and arresting bankers. Britain's deficit is getting worse as well as debt growing so what is the difference between Debt and Deficit? The government borrowed more than expected in November, Office for National Statistics data shows, reducing the chance that the government will meet its 2012/13 deficit reduction goal. Introduction from guest Gary Hopkins. Discussion about the new Bristol cabinet which is mostly LibDems so what has changed? News stories - Mayor George Ferguson has cancelled Speedwell Pool; new crisis loans from local government; who are George Ferguson's three advisers from KPMG and how much are they paid and where do their loyalties lie? Is the mayor a dictator? Does George know KPMG are under investigation for fraud by the competition commission; Office of Fair Trading report says there is no petrol price fixing by the oil cartels - 2/3 fuel cost is tax, Libor style fixing of wholesale oil prices, geo-political games; BBC's Stephanie Flanders interviews Chief Executive of Goldman Sachs Lloyd Blankfein at the World Economic Forum in Davos in Switzerland; clip of Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland, about why Iceland's economy is flourishing after his judges arrested and jailed bankers; clip of at PMQ about UKs debt going up despite austerity measures - discussion about the economy, the deficit, and tax avoidance; the parasitic financial class are a cancer on British economic life, everyone is looking at each other as they start to go backwards down the up escalator and debts will never be paid off. Some evidence that tax evaders who keep their money secretly in Swiss bank accounts are being taxed under the 'Rubik Accord' but there is no transparency or audit trail, all done on 'trust' of the Swiss banks. First Great Western will not now have to compete for the Great Western rail franchise. Franchise rail contest will no longer take place, is this because First Group were caught out by Richard Branson's Virgin cheating over the West Coast main line franchise bid? PMQs about why won't Prime Minister David Cameron visit a food bank? Top police jobs may be opened up to anyone, including foreigners, like unsuccessful 'SuperCops' like LA California's Bill Bratton in the United States. [audio: 201302011700]
Second hour: (our 93.2 FM transmitter outage for 40 seconds or so at around 18:37:00 included here in the podcast) Israel bombs Syria to provoke war & investigative reports. Round up of some international stories with Martin Summers - Syria, Mali, Israel; a clip from Ofcom banned Iranian channel Press TV about Hispan TV, the Spanish language Iranian TV station for Latin-America that has been shut down in Spain; the EUTEL satellite which blocked the channel, run by Michel de Rosen a French/Israeli chief executive so are they using their satellite as a weapon of war? Perhaps the satellite should be shot down for censorship? Dutch royal family abdicates, and some of their interests. Steve Rose phones in to discuss a conference on 'Journalism and Islamophobia' he has attended in Turkey. Tony and Martin discuss the destruction of Timbuktu library of Arabic manuscripts. Respect party MP George Galloway at PMQs asking why the Coalition government supports Islamic extremists in Syria and Libya but not in Mali & Algeria? Gary McFarlane, a former counsellor for Relate, who was sacked because he didn't feel qualified to help a gay couple with sexual counselling. Sex addiction, love addiction & personal relationship counsellor Gary McFarlane and author of The Art Of Loving sacked by Relate for his faith fights his case of unfair dismissal through the courts. Now counselling in his own Bristol practice. [audio: 201302011800]
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.
Airbus One magazine October 2012 has a map of the company's production
sites which omits Filton.
First hour: news review with former mayoral candidate and both Labour and Tory Avon County Councillor. EXCLUSIVE Airbus magazine airbrushes Filton site from in-house production map. Tim Collins, former mayoral candidate. Discussion about the December 2012 closure of Filton airfield and the Airbus' One in house magazine which excludes Filton in their illustration of production plants. Tory buildin co. boss Cullum McAlpine has been blacklisting builders who report health and safety concerns but doesn't think he's done anything wrong, somehow. The Consulting Association (TCA), chaired by Cullum McAlpine. TCA boss Ian Kerr died just before Christmas 2012, here he is, 2 weeks before he died, in front of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee. He appears to have got hold of copies of police files or had them compiled on workers' compare with CAPRIM (1990s) and the Economic League (1970s-1980s); employment 'rises' but is it only part-time work as wages stagnate - people on benefit 'work programmes' included as employed; crime figures - fiddling figures by lowering 'priority' of some crimes; Mayor George Ferguson's new cabinet; but the Greens ask 'Where is the new blood'? David Cameron's Europe speech; Yeovil man dies after nurses gave him 21 x dose of his medication but family let down because nurses are unlikely to be prosecuted; PMQs on question about being forced to live on £2 a day. [audio: 201301251700]
Second hour: Martin Falmer, Labour councillor for Cadbury Heath, discusses the partial closure of Cadbury Heath youth centre and Cadbury Heath Post Office moving to a Costcutter shop away from where pensioners live. Roz Beauhill and DU author Joanne Baker discuss how they would like Bristol to be a nuclear free local authority again. Nuclear Free Bristol campaign launched to persuade Bristol City Council to go 'nuclear free'. They discuss the dangers and difficulties of nuclear power, it's direct link through Depleted Uranium (DU) and H bomb core plutonium to the military and how there are plenty of sustainable energies that could be used. Nuclear is not green? Explanation of difference between enriched uranium & depleted uranium. Marina Morris's Voxpops asking Bristol people if they have heard of the local nuclear trains and what they think of nuclear power. Michael Shrimpton, barrister and author of the forthcoming book, Spycatcher, with his theories on why government scientist Dr David Kelly was murdered. Links to French and German shipments of Plutonium to Iran? Murder all but proven by the book The Strange Death of Dr David Kelly by Norman Baker MP. Real power, financial elite, in the Western world gather at Davos in Switzerland this weekend for World Economic Forum 2013 (WEF). Sitting down with David Cameron and Boris Johnson, the three top Tories were caught on camera flanked by half a dozen aides and security officers eating out at a cosy restaurant in Davos on Thursday night. Greenpeace activist Ben Stewart managed to snap the trio tucking into pizza and fondue at the Alte Post Hotel in the alpine resort during the World Economic Forum. Bloomberg's spiked World Economic Forum article 'Davos' Dubious Strategic Partners' by James Gibney [article has magically 'reappeared' after 'Your browser sent a query this server could not understand' [audio: 201301251800]
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 Paul Flynn, Labour MP for Newport West, suspended from the House of Commons for calling Defence Secretary Philip Hammond MP and Foreign Secretary William Hague MP liars over Afghanistan war. Charity Commission reject charitable status for Christian sect the Exclusive Brethren. Jessop's, HMV and Blockbusters all go bankrupt, into administration, this week. Causes are internet and/or cuts. President of Iceland Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir says the secret to getting economy moving is not cutting benefits. New Bristol Rovers' stadium and Sainsbury's off the Gloucester Rd gets planning permission. Clips of Prime Ministers' Questions. 24,000 deaths of over 75s in winter 2011; housing benefit and general benefit cap forcing people to move into homes that aren't there; Evidence on front page of last week's Sunday Express that Jimmy Savile was part of a Stoke Mandeville satanic ring - Savile was boasting that police friends would abuse their office to get him off all charges. Corruption at the top, blackmail. New investigation by Scotland Yard into Barnes Common Elm Guest House paedophile ring brought up by Tom Watson MP at Question Time in October 2012. Voxpops on the cuts. Severn bridge tolls go up again but if Welsh Parliament were to take over the bridge tolls could only be around £1.00 for a car not the present £6.20. Damages business that need to use bridge and bears no relevance to the actual cost. Severn Bridge Annual Income £80m; Cost: £15m. Stuart Colner Transport Professor University Of Glamorgan. [audio: 201301181700]
Second hour: Journalist and political researcher Dan Glazebrook takes a look at this week's intervention in Mali and the BP siege in Eastern Algeria. Forces behind the hostage taking & siege at gas production plant. Role of the African Union and Pentagon controlled AfriCom running Pentagon military training now in 35 African countries displacing power of the African Union. 2011 murder of Colonel Gaddafi has tipped the balance in favour of colonial control of Africa rather than self-determination. Former MEP for South West England Richard Cottrell comments on Bristol's public transport. Richard's forthcoming Kindle Book will be entitled 'Bomber Beeching and his War on the Railways'. Will mayor George Ferguson's proposed Congestion Charge be good for Bristol? Is assisted suicide compatible with doctors' Hippocratic oath? Timothy Rogers from Rudry Village near Caerphilly is concerned about plays being shown to children which contain psychological triggers for suicide. Possible explanation for Bridgend suicide cluster? Also look at the ethics, the rights and wrongs of assisted suicide. Suicide help and advice. [audio: 201301181800]
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 South West Crime Panel member and LibDem Bristol City Councillor for Horfield, Pete Levy. Organised criminals deleting evidence & accessing officers' personal information on Police National Computers, 2008 Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) report 'Private Investigators: The Rogue Element of the Private Investigation Industry and Others Unlawfully Trading in Personal Data' or 'Project Riverside' leaked to Andy Davies at Channel 4 news. It explains that private investigators are: 'a. accessing the Police National Computer to perform unauthorised checks; b. accessing internal police databases including those containing serving officers' private details; c. unauthorised checking of details of vehicles involved in surveillance on PNC (Police National Computer); d. accessing details of current investigation against a criminal or criminal group; e. checking premises and vehicles for technical equipment deployed by law enforcement; f. identifying current law enforcement interest in an organised crime group; g. deleting intelligence records from law enforcement databases; h. providing organised crime groups with counter-surveillance techniques; i. accessing their own or associates' recorded convictions; j. attempting to discover identity of CHISes (Informants); k. attempting to discover location of witnesses; l. attempting to discover location of witnesses under police protection to intimidate them; m. accessing DVLA databases.' Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn, found guilty of misconduct in public office for tipping off News of the World hacking criminals that they were under investigation. Avon and Somerset Chief Constable Colin Port loses High Court action against new Police Commissioner Sue Mountstevens trying to keep his job, new Chief Constable to be announced next Wednesday. Con-Dem government decision to increase benefits by less than inflation will make seven million families – half of Britain’s working households – worse off by an average of £165 a year, according to an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). Bristol budget cuts: more than 300 posts will be shed from the council's 7,000 workforce, of which about 100 are likely to be compulsory redundancies. Outraged prison officers warned today that Britain's whole justice system was heading for a meltdown after the Con-Dems announced plans to axe seven jails. Tory Justice Secretary Chris Grayling dropped the bombshell on corrections staff as he cheerfully announced he was axing seven prisons across England and Wales, including HMP Gloucester & Shepton Mallet - despite widespread overcrowding and record prison populations. People due to retire in the next 12 months will be more than £3,000 a year worse off than those who retired in 2008. Prudential's 'Class of 2013' research has found that people retiring this year expect an average annual income of £15,300, a drop from £15,500 last year and a significant fall of 18 per cent on the £18,700 reported in 2008. Deutsche Bank Made Huge Bet, and Profit, on LIBOR rate fixing. Aberdeen City Council mannequin candidate taken into custody, acquitted this week of election fraud. [audio: 201301111700]
Second hour: Investigative reports: Discussion about connections between WWI, WWII and the present-day secret financial rulers of the NATO zone, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland who helped fund the rise of Hitler's Nazi party in the 1930s. Death at 95 of Charles Chilton, the writer behind Richard Attenborough's 1969 film 'Oh! What A Lovely War' about the hypocrisy of World War One using some of the actual songs sung by soldiers in the trenches. Death this week of BBC's last honest Director General Alasdair Milne, sacked in 1987, whose son Seamus Milne is a Guardian columnist. How Alasdair Milne was sacked with the connivance of Labour's 'kingmaker' Lord Victor Rothschild and Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher after broadcasting programmes such as 'Secret Society' about secret cabinet committees, 'My Country Right Or Wrong' about Northern Ireland and 'Maggie's Militant Tendency' about the Tory far right, all of which were critical of the Thatcher government. Granada TV's 'World In Action' investigative documentary series retrospective on ITV this week: [VIDEO] The World In Action Years. Frank documentaries transmitted on miscarriages of justice, military mutinies, Nazi war criminals at large and corruption at all levels of the British government. EXCLUSIVE: Was BBC presenter Jimmy Savile procuring Haut de la Garenne children's home boys in Jersey for former Prime Minister Ted Heath to sexually abuse on his boat 'Morning Cloud' and were these victims subsequently murdered? Assassinations of Princess Diana and former Labour Foreign Secretary Robin Cook with barrister Michael Shrimpton. Despicable failure of BBC Trust chairman & senior Tory Chris Patten to deal effectively with internal BBC censorship of the Jimmy Savile story. [audio: 201301111800]
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discussing
the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin
Summers
First hour: Bristol City Slackers, councillors who refuse to come on the radio and/or answer emails. News review with Ron Stone acting Labour group leader and councillor for St. George West. Decision to join George Ferguson's cabinet was taken by local Labour party but reviewed by regional National Executive and overturned. Budget to be announced on Monday at 10pm but it is really a Liberal Democrat budget drawn up by Simon Cook, the LibDem leader in the run-up to November 2012's mayoral elections. A minimum £3m million in cuts to be announced which is nearly 10%. President Obama signed 'fiscal cliff' package but only for next 2 months, Hargeaves Lansdown say, a big box has been ticked. Bristol City Council spending by 2020, according to Municipal Journal, budget will be cut by 40%. 5 billion by 2020. Tax claw back agreement with Swiss banks signed on 1st January 2013 by Chancellor George Osborne. HMRC will get the money from tax evaders, criminals, over 6 years. See case of Rudolf Elmer who supplied names of tax evading criminals to Wikileaks and was arrested and tried for hos trouble - wrote a book called Tax Heavens explaining the Swiss are colluding with criminals. In this case the individuals will be anonymous. Largest tax evasion in history, George Osborne. Danny Boyle & Ken Livingstone turned down Knighthoods, but FSA head in run up and during 2008 financial crisis Hector Sands, criticised by Tory and Labour MPs as discrediting the honours system. Hector Sands prosecuted and sacked a whistleblower when a director of UBS. Davos meeting of World Economic Forum which is on from 23-27th January 2013 which we will be following. Government propose use of smartcards in gyms to check overweight benefit claimants are exercising or they may withdraw benefits. Coalition government launch attack on benefit system. New governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney, told to steer away from politics as he fraternises with Liberal party people in Canada, being tipped as Prime Minister of Canada before taking Bank of England job. But Carney is a secret Bilderberg meeting participant who looks to have been selected in Rome at a secret Bilderberg Steering group meeting just under 2 weeks before the announcement Carney would be Bank of England governor. Carney is also a former employee of Goldman Sachs who caused the financial crisis. How independent is the Bank of England and is it a good thing, if so why? David Cameron gives New Years Eve speech in London saying UK is "On the night track" but debt to GDP has gone up and economy is shrinking jobs are mostly -part time jobs, not enough demand for goods & services. The public have lost £23bn so far bailing out the banks that we will never get back. Bailout not included in any of these figures. Ron Stine wants to build 4000 council homes in Bristol. Ethical pension funds to pay because 14,000 are on the Bristol waiting list for housing. But not on greenbelt, an open invitation for ethical investment which was offered to mayor George Ferguson today & Bristol director of housing. James Durie and Bristol’s Local Enterprise Partnership will have to approve land deals as they are a private company set to manage all council property as part of Nick Clegg’s Bristol City Deal. Lloyds TSB customer disaster on New Years Eve cash points broke, not for 40 years but happening regularly now. Tax payer lost £23 billion on bailing banks. BBC and Freeview transmitter serving 80,000 people is sabotaged in Bath on Thursday morning? [audio: 201301041700]
Second hour: Investigative reports. This week: Public transport & the Concorde crash latest. Rail fare increases and Bristol's Bus Rapid Transit scheme hits the rocks. After the July 2000 Air France Concorde crash in Paris that killed 113 people a court decision has overturned corporate manslaughter charges against Continental Airlines. So what really happened and who was to blame? Why did the accident lead to the permanent grounding of Concorde? The last but most prestigious Bristol built & designed aircraft. Daylight robbery First Great Western invited to explain fare rises but did not return, Steve Satan from Rail Future. Rail fares have gone up 1% above inflation 10 years in a row now. Government is now subsidising railways more than ever and Network Rail has a £200m loan to service. Rail fuel duty has gone up too and McNulty report is totally de-regulating the rail fares advocating doubling fares in peak times. Not sustainable for commuters, Department for transport invented the numbers. There is an overall lack of direction - profiteering off the rail infrastructure and our need to get around. No plan, free market! We should abolish rail duty HS2 route is another flawed design, Chilterns a bad place to run it. John Prescott promised to have an integrated transport policy. Bolivia nationalises two big Spanish owned electricity companies. Michael Shrimpton QC has written a book called SpyHunter but his flat was raided by Thames Valley police and he’s having trouble publishing it in the UK so he gives us a sneak preview. On the Falkland conflict he believes Argentina is dominated by Germans and former Nazis and Nazi sympathisers. Description of Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann, Sir Edward Bridges, Lord Halifax pro German. Bismark sunk HMS Hood in 1941. Christopher Storey was murdered by the German DVD, poisoned in fact. After the July 2000 Air France Concorde crash in Paris that killed 113 people a court decision has overturned corporate manslaughter charges against Continental Airlines. So what really happened and who was to blame? Why did the accident lead to the permanent grounding of Concorde? Concorde crash, Continental Airlines DC-10 debris theory dismissed in November 2012. Original story was a pack of lies, Michael Shrimpton QC. Concorde Paris crash in 2000 killed 113 people and Concorde was taken out of service in 2003. Break even load on Concorde was 30% and it was running at 50% load so still profitable. Spare parts were moved down to Toulouse so British Airways could no longer service their planes. Bristol company BAC made the plane not the French. [audio: 201301041800]
Review of the year followed by comprehensive talk 'The Warfare Stare' by former CIA officer and whistleblower Philip Agee
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the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin
Summers
First hour: news review with the longest serving member of the Conservative party in Britain, retired army officer, Bristol born, Harry Beckhough, who at 98, has been a member continuously for 85 years. Harry was a code breaker in World War Two, ran and started various clothing businesses and started a prep school which is still going strong in the Vale of York. He is the author of several books including an autobiography Thinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and books about Germany's Fourth Reich as he believes the Nazis continued their evil work after the end of the second world war, abandoning the swastika in public and laundering the money they looted from Europe to create a secret financial and industrial empire. No longer using panzer tanks but finance capital to 'buy up' their enemies and take them over that way instead. He is a staunch anti EU campaigner as he believes an undemocratic EU promotes this Nazi power today. The weeks news stories are reviewed by Harry & Martin Summers: LibDem leader Nick Clegg’s speech, five years into his job as LibDem leader, but Clegg seems to be a waffling salesman, out of touch with reality; Wikileaks is arguably the most courageous publisher in the Western world today and we hear founder Julian Assange who gave a ‘Christmas Message’ from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London this week expressing contempt for lying UK mainstream media which is now lying to the public saying it has been captured by enemies of ordinary people. The censored film ‘Unlawful Killing’, Victor Lewis-Smith and Keith Allen's 2011 documentary about what is officially the murder of Princess Diana since the inquest jury returned the unlawful killing verdict, was available to watch in the UK online for the first time this week - now taken down it got around 2.2 million downloads, nevertheless this documentary is still banned here in the UK, it blames several riders of high powered motorcycles and the driver of a white Fiat Uno for the killing, not the Paparazzi as the British press have intimated; the final Prime Minister’s Questions before the Christmas holiday: David Crausby MP, asking why the City Bankers have not been arrested yet, reminding the house of the Great Train Robbers who were jailed for decdes but stole far less money, seeing how much values and morals have changed since then; Prime Minister David Cameron PMQ confrontation with Labour leader Ed Miliband who talks about the rise in the use of Food Banks, including for the working poor; plus one MP, Ian Lavery, waves a suicide note from a now dead disabled person who had their social security money cut but the Prime Minister denies there have been any cuts to benefits for disabled people in Britain that they are indeed getting more money now. [audio: 201212211700]
Second hour: Interview with John McDonnell, MP for Hayes and Harlington. He is a Labour party leadership contender and explains how he would like to lead a more radical Labour policy against coalition austerity and cuts. He is concerned that Labour may be loosing it’s core voters, who may simply not be voting, by compromising on the cuts. British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, breaking constitutional tradition to inculcate herself into the highest political circles and decision making body in the land, even attending cabinet this week for the first time in 230 years since George III did so in 1781. Britain is being run by a tiny cult-like group of Eton Bullingdon Club members who believe they have been born to rule. Not unlike the queen, which makes one wonder if they really believe in democracy at all. The United States navy has moved two Aircraft Carriers from the Eastern to the Western Mediterranean which suggests they may be cooling off on intentions to attack President Assad of Syria. Martin and Harry discuss possible reasons for this enigmatic move and conclude that a deal may have been done with the Russians behind the scenes, particularly after the arrival of Russian Iskander missiles in Syria which can destroy Patriot missile launchers and Aircraft Carriers. Discussion with Harry Beckhough about the European Union and the recent rise in military power of the German armed forces which, as of this year, are authorised to operate outside Germany for the first time since World War 2. Tony Cripps, late of Occupy Bristol, has moved with scores of others into All Hallows Hall in Easton which is being turned into a community centre less controlled than the one run by the council. Tonight’s ‘Doomsday Machine’ gig, marking the ‘Mayan prophecy’ night of 21st December 2012 is likely to be a success. Moheen Yaseen is the director of Islamic think tank ‘Global Vision 2000’ and he examines what his group believes are the spiritual roots of the financial crisis, describing the western banking cartel as ‘Draculas’. [audio: 201212211800]
First hour: News review with Gus Hoyt, Green councillor for Ashley ward and member of Bristol City Council cabinet along with Simon Cooke (Lib), Geoff Gollop (Con) and mayor, George Ferguson. Gus Hoyt's new role in the Cabinet, spending our money but the budget is already decided. Martin Summers explains why Labour decided not to join the Cabinet. Discussion about the Preview Bar in Fairfax Street squat in Bristol City centre that got illegally evicted by police at midnight last night shortly after starting and one of the new occupiers explains what they were planning, live music, political discussion workshops & a donations only cafe, and why? Clip of Geraldine widow of Republican Pat Finucane and discussion of this story of the conspiracy to murder republican lawyer Pat Finucane by the British army and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) police force, collusion in N. Ireland. Story about the present housing crisis and discussion. 2 million people on housing waiting lists & 75,000 children homeless this Christmas in the UK. The Greater Bristol Bus Network being nominated in the UK Bus Awards. First Group can't be trusted, just look at the West coast main line franchise fisaco, running a privatised bus racket. West Somerset Council going bankrupt even though it is one of the richest counties in the country. Clip of David Cameron's gaff ar Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) in House of Commons: "We are raising more money for the rich." The SNP's Western Isles MP Angus Brendan MacNeil gets shouted down by Tory MPs, as he tries to make the case against austerity by flagging up Iceland. Iceland's successful economy driven by domestic demand & delivering growth of 2.5% after arresting and prosecuting bankers. Story of HSBC being fined for taking money from drug trafficking now being fined £1.2bn and Lord Green, former HSBC chairman, is still in the cabinet . Labour MP Dennis Skinner in House of Commons on the 'snoopers' charter' Communications and Data bill. Clip of Williamson from the House of Commons talking about the Green Investment Bank. [audio: 201212141700]
Second hour: Interview with Kevin Philips, Chairman of Avon and Somerset Police Federation. He talks about police cuts and how they are considering striking, a ballot taking place early in 2013. General agreement that the government needs to continue to negotiate with the police federation if it values law and order. Discussion on the role of the new Police and Crime Commissioner Sue Mountstevens. Lee Salter, Senior Journalism Lecturer at the University of West of England, (UWE) film he has just made about the City of London called Secret City. website - www.secretcity-thefilm.com. Former ambassador to Uzbekistan and head of maritime law at the Craig Murray talking about 'real politik' how deals are made in the Middle East. Syria arms race latest: Discussion of international news stories with Martin Summers. [audio: 201212141800]
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 Labour Councillor for Cadbury Heath, Martin Farmer. Cuts to Cadbury Heath youth centre. Now only open 2 days a week. Chancellor & Bilderberger George Osborne's Autumn Statement delivered in Winter due to 'delays'. George Osborne and shadow chancellor Ed Balls spar in the Commons but Balls founders around making elementary mistakes such as whether the defecit has risen or fallen. Should the banks be nationalised? First ever freeze on benefits at 1% for the next three years. Lloyds and RBS already are nationalised. Ordinary people in Cadbury Heath don't feel connected with manistream political parties. Martin Farmer explains how he tries to connect with people on local issues. 'Sponsor A Scholar' website set up preying on the poor & offering to pay tuition fees of students in exchange for sex & 'escort' work. Fake job adverts put up on government website & used to 'harvest' personal data of jobseekers including passports for 'identity theft'. Again exploiting the poor. ITV documentary 'Richard Madeley Meets The Squatters' on prime time TV last night featuring Bristol squatters group Bham. Rights and wrongs of leaving buildings, particularly offices, empty and of squatting. Life of Hinkley B Nuclear power station near Bridgwater extended by seven years. Questions over whether extending beyond its design life is really safe or just trying to make money compromising safety. Leveson report, is there any chance of any truly 'independent' panel to oversee press regulation in Britain? Will Clifton victim of police & press lies, who was branded a murderer, be on the new 'independent' press complaints panel? Mr Jeffries is currently suing Avon & Somerset police press office for leaking his name to the press. If he wins the individuals involved don't have to pay, the public do. David Hencke is awarded Political Journalist of the Year award this week criticises 'Bonkers Logic of Life Of Brian Leveson'. Ofcom's consumer panel was chosen by corporate headhunters Odgers and not truly representing the public. Will the press regulator be the same? Former child actor Ben Fellows describes systematic abuse of young people in the entertainment industry, being seduced by an older woman with the promise of an audition for Blue Peter, this woman now running a national children's TV channel. Pictures of an advertising shoot circulated to paedophiles and police followed up with a prosecution. Pressure not to complain when sexual advances were made at auditions and punishment when he did complain from his acting school. Sexual abuse rife throughout the entertainment industry but not at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). [audio: 201212071700]
Second hour: Alan Goddard from the Wild Goose Cafe on Stapleton Road near Easton Swimming Pool & Leisure Centre where they now feed 500 people a day. More and more people are in need of their free food and Alan issues a stark warning that there is a drug epedemic working its way through society from dinsenchanted young addicts. Open from 10am-3pm for breakfast & lunch and 8-10pm for supper and they offer advice on careers, health and they help people with addiction problems. They also run a free 'Food Bank' at St Mark's church in Easton. Growing problems in Bristol with drug abuse particularly vulnerable young people taking drugs because of peer pressure & apathy & this is storing up big problems for the future so Alan does a lot of work in schools around the city. The Wild Goose gets no funding from Bristol City Council because of all the strings attached so the centre is funded entirely by voluntary donations. Pros and cons of legalising drugs: alchohol and tobacco are both dangerous drugs but they are legal, some other drugs are legal. Ordinary cannabis has been replaced by super-strength 'Skunk' which can virtually knock people out. New Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, is from the same company, Goldman Sachs, that caused the financial crisis in 2008! He is also part of a secret elite club called the Bilderberg Group which was founded in the 1950s by SS officer and Nazi party member Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands who was forced to resign as Bilderberg chairman in 1975 as part of the 'Lockheed corruption scandal'. President Morsi in Egypt decides he wants to be immune from the Egyptian courts and so sparks further rioting as the people don't want him to be 'king'. Morsi's opponents have had enough of the Muslim Brotherhood, burning down their headquarters. English language Iranian Channel Press TV is banned in the UK by Ofcom, this week Gordon Duff looks ahead to Imran Kahn's possible victory next year in Pakistan wondering if he can stop the constant US drone killings by the US. In Afghanstan the US, with the aid of Britain and NATO have contructed a $80 billion drug empire, every boy over 12 has a gun so every boy is a 'militant' and the US/NATO can kill them. President of the Federation of African Journalists and boss of the Somali Journalists' Union, Omar Faruk Osman explains that journalism is the most dangerous profession in Africa with 15 journalists being killed in the last year. Somalia is the most dangerous country in Africa with a culture of 'impunity' where killers know they will not face justice and a journalist's life is worth only $50. Foreign countries using Somalia as their 'political football' and problems with 'pirates' originating from hidden agendas outside the country, from US/NATO again. [audio: 201212071800]
For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.
First hour: news review with Labour activist & writer Amanda Ramsay [audio: 201211301700]
Second hour: Friday Drivetime takes a look at the real reasons behind the Leveson Enquiry: failure of the Metropolitan Police to investigate and prosecute phone hacking at the News of the World, sitting on the evidence for six years. Detective in charge of the case review John Yates, has fled the country and is now helping the Bahraini police to kill peaceful demonstrators and terrorise the oppressed people of the Bahrain dictatorship. Was Daniel Morgan axe-murdered in 1987 by corrupt South London police he was about to expose? What is the connection to the Stephen Lawrence case? Why did Rupert Murdoch's News of the World interfere with the police investigation into Daniel's murder? We hear the full story from Justice4Daniel campaign. Daniel's brother Alastair which includes allegation of Metropolitan police involvement in bank robberies, gun and drug running. Former policeman & author of 'The Filth', Duncan Maclaughlin accuses the Metropolitan police drug squad of being the best organised crime gang in the country. Book about Met corruption 'Untouchables, Dirty cops, bent justice and racism in Scotland Yard' by Michael Gillard and Laurie Flynne which exposes the evil culture of impunity among a group of corrupt Scotland Yard police officers - now republished in Kindle edition. Martin Summers suggests the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) might like to investigate the Metropolitan police like Operation Countryman did between 1978-1982. Gwynneth Powell-Davies from UNITE union is taking part in a march in Bristol tomorrow for our NHS which politicians seem hell-bent on privatising against the wishes of almost everybody in Britain. One thing they plan to do is 'divide and rule' by stopping national pay negotiations, bringing in 'regional pay'. Will new governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney be a 'Dracula Vampire Squid' as he is affiliated to the Nazi founded Bilderberg group and crooked global investment bank who are taking over Europe, Goldman Sachs. Character profiles, not in any of the mainstream press, criticising new Bank of England governor Mark 'carnage' Carney from Infowars on Mon 26th Nov & Forbes on Tue 27th Nov. Will the Chinese and Russians send troops into Syria as NATO (or Assad?) force Syrian internet shutdown? 120,000 deaths in Mexico in the 'drug wars' but prime minister David Cameron & LibDem leader Nick Clegg are happy to welcome the Mexican drug gangs' treasurer Lord Green, who ran their drug loot around in his HSBC armoured trucks, as a minister in the UK coalition government. Former chair of Bristol Somali forum Latif Ismael discusses his home country and Western intervention there as well as the background to the phenomenon of Somali pirates and proximity to the Middle East. President of the Federation of African Journalists Omar Faruk Osman explains corrupt developers & businessmen are behind the killing of scores of journalists in Africa making it the most dangerous profession on the continent. [audio: 201211301800]
At five:
discussing
the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin
Summers
First hour: News review with Cllr Lesley Alexander (Con); Election figures: 1st: George Ferguson 31,321 - 35.13% + 2nd round total 37,353; 2nd: Labour Marvin Rees (Lab) 25,896 - 29.05% + 2nd round total 31,259; 3rd: Geoff Gollop (Con) 8,136 - 9.13%; 4th: Jon Rogers (Lib) 6,202 - 6.96%; 5th: Daniella Radice (Grn) 5,248 - 5.89%. George Ferguson's £25m cuts unnecessary and effectively 'suicidal' as the City of London is playing out its own political agenda. Sue Mountstevens sworn in as Avon & Somerset Police Commissioner, promptly runs in to 'Tit For Tat' dispute with Chief Constable Colin Port who announces he will not be renewing his contract saying he 'refuses to apply for his own job'. Election Expenses: £21,000 maximum, must be in by Thurdsay 20th December. Spat on BBC Question Time between Work and Pensions Secretary of State Iain Duncan-Smith and Independent columnist Owen Jones over disabled people facing destitution over ATOS assessments and being told to apply for work in a market of less and less jobs. Disabled rights campaigner Karen Sherlock dies and 11,000 Disabled people facing homelessness. Black Triangle campaign for disabled people fighting back against the DWP ATOS assessments. Housing benefit bill is out of control so we have to build homes and create real, well paid jobs or we are going back to Victorian and Medieval times of mass injustice and poverty. Tata cutting 900 steel jobs across South Wales and the UK. Fall in UK steel demand has been steeper than in any other European country. Banks are bankrupt but being kept afloat by public money. UBS 'Rogue Trader' Kweku Adoboli jailed for 7 years while his bosses walk free. City of London is the 'heart of darkness' for the financial crisis globally. Who runs Britain, the banks or the government? Free market solution: not a penny for bankrupt institutions! Rolinda Sharples painting: The Stoppage of the Bank. Criminal gang in Murdoch newsrooms & Downing Street? Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson face more charges, this time over bribery with the implication of a masonic crime ring in Scotland Yard and government institutions. The Queen comes to Bristol and gets a lacklustre reception, Chrstina Robina reports for BCfm from outside the Old Vic on King Street. [audio: 201211231700]
Second hour: No sailors witnessed the 'sea burial' of Osama Bin Laden from the USS Carl Vinson on 1st May 2011, just a handful of senior Admirals and Generals. Was the 'killing of Bin Laden' last year just staged for the Western public and did Bin Laden really die in Afghanistan way back in 2001? Elite Intrigues and Military Purges: It’s Not About Sex, Stupid! Fallout in US over the murder of US Libyan ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi: Petraeus-Benghazi-Gate, the new Watergate moment that may shatter Obama's presidency. Former British ambassador to Uzbekistan & whistleblower Craig Murray invited onto the BBC 32 times and then has appearances cancelled including on BBC1 Question Time. Mysterious forces behind censorship of whistleblowers like Craig by the BBC despite the fact that he is, for example, Foreign Office expert on Maritime Law. Bristol University students Jamie Melrose & Tim Saunders criticise their vice-chancellor Eric Thomas who is openly embracing privatisation of Bristol university. Bristol university and students already being sponsored by private military firm BAe Systems and bailed out Spanish bank Santander. This week's under-reported student demo of about 6,000 students in London; Author and political/media analyst professor Anthony J. Hall from University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada: Earth into Property: Colonization, Decolonization, and Capitalism. [audio: 201211231800]
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 rejects 'party politics' to choose an 'independent' former LibDem councillor as mayor. Merchant Venturer & architect George Ferguson's mayoral election victory discussed & week's news reviewed with Stephen Williams, LibDem MP for Bristol West. Was it a fair fight or did the former LibDem councillor become mayor by combining the mystical powers of money and Public Relations? Is his party 'Bristol First' primarily about a man, a city, or a brand? How much did the backing of local paper The Post help, who donated how much & what did the millionaire spend on his campaign? Devastating failure by Labour candidate Marvin Rees, a defeat that will ring serious alarm bells with the London Labour party leadership who would normally be expected to win a mid-term contest in a city the party used to control. Independent candidates victorious in both Police and Crime Commissioner and mayor election so are political parties now 'toxic brands' in Bristol? Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls in Bristol last Monday but he is not prepared to stand up to the City either. Both Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne and Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls attend the same secret Bilderberg conferences, founded by a former SS officer Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. Details were leaked of a secret Bilderberg Group Steering Committee meeting this week in Rome. Did Bilderberg sneaks Osborne and Balls attend? Why are European countries spending precious money propping up bankrupt banks and not doing what businesses and the public want, spending it into the real economy? Lower paid half of workers are losing 15% of their disposable income which is leading to situations of zero disposable income. Quote from Dickens' David Copperfield. Mr Mickawber was modelled on Dickens' father who did time in a London debtors' prison: "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result: happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result: misery." Tax avoidance by Starbucks, Amazon, Google & Boots examined by Margaret Hodge and the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee. Starbucks' Director of Finance Troy Alstead denies any UK tax avoidance saying Starbucks really make no profit in the UK. Gas prices being fixed by private gas suppliers who bamboozle the public with 'confusion marketing and are effectively one company as they operate their cartel. On BBC Children on need night a report by Shelter on homelessness and poverty say 75,000 children will be homeless this Christmas; Governor of the Bank of England King Mervyn (King) and his zig-zag proclamations, wjhat he really means is he doesn't know what is going on; and West Somerset Council is going bankrupt, government minister, possibly Eric Pickles, visiting next week. [audio: 201211161700]
Second hour: David Powell from Friends of the Earth on 'Energygate' and this week's revelations about Gas price fixing by the privatised UK energy cartels. New film by head of Journalism at the University of the West of England (UWE) Lee Salter called 'Secret City' about the unaccountable power of the 'State within a State', the City of London. Will the Queen close her tax havens and rein in The City of London when she visits Bristol next Thursday? Writer Dan Glazebrook explains the financial threat Colonel Gaddafi's Libya represented to the West's money system, the IMF, World Bank all threatened by Gaddafi's African Dinar and African Monetary Fund. The African Dinar was backed with gold ... but the US dollar is backed with F-16s (fighter jets). Bashar Al Assad's Syria under attack right now making the Palestinians much more vulnerable to this week's attack by Israel. Background to Israeli assassination of the Palestinians' army chief of staff Ahmed Jabari during negotiated 'ceasefire' & resulting clashes in Gaza. Former Conservative MEP for the South West and author of ' Gladio, NATO's Dagger At The Heart Of Europe, The Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis' Richard Cottrell asks why NATO is trying to take over the world and how Russia and China are likely to react to globalist expansion as anaccountable, totalitarian NATO attempts to build a fascist 'One World Government'. [audio: 201211161800]
At five:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
and Marina Morris
After six:
discussing
the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.
First hour: Daphne Havercroft from South West Whistleblowers' Health Action Group SWWHAG: Bristol Childrens' Hospital, Care Quality Commission (CQC) intervene over low staffing levels on Ward 32 and patient deaths. Private healthcare operators Circle rewarded for failure at Hinchingbrooke hospital in Cambridge. London based Tamil Ram Selva brings us up to date with human rights struggles in former British Indian Ocean colonies: mainly Sri-Lanka and India. Channel 4 documentaries Sri Lanka's Killing Fields. Hunger strike enters its second week on the island of Nauru, near Australia, as asylum seekers from Iran, Afghanistan & Sri-Lanka protest against right-wing Australian government re-opening remote refugee camps & using asylum-seekers as political pawns. Website recommended www.tamilsolidarity.org Merkel in London, Chinese political congress & US elections. Hugh Trevor-Roper's myth: Peter Levenda's book 'Ratline, Soviet Spies, Nazi Priests and the Disappearance of Adolf Hitler'. Did Hitler really die in 1945 or did he survive until the 1970s in Indonesia? Why would anyone question the story behind the death of Adolf Hitler? Evidence for Martin Boorman covert military and banking/corporate Fourth Reich thriving after World War Two. [audio: 201211091700]
Second hour: Bristol General Hospital: Bristol Central Planning Committee decide developers, City & Country, need build no affordable or social housing, only luxury flats. Invited: Mandy Soames, Public Relations Officer for City & Country developers; Bristol City Council LibDem Central Planning Committee councillors: Christian Martin, Alf Havvock, Alex Woodman (chair); LibDem Council leader Simon Cook, none of which were available; Labour housing spokesperson Cllr. Ron Stone. www.thegeneralbristol.co.uk Jimmy Savile BBC & police scandal rolls on with revelations about how close Savile was to Prince Charles, employed to invite television executives to royal events and helped introduce Charles to his Private Secretary Sir Christopher Airy in 1990. Old HTV documentary about North Wales child sexual abuse & murder. Channel 4 News discover Freemasons religious cult involved in Bryn Estyn sexual abuse scandal. Masonic MP for Filton & Bradley Stoke Jack Lopresti promises to supply this show with Bristol Provincial Yearbook which names Bristol's freemasons but Jack is overruled by Bristol Grand Master Alan Vaughan and Provincial Grand Secretary Steve Rawlings. Ron Stone tels off deep-rooted masonic corruption where farmers had their estates stolen with no action by masonic police, disposessing smallholders and market-gardeners, with criminal collusion by banks. Culture of masonic criminality and impunity in Somerset. Public Accounts Committee chair Margaret Hodge questions Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) Chief Executive Lin Homer over non payment of tax by multinational corporations Starbucks, Google, Amazon, Asda, Facebook, Intel, Kraft (who lied, closing Cadbury's in Keynsham) & Coca Cola, who seem able pick and choose which country they wish to pay tax in. [audio: 201211091800]
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
This week we invite all four Avon & Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) candidates to explain how they will oversee the force in this newly created US style role as Police Authorities are abolished across the UK. BCfm Police & Crime Commissioner candidates' discussion - with Peter Levy (Liberal Democrat), Ken Maddock (Conservative), Sue Mountstevens (Independent) and John Savage (Labour).
First Hour: Introduction of candidates and their vision for the role of PCC. Peter Levy is a former Ministry of Defence policeman, Ken Maddock questioned about Conservative minister Lord Green's responsibility for money laundering, Sue Mountstevens bakery business failed, so will she succeed? John Savage a member of the Merchant Venturers who financed the transatlantic slave trade. Question from Gus Hoyt, Green Party councillor for Stokes Croft & St. Paul's, Ashley Ward, on Easter 2011 riots in Stokes Croft - how would they have policed it? Riot found to have cost £465,000 and employed resources from 12 different police forces including 160 riot police. Should the police use firearms in potential riot situations? What would policing priorities of the four candidates be: drugs; more police on the street; antisocial behaviour; rural policing or equipment? London police in Stephen Lawrence case were taking two salaries, one from organised criminals and one from public purse, how would the candidates deal with that kind of corruption within the force - most agree root it out. Marina Morris out on the streets of Bristol to ask what you think about the election of Police & Crime Commissioners and how you will be voting. General lack of knowledge of, interest in and enthusiasm for the vote or the process. Could be the lowest turnout ever. Gus raises the question, do we actually need a PCC? Police increasingly using high-voltage Tasers but do candidates think they are ethical? [audio: 201211021700]
Second hour: Tony Gosling and Martin Summers run through this weeks news: Conservative backbenchers and Labour MPs line up together to vote saying UK should pay less to the EU, Northern Ireland prison officer David Black shot dead yesterday, the first prison officer killed for 13 years in the province. Japanese Hitachi firm buying into UK Nuclear Power stations at Oldbury and North Wales, Tunisia - state of emergency extended into the new year, democratic failings in the first state to move in the so-called 'Arab Spring'. US presidential election next week discussed, Attorney General Dominic Grieve decides it is unlawful for the US to use their UK air bases in any pre-emptive attack they wish to conduct on Iran. Is the UK a 'soft touch' when it comes to Serious Organised Crime? Author of 'Shadow World, Inside the Global Arms Trade, Andrew Feinstein introduces a London based, German owned firm, Marine Force International (MFI) which the German parent firms MAN Ferrostaal AG and Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW) plan to use to pay arms deal bribes out of the jurisdiction of German courts. PCC candidates return to a question about declaration of senior police officers' interests and freemasonry, commenting that masons are attracted to senior police roles and that the characteristic police chequerboard is also found on the carpet of Masonic temples. Tony asks a question on crime and poverty, including the issues of cuts, the closure of mental health facilities, the criminalisation of squatting and how the police are forced to pick up the pieces. Tony asks the candidates on how they would deal with the other end of the scale, rich people's white collar crime and complex frauds, for example selling public property at lower than market prices. John Savage takes exception to the question wondering whether the question is being asked about the sale of Bristol General Hospital which he oversaw as chairman of UHB NHS Trust. Rural versus urban policing, will the candidates be able to balance the two properly? Whistleblowing, do the candidates they take the issue seriously and how will they ensure whistleblowers are not sacked. [audio: 201211021800]
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 Councillor for Cotham & Libdem Cabinet member for housing & development Anthony Negus. Bristol General Hospital decision means only luxury flats will be built on the site, no affordable or social housing. Changing rules for planning deals, how is the city going to get developers to build affordable and social housing in the future. Change in the rules with regard to planning agreements. Jimmy Savile scandal let off 7 times by the police with 300 victims of rape and abuse, some below puberty, still no resignations by the BBC after Newsnight editor Peter Rippon spiked Liz MacKean's 'Non Story' in December 2011 to make way for Savile tributes. Comparing with former GWR, ITV & BBC presenter Peter Rowell jailed for 6 years for molesting young girls here in Bristol. Police and Crime Commissioners announced: Independent Sue Mountstevens, LibDem Pete Levy, Labour's John Savage and Conservative Ken Maddox. Compares poorly with the current Police Authority system. Lowest turnout ever expected for this election on Thursday 15th November at same time as mayoral election. Ford closes last vechicle factory in Britain after making cars here for over 100 years. 500 jobs to go in Southampton as well as knock-on effect of another 1,500. Discussion about structural unemployment, whether we can continue to sack people like this when there are not enough jobs to go round, comparing the 'Basic Income' policy to the coalition's 'Universal Credit' in the pipeline. Work Programme delivery firm A4E being paid £46m by government but delivering worse 'outcomes' than when Job Centres when they performed this job guidance 'in house'. Hopes that tolls on Severn Bridges will be reduced to £1 per car in 2018 dashed by transport minister Peter Hammond. He's decided the Treasury rather likes the annual £80m that's coming in even though it only costs £18m a year to maintain. Severn Crossing Ltd a government approved racket fleecing motorists. Anthony Negus is against the proposed Severn Barrage. [audio: 201210261700]
Second hour: Spoof announcement about the resignation of the chancellor. Halloween PsyOp: Orson Welles' 1938 War Of The Worlds psychological warfare on the public with reactions of AT&T telephone operators. Mack White's 'Television and the Hive Mind' article; BBC caused panic in 1926 with hoax of revolution taking place in London with Savoy Hotel, House of Commons & Buckingham Palace under attack. Broadcasting the Barricades. Executive Board Member of Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) & Business West James Durie discusses City Deal signed by Nick Clegg earlier this year and Public Property Board which looks set to take over management of vast areas of Bristol's public land. LEP meets in private & public were always allowed to see how public land was being managed when council manage it. Roundup of last fortnight's world news US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney makes hopeless errors in final TV debate saying that Iran is land locked and has a border with Syria, neither of which is true. Martin believes there will be a war whoever wins the US election. Assassination of Exxon Mobil executive in Belgium but news blackout instituted. My Twitter feed @TonyGosling, Cryptogon and Blaclisted News all covered this two weeks ago. PsyOp Now! 19 satellite channels taken down by private company EUTELSAT. Ordered by Baroness Ashton the EU Foreign Minister who has never been elected. [audio: 201210261800]
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
This week we invite the six top mayoral candidates: George Ferguson (Independent - Merchant Venturer); Geoff Gollop (Conservative); Neil Maggs (Respect); Danielle Radice (Green); Marvin Rees (Labour) & Jon Rogers (Liberal Democrat) to answer questions about planning, development and housing in Bristol. What will they do to solve the property gap in the city with 14,500 people, or 4% of the city's population, on the housing list and 1.75 million square feet of empty office space?
Other candidates include Tom Baldwin, Trade Union and Socialist Coalition; Craig Clarke, State Education Party; Tim Collins, Save Filton Airfield; Spud Murphy, Former Conservative Councillor; Andy Thorne, Security Business Owner and Philip Pover, Access To Green Space. Definitive list out on Tuesday 23rd October.
First hour: Bristol mayoral debate concentrating on housing. Mayoral candidates with their visions for the city and their ideas on housing - Bristol First, Independent: George Ferguson (Merchant Venturer), Conservative: Geoff Gollop, Respect: Neil Maggs, Green: Daniella Radice, Liberal Democrat: Jon Rogers, (Labour's Marvin Rees pulled out on the day of broadcast). Mike Birkin from South West Friends of the Earth asks how candidates plan to cope with Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Eric Pickles' policy to have central government deciding on local planning issues? Discussion about Bristol General Hospital Developers, City & Country Group, who have decided not to include any affordable housing in their conversion of the hospital to luxury housing. Saying they will leave the place empty and derelict unless council planners agree. Jenny Allen from The National Housing Federation (NHF) asks how candidates intend to work with other local authorities: South Gloucestershire, North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset Councils, to integrate housing policy? Discussion on plans for mass house building over Filton airfield once BAe Systems sell it off. Tony Crofts from his Clifton Housing Co-op asks why there are 40 acres of empty office space in the city, why is the construction industry failing to deliver housing and could this empty property be converted to housing? Candidates puzzle over how companies can afford to keep these buildings empty, is it a tax write-off? Contribution via a July recording of absent Labour candidate Marvin Rees who has promised to build 4000 social housing units in Bristol (we were hoping to ask him how he intends to fund this) but realised this afternoon he had double-booked with this Foyles bookshop event which began at 6pm. [audio: 201210191700]
Second hour: Councillor for St George East Ron Stone has a proposal borrowed from Manchester City Council for pension funds to finance social housing built by local authorities and housing associations. As Ron was taken ill last night this question is put by Old Labour Oxford economist Martin Summers. Acceptance that building social housing would be good for employment, for the economy and for social cohesion. Bristol people talk to Marina Morris on the streets of the city giving their opinions including that the council is corrupt or should be dissolved and others saying they did not know an election was taking place. Keith Cowling from the Bristol Community Land Trust asks how candidates are going to help local people with the skills and who want to, to become their own developers? Why are they not using this route to build affordable housing? Explanation from Keith of what a Community Land Trust is and projected deal to provide new affordable homes at Eastville Park off Fishponds Road. Green candidate Danielle Radice points out that a Central Government Treasury proposal called the 'City Deal' is taking £1 billion of city council assets and around 180 land and property assets out of local authority management and handing it to a quango to be known as Public Property Board [PDF] run by the business fraternity through the Local Enterprise Partnership. The question being how will the mayor make decisions about public land when it's being managed by this new quango and out of his or her control? Simon Bale from ISR, Churches for Work and Social Justice, asks how the candidates plan to house homeless people who are mentally ill or addicted to drugs and alcohol? Tony asks candidates to sum up with a question about central government's new benefit cuts: a benefit cap, bedroom tax, withdrawal of council tax relief and the Universal Credit which will replace housing benefit. It is predicted that 171,000 single parents nationally will be forced out of their homes so how are the city's most vulnerable going to cope? [audio: 201210191800]
For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.
First hour:news review with Conservative group leader & Stoke Bishop Councillor Peter Abrahams. Mayoral and Police and Crime Commissioner elections. Austerity biting but national debt is increasing. Britain's debt in 2010: £760bn; in 2012: £1tn; projection for 2015: £1.36tn. Housing benefit is rising, in 2010: £16bn billion to, in 2012, £21.6bn. Buy to let second home owners doing very well - their yield going up from 6.1% to 6.7% since election. Further discussions on debt including the billionaires cabinet and tax havens. Tory Conference: Boris Johnson's'mop' speech on cleaning items, old conservatives used to agree with Keynes' economics. ATOS, Scotland is no longer not using them - lack of jobs, possible solution is the citizen's income. Tory conference: finale of Prime Minister David Cameron's speech about his father Ian who was disabled but pioneered the use of tax havens such as the Cayman Islands and Panama to put savings beyond the reach of the taxman - aspiration nation. Energy and food prices are rising, financial determinism vs. regulation. House of Lords discuss the collapse of First Group West Coast Mainline train franchise and ask about independence of the people conducting enquiry into the fiasco. Council tax changes, Bristol City Council holding consultation including discussion on rates, nobody complained about the system when the council tax was brought in in the 1980s. [audio: 201210121700]
Second hour: Tony and Martin discuss world events including Syria potentially leading to coinciding, the Middle East, EU getting this year's Nobel Peace Prize formerly awarded to war criminal Henry Kissinger, Bali bombing ten years on. Former Nazi German company who now control BBC transmitters Siemens planting bombs inside heavy engineering equipment destined for Iran, NATO & Western sabotage campaign against Iran. Private firm May Gurney who deal with Bristol's waste might go bust after they issue a profit warning today, will that mean our bins could go unemptied? General discussion about privatisation. Big Brother Watch - Steve Jolly from 'No CCTV' discusses surveillance under the Conservatives, new CCTV Commissioner Andrew Rennison, how regulation may sound better than it is, drone technology, private companies gathering data, secret US TrapWire system revealed by Stratfor & Wikileaks that links surveillance networks together, Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras and how to improve the situation of surveillance through campaign site http://www.no-cctv.org.uk. John Scobie from Birmingham took part in last week's BBC3 show '7/7: Conspiracy Road Trip' but the programme broadcast last week was not the film he took part in. He discusses terms on which independent production company, Renegade TV, engaged him, what the show left out, how explosive facts about 7/7 and key testimony of survivors and victims families was left on the cutting room floor. Interview with Steve Sa'tan from BCfm & Rail Future discussing the Bus Rapid Transit Scheme (BRT2) for Bristol, what Bristol City COuncil should spend their £5m on and what a waste of money he believes it is. Other transport issues including the West coast mainline franchise and rail subsidy costing three times more since the privatisation of the railways. [audio: 201210121800]
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 Alistair Watson. Conservative party are the worst in Bristol: 'Bristol City Slackers' named or councillors that refuse to answer emails or phone calls. Proportion of ‘slackers’ by political party: Conservatives 36% (5/14), LibDems 28% (9/32), Labour 18% (4/22) & Green 0% (0/2). BBC royal correspondant Frank Gardener spills the beans on Radio 4 Today programme about pressure being put on David Blunkett to arrest Abu Hamza. Why is Elizabeth Saxe Coburg Gotha meddling in politics? Police officers are being appointed to senior roles without being properly vetted, it has been claimed following an investigation into a deputy chief constable who hanged himself after sexual harassment allegations. But local Police and Crime Commissioner candidate Bob Ashford was forced to step down from the race after minor crime at the age of 13. After Hillsborough revelations South Yorkshire Police turned a blind eye to sex grooming gangs for more than a decade, confidential files reveal, The school which employs teacher Jeremy Forrest, who has disappeared abroad with 15-year-old student Megan Stammers, was at the centre of a scandal just three years ago after a teacher was found to groomed two female students. LibDem leader Nick Clegg delivers keynote speech at his party conference. Marina Morris reports on the necessity of family and unconditional love in Britain today and asks what Bristolians think about modern family values. A 21-year-old man arrested at a flat in Pimlico, central London, has become the first person to be jailed under the government's anti-squatting legislation. [audio: 201209281700]
Second hour: Global roundup with Martin Summers: A Turkish court convicted 326 military officers, including the former air force and navy chiefs, of plotting to overthrow the nation's Islamic-based government in 2003, in a case that has helped curtail the military's hold on politics. A panel of three judges at the court on Istanbul's outskirts initially sentenced former air force chief Ibrahim Firtina, former navy chief Ozden Ornek and former army commander Cetin Dogan to life imprisonment but later reduced the sentence to a 20-year jail term because the plot had been unsuccessful, state-run TRT television reported. The three were accused of masterminding the plot. The dramatic conclusion to the case was entirely unreported in the UK national press. The Dark Art of 'Conflict Initiation': Patrick Clawson of the influential neo-con Washington Institute for Near East Studies openly suggests the US should provoke Iran into war. Just one in 50 victims of America’s deadly drone strikes in Pakistan are terrorists – while the rest are innocent civilians, a new report claimed today. The authoritative joint study, by Stanford and New York Universities, concludes that men, women and children are being terrorised by the operations ’24 hours-a-day’. And the authors lay much of the blame on the use of the ‘double-tap’ strike where a drone fires one missile – and then a second as rescuers try to drag victims from the rubble. One aid agency said they had a six-hour delay before going to the scene. 98% of Pakistan drone strikes are killing innocent people. A gross dereliction of duty: How Coalition defence cuts have left Britain terrifyingly vulnerable. Bristol land and housing co-op activist and editor of www.SpeakTruthToPower.net, Tony Crofts, discusses the acres of empty office space and compares it to Bristol's appaling lack of housing. Discussion of how our society fails to deliver the right buildings & how office building owners can afford to leave them empty for years. Simon Bale from ISR, Churches for Work and Social Justice talks about the church is doing to address the growing social divide in Bristol and Britain, also discussing the strangely secretive process by which the new Archbishop of Canterbury is being chosen. One of the candidates was an oil industry executive until recently. [audio: 201209281800]
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
First hour: Norwegian activist and blogger Torstein Viddal discusses shortcomings of his country's police and security services on 22nd July during last summer's Oslo bomb and Utoya island massacre of young Labour party activists by Neo-Nazi freemason Anders Breivik. First interpretation into English of elements of the Commission report which show a series of police and state security services' shortcomings. Were there any policemen or judges in Breivik's masonic lodges? Why did he only attend Oslo masonic temple for initiation ceremonies and not the rest of the year? How many lodges was he a member of? Discussion of Breivik's peculiar ideological blend of Zionism and Nazism. Torstein's flat in central Oslo is only 200 yards from the bombed government building and that day he was out taking pictures. [audio: 201209211700]
Second hour: Investigative journalist and author of 'Dangerous Ground' Roger Cook describes how Rupert Murdoch's News Of The World lied about his integrity and got him taken off the air by ITV. Roger describes some of his investigations: the penetration of airport security and hijacking of airliners in the United States before the 9/11 attacks; South Yorkshire police misconduct and the Hillsborough disaster cover-up; availability of weapons grade plutonium & nuclear weapons on the Russian black market; satanic abuse circle around 'The Sorcerers' Apprentice' shop in Yorkshire run by Chris Bray; News International, an organised criminal gang conducting burglaries and not just hacking voicemails but tapping the phones of their legal opponents. Sinandei Makko, a Lands Rights activist from Tanzania is visiting Bristol this week. Makko is deeply involved in the current land conflict between the Maasai traditional livestock herders and the United Arab Emitates based Ortello Business Corporation (OBC). Almost 50,000 people face eviction from their land to make way for OBC tourists. Makko has lived and worked in Loliondo in the Serengeti National Park his entire life. US Army veteran and director of The Esoteric Agenda Ben Stewart discusses what attracted him to film-making and the global shift in conciousness he would like to achieve with his films. [audio: 201209211800]
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
First hour: News review with Green Party mayoral candidate Daniella Radice. US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke will print $40 billion every month, making money up out of nowhere, to try and generate jobs in US. Effect will be redistribution of wealth from the poor to the rich. The Bristol Pound £B launch party this Wednesday 19th September 2012 from 5:30 -9:30pm at St Nicholas' Market, the top of Corn Street. Ian Fraser on David Cameron's Reshuffle: Entrusting economic policy to ex-investment bankers is like puting the fox in charge of the hen-house. New planning minister Nick Boles' crooked think tank Policy Exchange wants to see thousands of homes built on the Green Belt to boost the economy. Heated meeting Tim Boles Chairman of Winterborne Parish Council discuss public Frenchay Hospital land being sold off for commercial housebuilding. Tony Crofts gets figures from estate agent Alder King saying Bristol has 1.75m sq ft of empty office space, the equivalent of about 75,000 homes. Friendship as or more important than we realise: demise of the pub and community facilities due to economic depression, Tescos taking over public houses. Hillsborough disaster Independent Panel reports this week revealing: 164 witness statements altered by the police, 41 people could have survived. Former South Yorkshire police senior intelligence analyst Tony Farrell tells what his colleague Andy saw that day in 1989. Will the election of Police & Crime Commissioners in November turn Avon & Somerset police into a political football? EU Commission proposes to regulate UK financial markets bypassing the City of London. Alvin Masioma from Tax Justice Network Africa explains how tax havens like Jersey steal African resources and even help start Civil Wars. Max Keiser talks to investigative journalist and author Leah McGrath Goodman about her being banned from the UK for reporting on the Jersey sex and murder scandal. They discuss the $5 billion per square mile in laundered money that means Jersey rises, while Switzerland sinks. [audio: 201209141700]
Second hour: UK/US information film Fracking Hell. Fracking, or Hydraulic Fracturing, in the Mendips: Frack Off campaign, Bristol anti-Fracking campaigner Zoe Smith from Hotwells convicted of Aggravated Trespass stopping fracking which caused eathquakes in Lancashire & Laura Corfield from Transition Keynsham. Various local campaigns such as Rising Tide & Frack Free Somerset. Meeting Tuesday 25th September 2012, 7–9pm in Wells Town Hall. Coal bed methane extraction planned for Keynsham. Fracking: drilling method 'to be extended' despite causing Blackpool earthquakes. US ambassador killed by a mob in Libya and Egypt, Yemen embassies also attacked over Californian Muslim hate film. Bur is it another PsyOp to ramp up tension for the benefit of intelligence services. EADS military mapping satellite software engineer, Al-Hilli family victims of contract killing in France. Former UK ambassador Craig Murray asks was it a Mossad military hit related to assassination programme of Iranian related nuclear scientists? Unreported news: President of Italian Supreme Court refers 9/11 attacks to International Criminal Court for investigation. Arab lawyers' Union condemn censorship of Syrian TV on arab satellites. Gordon Duff from Veterans Today asks will Isreal really attack Iran or are Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's threats just scabre rattling? From Iranian channel PressTV which is censored in the UK. Rita Cangialousi from Bristol Palestine Solidarity Campaign. UN: Israel pushing Palestine deeper into poverty through water and land grabs. US Air Force veteran & messianic Jew Tim Cohen explores heraldry, something like a genetic code, and the centuries old power network of The Order Of The Garter founded in 1348, and asks is it the centre of a clandestine power network that is slowly extending across the world? Looking at Biblical prophecy in the Book of Revelation, Cohen believes Garter Knights represent the core leadership of the Prieuré de Sion, Freemasonry, Rosicrucians, Illuminati, Banking, Insurance, Television and Media. His book is 'The Antichrist And A Cup Of Tea'. [audio: 201209141800]
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
First hour: News review with mayoral candidate George Ferguson: George's role as a Merchant Venturer, part of the city's merchant class elite. George pledges to leave the Merchants should he become Mayor. Horrific record of the Merchant Venturers profits from the Triangular Transatlantic Slave Trade not mentioned by our local paper The Post. Mayor will wrest control of a £1bn annual budget from party politics. Kingswood's Tory MP Chris Skidmore calls British workers 'the laziest in the world' in new book Britannia Unchained. Endemol TV's founder of 'Big Brother' and 'Deal or No Deal', Sir Peter Bazalgette made chairman of the Arts Council. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne booed at paralympics medal award ceremony. European Central Bank says it will buy up bad government debt to stop troubled government's collapsing. European and World Value Survey shows Britain has a very low level of trust. Cameron announces big relaxation of national planning laws to 'boost the economy' by allowing developers to build where they like. Capacity public meeting in Frenchay Village Hall this week: public Frenchay Hospital to be demolished to make way for hundreds of private homes. Abandoned £30bn Severn Barrage scheme is to be re-examined by the government as a way to tap into tidal power. Half the phone hacking victims have still not been contacted by Scotland Yard and the total number has doubled this week, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Sue Ackers reveals to Keith Vaz on the Home Affairs Select Committee. [audio: 201209071700]
Second hour: Freelance journalist Dan Glazebrook: with the passing of the Arab Spring and installation of President Morsi in Egypt does the new government reflect the will of the Egyptian people? 15th anniversary of Princess Diana's untimely death in Paris last weekend, book: The Paris London connection, The Assassination Of Princess Diana. 11th anniversary of 9/11 attacks next week: UK campaign Reinvestigate 9/11 and book: Solving 9-11: The Deception That Changed the World. How's the War on Freedom going as we approach the 11th Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks? Syria: Blogger Gari Sullivan in Bristol next week using personal examples, eye-witness accounts and exclusive material to share his experiences of Syrian life ... & reflecting on the UK mainstream media lies. 7pm, Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft, BS1 3QY, Thursday 13th September 2012. See No Evil 2012 fallout: proprietor of the 'Arc Bar' on Broad Street Eddie James on Bristol's urban arts, money & parapolitics, how fairly were Cultural Olympiad contracts awarded in the City. Does too much money go into too few pockets? NATO 'bombing it's own people?' Former Bristol Tory MEP Richard Cottrell explains why the 1980s IRA attacks in Guildford and Birmingham may have been planned and carried out by MI5, MI6 or Army Intelligence to discredit the IRA. The latest interview about his book: Gladio, NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe: The Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis [audio: 201209071800]
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: Pupil premium and student loans, LibDem education policy. News review with Liberal Democrat Councillor John Kiely. Should LibDem leader Nick Clegg be replaced by Business Secretary Vince Cable? LibDems are the only democratic political party, Labour is run by the trade unions and the Conservatives run by rich donors. Control by Germany on September 12th which is D-Day for latest Euro bailout scheme as German court decides on legality. Germany, with new globetrotting military, also take over presidency of UN Security Council for September tonight! Prospects for a financial crash and collapse and can bought politicians do anything to get us out of the debt spiral? Crisis of leadership as Western world is run by lightweights. UN & aid agencies criticise Glencore boss who claims 'world food crisis is good for business.' Deregulation of commodities futures markets by Wall Street has turned essential world markets such as food and energy into a giant casino. Cargill decided long ago to destroy agriculture in the developing world. Wall Street Pentagon Complex use control of food markets to intimidate smaller countries when making geostrategic decisions at the UN. Charitable giving, Volunteering, Quality of Life, Indifference and is Britain de-politicised? Britain makes homeless squatters into criminals for the first time in history tonight. Police will now be doing private landlords' jobs, saving them money in the civil courts. Bristol has 15,000 official plus another 5,000 unofficial homeless people and this will only add to the housing crisis with people likely, as in the US, to be forced to live in tents. Criminalising squatting with hundreds of thousands of homeless people and similar number of empty properties could lead to a serious social crisis and even civil war. Class War from the top down: Jobless young will have to work for three months unpaid to get their benefits as government accused of 'slave labour'. North Somerset Conservative MP Liam Fox is advising far-right US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's team. [audio: 201208311700]
Second hour: The Tax Justice Network Roadshow comes to Bristol. But will Prime Minister David Cameron do anything to close tax haven loopholes when his father Ian Cameron was a pinoneer of them when Margaret Thatcher's government abolished Exchange Controls in the 1980s? However, Britain is in a unique position to do so as many are British protectorates or ex colonies such as The Cayman Islands and Bermuda. Current economic policy is taking us back to the Victorian age of 'them and us'. Are British forces already in Syria as William Hague makes statement at the UN in New York? RAF personnel told not to book leave, on standby for an air attack in Syria. Who is responsible for this conflict and where is it heading? US Soldiers form anarchist Maryland Militia with $90k worth of assault rifles. Richard Cottrell on his new book 'Gladio, NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe, The Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis'. "Journalism is dead" he says, in the UK, as the mainstream press parrots the government line on mass deception without criticism, classic Orwellian 'groupthink'. Old Labour Oxford Economist Martin Summers returns after his August break. [audio: 201208311800]
For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.
First hour: £600m more borrowing in July but Chancellor George Osborne is nowhere to be seen so we hear from Treasury Minister Chloe Smith. Bank of England's own report says their Quantitative Easing (QE) is benefitting the super-rich 240 times more than everybody else. Banks to use LIBOR probe to bring an end to free banking. New Barclays Chairman says Financial Crisis was caused by banks not charging for bank accounts. Lord Jacob Rothschild tales £130m bet on the failure of the Euro. All eyes on September 12th when German court decides on legality of European bailout plan. Tory Central Office continuing control of North Somerset Conservative Association criticised by Tory Councillor and Balloon maker Don Cameron. Don's Evidence published on UK Indymedia. Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) won't get mailshots. Masonic Filton & Bradley Stoke MP Jack Lopresti & Park Street Temple's Provincial Grand Secretary Steve Rawlings both promise to, then both fail to, send me the Bristol Freemasons' Provincial Yearbook with the names of Bristol's 2000 or so Freemasons in 50 or so Lodges. Author of Inside The Brotherhood, Martin Short: is Freemasonry a miasma of lies or pyramid selling scheme? Another Freemason, far right Norwegian Zio-Nazi Anders Behring Breivik is declared sane, found guilty, and sentenced in Norway for killing 77 young members of the Labour party. We look at his close ties to the formation of the UK English Defence League (EDL) and European 'Knights Templar' anti-Muslim network in London in 2002 and explore the possibility that one of the founder members of the EDL, Paul Ray, screenname 'Lionheart', was his mentor. Paul Ray has now 'renounced' the EDL and moved to the Medieval Knights Templars' final HQ, Malta. The Pursuit of Julian Assange Is An Attack On Freedom And A Mockery Of Journalism as the Wikileaks founder ontinues to be incarcerated at the Ecuadorian embassy in Knightsbridge, London. News review with Conservative Councillor for Avonmouth, Siobhan Kennedy-Hall. [audio: 201208241700]
Second hour: By-election taking place in Bradley Stoke on Thursday 6th September. UK Independence party candidate Caroline Sullivan introduces herself and explains her party's position on Europe & immigration. The other two candidates, Paul Hardwick for the Conservative party and Robin Horsfall for Labour, were invited tonight but their party offices did not return phone calls. Syria's civil disturbances appear to be spreading to Lebanon, we introduce Judith Brown from Arab Media Watch to discuss developments across the Muslim world in Pakistan, Yemen, Egypt and Syria, as well as UK media coverage of the Arab spring. We look too at the reporting & propaganda from Western & Arab mainstream media such as BBC, ITN, Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya, all pro-NATO. I advise Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) & Lebanon's LBCI & Information ministry for some balance. Sex, Lies and Julian Assange: Australian ABC TV Documentary series 'Four Corners' finds out really happened two years ago in Stockholm. Mark Cambridge joins us from Bristol Remploy survivors to explain how disabled workers there are being kept in the dark with an uncertain future and morale dropping. Remploy Workers & Facebook page. [audio: 201208241800]
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
First hour: Britain's years of lead? Relying on each other more but trusting each other les in a dog eat dog society. Empty offices, Redcliffe Wharf development and the old brewery. Whose to blame for the austerity and cuts, the previous Labour government or the bailed out banks? Closure of the city's elderly people's care homes and privatisation of home care. London Metropolitan University's £500m budget is being privatised, contract winners to be announced by the end of August. Wikileaks reveals US government contracted private security company Abraxas to run TrapWire spy camera software, linking national CCTV and secretly spying on everyone. Wikileaks is immediately hit with world's biggest ever Distributed Denial Of Service (DDoS) attack taking the site down for ten days. Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange granted asylum in Ecuador but still stuck inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Foreign Secretary William Hague doesn't want to do a deal, he is running the country this week as Clegg and Cameron are away. Recent case of blind Chinese dissident lawyer Chen Guangcheng who took refuge in China's US Embassy, after escaping house arrest, and was allowed passage to the USA. Plans to close Bristol's City Centre BRI Accident and Emergency in order to cut £17m over five years. General Medical Council (GMC) considers 68 'mistakes' by Home Office pathologist Freddy Patel in the case of Ian Tomlinson who died after the G8 protests in London in 2009. National news coverage for alternative currency, good for the payment of local taxes, the Bristol pound to be launched in September. News review with retired policeman, Liberal Democrat Councillor for Knowle & former Lord Mayor, Chris Davies. [audio: 201208171700]
Second hour: PFI consultant Dexter Whitfield from European Services Strategy Unit which examined the Tower Of London Royal Armories PFI failure looks at the economics of Private Finance Initiatives generally and Southmead NHS Hospital in particular. How much more do we pay when a hospital or school is built in this way? Branson cries foul as US owned First Group win West Coast main line rail franchise. Steve Sa'tan of Rail Futures joins us to discuss. The princess who took on the Land Mines industry, and lost. Simone Simmons describes telephone threat allegedly from Tory Armed Forces Minister Nicholas Soames telling Diana, 'You never know when an accident is going to happen'. 14 months previously, on national TV, Soames had said Diana was in 'the advanced stages of paranoia'. Extract from new book Paris-London Connection: The Assassination of Princess Diana by Australian author John Morgan. [audio: 201208171800]
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discussing
the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
and Marina Morris
First hour: Jack Lopresti still has not got me that Bristol Freemasons' Yearbook he promised me back in March. Nor have the Provincial Masonic Office at the bottom of Park Street. News review with Conservative councillor for Henbury Mark Weston. Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King announces economic growth forcecast has been reduced to zero, and record trade deficit. Care home workers torturing and encouraging residents to commit suicide. Privatised Winterbourne View care home in Bristol run by Castlebeck Care was exposed inflicting torture and cruelty on residents who were encouraged to commit suicide, 11 workers plead guilty to cruelty offences under the Mental Health act. Italian newspaper accuses German Chancellor Angela Merkl of creating a financial 'Fourth Reich' in the Eurozone and using it to bully poor countries such as Greece, Spain and Italy. Cracks appear in coalition government as LibDem leader Nick Clegg says Lords reform is being blocked by Conservatives against the Coalition agreement and Labour Police & Crime Commissioner candidate Bob Ashford is forced to step down to be replaced by Business West (Chamber of Commerce) chief John Savage. Neil Maggs takes over from Paulette North as Respect Party mayoral candidate. [audio: 201208101700]
Second hour: Free Syrian Army give up their fight for control of Syria's largest city Aleppo after attacking the TV & radio broadcasting centre but attack the airport instead. Foreign Secretary William Hague pledges £5m of British taxpayers' money to help the Syrian terrorists without actually supplying them with weapons or ammunition. Rupert Murdoch appears at the Olympics as a guest of Conservative mayor of London Boris Johnson and meets up with controversial pro-Murdoch Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. David Parkes from the BS3 Campus group talks about his visionary bid for South Bristol College on Marksbury Road, Bedminster, which includes plans for affordable housing, a school, doctors' surgery and spaces for arts and small businesses. While it is presently thriving with local community groups and businesses Bristol City Council want to mothball the site when they terminate Artspace Lifespace's lease in February next year and there are fears that the college will quickly be vandalised and turn into a derelict, unusable site as have so many old council and government sites. Operation Market Garden Arnhem veteran Major Tony Hibbert, now in his 90's, appeals for reinstatement of a courageous but sacked Polish commander, General Stanislaw Sosabowski. Hibbert suggests he was scapegoated for the failure of the Arnhem operation and should, posthumously, have his rank and honour restored by the British Army. [audio: 201208101800]
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: Former Mayor of Bristol, Libdem Councillor for Knowle Chris Davies did not arrive as arranged for this week's news review. However Robin Clapp from Bristol And District Anti Cuts Alliance (BADACA) did, and he explains how he has been involved in social struggles in Bristol including the miners' strike in the 1980s and the anti poll tax campaign in the 1990s. Big companies sitting on £750bn of potential tax. Is the private sector really able to take over & run public services? Do we have a Coalition government or have the Tory government entirely sidelined the Liberal Democrats? The new Bristol mayor will be able to run the city with only 20% of elected councillors supporting them but what will the various mayoral candidates do about the closure of Bristol's care homes? Bristol has a higher proportion of drug addicts, over 1400, claiming benefits that any other city in the UK. Bristol City Slackers, councillors representing thousands of people that do not return emails or phone calls including, worryingly, the LibDem candidate for Avon & Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner and Horfield councillor Pete Levy. Naomi fowler presents an extract from July Taxcast, a monthly podcast from the Tax Justice Network. Emergency Homelessness is up 25% in the last three years. Bristol City Council to close all its eight elderly care homes over the next three years while keeping one dementia home open, Bristol's mayoral candidates disagree on the solution. [audio: 201208031700]
Second hour: Syria and Iran latest. Free Syrian Army (FSA) get surface to air missiles. We hear two extracts from the Iranian English language channel Press TV which is now banned in Britain by broadcasting regulator Ofcom. We hear that US corporations buy elected politicians by spending $15bn on lobbying in the run-up to the US Presidential election later this year and Gordon Duff from Veterans Today's view that the Patriot Act has echoes of Nazi Germany and that Republican candidate Mitt Romney represents war profiteers, not just the Republican party. Daphne Havercroft - from South West Whistleblowers' Health Action Group (SWWHAG) - consolidation and commercialisation of the NHS as plans are revealed to merge the 2 NHS trusts to one that. This time it was the UHB NHS Trust managers and board who failed to appear on the show to discuss reasons for the merger and the future of their £500m annual budget of public money. David Powell from Friends of the Earth (FOE) discusses Fracking, the extraction of gas by pouring toxic chemicals deep into the water table which energy companies are planning to do in the Mendip Hills. This has been going on in the US for a decade where they have produced a film: Gasland. Forthcoming protest on Saturday 22nd September called Global Frackdown, Frack Free Somerset and the national Frack Off campaign as well as the film: Fracking Hell. Wind farms and fossil fuel vs. alternative energy policy. Joanne Baker, author of Uranium in Iraq: The Poisonous Legacy of the Iraq Wars talks about Hiroshima Day on Monday as well as Britain's use of radioactive waste to pollute countries in foreign wars. Fran Anderson from Reinvestigate 911 reflects on the 9/11 Commission report, Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission by Thomas Keane, BBC coverage of the 9/11 attacks and the thoughts of US author of Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace and writer Gore Vidal who died this week, aged 86. [audio: 201208031800]
Second hour: Syria and Iran latest. Free Syrian Army (FSA) get surface to air missiles. We hear two extracts from the Iranian English language channel Press TV which is now banned in Britain by broadcasting regulator Ofcom. We hear that US corporations buy elected politicians by spending $15bn on lobbying in the run-up to the US Presidential election later this year and Gordon Duff from Veterans Today's view that the Patriot Act has echoes of Nazi Germany and that Republican candidate Mitt Romney represents war profiteers, not just the Republican party. Daphne Havercroft - from South West Whistleblowers' Health Action Group (SWWHAG) - consolidation and commercialisation of the NHS as plans are revealed to merge the 2 NHS trusts to one that. This time it was the UHB NHS Trust managers and board who failed to appear on the show to discuss reasons for the merger and the future of their £500m annual budget of public money. David Powell from Friends of the Earth (FOE) discusses Fracking, the extraction of gas by pouring toxic chemicals deep into the water table which energy companies are planning to do in the Mendip Hills. Forthcoming protest on Saturday 22nd September called Global Frackdown, Frack Free Somerset and the national Frack Off campaign as well as the film: Fracking Hell. Wind farms and fossil fuel vs. alternative energy policy. Joanne Baker, author of Uranium in Iraq: The Poisonous Legacy of the Iraq Wars talks about Hiroshima Day on Monday as well as Britain's use of radioactive waste to pollute countries in foreign wars. Fran Anderson from Reinvestigate 911 reflects on the 9/11 Commission report, BBC coverage of the 9/11 attacks and the thoughts of US author of Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace and writer Gore Vidal who died this week, aged 86. [audio: 201208031800]
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
First hour: 'Senseless' threats to Bristol Remploy despite it making money; Conservative finance lead & deputy mayor Geoff Gollop says it shows lack of joined up thinking in Coalition government; Geoff, Peter Abraham & Barbara Lewis all in the running for Conservative mayor candidate, one will be chosen on 7th August. Empty offices in Bristol, but will Geoff be able to bring back growth and confidence & fill them with workers? Office for National Statistics and OBR announce 0.7% fall in GDP as commentators talk not of double dip resession but 'slump'. Chancellor George Osborne is sticking to his deficit reduction plan but on camera looks, sheepishly, as if he did not believe his own words. UK is extremely vulnerable in the Euro crisis despite not being in the Euro zone. Banks are the fiancial services wing of the international drug cartels. Government minister says it's immoral to pay cash in hand while super-rich stash $21tn in offshore funds out of the reach of the tax man. As the Americanisation of Britain continues Liberal democrats select former police officer and one of our 'city slackers' who does not return emails or phone calls, Pete Levy, to run for Avon & Somerset Police Comissioner. Other candidates so far announced are Conservative Ken Maddock & Bob Ashford for Labour. Voxpop on Olympics security militarisation and G4S fiasco. [audio: 201207271700]
Second hour: Marina Morris reports on latest developments in Syria with arms finding their way to the rebels through NATO country Turkey. Daily Mail reports that former SAS soldiers are training the 'Free Syrian Army' who have been killing people in Damascus over the last few weeks. Who might stand to gain from an attack at the olympics? Sponsors BMW made their money using SS slave labour in World War Two and have 'taken over' the iconic British Mini but will not pay reparations. Reference is German documentary The Silence Of The Quandts. Just published into English today is the Secret 'Plan For Democratic Rebirth' for a fascist Italy run by Freemasons, police, secret services and corporations of Italian Grand Orient masonry. It was discovered in the lining of Licio Gelli's daughter Maria-Graxia Gelli's suitcase at Rome Fiumicino airport 30 years ago this month. [audio: 201207271800]
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
First hour: City slackers, named again. List of Bristol City Councillors who either do not respond to phone or emails or do not wish to share their views with us on BCfm's politics show. Conservatives 36%; Liberal Democrat 28%; Labour 18% and Green 0%. Bristol freemasonry: we appeal for a copy of the Bristol Provincial yearbook, still not supplied as promised by Bristol freemason Conservative MP Jack Lopresti, which lists Bristol's 2000 or so Freemasons in 50 or so masonic lodges. A vision for the city. Lax HSBC controls allowed Mexican drug cartels to launder £4.5 billion and David Cameron's Coalition Government Trade Minister Lord Green was running the HSBC bank at the time. Criminals running the NATO zone banking system. £3.6m cuts mean nearly 200 people will be made homeless after Bristol City Council announces closure of 8 care homes, plus 130 job losses. Bristol has 20,000 homeless people, Tony Crofts suggests we should convert Bristol's 1.75 million square feet of empty office space into 70-80,000 homes. IMF says the UK must boost government spending to save the economy and should relax spending cuts. Labour's mayoral candidate, our guest Marvin Rees, branded naive and weak by LibDem Councillor Gary Hopkins over his appearance at last Saturday's anti-EDL rally. Unemployment falls for the 4th month in a row down to 8.1%. BBC riots drama banned by judge, but it looks like it will eventually be screened. News review with Labour's candidate for mayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees. [audio: 201207201700]
Second hour: Bomb attacks rock Syrian security ministry killing two generals and more, were attacks timed to coincide withy UN Security Council vote? The best English language source of Syrian news, the excellent analysis from Syrian Arab News Service (SANA) website www.sana.sy is unavailable so NATO/Israeli cyberwarfare and psychological warfare may be going on. However the UN's Syrian ambassador Dr. Bashar Al Jaafari's speech on 19 July 2012, as Russia and China vetoed the US's Syria sanctions resolution at the UN, is available. Head of German Secret Service Heinz Fromm resigns after covering up for a murderous domestic neo-Nazi terror group. Operation Gladio: Richard Cotterell and Daniele Ganser have written books and Alan Frankovich made a series of three BBC Timewatch documentaries on domestic terrorism carried out mainly in the 1980s by NATO and crypto-fascist Western Intelligence Agencies. Our own domestic counter-intelligence agency MI5's Director General and Bilderberger Jonathan Evans said on Channel 4 News, before the G4S olympics security scandal story broke, that the only danger at the Olympics was from Iran, whilst we now know it was 'wide open' for any terrorist. Why would Evans make such a statement which could not be further from the truth? Strike action at Bristol Remploy this and next Thursday, appeal for supporters to join striking disabled workers' picket next Thursday. Mass demonstrations of 400,000 people against the lack of democracy in Hong Kong 15 years after failed MP Chris Patten handed it to China. Repression and resistance in China: Wukan, a town of 40,000 people, sacks local Communist Party leaders and institutes a democratic system for three months before being repressed. Big increase in demonstrations in China which are illegal there. Sally Tang from Socialist Action reports from former British colony of Hong Kong fifteen years after it was reclaimed by China. Petition to get Bristol's extra £20m police funding; abolition of Avon & Somerset's democratic police authority and replacement with elected Police and Crime Commissioners on the horizon and the G4S private security fiasco at the olympics. Implications for privatising the police. Kevin Phillips from Avon and Somerset Police Federation which represents 3000 police officers in our local force. Dave Redgewell from SW SERA discusses the effects of rail privatisation and the McNulty report deregulating and demanning national railways. [audio: 201207201800]
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: BBC Trustee, Bilderberger and Chairman of Barclays Marcus Agius at the Treasury Select Committee. Would you trust this man with your money? Extract from The Keiser report: Financial journalist Ian Fraser explains how and when the rot set in at the City of London. Last City trial County NatWest 'Blue Arrow', (not 'Blue Circle', apols.) which took place in 1992. After a crooked Court Of Appeal aquittal Serious Fraud Office (SFO) allegedly said: "The message has come down from 'on high'. There will never again be a prosecution of a high level banker or a mainstream city institution". Deregulation of the City further opened the door to impunity: False accounting, defrauding clients and money laundering has been going on ever since. Olympics' private security fiasco: Director General of MI5 and Bilderberger Jonathan Evans gives the all-clear, as does former QinetiQ boss & Bilderberger Pauline Neville-Jones, but 2 weeks later 3,500 soldiers are drafted into London Olympics security duty. G4S private security firm 'let the country down', according to Home Affairs select committee chair Keith Vaz. G4S whistleblower Ben Fellows, aka. Lee Hazledean, explains how sometimes it helps to see 'the bigger picture'. Western Intelligence agencies fomenting terror to justify their own budget and as a political tool, such as in NATO's Operation Gladio. English Defence League (EDL) march ''against Islamification of Bristol' tomorrow. But are the EDL connected to Anders Beivik, to the Zionist movement & who funds the EDL? News review with Cllr Simon Rayner (Lib) [audio: 201207131700]
Second hour: Was Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat assassinated by the Israeli Cabinet in 2004 with radioactive Polonium? Who are the West's favourite Syrian government in exile, the Syrian National Council? Keith Allen's 'Unlawful Killing' documentary about the assassination of Princess Diana has been censored by Prince Philip's lawyers. Impossible to get insurance on the film but English language Iranian channel Press TV did review it in their CinePolitics series. Tax Havens: John Christensen from the Tax Justice Network. Annual tax evasion loss to UK exchequer is £70bn, plus £25bn in tax avoidance is lost. Lord Chancellor and Bilderberger Kenneth Clarke 'blushes' on BBC's Question time as he pledges to close tax havens but does he really mean what he says? Three measures that need to be adopted: 1. Automatic Information Exchange when accounts are opened, 2. Require multinational companies to disclose their accounts in every country they operate. 3. Britain must stop blocking tax haven reforms. Eva Rausing, whose death was announced this week, used cruise ship 'The World' as a tax haven. We must end non-domicile status for oligarchs etc., who live in Britain but don't pay tax here. Shadow banking system of Structured Investment Vehicles (SIVs) explained. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney exposed as keeping his wealth in the Cayman Islands. Like Civil Service, the BBC are paying some staff to facilitate tax avoidance. Bristol ACTSA: Anti-Apartheid leader and former South African government minister Ronnie Kasrils launches the new book London Recruits edited by Ken Keable in the Colston Hall. Ronnie recommends documentaries Have You Heard From Johannesburg and Mandela Son Of Africa, Father Of A Nation. [audio: 201207131800]
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
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. [audio: 201207061700]
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 odrered 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. 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. He was doing that for former organisers of one of the world's biggest arms fairs in docklands Reed Elsevier. Jerusalem desk of Associated Press reported that a warning of those attacks was given to Benjamin Netanyahu (Bibi) at 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 their 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. [audio: 201207061800]
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
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 23% (5/22) & 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: Mike Langley, Brislington East; 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. [audio: 201206291700]
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! [audio: 201206291800]
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
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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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
First hour: News review with former Conservative, now UKIP councillor for Woodlands in Bradley Stoke, Ed Rose who has spoken out against the closure of Filton airfield. Says integrity was entirely lacking in the Filton and Bradley Stoke Conservative party . Strict policy discipline and 'roastings' from local MP Jack Lopresti and others. "One party, one policy one fuhrer". Filton and Bradley Stoke Conservative party compared to Hitler and Mussolini's with regard to strict policy discipline. Smear campaign and mud slinging by fellow Conservatives outside the minuted committee meetings. UK Independence Party run in a more human fashion. The Conservative Party don't care. It's hard to see their understanding of what's going on. David Cameron said "My great grandfather was a banker my grandfather was a banker and my father was an investment banker, Banking is in my blood, I will never hurt bankers." Essentially giving city fraudsters a 'get out of jail free card. There is a sense of unreality to the way Bradley Stoke is being governed with no real thought for the future. Allegations of bullying against BAe Systems threatening those that speak out professionally against the closure of Filton Airfield. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) programme project team is based at MoD AbbeyWood. No other uses of Filton Airfield were considered by BAe Systems, they just decided to close it and sell it off with no consideration whatever for their obligations to the public, who gave them the airfield for £1.00, and the wider society. Hypocrisy of turning down Filton Airfield expansion due to traffic but housing will generate even more car journeys. Local Conservative MP "I'm alright" Jack Lopresti "too busy in London" welcomes apprenticeships & jobs but where are these jobs? Libraries have closed and no-one to empty the dog poo bins. No jobs, no money, no economy no future so surely it is crazy to build 5000 houses without jobs or infrastructure? In the future it could compare to the 'Robocop' US city of Detroit. "We have a government that seem to enjoy themselves. It's a big boy's club, they've never done a hard day's work in their life these people." Incompetence and bullying in Whitehall. Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King and Chancellor George Osborne announce £140Bn fund to banks to lend to businesses. Compare to Russian Mafia. Lack of regulation one of the main causes of these problems. Conservative government have no understanding of hardship. Financial crisis caused by lack of demand in the economy not by lack of lending. Britain being bled dry by the EU, whose accounts haven't been audited for the last 9 years. European bankers riddled with endemic corruption. KPMG, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Deloitte Touche and Ernst & Young, the 'Big Four' auditors are under investigation too for giving clean bills of health to UK banks just before they had to be rescued by taxpayers in the 2007-09 financial crisis. Bankers and the Murdoch empire undermine national security and should be prosecuted for treason. Bristol City Council's £12.5m annual drug and alcohol rehabilitation programme is out for consultation. Links between drug dealers, organised crime and the intelligence services who profit from prohibition. Jubilee 'slave labour' company Close Protection UK (CPUK) minibus overturns on the M40 and the driver is arrested so the London Bridge incident was not just a 'one off' as a Downing Street spokeswoman said. Banking system is now being propped up by the taxpayer and drug cartels, without which it would be bust. David Cameron quizzed at Leveson Enquiry about his pre-election dealings with two former News of the World editors, both now charged with serious criminal offences, Rebekah Brooks with perverting the course of justice and Andy Coulson with perjury. Only one SMS text revealed at the Leveson Enquiry which decended into farce when Prime Minister David Cameron's wife Samatha rang in to 'remind him' about the frequency of meetings with Ms. Brooks over lunch. All "hogwash, they're all in the dirt on this". Why has the whole Murdoch family not been arrested and charged? The big fish are being protected and the small fish are being thrown to the sharks at Leveson enquiry which is being stage managed in a US style for TV. [audio: 201206151700]
Second hour:Was the Houla massacre in Syria carried out by Western intelligence services since the article suggesting it was carried out by the Free Syrian Army at the same time as Western moves in the Security Council. Until the Libyan regime change Al Quaeda were NATO and Mossad's arch enemy but now in Syria and Libya Al Quaeda are the Werstern intelligence service's friends! On 1st July 2010 South Yorkshire police's Principle Strategic Intelligence Analyst Tony Farrell realised he couldn't trust the intelligence he was getting from Special branch and would have to speak out at work about the faulty Threat Assessment Matrix (TAM) used by the police. He regarded the threat to South Yorkshire from Islamic terrorists to be virtually zero and the real threat to be from Western intelligence agencies and the domestic 'New World Order' of private security companies with a vested interest in generating a domestic terror threat. He detected critical failings in MI5's Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC). Tony Farrell is now being represented by Michael Shrimpton QC as his cases against paying his council tax and for unfair dismissal go on. Terror hoax drills took place in South Yorkshire on 5th & 11th July 2005. S. Yorks. Chief Constable Meredydd Hughes was in charge of Gleneagles G8 security on 7th July then dealt with debriefings from 7/7 London bombings. European Euro crooks' ponzi scheme Troika (EFSF ECB IMF) lends money to Greece at interest and only bails them out so they can pay back previous debts with interest. Yanis Varoufakis on English language Russian channel RT's 'Keiser Report' with former New York stockbroker Max Keiser. Greek election is on Sunday which could mean total financial collapse on Monday if Greek people assert their sovereignty. Wilf Mound from Bristol Greenpeace takes us through local environmental campaigns including the Fisherman's Friend campaign to help fishermen in the South West and Ecocide trial. Bill Monteith South West rep on National Executive of the Transport Salaried Staff Association (TSSA) describes the ham fisted, cack handed privatisation of Britain's railways. The Banks own the 'Roscos' or rolling stock companies which lease trains to the UK's 27 train operating companies. Roy McNulty's plans to take away guards and ticket office staff: Roy McNulty's report on the railways may lead to 20,000 job losses. Already too many layers of profit-taking in the rail system. Simple solution is to re-nationalise the railway network as a 'national treasure'. British Rail still exists as a train operating company of last resort. McNulty is a 'Command Paper' not an Act of Parliament. Review of the recent US Bilderberg conference, the secret political arm of NATO. Crooked BBC taboo: Disbelief that the cult-like BBC could ignore one of the most influential political NATO conferences of the year in its output while a BBC 'trustee', Marcus Agius who is married to Katherine Rothschild and the Chairman of Barclays bank is inside, sworn to secrecy. [audio: 201206151800]
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
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.
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.
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
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 Gain, 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.
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 which has been attacking the data stealing virus. 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.
At five:
discussing
the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin
Summers
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.
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).
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
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First hour: News review with Bristol Respect party mayoral candidate Paulette North. What does the Respect party stand for? Respect; Equality; Socialism; Peace; Environment; Community & Trade-unionism. Will the left wing vote be split in November's election for mayor? This is not a Euro crisis but a crisis of private banking. The banks are already bust and there will inevitably be a colossal financial meltdown at some point in the future. Latest Eurozone crisis. The free market solution to the financial crisis is a crash. Surely you can't just make up money out of nowhere and give it to the banks? Yes the Bank of England can! Will a panic one morning lead to a total financial meltdown? Euro crisis is a game of chicken between the Greeks and the Germans. Lessons we must learn from the Icelandic bank nationalisation NASDAQ flotation of Facebook today. Respect want a new local income tax. Cameronite 301 group conduct takeover of Tories' back-bench 1922 committee which can force a leadership election. Should there be any limits to immigration? Lithuanian man jailed for 18 months after failing to pay his £250 London to Bristol cab fare & pulling a knife, after just arriving in UK. Paulette wants a no borders policy because she believes our immigration laws are racist. So if you think there is too much immigration does that make you a racist? Is immigration causing our housing crisis or ? Why no UK staff at Pret-A-Manger? Is open borders policy part of an effort to abolish the state? Should we keep British Jobs for British Workers? Are British workers lazy? Royal College of Nursing staff ask questions of the NHS privatising Health Secretary Andrew Lansley at their annual conference. Now we have fixed term parliaments Vernon Bogdanor asks: if LibDems jump ship might the queen then ask Ed Miliband to form a government? First charges in the phone hacking scandal. Rebekah Brooks, her husband Charlie and five others charged with several counts of Conspiracy to Pervert the course of justice byAlison Levitt QC at the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. Council order Withywood residents to return community garden to wasteland.
Second hour: Reconnaissance around global and intelligence news stories: Dictators' dinner and liars' lunch today hosted by the Queen & Prince Charles at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace. Do these figureheads have any real power? G8 summit at Camp David followed by NATO summit in Chicago. Remembering the British military coup attempt against Prime Minister Harold Wilson in 1975 as recorded in 'The Pencourt Files' by Barrie Penrose & Roger Courtiour. The Spanish Order of the Golden Fleece which goes back to Medieval times and takes its name from the Greeks' legendary Golden Fleece from the ram-god Krios' which was on the island of Colchis which was a charm for prosperity in Homer's stories of Jason and the Argonauts. Russians threaten to destroy NATO's missile defence shield in Poland and Romania. NATO ramps up tension against the Chinese in the Spratly islands in the South China sea but who stands to gain from increasing tension? Are our arms firms and their foreign dealings encouraging terrorism here in Britain? Privatising AbbeyWood MoD procurement with arms manufacturers BAe Systems in the running. The Olympic Torch trail from Greece was started in 1936 by the Nazis for the Berlin Olympics. Queen of Disco Donna Summer believed her lung cancer was caused by inhaling New York's 9/11 dust. Sex, spies and seven suspicious deaths: The murky waters of the intelligence world - coincidence or conspiracy? Phil Gibbons reports from modern artist Sam Bompas' jelly event at the SS Great Britain. Cliff Hanley from Bristol's Palestine Solidarity Campaign was beaten up and disabled in Bristol city centre by a far right drunk on Good Friday 2011. Although the attacker has allegedly been identified by six eyewitnesses, the police will not charge the man. How to fight a war without hurting anyone. Bristol's Lincombe Barn wargaming society hold their annual table-top sale between 10am & 1pm on Sunday. Use of the new US magazine Modern War as propaganda, perpetuating myths & covering for US black ops such as Iran starting a war in the Middle East. Modern wars increasingly being fought not by Generals but by colossal NATO computers such as the one at the Corsham Computer Centre (CCC) housed deep underground near Copenacre in the old stone mines between Bath and Chippenham.
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
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First hour: Weekly news review with Southmead Councillor Jenny Smith (Lab). The Jack Lopresti report: Bristol Freemasons' Hall Summer Craft Fayre and open day takes place on Saturday 16th June. The Bristol Freemasons' Provincial Yearbook Jack promised us 4 weeks ago has still not arrived. Jenny Smith has Labour's opposition Health and Social Care portfolio for Bristol. Possible closure of Bristol City Council's Elderly Peoples' Homes. Is privatised 'Homecare' a suitable alternative to care homes for elderly people? Day centres are also under threat: for elderly; the disabled and mentally ill. Fascist Bristol? Some worrying facts are emerging about anti-democratic powers of Bristol's new mayor who can pass the budget on a vote of only 1/3 of the councillors and choose cabinet members from their own party even if it is a minority party. This is not democracy and far less representative than the London mayor. Member of the former Slave Trade financiers, The Society of Merchant Venturers, George Ferguson, used to be a Liberal Democrat Councillor so how can he be an Independent mayoral candidate? On Britain's fraught economy isn't it better to default on unpayable debts or else to nationalise the banking system rather than dither? But these solutions seem to be taboo in the mainstream media. Government guaranteeing a certain amount of money for each individual bank account but rich people will lose everything over that amount. Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) and other public sector unions on strike over pensions yesteday as a new public sector tax appears on their payslips as a deduction from their wages for the Treasury. We hear from Roger Thomas from PCS. Some public sector unions have withdrawn support from the Labour party but leader Ed Miliband is still trying to please a few 'swing voters', just like the two other main parties. People are coming to Bristol who cannot afford to live in London. Some individuals, particularly youngsters are becoming 'Non-People' due to being excluded from housing. Michael Meacher MP's blog post points out that the 1000 richest in Sunday Times UK Rich List have increased their wealth by £155bn over the last 3 years. They could pay off the entire UK deficit tomorrow with £30bn to spare. Many at the poorest end of society in Southmead are feeling they can't cope and small local shops are also being forced to close. First Bus withdrawing local bus services doesn't help. In this year's Westminster budget Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer and Bullingdon Club 'Oik' George Osborne gave Britain's 40,000 millionaires £14,000 per week, that's £3bn in tax dished out for lowering the top rate of tax from 50p to 45p. Bristol's 8.4% council house rent increase is way over inflation and impossible for many to pay. Simon from Somerset calls in to BBC Radio 5 live on Monday morning and explains some home truths about the financial situation, saying the government doesn't really govern the country, it is governed by the City Of London and private bankers instead who decide what the government can and cannot afford. Government and people who are in debt are their slaves. Private bankers govern the world and the thing they are most afraid of is that our elected representatives should print their own money, they want to keep their private oligopoly on money. The US Greenback dollar notes under president Abraham Lincoln was government issued money and Lincoln won the American Civil war on the back of it. We in Britain could do the same today. What's the point in voting if the private banks are pulling the strings? Information tribunal tells government to publish the NHS Risk Register but Health Secretary Andrew Lansley and the Cabinet veto the decision and refuse to publish it. Andy Coulson former editor & criminal phone hacking mastermind at the News of the World appears at the Leveson enquiry. After losing his job at the News of the World over phone hacking he became Director of Communications for Prime Minister David Cameron at No. 10 Downing Street. But Cameron did not ask him anything about why he left the News of the World if you can believe that! Coulson was SSC vetted by a private company not DV vetted as required, but nevertheless he had access to Top Secret files which is a serious breach of national security before he resigned in January 2011. Europe Day on Wednesday: UKIP leader Nigel Farrage predicts civil unrest and possibly even revolution in Europe and a rejection of the centralised EU by the European people, he owes no allegiance to the EU flag. New survey indicates 71% of UK public believe it's time to renationalise the water industry and we on the programme agree that it's a good place to start.
Second hour: Latest book on the death of Princess Diana "Diana Inquest: Who Killed Princess Diana? by John Morgan" explains something called the Way Ahead Group (WAG) which met on on Wednesday 23rd July 1997 chaired by The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh, may have ordered the assassination of Diana because William and Harry were about to go on an extended Holiday with Muslim Dodi Al Fayed. US Army running 'Islam is the Enemy' 'Holy War' course for their senior officers which includes nuclear attacks on Mecca and other Islamic holy cities. Enhanced Underpants bomb reappears with further entrapment of patsies by the FBI. But lawyer Kurt Haskell saw original underpants 'bomber' being ushered onto the plane without a passport. The real terrorists are inside the power structure. Russian armed forces are preparing for a potential world war, including PsyOps, this Summer. Alison Caldwell from Australian broadcaster ABC interviews David Nevin, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's lawyer, who says he cannot have a conversation with his client. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed allegedly 'confessed' to carrying out the 9/11 attacks after being waterboarded 183 times. Two massive bombs target Syrian government security police targets but were they planted by private military companies such as Blackwater, now renamed as "XE Services". The Bilderberg Must Die For The World To Live, NATO zone royalty, bankers, media, biggest corporations and government finance people's secret meeting takes place in three weeks in Virginia, USA next door to the National Reconnaisance Office (NRA) and down the road from the CIA. Occupy Bilderberg protest movement has already begun. Former US Secretary of State under Republican President Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger has a track record as one of the world's worst ever war criminals and he is a key organiser of the Bilderberg Conferences. Universal Credits, the new Bedroom Tax and the Benefit Cap. Changes to the Housing Benefit system with Will Stone from Avon & Bristol Law Centre. Benefit cap of £500 for couples and £350 for single people. Bristol City Council calculate that 500 families in the poorest parts of Bristol will be losing nearly £100 a week and may have to move into cheaper accommodation, be evicted or be forced to take a low-paid job. Employment and Support Allowance being re-assessed by private companies - appeals sytem in crisis but nearly 50% of appeals are being sucessful. Is this all a symptom of the de-industrialisation of Britain. Anna Bennet from solicitors Devonshires explains that bad debt levels for landlords are likely to double when the new Universal Credit comes in. Demonstration projects being run around the country to see if vulnerable people really can manage their finances effectively. 6,500 private tenants in Bristol face cuts of £15-25 a week in their housing benefit forcing many to be made homeless. 'Poverty Hearing' next Friday at 7:30pm by 'Bristol Poverty Action' at Bristol Council House next Friday. Contact your local advice centre or Avon & Bristol Law Centre at the bottom of Stokes Croft www.ablc.org.uk 0117 924 8662. Travellers' rights with Sean from Montpelier who does not like to live in a house. Sean was living in a coach in the 1980s which gave him a much greater sense of freedom. The world opened up for him and he could wake up in the morning and move on whenever he felt like it. They travelled in groups of 6-12 vehicles or in 2's & 3's or whatever was convenient. 1980s crackdown on the gypsy or traveller lifestyle. New Age Travellers, Hippy Travellers or just plain Travellers? Convoys of 50-100 vehicles travelling at the same time. Sean changed a one ton coach engine in a field. Conservative Thatcher government of the 1980s were afraid of the young people embracing a cuture of freedom, not being tied to a job or tied to an address as well as the entire free festival scene the Tories saw as a threat. All ended with Wiltshire police attacking travellers and destroying many of their vehicle homes at the Battle of the Beanfield on Saturday 1st June 1985. Mormon Bishop Webb of Whitchurch, Bristol explains Mormonism in the run-up to the US presidential election and prospective Mormon Republican candidate Mitt Romney. Sceptical view of Mormonism by Peter Levenda in his book Sinister Forces.
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
First hour: Review of today's mayoral referendum result. The ‘Yes’ campaign won a majority in Bristol on about 5000 votes which is a 6.7% majority on a 25% turnout, but concerns are being raised by elected member's question over why the ballot boxes were kept overnight in a highly politicised private business premises, Bristol City Football Club at Ashton Gate, owned by tax exile and long time critic of Bristol City Council Stephen Lansdown, giving him and his colleagues to possibility of interfering in the electoral process overnight. Former slave traders 'The Merchant Venturers', local paper 'The Post' and the business community of Bristol appear to annoint architect and Merchant Venturer, George Ferguson, as their favoured candidate for mayor in November 2012. Shambles extraordinaire as we ask sould there have been a referendum at all when we still do not know what the mayor's powers will be? We're also joined by Craig Clarke who intends to stand for mayor in November 2012. We look at the changing career trajectories of Members of Parliament who are looking more like Public Relations agents for The City of London than public servants. Proposal of Cllr. Tim Kent to 'get tough' with First Bus and take over Bristol's Buses? Perhaps. Argentina and Bolivia begin to privatise foreign owned energy companies. Thames Water have closed 25 reservoirs causing bizarre 'water shortages' during a spell of 180 flood warnings in Southern England. Could water bill payers and Thames Water be the victims of yet another EU directive?
Second hour: Keith Evans from Bristol and District Anti-Cuts Alliance (BADACA) on tomorrow's March For The NHS whch is taking place from 11am at College Green. Gerald Celente, editor of the New York Trends Journal site explains how the US is becoming a fascist country on the RT show The Keiser Report. Niall Warry from the BBC Institutional Bias blog discusses what happened when he refused to pay his licence fee and how more and more BBC Refusniks are doing this sucessfully. We look at the pro-Nazi fascist opinions of the first BBC Director General Lord Reith and how he kept Hitler's critic Sir Winston Churchill off the air. Two programmes that caused controversy in the 1980s were Panorama's 'Maggie's Militant Tendency' showing some Tory MP's in far right meetings. Also Duncan Campbell's Secret Society series in 1987. We discuss the subsequent sacking of BBC Director General Alasdair Milne in January 1987 and explain that Victor Rothschild, of 'Spycatcher' fame, was behind that decision. More recently we discuss BBC World's on air apology after their embarassing transmission of several documentaries which were in fact paid for propaganda by the Maylaysian government. BBC2 Newsnight's latest political editor Allegra Stratton has a deal with publishers Simon & Schuster for a book eulogising the Miliband brothers including what Ed Miliband as Prime Minister would mean for Britain. Also the reasons for the departure of Newsnight's former political editor Michael Crick after the BBC insisted on deleting & wiping many hours of his interviews with the heavyweights od British political life. It's as if the BBC did not want us, or future generations, to be able to keep track of the opinions and statements of our politicians. Certainly smacks of extreme control-freakery by Newsnight and BBC Current Affairs managers.
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
First hour: This week's news review with Labour Councillor for St. George West Ron Stone: Britain officially enters recession after five quarters of zero growth. Should we have a major programme of public works like we did in the 1940s and '50s? Is Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne representing vested interests and 'braving it out'? Prime Minister David Cameron was in Bristol on Monday promoting the Yes campaign in next week's mayoral referendum. Is Bristol in fact a very sucessful city which doesn't need a mayor? How would an elected mayor affect the Bristol tram, the arena or the city ground decisions? Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne at Temple Quarter to launch 'Enterprise zone' on Friday. Bristol North Baths was closed 7 years ago by Bristol City Council after a dubious public consultation but has been re-occupied by local people in it's centenary year. Justin and the Recession Bristol project are restoring the baths for free and providing free skills training and security. Lack of capital money from the council to look after and restore such buildings so they just rot and are snapped up cheap by the 'private sector'. Old Grammar School next to St George Park has been brought back into community use. Groups paying peppercorn rents to the council then restoring and reusing public buildings. 2012 St Paul's Carnival is called off over safety fears and as community groups disagree. This is the latest of several cultural events to be cancelled including the Ashton Court festival, but the Harbour Festival will go ahead. Leader of Bristol City Council Barbara Janke is to stand down, we speculate on whether she has been 'elbowed out' because she does not support the pro-mayor wing of her party... and ask who might take her place. Thousands of people taken off of Incapacity Benefit and told by local Lord Rothermere owned paper, The Post, to 'get back to work', but there are not enough jobs on offer. Cuts in benefits are 'crashing the economy'. Respect MP for Bradford West George Galloway criticises the present leadership of the Labour party for losing touch with its roots. Social cleansing: Newham council in London proposes to move 500 families 150 miles North to live in the much cheaper town of Stoke. We hear the views of Housing Minister Grant Shapps and mayor of Newham council Sir Robin Wales. Boris Johnston and Ken Livingston have both said this is 'social cleansing'. We spend most of our money throughout our lives on our housing. 14,534 people are on Bristol's housing waiting list. Borrowing on Bristol's housing revenue account is over £70m. Ron Stone wants to get pension funds to invest in social housing. Bristol's council rents going up 8.1% this year. James and Rupert Murdoch appear at the Leveson enquiry and we hear about damning email "Managed to get some info on the plans for tomorrow. (Although absolutely illegal >:)" Back channel between Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport Jeremy Hunt and News International. "Total impartiality and strict due process." but can anybody have any confidence in Jeremy Hunt's trustworthiness and are his acions illegal? Conservative MP for North-East Somerset Jacob Rees-Mogg also has an email which casts Vince Cable in a bad light. Compulsory microchips to be introduced to curb the menace of dangerous dogs. But our guest Ron Stone is a Crufts dog show judge and says it will not help at all.
Second hour: This week's world politics reconnaissance: Secret rulers of the Western world NATO far-right elitists founded by an SS officer and censored by the BBC due to meet on 31st May 2012. The Bilderberg Conference looks to be taking place in four weeks just down the road from the CIA headquaters in Chantilly, Virginia, USA. Royalty, top bankers, media moguls, big business and favoured politicians will be in attendance. Press will not be allowed near the place. BBC trustee Marcus Agius who is also charman of Barclays bank is a 'Bilderberger'. Expect an announcement about the US presidential race in the week after Bilderberg. Anders Behring Breivik who killed 77 people in Norwegian terror attack using the term 'counter-jihad' rather than Zionism which is what he really supports. Oslo based UN worker Torstein Viddal's taboo breaking article which suggests Breivick is part of a much wider Zionist racist network which is linked to Nazism. Breivik visited the UK to meet a founder member of the English Defence League (EDL) and others back in 2002. Who was pulling Breivik's strings and why are Norwegian prosecuters trying to pretend he had no accomplices? Bahrain Grand Prix goes ahead despite fascist repression of Bahrain regime, Channel 4 news team arrested and their driver beaten. Bahrain is a crucial strategic port for a potential NATO attack on Iran. Is Formula One too close to fascism bearing in mind that former F1 chief, and regular guest on BBC Question Time, Max Mosley stood in Salford East for the Union Movement, post-war successor to his father's British Union of Fascists, in the 1964 General Election? What is discredited Scotland Yard Anti-terror cop John Yates up to helping an arab dictatorship? France's presidential candidates Francois Hollande versus Nicolas Sarkozy but The Economist magazine, which represents corrupt City interests, would vote Sarkozy. Gloucester born 'extremist' Saajid Badat met Osama Bin Laden. But is that such a big deal? Much terrorism is perpetrated by Patsies, Moles and Technicians as part of Western intelligence operations so he may well have been a patsy. National Health Service worker Mike Levine from Bristol and District Anti Cuts Alliance (BADACA) explains how the NHS is being privatised. Mike points out the problems with Foundation Trusts being too much like commercial businesses and has produced a pamphlet called 'The Privatisation of the NHS, It Can Be Stopped If People Know What Is Happening' Next week is traditional workers' day Mayday and Mike talks about next Saturday's 'March For The NHS' through Bristol City Centre starting at College Green at 11am. Next week's mayoral referendum with former Sainsburys' Home Delivery manager turned council officer and prospective mayoral Peace Party candidate Craig Clarke who doesn't want a rich person to be mayor. Are we being bumped into this by central government? What will the powers of an elected mayor be? Mayor will be able to wade in to council bureaucracy and bang heads together. Craig recounts a conversation with Conservative Lord Mayor Peter Abraham where he was offered free labour which he turned down, then told Craig, 'You should be a bit more selfish'. Craig found this frustrating as he doesn't think people in the council should be selfish at all. According to Craig the inner circle of Bristol City Council's officers are the ones who control Legal Services, Finance and Money. The only way to stop a rich person being mayor of Bristol is to vote that way. Craig hopes to stand for the Peace Party if Bristol votes 'Yes' next week. Julian Parry gives us more detail on his Rolling Referendum. Political parties funded from taxation but all voters allowed to switch their contribution to whichever party they wish at any time either online or by post. When ministers put forwad bad policies their funds would go to their political rivals. If government were to get less than 20% of total funding queen would dissolve parliament and call another general election. Julian and his friends' policy to get away from the present elective dictatorship, a proposal being put to Lord Monkton of UKIP.
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
First hour: Rich already paying a lot of tax, public transport showcase bus route and the bonkers bus stops, Quantitative Easing, the depressing effect on our savings and what to do about it explained by the BBC's Dominic Laurie. What we will have to do to reboot the economy. British banks are bust but nobody wants to admit it. Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik who is on trial this week met EDL financier and political controller Alan Lake, according to the “founding father” of the EDL, Paul Ray, on his own blog. Lord Ahmed announces a 'bounty' in Pakistan for the capture of George W. Bush but article may have been mistranslated and he was comparing Bush and Blair's role in illegal wars and the necessity to arrest them. Who is the man Theresa May wants to deport Abu Qatada and what has he done? Bristol Respect and NUJ protest as Bristol Evening Post sacks 20 journalists for their 80th birthday and imaginatively changes name to 'The Post'. One of the first untruths you will read when you open a copy of The new Post is "The Paper All Bristol Called For And Helped To Create" - because the opposite is the case. 'The Post' paper we see in Bristol today is owned by Northcliffe which is part of Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail empire. The Bristol Evening Post was set up in 1932 by public subscription in an appeal led by the Bishop of Malmesbury. It was formed as an independent Bristol owned paper precisely to compete with the Northcliffe paper of its day, The Evening World, which it eventually out-sold. Shares in the original 1932 Bristol Evening Post were gradually bought up by Lord Rothermere's son in the 1970s and by the 1980s he began to demand places on the board and took the Bristol Evening Post back under Rothermere control. But that was only after one of the Bristol owners and Managing Director, Walter Hawkins had died. Walter's wife Joan Hawkins is still alive and lives at Alveston in Gloucestershire. She explains how the character of the paper has changed since shares are bought up and it was re-taken over in the 1980s by Rothermere's Northcliffe newspapers. £730m personal fortune Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail supported the Nazis in the 1930s, along with many of Britain's German royalty such as Edward VIII. They changed their name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor during the first World War. George Galloway MP returns to the House of Commons with question about the Afghanistan war at Prime Minister's Questions. Labour leader Ed Miliband asks Prime Minister David Cameron about the proposed cap on charitable donations and the effect a reduction of £500m will have on the government's Big Society policy. Bristol architect George Ferguson declares his wish to stand for Mayor later in the year but The Post do not mention that he is a member of Bristol's financial elite with roots in the slave trade, the Society of Merchant Venturers. If we vote yes in the forthcoming mayoral referendum will it lead to a kind of a dictatorship in the city? Should Bristol City Council be run as a business as some councillors, presumably Tory, believe? News review with Cllr. Tim Leaman (LibDem)
Second hour: Julian Assange launches new international affairs show The World Tomorrow on English Language TV channel Russia Today. Political conspiracy in the fall of left wing Chinese politbureau member Bo Xilai, former secretary of the Communist Party in Chongqing. Kevin Philips from the Avon & Somerset Police Federation who are going to ballot over the right to strike in the face of the biggest attempt to change their pay and conditions for thirty years. 16,000 nationally or 700 local police officers in Avon & Somerset look set to lose their jobs. If these cuts go ahead will Britain become a paramilitary police state? What with all the changes to the education system what is this meaning for young mums? Difficulties of getting toddlers into local schools in inner city Bristol. Claire Humphries is here from Local Schools for Local Children to share with us the dilemmas of the modern mum. West Indian former Avon and Somerset police officer turned driving instructor Phil Mattis has written a book about the state of the family in 21st Century Bristol British Families Under Labour: And Lessons Learnt, he joins me to explain why he left the police and what prompted him to write the book.
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
First hour: Are Conservatives still the party of business aspiration? Will Britain be insulated from the Eurozone crsis? Prime Minister Cameron promised no top down reorganisation of the NHS before the election but it is now happening. Jack Lopresti MP is a freemason but is freemasonry a secret society or not? Jack promises Tony a tour of Bristol freemasons hall and a copy of the Bristol masonic year book. Questioning masonic oaths and whether they are compatible with public office. BAe Systems' plans to close Filton airfield and build housing over it plus some new jobs in Jack's Filton and Bradley Stoke constituency. Will big engineering firms such as GKN, Rolls Royce & Airbus be forced to close or move away when the runway closes? Derivatives market is a house of cards, with possibly a financial crash in the months to come. Evening Post bombshell, around 20 jobs to go as well as Saturday edition and Venue print edition. Bristol Evening Post to change its name to 'The Post'. May's Bristol mayoral referendum hustings held today on College Green. People of Bradford wanted a big hitter batting for them, discussing the political fallout of George Galloway win for Respect in Bradford West. George described as a 'rock star'. Teacher Anne Lemon from Clevedon School reports back from the annual NUT conference held this year in Torquay. Teachers are nervous about big business 'buying up' our education system through Academy Schools which the local authorities do not control. Private schools now getting state 'Academy' funding and wealthy parents don't have to pay the school fees. Prime Minister David Cameron takes a trip to the Far East, including Indonesia, with British businessmen but who are the arms firms selling arms to? Should we have private arms firms who make money out of selling weapons and starting wars? Disgraced Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates is now helping dictators put down demonstrations in Bahrain. Christopher Booker in the Daily Mail: 90,000 children now 'in care' and annual number being taken into care tops 10,000. 50% of prostitutes, 80% of Big Issue sellers, 50% of those in Young Offenders' institutions and 26% of adults in prison have been through the state 'care' system. Plymouth resident and former nurse Melissa Franklin who is about to give birth tells her story of being harassed by social services in Bristol. Bristol is 'bottom of the list' for Queen's Diamond Jubilee party applications by Evening Post reports that we are 'in the party spirit'. BBC's Paul Mason discusses the media 'pyramid' and how social media such as Twitter and Facebook has changed things. News review with MP for Filton & Bradley Stoke Jack Lopresti.
Second hour: Ben Griffin served for 8 years in the Parachite Regiment and the SAS Veterans For Peace committed to resisting war by non-violent means was launched over Easter Monday in London. Ben injuncted not to speak publicly but said what he wanted to about the criminal 'Extraordinary Rendition' programme before the High Court injunction was served on him. Jim Radford from Merchant Navy discussed & the Army Rumour Service forum ARRSE is where soldiers speak their minds. Are Afghanistan soldiers dying for a lost cause? Doubts about present conflicts among soldiers and officers. Campaigning for US soldier being prosecuted for the Wikileaks Bradley Manning. The gradual sell-off of British infrastructure into private hands: Royal Mail stamp price goes up 30% in the final stage of privatisation. Kevin Beazer, South West Regional Secretary for the Communication Workers' Union (CWU). What will be the effect of the pensions holiday on posties and the public Royal Mail is privatised? Why does the CWU support the Labour Party financially when Labour began the privatisation of Royal Mail? Dirty Cash (1990) by The Adventures of Stevie V. The strange extradition case of possible 'patsy', Haroon Rashid Aswat who was in touch with the alleged London Bombers in 2005 but he is potentially being extradited to the United States, former FBI special prosecutor John Loftus says Aswat was an MI6 double agent. Was alleged Toulouse terrorist Mohammed Merah an informer for French Intelligence? - if it wasn't him then who did kill the Jewish children and Rabbi in Toulouse? NATO intelligence's Gladio and Ergenekon networks explain it all. US Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is an old 1970s chum of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Friends of the Earth Economics Campaigner David Powell's environmental futures: government's proposed Green Investment Bank to launch soon but it may not be allowed to borrow or lend!
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
First hour: The biggest cuts programme in British history. Chinese government announces privatisation of state banks (we hear later how this may be linked to last week's 'coup attempt'). Serious Fraud Office (SFO)'s outgoing director Richard Alderman criticises lack of funding while the SFO brings in more money (£50m) than it costs to fund (£32m), he also wants prosecution of bankers for reckless running of Britain's financial institutions. Director of Public Prosecutions Kier Starmer appears at the Leveson enquiry and explains how former Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates resisted investigating the News Of The World phone hacking enquiry. Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA)'s secret Project Riverside exposes corrupt Metropolitan police detectives who helped private investigators delete evidence in live cases, reveal names of witnesses to criminals and delete criminal records on the police national computer. Tax Credit changes which take effect today mean over 200,000 low-paid families will be up to £4,500 worse off anually, plus another 800,000 will lose all their child tax credits forcing them into poverty and conducting a cynical form of social engineering by setting the low-paid against the unemployed. Proposals for a UK citizen's income from the Green Party. Royal British Legion call Ken Clarke's secret inquest plan 'monstrous' and our guest calls them 'grotesque'. How deep does government treachery go? Is Conservative Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Ken Clarke a secret Bilderberg quisling himself? As May's referendum to decide on an elected Bristol mayor approaches we hear views from the newly launched campaigns both for (yes campaign) and against (no campaign). But is this a distraction? Are we going through a crisis in political representation? Do voters feel as if everything they say is ignored anyway and that the three main parties are really wings of a one-party-state controlled by the City? Doctors in Bath dismiss concerns about private health links despite also running a private healthcare firm that stands to directly benefit. NHS 'Fairness Tsar' Lord Carter of Coles urged by doctors to quit over 'conflict of interest' following his £800k payment from U.S. private health giant & his connections with criminals. Local newspaper The Clevedon Mercury closes after 150 years of publication despite Northcliffe newspapers making annual profit of £17m. Northcliffe has a monopoly owning virtually all news publications in the region so is closing local papers in the hope that people will buy their regional Western Daily Press. News review with Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union's National Vice Chair John McInally.
Second hour: Campaign Against the Arms Trade & local activists disrupt international drone conference being held in Bristol this week. Assassinated 'Spy In A Bag' Gareth Williams linked to Chinese Coup plot and Chinese 'twitter' equivalent is censored by the government to the people discussing a possible coup related to privatisation of Chinese state banks. US Republican candidate Rick Santorum puts his foot in it & Peter Levenda on origins of Mitt Romney's Mormonism from his book Sinister Forces, A Grimoire Of American Political Witchcraft. Peter Dale Scott, author of American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan, on the origins of Al Qaeda in 'The Safari Club' an unofficial group of serving and retired Western intelligence officers, also JSOC and the recent feature film Charlie Wilson's War. Involvement of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International in unofficial covert operations. Somerset businessman Julian Parry on disgraced Coalition Defence Secretary Liam Fox, his chum Adam Werritty and his cavalier attitude to national security through his deal to sell Harriers to the US for £120m just after the British taxpayer refurbished them for £600m. Was Werritty simply an Israeli intelligence agent as Craig Murray suggests? Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa exposed as a racist, ordering his army to murder hundreds of thousands of innocent Tamils in Channel 4 film The Sri Lankan Killing Fields, War Crimes Go Unpunished. F. William Engdahl's book 'Gods of Money'. City of London is the money laundering capital of the world, two tiers of Mafia at this Summer's London Olympics with David Southwell and how to become a 'people's spy'. Somerset engineer Julian Parry proposes his 'rolling referendum' for political renewal through every individual deciding on party funding rather than just voting once every four years. Martin Bormann Nazi In Exile 1981 book by former CBS radio news correspondent Paul Manning. Jonathan Meades' 1994 film Jerry Building: Unholy Relics Of Nazi Germany about Nazi Architect Albert Speer, Heinrich Himmler and the roots of the Nazi philosophy. Prince Charles' architectural adviser and designer of the Prince of Wales' Poundbury estate Leon Krier's worrying admiration for Nazi architecture. Were the Nazis really defeated in 1945 or did they just take off their uniforms and saunter into civvy street? Richard Heinberg's 2011 book The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economics Reality
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
First hour: Embarassment for Ed Miliband and Labour as Respect MP George Galloway romps home in Bradford West By-Election. Are three main political parties really just three wings of a single party state controlled by the City? How is the new Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority MP's expenses system working? Avon & Somerset Chief Constable Colin Port gives evidence at the Leveson Enquiry but does anyone believe him when he says his force did not leak Chris Jefferies' name to the national media? Appaling treatment of Mr Jefferies by Avon & Somerset police. Leaks and off-the-record briefing lies fairly common by the police who know they will suffer no personal consequences. If Avon and Somerset police did not leak Chris Jefferies' name to the press then who did? Faults with the quasi-judicial 'media circus' Leveson enquiry process which has replaced judicial public enquirys. A fiscally neutral millionaire's budget: Martin Summers' 2012 Osborne budget report. Cash For Access lobbying: Conservative party treasurer Peter Cruddas resigns after being secretly filmed offering systematic access to top government figures for large sums of money. David Cameron promises enquiry into "the next big scandal waiting to happen" lobbyists in December then changes his mind by the end of January. Squatters who shelter in empty homes to be imprisoned for a year or pay a fine of £5,000 as homelessness is criminalised for the first time in British history. News review with Labour MP for Bristol East Kerry McCarthy & LibDem MP for Bristol West Stephen Williams.
Second hour: Former Bristol Respect candidate Paulette North on today's by-election victory for her party in Bradford West. George Galloway beats the 'sad old' Labour party as the community is being "cut to ribbons". Gerrymandering on the cards to shut Galloway type candidates out of the political system. Sunday's Bristol Against The Arms Trade anti-drones conference and Monday & Tuesday's pro-drones conference taking place in Bristol. Breaking a mainstream media taboo: Luton, Bedfordshire free party sound system & Community activist Glenn Jenkins with marshal arts practitioner & engineeer Gerry Coulter discuss evidenced corrupt practices of freemasons. Luton Labour party leader Roy Davies discovered to be a liar and a freemason. Look at the blood-curdling initiation rites of the masonic third degree, extracts from the 1999 HTV documentary Rites and Wrongs about Gloucestershire freemasons. Police bullying Jerry. Masonic corruption in the planning system specifically C. G. Fry & Sons who were exposed by BBC Southern Eye in 2000. The same firm are now building Prince Charles' massive Poundbury estate West of Dorchester. www.DorsetPolice.tv www.HMcourts-service.com www. MinistryOfJustice.tv Author of Inside The Brotherhood Martin Short uncovering criminal networks in local government & the police. Cotswold District Council LibDem Councillor Esmund Jenkins exposes £700,000 fraud at 85 acre Keynes Country Park and is then persecuted with £60,000 of public money by officials at the 'Standards Board'. Presume nothing, some councils are being run by corrupt public officials for the benefit of the few and not in the public interest. Developer Dennis Grant took over Keynes Country Park on 114 year long lease for peppercorn £1/year lease and was subsequently convicted of £700k fraud and jailed for 4 years. The real secret is the power of communities to winkle out these criminals and expose them to the light of publicity and justice.
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
First hour: May's referendum for elected mayor or keeping cabinet system what's the difference? How, for example, would an elected mayor effect transport? Privatisation of National Health Service a step too far? Private Finance Initiative building Southmead hospital and other projects under former Labour government. South Gloucestershire council votes to reject cabinet system as elitist in favour of return to the old committee system. Ministry of Defence in talks with Serco, Babcock International, Deloitte, KPMG, Bechtel Group, Fluor Corp. & BAE Systems considering privatisation of Filton Abbey Wood procurement centre. NM Rothschild & sons get Prime Minister David Cameron to propose privatisation of British trunk roads and motorway network. What was Roosevelt's 1930s 'New Deal' which lifted world economy out of an economic liquidity trap? 2012 budget: higher rate of tax was cut from 50p to 45p, Winston Churchill's pensioners allowance hit and fuel prices will increase by 3p. Why does Iraqi oil cost $1.50 a barrel (170 litres) to get out of the ground and over 200 times more at the pump? Answer is the market is dominated by speculators. Financial crisis began in 2008 when Labour were in power. Criminalising squatting as part of Legal Aid bill considered this week in the House of Lords. After massacre of 16 Afghan civilians by drunken US soldiers, over 400 British soldiers dead and 40,000 Taliban. Avon and Somerset Chief Constable Colin Port to appear next Tuesday at the Leveson enquiry in London, questions likely to be asked about how newspapers got the name of Christopher Jefferies in Joanna Yeates murder case. Police Federation conduct ballot, seeking right to strike. News review with Cllr Colin Smith (Lab).
Second hour: Discussion about this week's Toulouse assassinations, seige and subsequent killing of Algerian origin terror suspect Mohamed Merah. Questions over whether the suspect was really an Islamic fundamentalist when his latest girlfriend did not wear a headscarf and he was a drinker and nightclubber. Dead men tell no tales. Similarities to NATO Intelligence Operation Gladio, a secret far-right army which murdered civilians then blamed killings on their political opponents. French intelligence services following him for several years so how did he get an arsenal of firearms? Was he in fact a 'patsy' serving a political purpose to highten and exaggerate the overall terror threat, possibly also affecting May's French presidential election to increase the pro-Sarkozy DGSE security state vote. Syria civil war continues and Economic warfare as Iran is cut out of the SWIFT banking transfer system, world news roundup with former LA narcotics detective Mike Ruppert. What will NHS privatisation mean for Britain's healthcare? Which US private healthcare companies secretly lobbied, SpinWatch ask, for this change? Is it justified economically? Southmead hospital Consultant Anaesthetist Dr Sean Hopson is considering standing for political office on the basis of reversing changes to the NHS.
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
First hour: Mayor referendum and police commissioner election taking place this May but are either going to be good for Bristol or for democracy? Does anybody really want it? Councillors are 'corporate parents' for over 700 children in Bristol City Council care. What is the role of a local authority? Bristol has a turnover of £1bn anually. Are LibDems just propping up a Tory government with no voice at all? Debt write-down in Greece but Greece still unable to meet financial targets. We are no nearer to solving the financial crisis despite nearly two years of the coalition government they are still blaming the previous Labour government. Main regulation is 1989 capital requirement for banks which means now they can not lend. Casino style investment banking. Profits in investment banking are preying on the real financial sector such as the Avon County Council pension fund. Greg Smith resignation letter from Goldman Sachs calling his former employers 'muppets'. Goldman Sachs not actually mupets but much more devious. Harriet Harman faces Nick Clegg at Prime Minister's Questions on the topic of the privatisation of the National Health Service in a few days time. Jeremy Corbyn asks about private rent regulations, private landlords raking it in. Child protection or child theft? Marina Morris looks at secret family court system which takes children off their parents but doesn't look at the rights or needs of the parents. News review with political economist Polly Winch and LibDem Councillor for Bishopston, Dr. David Willingham.
Second hour: The Battle For Arnhem – A Bridge Not Far – recent revelations that show Field Marshal Montgomery's Operation Market Garden, in September 1944, aimed at severing German supply lines on the Western Front should have worked. It was early morning in Holland on Sunday 17th September 1944 and as the gliders and paratroopers poured down along a sixty mile corridor to hold the bridges. The furthest bridge from the front line at Arnhem became the focus of attention as and the biggest airborne operation in history unfolded. Was it really 'A Bridge Too Far' as the title of Cornelius Ryan's book and Robert E. Levine's famous film imply? Or could the tanks and ground troops of XXX corps have gotten through to relieve the surrounded British paratroopers? With Arnhem only 10 kilometres, a 30 minute drive away and a virtually clear road ahead – General Horrocks' M4 Sherman tanks inexplicably halted for 17 hours. By the time the tanks started rolling at lunchtime the next day British paratroopers had run out of ammunition, been forced to surrender and German Panzer 5 & Tiger tank reinforcements had arrived to block the way. The Nijmegen bridgehead was established around 19:00hrs, 3 hours later, at 22:00hrs that evening the British were forced to surrender at the Arnhem bridge. So paratroopers of the 1st Airborne division at Arnhem bridge may have been relieved in the nick of time and war in Europe could have been over six months earlier, by Christmas 1944. We look at Cornelius Ryan's book 'A Bridge Too Far' as well as Joseph E. Levine's film of the same name. Interviews with: Captain T. Moffatt Burriss, author of 'Strike and Hold' who was commander of i-company, 504th regiment, 82nd Airborne division during the legendary Waal river crossing; Robert Kershaw author of 'It Never Snows In September' who interviewed 10th SS Panzer Division Brigadeführer Heinz Harmel, commander of the German defence of the Nijmegen and Arnhem bridges; Major Tony Hibbert who was a senior officer of 2nd batallion 1st brigade, British 1st Airborne division at the Arnhem bridge; Tim Lynch author of 'Operation Market Garden: The Legend of the Waal Crossing'; Sir Brian Urquhart, army intelligence officer in the run-up to the operation he was critical of it and transferred before it began... but later became Secretary General of the newly formed United Nations. There'll be a special 'new Betuwe scenario' event at noon on Saturday 17th March at Cut And Thrust Wargames on Old Market.
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
First hour: Bristol Councillors having to make freedom of information act requests to get information from council officers. Five servicemen killed this week in Afghanistan bringing the total UK servicemen killed to over 400 - council want to sell off Daisy Field and Henacre open space in Avonmouth. Bribery allegations levelled at Bristol City Football Club. Large sums of money offered to drop Ashton Vale stadium legal challenge. 2500 disabled people look to be sacked by this government; Kevin Hepworth from UNITE the union on closure of Remploy network of workshops and factories designed for disabled people; RBS offshores 300 jobs and will RBS ever 'return to health'; Joan Ruddock MP criticises removal of disability benefits from 10 year old cerebral palsy child; Sharon Hodgson MP is policy being run by two public schoolboys that don't care? Are all these little cuts idiotic? Privatisation of front line policing and police stations and election for new police commissioners. MPs fury as top Catholic describess gay marriages 'as immoral as slavery'. News review with Cllr. Peter Hammond, leader of the Labour group on Bristol City Council.
Second hour: Is economic growth bad for the environment? Energy bills, fuel poverty, fuel prices and profits of the big six energy companies. EDF energy today fined £5.5m by Ofgen. 400 different tarriffs offered by privatised gas and electricity firms in UK. Industry suffering chronic problem of short-termism. David Powell from Friends Of The Earth. 29:00 - Tens of billions wasted as MoD police fraud squad turn a blind eye to procurement crime: Bristol's Abbeywood Defence Equipment and Support (DES) is the national HQ for Ministry of Defence (MoD) procurement. But we uncover systematic fraud involving the MoD and the private weapon development and manufacturing industry as the government plans to privatise procurement. Cost plus contract fraud report by former radar, sonar, Communications Command & Control and Tactical Data Systems software engineer Robert McCartney. MoD police fraud squad work for MoD so will not prosecute even when there is clear evidence of fraud saying that what MoD chiefs and other 'important people' say 'must be true'. Former BAe Chief Executive Admiral Sir Raymond Lygo told BBC Radio 5 in January 2004 that BAe routinely used changes to the contract specification which doubled or tripled costs to taxpayers without any outside competition. Some of those allegedly to blame for endangering our armed forces and national security: James Arbuthnot, Michael Portillo, current LibDem Minister for Defence Procurement Nick Harvey all alleged as complicit in fraud, if only by their ailure to act against it. Also LibDem director of policy and research Greg Simpson failed to deliver improvements he promised before the 2010 election. The 2006 crash of Nimrod XV230 investigated by Charles Hadden-Cave. Is present chair of the Public Accounts Committee Margaret Hodge succeeding in cutting this fraud down? Mainstream newspapers afraid to publish known facts about MoD procurement fraud.
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
First hour: news review including Ashton Gate stadium bid, Bristol City Council budget passed this week with £27m of cuts, Credit Default Swap insurance derivatives ruled 'invalid' when Greece defaults, network of cash in hand informers, many on the payroll, when will we see charges for corrupt police? David Cameron 'too close' to News International? Prime Minister's Questions, petrol & diesel prices, Housing benefit reform's new 'bedroom tax', squatters in Clifton, will Bristol Labour group confiscate houses & property from people they don't agree with? Two people arrested over alleged Avon & Somerset police release of Christopher Jefferies name to the press. All public statements from Avon & Somerset police should go through Portishead HQ Media Relations Manager (most recently Victoria Tag) and her boss, Head of Corporate Communications (most recently Amanda Hirst). They answer directly to Chief Constable Colin Port. 'This week's Leveson revelations with Conservative Councillor Mark Weston.
Second hour: Bristol Radical Film Festival with Shaun Dey from independent political filmmakers Reel News. News blackout on Electricians Union dispute. 'No More Fukushimas' demonstration next weekend, 10th & 11th March 2012, on 1st anniversary of Japan's nuclear disaster. Latest developments on possible new nuclear power station being built at Hinkley Point by French firm EDF with Crispin Aubrey from Stop Hinkley. Outside interference in Syrian Civil War - EU/NATO/Israel have no desire for peace, French and British close their embassies in Damascus. Finally getting the full picture of Islamic terrorism - it leads back to Western intelligence services. Voting fraud is more common than you think, Bush cheated both times he was 'elected'. Anonymous target CIA linked Strategic Intelligence firm Stratfor, target of latest mass Wikileaks. The Obama administration's war against truth by Amy Goodman. Stratfor's Intelligence-Industrial Complex. Onscreen apology from BBC World News for showing a whole series of advertising programmes but pretending they were documentaries. Author of Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq. Susan Lindauer's CIA handler Richard Fuisz told her, "tell Saddam Hussein to do what we say" or the US are "going to declare war on Iraq and bomb it back to the stone age". Threat originated above the Director of the CIA and above Secretary of State - comes directly from president Bush, Vice-President/arms manufacturer Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld. Every crime requires motive and opportunity: "9/11 was like a magician's trick". Were WTC Twin Towers pre-wired with explosives? Nightly between 23rd August and 3rd September 2001, between 3-5am, parking garage cameras filmed 3 or 4 suspicious minivan trucks, this evidence all allegedly captured on CCTV over two weeks. Were individuals in these vehicles laying explosive charges in the buildings ready for 9/11?
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
First hour: News review with Lord William Dartmouth MEP (UKIP) Extradition and European Arrest Warrant abuse cases: Hungary Michael & Jason Norway Julian Assange, USA Christopher Tappin - Greek Finance Minister Giorgos Papakonstantinou & John Redwood: What would happen if Greece defaulted? Would default bring police and army in the streets if Drachma is reissued? Redwood says 87 countries left a single currency since the second world war. When is the next bank holiday in Greece? What will a crash be like? We try to guess what the Greek Finance minister Giorgos Papakonstantinou would have said about the Icelandic default if BBC's Jeremy Paxman had not interrupted him. Health and Social Care bill: NHS privatisation is a gathering political storm for David Cameron and Andrew Lansley. Should Bristol have an elected mayor? Straw polls of council house debate audience: at start: 41% yes 12% no 47% undecided. Half way through: 38% 29% 32%. At end: 47% yes, 35% no, 17% undecided. Exit the back to work tsar, Emma Harrison resigns A4E Civil Servants getting £6m. Certain kind of person who masters the jargon - with a bit of charisma and impresses politicians - we need to watch out for these dangerous characters in politics.
Second hour: South West Whistleblowers Health Action Group (SWWHAG), Daphne Havercroft asks whether UHB NHS Trust's histopathology enquiry is truly independent. The Merchant Venturers. Bill Gates' cash backs large-scale geoengineering and earthquake bombs? Syrian government bravely holds peace-making constitutional referendum on Sunday. Somalia conference. Similarities between old British usury laws and Islamic banking. Moheen Yaseen from Islamic think tank Global Vision 2000. A secretive shadow world Government, funding all our politicians. Might Islamic banking be the real enemy? Economic warfare chosen weapon of the day. There Is No Free Market. The Oil Card: Global Economic/Financial Warfare in the 21st Century. Psychological Warfare. Sabine McNeill: Victims Unite - dangers of the rise of fascism in the financial crisis, could austerity pave the way for a new Hitler? Are 87% of judges freemasons? [official figure is, it seems, 5%].
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
First hour: Political/economic news review with Councillor for Southmead Brenda Massey (Lab).
Second hour: Tomorrow's walk to save Filton Airfield. Three suspicious bomb attacks in India, Thailand and Georgia carried out by the Iranians or false flag attacks by the Israeli Mossad? Former MI5 officer Annie Machon on the 1995 Gadaffi Plot and MI6's Orwellian obsession with serving the interests of the arms manufacturers for perpetual war. Libyan student in the UK Asiel reflects on a year since his country's civil war began. Anglican Dean of South Bristol & vicar of Stockwood, Canon Gwyn Owen and Evangelical pastor Dia Moodly from Spirit Of Life Church in St. Paul's, two of Bristol's Church of England and Evangelical church leaders discuss Anglicans (CofE) ordaining gay vicars & women bishops. Voxpop asking you about the church and sexualiy and with decreasing leisure time do we have enough time to go to church?
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
First hour: News review with former Conservative Minister in the 1990s Major government Neil Hamilton (UKIP). Bank of England's King Mervyn announces £50bn new Quantitive Easing but is QE3 an injection of yet more economic poison robbing private pensions? Prime Minister David Cameron fails to answer questions from Labour leader Ed Miliband as they argue over the NHS at Prime Minister's Questions. Common Market and powers transferred to European Union and Brussels. Neil Hamilton's two big libel actions 1. vs. BBC Panorama Maggie's Militant Tendency episode (1984) and 2. vs. The Guardian's Cash For Questions story (1996). Will the Health and Social Care bill proviso for 'Any Willing Provider' lead to privatisation of the NHS? Is there anything that should not be privatised? Should we be cutting police, armed forces and public spending generally. Are banks or government responsible for financial crisis? Welsh assembly discusses banning smoking in cars when children are exposed to passive smoking. Secular society takes Bideford town council to court and local authorities prohibited by law from saying prayers.
Second hour: European Commissioner for Employment and Social affairs. László Andor on the Greek/Euro crisis & his advice for Council of Europe. First anniversary of Libyan insurgency. UK based Libyan student, born in the same town as Colonel Gaddafi, Sirte, describes what has become of his home country and Western mainstream media lies. Nearly 10,000 political prisoners, torture is rife. Fulvio Grimaldi's Bloody Arab Spring film about NATOs destruction in Libya. Implications for Syria, leaked Arab League report damning of Western media. Despite being a wealthy Conservative heartland with lots of council tax reciepts North Somerset council services are falling apart. Failing to maintain roads, switching off streetlights at night while floodlighting their council offices. Cameron's Defence Secretary, North Somerset MP Liam Fox, was sacked for travelling everywhere with a man who had no security clearance called Adam Werrity. How many more Werrities are still out there holding hands with Secretaries of State? Somerset businessman Julian Parry discusses North Somerset council waste contract fraud and alleged sharp practice at the Weston-Super-Mare Tropicana, the council swimming attraction which is now being sold off to developers.
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
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.
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.
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)
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
First hour: Origin of erroneous 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).
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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 killed in Clevedon car accident where North Somerset council turned off streetlights to save money as '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.
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 internet film. New types of public enquiry such as Leverson enquiry. Trial by media but with 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 Admiral father took part in Gulf of Tonkin incident which sparked 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?
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
First hour: News review: Workings of Bristol City Council Audit committee. Privatisation of council homecare services. LibDem councillor John Kiely says his leader Nick Clegg has become an 'electoral liability' for the party. European/Euro finance agreement vetoed by David Cameron. UK unemployment hits a 17 year high. Government plans to create a network of 'troubleshooters' for poor and damaged families. Jim O'Neill, Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management's views on the world economy. Housebuilding approved at Filton Airport by South Gloucestershire Council. British police, particularly Met., deemed 'untrustworthy' and prospects for an elected Avon & Somerset Police Commissioner ... with LibDem Cllr. for Easton, John Kiely.
Second hour: Review of Bristol's Christmas stage shows with Billy Quain. NATO conducting illegal low-intensity war against Iran. State-of-the-art US drone shot down over Iran & displays it on television. Interception of drone communication feeds. As US troops pull out of Iraq, is Blackwater, XE moving in? Former US Secretary of State, secret government operative and orchestrator of the 1973 Chile coup, Henry Kissinger gives his predictions for the Arab Winter, from BBC's 'Newsnight'. Will Syria become another Libya? Which Path To Persia? Tricking Tehran into war with the US. Message from Parliament Square Peace and Justice campaigner Barbara Tucker, whose grandfather and great grandfather were Admirals in the Royal Navy, as she takes over from Brian Haw. Techniques of mimicry being used in an attempt to discredit the Parliament Square Peace Campaign. US President Barack Obama will not to use veto as internment is introduced in the United States. British police prepare to introduce crowd control laser to blind protesters. Bristol to lose 85 homeless hostel places, roughly 20% of the 436 in the city. Former squatter Anne Bonny and Paul Hazleden from The Wild Goose cafe on Stapleton Road. Bristol City Council Homelessness Strategy out for consultation.
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
First hour: Eurogeddon 'deadline' accord signed without the UK... but are they re-arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic? Bristol's annual care & health budgets slashed by £5m; closure threats to day care & Bristol City Council's 11 residential care homes; will the new Open Data Institute be breaking the Data Protection Act? Sharing of private data with pharmecutical and healthcare companies. Survey says anger with police fuelled summer riots. Bristol's Easter 2011 disturbances. Caught on Camera, top lobbyists boasting how they influence the prime minister, top lobbying firm Bell Pottinger using 'dark arts' to manipulate internet searches; The arms company, the oligarch (Boris Berezovsky) and the ex-PM's sister-in-law: lobby firm's Wikipedia hit list; news review with LibDem Cabinet member for Care and Health, Councillor Jon Rogers.
Second hour: China tells its navy to prepare for war; Rupert Murdoch's Fox TV News broadcasts blazing Greek riot footage as if it was shot in this week's Moscow election demonstration; relation between financial crisis and war. Is NATO missile defence system starting a new arms race? Russian elections. Are Western Israeli/NATO special forces already attacking Iran? Tricky - Black Steel (1995). , NHS whistleblowing safeguards are not working, new local safeguards from SW Whistleblowers Health Action Group (SWWHAG); Tricky - Hell Is Round The Corner (1995); Will Stone from the Avon & Bristol Law Centre, UK Human Rights Act: human rights day tomorrow, Kenneth Clarke delays £350m legal aid cuts; EU Convention of Human Rights; Government slashes solar power tariff; alternative energy and Frack Off campaign's anti-fracking action with Mike Birkin from South West Friends of the Earth
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
First hour: This Wednesday's public sector pension strike. 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 Service union (PCS) Regional Vice-Chair Roger Thomas.
Second hour: "Extraordinarily serious and threatening", Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King very worried about Eurogeddon. IMF bankrupt & 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 supply lines to Afghanistan. Foreign Secretary William Hague closes Iranian embassy in London. Nuclear war looming at the same time as Eurogeddon. Aaron Russo recounts Nick Rockefeller's plan to microchip humans. Ram's recommended websites Act-Now.info & Tamil Solidarity.
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
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 el