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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 Some public sector unions have withdrawn support from the Labour party but leader Ed Miliband is still trying to please a few 'swing voters', just like the two other main parties.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. 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 elderly: The Cruelty of the Carers. [audio: 201111251700]
Second hour: Lawyer Mark Shepherd: What became of Bristol's Immigration Advisory Service which was suddenly closed? The Boarding School Bomber about so-called Bristol 'terrorist' Isa Ibrahim. Le Monde: Freemasonry of New York investment bank Goldman Sachs who have begun to place their own political leaders in European countries. Christmas gift suggestions: 1. New book, 'The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade', Andrew Feinstein, author of a new book on the companies profiting from war; 2. DVD release of BBC TV 'Shoestring' (1979) radio detective drama series filmed in Bristol; 3. Earth Into Property about the history of empires since 1492, by Canadian Professor Anthony Hall. [audio: 201111251800]
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 Staple Hill Councillor Ian Boulton (Lab). Staring world wide banking collapse in the face; CEO of RBS Retail Brian Hartzer cheekily calls time on free banking; youth unemployment passes the million mark; owner BAE Systems says Filton airfield has been 'loss making' but BBC discovers it made £1.3m profit in 2010; Cribbs Causeway Christmas traffic jams; MoD spend £564m of equipment budget on consultants in 2009, nearly 100 times figure of £6m in 2006; Military Industrial Complex on warpath for public money; 11 of Bristol's open spaces earmarked for sell-off could be saved but 38 others face being sold, Ron Stone for Labour & Mark Weston for Tories want local people to decide on all sites but LibDem Gary Hopkins and Green Cllr. Tess Green want 38 sold off without further consultation; possible vote of no confidence looms over Bristol City Council's proposed green space sell-off; why won't developers build homes on ex-industrial brown field sites; are Remembrance Sunday & Armistice day becoming propaganda for the 'War on Terror?'; Communication Workers' Union (CWU) on strike for inflation pay rise; locations of TV Licencing sites in Bristol; Somerset & Gloucestershire Council attempt to close libraries ruled unlawful at High Court; Zurich Insurance failing to pay out over August riots; EDF Energy customer service disaster invokes fury of Ofgem. [audio: 201111181700]
Second hour: Author of 'Untouchables' and former World In Action reporter Laurie Flynn on appalling policing standards in South East London and specifically around Stephen Lawrence case. 08:30 - Bristol's great Business Rate scam, owners of business premises keeping offices empty & rents artificially high to fraudulently boost their balance sheets; mysterious demolition of part of Evening Post building and many others with Eddie James. 19:30 - Palestine bid for UN recognition and William Hague's statement to the commons last week, visit of war criminal Tzipi Livni to Downing Street with Rita Candaluci of Bristol Palestine Solidarity campaign (PSC). 24:30 - Former Director General of MI5 Eliza Manningham-Buller joins other peers in calling for decriminalisation of Cannabis; Steve Barker from Legalise Cannabis Alliance; Cannabis Legal Support Service helpline: 01508 480528. 32:30 - Preparing for the latest battle in the tenth crusade? Iran and Syria next to be targeted by NATO & financial oligarchy, or as Peter Eyre describes it the New World Order. Christian Zionist religious fanatics explained by Irving Wesley Hall. 46:00 - His book is Earth Into Property, Alberta University's Professor Anthony J. Hall looks at the process of globalisation since 1492; succession of psychological warfare wars to oppose terrorism; overcoming the monstrosity that is the 'War on Terror'. [audio: 201111181800]
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: Who are these 'rulers of the world' Goldman Sachs? High Frequency trading distorting the markets, Bankers want to be loved: Barclays Chief Executive Bob Diamond proposes three ways to 'rehabilitate' bankers". Was there any point in nationalising parts of RBS, Lloyds and other banks? Civil unrest unless we liberate the bankers from their cash: anthropologist Chris Knight. Foreign Secretary William Hague's commons statement on Iran: yet more Middle East lies to prepare public opinion for an attack on Iran? Joe Foster & brother jailed but there was no 'petrol bomb' in Stokes Croft April riots. Late night arson attack on Bristol Conservative councillors Geoff Gollop & Kevin Quartley's cars. News review with 'Occupy Bristol' daily news digest editor Polly Winch. [audio: 201111111700]
Second hour: Employment law: Will Stone from Avon and Bristol Law Centre reads you your rights. Pouring toxic chemicals into the sub-strata in exchange for poisoned water, earthquakes and a little bit of gas, Friends of the Earth on Fracking. Trustworthy to build new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point upwind of Bristol? Two EDF directors jailed in criminal hacking conspiracy. Just Say Know? Bristol & Britain's drug policy discussion and look at LSD with Danny Kushlick from Transform. [audio: 201111111800]
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: Council committees & planning, police oversight, UK public spending cuts, Greek Euro crisis, rare interview with chief executive of Barclays bank Bob Diamond, Vincent Tabak's alleged child pornography on his computer & witnesses to his addiction to sado-masochism deemed inadmissible in Jo Yeates murder case by Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), BBC cutting while Radio Bristol RAJAR listener figures market share is halved from 8.4% to 4.2% in last 12 months, Prime Ministers' Questions on Business Growth Fund & directors pay up 49% in the last year, MPs and Lords take part in lobbying code of conduct debate in Westminster Hall, government's private sector pensions offer, Prince Charles has used his veto to alter 34 new laws in the last decade and believes he is related to Vlad the Impaler aka. Count Dracula, criminals may have their social security benefits docked by £25 a week, news review with Green Councillor for Ashley, Gus Hoyt. [audio: 201111041700]
Second hour: 02:00 - Hilary Burn from Stop Bristol Airport Expansion. 13:00 - 200th anniversary tonight of the first Luddite machine breaking action which took place in Nottingham with Dave King, technology must be our servant not our master, land rights and social justice movements such as Diggers Levellers, Chartists and Occupy Bristol and London LSX. 41:00 - From privatisation of land to creeping fascism & the privatisation of war. Money, Idealism, Compromise & Ego (MICE) or Bribery, Ideology, Blackmail & Flattery (BFBF) spies' persuasion techniques and the privatisation of intelligence work with former MI5 officer Annie Machon, Private Military Security Companies (PMSCs). 48:00 - Information Commissioner says Common Purpose blacklist is illegal, Mike doing Freedom Of Information Requests regarding 'leadership charity' Common Purpose, worried that their graduates may be breaking the law by ordering training from the organisation they are still a part of. 59:00 Rioting as Tunisia's popular Petition Party election wins are anulled. [audio: 201111041800]
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: €440bn European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) Euro bailout. Competition Commission launch inquiry into 'big four' auditors: PriceWaterhouseCoopers; Deloitte; KPMG & Ernst & Young. Canon Chancellor Reverend Giles Fraser resigns over St. Pauls cathedral plan to use Dale Farm like violence to evict 'Occupy London' protest camp, Very Reverend David Hoyle, Dean of Bristol Cathedral, discusses history, financial crisis & 'Occupy Bristol' camp on Bristol's College Green. Second undercover police officer Bob Lambert authorised by senior crooked cops to use false identity perjuring himself through trial process. News review with Ray Carr, parliamentary candidate and Chair of the Bristol branch of the English Democrat party. [audio: 201110281700]
Second Hour: 00:00 - Introduction 02:20 - Norwegian far right Masonic terrorist Anders Brevik's Norway massacre on Friday 22nd July 2011 where 77 people died and 76 were seriously injured - Why did Norwegian authorities not stop Oslo underground or seal off national ports and airports to stop terrorists escaping? Norwegian police admit they had a five day 'massacre' terror drill ending at 3pm on the day of the attack. Evidence that Anders Brevik may have not worked alone through his visits to far right activists in the UK. Freemason Brevik came to Britain in 2002 also helped write the founding documents of the English Defence League (EDL) and Norwegian Defence League, yet Norwegian security service did not respond warnings he'd tried to buy and bought ingredients for explosives used in the Oslo bomb attack. Special report with Norwegian researcher Torstein Viddal. 15:00 - Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford (1955) 17:30 - Dave Barnby: I helped David Cameron to become an MP, plus Albert Burgess discusses his book 'Layman's Guide to the English Constitution' ISBN 978-0-9569815-1-6 which argues that our legal system is based on King Alfred the Great's laws and that many of our senior politicians could be arrested for treason over ceeding power to the EU. 40:45 - Financial Times news editor David Crouch explains that not all the paper's employees agree with the war in Libya and that his FT leader writer was in Oxford's elite Bullingdon Club, a close personal friend of David Cameron, Boris Johnson and George Osborne etc. - that is Jonathan Ford. 48:55 - For Halloween we hear claims of a strong link between satanism, witchcraft covens and the British Royal Family through the Order of the Garter and other so-called 'honourable' orders of knighthood, former US Navy author Tim Cohen presents information from his book The Antichrist and a Cup of Tea. Suggested further reading on witchcraft and the occult with Dennis Wheatley who knew black magician Aleister Crowley and Bristol occult writer Montague Summers. [audio: 201110281800]
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: Cuts to Bristol Youth Service; 'Banks and governments are insolvent', Bank of England's Mervyn King speaks at Institute of Directors dinner in Liverpool; Execution of Colonel Gaddafi after NATO air strike, will NATO now support armed arab revolutions? What do people of Basildon think about this week's Dale Farm traveller eviction? Provision of social housing; undercover policeman revealed to have maintained his cover through cycle campaign's trial process!; oversight of policing - impending abolition of Police Authority and intoduction of police commissioners; weekly news review with Cllr Derek Pickup (Lab). [audio: 201110211700]
Second hour: Following Monday's 1989 Hillsborough disaster enquiry debate in the House of Commons, former senior police intelligence analyst relates a story from the canteen at South Yorkshire police headquarters about Assistant Chief Constable (ACC) Walter Jackson's behaviour on the day. Society's most vulnerable people suffering under government cuts, Tara Melton and Jenny Hodges on tomorrow's Hardest Hit march for the disabled. Resignation of North Somerset MP and Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox MP and an examination of the 'Werrity affair' that brought him down. Tom Baldwin from Bristol and District Anti-Cuts Alliance (BADACA): talks about October 2011's Jarrow March and discusses the 'Occupy Bristol' camp set up this week on College Green? New organisation SWWHAG set up for NHS whistleblowers - email them at swwhistleblowers@gmail.com [audio: 201110211800]
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: Defence secretary Liam Fox resigns after lying to parliament & allowing secret arms deal broker Adam Werrity to run a shadow foreign policy with his charity Atlantic Bridge which was funded by a corporate intelligence firm, hedge fund boss, an Israeli arms tycoon and others. NHS privatisation and the 'arms length' approach of future Health ministers; future of nuclear power in Bristol & Britain after Fukushima disaster; Shelter report, private rents are unaffordable in 55% of local authorities in England; Lords communication committee hears evidence from The Guardian's Nick Davies who warns that journalists only have one third of the time they need to write stories and warns of 'information chaos' to come; time is up for Bristol's pubs as they close at the rate of one every three weeks; news review with Cllr Ron Stone (Lab). [audio: 201110141700]
Second hour: Conservative MPs Jack Lopresti and Chris Skidmore cancel three appearances each on this show plus Bristol NHS chiefs Ruth Brunt & John Savage and Avon and Somerset Chief Constable Colin Port also repeatedly refuse to appear, exploration of possible reasons why. US Occupy Wall Street campaign hears from Roseanne Barr, Michael Moore and Joe Stiglitz. Former banker Michael Hudson looks at a the failure of the left to propose state control of banking. South London gangster Charlie Richardson walks out of jail straight into a job in the City of London - organised crime in the Metropolitan police, government & City of London - extract from The History of Organised Crime by David Southwell. Martin Summers' world news roundup - Alexander Litvinenko inquest opens in London, Was there really a plot to assassinate Saudi Arabian ambassador to US? Egyptian military orchestrating sectarian violence between Coptic Christians and Muslims. EU recognises Syrian resistance movement in Syria. Plan to occupy the London Stock Exchange and Bristol's College Green tomorrow. Money reform: Bromsgrove group this weekend and Positive money conference on Saturday 29th October. Discussion on the state of the region's roads and driving as the most common social interraction - as pubs and libraries close - with Sherry Townsend. [audio: 201110141800] Link to my three hour BCfm music show for John Peel Day 2011 - Tuesday 11th October 9pm to midnight. Backup & track listing for hours 1, 2 and 3
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 Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King announces printing £750bn (QE2) bank 'tapeworm' made itself indispensible to our biology; Conservative party conference Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne's speech and his 'three mistakes'; David Cameron's 'dog fight' speech; 700-800 news jobs to be slashed in latest BBC cuts; reduction in size of Bristol's wheelie bins; Tesco's worst sales in twenty years; elderly people's drop-in Trinity Day Centre closes in Hotwells on 31st October; police raid countless cannabis farms but not crack cocaine or heroin dealers in Operation Viscount; will Gary Hopkins stand for election as police commissioner; with LibDem Councillor for Knowle and Executive member for waste Gary Hopkins. [audio: 201110071700]
Second hour: Will the Temple Meads local enterprise zone really create jobs? New nuclear power, all eyes on Hinkley, new LibCon planning regime with Mike Birkin from South West Friends Of The Earth. Russian Oligarchs legal fight on London stage; Roman Abramovich & Boris Berezovsky locked in Sibneft Oil legal challenge. Wall Street occupation before London Stock Exchange on 15th October. Did British Security Services help Loyalist terrorists to murder Natonalist Sunday World journalist Martin O'Hagan ten years ago? Tony Gosling spoke to Martin on the phone weeks before he was killed in 2001. Details from Tony's notebook of individuals named by Martin as masonic journalists and masonic lodges in the Houses of Parliament. Zombie banks stalking the City of London? Fraud at Banco Ambrosiano & masonic ritual murder, on 18th June 1982, of Vatican banker Roberto Calvi in London. Extract from Martin Short's 1989 Granada TV documentary Inside The Brotherhood parts one, two and three. Based on his book of the same name. Are there lessons to be learned in understanding today's banking crisis? [audio: 201110071800]
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: Does Gary Hopkins aspire to be the first Avon & Somerset police commissioner? Residents' parking, new Bristol City council website & Bristol Evening Post makeover; Euro crisis; independent South London trader Alessio Rastani says 'The market is toast' & 'Goldman Sachs rules the world'; public sector pension strikes loom; Ken Loach on PPPs, PFIs & privatisation of homecare, BAE job losses at Filton, housing developers & next year's closure of the airfield, housing market, Ed Milliband's speech to Labour party conference, travellers sites & threatened deportation of Zimbabwean City of Sanctuary speaker Khetiwe Mashavave with Bristol City Council leader and LibDem Councillor for Clifton Barbara Janke.
Second hour: LibCon Department of Justice government cuts to Legal Aid in Bristol with solicitor Will Stone & adviser Chrys Kelson from the Avon & Bristol Law Centre. Monday's blockade of Hinkley nuclear power station near Bridgwater with Ornella Sabin; former ISI chief Mehmood Ahmed Durrani claims the US is at war with Pakistan. Claims and counter-claims about who is responsible for attacking NATO convoys & other terrorist attacks; Occupation of Wall Street; Alex Jones & Webster Tarpley on the parallel dangers of a false flag attack in the United States ten years after 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, economic crisis, gas & electricity cartel hikes energy prices, local new nuclear power stations, British Prime Minister David Cameron & Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speeches at the United Nations with LibDem Bristol West MP Stephen Williams [audio: 201109231700]
Second hour: Over 100 detectives now investigating News International: Did Murdoch stooge perjure himself to put popular Scottish Socialist leader Tommy Sheridan in jail as 'enemy of the state'? Strathclyde police's Operation Rubicon; Peter Cowles wants to Save Filton Airfield; Bloody Arab Spring Libya Documentary at the Watershed on Sunday; AGM of University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust; British Army being used and abused by political masters Cameron, EU & US author of 'Squaddie' Steven McLaughlin predicts civil unrest on British streets. [audio: 201109231800]
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: Nick Clegg at the LSE; real danger of banking collapse worse than 1930s; we need a whole new banking system; 'Over mighty subjects' through the years Sir Peter Tapsell MP for Louth and Horncastle; 'Independent' Commission on Banking's Vickers report published; is Prime Minister David Cameron afraid of the banks?; arresting bankers; banks using 'Enron accounting'; David Cameron triumphant speech in Libya; Boundary Commission parliamentary constituency changes; reduction in number of MPs; new law on fixed term parliaments; Ashton Vale stadium; Dale Farm traveller eviction in Essex on Monday; asbestos in Bristol's water? With Deputy Leader of Bristol Conservatives Mark Weston. [audio: 201109161700]
Second hour: Egyptians storm Israeli Embassy in Cairo; Queen signs amendment to criminal law so Israeli War criminals can now visit Britain without fear of arrest; Carriage Works Action Group; Local Food Mapping; military exercises taking place on 9/11; NORAD & Air Traffic Control audio recordings released; BBC's Gordon Correra talks to FBI whistleblower Ali Soufan; new 2 hour YouTube documentary 7/7: Crimes And Prejudice combines a presentation of the cutting edge of July 7th research with a deeply contextual analysis that casts light on largely unexamined aspects of the war on terror; Who uses the term 'New World Order' and why? [audio: 201109161800]
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 visit to Prague, Labour win at Southmead By-Election, Osborne asked drop 50p top income tax rate for earners over £150k, British far right, Combat 18, EDL founder Tommy Robinson, Paul Ray's 2002 'Knights Templar' meeting attended by Anders Brevik who carried out July's Norwegian massacre, plus possible links with intelligence services. NHS & Prime Minister's Questions with LibDem councillor for Eastville Steve Comber. [audio: 201109091700]
Second hour: Antidote to mainstream media 9/11 tenth anniverary coverage: Is the 'War On Terror' a power grab by by the military industrial complex and the intelligence services? UK Reinvestigate 9/11 campaign. 9/11 eyewitness testimony from World Trade Centre janitor William Rodriguez describes a 'towering inferno' as he ran up the stairs & helped people out of the upper floors, diving underneath a fire engine and being the last man out of the skyscraper as it collapsed, an atheist finds God during the 9/11 attacks. BBC's Jane Standley announces colllapse (Controlled Demolition) of WTC 7 building 25 minutes before it happens. Head of Peace Studies Department Professor Paul Rogers on the 'Endless War'. Growth of the US Military's Assassination Command J-SOC. Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth www.pl911truth.com - Military Officers for 9/11 Truth www.mo911truth.org - Professional Pilots for 9/11 Truth www.pilotsfor911truth.org - Scientists for 9/11 Truth www.scientistsfor911truth.org - Religious Leaders for 9/11 Truth www.rl911truth.org - Medical Professionals for 9/11 Truth www.mp911truth.org - Actors And Artists for 9/11 Truth www.actorsandartistsfor911truth.com - Firefighters for 9/11 Truth www.firefightersfor911truth.org - Journalists And Media Professionals for 9/11 Truth www.mediafor911truth.org - Lawyers for 9/11 Truth www.L911T.com - Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice www.stj911.com - New documentary from Architects And Engineers for 9/11 Truth www.ae911truth.org Intelligence Officers for 9/11 Truth www.io911Truth.org [audio: 201109091800]
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 this Monday's '9/11 Ten Years On' Conspiracy Files programme on BBC2. We hear from two eyewitnesses to the 9/11 attacks in New York, William Rodriguez & Scott Forbes, in the run-up to a decade since 9/11. [audio: 201109021700]
Second hour: 01:00 - Local businessman Julian Parry explains fraud in the Treasury & City of London and in municipal waste contracts. 34:00 - Great Grandson of Bristol Innovator and Philanthropist Sir George White is in to talk about Filton Aerodrome, which is earmarked for closure. Discussing his family history of the site and the gradual selling off of the airfield to housing developers by present owners, BAE Systems. Industrial & social history of Bristol & Filton with Sir George White. 55:00 - Comedian Mark Thomas Palestine Wall ‘ramble’ stories at the Tobacco Factory in Southville, Bristol. Monday to Saturday next week. [audio: 201109021800]
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: Will the banksters get their come-uppance? Don't hold your breath! Phone Hacking, a criminal mastermind in Downing Street? Elderly Care Home privatisation. Does Britain have an industrial policy? Woman reported attack but 'Police laughed at me'. Police use of pepper spray & Tasers. Are the Independent Police Complaints Authority trusted? LibDem MP for Bath Don Foster helps us review the week's national & interntional news. [audio: 201108261700]
Second Hour: Human Rights violations, setting dangerous precedents & possible oil-grab motives in Libya. A Different World: former SOGAT copytaker remembers Rupert Murdoch's 1986 Wapping printworkers strike. Karen Cole from UNITE on Conservative Health Secretary Andrew Lansley's NHS reorganisation. Dale Farm Travellers site in Basildon, Essex awaits Britain's biggest eviction ever. Parliament Square resident & Brian Haw's friend Barbara Tucker arrested & now in Holloway prison. 1992 BBC Timewatch documentary: Italian Neo-fascist Vincenzo Vintiguerra explains NATO's Gladio network of secret far right neo-fascist terror cells. [audio: 201108261800]
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: Inflation rises to 4%, Economic crisis, State owned Royal Bank of Scotland funding outlawed cluster bombs, The Big Society Bank opens, funded by so-called dormant bank accounts (do banks try hard to find the legal beneficiary?), spending cuts, this week's rioting & Bristol Graffiti 'See No Evil' event, news review with Shadow Treasury Minister & Bristol East MP Kerry McCarthy [audio: 201108191700]
Second hour: Max Keiser: US military spending deadline, will there be a spectacular false flag attack on (and by) the West in the next 90 days?. Newsnight Economics Editor Paul Mason 'No bullets left in the economic clip'? Writer and peace campaigner Joanne Baker looks at violation of international law, civillian casualties & depleted uranium being used in UK & NATO Libya bombing campaign. "At what stage are people prepared to go to war with Great Britain and the United States of America?" Big bomb in Britain? Then we take a look at Israel and Syria and the wider prospects for the Middle East. Former wife of US Marine Corps Colonel George Griggs passes on what her husband told her when he was drunk. Cults, assassination and corruption in the US military, Kay Griggs speaks out. [audio: 201108191800]
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: King Mervyn's troubled Economy, London riots, cars burned out in Bristol, killing of Mark Duggan in Tottenham last Thursday, Bus & Rail public transport & biggest single loss of life after 10 years, Chinook shot down in Afghanistan? News review with Ashley LibDem Cllr John Rogers. [audio: 201108121700]
Second hour: New government planning guidance that makes building of nuclear power stations a lot easier with Mike Birkin from SW Friends of the Earth. Strategy Of Tension on the Streets? Guardian: There is a context to London's riots that can't be ignored. Eyewitnesses Alex Hutchings & Will Stinton review the Stokes Croft Easter riots. Discussion too about context of recent rioting in London and elsewhere. Avon & Somerset police invited. Marina Morris looks at the West's most favoured blonde daughter Timoshenkoa & her political trial in Ukraine. (thought for the week: Most economic crashes happen in the Autumn) [audio: 201108121800]
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: Markets meltdown, public transport, LibDems propose decriminalisation of drugs, BBC Strike & Libya from the point of view of Asiel, a 19 year old Libyan-born London student. Weekly news review with Frome Vale Cllr Lesley Alexander (Con). [audio: 201108051700]
Second hour: Retired Frenchay Consultant Doctor Chris Burns-Cox and patient advocate Daphne Havercroft look into the NHS privatisation. Sunday Times investigative journalist Michael Gillard gives us his take on the phone hacking crisis and shines the spotlight on the UK Crime Reporters' Association. US Marine Corps veteran and Director of Studies at the US Army War College Alan Sabrosky gives his opinion how & why Israel carried out the 9/11 attacks on the United States. [audio: 201108051800]
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: Anders Behring Breivik's Neo-Nazi terror attack & Noregian prison policies. August 2nd US economy debt ceiling and Libya recognition discussed with Labour group leader on Bristol City Council Peter Hammond [audio: 201107291700]
Second hour: Reclaim the Fields next weekend, land reform conference with Frank White - Insight into institutional police corruption in the light of the phone hacking scandal. Investigative journalists Michael Gillard and Laurie Flynn were digging the dirt on Scotland Yard back in 1999 and 2000 for The Guardian newspaper but had their stories spiked. They finally published their shocking book Untouchables, Dirty Cops, Bent Justice and Racism in Scotland Yard in 2004. [audio: 201107291800]
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: LibCon coalition's police and army cuts mean tens of thousands of job losses, policy on Ketamine and other drugs, care home and day dentre cutbacks, phone hacking and Euro Quantitative Easing with Conservative councillor Chris Windows. [audio: 201107221700]
Second hour: The suspicious death of News of the World reporter Sean Hoare who is a key witness against David Cameron's former press secretary Andy Coulson and other suspicious deaths discussed by Westcountry doctor David Halpin. Guardian journalist who originally researched the phone hacking story Nick Davies talks about Rupert Murdoch and his newspaper staff as a Power Elite with the ability to commit crime with impunity. Former Labour and Respect MP George Galloway on Murdoch's fall from grace. Interview about the state of Britain today with Parliament Square peace campaigner Brian Haw who died last month. [audio: 201107221800]
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: Guardian: Ministers urged to let schools and hospitals fail to speed up pace of privatisation. Today's BBC journalists' strike against compulsory redundancies. phone hacking: top police Andy Hayman and John Yates grilled by MPs on Home Affairs Select Committee, news review with Councillor Jenny Smith [audio: 201107151700]
Second hour: Cuts, pensions and economic prospects Roger Thomas, Regional Vice Chair at Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) gives a public sector view. Bristol Gay Pride, rights and wrongs discussed with pastor Dia Moodly from St. Paul's Spirit Of Life church and Mary Milton from the ShoutOut show here on BCfm. Was Britain's MI6 one of three key players with CIA and NATO in a network of death squads? Operation Gladio: NATO's Secret Armies part 2 with Swiss historian Daniele Ganser. Was David Cameron's constituency chair Christopher Shale assassinated and if so, how? RIP Parliament Square protester Brian Haw talking about our responsibility for foreign wars recorded at Stop The War demo in 2008. [audio: 201107151800]
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: Portugal and Greece in the crosshairs as the collapse of the Euro and other banks is put off one more time. News Of The World phone hacking story and the failure of the Metropolitan police to investigate it properly. What did Forest of Dean playwright Dennis Potter have to say about Rupert Murdoch? LibDem Cabinet member for Neighbourhoods & Lockleaze councillor Guy Poultney reviews the week's news. [audio: 201107081700]
Second Hour: Stopping the worst effects of financial meltdown: Former squatter Kitty O'Donaghue and Bristol Housing Action Movement spokesman Ben Ritchie talk about a massive eviction which may soon take place at Dale Farm in Basildon, Essex. Getting concerned about the LibCon government's plans to criminalise squatting. Global warming and the propaganda element to showing off military air power in public while about 2000 civilians have been killed or serously injured in NATO's operation to protect civilians in Libya. Kevin Lister blogging at Kev's Climate Column explains why he's helping organise next weekend's 'Bike Ride To Fairford Air Tattoo' in Gloucestershire. NATO's Secret Armies: discussion with historian Danielle Ganser about NATO's 'Strategy of Tension using terror against European civilians and pretending it was the Russians to put political pressure on European governments, the notorious Operation Gladio. Yorkshire police intelligence whistleblower sacked. Tony Farrell was a principle police intelligence analyst for South Yorkshire police but was sacked when he told his bosses what they didn't want to hear, that the 7/7 London Bombings were probably not carried out by Muslim terrorists but by fascist enemies within. The strange death of David Cameron's Constituency party chair Christopher Shale at the Glastonbury festival, assassination expert and barrister Michael Shrimption believes that GO2, a rogue element in MI6, may have murdered him. [audio: 201107081800]
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: Abolition of Police Authority, public sector workers' strike, another Greek bailout & Home Secretary orders belated arrest of Palestinian leader Sheikh Raed Salah with former MP, Cllr Doug Naysmith (Lab) [audio: 201107011700]
Second hour: ‘Stealing for the Tribe’ army vet Elijah Smith, Webster Tarpley reports from Tripoli, Libya, Defence Secretary Liam Fox removes UK armed forces chiefs from MoD Defence Board & July 4th Independence from America day in North Yorkshire with Lindis Percy from the Campaign for Accountability of American Bases (CAAB) [audio: 201107011800]
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: Weekly news review with Green Councillor for Ashley ward Gus Hoyt. Economics discussed, 500 reidents threatened as almost all Bristol's elderly care homes face closure. Elected police commissioner to replace Avon & Somerset Police Authority? BBC documentary 'Poor Kids' and the divide between rich and poor. [audio: 201106241700]
Second hour: Montpelier builder Simon Lewis describes getting mauled by police dogs during the Stokes Croft disturbances and points out there is a Bristol City Council petition to investigate the Police tactics during those operations - Part three of the extracts from Keith Allen's banned new film about the assassination of Princess Diana - Unlawful Killing. 9/11 Blueprint for Truth. This week's big talk at Colston Hall: What does controlled demolition on 9/11 mean for America? In depth interview with San Fransisco skyscraper architect Richard Gage from Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth. [audio: 201106241800]
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: Thorough and serious-minded economics discussion with Conservative MP for North East Somerset Jacob Rees-Mogg. [audio: 201106171700]
Second hour: NATO's secret government, St.Moritz Bilderberg 2011 discussion & debrief, Charlie Skelton's Guardian Bilderblog, Fukushima radiation contamination update, the influence of Nietzsche on the bad ideas of US philosopher and writer Ayn Rand 00:00 - Introduction 02:00 - Richard Gage from Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth presentation this week in Bristol www.aetruth.org 08:00 - Strontium 90 levels 1000 times over maximum safe limit in Fukushima City - update on nuclear disaster at Fukushima, Japan.Possible effects of the disaster on Japanese and world economies. 15:00 - Deborah Orr - Guardian article - Forget entrepreneurs, Only Banks Can Create Wealth 19:00 - Preview of Keith Allen's banned film Unlawful Killing about the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed 20:30 - Bilderberg conference debriefing - from St. Moritz, Switzerland - Medditeranean troop movements - attendance of Chinese delegates - attendance of LinkedIn.com, Amazon.com, Google.com and Facebook.com - virtual reality like The Matrix being created by mainstream media propaganda - Italian MEP Mario Borgesio given bloody nose trying to get into Bilderberg conference - George Osborne attends secret conference in official capacity with his Treasury staff - BBC director Marcus Agius & Barclay's CEO attends but does not report 35:30 - The influence of German Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche on the bad ideas of US philosopher and writer Ayn Rand 49:30 - Music from Blue Oyster Cult 53:30 - Credits [audio: 201106171800]
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: UK Economists vs. Chancellor George Osborne and the IMF, Lakota underage ecstacy death Syria & foreign interventions with Eastville Cllr Mahmadur Khan (Lab) [audio: 201106101700]
Second hour: Guardian's Charlie Skelton spots George Osborne at NATO's secret Bilderberg conference in St Moritz, Switzerland, Jon Scobie from We Are Change Birmingham, Swiss historian Danielle Ganser, filmmaker Allan Frankovich on Kissinger & cult-like comparisons with Britain's eighteenth century Hell Fire Club. [audio: 201106101800]
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 Cllr Fi Hance Redland (Lib) [audio: 201106031700]
Second hour: Discussion of the recent Tesco related disturbances in Stokes Croft. [audio: 201106031800]
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: Discussion of the week's news including Obama's visit to Britain, former Serbian military leader Ratco Mladic's arrest will Britain lose its credit rating because of the present political leadership's economic illiteracy? and Facebook trying to recruit under 13 year olds with the new LibDem councillor for Clifton East Christian Martin. [audio: 201105271700]
Second hour: Bristol commemorates National Day For Innocent Child Victims of Aggression because in modern warfare we are seeing up to 80% civilian casualties discussion with local author of book on Iraq's depleted uranium contamination effects Joanne Baker. Examination of the standoff between China and the US over Pakistan. Examination of Avon & Somerset's present Chief Constable Colin Port's cover-up of collusion between Loyalist terrorists and the security forces in the 1999 assassination of Catholic lawyer Rosemary Nelson. Special report on Rosemary Nelson's killing by former Paratroop Regiment soldier Richard Cowley who served a tour of duty in Northern Ireland during the troubles. Was the Loyalist terror campaign being directed by the British army in the Royal Ulster Constabulary? What does the alleged letter say from US freemason Albert Pike to European freemason Guisseppi Mazzini on 15th August 1871 about three world wars that could be used to manipulate global politics on a massive scale? [audio: 201105271800]
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: LibDem minority administration now running Bristol, super-injunctions, Birmingham City Council cuts in disabled services ruled illegal, with Bristol's newly elected Labour group leader Peter Hammond. [audio: 201105201700]
Second hour: Government railway review with Rail Futures spokesperson & BCfm presenter Steve Sa'tan - Regime Change at the IMF: The Frame-Up of Dominique Strauss-Kahn? Inside the Egypt uprising with freelance photographer Jess Hurd - The 'Arab spring', Libya, Saudi Arabia, Reinvestigate 911, Shelton Lankford Lt. Col. Usmc Ret. in NY, Afghanistan, Pakistan, 92 year old former Nuremberg Nazi prosecuter Benjamin Ferencz on the alleged Bin Laden assassination. Is Britain part of a 20th century 'evil empire'? [audio: 201105201800]
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: Green candidate for Cabot ward Ben Appleby discusses the causes of the Easter riots in Stokes Croft and reviews the week's news. Questions about heavy-handed policing, use of armed police in public order situation, unprovoked police attacks on bystanders and Green party calls for a public enquiry into the policing of the Easter disturbances. The end of Operation Champion as CCTV cameras placed in Muslim areas of Birmingham are taken down. [audio: 201105131700]
Second hour: Bristol speakers' corner on College Green. Discussion of this week's revelation by Major General Michael Laurie that in 2003 Director General of MI6 John Scarlett and PM Tony Blair's press secretary Alastair Campbell deliberately fabricated a case for war against Iraq in the notorious 'dodgy dossier'. A look at the inadequate terms of reference of the 7/7 London Bombings inquest and questions about Israeli 'technology' company Verint Systems which has the London Underground CCTV contract. Exclusive and comprehensive interview with John Morgan, Australian author of new book out this week Diana, The British Cover Up. He looks at a death threat to her beforehand from Conservative Armed Forces minister Nichlas Soames and discusses motives for murder as well as describing the mysterious halting and 'rocking' of the ambulance which was taking Diana to hospital. Did Princess Diana survive the crash only to be murdered in the ambulance? Also a look at the new film by Keith Allen premiering at Cannes this week 'Unlawful Killing'. Inadequate emergency planners' provision of potassium iodide tablets which should be used as a preventative measure against radiation poisoning. [audio: 201105131800]
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: Local election results & news review with Labour group leader Helen Holland, LibDems lose Bristol in Local elections - plus Bin Laden & Gadaffi attack discussion [audio: 201105061700]
Second hour: Bristol voxpop - what do you think of Gadaffi's son's & three grandchildren's assassination by NATO? Friends of the Earth: Danger stalks the supermarket aisles and Bristol new plastic powered incinerator, 2011 Anarchist Bookfair in Stokes Croft [web], former US diplomat Susan Lindauer on Libya [web] [audio: 201105061800]
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: LibDem cabinet member Mark Wright reviews the news discussing last nights rioting, the cuts, green spaces and Libya. [audio: 201104291700]
Second hour: Missing nuclear weapons in Europe and the US? Looting of Libya's sovereign wealth fund. The end of the dollar? and lack of proper oversight at lour local NHS trust with Daphne Haverstock. [audio: 201104291800]
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: Eyewitness Bristol East Labour MP and shadow treasury minister Kerry McCarthy reviews the week's news and talks at length about last night's riot in Stokes Croft to which she was an eyewitness. [audio: 201104221700]
Second hour: As US investment bank Goldman Sachs announce unexpected extra billions in profits why is the dollar on its last legs? NATO's secret political/financial cabal Bilderberg to meet in Switzerland. Mission creep extrordinaire! NATO deploys more illegal killer drones and French Air Force's pre-arranged 'Southern Mistral' drill indicates the French planned Libya war last Autumn. Good Friday Holy Land history lesson and examination of Jewish extremist groups from Peter Reilly, the son of a British civil servant under the 1940s British mandate who was born in Haifa. Uprooted Palestinians website [audio: 201104221800]
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 and economics of the cuts with Cllr Peter Abraham (Con) [audio: 201104151700]
Second hour: Helen Caldicott on the nuclear 'cancer industry' - Did drug bank Wachovia cause the 2007 crash? - The Rothschild banking dynasty - National Union of Journalists General Secretary Jeremy Dear's final speech at NUJ delegate conference 2011 [audio: 201104151800]
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, Nick Clegg's 'social mobility' & business in crisis with Cllr Steve Comber (Lib) [audio: 201104081700]
Second Hour: Philip Agee, Richard Tomlinson, Katharine Gun, David Kelly, David Shayler & Annie Machon, Spies Lies and Whistleblowers: a close look at the workings of the UK's secret state with Marina Morris [audio: 201104081800]
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: After a general economics & budget roundup we hear actor and Equity member Sam West's speech from Hyde Park anti-cuts rally last Saturday. David Cameron was acting like the school bully this week at Prime Minister's questions, what kind of example is he setting the nation? And Health Secretary Andrew Lansley, whose wife runs a private healthcare lobbying firm, comes in for a pasting in a viral new 'no to NHS privatisation' rap song by MC Next Gen. We also hear more bad news from the stricken nuclear power complex at Fukushima in Japan, this time Dr. Chris Busby explains that neither people nor robots can get near the reactor cores now they have melted down. [audio: 201104011700]
Second hour: Martin Summers and Billy Quain discuss the pros and cons of the Alternative Vote (AV) voting system which will be decided in a referendum in a month's time. Merlin Emmanuel is the nephew of black singer/songwriter Smiley Culture and he brings us up to date on the fallout from Smiley's death during a drugs raid by the Metropolitan Police explaining there is a facebook campaign for justice for Smiley Culture. Tim Hurford from local band The Transpersonals then joins us in a discussion about the music industry and subliminal messages in some of the hyped music videos. Then Robert Mitchell joins us as we explore the possibility that much of our politics and culture is being subverted by dark forces in the form of secret societies citing the works of John Robison and the Abbé Barreul. [audio: 201104011800]
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 on Friday Drivetime Muriel Cole (Lib) & Ron Stone (Lab) review Bullingdon Club members David Cameron & George Osborne's 2011 budget. On Saturday at the TUC's London rally all but Ed Milliband will explain why Britain's elitist bankers and the super-rich like Stephen Lansdown should take their money out of tax havens and put it on the table. We also review the week's news and take another look at Bristol's parks strategy. [audio: 201103251700]
Second hour: Retired U.S. General Wesley-Clarke tells us the invasion of Libya was planned, along with invasions of four other countries including Iraq and Iran, way back in 2001. We take a close look at the proposed new voting system, Alternative Vote (AV), find out which elections it is presently used for, and how it works. Also... We hear that nearby Oldbury nuclear power station, operated by Magnox, had an accident a 'mildly' radioactive steam discharge and had to shut a reactor down last Friday. Meanwhile in Japan, safety procdures at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power station which led to way too many highly radioactive spent fuel rods accumulating dangerously, were ignored by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). How dangerous is flouride and should we be adding it to Bristol's water? Then, with clandestine filming charity Animal Aid, we find out about the recently announced Welsh badger cull plus peer behind the high walls into the horrific world of the abbatoir and animal experimentaion labs. We discover that when it comes to animal welfare with the police and government there is no rule of law, that only the media and consumer pressure seem able to improve conditions for animals. [audio: 201103251800]
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: Smiley Culture: 'Police Officer' song, murder or suicide? 400 deaths in police custody in a decade. The families campaign for justice. Misdiagnoses at the BRI's pathology unit. Are Serco and other multinational private companes and their 'fat cat' bosses making a killing on public money? Are they privatising public services on a massive scale? Is this what the Big Society is all about, privatisation in disguise? and criminalising squatters: with Sylvia Doubell (Lib) and Dave Morris (Con) [audio: 201103181700]
Second hour: Is public subsidy for nuclear power sustainable? Fukushima nuclear disaster, lessons for our two proposed nuclear new builds: Oldbury & Hinkley with Reg Illingworth and Lauren Tobia from SANE - plus Does the Koran predice this wave of Western intervention in the Middle East and North Africa? After intervention in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, the Arabian Peninsula and now the the Libya no fly zone... what is the bigger picture and will it all backfire? Muslim think tank Global Vision 2000 [audio: 201103181800]
At five: discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world. After six: straight talking and investigative reports with Marina Morris.
First hour: News review including discussion of Academy schools, proposed new AV voting system, public sector pensions and racist stories made up at the Daily Star. with Tim Kent (Lib) & Nigel Varley (NUT) Bristol Anti Cuts Alliance [audio: 201103111700]
Second hour: State of the City - plus reports & investigations - new Irish coalition government with Billy Quain, Middle East in revolt with former UNHCR worker recently returned from Yemen Dr Judith Brown & Michael Moore's rallying speech at anti union-busting demo in Madison, Wisconsin [audio: 201103111800]
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 LibDem Councillor for Lockleaze Guy Poultney [audio: 201103041700]
Second hour: State of the City - Fuel Prices escalate, Climate Camp disbands, Localism Bill with Mike Birkin from South West Friends Of The Earth. Then we look at wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan and uprisings in Egypt & Libya. Has World War III already begun? Plus the dangers of 'Verichip' human microchip implants. [audio: 201103041800]
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: £28m of budget cuts, Friday Drivetime grilled Bristol City Council's deputy leader & LibDem councillor for Clifton East Simon Cook. [audio: 201102251700]
Second hour: State of the City - An hour long look at the Middle East & North Africa uprisings. Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, looking too at the UK Libya connection, ie. Lockerbie & the shooting of PC Yvonne Fletcher. With Bristolians Mohamed Elhaddad from Libya and Palestinian born Journalist Iqbal Tamimi. [audio: 201102251800]
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 Brislingto East Cllr. Mike Wollacott (Lab) [audio: 201102181700]
Second hour: State of the City - Friday Drivetime profiles octogenarian monetary reformer Brian Leslie this week. He leads the national Green Party's economics group & edited 'Sustainable Economics' magazine for the last 20 years. Brian warns the last financial crisis in the 1920s led to the second world war! All bankers' taboos are broken tonight as we ask: How much did it cost for the bankers to buy up the British government? [audio: 201102181800]
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 Bristol City stadium plans in Ashton Vale and full discussion of the necessity or otherwise of financial austerity measures, or cuts, with LibDem councillor for Easton, John Kiely. [audio: 201102111700]
Second hour: Transmitted on the day Egyptian despot Hosny Mubarak resigned, Friday Drivetime had a look at unreported aspects to the Egyptian revolution. Young woman Asmaa Mahfouz's video sparked the uprising; Egypt's former interior minister is being questioned for ordering bombings of Churches & Coptic Christians protected Muslims in Tahrir Square. Finally we had a close look at political vetting at the BBC. [audio: 201102111800]
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. Revolution in Egypt, plus economics of forest & parks sell-off with Cllr Steve Comber (Lib) [audio: 201102041700]
Second hour: No job? No money? You could still build your own home with Bristol's new Community Land Trust; George Ferguson - Bristol's architecture, The Merchant Venturers, Ashton Gate Sainsbury's proposal [web] & how George lost his Evening Post column; Jewish groups fighting for peace and equality with arabs. [audio: 201102041800]
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 Southmead Cllr. Jenny Smith (Lab) on food security plus Egypt, Murdoch, Tunisia & Bristol squatting. [audio: 201101281700]
Second hour: A Friday Drivetime series on censorship begins this week & we hear from a former producer who got the BBC DG sacked. Plus the National Health Service in the crosshairs as the private healthcare industry teams up with the pharmeceutical industry to pull Health Secretary Andrew Lansley's strings. Possibly the most frightening 15 minutes of radio you will ever hear ... from http://www.spinwatch.org [audio: 201101281800]