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At five
- discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around
the world
After six
- straight talking and investigative reports with Martin
Summers
At five
- discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around
the world
After six
- straight talking and investigative reports with Martin
Summers
First hour: News review with shadow Foreign Office minister
and Labour MP for Bristol East, Kerry McCarthy. Rushing home for last year's
recall of parliament and Syria vote; Kerry's visit to Malawi and Mozambique
for a Commonwealth conference; LGBTs; Cameron and human rights; DWP leak
about
privatising the administration of pensions, is it more
efficient?
Rolls Royce share prices tumble because they are being
investigated by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) over bribery allegations –
rumours that GKN are planning to move away from Filton; Prime Minister's
Questions: Ed Miliband on the floods – should Environment Agency chair
Chris Smith resign? PMQs: Graham Morris on the Bedroom Tax being dropped
in Scotland –
Dispatches
documentary showed 350,000 disabled people are hit by this tax and may face
eviction; PMQs Stephen Timms MP on 1 million youth unemployed leading
to a 'lost generation' – Labours' Future Jobs Fund was dropped when
the Tories came to power; talk by Tommy Sheridan, former Scottish Socialist
Party MSP, on the cuts policies pursued by all parties;
Chancellor George Osborne accused of bullying the Scots
on ruling out the Scottish Pound, he, Ed Balls and Danny Alexander taking
their orders from
former Goldman Sachs governor of the Bank of England Mark
Carney.
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Second hour: Round up of international news stories with
Martin Summers. The USA military's' command bases around the world –
UsAfriCom for Africa based in Stuttgart, Germany next door
to UsCentCom for the Middle East – USPAcom, USEUcom, USNorthCom and
USSouthCom. Pakistani man
Kareem Khan, who was to testify about drones strikes on his
family to EU, abducted, believed to be by Pakistani secret service the ISI.
Reprieve charity campaigning for his release – the destabilising
of Pakistan in an undeclared war by NATO. War brought increase in violence
against women in Afghanistan but UK and US troops pulling out. Interview
with
photographer Guy Smallman, journalist who has just returned
from Afghanistan where he visited Kabul and Fara City. Violence against women
is increasing – poverty, addiction, arranged marriages, no knowledge
of human rights, incompetence of the government and an explosion in opium
production which Martin Summers says is being shipped out on British military
transport planes according to websites
NarcoNews and
CIAdrugs.
Exclusive interview with John Roberts a farmer from Bussex Farm, Westonzoyland
on the Somerset levels, about the floods and the incompetence of the Environment
Agency, he wants EA chief Chris Smith sacked immediately. Cost to
dredge
the River Parrett £4.5m, money spent on Steart Bird Sanctuary £32m
and the River Parret has enormous silted banks with trees growing on them
as well as seven feet of silt in the bottom yet some still deny dredging
is needed. Tommy Sheridan's talk again – abolishing the monarchy and
privatising industries in the public
sector. Former
Scottish Socialist MP Tommy Sheridan wants end to monarchy and
nationalisation of utilities. RBS and asset stripping companies. PMQs Cameron
asking Ofgem and Competition Commission to look into the profits of the energy
companies, as Labour suggested. PMQs
Tory
MP John Baron on nuclear test veterans – no compensation, Gulf War
Syndrome.
Former MI5 officer Annie Machon on Edward Snowden, formerly
secret 'Five Eyes' programme and Echelon – NSA, GCHQ and spying.
Former Bristol MP Tony Benn is ill in
hospital.
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At five
- discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around
the world
After six
- straight talking and investigative reports with Martin
Summers
First hour: News review with Mark Weston, conservative
councillor for Henbury, and chair of Bristol City Council's Transport and
Scrutiny Committee. Bristol's buses, residents parking to cost £50 annually,
the prospect of a Bristol City Centre congestion charge, Bristol Mayor George
Ferguson how much power and how much of a political mandate does he really
have? new Bristol police custody suites not to be managed privately as it
will cost roughly £600k more, are new 'super custody suites' too far
outside population areas? Police will be able to view private NHS health
records using a password – without going through the court and getting
a warrant; opt out of the selling
of your private medical records here - the unions and the new 'one person
one vote' system to choose the Labour Party leader; is the tube strike in
London justified? Should striking in 'essential services' be against the
law? London mayor Boris Johnson considers suing the RMT union for revenue
loss; PMQs Ed Miliband – not enough women MPs in the Tory Party,
and
speaker Bercow telling Education Secretary Michael
Gove: “Mr Gove, you need to write out a thousand times ‘I
will behave myself’ at Prime Ministers' Questions.” to write
1000 lines! In the new guidance to be handed to teachers this week Mr Gove
recommends “tough but proportionate” punishments such as writing
lines. PMQs: Ed Miliband – a senior woman Tory MP removed and
replaced by an old Etonian; Cameron running government threough the 'old
boy network'? 75% of MPs are millionaires; PMQs Fiona McTaggart – fraud
in private companies in the public sector – white collar crime, banking
fraud but companies are fined, no individuals sent to prison; PMQs - Royal
Mail shares over 80% higher now than originally sold for; A&E under pressure
– malnourished patients turning up; former UKIP Chairman advocates
terminating foetuses with Down's Syndrome.
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Second hour: Interview with Alex Hart in Frome from
'Frack Free
Somerset', about fracking and
'Frack
Free February'. Polluted water making people ill, radioactive water entering
the aquifer, earthquakes caused by fracking. Tory politicians benefiting
from fracking: Lord Green the HSBC Money Launderer; Lord Brown – disgraced
chairman of BP, Bilderberger & Chairman of Quadrilla ; Peter Lilley denying
his links subsequently proven to TESSA...drilling company; Lord Green
– BASS ...supplies fracking. Various events for Frack Free February
and Frack Free Somerset website.
Interview
with Edward Snowden by a German TV network: the privatisation of the
security services and the dangers of this; the NSA and violations of
authorisations; mass surveillance; NSA, GCHQ and BND are close; economic
spying. Edwin Black's 'IBM and the Holocaust' and the danger of mass
government data trawls and the laws put in place to stop it.
GCHQ and illegal Distributed Denial of Dervice (DDoS) cyber
attacks against protesters who have not broken the law. US bases in Britain
under question by Tom Watson and the House of Lords after 50 years because
they may be being used for illegal surveillance and drone killings.
US
State Department official Victoria Newland and US ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey
Pyat – their intercepted phone call swearing about the EU in derisory
terms, fixing the new Prime Minister, leadership of Ukraine with no involvement
from the people of Ukraine.
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At five
- discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around
the world
After six
- straight talking and investigative reports with Martin
Summers
First hour: News review with Gary Hopkins, Lib Dem
councillor for Knowle, and chair of Resources Scrutiny Committee.
The
council budget – £500m a year, and cuts – about £25m
a year over the next three years; First Bus increased use and profits
and how the LibDems plan to make improvements to Bristol's buses; Tory, Ian
McKellen (who lives in Limehouse, East London) and
alleged anti-gay comments by proposed Lord Mayor Chris
Windows; Kerry McCarthy lead a delegation to the Sochi Winter Olympics
in Russia to counter what she calls anti-gay propaganda;
15 student protesters accosted by private security and arrested
in Birmingham University; conservatives in Worcestershire deny poverty
exists in UK despite
food
bank usage tripling in one year and national use of food banks set to hit
one million people in 2014; charges dropped by Iceland supermarket against
people taking food from skips, police return food to Iceland only for them
to put it in the bin again; PMQs Ed Miliband – Tories had said 50p tax
rate set in stone and then dropped it; PMQs - 'wrong kind of recovery' fuelled
by property bubble; PMQs –
flooding on the Somerset
levels; dreadful response to flooding by overpaid Chair of the Environment
Agency, Chris Smith; total incompetence of Chris Smith's
Environment
Agency (EA) mismanagers leaving Huntspill CLOSED so North Levels cannot
drain into the sea; opinions of Somerset levels Muchelney residents Chris
Matthews and
Bryony
Sadler from Flooding on the Levels Action Group (FLAG); Mark Carney,
head of the Bank of England, warns Scots they will have to pay if they want
a Scottish pound.
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Second hour: Interview with
Ian Fraser, journalist,
blogger
and author of
'Shredded: The Rise and Fall of RBS' He discusses banking,
fraud and the terrible practices of RBS - including
Global
Restructuring Group (GRG) deliberately engineering the default of viable
companies and then asset stripping them, pension funds fraud, and persecuting
individuals who try to bring legal cases against them. Descent into mass
criminality in the
City of London who now seem to have resorted to being attractive
as the most criminal financial centre in the war where everybody knows that
nobody will be prosecuted for any crime. CPS, SFO and City of London
police are so corrupt that Prosecutions for crimes taking place in the City
of London are now only taking place in the US:
SFO left shamefaced after US nails City
fraudster. Commercial Lending in the UK is
unregulated. Ed Pennings of State Street overcharged clients by
£12.2m = Gross Misconduct, fined £23m on 31st January 2014
by Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). HBOS Nine charged with blackmail,
etc. etc.
Andrew Bailey, no. 2 at Financial Services Authority (FSA)
knew Co-operative bank had liquidity and capital problems but pushed through
the bank as preferred bidder for sale of Lloyds branches agreed with
the European Union (EU). NatWest Three committed massive fraud at
Enron. Lawrence Tomlinson's November 2013 report into GRG: Royal Bank
of Scotland's
Derek Carlisle of Global Restructuring Group (GRG) said "We
will destroy you and your family" and did. GRG's 'malicious', 'vindictive'
and 'nasty' intimidate solicitors saying "We're going to hound you". Martin
Summers discusses the recent tapering of quantitative easing in the US, the
effect of this on the
emerging
stock markets of the BRICS countries,
the world's commodities markets and a possible impending
financial crash. The
director of UK surveillance agency GCHQ Ian Lobban stands
down - due to revelations of criminality within by NSA whistleblower
Edward Snowden?
Edwin Black's 'IBM
and the Holocaust',
Nazis used databases and computers for mass genocide,
and consolidated databases
like the one for NHS medical records
(opt out
here).
Former
US Marine Ken O' Keefe on 'The People's Voice' internet TV channel,
discussing 9/11 as a False Flag operation.
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BCfm's weekly politics show presented by Tony Gosling
At five -
discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around
the world
After six -
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin
Summers
First Hour: Review of the weeks news with Tim Kent, leader
of the Lib Dems and councillor for WhitchurchPark. LibDem peer Lord Rennard
touching up various women – have the Lib Dems dealt with this properly?
Has French president Hollande's socialist experiment failed? – no
quantitative easing in France, the Euro, and a right-wing German
government; a Sheffield study says real unemployment may be 3.5m, a
million more people than official figures due to so many not being on
benefits; PMQs Ed Miliband – 13 million in poverty in Britain
today – even though Britain 7th richest country in the world
Speenhamland system for supplementing incomes of the poor
to help them buy bread - now its Housing benefit they need;
Funding plan for Bristol's £91 million arena
agreed – can Bristol afford it? Will local people be able to
afford to use it? Building and operating jobs for local people? KPMG
being investigated for auditing Co-op Bank fraudulently; Gordon Anglesey,
former Chief Police of North Wales, arrested and interviewed about child
sexual abuse at state care homes in the 1970s and 80s; PMQs The Trussell
Trust food banks – rents too high; bedroom tax and a loophole
in the law; PMQs utility bills and direct debit costing poorer people
£150 or so more every year; why should the poor pay more? Private and
personal NHS medical records and other data being put onto a central database
for sale to drug and insurance firms by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
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Second Hour: Daphne Havercroft from
South West Whistleblowers
Health Action Group (SWHAG). Sean Turner inquest: parents call
for independent inquiry into hospital -
Coroner
concludes there were 'lost opportunities' in four-year-old's care at Bristol
Royal children's hospital - Results of inquest into suspicious deaths
on Ward 32. Liam Nevin, Bristol City Council's legal chief, formerly worked
for North Bristol NHS Trust and saw them through the Southmead Hospital Private
Finance Initiative (PFI) which is costing the taxpayer millions of pounds.
Dr Perter Harrowing is Asst Deputy Coroner was formerly head of legal services
at UHB NHS Trust, lots of connections between 'independent' coroners service
and the NHS. Charlie Cooper's article in the Independent saying billions
of pounds of cuts to NHS are the main problem. Kevin Phillips, Chairman
of Avon and Somerset Police Federation, discusses the recent story of how
the federation needs to change. How the federation is funded, it's structure,
and an attack by this right wing government, seem to be problems. Plebgate,
privatising and the potential merging of police authorities also covered.
Mike Birkin, from South West Friends of the Earth (FoE), discusses the
flooding of the
Somerset levels whether this is due to climate change or sabotage by the
Environment Agency. Ancient 'Lake Villages' near Westhay on the levels
and Glastonbury. Fracking in the Mendips covered - government gives out new
round of exploration licences. Martin Summers round up of hot spots round
the world:
World Economic Forum (WEF) Davos – will they tackle
rising inequality or just discuss it? Syria peace talks – Sarin chemical
weapons attack came from rebel controlled area and accusations of 11,000
rebels tortured by the Syrian government. China works with mercenary firm,
Blackwater XE founder Eric Prince; Mexican drug cartels and US DEA agents
having scores of secret meetings, far too close, even working together; riots
on the streets of Kiev in Ukraine as the older Ukrainians and Eastern Ukrainians
lean toward Moscow and Younger Western Ukrainians prefer
Brussels.
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At five -
discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around
the world
After six -
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin
Summers
First Hour: News review with Daniella Radice, Bristol Green
Party leader and councillor for Bishopston.
The badger cull cost £4000 per badger but £50m 2007
DEFRA report to justify cull cost £27,000 per badger - total £30,000
per badger! Green party cabinet member
Gus Hoyty Toyty and the bedroom tax;
Traders and Residents
Against Sainsbury's at Horfield (TRASH) campaign to stop a Sainsbury's
being built in Bristol Rovers' Memorial Ground at top of Gloucester Road
– football, planning gain and corporate raiders in the football world;
Ed Miliband's speech about bringing more competition into banking –
zombie casino banks still not dealt with, bonuses and short-termism; Is
£38m of Bristol City Council public money for Bristol Arena justified?
Arena costing total of £91m. City Deal,
Public
Property Board is chaired by the Mayor of Bristol and has representatives
from the Homes and Communities Agency, Government Property Unit, Bristol
City Council and two representatives from the Business Community, Local
Enterprise partnership;
Bristol 24-7
coment page
Economic vision blind to closing gap between Bristol’s
rich and poor: Until we address the real problems of equality of opportunity,
the city will never realise its true economic and social potential, writes
Tessa Coombes. PMQs Milliband and Cameron on housing – building firms
sitting on land; PMQs Tessa Munt on
fracking and bribes to local government; FoI request Guardian:
Emails reveal UK helped shale gas industry manage fracking
opposition: Government officials accused of cheerleading for fracking by
sharing 'lines to take' and meeting for post-dinner drinks: LibDem Tory
Coalition government departments with a very cosy relationship with Fracking
companies pushing fracking; former LibDem Energy Secretary Chris Huhne was
not so friendly. European elections coming up in May:
UKIP leader Nigel Farage on the United States of Europe and
Goldman Sachs controlling what is now totally undemocratic Greece –
The Green Party stand on how unbridled immigration affects Britain from
Europe.
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/73838
Second Hour: Interview with
Chris Bollyn, freelance
photographer, author and journalist. He used to work for US newspaper
American Free Press, and covered Bilderberg in early 2000s as a photographer.
He
has written books on 9/11 and had trouble with undercover cops. He was
not let in to UK recently due to this trouble. Further revelations from Edward
Snowden on the NSA – devices planted in laptops enabling surveillance
and text message surveillance – no legal basis,
NSA leaks: British spies were given access to US 'Dishfire'
system that reads hundreds of millions of texts from around the world.
NSA infiltrated
more than 100,000 offline computers using covert devices, say
leaks: The intelligence agency reportedly inserted radio-transmitters into
computers via spies and unwitting users to crack disconnected devices.
Stasi State, US internet companies losing business.
Jewish American
Edwin Black who wrote 'IBM and the Holocaust' – Prescott Bush trading
the Nazis.
The corruption of Britain: UK’s key institutions infiltrated
by criminals: Investigations editor Tom Harper's story in
The Independent about criminal groups infiltrating the Metropolitan
Police using Freemason lodges - Scotland Yard investigated this in Operation
Tiberius. Follows on from Project Riverside from the Serious Organised Crime
Agency (SOCA).
UK politicisans' and armed forces chiefs' Iraq war crimes go
to the top as Public Interest Lawyers two year long report to the International
Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.
Seamus
Milne on George Galloway's Saturday Russia Today show Sputnik – discussing
Thatcher government's use of security services to crush Arthur Scargill and
the miner's strike who nearly won the battle to save the pits fairly.
Roger Waters, lead singer and Pink Floyd guitarist compares
Israel to Nazi Germany, says treatment of Palestinians by Israelis is like
the Holocaust.
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/73839
At five -
discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around
the world
After six -
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin
Summers
First Hour: News review with Rob Telford, Green councillor
for Ashley ward. Council meetings,
Mayor
Ferguson's £90m budget cuts over three years, £7m found so less
cuts needed, now £83m. St. Pauls Learning Centre, Lynton Crosby,
political party donors, and the media, included in introduction discussion.
Mark Duggan's inquest, death of Ian Tomlinson and corrupt police never being
brought to justice; police cuts and some having to go by bus;
If the police are waiting at the bus stop, having arrested
someone, should they go upstairs, should they go downstairs or should they
not arrest at all? £1.8bn cuts to social care - is care not valued
in society? Lack of social care beds exacerbating crisis overloading A&E
departments; Mayor George Ferguson and the Bristol budget consultation period;
cuts to the Environment Agency, the floods, energy companies and electricity
failures over Christmas; four American states have water which has been polluted
from fracking, which pumps heavy metals and poisonous chemicals deep into
the earth to extract shale oil and gas - desperate 1944 Nazi fracking in
Hechingen, Germany at the end of the Second World War when Hitler was desperate
for oil; Prisoners' lawyer
Iqbal
Singh Kang, a lawyer with Gurney Harden Solicitors, explains riots in
the private G4S run Oakwood 'Titan jail' near Birmingham where many prisoners
local to Bristol have been transferred, meaning long journeys for local families
of loved ones in jail.
programme page
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'In the third week of November 1944 reconnaissance showed that several sites of feverish activity had suddenly appeared near Hechingen. We could not at first make sense of them, but such activity in any event needed to be taken seriously, and the proximity to Hechingen made us wonder whether we had at last found evidence of a frantic effort by the Germans to make a last minute attempt at a nuclear bomb. I showed the photographs to F.A. Lindemann, Lord Cherwell, on 23rd November, who immediately warned Winston Churchill, and plans were made for further reconnaissance, and for bombing. I began to feel that nuclear intelligence had really 'taken off'.
Within a few days though, the scare was dispelled. Wing Commander Douglas Kendall had spotted that all the sites were in the same string of valleys, and were on much the same level. After a visit to the Geological Museum in South Kensington, he found that a German geologist had reported low-grade oil shales in the area, and it turned out that all the Germans were doing now that their oil installations were being heavily attacked, was to try to exploit this unpromising source of supply.'
Most Secret War, Chapter 48, Nuclear Energy; p. 601, British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945 by R. V. Jones, Hamish Hamilton 1978, Coronet 1979, ISBN 0 340 24169 1
Made into a BBC Series 'The Secret War '
Second Hour: Round up of international news stories with
Martin Summers: Fallujah (Iraq), Syria, Al Qaeda, 'Doctors without Borders'
kidnappings, 'Islamic State Of Iraq And The Levant' (ISIL) or Islamic State
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Sunni and Shia Muslims. World War One is discussed
as this year is the 100th anniversary: Tory Education Secretary Michael Gove
and Boris Johnson defending WWI as a 'Noble cause';
Guardian columnist Seumus Milne's article: First world war:
an imperial bloodbath that's a warning, not a noble cause. the British
and French carving up the Middle East - Is this World War Three?
A row has erupted between Sir Tony Robinson and Michael Gove
after the education secretary said programmes like Blackadder were being
used to feed "myths" about World War One.
Richard Attenborough's 1969 film: Oh! What A Lovely War
(A movie about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name,
portraying the "Game of War" and focusing on the members of one royal family
that start it all and a poor family who go off to war. Much action revolves
around the words and music of hymns and songs of the soldiers. Infamous incidents
of the war are portrayed, including the assassination of Duke Ferdinand,
the Christmas 1914 truce between British and German soldiers in no-mans-land,
and the wiping out by their own side of a force of Irish soldiers newly arrived
at the front.) and Miranda Carter's book 'George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm -
Three Royal Cousins On The Road To World War 1'
The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road
to World War One Tory Chancellor George Osbourne and his 2014 economy
speech on Monday: is this a 2015 election speech for activists and funders?
The national debt is so big cuts are going to hardly make a difference; bankers,
Quantitative Easing (QE) or Printing Money, personal debt, asset prices,
and rich people running off with all the money like bandits;
Tony Blair's profits boosted by £13 in 'bumper year'
2013 so was he promised riches to start an illegal war etc. while he
was Prime Minister? Welfare cuts - economic illiteracy. US journalist
Edwin
Black's book: IBM and the Holocaust which explains mass survillance by
the Nazis and how they were helped by greedy US corporation IBM and their
Hollerith machines, leased via Switzerland.
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At five - download:
discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around
the world
After six - download:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
and Marina Morris
First hour: Review of the weeks news with Martin Summers.
Two terrorist bombings in Volgagrad (used to be called Stalingrad),
Russia near Sochi winter Olympics - false flag? Litvinenko, FSB , Prince
Bandar Bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia, Syria, Doku Umarov; Knighthood for Paul
Tucker, former deputy head of Bank of England - how BoE works, how printing
money or Quantitative Easing artificially inflates asset prices and causes
a bubble, and creates a fake economic recovery;
former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown says we may be due
another financial crash; clip of
Mike Maloney
describing the origins of money around 650 BC, Gold Silver and Electrum coins
minted then still retain their value today, from his documentary 'The Hidden
Secrets of Money' - does money really represent anything or is it just
a bit of paper? The gold standard, 1944 Bretton Woods conference during World
War Two,
British Economist John Maynard Keynes proposed adoption of
the Bancor as an international currency was discarded and the Dollar
was made the reserve currency based on oil. How economic crises aid the
rise of dictators (e.g. in 1925 and 1930 aiding Hitler); 2014's local and
European elections;
2013 Ghouta, nr Damascus, Sarin attack in Syria conducted by
Western Intelligence Services? Was it a simple false flag attack with
a major media element to shock NATO public and politicians into war?
A rare glimpse inside Americas' deadly fraternities - the 'Sigma,
Alpha, Epsilon' fraternity of Salisbury University, Maryland - like being
tortured in Guantanamo Bay - these 'frats' guarantee students a nice easy
career in Wall Street. Comparable to the initiation of freemasonry.
60 odd people have died in these 'hazing' initiations in recent
years. Cameron ahead in polls - Murdoch media, Martin still believes
there will be a financial crash.
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Second Hour: Bilderberg chief Kenneth Clarke aided by Justice
Secretary Chris Grayling are destroying Legal Aid both civil and Criminal
and
Bristol's barristers are striking on Monday for the first time
in 700 years because they belive these cuts will create a two tier legal
system. Will Stone from the
Avon
and Somerset Law Centre discusses the rights of employees: legal aid
cuts, trade unions, bullying at work, employment tribunals, macro-economics
of cuts, equality cases, unfair dismissal. A gaze into 2014:
clip of
Bill Still on potential financial difficulties in 2014; is Bitcoin a
giant ponzi scheme?
Hedge
funds take over the Co-operative bank but was it Economic Warfare?
Derivatives and commodity markets explained, how
some are beting now on food shortages and have a vested
interest in hunger, war and destruction.
Ethical banks and building societies listed if you want to
move away from the Co-operative Bank. China's military presence growing
- Hinkley, nuclear power, subsidised by totalitarian China - Japan and China
potential conflict Mass surveillance is a problem because 1. it's a criminal
offence 2. the secret service can use information to pull strings and, 3.
in many cases, are the terrorists. Snowden revelations.
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At five:
discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around
the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
and Marina Morris
First hour: news review Inside Housing front page: 300% increase in rising damp: landlords report a surge in mould complaints as squeezed tenants under-heat their homes, buy-to-let bubble is being reheated, general housing discussion; despite what leader of the opposition Ed Miliband says will Labour party really be able to intervene in energy markets? 30 years of idiotic policies have brought us to the brink of disaster; is Britain a democracy? Does the government ever decide on policy and how democratic is our first-past-the-post voting system? PM doesn't have a majority of the votes and gets told what to do by the banks; London mayor Boris Johnson draws analogy between money and intelligence; Boris manoeuvring to be next Tory leader. 'Boardroom greed is good' appeals to the Tory party's city funders and some voters. Cornflakes pack analogy. Spirit of envy is good. London is the 'soft power' capital of the world. Ex-soldiers jailed for six years for firebombing Grimsby mosque after Lee Rigby's murder. US nuclear weapons boss Major General Michael Cary is sacked as commander of US 20th Air Force of ICBMs. Anders Breivik was not followed by Oslo police helicopter. Were private firm Craft security behind the Boston bombing? 25 years on what was really behind the Lockerbie bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988. Is it flu research or germ warfare in disguise? EU H5N1 flue vaccine tests could kill millions of people. Russian oil oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky who tried to do deals with Israel for Russian oil is released. Councils making £600m of surplus profit around the UK from parking charges. Councils being run like businesses. Protesters gather to fight plans to close 22 of Bristol's 23 public loos. British society must not revert to "times of Charles Dickens" and leave the nation's poorest families in desperate need of food and clothes, Action for Children has warned. It said the nation has already reverted to the poverty of the 1940s, and "can't go back" further. Prisoners across Britain are banned from getting parcels and packages from families on the outside. This Christmas sees three times last year's usage of Food Banks says the Trussel Trust. Western backed Egyptian military government declares majority group, the Muslim Brotherhood an illegal terrorist group. [audio: 201312271700] download
Second hour: review of 2013 'Privacy matters': US NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden gives his Christmas Message comparing GCHQ and the NSA to George Orwell's 1984 totalitarian states warning us of 'the end of privacy'. O2 changes Cameron 'porn filter' after charity sites blocked. Open Rights Group (ORG) is monitoring UK blocking and filtering on new website www.blocked.org.uk Snowden story broke on the first day of this year's Bilderberg meeting in Watford, UK. Michael Meacher MP explains why he felt politicians inside should report back to parliament and he insisted on the first parliamentary Bilderberg debate. Tony Crofts arrives to announce his office buildings to housing organisation AEOBhousePeople now has £150,000 invested and money is rolling in at £10k per week, any investment from £50 to £20,000 is welcome. Death of US Investigative Journalist Michael Hastings, was he assassinated by the man he was investigating CIA Director John Brennan who has been using the US military to spy on the press. Independent Diplomat founder Carne Ross gives his views on the danger of hypocrisy of holding the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Sri Lanka. "You have to attack civilians, the people, women, children, far away from any political game so authorities can bring in a state of emergency" Daniel Bushell on Russia Today interviews Daniele Ganser about Operation Gladio. We hear telephoned death threats against Tony Gosling recorded with an app., from a terrorist group affiliated to the English Defence League (EDL) called the Jewish Defence League (JDL) classed as a terrorist organisation. Avon & Somerset police trace the number withheld call and interview the owner of the London house where the call originated. [audio: 201312271800] download
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First hour: News review and Edward Snowden scandal exclusive with Kevin Cahill: UK citizen sues Microsoft over Prism private data leak to NSA News review with Kevin Cahill, journalist and author of 'Who owns the World'. Kevin discusses journalism, newspaper barons Richard Desmond, Lord Rothermere and Rupert Murdoch. Land ownership in Britain with 1% owning over 70% of the land and 65% have a stake in the land either through a mortgage or owning it outright so 35% are landless. Bristol's Mayor is urged not to evict people because of the bedroom tax; unemployment is down but too many jobs are part-time, low paid or insecure - tax credits, Quantitative Easing, asset prices, and tax havens; DWPs' cruel benefit sanctions; Romanian and Bulgarian migrants taking British jobs because of EU rules. Kevin discusses in depth how he is suing Microsoft, Google and Facebook for giving their UK customers' private data to the US spy agency, the NSA. Former MI5 officer Annie Machon explains how GCHQ and the UK secret services lie to parliament and why their mass data trawls are so dangerous for our freedoms won over hundreds of years in the West [audio: 201312201700] download
Second hour: Mark Goodway from Bristol's
Matthew
Tree Project Food Store charity discusses food banks and the recent massive
increase in need for these – Matthew Tree now has 6 outlets in Bristol.
This is put mainly down to changes in benefits, including benefit sanctions.
Mark talks of the broken people he sees and the vicious circle of cutting
benefits leading to stress and health problems, and then inability to work.
PMQs: Nick Betts MP asks PM about Children who have no food in the house
over the whole weekend. MPs yell 'Scrooge' as Nick Raynsford MP tells PM
the Archbishops of Westminster and Canterbury criticise Coalition government's
neglect of the poor. Matthew Tree based on Biblical St. Matthew, helps people
mentally as well as with food.
The EU
offered Britain about £22 million for food banks but the UK cabinet
and Prime Minister David Cameron has turned it down. Continuing to receive
EU agricultural subsidies of tens of millions of pounds for The Queen, one
of the richest people in the world. Martin Summers and a round up of
international stories: Ukraine moves eastwards but keeps EU ties; US AfriCom,
which is based in Stuttgart, Germany, and Western sponsored 'sectarian'
wars in Africa bringing colonial troops in America’s Conquest of Africa:
The Penetration of AFRICOM on the Continent. Inmates
at Guantanamo Bay being 'bribed' with luxuries and pornography to work for
the CIA - known as 'Penny Lane' and 'Strawberry Fields Forever' programmes.
Frome based Freya Lawton, from Peace Intention, discusses this new initiative
harnessing what people really want, to help bring peace in the
world.- Peace Intention
website [audio: 201312201800]
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First hour: Explanation of one likely 'Knights Templar' origin of the Friday 13th superstitions after nonsense peddled this morning by an 'astrologer' on BBC Radio Bristol's John Darvall show. Good documentary on the Crusades made by former Monty Python comedian Terry Jones. Private Eye's lngest running corruption story since the 1960s John Poulson affair: Fraud, theft, death and planning conspiracy in Gloucestershire's Cotswold Water Park - news review with LibDem Cotswold District Councillor Esmund Jenkins. Banking and Britain's unpayable debts; Iceland jails four bankers and surges ahead economically; should MPs pay be raised? The huge gap between the rich and poor in Cameron's Britain; a clip of Mandela's lawyer, Lord Joffe, from Today in Parliament, explaining how courageous he was; Gil Scott-Heron's 1976 song 'Johannesburg' from the album 'From South Africa to South Carolina'. Esmond Jenkins discusses planning corruption around The Cotswold Water Park in forensic detail, involving large amounts of money. Dennis Grant was jailed in 2011 for fraud but Esmond believes there are others involved. Several people have died in the process including Stroud based Public Relations consultant and journalist Declan Cunningham who, we reveal tonight, wrote the Cotswold Water Park corruption stories up for Private Eye. [audio: 201312131700] download
Second hour: Gloucestershire's Cotswold Water Park planning corruption continues. Gloucestershire Freemasons: ten names handed to police who fail to investigate. Esmond Jenkins continues with his story about The Cotswold Water Park. He discusses what he believes is Freemasonry connections in the planning scandal. Clips of Martin Short who wrote 'Inside the Brotherhood' about police, the City of London and Freemasonry, also what is Freemasonry? Nikki Clark, from Stop Hinckley, explains why she is against nuclear power. Nuclear waste, how much it costs and how to deal with it is covered in detail - Cumbria may be a recipient even though the local authority voted against it. Also alternative energies, Blacklisting firm Amec is a potential contractor to build Hinkley C. Economics of nuclear energy, it can never pay and Britain is at least half a decade behind countries like Germany. Stop Hinkley campaigner Nikki explains her reasons for opposing Hinkley C nuclear deal. Former MI5 officer Annie Machon explains the inner workings of GCHQ and dire implications of the Edward Snowden leaks for British democracy on radio channel Voice of Russia. Terrible dangers of today's unaccountable intelligence services. Frank Sinatra song '' [audio: 201312131800] download
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First hour: news review with Labour Councillor for Lawrence Hill Hibaq Jama; death this week of Nelson Mandela, apartheid in Isreal/Palestine and Sri Lanka. As a Somalian Muslim she describes her family's work in Somalis, how she got interested in politics and the present problems in Somalia being part of a Western militarised zone around Iran. Nelson Mandela, who died this week, communism, apartheid still growing in Sri Lanka and Israel/Palestine, social apartheid throughout the world and in the West under 'austerity', a clip of Mandela's first interview on ITV in 1961 with Brian Widlake. What was the real role of now Prime Minister David Cameron's 1989 sanctions busting trip to apartheid South Africa? The secret criminal sale of South African nuclear weapons before black majority rule and the ANC came to power - nuclear arms dealing conspiracy involving Prime Minister David Cameron, Leading Tory fund-raiser Sir Kenneth Warren from Kilmersdown in Somerset, former MI6 officer Stephan Kock, MoD weapons inspector Dr David Kelly, arms dealer and former Rhodesian special forces soldier John Bredenkamp, subsidiary of Astra Fireworks, Astra Holdings and former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Detailed in the four part article by Peter Eyre US and the UK lost 3 nuclear weapons each! Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4. Winter and the energy bill crisis; public sold £2bn short over Royal Mail by LibDem Vince Cable and Goldman Sachs; Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne's Autumn statement: student loan book sold off, KPMG, with their dubious track record, trusted again by this government. Is Osborne out of touch with family economics in the real world? Ed Ball's response; Marina Morris's voxpop on the Pope calling capitalism the new tyranny. [audio: 201312061700] download
Second hour: investigative reports, Will Stone, from The Avon and Bristol Law Centre, discusses The Court of Appeal agreeing Work Capability Assessments discriminate against the mentally ill. Similar unfairness for the most vulnerable in society from Home Choice Bristol, the City Council's housing bid and allocation service. Contracted out University workers and UK Student Unions being closed down, Students' #CopsOffCampus campaign as police arrive to break up student demonstrations and occupations. Your rights as an employee. Europe's biggest country Ukraine torn since the 2004 'Orange Revolution' between East (Viktor Yanukovych) and West (Yulia Tymoshenko) Marina Morris, who is Ukrainian, reads a small piece about the problems in Ukraine - being pulled between Europe and Russia, and the power politics behind this; sad death of Winston Churchill & Desmond Morton's private secret agent John Ainsworth Davis and his book, 'Op JB' about rescuing Hitler's treasurer Martin Bormann at the end of the war, 1960s and 1970s UK television host Alan Whicker mentions Hitler's Nazi treasurer Martin Bormann in Paraguay surviving after World War Two in a 1970 edition of Whicker's World; Lord Carrington and Moffatt T. Burriss discuss Operation Market Garden, Lord Carrington's refusal to advance from Nijmegen to Arnhem on the evening of Wednesday 20th September 1944, effectively 'throwing' Operation Market Garden, sacrificing the 1st Airborne battalion at Arnhem bridge and allowing the Germans time to arrange to get their looted valuables out of the country for Martin Bormann's economic 'Fourth Reich'. Former US Naval Intelligence talk show host William Cooper discusses a secret masonic 'priesthood', the Illuminati, operating behind the scenes manipulating world affairs for thousands of years. [audio: 201312061800] download
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First hour: news review with Labour Councillor for Southmead Jenny Smith; suicide of disabled former Kingswood nurse Jacqueline Harris after ATOS & DWP cut off her disability benefits. Review of the weeks news with Jenny Smith, Labour councillor for Southmead. George Ferguson, Mayor for Bristol, £90m of cuts, vested interests and Bristol City Coulcil buying KPMG's Bristol headquarters near Temple Meads; how people are chosen to be Labour Party councillors by a three person panel examination; Jacqueline Harris from Kingswood, Bristol, commits suicide after failing ATOS appeal; though David Cameron says disabled people are exempt from the Bedroom tax we hear they are not; 1 in 10 elderly people, roughly 500,000 a year, ending up in A&E due to breakdown in NHS health care systems such as NHS Direct, GPs and Walk In Centres under Coalition government - Labour's Rachel Reeves threatens to cut all under 25's off from housing benefit and all jobseekers benefits if Labour win the next election; vested interests of Tory MPs and private healthcare companies; will disabled people at least be exempt from the bedroom tax? 'Help to buy', 'Help to sell' or 'Help to vote Tory' scheme? It's another sub prime mortgage fiasco - everyone and everything being driven into debt, national and personal indebtedness rising right across the western world; real wages are down on average £1,600 per person, bank bonuses up by 83%; Nationalised bank RBS report showing they are bankrupting then asset stripping small and medium companies, as Ian Fraser and Max Keiser say "Financial Terrorists". [audio: 201311291700] download
Second hour: EXCLUSIVE: Death of former MI6 agent John Ainsworth-Davis, author, under the pen name Christopher Creighton, of the book 'Op JB' about the secret 1945 British rescue of Hitler's deputy Martin Bormann at the end of WWII. Interview with Laurence de Mello, journalist from Buenos Aires in Argentina. She discusses 'JAD' - John Ainsworth-Davis - aka. Christopher Creighton, author, who died this week aged 89. He wrote 'OP JB', a book claiming the top Nazi, Martin Bormann, survived the Second World War, and was helped over to South America by western secret services, in exchange for letting them know where the Nazi loot was. Forensic explanation of the hard evidence for the survival of Bormann and his life in South America in the late 1940s and 1950s building a financial 4th Reich. Round up of international news stories with Martin Summers: US and Japanese B52 bombers fly into new Chinese airspace protection zone over the disputed islands in the South China Sea – where there is oil; Thailand army headquarters occupied; Ukraine decides, will we side with the EU or Russia? Scottish independence; Iran nuclear treaty. Egyptian suppression Interview from new internet TV station 'The People's Voice' with Natalie Rowe, whose book 'Chief Whip - Memoirs of a Dominatrix' has recently come out. She supplied George Osborne and others in the Bullingdon Club and top echelons of society with cocaine and prostitutes. George Osborne in denial about his 1990s cocaine habit but Natalie Rowe has George on tape asking her to lie for him. Former DARPA chief Regina Duggan explains the so called 'Beast Tech' moving towards the 666 style microchipping of the population with 'Authentication pills'. [audio: 201311291800] download
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First hour: Review of the weeks news with Barbara Janke, Lib Dem Councillor for Clifton and cabinet member for Health and Social Care. She discusses her role on Bristol Health and Wellbeing Board, which has a £36m budget. Public get a poor deal with the sell-off of The Royal Mail - yet again a minority milking profits; Michael Meacher MP in PMQs about The Economist article that Britain gets less investment than Mali; privatisation of enriched uranium next; the discrediting of Paul Flowers, chair of The Co-op Bank – But what about HSBC money laundering for Mexican drug cartels? - isn't this worse?; Ed Miliband in PMQ about dodgy Tory donors; Marina Morris's voxpop about the Bristol Rovers stadium due at the top of Gloucester Rd and plan for Sainsbury's. [audio: 201311221700] download
Second hour: Investigative reports: CIA, Dulles and the Nazis, JFK assassination 50th anniversary. Eyewitness Lyndon Johnson's mistress Madeleine Brown & Chicago Mafia hit man 'Grassy Knoll' shooter James Files. Jerome Corsi's new book Who Really Killed Kennedy?: 50 Years Later: Stunning New Revelations about the JFK Assassination. The JFK assassination discussed in detail. The 'deep state', the 1961 Bay of Pigs, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the United Fruit Company, Lyndon Johnson, Allen Dulles, Operation Paperclip, the CIA, the Mafia, the Bush family, and Jim Garrison's investigations are included. Clips of: Jim Garrison and live Dallas radio coverage from the 1963; CIA closely involved with the Mafia and dealing drugs internationally and still doing this now - see Narconews & CIAdrugs websites; JFK's Vice President Lyndon Johnson's mistress Madeleine Brown who thinks he was directly involved; James Files, Chicago Mafia hit-man claims he was the shooter on the grassy knoll and takes us through the assassination from the point when the motorcade turns into Elm Street. BBC Panorama: Lord Carrington responsible for 1972 collusion in Northern Ireland troubles? Panorama: Britain's Secret Terror Force, discussed and collusion in Northern Ireland. Included a clip of Anne Cadwallader from the Pat Finucane centre, author of 'Lethal Allies', talking emotionally about how lives were ruined by the army Military Reaction Force (MRF). Clip of George Galloway from his new show 'Sputnik' on RT. [audio: 201311221800] download
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First hour: Independent Councillor for Hartcliffe Derek Pickup who has left the Labour Party in protest at being deselected by a small party de-selection 'cabal'. Former mayor candidate Tom Baldwin from Trades Union and Socialist Coalition (TUSC). Derek explains how the Bristol Labour group didn't want him to carry on as a councillor, and the panel that makes these decisions. Labour policies – should they oppose cuts more? Marina Morris's voxpop about voting and what people think of the Labour Party; the debt and deficit nothing to do with Labour and public spending but this message not getting through to public; the Bedroom Tax not voted out in commons debate – 31-45 Labour MPs didn't turn up to vote - private sector versus public sector; Song: Eff The Bedroom Tax by MC NxtGen; how is George Ferguson, Mayor, getting on after a year? Bristol City Council has to cut £90 million of spending ordered by Cameron's Westminster Coalition government; Police and 'direct entry' of senior police officers breaking centuries of 'best practice' of an entirely professional police service this will include businessmen and those who have no direct experience of police work; Students outraged as ULU president Michael Chessum arrested in 'attack on the right to protest' London Student Union leader arrested after demonstration against the closure of their union. [audio: 201311151700] download
Second hour: Prince Charles and David Cameron attend Controversial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting hosted by genocidal Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa. Sri Lanka born, London based Tamil Ram Selva talks about the history since Ceylon's dominion status in 1948 and the independent republic of Sri Lanka in 1972. Tory Donor Lycamobile's Links To Sri Lankan President Rajapaska's Family Sparks Outrage. Former Northern Ireland RUC policemen used to train Sri Lankan police and army in torture techniques. Ram Selva discusses the history of the troubles in Sri Lanka, the Tamils and tens of thousands of 'disappeared' people. Are Charles and Cameron just fixing business deals and ignoring the genocidal regime? Clip from Victoria Derbyshire's 5 Live show, of interview with Gareth Pierce, lawyer for Mohammed Ahmed Mohammed, supposed terrorist. He claims he is innocent and was tortured in Somalia by the British. His Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures (TPim) and Control Orders are discussed. The real question about the terror suspect who fled in a burqa: did MI5 bring him here illegally? BCfm presenter and former infantryman in the British Army Cyrus the Virus discusses his violent initiation, a mock execution for which he still has the scars. As not discussed on mainstream TV. Gareth Williams, 'Spy in a Bag', and 10 reasons why his case is suspicious, from the Mirror. Police deny obvious murder of MI6 GCHQ staffer Gareth Williams, crime scene wiped clean, a professional hit Cyrus suggests, almost certainly carried out by an intelligence service. [audio: 201311151800] download
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First hour: Bristol City Council LibDem Deputy leader Christian Martin Link to Christian's film 'Cal' councillor for Clifton East. Christian discusses his films he has made Cal and Shank; Universal Credit and more mess ups £150m Universal Credit money written off this week by Iain Duncan-Smith which would employ 10,000 people for a year! Blaming wasted money on his secretary, should he lose his job? 5 disabled people win appeal to stop Independent Living fund being abolished - government breaking the law; 600.000 on JobSeeker's allowance sanctioned - 2000 NHS workers lose jobs and are rehired - wasting time and money; Bristol Rovers football stadium - judicial review and Sainsbury's to be built in deal; clips of GCHQ, MI5, and MI6 grilled at Intelligence and Security Committee and Andrew Parker, DG of MI5 - NATO terrorism – MI6 lead agency in creating Al Qaeda in Operation Cyclone [see feature film Charlie Wilson's War] & Italian chief judge Ferdinando Imposimato blames intelligence services for domestic terrorist campaign in Italy; Marina Morris's voxpop about Snowden leaks and our intelligence services, do people mind GCHQ listening to their phone calls and how do people avoid surveillance (changing phone numbers). [audio: 201311081700] download
Second hour: Avon & Somerset Police Federation's Kevin Phillips on 'Direct Entry', Custody suite privatisation police cuts and Plebgate. Kevin Phillips, chairman of Avon and Somerset Police Federation discusses Direct Entry - when someone without police experience gets a top police job. Also the privatising of probation, cuts, and Plebgate discussed. Mendips fracking update Mike Birkin from SW Friends of the Earth with Steve Dales from Hull on the Oxypod. Mike Birkin, from South West Friends of the Earth, discusses fracking, Hinckley, alternative energies, and up-coming events. Steve Dales, discusses the Oxypod, a pod like device you can attach to your water pipes that can decrease your heating bills by up to 30%. Sir John Sawers, the chief of MI6, Andrew Parker, the director general of MI5, and Sir Iain Lobban, the director of GCHQ in front of Sir Malcolm Rifkind and the Intelligence and Security Committee. Andrew 'Nosy' Parker, DG of MI5, and David Ormand, DG of GCHQ discussing how Edward Snowden's leaks have threatened national security. Psychological Warfare: Mainstream media PsyWar. Strategic Communications is killing journalism with Tim Burt and Sven Hughes, former British Army Psychological Warfare Officer, from documentary 'Big Boys Gone Bananas' film [trailer]. [audio: 201311081800] download
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First hour: news review with Conservative councillor for Horfield Claire Hiscott. Economics update on more fraud in the City of London, this time in foreign exchange markets, and George Osborne's 'decision' not to split RBS. UNITE the Union and their protest against employers Ineos at Grangemouth refinery which was threatened with closure – intimidation or legitimate tactics?; Labour leader Ed Miliband questions why energy retail prices are going up around 10% while wholesale prices have hardly risen; claims Prime Minister David Cameron is a PR man for the energy companies, energy policy; should the Coalition be privatising the probation service? Government's £1bn 'Youth Contract' branded a failure by government's own advisers, Marina Morris's voxpop, a health check on British democracy; who are the 'permanent government'? the security services. City of London and Wall St; former News of the World editors Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and the phone hacking trial but are they just the fall guys and girls for Rupert Murdoch? News of the World reporter Sean Hoare, who died last year after 'telling all' to the New York Times, would have been a key witness in the case, dead men tell no tales; Jimmy Savile's driver David Smith, 67, mysteriously dies the day he was due to appear in court and give evidence against paedophile protecting BBC staff and police officers. [audio: 201311011700] download
Second hour: Round up of international news stories with Martin Summers: Newport's annual Chartist convention; Cameron's attack against the Guardian for Snowden leaks; Lauri Love arrested for allegedly hacking NASA, the Pentagon and US army computers; Kevin Cahill exposes secret US FISA court orders for US corporations Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft, to illegally steal UK data for NSA; illegal drone attacks; the secret services fomenting terrorism – Ferdinando Imposimato. US Secretary of State John Kerry's 'Brotherhood of Death' Skull and Bones secret society: Why are the mainstream press peddling paranoid scare stories about peace loving nations like Iran and Syria when our 'big guns' nuclear 'ally', US Secretary of State John Kerry, is a member of and UK born Professor Antony Sutton is an expert on the 'Brotherhood of Death', Skull and Bones society at Yale University? Thousands of US leaders and businessmen are initiates of this society whose catch phrase is 'Might is Right'. A clip of Sarah Gildea from her film The History of the World Economy, discussing how our immoral banking system specifically goes against the 10 commandments. A clip of Iran's Press TV - banned by Ofcom, drone cases come into the courts in Pakistan - Lawyer Mirza Shazad Akbar discusses illegal drone strikes ordered by the as yet unnamed CIA station chief in Pakistan and how these are war crimes in several ways. [audio: 201311011800] download
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First hour: Is Bristol still a feudal city? What has the former Lord Mayor learned about who really owns and runs the city? Bristol's elite networking groups include: The Bristol Savages; The Guild of Guardians; The St. Stephen's Ringers; The Merchant Venturers; The Dolphin Society; The Anchor Society; News review with Labour Councillor for Bedminster & former Lord Mayor Colin Smith. His time as Lord Mayor, and who's really in charge of Bristol; 0.8 % growth in the economy - are our worries over?; energy prices; Welsh Water not for profit company; cost of living crisis and what's Cameron going to do about it - citizens income; co-op bank bought up by a hedge fund - North Dakota banking discussed; Plebgate - is it about cutting the police, Police Federation were clearly lying but have still not apologised to former Tory Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell; was US investigative journalist Michael Hastings murdered by Mercedes car hackers? Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)'s Kathleen Fisher on shocking car software vulnerabilities, viruses from service centres, even CDs and the hacking of cars; Derek Pickup, Bristol Labour councillor has resigned and complained selection process for Labour councillors is unfair and run by an undemocratic , cabal like, panel. [audio: 201310251700] download
Second hour: the great land rights debate - Is Britain still a Feudal country? With author of Who Owns Britain, Kevin Cahill and editor of The Land, Simon Fairlie. Discussion on land with Kevin Cahill, author of 'Who owns the world' and Simon Fairlie, producer of The Land magazine. Is Britain still feudal? discussed. The Queen owns a sixth of the planet and all the land in this country. As homeowners do we have more influence than we realise? Farming also discussed - self sufficiency, small farms, mega farms and town and country planning. Marina Morris's voxpop on housing. Also rent seeking and land value taxation. Land reform: The Diggers, The Chartists, The Crofters, The Irish Land League and today's criminalized squatters have been spoiling for a fight about the iniquity of eviction, landlessness and destitution for hundreds of years. Britain has a land-mass of around 65 million acres and around 65 million people, that's roughly a football pitch per person, or around three acres for the average family. Britain was a free gift to its people, just as the Earth was to mankind. Back in medieval England most land was farmed collectively, few actually owned it but did have the right to a cottage, to stay, and to pass those rights down the generations. But the landowners' parliament instituted 17th- and 18th-century land privatization, enclosure, evicting hundreds of thousands. A vast factory workforce of destitute landless citizens was created, ripe for the dark satanic mills of England's industrial revolution. Across the Irish Sea one million died between 1847 and 1851 in the Irish Famines and a further million were forced to emigrate. So in the late 1800s, with fire in their bellies, the Irish led the way in taking back the land, setting a precedent for today' solution. Exploiting the balance of power in London, four laws were forced through delivering interest-free government loans. Penniless Irish tenants could now buy land and build new homes, repayments being far less than those crippling rents. It was one of history's most successful land reform programs to date. Figures are hard to come by today but 40,000 'land millionaires', 0.05 percent of the population, now own around half of Britain, most of which they have never set foot on. A further 30 percent is owned by 1 percent of the population, and the remaining 20 percent is owned by banks, corporations and other institutions. Though many have 'bought their own home', actually the bank owns it until they pay off their mortgage. This leaves around 50 percent of the population, or 30 million people, effectively landless, either with a big mortgage, renting or homeless. Britain today too carries the shame of roughly 200,000 homeless people, either overcrowded, sleeping on friends' floors or sofas, squatting or sleeping on the streets. A Short History of Enclosure in Britain: Over the course of a few hundred years, much of Britain's land has been privatized — that is to say taken out of some form of collective ownership and management and handed over to individuals. Currently, in our "property-owning democracy", nearly half the country is owned by 40,000 land millionaires, or 0.06 per cent of the population,1 while most of the rest of us spend half our working lives paying off the debt on a patch of land barely large enough to accommodate a dwelling and a washing line. The great property swindle: The myth spun about Britain is that land is scarce. It is not -- landowners are paid to keep it off the market. Modern British history, excluding world wars and the loss of empire, is a record of two countervailing changes, one partly understood, one not understood at all. The partly understood change is the urbanisation of society to the point where 90 per cent of us in the United Kingdom live in urban areas. Hidden inside that transformation is the shift from a society in which, less than a century and a half ago, all land was owned by 4.5 per cent of the population and the rest owned nothing at all. Now, 70 per cent of the population has a stake in land, and collectively owns most of the 5 per cent of the UK that is urban. But this is a mere three million out of 60 million acres. Through this transformation, the heirs to the disenfranchised of the Victorian era have inverted the relationship between the landed and the landless. This has happened even while huge changes have occurred in the 42 million acres of rural countryside. These account for 70 per cent of the home islands and are the agricultural plot. From being virtually the sole payers of such tax as was levied in 1873 (at fourpence in the 240p pound), the owners of Britain's agricultural plot are now the beneficiaries of an annual subsidy that may run as high as £23,000 each, totalling between £3.5bn and £5bn a year. Urban dwellers, on the other hand, pay about £35bn in land-related taxes. Rural landowners receive a handout of roughly £83 per acre, while urban dwellers pay about £18,000 for each acre they hold, an average of £1,800 per dwelling, the average dwelling standing on one-tenth of an acre. [audio: 201310251800] download
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First hour: news review with National Union of Teachers'
(NUT) SW representative and Clevedon Chemistry teacher Anne Lemon. The
recent strike on pay, pensions and conditions discussed. Further issues
covered to do with education - Free Schools, the privatising of Academy Schools
which are now being run as chains such as Harris Carpets, McDonald's running
US schools, teachers only lasting five years in the system due to masses
of paperwork and low morale. Marina Morris's voxpop on schools, teaching
& education. Martin Summers discusses the macroeconomics of the cuts
explaining why they are counter-productive. Energy price fixing - price of
living crisis - nationalising energy; Stephen Hepburn MP: "Tories a political
front for the Hedge Funds and the City"; food bank usage trebling; ambulance
waiting times too long. [audio: 201310181700]
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Second hour: David Powell from South West Friends of the Earth on
the energy price inflation. An explanation of energy cartels, fossil
fuels, green energy, Germans generating their own energy with solar, wind
etc., insulation, nuclear power contracts renewed despite failings and new
ways to stop fracking by claiming mineral rights under one's property like
Mohammed Al Fayed did in 2010. BMW, which is
highly
secretive and built on Nazi money give Angela Merkel's Christian Democrat
party
700k euros, Germans promise David Cameron that they will
drop their opposition to his protecting high bankers' bonuses and the EU
emission regulations are dropped. Round up of international news
stories with Martin Summers: We hear from David Cameron at PMQs on The
Guardian being a 'threat to national security' Edward Snowden himself on
GCHQ & NSA programmes - Cameron wants the Guardian investigated - and
Liam Fox on security in PMQ; former Labour defence minister Nick Brown
says 'snoopers charter' an attempt to legalise GCHQ criminality– former
GCHQ director Sir Francis Richards says Sir Malcolm Rifkind not the right
man for top job at Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC); former cabinet
minister Chris Huhne says government not told about Tempora or Prism spying
programs. Investigative reports into the probable assassination in a Mercedes
car crash of award winning US
journalist Michael Hastings who was investigating CIA Director
John Brennan's role in press crackdown before his death. Was his Mercedes
hacked? David Mowat on
Abolish Empty Office
Blocks (AEOB) meeting this Thursday evening at 6:30pm in St. Stephen's
Church in Bristol City Centre. [audio: 201310181800]
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First hour: News review with Tess Green, Green Party
councillor for Southville. Green Party vision for Bristol discussed –
how to break the domination of cars and supermarkets; Ed Miliband has good
press; Royal Mail flogged off cheap as shares rocket so government undersold
it by roughly £1.2bn, or £100 per UK family. More privatisation
so our votes mean less and rich individuals and businesses run the country;
compensation and apology from construction companies who blacklisted staff
and how police gave information to these companies; Compensation for ruined
careers could be enormous. Keir, formerly May Gurney who went bust, have
a contract with Bristol City Council but despite full council passing Tess
Green's motion saying no council contracts would be awarded to blacklisting
firms this contract will continue. Ed Miliband in PMQs on cost of living
and energy prices – poor paying the price for mistakes of the rich;
the Red Cross have begun distributing food aid for the first time since 2nd
World War; Citizens Income in Switzerland and Cyprus; long term
job seekers up; Marina Morris's voxpop on the financial crisis; reshuffle
puts TV presenters in government; First Great Western's franchise is
renewed again with no competition; UK Uncut marched this week to oppose ConDem
Coalition government's Legal Aid cuts. [audio: 201310111700]
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Second hour: Interview with Mark Leftly from the Independant
Newspaper. Part privatisation of weapons procurement at MOD Filton
Abbey Wood discussed. Details of mainly US companies interested in
the contracts and how the US government apparently thinks it a crazy unworkable
idea, mainly due to security issues. Daphne Havercroft, from
SWWHAG, discusses how privatisation of the NHS is progressing. Pathology
in Bristol is being merged and problems with this. Also homes being
built on the Frenchay site and PFIs. Round up of international
news stories with Martin Summers: Andrew Parker, head of MI5, complains
of security issues over Snowdens' revelations,
his new four door Maserati is allegedly spotted in
Kilmersdown in Somerset; clip of David Ormand, former head of GCHQ; security
services false flags; Phillip Hammond, Defence Secretary, says Britain
is war weary unless there is another 9/11; Mercedes Benz , driverless technology,
and mysterious car crashes. Clip from Tom Valentines Radio Free America
show of former USMC and CIA Operation Pegasus soldier Trenton Parker discussing
Martin Bormann and the Nazi Gold being hidden in Spain. [audio: 201310111800]
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First hour: News review with Mark Wright, Lib Dem councillor for Cabot. Cameron's speech, Osborne's speech and critique of their ability to control borrowing; the shutdown of large parts of the US government; UK defence cuts and two former Royal Fusiliers interrupt defence Secretary Philip Hammond's speech at the Tory party conference; Daily Mail attacks Labour leader Ed Miliband's father for 'hating Britain' and calling him 'evil'; 50-60,000 people attend last Sunday's NHS march and rally in Manchester, not covered by BBC so we hear a clip of UNITE General Secretary Len McClusky's speech; Glenn Greenwald explains why the Edward Snowden revelations are no threat to national security – Mark Wright believes people should be more angry about GCHQ and NSA revelations and the intrusion into our privacy they represent; Newcastle Labour councillor David Stockdale in charge of closing the city's libraries is investigated for failing to declare his Freemason membership; Legal Aid cuts hit Michael Mansfield's practice "now only the rich have access to justice". Michael Mansfield: 'Nowadays there’s one rule for the rich, and another for the poor' He has represented everyone from the Lawrence family to the Hillsborough victims. But cuts to legal aid mean he can now only exist as a ‘virtual lawyer’. [audio: 201310041700] download
Second hour: Avon & Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Sue Mountstevens @AandSPCC, how is she spending her £280m annual budget? New £16m Black Rock firing range burned down, police investigate a claim on Bristol Indymedia it was done by anarchists but was it agents provocateurs? Decriminalisation of drugs. 63 year old blind man Colin Farmer who was Tasered then hospitalised for several months. Eighth person, Jordan Begley from Manchester, to be killed by a police Taser in July 2013. The horrors of the 50,000 volt taser. The privatisation of the police, and Marina Morris's voxpop on policing and privatisation. Joanne Baker from Child Victims of War on Afghanistan, former Afghan MP who's been sold out by NATO Malali Joya and how women are affected by increasing violence and oppression in the last 12 years of war. Martin Summers discusses Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's view of Iranian presidents old and new: ''a wolf in wolf's clothing followed by a wolf in sheep's clothing'; Gambia has decided to leave the Commonwealth in protest because Britain is still a colonial nation. [audio: 201310041800] download
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First hour: News review with Ron Stone, Labour Councillor for St. George West. Mayor George Ferguson jets off around the world but is he really getting investment for Bristol? Is Matt Payne from KPMG still 'helping George with the City budget' and did the City get real 'Value For Money' when they bought KPMG's Bristol HQ? Or is Matt Payne simply a corporate spy inside City Hall with his KPMG finger in the till? Labour leader Ed Miliband pledges 20 month energy price freeze if elected - energy cartels discussed; Vox Pop by Marina Morris on the bedroom tax, Bristolians are passionate that it is a cruel and immoral tax- members of Bristol's Bedroom Tax Working Party who recommended that evictions should begin from Council Homes: Gus Hoyt (Grn), Tess Green (Grn), Colin Smith (Lab), Peter Main (LibDem), Gary Hopkins (LibDem), Claire Hiscott (Con) named; George Ferguson says Council should evict "people judged to have too many bedrooms" Bechtel: Exclusive: Conflict row as MoD top brass join contractors: Ex-mandarin now in charge of US giant's bid to manage his former department. Private sector 'will hold MoD to ransom': PCS union warns MPs over proposal to outsource defence procurement. Domestic Extremism or Intelligence Manipulation? Criminal damage and sabotage by apparently Bristol based UK Informal Anarchist Federation (IAF) setting £16m police firing range on fire – other supposed anarchist attacks – are some of these false flag? Martin speaks to Bristol anarchists at the Hydra bookshop. Destruction of railway signalling by IAF potentially endangers innocent members of the public, an attack on public safety. Much of Italy's far left in 1970s and 1980s was manipulated by NATO and the state. Book: Puppetmasters: The Political Use of Terrorism in Italy by Philip Willan. 'We want to start a civil war'. Are IAF line managers actually intelligence officers? 70% of the public opposed to the privatisation of the Royal Mail. [audio: 201309271700] download
Second hour: Round up of international news stories with Martin Summers. Nairobi Westgate terror attack and is the 'White Widow' a 'Red Herring'?; Syria and Chapter 7 at the United Nations Security Council. British MoD says more use of contractors and drones will make it easier to 'sell' wars to the public. 9/11 The New Evidence author & www.Reinvestigate911.org Ian Henshall on latest revelations about the 2001 9/11 attacks; revelation an anti-hijack exercise was running on 9/11. Fallout from the Jimmy Savile scandal and the Interview with Sarah Goodley and the child abuse support network based near Mablethorpe in Lincolnshire. www.Birth4Life.co.uk – or ravensarahgoodley@btinternet.com email Sarah here. Arbeit Macht Frei, that's Nazi language for Work Makes You Free - now where have we heard that before? So say the Tory party as they prepare to force the jobless to work for nothing. More this week on the dirty deals done with the Nazis at the end of World War Two. Specifically Churchill's personal assistant - MI6 liaison and all round man of Mystery Desmond Morton.Former chief historian at the Foreign Office Gill Bennett, author of 'Desmond Morton, Churchill’s Man of Mystery' discusses Morton's job on the Tripartite Nazi Gold Commission after World War Two. Was he there to cover up his own operation with Martin Bormann to steal the Nazis looted wealth of WW2? 1991 clip of former Labour leader John Smith in the House of Commons on Tory claims that Labour were 'exaggerating' when accusing the them of planning to put up VAT. [audio: 201309271800] download
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straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
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First hour: news review with Councillor for Hengrove and deputy leader of the Conservative group on Bristol City Council Mark Weston. Role in Bristol Conservatives of media shy party whip, Royal Coutts & Co banker John Goulandris. Why did Conservatives vote for blacklisting at last week's full council meeting? They say there is no evidence that local rubbish collection firm Keir have used blacklists but UNISON have provided evidence in relation to health and safety reps being sacked from Keir's Crossrail project. 19th December Transport Scrutiny Committee will look thoroughly at strategic public transport for Bristol. Chancellor George Osborne's 'we are turning the corner' speech on the economy. Financial system is not fit for purpose but nobody wants to face up to this. Mark McGowan Chunky Mark The Artist Taxi Driver discusses immigration with Labour MP John McDonnell. The brain drain and should we have free immigration. Former Anti-Money laundering Compliance Officer Everett Stern, HSBC Whistleblower on systematic and continuing money laundering of hundreds of millions of dollars at HSBC talks to We Are Change New York at the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. Avon & Somerset Chair of the National Association of Probation Officers (NAPO) Ceris Handley, on proposals to privatise the probation service. Royal Mail privatisation Regional Secretary of the Communication Workers' Union (CWU) Kevin Beazer. Defining moment in 350 years of Royal Mail postal service. 70% of the public against privatisation: 2012-13 Royal Mail made £404m profit so why not keep it public. Universal Service under threat and CWU announce today they are balloting their members over pay and conditions. [audio: 201309201700] download
Second hour: Multiple bomb attacks in Iraq, Iranian Press TV are reporting former senior Iraqi security officials who believe the Saudi Arabian monarchy are arming and supporting terrorism in Iraq. 58 dead and 120 wounded last Sunday in Hillah near Baghdad. Total Iraqi dead in 2013 so far 4,000 and 10,000 wounded. Syrian helicopter shot down on the Turkish border but the helicopter came down in Syria. After the Egyptian coup the army conducts mass arrests of democratically elected Muslim Brotherhood leaders. Iranian born Bristolian Mehrnaz Shahabi gives us her perspective on the recent Syrian Chemical Weapons WMD attack and other Middle East conflicts. John Kerry's position on Syrian Chemical Weapons attack. Mehrnaz responds with litany of west supplying chemical weapons to Saddam and other regimes in the Middle East. Use of illegal chemical weapons phosphorous bombs and Depleted Uranium. Israelis hold nuclear weapons. Clear signal sent out around the world by British Parliament voting against a missile strike on Syria. Regime change: no independent thought outside Israel and the US allowed. Turning Syria and Iran into client regimes. Washington Navy Yard killing spree this week by former naval reserve serviceman, appears to be an attack on the US Naval Command Centre which has been preparing for missile strikes on Syria. Attack took place within top Washington security zone. Lt. Colonel Edward Loden murdered earlier this month near Nairobi, Kenya was the Officer Commanding 1 Para that shot unarmed civilians in Northern Ireland on Bloody Sunday. Interview with Stephen Knight about his book Jack The Ripper, The Final Solution, published in the 1980s. He examines Masonic ritual and mythical murders and royal connections to the murders which were to poison then kill prostitutes who were blackmailing the royal family over indiscretions of a young Edward VII. [audio: 201309201800] download
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For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page
First hour: news review with LibDem Councillor for Redland, Fi Hance. Full Council Meetings; arguments about the Bedroom Tax on Tuesday - an unworkable policy; poll this week shows 60% people unsure of Ed Miliband; Nick Clegg's ratings also low; UK unemployment down – but how accurate are the figures? George Osborne's claim this week that he has saved the economy; Royal Mail to be privatised and floated on the stock market – yet another thieving from the public purse disaster - but not the pension liabilities; foetus aborted because it was a female but Crown Prosecution Service says there will be no prosecutions; BBC presenter David Attenborough says the world's population is too big and parents should have no more than two children, but he is one of three siblings. Nigel Evans, Deputy Speaker and MP, is charged with seven counts of rape; mentally ill people are being held in police cells; 50,000 volt stun gun taser use by the police was doubled in two years; families now being fined by schools for taking holidays within term time; Bristol Pound to be accepted as legal tender on Bristol buses. [audio: 201309131700] download
Second hour: Round up of international stories with Martin Summers. Syria latest: Russian plan for Syria to give up chemical weapons seems to be successful but will Israel give up nuclear weapons? Was Sarin used in the WMD attack of 21st August or was it chlorine gas and were the children captured by the rebels and their parents killed beforehand? At last week's PMQs Sir Peter Tapsell asks what NATO will do if the US illegally strikes Syria and Russia legally comes to its aid? Charlie Rose interviews President Assad and we have a clip where he explains how difficult it is to keep Syria a secular country and how intolerant the religious extremists are. He thinks religion is being used for ruthless people to gather followers. Bob Russell MP at PMQs says Israel settlers are evicting 40,000 Bedouin. Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers announces there is to be no public enquiry for the 1997 'Real IRA' Omagh bomb disaster; Forbes Magazine, Digital Carjackers Show Off New Attacks. Explaining how to check your car Unintended Acceleration--The Truth with Car Mechanic Scotty Kilmer Japanese nuclear operator TEPCO insist they still do not have control of the stricken plant, radiation leakage from Fukushima. Was the disaster worsened by Stuxnet, a computer worm discovered in June 2010, created by the United States and Israel to attack Iran's nuclear facilities? Origins of Friday 13th superstitions - from the French king Philip IV's arrests of the Knights Templar on Friday 13th October 1307 to burning at the stake of Grand Master Jaque De Molay in Paris on 18 March 1314. Was the French Revolution the Templars' revenge on the aristocracy? Did Secret Societies later plan three world wars to devastate humanity in an attempt to take over the world? Albert Pike (Scottish Rite)'s letter to Giuseppe Mazzini (Grand Orient). Who were these two high ranking Freemasons? Nuremberg Nazi Rally site in Germany will be refurbished at a cost of £60 million. Jonathan Meades describes the Nazi ideology, extract from his BBC Documentary about Nazi Architecture 'Jerry Building' (1993) [audio: 201309131800] download
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First hour: News review with LibDem councillor for Hengrove, Sylvia Doubell. Stories covered: how planning is dealt with in the council; Ed Milliband faces £1m hole as unions cut labour funds; Nick Gargan, Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset Police, says officers with criminal charges will be identified; Unions strike in defiance of the Lobbying Bill - favours those with money; Bristol's 'Working Party' (an all party group set up by the mayor), says the councils bedroom tax policy not sustainable; will Labour repeal the bedroom tax?; national debt goes up 7.5% in a year - what are the cuts for?; real wages are going down; a former Desert Rat left lying on floor of flat for two days as daily checks on him cut; Universal Credit shambles. [audio: 201309061700] download
Second hour: Interview with Kevin Hepworth, Remploy Lead Officer at UNITE the Union. Thousands of disabled workers sacked by ConDem Coalition Government across UK at Remploy - costing not saving taxpayers' money. Heartbreaking interview about bullying of disabled people by ConDem Coalition government - again for twisted ideological reasons, not financial. Also crooked financial services firm KPMG crops up again having prepared the 'business case' to close Remploy. Discussion on Syria at the G20 summit in St. Petersburg in Russia with Martin Summers: will US attack Syria over alleged chemical weapons attack? Clips of John Kerry and Putin. Clip of Ken O'Keefe, former US marine, on political deception used for US and financial elites to gain totalitarian political control of vast areas of the planet. Clips from 2008 BBC Radio 4 'Document' programme: Nazis in Argentina, produced/presented by Mike Thompson about Hitler's secretary Martin Bormann creating a 'Fourth Reich' in South America. Escape routes given to Nazi war criminals, so-called Black Monks, by the founder of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Albert Plesman. [audio: 201309061800] download
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First hour: news review with Labour Councillor for Southmead Jenny Smith. saving Charlton Common, in between Filton and Southmead, Bristol; the 'Bedroom Tax' is causing misery and forcing housing benefit up; child poverty is going up, and macro-economics related to this, sack present bank directors, new managers for Britain's banks; Syria, Britain's decision not to attack, and who was behind the chemical attack? The Somerset badger cull and the police shooting ranged being torched by anarchists or possibly agents-provocateurs? [audio: 201308301700] download
Second hour: Fracking in the Mendips; Round up of international news with Martin Summers. More in-depth discussion on Syria – will the US now attack or not? Israel selling the oil concessions on Syria's Golan Heights and rights to (Rupert Murdoch and Jacob Rothschild's) Genie Energy, which is on occupied Syrian land; this is illegal under international law; the Bahrain Independence Meeting as covered on Press TV but banned in Britain. Mike Birkin, from South West Friends of the Earth, discusses Fracking in the Mendips, the problems with it, including radioactive waste, and extra tax breaks given to these companies by George Osborne in 19 secret meetings. Pippa King discusses civil liberties around fingerprinting, palmprinting, iris scans, biometrics and RFID tracking methods of schoolchildren. Pippa King on NATO 433Mhz RFID and Biometrics in schools without parents knowledge, by stealth. [audio: 201308301800] download
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First hour: news review with Councillor for Westbury-On-Trym and Deputy Mayor of Bristol Geoff Gollop. Geoff's recent visit to Cuba and Geoff explores the pros and cons of life under communist Fidel Castro. After Libor, Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) fraud and Interest Rate Swap fraud this week we have 'mis-sold' fraudulent credit card insurance (CPP), more fraud from the banks; July 2013 figures out and deficit is going up, even with all the cuts, and an in-depth clear discussion on how this has impacted the bottom line, the national debt approaches £1.2tn and how all this impacts the real rather than the casino economy; Soldier 'N's letter at former soldier Danny Nightingale's court Marshal claiming the SAS were involved in the assassination of Princess Diana in 1997. Danny Nightingale was keeping a firearm and ammunition but has has his former housemate 'Soldier N' simply lost the plot? Petition launched, aimed at Bristol Mayor George Ferguson, to close all strip clubs and lapdancing clubs in Bristol; Guardian: NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ. Secret payments revealed in leaks by Edward Snowden. GCHQ expected to 'pull its weight' for Americans. Weaker regulation of British spies 'a selling point' for NSA. Investigative journalist Duncan Campbell on his prosecution by the secret state and GCHQ in the 1980s and his BBC Zircon film which showed GCHQ had been hiding expenditure from parliament. He suggests too that Michael Miranda's arrest under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act was nothing whatever to do with terrorism, that GCHQ are afraid of public and parliamentary scrutiny, they might be caught out bluffing and deceiving parliament that they needed £1bn of public money when they didn't at all, so is history repeating itself? [audio: 201308231700] download
Second hour: Former SAS soldier from UK Veterans For Peace Ben Griffin has just returned with former Royal Navy medic Mike Lyons from a speaking tour of the United States. After an MoD injunction in 2008 Ben is not allowed to speak about any of his experiences while in the British Army but you can watch or read his pre-injunction speech to Stop The War here. They also attended the national convention of their sister Veterans For Peace organisation in the US. Ben and Tony discuss former SAS soldier Danny Nightingale, now having his second court martial for illegal posession of ammunition and a firearm, who says he did a tour of duty in Syria but Britain has not declared war on Syria or vice-versa and is not allowed to have troops there... Round up of international stories with Martin Summers: William Hague Is "Going To Nuremberg" If He Attacks Syria: This week's apparent chemical weapons (sarin?) attack on the outskirts of Damascus in Syria – who did this? UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has been a member of Conservative Friends of Israel since he was 15 years of age. In an interview with the French TV station LCP, former French minister for Foreign Affairs Roland Dumas said: ’ I’m going to tell you something. I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business. I met with top British officials, who confessed to me that they were preparing something in Syria. This was in Britain not in America. Britain was organizing an invasion of rebels into Syria. They even asked me, although I was no longer minister for foreign affairs, if I would like to participate". Press TV banned in Britain, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) appear to have simply told YouTube to disable Press TV's YouTube account and they have done it! Former dictator Mubarak freed in Egypt; protests against drone strikes in Yemen; clip of former US intelligence linguist Scott Ricard on 'banned in Britain' Iranian channel Press TV about Israel attacking Syria being multiple unprovoked war crimes; clip of Oliver Stone's son Sean Stone on Russia Today. Richest 1000 in Britain have each made an average of £35m out of 'financial crisis' in the last year. Remploy sacking and Bedroom Tax ConDem Coalition vindictive financial mismanagement: George Millman from 'Bristol Against the Bedroom Tax' promoting a protest on Saturday 24th August on College Green. A petition is also being collected against this tax, go to this website to sign: http://epetition.bristol.public-i.tv/epetition_core/view/NoBedroomTax This unfair tax is discussed and how it's not even going to save the government any money. A clip of Mark Steel talking at The Peoples Assembly Against Austerity at London's Westminster Hall... Who's got all the money? It's the poor! Let's get the poor to pay off the debt caused by the bankers! [audio: 201308231800] download
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After six:
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First hour: Bristol City Council cabinet member for Education, Children and Young People, Labour Councillor for Southmead, Brenda Massey. Ofsted inspection of Bristol schools, cuts in youth service and expansion of Bristol Cathedral School. Cyprus president announces 'Citizen's Income', which is UK Green Party policy, following economic disaster. Lib Dems and Tories hand back Fishponds' former nurse Joan Edwards' £520,000 bequest after outcry: Coalition parties return donation that was bequeathed by Joan Edwards to 'whichever government is in office' Prince Charles faces scrutiny by MPs over veto on laws: Parliament to examine heir to the throne's little-known veto over any laws that affect his private interests. House prices picking up – but beware the north-south divide: Government hails rise as signal of economic recovery but critics fear a new property bubble. Rail users face price hike of £200 a year in move branded 'bad for the economy', Fares will rise by an average of 4.1 per cent in January, Increase is higher than pay rise majority of workers can expect, Cost of annual season tickets has risen more than 50 per cent in decade. Wages in the UK have seen one of the largest falls in the European Union during the economic downturn, according to official figures. UK wages decline among worst in Europe. Gas and electricity bills could rise by £140 before winter (despite energy companies making £3.3bn profits since last election). Price comparison website warns price hike could be on the way, Households warned bills could increase by up to 10 per cent before winter, Britain's big six energy companies seen £3.3bn profits since last election. Gregory Lauder-Frost exposed: The Tory fringe group leader with Nazi sympathies , Right-wing views and criminal past revealed of vice-president of the Traditional Britain Group. Crowds on Demand: Rebels with a cause – if the price is right . The somewhat dubious organisation that will provide you with protesters to passionately promote your cause [audio: 201308161700] download
Second hour: Over 650 dead and 4,500 injured as army opens fire on peaceful Muslim Brotherhood camps in Egypt's Raafa massacre. Frank Wisner Jr., son of CIA/OSS officer who ran 'Operation Paperclip', helping SS Nazis to escape justice in 1945 at the end of World War Two. PRI's The World host Marco Werman talks with former US Ambassador to Egypt, Frank Wisner, about his view of the events, and how the United States should respond. Depleted Uranium expert and author of 'Uranium in Iraq: The Poisonous Legacy of the Iraq Wars' Joanne Baker explains World Health Organisation [link to WHO petition] is suppressing its own report into birth defects caused by UK & US radioactive ordnance, link to Child Victims Of War website. £8m of non lethal aid goes to Syrian Rebels but the real figure is much higher, CIA 'running arms smuggling team in Benghazi when consulate was attacked': The CIA has been subjecting operatives to monthly polygraph tests in an attempt to suppress details of a reported US arms smuggling operation in Benghazi that was ongoing when its ambassador was killed by a mob in the city last year, according to reports. CENSORED: Syrian TV news suppressed in the UK YouTube Syrian News in English by former BBC Director General John Birt's Eutelsat. Saudi Arabia has launched an offensive against anti-regime activists arresting many and sentencing some to years in jail. Total number of political prisoners has now surpassed 40,000 according to some reports. The crackdown has even forced a member of the ruling family to defect. RT Arabic spoke exclusively to Saudi prince Khaled Bin Farhan Al-Saud - who accuses the monarchy of corruption and silencing all voices of dissent. Hunting Humans In Bahrain With Shotguns Will Stone from Avon and Bristol Law Centre on 'Zero Hours Contracts' where employers don't have any obligation to pay staff or even provide any work. Final dispatch from Temas Teani in Columbia's Red Zone: Israel's IDF is training assassins & torturers; China is buying up resources: Temas Teani reports from Columbia's Mafia run police state against the backdrop of Santos/FARC ‘peace talks’ in Cuba. Two films: 'Impunity': A film by Juan José Lozano & Hollman Morris [film's own website] and Impunity In Columbia part 1of2 - part 2of2 [audio: 201308161800] download
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First hour: weekly news review with Labour Councillor for St George East Fabian Breckles. Stories covered: History of the Socialist Fabian Society founded by George Bernard Shaw, Theosophist Annie Besant and others which has drifted to the right over the years; Tory failures have been successes for the super-rich; Barclays Bank close Somalia money transfer accounts, waging economic warfare in line with NATO's policy of destabilisation? Our new feudal overlord 'King Carnage', Mark Carneys' plan as new head of the Bank of England to keep interest rates low but he's doing nothing to solve the liquidity trap so the economy will continue to fail; Bristol City Council security staff may be given handcuffs to deal with surge of anger from poor people being treated unfairly, preparing for a growth in violence from poverty not crime; population growth in Britain largest in EU, migration and people living longer; another leap to 1 million in zero hours contracts as used by McDonalds, strikes at US fast food outlets; contaminated water at Fukishima may be frozen to prevent further leakage into the water table and the sea; Stephen Fry calls for next year's Russian winter Olympics to be boycotted due to Putin's stand on gay propaganda to children. [audio: 201308091700] download
Banned - English Language Iranian Channel Press TV were spuriously banned by UK's Ofcom in January 2012 now Google have blocked new uploads to Press TV's YouTube channel effectively censoring the channel in the UK
Second hour: Round up of international stories with Martin Summers. Ergenekon Network court case in Turkey comes to an end, hundreds of journalists and army generals jailed for planning national chaos and a coup, planting bombs and other false flag events, links to NATO's Operation Gladio; Closer look at the chaos surrounding privatisation of Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) Abbey Wood, MoD procurement offices in Filton. Revolving doors or straight out bribery? Prime Minister David Cameron's closest defence advisor Richard Freer goes to work for US firm which is bidding to take over Abbey Wood and other parts of the MoD; Serious Fraud Office (SFO) lost 32,000 pages of documents investigating BAe Systems; clip of Andrew Feinstein discussing BAe and their central role in global bribery and corruption; Saudi prince visits Moscow and offers to buy Russian weapons if Putin stops supporting Assad, Putin says no thanks; supposed surveillance of Al Qaeda 'conference call' leads to attack warning closing embassies across the Middle East and 7 or so deadly drone strikes in Yemen but is it all a psyop? Actually being a series of deadly drone strikes by the US killing innocent people; President Assad personally targeted for the first time in Syria while heading for annual Eid Mubarak prayers; banned broadcasters – clip of Gordon Duff on Press TV talking about Stuxnet and Israel using software to spy on the US. Dispatch from Columbia's Red Zone: Coffee and cocaine, Temas Teani reports from Columbia’s Mafia run police state against the backdrop of Santos/FARC 'peace talks' in Cuba. [audio: 201308091800] download
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After six:
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First hour: news review concentrating on Bristol, Kingswood and South Gloucestershire Youth Services and the NHS with Labour Councillor for Hartcliffe, Derek Pickup. Cuts to youth services in the city and the macroeconomics; NHS 111 service a 'costly disastrous reorganisation of the NHS' and Channel 4 Dispatches undercover filming at Bristol's private contractor 'Harmoni'; victory for local NHS campaigners: Jeremy Hunt, Health Secretary, has broken the law, loses court case on closing services, including A&E, at Lewisham hospital; private hospital in Stevenage, owned by Carillion, is sold back to the NHS due to incompetence; Money Advice Service survey shows over half of Britons are living over the financial edge, income does not cover outgoings; State owned bailed out bank RBS makes £1.4bn profits, and Lloyds £2.1bn but are these banking fairyland figures like back in 2007/2008? QE and fraud propping up an asset bubble; artificially inflated asset prices, Chairman of Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) Sir Ian Andrews, who refused to reveal the names of criminal blue chip companies and celebrities doing 'hacking' and 'blagging', resigns because he failed to declare his personal interest in a private investigation company; a government bee 'expert' has taken job with Syngenta who manufactures neo-nicotinides that are killing bees; the BBC discussed. [audio: 201308021700] download
Fracking in Pinedale, Wyoming, USA
Second hour: Round up of international stories with Martin Summers. Stories covered: Bradley Manning & Edward Snowden with clip of Daniel Ellsberg; the NSA, GCHQ and private security; Press TV YouTube channel banned after Ofcom banned in Britain; prison breaks in Libya and Pakistan; documents reveal £400m arms deal with Libya to let Lockerbie bomber free, a distraction from Magrahi appeal where CIA were going to be implicated; Israel strikes on Russian ships in Syria; Pentagon incredulous at MoD proposing to privatise procurement at Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) to BAe and Serco at Filton, Firms bidding to award MoD contracts already work for the department they would take over. David Powell from Friends Of The Earth discusses Fracking in at Balcombe in Sussex and on the Mendips in Somerset - Cuadrilla & big energy companies such as Centrica poisoning the countryside and us all, flying in the face of basic common sense and democracy. Oil and energy firms manipulating oil markets to get NATO zone populations dependent on oil and the taxation it brings in to the Treasury [audio: 201308021800] download
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First hour: news review, including focus on the NHS, with Conservative MP for Bristol North West Charlotte Leslie. Economics Quantitative Easing (QE) otherwise known as Printing Money, good or bad idea? Sunday Times report quoted by Michael Meacher MP says the 1000 richest Britons have increased their wealth by an average of £190m each while everyone else has taken a 6% real terms cut in disposable income. New Bank of England Governor Mark Carney who has come from the Nazi funding Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland performs a PR stunt announcing the note will have Jane Austen on but remains tight lipped on interest rates and polymer notes; Energy policy, fracking and shale gas protest yesterday in Sussex, will this soon be coming to the Mendip Hills and is it a viable form of energy? Planned Hinkley 3 nuclear power station near Bridgwater, Danny Alexander announces £10bn of guarantees for nuclear power station but we question the financial viability; Charlotte has talked of a 'Mafia like network' at the centre of the NHS. But don't all industries that are being privatised always have corrupt people to first bring them to their knees? Whistleblowers bullied and persecuted rather than listened to. An exclusive in the Independent this week: a scandal much bigger than phone hacking. Despite millions of taxpayers' money being spent on investigations the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) has failed to prosecute blue chip companies such as banks and insurance firms who hire criminal private investigators to steal personal information. SOCA has been forced to hand the confidential list to Keith Vaz at the Home Affairs Select Committee; Bristol City Council grants repeat planning permission for a car park on the Clifton Downs? Which is owned by the Merchant Ventuters; One Merchant Venturer, John Savage, is chair of the University Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust and another, Peter Rilett, is chair of the North Bristol NHS Trust and Master of the Merchant Venturers. We hear the voice of President Assad of Syria's English wife, Asma al Assad. Charlotte visited Syria in February 2011 and was she and her colleagues were controlled by the Assad government and treated like prisoners but with great hospitality. [audio: 201307261700] download
Second hour: The assassination of a secularist politician involved in drafting Tunisia's new constitution sparked anti-government protests in Tunis, the birthplace of the 2011 'Arab Spring'. German built Israeli submarines in the Mediterranean launched the missile attack on Syria. Israel will neither confirm nor deny but their unofficial declaration of war has been rumbled. Implications of breaking international law and trying to provoke Syria and/or Russia to retaliate. Hezbollah militant wing officially designated a terrorist organisation by the EU; Iraq and armed groups releasing hundreds of prisoners from Abu Ghraib prison. Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood. Is the Brotherhood still controlled by MI6 who set it up or has it 'gone native'? Has or has there not been a military coup in Egypt? Second anniversary of far-right Freemason fanatic Anders Behring Breivik's massacre in Norway where 77 people, mostly young left-wing activists died. Was he a 'lone wolf' as much of the commentary suggests? Or was he supposted by bloggers and activists round the world such as Fyordmann and Pamela Geller? Did he have support from the international far-right networks such as the English Defence League (EDL) and Jewish Defence League (JDL) through the 'Knights Templar network he helped found in London in 2002? Was Breivik both a Zionist and a Nazi? Did he have help from within the Norwegian police force and from within his masonic lodge(s) bearing in mind the P2 scandal in Italy proved a masonic lodge was carrying out a terror campaign there? The royal birth: Phenomenal success of this YouTube film over the last week where, in her own words, Princess Diana tells of her 1989 confrontation with Prince Charles' mistress, Camilla Parker-Bowles at Camilla's sister Annabel's party. Prince Charles gets paid for every penny we spend at Waitrose because he owns the distribution depot and the Queen gets paid for every penny we spend at John Lewis. How does this sit with their constitutional position which also grants them immunity from the Freedom of Information act, the ability to veto laws which damage their financial interests and tax exempt status? Shane Collins is one of the organisers of next week's Green Gathering in Chepstow and Green Party spokesperson on drug policy, we also discuss Green party energy policy, Shane suggests personal carbon quotas may be a solution to the energy crisis and invites listeners to pop over to Chepstow from Thursday or next weekend. Surprisingly insightful and entertaining North Korean propaganda documentary looks down witheringly at Western consumerism and celebrity culture including Madonna, Brad Pitt Angelina Jolie, Katie Price and Paris Hilton. [audio: 201307261800] download
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The Government has issued more than 3,000 export licences for military and
intelligence equipment worth a total of £12.3bn to countries which are
on its own official list for human rights abuses
First hour: news review with Labour Deputy Leader Ron Stone. Clifton lido is too exclusive and expensive so we have to go to Portishead, Cirencester or Street to swim in an outdoor pool, why no outdoor swimming pool in Bristol? Litany of failure of Bristol's privatised waste contractor May Gurney, who have gone bust and been bought up by health and safety cheats and blacklisters Kier Group. The Bristolian reports that local MP Jack Lopresti's brother Giovanni used to work for the Council and awarded the May Gurney contract. He has now, they say, got a job working for May Gurney and Kier Group. With the royal baby due any time now, the royal family is discussed, including a voxpop; Prince Charles criticised again, this time on three fronts, abusing his power by vetoing laws he doesn't like, stopping the release of his 'black spider' letters to government ministers under freedom of information requests and dodging taxation of his massive Duchy of Cornwall corporation which he says is not a corporation but an 'estate'. The bedroom tax is going to increase public expenditure as 8 out of 10 people evicted will have to move to more expensive private rented accommodation; Arch law-breaking lobbyist Lord Bell and Conservative MP Dr Sarah Wollaston on the power of lobbyists, Tuesday's Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis even saying "we have one of the cleanest political systems in the world" wishful thinking Emily; Lynton Crosby scandal, BBC news telling the public shale gas is extracted by injecting 'water' into the ground; KPMG 'volunteers' saving the BBC and Matt Payne at Bristol City Council money? but what is their motive? Newport Labour MP Paul Flynn in PMQ on the PMs inability to answer questions; No longer any rule of law in UK? Hacking cover up scandal as police refuse to name blue chip companies who used corrupt private investigators; weapons sales to human rights abusing regimes approved by government. Britain approving thousands of arms sales contracts to human rights abusing regimes: Blood money: UK’s £12.3bn arms sales to repressive states. Government approves thousands of deals with states it condemns for human rights abuses [audio: 201307191700] download
Second hour: Tony Crofts launches AEOB Against Empty Office Buildings, an investment to build social housing in Whitehall Road. Tony Crofts, from Action Against Empty Office Buildings (AEOB), and Ron Stone discuss the potential of turning the 60 acres of empty office space in Bristol into housing, as has already been achieved in Manchester and Birmingham. www.AEOBhousepeople.org.uk. Round up of international news stories with Martin Summers: an update on Edward Snowden and spying generally Joint Intelligence Committee boss Alex Allen was found mysteriously covered in blood in 2008, he's now overseeing the Parliamentary Code with the Intelligence and Security Committee giving GCHQ a clean bill of health, Martin is sceptical; Lord Falconer and Tony Blair key people in the 'cover up of the murder' of David Kelly by subverting normal legal procedures; former Italian president Francesco Cossiga says Mossad and CIA were responsible for the 911 attack, supported by the zionist world; historian E.P.Thompson in his book 'Writing by Candelight' discovers a 1593 diary of a remote ancestor - it recounts how people are afraid England has been invaded, but it turns out just to be a giant trick to persuade the people to turn to the government for protection. It was Nelson Mandelas' 95th birthday yesterday and his legacy is discussed with a clip of ITNs Brian Widlake interviewing him in 1961. A benefit gig to celebrate him is on Saturday 20th July at the Arc Bar, Bristol. Bristol celebrates Nelson Mandela's 95th birthday at the Arc Bar on Broad Street tomorrow from 8pm to midnight. [audio: 201307191800] download
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First hour: news review with LibDem deputy leader and film maker Christian Martin. Stories covered: Avon & Somerset police raid Christian Martin's home under a pretext fishing for evidence. The City Deal and the Local Enterprise Partnership; macro-economics; The Mirror's story 'Poor paying more tax than the rich' National Audit Office figures show that the least well off households have been coughing up 36.6% of their income to the Treasury but the wealthiest have been paying less – only 35.5%; suicidal constituent calls MP over benefit cuts; Tories funded by hedge-funds and general funding of parties; Royal Mail sell-off, Vince Cable and pension funds; private prison and security contractors G4S and Serco overcharging the taxpayer for non existent and dead prisoners as well G4S's Unlawful Killing verdict this week about the death of deportee Jimmy Mubenga; Stephen Barclay from the The Public Accounts Committee quizzes Sharon White, director of general public services, HM Treasury, Una O'Brien, permanent secretary at the Department of Health and Sir David Nicholson, chief executive of NHS England. Conflicts of interest in the privatised NHS, also failed NHS managers getting hefty pay-offs and nice jobs through the NHS Confederation. [audio: 201307121700] download
Second hour: Should we arm the Syria rebels? Tuesday evening's BBC Newsnight didn't cut the mustard without Martin, so we hold a mock 'debate' between former Foreign Secretary and chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) Sir Malcolm Rifkind and our very own Martin Summers. Microsoft giving Windows backdoors to GCHQ and NSA. Edward Snowden is running out of options as the US has been putting pressure on other countries to stop him being granted asylum or travelling to South America. Rights and wrongs of drug prohibition and links to international terrorism with Chris Bovey from NORML campaign for the decriminalisation of cannabis. Chris suggests secure communications if you don't want the NSA or GCHQ selling on your private or business information with Jitsi.org - Anti-Communist Jewish playwright Myron Fagan's 1967 talk about the US Illuminati looking at the term 'Liberal' Fagan describes those members of congress, the executive branch, and the judicial branch of that time as traitors for their role in the downfall of America's sovereignty. [audio: 201307121800] download
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First hour: review of the week's news with Bristol Mayor George Ferguson who was directed to the wrong radio station by his staff so arrived 25 minutes late. Big dip in international share prices due to political instability in Portugal. Zero hour contracts and disastrous performance by the Work Programme providers mean underemployed or unemployed have less and less rights. Government and City of London putting more and more power in the hands of employers and taking it away from employees. They don't provide enough jobs but blame the unemployed. Big dip in international share prices due to political instability in Portugal. Powerlessness and stripping rights from workers. Should the mayor reveal his diary? Marina Morris voxpop about the mayor's first eight months, has George Ferguson made a difference? Over the Severn the Gwent police chief is 'told to retire or be humiliated' by the new crime commissioner, a former police superintendent. Former chief constable of Gwent police Carmel Napier tells MPs PCC Ian Johnston ordered her to retire. George Ferguson says he spent around £45,000 on his election campaign. Mayor sits on UK Core Cities Cabinet. George says he gets access to Secretaries of State. Mayor says Bristol is getting £400 million of transport infrastructure investment through the 'City Deal'. Much for Metro Rail and Metro Bus, Portishead railway line for 2020 and beyond. Questioning the use of the mayor's volunteer budget adviser Matt Payne who is a volunteer from price fixing suspects KPMG. KPMG are being investigated both by the Competition Commission for price fixing and the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) for approving nearly £50 billion of fictional assets in the accounts of just one UK bank in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis. Some might call it accounting fraud but if nobody dares to prosecute the criminals who cares? Details of Residents' Parking Zones consultations still not announced but mayor says will be introduced in stages not just in one go. [audio: 201307051700] download
Second hour: British journalist and film-maker Laurence De Mello reports live from Buenos Aries in Argentina on the continuing hunt for Nazi war criminals. She has uncovered evidence, including personal accounts, that Hitler's deputy war criminal Martin Bormann was indeed living in Argentina in the 1950s along with Nazi doctors Josef Mengele, Carl Værnet and others. She even uncovered evidence Bormann had a daughter in 1953 but Efraim Zuroff director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre has been blocking her access to the Nazi hunting archives in an attempt to ensure US/UK Nazi connections Laurence has discovered do not inform our understanding of history. Bormann was living at the Grand Plaza Hotel in Buenos Aires throughout 1953. Iran's state broadcaster Press TV is banned in the UK by Ofcom and by several satellite operating companies such as Intelsat and Eutelsat. Isser Ali reports for Press TV where Lord Ahmed criticises the Zionist lobby and former London mayor Ken Livingston believes it is US influence behind this connected to the overthrow of the Shah in 1979. International Telecommunications Satellite Organisation (ITSO) is convening next Thursday, 11th July, to discuss the censorship. Andrew Langdon QC from Guildhall Chambers and solicitor Will Stone from Avon and Bristol Law Centre discuss this Tuesday's appearance of Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor Chris Grayling at the Justice Select Committee. He has had to do a U-turn over whether legal aid clients can chose their solicitor but is accused of sharp practice in trying to divert attention from some of the key proposed changes by proposing extreme and monstrous attention grabbing ideas he does not expect ever to happen. Will Stone explains how badly people are being hit by legal aid changes particularly now rights to advice and representation at employment tribunals has been withdrawn. Both agree we are moving under these Tory changes to a two tier justice system, one for the rich and none for the poor. Jurriaan Maessen from Dutch website Explosive Reports on the resurgence of Eugenics and the historic German Hanseatic League which he sees as a medieval precursor of the modern day European Union or EU linking these traditions also to the cult of the Teutonic Knights. [audio: 201307051800] download
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First hour: news review with Labour Councillor for Brislington East Mike Woolacott. This week I wanted to review the news with Labour's candidate for mayor of Bristol and one of the most well respected Black Minority Ethnic (BME) advocates in the city - Marvin Rees. Marvin is an employee of Bristol City Council working in health and when he asked his employer for permission to speak on this week's shocking developments in the Stephen Lawrence case, police infiltrators were smearing the Lawrence family and the key witness to this 1993 London racially motivated murder, Marvin got a reply from Bristol City Council's director of Communications Peter Holt explaining he could be in breach of contract if he spoke publicly. Now that sounds to me like a threat to sack him. So I contacted Ruth Wilmshurst at the Bristol City Council Press Office last week and on Wednesday this week she said she would email me a statement from Peter Holt on behalf of the council explaining why Labour's former Mayor candidate – who came second in last year's mayoral election – was facing the sack for speaking publicly about the Lawrence Case – and how it was considered this might impact on his ability to do his job at Bristol City council. Ruth didn't return that call nor did any statement arrive by email. Public servant Peter Holt appears to have the resources to threaten to sack Marvin Rees and explain to him why but not to explain why to the public who pay his wages. Bearing in mind police made 19 arrests to defuse a racial incident with EDL supporters threatening to march, under cover of 'Help For Heros', into Easton last month; Easter 2011's Tesco riot and 1980s street riots between police and the Black Minority Ethnic community in St Pauls. I'm inviting Bristol City Council's Director of Communications Peter Holt onto this show next week to explain his decision and how it fits in with the council's stated policy on Black minority ethnic community relations. Mike Woolacott discusses his job as a full-time trade unionist representing Communications Workers' Union CWU and the privatisation of Royal Mail; each Royal Mail employee is being 'bribed' with shares to accept the government's plan. Royal Mail Chief Executive's pay increases about 50% by £500,000 this year. Dispatches documentary 'The Police's Dirty Secret' on Monday about undercover police perpetrating malicious falsehoods and perverting the course of justice by infiltrating the Lawrence family to discredit them, discussed in the House of Commons and enquiries needed by few trust the police to investigate themselves and cover-up again; private security firm that famously failed at the 2012 London Olympics G4S publish a report about themselves and how successful privatisation of the police would be 'saving £1bn annually, this figure disputed by Avon & Somerset Chief Constable Nick Gargan; silly jokes comparing Sesame Street to Downing Street as Prime Minister David Cameron demands answers from Ed Miliband at Prime Minister's Questions; economics; HSBC in Switzerland closes drug money laundering Moroccan and Israeli Mediterranean branch; spending on the monarchy goes up again, this year by an extra £1 million, what does this say about social justice in Britain? [audio: 201306281700] download
Second hour: Middle East World War III update with Martin Summers: regional politics of Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Sir Malcolm Rifkind, chairman of the Intelligence and Security committee and overseer of our intelligence services has private interests with advisory firm to military companies LEK; other members of the committee are proven to be biased towards the intelligence services, not the public, such as Lord Butler who delivered the Butler Report on the Iraq war giving the government a much too clean bill of health; New Conservative Trade and Investment Minister is a Zionist who supports Israel's policies in the Middle East; US 'Rolling Stone' investigative journalist Michael Hastings and his suspicious death in a bizarre car crash, we speculate as to whether the electronic control system in his car was externally 'hacked'. New Bank of England governor Mark Carney is cited as former governor of the Bank of Canada, but his real job is chairing committees at the secret Bank For International Settlements in Basel Switzerland. This is 'The Central Bankers' Central Bank' where Central Bankers who control national currencies meet up every two months in secret to decide policy and share information in secret. The results of these policies have been disastrous around the world and questions are being asked about the bank which provided funds for Adolf Hitler to build weapons in the 1930s and gave Nazis valuable foreign exchange during World War Two. Journalist Adam LeBor has just published the first investigation into this secret bank and we hear his thoughts from his home in Hungary. Adam LeBor's book is entitled 'The Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank That Runs the World: The Inside Story of the Central Bankers' Secret Bank' - John Hart is an aero engineer from Filton. Six months on we find out how he and others have coped with privatised arms company BAe Systems' closure of the Filton Airfield and his hangar workplace after he has been forced to work in the village of East Garston in Berkshire, the other side of Swindon. Luke Rudowski has had enough of the dumbed-down insulting rubbish we see daily on the BBC and other mainstream media who fawn over war criminals and use multi billion pound money launderers as 'experts'. He started We Are Change in New York City to call these rich criminals to account and the name and idea has spread around the Western world. [audio: 201306281800] download
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First hour: News review with Lib Dem councillor for Knowle Gary Hopkins. Martin Summers gives an update on recent economic news. Former chairman of HSBC bank when it was laundering money for Mexican drug cartels Lord Green leaves the government as Cameron backs jailing bankers; Tuesday's full council meeting on Bristol Mayor George Ferguson's proposed residents parking scheme, attempt to explain how decision making at the council works since the introduction of the Mayor; Care Quality Commission CQC cover up report into their own failings; Data Protection Act used as an excuse; as part of a 'rescue deal' shares in the Co-op Bank are listed on the Stock Market; Prime Minister's Questions Labour MP Michael Meacher explains how the rich are getting richer, the richest 1000 people in the UK gaining an extra £170m each since the 'financial crash' in 2008; Mark Kindrick MP on how child poverty has gone up; BBC Lawyers and Station Manager Tim Pemberton fail in bid to remove clip of KPMG delivering 'Business News' on BBC Radio Bristol. [audio: 201306211700] download
Second hour: Round up of international news with Martin Summers: the G8 and Syria, and the Iranian elections. Former Fraud Squad detective, Rowan Bosworth-Davies, on this week's Parliamentary Banking Commission report. He believes the City of London IS the government because it has bought off Scotland Yard. Poor showing by Labour leader Ed Miliband who bought the lie that we need new legislation to deal with the bankers, we don't. Theft Act and Fraud Act perfectly adequate. Biggest arms manufacturers in Europe, EADS, and Britain, BAe Systems, attended Bilderberg 2013 in Watford. Prohibition of recreational drugs fuelling organised crime. Could Bristol be the first city to decriminalise cannabis? Former Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire Tom Lloyd explains why legalisation of drugs will help stamp out organised crime in the UK. [Cambridge University talk] Marina Morris's vox pop asks do you want legalisation of cannabis? [audio: 201306211800] download
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First hour: news review including Residents’ Parking update with Ashley's new Green Councillor Rob Telford. Public transport dilemmas, can local councillors really change things? Green Party vision for Bristol. PMQs David Cameron and Ed Miliband on the latest employment figures which are up but we are sceptical about that in the studio – how exactly are today's employment figures massaged? Unemployed put on to 'Working Tax Credits' even though they are not properly self-employed, Work Programme providers getting £15,ooo for every long term unemployed person removed from the figures in this way. Marina Morris: brighter pupils are being let down by our school system. Whistleblower leaks massive illegal NSA PRISM surveillance system – not much reassurance when Foreign Secretary William Hague assures us it's all legal – intelligence sharing agreements such as UK/USA - Italian Supreme Court judge Ferdinando Imposimato's evidence Bilderberg of conducting terrorist attacks in Italy. Conservative MP Liam Fox's defamation case concerning the Werritty affair which lost him his job as Defence Secretary. Fox is accused of trying to manufacture a case to attack Iran with Adam Werritty who, it has been suggested by former Uzbekistan Ambassador & blogger Craig Murray, was an Israeli Mossad agent pretending to be a UK government official with assistance from North Somerset MP Liam Fox. Privatising defence procurement – doesn't work. The carriage works on Stokes Croft, Bristol, through compulsory purchase, is becoming flats in 2015. [audio: 201306141700] download / temp download
Second hour: Round up of international stories: Turkeys' protests in Istanbul's Taksim square, Prime Minister Erdogan asks courts to decide over proposed shopping centre, Iranian presidential elections today, US announces it will arm the Syrian Al Qaeda terrorist rebels, Greek national broadcaster ERT shut down but it turns out they have paid for satellite uplinks so journalists resume broadcasts from their own studios. Bee collapse syndrome - one third reduction in UK bee population announced - Mike Birkin from South West Friends of the Earth gives us the latest on what's killing bees and mentions a conference exploring how to stop population collapse. Dangers of GM foods as a study discovers one third of pigs with deformed uterus and stomachs after eating GM animal feed. This week's first ever Commons debate about the annual Bilderberg Conference, speeches by Labour MP Dennis Skinner, Conservative MP John Redwood and Labour MP Tom Watson points out that Bilderberg Steering Committee member and Cabinet Minister Without Portfolio Ken Clarke has failed to declare his interests in the Parliamentary Register, he says he 'forgot'. Discussion of UK government announcements this week which directly affect the profits of companies represented in this secret Bilderberg meeting. MoD Procurement privatisation directly benefits Tomas Enders of EADS and Sherard Cowper-Coles of BAe Systems. GM Foods to be approved for human consumption which benefits Syngenta, secretly meeting with Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne and the rest. Justice Secretary Chris Grayling plus former Justice Secretary & Bilderberg Steering Committee member Ken Clarke's proposed changes to Britain's Legal Aid programme, it includes defendants not being able to choose a lawyer, instead being allocated a G4S or Eddie Stobart solicitor. Bristol Barrister Michael Fitton opposes proposed changes and has been at the Justice Select Committee this week and reports back. Marina Morris asks you which you'd choose in her voxpop. [audio: 201306141800] download / temp download
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First hour: news review with Labour Councillor for Bedminster and Cabinet member for Transport Mark Bradshaw (who turns up late at 5.30pm). Labours' new policies of capping benefits and means testing pensioners discussed. Osborne and Balls attending the secret Bilderberg meeting so are we just getting Bilderberg economic policy? NHS 111 out of hours service, it's failings, revolving doors and cronyism of this private health care. ASDA supermarket gives surplus food stock to charities but is out of date food edible? Are we going back to Victorian Britain? Sales of private jets up by almost half in Britain – Martin Summers says the idea that 'we're all in this together' is ridiculous PMQs – Ed Milliband asks Cameron about the A & E crisis blaming it on the closure of NHS Walk-In Centres across the country. Clip of Cressida Dick, who supervised the accidental murder of Jean Charles De Menezes, from the Met Police, discussing MI5 and the Woolwich murder at the Home Affairs Select committee chaired by Keith Vaz. Mark Bradshaw discusses residents parking in Bristol RPZ, what is the real timetable? Mark implies that all is up for grabs but cannot promise we will get any information if we go to the Council House, most info it seems is on the Council website. Accusations that 'consultation' meetings are not being properly advertised widely enough or enough in advance. Marina Morris looks at equality and happiness and we discuss the book 'The Spirit Level' again. [audio: 201306071700]
Second hour: Tory Kenneth 'Bilderberger' Clarke and Tory Justice Secretary Chris Grayling's attempt to change the terms of Legal Aid have brought Barristers out on the streets for the first time in British history. We ask chief barrister at Albion Chambers Michael Fitton QC if he will take the government to court over the proposals and why he and his colleagues feel so strongly. The NATO zone elite Bilderberg conference is taking place in Watford with sole arbiter of the code of Parliamentary standards Tory Prime Minister David Cameron diving in too how can we ever trust him to judge cases of MPs' accountability again? We go back to Arnhem in 1944 to meet two men who were later to chair the Bilderberg meetings Captain Peter Carrington and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. Former Captain in the 82nd Airborne Division T. Moffatt Burriss takes up the story. We look at the escape of Hitler's personal secretary Martin Bormann in 1945 and CBS news correspondant Paul Manning's book Martin Bormann Nazi In Exile and ask did Bormann take the loot from WW2 and use it to set up a financial power network where swastikas came off and suits went on to members of the SS and other Nazi sympathisers? Manning's book certainly has the evidence. Idris Francis discusses on the phone his ideas about the EU and the 'Fourth Reich' recounting a story his Uncle told him that a German officer under his guard turned to him, a Major at the time, and said 'you have beaten us twice now but the third time we will win and you won't know anything about it until it's all over'. [audio: 201306071800]
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and Marina Morris
First hour: News review with the newly elected Labour Councillor for St George East Steve Pearce. Ministers refuse to agree to cuts so Chancellor George Osborne still needs to tackle £8bn black hole after treasury agrees 10% spending cuts with seven Government departments. Voxpop on Mervyn King's request that we 'stop bashing the bankers'. Also former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney is about to start his new job as Bank of England Governor. He's a Bilderberg group member so have people heard of Bilderberg and do they think he'll be any better at the job? Revolving Doors: Failed former HMRC boss David Hartnett given job at one of the 'Big Four' auditing firms Deloitte. But could the job be considered as bribery for agreeing several dubious 'over lunch' sweetheart deals with Goldman Sachs, Vodafone etc. letting them off paying millions of pounds in tax? Questions for KPMG over audit of troubled Co-op Bank after accountancy firm failed to spot impending financial turbulence. BBC lose legal takedown attempt against my YouTube video of this show a month ago which criticised BBC Radio Bristol for using KPMG to deliver their 'Business News'. That 7:30am Breakfast show slot has now been renamed 'Money Matters' but the point remains why would BBC managers or listeners trust KPMG? Bristol police stop EDL 'Help For Heroes fundraiser' march in St. George heading for Muslim parts of Bristol last Saturday night naming those arrested, pleading guilty and those charged. Revealed: The true size of the British jobs gap. The Resolution Foundation has performed an analysis of the total adult employment rate – which reflects the increase in the size of the population and the growth of the available workforce – and found that there remains a "jobs gap" of 930,000. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds one-third of Britons are too poor to ‘join in with society’ Many on lowest incomes cannot buy consumer goods, visit the cinema or go on holiday. Ailing Great Western rail franchisee & Bristol bus operator First Group’s chairman Martin Gilbert leaves as the struggling transport group tapped investors for £615m to cut a massive £2bn debt and share price falls 30% as profits slump. [audio: 201305311700]
Second hour: South West Regional Secretary of the Fire Brigades' Union (FBU), Phil Jordan, warns there is no way to sugar coat it, people will die in fires if proposed Coalition government cuts are implemented. He is a Gloucestershire fire-fighter and explains that even a few seconds extra getting to a fire can mean it spreads, making it impossible to tackle, or forcing terrible choices between saving lives and getting at the heart of the fire; Steve Timmins joins us from 'Protect Our NHS', he was at this week's People's Assembly against austerity meeting at the Malcolm X Centre in Bristol on Wednesday evening, He explains what the health lobby and Coalition government are doing to the NHS and looks forward to a National Assembly on Saturday 22nd June. Drones... Barack Obama makes a bad 'joke' to the Washington Press pack about killing his critics with a Predator Drone, 'You won't see it coming.' he says. Just like the world's first ballistic missile, the Nazi V2 in World War II (see above), no one killed by a V2 saw or heard it coming either. Chris Cole from Drone wars UK spoke in Frome this week, two US universities found drones kill only one 'terror suspect' for every fifty innocent civilians, tremendous profits are being made though out of drone murders by UK, US and Israeli firms, also by Lockheed Martin who sell their £50,000 each Hellfire assassination missiles to the US, UK & Israeli military; EU and William Hague agree to allow arms to be supplied to the Syrian terrorist networks. A security operation in Homs reveals Mossad, CIA and Blackwater are involved in the military violence in this part of Syria. President Assad of Syria does not want to end up murdered like Colonel Gaddafi so has threatened to attack Israel if the Israelis strike Syria again. Vladimir Putin keeps US Secretary of State John Kerry waiting for three hours because Kerry refuses to discuss the global collapse in the bee population. Bilderberg 2013 in Watford linked to Middle Eastern wars, Bilderberg conference takes place in Watford next week but was chaired for first 20 years by former SS Officer Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands; many too believe Bilderberg is linked with a post-war secret 'Fourth Reich' financial power network, set up by Hitler's deputy Martin Bormann, which uses killer corporations like Nazis used Panzer Divisions to take over markets, countries and territory. As spelled out in Paul Manning's book 'Martin Bormann, Nazi In Exile' which is available free online as a PDF file or as a hardback book for over £150. [audio: 201305311800]
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the world
After six:
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and Marina Morris
For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page
First hour: news review with Bristol's first 'Independents For Bristol' Councillor Jason Budd who was elected as an 'outsider' to Kingsweston ward. Jason is a former Liberal Democrat who works for an event management company at Armada House and is a member of Bristol's Junior Chamber of Commerce. Independents agree to abide by the Bell Principles of Martin Bell MP. The IMF visit the Treasury and advise Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne to cut less or the deficit will increase. This week’s all time stock market high but we have a flatlining economy. This is because all the Quantitative Easing, Printed Money, is going into the casino banking system and not reaching the real economy. Clip of King Mervyn, outgoing Bank of England Governor Mervyn King, on the economy, recovery, it seems, is ‘in sight’, whatever that means. Who is Mark Carney – his successor at the Bank of England who takes up his job in June – from The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Switzerland. The BIS was created after World War 1 to administer war reparations but used to fund Hitler and Nazism in the 1930s. A vote was taken at the Bretton Woods conference after World War Two but it still exists and Mark Carney chairs/chaired the Financial Stability Board of the BIS. The Tower Of Basel, is where this bank is head-quartered in Basel, Switzerland. Bristol pensioners revolt against plan for Residents’ Parking Zones; death of Ray Manzarek, from US band The Doors. Singer Jim Morrison’s US Navy Admiral father George Morrison thought to be responsible for the Gulf of Tonkin incident which began the Vietnam War. No wonder Jim said ‘My Father Is Dead.’ Bristol and the UK’s secret courts, The Court of Protection in the South West – if you are considered too ill to decide your own fate; Secret arrests, conflict between instructions from Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and the Home Office. Mervyn King again warns of problems with the ‘Help to Buy’ scheme – similar to sub-prime mortgages; Ownership of Schools and Hospitals built under Private Finance Initiative (PFI) schemes being handed over to banks as the interest payments become unaffordable; Health Select Committee Dr. Mike Clancy, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, talking about problems with A & E, is that being used as an excuse to privatise the National Health Service?; Marks & Spencers’ M&S contactless payment cards stealing money from customers' bank accounts – rights and wrongs of electronic money. [audio: 201305241700] d
Second hour: Refloating of the Bristol Ferryboat Company with Keith Hallett from the Bristol Community Ferry Boat Company, and how the old ferry company has transferred into this because of financial problems. People can buy shares and help keep this service going. www.bristolferry.com 0117 929 2333. The Bilderberg Fringe Festival and tomorrow night's Warm Up Party at 'Passing Clouds' Dalston E8 4AA after the anti-Monsanto march in London www.bilderbergfringefestival.co.uk. Bilderberg control most of the money in the Western World. Annie Machon, former MI5 officer, from Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) about global problems associated with the criminalisation of drugs, connections to the US alcohol prohibition from the 1920s, failure of the United Nations (UN) to address the issue stuck in a situation that suits the international criminal gangs. Analysis with Martin Summers of Wednesday's car and knife attack which killed a serving soldier in broad daylight in Woolwich, South London. His attackers appear to have courted publicity in the 20 minutes it took for Metropolitan Police armed response team to arrive. These two men were close to the top of the UK terrorist 'watch list' so how did they manage to identify and track a soldier in civilian clothing and obtain a revolver and ammunition? Daphne Havercroft from South West Whistleblowers' Health Action Group (SWWHAG) on resignations from Bristol Community Health Council, the much criticised replacement for NHS Direct the failing '111' Service and this week's A&E crisis. [audio: 201305241800] download
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discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around
the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
and Marina Morris
First hour: News review with Birthday Party candidate who stood for mayor of Bristol and in the recent local elections Dave Dobbs. Dave is author of the book 'Laughing Gas'. We hear about the falling membership in political parties since World War Two and ask what proportion of people are in Trades Unions compared to Political Parties? Membership of trades unions is 15 times greater than UK political parties. The politicians don't control the game any more, if they ever did, the private bankers do. Money is not a finite commodity: How banks create money out of thin air then lend it out at interest. Fractional Reserve Banking a form of legalised counterfeiting, the economy, party politics, voxpop by Marina Morris on party leaders and party politics. Mayor Ferguson today announced his new multi-party cabinet as follows: Cllr Mark Bradshaw (Lab) – Transport, Planning, Strategic Housing and Regeneration; 'Bristol City Slacker' Cllr Simon Cook (Lib Dem) – Leisure, Tourism, Licensing and Community Safety (policing); Cllr Geoff Gollop (Cons) – Finance and Corporate Services; Cllr Gus Hoyt (Green) – Neighbourhoods, Environment and Council Housing; Cllr Barbara Janke (Lib Dem) – Health and Social Care; Cllr Brenda Massey (Lab) – Children, Young People and Education. Labour’s demand for voting rights in cabinet over the mayor's decisions has been agreed, but the mayor will still have overall decision-making powers – meaning he can override the wishes of a majority in cabinet if he wishes. Stories covered: night shelters closing because not classed as a dwelling so cannot get housing benefit; European Commission raids Shell and BP offices investigating evidence that petrol prices have been rigged for a decade – rigged to keep the rich wealthy, there is no free market. In the House of Commons Tory MP for Harlow, Robert Halfon and Labour's Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Caroline Flint on petrol price fixing; All four Bristol MPs come out against mayor George Ferguson's possible congestion charge; Stephanie Bottrill from Solihull committed suicide because she couldn't pay the bedroom tax. In the House of Lords architect of this benefit reform Lord Freud tries to explain; German water cannons set to be approved for possible summer riots across the UK; Prince Charles supporting a despotic dictatorship in Bahrain with lucrative 'Poundbury' style eco-development deal. [audio: 201305171700] download
Yes, the Pentagon really does think it controls
the whole world -
http://www.defense.gov/home/features/2009/0109_unifiedcommand/
Second hour:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Moscow to
try to persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree to his plans
to get his friends in the US and the EU to invade Syria and Iran but gets
a frosty response. Meanwhile another Russian fleet moves into the Eastern
Mediterranean and
Syria and Iran get a Russian upgrade to their anti ship
missile systems.
NORML
conference at the Malcolm X Centre in Bristol this weekend on legalisation
of soft drugs. Former MI5 officer Annie Machon is speaking on Saturday afternoon
and former Scotland Yard Fraud Squad detective Rowan Bosworth-Davies is speaking
about money laundering on Sunday. Drug cartels are now propping up the banking
system. 'Impunity for the UK 'super-elite' like in a 'Banana Republic'.
Former MI5 officer Annie Machon removed from UN discussion
panel by Jewish organisation B'nai B'rith. Drugs, CIA, South America
and corruption;
US
military's 'Unified Command Plan' (see map above) which shows the Pentagon
consider it their job to control the entire world; NATO zone banking system
could be about to collapse.
Bomb
attack on the Turkish border this week but was it really the Syrian army
who planted the bombs? The media say one thing so one is tempted to believe
the opposite since NATO zone MSM is being used for pro-war propaganda. We
heard from Chris Bollyn a couple of weeks ago about the
Terry Gilliam
Film 'Brazil' where terrorism is a 'normal' everyday occurrence and nobody
ever knows who is really planting the bombs, this has become the daily reality
in Iraq and a lesser extent Pakistan today. Are Iraqi people reminiscing
about the pre 2003 days of 'Evil Dictator' Saddam Hussein when so-called
terrorist bombs didn't go off every day? Who is really planting these bombs?
NATO? Israelis? Terrible and horrificly
regular bomb attacks on Mosques in Pakistan and Iraq this
week which mirror attacks two generations ago on Synagogues in Nazi
Germany. Is this the old 'divide and rule' with a warmongering elite
trying to set one religious community against another? Comparison with the
former Catholic versus Protestant conflict in Northern Ireland.
A grandson of Malcolm X, who was also a political activist,
is killed in suspicious circumstances in Mexico. Independent journalist
website
Athens Indymedia exposing links between the far right Golden
Dawn party and police - attempts to close it by Greek government. Julie
Boston joins us from
Friends of Suburban Bristol
Railways (FOSBR) to discuss everything from the Portishead and Severn
Beach lines to the projected electrification of the Bristol to Paddington
line and the
high speed HS2 link to Leeds via Birmingham. Excerpt
from 'straight to YouTube' internet film
The Road
To World War Three - next week Al Jazeera's
'The Secret Of The Seven Sisters'
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the world
After six:
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and Marina Morris
First hour: news review with leader of the Conservative group on Bristol City Council and councillor for Stoke Bishop Peter Abraham. Last week's local elections; Nationally the Tories lost 10 local authorities & 273 seats, UKIP picking up much of their vote due to policies on Europe and immigration; cuts and economics - national debt has nearly doubled since Coalition government was elected in 2010. A clip of Jane Taylor from UNITE at last Saturday's May Day Trades Union 'Workers' Day' Rally in Castle Park, Jane proposes more council house building to kick-start the economy and provided much needed housing. Bristol Mayor opens new office space – but according to local housing campaigner Tony Crofts' website 'Speak Truth To Power' we already have 2 million sq. ft., equivalent to 60 acres, of empty office space in Bristol; The Queen's Speech - influence or power? She owns more land than anyone on the planet but still got an extra £5 million pay rise in 2013 – What was NOT in the Queen's Speech was a register of lobbyists, promised by Cameron before and after the general election, discussed; Privatisation of the probation service, national press has come to Bristol to ask why as we have some of the best rates of curbing re-offending; Police said not to be involved in Jimmy Savile case - vox pop by Marina Morris about who is to blame for the Jimmy Savile fiasco, BBC, police or Savile himself? On the release of today's internal report by West Yorkshire police about cosy 'Friday morning club' breakfast meetings between their officers and Britain's worst ever paedophile, Jimmy Savile. The report said 76 crimes involving 68 victims relating to Savile had been committed in the West Yorkshire area, but added that none of the offences had been reported before the former DJ’s death in October 2011. The report also revealed the youngest of those victims was five years old at the time and eight others were aged nine or younger. Victims' lawyer brands temporary Assistant Chief Constable Ingrid Lee's report as 'pathetic' too. Martin reminds us that Savile spent over a decade of New Year's Eves at Chequers with Margaret Thatcher. [audio: 201305101700] download
Second hour: Filton and Bradley Stoke MP's December 2012 trip to Saudi Arabia and UK/Saudi arms deals discussed with author of The Shadow World, Inside The Global Arms Trade, Andrew Feinstein. Corruption, the Serious Fraud Squad, ‘National Security’, and politicians paid huge sums as conduits. Al Yamamah and SangCom UK/Saudi arms deals' bribery investigations dropped by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) with Chancellor George Osborne, incredibly, able to veto SFO investigations. Freemason & Conservative MP for Filton and Bradley Stoke Jack Lopresti had an expenses paid trip to Saudi Arabia in December 2012, what might his role be as a UK Saudi arms deal breaker? BBC4 changing the name from 'Exile, A Myth Unearthed' to 'Jerusalem An Archeological Mystery Story' by Israeli born filmmaker Ilan Ziv, then dropping his film about the myth of Jewish 'right to return altogether after lobbying from the Israeli government and the Zionist lobby within the BBC; we hear from the banned station Press TV and they cover clashes this week at the Al Aqsa Mosque which is allegedly on a site venerated by Jews too which the Israeli army want to take over even though it it the third most sacred site in Islam; Russian SS300 anti aircraft SAM missiles being sold to Syrian government after Israeli jets or artillery bombed or shelled Syria this week, a provocation that clearly violates international law and could lead to war between the two states; UK and US 'look the other way' not condemning Israel. Adam Kokesh, a 31-year-old former United States Marine who has long spoken out against military intervention in Iraq and other controversial issues, is planning what he calls an "Open Carry March on Washington" to "put the government on notice that we will not be intimidated & cower in submission to tyranny." So will there be an armed protest march to Washington to mark Independence Day on 4th July? Minot Missile Base in North Dakota got a D grade inspection report with insubordination rife and launch codes possibly going astray or compromised... so 17 military ICBM launch officers have been sacked. Can Britain feed itself? with Somerset farmer, former National Farmers Union (NFU) rep for Somerset and the man behind Puxton Park, Derek Mead. Derek, along with all dairy farmers, has suffered after the 1980s demise of the Milk Marketing Board which guaranteed a minimum price for milk. Discussing why he left the National Farmers' Union because it represents the interests of supermarkets and the food industry not farmers. Before that, helped set up Farmers For Action which blockaded supermarket distribution depots. The cartel-like power of Supermarkets to use milk as a 'loss-leader' impoverishing farmers, EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidies, the plight of small farmers, farmers' relations with Somerset walkers and we ask: can Britain still feed itself or are we too reliant on imports? US photographer and author of Solving 9/11, Chris Bollyn, gets into a scrape with Bilderberg security back in Belgium in 2000 after daring to ask questions of some of the participants and taking a picture of George Soros with Carl Bildt. [audio: 201305101800] download
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discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around
the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
and Marina Morris
First hour: Bristol Local Election results 2013 and news review with former mayor candidate for the Green party and new Councillor (announced today) for Bishopston, Daniella Radice. Chris Brown's website Bristol 24/7 has best election results coverage: Labour now largest party in Bristol as LibDem vote collapses. 'City Slacker' news: LibDem on Mayor Ferguson's cabinet Simon Cook retains his Clifton East seat by 17 votes while Cheryl Anne loses her Horfield seat to Labour in 27.5% turnout. Not satisfied with 'volunteering' their help for mayor George Ferguson to 'help him' make decisions about the City's budget, financial services firm KPMG have their tentacles into BBC Radio Bristol 'volunteering' a 7:30am 'business news' for the BBC Breakfast show but failing to reference a report talking up the economy promising 200,000 jobs about to come to Britain, but who wrote this report and why have the BBC given up their editorial independence? KPMG have a terrible track record, and are embroiled in several scandals including criminal insider dealing in the US, falsifying the accounts of HBOS, undervaluing HBOS junk assets by 7000% and are being investigated for price fixing with the 'big four' financial services firms. The chairman of publicly owned Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Sir Philip Hampton, has said the bank will be ready to return to the private sector next year. Martin Summers disagrees and Daniella doresn't think the public will get as much for the bank's shares as we paid for them. The Cayman Islands will in future share information on taxes with the UK and other countries. Bermuda and other British tax havens have signed agreements on sharing tax information, the Treasury has said. UK Uncut expose in court the “sweetheart” tax deal which saved Goldman Sachs millions of pounds which they agreed with Tax people HMRC to save Chancellor George Osborne from “major embarrassment”. A £255m project to turn the former Courage brewery in Bristol into homes, offices and shops has gone into receivership. Work at the Finzels Reach site halted some time ago but now receivers have been called in after developer HDG Mansur defaulted on a loan. Transport protesters gathered outside City Hall to condemn the city council over lack of consultation on transport issues. They claim the council only pays lip service to people's views before taking final decisions. David Mock, from the traffic and transport subgroup of the Greater Area Neighbourhood Partnership, claimed their views about a new showcase bus route were not considered relevant by council officials. Simon Brookes, who has been campaigning for the removal of a bus lane in Westbury Road, said: "Consultations are a sham, e-petitions are being ignored, and as a result of that, there can be one conclusion – the electorate's views are being ignored." Tory Councillor John Goulandris (Stoke Bishop) claimed the city council had a hidden agenda to "slow the city down so the excuse of congestion charging can be introduced". Frack Free Somerset organise meeting in Ston Easton, Somerset, about proposals to pump toxic chemicals into the Mendip Hills. Local people described "seeing nothing like it" in the village for the past 16 years with the number of people that attended. And so it came to pass. Despite near universal professional opposition and strong political pressure, the Section 75 regulations that explicitly open up the NHS to competition law were approved in the House of Lords last week. A three-line whip on Liberal Democrat peers ensured a majority of over a hundred, with Baroness Shirley Williams speaking warmly of "an exciting new direction" for the NHS. The rage expressed across social media forums is unlikely to disappear but what can opponents do next? http://www.nhsforsale.info - http://www.keepournhspublic.com - http://protectournhs.wordpress.com [audio: 201305031700] download
Second hour: We are joined by Director of the London based Centre for Dissociative Studies, psychotherapist specialising in trauma Valerie Sinason, who has interviewed five of Jimmy Savile's victims and 500 other victims of ritual abuse. After the Daily Express headline Jimmy Savile Was Part Of Satanic Ring in January 2013 Private Eye magazine published another anonymous hatchet job on her entitled 'SATANIC PANIC - Familiar Ritual ' in the Feb/Mar 2013 edition implying Valerie and victims she has spoken to were 'making it up, or 'mad'. Valerie explains the horrible reality behind these types of abuse and explains that many people, including presumably Private Eye editor Ian Hislop, find it difficult to believe people could behave like this. Valerie explains that abusers use a cruel tactic of: 'the worse the abuse is the less the authorities and press will believe them'. Latest on the FBI's and the mainstream media's Boston Marathon bombings cover-up from US freelance journalist Chris Bollyn who has written a book 'Solving 9/11' on the 9/11 attacks and an article on Boston: 'Terror as Theatre'. Chris suggests that Terry Gilliam's 1980s film 'Brazil', about the government controlling the population through terrorism [see video above], may be closer to reality than we think. UN accuse US of torture over force-feeding of Guantanamo bay detainees... 130 refusing food - 23 being force fed, Guantanamo lawyer found dead in apparent suicide. Iraq: April is record month for carnage with 700 dead and 1600 wounded - as the Arab League warned in 2003 US and UK have indeed 'opened the gates of hell' in Iraq. Meanwhile US Secretary of State for Defense, Chuck Hagel, confirms he is considering arming Syrian rebels. Martin points out the US military are already arming Al Qaeda in Syria via Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states. As the NATO zone Bilderberg Conference Mafia cartel prepare to meet in Hertfordshire in the second weekend of June, Hannah Bono announces the first ever Bilderberg Fringe Festival with comedians, talks and music. Honorary President of the Italian Supreme Court Ferdinando Imposimato has published evidence that Bilderberg organised terrorist atrocities in Italy's 'Strategy of Tension'. National Vice-President of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) John McInally gives us a taste of the critique of the Coalition government to be heard at the annual May Day rally tomorrow in Bristol's Castle Park. [audio: 201305031800] download
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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 'City Slackers' Simon Cook (Clifton East) and Cheryl Anne (Horfield) LibDem councillors standing for re-election. News review with Cllr. Helen Holland (Lab), who is also leader of the Labour Group. National Labour poll down to 35% while UKIP surge continues in Opinium/Observer poll. Next Thursday's elections are discussed and also some economics - UK budget deficit barely falls in 2012/13, more pain ahead - fell to £114.2 bn in the tax year which ended in March. This equates to 7.4% of GDP or economic output, down from 7.9% in 2012/13. Britain's total net public debt, excluding the direct costs of bailing out the country's banks, is still much higher than before the financial crisis at a record £1.186 tn or 75.4% of GDP. Cuts have brought a loss of £450 a head to every person in Bristol; 'the multiplier effect' of the cuts. Stories covered: Food Banks have tripled in the past year, more than 350,000 people turned to food banks for help last year, almost triple the number who received food aid in the previous year and 100,000 more than anticipated, according to the Trussel Trust, UK's biggest food crisis charity - PMQs clip of this; PMQ clips of how the rich are getting richer; Bristol North West MP Charlotte Leslie criticises Bristol City Council who top of the national league for 'Gagging Clauses' or, as the Bristol Evening Post calls them 'compromise agreements' and demands they stop the practice which has cost Bristol City council tax payers £1m over five years, used to silence sacked Coroner and his staff and bring in what anonymous silenced staff member calls 'a puppet coroner'; First Bus won't run CND anti-Trident ad. which explains the nuclear missile system's cost: £100bn and fail to reply to letter asking them to explain; 'Big four' accountants, including KPMG, 'use knowledge of Treasury to help rich avoid tax', draw up laws on tax and then advising their clients how to avoid this tax; voxpop on the elections by Marina Morris and discussion of why more than half the people asked do not see the point in voting. [audio: 201304261700]
Second hour: Round up of international stories with Martin Summers: have chemical weapons been used in Syria, and if so, by which side? Revealed: George Osborne’s secret veto on fraud inquiries, SFO poised to drop investigation into claims of Saudi arms bribes. Conservative Chancellor George Osborne and cuts to the Serious Fraud Office (SFO); Jack Lopresti, Tory Freemason MP for Filton and Bradley Stoke, caught changing his story... admits to representing UK weapons manufacturers in Saudi Arabia:
From Private Eye: ANOTHER gaggle of Tory MPs has paid a friendly visit to the authoritarian Saudi Arabian government, according to the latest register of MPs' interests. This is the second recent Tory trip to Saudi, after four Tory MPs went on shindig with the sheikhs in December. In February Eye 1334 pointed out apparent errors in the way one of them, Filton MP Jack Lopresti, described his trip: Lopresti's entry in the MPs' register failed to mention that it was arranged by the UK Defence Forum, an arms-industry-funded group. Lopresti also claimed to have met "various human rights groups", which seemed unlikely. Lopresti has now corrected his entry: he now acknowledges the role of the UK Defence Forum and all mention of "human rights groups" has gone.
UN torture expert's visit postponed again by Bahrain regime as protests continue around this weekend's Grand Prix; Martin asks if it's okay for bloody revolution in Syria why not in Bahrain too? More cracks appear in the official Boston bombings story; Tamerlan Tsarnaev apparently arrested naked in handcuffs without injury last Thursday evening, so how was he killed and his body mutilated? Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was apparently not 'on the run' but at college during last week. Secret super-elite Mafia dons Bilderberg cartel meeting in Hertfordshire, the Logan Act in the US which prohibits politicians from having private meetings like this; similar civil service code in UK; Birmingham terror plotters sentenced but they had no bomb making equipment, capability and no targets; Mike Birkin from South West Friends of the Earth, discusses the 'Carbon Bubble' alternative energy, 50th anniversary of the Beeching Report railway axe, local railways and EDF's plan for a projected nuclear power station at Hinkley Point. Interview with thriller writer and WWII deception planner Dennis Wheatley about witchcraft and black magic for Walpurgis night on Tuesday 30th April. BBC4 censor documentary on history of Palestine/Israel, 'Jerusalem: An Archaeological Mystery Story' by Jewish filmmaker Ilan Ziv, which suggests the present Jews have no 'right of return' to Palestine since they are not related to those exiled by the Romans in 70AD. [audio: 201304261800]
At five:
discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around
the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
and Marina Morris
For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page
First hour: News review with deputy leader of the Conservative group on Bristol City Council & councillor for Hengrove, Mark Weston. Stories covered: Maggie Thatcher’s funeral; IMF puts pressure on George Osborne with criticism of cuts: IMF warns Osborne to moderate austerity due to lack of growth – further conversation on the economy; Npower Admits Paying No Corporation Tax for Three Years and their prices went up by 10 % - privatisation versus nationalisation; Jobless leap 'fitting tribute' to Thatcher; wages not rising in line with inflation – unemployment discussed; 2,000 insurance jobs axed at Aviva; Bristol Post/Evening Post gets new website but it's less user-friendly than the last one and not on news services such as Google News; Local financial advisers Hargreaves Lansdown' success shows no sign of slowing - at taxpayers expense? £500 per week benefits cap trial begins in London, cap to be rolled out across the country in July; Philippe Sands QC Quits LibDems Over 'Corrosive' Secret Courts Bill, secret courts overturn Habeus Corpus Act 1679 this is the wicked work of Bilderberger & 'minister without portfolio' in Cameron's cabinet Kenneth Clarke MP; MMR vaccine – Measles outbreak shows why we must get our children vaccinated, but we hear from Dr Andrew Wakefield explaining he believes parents should be able to choose single vaccines and the problems with the original MMR vaccines, two of which were almost immediately withdrawn, Wakefield says import of single vaccines shoud not have been banned. [audio: 201304191700]
Second hour: What were private security firm 'Craft' doing at the scene of the Boston marathon bombings? Are the NATO zone Mafia dons, the Bilderberg Group, coming to Watford this June? Military Industrial Complex, bankers, NATO politicians, royalty, oil barons, media & IT barons and the BBC will be represented but may once again fail to report on the meeting. Head of the Italian Supreme court Ferdinando Imposimato [Italian original] publishes book with evidence the Bilderberg Group have been behind Italian terrorist campaigns. Terrorists who plotted to blow up army base with explosives on toy car jailed for 44 years, Four 'toy car' terrorists from Luton jailed at Woolwich Crown Court; 20th anniversary of the siege of the Branch Davidians' community in Waco, Texas, with commentary and report by local comedian from Austin, Texas, Bill Hicks. Green councillor for Ashley Gus Hoyt discusses his role in mayor Ferguson's cabinet, the role of KPMG adviser Matt Payne in the cabinet and local priorities for the Green Party. Conspiracy Scope YouTube channel upload retired US Army Colonel and author L. Fletcher Prouty talking in 1992 about the British East India Company and colonialism. [audio: 201304191800]
At five:
discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around
the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
and Marina Morris
First hour: news review with South West LibDem MEP Sir Graham Watson who is based in Langport Somerset. Stories covered: Cyprus - it’s natural gas resources and loans from Moscow; Graham discusses his role in the EU, the European Arrest Warrant, and other EU issues; voxpop by Marina Morris on the European Union – Graham Watson mentions positive achievements of the EU - the Euro, economic collapse, Economists Milton Friedman, former member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) David Blanchflower’s article reminding us of what his colleagues explained after the 2010 election, George Osborne's austerity cannot and will not work. The 1986 Big Bang; parties celebrating Mrs Thatcher’s death; voxpop by Marina Morris about Maggie Thatcher and further discussion; Sheffield Hallam University report on welfare cuts - £19 billion a year out of the economy, the north hit worse; Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) police now failing to confirm who they are arresting based on 'Leveson recommendations' citing Chris Jefferies case where he was then accused of the murder of Jo Yeates. However Avon & Somerset police are being sued by Jefferies for wrongly arresting him and possibly briefing the press that he was the murderer. Police state being ushered in? Severn Barrage and bankruptcies of two founders; KPMG face audit inquiry over the failure of HBOS bank having failed to spot £47bn of losses in the company's accounts in successive audits; Lord Berkeley tables private members bill calling for the annual £18.3m Prince Charles’ 120,000 acre Duchy of Cornwall estate to be given to Cornwall residents. [audio: 201304121700]
Second hour: Was Margaret Thatcher's 1986 'Big Bang' responsible for the banks collapsing in 2008? Monetary reformer and former Bank of England employee turned international consultant Muhammad Rafeeq. Wikileaks release searchable index of 'The Kissinger Cables' from and to Nixon's Secretary of State Henry Kissinger who had a secret foreign policy of coups, massacres and death squads. Senior Italian judge says he has evidence that Ken Clarke's secret Bilderberg club were behind terrorist attacks across Europe as part of Operation Gladio. Anders Breivik massacre relatives prepare to sue Norwegian police & authorities. Julian Parry discusses the legacy of Margaret Thatcher who died on Monday. Several of the same individuals who removed Maggie over her attitude to European EMU integration involved in alleged illegal South African nuclear arms deal with Astra Holdings headed by former MI6 officer Stephan Koch. BBC make a documentary with The Guardian to mark the decade since the start of the Iraq war in March 2013 but then fail to screen it. Its content exposes appalling crimes by US Colonel James Steele in Iraq. America's Hired Death Squads and Torture Teams Are Still Operating in Iraq - A 15-month investigation exploring war crimes long denied by the Pentagon lays out the tragic truth. James Steele: America's mystery man in Iraq - video. Next Saturday sees Bristol's Anarchist Bookfair 11am-6pm at the Trinity Centre at the East end of Old Market. [audio: 201304121800]
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First hour: news review with Labour Councillor for St George West Peter Hammond. Discussion with Peter on why he had to stand down as Labour leader, how Labour have managed to influence the Bristol City Council's annual budget e.g. getting extra money for Speedwell Pool and Community Transport. Latest on the criminal bankers including clip from Russia Today's 'The Keiser Report' about a class action in the US brought against Libor fraud banks – case dismissed by US judge; HBOS malfesance story today too with mild 'slapped wrists' for multi-billion pound fraudsters; Can work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith really live on £53 a week including bills? The Queen gets a £5 million pay rise as the 'Civil List' is replaced by the 'Sovereign Grant' – is Queen Elizabeth the real Vile Product Of Welfare UK as quoted from this week's Daily Mail Headline? Owen Jones and Ruth Porter on Channel 4 news discuss this 'Philpott' welfare debate – DFS in Bristol get 1200 applicants for 9 jobs, Costa Coffee in Nottingham get 1700 applications for 8 jobs, Joseph Roundtree Foundation report that the UK has 6.5 million people looking for full time work that does not exist – Iceland has increased welfare benefits because that helps the economy to grow in a crisis; staggering leaks of confidential documents reveal secrets of the rich tax evaders who hide cash offshore (mainly from the British Virgin Islands) –estimated at £21 trillion; Trident - costs £100 billion for about 25 years - clip of Bruce Kent, veteran CND campaigner on being spied on by Cathy Massiter, discussion about Peter Hammond being blacklisted by the Economic League and Bruce Kent and CND being spied on; documentary all about this from the 1980s as part of Channel 4's 20/20 Vision Series with Hugo Young; Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE)s £10.5 million mis-selling (fraud) Ofgem fine; wheels coming off the wagon as North Somerset Council stop enforcing parking offences - a symptom of ‘private affluence and public squalor’; Unite the Union air the prospect of a 2013 general strike. [audio: 201304051700]
Second hour: North Korea threatens nuclear attack on USA, but did William Waldegrave, Ken Clarke, David Cameron and other senior Tories collude in supplying these ex-South African nuclear weapons onto the black market? Peer admits MI6 officer Daphne Park arranged the assassination of Congo’s first independent leader Patrice Lumumba; massive increase in heroin trafficking from Afghanistan - one million deaths from heroin now estimated since the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan by NATO, the US and UK. Martin explains how, why and when the CIA and MI6 began to be major drug smugglers and reccomends two websites CIAdrugs and NarcoNews. Anne Lemon teaches in Clevedon and is on the National Executive of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) who had their annual conference over Easter. She explains the union's view on Free Schools, Academy Schools and the new National Curriculum and tells us about a mayday rally taking place next month in Castle Park which is organised by local Trades Unionists. SMART METERS - Big Brother or helpful technology? we are joined by David Saunders of Bristol Power and Mike Mitcham of the Stop Smart Meters campaign. - Who is president Bashar Al Assad of Syria's English wife Asma? She is not heard from on British mainstream media but seems to come across as an intelligent and compassionate stateswoman [audio: 201304051800]
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First hour: news review with Communist Party of Britain member from Somerset Ken Keable and 17 Trades Unions support the 'People's Charter' and the People's Assembly Against Austerity this coming June. Daily Worker and Morning star newspapers. Religion and politics. Current strength of Russian Communist party. 1956 Hungarian uprising and 1968 Czechoslovakian invasions crushed by force. Also is the Communist party electable? Lack of demand in the economy, Libor style oil and gas price fixing. Former 'partner in crime' of Vladimir Putin, Russian Oligarch Boris Berezovsky, is found dead at his Berkshire home a month before he was due to testify at the inquest of Alexander Litvinenko. Motives for MI6 and the Russians for killing him. Michael Meacher MP's budget speech on Monday evening where he says the budget is designed to dismantle the welfare state, there is no macro-economic strategy. Tory London mayor Boris Johnson interviewed by Eddie Mair for the Andrew Marr show taclked on his character and called 'a nasty piece of work' Boris disputes this. Ken Clarke's Secret Courts bill passes the House of Lords which is the first time in 800 years to undermine Habeus Corpus, that means those held unlawfully in custody can be released. Bilderberger and Minister Without Portfolio Ken Clarke accused of misleading parliament saying the secret courts bill was no threat to Habeus Corpus. Cyprus banking colapse - Faisal Islam describes Mario Monti's plane full of 10bn Euros flying in from Frankfurt to Larneka and G4S distributing the cash. [audio: 201303291700]
Second hour: investigative reports. Interview with lawyer & former Scotland Yard Fraud Squad detective for 12 years Rowan Boswell-Davies who submitted evidence of widespread organised crime in the City of London under US, EU, Australian and British definitions of Organised Crime to the Parliamentary Banking Commission chaired by Andrew Tyrie. This evidence was initially 'lost' by the Commission and after Rowan contacted Mr Tyrie they found it again. They have suggested the evidence might have to be 'redacted', or blanked out, so Rowan has published it in full for the public to view online. Mr Boswell-Davies believes that unless the authorities institute a series of criminal trials and convictions of 'blue blood' City bankers, the 'Princes of the City', will continue to defraud the nation, loot and bring about an eventual collapse of the national economy and the pound. He has identified the 'Blue Arrow' trial as the most important city fraud case where the message went out that it was 'open season' for city fraudsters, that they would never again be prosecuted. This trial had rattled the 'self-regulating' City criminal club and they then knocked back the police and went back to a tame, pre Sir Robert Mark, system of 'light touch' regulation by their friends. Rowan explains who should be arrested and put on trial, as well as why and how to do it. TWO EURODOLLAR COLLAPSE SCENARIOS: We then explore, following the Cyprus crisis, two scenarios of a Euro/dollar collapse, one positive where the government get a grip on the crisis and one negative where they don't. 1. The trigger for the crash, 2. the almost instantaneous crash itself, 3. a few days later the crucial point where the government do, or do not, get a grip on the crisis and act decisively providing cash and food, 4. a few weeks later, 5 a few months later and 6. they cannot say they didn't know because we have just told them ;-) Jesse Ventura's 'Death Ray' show in his Conspiracy Theory series in the US. Bristol activist Tom Woodhead arrested and beaten up by the Israeli police then deported for peacefully demonstrating. Blindfolded and believes he was subjected to a mock execution. [audio: 201303291800]
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First hour: George Osborne's Budget 2013. News review with Eastville LibDem Councillor & former leader of Bristol LibDems Steve Comber. A green light for UK banking fraud: RBS & Barclays LIBOR and HSBC Money Laundering, how much did they make and how much was the out of court settlement? Steve Comer, former leader of LibDems in Bristol & LibDem councillor for Eastville, reviews the weeks news with Tony and Martin Summers. Discussing cuts in Avon Fire Authority which Steve Comer sits on including a halt to recruitment of fire-fighters. This week’s 2013 budget and clips of (VIDEO): Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne coughs and flounders during the budget speech as he confesses that December’s Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) growth forecast of 1.2% has been downgraded this week to 0.6% – National debt looks likely to double under this government from £800bn to £1.6tn. Martin points out Coalition are fiddling figures to make it look like deficit is going down, Steve says we need to borrow to invest, locally there are some schemes to do this; ‘Workfare Makes You Free’ - Labour Party abstain from obscene retrospective Workfare vote after government and Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) caught breaking the law forcing science graduate Cait Reilly to work in Poundland for free; Bristol West LibDem MP Stephen Williams at PMQs about £10k tax threshold; Two Hinkley Point nuclear power stations given planning permission – subsidies discussed, choosing what to back in the ‘free market’; Hugh Bailey at PMQs asks Prime Minister David Cameron to scrap the bedroom tax entirely - Mayor George Ferguson says Bristol City Council won't evict those who can't pay; Anglican bishops, with the exception of Nigerian Elf oil shark & city banker Archbishop Welby, opposing benefit cuts – cutting benefits in a crisis stupid, better to introduce a citizens income. Royal Charter to be set up to regulate the press but clause quietly inserted to prosecute bloggers and this starts looking like an unnecessary establishment fix-up. [audio: 201303221700] download
Second hour: former financial editor of the Scottish Sunday Herald now London based blogger Ian Fraser on the Big Bang open season on fraud indicated by the Court Of Appeal overturning four fraud convictions in the County NatWest Blue Arrow rights issue where dealers fraudulently misrepresented the share price. European Central Bank (ECB), European Union (EU) & International Monetary Fund (IMF) or Troika impose one off tax of between 6% & 10% on Cypriot bank accounts in exchange for bailout. Blue Arrow, County Nat West trial, rights issue for Manpower buyout; financial bribes for Libor rigging. Libor ‘Rain Man’ dealer Tom Hayes was known to be the best Libor fixer in the business. Hayes' pay package more than doubled from $2m to $5m when he moved from UBS to Citi bank, however, he was fired by Citi in September 2010 and in December 2012 he was arrested by London's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and bailed without charge. Separately, he was charged with wire fraud, price-fixing and conspiracy by the US Department of Justice and his extradition requested. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, Hayes is now turning queen's evidence, 'singing like a canary', and seeking to prove to the authorities that Libor rigging was condoned at the highest levels at his former employers. Jennifer Arcuri, a close friend of Hayes, said he is helping police with their inquiries. He believes he's innocent, Arcuri told the WSJ. She added that trying to rig Libor was common industry practice. It was like spanking children in the 1970s – condoned from the top. Libor trader Roger Darin also charged with conspiracy, wire fraud and an antitrust violation; Robert & Vincent Tchenguiz are suing the Serious Fraud Office for more than £200m following the agency's investigation into their role in the collapse of Iceland's banks, this case could destroy the SFO. Financial press too close to the city, being taken on jaunts & jollys by them; Cyprus and contagion, painting the European Central Bank as Europe's new feudal overlord. Interview with Labour’s former mayor of Frome Bob Ashford, who was barred from standing for Police and Crime Commissioner because of a minor offence committed when a teenager. His campaign to change the law is called Wipe The Slate Clean www.wipetheslateclean.co.uk - Strange that senior police officers, officers of all ranks, even Chief Constables and Assistant Chief Constables are not even vetted, many have serious criminal offences on their record and new recruits are not vetted. Marina Morris Voxpop where she asks whether or not you actually trust the police, Jimmy Savile and phone hacking have undermined trust in the police for many Bristolians. International stories briefly covered with Old Labour Oxford economist Martin Summers: Texan man elected in Istanbul as Syrian opposition 'Prime Minister' Ghassan Hitto; appears that chemical weapons have been used near Allepo in Syria by the Free Syrian Army, UN investigating. US and NATO preparing for intervention in Syria. Iraq war started ten years ago this week on WMD lies from German secret service BND’s agent Rafed Al Janabi, codename ‘Curveball’. [audio: 201303221800] download
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First hour: Bedroom tax; Kingswood Tory MP Chris Skidmore blames Labour for NHS failings at Prime Minister's Questions; Introduction to Mark Wright, Lib Dem councillor for Cabot ward. Discussion includes former Energy Secretary Chris Huhne going to prison, Schools minister David Laws' £40,000 MP's Expenses scandal fine, LibDem leader Nick Clegg overturning LibDem party democracy on secret courts and the LibDem spring conference. Martin Summers is asked what he thinks about next week's budget and the wisdom of cuts. Clip of Liam Fox and his cutting tax and benefits plans for the economy. Universal credit & the more developed Citizen's income as proposed by the Green party here in the UK and newly elected Grillo in Italy. PMQ clip of Miliband and Cameron on the bedroom tax from last week vs. the way Cameron is treating the bankers. Discussion including how the local council and housing associations will probably pick up the debt of rent arrears. PMQ clip of Ian Murray - will the PM personally benefit from millionaires tax cut? NHS Chief Executive Sir David Nicholson is determined to rub the public's noses in his invincibility and contempt for his critics according to the Daily Mail. He says he wants to support whistleblowers but his new deputy, Dame Barbara Hakin stands accused of helping to authorise £500,000 to silence a hospital chief executive who was sacked after warning that targets were threatening lives. Councillors for hire who give firms planning advice One Tory councillor in East Devon, Graham Brown, boasted: “If I can't get planning, nobody will.” The councillor claimed he preferred to keep a low profile, but had “access to all the right people for the right clients”. He added: “[I] don’t come cheap. I mean, there are jobs that I do for £1,000, and there are jobs that I do for £20,000 … if I turn a greenfield into a housing estate and I'm earning the developer two or three million, then I ain’t doing it for peanuts.” The Daily Telegraph’s investigation also looked at the activities of Indigo Public Affairs, a lobbying company. In Newcastle, Greg Stone, a Liberal Democrat councillor who works for the firm, boasted that the company had “a good chance that via our network someone will know someone who knows somebody” at every council. “Tricks of the trade” used to gain approval for developments included making sure planning committees included “friendly faces”, he said. New head of legal services at Bristol City Council Liam Nevin spent more than 23,000 of taxpayers' money on an attempt to ban the press from reporting details of a controversial fostering case. New Pope, a German Jesuit from Argentina. The Archbishop and the oil sharks: A 'slick' young Justin Welby, Elf Oil the crooked 'Monsieur Africa' and a £6bn mission to snap Nigeria's oil riches - with catastrophic results. [audio: 201303151700]
Second hour: Kevin Phillips, chair of the Avon and Somerset Police Federation, discusses the recent vote on whether police would strike or not. Vote was 69% locally & 81% nationally in favour of the right to strike. Drusilla Sharpling, from HMIC, says police appeared to be reluctant to investigate Savile because of his high public profile in this week's report. The Jimmy Savile case, phone hacking, Hillsborough, the police are discrediting themselves. Why aren't fraudulent bankers & traders being arrested, in Iran fraudsters are being executed Low morale in the police. Round up of international news with Martin Summers: As the smoke clears after Saudi Arabia's latest mass execution by firing squad... Charles and Camilla fly in. The Prince isn't expected to raise the issue of human rights with his hosts. Perhaps he should. Queen's Sri Lanka visit for Commonwealth CHOG meeting 'grotesque'. Disaster in Syria as Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov flies into London to talk to Foreign Secretary William Hague, believes UK will break international law if we supply weapons to non-governmental actors, or terrorists, in Syria, particularly embarrassing because they kidnapped UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights, Syrian army seem to be winning the 'civil war'. 9/11 'mastermind' living in posh Bristol City Centre flat? Correction. No, his flat is, in fact, in London. Security records of cars passing through a checkpoint at the Prestancia gated community indicated that Mr Abdulaziz al-Hijji and his wife Anoud’s home, 4224 Escondito Circle, Prestancia, Sarasota, Florida, had been visited a number of times by Mohamed Atta, the leader of the 19-strong hijack team, who piloted American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Centre in 2001. The logs also indicated that Marwan Al-Shehhi, who crashed United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower, and Ziad Jarrah, who was at the controls of United Airlines Flight 93 when it crashed in a field in Pennsylvania, had visited the house. A decade after the world's worst terrorist attack, which claimed the lives of 3,000 people, Mr al-Hijji is resident in London, working for the European subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s state oil company. Described as a career counsellor, he is based in the offices of Aramco Overseas Company UK Limited. Israeli president Shimon Peres comes to the EU to try to persuade them to ban Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation. Royal visits to two regimes of the worst abusers of human rights in the world. The death, possibly by CIA poisoning, of Hugo Chavez, land reform and fantastic results of his government for general health and wellbeing. Mike Birkin from Friends of the Earth discusses EDF Energy pulling out of a court case where they were attempting to sue protesters. Sustainable energy and the Energy Bill. Japan betrayed to help US fight Russia at the end of World War Two: 1992 BBC Horizon documentary 'Hitler's Bomb' & Carter Hydrick's book Critical Mass, about the 1945 US/Nazi Uranium & Plutonium deal [audio: 201303151800]
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Bristol City Slackers March 2013: the MPs
Labour, Bristol South, Dawn Primarolo MP
Conservative, Bristol North-West, Charlotte Leslie MP
Conservative, Kingswood, Chris Skidmore MP
First Hour: News review with Labour Councillor for Southmead Jenny Smith. Influence of the owners on journalism at the Evening Post and discussion on the rights and wrongs of the bedroom tax. Tony's March 2013 list of City Slacker MPs (see above). What are these new 'negative interest rates' – rich people buying up assets; massive cap on bankers bonuses announced; Muhammad Rafeeq, former bank of England employee on Britain's plummeting financial reputation in the world; KPMG adviser to mayor Ferguson and present Competition Commission's investigation into auditing fraud and price fixing – big companies and banks keeping several sets of books, looks like Big Four will be found to have been committing fraud and hoping nobody will notice; the Mayors first budge t has £35m of cuts. Britain's AAA credit rating cut last Friday evening; MP for Filton and Bradley Stoke Jack Lopresti took a £6,600 trip to Saudi Arabia in December paid for by the Saudi government and reported by the TheyWorkForYou website and Private Eye but in a climate of illegal arms deals and considering his Filton connection with arms manufacturer BAe Systems what was he up to there? clip of Ed Miliband at PMQ discussing the New Statesman article by Anthony Seldon; clip of sharp former Labour leader John Smith at PMQs vs. John Major in 1993; Tiny number of multinational giants dominating the global food market. [audio: 201303011700]
Second Hour: Transport adviser to Bristol mayor George Ferguson & Bristol Friends of the Earth campaigner Pip Sheard quit but returned a week later as an adviser. She talks tonight about Bristol's plagued bus rapid transit (BRT) system, cars, congestion charge, buses and trains. Pip is a volunteer on Bristol mayor George Ferguson’s advisory group for transport. She discusses the Bus Rapid Transit System, smart cards to get people on buses, the 'bonkers bus stops' etc. Round up of international news stories with Martin Summers: British secret services want to keep evidence secret at Alexander Litvinenko inquest delaying it by another six months, what have they got to hide? The book ‘Blowing up Russia’ offers clues to the possible motives behind the killing, to cover up false flag terrorism. 9/11 court case in Horsham with Tony Rooke, BBC TV documentary producer Mike Rudin in the frame under Section 15 of the UK Terrorism Act 2000, Article 3, for aiding and abbetting terrorism. A voxpop by Marina Morris, do people believe the story about the death of Osama Bin Laden in Abbotabad, Pakistan in May 2011? Discussion about who Osama Bin Laden was working for and when he really died. Nafeez Ahmed on the seven myths of the Iraq war as wrongly reported by BBC TV's sinking 'flagship' Newsnight on the tenth anniversary of the war. British Foreign Secretary William Hague and new US Secretary of State John Kerry discuss Syria on Monday. Discussion of the Skull and Bones society at Yale University which John Kerry was initiated into in 1966, including a unique recording of screams and chant of 'The Devil Equals Death' at of one of their Skull and Bones initiation ceremonies. The 1974 Portuguese revolution, extract from this week's Dialect interview with Enrique Ribiro. Interview with Victoria Brittain about her new book Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War On Terror. [audio: 201303011800]
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First hour: BBC Strike on Monday, Father of the Chapel at BBC Bristol Matthew Hill explains why the National Union of Journalists have withdrawn their labour. BBC have a history of blacklisting employees in collaboration with MI5 in the 1980s 'Christmas Tree Files' episode. Deadlier than 7/7? Officers swoop on three Islamic extremists Irfan Naseer, Irfan Khalid, and Ashik Ali who are supposed to have masterminded a suicide bomb plot “bigger than 7/7”, but were there plea bargains in this case and was there an element of entrapment as in so-called US terror plots set up by the FBI? 'Helping MI5 ruined my life': Man whose house was used as spy base in airliner 'liquid bomb plot' sues Met for wrongful arrest. Constantinos Alexandrou gave up his home to MI5 - a move he claims cost him his relationship. The justice and security bill is 'a chilling affront to British justice'. Secret courts being pushed by Ken Clarke, should have no place within our judicial system. Mayor's plea for Bristolians to come together to save money on electricity bills. Bristol Switch and Save is a new not-for-profit collective buying scheme where residents and small businesses on a domestic tariff can join together to get a better deal: visit www.bristolswitchandsave.org.uk Families can be better off on benefits than in work, says Bristol City Council-run advice line. The Family Information Service, based in Easton, is designed to provide statutory advice to parents on everything from child minding regulation to finding play groups, but manager Wendy Jackson said that most of the advice given now relates to the affordability of child care provision. Advisor Jessica Kelly, who specialises in giving young mums this sort of sensitive financial advice, said the team never directly encourage parents not return to work. But she added: "There can be situations where, if a person took a job for just a few hours per week they could end up being financially worse-off than being on benefits. Bristol has highest child poverty figures in south west. A quarter of all children in live in poverty, a new report claims. When given by constituency Bristol South has an even higher level of deprivation, with 29 per cent of children living in poverty. UN official alarmed by rise of food banks in UK. Britons' reliance on handouts could represent human rights abuse says Olivier de Schutter, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. “The right to an adequate diet is required under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (IESCR),” Mr de Schutter told The Independent. “Governments have a responsibility in ensuring adequate diets.” Nottingham Costa Worker picked from 1,700 applicants for just eight jobs at new coffee shop Just 3 of the jobs - with wages from £5.40 to £10-an-hour - were full-time Some rejected applicants had more than 15 years experience in retail More than 1,700 job hunters applied for just eight vacancies at a new cafe it emerged today - highlighting the extent of the employment crisis across Britain. So where did it come from? The answer is simple. The bill is the idea of the very people it will most benefit – the intelligence services, civil servants and government ministers – which is why they are lobbying like hell for it. Amnesty International, JUSTICE, Liberty and Reprieve say Secret courts threat graver than ever after government overturns Lords amendments to Justice & Security Bill Tory MP Andrew Tyrie warns that government is in danger of 'closing down access to the truth' Ken Clarke, the minister without portfolio in charge of the legislation. Anger over £1m pay deals for rail bosses as fares keep going up Information obtained under the Freedom of Information Act showed executives at Go-Ahead, FirstGroup and Network Rail were getting deals worth more than £1m when assorted bonuses and other benefits were taken into account. Meanwhile, a passenger satisfaction survey published today by consumer magazine Which? shows that more than half of the companies running Britain's train network were given scores of less than 50 per cent. The research showed that only 22 per cent of train users felt the service they received was improving, despite rising ticket prices. It was revealed last month that ScotRail boss Stephen Montgomery received a £54,000 pay rise, taking his salary up to £333,000 in 2012. The company is owned by FirstGroup, where chief executive Tim O’Toole was paid £846,000 last year, plus a £134,000 pension contribution and £75,000 as benefits in kind. Accounts showed that, in the year ending March 2012, FirstGroup made an operating profit of £110.5m on its UK rail business. The FirstGroup chief executive's remuneration package was worth more than £1m last year. The American executive left a lucrative job with London Underground – where he earned the CBE for his response to the London 7/7 bombings – to join FirstGroup. [audio: 201302221700]
Second hour: Forget Oscar Pistorious - 9/11 and Philip Marshall Murder/Suicide? A Trip To Murphys Philip Marshall allegedly shot his two teenage children Alex Marshall (17) and Macaila Marshall (14), his dog, and then himself inside his home in Murphys, California, while his “estranged” wife was out of the country. A former guest on Coast to Coast with George Noory, Marshall’s bio for that site states “Marshall has researched 30 years of covert government activities, a revolving door of Wall Street tricksters, media moguls and their well funded politicians into every branch of our government. Post 9/11, Marshall has led a comprehensive, ten year study into the tactical plan used by the 9/11 hijackers and is the leading aviation expert on the September 11th attack.” The same biography also describes Marshall as a “former government special activities contract pilot.” Bilderberg attendee Amazon 'used neo-Nazi guards to keep immigrant workforce under control' in Germany Amazon is at the centre of a deepening scandal in Germany as the on-line shopping giant faced claims that it employed security guards with neo-Nazi connections to intimidate its foreign workers. ARD television channel made the allegations in a documentary about Amazon's treatment of more than 5,000 temporary staff from across to work at its German packing and distribution centres. The film showed omnipresent guards from a company named HESS Security wearing black uniforms, boots and with military haircuts. They were employed to keep order at hostels and budget hotels where foreign workers stayed. “Many of the workers are afraid,” the programme-makers said. The Brussels Business documentary is shown on English Language channel Russia Today which looks at Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) in Brussels. Revealed: UK sells arms to Sri Lanka's brutal regime despite litany of rights abuses The sales indicate how far President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government has been welcomed back into the international fold by Britain, despite the behaviour of his armed forces during the brutal last few months of the 2009 civil war. The conflict was the culmination of a 30-year conflict with violent Tamil Tiger separatists and resulted in the deaths of between 60,000 and 100,000 people over a four-month period, most of whom were civilians. Sen. Lindsey Graham says US drones have killed nearly 5,000 people. For the first time ever, a senior US senator has publicly announced the number of victims of America's ever expanding drone war - and apparently it's even bigger than some independent researchers have suggested. “We've killed 4,700,” the Council for Foreign Relations says Senator Graham told the crowd. “Sometimes you hit innocent people, and I hate that, but we're at war, and we've taken out some very senior members of Al-Qaeda.” International financial consultant and former member of staff at the Bank of England Muhammad Rafeeq (part 2) (part 3) on his experience doing Data Processing (DP) at the bank in the 1980s converting the old paper system of guarantees to a new electronic version. He believes our core understanding of banking is deliberately misleading, misunderstanding to the core. The City of London is like a cult, now a criminal cult, with positions on the banking boards going only to Old Etonians. Banking slavery, he says, is the norm, with a tiny financial elite keeping the population in bondage. We just had a brief respite since the second world war. Most people prefer to wait for the train crash to happen rather than work to stop the crash happening. Criminal elite defrauding the public through figures of of £70-80 trillion in the Libor scandal yet not a single person has gone to court. There is no longer any moral hazard to fraud in the City of London. Martin Summers describes Britain as having become a 'Mafia State. [audio: 201302221800]
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and Marina Morris
First hour: Tonight's guest United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) councillor on Bradley Stoke Town Council Ben Walker defected from the Conservatives to UKIP about a year ago and Conservative councillor at Bradley Stoke Keir Gravil resigned this week. Discussion on BAe Systems' closure of Bristol's historic Filton airfield and the continuing failure of developers to get planning permission from South Gloucestershire Council to build housing on the old runway. The 'Big Four' 'financial services' firms KPMG, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte & Ernst & Young all subject of Competition Commission (CC)'s investigation into price fixing and fraud. CC have missed two deadlines already for delivering their report on these four powerful companies who signed off insolvent bank's accounts as healthy in the run-up to the 2008 crash. Discussed with Old Labour Oxford economist Martin Summers. A 'volunteer' from KPMG, Matt Payne, has been recruited as advisor to mayor Ferguson. Horse meat being passed off as beef scandal: Horsemeat found at Bradley Stoke meat firm Greencore labelled as beef for human consumption this morning. Environment Secretary Owen Patterson reports to the House of Commons; Stephen Williams in PMQs asks question about Christian Aid event around tax evasion, profit reporting and transparency - only with doubtful political will it ever happen; Gareth Thomas in PMQs: 4000 fewer police on London's streets after the first two years of the Coalition government; Stephen Powell in PMQs on the millionaires tax cut in April he asks Cameron directly whether he benefited personally from this tax break but Prime Minister David Cameron refuses to answer. What does this tell us about the present political class who seem to be running the country in their own personal interest; Is it good in the modern NHS when a patient dies because it frees up a bed? Former NHS Chief Executive Gary Walker from Lincolnshire NHS Trust and gagging clauses, NHS culture needs to change, general discussion on gagging clauses including those imposed by the BBC and by Bristol City Council's head of legal services Stephen McNamara on sacked Avon Coroner Paul Forrest; Bristol Port boss David Ord is a Conservative donor and denies directly lobbying the PM against building the Severn barrage; voxpop by Marina Morris on the newly introduced law allowing gay marriage, many Bristolians asked don't think it's a good idea. [audio: 201302151700]
Second hour: A round up of the weeks international news with Martin Summers. a court case about 9/11 is coming in Horsham, Sussex on Monday 25th February where Anthony Rooke of Christians for 9/11 Truth is suing the BBC for aiding and abetting terrorism under Section 15 Article 3 of the Terrorism Act 2000; North Korea conducts underground nuclear test this week so where did they get their nuclear weapons? Could it be lost plutonium or enriched uranium or even complete warheads from Russia or the NATO countries? Martin explains that the Conservative party may have been involved in a secret fundraising deal to illegally sell nuclear weapons back in the early 1990s and reminds us that Central TV investigative journalist Roger Cook was offered former Soviet SS20 warheads on the black market. Syrian rebels may now be training to attack Britain says Tory Foreign Secretary William Hague at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) but Martin Summers is doubtful and asks why would they when they want to oust Assad & Britain has helped train them & supply them with weapons? Severe water shortage brewing in the middle east according to US satellite surveys by NASA. Will Stone from Avon and Bristol Law Centre about a disabled client of his Dan Glue who was bullied by French company employed by the Department of Work and Pensions ATOS, who were paid £112.4m of public money to carry out 738,000 assessments in the last two years. The bedroom tax will lead to evictions as people are unable to pay their rent, Will advises them to come to Avon & Bristol or another law centre as they may be able to stop evictions. Stupidity of evicting people from a cheap two bedroom home into a non-existent one-bedroom home that may not exist and be more expensive. Zaki Dogliani, a student deputy editor news section of the student magazine Epigram, discusses the magazine and some stories he has recently covered including the marketisation of the University. Miko Peled, who wrote the book 'A General's Son', explodes myths of the state of Israel including fake Biblical excuses for building illegal settlements and double standards over the 'right to return'. Interview with Steve Jolly from www.no-cctv.org.uk about new principle of "surveillance by consent" that the recently published "Surveillance Cameras Code of Practice" now up for consultation. New Argus drone which has an ultra-high resolution camera for putting entire domestic cities under permanent surveillance. BBC on strike on monday over compulsory redundancies as these are unnecessary and used by management to sack people for political reasons. [audio: 201302151800]
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After six:
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First hour: Non story of the week: RBS fined disappointing £380m over Libor, no directors arrested or jailed. News review with Conservative Councillor for Westbury-On-Trym and Deputy Mayor of Bristol Geoff Gollop. Mayor George Ferguson's three 'volunteer' budget advisers: Matt Payne from financial services firm KPMG which signed off accounts of bankrupt banks pre 2008 & is being investigated for fraud by the Competition Commission, Sean Cater from privatised utility firm Wessex Water & Malachy Reynolds from bankrupt chocolate firm Elizabeth Shaw. Privatised 'Work Programme' providers fraudulently pushing benefit claimants into self-employment to get 5 figure bonuses and reduce jobless figures. You can download the podcast of this BBC Radio 5 Live programme. Will Osborne’s bedroom tax add more to social security bill? Yes says Channel 4 News. Ed Miliband tackles Cameron at PMQs. Findus lasagne products made from 100% horse meat - France, Poland and Ireland appear to be responsible and this lie not picked up in the UK but in Ireland. Recessions compared by the National Institute for Economic and Social Affairs (NIESR): In May 2011 it became clear this is worst recession for at least a century, 5 years into the 1930s depression growth was 7% higher than 2008 to now; no recovery until 2018 warns NIESR; Iraq war activists to get £4000 compensation over 2003 protest; Metropolitan police behaving like UK Stasi: dead children's identities used by Scotland Yard police for undercover infiltration of lawful political groups. [audio: 201302081700]
Second hour: investigative reports - Financial crimes: click on this to read Paul Manning's book on the Fourth Reich Mafia Finance Network - Round up of international news stories with Martin Summers: trouble between Japan and China; corruption of the Spanish Prime Minister Rajoy being paid from the secret slush funds of private developers; Russian military conscription is being introduced for all new young migrants. Campaign for Accountability of American Bases (CAAB) February 2013 newsletter is just out and contains much to be concerned about including a list of RAF bases which contain only one or two, or ZERO RAF personnel: RAF Croughton 1, RAF Fairford 0, RAF Welford 0, RAF Barford St John 0, Blenheim Crescent 0, RAF Lakenheath 1, RAF Feltwell 0, RAF Menwith Hill 3. RAF Mildenhall 4, RAF Alconbury 1, RAF Molesworth 2. Figures revealed in answer to a parliamentary question by Conservative MP for Rayleigh and Wickford, Mark Francois. Link to the indomitable CAAB website. Interview with Daphne Havercroft from South West Whistleblowers' Health Action Group (SWWHAG) concerning recent deaths at Mid-Staffordshire Hospital and systemic failings of the NHS. 'Business' mentality at the top of Bristol NHS questioned: Bristol UHB Trust chaired by Merchant Venturer John Savage and UHB Trust chaired by Peter Rillet, also a Merchant Venturer. Mike Birkin from South West Friends of the Earth discusses Centrica's pulling out of the UK Nuclear Power programme and Cumbrian nuclear waste site refused planning permission. What does this mean for the prospects of new nuclear at Hinkley Point? In 1973 Mike attended a lecture by William Sargant, author of the book 'The Battle For The Mind' and was impressed with his analysis of cults such as voodoo and how they use rituals to alter members' thinking. Transfer of these techniques to tell people what to think in the global political arena through the mass media. Journalist and writer for the Guardian and New Statesman Dan Glazebrook on this week's assassination in Tunisia and the way the so-called Arab Spring is playing out as a fight between Chinese and NATO interests in harvesting the continent's resources. Dan gives his opinion on who will win this colonial military and economic conflict as it plays out, and why. [audio: 201302081800]
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After six:
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First hour: Difference between Debt and Deficit explained as UK Deficit begins to grow again. News review with LibDem Councillor for Knowle Gary Hopkins. Iceland's president Grimmson vindicated for refusing to pay debts and arresting bankers. Britain's deficit is getting worse as well as debt growing so what is the difference between Debt and Deficit? The government borrowed more than expected in November, Office for National Statistics data shows, reducing the chance that the government will meet its 2012/13 deficit reduction goal. Introduction from guest Gary Hopkins. Discussion about the new Bristol cabinet which is mostly LibDems so what has changed? News stories - Mayor George Ferguson has cancelled Speedwell Pool; new crisis loans from local government; who are George Ferguson's three advisers from KPMG and how much are they paid and where do their loyalties lie? Is the mayor a dictator? Does George know KPMG are under investigation for fraud by the competition commission; Office of Fair Trading report says there is no petrol price fixing by the oil cartels - 2/3 fuel cost is tax, Libor style fixing of wholesale oil prices, geo-political games; BBC's Stephanie Flanders interviews Chief Executive of Goldman Sachs Lloyd Blankfein at the World Economic Forum in Davos in Switzerland; clip of Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland, about why Iceland's economy is flourishing after his judges arrested and jailed bankers; clip of at PMQ about UKs debt going up despite austerity measures - discussion about the economy, the deficit, and tax avoidance; the parasitic financial class are a cancer on British economic life, everyone is looking at each other as they start to go backwards down the up escalator and debts will never be paid off. Some evidence that tax evaders who keep their money secretly in Swiss bank accounts are being taxed under the 'Rubik Accord' but there is no transparency or audit trail, all done on 'trust' of the Swiss banks. First Great Western will not now have to compete for the Great Western rail franchise. Franchise rail contest will no longer take place, is this because First Group were caught out by Richard Branson's Virgin cheating over the West Coast main line franchise bid? PMQs about why won't Prime Minister David Cameron visit a food bank? Top police jobs may be opened up to anyone, including foreigners, like unsuccessful 'SuperCops' like LA California's Bill Bratton in the United States. [audio: 201302011700]
Second hour: (our 93.2 FM transmitter outage for 40 seconds or so at around 18:37:00 included here in the podcast) Israel bombs Syria to provoke war & investigative reports. Round up of some international stories with Martin Summers - Syria, Mali, Israel; a clip from Ofcom banned Iranian channel Press TV about Hispan TV, the Spanish language Iranian TV station for Latin-America that has been shut down in Spain; the EUTEL satellite which blocked the channel, run by Michel de Rosen a French/Israeli chief executive so are they using their satellite as a weapon of war? Perhaps the satellite should be shot down for censorship? Dutch royal family abdicates, and some of their interests. Steve Rose phones in to discuss a conference on 'Journalism and Islamophobia' he has attended in Turkey. Tony and Martin discuss the destruction of Timbuktu library of Arabic manuscripts. Respect party MP George Galloway at PMQs asking why the Coalition government supports Islamic extremists in Syria and Libya but not in Mali & Algeria? Gary McFarlane, a former counsellor for Relate, who was sacked because he didn't feel qualified to help a gay couple with sexual counselling. Sex addiction, love addiction & personal relationship counsellor Gary McFarlane and author of The Art Of Loving sacked by Relate for his faith fights his case of unfair dismissal through the courts. Now counselling in his own Bristol practice. [audio: 201302011800]
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the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
and Marina Morris
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Airbus One magazine October 2012 has a map of the company's production
sites which omits Filton.
First hour: news review with former mayoral candidate and both Labour and Tory Avon County Councillor. EXCLUSIVE Airbus magazine airbrushes Filton site from in-house production map. Tim Collins, former mayoral candidate. Discussion about the December 2012 closure of Filton airfield and the Airbus' One in house magazine which excludes Filton in their illustration of production plants. Tory buildin co. boss Cullum McAlpine has been blacklisting builders who report health and safety concerns but doesn't think he's done anything wrong, somehow. The Consulting Association (TCA), chaired by Cullum McAlpine. TCA boss Ian Kerr died just before Christmas 2012, here he is, 2 weeks before he died, in front of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee. He appears to have got hold of copies of police files or had them compiled on workers' compare with CAPRIM (1990s) and the Economic League (1970s-1980s); employment 'rises' but is it only part-time work as wages stagnate - people on benefit 'work programmes' included as employed; crime figures - fiddling figures by lowering 'priority' of some crimes; Mayor George Ferguson's new cabinet; but the Greens ask 'Where is the new blood'? David Cameron's Europe speech; Yeovil man dies after nurses gave him 21 x dose of his medication but family let down because nurses are unlikely to be prosecuted; PMQs on question about being forced to live on £2 a day. [audio: 201301251700]
Second hour: Martin Falmer, Labour councillor for Cadbury Heath, discusses the partial closure of Cadbury Heath youth centre and Cadbury Heath Post Office moving to a Costcutter shop away from where pensioners live. Roz Beauhill and DU author Joanne Baker discuss how they would like Bristol to be a nuclear free local authority again. Nuclear Free Bristol campaign launched to persuade Bristol City Council to go 'nuclear free'. They discuss the dangers and difficulties of nuclear power, it's direct link through Depleted Uranium (DU) and H bomb core plutonium to the military and how there are plenty of sustainable energies that could be used. Nuclear is not green? Explanation of difference between enriched uranium & depleted uranium. Marina Morris's Voxpops asking Bristol people if they have heard of the local nuclear trains and what they think of nuclear power. Michael Shrimpton, barrister and author of the forthcoming book, Spycatcher, with his theories on why government scientist Dr David Kelly was murdered. Links to French and German shipments of Plutonium to Iran? Murder all but proven by the book The Strange Death of Dr David Kelly by Norman Baker MP. Real power, financial elite, in the Western world gather at Davos in Switzerland this weekend for World Economic Forum 2013 (WEF). Sitting down with David Cameron and Boris Johnson, the three top Tories were caught on camera flanked by half a dozen aides and security officers eating out at a cosy restaurant in Davos on Thursday night. Greenpeace activist Ben Stewart managed to snap the trio tucking into pizza and fondue at the Alte Post Hotel in the alpine resort during the World Economic Forum. Bloomberg's spiked World Economic Forum article 'Davos' Dubious Strategic Partners' by James Gibney [article has magically 'reappeared' after 'Your browser sent a query this server could not understand' [audio: 201301251800]
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After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
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First hour: News review with Paul Flynn, Labour MP for Newport West, suspended from the House of Commons for calling Defence Secretary Philip Hammond MP and Foreign Secretary William Hague MP liars over Afghanistan war. Charity Commission reject charitable status for Christian sect the Exclusive Brethren. Jessop's, HMV and Blockbusters all go bankrupt, into administration, this week. Causes are internet and/or cuts. President of Iceland Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir says the secret to getting economy moving is not cutting benefits. New Bristol Rovers' stadium and Sainsbury's off the Gloucester Rd gets planning permission. Clips of Prime Ministers' Questions. 24,000 deaths of over 75s in winter 2011; housing benefit and general benefit cap forcing people to move into homes that aren't there; Evidence on front page of last week's Sunday Express that Jimmy Savile was part of a Stoke Mandeville satanic ring - Savile was boasting that police friends would abuse their office to get him off all charges. Corruption at the top, blackmail. New investigation by Scotland Yard into Barnes Common Elm Guest House paedophile ring brought up by Tom Watson MP at Question Time in October 2012. Voxpops on the cuts. Severn bridge tolls go up again but if Welsh Parliament were to take over the bridge tolls could only be around £1.00 for a car not the present £6.20. Damages business that need to use bridge and bears no relevance to the actual cost. Severn Bridge Annual Income £80m; Cost: £15m. Stuart Colner Transport Professor University Of Glamorgan. [audio: 201301181700]
Second hour: Journalist and political researcher Dan Glazebrook takes a look at this week's intervention in Mali and the BP siege in Eastern Algeria. Forces behind the hostage taking & siege at gas production plant. Role of the African Union and Pentagon controlled AfriCom running Pentagon military training now in 35 African countries displacing power of the African Union. 2011 murder of Colonel Gaddafi has tipped the balance in favour of colonial control of Africa rather than self-determination. Former MEP for South West England Richard Cottrell comments on Bristol's public transport. Richard's forthcoming Kindle Book will be entitled 'Bomber Beeching and his War on the Railways'. Will mayor George Ferguson's proposed Congestion Charge be good for Bristol? Is assisted suicide compatible with doctors' Hippocratic oath? Timothy Rogers from Rudry Village near Caerphilly is concerned about plays being shown to children which contain psychological triggers for suicide. Possible explanation for Bridgend suicide cluster? Also look at the ethics, the rights and wrongs of assisted suicide. Suicide help and advice. [audio: 201301181800]
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the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin
Summers
For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.
First hour: news review with South West Crime Panel member and LibDem Bristol City Councillor for Horfield, Pete Levy. Organised criminals deleting evidence & accessing officers' personal information on Police National Computers, 2008 Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) report 'Private Investigators: The Rogue Element of the Private Investigation Industry and Others Unlawfully Trading in Personal Data' or 'Project Riverside' leaked to Andy Davies at Channel 4 news. It explains that private investigators are: 'a. accessing the Police National Computer to perform unauthorised checks; b. accessing internal police databases including those containing serving officers' private details; c. unauthorised checking of details of vehicles involved in surveillance on PNC (Police National Computer); d. accessing details of current investigation against a criminal or criminal group; e. checking premises and vehicles for technical equipment deployed by law enforcement; f. identifying current law enforcement interest in an organised crime group; g. deleting intelligence records from law enforcement databases; h. providing organised crime groups with counter-surveillance techniques; i. accessing their own or associates' recorded convictions; j. attempting to discover identity of CHISes (Informants); k. attempting to discover location of witnesses; l. attempting to discover location of witnesses under police protection to intimidate them; m. accessing DVLA databases.' Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn, found guilty of misconduct in public office for tipping off News of the World hacking criminals that they were under investigation. Avon and Somerset Chief Constable Colin Port loses High Court action against new Police Commissioner Sue Mountstevens trying to keep his job, new Chief Constable to be announced next Wednesday. Con-Dem government decision to increase benefits by less than inflation will make seven million families – half of Britain’s working households – worse off by an average of £165 a year, according to an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). Bristol budget cuts: more than 300 posts will be shed from the council's 7,000 workforce, of which about 100 are likely to be compulsory redundancies. Outraged prison officers warned today that Britain's whole justice system was heading for a meltdown after the Con-Dems announced plans to axe seven jails. Tory Justice Secretary Chris Grayling dropped the bombshell on corrections staff as he cheerfully announced he was axing seven prisons across England and Wales, including HMP Gloucester & Shepton Mallet - despite widespread overcrowding and record prison populations. People due to retire in the next 12 months will be more than £3,000 a year worse off than those who retired in 2008. Prudential's 'Class of 2013' research has found that people retiring this year expect an average annual income of £15,300, a drop from £15,500 last year and a significant fall of 18 per cent on the £18,700 reported in 2008. Deutsche Bank Made Huge Bet, and Profit, on LIBOR rate fixing. Aberdeen City Council mannequin candidate taken into custody, acquitted this week of election fraud. [audio: 201301111700]
Second hour: Investigative reports: Discussion about connections between WWI, WWII and the present-day secret financial rulers of the NATO zone, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland who helped fund the rise of Hitler's Nazi party in the 1930s. Death at 95 of Charles Chilton, the writer behind Richard Attenborough's 1969 film 'Oh! What A Lovely War' about the hypocrisy of World War One using some of the actual songs sung by soldiers in the trenches. Death this week of BBC's last honest Director General Alasdair Milne, sacked in 1987, whose son Seamus Milne is a Guardian columnist. How Alasdair Milne was sacked with the connivance of Labour's 'kingmaker' Lord Victor Rothschild and Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher after broadcasting programmes such as 'Secret Society' about secret cabinet committees, 'My Country Right Or Wrong' about Northern Ireland and 'Maggie's Militant Tendency' about the Tory far right, all of which were critical of the Thatcher government. Granada TV's 'World In Action' investigative documentary series retrospective on ITV this week: [VIDEO] The World In Action Years. Frank documentaries transmitted on miscarriages of justice, military mutinies, Nazi war criminals at large and corruption at all levels of the British government. EXCLUSIVE: Was BBC presenter Jimmy Savile procuring Haut de la Garenne children's home boys in Jersey for former Prime Minister Ted Heath to sexually abuse on his boat 'Morning Cloud' and were these victims subsequently murdered? Assassinations of Princess Diana and former Labour Foreign Secretary Robin Cook with barrister Michael Shrimpton. Despicable failure of BBC Trust chairman & senior Tory Chris Patten to deal effectively with internal BBC censorship of the Jimmy Savile story. [audio: 201301111800]
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Summers
First hour: Bristol City Slackers, councillors who refuse to come on the radio and/or answer emails. News review with Ron Stone acting Labour group leader and councillor for St. George West. Decision to join George Ferguson's cabinet was taken by local Labour party but reviewed by regional National Executive and overturned. Budget to be announced on Monday at 10pm but it is really a Liberal Democrat budget drawn up by Simon Cook, the LibDem leader in the run-up to November 2012's mayoral elections. A minimum £3m million in cuts to be announced which is nearly 10%. President Obama signed 'fiscal cliff' package but only for next 2 months, Hargeaves Lansdown say, a big box has been ticked. Bristol City Council spending by 2020, according to Municipal Journal, budget will be cut by 40%. 5 billion by 2020. Tax claw back agreement with Swiss banks signed on 1st January 2013 by Chancellor George Osborne. HMRC will get the money from tax evaders, criminals, over 6 years. See case of Rudolf Elmer who supplied names of tax evading criminals to Wikileaks and was arrested and tried for hos trouble - wrote a book called Tax Heavens explaining the Swiss are colluding with criminals. In this case the individuals will be anonymous. Largest tax evasion in history, George Osborne. Danny Boyle & Ken Livingstone turned down Knighthoods, but FSA head in run up and during 2008 financial crisis Hector Sands, criticised by Tory and Labour MPs as discrediting the honours system. Hector Sands prosecuted and sacked a whistleblower when a director of UBS. Davos meeting of World Economic Forum which is on from 23-27th January 2013 which we will be following. Government propose use of smartcards in gyms to check overweight benefit claimants are exercising or they may withdraw benefits. Coalition government launch attack on benefit system. New governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney, told to steer away from politics as he fraternises with Liberal party people in Canada, being tipped as Prime Minister of Canada before taking Bank of England job. But Carney is a secret Bilderberg meeting participant who looks to have been selected in Rome at a secret Bilderberg Steering group meeting just under 2 weeks before the announcement Carney would be Bank of England governor. Carney is also a former employee of Goldman Sachs who caused the financial crisis. How independent is the Bank of England and is it a good thing, if so why? David Cameron gives New Years Eve speech in London saying UK is "On the night track" but debt to GDP has gone up and economy is shrinking jobs are mostly -part time jobs, not enough demand for goods & services. The public have lost £23bn so far bailing out the banks that we will never get back. Bailout not included in any of these figures. Ron Stine wants to build 4000 council homes in Bristol. Ethical pension funds to pay because 14,000 are on the Bristol waiting list for housing. But not on greenbelt, an open invitation for ethical investment which was offered to mayor George Ferguson today & Bristol director of housing. James Durie and Bristol’s Local Enterprise Partnership will have to approve land deals as they are a private company set to manage all council property as part of Nick Clegg’s Bristol City Deal. Lloyds TSB customer disaster on New Years Eve cash points broke, not for 40 years but happening regularly now. Tax payer lost £23 billion on bailing banks. BBC and Freeview transmitter serving 80,000 people is sabotaged in Bath on Thursday morning? [audio: 201301041700]
Second hour: Investigative reports. This week: Public transport & the Concorde crash latest. Rail fare increases and Bristol's Bus Rapid Transit scheme hits the rocks. After the July 2000 Air France Concorde crash in Paris that killed 113 people a court decision has overturned corporate manslaughter charges against Continental Airlines. So what really happened and who was to blame? Why did the accident lead to the permanent grounding of Concorde? The last but most prestigious Bristol built & designed aircraft. Daylight robbery First Great Western invited to explain fare rises but did not return, Steve Satan from Rail Future. Rail fares have gone up 1% above inflation 10 years in a row now. Government is now subsidising railways more than ever and Network Rail has a £200m loan to service. Rail fuel duty has gone up too and McNulty report is totally de-regulating the rail fares advocating doubling fares in peak times. Not sustainable for commuters, Department for transport invented the numbers. There is an overall lack of direction - profiteering off the rail infrastructure and our need to get around. No plan, free market! We should abolish rail duty HS2 route is another flawed design, Chilterns a bad place to run it. John Prescott promised to have an integrated transport policy. Bolivia nationalises two big Spanish owned electricity companies. Michael Shrimpton QC has written a book called SpyHunter but his flat was raided by Thames Valley police and he’s having trouble publishing it in the UK so he gives us a sneak preview. On the Falkland conflict he believes Argentina is dominated by Germans and former Nazis and Nazi sympathisers. Description of Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann, Sir Edward Bridges, Lord Halifax pro German. Bismark sunk HMS Hood in 1941. Christopher Storey was murdered by the German DVD, poisoned in fact. After the July 2000 Air France Concorde crash in Paris that killed 113 people a court decision has overturned corporate manslaughter charges against Continental Airlines. So what really happened and who was to blame? Why did the accident lead to the permanent grounding of Concorde? Concorde crash, Continental Airlines DC-10 debris theory dismissed in November 2012. Original story was a pack of lies, Michael Shrimpton QC. Concorde Paris crash in 2000 killed 113 people and Concorde was taken out of service in 2003. Break even load on Concorde was 30% and it was running at 50% load so still profitable. Spare parts were moved down to Toulouse so British Airways could no longer service their planes. Bristol company BAC made the plane not the French. [audio: 201301041800]
Review of the year followed by comprehensive talk 'The Warfare Stare' by former CIA officer and whistleblower Philip Agee
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First hour: news review with the longest serving member of the Conservative party in Britain, retired army officer, Bristol born, Harry Beckhough, who at 98, has been a member continuously for 85 years. Harry was a code breaker in World War Two, ran and started various clothing businesses and started a prep school which is still going strong in the Vale of York. He is the author of several books including an autobiography Thinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and books about Germany's Fourth Reich as he believes the Nazis continued their evil work after the end of the second world war, abandoning the swastika in public and laundering the money they looted from Europe to create a secret financial and industrial empire. No longer using panzer tanks but finance capital to 'buy up' their enemies and take them over that way instead. He is a staunch anti EU campaigner as he believes an undemocratic EU promotes this Nazi power today. The weeks news stories are reviewed by Harry & Martin Summers: LibDem leader Nick Clegg’s speech, five years into his job as LibDem leader, but Clegg seems to be a waffling salesman, out of touch with reality; Wikileaks is arguably the most courageous publisher in the Western world today and we hear founder Julian Assange who gave a ‘Christmas Message’ from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London this week expressing contempt for lying UK mainstream media which is now lying to the public saying it has been captured by enemies of ordinary people. The censored film ‘Unlawful Killing’, Victor Lewis-Smith and Keith Allen's 2011 documentary about what is officially the murder of Princess Diana since the inquest jury returned the unlawful killing verdict, was available to watch in the UK online for the first time this week - now taken down it got around 2.2 million downloads, nevertheless this documentary is still banned here in the UK, it blames several riders of high powered motorcycles and the driver of a white Fiat Uno for the killing, not the Paparazzi as the British press have intimated; the final Prime Minister’s Questions before the Christmas holiday: David Crausby MP, asking why the City Bankers have not been arrested yet, reminding the house of the Great Train Robbers who were jailed for decdes but stole far less money, seeing how much values and morals have changed since then; Prime Minister David Cameron PMQ confrontation with Labour leader Ed Miliband who talks about the rise in the use of Food Banks, including for the working poor; plus one MP, Ian Lavery, waves a suicide note from a now dead disabled person who had their social security money cut but the Prime Minister denies there have been any cuts to benefits for disabled people in Britain that they are indeed getting more money now. [audio: 201212211700]
Second hour: Interview with John McDonnell, MP for Hayes and Harlington. He is a Labour party leadership contender and explains how he would like to lead a more radical Labour policy against coalition austerity and cuts. He is concerned that Labour may be loosing it’s core voters, who may simply not be voting, by compromising on the cuts. British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, breaking constitutional tradition to inculcate herself into the highest political circles and decision making body in the land, even attending cabinet this week for the first time in 230 years since George III did so in 1781. Britain is being run by a tiny cult-like group of Eton Bullingdon Club members who believe they have been born to rule. Not unlike the queen, which makes one wonder if they really believe in democracy at all. The United States navy has moved two Aircraft Carriers from the Eastern to the Western Mediterranean which suggests they may be cooling off on intentions to attack President Assad of Syria. Martin and Harry discuss possible reasons for this enigmatic move and conclude that a deal may have been done with the Russians behind the scenes, particularly after the arrival of Russian Iskander missiles in Syria which can destroy Patriot missile launchers and Aircraft Carriers. Discussion with Harry Beckhough about the European Union and the recent rise in military power of the German armed forces which, as of this year, are authorised to operate outside Germany for the first time since World War 2. Tony Cripps, late of Occupy Bristol, has moved with scores of others into All Hallows Hall in Easton which is being turned into a community centre less controlled than the one run by the council. Tonight’s ‘Doomsday Machine’ gig, marking the ‘Mayan prophecy’ night of 21st December 2012 is likely to be a success. Moheen Yaseen is the director of Islamic think tank ‘Global Vision 2000’ and he examines what his group believes are the spiritual roots of the financial crisis, describing the western banking cartel as ‘Draculas’. [audio: 201212211800]
First hour: News review with Gus Hoyt, Green councillor for Ashley ward and member of Bristol City Council cabinet along with Simon Cooke (Lib), Geoff Gollop (Con) and mayor, George Ferguson. Gus Hoyt's new role in the Cabinet, spending our money but the budget is already decided. Martin Summers explains why Labour decided not to join the Cabinet. Discussion about the Preview Bar in Fairfax Street squat in Bristol City centre that got illegally evicted by police at midnight last night shortly after starting and one of the new occupiers explains what they were planning, live music, political discussion workshops & a donations only cafe, and why? Clip of Geraldine widow of Republican Pat Finucane and discussion of this story of the conspiracy to murder republican lawyer Pat Finucane by the British army and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) police force, collusion in N. Ireland. Story about the present housing crisis and discussion. 2 million people on housing waiting lists & 75,000 children homeless this Christmas in the UK. The Greater Bristol Bus Network being nominated in the UK Bus Awards. First Group can't be trusted, just look at the West coast main line franchise fisaco, running a privatised bus racket. West Somerset Council going bankrupt even though it is one of the richest counties in the country. Clip of David Cameron's gaff ar Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) in House of Commons: "We are raising more money for the rich." The SNP's Western Isles MP Angus Brendan MacNeil gets shouted down by Tory MPs, as he tries to make the case against austerity by flagging up Iceland. Iceland's successful economy driven by domestic demand & delivering growth of 2.5% after arresting and prosecuting bankers. Story of HSBC being fined for taking money from drug trafficking now being fined £1.2bn and Lord Green, former HSBC chairman, is still in the cabinet . Labour MP Dennis Skinner in House of Commons on the 'snoopers' charter' Communications and Data bill. Clip of Williamson from the House of Commons talking about the Green Investment Bank. [audio: 201212141700]
Second hour: Interview with Kevin Philips, Chairman of Avon and Somerset Police Federation. He talks about police cuts and how they are considering striking, a ballot taking place early in 2013. General agreement that the government needs to continue to negotiate with the police federation if it values law and order. Discussion on the role of the new Police and Crime Commissioner Sue Mountstevens. Lee Salter, Senior Journalism Lecturer at the University of West of England, (UWE) film he has just made about the City of London called Secret City. website - www.secretcity-thefilm.com. Former ambassador to Uzbekistan and head of maritime law at the Craig Murray talking about 'real politik' how deals are made in the Middle East. Syria arms race latest: Discussion of international news stories with Martin Summers. [audio: 201212141800]
At five:
discussing
the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin
Summers
For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.
First hour: News review with Labour Councillor for Cadbury Heath, Martin Farmer. Cuts to Cadbury Heath youth centre. Now only open 2 days a week. Chancellor & Bilderberger George Osborne's Autumn Statement delivered in Winter due to 'delays'. George Osborne and shadow chancellor Ed Balls spar in the Commons but Balls founders around making elementary mistakes such as whether the defecit has risen or fallen. Should the banks be nationalised? First ever freeze on benefits at 1% for the next three years. Lloyds and RBS already are nationalised. Ordinary people in Cadbury Heath don't feel connected with manistream political parties. Martin Farmer explains how he tries to connect with people on local issues. 'Sponsor A Scholar' website set up preying on the poor & offering to pay tuition fees of students in exchange for sex & 'escort' work. Fake job adverts put up on government website & used to 'harvest' personal data of jobseekers including passports for 'identity theft'. Again exploiting the poor. ITV documentary 'Richard Madeley Meets The Squatters' on prime time TV last night featuring Bristol squatters group Bham. Rights and wrongs of leaving buildings, particularly offices, empty and of squatting. Life of Hinkley B Nuclear power station near Bridgwater extended by seven years. Questions over whether extending beyond its design life is really safe or just trying to make money compromising safety. Leveson report, is there any chance of any truly 'independent' panel to oversee press regulation in Britain? Will Clifton victim of police & press lies, who was branded a murderer, be on the new 'independent' press complaints panel? Mr Jeffries is currently suing Avon & Somerset police press office for leaking his name to the press. If he wins the individuals involved don't have to pay, the public do. David Hencke is awarded Political Journalist of the Year award this week criticises 'Bonkers Logic of Life Of Brian Leveson'. Ofcom's consumer panel was chosen by corporate headhunters Odgers and not truly representing the public. Will the press regulator be the same? Former child actor Ben Fellows describes systematic abuse of young people in the entertainment industry, being seduced by an older woman with the promise of an audition for Blue Peter, this woman now running a national children's TV channel. Pictures of an advertising shoot circulated to paedophiles and police followed up with a prosecution. Pressure not to complain when sexual advances were made at auditions and punishment when he did complain from his acting school. Sexual abuse rife throughout the entertainment industry but not at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). [audio: 201212071700]
Second hour: Alan Goddard from the Wild Goose Cafe on Stapleton Road near Easton Swimming Pool & Leisure Centre where they now feed 500 people a day. More and more people are in need of their free food and Alan issues a stark warning that there is a drug epedemic working its way through society from dinsenchanted young addicts. Open from 10am-3pm for breakfast & lunch and 8-10pm for supper and they offer advice on careers, health and they help people with addiction problems. They also run a free 'Food Bank' at St Mark's church in Easton. Growing problems in Bristol with drug abuse particularly vulnerable young people taking drugs because of peer pressure & apathy & this is storing up big problems for the future so Alan does a lot of work in schools around the city. The Wild Goose gets no funding from Bristol City Council because of all the strings attached so the centre is funded entirely by voluntary donations. Pros and cons of legalising drugs: alchohol and tobacco are both dangerous drugs but they are legal, some other drugs are legal. Ordinary cannabis has been replaced by super-strength 'Skunk' which can virtually knock people out. New Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, is from the same company, Goldman Sachs, that caused the financial crisis in 2008! He is also part of a secret elite club called the Bilderberg Group which was founded in the 1950s by SS officer and Nazi party member Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands who was forced to resign as Bilderberg chairman in 1975 as part of the 'Lockheed corruption scandal'. President Morsi in Egypt decides he wants to be immune from the Egyptian courts and so sparks further rioting as the people don't want him to be 'king'. Morsi's opponents have had enough of the Muslim Brotherhood, burning down their headquarters. English language Iranian Channel Press TV is banned in the UK by Ofcom, this week Gordon Duff looks ahead to Imran Kahn's possible victory next year in Pakistan wondering if he can stop the constant US drone killings by the US. In Afghanstan the US, with the aid of Britain and NATO have contructed a $80 billion drug empire, every boy over 12 has a gun so every boy is a 'militant' and the US/NATO can kill them. President of the Federation of African Journalists and boss of the Somali Journalists' Union, Omar Faruk Osman explains that journalism is the most dangerous profession in Africa with 15 journalists being killed in the last year. Somalia is the most dangerous country in Africa with a culture of 'impunity' where killers know they will not face justice and a journalist's life is worth only $50. Foreign countries using Somalia as their 'political football' and problems with 'pirates' originating from hidden agendas outside the country, from US/NATO again. [audio: 201212071800]
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First hour: news review with Labour activist & writer Amanda Ramsay [audio: 201211301700]
Second hour: Friday Drivetime takes a look at the real reasons behind the Leveson Enquiry: failure of the Metropolitan Police to investigate and prosecute phone hacking at the News of the World, sitting on the evidence for six years. Detective in charge of the case review John Yates, has fled the country and is now helping the Bahraini police to kill peaceful demonstrators and terrorise the oppressed people of the Bahrain dictatorship. Was Daniel Morgan axe-murdered in 1987 by corrupt South London police he was about to expose? What is the connection to the Stephen Lawrence case? Why did Rupert Murdoch's News of the World interfere with the police investigation into Daniel's murder? We hear the full story from Justice4Daniel campaign. Daniel's brother Alastair which includes allegation of Metropolitan police involvement in bank robberies, gun and drug running. Former policeman & author of 'The Filth', Duncan Maclaughlin accuses the Metropolitan police drug squad of being the best organised crime gang in the country. Book about Met corruption 'Untouchables, Dirty cops, bent justice and racism in Scotland Yard' by Michael Gillard and Laurie Flynne which exposes the evil culture of impunity among a group of corrupt Scotland Yard police officers - now republished in Kindle edition. Martin Summers suggests the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) might like to investigate the Metropolitan police like Operation Countryman did between 1978-1982. Gwynneth Powell-Davies from UNITE union is taking part in a march in Bristol tomorrow for our NHS which politicians seem hell-bent on privatising against the wishes of almost everybody in Britain. One thing they plan to do is 'divide and rule' by stopping national pay negotiations, bringing in 'regional pay'. Will new governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney be a 'Dracula Vampire Squid' as he is affiliated to the Nazi founded Bilderberg group and crooked global investment bank who are taking over Europe, Goldman Sachs. Character profiles, not in any of the mainstream press, criticising new Bank of England governor Mark 'carnage' Carney from Infowars on Mon 26th Nov & Forbes on Tue 27th Nov. Will the Chinese and Russians send troops into Syria as NATO (or Assad?) force Syrian internet shutdown? 120,000 deaths in Mexico in the 'drug wars' but prime minister David Cameron & LibDem leader Nick Clegg are happy to welcome the Mexican drug gangs' treasurer Lord Green, who ran their drug loot around in his HSBC armoured trucks, as a minister in the UK coalition government. Former chair of Bristol Somali forum Latif Ismael discusses his home country and Western intervention there as well as the background to the phenomenon of Somali pirates and proximity to the Middle East. President of the Federation of African Journalists Omar Faruk Osman explains corrupt developers & businessmen are behind the killing of scores of journalists in Africa making it the most dangerous profession on the continent. [audio: 201211301800]
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discussing
the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin
Summers
First hour: News review with Cllr Lesley Alexander (Con); Election figures: 1st: George Ferguson 31,321 - 35.13% + 2nd round total 37,353; 2nd: Labour Marvin Rees (Lab) 25,896 - 29.05% + 2nd round total 31,259; 3rd: Geoff Gollop (Con) 8,136 - 9.13%; 4th: Jon Rogers (Lib) 6,202 - 6.96%; 5th: Daniella Radice (Grn) 5,248 - 5.89%. George Ferguson's £25m cuts unnecessary and effectively 'suicidal' as the City of London is playing out its own political agenda. Sue Mountstevens sworn in as Avon & Somerset Police Commissioner, promptly runs in to 'Tit For Tat' dispute with Chief Constable Colin Port who announces he will not be renewing his contract saying he 'refuses to apply for his own job'. Election Expenses: £21,000 maximum, must be in by Thurdsay 20th December. Spat on BBC Question Time between Work and Pensions Secretary of State Iain Duncan-Smith and Independent columnist Owen Jones over disabled people facing destitution over ATOS assessments and being told to apply for work in a market of less and less jobs. Disabled rights campaigner Karen Sherlock dies and 11,000 Disabled people facing homelessness. Black Triangle campaign for disabled people fighting back against the DWP ATOS assessments. Housing benefit bill is out of control so we have to build homes and create real, well paid jobs or we are going back to Victorian and Medieval times of mass injustice and poverty. Tata cutting 900 steel jobs across South Wales and the UK. Fall in UK steel demand has been steeper than in any other European country. Banks are bankrupt but being kept afloat by public money. UBS 'Rogue Trader' Kweku Adoboli jailed for 7 years while his bosses walk free. City of London is the 'heart of darkness' for the financial crisis globally. Who runs Britain, the banks or the government? Free market solution: not a penny for bankrupt institutions! Rolinda Sharples painting: The Stoppage of the Bank. Criminal gang in Murdoch newsrooms & Downing Street? Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson face more charges, this time over bribery with the implication of a masonic crime ring in Scotland Yard and government institutions. The Queen comes to Bristol and gets a lacklustre reception, Chrstina Robina reports for BCfm from outside the Old Vic on King Street. [audio: 201211231700]
Second hour: No sailors witnessed the 'sea burial' of Osama Bin Laden from the USS Carl Vinson on 1st May 2011, just a handful of senior Admirals and Generals. Was the 'killing of Bin Laden' last year just staged for the Western public and did Bin Laden really die in Afghanistan way back in 2001? Elite Intrigues and Military Purges: It’s Not About Sex, Stupid! Fallout in US over the murder of US Libyan ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi: Petraeus-Benghazi-Gate, the new Watergate moment that may shatter Obama's presidency. Former British ambassador to Uzbekistan & whistleblower Craig Murray invited onto the BBC 32 times and then has appearances cancelled including on BBC1 Question Time. Mysterious forces behind censorship of whistleblowers like Craig by the BBC despite the fact that he is, for example, Foreign Office expert on Maritime Law. Bristol University students Jamie Melrose & Tim Saunders criticise their vice-chancellor Eric Thomas who is openly embracing privatisation of Bristol university. Bristol university and students already being sponsored by private military firm BAe Systems and bailed out Spanish bank Santander. This week's under-reported student demo of about 6,000 students in London; Author and political/media analyst professor Anthony J. Hall from University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada: Earth into Property: Colonization, Decolonization, and Capitalism. [audio: 201211231800]
At five:
discussing
the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
and Marina Morris
For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.
First hour: Bristol rejects 'party politics' to choose an 'independent' former LibDem councillor as mayor. Merchant Venturer & architect George Ferguson's mayoral election victory discussed & week's news reviewed with Stephen Williams, LibDem MP for Bristol West. Was it a fair fight or did the former LibDem councillor become mayor by combining the mystical powers of money and Public Relations? Is his party 'Bristol First' primarily about a man, a city, or a brand? How much did the backing of local paper The Post help, who donated how much & what did the millionaire spend on his campaign? Devastating failure by Labour candidate Marvin Rees, a defeat that will ring serious alarm bells with the London Labour party leadership who would normally be expected to win a mid-term contest in a city the party used to control. Independent candidates victorious in both Police and Crime Commissioner and mayor election so are political parties now 'toxic brands' in Bristol? Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls in Bristol last Monday but he is not prepared to stand up to the City either. Both Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne and Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls attend the same secret Bilderberg conferences, founded by a former SS officer Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. Details were leaked of a secret Bilderberg Group Steering Committee meeting this week in Rome. Did Bilderberg sneaks Osborne and Balls attend? Why are European countries spending precious money propping up bankrupt banks and not doing what businesses and the public want, spending it into the real economy? Lower paid half of workers are losing 15% of their disposable income which is leading to situations of zero disposable income. Quote from Dickens' David Copperfield. Mr Mickawber was modelled on Dickens' father who did time in a London debtors' prison: "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result: happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result: misery." Tax avoidance by Starbucks, Amazon, Google & Boots examined by Margaret Hodge and the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee. Starbucks' Director of Finance Troy Alstead denies any UK tax avoidance saying Starbucks really make no profit in the UK. Gas prices being fixed by private gas suppliers who bamboozle the public with 'confusion marketing and are effectively one company as they operate their cartel. On BBC Children on need night a report by Shelter on homelessness and poverty say 75,000 children will be homeless this Christmas; Governor of the Bank of England King Mervyn (King) and his zig-zag proclamations, wjhat he really means is he doesn't know what is going on; and West Somerset Council is going bankrupt, government minister, possibly Eric Pickles, visiting next week. [audio: 201211161700]
Second hour: David Powell from Friends of the Earth on 'Energygate' and this week's revelations about Gas price fixing by the privatised UK energy cartels. New film by head of Journalism at the University of the West of England (UWE) Lee Salter called 'Secret City' about the unaccountable power of the 'State within a State', the City of London. Will the Queen close her tax havens and rein in The City of London when she visits Bristol next Thursday? Writer Dan Glazebrook explains the financial threat Colonel Gaddafi's Libya represented to the West's money system, the IMF, World Bank all threatened by Gaddafi's African Dinar and African Monetary Fund. The African Dinar was backed with gold ... but the US dollar is backed with F-16s (fighter jets). Bashar Al Assad's Syria under attack right now making the Palestinians much more vulnerable to this week's attack by Israel. Background to Israeli assassination of the Palestinians' army chief of staff Ahmed Jabari during negotiated 'ceasefire' & resulting clashes in Gaza. Former Conservative MEP for the South West and author of ' Gladio, NATO's Dagger At The Heart Of Europe, The Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis' Richard Cottrell asks why NATO is trying to take over the world and how Russia and China are likely to react to globalist expansion as anaccountable, totalitarian NATO attempts to build a fascist 'One World Government'. [audio: 201211161800]
At five:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
and Marina Morris
After six:
discussing
the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.
First hour: Daphne Havercroft from South West Whistleblowers' Health Action Group SWWHAG: Bristol Childrens' Hospital, Care Quality Commission (CQC) intervene over low staffing levels on Ward 32 and patient deaths. Private healthcare operators Circle rewarded for failure at Hinchingbrooke hospital in Cambridge. London based Tamil Ram Selva brings us up to date with human rights struggles in former British Indian Ocean colonies: mainly Sri-Lanka and India. Channel 4 documentaries Sri Lanka's Killing Fields. Hunger strike enters its second week on the island of Nauru, near Australia, as asylum seekers from Iran, Afghanistan & Sri-Lanka protest against right-wing Australian government re-opening remote refugee camps & using asylum-seekers as political pawns. Website recommended www.tamilsolidarity.org Merkel in London, Chinese political congress & US elections. Hugh Trevor-Roper's myth: Peter Levenda's book 'Ratline, Soviet Spies, Nazi Priests and the Disappearance of Adolf Hitler'. Did Hitler really die in 1945 or did he survive until the 1970s in Indonesia? Why would anyone question the story behind the death of Adolf Hitler? Evidence for Martin Boorman covert military and banking/corporate Fourth Reich thriving after World War Two. [audio: 201211091700]
Second hour: Bristol General Hospital: Bristol Central Planning Committee decide developers, City & Country, need build no affordable or social housing, only luxury flats. Invited: Mandy Soames, Public Relations Officer for City & Country developers; Bristol City Council LibDem Central Planning Committee councillors: Christian Martin, Alf Havvock, Alex Woodman (chair); LibDem Council leader Simon Cook, none of which were available; Labour housing spokesperson Cllr. Ron Stone. www.thegeneralbristol.co.uk Jimmy Savile BBC & police scandal rolls on with revelations about how close Savile was to Prince Charles, employed to invite television executives to royal events and helped introduce Charles to his Private Secretary Sir Christopher Airy in 1990. Old HTV documentary about North Wales child sexual abuse & murder. Channel 4 News discover Freemasons religious cult involved in Bryn Estyn sexual abuse scandal. Masonic MP for Filton & Bradley Stoke Jack Lopresti promises to supply this show with Bristol Provincial Yearbook which names Bristol's freemasons but Jack is overruled by Bristol Grand Master Alan Vaughan and Provincial Grand Secretary Steve Rawlings. Ron Stone tels off deep-rooted masonic corruption where farmers had their estates stolen with no action by masonic police, disposessing smallholders and market-gardeners, with criminal collusion by banks. Culture of masonic criminality and impunity in Somerset. Public Accounts Committee chair Margaret Hodge questions Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) Chief Executive Lin Homer over non payment of tax by multinational corporations Starbucks, Google, Amazon, Asda, Facebook, Intel, Kraft (who lied, closing Cadbury's in Keynsham) & Coca Cola, who seem able pick and choose which country they wish to pay tax in. [audio: 201211091800]
At five:
discussing
the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
and Marina Morris
This week we invite all four Avon & Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) candidates to explain how they will oversee the force in this newly created US style role as Police Authorities are abolished across the UK. BCfm Police & Crime Commissioner candidates' discussion - with Peter Levy (Liberal Democrat), Ken Maddock (Conservative), Sue Mountstevens (Independent) and John Savage (Labour).
First Hour: Introduction of candidates and their vision for the role of PCC. Peter Levy is a former Ministry of Defence policeman, Ken Maddock questioned about Conservative minister Lord Green's responsibility for money laundering, Sue Mountstevens bakery business failed, so will she succeed? John Savage a member of the Merchant Venturers who financed the transatlantic slave trade. Question from Gus Hoyt, Green Party councillor for Stokes Croft & St. Paul's, Ashley Ward, on Easter 2011 riots in Stokes Croft - how would they have policed it? Riot found to have cost £465,000 and employed resources from 12 different police forces including 160 riot police. Should the police use firearms in potential riot situations? What would policing priorities of the four candidates be: drugs; more police on the street; antisocial behaviour; rural policing or equipment? London police in Stephen Lawrence case were taking two salaries, one from organised criminals and one from public purse, how would the candidates deal with that kind of corruption within the force - most agree root it out. Marina Morris out on the streets of Bristol to ask what you think about the election of Police & Crime Commissioners and how you will be voting. General lack of knowledge of, interest in and enthusiasm for the vote or the process. Could be the lowest turnout ever. Gus raises the question, do we actually need a PCC? Police increasingly using high-voltage Tasers but do candidates think they are ethical? [audio: 201211021700]
Second hour: Tony Gosling and Martin Summers run through this weeks news: Conservative backbenchers and Labour MPs line up together to vote saying UK should pay less to the EU, Northern Ireland prison officer David Black shot dead yesterday, the first prison officer killed for 13 years in the province. Japanese Hitachi firm buying into UK Nuclear Power stations at Oldbury and North Wales, Tunisia - state of emergency extended into the new year, democratic failings in the first state to move in the so-called 'Arab Spring'. US presidential election next week discussed, Attorney General Dominic Grieve decides it is unlawful for the US to use their UK air bases in any pre-emptive attack they wish to conduct on Iran. Is the UK a 'soft touch' when it comes to Serious Organised Crime? Author of 'Shadow World, Inside the Global Arms Trade, Andrew Feinstein introduces a London based, German owned firm, Marine Force International (MFI) which the German parent firms MAN Ferrostaal AG and Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW) plan to use to pay arms deal bribes out of the jurisdiction of German courts. PCC candidates return to a question about declaration of senior police officers' interests and freemasonry, commenting that masons are attracted to senior police roles and that the characteristic police chequerboard is also found on the carpet of Masonic temples. Tony asks a question on crime and poverty, including the issues of cuts, the closure of mental health facilities, the criminalisation of squatting and how the police are forced to pick up the pieces. Tony asks the candidates on how they would deal with the other end of the scale, rich people's white collar crime and complex frauds, for example selling public property at lower than market prices. John Savage takes exception to the question wondering whether the question is being asked about the sale of Bristol General Hospital which he oversaw as chairman of UHB NHS Trust. Rural versus urban policing, will the candidates be able to balance the two properly? Whistleblowing, do the candidates they take the issue seriously and how will they ensure whistleblowers are not sacked. [audio: 201211021800]
At five:
discussing
the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin
Summers
For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.
First Hour: News review with Councillor for Cotham & Libdem Cabinet member for housing & development Anthony Negus. Bristol General Hospital decision means only luxury flats will be built on the site, no affordable or social housing. Changing rules for planning deals, how is the city going to get developers to build affordable and social housing in the future. Change in the rules with regard to planning agreements. Jimmy Savile scandal let off 7 times by the police with 300 victims of rape and abuse, some below puberty, still no resignations by the BBC after Newsnight editor Peter Rippon spiked Liz MacKean's 'Non Story' in December 2011 to make way for Savile tributes. Comparing with former GWR, ITV & BBC presenter Peter Rowell jailed for 6 years for molesting young girls here in Bristol. Police and Crime Commissioners announced: Independent Sue Mountstevens, LibDem Pete Levy, Labour's John Savage and Conservative Ken Maddox. Compares poorly with the current Police Authority system. Lowest turnout ever expected for this election on Thursday 15th November at same time as mayoral election. Ford closes last vechicle factory in Britain after making cars here for over 100 years. 500 jobs to go in Southampton as well as knock-on effect of another 1,500. Discussion about structural unemployment, whether we can continue to sack people like this when there are not enough jobs to go round, comparing the 'Basic Income' policy to the coalition's 'Universal Credit' in the pipeline. Work Programme delivery firm A4E being paid £46m by government but delivering worse 'outcomes' than when Job Centres when they performed this job guidance 'in house'. Hopes that tolls on Severn Bridges will be reduced to £1 per car in 2018 dashed by transport minister Peter Hammond. He's decided the Treasury rather likes the annual £80m that's coming in even though it only costs £18m a year to maintain. Severn Crossing Ltd a government approved racket fleecing motorists. Anthony Negus is against the proposed Severn Barrage. [audio: 201210261700]
Second hour: Spoof announcement about the resignation of the chancellor. Halloween PsyOp: Orson Welles' 1938 War Of The Worlds psychological warfare on the public with reactions of AT&T telephone operators. Mack White's 'Television and the Hive Mind' article; BBC caused panic in 1926 with hoax of revolution taking place in London with Savoy Hotel, House of Commons & Buckingham Palace under attack. Broadcasting the Barricades. Executive Board Member of Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) & Business West James Durie discusses City Deal signed by Nick Clegg earlier this year and Public Property Board which looks set to take over management of vast areas of Bristol's public land. LEP meets in private & public were always allowed to see how public land was being managed when council manage it. Roundup of last fortnight's world news US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney makes hopeless errors in final TV debate saying that Iran is land locked and has a border with Syria, neither of which is true. Martin believes there will be a war whoever wins the US election. Assassination of Exxon Mobil executive in Belgium but news blackout instituted. My Twitter feed @TonyGosling, Cryptogon and Blaclisted News all covered this two weeks ago. PsyOp Now! 19 satellite channels taken down by private company EUTELSAT. Ordered by Baroness Ashton the EU Foreign Minister who has never been elected. [audio: 201210261800]
At five: discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world After six: straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers and Marina Morris
This week we invite the six top mayoral candidates: George Ferguson (Independent - Merchant Venturer); Geoff Gollop (Conservative); Neil Maggs (Respect); Danielle Radice (Green); Marvin Rees (Labour) & Jon Rogers (Liberal Democrat) to answer questions about planning, development and housing in Bristol. What will they do to solve the property gap in the city with 14,500 people, or 4% of the city's population, on the housing list and 1.75 million square feet of empty office space?
Other candidates include Tom Baldwin, Trade Union and Socialist Coalition; Craig Clarke, State Education Party; Tim Collins, Save Filton Airfield; Spud Murphy, Former Conservative Councillor; Andy Thorne, Security Business Owner and Philip Pover, Access To Green Space. Definitive list out on Tuesday 23rd October.
First hour: Bristol mayoral debate concentrating on housing. Mayoral candidates with their visions for the city and their ideas on housing - Bristol First, Independent: George Ferguson (Merchant Venturer), Conservative: Geoff Gollop, Respect: Neil Maggs, Green: Daniella Radice, Liberal Democrat: Jon Rogers, (Labour's Marvin Rees pulled out on the day of broadcast). Mike Birkin from South West Friends of the Earth asks how candidates plan to cope with Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Eric Pickles' policy to have central government deciding on local planning issues? Discussion about Bristol General Hospital Developers, City & Country Group, who have decided not to include any affordable housing in their conversion of the hospital to luxury housing. Saying they will leave the place empty and derelict unless council planners agree. Jenny Allen from The National Housing Federation (NHF) asks how candidates intend to work with other local authorities: South Gloucestershire, North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset Councils, to integrate housing policy? Discussion on plans for mass house building over Filton airfield once BAe Systems sell it off. Tony Crofts from his Clifton Housing Co-op asks why there are 40 acres of empty office space in the city, why is the construction industry failing to deliver housing and could this empty property be converted to housing? Candidates puzzle over how companies can afford to keep these buildings empty, is it a tax write-off? Contribution via a July recording of absent Labour candidate Marvin Rees who has promised to build 4000 social housing units in Bristol (we were hoping to ask him how he intends to fund this) but realised this afternoon he had double-booked with this Foyles bookshop event which began at 6pm. [audio: 201210191700]
Second hour: Councillor for St George East Ron Stone has a proposal borrowed from Manchester City Council for pension funds to finance social housing built by local authorities and housing associations. As Ron was taken ill last night this question is put by Old Labour Oxford economist Martin Summers. Acceptance that building social housing would be good for employment, for the economy and for social cohesion. Bristol people talk to Marina Morris on the streets of the city giving their opinions including that the council is corrupt or should be dissolved and others saying they did not know an election was taking place. Keith Cowling from the Bristol Community Land Trust asks how candidates are going to help local people with the skills and who want to, to become their own developers? Why are they not using this route to build affordable housing? Explanation from Keith of what a Community Land Trust is and projected deal to provide new affordable homes at Eastville Park off Fishponds Road. Green candidate Danielle Radice points out that a Central Government Treasury proposal called the 'City Deal' is taking £1 billion of city council assets and around 180 land and property assets out of local authority management and handing it to a quango to be known as Public Property Board [PDF] run by the business fraternity through the Local Enterprise Partnership. The question being how will the mayor make decisions about public land when it's being managed by this new quango and out of his or her control? Simon Bale from ISR, Churches for Work and Social Justice, asks how the candidates plan to house homeless people who are mentally ill or addicted to drugs and alcohol? Tony asks candidates to sum up with a question about central government's new benefit cuts: a benefit cap, bedroom tax, withdrawal of council tax relief and the Universal Credit which will replace housing benefit. It is predicted that 171,000 single parents nationally will be forced out of their homes so how are the city's most vulnerable going to cope? [audio: 201210191800]
For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.
First hour:news review with Conservative group leader & Stoke Bishop Councillor Peter Abrahams. Mayoral and Police and Crime Commissioner elections. Austerity biting but national debt is increasing. Britain's debt in 2010: £760bn; in 2012: £1tn; projection for 2015: £1.36tn. Housing benefit is rising, in 2010: £16bn billion to, in 2012, £21.6bn. Buy to let second home owners doing very well - their yield going up from 6.1% to 6.7% since election. Further discussions on debt including the billionaires cabinet and tax havens. Tory Conference: Boris Johnson's'mop' speech on cleaning items, old conservatives used to agree with Keynes' economics. ATOS, Scotland is no longer not using them - lack of jobs, possible solution is the citizen's income. Tory conference: finale of Prime Minister David Cameron's speech about his father Ian who was disabled but pioneered the use of tax havens such as the Cayman Islands and Panama to put savings beyond the reach of the taxman - aspiration nation. Energy and food prices are rising, financial determinism vs. regulation. House of Lords discuss the collapse of First Group West Coast Mainline train franchise and ask about independence of the people conducting enquiry into the fiasco. Council tax changes, Bristol City Council holding consultation including discussion on rates, nobody complained about the system when the council tax was brought in in the 1980s. [audio: 201210121700]
Second hour: Tony and Martin discuss world events including Syria potentially leading to coinciding, the Middle East, EU getting this year's Nobel Peace Prize formerly awarded to war criminal Henry Kissinger, Bali bombing ten years on. Former Nazi German company who now control BBC transmitters Siemens planting bombs inside heavy engineering equipment destined for Iran, NATO & Western sabotage campaign against Iran. Private firm May Gurney who deal with Bristol's waste might go bust after they issue a profit warning today, will that mean our bins could go unemptied? General discussion about privatisation. Big Brother Watch - Steve Jolly from 'No CCTV' discusses surveillance under the Conservatives, new CCTV Commissioner Andrew Rennison, how regulation may sound better than it is, drone technology, private companies gathering data, secret US TrapWire system revealed by Stratfor & Wikileaks that links surveillance networks together, Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras and how to improve the situation of surveillance through campaign site http://www.no-cctv.org.uk. John Scobie from Birmingham took part in last week's BBC3 show '7/7: Conspiracy Road Trip' but the programme broadcast last week was not the film he took part in. He discusses terms on which independent production company, Renegade TV, engaged him, what the show left out, how explosive facts about 7/7 and key testimony of survivors and victims families was left on the cutting room floor. Interview with Steve Sa'tan from BCfm & Rail Future discussing the Bus Rapid Transit Scheme (BRT2) for Bristol, what Bristol City COuncil should spend their £5m on and what a waste of money he believes it is. Other transport issues including the West coast mainline franchise and rail subsidy costing three times more since the privatisation of the railways. [audio: 201210121800]
For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.
First hour: News review with Conservative councillor for Westbury-On-Trym Alistair Watson. Conservative party are the worst in Bristol: 'Bristol City Slackers' named or councillors that refuse to answer emails or phone calls. Proportion of ‘slackers’ by political party: Conservatives 36% (5/14), LibDems 28% (9/32), Labour 18% (4/22) & Green 0% (0/2). BBC royal correspondant Frank Gardener spills the beans on Radio 4 Today programme about pressure being put on David Blunkett to arrest Abu Hamza. Why is Elizabeth Saxe Coburg Gotha meddling in politics? Police officers are being appointed to senior roles without being properly vetted, it has been claimed following an investigation into a deputy chief constable who hanged himself after sexual harassment allegations. But local Police and Crime Commissioner candidate Bob Ashford was forced to step down from the race after minor crime at the age of 13. After Hillsborough revelations South Yorkshire Police turned a blind eye to sex grooming gangs for more than a decade, confidential files reveal, The school which employs teacher Jeremy Forrest, who has disappeared abroad with 15-year-old student Megan Stammers, was at the centre of a scandal just three years ago after a teacher was found to groomed two female students. LibDem leader Nick Clegg delivers keynote speech at his party conference. Marina Morris reports on the necessity of family and unconditional love in Britain today and asks what Bristolians think about modern family values. A 21-year-old man arrested at a flat in Pimlico, central London, has become the first person to be jailed under the government's anti-squatting legislation. [audio: 201209281700]
Second hour: Global roundup with Martin Summers: A Turkish court convicted 326 military officers, including the former air force and navy chiefs, of plotting to overthrow the nation's Islamic-based government in 2003, in a case that has helped curtail the military's hold on politics. A panel of three judges at the court on Istanbul's outskirts initially sentenced former air force chief Ibrahim Firtina, former navy chief Ozden Ornek and former army commander Cetin Dogan to life imprisonment but later reduced the sentence to a 20-year jail term because the plot had been unsuccessful, state-run TRT television reported. The three were accused of masterminding the plot. The dramatic conclusion to the case was entirely unreported in the UK national press. The Dark Art of 'Conflict Initiation': Patrick Clawson of the influential neo-con Washington Institute for Near East Studies openly suggests the US should provoke Iran into war. Just one in 50 victims of America’s deadly drone strikes in Pakistan are terrorists – while the rest are innocent civilians, a new report claimed today. The authoritative joint study, by Stanford and New York Universities, concludes that men, women and children are being terrorised by the operations ’24 hours-a-day’. And the authors lay much of the blame on the use of the ‘double-tap’ strike where a drone fires one missile – and then a second as rescuers try to drag victims from the rubble. One aid agency said they had a six-hour delay before going to the scene. 98% of Pakistan drone strikes are killing innocent people. A gross dereliction of duty: How Coalition defence cuts have left Britain terrifyingly vulnerable. Bristol land and housing co-op activist and editor of www.SpeakTruthToPower.net, Tony Crofts, discusses the acres of empty office space and compares it to Bristol's appaling lack of housing. Discussion of how our society fails to deliver the right buildings & how office building owners can afford to leave them empty for years. Simon Bale from ISR, Churches for Work and Social Justice talks about the church is doing to address the growing social divide in Bristol and Britain, also discussing the strangely secretive process by which the new Archbishop of Canterbury is being chosen. One of the candidates was an oil industry executive until recently. [audio: 201209281800]
At five:
discussing
the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
and Marina Morris
First hour: Norwegian activist and blogger Torstein Viddal discusses shortcomings of his country's police and security services on 22nd July during last summer's Oslo bomb and Utoya island massacre of young Labour party activists by Neo-Nazi freemason Anders Breivik. First interpretation into English of elements of the Commission report which show a series of police and state security services' shortcomings. Were there any policemen or judges in Breivik's masonic lodges? Why did he only attend Oslo masonic temple for initiation ceremonies and not the rest of the year? How many lodges was he a member of? Discussion of Breivik's peculiar ideological blend of Zionism and Nazism. Torstein's flat in central Oslo is only 200 yards from the bombed government building and that day he was out taking pictures. [audio: 201209211700]
Second hour: Investigative journalist and author of 'Dangerous Ground' Roger Cook describes how Rupert Murdoch's News Of The World lied about his integrity and got him taken off the air by ITV. Roger describes some of his investigations: the penetration of airport security and hijacking of airliners in the United States before the 9/11 attacks; South Yorkshire police misconduct and the Hillsborough disaster cover-up; availability of weapons grade plutonium & nuclear weapons on the Russian black market; satanic abuse circle around 'The Sorcerers' Apprentice' shop in Yorkshire run by Chris Bray; News International, an organised criminal gang conducting burglaries and not just hacking voicemails but tapping the phones of their legal opponents. Sinandei Makko, a Lands Rights activist from Tanzania is visiting Bristol this week. Makko is deeply involved in the current land conflict between the Maasai traditional livestock herders and the United Arab Emitates based Ortello Business Corporation (OBC). Almost 50,000 people face eviction from their land to make way for OBC tourists. Makko has lived and worked in Loliondo in the Serengeti National Park his entire life. US Army veteran and director of The Esoteric Agenda Ben Stewart discusses what attracted him to film-making and the global shift in conciousness he would like to achieve with his films. [audio: 201209211800]
At five:
discussing
the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
and Marina Morris
First hour: News review with Green Party mayoral candidate Daniella Radice. US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke will print $40 billion every month, making money up out of nowhere, to try and generate jobs in US. Effect will be redistribution of wealth from the poor to the rich. The Bristol Pound £B launch party this Wednesday 19th September 2012 from 5:30 -9:30pm at St Nicholas' Market, the top of Corn Street. Ian Fraser on David Cameron's Reshuffle: Entrusting economic policy to ex-investment bankers is like puting the fox in charge of the hen-house. New planning minister Nick Boles' crooked think tank Policy Exchange wants to see thousands of homes built on the Green Belt to boost the economy. Heated meeting Tim Boles Chairman of Winterborne Parish Council discuss public Frenchay Hospital land being sold off for commercial housebuilding. Tony Crofts gets figures from estate agent Alder King saying Bristol has 1.75m sq ft of empty office space, the equivalent of about 75,000 homes. Friendship as or more important than we realise: demise of the pub and community facilities due to economic depression, Tescos taking over public houses. Hillsborough disaster Independent Panel reports this week revealing: 164 witness statements altered by the police, 41 people could have survived. Former South Yorkshire police senior intelligence analyst Tony Farrell tells what his colleague Andy saw that day in 1989. Will the election of Police & Crime Commissioners in November turn Avon & Somerset police into a political football? EU Commission proposes to regulate UK financial markets bypassing the City of London. Alvin Masioma from Tax Justice Network Africa explains how tax havens like Jersey steal African resources and even help start Civil Wars. Max Keiser talks to investigative journalist and author Leah McGrath Goodman about her being banned from the UK for reporting on the Jersey sex and murder scandal. They discuss the $5 billion per square mile in laundered money that means Jersey rises, while Switzerland sinks. [audio: 201209141700]
Second hour: UK/US information film Fracking Hell. Fracking, or Hydraulic Fracturing, in the Mendips: Frack Off campaign, Bristol anti-Fracking campaigner Zoe Smith from Hotwells convicted of Aggravated Trespass stopping fracking which caused eathquakes in Lancashire & Laura Corfield from Transition Keynsham. Various local campaigns such as Rising Tide & Frack Free Somerset. Meeting Tuesday 25th September 2012, 7–9pm in Wells Town Hall. Coal bed methane extraction planned for Keynsham. Fracking: drilling method 'to be extended' despite causing Blackpool earthquakes. US ambassador killed by a mob in Libya and Egypt, Yemen embassies also attacked over Californian Muslim hate film. Bur is it another PsyOp to ramp up tension for the benefit of intelligence services. EADS military mapping satellite software engineer, Al-Hilli family victims of contract killing in France. Former UK ambassador Craig Murray asks was it a Mossad military hit related to assassination programme of Iranian related nuclear scientists? Unreported news: President of Italian Supreme Court refers 9/11 attacks to International Criminal Court for investigation. Arab lawyers' Union condemn censorship of Syrian TV on arab satellites. Gordon Duff from Veterans Today asks will Isreal really attack Iran or are Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's threats just scabre rattling? From Iranian channel PressTV which is censored in the UK. Rita Cangialousi from Bristol Palestine Solidarity Campaign. UN: Israel pushing Palestine deeper into poverty through water and land grabs. US Air Force veteran & messianic Jew Tim Cohen explores heraldry, something like a genetic code, and the centuries old power network of The Order Of The Garter founded in 1348, and asks is it the centre of a clandestine power network that is slowly extending across the world? Looking at Biblical prophecy in the Book of Revelation, Cohen believes Garter Knights represent the core leadership of the Prieuré de Sion, Freemasonry, Rosicrucians, Illuminati, Banking, Insurance, Television and Media. His book is 'The Antichrist And A Cup Of Tea'. [audio: 201209141800]
At five:
discussing
the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
and Marina Morris
First hour: News review with mayoral candidate George Ferguson: George's role as a Merchant Venturer, part of the city's merchant class elite. George pledges to leave the Merchants should he become Mayor. Horrific record of the Merchant Venturers profits from the Triangular Transatlantic Slave Trade not mentioned by our local paper The Post. Mayor will wrest control of a £1bn annual budget from party politics. Kingswood's Tory MP Chris Skidmore calls British workers 'the laziest in the world' in new book Britannia Unchained. Endemol TV's founder of 'Big Brother' and 'Deal or No Deal', Sir Peter Bazalgette made chairman of the Arts Council. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne booed at paralympics medal award ceremony. European Central Bank says it will buy up bad government debt to stop troubled government's collapsing. European and World Value Survey shows Britain has a very low level of trust. Cameron announces big relaxation of national planning laws to 'boost the economy' by allowing developers to build where they like. Capacity public meeting in Frenchay Village Hall this week: public Frenchay Hospital to be demolished to make way for hundreds of private homes. Abandoned £30bn Severn Barrage scheme is to be re-examined by the government as a way to tap into tidal power. Half the phone hacking victims have still not been contacted by Scotland Yard and the total number has doubled this week, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Sue Ackers reveals to Keith Vaz on the Home Affairs Select Committee. [audio: 201209071700]
Second hour: Freelance journalist Dan Glazebrook: with the passing of the Arab Spring and installation of President Morsi in Egypt does the new government reflect the will of the Egyptian people? 15th anniversary of Princess Diana's untimely death in Paris last weekend, book: The Paris London connection, The Assassination Of Princess Diana. 11th anniversary of 9/11 attacks next week: UK campaign Reinvestigate 9/11 and book: Solving 9-11: The Deception That Changed the World. How's the War on Freedom going as we approach the 11th Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks? Syria: Blogger Gari Sullivan in Bristol next week using personal examples, eye-witness accounts and exclusive material to share his experiences of Syrian life ... & reflecting on the UK mainstream media lies. 7pm, Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft, BS1 3QY, Thursday 13th September 2012. See No Evil 2012 fallout: proprietor of the 'Arc Bar' on Broad Street Eddie James on Bristol's urban arts, money & parapolitics, how fairly were Cultural Olympiad contracts awarded in the City. Does too much money go into too few pockets? NATO 'bombing it's own people?' Former Bristol Tory MEP Richard Cottrell explains why the 1980s IRA attacks in Guildford and Birmingham may have been planned and carried out by MI5, MI6 or Army Intelligence to discredit the IRA. The latest interview about his book: Gladio, NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe: The Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis [audio: 201209071800]
At five:
discussing
the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
and Marina Morris
For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.
First hour: Pupil premium and student loans, LibDem education policy. News review with Liberal Democrat Councillor John Kiely. Should LibDem leader Nick Clegg be replaced by Business Secretary Vince Cable? LibDems are the only democratic political party, Labour is run by the trade unions and the Conservatives run by rich donors. Control by Germany on September 12th which is D-Day for latest Euro bailout scheme as German court decides on legality. Germany, with new globetrotting military, also take over presidency of UN Security Council for September tonight! Prospects for a financial crash and collapse and can bought politicians do anything to get us out of the debt spiral? Crisis of leadership as Western world is run by lightweights. UN & aid agencies criticise Glencore boss who claims 'world food crisis is good for business.' Deregulation of commodities futures markets by Wall Street has turned essential world markets such as food and energy into a giant casino. Cargill decided long ago to destroy agriculture in the developing world. Wall Street Pentagon Complex use control of food markets to intimidate smaller countries when making geostrategic decisions at the UN. Charitable giving, Volunteering, Quality of Life, Indifference and is Britain de-politicised? Britain makes homeless squatters into criminals for the first time in history tonight. Police will now be doing private landlords' jobs, saving them money in the civil courts. Bristol has 15,000 official plus another 5,000 unofficial homeless people and this will only add to the housing crisis with people likely, as in the US, to be forced to live in tents. Criminalising squatting with hundreds of thousands of homeless people and similar number of empty properties could lead to a serious social crisis and even civil war. Class War from the top down: Jobless young will have to work for three months unpaid to get their benefits as government accused of 'slave labour'. North Somerset Conservative MP Liam Fox is advising far-right US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's team. [audio: 201208311700]
Second hour: The Tax Justice Network Roadshow comes to Bristol. But will Prime Minister David Cameron do anything to close tax haven loopholes when his father Ian Cameron was a pinoneer of them when Margaret Thatcher's government abolished Exchange Controls in the 1980s? However, Britain is in a unique position to do so as many are British protectorates or ex colonies such as The Cayman Islands and Bermuda. Current economic policy is taking us back to the Victorian age of 'them and us'. Are British forces already in Syria as William Hague makes statement at the UN in New York? RAF personnel told not to book leave, on standby for an air attack in Syria. Who is responsible for this conflict and where is it heading? US Soldiers form anarchist Maryland Militia with $90k worth of assault rifles. Richard Cottrell on his new book 'Gladio, NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe, The Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis'. "Journalism is dead" he says, in the UK, as the mainstream press parrots the government line on mass deception without criticism, classic Orwellian 'groupthink'. Old Labour Oxford Economist Martin Summers returns after his August break. [audio: 201208311800]
For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.
First hour: £600m more borrowing in July but Chancellor George Osborne is nowhere to be seen so we hear from Treasury Minister Chloe Smith. Bank of England's own report says their Quantitative Easing (QE) is benefitting the super-rich 240 times more than everybody else. Banks to use LIBOR probe to bring an end to free banking. New Barclays Chairman says Financial Crisis was caused by banks not charging for bank accounts. Lord Jacob Rothschild tales £130m bet on the failure of the Euro. All eyes on September 12th when German court decides on legality of European bailout plan. Tory Central Office continuing control of North Somerset Conservative Association criticised by Tory Councillor and Balloon maker Don Cameron. Don's Evidence published on UK Indymedia. Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) won't get mailshots. Masonic Filton & Bradley Stoke MP Jack Lopresti & Park Street Temple's Provincial Grand Secretary Steve Rawlings both promise to, then both fail to, send me the Bristol Freemasons' Provincial Yearbook with the names of Bristol's 2000 or so Freemasons in 50 or so Lodges. Author of Inside The Brotherhood, Martin Short: is Freemasonry a miasma of lies or pyramid selling scheme? Another Freemason, far right Norwegian Zio-Nazi Anders Behring Breivik is declared sane, found guilty, and sentenced in Norway for killing 77 young members of the Labour party. We look at his close ties to the formation of the UK English Defence League (EDL) and European 'Knights Templar' anti-Muslim network in London in 2002 and explore the possibility that one of the founder members of the EDL, Paul Ray, screenname 'Lionheart', was his mentor. Paul Ray has now 'renounced' the EDL and moved to the Medieval Knights Templars' final HQ, Malta. The Pursuit of Julian Assange Is An Attack On Freedom And A Mockery Of Journalism as the Wikileaks founder ontinues to be incarcerated at the Ecuadorian embassy in Knightsbridge, London. News review with Conservative Councillor for Avonmouth, Siobhan Kennedy-Hall. [audio: 201208241700]
Second hour: By-election taking place in Bradley Stoke on Thursday 6th September. UK Independence party candidate Caroline Sullivan introduces herself and explains her party's position on Europe & immigration. The other two candidates, Paul Hardwick for the Conservative party and Robin Horsfall for Labour, were invited tonight but their party offices did not return phone calls. Syria's civil disturbances appear to be spreading to Lebanon, we introduce Judith Brown from Arab Media Watch to discuss developments across the Muslim world in Pakistan, Yemen, Egypt and Syria, as well as UK media coverage of the Arab spring. We look too at the reporting & propaganda from Western & Arab mainstream media such as BBC, ITN, Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya, all pro-NATO. I advise Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) & Lebanon's LBCI & Information ministry for some balance. Sex, Lies and Julian Assange: Australian ABC TV Documentary series 'Four Corners' finds out really happened two years ago in Stockholm. Mark Cambridge joins us from Bristol Remploy survivors to explain how disabled workers there are being kept in the dark with an uncertain future and morale dropping. Remploy Workers & Facebook page. [audio: 201208241800]
At five:
discussing
the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
and Marina Morris
First hour: Britain's years of lead? Relying on each other more but trusting each other les in a dog eat dog society. Empty offices, Redcliffe Wharf development and the old brewery. Whose to blame for the austerity and cuts, the previous Labour government or the bailed out banks? Closure of the city's elderly people's care homes and privatisation of home care. London Metropolitan University's £500m budget is being privatised, contract winners to be announced by the end of August. Wikileaks reveals US government contracted private security company Abraxas to run TrapWire spy camera software, linking national CCTV and secretly spying on everyone. Wikileaks is immediately hit with world's biggest ever Distributed Denial Of Service (DDoS) attack taking the site down for ten days. Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange granted asylum in Ecuador but still stuck inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Foreign Secretary William Hague doesn't want to do a deal, he is running the country this week as Clegg and Cameron are away. Recent case of blind Chinese dissident lawyer Chen Guangcheng who took refuge in China's US Embassy, after escaping house arrest, and was allowed passage to the USA. Plans to close Bristol's City Centre BRI Accident and Emergency in order to cut £17m over five years. General Medical Council (GMC) considers 68 'mistakes' by Home Office pathologist Freddy Patel in the case of Ian Tomlinson who died after the G8 protests in London in 2009. National news coverage for alternative currency, good for the payment of local taxes, the Bristol pound to be launched in September. News review with retired policeman, Liberal Democrat Councillor for Knowle & former Lord Mayor, Chris Davies. [audio: 201208171700]
Second hour: PFI consultant Dexter Whitfield from European Services Strategy Unit which examined the Tower Of London Royal Armories PFI failure looks at the economics of Private Finance Initiatives generally and Southmead NHS Hospital in particular. How much more do we pay when a hospital or school is built in this way? Branson cries foul as US owned First Group win West Coast main line rail franchise. Steve Sa'tan of Rail Futures joins us to discuss. The princess who took on the Land Mines industry, and lost. Simone Simmons describes telephone threat allegedly from Tory Armed Forces Minister Nicholas Soames telling Diana, 'You never know when an accident is going to happen'. 14 months previously, on national TV, Soames had said Diana was in 'the advanced stages of paranoia'. Extract from new book Paris-London Connection: The Assassination of Princess Diana by Australian author John Morgan. [audio: 201208171800]
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: Jack Lopresti still has not got me that Bristol Freemasons' Yearbook he promised me back in March. Nor have the Provincial Masonic Office at the bottom of Park Street. News review with Conservative councillor for Henbury Mark Weston. Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King announces economic growth forcecast has been reduced to zero, and record trade deficit. Care home workers torturing and encouraging residents to commit suicide. Privatised Winterbourne View care home in Bristol run by Castlebeck Care was exposed inflicting torture and cruelty on residents who were encouraged to commit suicide, 11 workers plead guilty to cruelty offences under the Mental Health act. Italian newspaper accuses German Chancellor Angela Merkl of creating a financial 'Fourth Reich' in the Eurozone and using it to bully poor countries such as Greece, Spain and Italy. Cracks appear in coalition government as LibDem leader Nick Clegg says Lords reform is being blocked by Conservatives against the Coalition agreement and Labour Police & Crime Commissioner candidate Bob Ashford is forced to step down to be replaced by Business West (Chamber of Commerce) chief John Savage. Neil Maggs takes over from Paulette North as Respect Party mayoral candidate. [audio: 201208101700]
Second hour: Free Syrian Army give up their fight for control of Syria's largest city Aleppo after attacking the TV & radio broadcasting centre but attack the airport instead. Foreign Secretary William Hague pledges £5m of British taxpayers' money to help the Syrian terrorists without actually supplying them with weapons or ammunition. Rupert Murdoch appears at the Olympics as a guest of Conservative mayor of London Boris Johnson and meets up with controversial pro-Murdoch Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. David Parkes from the BS3 Campus group talks about his visionary bid for South Bristol College on Marksbury Road, Bedminster, which includes plans for affordable housing, a school, doctors' surgery and spaces for arts and small businesses. While it is presently thriving with local community groups and businesses Bristol City Council want to mothball the site when they terminate Artspace Lifespace's lease in February next year and there are fears that the college will quickly be vandalised and turn into a derelict, unusable site as have so many old council and government sites. Operation Market Garden Arnhem veteran Major Tony Hibbert, now in his 90's, appeals for reinstatement of a courageous but sacked Polish commander, General Stanislaw Sosabowski. Hibbert suggests he was scapegoated for the failure of the Arnhem operation and should, posthumously, have his rank and honour restored by the British Army. [audio: 201208101800]
At five:
discussing
the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
and Marina Morris
For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.
First hour: Former Mayor of Bristol, Libdem Councillor for Knowle Chris Davies did not arrive as arranged for this week's news review. However Robin Clapp from Bristol And District Anti Cuts Alliance (BADACA) did, and he explains how he has been involved in social struggles in Bristol including the miners' strike in the 1980s and the anti poll tax campaign in the 1990s. Big companies sitting on £750bn of potential tax. Is the private sector really able to take over & run public services? Do we have a Coalition government or have the Tory government entirely sidelined the Liberal Democrats? The new Bristol mayor will be able to run the city with only 20% of elected councillors supporting them but what will the various mayoral candidates do about the closure of Bristol's care homes? Bristol has a higher proportion of drug addicts, over 1400, claiming benefits that any other city in the UK. Bristol City Slackers, councillors representing thousands of people that do not return emails or phone calls including, worryingly, the LibDem candidate for Avon & Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner and Horfield councillor Pete Levy. Naomi fowler presents an extract from July Taxcast, a monthly podcast from the Tax Justice Network. Emergency Homelessness is up 25% in the last three years. Bristol City Council to close all its eight elderly care homes over the next three years while keeping one dementia home open, Bristol's mayoral candidates disagree on the solution. [audio: 201208031700]
Second hour: Syria and Iran latest. Free Syrian Army (FSA) get surface to air missiles. We hear two extracts from the Iranian English language channel Press TV which is now banned in Britain by broadcasting regulator Ofcom. We hear that US corporations buy elected politicians by spending $15bn on lobbying in the run-up to the US Presidential election later this year and Gordon Duff from Veterans Today's view that the Patriot Act has echoes of Nazi Germany and that Republican candidate Mitt Romney represents war profiteers, not just the Republican party. Daphne Havercroft - from South West Whistleblowers' Health Action Group (SWWHAG) - consolidation and commercialisation of the NHS as plans are revealed to merge the 2 NHS trusts to one that. This time it was the UHB NHS Trust managers and board who failed to appear on the show to discuss reasons for the merger and the future of their £500m annual budget of public money. David Powell from Friends of the Earth (FOE) discusses Fracking, the extraction of gas by pouring toxic chemicals deep into the water table which energy companies are planning to do in the Mendip Hills. This has been going on in the US for a decade where they have produced a film: Gasland. Forthcoming protest on Saturday 22nd September called Global Frackdown, Frack Free Somerset and the national Frack Off campaign as well as the film: Fracking Hell. Wind farms and fossil fuel vs. alternative energy policy. Joanne Baker, author of Uranium in Iraq: The Poisonous Legacy of the Iraq Wars talks about Hiroshima Day on Monday as well as Britain's use of radioactive waste to pollute countries in foreign wars. Fran Anderson from Reinvestigate 911 reflects on the 9/11 Commission report, Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission by Thomas Keane, BBC coverage of the 9/11 attacks and the thoughts of US author of Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace and writer Gore Vidal who died this week, aged 86. [audio: 201208031800]
Second hour: Syria and Iran latest. Free Syrian Army (FSA) get surface to air missiles. We hear two extracts from the Iranian English language channel Press TV which is now banned in Britain by broadcasting regulator Ofcom. We hear that US corporations buy elected politicians by spending $15bn on lobbying in the run-up to the US Presidential election later this year and Gordon Duff from Veterans Today's view that the Patriot Act has echoes of Nazi Germany and that Republican candidate Mitt Romney represents war profiteers, not just the Republican party. Daphne Havercroft - from South West Whistleblowers' Health Action Group (SWWHAG) - consolidation and commercialisation of the NHS as plans are revealed to merge the 2 NHS trusts to one that. This time it was the UHB NHS Trust managers and board who failed to appear on the show to discuss reasons for the merger and the future of their £500m annual budget of public money. David Powell from Friends of the Earth (FOE) discusses Fracking, the extraction of gas by pouring toxic chemicals deep into the water table which energy companies are planning to do in the Mendip Hills. Forthcoming protest on Saturday 22nd September called Global Frackdown, Frack Free Somerset and the national Frack Off campaign as well as the film: Fracking Hell. Wind farms and fossil fuel vs. alternative energy policy. Joanne Baker, author of Uranium in Iraq: The Poisonous Legacy of the Iraq Wars talks about Hiroshima Day on Monday as well as Britain's use of radioactive waste to pollute countries in foreign wars. Fran Anderson from Reinvestigate 911 reflects on the 9/11 Commission report, BBC coverage of the 9/11 attacks and the thoughts of US author of Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace and writer Gore Vidal who died this week, aged 86. [audio: 201208031800]
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After six:
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First hour: 'Senseless' threats to Bristol Remploy despite it making money; Conservative finance lead & deputy mayor Geoff Gollop says it shows lack of joined up thinking in Coalition government; Geoff, Peter Abraham & Barbara Lewis all in the running for Conservative mayor candidate, one will be chosen on 7th August. Empty offices in Bristol, but will Geoff be able to bring back growth and confidence & fill them with workers? Office for National Statistics and OBR announce 0.7% fall in GDP as commentators talk not of double dip resession but 'slump'. Chancellor George Osborne is sticking to his deficit reduction plan but on camera looks, sheepishly, as if he did not believe his own words. UK is extremely vulnerable in the Euro crisis despite not being in the Euro zone. Banks are the fiancial services wing of the international drug cartels. Government minister says it's immoral to pay cash in hand while super-rich stash $21tn in offshore funds out of the reach of the tax man. As the Americanisation of Britain continues Liberal democrats select former police officer and one of our 'city slackers' who does not return emails or phone calls, Pete Levy, to run for Avon & Somerset Police Comissioner. Other candidates so far announced are Conservative Ken Maddock & Bob Ashford for Labour. Voxpop on Olympics security militarisation and G4S fiasco. [audio: 201207271700]
Second hour: Marina Morris reports on latest developments in Syria with arms finding their way to the rebels through NATO country Turkey. Daily Mail reports that former SAS soldiers are training the 'Free Syrian Army' who have been killing people in Damascus over the last few weeks. Who might stand to gain from an attack at the olympics? Sponsors BMW made their money using SS slave labour in World War Two and have 'taken over' the iconic British Mini but will not pay reparations. Reference is German documentary The Silence Of The Quandts. Just published into English today is the Secret 'Plan For Democratic Rebirth' for a fascist Italy run by Freemasons, police, secret services and corporations of Italian Grand Orient masonry. It was discovered in the lining of Licio Gelli's daughter Maria-Graxia Gelli's suitcase at Rome Fiumicino airport 30 years ago this month. [audio: 201207271800]
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After six:
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First hour: City slackers, named again. List of Bristol City Councillors who either do not respond to phone or emails or do not wish to share their views with us on BCfm's politics show. Conservatives 36%; Liberal Democrat 28%; Labour 18% and Green 0%. Bristol freemasonry: we appeal for a copy of the Bristol Provincial yearbook, still not supplied as promised by Bristol freemason Conservative MP Jack Lopresti, which lists Bristol's 2000 or so Freemasons in 50 or so masonic lodges. A vision for the city. Lax HSBC controls allowed Mexican drug cartels to launder £4.5 billion and David Cameron's Coalition Government Trade Minister Lord Green was running the HSBC bank at the time. Criminals running the NATO zone banking system. £3.6m cuts mean nearly 200 people will be made homeless after Bristol City Council announces closure of 8 care homes, plus 130 job losses. Bristol has 20,000 homeless people, Tony Crofts suggests we should convert Bristol's 1.75 million square feet of empty office space into 70-80,000 homes. IMF says the UK must boost government spending to save the economy and should relax spending cuts. Labour's mayoral candidate, our guest Marvin Rees, branded naive and weak by LibDem Councillor Gary Hopkins over his appearance at last Saturday's anti-EDL rally. Unemployment falls for the 4th month in a row down to 8.1%. BBC riots drama banned by judge, but it looks like it will eventually be screened. News review with Labour's candidate for mayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees. [audio: 201207201700]
Second hour: Bomb attacks rock Syrian security ministry killing two generals and more, were attacks timed to coincide withy UN Security Council vote? The best English language source of Syrian news, the excellent analysis from Syrian Arab News Service (SANA) website www.sana.sy is unavailable so NATO/Israeli cyberwarfare and psychological warfare may be going on. However the UN's Syrian ambassador Dr. Bashar Al Jaafari's speech on 19 July 2012, as Russia and China vetoed the US's Syria sanctions resolution at the UN, is available. Head of German Secret Service Heinz Fromm resigns after covering up for a murderous domestic neo-Nazi terror group. Operation Gladio: Richard Cotterell and Daniele Ganser have written books and Alan Frankovich made a series of three BBC Timewatch documentaries on domestic terrorism carried out mainly in the 1980s by NATO and crypto-fascist Western Intelligence Agencies. Our own domestic counter-intelligence agency MI5's Director General and Bilderberger Jonathan Evans said on Channel 4 News, before the G4S olympics security scandal story broke, that the only danger at the Olympics was from Iran, whilst we now know it was 'wide open' for any terrorist. Why would Evans make such a statement which could not be further from the truth? Strike action at Bristol Remploy this and next Thursday, appeal for supporters to join striking disabled workers' picket next Thursday. Mass demonstrations of 400,000 people against the lack of democracy in Hong Kong 15 years after failed MP Chris Patten handed it to China. Repression and resistance in China: Wukan, a town of 40,000 people, sacks local Communist Party leaders and institutes a democratic system for three months before being repressed. Big increase in demonstrations in China which are illegal there. Sally Tang from Socialist Action reports from former British colony of Hong Kong fifteen years after it was reclaimed by China. Petition to get Bristol's extra £20m police funding; abolition of Avon & Somerset's democratic police authority and replacement with elected Police and Crime Commissioners on the horizon and the G4S private security fiasco at the olympics. Implications for privatising the police. Kevin Phillips from Avon and Somerset Police Federation which represents 3000 police officers in our local force. Dave Redgewell from SW SERA discusses the effects of rail privatisation and the McNulty report deregulating and demanning national railways. [audio: 201207201800]
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discussing
the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
and Marina Morris
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First hour: BBC Trustee, Bilderberger and Chairman of Barclays Marcus Agius at the Treasury Select Committee. Would you trust this man with your money? Extract from The Keiser report: Financial journalist Ian Fraser explains how and when the rot set in at the City of London. Last City trial County NatWest 'Blue Arrow', (not 'Blue Circle', apols.) which took place in 1992. After a crooked Court Of Appeal aquittal Serious Fraud Office (SFO) allegedly said: "The message has come down from 'on high'. There will never again be a prosecution of a high level banker or a mainstream city institution". Deregulation of the City further opened the door to impunity: False accounting, defrauding clients and money laundering has been going on ever since. Olympics' private security fiasco: Director General of MI5 and Bilderberger Jonathan Evans gives the all-clear, as does former QinetiQ boss & Bilderberger Pauline Neville-Jones, but 2 weeks later 3,500 soldiers are drafted into London Olympics security duty. G4S private security firm 'let the country down', according to Home Affairs select committee chair Keith Vaz. G4S whistleblower Ben Fellows, aka. Lee Hazledean, explains how sometimes it helps to see 'the bigger picture'. Western Intelligence agencies fomenting terror to justify their own budget and as a political tool, such as in NATO's Operation Gladio. English Defence League (EDL) march ''against Islamification of Bristol' tomorrow. But are the EDL connected to Anders Beivik, to the Zionist movement & who funds the EDL? News review with Cllr Simon Rayner (Lib) [audio: 201207131700]
Second hour: Was Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat assassinated by the Israeli Cabinet in 2004 with radioactive Polonium? Who are the West's favourite Syrian government in exile, the Syrian National Council? Keith Allen's 'Unlawful Killing' documentary about the assassination of Princess Diana has been censored by Prince Philip's lawyers. Impossible to get insurance on the film but English language Iranian channel Press TV did review it in their CinePolitics series. Tax Havens: John Christensen from the Tax Justice Network. Annual tax evasion loss to UK exchequer is £70bn, plus £25bn in tax avoidance is lost. Lord Chancellor and Bilderberger Kenneth Clarke 'blushes' on BBC's Question time as he pledges to close tax havens but does he really mean what he says? Three measures that need to be adopted: 1. Automatic Information Exchange when accounts are opened, 2. Require multinational companies to disclose their accounts in every country they operate. 3. Britain must stop blocking tax haven reforms. Eva Rausing, whose death was announced this week, used cruise ship 'The World' as a tax haven. We must end non-domicile status for oligarchs etc., who live in Britain but don't pay tax here. Shadow banking system of Structured Investment Vehicles (SIVs) explained. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney exposed as keeping his wealth in the Cayman Islands. Like Civil Service, the BBC are paying some staff to facilitate tax avoidance. Bristol ACTSA: Anti-Apartheid leader and former South African government minister Ronnie Kasrils launches the new book London Recruits edited by Ken Keable in the Colston Hall. Ronnie recommends documentaries Have You Heard From Johannesburg and Mandela Son Of Africa, Father Of A Nation. [audio: 201207131800]
At five: discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world After six: straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers and Marina Morris
First hour: PCS union votes to fund anti-cuts candidates at the next general election. Attila the Stockbroker sings his recent song, 'Looters'. Libor rate is the key rate in all financial transaction right across the globe. Barclays' former Chief Executive Bob Diamond appears at the Treasury Select Committee. Co-founder in 1981 of Bristol based investment & stockbroking bank Hargreaves Lansdown is interviewed on BBC Radio Bristol. But former forces broadcaster John Darble fails to challenge Peter Hargreaves on why his 'zombie firm' is kept alive on public subsidy or the question of the morning, whether he thinks bankers should be locked up? The City of London and Wall Street investment banking parasite is devouring the public and society, its host. The banks can not be allowed to fail but neither can society, which is the highest political priority? Unemployment in EU now highest since the introduction of the Euro. Youth unemployment at 22.6% but an astronomical 52% of under 25s in Spain & Greece are now unemployed. It was the 2008 public bailout that kept his company going. Marina Morris looks at sexual abuse in state run children's 'care' homes. Voxpop this week asks who is to blame for unemployment and what should be done about it. Defiance against debt bullies & locking up criminal bankers wins Iceland's president Grimsson a record fifth term. News review with National Vice President of Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) John McInally. [audio: 201207061700]
Second hour: Denials from Israel but it looks likely now that Palestinian leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Yasser Arafat was assassinated in 2004 was odrered by the Israeli cabinet using Polonium, a radioactive poison. Paraguay and Iran's Straits of Hormuz. Hilary Clinton, acting as a ventriloquist's dummy for AIPAC & Jerusalem, issues the same sort of bullying threats used by Hitler in the run-up to World War Two. Potential now for the Middle East to turn into a charnal house at any time as illustrated by the downing of a Turkish Phantom jet in Syrian airspace two weeks ago. Assad has proved in the recent referendum that he does have popular support in Syria. Any spark could set off a major war in the Middle East but the British Army is being slashed to its smallest size since the Napoleonic wars. Seventh anniversary of the 7/7 London bombings. Peter Power of Visor Consultants conducted an exercise on the day of 7/7 at the 'same three tube stations' that the bombs went off. He was doing that for former organisers of one of the world's biggest arms fairs in docklands Reed Elsevier. Jerusalem desk of Associated Press reported that a warning of those attacks was given to Benjamin Netanyahu (Bibi) at the Israeli Embassy in London by Scotland Yard before the bombings took place. Kevin Cahill, author of Who Owns The World, tells us that 65% of British people own their own homes which, Kevin says, is the highest number in history. Political parties are petrified that homeowners get together they can if you're working and paying your tax, for example the government should insure you against losing their job. Britain is still a feudal nation and only two countries grant land to their citizens in their constitution; Russia and one in South America. Obscene annual CAP payments of around £500k to Britain's super rich whose 'Rich List' wealth is as follows: Duke of Buccleuch £2bn; Duke of Westminster £7bn; Prince Charles £1bn; The Queen £7bn. The Queen is the largest landowner in the world with 6.6bn acres. One sixth of the entire surface of the earth. David Powell Economics Campaigner from Friends of the Earth. Land grabbing going on today with mass evictions. 200m hectares of land over the last decade, 100 times the size of Wales, has been bought up in Africa and Asia over the last decade. New book on the subject is Land Grabbers, The New Fight Over Who Owns The Earth. £9bn of pension funds are investing in land grabbing the new, economic, colonialism. [audio: 201207061800]
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discussing
the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
and Marina Morris
First hour: City council 'slackers' named: Councillors from whom I've had no phone response or who have otherwise expressed no interest in coming on the BCFM Politics Show. Proportion of 'slackers' by political party: Conservatives 36% (5/14), LibDems 28% (9/32), Labour 23% (5/22) & Green 0% (0/2). Conservative: Richard Eddy, Bishopsworth; Kevin Quartley, Bishopsworth; James Stevenson, Frome Vale; Alex Pearce, St George East and former banker and Cllr for Stoke Bishop John Goulandris. Lib Dem: Jackie Norman, Brislington West; Bev Knott, Bishopston; Patrich Hassell, Hillfields; Peter Levy, Horfield, Cheryl Anne, Horfield; Sean Emmett, Lockleaze; Sylvia Townsend, Redland; Mark Bailey, Windmill Hill and Alf Havvok also from Windmill Hill. Labour: Mike Langley, Brislington East; Jeff Lovell, Filwood; Chris Jackson, Filwood; Barry Clarke, Hengrove and Phil Hanby who represents Hillfields. Britain is not a democracy. Former Lord Chancellor Lord Hailsham said in 1976 it's an elective dictatorship. Pounds equal power! Libor fraud scandal Barclays bank thieves and fraudsters let off while their employer is fined a trifling £60m by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) + £230m from the US regulator. Chancellor George Osborne makes emergency Commons speech. Iceland jails fraudulent banksters. Nationalise banks. Applications to take children into care reach a new high. Prime Minister threatens to withdraw housing benefit from under 25's. Julian blames New World Order for our current political crisis, too far gone for reform. VOXPOP: was privatisation of the railways a good idea? Clarence House accounts reveal public funding for Prince Charles increased by 11.8% during 2011/12 and 18% for 2010/11 and with this he employs 8 full-time PR spin doctors. News review with Somerset businessman Julian Parry. [audio: 201206291700]
Second hour: Despite attempts at public reassurance from MI5 Director General Jonathan Evans and Channel 4 News Security Correspondant Simon Israel all is definitely not well at G4S. After last week's viral interview we have week two of Lee Hazledean's reports undercover at the London Olympics private security firm G4S. G4S are talking about ‘brand screening’ the spectators despite publicly saying it will not happen. Ian Horseman-Sewell, MD of Global Events, has said they will not brand screen. However during Lee’s training he was specifically told that if someone turned up in say a tee-shirt from a company who wasn't sponsoring the Olympics then he would need to tell them to take off their tee shirt and turn it inside out, get changed into another or go home and change, as a condition of entry. If they turned the tee-shirt back the right way once inside the venue Lee was told they would be ejected from the Olympics. Lee’s been told that certain people called Internationally Protected People cannot be screened? IPP's are anybody that LOCOG say they are! Surely everyone should get screened and treated fairly. This directly builds in room for a false flag operation. There is a sinister implication with non-British international firm G4S running the Metropolitan police force which of course is their ultimate aim as the New World Order security outfit of choice. Like the Nazi Gestapo who supplanted the German police in the 1930s. Why have we allowed G4S to increase their contract from £86m to a staggering £284m and they still want more. There has been no proper oversight whatever by our politicians so why not? How do you evacuate the Olympic stadium? How do you evacuate the Olympic park? G4S trainers told Lee about evacuating London but not discussed what the emergency procedures are for evacuating any Stadium in the event of an emergency. It is almost as though they want chaos. Remember Hillsborough Britain's worst sporting disaster. Lee has had no training to do with how to screen people with physical disabilities. This is the Olympics and Para-Olympics and at no point has G4S, LOCOG or Contemporary International even discussed screening people with disabilities and how not to offend and strip those individuals of their dignity. How do you screen someone in a wheel chair? Lee has had no emergency medical training. The queues are going to be massive and if someone collapses the security officers won't know what to do. They are relying again on a St John's ambulance or paramedics hopefully standing right on scene. All security should have at least a first person first aid training which takes just one day. Bristol Remploy workers Paul Gane and Mark Cambridge, both disabled, explain their situation as part of a viable business here in Bristol which has a full order book. Political hope with the Daily Express and others supporting their fight to keep their jobs. Further details at the websites of GMB and UNITE trade unions. International situation in Syria getting worse and worse with mysterious attacks taking place this week on Syrian TV station and on the Syrian Justice Ministry. Reports of terrorists infiltrating into Syrian borders rather than these attacks coming from Syrians themselves. Maybe these terrorists are just coming home after fighting abroad ;-) Or more likely NATO's Al Quaeda legions & Western allies in the Middle East are actually fuelling the civil war. Confusion Marketing, direct debit mandate abuses and privatisation of utilities discussed. Julian Parry switches to E.ON but gets his first monthly energy bill for nearly £3000! [audio: 201206291800]
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First hour: Lane clearance in St. George was not included
in the
May Gurney waste,
cleaning and maintenance contract.
Marvyn
Rees to be Bristol's Labour mayoral candidate. Prime Minister David Cameron's
father Ian
pioneered the abuse of Tax Havens and the Cameron family
fortune was accumulated in Panama, Geneva and Jersey. Germans forced to allow
printing of money in the Eurozone. Mexico G20 conference
largely a waste of time, casino banking is gambling with
peoples' lives. So-called technical hitches at
RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank with customers unable to
withdraw their own money. Banking should be there to serve governments, the
people, business. There must be no gambling with money we need access to.
One third of the Troika, the
European Financial
Security Facility (EFSF), is based in a tax haven and impossible for
MEPs to scrutinise. Boss of G4S predicts
mass privatisation of British police, Ten more UK police
forces are looking to outsource policing to private companies. All sounds
a bit 'Robocop' and extremely dangerous. Private prisons also open to fascist
abuse but being encouraged by Justice Secretary Ken Clarke. Labour leader
Ed Miliband apologises for Labour allowing unlimited
EU immigration, but these are empty words, he's shutting the stable door
after the horse has bolted. Average wage has been brought right down so benefits
seem more generous. Comparing Jimmy Carr with David Cameron's father Ian,
who was a
pioneer of tax havens in Panama and Switzerland, as soon
as Margaret Thatcher lifted currency controls. Changes proposed to the
examination system. Congratulations and unequivocal support for campaign
to reopen
Whiteladies
Picture House. What is the future for radical internet publishing and
will Julian Assange have to live permanently in the Ecuadorian Embassy? Is
Assange's treatment
the
beginning of real totalitarianism? News review with St. George East Labour
Councillor Fabian Breckles.
[audio: 201206221700]
Second hour: The 2012 London olympics start in 4 weeks time.
Exclusive interview with investigative journalist Lee Hazledean who is training
undercover as a security guard for the London olympics with private security
firm G4S. Lee is a filmmaker and investigative TV journalist. He has also
been involved in major stories on the IRA and how British Army infiltrated
the organisation and carried out false flag operations. He has managed to
get undercover as part of the security team at the 2012 Olympics with G4S.
He has found there is a media black out on all major news outlets to do with
the Olympics unless the story is broken in a news paper or foreign news agency
it’s unlikely to see the light of day. Security training and officers
are so appaling that the safety and security of the London 2012 Olympics
are in jeopardy. A few example’s: The security training is woefully
inadequate run by a training company called Contemporary International. Lee
has been assigned to work in a PSA (Pedestrian Screening Area) the main security
for the stadiums. During an exercise he was asked to pose as a would-be terrorist
and managed to get knives, guns and IED’s through security screening
on every occasion and every exercise. The X-Ray operators have only two days
of training, they aren’t trained properly and miss the most obvious
prohibited items gun’s, knives, IED’s, ammunition etc. Bag and
physical searchers again are missing dangerous weapons, trainees can’t
use vital security equipment like the HHMD (Hand Held Metal detectors) they
can’t even communicate properly with the public on a basic level. Worryingly
the ‘Rapiscan’ walk through metal detectors don’t work properly
and aren’t sensitive enough to pick up large knives, ammunition and
other metallic threats. He was told that they would be set to go off only
after 50 people have walked through to limit queuing time and to get spectators
into the venue. So a Terrorist if they basically queued up would probably
get through wearing a suicide vest. G4S are dragging the job centres to recruit
the long term unemployed for security officers regardless of how suitable
they are for the role. In classes there are drug deals going down, people
can’t speak any English whatsoever and others who find people with
disabilities offensive and are constantly making disabled jokes. People with
no security experience are being rushed through training for their SIA licenses.
People who haven’t even completed their SIA licenses yet are being picked
to be Team Leaders over highly trained security officers, ex soldiers and
ex police. Being a team leader is an important role as the first and last
line of defence. Lee is concerned that weapons or worse will be getting into
the games. However, what’s more disturbing is that uniforms are already
going missing or being stolen from the uniform distribution centre/training
facility. The training facility is an accurate mock-up of the actual security
measures at the Olympic venues. Lee has witnessed several people taking photos
on their mobile phones in the training facility and whilst they have been
a few people caught by trainers most aren’t noticed. Even when they
are caught they are just told to delete the photos and they continue on the
training. We know that terrorists take surveillance photos to gain intelligence.
Contemporary International claim that they have mobile phone
‘jammers’ in the facility, however trainers admitted to Lee that
there were no ‘jammers’ at all, it was a verbal deterrent. The
training facility is a non sporting Olympic venue and a terrorist target.
Therefore G4S can’t even secure a school let alone the Olympic Venues.
Also there are plans for the evacuation of London, G4S are going to be at
the forefront, as well as 100,000 troops coming in via Woolwich barracks
made up of regular British Forces, American regular army and European troops.
Lee was not told why there would be any need for an evacuation of the whole
of London, they just said it was to be a “defining moment in the history
of London”. This could just be a precaution but the public should be
made aware of the foreign invasion which is taking place right now. The troops
are being held across London in various barracks once they’ve been through
Woolwich. Lee also had this information confirmed by an army doctor who was
shocked at all the foreign troops coming into London. There is also a shipment
of what are being described as casket linings, each casket can hold four
or five people and 200,000 casket linings have been delivered we believe
from America. This could all be precautionary in the event of a major terrorist
attack. Also we were shown videos of drones attacking targets in Afghanistan
and were told that drones will be patrolling the sky’s over London during
the Olympics carrying out surveillance and search and destroy missions if
necessary. Lee believes there is something fundamentally wrong with how the
security for the Olympics is being implemented by G4S. With exactly 4 weeks
to go until the games Lee feels he needs to expose the inadequate security
in place in the hope that it can be improved so that the London 2012 Olympics
can be a safe environment for spectators and Athletes alike, and not a cause
for national and international embarrassment for Great Britain. Privatisation
of Olympics' security discussed in the context of private companies such
as ICTS and Verint Systems allegedly facilitating or carrying out false flag
terrorism themselves for private profit. Released documents reveal that Neo-Nazis
helped
carry out the 1972 Munich Olympics attack. In 2012 the
Israeli Secret Service
Mossad
is active in Iraq under Jordanian cover so may be responsible for some
of the recent atrocities.
The year is 1963 and the Israeli state does a deal with Nazi war criminals
thereby 'losing its soul'. We go back to the 1970s to pick up an incredible
story of former Nazis living happily in South America and even putting out
disinformation through the world press to cover their crimes: Why was Mossad
chief Isser Harel forced to resign while hunting for South American Nazi
SS war criminals in 1963? Adolf Eichmann had been kidnapped, put on trial
in Jerusalem and executed but other Nazi war criminals
Martin
Bormann, Klaus Barbie and Josef Mengele were then allowed to comfortably
live out the rest of their lives in Paraguay, Chile,
Argentina and Brazil. 1978 World In Action documentary
'The Hunt
for Doctor Mengele' which is available on a Network DVD
World In Action
II archive. Playout tune:
Papua New Guinea (1992) by The Future Sound of London
[audio: 201206221800]
At five:
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the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
and Marina Morris
First hour: News review with former Conservative, now UKIP councillor for Woodlands in Bradley Stoke, Ed Rose who has spoken out against the closure of Filton airfield. Says integrity was entirely lacking in the Filton and Bradley Stoke Conservative party . Strict policy discipline and 'roastings' from local MP Jack Lopresti and others. "One party, one policy one fuhrer". Filton and Bradley Stoke Conservative party compared to Hitler and Mussolini's with regard to strict policy discipline. Smear campaign and mud slinging by fellow Conservatives outside the minuted committee meetings. UK Independence Party run in a more human fashion. The Conservative Party don't care. It's hard to see their understanding of what's going on. David Cameron said "My great grandfather was a banker my grandfather was a banker and my father was an investment banker, Banking is in my blood, I will never hurt bankers." Essentially giving city fraudsters a 'get out of jail free card. There is a sense of unreality to the way Bradley Stoke is being governed with no real thought for the future. Allegations of bullying against BAe Systems threatening those that speak out professionally against the closure of Filton Airfield. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) programme project team is based at MoD AbbeyWood. No other uses of Filton Airfield were considered by BAe Systems, they just decided to close it and sell it off with no consideration whatever for their obligations to the public, who gave them the airfield for £1.00, and the wider society. Hypocrisy of turning down Filton Airfield expansion due to traffic but housing will generate even more car journeys. Local Conservative MP "I'm alright" Jack Lopresti "too busy in London" welcomes apprenticeships & jobs but where are these jobs? Libraries have closed and no-one to empty the dog poo bins. No jobs, no money, no economy no future so surely it is crazy to build 5000 houses without jobs or infrastructure? In the future it could compare to the 'Robocop' US city of Detroit. "We have a government that seem to enjoy themselves. It's a big boy's club, they've never done a hard day's work in their life these people." Incompetence and bullying in Whitehall. Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King and Chancellor George Osborne announce £140Bn fund to banks to lend to businesses. Compare to Russian Mafia. Lack of regulation one of the main causes of these problems. Conservative government have no understanding of hardship. Financial crisis caused by lack of demand in the economy not by lack of lending. Britain being bled dry by the EU, whose accounts haven't been audited for the last 9 years. European bankers riddled with endemic corruption. KPMG, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Deloitte Touche and Ernst & Young, the 'Big Four' auditors are under investigation too for giving clean bills of health to UK banks just before they had to be rescued by taxpayers in the 2007-09 financial crisis. Bankers and the Murdoch empire undermine national security and should be prosecuted for treason. Bristol City Council's £12.5m annual drug and alcohol rehabilitation programme is out for consultation. Links between drug dealers, organised crime and the intelligence services who profit from prohibition. Jubilee 'slave labour' company Close Protection UK (CPUK) minibus overturns on the M40 and the driver is arrested so the London Bridge incident was not just a 'one off' as a Downing Street spokeswoman said. Banking system is now being propped up by the taxpayer and drug cartels, without which it would be bust. David Cameron quizzed at Leveson Enquiry about his pre-election dealings with two former News of the World editors, both now charged with serious criminal offences, Rebekah Brooks with perverting the course of justice and Andy Coulson with perjury. Only one SMS text revealed at the Leveson Enquiry which decended into farce when Prime Minister David Cameron's wife Samatha rang in to 'remind him' about the frequency of meetings with Ms. Brooks over lunch. All "hogwash, they're all in the dirt on this". Why has the whole Murdoch family not been arrested and charged? The big fish are being protected and the small fish are being thrown to the sharks at Leveson enquiry which is being stage managed in a US style for TV. [audio: 201206151700]
Second hour:Was the Houla massacre in Syria carried out by Western intelligence services since the article suggesting it was carried out by the Free Syrian Army at the same time as Western moves in the Security Council. Until the Libyan regime change Al Quaeda were NATO and Mossad's arch enemy but now in Syria and Libya Al Quaeda are the Werstern intelligence service's friends! On 1st July 2010 South Yorkshire police's Principle Strategic Intelligence Analyst Tony Farrell realised he couldn't trust the intelligence he was getting from Special branch and would have to speak out at work about the faulty Threat Assessment Matrix (TAM) used by the police. He regarded the threat to South Yorkshire from Islamic terrorists to be virtually zero and the real threat to be from Western intelligence agencies and the domestic 'New World Order' of private security companies with a vested interest in generating a domestic terror threat. He detected critical failings in MI5's Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC). Tony Farrell is now being represented by Michael Shrimpton QC as his cases against paying his council tax and for unfair dismissal go on. Terror hoax drills took place in South Yorkshire on 5th & 11th July 2005. S. Yorks. Chief Constable Meredydd Hughes was in charge of Gleneagles G8 security on 7th July then dealt with debriefings from 7/7 London bombings. European Euro crooks' ponzi scheme Troika (EFSF ECB IMF) lends money to Greece at interest and only bails them out so they can pay back previous debts with interest. Yanis Varoufakis on English language Russian channel RT's 'Keiser Report' with former New York stockbroker Max Keiser. Greek election is on Sunday which could mean total financial collapse on Monday if Greek people assert their sovereignty. Wilf Mound from Bristol Greenpeace takes us through local environmental campaigns including the Fisherman's Friend campaign to help fishermen in the South West and Ecocide trial. Bill Monteith South West rep on National Executive of the Transport Salaried Staff Association (TSSA) describes the ham fisted, cack handed privatisation of Britain's railways. The Banks own the 'Roscos' or rolling stock companies which lease trains to the UK's 27 train operating companies. Roy McNulty's plans to take away guards and ticket office staff: Roy McNulty's report on the railways may lead to 20,000 job losses. Already too many layers of profit-taking in the rail system. Simple solution is to re-nationalise the railway network as a 'national treasure'. British Rail still exists as a train operating company of last resort. McNulty is a 'Command Paper' not an Act of Parliament. Review of the recent US Bilderberg conference, the secret political arm of NATO. Crooked BBC taboo: Disbelief that the cult-like BBC could ignore one of the most influential political NATO conferences of the year in its output while a BBC 'trustee', Marcus Agius who is married to Katherine Rothschild and the Chairman of Barclays bank is inside, sworn to secrecy. [audio: 201206151800]
At five:
discussing
the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
and Marina Morris
First hour: Bristol Masonic MP Jack Lopresti promises Bristol Freemason's Provincial Yearbook but fails to deliver. Bristol Freemasons holding an open day at their Park Street masonic temples next Saturday on 16th June. Will elected mayor help relations with neighbouring authorities? Conservative party seem by many as greedy, retrogressive, even 'Victorian'. No mandate to privatise the National Health Service (NHS) in the interest of giant US private healthcare firms. Public & patient Involvement Forum, The Link, and Community Health Councils chopped and changed over the years to weaken patient power, a loss of patient representation. Resignation of Defence Secretary and North Somerset MP Liam Fox after signing British Harrier jets to Americans at knock-down price of £112m after a £600m refit. Euro crisis rumbles on with Spain now in the cross-hairs and German Chancellor Angela Merkl now demanding 'United States Of Europe' style political union as the price for her support and staying in the Euro. Far right growing in Greece with another election looming. Tensions developing between Greece and Germany over buried historical bodies. No mechanism for coming out of the Euro which makes it as difficult as possible. Greeks playing chicken with Germans. Bristol courts are running out of money to pay judges. Bristol University produce ridiculous report which suggests exercise does not help with treating depression. Who is to blame for South West's 'slave labourers' on the 'Work Programme' sent to London to work free as Queen's Diamond Jubilee Stewards? Is it Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, 'prime' contractor Prospects, charity Tomorrow's People or Close Protection UK? Culprit Prospects' boss Ray Auvray is a former school careers adviser and one-time Lib Dem councillor who now earns £193k a year. Prime Minister David Cameron reads the New Testament lesson, Romans 12, on Tuesday in St. Paul's Cathedral, at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Service of Thanksgiving. Is Cameron challenged by Biblical sentiments? A declarartion of war on the police by the Home Office as Tom Winsor looks to be made H.M. Chief Inspector of Constabularies. Fraud Squad fails to raid a single suspect in the year 2011-2012. UK banks are sitting on £40bn black hole of undeclared losses. New French president Francois Hollande lowers French retirement age from 62 to 60. News review with Conservative councillor for Henbury Chris Windows.
Second hour: Another massacre in Syria, this time in Qubair & Hama, but who is carrying out these killings? Western powers and their friends Saudi Arabia & Qatar in the Middle East backing the rebels. Assad instantly blamed by William Hague but does that indicate the Foreign Office are jumping to conclusions and even that MI6, or so-called allies the US and Israel, may be behind these massacres, trying to provoke civil war and regime change like in Libya? Middle East Correspondent for the Independent Robert Fisk not being heard in the British broadcast media. English language Iranian channel Press TV is now censored in the UK so here is this week's clip from Gordon Duff of Veterans Today explaining that Al Qaeda is a fantasy and who we were not allowed to hear in the UK this week 'for our own good'. Bristol's Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) transport public enquiry with Bristol City Council's Executive member for Transport, Tim Kent, and spokesman for Rail Future & BCFM presenter Steve Sa'tan. Tim Kent says the Bus Rapid Transit scheme will begin next year in two 'Y shaped' sections. South: from Long Ashton and Hengrove to the City Centre. North: from Cribbs Causeway and Emerson's Green to the City Centre. Bill Still: monetary reform - The Secret Of Oz. Surveillance special: looking at latest developments in the creeping police state UK with privatisation of CCTV, behavioural detection, and social networking surveillance with our guest Big Brother watcher and Birmingham based No-CCTV campaigner Steve Jolly. Software companies making a fortune as they sell mobile phone and social networking surveillance software much beloved by control freaks' private company the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), to the Metropolitan police.
At five:
discussing
the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
and Marina Morris
First hour: News review with South Gloucestershire UKIP Councillor & former Bradley Stoke mayor Ben Walker who, after what he describes as an internal smear campaign, left the Conservative party this week. Report on financial viability of Bristol Remploy which is turning a profit but nevertheless under a 90 day consultation and facing closure. Remploy have not been alowed to hire new staff since 2008 even when vacancies come up and existing staff are having to work overtime. We hear from Tina Fellows, Paul Gain, Sue Marm, Doug Pine & Brian Williams. Scores of disabled workers at Remploy Bristol are facing redundancy. Irish vote 'yes' in European fiscal treaty referendum. Trying to resurrect the broken banks now seen as a mistake, & staving off the inevitable. A huge amout of financial scaremongering going on. Greece is in a fiscal prison. Early learning proposals from DoE say 2-5 year olds can have up to 15 hours in nursery a week, Marina Morris reports. Entire Chinese ruling class was shot in the 1940s because they would not give up their unfair share of wealth and power. Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt still in his job, as Labour may force Commons vote over alleged breaches of the ministerial code. Prime Minister David Cameron's former Head of Communications Andy Coulson arrested for Perjury after testifying against Scottish Socialist leader Tommy Sheridan in another perjury case. John Lister, director of Health Emergency explains that doctors may have the power to keep the NHS exactly as it is and keep private profit out even after the present reforms are implemented. Health and Social Care bill sprung on the electorate two months after the 2010 General Election where David Cameron promised NHS staff there would be 'no top down reorganisation of the NHS'. Ashton Vale opponents are facing a 'hate campaign'. Bristol Anarchists sabotage railway signalling as part of their sedition programme to start a civil war.
Second hour: Massacre in Houla, Syria carried out, according to the UN, by 'Shabiah' fighters but it appears victims may have been government supporters. BBC use 9 year old photograph from Iraq on their website as if it was from Syria. Syrian government says 800 rebel fighters carried out the massacre and that the victims had refused to oppose the Syrian government. Did the UN question witnesses to the massacre by phone only? We are not hearing about massacres by pro-Western regimes. Israel hints that it may be behind the 'Flame' virus which has been attacking the data stealing virus. New York Times says the previous Stuxnet virus was created by US and Israelis and may have played a part in the Fukushima runaway nuclear reactor disaster. Bilderberg 2012. Reports on this weekend's annual Bilderberg conference in the US of NATO's totalitarian, super-rich, secret government. A look at some of the key participants in the venue where the NATO zone industrialists, royalty and bankers persuade pliable politicians to carry out their plans. Rothschild & Rockefeller families team up for some extra wealth creation. Two centuries old transatlantic dynasties, Rothschilds in Europe and Rockefeller in the US, team up to cash in on the present distressed markets, where they can buy up assets very cheaply and make a killing. Rothschild Investment Trust (RIT) Capital Partners has taken a 37% stake in Rockefeller Financial Services. Victor Rothschild was telling 1970s UK politicians who to appoint as the head of MI5 or MI6. What is Bilderberg? Opinion of author and senior journalism lecturer Stephen Dorril. 'Martin Bormann, Nazi In Exile' [PDF] book by former CBS WWII news correspondent Paul Manning reviewed by Martin Summers. Hitler's deputy Martin Bormann and Nazi flight capital in the years during and after World War II. Dave Emory on his Spitfirelist podcast describes Red House meeting on Thursday 10th August 1944 in Strausbourg, attended by representatives of all main Nazi corporations, which set Bormann's Nazi flight capital programme in motion. Where did all that looted Nazi wealth end up? Immediate co-operation between the Nazi Bormann network and select Jewish businessmen. Money talks, Nazi money talks, Martin Bormann is dead but his Nazi capital network lives on. Ed Michaud from Trident Research & Recovery describes the laundering of Nazi gold and securities through the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Sullivan and Cromwell law firm in New York. Daily Mail cover this year's Bilderberg meeting. Gordon Duff from Veterans Today is one voice no longer heard in Britain since Iranian channel, Press TV, was censored by Ofcom in January 2012. Antidote to the Diamond Jubilee as we hear from John Morgan author of the new book 'Diana Inquest: Who Killed Princess Diana?' about the circumstances around the meeting of the royal family's Way Ahead Group (WAG) on Wednesday 23rd July 1997 and why he believes it was there the decision was made, by senior members of the royal family, to assassinate Diana.
At five:
discussing
the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin
Summers
First hour: News review with Ashley ward Councillor Gus Hoyt (Grn). Will the future Bristol mayor cut through bureaucracy or cut through democracy? Could the mayor even be an elected dictatorship? How is Bristol's May Gurney waste contract working out? Recycling levels improving but complaints about far too much street litter just 'blowing about'. Euro crisis and discussion about likely Greek departure from the Euro. Debts that can't be paid won't be paid. Insolvent banking sector needs to be wound up in an orderly fashion. Greens would focus on policies for schools, community centres and the NHS. Lessons to learn from Iceland which jailed bankers and politicians and Argentina which underwent total financial meltdown in 2000. Which? magazine survey finds all major supermarkets are using confidence tricks on customers with their fake 'half price', 'buy one get one free'and other 'special offers'. But who can destroy the power of the supermarkets especially when they are colluding on deceptive pricing? City of London banking regulator Andrew Bailey signals the end of 'free banking' but, as we hear, account charges and banks' ability to make up money out of nowhere and lend it at interest should mean free banking. Banking should be run as a public utility, a public service for all. Banking sector regulators Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Financial Services Authority (FSA) are more propaganda outfits than regulators as they are funded by the banks. Bankers are not like chrities, like an old fashioned feudal aristocracy. Credit unions are a viable alternative which keeps the wealth in the local community. The Bristol pound to be launched soon. Music: Editor of New York's Trends Journal The Gerald Celente Mix by Robin Carvell. LibDem MP for Bristol West Stephen Williams asks awkward Prime Ministerial Question this week of David Cameron about policies for growth. Speaker asks Cameron to retract unparliamentary language calling Labour's shadow chancellor Ed Balls a 'muttering idiot' but Cameron only pays lip service to the speaker's demand. We are now in a 'double dip' recession because you can not have growth and austerity at the same time. Bad language and behaviour at Prime Ministers' Questions led, on this occasion by David Cameron himself. Gus doesn't want to build new homes but bring 7000 empty homes back into use and wonders why any offices are being built when so many around the city are empty. Apparent pointlessness of the local enterprise zone (LEZ) at Temple Meads. Tory party funder Adrian Beecroft's report suggests employers should be able to 'fire at will' which causes tension with LibDem coalition partners. English Defence League (EDL) planning to march on the same day as Bristol Gay Pride march on Saturday 14th July. We are told that marches will take place at different times so there will be no clash, if you believe that. Comparison to the marching season in Northern Ireland and tensions there. South Gloucestershire Council scraps cabinet system and goes back to the old committee system after accusations of abuse of power by the Conservative cabinet. Imagine if LibDem councillor Gary Hopkins had been made mayor of Bristol, he may have forced through the sell off of green spaces in Bristol. Mayoral candidate George Ferguson is the bookies' bet to become mayor. BBC Radio Bristol audience plummets has lost 25% of its audience in the last six months after losing 50% from October 2010 to October 2011. BBC Radio Bristol's former BFBS presenter John Darble's simpering interview with corrupt Defence Secretary and North Somerset MP Liam Fox. Welfare to work firm A4E auditor Eddie Hutchinson says the company was set up to facilitate fraud for Tory party favourite and 'families' czar' Emma Harrison. Gus brings to our attention a recent New Economics Foundation (NEF) report which suggests Britain should have a 21 hour working week.
Second hour: Doctors and Scientists issue warning to NATO: A Nuclear Strike Could Starve The World because a limited nuclear war is being contemplated by the 'Doctor Strangeloves' in the Pentagon. Channel 4 Dispatches documentary Murder in St. James' (1996) about the murder of PC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984 which was blamed on the Libyans but looks to have been a contract killing by a Berlin gangster, commissioned by US CIA and British intelligence services to discredit the Libyans. Who Owns Britain? 1% own 71% of Britain & 45% own nothing at all. 40% of the 65% of UK homeowners in the UK are still paying off the mortgagage... but the cost to build a house should only be £6 a week. Journalist Kevin Cahill got interested in land ownership researching for the Sunday Times Rich List with the editor Philip Beresford. Rich List has severe limitations because the super-wealthy hide their capital in shell companies, numbered Swiss bank accounts and tax havens which do not feature in the Rich List. Inadequacies of the Land Registry which is constructed to conceal land ownership. Kevin's book, Who Owns Britain (2002), took 13 years to research and write. BBC TV programme 'Whose Britain Is It Anyway' (2006) was based on the book but missed out fundamental aspects of Kevin's findings. Freeholds are all in fact owned by the Queen so they are leases from the Queen in the small print of land title deeds. The Church of England have sold 2.1 million acres of glebe land slowly over the years. There is 60 million acres of land in Britain to share out among 62 million inhabitants. 1% of the population (159,000 families) own 71% of the land. Domesday book of 1086 was William the Conqueror's 'swag list' inventory of resources to tax. William's Domesday commissioners caused riots. There was a little known second domesday book of 1872. Do we really need land in a mercantile, money economy? 65% of families have a stake in their home either owning it or taking out a mortgage to buy it. US folk song 'This Land Is Your Land' (1940) by Woody Guthrie. Enclosure and privatisation of land in Britain by the wealthy but ordinary people had no vote. If you could not graze your animals on common land or collect wood in the winter you were dead. The pressure of evicted peoples' need for land as it was enclosed was taken off by the cities, the factories ... and the colonies. The real cost of building a 6 bedroom house: 800 man-hours of labour plus 700 man-hours in materials is 1500 man hours or £15,000 at £10/hour. The repayments on a 50 year interest free loan would be about £6 a week. A home is a fundamental human right so how to make sure everyone has a home that nobody can evict you from? Fiona O'Cleirigh and Kevin are working on a second edition of Who Owns Britain which is due to be published in the Autumn. Did you know the Queen owns 1/6th of all the land on earth? Have you ever heard of the British Indian Ocean Territory, a land area of 15,000 acres which is now believed to be used as a secret prison for captives of the war on terror? Kevin Cahill, asserts that the main cause of most remaining poverty in the world is an excess of landownership in too few hands. He says private ownership of a very small amount on land - one-tenth of an urban acre or an acre or two of rural land - granted to every person on the planet has the potential to begin ending poverty. Kevin says the right to land is a fundamental human right and also wrote the book Who Owns The World (2006) Tonight's playout track is Hearts by L.S.G. - aka. German musician Oliver Lieb (1994).
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First hour: News review with Bristol Respect party mayoral candidate Paulette North. What does the Respect party stand for? Respect; Equality; Socialism; Peace; Environment; Community & Trade-unionism. Will the left wing vote be split in November's election for mayor? This is not a Euro crisis but a crisis of private banking. The banks are already bust and there will inevitably be a colossal financial meltdown at some point in the future. Latest Eurozone crisis. The free market solution to the financial crisis is a crash. Surely you can't just make up money out of nowhere and give it to the banks? Yes the Bank of England can! Will a panic one morning lead to a total financial meltdown? Euro crisis is a game of chicken between the Greeks and the Germans. Lessons we must learn from the Icelandic bank nationalisation NASDAQ flotation of Facebook today. Respect want a new local income tax. Cameronite 301 group conduct takeover of Tories' back-bench 1922 committee which can force a leadership election. Should there be any limits to immigration? Lithuanian man jailed for 18 months after failing to pay his £250 London to Bristol cab fare & pulling a knife, after just arriving in UK. Paulette wants a no borders policy because she believes our immigration laws are racist. So if you think there is too much immigration does that make you a racist? Is immigration causing our housing crisis or ? Why no UK staff at Pret-A-Manger? Is open borders policy part of an effort to abolish the state? Should we keep British Jobs for British Workers? Are British workers lazy? Royal College of Nursing staff ask questions of the NHS privatising Health Secretary Andrew Lansley at their annual conference. Now we have fixed term parliaments Vernon Bogdanor asks: if LibDems jump ship might the queen then ask Ed Miliband to form a government? First charges in the phone hacking scandal. Rebekah Brooks, her husband Charlie and five others charged with several counts of Conspiracy to Pervert the course of justice byAlison Levitt QC at the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. Council order Withywood residents to return community garden to wasteland.
Second hour: Reconnaissance around global and intelligence news stories: Dictators' dinner and liars' lunch today hosted by the Queen & Prince Charles at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace. Do these figureheads have any real power? G8 summit at Camp David followed by NATO summit in Chicago. Remembering the British military coup attempt against Prime Minister Harold Wilson in 1975 as recorded in 'The Pencourt Files' by Barrie Penrose & Roger Courtiour. The Spanish Order of the Golden Fleece which goes back to Medieval times and takes its name from the Greeks' legendary Golden Fleece from the ram-god Krios' which was on the island of Colchis which was a charm for prosperity in Homer's stories of Jason and the Argonauts. Russians threaten to destroy NATO's missile defence shield in Poland and Romania. NATO ramps up tension against the Chinese in the Spratly islands in the South China sea but who stands to gain from increasing tension? Are our arms firms and their foreign dealings encouraging terrorism here in Britain? Privatising AbbeyWood MoD procurement with arms manufacturers BAe Systems in the running. The Olympic Torch trail from Greece was started in 1936 by the Nazis for the Berlin Olympics. Queen of Disco Donna Summer believed her lung cancer was caused by inhaling New York's 9/11 dust. Sex, spies and seven suspicious deaths: The murky waters of the intelligence world - coincidence or conspiracy? Phil Gibbons reports from modern artist Sam Bompas' jelly event at the SS Great Britain. Cliff Hanley from Bristol's Palestine Solidarity Campaign was beaten up and disabled in Bristol city centre by a far right drunk on Good Friday 2011. Although the attacker has allegedly been identified by six eyewitnesses, the police will not charge the man. How to fight a war without hurting anyone. Bristol's Lincombe Barn wargaming society hold their annual table-top sale between 10am & 1pm on Sunday. Use of the new US magazine Modern War as propaganda, perpetuating myths & covering for US black ops such as Iran starting a war in the Middle East. Modern wars increasingly being fought not by Generals but by colossal NATO computers such as the one at the Corsham Computer Centre (CCC) housed deep underground near Copenacre in the old stone mines between Bath and Chippenham.
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After six:
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First hour: Weekly news review with Southmead Councillor Jenny Smith (Lab). The Jack Lopresti report: Bristol Freemasons' Hall Summer Craft Fayre and open day takes place on Saturday 16th June. The Bristol Freemasons' Provincial Yearbook Jack promised us 4 weeks ago has still not arrived. Jenny Smith has Labour's opposition Health and Social Care portfolio for Bristol. Possible closure of Bristol City Council's Elderly Peoples' Homes. Is privatised 'Homecare' a suitable alternative to care homes for elderly people? Day centres are also under threat: for elderly; the disabled and mentally ill. Fascist Bristol? Some worrying facts are emerging about anti-democratic powers of Bristol's new mayor who can pass the budget on a vote of only 1/3 of the councillors and choose cabinet members from their own party even if it is a minority party. This is not democracy and far less representative than the London mayor. Member of the former Slave Trade financiers, The Society of Merchant Venturers, George Ferguson, used to be a Liberal Democrat Councillor so how can he be an Independent mayoral candidate? On Britain's fraught economy isn't it better to default on unpayable debts or else to nationalise the banking system rather than dither? But these solutions seem to be taboo in the mainstream media. Government guaranteeing a certain amount of money for each individual bank account but rich people will lose everything over that amount. Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) and other public sector unions on strike over pensions yesteday as a new public sector tax appears on their payslips as a deduction from their wages for the Treasury. We hear from Roger Thomas from PCS. Some public sector unions have withdrawn support from the Labour party but leader Ed Miliband is still trying to please a few 'swing voters', just like the two other main parties. People are coming to Bristol who cannot afford to live in London. Some individuals, particularly youngsters are becoming 'Non-People' due to being excluded from housing. Michael Meacher MP's blog post points out that the 1000 richest in Sunday Times UK Rich List have increased their wealth by £155bn over the last 3 years. They could pay off the entire UK deficit tomorrow with £30bn to spare. Many at the poorest end of society in Southmead are feeling they can't cope and small local shops are also being forced to close. First Bus withdrawing local bus services doesn't help. In this year's Westminster budget Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer and Bullingdon Club 'Oik' George Osborne gave Britain's 40,000 millionaires £14,000 per week, that's £3bn in tax dished out for lowering the top rate of tax from 50p to 45p. Bristol's 8.4% council house rent increase is way over inflation and impossible for many to pay. Simon from Somerset calls in to BBC Radio 5 live on Monday morning and explains some home truths about the financial situation, saying the government doesn't really govern the country, it is governed by the City Of London and private bankers instead who decide what the government can and cannot afford. Government and people who are in debt are their slaves. Private bankers govern the world and the thing they are most afraid of is that our elected representatives should print their own money, they want to keep their private oligopoly on money. The US Greenback dollar notes under president Abraham Lincoln was government issued money and Lincoln won the American Civil war on the back of it. We in Britain could do the same today. What's the point in voting if the private banks are pulling the strings? Information tribunal tells government to publish the NHS Risk Register but Health Secretary Andrew Lansley and the Cabinet veto the decision and refuse to publish it. Andy Coulson former editor & criminal phone hacking mastermind at the News of the World appears at the Leveson enquiry. After losing his job at the News of the World over phone hacking he became Director of Communications for Prime Minister David Cameron at No. 10 Downing Street. But Cameron did not ask him anything about why he left the News of the World if you can believe that! Coulson was SSC vetted by a private company not DV vetted as required, but nevertheless he had access to Top Secret files which is a serious breach of national security before he resigned in January 2011. Europe Day on Wednesday: UKIP leader Nigel Farrage predicts civil unrest and possibly even revolution in Europe and a rejection of the centralised EU by the European people, he owes no allegiance to the EU flag. New survey indicates 71% of UK public believe it's time to renationalise the water industry and we on the programme agree that it's a good place to start.
Second hour: Latest book on the death of Princess Diana "Diana Inquest: Who Killed Princess Diana? by John Morgan" explains something called the Way Ahead Group (WAG) which met on on Wednesday 23rd July 1997 chaired by The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh, may have ordered the assassination of Diana because William and Harry were about to go on an extended Holiday with Muslim Dodi Al Fayed. US Army running 'Islam is the Enemy' 'Holy War' course for their senior officers which includes nuclear attacks on Mecca and other Islamic holy cities. Enhanced Underpants bomb reappears with further entrapment of patsies by the FBI. But lawyer Kurt Haskell saw original underpants 'bomber' being ushered onto the plane without a passport. The real terrorists are inside the power structure. Russian armed forces are preparing for a potential world war, including PsyOps, this Summer. Alison Caldwell from Australian broadcaster ABC interviews David Nevin, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's lawyer, who says he cannot have a conversation with his client. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed allegedly 'confessed' to carrying out the 9/11 attacks after being waterboarded 183 times. Two massive bombs target Syrian government security police targets but were they planted by private military companies such as Blackwater, now renamed as "XE Services". The Bilderberg Must Die For The World To Live, NATO zone royalty, bankers, media, biggest corporations and government finance people's secret meeting takes place in three weeks in Virginia, USA next door to the National Reconnaisance Office (NRA) and down the road from the CIA. Occupy Bilderberg protest movement has already begun. Former US Secretary of State under Republican President Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger has a track record as one of the world's worst ever war criminals and he is a key organiser of the Bilderberg Conferences. Universal Credits, the new Bedroom Tax and the Benefit Cap. Changes to the Housing Benefit system with Will Stone from Avon & Bristol Law Centre. Benefit cap of £500 for couples and £350 for single people. Bristol City Council calculate that 500 families in the poorest parts of Bristol will be losing nearly £100 a week and may have to move into cheaper accommodation, be evicted or be forced to take a low-paid job. Employment and Support Allowance being re-assessed by private companies - appeals sytem in crisis but nearly 50% of appeals are being sucessful. Is this all a symptom of the de-industrialisation of Britain. Anna Bennet from solicitors Devonshires explains that bad debt levels for landlords are likely to double when the new Universal Credit comes in. Demonstration projects being run around the country to see if vulnerable people really can manage their finances effectively. 6,500 private tenants in Bristol face cuts of £15-25 a week in their housing benefit forcing many to be made homeless. 'Poverty Hearing' next Friday at 7:30pm by 'Bristol Poverty Action' at Bristol Council House next Friday. Contact your local advice centre or Avon & Bristol Law Centre at the bottom of Stokes Croft www.ablc.org.uk 0117 924 8662. Travellers' rights with Sean from Montpelier who does not like to live in a house. Sean was living in a coach in the 1980s which gave him a much greater sense of freedom. The world opened up for him and he could wake up in the morning and move on whenever he felt like it. They travelled in groups of 6-12 vehicles or in 2's & 3's or whatever was convenient. 1980s crackdown on the gypsy or traveller lifestyle. New Age Travellers, Hippy Travellers or just plain Travellers? Convoys of 50-100 vehicles travelling at the same time. Sean changed a one ton coach engine in a field. Conservative Thatcher government of the 1980s were afraid of the young people embracing a cuture of freedom, not being tied to a job or tied to an address as well as the entire free festival scene the Tories saw as a threat. All ended with Wiltshire police attacking travellers and destroying many of their vehicle homes at the Battle of the Beanfield on Saturday 1st June 1985. Mormon Bishop Webb of Whitchurch, Bristol explains Mormonism in the run-up to the US presidential election and prospective Mormon Republican candidate Mitt Romney. Sceptical view of Mormonism by Peter Levenda in his book Sinister Forces.
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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.
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discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around
the world
After six:
straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
and Marina Morris
First hour: 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.
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straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
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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
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straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
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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.
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discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
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straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
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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]
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discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
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straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
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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]
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discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
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straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
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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]
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discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
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straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
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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]
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discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
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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]
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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]
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discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
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straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
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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
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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]
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straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
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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.
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straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
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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]
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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]
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discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
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straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
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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]
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straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
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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]
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straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
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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]
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straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
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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]
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straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
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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]
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straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
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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]
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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]