The Bullshit Filter

We pick up our series on the political history of Bolivia in 1943 with the government of Major Gualberto Villarroel López, which ended in violence and his assassination a few years later. The country continued to have coup after coup. In 1967, Che Guevara tried to start a revolution in the country, which ended up with his execution by the CIA. The post BFTN 58 - Bolivia 2 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alan MacLeod joins me to discuss the propaganda model and how it applies to media bias on the coverage of Bolivia, Venezuela, Corbyn, Ukrainegate and Russiagate. Alan is a member of the Glasgow University Media Group. He is author of "Bad News From Venezuela: 20 Years of Fake News and Misreporting." His latest book, Propaganda [...] The post BFTN 57 - Alan MacLeod on Media Bias appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Evo Morales was recently the subject of a coup, and has fled to Mexico. In order to provide some perspective on the current events, we take a detailed look at the political history of Bolivia - a poor country that has survived an endless number of military coups, often supported and financed by the CIA. The post BFTN 56 - Bolivia 1 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Americans were SHOCKED to discover that Russia had interfered in their 2016 Presidential elections. How dare they interfere with the democratic process of a sovereign nation! Of course, those same Americans probably have no idea that their own country has, according to the research done by my guest today, done the same thing over 80 [...] The post BFTN 55 - Intervening In Foreign Elections appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's gloating time in the West with the suicide of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. On today's show we examine the history of ISIS and how the United States and their allies created the conditions for ISIS and then proceeded to fund and arm it. We look at the media's near complete lack of skepticism [...] The post BFTN 54 - Schadenfreude appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we have more on the Biden business in the Ukraine including some background on the Euromaidan uprising, the role of energy supply in the regime change and Russia's annexation of Crimea, and the role of the United States (via USAID) in the overthrow of Yanukovych. As evidence for the latter, we play the [...] The post BFTN 53 - Regime Change In Ukraine appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A lot of people have asked us, in our great and unmatched wisdom, to explain what's going on with Syria, Trump, Turkey and the Kurds. The post BFTN 52 - Trump & The Kurds appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We try to go a little deeper on the Trump-Ukraine-Biden story than most of the media coverage. Apart from Trump and Joe Biden, we talk about the roles that Viktor Shokin, Mykola Zlochevsky, Viktor Yanukovich, Petro Poroshenko, Dmytro Firtash, Volodymyr Zelensky and Yuriy Lutsenko have in this story, along with American players Hunter Biden, Devon [...] The post BFTN 51 - Biden & Burisma appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this final episode of our China series, we talk about: How China might weaponize its holdings of more than $1.1 trillion worth of U.S. Treasuries, aka the "nuclear option" The risk of China starting a currency war with the US China's current position on IP protection And we finish with a little more discussion [...] The post 6.4 China's Economy - Part 4 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's been lots of talk in the media about Trump's trade war with China. One aspect about it that I find interesting is that I never see any talk, in this context, about the fact that China is a Communist country - a Communist country that seems to be a major economic threat to the USA, [...] The post 6.3 China's Economy - Part 3 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's been lots of talk in the media about Trump's trade war with China. One aspect about it that I find interesting is that I never see any talk, in this context, about the fact that China is a Communist country - a Communist country that seems to be a major economic threat to the USA, [...] The post 6.2 China's Economy - Part 2 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's been lots of talk in the media about Trump's trade war with China. One aspect about it that I find interesting is that I never see any talk, in this context, about the fact that China is a Communist country - a Communist country that seems to be a major economic threat to the USA, [...] The post 6.1 China's Economy - Part 1 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The plan this week was to interview Alan MacLeod about his new excellent book "Propaganda in the Information Age" but he missed the call, so we talked about it without him instead. We'll get him on next week for a follow up. The book is an internet-era update on Herman and Chomsky's 1988 classic "Manufacturing [...] The post BFTN 50 - The Propaganda Model appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We finish our mini-biography on the new Prime Minister of the UK, Boris Johnson, aka "BoJo", or, as I like to call him, "The Big BJ". In Ray's absence, I'm joined again by my good friend Trevor Bell from the The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove. The post BFTN 49 - Boris Part 2 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode I'm joined by Brisbane's #1 podcaster, the fabulous Trevor Bell, co-host of The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove ("a weekly podcast which takes a look at news, political events, culture, ethics and the transformations taking place in our society"), who is standing in for Papa Bear who is on vacation.... AGAIN. [...] The post BFTN 48 - Boris Part 1 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's news show we look the recent headlines concerning Iran - their arrest of 17 CIA spies, and the seizure of oil tankers by both the British and the Iranians. Who and what should we believe? Iran detains 17 citizens accused of spying for the CIA Iran Executes Defense Ministry Staffer Over Spying [...] The post BFTN 47 - CIA Spies in Iran appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do these shell companies get used? We provide some examples. We also talk about the fallout of the Panama Papers, Operation Car Wash, the murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Galizia, why Americans didn't show up in the Panama Papers as much as we might have expected, and how some of the world's largest banks [...] The post Bullshit 5.3 - The Panama Papers (part 3) appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After more than a year of analysis, the first news stories were published on April 3, 2016, by SZ and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Some 4.8 million leaked files were emails, 3 million were database entries, 2.2 million PDFs, 1.2 million images, 320,000 text files, and 2242 files in other formats. Edward [...] The post Bullshit 5.2 - The Panama Papers (part 2) appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2015, journalist Bastian Obermayer from the Süddeutsche Zeitung , a Southern German Newspaper, was approached online by an anonymous source. He or she provided him with a database from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. They are the Panama Papers. Named in the leak were 12 current or former world leaders, 128 other public officials and politicians, [...] The post Bullshit 5.1 - The Panama Papers (part 1) appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Iran stands accused by the US of attacking two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. But should we accept the US's claims at face value? Or is there more to the story? Here's a short clip from the show. Full shownotes below. Please Note: our weekly news shows are currently available to Silver subscribers [...] The post BFTN 46 - The Gulf Of Oman appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Australian journalists are under attack for publishing stories on domestic spying and our military. What kind of protections should we have in place for whistleblowers and journalists in a democracy? That's what today's show is about. Full shownotes below. Please Note: our weekly news shows are currently available to Silver subscribers and above. But this week [...] The post BFTN 45 - The Australian Stasi appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Should we believe South Korean news reports about North Korean executions? Should we believe reports about marijuana-related illness and deaths? Should we believe American reports about Iran's nuclear ambitions? Here's a short clip from today's episode. Full shownotes below. *Please Note: our weekly news shows are currently available to Silver subscribers and above. Follow Cameron [...] The post BFTN 44 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is the United States waging a war on journalism? Can we trust the OPCW reports on Syria's chemical war attacks?Does the Pentagon produce fake terrorist propaganda films? Here's a short clip from today's show. Full shownotes below. *Please Note: our weekly news shows are currently available to Silver subscribers and above. Follow Cameron on [...] The post BFTN 43 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We wrap up our antivax mini-series by looking at another antivax claim: "All vaccines contain a number of toxic poisons and chemicals that are linked to serious neurological damage". We talk about Robert Kennedy Jr, thimerosal, and the difference between methyl vs ethyl mercury. [smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/bullshitfilter/BS_4.6.mp3″ ] Full shownotes below. *Please Note: our [...] The post ANTIVAX 4.6 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let's look at another two antivax claims: that the very first vaccine was a disaster and that vaccines are highly profitable for pharmaceutical companies and the health care industry. Full shownotes below. *Please Note: our weekly news shows are currently available to Silver subscribers and above. Follow Cameron on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter [...] The post ANTIVAX 4.5 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're still breaking down antivax claim number 2 from last time and dealing with the claims that "Whenever the outbreaks are examined more closely, the data show that the majority of those suffering have been vaccinated for the disease. Disease charts show that diseases were mostly eliminated prior to the creation of vaccinations. What is [...] The post ANTIVAX 4.4 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I went looking for a list of claims antivaxxers use NOT to vaccinate. Today we'll look at the first two. Claim #1. Vaccines have never been proven safe or effective.Claim #2. Vaccines do NOT work. Full shownotes below. *Please Note: our weekly news shows are currently available to Silver subscribers and above. Follow [...] The post ANTIVAX 4.3 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode we discuss the arrest of Julian Assange, break down a recent NYT story about him, and look at other various bits of disinformation that people are blindly repeating. Below are some links that you might find useful reading. Detailed breakdown of the Swedish sexual misconduct allegations by Celia Farber, half-Swedish [...] The post BFTN 42 - Julian Assange appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode we take a look at the History Of Vaccinations & the story of Andrew Wakefield. *Please Note: our weekly news shows are currently available to Silver subscribers and above. Follow Cameron on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Follow Ray on Facebook. The post ANTIVAX 4.2 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we start a short series on THE ANTIVAX MOVEMENT. On the first episode we have a discussion about why people believe what they believe. Where do we get our knowledge? What sources do we trust? In other words, it's all about epistemology and heuristics. [smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/bullshitfilter/BS_4.1.mp3″ ] *Please Note: our weekly news [...] The post ANTIVAX 4.1 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we break down what we know - and don't know - about the Mueller Report and ask why for the last two years we've heard so much about Trump - Russian collusion when there is apparently no evidence to support it. [smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/bullshitfilter/BFTN_41.mp3″ ] *Please Note: our weekly news shows are currently [...] The post BSF NEWS #41 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's show is all about the mosque shooting in Christchurch, the rise of Islamophobia in Australia and the role of the media and Christianity in that rise. *Please Note: our weekly news shows are currently available to Silver subscribers and above. Follow Cameron on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Follow Ray on Facebook. The post BSF NEWS #40 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NYT's Exposé on the Lies About Burning Aid Trucks in Venezuela Shows How U.S. Government and Media Spread Pro-War Propaganda Venezuelan opposition leader will call for 'state of national emergency' as power blackout goes on U.N. Finds Israel Intentionally Shot Children, Journalists & the Disabled During Gaza Protests Debunking the myth that anti-Zionism is antisemitic [...] The post BSF NEWS #39 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Cohen's Statement. Proposal: keep the nuclear launch codes in an innocent volunteer's chest-cavity Netanyahu to be Indicted on Bribery, Fraud, Press Tampering: Israeli AG Religion works exactly like a drug *Please Note: our weekly news shows are for Silver subscribers and above. Follow Cameron on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Follow Ray [...] The post BSF NEWS #38 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

U.S. Supreme Court rules against civil asset forfeiture Dutch historian Rutger Bregman vs Tucker Carlson Cardinal admits to Vatican summit that Catholic Church destroyed abuse files BREAKING: Australian Cardinal George Pell Convicted Of Child Rape American airstrikes contribute to record number of children, civilians killed in Afghanistan *Please Note: our weekly news shows are for [...] The post BSF NEWS #37 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trump Declares National Emergency - what else can he do? No Direct Evidence Of Collusion Ilhan Omar Smacks Down Elliott Abrams In Front Of Everybody The massacre Trump's envoy to Venezuela wants us to forget *Please Note: our weekly news shows are for Silver subscribers and above. Follow Cameron on Facebook | Instagram [...] The post BSF NEWS #36 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The final chapter (nearly 2 hours long) of our mini-series on VENEZUELA and the "soft coup" that's going on at the moment (February 2019). This time we're talking about the Maduro era, 2013 - 2018, and looking at how Guaido ended up being declared the interim President. We also look at more media manipulation of American [...] The post WEEKLY NEWS ROUNDUP #35 - Venezuela (3/3) appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part two of our mini-series on VENEZUELA and the "soft coup" that's going on at the moment (January 2019). This time we're talking about the period 2002 - 2013 and building the case for how the United States deliberately and actively tried to overthrow the democratically-elected government of VZ. *Please Note: our weekly news [...] The post WEEKLY NEWS ROUNDUP #34 - Venezuela (2/3) appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's show is all about VENEZUELA and the "soft coup" that's going on at the moment (January 2019). This is the first part of a short series on Venezuela. We talk about the political history of the country up to Hugo Chavez and the first coup against him in 2002. In the next episode we [...] The post WEEKLY NEWS ROUNDUP #33 - Venezuela (1/3) appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's stories: 1. Avengers Infinity Stones - Essential aspects of existence? 2. Trump Told Cohen To lie to Congress. Or did he? 3. China wants to build a moon base. We say - Yay Communism! And ABOUT TIME. 4. The Gillette "toxic masculinity" commercial - A Disaster? Or exactly what we need? Follow Cameron on Facebook [...] The post WEEKLY NEWS ROUNDUP #32 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

PLEASE NOTE: Starting today our weekly news show is for Silver subscribers and up only. If we get enough people upgrading their subscriptions, we will keep the mini-series going (we have lots of ideas for new series). If we don't, we'll just continue with the news shows for the immediate future. Go here to register, [...] The post WEEKLY NEWS ROUNDUP #31 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

China's Got A (Rail)Gun Reporter Quits NBC Citing Network's Support For Endless War Excusion My Fusion Brazil's New President Cartel Boss's Son & His Sweetheart DEA Deal Ecuador vs Assange & Giuliani Follow Cameron on Facebook Follow Ray on Facebook. The post WEEKLY NEWS ROUNDUP #30 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/bullshitfilter/genz_3_-_climate_change.mp3″ ] I'm back with my 18 year old twin sons, Taylor and Hunter, to chat about climate change. Does their generation worry about it? Are they skeptical about the science? Do they have any hope for their future? The post GenZ #03 - Climate Change appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Back when we were doing our gun control series in late 2017, one of our listeners, let's call him "Mac", emailed us to say he worked in the gun industry in the USA, he's a gun owner, and, if he ever got out, he'd love to come on the show to talk about his experiences [...] The post GUN CONTROL 2.7 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former Staffer on "The Apprentice" Claims Trump Was 'Speed Freak' Christian mother drowned 4 year old daughter and tried to burn body because God told her to The Guardian publishes dubious negative story about Assange Follow Cameron on Facebook Follow Ray on Facebook. Download The post WEEKLY NEWS ROUNDUP #29 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/bullshitfilter/GenZ_02.mp3″ ] Taylor joins me (no Hunter on this episode) to discuss gaming and whether or not he thinks it's been a positive or negative thing in his life. He's been gaming heavily since about age 4. He's now 18, writing code, studying business and IT - and still playing games. The post GenZ #02 - Is Gaming Bad For Kids? appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part THIRTY-TWO, the final episode of our series on the WAR ON DRUGS - "Prop 215". Show Notes: On July 28, 1992, the biggest of journalistic guns swiveled on the Drug War. The New York Times put the failure of the War on Drugs on page one for the first time: SOME THINK THE 'WAR [...] The post War On Drugs 3.32 - Prop 215 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Australian government to hack our devices CIA found that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman 'sent 11 messages to advisor who oversaw Jamal Khashoggi murder squad in the hours surrounding the journalist's death' Chinese Scientist Claims To Have Created First Genetically Modified Babies New evidence supports the broken NATO one inch promise to Russia Follow [...] The post WEEKLY NEWS ROUNDUP #28 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part THIRTY-ONE of our series on the WAR ON DRUGS - "The Sentencing Project". Show Notes: Georgia Gospel Choir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2wCBAdT6FI We finished up last time In 1989 Mass murderer George HW Bush is President. May he get anally raped for eternity by the hundreds of thousands of civilians who were murdered on his watch. Percentage [...] The post War On Drugs 3.31 - The Sentencing Project appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Well of course there's only one story for us to talk about this week (for 90 MINUTES) - the hushed up criminal history of George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United States, whose Faustian deal with the devil expired last week. And that of his father and grandfather. I know you're going [...] The post WEEKLY NEWS ROUNDUP #27 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices