The Bullshit Filter

I want to focus for a few weeks on the current US protests and riots which started with the death by cop of George Floyd. I've invited a number of American friends and fans who live in riot hotspots to come on and share with me their experiences and views on how the country can move forwards. But I'm starting the miniseries with my favourite American - my wife, Chrissy Dunaway Reilly. She has live...

Mike Snyder, long-time podcast listener, security professional and self-confessed libertarian, Fox News watcher and conspiracy theorist, joined us for a two hour chat today about his fears around the coming of the One World Government, the New World Order, Covid conspiracies, and many other fun topics. The post BFTN 70 - New World Order appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad cho...

On this episode, we get into the conspiracies about 5G and the coronavirus - which may have started with Dr. Kris Van Kerckhoven (a Mormon) - then got connected to the new £20 note in the UK - then disgraced American physician, Thomas Cowan, talked about it at a pseudo-science conference - then there was [...] The post BFTN 69 - 5G Conspiracies Part 2 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more ab...

There are a lot of conspiracy theories going around about 5G - it gives you cancer, autism, changes your DNA, and gives you coronavirus! So in this episode, we look into the 5G conspiracies as well as the technology itself and the geopolitical battles going on around it. The post BFTN 68 - 5G Conspiracies Part 1 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...

There are a lot of conspiracy theories going around about the idea that China withheld information about COVID-19 from the global community and punished their own whistleblowers. Today we look at the evidence to support those theories (or lack thereof). At times like of crisis like this, even more than usual, it's important to be have a fact-based mindset and not take the easy route into confirmat...

On BS 65 (24 March) we predicted there could be 20,000 - 50,000 American deaths within the next few weeks. The Trump Administration are now estimating 100 - 240,000. Guo Wengai - is claiming that China's virus death toll is still rising, they are hiding it, and burning bodies in mobile mass incinerators. But can he be believed? Last week a Venezuelan defector is caught trying to smuggle a shipment...

Our take on the coronavirus, the lockdown and what happens next. The post BFTN 65 - The Inflection Point appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's show: Assange's trial is a farce. The US pulls out of Afghanistan. Coronavirus. "Sodomite" is a bad word. No fraud in Bolivian election. The post BFTN 64 - The Greatest Threat appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Talking about the Iowa caucus (Shadow, ACRONYM, Buttgieg, etc) and the new evidence the CIA spying on US allies since the end of WWII. The post BFTN 63 - Friends Don't Spy On Friends appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Pabon from strategic advisory firm Fulcrum22 joins me to give his perspective on China - business, political and social. John's an American who currently lives in Melbourne, and spent the last ten years living in Shanghai. We talk about the ol' Communism v Capitalism debate, the treatment of the Uyghurs, working conditions in factories, IP theft, and how most Chinese view their government. Th...

Alan MacLeod joins me again to discuss the latest news about Venezuela and Iran. The post BFTN 62 - Venezuela and Iran Update appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk about Australia's bushfires and America's assassination of Soleimani. The post BFTN 61 - Fires and Assassinations appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The oligarchs have worked out the model for getting people to vote for "killer clowns". The Democrats gave Trump $738 billion to buy weapons. And America is using AGM-114R9X Hellfire drones to terrorize the world. George Monbiot on the killer clowns. Media Bias Chart Hellfire drones Trust No-one Manovich on why fake news isn't the [...] The post BFTN 60 - Killer Clowns & Terror Drones appeared fir...

Finally, in 2002, a poor, uneducated farmer and union leader, Evo Morales, ran for the Presidency, coming third, despite the US ambassador warning Bolivians that they would be punished if Morales won. Then, in the general election of December 2005, Morales won, becoming the first indigenous President in a country where 62% of the population identified as indigenous. The US, of course, were furious...

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...

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 T...

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 a...

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 appeare...

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 c...

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. Lea...

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 f...

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 mo...

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....

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....