The Bullshit Filter

Part FOURTEEN of our series on the WAR ON DRUGS - Harry takes his war global - and ends up in Playboy. Show Notes: After WWII, Harry Anslinger started to wonder why his campaign against drugs wasn't working. He had the doctors whipped into line, he had the politicians in his pocket. And yet people [...] The post War On Drugs 3.14 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. V...

[smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/bullshitfilter/BFTN7.mp3″ ] On BULLSHIT FILTER THE NEWS this week: The Royal wedding Santa Fe shooting FBI spying on Trump Rock star physicist Carlo Rovelli on why time is an illusion Turning carbon dioxide into rock - forever Trump Defends 'Animals' Remark, Saying It Referred to MS-13 Gang Members MS-13 Salvadorian civil war in the [...] The post...

Part THIRTEEN of our series on the WAR ON DRUGS - The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 and The LaGuardia Report. Show Notes: * We've seen that in the 1930s, Harry Anslinger decided to make cannabis his new focus. * Despite the fact that most people had never heard of it. * Exploiting the yellow [...] The post War On Drugs 3.13 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...

[smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/bullshitfilter/BFTN6.mp3″ ] On BULLSHIT FILTER THE NEWS this week: Revenge of the Laughable Bumblefucks Trump nukes Iran deal Iran is responsible for a significant portion of the world's oil, and sanctions will reduce the amount they're able to export. The big threats to our planet are the Republican Party and Christianity. Also [...] The post BFT...

[smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/bullshitfilter/BFTN5.mp3″ ] On BULLSHIT FILTER THE NEWS this week: * 'We're doomed': Mayer Hillman on the climate reality * Are You Ready To Consider That Capitalism Is The Real Problem? * The enduring legacy of Marx * Also... https://qz.com/1269525 * The Korea Peace Deal * Also... https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/559181/ Follow Cameron on...

Part TWELVE of our series on the WAR ON DRUGS, talking about Billie Holiday. Show Notes: * The jazz and blues singer Billie Holiday aka Lady Day. * GOD BLESS THE CHILD * She had a tough, tough life. * She was born in 1915 to an unmarried teenage couple, Sarah Fagan and Clarence Holiday. [...] The post War On Drugs 3.12 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaph...

[smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/bullshitfilter/BFTN4.mp3″ ] On BULLSHIT FILTER THE NEWS this week: Semion Mogilevich, the alleged "boss of bosses" of the Russian mob and his connections to Donald Trump Read more: https://trump-russia.com/2017/05/22/the-russian-mobster-who-hid-out-in-trump-tower-and-the-taj-mahal/amp/ http://www.citjourno.org/page-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Part ELEVEN of our series on the WAR ON DRUGS. And we're still talking about a man who tried to stop the war on drugs way back in 1938 - Dr Henry Smith Williams. Show Notes: In his 1938 book "Drug Addicts Are Human Beings: The Story of Our Billion Dollar Drug Racket", he drives [...] The post War On Drugs 3.11 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad...

[smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/bullshitfilter/BFTN3_2018-04-23.mp3″ ] On BULLSHIT FILTER THE NEWS this week: Special guest Sherlock Ortiz comes on to school us about political correctness. Or does he? Cameron rants about the "Whataboutism" Vs Tu Quoque Allison Mack, Smallville actress, charged over Nxivm sex trafficking Read more about NXIVM Raul Castro, President of Cuba retir...

Part TEN of War on Drugs series. And we're talking about a man who tried to stop the war on drugs way back in 1938 - Dr Henry Smith Williams. Show Notes: We're still talking about Harry Anslinger. The first American drug czar. As we've seen in previous episodes, cocaine, opium and heroin didn't have [...] The post War On Drugs 3.10 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices....

[smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/bullshitfilter/bftn_2018-04-16.mp3″ ] On BFTN this week: Trump Strikes Syria Cate Blanchett's "Penis Facial" Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? More Gaza Protests Former Israeli soldiers wrote an open letter Elizabeth Warren Calls on Israel to Exercise Restraint Against Palestinian Protesters 'Boy Who Came Back From Heaven' Is Suing...

[smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/bullshitfilter/BFTN1.mp3″ ] Welcome to our new series - Bullshit Filter The News! Based on the positive response to our spontaneous "Uncle Cam's Corner" episode a couple of weeks ago, we decided to make it a weekly thing. We'll pick the top stories and events that have grabbed our attention over the last week and [...] The post BFTN #1 2018-04-09...

Part EIGHT of War on Drugs series - more on the history of cannabis. Show Notes: * I like this one from The Indianapolis News, 15 Jul 1904, Fri * The Pittsburgh Press Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Sunday, December 25, 1904, warns that hasheesh will drive you MAD! * This one is from The Box Elder News [...] The post War On Drugs 3.8 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...

Taking a break from our War On Drugs, Cam wanted to talk about a few current news items, in particular, Cambridge Analytica, Putin's election, and the Austin "bomber". Welcome to Uncle Cam's Corner. [smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/bullshitfilter/BS_Rant.mp3″ ] Theme music: Holy Deep by The Passion HiFi The post Uncle Cam's Corner.1 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more abo...

Part seven of War on Drugs series - the history of cannabis aka marijuana aka kush, dope, grass, herb, gage, tea, reefer, chronic, hashish. Show Notes: What time is it, Ray? That's right - it's 4:20. In 1971, Steve Capper, Dave Reddix, Jeffrey Noel, Larry Schwartz, and Mark Gravich, five high school students in San Rafael, [...] The post War On Drugs 3.7 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more...

Part six of War on Drugs series, we're now talking about the history of heroin, opium, laudanum, and the other good shit that comes from the humble poppy. Show Notes: Okay let's talk about opium, aka the black spice, and its derivative, heroin. Other common names for heroin include big H, horse, hell dust, and [...] The post War On Drugs 3.6 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your a...

Part five of War on Drugs series, still looking at the history of cocaine up until 1930, asking the cui bono - who benefited from the ban on cocaine? Show Notes: Johnny Cash's cover of the old T. J. "Red" Arnall song from 1947 Cocaine Blues from his live Folsom Prison album. So that's a song about a [...] The post War On Drugs 3.5 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices....

Part four of War on Drugs series, still looking at the history of cocaine up until 1930. Show Notes: Back to our discussion about cocaine. In London in 1916, during WWI, the deparment store Harrods were selling a kit described as "A Welcome Present for Friends at the Front" containing cocaine, morphine, syringes and needles. [...] The post War On Drugs 3.4 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn mo...

Part three of War on Drugs series. We begin the story of Harry Anslinger, the father of the War on Drugs. And we also talk about the history of cocaine. Show Notes: * Which brings us to Harry Anslinger. * Harry was born in 1892. * His father was a barber from Switzerland. * His [...] The post War On Drugs 3.3 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc...

Part two of third series. The Eighteenth Amendment is passed. And then repealed. Thousands of people die along the way. Theme music: Holy Deep by The Passion HiFi Show Notes: A lot of the public resentment against alcohol was also a form of racism and white nationalism. The immigrant men who came to the country, particularly [...] The post War On Drugs 3.2 appeared first on The BS Filter. Learn mo...

Our third series starts today. We're going to be looking at the history of the "War On Drugs". [smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/bullshitfilter/Bullshit_Filter_3.1.2.mp3″ ] Theme music: Holy Deep by The Passion HiFi Show Notes: * Once upon a time, less than a century ago, You could go to any American pharmacy and buy heroin and cocaine. * In the 1890s [...] The post War On Drugs 3...

The sixth and final episode of our series on gun control and gun violence continues our look at the United States. We explore the history of the NRA and develop our conclusions from the series. [smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/bullshitfilter/BS_2.6_Final.mp3″ ] Theme music: Holy Deep by The Passion HiFi Show Notes: NRA Let's talk about the NRA, the National Rifle Association. [.....

The fifth episode of our series on gun control and gun violence continues our look at the United States. We explore the history of the Second Amendment and some of the common arguments Americans make for why they need guns. [smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/bullshitfilter/Bullshit_2.5.mp3″ ] Theme music: Holy Deep by The Passion HiFi Show Notes: Of course, Americans often [...] Th...

The fourth episode of our series on gun control and gun violence begins our look at the United States. Was the Wild West as violent as Hollywood has lead us to believe? How do daily mass shootings effect the national American psyche? [smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/bullshitfilter/Bullshit_2.4.mp3″ ] Theme music: Holy Deep by The Passion HiFi Show Notes: Okay, now [...] The post...

The third episode of our series on gun control and gun violence looks at the UK and Canadian experiences. They both had a significant mass shooting some decades ago, both tightened up their gun laws, and their experiences since then have been quite different in some ways - but quite similar in others. [smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/bullshitfilter/Guns_2.3.mp3″ [...] The post Gu...