Debunking Disinformation About Diabetes Test Strip Subsidies in America

The following correspondence originally took place upon the Facebook wall of family…

Earlene E.: I would like to highlight the government removing the subsidy for blood test strips. Diabetics need very frequent blood testing 5+ times a day. The cost of strips is $70.00 outcome reduced blood glucose testing and more hospital admissions from hyper or hypo glycemic Diabetes . . . I am asking if everyone could put this as their status for 1 hour. I’m pretty sure I know the ones that will. Think of someone you know or love who has or has had diabetes. My hope is that in 2017 a cure will be found. Will you post it for 1 hour? To honor those who have fought or are fighting diabetes. 🙂
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RaynBeware of Disinformation… Even the liberal shithole, Snopes, discredited this:

Stripping the Strips:
http://www.snopes.com/government-eliminating-test-strip-subsidy-for-diabetics/

Certain desperate DemoCrackPots are looking to prop up the failing, worthless ACA, because they believe that their sense of entitlement outweighs the economic realities of health care… Rule #1: free-market competition is superior to government-enforced monopolies on services…

The Mainstream Media Monopoly is Officially Losing it’s Death-Grip Over the Mind of the Public

I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…

State Department spokesman, John Kirby

State Department spokesman, John Kirby

State Dept Dismisses Question from RT, Says Won’t Treat it Like Other Media:
https://www.rt.com/news/367192-kirby-rt-syria-accusations/

RT has asked the US State Department for specific information concerning allegations that Russia is targeting hospitals in Syria. The response was a reiteration of those allegations and a refusal to treat RT in the same way as other media outlets.

During Wednesday’s State Department briefing, spokesman John Kirby accused Russia and the Syrian regime of the bombing of “five hospitals and at least one mobile clinic in Syria.” RT’s reporter Gayane Chichakyan asked Kirby to specify the details of the alleged incidents, including their location.

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My Commentary: Well, then… It looks like the mainstream media monopoly is officially losing it’s death-grip over the mind of the public!

Meanwhile, Obama meets with German chancellor, Angela Merkel, in Berlin for a joint press conference, and stands by silently, while she states:

“Digitisation is a disruptive technological force that brings about deep-seated change and transformation in society. Look at the history of the printing press, when this was invented what kind of consequences it had. Or industrialisation, what consequences that had.”

Also…

“Very often, it led to enormous transformational processes within individual societies and it took a while until societies learned to find the right kinds of policies to contain this, to manage and steer this. We live in a period of profound transformation.”

Merkel With Obama: Internet “Disruptive” Force that Has to Be “Contained, Managed, and Steered” by Government:
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/11/17/merkel-obama-internet-disruptive-force/

Dying Mainstream Media Monopoly Desperately Attempts to Discredit Independent News Sources as “Fake”:
http://acidrayn.com/2016/11/17/dying-mainstream-media-monopoly-desperately-attempts-to-discredit-independent-news-sources-as-fake/

Dying Mainstream Media Monopoly Desperately Attempts to Discredit Independent News Sources as “Fake”

I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…

Portion of "False, misleading, clickbait-y and satirical 'news' sources" list, compiled by Melissa Zimdars, an assistant professor of communication at Merrimack College in Massachusetts

Portion of “False, Misleading, Clickbait-y and Satirical ‘news’ sources” list, compiled by Melissa Zimdars, an assistant professor of communication at Merrimack College in Massachusetts

Want to Keep Fake News Out of Your Newsfeed? College Professor Creates List of Sites to Avoid:
http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-updates-want-to-keep-fake-news-out-of-your-1479260297-htmlstory.html

(Jessica Roy) During the election, many people fell prey to fake news stories on social media — even the president-elect ended up retweeting fake statistics. A professor of communication has created a list of unreliable news sites to help people do better.

Melissa Zimdars, an assistant professor of communication at Merrimack College in Massachusetts, put together a publicly available Google doc cataloging “False, misleading, clickbait-y and satirical ‘news’ sources.” It’s been making the rounds on social media as people seek to cleanse their newsfeeds of misinformation.

(Read entire article here…)

My Commentary: The Mainstream Media Monopoly has continuously, fraudulently pushed the government’s pro-war narrative, while systematically covering up the harsher realities of these conflicts they promote, for decades, now! (I will provide many examples of this, below…)

But, apparently, the public is supposed to be so very clueless about these puppets and shills as to surrender any semblance of critical thinking and personal responsibility, and accept whatever they and their “experts” label as “fake news.” Ha! This is really just more proof that independent news sources are WINNING the battle for truth, and that the mainstream media is not only losing more credibility than ever, but also getting extremely desperate in their efforts to keep their disinfo-wars and psy-ops against the public raging! This is no surprise, though!

Gallup Poll Finds American Trust in Corporate Media at All-Time Low (Sept. 2014):
http://theantimedia.org/gallup-poll-finds-american-trust-in-corporate-media-at-all-time-low/

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Meanwhile, as the L.A. Times ironically shares their article under the misleading, “click-bait-y” headline, “fake news,” and provides little to no evidence of either of these claims, while also inaccurately headlining the list’s author a “college professor,” all in a display of very poor journalism, Melissa Zimdars, who is actually an *assistant* professor of communication at Merrimack College in Massachusetts, and created this google list of sites, originally labelled it, “False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and/or Satirical ‘News’ Sources.”

And, within her list, Zimdars originally admitted, “not all of these sources are always or inherently problematic, neither are all of them fake or false… They should be considered in conjunction with other news/info sources due to their tendency to rely on clickbait headlines or Facebook descriptions, etc.” She has since amended her words to the much more simple and clear statement, “not all of the sources listed below should be considered fake.”

She also wrote, “some sources not yet included in this list (although their practices at times may qualify them for addition), such as The Daily Kos, The Huffington Post, and Fox News, vacillate between providing important, legitimate, problematic, and/or hyperbolic news coverage, requiring readers and viewers to verify and contextualize information with other sources.” Go figure!

In Zimdars’ “update 3,” she wrote, “some people are asking which news sources I trust, and all I can say is that I read/watch/listen very widely, from mainstream, corporate owned sources (The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes) as well as The Atlantic, National Public Radio, and various local and alternative sources with different political perspectives, some of which are included on this list.” So, it seems that she not only uses her list merely in a skeptical capacity, to more carefully scrutinizes those articles that come from sources she lists, but that she apparently trusts some of the sources that I’m about to list, with evidence, as being unreliable when reporting about WAR – and, sometimes, even when reporting on police criminality, government spying, whistle-blowers, and even elections, too)!

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Now, for the proof of my previous indictments against the mainstream media monopoly. Here’s some important information about the American government’s cozy relationship them: (Click Here to Continue Reading This Post)

Trust in Government is Completely Unreasonable

As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by the page, “Psychopaths Rule the World,” and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William Casey, CIA Director (1981)

“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” – William Casey, CIA Director (1981)

My Commentary: Are we there yet?

Fox News Caught Manipulating Public Opinion Against Ron Paul

I originally posted the following video and commentary onto my Facebook wall…

CPAC 2011 Footage Exposes Fox News Propaganda Against Ron Paul:

 My Commentary: This is what we are up against here, and these are the infowars! These are the psy-ops that target our “hearts and minds,” in order to blind us to the truth! Take a lesson from this exercise in pure revisionist propaganda! As you can see for yourself, apparently, when the results don’t match a predetermined outcome, the professional liars at Fox “news” simply “fix the facts” around the story in order to forcefully “manufacture consent” from their audiences, anyway! In this particular incident, producers chose to cleverly insert last year’s CPAC footage into the beginning of their so-called “news” segment.

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