{"id":809,"date":"2011-06-08T05:54:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T10:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.servias.org\/?p=809"},"modified":"2011-06-08T05:54:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T10:54:11","slug":"disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/servias.org\/?p=809","title":{"rendered":"Disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Disinformation<\/b> is false or inaccurate information that is spread deliberately with intentions of turning genuine information useless.&#160; On one of the morning shows, the reporter interviewed a representative with U.S. News and World Report who just completed a study to rank the top 20 diets in effectiveness.&#160; In the interview, the word that jumped out at me was \u201cdisinformation\u201d.&#160; Notice that the media does not want to use the word \u201cLie\u201d.&#160; Once again, the media is deceiving the populace with deceiving words.&#160; I discussed the use of this word with my wife and we both agreed that Americans were clueless of what was happening to them.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians have become masters of disinformation.&#160; Businesses run a close second.&#160; Truth in advertising was once a cornerstone in Federal regulation.&#160; Except for the ingredients list on packaged foods, truth is hard to find.&#160; Even those lists don\u2019t tell the real story of what we are consuming.&#160; Do you think that the current system really wants to win the war on cancer or just perpetuate the current infrastructure?&#160; The signing of the National Cancer Act of 1971 by then U.S. President Richard Nixon is generally viewed as the beginning of the war on cancer.&#160; Forty years later and the war rages on! <\/p>\n<p>I recently hired a subcontractor to do some exterior work at the house.&#160; His first commitment was \u201ctwo weeks\u201d.&#160; During the target week, he could not be reached.&#160; Finally the next Monday he answered his phone.&#160; \u201cI\u2019ll be there on Wednesday.\u201d&#160; On Wednesday, \u201cI\u2019ll be there on Friday.\u201d&#160; Had he not been the expert for this particular work, I would have cut my losses and sought other avenues.&#160; Once he completes the job, he won\u2019t be back.&#160; Lies, deception, manipulation, and innuendo promote an illusion that <em>all is okay<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told us this week that the economy was improving.&#160; Using manipulated numbers, the economy can be made to look wonderful\u2026 unless you are unemployed or trying to buy food with the same budgeted amount as last year.&#160; You will notice how OPEC is now committing to produce more oil at the same time of Bernanke\u2019s remarks.&#160; What a coincidence.&#160; This economy continues to show structural cracks and Our Heavenly Father only knows how long those in power can sustain the deception.&#160; We must continue to listen to Our Heavenly Father for guidance.&#160; The media would have you believe that a pig with lipstick is no longer a pig.&#160; Oh by the way, disregard the \u201coink\u201d sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disinformation is false or inaccurate information that is spread deliberately with intentions of turning genuine information useless.&#160; On one of the morning shows, the reporter interviewed a representative with U.S. News and World Report who just completed a study to rank the top 20 diets in effectiveness.&#160; In the interview, the word that jumped out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblical-economics-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}