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Joe, it is simply the situation where YOUR government really does know how stupid the population is, and that they will believe anything if they hear if enough. It's why everyone calls them sheeple!

The world governments have been operating on that principle since Gutenberg shipped the first printing press to your shores.

People believe anything they hear or see on TV. You know they do. I was a teacher for 35 years and saw it constantly, opinions formed by misinformation. If you go outside and walk around and listen to the insane blabbering of the average person you will see it too.

Perhaps you are one of the smart ones and can tell the difference between their horse $h!t and our horse $h!t, but 99% of the suds soaking couch-potatoes, and preteens and teenagers, sitting and watching the tube are not aware of whether they have the thing dialed into BBC, Dutch Broadcasting, Canadian TV or Sesime Street!

There has been censorship of information coming out of war zones since time began. That goes all the way from personal letters home to mom, information released in newspapers and blocking radio broadcasts.

In the U.S. it was illegal to show a photo of the dead body of a U.S. soldier during WW2. There was to be zero chance that a mom would see the body of her son lying dead on a battlefield while watching a news reel at the cinema.

When my sons were deployed to Iraq there were specific things we could not mention in E-mails or on chat or skype. Everything was monitored and the computer would shut down when information was breeched. I am sure it was the same for British troops in that conflict.

Consider your lack of access to communist, totalitarian political indoctrinate a sacrifice to national security.

It is a non-issue. You can't change it, you can't do anything about it, and no one you are complaining to can assist you in your desire for an information briefing from the Russian embassy on the hour.

The fact that you are on the computer talking to a person in North America about a point of social justice proves that you are in neither China or North Korea.