I've been waiting for the White House press secretary to announce that President Obama hit 18 holes in one on the golf course, which would be as believable as the claim he's had the most transparent administration in history (they did announce that). In some painful aspects, this has been eight laughable years. At times, I had to wonder if Baghdad Bob was writing the script.

Obama's establishment of what I'll call the "Ministry of Truth" would be dangerous if he didn't have so little time left to harass people who didn't buy the White House fictions. His last frantic thrashing around shows just how destructive he could have been if he hadn't (thankfully) been so lazy.

All Governments practice some form of disinformation and information control. Some of it necessary (true defense secrets and such) some (most) not.
The mind control is throught the control of information. Bad information or no information equals bad decisions and bad results for the people. It is disastrous when the deceptive information is accepted as ruth by the knowing decision makers (self-delusional ??). It seems much of the information put out by the leftist press and progressives fall s into this category.
All need to be careful of believing what the political leaders and press put out as truth. As has been said many time and in many ways "Trust but Verify". This applies especially to politicians and the press.

... but the government of Switzerland does not?

And what about your mother-in-law? Deception and misdirection are part of life. Just ask the last victim of an angler fish. Do you really believe that if you open up a Mountain Dew a dozen fun-loving people will surround you?

As for governments in particular: "with liberty and justice for all." Really? In God We Trust. Gott Mit Uns. Dieu et Mon Droit. We keep them corralled for a reason. They have their purpose. Even though we have a cat, and our neighbors have a dog, I just shake my head when I read about the person who gets bitten by a "pet" iguana or eaten by a "pet" mountain lion. I suppose that the lesson here is to have a tabby government to protect your granary, but not the cougar government that makes you its food source.

Any government which is trying to control its people can only do so if it controls the media and the narrative. The only truly free society is a society in which no matter what gets printed the government fulfills its (limited) duties. The only reason to try to cover things up is for fear that they will be seen.

Nothing new here. The subject has been well explored since the Milgram studies in the 1960s. More interesting is the website is pushing camel milk. Ah yes, how I’ve missed that. This is also the same website that is anti-vaccination and does not understand much about science, for example his attack on GMO foods. Google the founder and editor of the newsletter at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural...

the American government is not the same as the n.k. government in propaganda techniques.however,under the 0 administration o has tried I guess only the bulk of the nation seems oblivious to his attempts. Now that he is gone the attempts have come to an end again I guess.