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It’s not Okay to Lie.

Are you stupid, or do you just work for the US State Department?

Dmitry Dyatlov

It’s not okay to lie if you’re a New York times Journalist. And it’s definitely not Okay to lie if you’re a Yale history professor.
It’s the 24th of February, 2022, and according to every newspaper that I follow, there is in fact a Russian invasion of Ukraine. Even RT.
So what’s the problem?


My problem is that a Propagandist named Timothy Snyder, nominally appointed to be History professor at Yale University, in a Speech delivered at a book shop (Politics and Prose), April 2018, was telling people that Ukraine had already been INVADED in 2014…
What he called invasion was actually a peaceful referendum conducted by Russia in Crimea, which was done to allow Crimeans to make a choice between remaining part of the now-US-puppet-controlled Ukraine, and becoming incorporated into the Russian Federation. They were pretty clear about what they wanted.
It’s good to have options, isn’t it? I think it is.

See, for me, it all began with a LOTTERY.
I think it’s called a Diversity Visa Lottery, and it’s still going on as far as I know. Look it up.
What I was told, at the age of 10, was that we had won it. THE LOTTERY. and we were going to America, because it is SO MUCH BETTER HERE.
I’m still not sure exactly what was going on in Samara, Russia, which caused my parents to decide to uproot and drag the family to Oak Park, Michigan, but I suppose there were some Economic forces at work. I’ve read a little bit about the “Great Contraction” of the Russian economy in the 90s. How bad it really was I don’t know. I can’t recall a time in my life when I felt hungry, and perhaps I should be grateful for that.
But, I also know for sure, that my father is a piece of shit, and perhaps that was the biggest Problem of them all. We’ll get to that. Eventually.

Anyway, I’ve been unemployed for a number of years, living with my codependent parents. I like to drink. Alcohol. And I am open to considering history professorships at Ivy League universities, because people keep telling me that I should get a job or something.

As Jimmy Dore once said “It’s Easy… this is what I am up against…” which in my case is the fool named Timothy Snyder. No, I’m not going to do a debate. I would probably just beat his ass if I ever met him.

Dmitry Dyatlov

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#48 – Smedley B. on War

I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

Smedley Butler