seanessay.com Never did I think that I’d repeat in my own life the theme of the dark movie Christiane F. A wildly popular film in Germany, the book version was a best seller there. (I enjoyed an English translation) I was disappointed, down the years, at the show not entering American popular culture. I saw […]
Existing in Exotic London England
seanessay.com I hesitate at essaying about my “tourist in London” life. Having known one or more people who were in the Peace Corps in Africa, or who did the back packing thing in South America, or taught English in East Asia, I notice: Seldom do they explain “social studies” or tell stories, and very seldom […]
A Duped Lady Lies and Replies to Arnold
seanessay.com In last week’s post, in both footnote and main body, I admired Arnold making a video-talk to address Russians. This week a young lady carefully wearing an old sports jacket, with the sleeve signed by Arnold Swartzenegger, has attempted a Russian propaganda counter-video to Arnold’s successful one. I am disgusted. Last week I said […]
Best Secret Reason to Invade Ukraine
seanessay.com As everyone knows, the Russians thought they could occupy Ukraine just as fast as their forces could drive across the country, with girls handing them flowers, as a prelude to installing their own Moscow-leaning puppet government. (Strange to see puppets, on stage, leaning to one side) As for we in the west knowing WHY, […]
Propaganda Posing as Social Media
seanessay.com BBC March 9, headline: A Russian woman considers leaving her country behind. (link) QUOTE “I don’t know whether I should pack for a month, a year or forever,” she tells me. “But I worry. I see a lot of supporters for this war around me, people who watch state TV channels. They seem like […]
Canada has Useful Idiots
seanessay.com I have known them from my reading, as they have kept reappearing like poison ivy down the decades, ever since 1917. That man who Iooks like Lucifer, Vladimir Lenin, called them “useful idiots.” You might think that after the fall of the Berlin Wall, no longer did (useful-to-Russia) innocent fools stick up for communism. […]