CCTV FOLLIES 10.7 IT'S "JUST" A "CONFLICT"

Xi is top story even if it's all old footage -Xi's wisdom dribbles down to grass roots -Israel and Palestine are having a conflict -Russia and Ukraine are having a conflict -The Belt and Road rules!

The top news story of the day involves old footage of Xi pretending to be at one with the working class by pretending to drive a truck, but I digress. First a breaking story…

Reporting direct from Gaza…

“Israel-Palestine large-scale conflict breaks out causing serious casualities”

(As reported in Xinhua)

GAZA, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza has risen to 232, with 1,697 others injured, according to an update from the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza on Saturday.

The airstrikes were carried out in response to an earlier rocket attack by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

The Israeli military confirmed that Palestinian militants had launched almost 3,000 rockets against Israel, and dozens of militants had infiltrated southern Israel.

Hamas, the militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, claimed to have captured a number of Israeli officers and soldiers, adding that they are being held in "safe places."

There is footage from Al Aqsa Mosque which Hamas is using as a rallying cry. There is additionally footage from October 5.

“Israel troops launch search operation on the West Bank of the Jordan River.”

And now over to the Russian Defense Ministry who kindly share selected shots of the carnage they are inflicting on Ukraine. A tip of the hat to CCTV for using their Xi-Putin inspired political connections to advertise Russian military prowess without ever a word of journalism, analysis or criticism.

“US expels Russian diplomats for no reason. Russian expulsion of US diplomats the month before was done for security reasons due to US interference in Russia’s domestic politics.”

Back to the top of the news where story number one is citizen number one.

Guess who visited the mammoth, red-flag bedecked power plant at the Three Gorges Dam several years ago? You’ll never guess.

A hint. The applause was long, loud and totally orchestrated.

What? It’s him? Yep. You got it. A man of the people letting ordinary working joes have a brush with greatness. How munificent! How celestial! How Xi!

China’s so lucky to have a leader for all seasons. There’s nothing he doesn’t know about. His capacious knowledge benevolently trickles down to the grass roots. If this man isn’t the second coming of Mao, who is?

The people speak. And they just happen to be in complete agreement with party line. No spot interview is complete without a reference to the master and the ritual incantation of his famous slogans and folksy aphorisms.

On the new journey toward building a modern socialist country in all respects, the Party has shouldered "new cultural missions," which as Xi expounded, are to further advance cultural prosperity, to build a leading country in culture, and to foster the modern Chinese civilization.

Time for a refresher course on Xi Jinping Thought! Get out your Xi books and pretend to handcopy every word while listening to lectures about his visionary brilliance.

The Hangzhou games were win-win-win for China which raked in the gold.

There was no ritual bashing of the US, UK, EU, NATO or Japan today due to space limitations. Instead the news was heavily padded with paeans to the paramount leader, who takes going to the grass roots literally, and his magnificent Belt and Road