CCTV FOLLIES: Oct. 9 7pm news
The news from China is always good, but sometimes it's a bit brassy, boastful and vaguely menacing.
-PLA drills make real war look dull in comparison.
-Update on Crimea Bridge: Back to normal
-Cause of Ukraine-Russia war discovered
-It's the US!
Nobody (except perhaps the North Koreans) can do human formations like this.
bombs and rockets bursting in air
Visions of war from the air...
Tanks too.
There's file footage of someone, hard to identify, though, on account of the effective camouflage
This looks like CGI for an epic historic movie but I'm pretty sure it's real.
lots of hardware
some amazing shots (in both senses of the word)
the photography is generally quite accomplished.
And this from Russia's Defense Ministry. This is what they would like you to think a real war looks like:
A few careful scenic shots and precision targetting.
It's mostly shots from the air, hi-tech guns aiming at unseen targets, the human element missing entirely.
What this? A locomotive...a train car....
CCTV is showing that rail service has resumed crossing Crimea Bridge.
Yes, you heard it first on CCTV (because of yesterday's premature announcement)
The Crimea Bridge is back in business
And it's back to the war zone, but the story is not about Russia, or even Ukraine.
It's about the US, fanning the flames of the fire!
CCTV doesn't air complaints without a purpose.
(in fact it doesn't air complaints about China at all)
But it likes to blame the US for everything:
the war, NATO expansion, high prices, food shortfalls and energy shortages
Here, compressed into one tweet, CCTV's nightly medley, a solicitous review of gas stations, gas stoves and human demonstrations in Europe, all because of those inhumane US sanctions against Russia.
And keeping to the formula, CCTV closes the international roundup with it's patented "bad news from a bad country."
The country will go unnamed but it's experiencing...
During this time of trouble, the restive populace is sure to be calmed by this new publication highlighting Xi Jinping's penetrating insights into high-level science
Yet another publication by the world's greatest freelance writer:
Xi Jinping Thought on Strong Military
Why read it once when you can read it three times?
The next ten minutes is devoted to some reassuring, inspirational shots of Xi Jinping who has total control of the military and wants the world to know it.
Patrick Chovanec, a consultant at Silvercrest Asset Mgmt has done some China virtue-signaling by compiling photos about the 1989 Tiananmen demonstrations, an event he evidently knows little about.
(a thread)
To do this, he compiled over a dozen of my photos on his blog , and when I brought this to his attention, he made no effort to credit the photos or reveal where he got them from. patrickchovanec.com/about/
Some of the photos now have a life of their own on the internet, including the above photo, (caption by Chovanec) which has been used by conspiratorial pro-China bloggers as proof of a "color revolution."
;-)
A political bible with quasi-religious overtones is unveiled like a holy relic.
A book by Xi Jinping! In English!
CCTV news shows the entire table of contents
Wow. It sure looks like a gripping read. Find a comfy chair, put the kettle on and settle for a long enlightening read.
CCTV FOLLIES: 5.26
China state TV doubles down on dubious Russia claims about "secret" US bio-labs in Ukraine.
(from May 26 Xinwen Lianbo)
Anchor Li Zimeng couches the accusations in the language of Russia's Defense Ministry, but the CCTV editors like the story enough for it to get major airtime.
The Russia Defense Ministry, solid architectural monolith that it is, is portrayed as a presumably authoritative source.
Read all about it! Top of the news! Yet another much-heralded publication by the indefatigable freelance writer Xi Jinping, whose excessive narcissism is nicely balanced with pictures of himself.
Up next, a nostalgic look back to 2017 when this man was laying the foundation of today's greatness.
Among many, many other incredible, almost super-human accomplishments, he created a city out of dust.