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  1. Yes. That is why for the most part it is not worth watching any TV news. I find the very expensive financial press bearable to good with some occasional excellence. They hold themselves to a standard of being useful on what they do write about. And a few magazines like the Economist get a lot wrong, but a lot right with original research being very valuable. So there is corporate material worth trolling for truffles. But my experience is that everything on TV is not a good investment of time.

    1. Abso-tively. All that is on TV is infomercials for the Official Reality. Fox is more tolerable to me as a conservative, but they skip many, many topics while focusing on trivialities for hours, punctuated by commercial exhortations to self-diagnose and gain preferences for a wide spectrum of drug therapies, which now, if you notice, include a growing slate of psychoactive, consciousness-altering choices.

  2. Yes. That is why for the most part it is not worth watching any TV news. I find the very expensive financial press bearable to good with some occasional excellence. They hold themselves to a standard of being useful on what they do write about. And a few magazines like the Economist get a lot wrong, but a lot right with original research being very valuable. So there is corporate material worth trolling for truffles. But my experience is that everything on TV is not a good investment of time.

    1. Abso-tively. All that is on TV is infomercials for the Official Reality. Fox is more tolerable to me as a conservative, but they skip many, many topics while focusing on trivialities for hours, punctuated by commercial exhortations to self-diagnose and gain preferences for a wide spectrum of drug therapies, which now, if you notice, include a growing slate of psychoactive, consciousness-altering choices.

  3. Catherine,

    Anthony Bourdain was up to some weird stuff. His instagram page is quite telling with trips to Antartica, Pro-Palestinian proclamations, reflections on George Orwell, and quotes of Hunter S. Thompson on Nixon…. This guy was doing more than just being a TV chef personality……

    1. Najat, the thing is with Bourdain, his high-risk lifestyle could have done him in without any assistance from our overlords. I’d have to see where he was viewed as a freestanding threat to become overly suspicious.

      1. John,
        The “media” said he hung himself using his tie for the bathrobe on the shower rod.
        Question, how does a 6’1 190+lb man successfully hang himself in such a manner? The defies science.
        Here’s another thought… the French don’t use shower curtains. This is a 5 star hotel not a hostel. I bet a $100 there’s either a glass pane (which is common) or a separate shower stall all together.

  4. Catherine,

    Anthony Bourdain was up to some weird stuff. His instagram page is quite telling with trips to Antartica, Pro-Palestinian proclamations, reflections on George Orwell, and quotes of Hunter S. Thompson on Nixon…. This guy was doing more than just being a TV chef personality……

    1. Najat, the thing is with Bourdain, his high-risk lifestyle could have done him in without any assistance from our overlords. I’d have to see where he was viewed as a freestanding threat to become overly suspicious.

      1. John,
        The “media” said he hung himself using his tie for the bathrobe on the shower rod.
        Question, how does a 6’1 190 lb man successfully hang himself in such a manner? The defies science.
        Here’s another thought… the French don’t use shower curtains. This is a 5 star hotel not a hostel. I bet a $100 there’s either a glass pane (which is common) or a separate shower stall all together.

  5. Najat:

    Excellent point. I can not remember ever seeing a shower curtain in a nice French hotel, let alone 5 star.

    Catherine

    1. Catherine:

      I lived in Paris for 2 years. It was always a big pet peeve, why don’t they use shower curtains in this country??? If they did it they’d use an aluminum rod….. The same with Kate Spade. How could a 140lbish woman kill herself hanging by a door knob of a closet?? It’s shocking that people accept these explanations.

      Catherine, I left you a message in subscriber’s input. This is one you gotta listen to. You have to for my sake. People need to hear this.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aoGekAEmRM

  6. Najat:

    Excellent point. I can not remember ever seeing a shower curtain in a nice French hotel, let alone 5 star.

    Catherine

    1. Catherine:

      I lived in Paris for 2 years. It was always a big pet peeve, why don’t they use shower curtains in this country??? If they did it they’d use an aluminum rod….. The same with Kate Spade. How could a 140lbish woman kill herself hanging by a door knob of a closet?? It’s shocking that people accept these explanations.

      Catherine, I left you a message in subscriber’s input. This is one you gotta listen to. You have to for my sake. People need to hear this.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aoGekAEmRM

  7. It’s not so far a matter of great interest to me (either suicide), as neither of the deceased was very recognizable as ‘enemies of the state,’ and both were into self-medication, drug abuse and depression. You would have to spin out a more elaborate tale like they were (for some reason) chosen as experimental subjects for some ‘suiciding’ method new to the art. Otherwise, we are taking the word of the retail media for the story’s facts in either case.

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