Jones Alleges that Bourdain was Going to Turn on Global Technocrats

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I'm not so sure about Anthony Bourdain anymore. Besides being a CNN-reporter, I've read that he actually suported Barack Obama (much hated on this forum)!
He has made some critical remarks, but I've found more damaging stuff on the internet about the topics he wrote about, here it is:
Henry Kissinger;
Vladimir Putin.


In his 2001 book, A Cook’s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal, Bourdain wrote after a trip to Cambodia:

Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. Witness what Henry did in Cambodia – the fruits of his genius for statesmanship – and you will never understand why he’s not sitting in the dock at The Hague next to Milosević.
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One in eight Cambodians – as many as 2 million people – were killed during the Khmer Rouge’s campaign to eradicate their country’s history. One out of every 250 Cambodians is missing a limb, crippled by one of the thousands and thousands of land mines still waiting to be stepped on in the country’s roads, fields, forests, and irrigation ditches. Destabilized, bombed, invaded, forced into slave labor, murdered by the thousands, the Cambodians must have been relieved when the Vietnamese, Cambodia’s historical archenemy, invaded.

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quote...treme-cuisines



Bourdain was an outspoken critic of Chabad friend Vladimir Putin.
In 2013 he interviewed Russian dissident Boris Nemtsov, who was murdered in 2015:

BOURDAIN: Critics of Putin, beware. Oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky accused Putin of corruption and wound up spending ten years in prison and labor camps. Alexander Litvinenko accused state security services of organizing a coup to put Putin in power. He was poisoned by a lethal dose of radioactive polonium. And Viktor Yushchenko, the former Ukrainian president, poisoned, disfigured and nearly killed by a toxic dose of dioxin.
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NEMTSOV: This is absolutely personal Putin project. They spent more than $50 billion of dollars, which is the most expensive Games in the history of mankind.
BOURDAIN: $26,000 a seat for the curling stadium? To build?
GOTTA: Per seat.
NEMTSOV: … road from Adler to Krasnaya Polyana, which is 30 miles, price for that, $9 billion U.S. This is a road, right? It’s three times expensive than American program flying to Mars.
BOURDAIN: And who got many of those contracts for the roads and stadiums and infrastructure? Well, there’s these guys. Putin’s childhood friends and judo partners, the Rottenburg brothers, whose companies received contracts worth upwards of $7 billion. And Putin’s associate of 20 years, Vladimir Yakunin, who owns the state railroads. His company received $10 billion worth of contracts.

http://www.theamericanconservative.c...emtsov-russia/


In 2011, Anthony and wife Octavia Bourdain got matching serpent tattoos (as I understand it - a symbol of evil).
Anthony got one on his inner arm and Octavia on her shoulder: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...e-tattoos.html

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I don't know how anyone could get passed the first 4 times Alex mispronounced Bourdain.

If you can't say the name right.. every time, get someone else to read the story

sheesh