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Benoit Violier, 44, who was voted as the worlds best chef two months ago, has been found dead at his home in an apparent suicide. Swiss police say an investigation into his death has been launched as he died of shotgun injuries. The Week reports: Violier ran the three Michelin-starred Restaurant de l’Hotel de Ville in the small town of Crissier, near Lausanne. It was ranked best in the world by France’s prestigious La Liste initiative last December. His death comes just months after his long-time mentor and predecessor Philippe Rochat died after falling ill, the BBC reports.

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I hear from time to time from people who say they liked my book The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, but they didn’t pick up How Dante Can Save Your Life because they don’t really care about poetry or literary analysis.

Well, I’m not much on poetry or literary analysis either. And How Dante is not the book they think it is.

A video has emerged which shows the events leading up to the shooting of Militia protestor LaVoy Finicum outside a Wildlife Preserve in Oregon. The video shows FBI execute LaVoy even though he did not pose a threat to the officers present.  The video shows a drone tracking the militia vehicle along a country road before two armored vehicles with red and blue flashing lights pull the truck to a stop in the middle of the road. Superstation95.com reports: The truck sits there a few minutes.  Law enforcement did NOT approach the vehicle and no one exited the vehicle.

Going down? To The White House... or The Big House

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As the West’s mainstream media portrays Russia as a crazy rogue state, Moscow’s thoughtful critiques of world affairs are ignored, not fitting the propaganda theme. Such was the case when Foreign Minister Lavrov explained why there would be no more “business as usual” with the West, as Gilbert Doctorow describes. By Gilbert Doctorow On Jan.…