"Fake News" and Dicey Pizza Stories?

No wonder Domino's Pizza sales are plummeting in this country ... or is it just more "fake news"?
I listened to two podcasts recently (well more like one and a half, as I don't like listening to pod-casts about kiddie fiddlers) on two of my favourite podcast sites, and both involved Pizzagate.

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And no wonder everyone's got the s#its with pizza lately.
Come to think of it those dots do look a lot like ping-pong balls to me;-)

Well, here is a synchronistic ending which I hadn't intended, as I had finished the post at the Alex Jones/Comet Ping-Pong picture above then I went downstairs to have dinner and flick through the current edition of GQ magazine, which had just come in the mail a day or two ago.

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And what do I see but a story about fake news stories and Pizzagate in particular.

I found it rather amusing until the author of the piece started labeling people who believed the Pizzagate story as "conspiracy theorists" and lumping anyone who believed this story and any other variation of the popular theories on the JFK assassination, manned moon landings, 9/11, etc as 

"conspiracy theorists" also.

To me calling someone a "conspiracy theorist" is as politically correct as calling someone a retard.

I don't see much truth if any in the Pizzagate/Clinton story doing the rounds, but that's not to say I go along with other "official" theories about JFK, the manned moon landings, etc.

I might think to myself of someone who sees the earth as flat as deluding themselves, to give a personal example, but I wouldn't say that they were a "conspiracy theorist" because of that belief they hold about the shape of the earth.
We are all going to hold different views on various topics and that doesn't mean that the mainstream view will always be right, either.
Sometimes it is in the media's own interest to tow the mainstream line of thinking, or lose advertising dollars, or public patronage of their news vehicle.
I think words like "conspiracy theorist" have to be thrown out of common usage in social media, as it's really only a term used to bully people in excepting the "official theory" of events without questioning them.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, as long as they aren't trying to shove it on to other people, shoot people over it, or run them down in motor vehicles.

UPDATE: September 8th, 2017
I stopped into my local Domino's pizza joint on the way home from seeing the new movie 'IT' and bought a $15 Perri-perri chicken pizza as I haven't had a Domino's pizza for years ... and now I know why, because the other pizza joints around the place are much better.
No more Domino's pizzas for me thanks.
Domino's pizzas have no soul, I'm afraid;-)

Overriding Mind Control to Control Our Minds?

I hope that's not a monarch butterfly
floating over that head above  

Over the past week I've been reading and seeing quite a few random articles about the subject of mind control and learning to control the mind.

Caroline Williams

The first article I read was in the latest edition of SLOW magazine titled 'Mind Control', which was about Caroline Williams’s book 'Override' and about her year-long mission to find out if she could learn to control her thinking.

The second was a podcast I came across at the TED (Third Eye Drops) site with Dada Gunamuktananda who is a world-traveling yogic monk and meditation teacher of the Ananda Marga tradition who has a TED Talk (the real TED site) with over two million hits called, 'Consciousness -- the final frontier'.

Mind Meld 72 | Exploring Inner Space with Dada Gunamuktananda

The third was a rather dark article about suspected MKULTRA mind control at 'The Secret Sun' blog -
Let Me Tell You a Story: City of Sins

It's all worth thinking about ... I think ... therefore I am ... I think?-)

Barrier to Grief and Reefer Madness?

When I was down at the Byron Writers Festival this year, I got to hear a man named Charlie Veron speak on the panel of a talk titled 'Grief: Does It Ever Never End?', which was about various forms of grief we all encounter in our lives and how we cope with it.

'Godfather of coral' warns of Great Barrier Reef 'mass extinction'

To my embarrassment I had never heard of Charlie Veron before in my life and I have lived in Queensland (the state of Australia the Great Barrier Reef is off the coast of) most of my 50 years plus.

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I have never been to see the reef in my life, and I have no desire to visit it in what is left of my life ... or the reef's life, but from all the pictures I have seen of it in TV shows, movies, magazines and the internet it looks magnificent.

But it looks like Nemo is going to be a lot harder to find pretty soon.

Omen/Nemo?

I watched my father die of Alzheimer's disease and tried to remember when I noticed him first getting obvious symptoms of the disease, before it became so obvious that he had to go into full time care in a nursing home.

The thing is I still can't pinpoint the onset of my father's disease, which is a worry for me, because I have half of his genes and I want to know the signs well before they take hold in my life.

 Nikki Gemmell, Heather Taylor Johnson, Charlie Veron and
Sarah Armstrong, Friday at the BWF

Watching the reef die (on TV) will be a bit like watching my father die I guess, seeing only fragments of the whole until it is all gone and knowing there is nothing you can do to stop it from happening now.

It's kind of ironic that I heard about the death of the Great Barrier Reef in Byron Bay, the weed capital of Oz.

But as Charlie says the reefs are only the canaries in the coal mine (which is ironic that the government want to build a coal mine near the reef) and that the worst is yet to come.

But there is still plenty of sand on the Queensland coastline to stick our heads in, I guess.

Ironically also, as I was writing this post, I saw someone had come to visit my blog through another blog called 'My Temple of Nature' and there was a post called 'Life'.
Probably worth a read as a reminder to make the most of life while we have it, as you never know what you had until it's gone.
Glen Campbell, Galveston and Hurricane Harvey

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"National Weather Service officials were predicting the water could rise to 18 metres, in what has been described as an "800-year flood level"."