The Easter Bunny Owns A SweatShop

Now I guess you can say I am an animal lover and all, I have had my fair share of pets and my mum can tell you a bizzillion of animal stories of having an animal farm in a Suburban st. But as of Wednesday, I have become very alarmed.

Wednesday at 9:30, Channel 10 premiered a show that they advertised as “controversial”, and that ladies and gentleman was an understatement. The show was presented by the chef Jamie Oliver and it was about the plight of the “product” chicken.

You might think, why on earth would i care? I might of had said the same thing, until i saw this show. It started off with Jamie revealing to the audience newly born chicks and he then asked the audience to seperate the males from females (this can be done easily by anyone who isn’t colour blind as males and females are of different colours). Jamie then took the seperated chicks and put the males in a large see through container. We were then told that he was going to show us what happens with chicks owned by factories. He then proceded to gas the chicks and kill them. Yes, he killed them right before my very eyes.

The reason for this show was to show the injustices givent to these chickens. Seeing the dead chicks I could not think of anything worse, until I saw the life the live chiks would expirience, and let me tell you, if they had a choice, they would take death. The chickens once they start to mature are shoved in an overcrowded tiny cage in which there is so little room that their feathers are ripped off from the bars of the metal cages. The chickens would be covered in their own filth and looked diseased. I asked myself, why does this happen, why do these poor creatures suffer such a life? Well the blame goes directly to you the reader and myself.

It was revealed in the show that for every chicken the farmer recieved the equivalent to 5 cents. Imagine how many chickens you would need to make some money. You would need hundreds of thousands and who has the money to properly care for chickens when they are worth so little? The things is saw were disgraceful and it needs to change. In some places it is changing, by 2010 it will be outlawed in Britain, but this will be the only place.

We need to stress the to help those who cant help themselves and we can start on a very small scale. Everybit counts. You can help simply by spending a little more by getting FREE RANGE EGGS and MEAT, check the labellingit will have it there. Sure it costs a little more, but isnt it worth knowing you were not responsible for the harming of creatures who cant help themselves?

-Daniel

The Times They Are A-Changin’

Yes, Bob Dylan. One of the greatest artists ever.

So, with newly built press, comes newly built ideas. This idea comes mainly from you, the reader. Yes, >>Diplomat! will bite his tongue and listen to the opinions of others.

Now, what I would like is for you to watch the news or see something you would like to be seen written in the press and email it to me at psychobabble.press@gmail.com. Please no spam.

You can send me ideas, tell me how to run the place or send me a slap in the face, whatever you like. Also, if you would like to voice your own opinion peice and would like to see your work on the press send it through. Hey, if I can get this built up enough maybe I will need some writers.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

-Daniel

Psychobabble Press

Holy heart failure, Batman!

Yes, it’s back, the press it’s back for a third time and it is here to stay. Yes you heard it here first, not from some scummy tabloid magazine but here at Psychobabble Press!!!

You can hear the jubilation in the streets as I announce our triumphant return. People over turning cars, riots in the streets and Obama gives a speech on how happy he is of this news in Berlin. Yes, it’s good to be back.

Now you may say, well, are you going to break my heart again by giving two half arsed posts and leaving? Hell NO, like a Catholic at World Youth Week, I have the Joy joy down in my heart as I come to you from a new office, well not office it’s a new computer in my bedroom, oh but what a computer it is.

So enjoy the posts to come and maybe i can let >>Diplomat! out of his cage.

The Lockout

So, Im guessing your thinking, “What on earth happened to Season 2?” Well the emabrrising fact is, i forgot my password, yep, it’s true. So ummm I will be returning with Season 2.0.1 yep, we have a small patch to be loaded, with small (very small) improvements to my writing.Sorry guys.Oh, I’m not going to forget again, I kinda tattooed it with pen on my forehead. I looked at it in the mirror, and well it’s backwards, but I can get passed it. 

Sex, Drugs And A Joystick

This is something that really gets into my grill. The portrayel of video games in society. Recently the Fox News Network in America had a very one sided, Today Tonight style discussion about the long released game, Mass Effect (this is the discussion here in it’s entirety).

 Now after watching that, it infuriated me, again media looking for the easiest thing to blame for why the children these days are so screwed up. We see that every single person except for the games expert, have no real idea on what this game is about. Now as many of you would know I love my games (especially World of Warcraft) and I have been playing them since I was about 4 years old. Now it is true that there is a sex scene in Mass Effect BUT it’s nothing that you wouldn’t see at 7:30pm on prime time tv. After that discussion, the author of that book was forced into apologizing for the statements she made as they were false and completely misinformed. Shame on you, grabbing all that publicity for something you had no idea about.

Now, to the core of the problem. Here comes a revalation “GAMES DO NOT MAKE YOU KILL YOUR FAMILY AND TAKE DRUGS!!!” No, it’s envionment and the upbringing parents have enforced. Grand Theft Auto doesn’t teach you to shoot a gun, or slaughter policeman. Mass Effect isn’t porn, your children probably get that from the internet. Call of Duty 4 isn’t a reqruiting game for Al Quiada and Man Hunt on the Wii doesn’t instruct in the art of killing someone with a plastic bag.

Again “PARENTS TAKE SOME DAMN RESPONSIBILITY!!!” 

>>The Diplomat! Report — The Reverend Knows Best

>>Diplomat! here reporting live from the Westboro Baptist church in Kansas in the good old USA. Now firstly before I begin, I would like to say that it was a true loss when earlier this week Heath Ledger died and I feel for his parents and family. That being said, I report live from what I am figuring is the coldest place on earth, the church of Westboro Baptist. Now you may ask, why would I defame a place of worship and a people’s spiritual beliefs? Because really, these people are certainly no Christians.

No sooner they heard about the passing of Heath Ledger they decided to picket their anti-gay hate slogans outside his home. Now I’m not one to judge, but these people really have no heart. Through a pamphlet issued to their parishioners we see how heartless these poor excuses for human beings are, I quote directly from their pamphlet “Heath Ledger is now in hell, and has begun serving his sentence there”. What the F**K!! These people seriously need some sort of f***ing adjustment to their ways of thinking because, umm, how would they like me to come to their child’s funeral and say they were going to hell. Now this group haven’t suddenly come out of the blue, they had their claim to fame when they protested at dead soldiers funerals from Iraq. Another sick act from these things, I can’t even call these things people because that would be acknowledging them as human beings, you see human beings don’t do this.

Now who would be responsible in organizing these utterly stupid protests, none other than the totally f***ed up Fred Phelps. Who raised this guy, a freakin hick? You can just see it now, he lives in a shack out in the everglades much like the habitation in the movie “The Waterboy”. Well, at least Bobby Boucher came out of it to become an ok individual. Fred Phelps has been integral in creating such sites as GodHatesFags.com, now I am not including a link because I am sure this site would make you sick. Although some might not agree in the choice of the lifestyle of homosexuality, they are not going to do what Fred Phelps has done, no one is this sick.

I discussed this groups stance with one of their members, they simply answered by using their slogans (these slogans are 100% real). I asked why they do this type of defamation which I was shown a sign that read “God hates fags”. That was expected but I wanted to go further so I probed a little more asking why they believed that homosexuals should be treated like this and yet again I received a response that is typical of a backward hick “Fags Doom Nations”. By this time I wanted to really punch them into a ummm, no need to know, but it wouldn’t be pretty. As they filed through their signs to find the right answers to my questions I noticed other disturbing signs such as “God Hates Fag Enablers”, “Fags Are Worthy of Death” and “Thank God for AIDS”.

These people really do make me sick. The best solution to remove these people, don’t pay attention to them. If I myself did live in the US, I might even think to protest at one of their Sunday church worships. So, umm here is my messages to you Mr Phelps go think about how that when you pass, and you will, how you want to be judged, oh and F**K YOU!This is >>Diplomat! signing off and getting out of this frozen hell before I start a fire and burn the place down. It’s a felony you know?

Water, Water Everywhere

You wish. If like myself you live in Australia, you would know the scarcity of water and how every drop must be conserved.  The water crisis has escalated and we are now searching for new ways to create a water surplus. One of the cheapest and most readily available solutions was that to recycle waste water. This option is probably the best and most reliable if for not it’s only road block: the majority of people living in NSW.  When we think of waste water we see, umm well you know. Your probably thinking about it now. Poo water you say? But is it really? Firstly, lets look at where our existing drinking water comes from. We receive our water from Warragamba damn, a place surrounded by the bush and habitats. Not so bad right? Couldn’t possibly be worse than recycling water. Well, you could be wrong. Before it is processed the organisms that surround the Warragamba habitat use the damn for their very survival. Animals will clean, drink and even use it as a toilet, but this does not seem to bother us. Maybe its because we never think of this, maybe it’s about time you did.It is said that this recycled water is more clean than the drinking water we currently recieve because as it is recycled, it must go under more strict cleaning processors. Now contrary to the belief  this water does not have solid waste amongst it so when you take a drink your not going to get chunk of you know what in your mouth (Yes, i went there. Now lets move on). So what really holds us back? We have the best opportunity to relieve our suffering water level, but we can’t get past ourselves and our imaginations, there is nothing wrong, dangerous or distgusting about recycled water. Now, who wants to get me a glass of water? 

It’s Always Better On Holiday

Like a TV sitcom returning from it’s season 1 finale, Psychobabble Press comes back with season 2, with the same old writing that we call babble. Hopefully Season 2 of Psychobabble Press isn’t affected by the Writer’s Guild strike because umm, I want to finish this (btw I fully support their movement as 2 and a half pennies out of a dollar is definitely deserved by these guys. No writers, no show, simple as that). But before I can continue with my rants about how the world is, I must thank all the readers, but mostly I would like to thank; Amy, who helped me create and establish Psychobabble Press; Samantha, who helped wrote the most meaningful babble when I could not produce (Check out her post here); And thanks also go to Edward whose encouragement made me write more posts than my lazy hands could create.

So, I have had my holiday, now it’s time to get back to business and again, thanks.

Spider Holes and Nuclear Warheads

This blog seems to run on lies. I lie, >>Diplomat lies, Today Tonight lies but usually none of these lies are going to cause thousands of deaths and civil unrest. What really makes me unsettled is the fact that a government can lie and make up false premises to enter war. I am sick and tired of turning on the T.V to find another family ripped apart by the ravges of war, I am sick and tired of reading how we are giving “democracy” for those who have none.
When does it stop?
It can stop right now.
Really?
Yes, one thing more valuable than a war, is staying in power. Power comes straight from the people. People stop giving you power, you no longer have power.
No more war.
In 2003 Amercia entered a war against Iraq when “weapons of mass destruction” were suspected to be hiding in Iraq. They entered a war under the premise of two lies:
Lie #1: They said to us that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
Lie #2: They had us believe that Saddam Hussein had direct links to Al-Qaeda
Lie #3: They were to liberate and create a better life for Iraqies (although it may seem that this plan went ahead, it has in no way benifited Iraq in anyway)
The actions of one leader impacted on a whole nation and the families of tens of thousands. The US entered a war which inflicted casualties on both their own army and the civillians of Iraq. No one likes a war, especially one that is not sanctioned by the UN but this time it was different. Hadn’t we learnt from Vietnam or at least Operation Deseart Storm. This time it seemed that the majority of the public backed the move to invade Iraq. Usually we can learn from history, when we invaded Vietnam people were scared of Communists and the “Dominoe” effect in Asia. In 2003 people were scared of terrorism and the threat of mass destruction from rogue nations, thus this fear fuelled a fire that would lead an invasion of Iraq. Our fear blinded us and lead us to believe there were really “weapons of mass destruction”, alas, there were not. Even I admit i beleived the bullshit.
We don’t have to be affraid because the use of knowledge and asking why should be enough to cure us of the fear that plagues us, but because of our society that likes to be fed their information due to sheer laziness .
If we ask why, we may just be getting somewhere.
The Iraq war has come to be one of the biggest bluders of this early stage of the 21st century, but by having the knowledge to select the right leaders, wars like these can be avoided in the future.

The Game Of Connectivity

1. A computer game, first programmed in 1985.

For all those who are into technology, one thing can be said you should all know the one and only game named “Tetris”. If it weren’t for the man who came up with such an ingenious game, Alexey Pajitnov, what would all people around the world do when in need for procrastinating? Yes there is facebook, myspace and bebo, but even facebook has the Tetris application. In fact if it weren’t for that great application what would I have done in my spare time during the HSC? STUDY??!?! (Yeah right)
But what should be brought to your attention is something more superior and of more complexity involved to just what one may think such a straight forward game.

Life is such a complicated thing, to the extent where at times it is too hard to grasp and understand, however, a mate of mine, Daniel, found an easy way to comprehend it.

So what is the mystery to that famous question that knows one is unable to answer…simple the meaning to life is “TETRIS”. Yes you did read correctly blogers, “TETRIS” is in fact the meaning to life, or at least it holds the secret to the meaning of life and how the world works.

How?!?!? May be the question on your lips…well easy take each block for instance, each is different in their own way, due to colour, shape and size. So are human beings, no two are alike. Furthermore each block has a purpose within the game. Without a certain block being positioned in a certain way, one is unable to push forward in the game. Humans are the same. One may think that they can do everything themselves, but at the end of the day need the aid of others in order to triumph in their life, and hence reach the next level in their lives.
Levels; anyone who has played the game would know that there are levels within Tetris. The better you are the higher you get, and the more challenging the game gets. Life funnily enough, has the same concept. As an individual progresses day to day challenges arise. Like the certain piece one need in order to complete the line…there are certain tasks needed to complete in order to overcome the particular challenge.

Each colour of the blocks are different, but have you ever pondered why? The most obvious inside the box answer would be so as to differentiate where each block should go and how blocks the same colour have the same shape, however, if colour blind that would not be of any help. The outside the box answer would be that each colour represents a race within the world. And each race has a purpose here on earth. Without one or the other there would be no equilibrium.

Thus through such a simple ingenious game, one is able to seek all the answers they need in regards to life. And so I end it at this the secret to life is merely a game, simple yet affective, this game acts as a metaphor for what life and the world really means. Life is merely a game with many challenges. At the end of the day it is really down to you to conquer the level and move on to the next challenge put in front of you.
–Salt’n'Pepin