I was highly amused at the frighteningly self-obsessed and shocked statements by most of the local wannabe "human shields" who left for Baghdad, only to run home with their little frightened yellow quivering tails between their legs a week or so later.

You may not know this but the Antarctic is only around 3 000 kilometres south of Port Elizabeth. It’s close enough to go snooping. Why? Well apart from going somewhere which hopefully will never have a Big Mac sign – it’s the site of a mystery known as Lake Vostok.

It was in Antonioni’s classic film, <i>Blow Up</i>, that a photo was taken of a quiet park scene, but only after repeatedly enlarging the picture, the hero discovers that a murder was actually taking place unnoticed. It’s this same re-evaluation of reality and closer inspection that’s needed when you look at some of the media pictures coming out of Iraq.

One of the reasons that closet fascist governments worldwide have been
rapidly introducing more and more legislation to control and monitor the
Internet, is because now Democracy is available to the lazy. In other words,
you don’t need to get up off the couch and go onto the street to protest
anything, its all available to you via your keyboard and monitor.

Since I got online way back in the gunmetal gray, ad-free days of the mid-Nineties, I’ve done many things online which I hope no one ever finds out about — but the one thing I’ve always wanted to do, was to start my own begging site.

So what would you call a large military-run prison camp area, where the Red Cross isn’t allowed in, and where the prisoners identities are kept hidden, without access to lawyers or outside help? This is the reality of the US-run Guantanamo Bay Military Base Prison.

People arent always aware locally of just how much history is available online. The truth is that history explains why you sit frustrated, riddled with debt, ruled by morons and politically powerless. Welcome to the Matrix, in other words.

As the regime in America spreads its tentacles further and has clearly begun eyeing the oil reserves in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa, we’ll be seeing more and more of the CIA-construct known as Al Qieda (sp) popping up and doing things, to justify a US and UN presence.

So you think you know what’s really going on in Iraq, having read all the breaking news features in your morning paper and tuned in to the 8 o’clock news every night, like a good democracy-supporting citizen? You like to consider yourself politically aware and uptodate on current affairs then? I think you might find the following interesting then…

The Internet exists for three reasons. Information, news and of course, good old pornography. (Not that anyone really knows what pornography is). So let’s look at a range of fake and satirical porn sites, set up to play with the fairly obsessive human compulsion and interest in fornication.