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Morpheus: The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it. [Neo's eyes suddenly wander towards a woman in a red dress] Morpheus: Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress? Neo: I was... Morpheus: [gestures with one hand] Look again. [the woman in the red dress is now Agent Smith, pointing a gun at Neo's head; Neo ducks] Morpheus: Freeze it. [Everybody and everything besides Neo and Morpheus freezes in time] Neo: This... this isn't the Matrix? Morpheus: No. It is another training program designed to teach you one thing: if you are not one of us, you are one of them.

Consumercidal Tidbit

The apparent paradox is that as measles immunization rates rise to high levels in a population, measles becomes a disease of immunized persons.

Review article: 50 REFS. Dept. of Internal Medicine, Mayo Vaccine Research Group, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, MN. Archives of Internal Medicine. 154(16):1815-20, 1994 Aug 22.

Please sign the petition against the ban on herbal meds in the EU

The EU has just blocked our access to many herbal medicines, and already some household remedies are being taken off the shelves.

A new EU Directive came into force this week that erects high barriers to any herbal remedy that hasn't been on the market for 30 years -- including virtually all Chinese, Ayurvedic, and African traditional medicine. The EU Commission itself has recognised this is an over-regulation that will needlessly restrict consumer choice, but has done nothing to change it.

We need a massive outcry against this. Together, our voices can press the EU Commission to amend the directive, push our national governments to refuse to apply its excessive standards, and support a legal case that is challenging this regressive regulation. Sign on the right, then forward this campaign to everyone, and let's get to 1 million voices to save herbal medicine:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/eu_herbal_medicine_ban/?rc=fb

Almost a quarter million signatures on the first day... please join in the fight!

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