The idea that Icke brought out in the video ( www.youtube.com/watch ) about a "war" and "onslought" seems true. So many new drugs, new electronics, new ways to help/disrupt our bodies and society.

But each prong of this onslaught is based on a profit motive. Who's getting rich? The Illuminati? Wall Street? The Queen?

The question for each individual is "what are you going to do". Take the the good with the bad; see nothing but good; see nothing but bad. Run and hide. Jump in headfirst.

As for vaccinations, my core belief is based on the idea the our body's intelligence to fight disease is stimulated by a vaccine. That was the original "discovery" when milk maids who recovered from cow pox were immune to the the deadly small pox. The decision we each must make is whether or not this H1N1 vaccine is real; is it good enough; is my body strong enough to take little bit of dead virus and learn to defend against a live virus.

I tend to get immunizations. I had the season flu shot back in August; Hep "B" years ago (and didn't get HIV/AIDS); pneumonia; tetanus. If/when H1N1 is available to me I will probably get it.

When I saw the first Matrix movie I felt ripped off. My first reaction was, "this is just a movie about Maya". Maya is that Eastern concept that nothing is real, it is just an illusion.

I spent many years with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. At one point he was talking about Maya. He explained the whole philosophy and its basis in Vedic literature. But the pay off for me was when said something like, "If this is all illusion then why does it hurt when you bang your head against the wall".

For me the bottom line is , illusion or not, this is where we are and he have to deal with it (or transcend it.)

That being said, here's where I tend to agree with Paul, though: Lewis Mumford said in 1970 that the exponential increase in information would result eventually in mass ignorance....