[Health&Healthing] Nazis, Nutrasweet and Monsanto

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My gosh thats awful! I guess we really are considered

to be Guinea pigs!!

 

Does 'Sweet & Low' also contain 'Aspartane'???

 

 

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>

> Nazis,Nutrasweet and Monsanto

>

>

> Nutrapoison

>

> by Alex Constantine

> " I recognized my two selves: a

> crusading idealist

> and a cold, granitic believer in the law

> of the jungle.

> Edgar Monsanto Queeny, Monsanto

> chairman, 1943-63,

> " The Spirit of Enterprise " ,

> 1934. "

>

> The FDA is ever mindful to refer to aspartame,

> widely known as

> NutraSweet, as a " food additive " - never a " drug. " A

> " drug " on the

> label of a Diet Coke might discourage the consumer.

> And because

> aspartame is classified a food additive, adverse

> reactions are not

> reported to a federal agency, nor is continued

> safety monitoring

> required by law.1 NutraSweet is a non-nutritive

> sweetener. The brand

> name is misnomer. Try Non-NutraSweet.

>

> Food additives seldom cause brain lesions,

> headaches, mood

> alterations, skin polyps, blindness, brain tumors,

> insomnia and

> depression, or erode intelligence and short-term

> memory. Aspartame,

> according to some of the most capable scientists in

> the country,

> does. In 1991 the National Institutes of Health, a

> branch of the

> Department of Health and Human Services, published a

>

> bibliography, " Adverse Effects of Aspartame " ,

> listing not less than

> 167 reasons to avoid it.2

>

> Aspartame is an rDNA derivative, a combination of

> two amino acids

> (long supplied by a pair of Maryland biotechnology

> firms: Genex

> Corp. of Rockville and Purification Engineering in

> Baltimore.)3 The

> Pentagon once listed it in an inventory of

> prospective biochemical

> warfare weapons submitted to Congress.4 But instead

> of poisoning

> enemy populations, the " food additive " is currently

> marketed as a

> sweetening agent in some 1200 food products.

>

> In light of the chemo-warfare implications, the

> pasts of G.D. Searle

> and aspartame are ominous. Established in 1888 on

> the north side of

> Chicago, G.D. Searle has long been a fixture of the

> medical

> establishment. The company manufactures everything

> from prescription

> drugs to nuclear imaging optical equipment.5

s of G.D. Searle include such geopolitical

> heavy-hitters as

> Andre M. de Staercke, Reagan's ambassador to Belgium

> and Reuben

> Richards, an executive vice president at Citibank.

> Also Arthur Wood,

> the retired CEO of Sears, Roebuck & C disgorged by

> the clan of

> General Robert E. Wood, wartime chairman of the

> America First

> Committee.6 America Firsters, organized by native

> Nazis cloaked as

> isolationists, were quietly financed by the likes of

> Sullivan &

> Cromwell's Allen Dulles and Edwin Webster of Kidder,

> Peabody.7

>

> Until the acquisition by Monsanto in 1985, the

> firm's chairman was

> William L. Searle, a Harvard graduate, Naval

> reservist and - a grim

> irony in view of aspartame's adverse effects - an

> officer in the

> Army Chemical Corps in the early 1950s, when the

> same division

> tested LSD on groups of human subjects in concert

> with the CIA.8 The

> chief of the Chemical Warfare Division at this time

> was Dr. Laurence

> Laird Layton,whose son Larry was convicted for the

> murder of

> Congressman Leo Ryan at Jonestown ( " Come to the

> pavilion! What a

> legacy! " ). Jonestown, of course, bore a remarkable

> likeness to a

> concentration camp, and kept a full store of

> pharmaceutical drugs.

> (The Jonestown pharmacy was stocked with a variety

> of behavior

> control drugs: qualudes, valium, morphine, demerol

> and 11,000 doses

> of thorazine - a better supply, in fact, than the

> Guyanese

> government's own, not to mention a surfeit of

> cyanide.9)

>

> Dr. Layton was married to the daughter of Hugo

> Phillip, a German

> banker and stockbroker representing the likes of

> Siemens & Halske,

> the makers of cyanide for the Final Solution, and

> I.G. Farben, the

> manufacturer of a lethal nerve gas put to the same

> purpose.10 Dr.

> Layton, a Quaker, developed a form of purified

> uranium used to set

> off the Manhattan Project's first self-sustaining

> chain reaction at

> the University of Chicago in 1942 by his wife's

> German-born Uncle,

> Dr. James Franck. At Dugway Proving Ground in Utah,

> Dr. Layton

> concentrated his efforts, as did I.G. Farben, on the

> development of

> nerve gasses.11

>

> Dr. Layton later defended his participation in the

> Army's chemical

> warfare section: " You can blow people to bits with

> bombs, you can

> shoot them with shells, you can atomize them with

> atomic bombs, but

> the same people think there's something terrible

> about poisoning the

> air and letting people breath it. Anything having to

> do with gas

> warfare, chemical warfare, has this taint of horror

> on it, even if

> you only make people vomit. " 12

>

> Nazis and chemical warfare are recurring themes in

> the aspartame

> story. Currently, the chief patent holder of the

> sweetener is the

> Monsanto Co., based in St. Louis. In 1967, Monsanto

> entered into a

> joint venture with I.G. Farbenfabriken, the

> aforementioned financial

> core of the Hitler regime and the key supplier of

> poison gas to the

> Nazi racial extermination program. After the

> Holocaust, the German

> chemical firm joined with American counterparts in

> the development

> of chemical warfare agents and founded the

> " Chemagrow Corporation "

> in Kansas City, Missouri, a front that employed

> German and American

> specialists on behalf of the U.S. Army Chemical

> Corps.13

>

> Dr. Otto Bayer, I.G.'s research director, had a

> binding relationship

> with Monsanto chemists.14 In the post-war period,

> Dr. Bayer

> developed and tested chemical warfare agents with

> Dr. Gerhard

> Schrader, the Nazi concocter of Tabun, the preferred

> nerve gas of

> the SS. Schrader was also an organophosphate

> pioneer, and tested the

> poison on populated areas of West Germany under the

> guise of killing

> insects.15 Schrader's experiments reek suspiciously

> of the ongoing

> aerial application of malathion - developed by Dr.

> Schrader, a

> recruit of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service when

> Germany

> surrendered - in present-day Southern Califonia.16

>

> Another bridge to I.G. Farben was Monsanto's

> acquisition of American

> Viscose, long owned by the England's Courtauld

> family. As early as

> 1928, the U.S. Commerce Department issued a report

> critical of the

> Courtauld's ties to I.G. Farben and the Nazi

> party.17 Incredibly,

> George Courtauld was handed an appointment as

> director of personnel

> for England's Special Operations Executive, the

> wartime intelligence

> service, in 1940.18 A year later, with the

> exhaustion of British

> military financial reserves, American Viscose, worth

> $120 million

> was put on the block in New York. The desperate

> British

> treasury received less than half that amount from

> the sale, brokered

> by Siegmund Warburg, among others. 19 Monsanto

> acquired the company

> in 1949.20

>

> The Nazi connection to Monsanto crops up again on

> the board of

> directors with John Reed, a former crony of " Putzi "

> Hanfstangl, a

> Harvard-bred emigre to Germany who talked Hitler out

> of committing

> suicide in 1924 and contributed to the financing of

> " Mein Kampf " . 21

> Reed is also chairman of Citibank and long a

> confederate of the CIA.

> According to a lawsuit filed by San Francisco

> attorney Melvin Belli,

> Reed was an instigator, with Ronald Reagan, James

> Baker and Margaret

> Thatcher, of the " Purple Ink Document, " a plan to

> finance CIA covert

> operations with wartime Japanese gold stolen from a

> buried

> Philippine hoard.22

>

> Other covert military connections to Monsanto

> include Dr. Charles

> Allen Thomas, chairman of the Monsanto Board,

> 1965[?]. Dr. Thomas

> directed a group of scientists during WW Il in the

> refinement of

> plutonium for use in the atomic bomb. In the postwar

> period Monsanto

> operated Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratories

> for the

> Manhattan Project.23 (Manhattan gestated with the

> Oak Ridge

> Institute for Nuclear Studies, where Lethal doses of

> radiation

> were tested on 200 unwary cancer patients, turning

> them into " nuclear

> calibration devices " gratis the AEC and NASA, until

> 1974. 24) Nazi

> scientists and a 7,000 ton stockpile of uranium were

> delivered to the

> Project by its security and counter-intelligence

> director, Col.

> Boris Pash, a G2 designate to the CIA's Bloodstone

> program-and

> the " eminence grise " of PB/7, a clandestine Nazi

> unit that,

> according to State Department records, conducted a

> regimen of

> political assassinations and kidnappings in Europe

> and the Eastern

> bloc.25

>

> Monsanto Director William Ruckelshaus was an acting

> director of the

> FBI under Richard Nixon, a period in the Bureau's

> history marred by

> COINTELPRO outrages, including assassinations. Nixon

> subsequently

> appointed Ruckelshaus to the position of EPA

> director, a nagging

> irony given his ties to industry (Browning Ferris

> and Cummins Engine

> Co.). CIA counterintelligentsia on the Monsanto

> board include

> Stansfield Turner, a former Director of Central

> Intelligence, and

> Earle H. Harbison, an Agency information specialist

> for nineteen

> years.

>

> Harbison is also a director of Merrill Lynch, and

> thus raises the

> spectre of CIA drug dealing. ln 1984 President

> Ronald Reagan's

> Commission on Organized Crime concluded that Merrill

> Lynch employed

> couriers " observed transferring enormous amounts of

> cash through

> investment houses and banks in New York City to

> Italy and

> Switzerland. Tens of millions of dollars in heroin

> sales

> in this country were transferred over seas. " Merrill

> Lynch invested

> the drug proceeds in the New bullion market before

> making the

> offshore transfers. 26

>

> As might be expected in view of Monsanto's Nazi,

> chemical warfare

> and CIA ties, NutraSweet is a can of worms

> unprecedented in the

> American food industry. The history of the product

> is laden with

> flawed and fabricated research findings and, when

> necessary to

> further the product along, blatant lies - the basis

> of FDA approval

> and the incredulity of independent medical

> researchers.

>

> Senator Metzenbaum described the FDA as " the

> handmaiden " of the drug

> industry in 1985, but she comports under all

> regimes. In the Clinton

> administration for example, Mike Taylor was graced

> with the position

> of deputy director of the FDA. Taylor is a cousin of

> Tipper Gore,

> Vice President Albert Gore's wife, and once an

> outside counsel to

> Monsanto. (Gore voted with Senate conservatives in

> 1985 against

> aspartame labelling.)

>

> Under the tutelage of the Clinton administration,

> one Chicago

> reporter quipped, the FDA strictly enforces one

> " unwritten "

> violation of law - failure to bribe.

>

> Granitic Believers

>

> G.D. Sear!e, the pharmaceutical firm that introduced

> NutraSweet,

> worked symbiotically with federal and congressional

> officials,

> bribed investigators when violations of law were

> exposed, " anything "

> to move aspartame to market. As far back as 1969,

> an internal

> Searle " strategy memo " concluded the company must

> obtain FDA

> approval to outpace firms competing for the

> artificial sweetener

> market. Another memo in December 1970 urged that FDA

> officials were

> to be " brought into a subconscious spirit of

> participation "

> with Searle.27 To that end, with enormous profits at

> stake, the

> pharmaceutical house set out on a long struggle to

> transform the

> Pentagon's biochemical warfare agent into " the taste

> Mother Nature

> intended. "

>

> The official story is that aspartame was discovered

> in 1966 by a

> scientist developing an ulcer drug (not a " food

> additive " ).

> Supposedly he discovered, upon carelessly licking

> his fingers that

> they tasted sweet. Thus was the chemicals industry

> blessed with a

> successor to saccharine, the coal-tar derivative

> that foundered

> eight years later under the pressure of cancer

> concerns.

>

> Aspartame found early opposition in consumer

> attorney James Turner,

> author of " The Chemical Feast " and a former Nader's

> Raider. At his

> own expense, Turner fought approval for ten years,

> basing his

> argument on aspartame's potential side effects,

> particularly on

> children. His concern was shared by Dr. John Olney,

> Professor of

> neuropathology and psychiatry at Washington School

> of Medicine in

> St. Louis. Dr. Olney found that aspartame, combined

> with MSG

> seasoning, increased the odds of brain damage in

> children.

>

> Other studies have found that children are

> especially vulnerable to

> its toxic effects, a measure of the relation between

> consumption and

> body weight. The FDA determined in 1981, when the

> sweetener was

> approved, that the maximum projected intake of

> Aspartame is 50

> milligrams a day per kilogram of body weight. A

> child of 66 pounds

> would consume about 23 milligrams by imbibing four

> cans of Diet

> Coke. The child might also conceivably down an

> aspartame-flavored

> snack or two, nearing the FDA's projected maximum

> daily intake.29

> Dr. William Partridge, a professor of neuroendocrine

> regulation at

> MIT, told " Common Cause " in August 1984 that it

> wouldn't be

> surprising if a child - " confronted with aspartame

> contained in

> iced tea chocolate milk, milk shakes, chocolate

> pudding pie, Jello,

> ice cream and numerous other products " - consumed 50

> milligrams per

> kilogram in a day.

>

> Internally, aspartame breaks down into its

> constituent amino acids

> and methanol, which degrades into formaldehyde. The

> FDA announced in

> 1984 that " no evidence " has been found to establish

> that the

> methanol byproduct reaches toxic levels, claiming

> that " many fruit

> juices contain higher levels of the natural

> compound. " 30 But

> the " Medical World News " had already reported in

> 1978 that the

> methanol content of aspartame is 1,000 times greater

> than most foods

> under FDA control.31

>

> NutraSweet, the " good stuff " of sentimental adverts,

> is a truly

> insidious product. According to independent trials,

> aspartame intake

> is shown by animal studies to alter brain chemicals

> affecting

> behavior. Aspartame's effects on the brain led

> Richard Wurtman, an

> MIT neuroscientist, to the discovery, as recorded in

> " The New

> England Journal of Medicine " (No. 309, 1983), that

> the sweetener

> defeats its purpose as a diet aid, since high doses

> may instill a

> craving for calorie-laden carbohydrates. One of his

> pilot studies

> found that the NutraSweet-carbohydrate combination

> increases

> the " sweetener's effect on brain composition. "

> Searle officials

> denigrated Wurtman's findings, but the American

> Cancer Society has

> since confirmed the irony - after tracking 80,000

> women for six

> years- that " among women who gained weight,

> artificial sweetener

> users gained more than those who didn't use the

> products, " as

> reported in " Medical Self-Care " (387). (Since his

> battle with G.D.

> Searle, Wurtman founded Interneuron Pharmaceuticals,

> Inc.,

> the producer of a sports drink that enhances

> athletic performance,

> and a weight loss drug marketed in over 40

> countries. Wurtman's

> share of the company, established in 1989, was worth

> $10 million by

> 1992. 32

>

> Even more daunting are the findings of Dr. Paul

> Spiers, a

> neuropsychologist at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital,

> that aspartame

> use can depress intelligence. For this reason, he

> selected

> experimental subjects with a history of consuming it

> but unaware

> that they might be suffering ill effects. The

> subjects were given

> NutraSweet in capsules of the FDA's allowable limit.

> Spiers was

> alarmed to discover that they developed " cognitive

> deficits. " One of

> the tests required recall of square patterns and

> alphabetical

> sequences, becoming increasingly more difficult. The

> test

> is challenging, but most people improve as they

> learn how it is

> done. The aspartame users, however, did not improve.

> " Some frankly

> showed a reverse pattern, " said Spiers. " 33

>

> Aspartame has been shown to erode short-term memory.

> At the May, 1985

> hearings on NutraSweet, Louisiana Senator Russell

> Long related a

> bizarre anecdote: SENATOR LONG: I have received a

> letter recently

> from a person who is well known to me and whose word

> is impeccable,

> as far as I am concerned. This person told me that

> she had been

> dieting and she had been using diet drinks with

> aspartame in it. She

> said she found her memory was going. She seemed to

> be completely

> losing her memory. When she would meet people whom

> she knew

> intimately, she could not recall what their name

> was, or even who

> they were. She could not recall a good bit of that

> which was going

> on about her to the extent that she was afraid she

> was losing her

> mind. . . In due course, someone suggested that it

> might be this

> NutraSweet, so she stopped using it and her memory

> came back and her

> mind was restored. Senator Howard Metzenbaum replied

> that he had

> received " a number of letters from doctors reporting

> similar

> developments. . . There have been hundreds of

> incidents of

> people who have suffered loss of memory, headaches,

> dizziness, and

> other neurological symptoms which they feel are

> related to

> aspartame. " 34 Senator Orrin Hatch, a hidebound

> archconservative and

> NutraSweet advocate, downplayed criticism of the

> sugar

> substitute. " Some people have lost their memory

> after drinking a

> variety of things, " he argued. " The bottom line is

> this: The studies

> supporting aspartame's approval have been examined

> and reexamined.

> More than enough sound, valid studies exist to

> demonstrate

> aspartame's safety. "

>

> Hatch of Utah, reports the " Wall Street Journal " ,

> has " given his

> strong support of the pharmaceutical industries. " 35

> So have

> the " Hatchlings. " David Kessler, FDA Commissioner

> under presidents

> Bush and Clinton, was once an aide to Orrin Hatch.

> Hatch's former

> campaign manager and aide, C. McClain Haddow, was

> sentenced to

> prison for conflict-of-interest charges arising from

> his work as a

> Reagan administration health official. And Thomas

> Parry, Hatch's

> former chief of staff, has carved a sumptuous life

> for himself as a

> Republican fund-raiser and lobbyist with clients in

> the

> pharmaceutical industry. All told, Parry represents

> 30 clients,

> including Eli Lilly, Warner-Lambert, and Johnson &

> Johnson, not to

> mention ranking defense firms and the Bahamas

> government. Parry's

> pharmaceutical clients have enriched Senator Hatch's

> campaign

> coffers, and in turn Hatch lavishes his attentions

> on them.

>

> By the time Orrin Hatch was stumping for NutraSweet

> in the U.S.

> Senate, the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta

> had received 600

> letters complaining of NutraSweet's adverse effects.

> The National

> Soft Drink Association (NSDA) had them too. " There

> have been

> hundreds of reports from around the country

> suggesting a possible

> relationship between their consumption of NutraSweet

> and subsequent

> symptoms including headaches, aberrational behavior,

> slurred

> speech, etc. " FDA Commissioner Arthur Hull Hayes,

> appointed by

> Ronald Reagan in April, 1981 (moving the " New York

> Times " to observe

> that " some industry officials consider Dr. Hayes

> more sympathetic to

> their viewpoints than past holders of the office " ),

> considered such

> complaints " anecdotal. "

>

> Of course, like scores of other conservatives

> roaming the executive

> branch in the 1980s, the ethics of Arthur Hull Hayes

> were entirely

> malleable - not only did he approve a product based

> on studies that

> were " scientifically lacking in design and

> execution, " according to

> a report issued by " Science Times " in February 1985,

> but upon

> leaving the FDA he took the post of senior medical

> consultant for

> Burson-Marsteller, the public relations firm

> retained by G.D.

> Searle.37

>

> Burson-Marsteller, a huge public relations

> conglomerate, swelled in

> the 1980s by leveraging smaller competitors -

> including Black,

> Manafort, Stone & Kelley, a lobbying firm best known

> for influence

> peddling along the Beltway - presently outsizing

> even the Hill &

> Knowlton empire. Typical in the aspartame story are

> Burson-

> Marsteller's links to the intelligence community and

> rightwing

> operatives of the GOP. Thomas Devereaux Bell, Jr.,

> an executive

> officer of the firm, is the former chairman of the

> Center for

> naval Analysis in Alexandria, Virginia. Bell was

> also the executive

> director of Ronald Reagan's Inaugural Ball Committee

> (in which

> capacity he ushered in the likes of Licio Gelli,

> head of P2, the

> notorious Italian secret society). Bell's career in

> Washington

> began in 1971 as a deputy director of Richard

> Nixon's Committee to

> ReElect the President. He went on to serve as an

> administrative aide

> to Senator William Brock and the Reagan transition

> team.38

>

> At the FDA, Hayes used aspartame as a political

> statement that the

> Reagan administration was embarking on a grand

> voyage of

> conservative " regulatory reform, " sluicing through

> treasonous

> liberal constraints on " free enterprise. " Despite

> what one FDA

> scientist described as 'very serious' questions

> concerning pivotal

> brain tumor tests, Hayes eagerly approved aspartame

> for use in dry

> foods in July 1981.39 Three FDA scientists advised

> against the

> approval of aspartame, citing G.D. Searle's own

> brain tumor

> tests, because there was no proof that " aspartame is

> safe for use as

> a food additive under its intended conditions of

> use. " 40

>

> Hayes has since declined to answer any questions

> about his decision,

> which ignored the recommendations of the FDA's own

> board of inquiry.

> He relied instead on a study conducted by Japan's

> Ajinomoto, Inc.-a

> licensee of G.D. Searle. Hayes acknowledged in his

> 1981 decision

> that he had only consulted a preliminary report of

> the Japanese

> evaluation, and only *skimmed* it. More serious,

> Hayes violated

> federal law by basing approval on the test, as it

> had not been

> reviewed by the FDA board.41

>

> Who is Arthur Hull Hayes? He was no disinterested

> bureaucrat. True

> to the biochemical theme of the aspartame story, Dr.

> Hayes served in

> the Army Medical Corps in the 1960s. According to

> the _Washington

> Post_, Hayes was assigned to Edgewood Arsenal at

> Fort Detrick,

> Maryland, the Army's chemical warfare base of

> operations, " one of a

> number of doctors who conducted drug tests for the

> Army on

> volunteers . . . to determine the effect of a

> mind-disorienting drug

> called CAR 301,060. " According to a declassified

> 1976

> report prepared by the Army Inspector General, Hayes

> had planned a

> research study to develop the mind-altering CAR

> 301,060 as a *crowd

> control agent.* In 1972, Hayes left Edgewood

> Arsenal, and a new

> plan for the experiments was drawn up by Edgewood

> physicians. The

> 1976 report notes that similar tests had been

> conducted before Hayes

> took charge. 42

>

> Also at the center of the effort to land FDA

> approval of NutraSweet

> stood Donald Rumsfeld- " Rummy " to his friends

> -chairman of G.D.

> Searle upon leaving the Ford administration in 1977.

> Rumsfeld, the

> product of a wealthy Chicago suburb, was a Princeton

> graduate and a

> Navy pilot during the Korean conflict. He entered

> politics as a

> Congressional House aide attending night classes at

> Georgetown

> University Law School, which is closely aligned with

> the CIA.43

>

> Continued Here:

>

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