Aspartame -Rumsfeld's Bioweapon Legacy

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Aspartame -Rumsfeld's Bioweapon Legacy

 

 

 

 

 

Aspartame - Rumsfeld's Bioweapon Legacy

 

Dr. Betty Martini, Founder

Mission Possible Intl

8-20-5

 

 

 

Before reading this article everyone should hear James Turner, Atty,

explain how Don Rumsfeld called in his markers to get aspartame, a

deadly chemical poison approved when the FDA said no:

http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages.Rumsfeld2.html

 

The entire film can be gotten at http://www.docworkers.com

 

Among the many ironies of our modern world is that Gerald Ford awarded

the Presidential Medal of Freedom-America,s highest civilian honor-to

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on January 19, 1977. Just a few

weeks later on March 8, Rumsfeld became the CEO of G.D. Searle to take

point on a mission to force the Food and Drug Administration to

approve for human consumption a known carcinogen and neurotoxic poison.

 

Mission accomplished: Today some 9,000 commonly consumed products are

laced with this weapon of mass misery and millions of people live with

chronic illnesses linked to the artificial sweetener aspartame. It is

our belief at The Idaho Observer that if some guy named Parkinson can

have a disease named after him, then Donald Rumsfeld ought to have his

own disease, too. Hence the term Rumsfeld disease A.

Rumsfeld's Disease

 

 

 

A Politically-Induced Biochemical

Disaster Of Global Proportions

By Don Harkins

The Idaho Observer

8-15-5

 

Today, Donald Rumsfeld is known throughout the world as the zealous

U.S. Secretary of Defense who is waging a global " war on terror " in

search of " terrorists " and " weapons of mass destruction. " Most people,

however, are not aware that Rumsfeld himself unleashed a chemical

weapon of mass destruction upon the world in 1981-and it,s still out

there destroying people all over the world. That " WMD " is aspartame

and it has been scientifically and anecdotally linked to millions of

chronic illnesses and deaths.

 

 

 

The evidence shows that, with full knowledge of aspartame,s

neurotoxicity and carcinogenicity, Rumsfeld, as the CEO of G.D.

Searle, Co., " called in his markers " to achieve U.S. Food and Drug

Administration (FDA) approval for the artificial sweetener aspartame,

better known by its trade name " NutraSweet. "

 

 

 

Consumer advocate attorney Jim Turner, who was instrumental in the

1969 banning of cyclamate in the U.S. for its link to various forms of

cancer, met with representatives of aspartame approval petitioner

Searle in 1974. The main topic of discussion was neuroscientist Dr.

John Olney,s 1971 study which showed that aspartic acid caused lesions

in the brains of infant mice. According to Turner, arguably the

world,s foremost authority on aspartame,s dubious legal history,

Rumsfeld was apparently hired by Searle for one specific purpose: To

obtain FDA approval for aspartame.

Betty Martini is the director of Mission Possible, a worldwide

consumer advocacy organization formed in 1992 as a voice for those

demanding that the FDA reverse its approval of aspartame and order its

removal from foods, beverages and medical preparations. Martini is

even more bold in her charges against Rumsfeld. Martini believes the

Washington insider, former three-term U.S. Rep. From Illinois

(1962-1968), secretary of defense (1975-1977) and executive assistant

to President Gerald Ford, was hired by Searle because, " He was willing

to get a deadly chemical poison, aspartame, approved for human

consumption "

 

 

 

Background

In December, 1965 Searle chemist James Schlatter discovered aspartame

while working on an ulcer drug. The substance, comprised of 50 percent

synthetic phenylalanine, 40 percent synthetic aspartic acid and 10

percent methanol, was about 200 times sweeter than sugar by weight and

had no calories. By spring, 1967, Searle began conducting safety

trials in preparation for petitioning the FDA for product approval.

 

 

 

Soon after the trials began, lab animals (monkeys and mice) began

experiencing adverse effects ranging from brain lesions and tumors to

seizures and death. Yet Searle petitioned the FDA for aspartame

approval in February, 1973. According to Turner, Searle provided the

FDA with over 100 studies claiming they proved aspartame was " safe. "

Independent analyses of these studies, however, proves conclusively

that aspartame is actually a dangerous, neurotoxic, carcinogenic and

highly-addictive drug.

 

 

 

Trusting Searle,s promise that aspartame was safe, the FDA approved

the limited use of aspartame in dry goods on July 26, 1974. Turner and

Dr. Olney formally objected to the approval. Their petition triggered

an FDA investigation of Searle,s lab practices which proved that

Searle had provided the FDA with inaccurate conclusions resulting from

manipulated data derived from poorly-designed studies. The FDA

reversed its decision to approve aspartame in dry goods.

 

 

 

On January 10, 1977, the FDA formally requested that the U.S.

Department of Justice convene a federal grand jury to determine if

Searle should be criminally indicted for " concealing material facts

and making false statements " with regard to its petition for aspartame

approval.

 

 

 

Among the many charges FDA investigators made about Searle,s shoddy

lab practices was how rats that developed tumors would undergo

surgical removal of the tumors and then be placed back into the study

as if nothing had happened to them.

 

 

 

The grand jury investigation was led by U.S. Attorney Samuel Skinner.

In July 1, 1977, while the investigation was being conducted, Skinner

left the Justice Department and took a job with Sidley & Austin-the

law firm representing Searle. The statute of limitations eventually

ran out and the grand jury disbanded without reaching any conclusions

regarding Searle and its lab practices.

 

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Amid this controversy, Rumsfeld was hired as Searle CEO on March 8,

1977 and immediately began cleaning house. Rumsfeld, who had no

previous business executive experience before becoming CEO of Searle,

reorganized several departments in the company and fired many of its

high-level managers, replacing them with other politically-connected

Washington, D.C., insiders.

 

 

 

Though the controversies deepened and the evidence proving the

poisonous nature of his company,s product continued to accumulate,

Rumsfeld and his team continued to push for FDA approval of aspartame.

 

 

 

A team of FDA investigators headed by Jerome Bressler attempted to

block Rumsfeld, et. al, by publishing what has become known as the

" Bressler Report " on August 1, 1977. The report cited several

instances where Searle intentionally mislead the FDA in its petition

for marketplace approval of aspartame. The FDA then formed a public

board of inquiry (PBOI) in 1979 to rule on the myriad safety issues

surrounding aspartame.

 

 

 

By this time, FDA investigators and independent scientists had

exhaustively reviewed the Searle studies and additional studies had

been conducted. There was no doubt, based upon objective analyses of

evidence that had accumulated for over a decade, that aspartame was

deathly poisonous to lab animals and caused a statistically

significant number of them to develop tumors.

 

 

 

On September 30, 1980, the PBOI concluded that aspartame should not be

approved pending further investigation of its link to the formation of

brain tumors and that the FDA " has not been presented with proof of

reasonable certainty that aspartame is safe for use as a food additive. "

 

 

 

The coup

Ronald Reagan was sworn in as president January 21, 1981. Rumsfeld,

while still CEO at Searle, was part of Reagan,s transition team. This

team hand-picked Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr., to be the new FDA

commissioner. Dr. Hayes, a pharmacologist, had no previous experience

with food additives before being appointed director of the FDA. He,

like Rumsfeld, did, however, have experience with chemical warfare

studies while connected to the Department of Defense. According to The

Washington Post, Hayes was, " one of a number of doctors who conducted

drugs tests for the Army on volunteers.to determine the effect of a

mind-disorienting drug called CAR 301,060, " at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

 

 

 

The Post further explained why Hayes was the perfect choice to

politically force the approval of aspartame: " 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. "

The report, detailing Hayes activities beginning in 1972, further

indicated that Hayes was involved in similar biochemical mind control

research studies until being named FDA director.

 

 

 

One of Hayes, first official acts as FDA chief was to approve the use

of aspartame as an artificial sweetener in dry goods July 18, 1981. In

order to accomplish this feat, Hayes had to overlook the scuttled

grand jury investigation of Searle, overcome the Bressler Report,

ignore the PBOI,s recommendations and pretend aspartame did not

chronically sicken and kill thousands of lab animals. Hayes, left his

post at the FDA in November, 1983, amid accusations that he was

accepting corporate gifts for political favors. Just before leaving

office in scandal, Hayes approved the use of aspartame in beverages.

According to The Post, Hayes, next job was in the private sector where

he served as a high-paid senior medical advisor for Searle,s public

relations firm.

The aftermath

 

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