Aspartame:Rumsfeld's BioWeapon of Mass Destruction

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Aspartame:Rumsfeld's BioWeapon of Mass Destruction

by DON HARKINS (THE IDAHO OBSERVER)

 

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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.

 

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

 

Within weeks of aspartame,s approval for use in beverages, cans of

diet sodas and other sweet drinks were on the market. To help sell

Americans on using the artificial sweetener, intense advertising

campaigns began programming the public to believe that sugar has lots

of calories; calories make us fat and NutraSweet has no

calories-therefore it won,t make us fat.

 

Based upon this almost universally-accepted oversimplification of

biochemical reality, aspartame has enjoyed 22 years of marketplace

success and is now in an estimated 7,000 to 9,000 commonly-consumed

products in at least 100 countries. When Searle was absorbed by

Monsanto in 1985, Rumsfeld reportedly received a $12 million bonus.

 

Not surprisingly, the same adverse reactions seen in lab animals in

the 60s and 70s are now being seen in the general population. In his

first book on aspartame (1990), Dr. H.J. Roberts stated that in five

or 10 years we would have a worldwide plague on our hands if we do not

remove aspartame from our food supply. With the printing of " Aspartame

Disease: An Ignored Epidemic (2001), Dr. Roberts declared that the

world is, indeed, plagued by a global epidemic of symptoms associated

with aspartame use.

 

* Aspartame is being identified by a growing number of researchers and

physicians as an underlying cause of chronic ill health in America and

other countries throughout the world.

 

* It interacts with other substances such as pharmaceutical drugs to

produce adverse reactions.

 

* All metabolites of aspartame (formaldehyde, methanol,

diketopiperazine and formic acid) are toxic to the human body and are

especially toxic to the brain.

 

* Aspartame comprises over 80 percent of consumer complaints filed

with the FDA.

 

* The FDA has generated a list of 92 symptoms associated with

aspartame consumption that include nausea, dizziness, irritability,

insanity, blindness, deafness, weight gain and death.

 

* The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claim that 500,000

people each year simply " drop dead " for no apparent reason from what

it labels " sudden cardiac death. "

 

* Dementia among all ages (especially the elderly) and learning

disabilities among children, in the U.S. and abroad, have been

skyrocketing since 1981.

 

As of today, the number of scientific and studies showing that

aspartame is, indeed, an underlying cause of chronic physical and

mental illness and death out number studies proving its safety by at

least 400 to zero. Proof of this fact can also be determined by what

happens in many cases when people stop using aspartame: Their chronic

symptoms disappear.

 

The legacy

 

Defense Secretary Rumsfeld was awarded the Presidential Medal of

Freedom by President Gerald Ford-the highest civilian honor in

America-on January 19, 1977. A few months later, Rumsfeld became the

CEO of Searle to secure political approval for a product that science

had proven to be a highly-addictive neurotoxic drug that causes

chronic ill health, brain tumors and death. The evidence indicates

that FDA approval for aspartame was a high-level political priority

undoubtedly connected to its capacity to adversely effect the minds

and bodies of those consuming it.

 

Because Rumsfeld placed politics above public health and safety,

hundreds of millions of people throughout the world cannot think

clearly and suffer from a variety of chronic illnesses. It is,

therefore, fitting that symptoms associated with aspartame use be

known as " Rumsfeld's disease. "

 

 

Note from Betty Martini:

 

Only yesterday in national news we learned diet and low calorie pop

will be left in schools which will poison our children. As an example,

Coke Zero has aspartame. Aspartame is a chemical hypersensitization

agent because it is a neurotoxic drug/chemical poison. It not only

interacts with all drugs but all vaccines and other toxins and unsafe

sweeteners like Splenda, a chlorocarbon poison. So our children don't

have a chance. Only a few weeks ago an epidemiological study by Sharon

Fowler at the University of Texas based on 8 years data links diet

drinks with obesity. Aspartame also can precipitate diabetes,

simulates and aggravates diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy, destroys

the optic nerve and interacts with insulin.

 

In July a 3 year Italian study was released by the European Foundation

for Oncology and Environmental Sciences which revealed it causes

leukemia, lymphoma and malignant brain tumors. Their July 14 05 report

declares: " The results demonstrate ... that aspartame is a

carcinogenic agent. " How many mothers knowing this would want their

children drinking an addictive carcinogenic agent. Aspartame liberates

free methyl alcohol which causes chronic methanol poisoning. This

affects the dopamine system of the brain and causes addiction. Now

understand why the pop companies want this poison in your schools

which causes Rumsfeld Disease.

 

Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., one of the world's leading

authorities on aspartame neurotoxicity, extensively reviewed the

Soffritti report. " This study confirmed the previous study by Dr.

Trocho and co-workers (l998), which also found the formaldehyde

breakdown product of aspartame to be damaging to cellular DNA and that

this damage was cumulative. The type of damage was a duplicate of that

associated with cancers. These two studies strongly indicate that

drinking a single diet cola sweetened with aspartame every day could

significantly increase one's risk of developing a lymphoma or leukemia. "

 

Dr. Blaylock said further " This study should terrify mothers and all

those consuming aspartame sweetened products. This was a carefully

done study which clearly demonstrated a statistically significant

increase in several types of lymphomas and leukemias in rats. Both of

these malignancies have increased significantly in this country since

the widespread use of aspartame. "

 

Only the animals exposed to aspartame developed malignant brain tumors

and we are now taking aspartame brain tumor cases for litigation in

New York, New Jersey, Madison County,Illinois and Mississippi. Simply

contact me at Bettym19

 

Dr. Blaylock also said " They found that even lower doses of aspartame

could cause these malignancies, yet the higher the dose, the more

cancers that were seen. Since aspartame can increase obesity and may

even cause the metabolic syndrome that affects 48 million Americans,

there is no reason to ever consume this product. At the least, it

should be immediately banned from all schools. "

 

Any mother reading this article with children in school should

immediately take this to their principal, children's teacher and PTA

along with the movie, Sweet Misery, and demand that all products with

aspartame (NutraSweet/Equal/Spoonful, E951/Canderel/Benevia, etc.) and

especially pop with this poison be removed - period, no if's, no and's

and no but's. And Board of Educations should also remove the lobbyists

and those who would offer money to keep poisoned pop in schools. How

much is the brain of your child worth. Remember this is the cause of

the epidemic of ADD, ADHD, autism, Tourettes, and behavioral problems.

 

For documentation of this read the experts books:

 

Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic

H. J. Roberts, M.D.

www.sunsentpress.com

or 1 800 827 7991

 

Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills and Health & Nutrition Secrets

By neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D.

www.russellblaylockmd.com

 

Web sites: http://www.wnho.net and http://www.dorway.com Aspartame

Toxicity Center, http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

 

Aspartame Information List, http://www.wnho.net Get involved

 

Rumsfeld Disease may become one of the largest plagues in world

history. The list of horrors is unending. Thanks to despicable and

greedy Big Pharma/Codex, in England supplements from industry now

contain aspartame. Diane Fleming still remains in a prison in Virginia

because methanol was found on her husband's autopsy and they thought

she poisoned him even though she passed their lie detector test.

Doctors affidavits state he died from aspartame which causes methanol

poisoning. Athletes like Fleming are dying because aspartame damages

the cardiac conduction system and causes sudden death, although his

was not sudden.

 

Enough is enough. Eradicate Rumsfeld Disease from our schools and from

our planet.

 

Don Harkins of the Idaho Observer has given permission to have this

republished. To help the effort the Idaho Observer -

www.idaho-observer.com publishes 24 page booklets for distribution on

Rumsfeld Disease called the Artificially Sweetened Times. Distribute

them throughout your schools, offices and churches to help eradicate

Rumsfeld Disease. And if you think the pop companies didn't know the

gum was loaded be sure to read the protest of the National Soft Drink

Assn. on www.dorway.com

 

Dr. Betty Martini, Founder

Mission Possible International

9270 River Club Parkway,

Duluth, Georgia 30097

770 242-2599

 

Idaho Observer

Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869

Phone 208-255-2307

Email observer

Web http://idaho-observer.com

 

Rumsfeld's Disease: A Politically-Induced Biochemical Disaster Of

Global Proportions

By Don Harkins (The Idaho Observer)

Aug, 15, 2005