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.
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."
Caption: The search of a suitable
picture of Donald Rumsfeld turned up this image from Portland Indy Media. Though
it may seem satirical, is it? What goes through the mind of a man who knowingly
poisons his own people?
End of Article
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@mindspring.com
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.
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
