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  easonable 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  rug 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 l ymphoma 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.   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@coldreams.com Web http://idaho-observer.com