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defender
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NutraPoison
 Tue Feb 12, 2002 7:41 pm
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An excerpt from The Swirl and the Swastika: NutraSweet & the Military-Medical-Industrial Complex by Alex Constantine
(one of several articles from the book Psychic Dictatorship in the U.S.A. by Alex Constantine) Published by Feral House, 1995
"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
Directors 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 ware 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....
You can read more of this story at the following link;
http://mindgallery.com/hiddenroom/aspartameConstantine.html
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Tue Feb 12, 2002 8:07 pm
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...more on Aspartame from Alex Constantine;
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
Rumsfeld campaigned ambitiously for Richard Nixon, who drafted him to direct the Office of Equal Opportunity on May 26,1969. He quickly established an office to spy on his employees in a holy crusade to flush out
"revolutionaries" said to be granting federal funds to politically subversive organizations-a throwback to McCarthy's
tantrums.44 Rumsfeld also figured in Nixon's notorious Power Control Group, spearheaded by Charles Colson and John Ehrlichman.45 Gerald Ford named Rumsfeld executive chief of staff upon the resignation of Al Haig. In 1986 he was named chairman of the Institute for Contemporary Studies, a neoconservative "think tank" (read: propaganda mill) established in 1972 by Edwin Meese and Caspar Weinberger. ICS has sponsored such opinion-shaping projects
as a study of expansions in "entitlement programs" and their erosive effects on the economy, and a book on the uses of coercion by Communist regimes.46 Rumsfeld, at 43, became the county's youngest secretary of defense. For many years he has been a vocal proponent of chemical weapons.47 He is chairman of the Rand Corp.48 In 1988, he
dropped a presidential bid, and was named a v.p. of Westmark Systems, led by past NSA Director Bobby Ray Inman. Rumsfeld was one of Westmark's founding directors, sharing the board with Joseph Amato, a former vice
president at TRW (and a colleague of Inman's at the National Security Agency), and Dale Frey, chairman of the General Electric Investment Corp.49
Rumsfeld, a veteran political operative, was an adept at the vulgar art of public relations. He was recruited by G.D. Searle because he had "a Boy Scout image," according to one company official.50 A house politician was precisely what Searle needed to compensate for the damage done by independent researchers concerned about the toxic effects of aspartame. In March 1976, an FDA task force brought into question *all* of the company's testing
procedures between 1967 and 1975. The task force described "serious deficiencies in Searle's operations and practices which undermine the basis for reliance on Searle's integrity." The final report of the FDA task force noted faulty and fraudulent product testing, knowingly misrepresented findings, and instances of "irrelevant or unproductive
animal research where experiments have been poorly conceived, carelessly executed or inaccurately analyzed."51
...for more;
http://www.webaesthetics.com/nutrapois2.htm
Gosh, I never heard anything bad about Nutrasweet on the television! How can it be true? 
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Hoople
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Wed Feb 13, 2002 4:40 am
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defender,
Thanks much for the data. I have been aware of the nutra-sweet/aspartame dangers for a number of years now. I can't tell you how many discussions I've had with friends, family and co-workers about this subject all the while attempting to disabuse them from the notion of better health they associated with the consumption, in volume, of the diet foods and drinks with the nutra-sweet or aspartame as the sweetner.These ingredients were actually antipathetic to their better health not the other way around. Unfortunately, very few ever really listened as they already had their answer and it was fixed. Finally,this year, after over ten years of trying to persuade my Mother to just use sugar (it's safer), she finally listened and dropped the aspartame nutra-sweet laden products.
I also recall a period (a few years ago) when I consumed a great deal of Dannon yogurt. I remember one night sitting down in front of the boob tube to watch some trash and eat my tub of yogurt when I happened to notice that the sweetner was aspartame!! This was a change. I immediately threw the yogurt away. Now, when I eat yogurt it's organic just as about 80% of the other food I eat is.
Hey, didn't I.G. Farben change it's name to Bayer? |
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Wed Feb 13, 2002 2:49 pm
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"The majority of these keywords refer to conditions and symptoms of aspartame poisoning which are contained within the text of articles, reports, and letters written by doctors who have either treated patients suffering from aspartame poisoning, or wherein the doctor is a recognized expert in the field of aspartame poisoning. There are also texts here which represent compilations or comments on the work of these doctors, along with general information on critical material relative to aspartame poisoning."
http://dorway.com/symptoms.html
Here's a list of drugs containing Phenylalanine:
http://205.178.182.34/diet/asptable.htm
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Wed Feb 13, 2002 2:59 pm
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There is a tremendous amount of damning information about aspartame out there. Luckily, I had a reaction to it the very first time, so I have avoided it from the start. As the evidence of toxicity has continued to mount, I have badgered all of my family members and friends about it.( If someone chooses to continue consuming aspartame after researching, then that is their own business.)
A particular note of caution: almost ALL chewing gum contains aspartame, NOT just the "sugar-free" brands. WHY IS THAT?!? |
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Wed Feb 13, 2002 4:16 pm
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Yes, Penumbra, I've been meaning to bring that up a few times, about aspartame in chewing gum!! What the hell?
I noticed a couple of months ago some gum, not sugar-free, so I assumed it didn't have aspartame. I was about to buy it while waiting in line and I read the ingredients and... guess what? It had aspartame!! Why in the world would they put this 'sweetener' into a gum that isn't labeled as being sugar-free? Why would a company add an additional ingredient (nutrasweet), to a gum that has sugar and isn't even marketed as being a sugar-free gum???
You know how concerned businesses are with saving money, the bottom line etc. Why would they do something like adding nutrasweet (I assume it costs them money to add something to the product) unless they have some ulterior motive? This seems like another case of Non-consensual Human Experimentation.
This to me is solid evidence of something very wrong with the FDA, and gives a lot of creedence to the things I posted here. Who has the power to put this poison in anything to be sold to the public, and why are they doing it? This too, makes me very suspicious of the chemtrail issue.
It's like cigarettes with formaldehyde and arsenic and how many other still secret chemicals. This is clearly nazi stuff, with little or no coverage by the mainstream media. Just like chemtrails!!
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Wed Feb 13, 2002 4:23 pm
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Hoople, I posted something about I.G. Farben in a thread "Who are TPTB?". It also came up in the 'Codex' thread. Maybe I can boost them up if you haven't seen them.
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I.G. Farben
An introduction from;
http://www.ftrbooks.com/psych/drug_industry/ig_farben.htm
"The drug industry is major worldwide conglomerate of intertwined business interests. IG Farben by Sasuly investigates and sheds much light on the amoral attitude of the business mentality involved. American business interests remained closely involved
with Farben despite Farben's integral involvement with Hitler's Third Reich. Farben used concentration camps for "cheap slave labor", and made gas for the Nazi gas
chambers. All the while folks like the Rockefellers profited through their extensive cartel agreements with Farben and related financial interests. The information in this book is integral to an accurate understanding of what is going on today under the names of "big business", "finance" and "monopolistic capitalism".
From the Preface
by Senator Claude Pepper
If there is a man living who would dare say publicly that he is not for peace, I do not
know where to find him. Yet, in spite of the unanimous professions for peace, when
we get down to specific peace policies and programs, we are confronted with a Babel-like confusion. There are two reasons for this. First, we do not all want the same kind of peace some want a peace based upon international cooperation and some want a peace based upon invincibility of arms; some want a Pax Americana and some want a World State. Second, we do not agree on what are the real causes of war.
To build a sound peace, we must be relentless in identifying and exposing the things that make for war. It is the merit of this book that it contributes to the necessary insight as regards the causes of the second world war. This book is a story of melodramatic industrial intrigue and espionage and cartel building, but very much
more than that, it is a story of what lay behind the German drive to war.
Let it be remembered that the Nazi war menace took shape
slowly over a period of years. It took various forms of diplomatic, economic
and military pressure. Yet all the while, one master combine, IG Farben, the German chemical trust, representative of the tight inner circle of German monopoly, operated behind the scenes to give a constant drive and purpose to the Nazi juggernaut.
The German war maker, in a real sense, was not so much Adolph Hitler's brown-shirted,
swaggering storm trooper, as it was the soberly-clad superficially honorable type -
Hjalmar Schacht or Hermann Schmitz, president of IG Farben. This is the theme of the book, and I believe it is supported by the evidence. It was the particular function of the leaders of IG Farben and a handful of other German corporations to start preparations for another world war, just as soon as World War I was over. It was they who assured Hitler's victory in Germany in 1933. And it was they who set the pace in the looting of Europe during those first years of the war while the Wehrmacht was rolling over conquered countries.
We are concerned here with something rather more important than the allocation of guilt for a war already past.
The case of IG Farben cannot yet be laid away in the historian's file. IG Farben and the kind of cartel practice of which it was the most dynamic specimen are still very much with us. They still constitute a threat to the peace of a world which has not yet finished counting the dead of World War II. It seems to me that there is a tendency today to forget who were our enemies and who were our allies - to forget the causes of the last war, and, therefore, the potential causes of the next war. I do not maintain that every German is an enemy and will remain one for the rest of time. But I do maintain that IG Farbenism is an enemy and will remain one; and for the evidence of this, I refer you to this book. Here the evidence is freshly and convincingly set out. "
Mr. Sasuly was in a key position to study the nature and evidence of IG ramifications
in the political as well as the economic field. He was chief of financial intelligence and liaison of the Finance Division of United States Military Government. He was one of the investigators who analyzed the files and prepared the case against IG. As you will see from this book, it is an overwhelming case.
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Sat Feb 16, 2002 8:32 pm
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Aspartames parent company, Monsanto;
quote:
http://home.earthlink.net/~alto/boycott.html
Monsanto, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, employs 45,000 people and peddles over eight billion dollars a year in chemical products to the planet. Its Roundup is the world's largest selling herbicide. Monsanto owns the drug firm G.D. Searle and Company, a major phramceutical supplier. Add to this branches which manufacture a whole range of fibers, plastics, resins, rubber and metallised materials and you have a giant.
Monsanto has been under great heat for some time for their production of NutraSweet and the genetically engineered BGH (Bovine Growth Hormone). Ongoing American boycotts launched out of Atlanta and Hillsboro, Wisconsin, are taking their toll. (Family farm Defenders, P.O. Box 581, Hillsboro, Wisconsin, 54634, for BGH; and Betty Martini, 9270 River Club Parkway Duluth, Georiga 30097, 770 242-2599, for NutraSweet.) Another Monsanto boycott is being run by Pure Dairy Commission, RR 2, Box 191, New Auburn WI 54757.
The U.S. FDA, as of April 20, 1995, has reported 10,386 volunteered consumer complaints stemming from NutraSweet, aka Equal (aspartame). Among the symptoms listed are blindness seizures, memory loss, loss of limb control, slurred speech, skin lesions, extremity numbness, depression, mood swings, anxiety attacks, coma and death.
Aspartame is a food addititve 180 to 200 times sweeter than sugar. Absorbed very quickly into the bloodstream it metabolizes into six to eight byproducts including methyl alcohol and the class A carcinogen, formaldehyde. At least a hundred million Americans consume products containing NutraSweet (e.g., certain Coca Cola and Pepsi drinks, Children's Tylenol Chewable Tablets, Flintstones Complete Children's Chewable Vitamins, Metamucil Sugarfree, Breath Savers, Wrigley's Extra Sugar Free Gum, Kellogg's All Bran, Twin Labs Endurance Quick fix Powder, Calcilyte).
The early research history of aspartame was plagued with deception. Animal studies were faked (S.O.P. for the drug industry), on top of the fact that even real animal data would have had no provable crossover to humans. The resulting FDA approval of aspartame paved the way for disaster.
H.J. Roberts, M.D., a diabetes specialist and member of the American Diabetes Association, states that aspartame brings on clinical diabetes and causes convulsions.
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