“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good
conscience to remain silent”
– Thomas Jefferson
Sending only a little from now on.. OpIn if you have not yet, to receive them.
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Naomi Klein: Now is the Time to Resist Wall Street’s Shock Doctrine
Larisa Alexandrovna: Welcome to the final stages of the coup…
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Shocking Footage of Palin Praying with ‘Witch Hunter’ | PEEK | AlterNet
Editor’s note, for those who can’t play video, a description provided by Sam Stein at The Huffington Post:
In it, the minister implores Jesus to protect Palin from “the spirit of witchcraft.” Earlier, he states, “We need God taking over our education system. If we have God in our schools, we will not have our kids being taught how to worship Buddha, how to worship Muhammad. We will not have in the curriculum witchcraft and sorcery.” He also preaches, “The other area is the media. We need believers in the media. We need God taking over the media in our lives.”
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MUST READ:
Has Sarah Palin Been Picked as the Titular Head of the Coming Police State? | | AlterNet
Has Sarah Palin Been Picked as the Titular Head of the Coming Police State?
By Naomi Wolf, Huffington Post. Posted September 24, 2008.
Palin will help to establish a true and irreversible ‘fear society’ in
this once free once proud nation.
Please understand what you are looking at when you look at Sarah “Evita”
Palin. You are looking at the designated muse of the coming American
police state.
You have to understand how things work in a closing society in order to
understand “Palin Power.” A gang or cabal seizes power, usually with an
affable, weak figurehead at the fore. Then they will hold elections –
but they will make sure that the election will be corrupted and that the
next affable, weak figurehead is entirely in their control. Remember,
Russia has Presidents; Russia holds elections. Dictators and gangs of
thugs all over the world hold elections. It means nothing. When a cabal
has seized power you can have elections and even presidents, but you
don’t have freedom.
I realized early on with horror what I was seeing in Governor Palin: the
continuation of the Rove-Cheney cabal, but this time without restraints.
I heard her echo Bush 2000 soundbites (“the heart of America is on
display”) and realized Bush’s speechwriters were writing her — not
McCain’s — speeches. I heard her tell George Bush’s lies — not
McCain’s — to the American people, linking 9/11 to Iraq. I heard her
make fun of Barack Obama for wanting to prevent the torture of prisoners
– this is Rove-Cheney’s enthusiastic S and M, not McCain’s, who, though
he shamefully colluded in the 2006 Military Tribunals Act, is also a
former prisoner of war and wrote an eloquent Newsweek piece in 2005
opposing torture. I saw that she was even styled by the same skillful
stylist (neutral lipstick, matte makeup, dark colors) who turned
Katharine Harris from a mall rat into a stateswoman and who styles all
the women in the Bush orbit — but who does not bother to style Cindy
McCain.
Then I saw and heard more. Palin is embracing lawlessness in defying
Alaskan Legislature subpoenas — this is what Rove-Cheney, and not
McCain, believe in doing. She uses mafia tactics against critics, like
the police commissioner who was railroaded for opposing handguns in
Alaskan battered women’s shelters — Rove’s style, not McCain’s. I
realized what I was seeing.
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John McCain’s health records must be released
YouTube – Clusterf#@&k to the poorhouse
How the markets really work (from 2007)
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Why is a U.S. Army brigade being assigned to the “Homeland”? – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com
OpEdNews » Now We Know More About Bush’s October Surprise
CEO pay: What those involved in the financial meltdown made – East Bay Business Times:
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Pictures: “Lego Block†Prison Cells Readied In Utah
Alex Jones’ Prison Planet: The truth will set you free!
Alex Jones’ Prison Planet: The truth will set you free!
Rep. Michael Burgess – “we are under Martial Law”
not that kind of martial law.. Committee on Rules – Republicans
Let’s Play “WALL STREET BAILOUT” The Rules Are… Rep Kaptur
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=S27yitK32ds
Did Major Credit Card Companies Shut Down Investigation Into RFID security?
http://www.prisonplanet.com/did-major-credit-card-companies-shut-down-investigation-into-rfid-security.html
http://www.prisonplanet.com/ron-paul-bailout-will-destroy-dollar-world-economy.html
Ron Paul: Bailout Will Destroy Dollar, World Economy
As a vote nears on the $700 billion dollar plus bailout bill, Congressman Ron Paul took to the House floor this morning to warn that the passage of the legislation will destroy the dollar and the world economy.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NwfGA4cxJQ
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From http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news
Senate to Vote On Failed Bailout Package Wednesday 30 Sep 2008 Senate leaders have scheduled a vote for Wednesday on the $700 billion Wall Street rescue plan rejected by the House. Majority Leader Harry Reid and GOP Leader Mitch McConnell say, however, that they’re going to add a tax cut package [!] already rejected by the House on Monday.
The capitalist system has failed –Stocks plunge on Wall Street as bailout fails in Congress By Bill Van Auken 30 Sep 2008 The capitalist system has failed, and there is no reason to doubt the warnings from Bush, Paulson, Obama and others that it is preparing a social catastrophe… Whatever their tactical differences on the bailout, the answer of the Democrats and Republicans is clear: Working people must give up their jobs, living standards and social interests in order to rescue the financial parasites who created the disaster. The working class must put forward its own solution. The banks and major financial institutions which now threaten to drag down the economy and plunge millions into poverty must be nationalized, without compensation to their executives and big shareholders. These institutions should be transformed into public utilities, controlled democratically by the people, with their resources utilized not for the creation of profits for the rich, but rather for productive purposes, including the creation of jobs, a halt to foreclosures and evictions, the rebuilding of the social infrastructure and the funding of education, health care and other vitally needed social programs.
Exercise readies first units for NORTHCOM homeland assignment 29 Sep 2008 The sobering exercise scenario: a 10-kiloton nuclear device detonated in America’s heartland, quickly overwhelming civilian responders. “Vibrant Response” was a week-long command post exercise designed to train the commanders and staff of the nation’s dedicated force for responding to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield explosive incidents, or CBRNE incidents. The units completed the exercise Sept. 18 at Fort Stewart, Ga., just two weeks before their force, the CBRNE Consequence Management Response Force, or CCMRF, will be assigned to U.S. Northern Command to begin its mission… The 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division forms the core of Task Force Operations, one of the three functional task forces within CCMRF. It’s the first infantry brigade to be assigned to NORTHCOM for a year in order to respond quickly to civil-support missions.
Gates predicts no sharp cuts in US defense budgets 29 Sep 2008 Defense Secretary Robert Gates predicted on Monday that growth in U.S. military spending would level off in the coming years but not face severe cutbacks, despite the current economic crisis. President [sic] George W. Bush submitted a base defense budget of more than $500 billion for the fiscal year that begins next month. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are costing some $160 billion a year on top of that. [Gee, almost $700 billion - they could have bailed out Wall Street but instead continue to give billion dollar bl*jobs to KBR and Blackwater.]
Army probes soldiers’ chemical exposure by KBR 29 Sep 2008 Army Secretary Pete Geren has agreed to investigate whether Indiana National Guardsmen were exposed to a carcinogen while protecting an Iraqi water pumping plant shortly after the U.S. invasion in 2003. A review panel appointed by Geren also will look at whether the Army’s oversight of a private contractor [AP buried the name of the contractor, KBR, in paragraph *nine.*] that operated the Iraq water plant was sufficient and whether the military’s medical screenings of soldiers were adequate… Although the toxic exposure happened five years ago, Indiana Adjutant Gen. R. Martin Umbarger was not notified of it until June, in a phone call from U.S. Sen. Byron Dorgan, a Democrat from North Dakota.
Pentagon’s new Africa command raises suspicions about U.S. motives 29 Sep 2008 The U.S. Africa Command, the Pentagon’s first effort to unite itscounterterrorism, training and humanitarian operations on the continent, launches Wednesday amid questions at home about its mission and deep suspicions in Africa about its intentions. U.S. officials have billed the new command, known as Africom, as a sign of Africa’s strategic importance, but many in Africa see it as an unwelcome expansion of the U.S.-led war on [of] terrorism and a bid to secure greater access to the continent’s vast oil resources. Several countries have refused to host the command, and officials say Africom will be based in Stuttgart, Germany, for the foreseeable future.
Air Force says officer stole launch control device 29 Sep 2008 A Minot Air Force Base officer accused of stealing a classified missile launch control device faces a hearing to determine whether he will face a court martial. The Air Force said a hearing is scheduled Tuesday at the base to evaluate evidence against Capt. Paul Borowiecki, a missile combat crew member assigned to the 91st Missile Wing. [See: Minot AFB Clandestine Nukes 'Oddities'.]
Injured, re-killed Ayman al-Zawahri is back! By Lori Price 29 Sep 2008 The elusive, whack-a-mole al-Qaeda #2 is ‘visiting’ a main operating base for al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan. You just can’t keep a good terrorist down (or dead) for long, especially during the run-up to a US ‘election!’
Palin: ‘Only Flag in My Office’ Is Israeli 26 Sep 2008 President Peres of Israel yesterday met for the first time with Governor Palin and with Senator McCain, who called the veteran Israeli statesman “my old friend.” The warm handshake… occurred during an international gathering known as the Clinton Global Initiative. “I wanted to meet you for many years,” Ms. Palin told Mr. Peres, according to an aide to the president. “The only flag at my office is an Israeli flag,” she was quoted as saying, “and I want you to know and I want Israelis to know that I am a friend.”
U.S. stocks bounce back after Monday’s plunge –Indexes positioned for steep declines in crisis-riddled month of September 30 Sep 2008 U.S. stock indexes on Tuesday blasted back from the prior session’s historic rout, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average chalking up its third-biggest point gain on optimism that a rescue plan would make a comeback in coming days on Capitol Hill.
Bush Administration Adds $4 Trillion to National Debt 29 Sep 2008 With no fanfare and little notice, the national debt has grown by more than $4 trillion during George W. Bush’s presidency. It’s the biggest increase under any president in U.S history. On the day President [sic] Bush took office, the national debt stood at $5.727 trillion. The latest number from the Treasury Department shows the national debt now stands at more than $9.849 trillion. That’s a 71.9 percent increase on Mr. Bush’s watch.
Fed Pumps Further $630 Billion Into Financial System 29 Sep 2008 The Federal Reserve will pump an additional $630 billion into the global financial system, flooding banks with cash to alleviate the worst banking crisis since the Great Depression. The Fed increased its existing currency swaps with foreign central banks by $330 billion to $620 billion to make more dollars available worldwide. The Term Auction Facility, the Fed’s emergency loan program, will expand by $300 billion to $450 billion. The European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan are among the participating authorities.
House limits constituent e-mails to prevent crash 30 Sep 2008 The House is limiting e-mails from the public to prevent its websites from crashing due to the enormous amount of mail being submitted on the financial bailout bill. As a result, some constituents may get a ‘try back at a later time’ response if they use the House website to e-mail their lawmakers about the bill defeated in the House on Monday in a 205-228 vote.
Those who remember the Depression fear its return 30 Sep 2008 “I’m afraid if the next depression that hits is like the one in the ’30s, we would not long have a democracy,” says Turner Hinkle… At 91, she is plagued by arthritis of the spine. She is proud of her two sons, one who became a stockbroker, one who became a doctor. But a woman who was never afraid during the Depression is afraid now. She is afraid for her great grandchildren and for the world they have been born into.
Bill would limit Homeland Security laptop searches 30 Sep 2008 The Homeland Security Department has declared its right to seize laptops at the U.S. border indefinitely, but legislation introduced Thursday is intended to curb that power. U.S. Senators Russ Feingold, D-Wis., Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and U.S. House Representative Adam Smith, D-Wash., introduced the Travelers Privacy Protection Act in response to the DHS policy allowing customs agents to detain a traveler’s laptop for an unspecified period of time to review its contents, even absent of individualized suspicion.
Police Union Shirt Pokes Fun At DNC Protesters –Denver Officers Given T-Shirt to Commemorate Event 26 Sep 2008 The Denver police union is selling T-shirts that poke fun at protesters at last month’s Democratic National Convention, but the main target isn’t laughing. The back of the shirts reads, “We get up early to beat the crowds” and “2008 DNC,” and has a caricature of a police officer holding a baton. The front has the number 68 with a slash through it, a reference to the Recreate 68 Coalition, which organized several demonstrations during the convention.
The methane time bomb –Arctic scientists discover new global warming threat as melting permafrost releases millions of tons of a gas 20 times more damaging than carbon dioxide 23 Sep 2008 The first evidence that millions of tons of a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere from beneath the Arctic seabed has been discovered by scientists. The Independent has been passed details of preliminary findings suggesting that massive deposits of sub-sea methane are bubbling to the surface as the Arctic region becomes warmer and its ice retreats.
US bailout fuels protests in streets, online 28 Sep 2008 Even as lawmakers laboured to break the impasse on Bush administration’s $700 billion plan to rescue giant Wall Street firms to solve the financial crisis, the bailout has spontaneously inspired street protests in the US and outrage gone viral across the web. Protesters argue that they would want the Congress to protect millions of ordinary American citizens on the verge of losing their homes due to poor lending practices of creditors instead of handing out public money to big investment companies responsible for ruining the economy in the first place.
Wall Street Executives Made $3 Billion Before Crisis 26 Sep 2008 Wall Street’s five biggest firms paid more than $3 billion in the last five years to their top executives, while they presided over the packaging and sale of loans that helped bring down the investment-banking system. Merrill Lynch & Co. paid its chief executives the most, with Stanley O’Neal taking in$172 million from 2003 to 2007 and John Thain getting $86 million, including a signing bonus, after beginning work in December. Bear Stearns Cos.’s James “Jimmy” Cayne made$161 million before the company collapsed and was sold to JPMorgan Chase & Co. in June. [If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.]
Anthrax suspect said he solved case 25 Sep 2008 Suspected Framed Washington anthrax killer Bruce Ivins claimed to have solved the case in an e-mail message to himself, newly released court documents say. “I finally know who mailed the anthrax letters in the fall of 2001. I should have been a private eye,” Ivins said in a message sent last September. After learning that FBI scientists had traced the bacteria to his laboratory, Ivins, a government bioweapons researcher, suggested to agents several other scientists who he said might be guilty, the documents say.
Anthrax Links to 9-11 By Barbara Honegger 25 Sep 2008 Superweaponizing anthrax was one of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld’s top priorities. Two days before 9/11, on Sept. 9, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) held a rare press conference in which it revealed that on his first day as Secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld ordered the DIA to take Project Jefferson, a secret and illegal anthrax weaponization program (probably using the Ames strain contained in the anthrax letters) to the next level of lethality and that it had achieved ’success’ earlier that month in a classified field test. The mainstream press reported this event on Sept. 10.
Pharma-terrorists pushing deadly vaccines: Health officials urge more Americans than ever to get flu shots –Health Experts Urge More School-Age Children Get Vaccine24 Sep 2008 More Americans than ever before are being urged to get their annual flu vaccination. A panel of [bought] leading health experts gathered Wednesday morning in Washington, D.C., to endorse the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest recommendation that all children between the ages of 6 months and 18 years receive a flu shot.
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Health:Â Documented, Proven Cure and Preventative for Cancer (Part I)
This article is about how you can prevent and cure cancer with a bottle of flax oil and a carton of cottage cheese. As incredible as this may seem, it is a truth that has been well proven and documented. It is also a truth that has been vigorously…
AIG requires blood samples for insurance…as reported here…
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com:80/Feature-Article.htm?InfoNo=038530&From=News
New Research Confirms Vitamin D Blocks Formation of Breast Cancer
http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000318_breast_cancer_vitamin_D_tumors.html
Mobile phone use ‘raises children’s risk of brain cancer fivefold’ – Science, News – The Independent
Health: Aspartame Consumption Again Linked to Degeneration of Brain Neurons
(NaturalNews) High intake of the artificial sweetener aspartame may lead to the degeneration of brain cells and various mental disorders, according to a research review conducted by South African scientists from the University of Pretoria and the University…
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http://www.opednews.com/articles/Obama-s-Presidency-Could-G-by-Stephen-Fox-080928-180.html
Obama’s Presidency Could Galvanize 30 Million American Idealists and 
Reformers, and a Personal Memory of Paul Newman

by Stephen Fox    

As introduction, I must say that Paul Newman’s passing has saddened me 
profoundly, not because of any of his movies, but because of a personal 
memory which stirs up in me now, as I write this, a few profound thoughts 
from the political and governmental realms. 

In the late 70’s, Jimmy Carter appointed Paul Newman as a Personal 
Representative or Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations. I was 
privileged to attend the United Nations First Special Session on 
Disarmament, and in a thrilling moment on the General Assembly floor between 
speeches, I met and talked with Newman for about ten minutes about my view 
that the Special Session was like Theater of the Absurd at the peak of the 
Arms Race, in which Nations sent their Ambassadors and Foreign Ministers to 
give speeches decrying the buildup of nuclear arsenals, and the big guys, 
the Superpowers, would make minute carefully calibrated offers to deescalate 
a tiny bit here or step one infinitesimal step back from the brink there, in 
an elaborate charade reminiscent of Japanese Noh theatre, lots of gestures 
and rehearsed protocol, but no words, just like at the UN at such a 
conference, there would ultimately be no real progress. 

Paul Newman listened, said a few things, then agreed, and added this: “WE 
HAVE TO KEEP TRYING.” 

My condolences go to his daughter, Nell, with whom he developed  Newman’s 
Own, starting with Italian Tomato Sauces made with all organic ingredients, 
moving on to, among other products, one of the best selections of organic 
dog foods on the American market, plus snacks like organic chips. Everytime 
I shop for groceries, I see Paul and Nell on the labels of their products, 
dressed up like the Iowa Dentist and the Artist’s sister Nan, from Grant 
Wood’s American Gothic, and I recall my brief conversation with Paul on the 
floor of the UN General Assembly.

Among the conversations with luminaries I met back then at that UN Special 
Session, Newman’s words, plus those of Pierre Trudeau, Canada’s Prime 
Minister, as well as Pete Seeger, were what stuck with me the most over the 
past 30 years, because each of them took the time to share an extended and 
profound dialogue with me.

Carter’s Presidency was in retrospect a time of great idealism, coming on 
the heels of the Nixon/Ford years. Jimmy has ripened into even more of a 
sterling idealist and humanitarian than he was back then; my friend from 
Redlands High School in California, James Fallows,  was his Chief 
Speechwriter, starting at the young age of 27, and is now National 
Correspondent for Atlantic Monthly and author of the best book I know of on 
the US in Iraq: BLIND INTO BAGHDAD.

Idealism does blossom on the vine, off and on, depending on who is in power 
and the general Climate of Opinion, and the Zeitgeist, as Historians like to 
call it. Idealism also can dry up, wither, and seem to die. Every American 
knows that our Nation’s idealism and capacity for reform have taken side-by-
side back row seats during the past 8 years in these United States, maybe 
even much longer, and both Idealism and Reform have even taken frequent 
beatings out behind the Neocon woodshed. 

These guys have basically succeeded in turning over the functioning of 
government to corporate power; the Religious Right was just a backdrop, a 
kind of smoke and mirrors, a superficial philosophical facade and 
ideological skirmishing compared to what was really going on vis-a-vis the  
massing of corporate power throughout all phases and branches of government, 
especially in the regulatory realms.

I am not an economist, nor was meant to be, so all I will say here about the 
proposed Wall Street Bailout is that it seems an enormous fraud to me, 
perhaps the largest in American history. I can’t and won’t even try to 
venture any pontification in any macroeconomic discussion, except to 
reiterate my long held view that Government Economics is not rocket science 
at all, and that clarity must be accessible the majority of Americans, since 
we are being asked to pay for this Bailout.

In Northern New Mexico, farmers have constructed centuries-old irrigation 
ditches, directed by the majordomos of each small village, most of whom I 
would more trust with the flow of government monies than a lot of these guys 
in Washington. 

Historically, these “ditch masters” controlled the indispensable vital flow 
of water to the various fields as a kind of bequest allowing the farmers to 
survive. In Spanish, this is called the “mother ditch,” or Acequia Madre, 
and the ditch master is called the Majordomo. He is far more important to 
his village and ultimately deserves much more trust than any of the elected 
officials like the Alcalde, or Mayor. 

The government sponsored economic fields which have been watered so 
generously by Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld since 2000 have been those of Military, 
Security, Weapons, “Defense,” Blackwater, Kellogg Brown and Root, and (we 
can’t forget Cheney’s fiscal backyard) Halliburton! 

What were the fields that didn’t get watered?  Oh, just about everything 
else: Education, Inner Cities, Scientific and Medical Research, Stem Cell 
Research (and I don’t mean the kind of Stem Cell Research that depends on 
destroying fetuses), Agriculture, Infrastructure basics like highway repair, 
Alternative Energy, Sustainability—-you name it, just about everything 
else.

This means that most of the Bushite cronies after January 2009 will retire 
obscenely rich with their ill-gotten gains, and this wholesale theft is 
leading to a culmination in the Wall Street Bailout, largely blessed as 
sanctimonious by the Religious Right. Suffice it to say that seven members 
in total of the G-8’s Finance Ministers have all unanimously rejected any 
kind of Bailout for their nation as either unnecessary, or as fiscally 
stupid and/or dangerous.
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Leaving Economic discussions aside, I have been perenially much more focused 
deep down on Consumer Protection and Reform of the FDA, because real 
consumer protection could prevent so many needless and early deaths. 

When (or must I say “if”?) Obama wins, he will appoint a new FDA 
Commissioner, who will oversee the 25% of the US Economy that is either 
drugs or food. The present Commissioner, Andrew Von Eschenbach, M.D. 
Urology, will pack up and head back to Houston, I am guessing, to the 
Anderson Cancer Center where he was head honcho before his current 
appointment, or maybe he has lined up a far better paying bunch of corporate 
boards to “serve” on; after all, he has been such a good boy to all of the 
Big Pharma corporations. 

Since Andy is a cancer survivor himself, I initially held high hopes 
that he could and would do something about the massive amount of carcinogens 
added by industry to our foods, like Aspartame, the neurotoxic and 
carcinogenic artificial sweetener added to 8000 products.

In 2006 and in 2007, I had endless battles with lobbyists and corporate 
hired guns in the New Mexico Legislature over a bill I created to ban it for 
New Mexico, sponsored by the Honorable Gerald Ortiz y Pino, easily the most 
progressive member of the New Mexico Senate. The lobbyists went all out and 
ganged up to try to eviscerate the bill, then finally strangled the bill in 
committee. These lobbyists represented Ajinomoto of Japan, the world’s 
largest manufacturer of both aspartame and of Monosodium Glutamate, as well 
as their predictable American cronies, Coca Cola, Pepsi, plus an assortment 
of Retail Grocers, Grocery Manufacturers of America, and the American 
Diabetic Association, which still perpetuates the ludicrous corporate 
sponsoredmythology that if your pancreas is not making enough insulin and 
you have diabetes, you should be substituting sugar with something that 
turns to formaldehyde and methanol.

21 of the 112 New Mexico Legislators signed two letters addressed to Dr. Von 
Eschenbach and to Bush asking them to order that Aspartame’s FDA approval be 
rescinded, on the grounds of its carcinogenicity. (Even Nixon rescinded 
approval for cyclamates on the same grounds, largely at the behest of 
Washington consumer advocate lawyer and Nader Raider Jim Turner, plus a few 
pediatricians and oncologists). 

Sadly, all Andy did was reply to the 21 New Mexico legislators with more 
predictable corporate pleasantries about the 200 (industry-paid for 
studies “proving” aspartame as safe. He and the rest of the FDA chose to 
ignore the Sofritti Studies done by the European Foundation for Oncology’s 
work proving aspartame was causing all kinds of cancers, also called the 
Ramazzini report, after the name of the Foundation. 

When you as a mere American consumer write to the FDA about aspartame or the 
92 symptoms from its list of attributed symptoms derived from actual 
consumer complaints, you rarely get any kind of response, unless it is one 
of those form letters about how safe it is, which refers you to some 
industry-paid-for pro-aspartame website….

Last year, I said let’s try this in Hawaii, since Hawaiian consumer 
activists were trying to get help with their aspartame banning effort in 
Hawaii and asking me how to do it. The ban bill failed in the Health 
Committee when Hawaii Senator David Ige deferred action. Hawaii Senator Ron 
Menor said in committee that what they should do is create a Resolution, 
which I then wrote with Dr. Betty Martini over one very intense long 
weekend. 

That was Senate Concurrent Resolution 191 from 2008, which you can easily 
read on the Hawaii Legislature website; certainly, no legislative body has 
ever considered a document more complete and more damning on the subject of 
Aspartame than this Resolution.

Then, happily, unbeknownst to the lobbyists and the corpporations involved, 
44% of the Hawaii Senate, including 9 Committee Chairs and Vice Chairs,  
signed the Resolution sponsored by the Honorable Suzanne Chun Oakland. Then, 
one of the other Senators, a lady from Maui, a powerful ex-lobbyist herself, 
Chair of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, leaned on the Health Committee 
Chairman, Senator David Ige (Ige had even signed as cosponsor), telling him 
we were just spouting “Internet Junk Science,” and lo and behold, the 
Resolution never even got a hearing in Hawaii’s Senate Health Committee.

Can you see how it is that corporate lobbyists are the scourge, to be 
polite, of Democracy?

Both Senators have graciously agreed to try again, so the lobbyists will be 
back in full force, even louder this year, I am sure, saying that such a ban 
is unnecessary, since Aspartame is SO SAFE, and that it would have to come 
from FDA itself, that we can’t have any balkanized breakup of authority and 
such a blatant challenge to certain corporate-sponsored and corporate-
serving myths of “federal pre-emption” by the FDA.

Aspartame has killed millions, and is literally making hundreds of millions 
people sick all over the world. I hope you put down your Diet Coke or 
removed the Sugarless Wrigley’s gum long ago, or at least for a few minutes, 
in order to read this article with a little more of an open mind and a bit  
more of that ancient now-disappearing human instinct for survival.

One of my best colleagues in the aspartame effort, Dr. Betty Martini, 
D.Hum., Founder of Mission Possible International, has bumped Obama out of 
her electoral vote on this issue, after she learned that twenty years ago he 
either worked for Sidley and Austin or met his wife there because she worked 
for Sidley and Austin, the lawyers for Monsanto, then the patent 
holder for Aspartame. 

(Monsanto bought those patents from G.D. Searle, the CEO of which in 1981, a 
Mr. Donald Rumsfeld, forced the approval for Aspartame through the FDA, 
despite 15 prior years of it being rejected. To spare you the grim details, 
just google and read RUMSFELD’S BIOWEAPON LEGACY) 

Today, the Japanese giant, Ajinomoto owns these patents and makes most of 
the world’s aspartame in Japan, France, and Georgia, USA. The Georgia 
factory sends tankers full of aspartame to their biggest client, Coca Cola, 
with workers wearing Hazardous Materials suits, etc. China makes a lot of 
Aspartame too, but those details are somewhat obscured behind the Red 
Curtain, so to speak.

Because of the lobbyist/harlots working for these companies and all of the 
industry fronts and associations of grocers and soft drink bottlers, my sole 
real hope after January 2009, lies with the FDA’s NEXT commissioner, which I 
implore must be a true consumer protectionist, instead of the corporate 
lackeys and apologists we have had, who just rubber stamp ultimately 
whatever Industries like Big Pharma and Big Junk Food want, or whatever they 
want to keep making money with, the public’s health be damned. 

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