http://www.whale.to/a/donald_rumsfeld.html

Donald Rumsfeld was Chief Executive Officer of G. D. Searle & Co. from 1977 to 1985, during which time their product, aspartame, was approved by the FDA. He was also Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Instrument Corporation from October, 1990 to August, 1993.

Before his current position in government, Rumsfeld was chairman of the board of Gilead Sciences, a biopharmaceutical company. From 1991 to 1996 Rumsfeld served as a member of the board of directors of Amylin Pharmaceuticals.

Before rejoining the government, Rumsfeld was a member of the board of directors of Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) Ltd., Tribune Company, and Rand Corporation. He was also chairman of the Salomon Smith Barney International Advisory Board. From 1985 to 1990 he was a senior advisor to William Blair & Co., an investment banking firm.

Presently, Donald Rumsfeld is Secretary of Defense. In government, he recently served as chairman of the U.S. Government Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States.

Previously, Rumsfeld has been a Congressman, Secretary of Defense, White House Chief of Staff, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, and has served as the President's special envoy to the Middle East. He is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award given by our government.

"The two faces of Rumsfeld. 2000: Director of a company which wins $200m contract to sell nuclear reactors to North Korea. 2002: Declares North Korea a terrorist state and a target for regime change."--Media UK, May 2003

Swine flu vaccine scam:
"The Rumsfeld history starts in 1976, when a military recruit in New Jersey died from a flu that experts speculated might be the "swine flu" virus of 1918 pandemic fame. As Sargent tells it, Rumsfeld, who was then and is again the nation's secretary of defense, made the imminent "swine flu" a political issue to add some spark to the campaign of President Ford, an interim leader without a cause. At Rumsfeld's urging, the administration would ensure that "every man, woman and child" was vaccinated. Huge amounts of vaccine were produced and distributed quickly."-- Lisa Parsons

Swine flu vaccine

Aspartame approval:
Aspartame

"Rumsfeld was president of Serle corporation in 1977, maker of aspartame, then, part of Reagan transition team, and got aspartame 'legalized' by appointing a defense department contractor [??] (Hayes) as head of FDA!
In January 1981 Rumsfeld told a sales meeting, according to one attendee, that he would call in his chips and get aspartame approved by the end of the year. On January 25th, the day the new president took office, the previous FDA commissioner's authority was suspended, and the next month, the commissioner's job went to Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes.
Transition records do not show why the administration chose ***Hayes, a professor and Defense Department contract researcher.*** In July Hayes, defying FDA advisors, approved aspartame for dry foods -- his first major decision. In November 1983 the FDA approved aspartame for soft drinks -- Hayes' last decision. In November 1983 Hayes, under fire for accepting corporate gifts, left the agency and went to Searle's public-relations firm as senior medical advisor. Later Searle lawyer Robert Shapiro named aspartame NutraSweet. Monsanto purchased Searle. Rumsfeld received a $12 million bonus. Shapiro is now Monsanto president. .....Former White House Chief of Staff Rumsfeld owed a debt of gratitude to former White House confidante and Rumsfeld friend Donald Kendal, Pepsi's chairman. The Pepsi announcement and aggressive marketing (millions of gumballs, a red and white swirl, tough contracts) made NutraSweet known in every home. ....From 1985 to 1995, researchers did about 400 aspartame studies. They were divided almost evenly between those that gave assurances and those that raised questions about the sweetener. Most instructively, Searle paid for 100% of those finding no problem. All studies paid for by non-industry sources raised questions."---James S. Turner

"Prior to the approval of aspartame, the FDA sent two specialized teams to G.D. Searle and found a ghastly 95% level of misdirected testing; concealed tests, collusion between corporate and their company-funded research; inappropriate antemortum issues; withholding of material facts; alterations of records: lying to investigators, lost records, no records; falsification of reports, bribery, poor test methodology or design...et al."-------Former FDA Investigator Exposes Aspartame As Deadly Neurotoxin

"Dr. Michael Friedman, acting Commissioner of the FDA, defended Monsanto on 60 Minutes. Yet, it was the FDA themselves who refused to approve aspartame for sixteen years because of the brain tumor issue. Their own toxicologist, the late Dr. Adrian Gross, had told Congress that aspartame—because it triggers brain tumors—violates the Delaney Amendment that makes it illegal to allow any residues of cancer-causing chemicals in foods. In concluding testimony Gross asked, "Given the [cancer-causing potential of aspartame] how would the FDA justify its position that it views a certain amount of aspartame as constituting an allowable daily intake or 'safe' level of it? Is that position in effect not equivalent to setting a 'tolerance' for this food additive and thus a violation of that law? And if the FDA itself elects to violate the law, who is left to protect the health of the public?"------by Betty Martini (bettym19@mindspring.com) - May 14, 200 http://www.dorway.com/possible.html

Rumsfeld's conflict of interest and ASPARTAME
[April 2003] Former FDA Investigator Exposes Aspartame As Deadly Neurotoxin

Rumsfeld and the horseshoe crab that could save your life

[media May 2003] The two faces of Rumsfeld


CIA director Stansfield Turner. The suit stated that the State Department and CIA conspired to "enhance the economic and political powers of James Warren Jones," conducting "mind control and drug experimentation" there. The suit was dismissed four months later for "failure to prosecute timely," and all requests for appeal were denied. (Turner would become a director of Monsanto, now best known for providing the world with the brain-damaging, cancer causing poison bearing the innocuous moniker "NutraSweet".) source

Lies
"I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons."
—Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, at a hearing of the Senate's appropriations subcommittee on defense, May 14, 2003 Source

"We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons."
—Vice President Dick Cheney on NBC's Meet the Press, March 16, 2003

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Aspartame Warning (http://www.321recipes.com/aspartame.html)

Russell Blaylock, MD - Important articles on Aspartame and other topics
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Aspartame and Pilots
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Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by Russell L. Blaylock ...
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Aspartame and Pilots
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Interesting quote here...

I have reviewed some of the reports from airline and private pilots concerning adverse effects of aspartame on various physiological systems. It is interesting to not that several of these complaints are related to the nervous system, which puts this in a category of great concern to the pilot as well as the general public. Some of the more common complaints include, disorientation, difficulty thinking and concentrating, visual blurring or even monocular blindness, seizures and heart failure. It is well known that the ingredients in aspartame, as well as its breakdown products, have deleterious effects on the nervous system and retina. For example, phenylalanine is a precursor of the catecholamine neurotransmitters in the brain and elevated levels in the brain has been associated with seizures. It should also be pointed out that these catecholamines are metabolized to form other excitotoxins and peroxide products that can lead to elevated free radical formation and lipid peroxidation within the neurons.

I suppose the testimonies and stories by those Jews about death camps are true also. Provide some scientific evidence, like this. No hocus-pocus, or testimonies of headaches and sore stomachs. Will only accept studies done in labs or on subjects with scientific validity.

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=291569&page=1

Aspartame: review of safety.

Butchko HH, Stargel WW, Comer CP, Mayhew DA, Benninger C, Blackburn GL, de Sonneville LM, Geha RS, Hertelendy Z, Koestner A, Leon AS, Liepa GU, McMartin KE, Mendenhall CL, Munro IC, Novotny EJ, Renwick AG, Schiffman SS, Schomer DL, Shaywitz BA, Spiers PA, Tephly TR, Thomas JA, Trefz FK.

Medical and Scientific Affairs, The NutraSweet Company, Mt Prospect, Illinois 60056, USA. harriett.h.butchko@nutrasweet.com

Over 20 years have elapsed since aspartame was approved by regulatory agencies as a sweetener and flavor enhancer. The safety of aspartame and its metabolic constituents was established through extensive toxicology studies in laboratory animals, using much greater doses than people could possibly consume. Its safety was further confirmed through studies in several human subpopulations, including healthy infants, children, adolescents, and adults; obese individuals; diabetics; lactating women; and individuals heterozygous (PKUH) for the genetic disease phenylketonuria (PKU) who have a decreased ability to metabolize the essential amino acid, phenylalanine. Several scientific issues continued to be raised after approval, largely as a concern for theoretical toxicity from its metabolic components--the amino acids, aspartate and phenylalanine, and methanol--even though dietary exposure to these components is much greater than from aspartame. Nonetheless, additional research, including evaluations of possible associations between aspartame and headaches, seizures, behavior, cognition, and mood as well as allergic-type reactions and use by potentially sensitive subpopulations, has continued after approval. These findings are reviewed here. The safety testing of aspartame has gone well beyond that required to evaluate the safety of a food additive. When all the research on aspartame, including evaluations in both the premarketing and postmarketing periods, is examined as a whole, it is clear that aspartame is safe, and there are no unresolved questions regarding its safety under conditions of intended use.

[QUOTE]Aspartame: scientific evaluation in the postmarketing period.

Butchko HH, Stargel WW.

Medical and Scientific Affairs, The NutraSweet Company, Mt. Prospect, IL 60056, USA.

Prior to marketing, the safety of the high-intensity sweetener aspartame for its intended uses as a sweetener and flavor enhancer was demonstrated by the results of over 100 scientific studies in animals and humans. In the postmarketing period, the safety of aspartame was further evaluated through extensive monitoring of intake, postmarketing surveillance of anecdotal reports of alleged health effects, and additional research to evaluate these anecdotal reports and other scientific issues. The results of the extensive intake evaluation in the United States, which was done over an 8-year period, and the results of studies done in other countries demonstrated intakes which were well below the acceptable daily intakes set by the FDA and regulatory bodies in other countries, as well as the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives. Evaluation of the anecdotal reports of adverse health effects, the first such system for a food additive, revealed that the reported effects were generally mild and also common in the general population and that there was no consistent or unique pattern of symptoms that could be causally linked to consumption of aspartame. Finally, the results of the extensive scientific research done to evaluate these allegations did not show a causal relationship between aspartame and adverse effects. Thus, the weight of scientific evidence confirms that, even in amounts many times what people typically consume, aspartame is safe for its intended uses as a sweetener and flavor enhancer.

Aspartame: neuropsychologic and neurophysiologic evaluation of acute and chronic effects.

Spiers PA, Sabounjian L, Reiner A, Myers DK, Wurtman J, Schomer DL.

Clinical Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139, USA.

BACKGROUND: Neurobehavioral symptoms have been reported anecdotally with aspartame. OBJECTIVE: This study sought to determine whether aspartame can disrupt cognitive, neurophysiologic, or behavioral functioning in normal individuals. DESIGN: Forty-eight healthy volunteers completed a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study. The first month was aspartame free. Subjects then consumed sodas and capsules with placebo, aspartame, or sucrose for 20 d each. Order was randomized and subjects were assigned to either a high- (45 mg x kg body wt(-1) x d(-1)) or low- (15 mg x kg body wt(-1) x d(-1)) dose aspartame group. Neuropsychologic and laboratory testing was done on day 10 of each treatment period to determine possible acute effects and on day 20 for possible chronic effects. RESULTS: Plasma phenylalanine concentrations increased significantly during aspartame treatment. Neuropsychologic results; adverse experiences; amino acid, insulin, and glucose values; and electroencephalograms were compared by sex and by treatment. No significant differences were found for any dependent measure. CONCLUSION: Large daily doses of aspartame had no effect on neuropsychologic, neurophysiologic, or behavioral functioning in healthy young adults.

Aspartame - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame

Urban Legends - Aspartame
http://www.snopes.com/toxins/aspartame.asp

Chemical Breakdown of Aspartame
http://www.elmhurst.edu/~chm/vchembook/549aspartame.html

FDA Approval of Aspartame
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/qa-adf9.html

Calorie Control Sweeteners
http://www.caloriecontrol.org/aspartame.html

How Safe is Aspartame
http://www.ast-ss.com/articles/article.asp?AID=79

I posted all of this on Stormfront, and no one can refute it. Dispute the evidence. I do not doubt that it could be unhealthy in EXTREMELY large doses, such as hundreds or thousands of grams. Until then keep believing the testimonies of Jews on the History Channel. :rolleyes:

Reproduce the Material Safety Data Sheet. Like it, I have unanswered questions about it's safety.
The first couple "proofs" you offered are nutrasweet spokesmen. I have an idea who sponsored the M.I.T. study as well.

LAWSUIT: ASPARTAME SUGAR SUBSTITUTE (a.k.a. NUTRA-SWEET & Equal) IS DEADLY NEUROTOXIN, UNFIT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION!

Lawsuit shows officials from US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) got lucrative jobs in the Aspartame industry after using their official government power to approve the product for use; despite it being denied approval for 16 years prior!

http://www.HalTurnerShow.com/RICOSuitOverAspartame.html