> Dear Greens, rads, and assorted troublemakers,

> Several folks have sent me this article recently, which I thought
> should be shared. I have long been troubled by the relationship
> between the upsurge in diet soda drinking in the late 1970s and
> the onslaught of once-rare (relatively) diseases -- Multiple
> Sclerosis, for one -- a decade later.

> Some students of mine in an early Marxism for Beginners class
> in the early 1980s wrote a blistering critique back then of
> Monsanto, which manufactured Aspartame derivatives.
> (NutraSweet). They claimed it caused lesions in rat brains --
> evidence that was suppressed by Monsanto and the FDA
> (sound familiar?). I included that info in several pieces I wrote,
> plus new evidence from Air Force pilots who were told not to
> drink sugar-free soft drinks when flying because they were
> thought to cause brain disorientation and nerve disorders!! The
> citations are in my pamphlet: Biotechnology & the New World
> Order. I don't have it in front of me at the moment, or I'd look
> it up and send it.

> Aspartame is also an ingredient in many "sugar-free" products.
> Tylenol, for instance, including Children's Tylenol, contains
> aspartame. Yet doctors tell parents to give their kids Tylenol as
> a substitute for Aspirin. (The latter sometimes causes kids'
> heads to swell, and a number of children have died after being
> given aspirin. I think it's called "Ries Syndrome" -- need to
> check the spelling. Little children should never be given aspirin
> OR Tylenol (so long as it contains aspartame), let alone
> ibuprofen!)

> The affect of aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal, etc.) on seratonin
> levels has also been suppressed. It is especially significant
> these days because of the work under the aegis of the {*filter*}
> Initiative Project (see my article in the forthcoming issue of
> Synthesis Regeneration), which claims a genetic predisposition
> among Black and Latino people for committing acts of
> {*filter*} and proposes to remedy that by "controlling" the
> seratonin levels in the brains of young children -- most between
> 6 and 10 years old -- through administration of fenfluoramine,
> 1/2 of the dangerous diet drug fen-phen -- despite being
> banned last year.

> However, I am also cautious about the attached article. Some
> statements near the end pertaining to Gulf War Syndrome are, I
> believe, wrong, and this leads me to question her overall
> analysis. Some of the symptoms of Gulf War Syndrome and
> of aspartame poisoning are similar; but many are not, and by
> misstating the case it provides cover for other possible causes,
> especially radiation from armaments encased in "depleted"
> uranium and the administration (both injected and oral) of
> genetically engineered "antidotes" to anthrax, nerve gas, etc.,
> used in the field for the first time in what I believe to be a
> gigantic experiment on American troops. (The fact that the US
> sold genetically-modified anthrax bacteria to Iraq (approved by
> George Bush, with little media play) and has now sold
> genetically engineered anthrax "antidote" to Israel should give
> one pause to try to figure out what is really going on there.)

> But, I think this article to be very worthwhile despite those
> overstatements, and solicit your feedback.

> - Mitchel Cohen

> PS. If you have trouble reading this post, please let me know.
> I've been experimenting with different ways to cut and paste
> material so that it fits in most people's email windows, but not
> always successfully. If you can send me a snip of what it looks
> like, too, that would be helpful.

> WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE and the MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION F.D.A. ISSUING FOR COLLUSION WITH MONSANTO

> by Nancy Markle

>         I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE on "ASPARTAME marketed as 'NutraSweet', 'Equal', and 'Spoonful'. In the keynote address by the EPA, they announced that there was an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus, and they did not understand what toxin was causing this to be rampant across the United States. I explained that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject.

>         When the temperature of Aspartame exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood {*filter*} in ASPARTAME coverts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. (Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants). The methanol toxicity mimics multiple sclerosis; thus people were being diagnosed with having multiple sclerosis in error. The multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, where methanol toxicity is.

>         In the case of systemic lupus, we are finding it has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers. Also, with methanol toxicity, the victims usually drink three to four 12 oz. cans of diet sodas per day, some even more. In the cases of systemic lupus, which is triggered by ASPARTAME, the victim usually does not know that the aspartame is the culprit. The victim continues its use aggravating the lupus to such a degree that sometimes it becomes life threatening.

>         When we get people off the aspartame, those with systemic lupus usually become asymptomatic.Unfortunately, we can not reverse this disease.

>         On the other hand, in the case of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (when in reality, the disease is methanol toxicity), most of the symptoms disappear. We have seen cases where their vision has returned and even their hearing has returned. This also applies to cases of tinnitus.

>         During a lecture I said "If you are using ASPARTAME (NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc.) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting pains, numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness, headaches, tinnitus, joint pain, depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss -- you probably have ASPARTAME DISEASE!" People were jumping up during the lecture saying, "I've got this, is it reversible?"

>         It is rampant. Some of the speakers at my lecture even were suffering from these symptoms. In one lecture attended by the Ambassador of Uganda, he told us that their sugar industry is adding aspartame! He continued by saying that one of the industry leader's son could no longer walk due in part by product usage!

>         We have a very serious problem. Even a stranger came up to Dr. Espisto (one of the speakers) and myself and said, "Could you tell me why so many people seem to be coming down with MS?" During a visit to a hospice, a nurse said that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke {*filter*}s, had all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence. Here is the problem. There were Congressional Hearings when aspartame was included in 100 different products. Since this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings. Nothing as been done. The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep pockets. Now there are over 5,000 products containing this chemical, and the PATENT HAS EXPIRED [which means, I suppose, that anyone can use it without paying royalties, making it even more widespread. - MC]. At the time of this first hearing, people were going blind. The methanol in the aspartame converts to formaldehyde in the retina of the eye.

>         Formaldehyde is grouped in the same class of {*filter*} as cyanide and arsenic -- DEADLY POISONS!!! Unfortunately, it just takes longer to quietly kill, but it is killing people and causing all kinds of neurological problems.

>         Aspartame changes the brain's chemistry. It is the reason for severe seizures. This drug changes the dopamine level in the brain. Imagine what this drug does to patients suffering from Parkinson's Disease. This drug also causes Birth Defects. There is absolutely no reason to take this product. It is NOT A DIET PRODUCT!!! The Congressional record said, "It makes you crave carbohydrates and will make you FAT." Dr. Roberts stated that when he got patients off aspartame, their average weight loss was 19 pounds per person. The formaldehyde stores in the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs.

>         Aspartame is especially deadly for diabetics. All physicians know what wood {*filter*} will do to a diabetic. We find that physicians believe that they have patients with retinopathy, when in fact, it is caused by the aspartame.The aspartame keeps the {*filter*} sugar level out of control, causing many patients to go into a coma. Unfortunately, many have died. People were telling us at the Conference of the American College of Physicians, that they had relatives who switched from saccharin to an aspartame product and how that relative had eventually gone into a coma. Their physicians could not get the {*filter*} sugar levels under control. Thus, the patients suffered acute memory loss and eventually coma and death.

>         Memory loss is due to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are neurotoxic without the amino acids found in protein. Thus it goes past the {*filter*} brain barrier and deteriorates the eurons of the brain. Dr. Russell Blaylock, neurosurgeon, said, "The ingredients stimulates the neurons of the brain to death, causing brain damage of varying degrees.*

>         Dr. Blaylock has written a book entitled "EXCITOTOXINS: THE TASTE THAT KILLS" (Health Press 1-800-643-2665). Dr. H.J. Roberts, diabetic specialist and world expert on aspartame poisoning, has also written a book entitled "DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE" (1-800-814-9800). Dr. Roberts tells how aspartame poisoning is escalating

> I've read many articles on Aspartame and it's apparent relationship with brain tumors....there are articles all over the Internet.  I no longer eat Aspartame.....

> Strange how you received no responses to your post.

> Rhonda

> > Subject: DIET SODAS & TYLENOL/Relation to MS & Lupus

> > Dear Greens, rads, and assorted troublemakers,

> > Several folks have sent me this article recently, which I thought
> > should be shared. I have long been troubled by the relationship
> > between the upsurge in diet soda drinking in the late 1970s and
> > the onslaught of once-rare (relatively) diseases -- Multiple
> > Sclerosis, for one -- a decade later.

> > Some students of mine in an early Marxism for Beginners class
> > in the early 1980s wrote a blistering critique back then of
> > Monsanto, which manufactured Aspartame derivatives.
> > (NutraSweet). They claimed it caused lesions in rat brains --
> > evidence that was suppressed by Monsanto and the FDA
> > (sound familiar?). I included that info in several pieces I wrote,
> > plus new evidence from Air Force pilots who were told not to
> > drink sugar-free soft drinks when flying because they were
> > thought to cause brain disorientation and nerve disorders!! The
> > citations are in my pamphlet: Biotechnology & the New World
> > Order. I don't have it in front of me at the moment, or I'd look
> > it up and send it.

> > Aspartame is also an ingredient in many "sugar-free" products.
> > Tylenol, for instance, including Children's Tylenol, contains
> > aspartame. Yet doctors tell parents to give their kids Tylenol as
> > a substitute for Aspirin. (The latter sometimes causes kids'
> > heads to swell, and a number of children have died after being
> > given aspirin. I think it's called "Ries Syndrome" -- need to
> > check the spelling. Little children should never be given aspirin
> > OR Tylenol (so long as it contains aspartame), let alone
> > ibuprofen!)

> > The affect of aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal, etc.) on seratonin
> > levels has also been suppressed. It is especially significant
> > these days because of the work under the aegis of the {*filter*}
> > Initiative Project (see my article in the forthcoming issue of
> > Synthesis Regeneration), which claims a genetic predisposition
> > among Black and Latino people for committing acts of
> > {*filter*} and proposes to remedy that by "controlling" the
> > seratonin levels in the brains of young children -- most between
> > 6 and 10 years old -- through administration of fenfluoramine,
> > 1/2 of the dangerous diet drug fen-phen -- despite being
> > banned last year.

> > However, I am also cautious about the attached article. Some
> > statements near the end pertaining to Gulf War Syndrome are, I
> > believe, wrong, and this leads me to question her overall
> > analysis. Some of the symptoms of Gulf War Syndrome and
> > of aspartame poisoning are similar; but many are not, and by
> > misstating the case it provides cover for other possible causes,
> > especially radiation from armaments encased in "depleted"
> > uranium and the administration (both injected and oral) of
> > genetically engineered "antidotes" to anthrax, nerve gas, etc.,
> > used in the field for the first time in what I believe to be a
> > gigantic experiment on American troops. (The fact that the US
> > sold genetically-modified anthrax bacteria to Iraq (approved by
> > George Bush, with little media play) and has now sold
> > genetically engineered anthrax "antidote" to Israel should give
> > one pause to try to figure out what is really going on there.)

> > But, I think this article to be very worthwhile despite those
> > overstatements, and solicit your feedback.

> > - Mitchel Cohen

> > PS. If you have trouble reading this post, please let me know.
> > I've been experimenting with different ways to cut and paste
> > material so that it fits in most people's email windows, but not
> > always successfully. If you can send me a snip of what it looks
> > like, too, that would be helpful.

> > WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE and the MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION F.D.A. ISSUING FOR COLLUSION WITH MONSANTO

> > by Nancy Markle

> >         I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE on "ASPARTAME marketed as 'NutraSweet', 'Equal', and 'Spoonful'. In the keynote address by the EPA, they announced that there was an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus, and they did not understand what toxin was causing this to be rampant across the United States. I explained that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject.

> >         When the temperature of Aspartame exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood {*filter*} in ASPARTAME coverts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. (Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants). The methanol toxicity mimics multiple sclerosis; thus people were being diagnosed with having multiple sclerosis in error. The multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, where methanol toxicity is.

> >         In the case of systemic lupus, we are finding it has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers. Also, with methanol toxicity, the victims usually drink three to four 12 oz. cans of diet sodas per day, some even more. In the cases of systemic lupus, which is triggered by ASPARTAME, the victim usually does not know that the aspartame is the culprit. The victim continues its use aggravating the lupus to such a degree that sometimes it becomes life threatening.

> >         When we get people off the aspartame, those with systemic lupus usually become asymptomatic.Unfortunately, we can not reverse this disease.

> >         On the other hand, in the case of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (when in reality, the disease is methanol toxicity), most of the symptoms disappear. We have seen cases where their vision has returned and even their hearing has returned. This also applies to cases of tinnitus.

> >         During a lecture I said "If you are using ASPARTAME (NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc.) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting pains, numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness, headaches, tinnitus, joint pain, depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss -- you probably have ASPARTAME DISEASE!" People were jumping up during the lecture saying, "I've got this, is it reversible?"

> >         It is rampant. Some of the speakers at my lecture even were suffering from these symptoms. In one lecture attended by the Ambassador of Uganda, he told us that their sugar industry is adding aspartame! He continued by saying that one of the industry leader's son could no longer walk due in part by product usage!

> >         We have a very serious problem. Even a stranger came up to Dr. Espisto (one of the speakers) and myself and said, "Could you tell me why so many people seem to be coming down with MS?" During a visit to a hospice, a nurse said that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke {*filter*}s, had all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence. Here is the problem. There were Congressional Hearings when aspartame was included in 100 different products. Since this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings. Nothing as been done. The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep pockets. Now there are over 5,000 products containing this chemical, and the PATENT HAS EXPIRED [which means, I suppose, that anyone can use it without paying royalties, making it even more widespread. - MC]. At the time of this first hearing, people were going blind. The methanol in the aspartame converts to formaldehyde in the retina of the eye.

> >         Formaldehyde is grouped in the same class of {*filter*} as cyanide and arsenic -- DEADLY POISONS!!! Unfortunately, it just takes longer to quietly kill, but it is killing people and causing all kinds of neurological problems.

> >         Aspartame changes the brain's chemistry. It is the reason for severe seizures. This drug changes the dopamine level in the brain. Imagine what this drug does to patients suffering from Parkinson's Disease. This drug also causes Birth Defects. There is absolutely no reason to take this product. It is NOT A DIET PRODUCT!!! The Congressional record said, "It makes you crave carbohydrates and will make you FAT." Dr. Roberts stated that when he got patients off aspartame, their average weight loss was 19 pounds per person. The formaldehyde stores in the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs.

> >         Aspartame is especially deadly for diabetics. All physicians know what wood {*filter*} will do to a diabetic. We find that physicians believe that they have patients with retinopathy, when in fact, it is caused by the aspartame.The aspartame keeps the {*filter*} sugar level out of control, causing many patients to go into a coma. Unfortunately, many have died. People were telling us at the Conference of the American College of Physicians, that they had relatives who switched from saccharin to an aspartame product and how that relative had eventually gone into a coma. Their physicians could not get the {*filter*} sugar levels under control.