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Aspartame has been Renamed and is Now Being Marketed as a Natural Sweetener
by Drew Kaplan
Artificial sweeteners especially aspartame has gotten a bad rap over the years, most likely due to studies showing they cause cancer. But not to worry Ajinomoto the company that makes Aspartame has changed the name to AminoSweet. It has the same toxic ingredients but a nice new sounding name.
And if you or your child happens to be allergic to Aspartame, well don’t take it personally it’s just business.
Despite the evidence gained over the years showing that aspartame is a dangerous toxin, it has remained on the global market . In continues to gain approval for use in new types of food despite evidence showing that it causes neurological brain damage, cancerous tumors, and endocrine disruption, among other things.
Most consumers are oblivious to the fact that Aspartame was invented as a drug but upon discovery of its’ sweet taste was magically transformed from a drug to a food additive. HFA wants to warn our readers to beware of a wolf dressed up in sheep’s clothing or in this case Aspartame dressed up as Aminosweet.
Over 25 years ago, aspartame was first introduced into the European food supply. Today, it is an everyday component of most diet beverages, sugar-free desserts, and chewing gums in countries worldwide. But the tides have been turning as the general public is waking up to the truth about artificial sweeteners like aspartame and the harm they cause to health. The latest aspartame marketing scheme is a desperate effort to indoctrinate the public into accepting the chemical sweetener as natural and safe, despite evidence to the contrary.
Aspartame was an accidental discovery by James Schlatter, a chemist who had been trying to produce an anti-ulcer pharmaceutical drug for G.D. Searle & Company back in 1965. Upon mixing aspartic acid and phenylalanine, two naturally-occurring amino acids, he discovered that the new compound had a sweet taste. The company merely changed its FDA approval application from drug to food additive and, voila, aspartame was born.
G.D. Searle & Company first patented aspartame in 1970. An internal memo released in the same year urged company executives to work on getting the FDA into the “habit of saying yes” and of encouraging a “subconscious spirit of participation” in getting the chemical approved.
G.D. Searle & Company submitted its first petition to the FDA in 1973 and fought for years to gain FDA approval, submitting its own safety studies that many believed were inadequate and deceptive. Despite numerous objections, including one from its own scientists, the company was able to convince the FDA to approve aspartame for commercial use in a few products in 1974, igniting a blaze of controversy.
In 1976, then FDA Commissioner Alexander Schmidt wrote a letter to Sen. Ted Kennedy expressing concern over the “questionable integrity of the basic safety data submitted for aspartame safety”. FDA Chief Counsel Richard Merrill believed that a grand jury should investigate G.D. Searle & Company for lying about the safety of aspartame in its reports and for concealing evidence proving the chemical is unsafe for consumption.
The details of aspartame’s history are lengthy, but the point remains that the carcinogen was illegitimately approved as a food additive through heavy-handed prodding by a powerful corporation with its own interests in mind. Practically all drugs and food additives are approved by the FDA not because science shows they are safe but because companies essentially lobby the FDA with monetary payoffs and complete the agency’s multi-million dollar approval process.
Changing aspartame’s name to something that is “appealing and memorable”, in Ajinomoto’s own words, may hoodwink some but hopefully most will reject this clever marketing tactic as nothing more than a desperate attempt to preserve the company’s multi-billion dollar cash cow. Do not be deceived.
Update: As many comments are being posted by readers who are allergic to Aspartame we ask that you please forward this article to as many people as you can.
Sources:
Ajinomoto brands aspartame ‘AminoSweet’
Aspartame History Highlights
FDA’s approval of aspartame under scrutiny
An Overdue Ban On A Dangerous Sweetener
http://www.naturalnews.com/028151_aspartame_sweeteners.html
This is very serious as some people are extremely allergic to aspartame (there is nothing “tame” about it despite its name). I am finding smaller and harder to read notices of it being included in food products. Years ago aspartame was marked and easy to avoid. Now it is even in “health food products” which is not “healthy” at all. Changing the name of harmful ingredients is a very dangerous practice.
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tammara Reply:
February 16th, 2010 at 11:11 am
Those with PKU disorder CAN NOT Have Aspartame becasue of the phenylalanine, I would sure hope that those lables stay visible for that group of individuals.
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Tammy Reply:
February 18th, 2010 at 11:37 pm
Tammara,not only are you correct about PKU but also anyone allergic to red ant bites as aspartame turns into formic acid when the body warms it, (the main POISON in ant bites) THIS NEARLY KILLED MY SON 12 years ago. He was visiting with his father who gave him non sugar welches popcicles. I just hope they are NEVER allowed to put it in baby formula.
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Judith Lavendar Reply:
February 20th, 2010 at 10:15 am
Oh I don’t think the government cares about you, just the stockmarket!
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Gary Katz Reply:
February 27th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
Don’t blame the stock market. Blame the career politicians whose only interest is in getting reelected. Special interests have bought and paid for these problems. The corporation, their lobbyists and the politicians do not have the people’s interest at heart. It would not matter if the company was public or not. Let’s throw these bums out of office and get some real change in DC.
dee Reply:
February 17th, 2010 at 9:34 am
WELL ANDREA, I AM ONE WHO IS ALLERGIC TO ASPERTAME, AKA MSG, AND IT IS DISGUISED AS HYDROGENATED INGREDIENTS, PARTIAL AND NON-PARTIAL AMONG OTHER CUTE NAMES. SO THE RULE OF THUMB: EAT ONLY ORGANIC OR FROM WHOLE FOODS MARKETS THAT CHECK ALL SOURCES OF FOODS. AND G R O W Y O U R F O O D S.
YOU CAN DO IT IN CONTAINER GARDENS ON PATIOS, ROOFS, 4X4 AREAS IF NECESSARY… DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO, OR MOVE TO A REMOTE ISLAND. THEN WORRY ABOUT CHEM TRAILS ANYWAY… IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE WE ALL GET VAPORIZED BUT FOR NOW. DO WHAT YOU CAN.
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Honor Burrows Reply:
February 17th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
Dee, I hope you’re wrong about the vaporization!
But aspartame is not the same as MSG. Nor are those two things the same as hydrogenated oils and fats. I think you’re right on about growing your own food and avoiding artificial “food”.
I would recommend you add one more thing to your list of “don’t eats”. High Fructose corn syrup!
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WHO KNOWS Reply:
June 20th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
YES IT IS THE SAME CHEMICAL AS MSG. AND THEY MARKET IT JUST LIKE THAT WOMEN SAID THEY DO, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED, NATURAL… AND SO ON.
IT IS POISON!
I AM ALLERGIC TO IT AND TO ANT BITES AS WELL. AND THAT CRAP ALMOST KILLED ME. I WILL EAT DIRT BEFORE I WILL EAT THAT POISON. IF IT HAS MORE THAN 5 INGREDIENTS IN IT I WILL NOT EAT IT. AND IF I CANNOT PRONOUNCE IT, SAME THING, AND I AM GROWING MY OWN. AND I DO SHOP AT WHOLE FOODS.
Robin Maule Reply:
February 17th, 2010 at 7:16 pm
CAPS LOCK STUCK ON YOUR KEYBOARD?
Please correct… all caps is considered shouting (bad form) on the net, even if your point is excellent and important.
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Linda Reply:
February 18th, 2010 at 11:28 am
Robin are you the internet grammar/etiquette police? I did not take it as she was shouting as sometimes my cap lock IS stuck and SOMETIMES I just like to use all caps.Or maybe she has carpal tunnel syndrome and it is easier to use all caps. Honor’s point is excellent no matter how she conveyed it.
WHO KNOWS Reply:
June 20th, 2010 at 9:51 pm
YES IT IS THE SAME CHEMICAL AS MSG. AND THEY MARKET IT JUST LIKE THAT WOMEN SAID THEY DO, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED, NATURAL… AND SO ON.
IT IS POISON!
I AM ALLERGIC TO IT AND TO ANT BITES AS WELL. AND THAT CRAP ALMOST KILLED ME. I WILL EAT DIRT BEFORE I WILL EAT THAT POISON. IF IT HAS MORE THAN 5 INGREDIENTS IN IT I WILL NOT EAT IT. AND IF I CANNOT PRONOUNCE IT, SAME THING, AND I AM GROWING MY OWN. AND I DO SHOP AT WHOLE FOODS.
AND HEY ROGER…. I AM DISABLED AND THIS IS THE ONLY WAY I CAN TYPE. SO GET OVER YOURSELF AND YOUR ANAL RETENTIVE OCD ANNOYING BS.
Robin Maule Reply:
June 21st, 2010 at 11:36 pm
I’m sorry to hear you are disabled and this is the only way you can type. I’m also sorry to observe that your disability also includes being a jerk.
I wasn’t rude to you, but you were quite discourteous in your reply. Use all caps if you need to, but please don’t “go for the throat” just because you’re a little miffed.
And Linda, (actually both of you) ALL CAPS IS considered shouting on any forum you care to check on, and using them exclusively is thought to be bad manners. Members of most forums would have come down on you much harder than I did. And, Linda, if you use all caps sometimes just because “you feel like it” then you are acting like a loudmouth (shouter), which REALLY IS not thought well of in forums, period.
So please, get over YOURselves and maybe include a boilerplate disclaimer so you don’t get more messages from “anal retentive OCD annoying BSers” like me. I never called you names, I never used ad hominem addressing you, I shot a short informational message your way and you turned it into mudslinging. I’m pretty good at mudslinging too, but I find it distasteful and annoying, so, if you’re agreeable (which at this point seems pretty doubtful, but you never know – maybe you’re having a bad day), why don’t you just go to the forum admin and have me banned? I wouldn’t mind at all.
Linda Reply:
February 18th, 2010 at 12:00 am
About Whole Foods: the head of WF himself referred to his stores as glorified junk food stores. Please do not be so naive as to believe that if it comes from Whole Foods it’s safe. I have found products in there with high fructose corn syrup and sucralose and all this new “natural” fake sweetener garbage and hydrogenated fats/oils. (I don’t know where you got the idea that hydrogenated oils are aspartame but they’re horrific ingredients to be avoided, anyway) Add to that how they destroyed the Wild Oats chain and Whole Foods is evil. Sadly, they are a necessary evil at times.
It is up to each one of us to be responsible for our own health, educate ourselves and to read labels ourselves. Just because Whole Foods or some “Natural” Food Store sells it doesn’t make it so!
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Laura Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 2:45 pm
Good point Linda, we are all responsible for our own health. We cannot put our trust in men. They do not have our families health in mind. They are only thinking of their own wallets. Don’t put your health completely in the hands of your doctor or pharmacist, or some health food store. They are human and make mistakes and don’t know everything.
WHO KNOWS Reply:
June 20th, 2010 at 9:53 pm
YES IT IS THE SAME CHEMICAL AS MSG. AND THEY MARKET IT JUST LIKE THAT WOMEN SAID THEY DO, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED, NATURAL… AND SO ON.
IT IS POISON!
AND YES WHOLE FOODS DOES SELL SOME CRAP TOO. WHAT ARE WE TO DO! I PICK AND CHOSE AND GROW WHAT I CAN.
anna Reply:
February 18th, 2010 at 10:12 am
Dr Rima and Jesse Ventua have them on the run now! Go Greenies!
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Kay Reply:
February 17th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
Excuse me!!! Aspartame forms Formaldehyde at 85 degrees. What is your normal body temperature?? It is poison to the kidneys. In 1984, I lost a son to Kidney failure, brought on by Aspartame (EQUAL). He was Diabetic and we thought as a sugar replacement it would be safe. Not so!!
PLEASE!!!! DO NOT PARTAKE OF THIS POISON.
To change the name just to sell the product is outright outrageous!!!
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unsheepled Reply:
February 21st, 2010 at 9:37 am
I would call it CRIMINAL…Outragous was back when they got FDA approval and millions were sickened.
Class action law suit time.
Aa well as criminal charges for attempted murder!
May these grubby , greedy ,evil bastards rot in hell for all eternity !
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David Olson Reply:
February 24th, 2010 at 2:31 am
I think ‘unsheepled’ is now on my holiday card list.
Brenda Reply:
June 22nd, 2010 at 3:18 pm
Unsheepled tells it like it is. I worked with a young lady who drank Diet P and had untold types of illnesses. I gave her an article about aspartame and she still did not believe it! Don’t forget for every article telling it like it is…is a lawsuit from the makers of the poison trying to undermine or get rid of the competition! The FDA deserves to have their time in court…and jail!
ayal Reply:
February 18th, 2010 at 1:35 am
arsen,Mercury’ and led are also natural
are we going to call it now ‘ also’ “healthy food supliments”?
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Andrew Reply:
February 19th, 2010 at 3:04 pm
From Elaine Hollingsworth’s Take Control of Your Health and Avoid the sickness industry” a worthy tome that all should keep as their health bible!!
“The original authorization for the use of the deadly neurotoxin Aspartame in
commercial foods and beverages is one of the greatest public health scandals of the 20th
Century! That its use is still sanctioned despite massive evidence from all over the
world that it goes on killing and permanently disabling millions of people is absolutely
criminal, and due entirely to the massive power and influence which its original maker,
the Monsanto Corporation, and various other multinationals, are able to exert over
politicians, government regulators and the media. So successful have they been that
aspartame is known to be contained in well over 6,000 products – food, supplements,
chewing gum, drugs, children’s aspirin and even “Flintstone” vitamins!
Beware: Some magnesium supplements contain aspartate, which is 40% of the
aspartame molecule. Aspartate is an excitotoxin, whether in aspartame or a
supplement. It cannot be isolated. It is a dangerous excitotoxin, despite claims to the
contrary by some magnesium manufacturers, who shall be nameless. They have a
profit motive and appear unconcerned that it causes lesions in the brains of mice.
Watch labels! Dr Blaylock warns against aspartic acid, as well.
Twenty years ago, Woodrow C. Monte, PhD, Professor of Food Science at the
University of Arizona, warned in the Journal Of Applied Nutrition, Volume 36,
Number 1, 1984,
“Aspartame (L-asparty-L-phenylalanine methyl ester), a new sweetener marketed
under the trade name NutraSweet, releases into the human bloodstream one molecule
of methanol for each molecule of aspartame consumed.
“This new methanol source is being added to foods that have considerably reduced
caloric content and, thus, may be consumed in large amounts. Generally, none of
these foods could be considered dietary methanol sources prior to addition of
aspartame. When diet sodas and soft drinks, sweetened with aspartame, are used to
replace fluid loss during exercise and physical exertion in hot climates, the intake of
methanol can exceed 250 mg/day or 32 times the Environmental Protection Agency’s
recommended limit of consumption for this cumulative toxin.”
In this chapter I shall confine my remarks to the medical evidence of
aspartame’s dangers. To understand the corruption, fraud and skullduggery which
surrounds the approval and use of this deadly toxin, I recommend that you Google
Betty Martini and visit the websites http://www.dorway.com http://www.aspartame.com, where
you will see a massive amount of irrefutable evidence which, were it not for the
industrial/political influence of the manufacturers involved, would result in the
banning of the stuff and the prosecution of the corporations, authorities and
politicians who profit from its continued use while the health of millions of people is
being compromised.”
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Joseph Rossi Reply:
March 3rd, 2010 at 7:36 pm
I am 74 yrs old and have been using artificial sweetners for my coffee for several years. I am not allergic to aspertame and I hope what has been determined dangerous to our health is just a ploy by other food supply companies which are in competition with artificial sweetners. If this product is harmful to our health why has the FDA approved of its usage for so long?
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Lonnie Curran Reply:
March 5th, 2010 at 10:10 am
Joseph – you’re kidding, right? Google aspertame and read the history of the chemical, it’s side effects, the more importantly the extensive history of it’s approval by the FDA – also pay close attention to was the head of the FDA when it finally was approved. Artificial sweeteners are all dangerous for various reasons and for the sake of the diff in calories between them and sugar, should be avoided. If using an artificial sweetener makes a significant diff to your daily caloric intake, then you’re eat/drinking all the wrong stuff!! Please reconsider and do some research. Hopefully you’ll be as horrified as the rest of us. Aspertame is a disaster waiting to happen.
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Lonnie Curran Reply:
March 5th, 2010 at 10:12 am
Joseph – you’re kidding, right? Google aspertame and read the history of the chemical, it’s side effects, and more importantly the extensive history of it’s approval by the FDA – also pay close attention to was the head of the FDA when it finally was approved. Artificial sweeteners are all dangerous for various reasons and for the sake of the diff in calories between them and sugar, should be avoided. If using an artificial sweetener makes a significant diff to your daily caloric intake, then you’re eat/drinking all the wrong stuff!! Please reconsider and do some research. Hopefully you’ll be as horrified as the rest of us. Aspertame is a disaster waiting to happen.
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WHO KNOWS Reply:
June 20th, 2010 at 10:05 pm
YOU ARE LIVING IN A PAPER DOLL WORLD MY DEAR. GET WITH THE TIMES AND STOP THINKING THAT THE GOVT IS WONDERFUL AND THAT POLITICIANS ARE SWEET AND THAT COMPANIES WHO PRODUCE TOXINS ARE BEING BULLIED AND TREATED UNFAIRLY…..
IT IS PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO ARE BRAINWASHED AND HYPNOTIZED DUE TO YOUR POLLYANNA STATE OF BEING. DANGEROUS
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The word of GOD does tell that the greed for riches will prompt men to do anything to gain riches, even if it destroys others. The LORD will some day judge the greedy. I have been in the study of natural healing since 1963 and find this item AminoSweet should be labeled as poison. I hate it when I buy something and have to throw it away because I discover Aspertame in it. Rev. Bern
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Thank you for sharing this vital info. We appreciate this kind of honest detailing for global health.
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I do not know how this poison affects anyone else but it causes me to have Grand Mal seizures.
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Tim in TX Reply:
February 18th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
I have seizures as well because of this.
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Laquita Reply:
February 18th, 2010 at 11:23 pm
Neutra Sweet, equal, or any type of sweetner that is made from aspertame can cause grey periods that you don’t remember what you were doing. I have a daughter that was driving a car and she ran into a post and did not remember that she did it, then she saw where and what happened when she woke up.
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OF COURSE KICK BACKS RUN THIS COUNTRY…. AND GENOCIDE IS THE BONUS!!!!!!
THE SHEEP SLEEP AND WE WEEP!
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unsheepled Reply:
February 21st, 2010 at 10:03 am
Best watch out for shopping at whole foods…sometimes they are too dumb to realize an order of regular poisoned foods(ie Broth) got substituted for organic..Caveat emptor !
Read every label , every time!
Some of the sheeple took a red pill and escaped this matrix Dee!!
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WHO KNOWS Reply:
June 20th, 2010 at 10:08 pm
YES KICKBACKS I SEE IT FIRSTHAND, PFIZER REPS, AND THE DOCS I GO TO. DISGUSTING.
AND YES, TRICKERY AND GENOCIDE. GMO, NANO TECHED FOODS, KILLING OF BEES BECAUSE THEY ARE EATING THE CHEMICALS THAT ARE USED TO MAKE GMO FOODS, CONTAMINATING ORGANIC FARMS WITH GMO SEEDS BLOWING IN THE WIND. WE ARE DOOMED. BUT I WILL FIGHT IT TO THE END! AND WHOLE FOODS SELLS OUT TOO! THEY ARE NOT SO PRISTINE.
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THE IGNORANT SLEEP AND WE WEEP! THEY ARE ON TO WE WHO EAT ORGANIC AND HEALTHY FOODS. NOW THEY FIGURED IT OUT THAT THE ALMOST HEALTHY DO NOT REALLY UNDERSTAND “NATURAL” AND THEY ARE RIGHT, SO THEY WILL CONTINUE THEIR MARCH OF MILLIONS TO DEATH.
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KARMA WILL GET THEM, BUT SAD TO SAY WE WILL NOT SEE IT IN OUR LIFETIME. JUST DO WHAT YOU CAN TO GROW YOUR OWN, OR BUY FROM HEALTH FOOD STORES, LEARN, READ, TAKE CLASSES, DON’T ASK DOCTORS!!!!! THEY ARE PART OF THE REGIME. LEARN TO TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF AS BEST YOU CAN. OF COURSE, GMO FOODS ARE CONTAMINATING ORGANIC FOODS BECAUSE THE INSECTS TRAVEL. THE GOV HAS MADE A FOOL PROOF METHOD TO KILL US QUIETLY SO NO OTHER COUNTRY SEES, AND A WAY TO SPREAD IMPLANT CHIPS. NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT THAT EXCEPT REQUEST NOT TO INCARNATE AS A HUMAN AGAIN.
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KEN Reply:
February 17th, 2010 at 12:08 pm
I love your beautiful combination of HUMOUR and CYNICISIM — I suspect you are essentially a positive person — POSITIVE is great for ones health — also sounds like you prefer a ” far eastern ” outlook in spiritual matters — thats cool — my wife likes a DEPAK CHOPRA book she is reading — I remain very positive and stick with the bible having discovered that the BEST teachings of JESUS that give the necessary answers we need have been virtually ignored for 2000 years
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KEN Reply:
February 17th, 2010 at 12:10 pm
DEE … I love your beautiful combination of HUMOUR and CYNICISIM — I suspect you are essentially a positive person — POSITIVE is great for ones health — also sounds like you prefer a ” far eastern ” outlook in spiritual matters — thats cool — my wife likes a DEPAK CHOPRA book she is reading — I remain very positive and stick with the bible having discovered that the BEST teachings of JESUS that give the necessary answers we need have been virtually ignored for 2000 years
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Thank you for this.
I used to suffer from migraines so severe I would awaken at least once a week in the middle of the night, feeling the nausea and headache coming on.
It had been getting so bad, increasing in severity over the years, that I was urged to get a cat scan of my brain.
When that showed clear, I went to a naturopath and was vega tested for food sensitivities and allergies.
The main culprits? Aspartame and MSG!
I stopped immediaitely eating any of these two poisions, and the headaches were GONE. We thought it was a miracle.
Now,my system is relatively free of these poisons, if I have a piece of gum, (especially “Extra”) I can count on a headache within the hour!
Thanks, check out my blog, all about my recovery from breast cancer that metastasized to the bones, brains and liver.
Love Miracle Val http://www.miracleval.blogspot.com
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I just did a search on the web for Amino Sweet. Nice website: http://www.aminosweet.info/
And in the section “about amino sweet” it tells you it’s another name for aspartame!
The site is very pretty — nice, pictures are environmentally-friendly, all the right lingo. Great marketing tool! So sad!
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Emergen-C is a 1,000 mg vit. C powder to mix in water, but it has aspartic acid, fructose, citric acid, malic acid, tartaric acid & cysteine hydrochloride. so these in combination do what to us???????
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janette Reply:
February 17th, 2010 at 2:49 pm
the source of C in emergen C is ascorbic acid is actually just a preservative for the plant it is in. it is not actually “vitamin C” they have fractionated the vitamin making it a drug. so taking ascorbic acid is like eating the egg shell and throwing away the egg. Look for whole food C with acerola, camu camu berry , rose hips. Alfalfa is a great source of C. in its whole food form, not synthetic and fractionated. again the fda has ruled that only ascorbic acid can be called Vitamin C. We cant look to them for protection in food, we have to eat what God gave us as food and stop eating processed food , stripped of its natural vitamins and then “fortified with synthetic, fractions of vitamins” it isnt food anymore its toxic waste and that is why there are allergic responses to “food”
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cheyenne Reply:
February 18th, 2010 at 1:20 am
thank you for this. we do need to remember that the farther away from God-created the food is, the harder our bodies have to work to assimilate and store nutrients (rather, chemicals and poisons) it is sooo easy to get caught up in the SAD way of eating that we forget we were created for a better way of living and eating.
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Aspartame makes my partner, who has epilepsy, have violent seizures. Every single time. Bar none.
It’s been such a hassle trying to find the aspartame that hides in all kinds of things to keep this from happening, but when they keep pulling stunts like this, it makes it really tough.
These guys are evil.
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Well Dee you may get to see it in your lifetime. Stanley Kubrick showed us the future in 2001 A Space Oddesy. Nostradomus talks about the period of Enlightenment. The Mayans and the Native American people have their belief that the early part of the 21st century will be the end of civilization as we know it today. The Bible has the Rapture.
The astonomers and those at NASA will tell you that the alinement of planets on December 21, 2012 will cause havoc with our planet. They are just not sure how bad. The government seems to be digging alot of underground complexes with our money? Who do you think will go into them in 2012? You or me? We know better.
Maybe Mother Nature will cleanse itself of this scurge. If it happens I have made my peace and believe it is time for the Enlightenment of Mankind to begin!
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There is an easy answer to a difficult question. If it is manmade or genetically modified or the words in the ingredients take more than one breathe or have to use abbreviations then don’t use or take it. Aspartame qualifies.
Chris Martin
Health and Weight Loss Advisor
chris@naturalcleanseinc.com
Life is Marathon not a 100 yard sprint, enjoy the day.
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The Bible says “The love of money is the root of all evil”. This is a prime example as to why Aspartame, ie Nutrasweet… and now Aminosweet,is legal and approved by the FDA……it is all about money at the expense of millions of people’s health. Absolutely appalling!
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“SO THEY WILL CONTINUE THEIR MARCH OF MILLIONS TO DEATH.”
I am afraid millions can no longer contain the size of person deaths of the population control efforts by the politically powerful.
With all the legitimate medical advances over the last half century, paid for largely by we the taxpayer who is being slaughtered, our life spans should be at LEAST a decade longer. Taken over say an average 5 billion person world over this time frame, we are talking many billions if not tens of billions of person years stolen from the good people of this earth by the 10,000 who control and slaughter us.
It’s not just aspartame or MSG or fluoride, or vaccination or soda or ….
http://healthyprotocols.com/LIST_threats.htm
Please notice the age of people like David Rockefeller and Baron Rothschild. Strange eh?
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My daughter started having grand mal seizures when she was six, the neurologist told me that he found a link between seizures and Nutrasweet (aspartame). That was over 15 years ago! Thankfully, we nourished her body and cleaned her out and avoided all forms of aspartame and from the time she was 7 she hasn’t had any more seizures. She will be 21 next week! Thanks to Sunrider International’s functional natural whole foods and drinks!
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We may say that the VERY LARGE or HUGE increase in invasive cancers since 1973 when Aspartame was dumped on us are from Aspartime, But the Lies the FDA Approves will not go unpunished, The Lord promises us so,
Praise GOD
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Thanks for this warning. I do not use this product, but will let others know to beware it in a future blog post. Isn’t it amazing how word-of-mouth and blogs have become the main way to find out about these dangers to our health!!
My dad had bladder cancer because he loved Sucaryl, banned in 2008. Shocking that a similar product is now being marketed as safe.
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Is it possible tot set up a petition or amendement to/for the parliament of each country that has already or wants to aloud this changing name of aspartame?
This case situates itself also in the field of the law-suggestions of the codex alimentarius, doesn’t it?
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This is an example of the lack of scruples within our society- esp. indicative of our govt. officials and drug cos. and the FDA.etc.etc.
It goes beyond the greed and Love (sad to use a good word) for money. It shows how uncaring is our love for our brother’/sister’s humanity.
Remember ???, “love thy brother as thy self”??? I don’t believe they do!!
Shame is the word that should be used in conjunction with human ugliness!!!!
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Donald Rumsfeld (Chief of Poisons)
http://www.whale.to/w/excitotoxins.html
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The FDA has approved the poison aspartame.
Just today I have found out that the FDA has pulled a product from Germany called “GeloMyrtol”. This stuff is GREAT! It is made of oil of myrtle, oil of pine, oil of eucalyptus and oil of lime. They’ve pulled the product “temporarily” because of the gel capsules it’s in.
First of all the Germans are NOT going to make an over-the-counter remedy that is dangerous. This is pure semantics. The FDA has gotten complaints from someone losing business to GeloMyrtol and so they have the power to pull it.
This stuff is great because it absolutely takes congestion out of your bronchi.
But the FDA approves a toxin poison aspartame, as a food additive.
I’m in despair about this country as I hack up mucous that I would not even be feeling if I had GeloMyrtol while I recovered from this cold.
Thank you FDA for being so vigilant in taking care of our needs with genetically-modified products and aspartame…….NOT!!!!!
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I used Equal for years and suffered from frequent panic attacks. A friend sent me the symptoms of aspertame use and I immediately quit using it. I haven’t had a panic attack since. Aspertame is poison. It’s appalling that they are getting away with this. I’m telling everyone I know about this re-branding.
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I’ve learned alot reading everyone’s comments. 11 years ago my then 40 year old neighbor underwent a sympathectomy: surgical severing of nerves to end constant pain. After talking with her, I learned she drank almost a gallon of diet soda per day, which gave her aspartame poisoning. When aspartame is heated it goes through a couple chemical conversions and becomes formaldehyde. She had quite literally ‘pickled’ her muscle tissues like organs are preserved as scientific specimens. Interesting note: she had three diagnoses: fibromyalgia, myositis, and something else.. 3 physicians and a pain clinic treated her, without ever asking about her soda consumption.
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Many physicians don’t know about Aspartame, MSG and other toxins in our foods ( and approved by FDA!) Some of these doctors are open to being educated by us, their patients, some are not. When they aren’t, especially with PCP( primary care physicians) I’ve changed doctors from those who feel threatened by “our” knowledge and understanding of our own bodies, to those who are receptive and willing to research the information I bring to them.
The German quality control is far superior to US standards- they and several other European countries set the international standards for pure foods.
My GI doctor prescribed Metamucil which contains Aspartame and other chemicals. I printed out the ingredients and sent it to him with the explanation of the allergens it contains. He thanked me for the information. A local health food store has a pure Psyllium product which works far better than the commercial products.
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LET’S ALL USE CAPITAL LETTERS, EVEN THOUGH WE’RE NOT SHOUTING, AND ARE ALL MAKING EXCELLENT POINTS!!!! ASPARTAME SUCKS!
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I am glad that I became aware of this nasty product 20 years ago and have never consumed very much of it. I never liked the taste and have always prefered sugar and honey. I was frouned upon for so long using sugar. Heck it’s only 10 calories a tsp.
But I have friends that I warned about the stuff and they were drinking diet soda like it was going out of style and i would swear they went through withdrawls when they cut down the use. One has cancer today and is on kemo and the other has lukemia, oh and the other has MS and now has a brain tumor.
Such a shame, and no one is accountable, just more drugs to cure what other drugs do.
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Well, It’s wonderful that we all are aware of this new change. But it doesn’t do much if only a very small number of people are aware of this. If you read this post, please do the following. Send a link of this info to everyone on your e-mail list. Also in the e-mail, put a link to a documentary on google video called “Sweet Misery”… It is the whole story about Aspartame, from the begining. It is a MUST WATCH!! Sweet Misery on google video…you better watch it fast though, because the gov’t is looking to censor the internet, for your protection…ofcorse…
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The Government (this one headed by Sen. McCain) is trying to have a bill passed that would severly limit our access to natural supplements. Using the theory that they are “dangerous” I sent an email to my Senators and Representatives asking them to shoot this bill down. Here is a link (that I hope works) to explain i better.
http://www.onlineprnews.com/news/20535-1265399549-senator-mccain-files-new-bill-that-attacks-your-access-to-supplements-bill-would-repeal-key-sections-of-the-dietary-supplement-health-and-education-act.html
Please go to your Representatives web page and ask them to NOT pass this bill.
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10 years ago I was told watch out for Aspartame. the person then explained to me the story:
The heads of the FDA had stopped it from being approved as a food additive in the 80s and 90s as studies showed major behavioral side effects and perhaps cancer could result from heavy consumption.
However when the Bush Administration came to power in 2001 things changed. The head of the FDA was replaced and one of his successor’s first acts was to approve Aspartame as a food additive. This action was also supported by and pushed through by the new Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield who had connections to GD Searle.
I knew people had major problems that were resolved when they stopped drinking diet soda.
Ban Aspartame and let the Food Giants know.
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aspartame was originally promoted as a sugar substitute….now it is added WITH sugar to most chewing gums. I now bring my magnifying glass with me to the store to read ingredients, but what happens when the ingredients are disguised and we know longer know what is what?
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HI Friends…
I hope you are getting a petition together for us who feel the word being spread is great, but something stronger to clobber these drug-lords, needs to be sent out.
I bet it is already in the works, and when you post it here I will sign it and send some to my activist friends.
Blessings for your good work! PS..I scrutinize labels but you never know what might slip past!!! Raven
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It was mentioned but not emphasized that aspartame results in memory loss, Alzheimer’s, etc. – This loss occurs to a greater or lesser degree in all who ingest it.
As it is widely known that aspartame’s FDA approval occurred via data falsification & political deviance, why hasn’t some legislative or executive officer sought to correct this poisoning of America and beyond…
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Well, a couple of points here; Ajinomoto also makes MSG, I believe. That name sounds familiar. MSG is not related to Aspartame at all. although during Aspartame’s initial testing, the FDA had noted that test results revealed similar perforations forming in the brains of baby rats as had happened during the testing of MSG, which the industry had wanting to put in baby food. (Gotta love those people. No brains.)
Anyway, G.D. Searle Co. had been waiting feverishly for Reagan to get into office and, once in, he censured the head of the FDA, unbalanced the decision process, and our favorite corporate sociopath, Donald Rumsfeld, was able to muscle Aspartame through the whole legal system.
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Ann Stockdale Reply:
February 21st, 2010 at 5:02 pm
Yes .. I was wondering when someone would bring up Donald Rumsfeld…. Maybe as he is being waterboarded ( because he says it’s not torture)… we can limit his intake to water with aspartame.
The other day I got some healthy choice ice cream and low and behold…. aspartame is in it!I am allergic and it makes my heart flutter and race. If we had healthy food, we wouldn’t have to worry so much about the cost of healthcare….
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My teenage son began drinking diet pop and chewing sugar-free gum sweetened by Aspartame this past fall. He began to develop strange side effects like panic attacks, and nerves jumping. I did some research and was alarmed to find out the toxicity of this artificial sweetner. He has since stopped drinking pop and chewing gum and went through withdrawal symptoms for approx. 1 week.
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And then there are the oddballs like me who have to have phenyalinine in small doses- happily in the amount of a small can of soda. Which makes it very inexpensive as a drug.
I never drank artificially sweetened drinks til my immune system crashed and found that tiny bit of phenyl did the trick. My dad was an artificial sweetner & flavor inventor in the 60’s with soda companies. (better living thru chemicals!) I tend to believe the large amount of test tastings we did for them didnt help any!!
But totally… it shouldnt be in drinks. I am using it as a pharmaceutical. Oddl, what it was meant to be used as.
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Thank you FDA, we knew we could count on you to look after our health. I blame the FDA for ALL of our illnesses. That is when I found Reliv. It has totally helped me detox my body and get out ALL of the poisons and toxins that the FDA allows to be on the market. Since finding Reliv and regaining my health back, I had to become a distributor to get the word out to everyone. Gee, you ever wonder if there is a conspiracy between the FDA and these companies! Let’s keep the people sick so the Pharmaceutical companies can have total control over us. It’s time we start fighting back and stop purchasing ANYTHING with this artificial crap in it. Maybe that will send a message.
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A couple of years ago a young nurse working in our dental clinic shouted out to us in a panic; “I can’t see.” We all ran to her side. She was sitting in her chair & had been assisting the dental surgeon. She pulled off her mask & visor & just sat there blinking. I asked if I could take her to the Dr.s surgery just two doors from us. Then all of a sudden ’still blinking’ she said “Oh! Thank God, I think it’s coming back. ” Her vision cleared in about two minutes. Now my afterthought about that day is; she is a ‘Diet-Cola’ drinker, and I will send this link to her. SO FROM NOW-ON I WILL BE ‘NOT JUST SHOUTING ABOUT THE NAME~CHANGING OF ASPARTAME TO ‘AMINOSWEET,’ I’LL BE ROARING LIKE THE PROVERBIAL BULL! AT THIS POINT, CAN I SUGGEST PLEASE, THAT SOMEONE FROM HFA DRAW UP A PROTEST/INFO FLYER,(size A5)OR SOMETHING WE CAN DOWNLOAD & PRINTOUT 2 per sheet of A4; TO STICK ON THE SHELVES AT THE SUPERMARKET, & HAND OUT TO SHOPPERS, THE INFO ON ALL SUSPECTED GOODS. DON’T TAKE IT ANY MORE. GIVE-IT-BACK-TO-THEM. DO IT WORLD WIDE & LET’S SHOW THEM WE MEAN BUSINESS. WHO WAS IT THAT SAID ‘THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD.’ JUST TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THIS LITTLE MOUSE WILL BECOME A ‘SUPER BLADE.’ AND A MOUSE THAT ‘ROARS.’ I VOLUNTEER MY SERVICES FOR THIS CAUSE.
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Damn, money trumps human lives again? Why does governemtn allow this to happen? Population control?
This needs media attention. Call John Stoessel.
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no surprises here business as usual and now there is a couple of political persons owned by the drug companies trying to give control of what is truly natural to the FDA have you seen that? We soon will be put in prison for growing illegal herbs in our lawn. Oh darn I thought that was a weed. Then they can sell more weed killer. We dont want to jail for growing banned plants in our front yard.
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Aspartame is a killer and destroyer of peoples lives. I had consumed gallons of diet soda and the blue nutra sweet packages in my late teenage years. When I was in my first year of college, I had my first nervous brake down. I had another one a few years later, and a few years later, and a few years later. Down deep I knew it was brought on by the diet sodas and every thing else that was diet, because nurtra sweet was in all the diet products. To make a long story short, I have now been classified as being bipolor,thanks to aspartame. Nutra sweet, the other name it was called, this drug causes chemical imbalances in people. I started drinking all the diet products in the late 70’s. It didn’t take too many years for the drug to mess up the natural chemicals in my own body. I have had many nervous brake downs, unfortunately, it has ruined many experiences in my life, I have had to let go of many wonderful and exciting jobs because of the brake downs. I could go on and on about the horrendous situations I have had with aspartame, And I pray for the small children out in this world, who have parents that give them diet sodas, and other diet products. Their lives will mostly become a tragedy. I would love to take on the corrupt FDA and bring a law suit to them that would take them down forever. Replace this organization with people who have knowledge and integrity. Thank God for my loving family and friends that have helped me to survive this sad situation of ruining my natural chemical system. I am healthy now and have been for quite a few years. Thank God for good doctors,loving family members, friends and therapist. I have two children, a husband, a college education and despite my set backs, I have still had same fantastic carers. I have been a flight attendant,a buyer for mens fashion, and at 49 I am a fitness instructor, which I have done on and off for most of my life. My last comment: In 1990, I was taking a shower, and a strong thought came in to my mind. It was get off those chemicals, and I knew it was aspartame. The problem was the chemical aspartame, was very addicting, it took me many years to finally rid myself of all diet products. So, Aspartame is also very addicting, like cigarettes. Thank-God, I survived this harmful and deadly drug. What a shame it is that our own country who says where here to protect you is really killing us. God Bless, Thank You, Susan G Taggart
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Kim Reply:
March 6th, 2010 at 8:11 am
In my early-to-mid twenties I was also a Diet Coke addict, drinking several cans a day. Right before my 25th birthday, I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Shortly after, I had a clear gut-intuition that I needed to stop drinking soda altogether. I didn’t know if it was crazy to think there might be any link between MS and aspartame, but the feeling was strong enough to make me never drink a Diet Coke again.
Years later, I was on vacation in Bermuda with my husband, sitting at a restaurant next to a table of research scientists. They were talking about the link they had found between multiple sclerosis and aspartame.
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Thanks for keeping us informed. It’s nice to know there are watchdogs out there trying to keep the “higher ups” from pulling the wool over our eyes!
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I too have had a history of bad reactions to Aspartame, severe migraines, nausea. I don’t know how something like this could end up being considered Natural. Isn’t it funny that we have to fight against FDA, government, etc . . .just to get our real, basic, simple wholesome foods????
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can someone tell me if Stevia is really a natural sugar subsitute? I just started using that to sweeten my baking goods etc.
ps
john stossel unfortunatly is retired.
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is stevia a whole food subsitute?
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stevia is nattural.
John Stoessel is on fox cable business channel
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Stevia is only considered to be natural when it is either grown at home (really easy to do) or when you can buy it in green powder form. If you’re buying white stevia or a tincture in alcohol it’s been processed.
Some have additives, mostly cellulose to create some bulk to “carry” the stevia, others contain some sugar in either fructose or sucrose form.
You can buy green stevia online or in better health food stores.
foodhealer.com
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I just wanted to let you all know that the government has always known of the dangers of aspertame because the FAA put out a pilot notam to all pilots to avoid drinking anything with aspartame because it could cause, migraines, blurred vision, possible seizures etc. Exactly when was this?? In 1985. My husband was flying as a corporate pilot and he brought the notice home to show me and instructed our family never to ingest diet sodas or foods with it. SO…we have not and I am so thankful we haven’t. My question now is what about Splenda? It has a strange aftertaste that I cannot get out of my mouth and although I do not intentionally use it I find sometimes it has been added to tea to help sweeten it along with sugar so that not as much sugar is needed. I don not trust it either….Keep up the good work.
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There is a deliberate program to increase the toxicity of the food supply. In addition, our water and air are being polluted too. IMO, GM food and vaccines are the primary ways to reduce populations, world-wide. Both are working very well indeed. Vaccinations are especially good since they can be precisely targeted down to individuals. (Wars too help a lot.) I have been around for a long time and have observed many things. These shadowy people are out to control the planet and if you are alive (& not one of the chosen) you will a serf with just enough brain power to do whatever delights their whim. These creeps have a long term view, if it takes another hundred years, they will just stay with their agenda until an inflection point is achieved. Most Americans think no further than their next paycheck, so these lizards can make changes in small unnoticeable increments. Bush-Cheney made big changes and woke a lot of people up, not good. Obama is in place to lull us back into a sleep-like state.
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WHO KNOWS Reply:
June 20th, 2010 at 10:42 pm
YES YES YES AND YES. SILENT GENOCIDE. THE USA WILL GO ON FOOLING THE WORLD, THAT WE ARE THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. ETC BS. WE ARE NOTHING. WE ARE CRIMINALS AND KILLERS. WE ARE LIARS AND THEVES. WE ARE DESPICABLE SORRY TO HAVE BEEN BORN HERE THIS TIME, OR EVER. I SURE PLAN ON NOT REINCARNATING AGAIN. I AM D O N E WITH THE LIKES OF THE HUMAN EXISTANCE AND THE EVIL OF THE WORLD.
CHIPS? I LIVE IN FLORIDA. NEAR SOUTH BEACH AND PALM BEACH. PALM BEACH HAS THE COMPANY THAT MAKES THE CHIPS. THEY WERE GIVING THEM TO SENIORS. FORCING THEM TO BE IMPLANTED. POOR ELDERS WHO ARE SO AFRAID OF SAYING NO TO ANYONE, AND AFRAID WHAT IS LEFT OF THEIR PENNIES CALLED SOC. SEC. WILL BE TAKEN FROM THEM. THEN ON DECO DRIVE ONE NIGHT, THEY SHOWED ALL THE DRUG AND ALCOHOL FILLED TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS ON TV HAPPILY BOASTING THAT THEY GOT THE IMPLANTS. THEY WERE TOLD THEY WOULD NEVER HAVE TO CARRY ID TO BARS AGAIN, THE CHIP WOULD GET THEM IN AND BLA BLA BLA BLA. BULL S…T. AND THEY WERE ALL GETTING IMPLANTED ON THE STREET. GOD HELP US. GODDESS HELP US. WE ARE DOOMED. AND THE VACCINES FOR THE SWINE FLU THAT THE PRES WAS ABOUT TO DECLARE A NATIONAL EMERGENCY AND MANDATE THAT EVERYONE HAD TO BE IMPLANTED, ER I MEANT, VACCINATED! THAT WE WOULD NOT HAVE A CHOICE. THAT IS IT. THE WAY TO HAVE EVERYONE IMPLANTED. DO YOU ALL KNOW THAT THERE ARE SATELLITES THAT CAN CAUSE VOLCANOES TO ERUPT, EARTHQUAKES, STORMS THAT TURN INTO HURRICANES, THAT LOW FREQUENCY EMISSIONS DO THAT. THAT THEY CAN PINPOINT AN AREA TO ACTIVATE? THAT SONAR OFF THE COASTS IS WHY THE WHALES AND PORPOSE BEACH THEMSELVES, FROM THE PAIN IN THEIR EARS AND HEADS FROM THE SONAR? I CAN LAY IN BED AND HEAR IT ON A NIGHT THEY ARE TURNED ON. I LIVE NEAR THE BEACH. IT IS ALL DISGUSTING AND CRIMES TO HUMANITY. BUT DO YOU REALLY EVEN ENTERTAIN THAT THOUGHT THAT THEY CARE? YOU ARE NOTHING. A SPECK OF SAND ON THE BEACH, MEANINGLESS. IF THEY TAKE AWAY SOCIAL SECURITY RAISES FOR 3 YEARS WHEN THE SENIORS GET TOO LITTLE TO LIVE ON TO BEGIN WITH, DO YOU REALLY THINK THEY CARE? POPULATION CONTROL, MIND CONTROL, BIRTH CONTROL. BULL S…T CONTROL. WHO NEEDS A NEW LEAR JET THIS WEEK?
AND YES TO ALL YOU SAY.
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