-Caveat Lector- It looks like Rumsfeld was THE reason aspartame got FDA approval....... http://www.cco.net/~trufax/research/f29.html exerpt: Also in 1977, Donald Rumsfeld, a former member of Congress and Chief of Staff in the Ford Administration, was hired as the president of Searle. Rumsfeld said he could handle aspartame as a “legal, rather than scientific problem.” In 1980, shortly after Reagan came into power, Rumsfeld was quoted as saying that “he would call in all of his markers and that no matter what, he would see to it that aspartame would be approved that year.” It sounds like a criminal intelligence operation and racketeering to me. Why would they want to distribute a chemical with known neurotoxic effects, “no matter what”, into the food supply of the world population? Rumsfeld was paid $3.5 million in salary and bonuses between 1979 and 1984. As president of Searle, Donald Rumsfeld hired John Robson as Executive Vice President of Searle. Robson was a former lawyer with Sidney and Austin, Searle’s law firm, and also served as Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, then connected to the Department of Transportation. Rumsfeld hired Robert Shapiro, Robson’s Special Assistant at the DOT, as General Counsel for Searle. He eventually became head of Searle’s NutraSweet Division. Rumsfeld hired William Greener, Jr., a former spokesman in the Ford White House, as Chief Spokesman for Searle. What a crew. In 1978, Howard Roberts, the acting director of the FDA Bureau of Foods, was given the position of Vice-President of the “National Soft Drink Association”, which today markets a huge volume of soft drinks doped with aspartame. Several interesting research projects having to do with aspartame came to a close in 1978. Some of them bore interesting results. Studies at the Department of Psychology, Northeastern Illinois University, found that (1) aspartame causes reproductive dysfunction in male and female animals, (2) aspartame causes endocrine dysfunction in the pituitary, thyroid, ovaries and testicles, (3) aspartame causes an increase in body weight and (4) it causes a decrease in locomotor function. The first two items appear to support a Malthusian population control paradigm, in that they interfere with the birth of humans to either preclude birth, or allow birth of disfunctional humans requiring medical intervention and profiteering by the medical industrial complex. The same year in 1978, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences completed a study which revealed that aspartame causes a rise in blood phenylalinine which has the potential to affect fetuses of mothers who carry the PKU gene (we discussed part of this already), causing them to have a lower IQ and a higher incidence of developmental abnormalities. --------------------------------------------- http://aspartamekills.com/mpvalley/ exerpts: On June 1, 1977, Donald Rumsfeld became Chairman and CEO of G.D. Searle. Rumsfeld, straight out the White House as Gerald Ford's Secretary of Defense and before that his Chief of Staff, was a heavy gun for Searle to secure FDA approval of aspartame (Equal, NutraSweet). A hard-right Republican who served four terms in Congress (1962-69), Rumsfeld voted against food stamps, Medicare and anti-poverty funds. Rumsfeld's political ideology encompasses the stockpiling of chemical weapons, downsizing the Federal government, and eliminating funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In a 1995 speech to the Heartland Institute, Rumsfeld told his audience, "At G.D Searle, we reduced the centralized corporate activities to about 20 percent of their original size, divested businesses, sold assets and moved the stock from about $12 a share to $50-$60 a share." Testimony in the US Senate records show that G.D. Searle suffered a $28 million dollar loss in 1984, sold off 30 subsidiaries, and faced a lawsuit filed by 780 women claiming that Searle's intrauterine device caused them pelvic inflammatory disease. For Rumsfeld's part he was paid, between 1979 and 1984, 2 million dollars in salary and 1.5 million in bonuses. James Turner, the anti-aspartame advocate alleges that Searle hired Rumsfeld to handle the aspartame approval difficulties as a "legal problem rather than a scientific problem." Searle denies that Chairman Rumsfeld ever had any contact with the FDA, or the Carter and Reagan administrations to lobby for aspartame (Equal, NutraSweet), but the Wall Street Journal reported in 1977 that Rumsfeld "keenly understands the importance of a public image. So he has been mending fences with the FDA by personally asking top agency officials what Searle should do to straighten out its reputation." (Alex Constantine, Nutrapoison) What to do? H.R. Roberts, Director of the FDA's Bureau of Foods created a third Task Force of another five people, this time appointed from the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN). The CFSAN Task Force reviewed the Bressler Report and claimed that G.D. Searle's studies appeared to be authentic (meaning they were actually conducted) H.R. Roberts left the FDA to become Vice President of the National Soft Drink Association. Dr. Jerome Bressler works in the FDA's Chicago office. It seemed that no matter how serious the mistakes were, the FDA Bureau of Foods was determined to accept the studies by G.D. Searle. (mgold, Mullarkey, 1994 b, page 80) On December 13, 1978, the UAREP (paid $500,000 by Searle) submitted its results of 12 of G.D, Searles' aspartame studies. UAREP pathologists found "no discrepancies in any of the sponsor's (Searle) reports that were of sufficient magnitude..." but they were caught hiding their negative findings from the FDA. In one study, twelve animals actually had cancerous brain tumors: UAREP reported to the FDA that only three animals had such tumors. In 1978, research projects at the Department of Psychology, Northeastern Illinois University found that aspartame (Equal, NutraSweet) causes reproductive dysfunction in male and female animals, endocrine dysfunction in the pituitary, thyroid, ovaries and testicles, a decrease in locomotor function and an increase in body weight. Yet, in March of 1979, the FDA somehow concluded that G.D. Searle's aspartame studies could be accepted and decided to convene a Public Board of Inquiry (PBOI) which had been agreed to by Dr. John Olney and Consumer Attorney James Turner more than four years earlier. (mgold, Federal Register, 1979) On September 30, 1980, the PBOI voted unanimously to reject the use of aspartame (Equal, NutraSweet) until additional studies on aspartame's potential to cause brain tumors could be done. On January 21, 1981, the day after Ronald Reagan was innaugarated as President of the United States, Searle Pharmaceuticals reapplied to the FDA for aspartame (Equal, NutraSweet) approval. A former G.D. Searle salesperson, Patty Wood-Allott, revealed that Donald Rumsfeld, president of Searle, told his sales force that, if necessary, "he would call in all his markers and that no matter what, he would see to it that aspartame would be approved that year." (mgold, Gordon, US Senate Record) ---- and In 1996, Donald Rumsfeld who was responsible for the approval of aspartame as Searle's CEO, was chairman of Bob Dole's presidential campaign. Incidentally,; while Rumsfeld was working for Searle in 1984, he participated in a covert operation involving an Israeli secret offer of arms to Iraq. (Howard Teicher affidavit, on Iraqgate) ------------------------------------------------------- http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian/asphistory.htm exerpts: Donald Rumsfeld is now on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Tribune which recently wrote a glowing article about the NutraSweet Company (Millman 1995, Mullarkey 1995). ---- and G.D. Searle president, Donald Rumsfeld's connections to the Republican party were also thought to play a part in Searle's decision to reapply for aspartame's approval on the day after Ronald Reagan was inaugurated (Gordon 1987, page 499 of US Senate 1987). -------------------------------------------------------- Samantha <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! 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