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Dana Beal <dana@...> wrote:
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From: Dana Beal <dana@...>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:38:46 -0400
Subject: [mayday] GMM 2005 #48: Chicago, Darwin Join Emery Protests; Berlin Makes 100 Cities for May 6, 2006--the Million Marijuana March
Important: get your city on the list for the Million Marijuana March, May 6, 2006!So far we have confirmed 100 cities:
Albuquerque
Amsterdam
AntwerpAthensAtlantaAuckland
BakersfieldBaselBergenBerlinBernBirminghamBoiseBoone
BoulderBudapestBuenos AiresCalgaryCapetownChicoChristchurchCincinnatiColumbiaCordobaDallasDarwinDes MoinesDunedinEugeneFayettevilleFlorianopolesFt. SmithHachitaHalifaxHartfordHoustonKansas CityJyväskalaKnoxvilleKristiansandLausanneLas VegasLethbridgeLimaLocarnoLondonLos AngelesLuxembourgLuzernLyonMinneapolisMoscowNagaokaNashuaNanaimoNashvilleNew YorkNicosiaNimbinOgdenOsloPaiaParisPhoenixPortlandPortlandPragueRaleighRapid CityRio de JaneiroRoanokeRochesterRockfordRomeRosarioRostockRotterdamSalemSan DiegoSan FranciscoSpokaneStavangerSteamboat SpringsSteven's PointSt. LouisStockholmTallahasseeTel AvivThunder BayTorontoTraverse CityTromsøeTrondheimTucsonTurkuViennaWarsawWashington, D.C.Wellington
Zürich---------
There is also some international MMM networking going on at
this CannabisCulture.com message forum:
http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=current
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the Darwin-based Network Against Prohibition will join
the protest to free Mark Emery on September 10. How do
we link up with all of the other protests?
The following is the details of our protest:
Support Mark at NAP's 24th Community Smoke-In for
Human Rights.
Saturday, 10th September, 12noon in Raintree Park,
Darwin City
For more info call 0415 16 2525 or email hq@...
Brought to you by the Network Against Prohibition
http://www.napnt.org
RegardsGary Meyerhoff--------------------From: info@...Subject: Re: million marijuana march 2006!Hello,
Sorry for the late reply, I have been on a vacation and moved and much
more... and the others haven't checked the mail it seems. I replied to a
guy named Piotr (from globalmarijuanamarch.org) who asked us if we wanted
to sign up for next year, but here goes again: YES! We sure is going to
continue next year.
The contact info is ok, but you could remove the part about Jonas within
[] since he is no longer chairman. It is enough with the name, email and
www adress i think.
This year we had the ambition to get more then twice as much visitors as
our first year but due to bad weather it got quite thin. We estimate
around 300 people. Speakers was our Tommie Nygren for rekreational use and
Marie Stenhoff for medicinal cannabis. D-Chi and Trinity with Daddy
Boastin stood for the music and entertainment.
Photos can be found at the swedish community Swecan:http://www.swecan.org/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=thumbnails&album=149
With regards/Christian, Svenska NORMAL----------------------------------New May 6th Listing by phone--Berlin: Steffan e-mail: info@... , tel: +49 (0)30 24 72 02 33, fax: +49 (0)30 24 72 02 34 http://www.hanfparade.de/aktion/mmm [Postal: Hanfparade c/o The Hanfmuseum, Muhlendamm 5, 10178 Berlin, Germany]--------------------------------From: 7maggio@...Hi Dana, please note that private address on Rome contact was just for sending last year's posters and NOT to be published on newsletters, as it is correctly noticed nearby.
We' ll send you something about italian Free Marc Emery campaign. Already on today's edition of ilmanifesto.it, a national newspaper, there's a first article on the matter at page 8.
CiaoMefisto------------From: support@...Subject: Free the Pot Hostages - demo @ U.S. & Canadian embassies, |London, Sat 10th Sep.Dear friends,
As you may know Marc Emery, the publisher of 'Cannabis Culture Magazine' in Canada and a leading cannabis campaigner has been arrested and (now on bail) faces extradition to a U.S. jail for cannabis 'offences'.
At very short notice, international protests about this politically motivated abuse of extradition treaties have been organised all over the world for September 10th 2005. Protest events are now confirmed in 30 cities worldwide including London.
In London a 'Free the Pot Hostages' protest is being organised outside the US and Canadian Embassies, Grosvenor Sq, W1, on Sat 10 Sep, 2pm - 5pm.
The main issue for cannabis users and all citizens of independent nations everywhere is the U.S. attempt to extradite non U.S. citizens for cannabis 'offences' to face draconian penalties they would never receive in their own countries. It could be anywhere next. For anything.
Other issues are the 'Bush War on Drugs', the Afgan heroin scandal, and solidarity with US medical cannabis users, who are also facing extradition to U.S. prisons from Canada. The links between these cases and the pending prosecution of THC4MS in the UK are obvious.
We hope you can help promote this event as time is very short. PLEASE FORWARD this message to anyone you think might be interested. We can also send you printed flyers, or you can download and print a pdf flyer layup from the main page at http://www.cannabistrust.com
On FRIDAY 9th Sep you are also invited to participitate in a short lunchtime 'photo opportunity' protest picket at Grosvenor Sq, W1. 1.30pm - 2.30pm. We will also be delivering letters of protest to both US & Canadian governments. Please let us know if you can come to this. Email: support@...
We hope you can come to one or both of these events, bringing friends and good humoured protest energy.
Below is the flyer text (also available as PDF) which gives some more information + links
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Free the Pot Hostages - stop the international kidnappings to US jails
PEACEFUL POT PROTEST @ Canadian and US Embassies, Grosvenor Sq, London, W1. Sat 10th September 2005. Meet centre of Square (small park). 2pm - 5pm. Nearest tube: Bond Street.
The United States is attempting to extradite Marc Emery, editor of Cannabis Culture Magazine and two of his colleagues from Canada for offences related to supplying cannabis seeds by mail order.
Thease are minor charges in Canada, but if these judicial kidnappings go ahead the Canadian 'pot hostages' face draconian penalties in the US. Amnesty International has described the US prison system as 'inhuman'.
Marc Emery is a leading cannabis activist and magazine publisher known internationally for his campaigning work. He has obviously been singled out for attention for political reasons.
At very short notice, international protests have been organised all over the world for September 10th 2005. Protest events are now confirmed in 30 cities worldwide including London.
The issue of concern for people everywhere is the US attempt to extradite non US citizens for cannabis 'offences' to face draconian penalties they would never receive in their own countries. It could be anywhere next. For anything.
Other issues are the US 'Bush War on Drugs', the Afgan heroin scandal, and solidarity with US medical cannabis users also facing extradition to US prisons from Canada.
We will be advising the Canadian Government to retain their legal independence and their sovereignty as an independent nation, and refuse these extraditions. Canada has a good reputation in the world to uphold! According to a recent public opinion survey, 58 per cent of Canadians oppose Marc Emery's extradition to the USA.
We are calling on the US government to stop taking hostages in their failed 'War on Drugs' and end cannabis prohibition now. Currently over 700,000 Americans are prosecuted in the USA just for marijuana possession, costing over 10 billion dollars a year. Under US law you can even face the death penalty for large scale marijuana cultivation. Their treatment of medical cannabis users is a crime against humanity.
Despite their total failure, the US is still attempting to export its drug policies worldwide including Britain, with networks of DEA agents interfering in local politics, and causing problems. This seems to result in the increased use of heroin and crack cocaine where ever they go.
The DEA's 'fundamentalist' drug policy stubbornly flies in the face of scientific evidence, claiming that cannabis has no therapeutic or nutritional value. It is time they turned over a new leaf for the sake of the American people, and people everywhere.
"They came for the cannabis users and I did not speak out, and then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me".
PEACEFUL PROTEST @ Canadian and US Embassies, Grosvenor Sq, London, W1. Sat 10th September 2005. Meet centre of Square (small park). 2pm - 5pm. Nearest tube: Bond Street.
CONTACTS: Free The Pot Hostages Sep 10th worldwide
London organisers: http://www.cannabistrust.com + pdf flyer down load for printing & local distribution
World listings: http://www.cannabisculture.comLatest news: http://www.newsoftheweed.com----------------------------------------------------------From: actualmind@...i'm not living at salvador, so i'm not taking care of the GMM at
salvador, you can take salvador off the list...
Sorry I really want to still working on that and i'll do the possibleto the legalization movement....Actualmind-------------------From: hemptress@...Subject: 4th Annual 2005 OHIO VALLEY REEFER RUMBLEClick This Link for All the Info on This Years Rumblehttp://www.hemprock.com/2005ovrrpromo.htmHigh HempRocker,Join Us for the region's Best of the Best Competition at
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513-68-4-HEMP vm/faxwww.hemprock.com---------------------------From: richrawlings@...Subject: Re: ChicagoMe and other members of the US Marijuana Party of Illinois, Dana. Yeah I know Karen didn't do the Hempfest this year. I contacted her in Jan. about it and she told me she would get back to me with the info never heard back from her. If I know that it was going to be called of the US Marijuana Party of Illinois would have got it together.
Rich
Richard J. Rawlings
US Marijuana Party of Illinois
www.ilmjp.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dana Beal" <dana@...>
To: <richrawlings@...>
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 8:53 AM
Subject: Chicago
>
> Who's coordinating the Chicago thing on the 10th. You know Karen didn't get it together for the Windy City Weedfest.
>
> Dana/cnwFrom Saturday, Sept 10 to Sept 16, Global Marijuana March Affiliates are holding protests at their local Canadian Embassy or Consulate appealing to the Canadian government not to capitulate to the outrageous U.S. demand that they extradite Marc Emery to the U.S. to face life in prison or a possible death sentence for actions that are not even crimes under Canadian Law.So far 35 Cities are signed up to take some kind of action--Join them; Sign up at info@...AdelaideAucklandBostonBrusselsCalgaryChicagoDarwinDetroitEdmontonHalifaxHonoluluKingstonLaPorteLondonLos AngelesMauiMexico CityMissoulaMoscowNew YorkOsloOttawaParisPragueRomeSan FranciscoSeattleTel AvivTorontoTucsonVancouverViennaWarsawWellingtonWashington, D.C.For updates, go to http://www.smokeoutamerica.ca---------------MARIJUANA: LAWRENCE, KANSAS, PONDERS CITY MARIJUANA ORDINANCE -- IMPACT OF HEA CITEDA proposal to move small-time marijuana possession offenses out of district court and into city court in the college of town of Lawrence, Kansas, is winning initial support from the mayor and other elected officials. http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/401/lawrence.shtml
--------------------------------------------------------PLUR MEETS SWAT AS UTAH COPS ATTACK ELECTRONIC DANCE PARTYWhat was supposed to be a night of dancing to electronic beats under the desert stars turned into a nightmare when 90 Utah law enforcement officers dressed in combat gear and carrying assault rifles attacked. http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/401/utah1.shtml---------------------------------------------------------------------2006 MMM world map. May 6, 2006 Million Marijuana March. Cities sorted by region. World Cannabis Day. Cannabis Liberation Day. Global Marijuana March. Worldwide since 1999. The first Saturday in May, or that weekend, or thereabouts. Rallies, marches, concerts, events, meetings, parties, raves, info-tables, stands, booths, etc..http://www.geocities.com/tents444/mmm2006map.htm and
http://corporatism.tripod.com/mmm2006map.htm andhttp://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/mmm2006map.htm andhttp://members.fortunecity.com/multi19/mmm2006map.htm
Click the region names in the left chart column to go to their city lists.Click the "countries" link to go to the list of countries.Worldwide.
MMM (Million Marijuana March).City list and world map:Yahoo Group:
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************************* BUSHWHACKED!! ***************************************************BUSH ADMINISTRATION METHAMPHETAMINE INITIATIVE A BOMBStung by criticisms that it wasn't paying sufficient attention to the "methamphetamine epidemic," the Bush administration late last week responded with its own meth initiative. But it has failed to satisfy critics from either side of the debate. http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/401/bushinit.shtmlVIPS | Memo for the President
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082405Q.shtmlVeteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) calls on President Bush to spurn his ever-shrinking circle of advisors, the "amateur architects of the Iraq war," and listen to the circle of "wise women" gathered outside of his Crawford ranch.John W. Dean | Did Pat Robertson Commit a Crime?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082705C.shtmlJohn Dean writes: "From the moment I heard Robertson's remark, on the radio, I thought of the federal criminal statutes prohibiting such threats. Do they apply? For me, the answer is yes."Leak Shows Blair Told of Iraq War Terror Link
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082805A.shtml
Despite repeated denials by Number 10 that the war made Britain a target for terrorists, a letter from Michael Jay, the Foreign Office permanent under-secretary, to the cabinet secretary, Sir Andrew Turnbull, makes the connection clear.The Boston Globe: Rove's Role
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082805X.shtmlRove's record, according to the Boston Globe, has been consistent. Over 35 years, he has been a master of dirty tricks, divisiveness, innuendo, manipulation, character assassination, and roiling partisanship.-----------------Op-Ed Columnist
Marijuana Pipe Dreams
[ Ref: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/27/opinion/27tierney.html ]
By JOHN TIERNEY
Published: August 27, 2005
When the Supreme Court ruled in June that states could not legalize marijuana for medical uses, Justice Stephen Breyer voted with the majority. But during oral arguments, he suggested an alternative way for patients to get it: let the federal Food and Drug Administration decide if marijuana should be a prescription drug.
"Medicine by regulation is better than medicine by referendum," he said. In theory, that sounds reasonable. But what if the officials doing the regulation are afflicted with a bad case of Reefer Madness?
If you doubt this possibility, you should have been at a hearing that began this week at the Drug Enforcement Administration's headquarters. Lyle Craker, a professor of plant and soil sciences at the University of Massachusetts, asked an administrative judge to overrule the agency so he could grow marijuana for F.D.A.-approved research projects by other scientists.
Dr. Craker is a well-regarded agronomist who's being supported by the American Civil Liberties Union and both of his senators, Edward Kennedy and John Kerry. But for four years he's been stymied by the D.E.A., which first stalled and then finally denied his request for a permit.
There are precedents for his re quest, because researchers already get supplies of other drugs - like heroin, LSD and Ecstasy - from independent laboratories licensed to make them. But researchers who want marijuana have only one legal source: a crop grown in Mississippi and dispensed by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Scientists say they need an alternative partly because the government's marijuana is of such poor quality - too many seeds and stems - and partly because the federal officials are so loath to give it out for research into its medical benefits.
Discovering benefits, after all, would undermine the great anti-marijuana campaign that has taken hold in Washington. Marijuana is deemed to be such a powerful "gateway" to other drugs that it's become the top priority in the federal drug war, much to the puzzlement of many scientists, not to mention the police officers who see a lot of worse drugs on the streets.
People with glaucoma and AIDS have sworn by the efficacy of marijuana, and there have been studies by state health departments showing that smoking marijuana is especially good at controlling nausea. Scientists would like to test these effects, but they can't do good studies until they get good marijuana.
Critics of medical marijuana say that it's unnecessary because patients can obtain the benefits of its active ingredient, THC, through a drug that's already available, Marinol. But many patients say it doesn't work as well. They point to the case of the writer Peter McWilliams, who said smoking marijuana was the only way to control the nausea brought on by the mix of drugs he took for AIDS and cancer.
He was forced to switch to Marinol after a D.E.A. investigation led to his conviction for violating federal laws against marijuana. In 2000, several weeks before he was to be sentenced, he was found dead in his bathroom. He had choked on his own vomit.
Phillip Alden, a writer living in Redwood City, Calif., told me that marijuana was a godsend for him in dealing with the effects of AIDS. He said it eased excruciating pains in his fingertips, controlled nausea and enabled him to avoid the wasting syndrome that afflicts AIDS patients who are unable to eat enough food.
But Mr. Alden said only some kinds of marijuana worked - not the weak variety provided by the federal government, which he smoked during a research study.
"It was awful stuff," he said. "They started out with a very low-grade plant, rolled it up with stems and seeds, and then freeze-dried it so that they probably ruined any of the THC crystals. All it did was give me headaches and bronchitis. The bronchitis got so bad I had to drop out of the study."
Mr. Alden was scheduled to testify at this week's hearing, but he told me he had to withdraw because the D.E.A. refused to give him legal immunity if he admitted using marijuana not from the government. It's a shame the judge will be making a decision without hearing him, but I can understand Mr. Alden's hesitancy.
D.E.A. officials have already shown they're quite capable of persecuting someone who uses marijuana to deal with AIDS, and they may well be even more eager to go after someone who encourages research into their least favorite drug. When it comes to marijuana research, the federal policy is "Just Say Know-Nothing.****!!! IBOGAINE TREATMENT NOW EURO 1500 IN HOLLAND--CALL SARA, 0113134-624-1770 !!!****From:sara119@... Subject:Re: [Ibogaine] OT artificial sweetener
Aspartame - Rumsfeld's Bioweapon Legacy
Dr. Betty Martini, Founder
Mission Possible Intl
8-20-5
Before reading this article everyone should hear James Turner, Atty,
explain how Don Rumsfeld called in his markers to get aspartame, a deadly
chemical poison approved when the FDA said no:
http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages.Rumsfeld2.html The entire film can be
gotten at http://www.docworkers.com
Among the many ironies of our modern world is that Gerald Ford awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom-America,s highest civilian honor-to Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on January 19, 1977. Just a few weeks later on
March 8, Rumsfeld became the CEO of G.D. Searle to take point on a mission
to force the Food and Drug Administration to approve for human consumption
a known carcinogen and neurotoxic poison.
Mission accomplished: Today some 9,000 commonly consumed products are
laced with this weapon of mass misery and millions of people live with
chronic illnesses linked to the artificial sweetener aspartame. It is our
belief at The Idaho Observer that if some guy named Parkinson can have a
disease named after him, then Donald Rumsfeld ought to have his own
disease, too. Hence the term Rumsfeld disease A.
Rumsfeld's Disease
A Politically-Induced Biochemical
Disaster Of Global Proportions
By Don Harkins
The Idaho Observer
8-15-5
Today, Donald Rumsfeld is known throughout the world as the zealous U.S.Secretary of Defense who is waging a global "war on terror" in search of
"terrorists" and "weapons of mass destruction." Most people, however, are
not aware that Rumsfeld himself unleashed a chemical weapon of mass
destruction upon the world in 1981-and it,s still out there destroying
people all over the world. That "WMD" is aspartame and it has been
scientifically and anecdotally linked to millions of chronic illnesses and
deaths.
The evidence shows that, with full knowledge of aspartame,s neurotoxicity
and carcinogenicity, Rumsfeld, as the CEO of G.D. Searle, Co., "called inhis markers" to achieve U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval
for the artificial sweetener aspartame, better known by its trade name
"NutraSweet."
Consumer advocate attorney Jim Turner, who was instrumental in the 1969
banning of cyclamate in the U.S. for its link to various forms of cancer,met with representatives of aspartame approval petitioner Searle in 1974.
The main topic of discussion was neuroscientist Dr. John Olney,s 1971
study which showed that aspartic acid caused lesions in the brains ofinfant mice. According to Turner, arguably the world,s foremost authority
on aspartame,s dubious legal history, Rumsfeld was apparently hired bySearle for one specific purpose: To obtain FDA approval for aspartame.
Betty Martini is the director of Mission Possible, a worldwide consumer
advocacy organization formed in 1992 as a voice for those demanding that
the FDA reverse its approval of aspartame and order its removal from
foods, beverages and medical preparations. Martini is even more bold in
her charges against Rumsfeld. Martini believes the Washington insider,
former three-term U.S. Rep. From Illinois (1962-1968), secretary of
defense (1975-1977) and executive assistant to President Gerald Ford, was
hired by Searle because, "He was willing to get a deadly chemical poison,aspartame, approved for human consumption"
Background
In December, 1965 Searle chemist James Schlatter discovered aspartame
while working on an ulcer drug. The substance, comprised of 50 percent
synthetic phenylalanine, 40 percent synthetic aspartic acid and 10 percent
methanol, was about 200 times sweeter than sugar by weight and had no
calories. By spring, 1967, Searle began conducting safety trials in
preparation for petitioning the FDA for product approval.
Soon after the trials began, lab animals (monkeys and mice) beganexperiencing adverse effects ranging from brain lesions and tumors to
seizures and death. Yet Searle petitioned the FDA for aspartame approval
in February, 1973. According to Turner, Searle provided the FDA with over
100 studies claiming they proved aspartame was "safe." Independent
analyses of these studies, however, proves conclusively that aspartame is
actually a dangerous, neurotoxic, carcinogenic and highly-addictive drug.
Trusting Searle,s promise that aspartame was safe, the FDA approved the
limited use of aspartame in dry goods on July 26, 1974. Turner and Dr.
Olney formally objected to the approval. Their petition triggered an FDA
investigation of Searle,s lab practices which proved that Searle had
provided the FDA with inaccurate conclusions resulting from manipulated
data derived from poorly-designed studies. The FDA reversed its decision
to approve aspartame in dry goods.
On January 10, 1977, the FDA formally requested that the U.S. Department
of Justice convene a federal grand jury to determine if Searle should be
criminally indicted for "concealing material facts and making false
statements" with regard to its petition for aspartame approval.
Among the many charges FDA investigators made about Searle,s shoddy lab
practices was how rats that developed tumors would undergo surgical
removal of the tumors and then be placed back into the study as if nothing
had happened to them.
The grand jury investigation was led by U.S. Attorney Samuel Skinner. In
July 1, 1977, while the investigation was being conducted, Skinner left
the Justice Department and took a job with Sidley & Austin-the law firm
representing Searle. The statute of limitations eventually ran out and thegrand jury disbanded without reaching any conclusions regarding Searle and
its lab practices.
Amid this controversy, Rumsfeld was hired as Searle CEO on March 8, 1977
and immediately began cleaning house. Rumsfeld, who had no previous
business executive experience before becoming CEO of Searle, reorganized
several departments in the company and fired many of its high-level
managers, replacing them with other politically-connected Washington,
D.C., insiders.
Though the controversies deepened and the evidence proving the poisonous
nature of his company,s product continued to accumulate, Rumsfeld and histeam continued to push for FDA approval of aspartame.
A team of FDA investigators headed by Jerome Bressler attempted to block
Rumsfeld, et. al, by publishing what has become known as the "Bressler
Report" on August 1, 1977. The report cited several instances where Searleintentionally mislead the FDA in its petition for marketplace approval of
aspartame. The FDA then formed a public board of inquiry (PBOI) in 1979 to
rule on the myriad safety issues surrounding aspartame.
By this time, FDA investigators and independent scientists had
exhaustively reviewed the Searle studies and additional studies had beenconducted. There was no doubt, based upon objective analyses of evidence
that had accumulated for over a decade, that aspartame was deathly
poisonous to lab animals and caused a statistically significant number of
them to develop tumors.
On September 30, 1980, the PBOI concluded that aspartame should not be
approved pending further investigation of its link to the formation of
brain tumors and that the FDA "has not been presented with proof of
reasonable certainty that aspartame is safe for use as a food additive."
The coup
Ronald Reagan was sworn in as president January 21, 1981. Rumsfeld, while
still CEO at Searle, was part of Reagan,s transition team. This teamhand-picked Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr., to be the new FDA commissioner.
Dr. Hayes, a pharmacologist, had no previous experience with food
additives before being appointed director of the FDA. He, like Rumsfeld,
did, however, have experience with chemical warfare studies while
connected to the Department of Defense. According to The Washington Post,
Hayes was, "one of a number of doctors who conducted drugs tests for the
Army on volunteers.to determine the effect of a mind-disorienting drugcalled CAR 301,060," at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
The Post further explained why Hayes was the perfect choice to politically
force the approval of aspartame: "According to a declassified 1976 report
prepared by the Army Inspector General, Hayes had planned a research study
to develop the mind-altering CAR 301,060 as a crowd control agent."
The report, detailing Hayes activities beginning in 1972, further
indicated that Hayes was involved in similar biochemical mind control
research studies until being named FDA director.
One of Hayes, first official acts as FDA chief was to approve the use of
aspartame as an artificial sweetener in dry goods July 18, 1981. In order
to accomplish this feat, Hayes had to overlook the scuttled grand jury
investigation of Searle, overcome the Bressler Report, ignore the PBOI,s
recommendations and pretend aspartame did not chronically sicken and kill
thousands of lab animals. Hayes, left his post at the FDA in November,
1983, amid accusations that he was accepting corporate gifts for political
favors. Just before leaving office in scandal, Hayes approved the use of
aspartame in beverages. According to The Post, Hayes, next job was in the
private sector where he served as a high-paid senior medical advisor for
Searle,s public relations firm.
The aftermath
Within weeks of aspartame,s approval for use in beverages, cans of diet
sodas and other sweet drinks were on the market. To help sell Americans on
using the artificial sweetener, intense advertising campaigns began
programming the public to believe that sugar has lots of calories;
calories make us fat and NutraSweet has no calories-therefore it won,t
make us fat.
Based upon this almost universally-accepted oversimplification ofbiochemical reality, aspartame has enjoyed 22 years of marketplace success
and is now in an estimated 7,000 to 9,000 commonly-consumed products in at
least 100 countries. When Searle was absorbed by Monsanto in 1985,
Rumsfeld reportedly received a $12 million bonus.
Not surprisingly, the same adverse reactions seen in lab animals in the
60s and 70s are now being seen in the general population. In his first
book on aspartame (1990), Dr. H.J. Roberts stated that in five or 10 years
we would have a worldwide plague on our hands if we do not remove
aspartame from our food supply. With the printing of "Aspartame Disease:An Ignored Epidemic (2001), Dr. Roberts declared that the world is,
indeed, plagued by a global epidemic of symptoms associated with aspartame
use.
* Aspartame is being identified by a growing number of researchers andphysicians as an underlying cause of chronic ill health in America and
other countries throughout the world.
* It interacts with other substances such as pharmaceutical drugs to
produce adverse reactions.
* All metabolites of aspartame (formaldehyde, methanol, diketopiperazine
and formic acid) are toxic to the human body and are especially toxic tothe brain.
* Aspartame comprises over 80 percent of consumer complaints filed with
the FDA.
* The FDA has generated a list of 92 symptoms associated with aspartame
consumption that include nausea, dizziness, irritability, insanity,
blindness, deafness, weight gain and death.
* The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claim that 500,000 people
each year simply "drop dead" for no apparent reason from what it labels
"sudden cardiac death."
* Dementia among all ages (especially the elderly) and learning
disabilities among children, in the U.S. and abroad, have been
skyrocketing since 1981.
As of today, the number of scientific and studies showing that aspartameis, indeed, an underlying cause of chronic physical and mental illness and
death out number studies proving its safety by at least 400 to zero. Proof
of this fact can also be determined by what happens in many cases when
people stop using aspartame: Their chronic symptoms disappear.
The legacy
Defense Secretary Rumsfeld was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
by President Gerald Ford-the highest civilian honor in America-on January
19, 1977. A few months later, Rumsfeld became the CEO of Searle to securepolitical approval for a product that science had proven to be a
highly-addictive neurotoxic drug that causes chronic ill health, brain
tumors and death. The evidence indicates that FDA approval for aspartame
was a high-level political priority undoubtedly connected to its capacity
to adversely effect the minds and bodies of those consuming it.
Because Rumsfeld placed politics above public health and safety, hundreds
of millions of people throughout the world cannot think clearly and suffer
from a variety of chronic illnesses. It is, therefore, fitting that
symptoms associated with aspartame use be known as "Rumsfeld,s disease."
Caption: The search of a suitable picture of Donald Rumsfeld turned up
this image from Portland Indy Media. Though it may seem satirical, is it?
What goes through the mind of a man who knowingly poisons his own people?
End of Article
Note from Betty Martini:
Only yesterday in national news we learned diet and low calorie pop will
be left in schools which will poison our children. As an example, Coke
Zero has aspartame. Aspartame is a chemical hypersensitization agent
because it is a neurotoxic drug/chemical poison. It not only interacts
with all drugs but all vaccines and other toxins and unsafe sweeteners
like Splenda, a chlorocarbon poison. So our children don't have a chance.
Only a few weeks ago an epidemiological study by Sharon Fowler at the
University of Texas based on 8 years data links diet drinks with obesity.
Aspartame also can precipitate diabetes, simulates and aggravates diabetic
retinopathy and neuropathy, destroys the optic nerve and interacts with
insulin.
In July a 3 year Italian study was released by the European Foundation forOncology and Environmental Sciences which revealed it causes leukemia,
lymphoma and malignant brain tumors. Their July 14 05 report declares:
"The results demonstrate ... that aspartame is a carcinogenic agent." How
many mothers knowing this would want their children drinking an addictive
carcinogenic agent. Aspartame liberates free methyl alcohol which causes
chronic methanol poisoning. This affects the dopamine system of the brain
and causes addiction. Now understand why the pop companies want this
poison in your schools which causes Rumsfeld Disease.
Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., one of the world's leadingauthorities on aspartame neurotoxicity, extensively reviewed the Soffritti
report. "This study confirmed the previous study by Dr. Trocho and
co-workers (l998), which also found the formaldehyde breakdown product of
aspartame to be damaging to cellular DNA and that this damage wascumulative. The type of damage was a duplicate of that associated with
cancers. These two studies strongly indicate that drinking a single dietcola sweetened with aspartame every day could significantly increase one's
risk of developing a lymphoma or leukemia."
Dr. Blaylock said further "This study should terrify mothers and all thoseconsuming aspartame sweetened products. This was a carefully done study
which clearly demonstrated a statistically significant increase in several
types of lymphomas and leukemias in rats. Both of these malignancies have
increased significantly in this country since the widespread use of
aspartame."
Only the animals exposed to aspartame developed malignant brain tumors and
we are now taking aspartame brain tumor cases for litigation in New York,
New Jersey, Madison County,Illinois and Mississippi. Simply contact me at
Bettym19@...
Dr. Blaylock also said "They found that even lower doses of aspartame
could cause these malignancies, yet the higher the dose, the more cancersthat were seen. Since aspartame can increase obesity and may even cause
the metabolic syndrome that affects 48 million Americans, there is no
reason to ever consume this product. At the least, it should be
immediately banned from all schools."
Any mother reading this article with children in school should immediately
take this to their principal, children's teacher and PTA along with the
movie, Sweet Misery, and demand that all products with aspartame(NutraSweet/Equal/Spoonful, E951/Canderel/Benevia, etc.) and especially
pop with this poison be removed - period, no if's, no and's and no but's.
And Board of Educations should also remove the lobbyists and those who
would offer money to keep poisoned pop in schools. How much is the brain
of your child worth. Remember this is the cause of the epidemic of ADD,
ADHD, autism, Tourettes, and behavioral problems.
For documentation of this read the experts books:
Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic
H. J. Roberts, M.D.
www.sunsentpress.com
or 1 800 827 7991
Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills and Health & Nutrition Secrets
By neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D.
www.russellblaylockmd.com
Web sites: http://www.wnho.net and http://www.dorway.com Aspartame
Toxicity Center, http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
Aspartame Information List, http://www.wnho.net Get involved
Rumsfeld Disease may become one of the largest plagues in world history.
The list of horrors is unending. Thanks to despicable and greedy Big
Pharma/Codex, in England supplements from industry now contain aspartame.
Diane Fleming still remains in a prison in Virginia because methanol was
found on her husband's autopsy and they thought she poisoned him even
though she passed their lie detector test. Doctors affidavits state he
died from aspartame which causes methanol poisoning. Athletes like Fleming
are dying because aspartame damages the cardiac conduction system and
causes sudden death, although his was not sudden.
Enough is enough. Eradicate Rumsfeld Disease from our schools and from our
planet.
Don Harkins of the Idaho Observer has given permission to have this
republished. To help the effort the Idaho Observer -www.idaho-observer.com publishes 24 page booklets for distribution on
Rumsfeld Disease called the Artificially Sweetened Times. Distribute them
throughout your schools, offices and churches to help eradicate Rumsfeld
Disease. And if you think the pop companies didn't know the gum was loaded
be sure to read the protest of the National Soft Drink Assn. on
www.dorway.com
Dr. Betty Martini, Founder
Mission Possible International
9270 River Club Parkway,
Duluth, Georgia 30097
770 242-2599
Idaho Observer
Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869
Phone 208-255-2307
Email observer@...Web http://idaho-observer.comFrom:captkirknz@... Subject:Re: [Ibogaine] OT artificial sweetener
Thanks heaps for this Sara, I've felt for years that
this stuff is evil, but couldn't find much concrete
evidence to back up the allegation. this seems more
credible. It was even mentioned on a Hoax website..that i thought was impartial, that it wasn't proved to
be nasty. Well I'll be forwarding this to all I know
that's for sure.
If I could draw cartoons, I would make one with aperson in hospital with lovely teeth from "sugar free
gum" whilst undergoing radiation therapy for a brain
tumour.
WTF. Force feed this stuff to Donald whilst he is keptin a public stockade, so we can also throw stuff at
him. Perhaps a large dose of Ibogaine?
KIrkFrom:captkirknz@... Subject:RE: [Ibogaine] OT artificial sweetener
Here's a URL along with several links to discredit the health risk claims of
aspartame. You decide I guess... but I would rather stick to my raw sugar,
and when the urge strikes... I'll chew sugar-filled gum and sweets as
opposed to sugar-free.. which in some cases taste like crap anyway.....
Kirkhttp://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blasp.htmFrom:abeatty@... Subject:[Ibogaine] bwiti on Going Tribal
Just saw a short preview for Going Tribal, TV show, that shows a Bwiti
initiation ceremony on the next episode. No mention of ibogaine yet, but theysaid it includes the ingestion of a halucinogen, and the rite will make the
participant a real man.AndyFrom:sjonnygee@... Subject:RE: [Ibogaine] bwiti on Going Tribal Going Tribal was a BBC series with ex royal marine Bruce Parry visiting and living among various tribal groups around the world such as the Suri in Venezuela, Shaman in Ethiopia and the main group of interest for this list , the Gabonese Bwiti. Seeing him undergo the full initiation with Iboga is awesome and well worth watching.
sjonny.From:freedomroot@... Subject:Re: [Ibogaine] bwiti on Going Tribal
This one's on the Discovery Channel, and is due to air Tuesday, Aug. 30th.
AFRICAN VISION QUEST
Bruce faces one of his toughest tests as he is inducted into Bwiti, a
rainforest religion practiced by the Babongo people of Gabon. He's
right to be worried - on occasion the ritual, which involves consuming
an overdose of a powerful hallucinogenic, iboga, has proved fatal.
This dramatic episode follows Bruce's build-up to the ceremony, as he
goes hunting, collecting forest honey and spends time getting to know
his new friends, before they judge the time is right for his
"rebirthing" ritual.
Premieres Tuesday, Aug. 30, at 10 p.m. ET/PTlove rachel, neotribal criticFrom:digital@... Subject:[Ibogaine] Psych3del1c ArT
Dave has once again iterated Gammalyte a few levels beyond where it was, and the results are pretty fucking amazing. If you're into psychedelic art, you should check it out. Many truly beautiful and utterly cool imageS, bursts of illumination and darkness, and rockin' eYe CandY:
http://www.gammalyte.com/PatrickFrom:jeffgallop@... Subject:Re: [Ibogaine] Psych3del1c ArT WoW!
That is some killer eye candy!
I never knew that Dave was a poster artist as well..and apparently Steve Kimock digs him enough to use his stuff a lot!
Jerry Garcia called Steve his favorite guitarist and SK's work in the first post Jerry Dead Configurations is among my favorite of that era...
Going to Howl Fest today to work the Ibo Table with Rachy.
Freak Freely!
JeffFrom:krista.vaughan@... Subject:Re: [Ibogaine] Psych3del1c ArT
Wow I love the pictures orbiting around the center. Thank you, this
has made my afternoon :-)
I've a question for you Patrick, if you read this if you don't read it
for a month that's ok I understand ;-) but you and Dave Hunter do a
lot of work together, with his art and your words which is beautiful.
What I'd like to ask is about one of the addiction series articles
from Heroin Times, I think it's from 2002, wait let me find it.
http://ibogaine.mindvox.com/index.html?Articles/HT-12A3.htm~mainFrame
You co-wrote a article with Dave including the 12 steps. All of your
writing in the beginning was very anti-12 step and trashed all of it,
near the last piece you wrote for Heroin Times, you and Dave both
wrote a very open minded and accepting article which didn't trash
anything. At the same time all of you, by which I mean most of Mindvox
and certainly everone listed in the contributing editors section,
doesn't work the 12 steps and when Steven Anker posts he writes longvery funny but strongly anti-step material to this day but in the file
he's listed as being editor of, the Keeping Clean section, it has alot
of 12 step material and quotes from people working the steps, then the
rest of it is Stanton Peele and Peter Cohen who both make a living
trashing the 12 steps or for Peter, trashing the concept that
addiction is even real. The only other article in there is from Lee,
who I like to read and it's a good article but it doesn't really have
anything to do with drug addiction or deal with what the main issues
are when you stop doing drugs.
I'm asking all this because I'm curious what all of you do to stay
clean, the steps have never worked for me either but it's not even
that, it's what all of you have written about, the people in the rooms
drive me crazy and when I in there I walk out feeling ilke I need to
get high after listening to all the war stories.
Are there any good support groups out there that are not 12 step
based, any of you or anyone else on list had good experiences with
them?KVFrom:wardconn@... Subject:RE: [Ibogaine] Boosters
You know this whole thing about 'boosters' - it sounds like a load of old junky talk and boils down to this - not being able to live with uncomfortable feelings, wanting to avoid ones own real feels and supplement them for an artificially created one and were the 'ibogaine scene' becomes a supplementation policy rather than a detoxification programme. Its bollox - the excuse perpetrated is that because it or any other 'entheogenic' substance does'nt have a physical dependency risk its ok. But whos making the claims - the people who are doing it. The question is this when does one learn or atleast tentatively learn to live with ones own feelings and actually find out who they are by allowing their brain/mind/body/soul to communicate to them with out the need for artifice - which came first the chicken or the egg - the human or the drug - so humans cant live w/out drugs?? Theres a lot of people out there perpetrating things w/out having compared them to long term alternatives i.e w/out. The addict is a part of your self which at some point in one life one will or will not choose to take head on, the addict has needs for sure but maybe to be listened too not to be fed so that it shuts up....sound like a parent to you anyone???? So who takes care of that voice and who smothers it or shuts it out??? What does wisdom say to do...is that not after all what the vector of ibogaine is trying to initialise in consciousness - awareness??? But it does'nt effect free will, we were blessed with that after all and so the rebels keep the pretence up for pretence sake. So where are the providers suggesting that rather than some artifice of a mixed up psychiatric model??? Is there ANYBODY out there???? Or is it just voices..........
Ed.From:vector620022002@... Subject:RE: [Ibogaine] Boosters
Welcome to Mindvox! Messianic lunatics who sound angry but talk about
love and healing and always arrive with the one correct answer for what
everyone should be doing with themselves are always welcome. Let me
guess, you've never been a drug addict either right? Please take a
number and get in line, you're #51 this year :)
Using the reasoning you've outlined everybody could just stop doing
drugs without ibogaine in the first place. Which is possible I'm sure,
since many more have done it that way then with ibogaine, but it
doesn't have a lot to do with anyone I've heard talk here in the last 5
years.
.:vector:.From:cherylca@...
Subject:RE: [Ibogaine] Boosters Right on. Being a junkie already means being treated like shit from
know it all know nothings, but with ibogaine having no regulation or training,
mostly underground, every a-hole with a opinion can power trip on holding the
cure for addiction over people's heads. Some of the advice the underground has
given my friends is stupid beyond belief, i won't name names but telling people
to throw away their meds because they're clean now and get high listening to
psychobabble does a lot more harm then good. by meds I don't mean opiateseither, anti depressants, anti psychotics, you don't need any of it anymore, don't
listen to the doctors. great advice, where did you get your medical training again?
oh thats right, you're a drug dealer with attitude problems, sorry I forgot that. I
mean this in general not to you ed, I have no idea who you are other then someone
with their head up their ass.From:krista.vaughan@... Subject:Re: [Ibogaine] Boosters
I'm not sure why anyone taking a booster to prevent themselves from a
full relapse is negative in your mind. I don't think anyone advocates
doing ibogaine maintenance forever but boosters seem to be helping
people who would otherwise be stuck.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but nothing in your message was
constructive it just sounds very angry and has absolutely nothing to
do with any of the principles of harm reduction.KVFrom:ptpeet@... Subject:Re: [Ibogaine] Boosters
Someone with the incredibly unlikely name of Ed Conn wrote in part
The question is this when does one
learn or atleast tentatively learn to live with ones own feelings and actually find out who they are by allowing theirbrain/mind/body/soul to communicate to them with out the need for artifice - which came first the chicken or the egg - the human or the drug - so humans cant live w/out drugs??<
To which I must reply in brief.
As someone who has had mixed results with ALL treatment modalities, including ibogaine, I've personally found I LIKE being able to take ibogaine every few months, realign my brain and body, and not do my recovery how you feel I must to be without "artifice." What exactly do you mean by that, and how do you tell someone living in chornic pain, or was introduced to opiates by a doctor at some point through severe surguries and the like that they are NOT normal or living naturally by wanting to continue to use opiates that work to stiffle that overwhelming pain? Who the heck are you or anyone to tell me or anyone else what's the best route for us to take in terms of our pain, our addiction, or our use patterns? Who are you? What else do you bring to this table other than complaints and huff?
Thanks for your time, and I look forward to a reply, but doubt I'm going to get one.
Peace and love,
Preston Peet
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