The Artificially Sweetened Times, a popular 24-page aspartame expose', is
being revised and updated--just in time to be included with holiday mailings
to friends and family. Now in its fifth printing, The Artificially Sweetened
Times is the ideal tool for those who are aware of the dangers associated
with aspartame consumption to alert those close to them that the artificial
sweetener is really a neurotoxic drug responsible for the nation's epidemic
of " Rumsfeld's disease." The text describes in detail the power politics
that lead to aspartame's FDA approval even though every safety study
conducted proved the substance was dangerous and carcinogenic. It also
explains how aspartame, which is 10 percent methanol, causes damage to the
body, how to overcome aspartame addiction and begin reversing the symptoms
of Rumsfeld's disease. Since we are culturally addicted to sweet foods and
drinks, the editors at The Artificially Sweetened Times included a short and
fascinating history
of "sweet slavery" and compiled a healthy sweetener use guide.
The revisions for the fifth printing are exciting. Activists in New Mexico
have gotten the attention of their government and hearings are being
scheduled to discuss the ban of aspartame within the state of New Mexico.
The plan is to show Rumsfeld's disease survivors and their dependants how to
introduce aspartame toxicity information in their state governments so we,
the people, can eventually accomplish the removal Donald Rumsfeld's weapon
of mass misery from all products sold within each of the 50 states.
And, by the way, former and current Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's role in the
aspartame approval process is covered in detail by The Artificially
Sweetened Times. An electronic version is available online for free at
http://www.vaclib.org/news/astimes.htm
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What is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? Carolyn Chambers Clark, RN, EdD -
BellaOnline's Holistic Health Editor - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is a
group of symptoms that includes fatigue, reduced activity level, aching
muscles and joints, back and head pain, coldness, weakness, tremors, fevers,
sleep disturbance, sweats, secondary infections, yeast infections,
allergies, constipation, nausea, urine retention, appetite disorders, light
and sound sensitivity, swollen glands, heart palpitations, anxiety,
depression, memory lapses, irritability, jaundice, mood swings, sore throat,
swollen glands, loss of balance, and mood swing. The symptoms resemble the
flu and other viral infections, so it is often mistaken for them.
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art37279.asp

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The Damage GM Foods Can do to Your Body - A project to develop genetically
modified, pest-resistant peas has been abandoned after tests showed the peas
cause lung damage in mice.
http://www.mercola.com/2005/dec/8/the_damage_gm_foods_can_do_to_your_body.htm
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Denmark Will Reimburse Farmers Who Suffer Genetic Pollution from ... Organic
Consumers Association is a consumer advocate for labeling of
geneticallyengineered food. We promote organic food and sustainable
agriculture. http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/denmark112805.cfm
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Thinking makes it so - ......... Yet because of high-fat foods - abundant
not only at fast-food but "family-style" restaurants and in grocery stores -
we're all getting fatter and sicker............When one of my co-workers
asked the restaurant manager whether the fish was wild or farmed, she said
she didn't know. Now, I don't blame the manager; unless they specialize in
organic products, most restaurant staff have no idea where their food
originates. They, like most of us, assume the FDA keeps food safe. I'm not
so sure. Even if the restaurant offered a vegetarian option, I would want to
know whether its contents were sprayed with RoundUp or made "RoundUp Ready"
with genetic alterations that require virus and bacteria parts in order to
splice a pesticide directly into a food. And how could the manager answer my
questions, since the FDA doesn't require labeling on the so-called
"Frankenfoods," despite multiple experiments showing potential long-term
dangers - stomach lesion
s, death, etc. - and our ignorance as to their impact on the food
chain?..........
http://www.lamonitor.com/articles/2005/12/08/features/features01.txt
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Playing Russian roulette with the world - Guardian Unlimited - A dark cloud
hangs over proceedings here in Montreal at the start of the last day of the
UN climate change summit. The mood could not have changed more violently,
writes Simon Retallack. Just 24 hours ago, under ....... The mood improved
still further with news that Bill Clinton would be gracing the summit, rock
star-like, with a surprise appearance later today at the invitation of
Canada's prime minister, Paul Martin. There was even a report that a group
of US students had moved members of the US negotiating team here in Montreal
to tears following a plea for them to act on climate change. If that could
happen, surely anything was possible. People even began contemplating an
early exit home. Then as temperatures were plunging outside, phones began
ringing with news that the US delegation had destabilised the talks in
dramatic fashion. The Canadian hosts were reported to have confirmed that
the US had rejected a
deal to start talks outside the Kyoto track between developed and
developing countries to discuss future action on climate change, even though
the already anodyne text sanctioning these talks had just been weakened
further, now stating that whatever emerged would be entirely non-binding.
It's possible that the result could be disastrous for the Montreal summit,
preventing a green light being given to any new negotiations starting on
global action to address climate change when the first phase of the Kyoto
protocol runs out in 2012. If the US insists on rejecting even the
discussion of future action by all countries, it could stop Japan and others
from agreeing to develop a new round of emission cuts by industrialised
countries, potentially killing off the prospects of Kyoto mark II........
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2005/12/09/playing_russian_roulette_wi\
th_the_world.html
'End nigh' for Kyoto Protocol -
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/end-nigh-for-kyoto-protocol/2005/12/09/11\
34086807995.html
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Medical journal: Vioxx study is flawed MarketWatch - BOSTON (MarketWatch) --
The New England Journal of Medicine is accusing the authors of a
Merck-sponsored study on the safety of painkiller Vioxx of omitting certain
negative data about the drug when they published an article on the results
in 2000. ...
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B5E68BF0C-6127-4ECC-BED9-240B3E\
F186DA%7D&siteid=google&dist=
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Reducing the use of pesticides - Weston Town Crier - Framingham, MA, USA -
Weston residents are aiming to spread the word about the dangers of
pesticide use before next summer's "green" season, following a League of
Women Voters ...
http://www2.townonline.com/weston/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=384588
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Report Shows Toxins Persist in the Great Lakes - Newhouse News Service
(NNS) - USA ... The report also cites high levels of the pesticide DDT ...
fish advisories have not been effective enough in warning certain
populations about the dangers of eating ...
http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/kellogg120805.html
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Thinking makes it so - Los Alamos Monitor - Los Alamos, NM, USA ... require
virus and bacteria parts in order to splice a pesticide directly into ...
despite multiple experiments showing potential long-term dangers - stomach
lesions ...
http://www.lamonitor.com/articles/2005/12/08/features/features01.txt
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Empty Skies: World's Birds at Risk - Environmental News Network (press
release) - San Rafael, CA, USA ... In addition to direct poisoning from
fertilizer and pesticide applications, runoff of chemicals contaminates the
wetlands that migrating waterfowl rely on. ...
http://enn.com/aff.html?id=1038
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Environmental Workers Union Expresses Grave Concerns About New EPA Rules on
Human Testing - Rule Would Limit Human Subject Protections, Allow for
Unethical Research. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The American
Federation of
Government Employees (AFGE) yesterday issued a letter to Environmental
Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson
addressing its concerns with a new EPA proposed rule regarding human subject
testing. "AFGE is extremely concerned that the proposed rule has so many
loopholes and exceptions to provide any sort of enforceable ethical
standards for intentional dosing human studies," said Charles Orzehoskie,
president of AFGE's National Council of EPA locals, which represents
approximately 6,500 EPA employees. "It creates serious ethical and liability
problems for EPA employees, and directly conflicts with EPA's mission to
'protect human health and the environment.'"
http://sev.prnewswire.com/environmental-services/20051208/DCTH02108122005-1.html
See also:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-testing1207,1,6944477.story?coll=bal\
-nationworld-headlines
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Local ranchers switch to organic beef -by Nathan Rushton, 12/9/2005 - While
only two cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, better known as mad cow
disease, have been confirmed in the United States since late 2003, a
national debate over how American cattle should be tested hasn't yet
subsided. The exact cause of BSE is not known, although scientists say the
disease is likely caused by an infectious form of a type of protein found in
the central nervous tissues of a bovine's brain and spinal cord........ The
entire California's California Agriculture journal article can be read at
http://californiaagriculture.ucop.edu.
http://www.eurekareporter.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?ArticleID=6322
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December 09, 2005 - Labor contractor back. Despite conviction for abusing
workers, license legally granted. By Jeff Cull, jcull@... & Amy
Williams, awilliams@... . There are 510 farm labor contractors
in the U.S. who are barred from supplying labor to pick vegetables and fruit
because they violated laws that protect farm workers. Abel Cuello Jr.,
however, is not one of them. The Immokalee labor contractor who prosecutors
called "brutal" for beating migrant workers and extorting money from them to
pay off smuggling debts, spent 33 months in prison for enslaving migrant
farm workers in 1999. But today he's back in business, furnishing labor to
farmers in Florida and New Jersey. And it's perfectly legal.
http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051209/NEWS01/512090414/1\
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Fri 09 Dec 2005 - Daily Telegraph - Pioneering Springwatch lab to be closed
down by Charles Clover Environment Editor in Montreal. THE laboratory which
found that the British spring is now happening three weeks earlier than 50
years ago and which pioneered research into the effects of the pesticide DDT
on wildlife is to be closed down by a research council. Monks Wood
laboratory in Cambridgeshire provided the research behind BBC television's
Springwatch programmes, with Bill Oddie, this year.
It is also where scientists discovered in the 1960s that DDT was thinning
the shells of peregrine falcons' eggs.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/12/09/nsci09.xml&sShee\
t=/news/2005/12/09/ixhome.html
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Friday, December 9, 2005 - ABC Online - Safety review warns against diazinon
use. It is unlikely wool growers will continue using the chemical diazinon,
after a safety review found it could cause health problems in farmers.
Diazinon, and other chemicals used to treat lice and flystrike in sheep,
were reviewed by the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines
Authority, which yesterday presented the results to industry
representatives. Robert Pietsch from grower group Wool Producers says
although improved safety labelling is enough for some pesticides, the
meeting made it clear there were serious health concerns with diazinon. "We
would hope to have a meeting as soon as possible into the new year to have a
robust discussion and to look for the way forward," he said. "The biggest
issue that we have is that there are not a lot of products out there which
are totally effective against both lice and fly, and diazinon is a very
effective product in the control of lice on s
heep. And that's where I think the greatest loss would be."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200512/s1527624.htm
(What a terrible lie! See my Lice Chapter at
http://www.safesolutionsinc.com under "Resources".)
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Thu 08 Dec 2005 - The Pembroke Daily Observer - Certified organic? Foods
labeled 'organic' have come out of the 'health food store' niche and many
products are fast becoming mainstream in the largest of supermarkets. For
example, 'organic' milk can be found right alongside 'conventional' milk in
the store cooler and now typically at only ten cents more a litre. It's no
surprise that organic foods currently comprise the fastest growing sector of
Ontario's agriculture. http://www.kemptvillec.uoguelph.ca/gen3/ag_media.htm
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US OMRI Approval Awarded For Innovative New Pest Control System - Exosect, a
leading technology provider of environmentally-conscious insect pest
control, today announced it has received organic verification from OMRI -
the Organic Materials Review Institute - for five of its products - Exosex
CM, Exosex GMB, Exosex OFM, Exosex PTB, Exosex TPW.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/12/prweb319719.htm
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Measles United States, 2004 -
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5448a1.htm?s_cid=mm5448a1_e
Late Relapse of Plasmodium ovale Malaria Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
November 2004 -
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5448a2.htm?s_cid=mm5448a2_e
Outbreak of Cutaneous Bacillus cereus Infections Among Cadets in a
University Military Program Georgia, August 2004 -
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5448a3.htm?s_cid=mm5448a3_e
Errata: Vol. 54, No. 47 -
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5448a8.htm?s_cid=mm5448a8_e
QuickStats: Annual Rate of Visits per Person to Physician Offices, by
Patient Age Group United States, 2003 -
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5448a9.htm?s_cid=mm5448a9_e
FDA Approval of Havrix(r) (Hepatitis A Vaccine, Inactivated) for Persons
Aged 1--18 Years -
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5448a4.htm?s_cid=mm5448a4_e
Epidemiology in Action Course -
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5448a5.htm?s_cid=mm5448a5_e
Epidemiology in Action: Intermediate Methods -
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5448a6.htm?s_cid=mm5448a6_e
Epi Info: A Course to Develop Public Health Software Applications -
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5448a7.htm?s_cid=mm5448a7_e
U.S. MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY UPDATE -Notifiable Diseases and Reported
Deaths -
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5448md.htm?s_cid=mm5448md_e
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American torture policy puzzling - Kansas City Star - BRUSSELS, Belgium -
American policy on torture took a twisted path this week as Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice crossed Europe. On Monday, before boarding a plane
for Berlin, she said that "the United ...
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/13364055.htm
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Update 6: Troop Levels in Iraq May Drop, Rumsfeld Says - Forbes - Defense
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday he expects some 20,000 US troops
to return home from Iraq after next week's elections, and he suggested that
some of the remaining 137,000 forces could pull out next year. ...
http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/ap/2005/12/08/ap2379802.html
Rumsfeld says 'I have no plans to retire' -
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N08289639.htm
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Update 16: GOP Seeks Quick Passage of New Patriot Act - Forbes -
Congressional Republican leaders will press for passage next week of a new
Patriot Act to combat terrorism, but a Senate filibuster looms on a measure
that liberal and conservative critics alike say is a threat to individual
liberties. ...
http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2005/12/09/ap2380604.html
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Let Iraqis fight it out - Press & Sun-Bulletin - Binghamton, NY, USA ...
Answer: an arrogant fool from Texas. The whole of the Middle East is not
worth one drop of American blood. Impeach Bush and let Iraq have its civil
war.
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051208/OPINION/5120803\
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A few more for your impeachment list - Modesto Bee - Modesto, CA, USA -
"Impeach the lot of 'em" (Nov.25, Letters) stated that President Bush and
his Cabinet should be impeached. The writer left some people off the list.
...
http://www.modbee.com/opinion/letters/story/11566851p-12300756c.html
See all stories on this topic
http://news.google.com/news?ie=utf8&oe=utf8&persist=1&hl=en&client=google&ncl=ht\
tp://www.modbee.com/opinion/letters/story/11566851p-12300756c.html
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What About the White House? TPMCafe - New York, NY, USA ... Congress can do
some things on its own (like impeach a President despite the ... The "K
Street Project", for instance, was well-entrenched before Bush came into ...
http://houseoflabor.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/12/8/16616/2263
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Voices: Nuts! - Joplin Globe - Joplin, MO, USA ... "By "get rid of", I mean
impeach from office. I felt the need to clarify that. ... "I heard Chavez's
side of the story. I say get rid of Bush.". ...
http://www.joplinglobe.com/story.php?story_id=213923
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And cause not corruption upon the earth - Gulf Times - Doha, Qatar ...
Environmental pollution with its widespread destruction is another form of
causing corruption upon the earth in modern times. This ... Little wonder
then that the corruption caused upon the earth after it has been reformed is
regarded by Allah as being the worst of all crimes for it is tantamount to
challenging Allah and His Messenger and waging war on them. It is an attack
on the strong pillars upon which the belief and firm constitution of the
Muslim nation are built and on which its moral structure stands. The
perpetrators of such mischief are guilty not only of their own crimes, but
also of laying a bad precedence for others to follow - what an evil practice
and ugly path! .......
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=63837&version=\
1&template_id=47&parent_id=27
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I have posted a lot of free pest control alternatives and other relevant
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http://www.safesolutionsinc.com/resources.htm and/or
http://www.thebestcontrol.com . There is a free 86 page booklet on how to
control most pest problems without using any pesticide POISONS entitled: THE
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Mosquitoes, a free chapter on Detoxification and a section on fire ants from
my newest IPM manual/encyclopedia entitled: THE BEST CONTROL II. All of
these copyrighted items are free for you to simply read and/or download.
There simply is no need to POISON yourself.
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at: http://www.safesolutionsinc.com/healthy.pdf .
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Respectfully, Stephen L. Tvedten
USA Representative - MCS International
http://www.mcs-international.org
Websites: http://www.thebestcontrol.com , http://www.getipm.com ,
http://www.learnipm.com , http://www.safesolutionsinc.com
To learn more about the Bug Stops Here Yahoo group group, please visit:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thebugstopshere

Mark Twain once noted: "Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon
the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those
conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to
examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by-and-by convince himself
that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys
after this process of grotesque self-deception."
'
Thomas Jefferson once noted: "When the government fears the people, you have
liberty; when the people fear the government, you have tyranny."

Albert Einstein once noted: "The world is a dangerous place to live; not
because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do
anything about it."