Aspartame (E951) is consumed daily by millions of people. The sweetener is being used in over 6000 products. Aspartame was approved by the FDA back in 1981. The approval was the most contested in history because aspartame caused cancer in lab animals.

The ingestion of the widely used sweetener called aspartame, better known as Nutra Sweet or Equal, may just be responsible for what the authors say is a dramatic increase in the number of people who develop brain tumors. Consumer advocates and researchers have become more vocal about what they say may be aspartame’s adverse effects. They asking the Food and Drud Administration, the FDA, to take another hard look at aspartame.

Better known by its brand names Nutra Sweet or Equal, aspartame is the most popular sugar substitute in the world. Since the FDA approved it back in 1981, aspartame has become a multi billion dollar industry. What most consumers don’t know is that aspartame’s approval was one of the most contested in FDA history. Consumers have reported more than 7000 adverse reactions to the FDA ranging from dizziness to headaches to seizures. But the makers say it is the most tested food additive ever, and that it’s safe for the tens of millions who use it worldwide.

Aspartame was discovered in the mid-60s at GD Searle, the Chicago drug company. So it was bought by Monsanto and then was spun off to form the Nutra Sweet Kelco Company. The FDA originally approved aspartame back in 1974, but FDA investigators soon found serious problems in some of the studies that Searle had submitted to the FDA and so a task force was able to investigate many of Searle’s tests.

Dr. Erik Millstone is a food safety expert at the University of Sussex in England. He’s been a critic of Britain’s approval of the sweetener for over a decade. He says that Searle’s tests are so flawed there’s simply no way to be sure that aspartame is safe.

Some scientists allege that the industry tries to influence research. Dr. Ralph Walton, a professor of psychiatry at Northeastern Ohio University’s College of Medicine, recently did a survey of aspartame studies. He found, that the results of industry sponsored research turned out very differently from the non industry sponsored studies.
I looked at the medical literature, addressing the safety of aspartame. I found 164 studies. 74 were funded by the Nutra Sweet industry. Every single one of them attested to the safety of aspartame. Of the 90 independently funded studies, 83 identified a problem.

What we’re talking about is waking up one morning and being very surprised to find that high potency therapeutically effective clinically significant nutrients are now illegal in the way that heroin is illegal. Not available with a prescription…illegal.

we have recombinant bovine growth hormone and now we can choose milk with it milk, without it butter with it; butter without it…not under Codex. Under Codex every dairy cow on the planet must be treated with Monsanto’s recombinant bovine growth hormone. Furthermore, under Codex, every animal used for food on the planet, whether it has fins feet or feathers, must be treated with subclinical antibiotics.

Codex requires…mandates that all food be irradiated. Unless it’s eaten locally and raw. All food including organic food of course. So is it organic afterwards? Well of course the organics standards incredibly are low. The organic standards allow a farmer to use veterinary drugs including growth hormones, antibiotics etc…on animals and then at his whim reclassify them as organic…

If you are still smarting from the economic collapse in 2008, you’d better buckle your seat belt Dorothy, because Economic Armageddon is coming and the MSM (main stream media) is not talking about it.

A handful of patriots are voicing the issue, but no one is listening.

There are events unfolding and some yet to unfold that will leave you wondering how you are going to survive.

The mortgage problem, the unemployment problem, the shipping problem, the Afghanistan surge problem, etc.

A Perfect storm is brewing and nobody seems to care.

Add to it, the Biden, Powell, et. al. prophetic words of an impending or potential (almost certain) “terrorist” attack and you’ve got a complete and total Collapse (with a capital C) of the economy.

We’re talking destitute Americans in the streets. No money, no food, no homes, no employment…

California which represents 1/3 of the US GDP is talking about issuing I.O.U.’s. Imagine calling your bank and saying, hey, all I have this IOU from the state, can I pay my mortgage with it?

I’m trying to connect the dots, but you need to read the information.

Hopefully you will arrive at the same conclusion before it’s too late.

Shipping rates hit zero as trade sinks

“Freight rates for containers shipped from Asia to Europe have fallen to zero for the first time since records began, underscoring the dramatic collapse in trade since the world economy buckled in October…It has spread to core trade of finished industrial goods, the lifeblood of the wold economy.” Telegraph.co.uk Jan. 15, 2009

“A report by ING yesterday said shipping activity at US ports has suddenly dived. Outbound traffic from Long Beach and Los Angeles, America’s two top ports, has fallen by 18pc year-on-year, a far more serious decline than anything seen in recent recessions.

‘This is no regular cycle slowdown, but a complete collapse in foreign demand,’ said Lindsay Coburn, ING’s trade consultant.” Telegraph.co.uk Jan. 15, 2009

If that doesn’t make you shudder, then I suggest you go back to watching American Idol, or whatever mundane task you were doing, because you just don’t get it.

It means goods are not being shipped, think empty store shelves, because that’s what is next.

Adjustable Rate Mortgage Loans

“According to Huxley Somerville, a director at Fitch Ratings, $29 billion of these loans will reset by the end of 2009 and another $67 billion in 2010. The drastic increases anticipated on each loan are expected to cause delinquencies to more than double.” Motley Fool

The Coming Tsunami

The Mortgage problems are not over yet. If “Revelation” of the Subprime mess shook the Dow from 13,028 in June to a bottom of 7,552 on Nov. 20, 2008, what kind of effect can we expect from the ARM, ALT A, Agency loans that will start resetting in 2009?

Citi exposed to $60 billion in subprime loans – may need more cash.

“I would argue that the $18.3 billion in Alt-A loans are just as suspect and dangerous to the company as the subprime loans. While many subprime loans are made to homeowners with bad credit, the Alt-A loans were made to specuvestors with little or no documentation that will be unable to afford the new mortgage payments when these Alt-A loans reset or recast in the near future.” Huliq News

And that’s just Citibank. When are Fannie & Freddie, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and others going to announce?

What about the Investment Banks that are still stuck with these loans? What about the US Government who took out interests in Fannie, Freddie and others in the bailout, or as I like to call it, the “sellout” (as in, “of America”)

And NONE of this includes commercial properties/loans. Not one word from anyone, except one person and I can’t find his information.

How much exposure do the American People have in the Commercial market? No one knows.

Unemployment at 16-year high

In December, the number of unemployed persons increased by 632,000 to 11.1 million and the unemployment rate rose to 7.2 percent. Since the start of the recession in December 2007, the number of unemployed persons has grown by 3.6 million, and the unemployment rate has risen by 2.3 percentage points. Bureau of labor statistics.

Add to that, the Federal Reserve’s audacity to deny disclosure of nearly $2 Trillion dollars. As determined by the court, and I’m paraphrasing, that (bold) We the People are not party to what the Federal Reserve (a private corporation) does with its money.

Suddenly, conspiracy theories start to play themselves out…

North American Union
Civil Unrest
Martial Law
One World Government…

Sadly, I do not have a solution. I do however subscribe to the ideas that Peter Schiff and Ron Paul and other brave patriots have stated.

*Let the economy fix itself
*Stop printing money
*Let’s return to the Gold Standard
*Merge the Fed with Treasury (an Actual Government Entity)

You’d better be ready. Start preparing and don’t get caught in the downdraft.

The fact that shipping hit Zero in Europe means you’d better start stocking up on essentials.

We conspiracists have been telling you for months.

These are my opinions.

New York, New Jersey, Michigan, MA, TN, and many other states are depleting or have depleted Unemployment funds.

States are asking the Federal Gov for a Bailout. ($1 Trillion)

Obama asked for $875 BILLION plus the $300 Billion from TARP.

“The president-elect would devote 40% of the $775 billion to give taxpayers a break, but his party is urging him to put more into roads, bridges and other projects.” L.A. Times

That’s right, Democrats don’t want you to have tax breaks, they want to give it to big companies and government to “build” our infrastructure. You know, eh hmm, their friends.

Any guesses as to who might get a lion share of the contract (s)?

Halliburton and KBR

Halliburton announced that it would relocated it’s Texas based World Headquarters from Texas to Dubai. It will still maintain a corporate US office in Texas, but the CEO is moving UAE. (ABC news 03/11/2007)

Halliburton is no longer an American company, but they will probably get the contract, along with KBR.

The Federal Reserve is Printing More Money, thereby increasing Our National Debt. If you add up all debts and liabilities, it adds to about $53 Trillion (look it up).

Yet, Executives are getting Bonuses

And Nobody is disclosing where the money is.

* AIG ‘Retention Pay’ Rises to $619 Million

* Detroit CEOs to Get $1 Per Year? Not Quite. (see story)——>

* Morgan Stanley, which has received no less than $10 billion in bailout funds, paid out $2 billion in bonuses this year, according to The New York Times.

* Goldman Sachs, another beneficiary of billions in TARP funds, reportedly rewarded some employees with $200,000 cash bonuses.

* Members of the US Congress started 2009 with a 2.8 cost of living increase ($4,700 for 535 members) which amounts to about $2.5 Million.

” ‘ All 2.7 million federal employees receive a cost of living adjustment most years, which this year has been set at 2.8 percent for members of Congress and other senior federal officials, and 3.9 percent for rank-and-file employees,’ said Congressman Mike Thompson.” Lake County News

Bank of America just got a $25 Billion infusion, on top of the $15B from October. But they still plan on FIRING 35,000 employees.

BA stock went from $38 on Oct. 1, 2008 to $7 as of Jan. 16, 2009.

Do you remember the Secret FISA meeting from Mar. 13, 2008?

What was discussed?

There are several videos, but here is the list:

1. The Imminent Collapse of the US Economy to occur sometime in Late 2008.

2. The Imminent Collapse of the US Government Finances to occur sometime in Mid 2009.

3. The Imminent possibility of Civil War inside the US as a result of the collapse.

4. The Advance Roundups of insurgent US Citizens who are likely to move against the Government.

5. The Detention of those rounded up at Rex84 camps constructed throughout the US.

6. The possibility of public retaliation against members of congress for the collapse.

7. The Location of safe facilities for members of congress and their families to reside during this massive civil unrest.

8. The Necessary and unavoidable merger of the United States with Canada and Mexico establishing the North American Union.

9. The issuance of a new currency called the Amero for all three nations as an economic solution.

As many are aware at this time, both our societal integrity and ecological integrity are in serious question. The current economic system is falling apart at an accelerating rate with the prospect of worldwide unemployment and destabilization occurring possibly on the largest scale ever seen. Simultaneously we are cording the point of no return in regard to the destruction of the environment. Given the current state of affairs, many of which will be addressed in the first part of this presentation, the viewer should find that we not only need to move in another direction, we have to.

In order to understand where we are and how we have gotten to this point in history, we need to address those societal attributes which have greatly effected our social conduct. The most important observation of this regard is our use of a monetary system. In this section we are going to address the mechanisms of our world monetary system, pointing out the consequences this type of organizational structure has produced.

A monetary system’s foremost motivating principle is profit, or more generally income. All people must seek out a strategy to acquire more money. A wage earner seeks out the best possible pay he can get for his services, while the employer seeks to constantly reduce costs in order to maximize their profit. This competitive mentality extends into all facets of society and it should be no surprise that those who are in positions of great wealth are often the most ruthless and indifferent.

The pursuit of profit almost always comes before human concern. And a simple glance at the cancer causing preservatives in our foods, the planned obsolescence of nearly everything manufactured, along with a healthcare industry that charges $300 for a single antibiotic pill will indicate that the profit incentive is actually a detriment.

We are being afflicted with a new disease of which some readers may not yet have heard the name, but of which they will hear a great deal in the years to come – namely, technological
unemployment. This means unemployment due to our discovery of means of economizing the use of labor outrunning the pace at which we can find new use of labor. John M. Keynes

Energy is the cornerstone of society today. It is one of the most critical factors to all social functionality. The age of oil and fossil fuels along with all the resulting pollution is coming to a close. There is no reason to burn fossil fuels at all anymore, other than the profit oriented vested interest that keeps new clean energy prospects at bay. Remember, the last thing the energy industry wants is abundance for that translates into a loss of profit in the monetary system.

A resource based economy utilized existing resources rather than commerce. All goods and services are available without the use of currency, credit, barter or any other form of debt or servitude. The aim of this new social design is to free humanity from the repetitive, mundane, and arbitrary occupational roles which hold no true relevance to social development while encouraging a new incentive system that is focused on self-fulfillment, education,social awareness and creativity as opposed to the shallow and self centered goals of wealth, property and power which are dominant today. The Venus Project recognizes that the Earth is abundant with resources. And that our outdated methods of rationing resources through monetary control are no longer relevant. In fact they are very counter productive to our survival.