Aspartame: Safety Approved in 90 Nations, but Damages the Brain — Via Mercola.com
By Dr. Mercola
More than 90 countries have given the artificial sweetener aspartame the green light to be used in thousands of food and beverage products.1
Two hundred times sweeter than sugar, aspartame allows food manufacturers to produce sweet foods they can market as “low calorie,” “diet,” or sugar-free,” appealing to hundreds of millions of consumers looking to cut sugar from their diets.
No doubt about it, the less sugar you include in your diet, the better. But replacing sugar with aspartame is not the solution, and in fact is likely to be even worse for your health.
Despite assurances from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other public health agencies that aspartame is safe, the research says otherwise…
So What the Heck is Aspartame Made Of?
Virtually all of the marketing material emphasizes the fact that aspartame is natural and made of two amino acids, the building blocks of protein. But, like many deceptions, this is only partially true. While there are two amino acids that comprise 90% of aspartame, aspartic acid and phenylalanine, they are held together in a methyl ester bond that comprises 10% of the molecule.
The methanol is released from the aspartame within hours of consumption after hydrolysis of the methyl group of the dipeptide by chymotrypsin in the small intestine. Once this methyl ester bond is broken it liberates free methyl alcohol or methanol, which is commonly called wood alcohol. The problem with methanol is that it passes into your blood-brain barrier and is converted into formaldehyde, which causes the damage. You may recognize formaldehyde as embalming fluid.
Interestingly, methanol is only toxic in humans. All other animals are able to detoxify it before it causes damage.
Methanol is a toxin that destroys the myelin tissue in your body, which is the insulating material around your nerves that allows nerve signals to travel properly. Once injured, one can have what are called demyelinating symptoms that are commonly seen in diseases like MS and also migraines that can include bizarre and inconsistent visual field disruptions.
My sister that helped me start my practice in 1985 is actually one of the people that develops these symptoms when exposed to aspartame. In the late ‘80s I helped to diagnose her with this sensitivity and she has avoided it for over 25 years.
Why is Methanol So Toxic?
Methanol breaks down into formic acid and formaldehyde in your body. Many experts believe formic acid is the problem but the real problem is the formaldehyde, which is a deadly neurotoxin and carcinogen. An EPA assessment of methanol states that methanol “is considered a cumulative poison due to the low rate of excretion once it is absorbed. In the body, methanol is oxidized to formaldehyde and formic acid; both of these metabolites are toxic.”2
They recommend a limit of consumption of 7.8 mg/day. But according to Woodrow Monte, Ph.D, R.D., director of the Food Science and Nutrition Laboratory at Arizona State University:3
“When diet sodas and soft drinks, sweetened with aspartame, are used to replace fluid loss during exercise and physical exertion in hot climates, the intake of methanol can exceed 250 mg/day or 32 times the Environmental Protection Agency’s recommended limit of consumption for this cumulative toxin.”
Further, he states that due to the lack of a couple of key enzymes, humans are many times more sensitive to the toxic effects of methanol than animals. Therefore, tests of aspartame or methanol on animals do not accurately reflect the danger for humans.
“There are no human or mammalian studies to evaluate the possible mutagenic, teratogenic, or carcinogenic effects of chronic administration of methyl alcohol,” he said.
Symptoms from methanol poisoning are many, and include headaches, ear buzzing, dizziness, nausea, gastrointestinal disturbances, weakness, vertigo, chills, memory lapses, numbness and shooting pains in the extremities, behavioral disturbances, and neuritis. The most well known problems from methanol poisoning are vision problems including misty vision, progressive contraction of visual fields, blurring of vision, obscuration of vision, retinal damage, and blindness. Formaldehyde is a known carcinogen that causes retinal damage, interferes with DNA replication and may cause birth defects. The researchers in the featured study then reasoned that the aspartame-induced methanol exposure was likely possible for oxidative stress in the brain.
New Study Shows Aspartame Damages Your Brain
A newly published study with rats investigated the chronic effect of aspartame on oxidative stress in the brain. Researchers found that there was a significant increase in lipid peroxidation levels, superoxide dismutase activity, GPx levels and CAT activity, showing that chronic exposure of aspartame resulted in detectable methanol in the blood, which may be responsible for the generation of oxidative stress and damage in the brain.4
So the study found that aspartame exposure did result in “detectable levels” of methanol in the blood. Methanol is gradually released in the small intestine when the methyl group of aspartame encounters the enzyme chymotrypsin.
Are Artificial Sweeteners Stressing Out Your Brain?
Oxidative stress can be defined as the state in which damaging free radicals outnumber your antioxidant defenses. Oxidative stress tends to lead to accelerated tissue and organ damage.
Case in point, earlier this year another study investigated the effect of long-term intake of aspartame on the antioxidant defense status in the rat brain and also found it leads to oxidative stress.5 Male rats that were given a high dose of the artificial sweetener exhibited a lowered concentration of reduced glutathione (the active, antioxidant form of glutathione), and reduced glutathione reductase activity, a sign of increased oxidative stress-induced damage in the body.
Glutathione deficiency has also been linked to age-related diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Examination also revealed mild vascular congestion – an obstruction of the normal flow of blood within the brain – in these rats. Researchers concluded:
“The results of this experiment indicate that long-term consumption of aspartame leads to an imbalance in the antioxidant/pro-oxidant status in the brain, mainly through the mechanism involving the glutathione-dependent system.”
Adding to the problem, one of the amino acids in aspartame, aspartic acid is capable of crossing your blood-brain barrier. There it attacks your brain cells, creating a form of cellular overstimulation called excitotoxicity, which can lead to cell death.
Your blood-brain barrier, which normally protects your brain from excess aspartate, as well as toxins, is not able to adequately protect you against the effects of aspartame consumption because it:
•Is not fully developed during childhood
•Does not fully protect all areas of the brain
•Is damaged by numerous chronic and acute conditions
•Allows seepage of excess aspartate into the brain even when intact
That excess aspartate slowly begins to destroy neurons, and the large majority (75 percent or more) of neural cells in a particular area of the brain are killed before any clinical symptoms of a chronic illness are noticed. Then, when they do occur, they may or may not be associated with aspartame consumption, even though examples of chronic illnesses that are made worse by long-term exposure to excitatory amino acid damage include:
Multiple sclerosis (MS) ALS Memory loss
Hormonal problems Hearing loss Epilepsy
Alzheimer’s disease and dementia Parkinson’s disease Hypoglycemia
AIDS Brain lesions Neuroendocrine disorders
Why Was Aspartame Ever Approved?
If it causes brain damage, why is aspartame allowed in our food and drinks? The truth of the matter is the FDA rejected aspartame not once but multiple times. The scientific data just did not support it as a safe product. But the FDA is a federal agency subject to the political winds, and the people in charge of the agency have repeatedly and notoriously been accused of many conflicts of interest, both economically and ethically.
In 1975, the FDA came to the conclusion that aspartame should not be allowed on the market. They requested that further studies be conducted. The FDA’s next move was to set up a public board of inquiry composed of outside experts to investigate the safety of aspartame, and in 1980 that board unanimously rejected aspartame’s request for approval. Another internal FDA panel convened in 1980 also rejected aspartame for approval.
So it was three strikes against aspartame at this point, four strikes if you count the Bressler Report. This report was compiled in 1977 after FDA scientists looked into the field studies conducted on aspartame. The Bressler Report uncovered fraud and manipulation of data so serious that the FDA forwarded their files to the Chicago U.S. Attorney’s office for prosecution.
Basically the results of the scientific data were fairly clear up until 1980: Aspartame was a dangerous, brain-tumor-causing man-made poison and the company trying to get it into the food supply was recommended for prosecution by the FDA. You would think that would be the end of aspartame, right?
Not by a long shot.
For more details on the story of how aspartame made it through the FDA approval process despite warning signs of potential health hazards and alleged scientific fraud, please watch the 60-Minutes report below, as Mike Wallace does a nice job of summarizing an otherwise very long story.
Did You Know Aspartame May Make You Fat?
If you’re one of the people who suffers from headaches/migraines, vision problems, fatigue, anxiety attacks, abdominal pains or other symptoms when you consume aspartame, deciding to eliminate it from your diet was probably an easy choice.
For the rest of you, doing so based on the possibility that it could “one day” cause symptoms of brain damage is much more abstract, and probably much less likely to make you take action today.
That’s why I want to share with you one of the major deceptions surrounding artificial sweeteners like aspartame, which is that they will help you lose weight by avoiding sugar.
This is a MYTH. Research has shown that artificial sweeteners can:
•Stimulate your appetite
•Increase carbohydrate cravings
•Stimulate fat storage and weight gain. In fact, diet sodas, which are well-known sources of artificial sweeteners, may actually double your risk of obesity!6
So much for being a dieter’s best friend… The point is, if you’re having a hard time giving up aspartame based on its potential to damage your brain, maybe the fact that it could make you pack on the pounds in the very near future will motivate you toward positive change.
My Favorite Tool for Addressing Artificial Sweetener Addictions
Artificial sweeteners tend to trigger enhanced activity within your brain’s pleasure centers, yet at the same time provide less actual satisfaction. This separation of the taste of sweetness from caloric content means that when you consume artificial sweeteners, your brain actually craves more of it because your body receives no satisfaction on a cellular level by the sugar imposter. This can actually contribute to not only overeating and weight gain, but also an addiction to artificial sweeteners.
In order to break free, be sure you address the emotional component to your food cravings using a tool such as the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). More than any traditional or alternative method I have used or researched, EFT works to overcome food cravings and helps you reach dietary success. If diet soda is the culprit for you, be sure to check out Turbo Tapping, which is an extremely effective and simple tool to get rid of your soda addiction in a short amount of time.
If you’re determined to sweeten your foods and beverages, I urge you to consider using stevia extract – a safe and natural sweet herb, which is my personal sweetener of choice. Lo Han is another herbal sweetener that doesn’t have the aftertaste of stevia that many object to.
Message from Bigfoot Via ForbiddenknowledgeTV.com
Giant Wings of Those Giant Birds: Part 1 -Is it all True Series #251
I was maybe 5 years old, but I remember it as if it was yesterday. I was lying on the grass at my grandparents’ home looking up at some beautiful puffy clouds when I saw this very huge bird flying high in the sky between two of these very white clouds. It is something I would never forget as I still remember it 58 years ago. It was as big as an aircraft, which is what I first thought it was, but when the wings started to flap I knew it was a bird.
I lived in Tucson for about three years and I knew a pilot who would fly the border between Arizona and Mexico for a government agency, I guess for drug recon. He told me on one particularly bright sunny day, he was flying a small single engine and off to his right there was a huge bird nearly the size of his plane. It turned and looked him in the eye and then veered to its right into the cloud deck. He thought he was flying about 175 miles per hour at the time of the incident. He was visibly shaken even as he told me the story weeks after.
I have talked to many different American Indians over the years about their thunderbird legend. And the description is quite consistent between the tribes. The bird has a 12 to 20 foot wingspan, dark in color, very large beak and fierce red glowing eyes. The eyes have an almost human quality to them. These thunderbirds would take a sheep or two, a dog and legend said a child or two would go missing never to be found.
Another personal encounter with these huge creatures was about 3 years ago while I was doing some exploring east of Albuquerque in the mountains. I was in a dense forest canopy, and I walked into an opening and started hearing this strange loud flapping noise and looked up and saw this huge dark figure passing over the clearing. It was quick, but I could make out the size and shape, the size of a small plane flapping its wings.
Sleep tight, for 99.8% of the time our bird encounters are of the small kind, but it’s the .2% of the time that makes life quite exciting
MWiz.
Albert Rosales and his very Strange World, # 89
Location. Near Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
Date: November 28 2009
Time: 1030a
The witness was driving to Al Ain (located 135km from Abu Dhabi) when he stopped his car for a break, strangely his car radio stopped playing and only emitted a strange ‘tune’. He had his camera with him so he took a few pictures of the desert. There was a fence to keep civilians out of desert (strange) but he jumped the fence to take few pictures and started walking towards a sand dune. Suddenly he spotted something, which at first he thought was a plane, and then he saw this thing moving very fast and suddenly stop. It then came closer to the witness and at this point he couldn’t move his body and his camera was still in his hand, but he couldn’t move anything. His head and eyes were fixed on the object. When it came a bit closer the witness saw that it was round in shape with no windows, and ‘sand’ in color. It hovered about 50 feet away from the witness and began to spin rapidly. The witness then fell to his knees as he felt “waves” coming from it and had a strong headache. The object moved again and then suddenly changed into a triangular form and started moving slowly away. When the object vanished in the distance the witness was able to move again. Since the incident the witness has suffered from headaches, had really strange dreams in which he sees shapes, (circles, triangles, etc) he then sees numbers and possibly equations. In the dream he then sees a place where there are big clouds and explosions and strange circles that appear to be connected to the Earth. The witness also alleges he has become sort of clairvoyant as he is able to experience the feelings of people, animals and even trees. He says he is having difficulty coping with the whole situation.
HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: F?
Bolivia enshrines natural world's rights with equal status for Mother Earth
Law of Mother Earth expected to prompt radical new conservation and social measures in South American nation
Bolivia is set to pass the world’s first laws granting all nature equal rights to humans. The Law of Mother Earth, now agreed by politicians and grassroots social groups, redefines the country’s rich mineral deposits as “blessings” and is expected to lead to radical new conservation and social measures to reduce pollution and control industry.
The country, which has been pilloried by the US and Britain in the UN climate talks for demanding steep carbon emission cuts, will establish 11 new rights for nature. They include: the right to life and to exist; the right to continue vital cycles and processes free from human alteration; the right to pure water and clean air; the right to balance; the right not to be polluted; and the right to not have cellular structure modified or genetically altered.
Controversially, it will also enshrine the right of nature “to not be affected by mega-infrastructure and development projects that affect the balance of ecosystems and the local inhabitant communities”.
“It makes world history. Earth is the mother of all”, said Vice-President Alvaro García Linera. “It establishes a new relationship between man and nature, the harmony of which must be preserved as a guarantee of its regeneration.”
The law, which is part of a complete restructuring of the Bolivian legal system following a change of constitution in 2009, has been heavily influenced by a resurgent indigenous Andean spiritual world view which places the environment and the earth deity known as the Pachamama at the centre of all life. Humans are considered equal to all other entities.
But the abstract new laws are not expected to stop industry in its tracks. While it is not clear yet what actual protection the new rights will give in court to bugs, insects and ecosystems, the government is expected to establish a ministry of mother earth and to appoint an ombudsman. It is also committed to giving communities new legal powers to monitor and control polluting industries.
Bolivia has long suffered from serious environmental problems from the mining of tin, silver, gold and other raw materials. “Existing laws are not strong enough,” said Undarico Pinto, leader of the 3.5m-strong Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia, the biggest social movement, who helped draft the law. “It will make industry more transparent. It will allow people to regulate industry at national, regional and local levels.”
Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca said Bolivia’s traditional indigenous respect for the Pachamama was vital to prevent climate change. “Our grandparents taught us that we belong to a big family of plants and animals. We believe that everything in the planet forms part of a big family. We indigenous people can contribute to solving the energy, climate, food and financial crises with our values,” he said.
Little opposition is expected to the law being passed because President Evo Morales’s ruling party, the Movement Towards Socialism, enjoys a comfortable majority in both houses of parliament.
However, the government must tread a fine line between increased regulation of companies and giving way to the powerful social movements who have pressed for the law. Bolivia earns $500m (£305m) a year from mining companies which provides nearly one third of the country’s foreign currency.
In the indigenous philosophy, the Pachamama is a living being.
The draft of the new law states: “She is sacred, fertile and the source of life that feeds and cares for all living beings in her womb. She is in permanent balance, harmony and communication with the cosmos. She is comprised of all ecosystems and living beings, and their self-organisation.”
Ecuador, which also has powerful indigenous groups, has changed its constitution to give nature “the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution”. However, the abstract rights have not led to new laws or stopped oil companies from destroying some of the most biologically rich areas of the Amazon.
NASA's Alien Anomalies Caught on Film via ForbiddenknowledgeTV.com
This is a compilation of UFO encounters
captured on film by NASA astronauts,
Russian Cosmonauts over the past
half-century.
Amazing — interesting Video ,, some maybe space debris , but others (?)
Nature's Remarkable "30 Minute" Painkiller and the Clothing that Blocks it via Mercola.com
September 20 2012 By Dr. Mercola
When’s the last time you kicked off your shoes and reveled in the feeling of the Earth under your feet?
Been awhile?
It may sound hard to believe, but engaging in this simple pleasure could give your health a much-needed boost.
Often it is the case that engaging in activities that feel good on an intrinsic level really are good for your health — like the feeling of the afternoon sun warming your bare skin.
Walking barefoot outside, with the soles of your feet free to mesh with the surface of the Earth – an activity known as Earthing, or grounding — is another such case.
I have been personally intrigued with grounding for nearly seven years and have been seeking to ground myself most of the time.
This is a fascinating leading-edge concept, and I would strongly encourage you to carefully read the featured article for more details.
You are an Electrical Being, and the Earth’s Surface is Electrically Conductive
You are an electrical being — your body regularly produces positive charges, which can oxidize and harm you if it is excessive..
The Earth’s surface is electrically conductive; it maintains a negative charge with its free electron supply continually replenished by the global atmospheric electrical circuit.
As such, as reported in the Journal of Environmental and Public Health:
“It is an established, though not widely appreciated fact, that the Earth’s surface possesses a limitless and continuously renewed supply of free or mobile electrons.
… Mounting evidence suggests that the Earth’s negative potential can create a stable internal bioelectrical environment for the normal functioning of all body systems. Moreover, oscillations of the intensity of the Earth’s potential may be important for setting the biological clocks regulating diurnal body rhythms, such as cortisol secretion.”
There is growing research showing that this connection to the Earth’s surface plays a vital role in preventing disease and offers a host of benefits from improved sleep to pain relief. The problem, of course, is that while humans have historically spent much of their days with their bare skin next to the Earth (both while walking and sleeping, including on animal skins, which still allow electrons to enter the body), today this vital connection has been lost.
Researchers continue:
“Throughout history, humans mostly walked barefoot or with footwear made of animal skins. They slept on the ground or on skins. Through direct contact or through perspiration-moistened animal skins used as footwear or sleeping mats, the ground’s abundant free electrons were able to enter the body, which is electrically conductive. Through this mechanism, every part of the body could equilibrate with the electrical potential of the Earth, thereby stabilizing the electrical environment of all organs, tissues, and cells.
Modern lifestyle has increasingly separated humans from the primordial flow of Earth’s electrons. For example, since the 1960s, we have increasingly worn insulating rubber or plastic soled shoes, instead of the traditional leather fashioned from hides… Obviously, we no longer sleep on the ground as we did in times past.”
What Happens When You Absorb Free Electrons from the Earth?
The scientific theory behind the health benefits seen from this simple practice is that since the Earth has a greater negative charge than your body, you end up absorbing electrons from it. This is, in my understanding, one of the most potent antioxidants we know of and may have an anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effect on your body. As written in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine:1
“It is well established, though not widely known, that the surface of the earth possesses a limitless and continuously renewed supply of free or mobile electrons as a consequence of a global atmospheric electron circuit. Wearing shoes with insulating soles and/or sleeping in beds that are isolated from the electrical ground plane of the earth have disconnected most people from the earth’s electrical rhythms and free electrons.
… A previous study demonstrated that connecting the human body to the earth during sleep (earthing) normalizes the daily cortisol rhythm and improves sleep. A variety of other benefits were reported, including reductions in pain and inflammation. Subsequent studies have confirmed these earlier findings and documented virtually immediate physiologic and clinical effects of grounding or earthing the body.”
To put it simply, it’s thought that the influx of free electrons from the Earth’s surface will help to neutralize free radicals and reduce both acute and chronic inflammation, which is at the root of many health conditions and accelerated aging.
A Review of Earthing Research Shows Significant Benefits
In a new article published in the Journal of Environmental and Public Health2, researchers reviewed the Earthing research, revealing an impressive impact on a variety of health conditions. Most of the studies involved indoor testing methods that simulated being barefoot outdoors. This was found to offer improvements in the following conditions:
Sleep disturbances, including sleep apnea Chronic muscle and joint pain, and other types of pain Asthmatic and respiratory conditions Rheumatoid arthritis
PMS Hypertension Energy levels Stress
Immune system activity and response Heart rate variability
Primary indicators of osteoporosis
Fasting glucose levels among people with diabetes
Another invaluable benefit is this: when your body is grounded, researchers write, “its electrical potential becomes equalized with the Earth’s electrical potential through a transfer of electrons from the Earth to the body.” This, in turn, offers an “umbrella” of protection against the electromagnetic fields that are now ubiquitous in our environment. The paper continues:
“The study confirms the “umbrella” effect of earthing the body explained by Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman in his lectures on electromagnetism. Feynman said that when the body’s potential is the same as the Earth’s electric potential (and thus grounded), it becomes an extension of the Earth’s gigantic electric system. The Earth’s potential thus becomes the “working agent that cancels, reduces, or pushes away electric fields from the body.”
Most of the scientists working in this area now believe that the beneficial effects are mediated through reduction in inflammation and a thinning of the blood. In fact the blood thinning effect is so profound that if you are taking blood thinners it is recommended to immediately consult with your doctor, as most likely your blood thinner will need to be lowered.
Two Ways to Make Sure You Stay Grounded
The effects of grounding appear to be so profound that researchers suggest health practitioners prescribe outdoor “barefoot sessions” as the weather permits. This is as simple as it sounds – you kick off your shoes and socks and walk barefoot on the grass, the dirt, the sand or whatever “Earth” is available to you. Studies suggest that benefits such as pain relief and stress reduction may occur in just 30-80 minutes of barefoot time a day.
This can obviously be a challenge during the winter, or if you live in an urban area without easy access to parks or other barefoot-friendly surfaces, so the other option is to use a grounding or Earthing pad, which allows you to get the benefits of the Earth’s electrons even if you’re indoors, especially when you’re sleeping. I’ve been using one for several months now, especially when I travel by plane, as air travel is a suspected cause of weakening bio-electric currents.
So, like access to regular sun exposure, walking barefoot outside is a grossly neglected foundational practice that you can easily correct. In the Journal of Environmental and Public Health, researchers concluded:
“Emerging evidence shows that contact with the Earth—whether being outside barefoot or indoors connected to grounded conductive systems—may be a simple, natural, and yet profoundly effective environmental strategy against chronic stress, ANS [autonomic nervous system] dysfunction, inflammation, pain, poor sleep, disturbed HRV [heart rate variability], hypercoagulable blood, and many common health disorders, including cardiovascular disease.
The research done to date supports the concept that grounding or earthing the human body may be an essential element in the health equation along with sunshine, clean air and water, nutritious food, and physical activity.”
Enjoy from Sandy Penny — Solar Angels
The Truth Seeker – a Lonely Journey -Is it all True Series #250
I have been a Truth-seeker all my life , hence my website Truthseekerforum. Being a Truth-seeker is a very hard job in this skeptical world. Even when you have absolute truth on your side coming from the best scientists and professionals our world has known . This truth can mean nothing in a world of apathy and complacency and a world that fears change through truth. Even family members, reject the possibility that another family member could be speaking of a major break-through of truth and knowledge. So I tell you its a lonely journey for us Truth-seekers, if one does not continue to question , we may go on , believing established lies.
Below is an email I received from a fellow Truth-seeker as he tries to reconcile with his family – his journey for truth and how it fits into their lives.
Enjoy MWiz,
PS I may not agree on all the content of this email , but I truly feel his struggle.
I value ‘a difference of opinion’ too… within the context of ‘truth-seeking’.
A difference of opinion… & skepticism is great… until it begins to
‘interfere’ with one’s ability to perceive ‘actual empirical reality’
known as ‘factual evidence’. At that point, the person who can ‘see’
the empirical reality… after exhausting all patience to be ‘helpful’
to the ignorant other party… would be better off spreading the
message to others who are more ‘open-minded’.
This is especially important to do if the empirical reality indicates
extreme danger to the ENTIRE WORLD at the hands of a few insane
people who would destroy the world if they couldn’t ‘have their way’.
Indeed, THIS HAS BEEN a ‘race to save the planet’.
In other words, you may be building this nice ‘Sustainable Living’
society (which is WONDERFUL) while our factories are building weapons
& our US foreign policy is being used to promote wars of aggression
which are MUCH MORE RAPIDLY causing unimaginable suffering &
long term pollution to this planet (atrocities committed in our name).
But have no fear, enough people HAVE waked up to handle the situation.
You may continue ‘sleeping in’ to the ‘bigger reality’. It’s a ‘done deal’…
we have won… as long as we don’t ‘let up’ for a moment until it is truly ‘over’!
When will YOU realize that I am not ‘alone’ in my ‘opinion’?
When will YOU realize that I am a ‘truth-seeker’ & ‘teacher’…
& that it makes NO LOGICAL SENSE for me to have continued on a
self-imposed mission for over 11 years… if the conspiracy &
full scale coverup of 9/11 weren’t true?
My family members have not been ‘enroll-able’ in over 11 years about 9/11.
Do you have any concept of how frustrating that is… that my POSITIVE
message of ‘hope for humanity’ is considered ‘negative’ by you all?
Have you considered WHY you think of my message as ‘negative’ & I
consider it positive? When the truth of 9/11 gets to average people…
in a way that helps them to ‘connect the dots’, do you truly believe
that the world will stay the same & our corrupt government will
be allowed to continue in the status quo?
By the way, I’m not alone in that frustration either. Most of my peers
are faced with similar situations with THEIR family members! 🙂
In staying separate from family for a number of days, I have generated
enough patience to try this one more time to get through to you…
In my own PERSONAL research, in pursuing the empirical truth,
I discovered in May, 2001, two empirical realities at odds with ‘mainstream
reality’ (the perception of the masses of people).
1) A mainstream attempt at ‘disclosure’ about UFOs (about which I had
predicted to you, Jane, & Fred 4 yrs & 7 months earlier after watching
3 episodes in a row of ‘X-Files’ with the 3 of you… in Oct, 1996. If you
recall, I stated to you “Mark my words, there will be a credible ‘coming
out’ of info about UFOs in three to five years.” And in unison, all 3 of
you exclaimed, “Yeah right Pop!” Do you remember that?
News of the Disclosure Project, May 9, 2001 at the National Press Club,
Washington, DC… fizzled in the mainstream media after just 2 days
of reporting… because of heavy-handed censorship. But remember…
by Oct. 1996, I had already personally witnessed 3 UFOs. So, I was
ecstatic to report the news of the ‘Disclosure Project’ when I found
out about it. And I most certainly DID report the news with great
enthusiasm… but with body language responses from most people
of eyes just rolling back inside their heads in utter disbelief & an
unwillingness to engage in further conversation.
2) I came across evidence of a covert operation that had occurred in
1933 at the time of the bankruptcy of the U.S…. what was done
behind closed doors to create a legal framework to enslave all US
citizens without their knowledge. We still have a ‘national debt’.
We still have this problem! It has gotten FAR WORSE in the
past 11 years! [In fact, it is the basis of the financial crises of
most of the western world RIGHT NOW!]
These two things came together in a single deep insight that I had
back in late May of 2001. I recognized that the existence of these two
realities was ‘not possible’ if it were not for Lies, Deceit, & Secrecy from
our government. I later added “a lack of accountability of our
government to the people”. Many more insights have followed in
11 years’ time. I could not possibly have prevailed…
if I had been shown all of the truth at once.
It would have dis-empowered me!
Instead, I have dug into & handled a little bit at a time.
As I learned more, I made my findings known to others.
9/11 came along just 4 months later.
After the initial shock began to wear off about 3 days later,
I settled back down into my personal ‘skeptical mode’ that I had taken
about all new information after the huge insight of the previous May.
Upon seeing an interview of Dick Cheney about his role in 9/11,
I stated out loud when I was gripped by another possibility,
“Oh my gosh, could we have done this to ourselves?!!”
The interview of Dick Cheney aired on 9/14, & detailed his role during
the 9/11 crisis… how he had ‘managed’ everything from
under the White House in a bunker constructed for command & control…
while Bush was away in Florida participating in a reading of “My Pet Goat”
to school children there. I sensed intuitively that the Cheney interview I
was watching had been recorded PRIOR TO 9/11! Just a hunch…
an intuition… but I started to look for further evidence.
I speaking of my hunch, was ridiculed constantly… but I kept going…
because of the importance of it. I was operating on intuition…
I DID NOT have the empirical data YET. I attempted to engage others
in discussion. I attempted to engage their brains to help me to reconcile
the discrepancies. The implications of what had happened were too
serious to be ignored. If it was true, I HAD to get the word out to save us!
I tended to take the ridicule personally until one day when I recognized
that I was actually ‘privileged’ to be able to bring the information to
folks for the 1st time.
I reasoned that when a person heard it from someone else again,
they would have a familiarity with it and more likely to be able to ‘receive’
the information. Then it was much easier to slough-off any ridicule.
YES, I was ‘alone’ in the beginning about 9/11. I saw no one else & no
other people like myself & no dissenting information from the ‘official
story’… for the first 2 months after 9/11!
Do you ‘get’ just how ALONE I felt??
What started as ‘hunches’, intuition…
soon was backed up by discrepancies
between the ‘official story’ & empirical observations
with no proper explanation.
When a year later in Sept. 2002,
I had satisfied myself with enough evidence… I remembered thinking,
“The truth about 9/11 will get out, & this will all be over by 2004, for sure!”
But NO! I had no comprehension of the EXTREME control
& corruption within our federal & state governments!
Here we are 11 years later, you have 1,500 architects & engineers…
plus police, firemen, eyewitness, & family members of 9/11 victims
who did research (another 1700 people). The architects did their
science in the ‘peer reviewed’ style that you feel comfortable in.
By the way, HAVE YOU WATCHED those presentations yet…
“A&E for 9/11 Truth” PBS out of Colorado that I provided to you?
Probably not. Not worth your while, STILL NOT REAL, huh?
It’s not like you have to do years of research like I had to do.
It’s all prepared in a nice, sweet little package for you.
A few hours of watching videos & doing some reading,
and your consciousness will have been shifted.
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/20209.html
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/20213.html
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/20214.html
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/3034.html
And if you want more info all you have to do is Google it.
There’s a wealth of info ‘out there’.
Try to comprehend how ‘alone’ I have felt at times…
when I have had another ‘insight’ to an even ‘bigger picture’ & realized
that in 2001 there wasn’t but about 1 person in 10,000 (like myself) on
the planet that comprehended this level of ‘reality’… & that we needed
about 3% of the population to ‘wake up’ in order to have a ‘fighting
chance’ to get this mess straightened out in time… before the technology
of ‘control’ had grown to the point where we could not save ourselves!
With mainstream media propaganda insulating average Americans
from the truth, while constantly lying to us about EVERYTHING,
try to get into my shoes & comprehend how that has felt Jack…
to be ‘ALONE’ on that scale… & still have persevered.
Prepare yourself to be awakened… as your current reality is about
to be tweaked ‘gently but firmly’ with massive amounts of undeniable
empirical evidence spewing forth in the mainstream media over a
period of time… carefully managed to keep fear levels down to avoid
panic & chaos… info that has been available in rapidly growing
amounts… ‘at your finger tips’ on the internet since 9/11/2001.
As asleep as you & other family members still are,
you all may not grasp the ‘new reality’ until perhaps January 2013.
But KNOW that we have prevailed! The story has a happy ending!
We have a BRIGHT future. And I believe that because of the level
of the present medical technology that will soon be shown to the
public, that you will eventually be fully & completely healed of
your brain injury from the bicycle accident. ( son Jack had a bad bike accident)
I Love You,
Pop