- As recently as Nov. 4, 2006, President Bush was publicly
praising 74-year-old Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for his service
to the nation, his wartime leadership and expressed his "sincere"
desire that the increasingly unpopular Rumsfeld would continue as secretary
of defense until his term is over in 2008. But the president was not sincere;
he was lying. The day after the election, "Rummy" announced
he was stepping down from the top spot in the Pentagon. As President Bush
was explaining why he lied to America about Rumsfeld's pending resignation
at a day-after-election press conference, he was still praising Rumsfeld's
"accomplishments". The president failed to mention that Rumsfeld's
Pentagon couldn't account for "misplacing" nearly $3 trillion.
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- Chicago Tribune columnist Stephen J. Hedges more accurately
summed up Rummy's "accomplishments" in his Nov. 12, 2006 editorial,
"Winter Comes for a Beltway Lion: Rumsfeld rose and fell with his
conviction intact." Hedges noted Rumsfeld's "accomplishments"
are the result of his bet that ill-equipped Arabs defending their homes
were no match for the technologically-superior professional military under
his direction. He was wrong and history will remember him as the defense
secretary who failed in Iraq. Though the end of the Rumsfeld story has
yet to be written, we can state with certainty that the thousands of American
soldiers and (at least) 700,000 Iraqi and Afghani men, women and children
non-combatants who have been killed under his authority since Sept. 11,
2001, are merely the most recent examples of the murder and misery this
ruthless beltway bureaucrat has been inflicting on our world since the
late 70s
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- On the way up
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- At age 29, Princeton educated wrestling champion, navy
pilot and presidential aid Republican Donald Rumsfeld was elected by Illinois
to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1962. Rummy began accumulating
political contacts-and power-for the next 14 years. After leaving the House,
he held several high-level executive posts during the Nixon era and became
the youngest defense secretary in U.S. history under Gerald Ford. When
Ford lost the White House to Jimmy Carter in 1976, Rummy was unemployed
in D.C. for the first time since 1962. In 1978 Rummy's career as a public
poisoner-for-profit began when he became CEO of G.D. Searle, a small pharmaceutical
company. When Rummy took the helm, Searle was being investigated by the
U.S. Department of Justice for attempting to defraud the FDA into approving
artificial aspartame as a safe artificial sweetener when lab tests proved
it was a neurotoxic, carcinogenic drug. He was able to pull political strings
to get Searle out of legal trouble and influenced President Reagan's appointment
of Arthur Hull Hayes as FDA Commissioner to politically approve the sale
of aspartame in 1981--over the objections of FDA scientists, independent
researchers and consumer safety advocates.
- Monsanto bought Searle for $2.7 billion in 1985, and
the Searle family walked away with about $1 billion. Rumsfeld's take was
about $12 million.
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- Let him hear their cries
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- Since Rumsfeld "called in his markers" to achieve
aspartame approval in the 80s, millions of cases of aspartame poisoning
have been reported where ever aspartame is found in foods, beverages and
medical preparations. According to FDA records, adverse reactions to aspartame
comprise about 80 percent of consumer complaints. The agency has published
a list of 92 symptoms of aspartame poisoning which includes blindness,
joint pain, chronic fatigue, weight gain, sexual dysfunction, mental illness
and death. Its use is linked to chronic illnesses such as cancer, diabetes,
lupus, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease-illnesses that have become
globally pandemic since aspartame was approved. During the 1980s when
congressional hearings were being held on the dangers of aspartame, Dr.
H.J. Roberts predicted that, if aspartame approval was not reversed at
that time, in five or 10 years "aspartame disease" would be a
global plague. By 2001, Dr. Roberts had published the 1,038-page text
"Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic" proving his prediction
came to pass.
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- The testimonies of people who have suffered the consequences
of aspartame poisoning, a cluster of symptoms most appropriately called
"Rumsfeld's disease," are as varied as they are numerous. Aspartame
is a multipotential carcinogen linked to a variety of cancers; a teratogen
linked to birth defects; an abortifacient implicated in untold numbers
of pregnancies ending unexpectedly and without explanation; a neurotoxin
associated with neurodevelopmental and behavioral disorders in children
and the development of central nervous system complications in adults-a
list that includes MS, fibromyalgia and various forms of dementia; it reacts
with other chemicals to increase chemical sensitivity and; it reacts with
pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines to produce a full spectrum of off-label
reactions and adverse events.
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- It would take a several volumes to memorialize the stories
of those whose lives have been adversely affected by aspartame. The fact
that all the components and end products of aspartame are toxic to humans
and the fact that Rumsfeld is absolutely responsible for aspartame's 25-year
reign of medical misery, demands our action. Rumsfeld should be compelled
to publicly defend his decision to poison the world with aspartame while
in the court-ordered presence of those whose lives have been destroyed
by his chemical weapon of mass misery.
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- Athletes
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- Aspartame triggers an irregular heart rhythm, interacts
with cardiac medication, damages the cardiac conduction system and causes
sudden death. A lot of aspartame-associated deaths are in athletes whose
running depletes magnesium reserves--magnesium protects the brain and heart
from excitotoxins such as aspartame and monosodium glutamate. Neurosurgeon
Russell Blaylock, M.D., author of "Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills"
wrote the Athlete Alert on Sudden Cardiac Death which explains the biochemical
processes involved.
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- Poisoning American Fighting Men
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- Aspartame is made up of three components, aspartic acid
(an excitotoxin), a methyl ester which immediately becomes methanol, then
converts to formaldehyde and formic acid, and phenylalanine, (a neurotoxin
as an isolate) The molecule breaks down to diketopiperazine, a brain tumor
agent. Aspartame breaks down at 86 degrees or moderate temperature. During
the first Gulf War, soldiers were drinking Rumsfeld poison by the pallet
load in diet sodas sitting in the 120 degree Arabian son. As stated
previously, aspartame (and its toxic byproducts) interacts with all drugs
and vaccines. Corporate-neutral, non-government researchers explain that
the enormous volume they were exposed to. Consumption of aspartame formaldehyde
cocktails is likely a factor in the epidemic of of hot diet sodas consumed
by Desert Storm personnel interacted with the drugs, chemicals and vaccines
to which they were exposed. Consumption of aspartame formaldehyde cocktails
is likely a factor in the epidemic of "Gulf War Illness" tragically
affecting hundreds of thousands of Desert Storm veterans and their families.
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- Gulf War veteran, Geoffrey, reported yesterday what
they had to drink were aspartame diet sodas and confirmed again the pallets
were piled one on top of the other in the hot sun for weeks. He was young
but his hair was gray as happens because of aspartame mitochondrial damage
which helps you age. Aspartame addicts because of the liberation of free
methyl alcohol, which causes chronic methanol poisoning. This affects
the dopamine system of the brain and causes the addiction. He was still
using it. His vision was affected as expected because the methanol converts
to formaldehyde and formic acid in the retina of the eye and destroys the
optic nerve. Prior to aspartame use he had not worn glasses. From headaches
and blood pressure elevation to weight gain he is the typical aspartame
victim. He is dizzy most of the time, and dizziness is #2 on the FDA list
of 92 symptoms. He had no idea aspartame triggers these problems. His
son is in Iraq and he planned to immediately warn him to abandon diet pop
and Wrigley's gum. His best friend, a diet pop addict, was just found
dead in a chair. He said, "I was fighting for my country, and I try
to help people, and my health has been destroyed." Just one of
millions of cases of Rumsfeld Disease.
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- The pop companies knew. The protest of the National
Soft Drink Assn (now American Beverage) is in the Congressional Record
of 1985 and explains aspartame breaks down at 86 degrees, and that it
violates the adulteration statute. Coke and Pepsi knew the gun was loaded
before they shipped this venom to kill and maim the troops.
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- Who murdered Chuck Fleming?
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- Diane Fleming, a mother of three and a Sunday school
teacher with no criminal history, was convicted of murdering husband Chuck
Fleming and sentenced to spend 30 and 20 years concurrently in a Virginia
prison. The autopsy shows Chuck died of acute methanol poisoning after
experiencing chronic methanol poisoning for years. The jury convicted
Diane of poisoning her husband with an unopened jug of methanol-containing
windshield cleaner, even though it was analyzed and they found none to
be missing. Was the windshield wiper fluid found in the Gatorade he drank
because this is what was alleged? Even the forensic toxicologist who gave
the affidavit admitted in December 2001, while he was requested to perform
certain tests involving several bottles of Gatorade mixture, which he had
previously determined contained methanol, and a bottle of windshield washer
fluid, he was not able to identify any. In fact, he said the method he
used did not have the appropriate sensitivity necessary to identify trace
concentrations of windshield washer fluid colorant in the Gatorade. He
further stated he could not definitively determine whether any amount
of windshield washer colorant was present in the Gatorade mixture and,
therefore, did not issue a Certificate of Analysis. He then advised Investigator
Elizabeth Baker of the Chesterfield County Police Department via telephone
he would not be issuing a report because no definitive conclusions could
be reached from the tests.
- Chuck was a body builder who played basketball about
four times a week and used a lot of aspartame-containing products. Several
physicians including Dr. H. J. Roberts reviewed Chuck's lifestyle, aspartame
intake, and studied his autopsy report. Dr. Roberts stated, "On the
basis of the prodigious amounts of aspartame products he [Chuck] consumed
and the finding of a severe fatal metabolic acidosis, coupled with a high
concentration of methanol in the blood and no other reasonable explanation,
I concur with the cause of death as methanol poisoning - in this case due
to considerable methanol consumption in the form of aspartame products
If the facts about this case that have been reviewed are correct, it is
my firm opinion that Diane Fleming should be immediately freed from wrongful
imprisonment to rejoin her familyFurthermore, the FDA should be so advised
by the court, and recommend that aspartame products be labeled as an imminent
health threat, and either so labeled or removed from the market."
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- Repeated attempts to intervene on Diane's behalf have
not been able to secure her release from prison. A Motion for Reconsideration
before the Virginia State Supreme Court was rejected. Diane's Petition
for Writ of Habeas Corpus was earlier turned down.
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- There was complete shock Diane was ever convicted in
the first place since there was no evidence. It was even admitted at the
trial what he drank couldn't have killed him. The jury was asked why
they convicted her and stated because Diane could show no emotion. Of
course, she couldn't, she had been given Zoloft because of her anxiety
on being indicted. Diane herself was using aspartame and it interacts
with Zoloft and makes you like a Zombie. She was drugged.
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- Not even the press could believe a person could be convicted
when there was no evidence. Alan Cooper of the Richmond Times-Dispatch
wrote the family and stated:
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- "The formal sentencing of Diane Fleming is scheduled
for April 25. I know of nothing else in the way of additional investigation
or development. I expect her lawyer to again ask the judge to set aside
the conviction BECAUSE THE EVIDENCE WAS INSUFFICIENT TO CONVICT HER.--------
I, and most of those in the courtroom, were surprised that the jury convicted
her.
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- "It was a most unusual case, the first poisoning
homicide trial I've covered in almost 30 years and hundreds of cases as
a reporter. I thought the evidence showed that Ms. Fleming probably was
the one in the best position to poison her husband, but there was nothing
about a motive or even where the methanol, the poisoning agent, might have
come from."
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- Diane Fleming even today still cries about losing her
husband. You see her emotion when interviewed for the aspartame documentary,
"Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World." But because she was drugged
with aspartame and Zoloft, Rumsfeld Disease claimed another victim, and
she has been in a cold prison cell for four years for a crime committed
by his approval of poison.
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- Dr. Fierro
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- Virginia State Medical Examiner (ME) Dr. Marcella Fierro
has the authority to recommend that Diane be released immediately based
upon the forensic facts revealed in the autopsy report as supported by
innumerable pieces of circumstantial evidence. After making repeated promises
to talk with Dr. Roberts to discuss the possibility that Diane was wrongfully
convicted of murdering her husband, Dr. Fierro, keep canceling. She was
sent a copy of the peer reviewed journal article by Dr. Woodrow Monte:
"Aspartame: Methanol and the Public Health". Finally she shows
up for the meeting with Fleming's attorney at the time, Craig Cooley,
Dr. Pearson (forensic toxicologist), Dr. Pearson's colleague from toxicology,
William Davenport and Warren Von Schuch in March 2004. Again, she was
given Dr. Monte's paper. When it was time for the conference call with
Dr. Roberts for which the meeting was set up in the first place, she refused.
He had spent hours preparing irrefutable evidence Fleming died from aspartame.
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- Dr. Fierro said she had done her own independent research
and there was no legitimate scientific basis to conclude aspartame ingestion
played any role in Chuck's methanol poisoning. She advised that no "referred"
(peer reviewed) scientific or medical journal had ever substantiated the
position Dr. Roberts and other citations provided were taking. Yet she
was holding a scientific peer reviewed paper on the subject. Even in the
1985 congressional record, reporting the protest of the National Soft Drink
Assn, now American Beverage, they admitted aspartame violated federal adulteration
statutes. Aspartame liberates free methyl alcohol, making approval illegal.
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- If Dr. Fierro had found some evidence to dispute overwhelming
evidence of methanol poisoning by aspartame it would be reasonable that
she would have looked forward to talking to Dr. Roberts to explain and
put the issue to rest. But she was afraid of talking to this world expert.
Why?
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- Dr. Woodrow Monte said "Every molecule of aspartame
produces a molecule of methanol." The chronic methanol poisoning was
documented on the autopsy proving the fact. He was highly addicted
to it stockpiling it in the garage and getting upset if the fridge wasn't
always stocked with diet pop laced with aspartame.
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- At the meeting Dr. Fierro commented Charles had ingested
methanol on two previous occasions, but that his physicians had not picked
it up because they weren't looking for acute methanol poisoning. This
is ludicrous. He would have been dead the first time. And how could she
say on two occasions when she didn't know Fleming? This was obvious a
coverup of the evidence of the chronic methanol poisoning on the autopsy.
This leads to death, as in Chuck's case, building up over time from repeated
non-lethal levels of ingestion, such as those that science has proven to
occur with aspartame consumption. The autopsy also showed pulmonary edema
seen on other autopsies of aspartame victims as well as a fatty liver,
as expected. And because aspartame damages the cardiac conduction system
and his autopsy showed cardiomegaly or an enlarged heart of unknown origin,
this probably was the immediate cause of death.
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- Rather than expose aspartame and recommend Diane's conviction
for murder be vacated, based upon a scientifically-supported review of
her husband's autopsy report, Dr. Fierro has chosen to let an innocent
woman sit in prison. Dr. Fierro has a history of using her capacity as
an ME to influence the outcome of investigations for political reasons.
She was the ME who authorized a revised autopsy report in the death of
Vince Foster in 1993. Foster was President Clinton's Chief of Counsel.
Dr. Fierro's alteration allowed Foster's apparent murder to appear as a
suicide. Had the original entry location of the bullet stood, the suicide
conclusion would have been hard to explain since people committing suicide
do not ordinarily shoot themselves in the back of the head.
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- Dr. Roberts wrote the Grievance Committee of the Virginia
Medical Board: : "I have seen the letter sent to you by Betty Martini,
and concur with her concern about Diane Fleming whom I believe has been
falsely incarcerated. My reasons were stated in two affidavits. As noted,
I have been actively interested in methanol poisoning from aspartame products
for more than two decades, and have written extensively on the subject.
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- "This is a pro bono volunteered effort intended
to help an apparently innocent person. I do not know Mrs. Fleming, but
her plight deserves more interest and consideration from this medical
examiner. I repeatedly made myself available to Dr. Fierro for an interview/consultation,
but she refused to speak to me. Under the circumstances, I also must
question her indifference or bias."
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- The continued investigation of Dr. Fierro keeps showing
a link to Senator Orrin Hatch.
- Even in Commonwealth Currents, Sept 1999, there was
an article about Governor Jim Gilmore announcing the establishment of the
Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine. In the list of Board
of Directors there they were again, Marcella F. Fierro and Senator Orrin
Hatch. Senator Hatch knows exactly how deadly aspartame is. A press release
dated February 11, l986 titled: "Hatch Says No To Committee Hearings
on Aspartame". It states: "Senator Orrin Hatch said that he
is not alarmed over the artificial sweetener aspartame, that an initial
reading of documents recently delivered to him reveal no pre-approval issue
that has not been thoroughly aired before, and consequently "it would
serve no useful purpose to commit Committee resources to this issue at
this time." Yet Hatch knew the FDA wanted the manufacturer indicted
and both US Prosecutors were hired by the defense team. He also knew Rumsfeld
called in his markers to get it approved when the FDA said no. Why is
Senator Hatch from Utah on this Virginia Board? Since he has been trying
to protect the aspartame industry for years did he confer with Fierro on
this case. Is this the real reason Dr. Fierro refused to talk with Dr.
Roberts. Once she had the evidence there would be no way to deny it any
further. Investigative reporters should probe further. There are too many
unanswered questions.
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- An ironic twist to the Rumsfeld legacy
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- A "jury" just found Saddam Hussein "guilty"
of crimes for which the punishment will be death by hanging. His death
will be delayed indefinitely, however, as there will be an appeals process
and he will likely be tried for numerous other crimes, including the alleged
mass murder of some 30,000 Kurds in northern Iraq in the 80s. There are
photos and documents proving that, during the Reagan era, Rumsfeld brokered
the sales of chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein-the chemicals Saddam allegedly
used on the Kurds. Is it not bizarre that Saddam's downfall came with Rumsfeld
as his adversary and that Rumsfeld's failure to "win" in Iraq
will be the final blot on his public service career? Is it not our job
to deepen the poetry of this strange twist by using Rummy's final fall
from grace as a platform upon which to seek justice for all those ravaged,
in one way or another, by the weapon of mass misery this man unleashed
on the world 25 years ago?
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- For reasons that have yet to be fully understood, Dr.
Fierro and the Virginia's Supreme Court have not relented in the persecution
of Diane Fleming who, the evidence plainly shows, is innocent of the crime
of murdering her husband. She even passed a lie detector test and the detective
on the case, Bob Skowron said: "Diane Fleming did not poison her
husband. I've sent a lot of people to prison but no way could I sleep
at night if I was responsible for an innocent woman being convicted. I
would have stopped the indictment but right at that time I got promoted
and taken off the case." Absent a favorable ruling from the court
ordering Diane's release, with apologies, Rumsfeld will be getting away
with another murder. This time, instead of soldiers being paid to wage
Rummy's private war on humanity, a sweet, charitable Sunday school-teaching
mother of three will pay by spending perhaps the rest of her life in a
Virginia prison.'
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- To help with Diane's legal defense, send donations to
- David Hargett, Attorney
- 11545 Nuckols Road, Suite C
- Glen Allen, Virginia 23059
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- To the media: Diane is becoming very ill and has a lump
in her leg. Medical neglect is the rule in prison. We have to get this
innocent woman out. We implore you to follow the links below, do whatever
additional research you feel is necessary and help us help Diane get back
home where she belongs. Call us anytime.
- Dr. Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible Intl (770)
242-2599
- Don Harkins, The Idaho Observer (208) 255-2307
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- Additional evidence in support of Rumsfeld's treachery
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- Rumsfeld's disease: A politically-induced biochemical
disaster of global proportions: http://www.proliberty.com/20050805.htm
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- The FDA Board of Inquiry Report that revoked Searle's
petition for aspartame approval: http://www.wnho.net/fda_petition1.doc
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- Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World:
- Consumer advocate attorney James Turner explains how
Rumsfeld said he would call in his markers and get aspartame on the market
even though the FDA had not only revoked the petition for approval but
even tried to have Searle, the original manufacturer indicted for fraud
under Title 18, Section
- 1001: http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld2.html
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- The entire Sweet Misery documentary DVD is available
from The Idaho Observer at http://www.idaho-observer.com
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- FDA list of 92 aspartame-related symptoms with links
to published medical journal reports describing them: http://www.dorway.com/symptoms/
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- Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com
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- Aspartame interacts with all drugs and vaccines
- http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_interacts.htm
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- Case histories of aspartame adverse-events: http://www.dorway.com/
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- Athlete Alert on Sudden Cardiac Death by Russell Blaylock,
MD:
- http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_msg_scd.htm
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- The Diane Fleming story: http://proliberty.com/observer/20030612.htm
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- Dr. Fierro's role in the Vince Foster affair: The Secret
Life of Bill Clinton by Ambrose Evans Pritchard
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- Congressional Record: http://www.wnho.net/congressional_record1.doc
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- Aspartame, Methanol and the Public Health by Dr. Woodrow
Monte http://www.dorway.com/monte84.html
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- Mission Possible International, http://www.dorway.com
and http://www.wnho.net
- The Diane Fleming Story is also in the Artificially Sweetened
Times produced by the Idaho Observer
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- To contact Diane Fleming (you can only send 5 pages
that will go on one 39 cent stamp):
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- Mrs. Diane Fleming
- #311655
- FCCW 8D 209A
- Box 1000
- Troy, Virginia 22974
- (money can only be sent to her by money order with her
number on it)
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