Part 3 of Aspartame Trilogy

(Note: The two previous articles contain the first two parts of the trilogy; The Love of Expert Money and Snapshot of the Empire .)

The case of winning official sanction to distribute the artificial sweetener aspartame illustrates how money dictates the course of events. Truth, health, people, environment, justice or any value considered precious to humanity has minimal influence in a conflict with money. As Donald Rumsfeld states, “Politics, not Science.” The very idea of denying science should cause people to unlock the safety on their guns. To overrule science with politics is to overrule facts with ideas, or truth with money. As preposterous as that sounds it’s now the law of the land.

Money rules and the rulers know no evil. Aspartame is still on the market and can be found in some 6000 products despite heavy science pointing out that pain, suffering and death has occurred, is occurring and will continue to occur because of its poisonous effects. Anyone responsible for this ingredient spreading among the population declares themself evil. They could justifiably be made to wear small signs such as: Certified Psychopath; Mammon’s Servant; Money’s Whore, or Greed’s Bitch.

Aspartame and other artificial sweeteners harm health, AND are unnecessary. They don’t save lives or cure ailments. We don’t suffer from not drinking sweeten, carbonated, and chemicalized water.

These sweeteners inject poison into our bodies, stress our digestive system and confuse our metabolism trying to deal with these strange molecules that don’t break down into useful elements if they can be broken down at all. What’s our biological machinery to do with all this junk?

The story of aspartame is part of the money-rules anthology of our times. The invasion of Iraq killed 100s of 1000s of people, displaced millions and cause destruction and misery on a mass scale. Just another money-rules story of our times. Vietnam is another ancient money-rules story. As is Kennedy’s assassination.

Among current stories we have: slavery in private prisons; lead-laced drinking water; police thieves and murderers; surveillance; tax-breaks for the richest; serf wages… and many, many more money-rules stories. Not to mention Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Palestine…
Yes, Palestine where the US has its largest military outpost they call Israel garrisoned by Zionist fanatics.

There are pharmaceutical stories; medical stories; food stories; academic stories; oil stories, on and on and on, all parts of the money-rules narrative. The media money-rules story pretends not to know of people-first stories. Money rules. It doesn’t want to hear vulgar people-first stories.

Yes, money rules, but respect, honesty, helpfulness, empathy, humor and the other values written into our DNA contract ferment below the prevailing (money-rules) order causing people-first stories to bubble up to the surface with promises of dramas of life, comedies of love and epics of glory.

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”If we treat our bodies like garbage bins, they are bound to trash us.”
Dartwill Aquila

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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.