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• Dozens of studies have linked aspartame — the world ’ s most widely used artificial sweetener — to serious health problems , including cancer , cardiovascular disease , Alzheimer ’ s disease , seizures , stroke and dementia , as well as negative effects such as intestinal dysbiosis , mood disorders , headaches and migraines .
• Evidence also links aspartame to weight gain , increased appetite and obesity-related @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Diet Soda Chemical Tied to Weight Gain .
• Evidence linking aspartame to weight gain raises questions about the legality of marketing aspartame-containing products as “ diet ” drinks or weight loss products .
In April 2015 , U.S .
Right to Know petitioned the Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) and the U.S.Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) to investigate the marketing and advertising practices of “ diet ” products that contain aspartame .
See FTC response and FDA response .
• The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said aspartame is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ certain conditions.
” The agency first approved aspartame for some uses in 1981 .
Many scientists , then and now , have said the approval was based on suspect data and should be reconsidered .
• Aspartame is the world ’ s most widely used artificial sweetener .
It is also marketed as NutraSweet , Equal , Sugar Twin and AminoSweet .
• Aspartame is present in more than 6,000 products , including Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi , Kool Aid , Crystal Light , Tango and other artificially sweetened drinks ; sugar-free @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most other brands of sugar-free gum ; sugar-free hard candies ; low- or no-sugar sweet condiments such as ketchups and dressings ; children ’ s medicines , vitamins and cough drops .
• Aspartame is a synthetic chemical composed of the amino acids phenylalanine and aspartic acid , with a methyl ester .
When consumed , the methyl ester breaks down into methanol , which may be converted into formaldehyde .
Since aspartame was first approved in 1974 , both FDA scientists and independent scientists have raised concerns about possible health effects and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ FDA by the manufacturer , G.D. Searle .
( Monsanto bought Searle in 1984 ) .
In 1987 , UPI published a series of investigative articles by Gregory Gordon reporting on these concerns , including early studies linking aspartame to health problems , the poor quality of industry-funded research that led to its approval , and the revolving-door relationships between FDA officials and the food industry .
Gordon ’ s series is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to understand the history of aspartame/NutraSweet : • What the Critics Say about NutraSweet .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ follow ups and response from NutraSweet Company ( posted here ( PDF ) .
In a July 2019 paper in the Archives of Public Health , researchers at the University of Sussex provided a detailed analysis of the EFSA ’ s 2013 safety assessment of aspartame and found that the panel discounted as unreliable every one of 73 studies that indicated harm , and used far more lax criteria to accept as reliable 84 % of studies that found no evidence of harm .
“ Given the shortcomings of EFSA ’ s risk @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of all previous official toxicological risk assessments of aspartame , it would be premature to conclude that it is acceptably safe , ” the study concluded .
See EFSA ’ s response and a follow up by researchers Erik Paul Millstone and Elizabeth Dawson in the Archives of Public Health , Why did EFSA reduce its ADI for aspartame or recommend its use should no longer be permitted ?
News coverage : • “ World ’ s most popular artificial sweetener must be banned , say experts .
Two food safety experts have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , aspartame , to be banned in the UK and questions why it was deemed acceptable in the first place.
” New Food Magazine ( 11.11.2020 ) • “ ‘ Sales of aspartame should be suspended ’ : EFSA accused of bias in safety assessment , ” by Katy Askew .
Food Navigator ( 7.27.2019 ) While many studies , some of them industry sponsored , have reported no problems with aspartame , dozens of independent studies conducted over decades have linked aspartame to a long list of health problems , including : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ date on aspartame , three lifespan studies conducted by the Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research Center of the Ramazzini Institute , provide consistent evidence of carcinogenicity in rodents exposed to the substance .
• Aspartame “ is a multipotential carcinogenic agent , even at a daily dose of … much less than the current acceptable daily intake , ” according to a 2006 lifespan rat study in Environmental Health Perspectives .
• A follow-up study in 2007 found significant dose-related increases in malignant tumors in some of the rats .
“ The results … @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of [ aspartame ’ s ] multipotential carcinogenicity at a dose level close to the acceptable daily intake for humans … when life-span exposure begins during fetal life , its carcinogenic effects are increased , ” the researchers wrote in Environmental Health Perspectives .
• The results of a 2010 lifespan study “ confirm that [ aspartame ] is a carcinogenic agent in multiple sites in rodents , and that this effect is induced in two species , rats ( males and females ) and mice ( males ) , ” the researchers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Harvard researchers in 2012 reported a positive association between aspartame intake and increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and multiple myeloma in men , and for leukemia in men and women .
The findings “ preserve the possibility of a detrimental effect … on select cancers ” but “ do not permit the ruling out of chance as an explanation , ” the researchers wrote in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition .
In a 2014 commentary in American Journal of Industrial Medicine , the Maltoni Center researchers wrote that the studies submitted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ do not provide adequate scientific support for [ aspartame ’ s ] safety .
In contrast , recent results of life-span carcinogenicity bioassays on rats and mice published in peer-reviewed journals , and a prospective epidemiological study , provide consistent evidence of [ aspartame ’ s ] carcinogenic potential .
On the basis of the evidence of the potential carcinogenic effects … a re-evaluation of the current position of international regulatory agencies must be considered an urgent matter of public health.
” In 1996 , researchers reported in the Journal of Neuropathology @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the introduction of aspartame to an increase in an aggressive type of malignant brain tumors .
“ Compared to other environmental factors putatively linked to brain tumors , the artificial sweetener aspartame is a promising candidate to explain the recent increase in incidence and degree of malignancy of brain tumors … We conclude that there is need for reassessing the carcinogenic potential of aspartame.
” • Neuroscientist Dr. John Olney , lead author of the study , told 60 minutes in 1996 : “ there has been a striking increase in the incidence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ three to five years following the approval of aspartame ) … there is enough basis to suspect aspartame that it needs to be reassessed .
FDA needs to reassess it , and this time around , FDA should do it right.
” Early studies on aspartame in the 1970s found evidence of brain tumors in laboratory animals , but those studies were not followed up .
A 2017 meta-analysis of research on artificial sweeteners , published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal , found no clear evidence of weight loss benefits for artificial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reported that cohort studies associate artificial sweeteners with “ increases in weight and waist circumference , and higher incidence of obesity , hypertension , metabolic syndrome , type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular events.
” See also : • “ Artificial sweeteners don ’ t help with weight loss and may lead to gained pounds , ” by Catherine Caruso .
STAT ( 7.17.2017 ) • “ Why one cardiologist has drunk his last diet soda , ” by Harlan Krumholz .
Wall Street Journal ( 9.14.2017 ) • “ This cardiologist wants his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Should yours , too ?
” by David Becker , M.D .
Philly Inquirer ( 9.12.2017 ) Women who consumed more than two diet drinks per day “ had a higher risk of [ cardiovascular disease ] events … [ cardiovascular disease ] mortality … and overall mortality , ” according to a 2014 study from the Women ’ s Health Initiative published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine .
People drinking diet soda daily were almost three times as likely to develop stroke and dementia as those who consumed it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ higher risk of ischemic stroke , where blood vessels in the brain become obstructed , and Alzheimer ’ s disease dementia , the most common form of dementia , reported a 2017 study in Stroke .
• See also : Boston University School of Medicine video of the study by neurologist Matthew Pase , “ Daily Consumption of Sodas , Fruit Juices and Artificially Sweetened Sodas Affect Brain.
” • “ Study links diet soda to higher risk of stroke , dementia , ” by Fred Barbash .
Washington Post ( 4.21.2017 ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in aspartame metabolizes into methanol and then it may be converted to formaldehyde , which has been linked to Alzheimer ’ s disease .
A two-part study published in 2014 in the Journal of Alzheimer ’ s Disease linked chronic methanol exposure to memory loss and Alzheimer ’ s Disease symptoms in mice and monkeys .
• “ [ M ] ethanol-fed mice presented with partial AD-like symptoms … These findings add to a growing body of evidence that links formaldehyde to [ Alzheimer ’ s disease ] pathology.
” ( Part 1 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ feeding caused long-lasting and persistent pathological changes that were related to [ Alzheimer ’ s disease ] … these findings support a growing body of evidence that links methanol and its metabolite formaldehyde to [ Alzheimer ’ s disease ] pathology.
” ( Part 2 ) Very high aspartame doses “ might also affect the likelihood of seizures in symptomless but susceptible people , ” according to a 1985 study in The Lancet .
The study describes three previously healthy adults who had grand mal seizures during periods when they were consuming high @ @ @ @ @ @ @ linked to behavioral and cognitive problems including learning problems , headache , seizure , migraines , irritable moods , anxiety , depression , and insomnia , wrote the researchers of a 2017 study in Nutritional Neuroscience .
“ Aspartame consumption needs to be approached with caution due to the possible effects on neurobehavioral health.
” Aspartame “ could impair memory retention and damage hypothalamic neurons in adult mice , ” according to a 2000 mice study published in Toxicology Letters .
High doses of aspartame “ can generate major neurochemical changes in rats @ @ @ @ @ @ @ American Journal of Clinical Nutrition .
Experiments indicated brain damage in infant mice following oral intake of aspartate , and showing that “ aspartate [ is ] toxic to the infant mouse at relatively low levels of oral intake , ” reported a 1970 study in Nature .
“ Aspartame , a popular dietetic sweetener , may provoke headache in some susceptible individuals .
Herein , we describe three cases of young women with migraine who reported their headaches could be provoked by chewing sugarless gum containing aspartame , ” according to a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crossover trial comparing aspartame and a placebo published in 1994 in Neurology , “ provides evidence that , among individuals with self-reported headaches after ingestion of aspartame , a subset of this group report more headaches when tested under controlled conditions .
It appears that some people are particularly susceptible to headaches caused by aspartame and may want to limit their consumption.
” A survey of 171 patients at the Montefiore Medical Center Headache Unit found that patients with migraine “ reported aspartame as a precipitant three times more often than those having @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aspartame may be an important dietary trigger of headache in some people , ” 1989 study in Headache Journal .
A crossover trial comparing aspartame and a placebo on the frequency and intensity of migraines “ indicated that the ingestion of aspartame by migraineurs caused a significant increase in headache frequency for some subjects , ” reported a 1988 study in Headache Journal .
Consumption of more than two servings a day of artificially sweetened soda “ is associated with a 2-fold increased odds for kidney function decline in women , ” according @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Journal of American Society of Nephrology .
Several studies link aspartame to weight gain , increased appetite , diabetes , metabolic derangement and obesity-related diseases .
See our fact sheet : Diet Soda Chemical Tied to Weight Gain .
This science linking aspartame to weight gain and obesity-related diseases raises questions about the legality of marketing aspartame-containing products as “ diet ” or weight loss aids .
In 2015 , USRTK petitioned the Federal Trade Commission and FDA to investigate the marketing and advertising practices of “ diet ” products that contain a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ related news coverage , response from FTC , and response from FDA .
Aspartame breaks down in part into phenylalanine , which interferes with the action of an enzyme intestinal alkaline phosphatase ( IAP ) previously shown to prevent metabolic syndrome ( a group of symptoms associated with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease ) according to a 2017 study in Applied Physiology , Nutrition and Metabolism .
In this study , mice receiving aspartame in their drinking water gained more weight and developed other symptoms of metabolic syndrome than animals fed similar @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ IAP ’ s protective effects in regard to the metabolic syndrome may be inhibited by phenylalanine , a metabolite of aspartame , perhaps explaining the lack of expected weight loss and metabolic improvements associated with diet drinks.
” • See also : Massachusetts General Hospital press release on the study , “ Aspartame may prevent , not promote , weight loss by blocking intestinal enzyme ’ s activity.
” People who regularly consume artificial sweeteners are at increased risk of “ excessive weight gain , metabolic syndrome , type 2 diabetes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to a 2013 Purdue review over 40 years published in Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism .
In a study that followed 66,118 women over 14 years , both sugar-sweetened beverages and artificially sweetened beverages were associated with risk of Type 2 diabetes .
“ Strong positive trends in T2D risk were also observed across quartiles of consumption for both types of beverage … No association was observed for 100 % fruit juice consumption , ” reported the 2013 study published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition .
Artificial sweeteners can induce glucose intolerance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to a 2014 study in Nature .
The researchers wrote , “ our results link NAS [ non-caloric artificial sweetener ] consumption , dysbiosis and metabolic abnormalities , thereby calling for a reassessment of massive NAS usage … Our findings suggest that NAS may have directly contributed to enhancing the exact epidemic [ obesity ] that they themselves were intended to fight.
” • See also : “ Artificial Sweeteners May Change our Gut Bacteria in Dangerous Ways , ” by Ellen Ruppel Shell .
Scientific American ( 4.1.2015 ) A 2016 study @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ Aspartame intake significantly influenced the association between body mass index ( BMI ) and glucose tolerance… consumption of aspartame is associated with greater obesity-related impairments in glucose tolerance.
” According to a 2014 rat study in PLOS ONE , “ aspartame elevated fasting glucose levels and an insulin tolerance test showed aspartame to impair insulin-stimulated glucose disposal … Fecal analysis of gut bacterial composition showed aspartame to increase total bacteria… ” According to a 2010 cohort study of 59,334 Danish pregnant women published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of artificially sweetened carbonated and noncarbonated soft drinks and an increased risk of preterm delivery.
” The study concluded , “ Daily intake of artificially sweetened soft drinks may increase the risk of preterm delivery.
” • See also : “ Downing Diet Soda Tied to Premature Birth , ” by Anne Harding , Reuters ( 7.23.2010 ) Artificially sweetened beverage consumption during pregnancy is linked to higher body mass index for babies , according to a 2016 study in JAMA Pediatrics .
“ To our knowledge , we provide the first human @ @ @ @ @ @ @ during pregnancy may influence infant BMI , ” the researchers wrote .
• See also : “ Diet Soda in Pregnancy is Linked to Overweight Babies , ” by Nicholas Bakalar .
New York Times ( 5.11.2016 ) The National Heart , Lung , and Blood Institute Growth and Health Study followed 1988 girls for 10 years to examine prospective associations between consumption of caffeinated and non-caffeinated sugar- and artificially sweetened soft drinks and early menarche .
“ Consumption of caffeinated and artificially sweetened soft drinks was positively associated with risk of early @ @ @ @ @ @ @ American and Caucasian girls , ” concluded the study published in 2015 in Journal of American Clinical Nutrition .
A mouse study published in 2017 in Redox Biology reported , “ Chronic administration of aspartame … caused liver injury as well as marked decreased hepatic levels of reduced glutathione , oxidized glutathione , γ-glutamylcysteine , and most metabolites of the trans-sulphuration pathway… ” A rat study published in 2017 in Nutrition Research found that , “ Subchronic intake of soft drink or aspartame substantially induced hyperglycemia and hypertriacylglycerolemia… Several cytoarchitecture alterations were detected @ @ @ @ @ @ @ infiltration , necrosis , and fibrosis , predominantly with aspartame .
These data suggest that long-term intake of soft drink or aspartame-induced hepatic damage may be mediated by the induction of hyperglycemia , lipid accumulation , and oxidative stress with the involvement of adipocytokines.
” From the start , G.D. Searle ( later Monsanto and the NutraSweet Company ) deployed aggressive PR tactics to market aspartame as a safe product .
In October 1987 , Gregory Gordon reported in UPI : Recent reporting based on internal industry documents reveals how beverage companies such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , including doctors and scientists , to promote their products and shift the blame when science ties their products to serious health problems .
See reporting by Anahad O ’ Connor in the New York Times , Candice Choi in the Associated Press , and findings from the USRTK investigation about sugar industry propaganda and lobbying campaigns .
• “ Coca-Cola ’ s Secret Influence on Medical and Science Journalists , ” by Paul Thacker , BMJ ( 4.5.2017 ) and author ’ s note .
• “ If Soda Companies Don ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Companies , They Need To Stop Acting Like Them , ” by Patrick Mustain , Scientific American ( 10.19.2016 ) .
• “ Critic of artificial sweeteners pilloried by industry-backed scientists , ” by Chris Young , Center for Public Integrity ( 8.6.2014 ) .
• “ The Story of How Fake Sugar Got Approved is Scary As Hell ; It involves Donald Rumsfeld , ” by Kristin Wartman Lawless .
Vice ( 4.19.2017 ) • “ The Lowdown on Sweet ?
” by Melanie Warner .
New York Times ( 2.12.2006 ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ILSI ) Wields Stealthy Influence for Food and Chemical Industries .
• Why You Can ’ t Trust the American Council on Science and Health .
• Friends of the Earth : Spinning Food : How Food Industry Front Groups are Spinning the Story of Food .

Artificial Sweetener Used in More Than 6,000 Products Linked To Host Of Serious Health Problems
Stacy Malkan, Children’s Health Defense
Waking Times
Key Facts About Diet Soda Chemical
What is Aspartame?
Aspartame is the world’s most widely used artificial sweetener. It is also marketed as NutraSweet, Equal, Sugar Twin and AminoSweet.
Aspartame is present in more than 6,000 products, including Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi, Kool Aid, Crystal Light, Tango and other artificially sweetened drinks; sugar-free Jell-O products; Trident, Dentyne and most other brands of sugar-free gum; sugar-free hard candies; low- or no-sugar sweet condiments such as ketchups and dressings; children’s medicines, vitamins and cough drops.
Aspartame is a synthetic chemical composed of the amino acids phenylalanine and aspartic acid, with a methyl ester. When consumed, the methyl ester breaks down into methanol, which may be converted into formaldehyde.
Decades of Studies Raise Concerns about Aspartame
Since aspartame was first approved in 1974, both FDA scientists and independent scientists have raised concerns about possible health effects and shortcomings in the science submitted to the FDA by the manufacturer, G.D. Searle. (Monsanto bought Searle in 1984).
In 1987, UPI published a series of investigative articles by Gregory Gordon reporting on these concerns, including early studies linking aspartame to health problems, the poor quality of industry-funded research that led to its approval, and the revolving-door relationships between FDA officials and the food industry. Gordon’s series is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to understand the history of aspartame/NutraSweet:
Flaws in European Food Safety Authority assessment
In a July 2019 paper in the Archives of Public Health, researchers at the University of Sussex provided a detailed analysis of the EFSA’s 2013 safety assessment of aspartame and found that the panel discounted as unreliable every one of 73 studies that indicated harm, and used far more lax criteria to accept as reliable 84% of studies that found no evidence of harm. “Given the shortcomings of EFSA’s risk assessment of aspartame, and the shortcomings of all previous official toxicological risk assessments of aspartame, it would be premature to conclude that it is acceptably safe,” the study concluded.
See EFSA’s response and a follow up by researchers Erik Paul Millstone and Elizabeth Dawson in the Archives of Public Health, Why did EFSA reduce its ADI for aspartame or recommend its use should no longer be permitted? News coverage:
“World’s most popular artificial sweetener must be banned, say experts. Two food safety experts have called for the widely used artificial sweetener, aspartame, to be banned in the UK and questions why it was deemed acceptable in the first place.” New Food Magazine (11.11.2020)
“‘Sales of aspartame should be suspended’: EFSA accused of bias in safety assessment,” by Katy Askew. Food Navigator (7.27.2019)
Health Effects and Key Studies on Aspartame
While many studies, some of them industry sponsored, have reported no problems with aspartame, dozens of independent studies conducted over decades have linked aspartame to a long list of health problems, including:
Cancer
In the most comprehensive cancer research to date on aspartame, three lifespan studies conducted by the Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research Center of the Ramazzini Institute, provide consistent evidence of carcinogenicity in rodents exposed to the substance.
Aspartame “is a multipotential carcinogenic agent, even at a daily dose of … much less than the current acceptable daily intake,” according to a 2006 lifespan rat study in Environmental Health Perspectives.
A follow-up study in 2007 found significant dose-related increases in malignant tumors in some of the rats. “The results … confirm and reinforce the first experimental demonstration of [aspartame’s] multipotential carcinogenicity at a dose level close to the acceptable daily intake for humans … when life-span exposure begins during fetal life, its carcinogenic effects are increased,” the researchers wrote in Environmental Health Perspectives.
The results of a 2010 lifespan study “confirm that [aspartame] is a carcinogenic agent in multiple sites in rodents, and that this effect is induced in two species, rats (males and females) and mice (males),” the researchers reported in American Journal of Industrial Medicine.
Harvard researchers in 2012 reported a positive association between aspartame intake and increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and multiple myeloma in men, and for leukemia in men and women. The findings “preserve the possibility of a detrimental effect … on select cancers” but “do not permit the ruling out of chance as an explanation,” the researchers wrote in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
In a 2014 commentary in American Journal of Industrial Medicine, the Maltoni Center researchers wrote that the studies submitted by G. D. Searle for market approval “do not provide adequate scientific support for [aspartame’s] safety. In contrast, recent results of life-span carcinogenicity bioassays on rats and mice published in peer-reviewed journals, and a prospective epidemiological study, provide consistent evidence of [aspartame’s] carcinogenic potential. On the basis of the evidence of the potential carcinogenic effects … a re-evaluation of the current position of international regulatory agencies must be considered an urgent matter of public health.”
Brain Tumors
In 1996, researchers reported in the Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology on epidemiological evidence connecting the introduction of aspartame to an increase in an aggressive type of malignant brain tumors. “Compared to other environmental factors putatively linked to brain tumors, the artificial sweetener aspartame is a promising candidate to explain the recent increase in incidence and degree of malignancy of brain tumors … We conclude that there is need for reassessing the carcinogenic potential of aspartame.”
Neuroscientist Dr. John Olney, lead author of the study, told 60 minutes in 1996: “there has been a striking increase in the incidence of malignant brain tumors (in the three to five years following the approval of aspartame) … there is enough basis to suspect aspartame that it needs to be reassessed. FDA needs to reassess it, and this time around, FDA should do it right.”
Early studies on aspartame in the 1970s found evidence of brain tumors in laboratory animals, but those studies were not followed up.
Cardiovascular Disease
A 2017 meta-analysis of research on artificial sweeteners, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, found no clear evidence of weight loss benefits for artificial sweeteners in randomized clinical trials, and reported that cohort studies associate artificial sweeteners with “increases in weight and waist circumference, and higher incidence of obesity, hypertension, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular events.” See also:
“Artificial sweeteners don’t help with weight loss and may lead to gained pounds,” by Catherine Caruso. STAT (7.17.2017)
“Why one cardiologist has drunk his last diet soda,” by Harlan Krumholz. Wall Street Journal (9.14.2017)
“This cardiologist wants his family to cut back on diet soda. Should yours, too?” by David Becker, M.D. Philly Inquirer (9.12.2017)
A 2016 paper in Physiology & Behavior reported, “there is a striking congruence between results from animal research and a number of large-scale, long-term observational studies in humans, in finding significantly increased weight gain, adiposity, incidence of obesity, cardiometabolic risk, and even total mortality among individuals with chronic, daily exposure to low-calorie sweeteners — and these results are troubling.”
Women who consumed more than two diet drinks per day “had a higher risk of [cardiovascular disease] events … [cardiovascular disease] mortality … and overall mortality,” according to a 2014 study from the Women’s Health Initiative published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Stroke, Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease
People drinking diet soda daily were almost three times as likely to develop stroke and dementia as those who consumed it weekly or less. This included a higher risk of ischemic stroke, where blood vessels in the brain become obstructed, and Alzheimer’s disease dementia, the most common form of dementia, reported a 2017 study in Stroke.
See also: Boston University School of Medicine video of the study by neurologist Matthew Pase, “Daily Consumption of Sodas, Fruit Juices and Artificially Sweetened Sodas Affect Brain.”
“Study links diet soda to higher risk of stroke, dementia,” by Fred Barbash. Washington Post (4.21.2017)
In the body, the methyl ester in aspartame metabolizes into methanol and then it may be converted to formaldehyde, which has been linked to Alzheimer’s disease. A two-part study published in 2014 in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease linked chronic methanol exposure to memory loss and Alzheimer’s Disease symptoms in mice and monkeys.
“[M]ethanol-fed mice presented with partial AD-like symptoms … These findings add to a growing body of evidence that links formaldehyde to [Alzheimer’s disease] pathology.” (Part 1)
“[M]ethanol feeding caused long-lasting and persistent pathological changes that were related to [Alzheimer’s disease] … these findings support a growing body of evidence that links methanol and its metabolite formaldehyde to [Alzheimer’s disease] pathology.” (Part 2)
Seizures
“Aspartame appears to exacerbate the amount of EEG spike wave in children with absence seizures. Further studies are needed to establish if this effect occurs at lower doses and in other seizure types,” according to a 1992 study in Neurology. Aspartame “has seizure-promoting activity in animal models that are widely used to identify compounds affecting … seizure incidence,” according to a 1987 study in Environmental Health Perspectives.
Very high aspartame doses “might also affect the likelihood of seizures in symptomless but susceptible people,” according to a 1985 study in The Lancet. The study describes three previously healthy adults who had grand mal seizures during periods when they were consuming high doses of aspartame.
Neurotoxicity, Brain Damage and Mood Disorders
Aspartame has been linked to behavioral and cognitive problems including learning problems, headache, seizure, migraines, irritable moods, anxiety, depression, and insomnia, wrote the researchers of a 2017 study in Nutritional Neuroscience. “Aspartame consumption needs to be approached with caution due to the possible effects on neurobehavioral health.”
“Oral aspartame significantly altered behavior, antioxidant status and morphology of the hippocampus in mice; also, it may probably trigger hippocampal adult neurogenesis,” reported a 2016 study in Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. “Previously, it has been reported that consumption of aspartame could cause neurological and behavioural disturbances in sensitive individuals. Headaches, insomnia and seizures are also some of the neurological effects that have been encountered,” according to a 2008 study in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. “We propose that excessive aspartame ingestion might be involved in the pathogenesis of certain mental disorders … and also in compromised learning and emotional functioning.” “Neurological symptoms, including learning and memory processes, may be related to the high or toxic concentrations of the sweetener [aspartame] metabolites,” states a 2006 study in Pharmacological Research.
Aspartame “could impair memory retention and damage hypothalamic neurons in adult mice,” according to a 2000 mice study published in Toxicology Letters.
“Individuals with mood disorders are particularly sensitive to this artificial sweetener and its use in this population should be discouraged,” according to a 1993 study in the Journal of Biological Psychiatry.
High doses of aspartame “can generate major neurochemical changes in rats,” reported a 1984 study in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Experiments indicated brain damage in infant mice following oral intake of aspartate, and showing that “aspartate [is] toxic to the infant mouse at relatively low levels of oral intake,” reported a 1970 study in Nature.
Headaches and Migraines
“Aspartame, a popular dietetic sweetener, may provoke headache in some susceptible individuals. Herein, we describe three cases of young women with migraine who reported their headaches could be provoked by chewing sugarless gum containing aspartame,” according to a 1997 paper in Headache Journal.
A crossover trial comparing aspartame and a placebo published in 1994 in Neurology, “provides evidence that, among individuals with self-reported headaches after ingestion of aspartame, a subset of this group report more headaches when tested under controlled conditions. It appears that some people are particularly susceptible to headaches caused by aspartame and may want to limit their consumption.”
A survey of 171 patients at the Montefiore Medical Center Headache Unit found that patients with migraine “reported aspartame as a precipitant three times more often than those having other types of headache … We conclude aspartame may be an important dietary trigger of headache in some people,” 1989 study in Headache Journal.
A crossover trial comparing aspartame and a placebo on the frequency and intensity of migraines “indicated that the ingestion of aspartame by migraineurs caused a significant increase in headache frequency for some subjects,” reported a 1988 study in Headache Journal.
Kidney Function Decline
Consumption of more than two servings a day of artificially sweetened soda “is associated with a 2-fold increased odds for kidney function decline in women,” according to a 2011 study in the Clinical Journal of American Society of Nephrology.
Weight Gain, Increased Appetite and Obesity Related Problems
Several studies link aspartame to weight gain, increased appetite, diabetes, metabolic derangement and obesity-related diseases. See our fact sheet: Diet Soda Chemical Tied to Weight Gain.
This science linking aspartame to weight gain and obesity-related diseases raises questions about the legality of marketing aspartame-containing products as “diet” or weight loss aids. In 2015, USRTK petitioned the Federal Trade Commission and FDA to investigate the marketing and advertising practices of “diet” products that contain a chemical linked to weight gain. See related news coverage, response from FTC, and response from FDA.
Diabetes and Metabolic Derangement
Aspartame breaks down in part into phenylalanine, which interferes with the action of an enzyme intestinal alkaline phosphatase (IAP) previously shown to prevent metabolic syndrome (a group of symptoms associated with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease) according to a 2017 study in Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism. In this study, mice receiving aspartame in their drinking water gained more weight and developed other symptoms of metabolic syndrome than animals fed similar diets lacking aspartame. The study concludes, “IAP’s protective effects in regard to the metabolic syndrome may be inhibited by phenylalanine, a metabolite of aspartame, perhaps explaining the lack of expected weight loss and metabolic improvements associated with diet drinks.”
See also: Massachusetts General Hospital press release on the study, “Aspartame may prevent, not promote, weight loss by blocking intestinal enzyme’s activity.”
People who regularly consume artificial sweeteners are at increased risk of “excessive weight gain, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease,” according to a 2013 Purdue review over 40 years published in Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism.
In a study that followed 66,118 women over 14 years, both sugar-sweetened beverages and artificially sweetened beverages were associated with risk of Type 2 diabetes. “Strong positive trends in T2D risk were also observed across quartiles of consumption for both types of beverage … No association was observed for 100% fruit juice consumption,” reported the 2013 study published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Intestinal Dysbiosis, Metabolic Derangement and Obesity
Artificial sweeteners can induce glucose intolerance by altering the gut microbiota, according to a 2014 study in Nature. The researchers wrote, “our results link NAS [non-caloric artificial sweetener] consumption, dysbiosis and metabolic abnormalities, thereby calling for a reassessment of massive NAS usage … Our findings suggest that NAS may have directly contributed to enhancing the exact epidemic [obesity] that they themselves were intended to fight.”
See also: “Artificial Sweeteners May Change our Gut Bacteria in Dangerous Ways,” by Ellen Ruppel Shell. Scientific American (4.1.2015)
A 2016 study in Applied Physiology Nutrition and Metabolism reported, “Aspartame intake significantly influenced the association between body mass index (BMI) and glucose tolerance… consumption of aspartame is associated with greater obesity-related impairments in glucose tolerance.”
According to a 2014 rat study in PLOS ONE, “aspartame elevated fasting glucose levels and an insulin tolerance test showed aspartame to impair insulin-stimulated glucose disposal … Fecal analysis of gut bacterial composition showed aspartame to increase total bacteria…”
Pregnancy Abnormalities: Preterm Birth
According to a 2010 cohort study of 59,334 Danish pregnant women published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, “There was an association between intake of artificially sweetened carbonated and noncarbonated soft drinks and an increased risk of preterm delivery.” The study concluded, “Daily intake of artificially sweetened soft drinks may increase the risk of preterm delivery.”
See also: “Downing Diet Soda Tied to Premature Birth,” by Anne Harding, Reuters (7.23.2010)
Overweight Babies
Artificially sweetened beverage consumption during pregnancy is linked to higher body mass index for babies, according to a 2016 study in JAMA Pediatrics. “To our knowledge, we provide the first human evidence that maternal consumption of artificial sweeteners during pregnancy may influence infant BMI,” the researchers wrote.
See also: “Diet Soda in Pregnancy is Linked to Overweight Babies,” by Nicholas Bakalar. New York Times (5.11.2016)
Early Menarche
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Growth and Health Study followed 1988 girls for 10 years to examine prospective associations between consumption of caffeinated and non-caffeinated sugar- and artificially sweetened soft drinks and early menarche. “Consumption of caffeinated and artificially sweetened soft drinks was positively associated with risk of early menarche in a US cohort of African American and Caucasian girls,” concluded the study published in 2015 in Journal of American Clinical Nutrition.
Sperm Damage
“A significant decrease in sperm function of aspartame treated animals was observed when compared with the control and MTX control,” according to a 2017 study in the International Journal of Impotence Research. “… These findings demonstrate that aspartame metabolites could be a contributing factor for development of oxidative stress in the epididymal sperm.”
Liver Damage and Glutathione Depletion
A mouse study published in 2017 in Redox Biology reported, “Chronic administration of aspartame … caused liver injury as well as marked decreased hepatic levels of reduced glutathione, oxidized glutathione, γ-glutamylcysteine, and most metabolites of the trans-sulphuration pathway…”
A rat study published in 2017 in Nutrition Research found that, “Subchronic intake of soft drink or aspartame substantially induced hyperglycemia and hypertriacylglycerolemia… Several cytoarchitecture alterations were detected in the liver, including degeneration, infiltration, necrosis, and fibrosis, predominantly with aspartame. These data suggest that long-term intake of soft drink or aspartame-induced hepatic damage may be mediated by the induction of hyperglycemia, lipid accumulation, and oxidative stress with the involvement of adipocytokines.”
Caution for Vulnerable Populations
A 2016 literature review on artificial sweeteners in the Indian Journal of Pharmacology reported, “there is inconclusive evidence to support most of their uses and some recent studies even hint that these earlier established benefits … might not be true.” Susceptible populations such as pregnant and lactating women, children, diabetics, migraine, and epilepsy patients “should use these products with utmost caution.”
Industry PR Efforts and Front Groups
From the start, G.D. Searle (later Monsanto and the NutraSweet Company) deployed aggressive PR tactics to market aspartame as a safe product. In October 1987, Gregory Gordon reported in UPI:
“The NutraSweet Co. also has paid up to $3 million a year for a 100-person public relations effort by the Chicago offices of Burson Marsteller, a former employee of the New York PR firm said. The employee said Burson Marsteller has hired numerous scientists and physicians, often at $1,000 a day, to defend the sweetener in media interviews and other public forums. Burson Marsteller declines to discuss such matters.”
Recent reporting based on internal industry documents reveals how beverage companies such as Coca-Cola also pay third party messengers, including doctors and scientists, to promote their products and shift the blame when science ties their products to serious health problems.
See reporting by Anahad O’Connor in the New York Times, Candice Choi in the Associated Press, and findings from the USRTK investigation about sugar industry propaganda and lobbying campaigns.
News articles about soda industry PR campaigns:
“Coca-Cola’s Secret Influence on Medical and Science Journalists,” by Paul Thacker, BMJ (4.5.2017) and author’s note.
“If Soda Companies Don’t Want to Be Treated Like Tobacco Companies, They Need To Stop Acting Like Them,” by Patrick Mustain, Scientific American (10.19.2016).
“Critic of artificial sweeteners pilloried by industry-backed scientists,” by Chris Young, Center for Public Integrity (8.6.2014).
Overview news stories about aspartame:
“The Story of How Fake Sugar Got Approved is Scary As Hell; It involves Donald Rumsfeld,” by Kristin Wartman Lawless. Vice (4.19.2017)
“The Lowdown on Sweet?” by Melanie Warner. New York Times (2.12.2006)
“NutraSweet Controversy Swirls” by Gregory Gordon. UPI series (10.1987)
USRTK Fact Sheets:
Reports on Front Groups and PR Campaigns


thewakingtimes--2020-11-27--As A Doctor, People Ask Me If It’s Safe To Take A New Covid Vaccine. Given That Criticism Is Risky,

As A Doctor , People Ask Me If It ’ s Safe To Take A New Covid Vaccine .
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The type of vaccine being developed against the virus has never – outside of Ebola – been used before .
The trials have been extremely rushed & involved testing only small numbers .
What could possibly go wrong ?
Since the first positive results on vaccines have come out , a lot of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ everyone should take them ?
For some reason , a number of people out there trust my judgement on such things .
I noticed that the Daily Mail recently ran a poll , which showed that three quarters of Britons would agree to have a jab – although 40 percent wanted politicians to take it first to prove it was safe .
Frankly , I pity any vaccine injected into certain politicians , as I am not certain it would survive .
Anyway , are the majority of Daily Mail readers right to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ must admit that I write this article with some caution , because I am acutely aware that the slightest hint of criticism of a vaccine , any vaccine , is risky .
As I remarked to a friend recently , the moment anyone says ‘ vaccine ’ , the only acceptable response is to leap to your feet and salute , whilst singing Ode to Joy .
Followed by fifteen minutes of enthusiastic clapping .
Failure to do so , means you are taken out and shot for thought crimes .
Doubleplusgood , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to say here is that the type of vaccine being developed against Covid-19 has never been used before , outside of Ebola .
Some people feel that they should not really be called vaccines , because they are completely different from anything that has gone before .
Up to now , vaccination has meant injecting a dead virus ( or bacteria ) , or one that has been weakened and can only poorly replicate , or parts of the virus , or suchlike .
Once inside the body , the immune system spots @ @ @ @ @ @ @ creates a response against it , which will hopefully be remembered for years and years .
The next time the dangerous virus appears , the body will use the immune memory of something very similar , to wipe out the virus ( or bacteria ) at high speed , giving it no chance to do damage .
The first ever ‘ vaccine ’ worked by using the cowpox virus to immunise against smallpox .
It had been noticed that milkmaids who caught cowpox , a relatively mild disease in humans , did not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jenner who wondered how , or why , this happened .
In 1796 , he scraped material from cowpox sores , and then scratched it into the skin of people uninfected with smallpox , to see if they would be protected .
His first volunteer was a young boy , who he ‘ immunised ’ with cowpox scrapings .
Jenner then tried to infect the boy with smallpox scrapings .
A form of research that would be rather frowned upon today .
Luckily , the young boy survived , and vaccination was born @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on this theme , of using a less dangerous ‘ thing ’ to create a defence against a damaging infection .
Until now .
Now , we have a thing called a messenger RNA vaccine ( mRNA ) .
RNA is , effectively , a single strand of DNA – the double helix that sits within our cells and makes up our genetic code .
Many viruses are made up of a single strand of RNA , surrounded by a protein sphere .
They enter the cell , take over the replication systems @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , then exit the cell .
Sometimes killing the cell as they do so , sometimes exiting more gently .
Covid19 ( Sars-Cov2 ) is an RNA virus .
Knowing this , rather than attempting to create a weakened virus , which can take years , or break the virus into bits , the vaccine researchers decided to use Sars-Cov2 ’ s RNA against itself .
To do this , they isolated the section of RNA which codes for the ‘ spike ’ protein – which is the thing the virus uses as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
They then worked out how to insert this small section of RNA , messenger RNA , into the cell , where it takes over a part of the protein replication mechanisms that sit inside all cells .
They turn the mechanism into a 3D printer , churning out copies of the spike protein .
These spike proteins then leave the cell – somehow or other , this bit is unclear .
The immune system comes across them , recognises them as ‘ alien ’ and attacks .
In doing so , antibodies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ system kicks into action .
If , later on , a Sars-Cov2 virus gets into the body , the immune system fires up and attacks the remembered spike protein .
Hopefully killing the entire virus .
This is all , certainly very clever stuff .
What , as they say , could possibly go wrong ?
The first thing to say is that , with something this new , we don ’ t really know .
It could be that it is absolutely 100 percent safe .
We are told that none of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the cell , where it could become incorporated into the DNA .
I hope so .
Could it trigger an immune cascade ?
I hope not .
I know that the researchers will be looking very , very , closely at the novel safety issues that could emerge .
If they are not , they damned well should be .
However , the timelines here are very short .
It normally takes many years to create safe and effective vaccines .
Here is it happening in , effectively , weeks .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rushing .
There are very good reasons for this rush , but I advise caution .
Should everyone take the vaccine ?
Probably yes for those at highest risk of serious infection and death , where the potential benefit is high .
As for anyone healthy , under the age of sixty , I would wait .
As I shall be .
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick , doctor and author who works as a GP in the National Health Service in England .
His blog can be read here and his book , ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Medical Advice from Medical Nonsense , ’ is available here .

As A Doctor, People Ask Me If It’s Safe To Take A New Covid Vaccine. Given That Criticism Is Risky, Here’s My Very Careful Answer
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick, RT
Waking Times
The type of vaccine being developed against the virus has never – outside of Ebola – been used before. The trials have been extremely rushed & involved testing only small numbers. What could possibly go wrong?
Since the first positive results on vaccines have come out, a lot of people have asked me if I think everyone should take them? For some reason, a number of people out there trust my judgement on such things.
I noticed that the Daily Mail recently ran a poll, which showed that three quarters of Britons would agree to have a jab – although 40 percent wanted politicians to take it first to prove it was safe. Frankly, I pity any vaccine injected into certain politicians, as I am not certain it would survive.
Anyway, are the majority of Daily Mail readers right to be so enthusiastic about vaccination? I must admit that I write this article with some caution, because I am acutely aware that the slightest hint of criticism of a vaccine, any vaccine, is risky.
As I remarked to a friend recently, the moment anyone says ‘vaccine’, the only acceptable response is to leap to your feet and salute, whilst singing Ode to Joy. Followed by fifteen minutes of enthusiastic clapping. Failure to do so, means you are taken out and shot for thought crimes. Doubleplusgood, indeed.
The first thing I want to say here is that the type of vaccine being developed against Covid-19 has never been used before, outside of Ebola. Some people feel that they should not really be called vaccines, because they are completely different from anything that has gone before.
Up to now, vaccination has meant injecting a dead virus (or bacteria), or one that has been weakened and can only poorly replicate, or parts of the virus, or suchlike. Once inside the body, the immune system spots this ‘alien’ material, and creates a response against it, which will hopefully be remembered for years and years.
The next time the dangerous virus appears, the body will use the immune memory of something very similar, to wipe out the virus (or bacteria) at high speed, giving it no chance to do damage. The first ever ‘vaccine’ worked by using the cowpox virus to immunise against smallpox.
It had been noticed that milkmaids who caught cowpox, a relatively mild disease in humans, did not then get smallpox. It was Edward Jenner who wondered how, or why, this happened. In 1796, he scraped material from cowpox sores, and then scratched it into the skin of people uninfected with smallpox, to see if they would be protected.
His first volunteer was a young boy, who he ‘immunised’ with cowpox scrapings. Jenner then tried to infect the boy with smallpox scrapings. A form of research that would be rather frowned upon today. Luckily, the young boy survived, and vaccination was born. Everything since has been a variation on this theme, of using a less dangerous ‘thing’ to create a defence against a damaging infection. Until now.
Now, we have a thing called a messenger RNA vaccine (mRNA). RNA is, effectively, a single strand of DNA – the double helix that sits within our cells and makes up our genetic code. Many viruses are made up of a single strand of RNA, surrounded by a protein sphere.
They enter the cell, take over the replication systems, make thousands of copies of themselves, then exit the cell. Sometimes killing the cell as they do so, sometimes exiting more gently. Covid19 (Sars-Cov2) is an RNA virus.
Knowing this, rather than attempting to create a weakened virus, which can take years, or break the virus into bits, the vaccine researchers decided to use Sars-Cov2’s RNA against itself. To do this, they isolated the section of RNA which codes for the ‘spike’ protein – which is the thing the virus uses as a ‘key’ to enter cells.
They then worked out how to insert this small section of RNA, messenger RNA, into the cell, where it takes over a part of the protein replication mechanisms that sit inside all cells. They turn the mechanism into a 3D printer, churning out copies of the spike protein.
These spike proteins then leave the cell – somehow or other, this bit is unclear. The immune system comes across them, recognises them as ‘alien’ and attacks. In doing so, antibodies are created, and the immune memory system kicks into action. If, later on, a Sars-Cov2 virus gets into the body, the immune system fires up and attacks the remembered spike protein. Hopefully killing the entire virus.
This is all, certainly very clever stuff. What, as they say, could possibly go wrong?
The first thing to say is that, with something this new, we don’t really know. It could be that it is absolutely 100 percent safe. We are told that none of the mRNA can get into the nucleus of the cell, where it could become incorporated into the DNA. I hope so. Could it trigger an immune cascade? I hope not.
I know that the researchers will be looking very, very, closely at the novel safety issues that could emerge. If they are not, they damned well should be. However, the timelines here are very short. It normally takes many years to create safe and effective vaccines. Here is it happening in, effectively, weeks.
The early stage human safety studies have been crammed very tightly together. In addition, we will also have very little information on such things as whether or not the vaccine actually reduces serious infections or death, as noted by Professor Haseltine in a recent article: “These [vaccine] protocols do not emphasize the most important ramifications of COVID-19 that people are most interested in preventing: overall infection, hospitalization, and death.” Prof. Haseltine also argues that the trials have all been “designed to succeed.”
The reality is that we are rushing and rushing. There are very good reasons for this rush, but I advise caution. Should everyone take the vaccine? Probably yes for those at highest risk of serious infection and death, where the potential benefit is high. As for anyone healthy, under the age of sixty, I would wait. As I shall be.
About the Author
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick, doctor and author who works as a GP in the National Health Service in England. His blog can be read here and his book, ‘Doctoring Data – How to Sort Out Medical Advice from Medical Nonsense,’ is available here.


thewakingtimes--2020-11-27--Global Vaccine Passport Will Be Required For Travel

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Around the world , there ’ s considerable resistance against mandatory COVID-19 vaccination , but even if the vaccine ends up being “ voluntary , ” refusing to take it will have severe implications for people who enjoy their freedom .
For months , the writing has been on the wall : Forced vaccination is part and parcel of the plan to “ reset ” the global economic system , forever altering life as we know it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vaccine passports are in fact being introduced , and it ’ s only a matter of time before vaccination status will be a prerequisite for travel .
Just how voluntary is it if you have to have the COVID-19 vaccine if you ever want to leave the country — or perhaps even state — in which you live , at any point during the rest of your life ?
CommonPass1 is a digital “ health passport ” framework initiated by The Commons Project , the World Economic Forum and The Rockefeller Foundation , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2020 convened more than 350 leaders from the public and private sectors in 52 countries to design a common framework “ for safe border reopening ” around the world .
The proposed framework involves the following : • Every nation must publish their health screening criteria for entry into the country using a standard format on a common framework • Each country must register trusted facilities that conduct COVID-19 lab testing for foreign travel and administer vaccines listed in the CommonPass registry • Each country will accept health screening status from foreign visitors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CommonPass framework • Patient identification is to be collected at the time of sample collection and/or vaccination using an international standard • The CommonPass framework will be integrated into flight and hotel reservation and check-in processes Eventually , the CommonPass framework will be integrated with already existing personal health apps such as Apple Health and CommonHealth .
If you want to travel , your personal health record will be evaluated and compared to a country ’ s entry requirements , and if you don ’ t meet them , you ’ ll be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ location .
A screen grab from the video illustrates the general idea of how this will all work .
When you get your test result or vaccine , that data is uploaded to an app on your cellphone .
The app generates a barcode that is then scanned at the airport , at hotel check-in and wherever else vaccine status verification is deemed necessary .
That the Rockefeller Foundation is one of the three founders of CommonPass should surprise no one , considering they basically laid the groundwork for it in their April @ @ @ @ @ @ @ National COVID-19 Testing Action Plan — Strategic Steps to Reopen Our Workplaces and Our Communities.
” That white paper laid out a strategic framework that is clearly intended to become part of a permanent surveillance and social control structure that severely limits personal liberty and freedom of choice .
It also warns that elimination of privacy will be required , stating that “ Some privacy concerns must be set aside for an infectious agent as virulent as COVID-19 … ” The tracking system proposed by The Rockefeller Foundation also demands access to other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ system will have any number of other uses besides tracking COVID-19 cases .
This digital clearance system is currently being tested by United Airlines3 on flights between London and Newark , and Cathay Pacific on flights between Hong Kong and Singapore.4 As reported by Tott News , November 15 , 2020:5 CommonPass Is a Cog in The Great Reset Wheel As explained in “ What You Need to Know About ‘ the Great Reset ’ , ” the current pandemic is being used as a justification for why we need to reset the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and free enterprise into a new system of technocracy .
The word “ technocracy ” is never used by actual technocrats , mind you .
Instead , they talk about the Great Reset and the fourth industrial revolution , the nuts and bolts of which boil down to transhumanism .
In years past , this plan was referred to as a “ new world order ” or “ one world order.
” All of these terms , however , refer to an agenda that has the same ultimate goal .
It ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ making .
Ultimately , the goal is to monitor and control the world through technological surveillance .
It ’ s a world government run by self-appointed elitists ; hence , it calls for the total dismantling of the political system , which includes the U.S. Constitution .
National borders are also destined to be erased .
Technocracy is a resource-based economic system , which is why the World Economic Forum talks about the creation of “ sustainable digital finance , ” 6 a carbon-based economy and carbon credit trading.7 As explained on its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ true intent that would shock people to their core , were they to see the complete picture .
Professor Klaus Schwab , founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum , has stated that the fourth industrial revolution will “ lead to a fusion of our physical , digital and biological identity , ” complete with implantable microchips capable of reading your thoughts.9 This no longer sounds so far-fetched when you consider that technocracy requires social engineering to work .
It requires total surveillance .
It requires each person to be tied @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mentally and financially — such that they can not rebel .
To learn more about the history and intent behind technocracy , consider reading Patrick Wood ’ s books , “ Technocracy Rising : The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation ” 10 and “ Technocracy : The Hard Road to World Order.
” 11 When world leaders now talk about “ building back better ” and spin tales about a utopia in which humanity no longer has a negative impact on the environment , what they ’ re really talking about is the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is no longer free to do any of the things we ’ ve previously engaged in and typically enjoyed .
CommonPass is a cog in this Great Reset plan .
It ’ s the beginning stage of mass tracking and tracing , under the guise of keeping everyone safe from infectious disease .
Rest assured , it will not be limited to COVID-19 .
The pandemic is just the justification for ushering in this radical new way of life .
The global lockdowns are part and parcel of this plan too .
You @ @ @ @ @ @ @ waterways and air cleared up while everyone kept indoors for weeks on end .
Who knows , in the future , we may well have rolling lockdowns to look forward to — periodic house arrests for the sake of the environment , if not to prevent the latest outbreak .
Meanwhile , social distancing and mask wearing separates us from our fellow man , demoralizes and dehumanizes us and makes us alone , fearful and anxious , which in turn prevents us from thinking logically and from coordinating resistance efforts with others .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ and draconian censorship , where the Big Tech overlords decide what opinions and even facts are allowable and which are not .
When you multiply it all together , it starts looking like the biggest psyop in the history of mankind , which in turn begs the question : If the direction they want us to go will actually lead to utopia , would this kind of social engineering effort really be necessary ?
November 10 , 2016 , the World Economic Forum published an article12 in Forbes titled , “ Welcome to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ No Privacy and Life Has Never Been Better.
” Let ’ s read beyond the creepy headline and see what this is all about , shall we ?
Again , technocracy requires social engineering to work , the effectiveness of which in turn requires mass surveillance and automation .
In the first half of the 20th century , George Orwell wrote a dystopian novel , “ Nineteen Eighty-Four , ” in which the government controlled every aspect of a person ’ s life , including their very thoughts .
Today , scientists seem @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vision into reality , using the COVID-19 pandemic , national security and public health as their justification for doing so .
Don ’ t expect them to admit this , however .
Instead , be prepared for variations of the Forbes article above .
It ’ s basically a world in which everyone has been stripped of purpose .
Artificial intelligence algorithms make decisions for you , and if you disobey or start thinking fancy thoughts all on your own , you can expect to be financially and socially disenfranchised .
Effectively eliminating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ easy as pressing a button and putting a freeze on your digital wallet and identification .
Already , many truth-tellers that were purged from YouTube and other social media platforms simultaneously lost their PayPal and other digital payment accounts .
No advance warning , and no justification given .
Imagine if all your finances were tied together in a digital finance system and everything was shut down all at once .
That , I ’ m sure , would discourage most everyone from expressing any contradictory views .
If you think this kind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , check out Spiro Skouras video below , in which he discusses the rollout of the United Nations ’ biometric digital wallet .
This , undoubtedly , brings the UN one step closer to becoming the world ’ s de facto leadership hub .
Artificial Intelligence Is Further Along Than Most Can Imagine Indeed , artificial intelligence is a key component of effective surveillance and social engineering .
Data is useless unless you can interpret it and make decisions based on it .
As noted by The Last American Vagabond:14 The document17 the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence ( NSCAI ) , a government organization created by the National Defense Authorization Act ( NDAA ) of 2018 .
To that end , the NSCAI is pushing for an overhaul of the American way of life and economy in order to usher in a more comprehensive AI-driven surveillance apparatus .
In other words , a Great Reset .
How to Resist the Great Reset Ironically , while the real plan is to usher in a tech-driven globalist-run dystopia free of democratic controls , technocrats speak of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ us back into harmony with Nature .
As I discuss in “ The Global Takeover Is Underway , ” the medical tyranny and censorship of anti-groupthink that has emerged during this pandemic are an unavoidable element of the Great Reset , and if you think it ’ s bad now , just wait until the whole system is brought fully online .
The mere idea of dissent will become a thought of the past , because your life — your health , educational and work opportunities , your finances and your very identity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ automated technological infrastructure that any attempt to break free will result in you being locked out or erased from the system , leaving you with no ability to learn , work , travel or purchase anything .
It sounds far-fetched , I know , but when you follow the technocratic plan to its inevitable end , that ’ s basically what you end up with .
The warning signs are all around us , if we ’ re willing to see them for what they actually are .
The only question now is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it to make a difference .
Along those lines , let us carefully reflect on one of the United States ’ founding fathers , Benjamin Franklin , in his warning and caution with respect to losing our liberty .
I frequently reflect on them when I consider potential options in this new contrived crisis challenges we are confronted with : If you are open for some practical strategies on how you can respond in light of all the tyrannical interventions that have been imposed on us you can watch James Corbett ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Most Powerful Videos I ’ ve Ever Seen The following video from Barbara Loe Fisher is one of the most powerful videos that I have ever seen .
I am hopeful that watching this video will inspire you to take up the cause and join the fight for vaccine freedom and independence .
There is a cultural war and collusion between many industries and federal regulatory agencies that results in a suppression of the truth about vital important health issues .
If this suppression continues we will gradually and progressively erode @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fought so hard to achieve .
Please take a few minutes to watch this video .
Protect Your Right to Informed Consent and Defend Vaccine Exemptions With all the uncertainty surrounding the safety and efficacy of vaccines , it ’ s critical to protect your right to make independent health choices and exercise voluntary informed consent to vaccination .
It is urgent that everyone in America stand up and fight to protect and expand vaccine informed consent protections in state public health and employment laws .
The best way to do this is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ legislators and educate the leaders in your community .
National vaccine policy recommendations are made at the federal level but vaccine laws are made at the state level .
It is at the state level where your action to protect your vaccine choice rights can have the greatest impact .
It is critical for EVERYONE to get involved now in standing up for the legal right to make voluntary vaccine choices in America because those choices are being threatened by lobbyists representing drug companies , medical trade associations and public health officials , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ strip all vaccine exemptions from public health laws .
Signing up for NVIC ’ s free Advocacy Portal at www.NVICAdvocacy.org gives you immediate , easy access to your own state legislators on your smartphone or computer so you can make your voice heard .
You will be kept up to date on the latest state bills threatening your vaccine choice rights and will get practical , useful information to help you become an effective vaccine choice advocate in your own community .
Also , when national vaccine issues come up , you will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you need at your fingertips .
So , please , as your first step , sign up for the NVIC Advocacy Portal .
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Global Vaccine Passport Will Be Required For Travel
Dr. Mercola, Guest
Waking Times
Around the world, there’s considerable resistance against mandatory COVID-19 vaccination, but even if the vaccine ends up being “voluntary,” refusing to take it will have severe implications for people who enjoy their freedom.
For months, the writing has been on the wall: Forced vaccination is part and parcel of the plan to “reset” the global economic system, forever altering life as we know it along the way. Now, global vaccine passports are in fact being introduced, and it’s only a matter of time before vaccination status will be a prerequisite for travel.
Just how voluntary is it if you have to have the COVID-19 vaccine if you ever want to leave the country — or perhaps even state — in which you live, at any point during the rest of your life?
CommonPass
CommonPass1 is a digital “health passport” framework initiated by The Commons Project, the World Economic Forum and The Rockefeller Foundation, which during the first week of July 2020 convened more than 350 leaders from the public and private sectors in 52 countries to design a common framework “for safe border reopening” around the world. The proposed framework involves the following:
Every nation must publish their health screening criteria for entry into the country using a standard format on a common framework Each country must register trusted facilities that conduct COVID-19 lab testing for foreign travel and administer vaccines listed in the CommonPass registry Each country will accept health screening status from foreign visitors through apps and services built on the CommonPass framework Patient identification is to be collected at the time of sample collection and/or vaccination using an international standard The CommonPass framework will be integrated into flight and hotel reservation and check-in processes
Eventually, the CommonPass framework will be integrated with already existing personal health apps such as Apple Health and CommonHealth. If you want to travel, your personal health record will be evaluated and compared to a country’s entry requirements, and if you don’t meet them, you’ll be directed to an approved testing and vaccination location.
A screen grab from the video illustrates the general idea of how this will all work. When you get your test result or vaccine, that data is uploaded to an app on your cellphone. The app generates a barcode that is then scanned at the airport, at hotel check-in and wherever else vaccine status verification is deemed necessary.
That the Rockefeller Foundation is one of the three founders of CommonPass should surprise no one, considering they basically laid the groundwork for it in their April 21, 2020, white paper2 “National COVID-19 Testing Action Plan — Strategic Steps to Reopen Our Workplaces and Our Communities.”
That white paper laid out a strategic framework that is clearly intended to become part of a permanent surveillance and social control structure that severely limits personal liberty and freedom of choice.
It also warns that elimination of privacy will be required, stating that “Some privacy concerns must be set aside for an infectious agent as virulent as COVID-19 …” The tracking system proposed by The Rockefeller Foundation also demands access to other medical data, which tells us the system will have any number of other uses besides tracking COVID-19 cases.
Worldwide Tracking Begins
This digital clearance system is currently being tested by United Airlines3 on flights between London and Newark, and Cathay Pacific on flights between Hong Kong and Singapore.4 As reported by Tott News, November 15, 2020:5
“Volunteer travelers landing at Newark Liberty International Airport on United Airlines Flight 15 from London Heathrow used the CommonPass health pass on their mobile phone to document their COVID-19 status and share it with airline staff upon disembarking.
Officials from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) observed the CommonPass demonstration in Newark … The transatlantic trial followed a successful trial of CommonPass on a Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong to Singapore on October 6.
Paul Meyer, CEO of The Commons Project, says it is anticipated that following initial trials, CommonPass will be rolled out on other routes, including international travel to and from Australia …
We are now seeing the beginning phases of a worldwide tracking system that will be linked to the health status of each and every individual … This has always been the agenda. Track and trace; identify the undesirables through deception.”
CommonPass Is a Cog in The Great Reset Wheel
As explained in “What You Need to Know About ‘the Great Reset’,” the current pandemic is being used as a justification for why we need to reset the global economy and shift away from capitalism and free enterprise into a new system of technocracy.
The word “technocracy” is never used by actual technocrats, mind you. Instead, they talk about the Great Reset and the fourth industrial revolution, the nuts and bolts of which boil down to transhumanism. In years past, this plan was referred to as a “new world order” or “one world order.” All of these terms, however, refer to an agenda that has the same ultimate goal.
“CommonPass is a cog in this Great Reset plan. It’s the beginning stage of mass tracking and tracing, under the guise of keeping everyone safe from infectious disease. Rest assured, it will not be limited to COVID-19. The pandemic is just the justification for ushering in this radical new way of life.”
It’s a plan that is decades in the making. Ultimately, the goal is to monitor and control the world through technological surveillance. It’s a world government run by self-appointed elitists; hence, it calls for the total dismantling of the political system, which includes the U.S. Constitution. National borders are also destined to be erased.
Sustainable Digital Finance
Technocracy is a resource-based economic system, which is why the World Economic Forum talks about the creation of “sustainable digital finance,”6 a carbon-based economy and carbon credit trading.7 As explained on its website:8
“Digital finance refers to the integration of big data, artificial intelligence (AI), mobile platforms, blockchain and the Internet of things (IoT) in the provision of financial services. Sustainable finance refers to financial services integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria into the business or investment decisions.
When combined, sustainable digital finance can take advantage of emerging technologies to analyze data, power investment decisions and grow jobs in sectors supporting a transition to a low-carbon economy.”
These rather innocuous-sounding definitions hide a true intent that would shock people to their core, were they to see the complete picture. Professor Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, has stated that the fourth industrial revolution will “lead to a fusion of our physical, digital and biological identity,” complete with implantable microchips capable of reading your thoughts.9
This no longer sounds so far-fetched when you consider that technocracy requires social engineering to work. It requires total surveillance. It requires each person to be tied to the digital matrix — physically, mentally and financially — such that they cannot rebel.
To learn more about the history and intent behind technocracy, consider reading Patrick Wood’s books, “Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation”10 and “Technocracy: The Hard Road to World Order.”11
The Plan to Dehumanize Humanity
When world leaders now talk about “building back better” and spin tales about a utopia in which humanity no longer has a negative impact on the environment, what they’re really talking about is the transition to a world in which mankind is no longer free to do any of the things we’ve previously engaged in and typically enjoyed.
CommonPass is a cog in this Great Reset plan. It’s the beginning stage of mass tracking and tracing, under the guise of keeping everyone safe from infectious disease. Rest assured, it will not be limited to COVID-19. The pandemic is just the justification for ushering in this radical new way of life.
The global lockdowns are part and parcel of this plan too. You may have seen articles musing about how waterways and air cleared up while everyone kept indoors for weeks on end. Who knows, in the future, we may well have rolling lockdowns to look forward to — periodic house arrests for the sake of the environment, if not to prevent the latest outbreak.
Meanwhile, social distancing and mask wearing separates us from our fellow man, demoralizes and dehumanizes us and makes us alone, fearful and anxious, which in turn prevents us from thinking logically and from coordinating resistance efforts with others. Add to that a grossly biased media and draconian censorship, where the Big Tech overlords decide what opinions and even facts are allowable and which are not.
When you multiply it all together, it starts looking like the biggest psyop in the history of mankind, which in turn begs the question: If the direction they want us to go will actually lead to utopia, would this kind of social engineering effort really be necessary?
Welcome to 2030
November 10, 2016, the World Economic Forum published an article12 in Forbes titled, “Welcome to 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy and Life Has Never Been Better.” Let’s read beyond the creepy headline and see what this is all about, shall we?
“Welcome to the year 2030. Welcome to my city — or should I say, ‘our city.’ I don’t own anything. I don’t own a car. I don’t own a house. I don’t own any appliances or any clothes.
It might seem odd to you, but it makes perfect sense for us in this city. Everything you considered a product, has now become a service. We have access to transportation, accommodation, food and all the things we need in our daily lives. One by one all these things became free, so it ended up not making sense for us to own much …
In our city we don’t pay any rent, because someone else is using our free space whenever we do not need it. My living room is used for business meetings when I am not there. Once in a while, I will choose to cook for myself. It is easy — the necessary kitchen equipment is delivered at my door within minutes …
Shopping? I can’t really remember what that is. For most of us, it has been turned into choosing things to use. Sometimes I find this fun, and sometimes I just want the algorithm to do it for me. It knows my taste better than I do by now.
When AI and robots took over so much of our work, we suddenly had time to eat well, sleep well and spend time with other people … The work that we do can be done at any time. I don’t really know if I would call it work anymore. It is more like thinking-time, creation-time and development-time …
Once in a while I get annoyed about the fact that I have no real privacy. Nowhere I can go and not be registered. I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will use it against me. All in all, it is a good life.”
Techno-Tyranny Steps Into Broad Daylight
As noted in The Last American Vagabond’s article13 “Techno-Tyranny: How the U.S. National Security State Is Using Coronavirus to Fulfill an Orwellian Vision,” the U.S. is rapidly adopting an artificial intelligence-driven mass surveillance system rivaling that of China, and legal and structural obstacles are being swept away “under the guise of combating the coronavirus crisis.”
Again, technocracy requires social engineering to work, the effectiveness of which in turn requires mass surveillance and automation. In the first half of the 20th century, George Orwell wrote a dystopian novel, “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” in which the government controlled every aspect of a person’s life, including their very thoughts.
Today, scientists seem intent on turning Orwell’s nightmarish vision into reality, using the COVID-19 pandemic, national security and public health as their justification for doing so. Don’t expect them to admit this, however. Instead, be prepared for variations of the Forbes article above. It’s basically a world in which everyone has been stripped of purpose.
Artificial intelligence algorithms make decisions for you, and if you disobey or start thinking fancy thoughts all on your own, you can expect to be financially and socially disenfranchised. Effectively eliminating an individual from society will be as easy as pressing a button and putting a freeze on your digital wallet and identification.
Already, many truth-tellers that were purged from YouTube and other social media platforms simultaneously lost their PayPal and other digital payment accounts. No advance warning, and no justification given. Imagine if all your finances were tied together in a digital finance system and everything was shut down all at once. That, I’m sure, would discourage most everyone from expressing any contradictory views.
If you think this kind of technology is still in its cradle, check out Spiro Skouras video below, in which he discusses the rollout of the United Nations’ biometric digital wallet. This, undoubtedly, brings the UN one step closer to becoming the world’s de facto leadership hub.
http://youtu.be/4HDzQhbOgpA
Artificial Intelligence Is Further Along Than Most Can Imagine
Indeed, artificial intelligence is a key component of effective surveillance and social engineering. Data is useless unless you can interpret it and make decisions based on it. As noted by The Last American Vagabond:14
“[In 2019], a U.S. government body dedicated to examining how artificial intelligence can ‘address the national security and defense needs of the United States’ discussed in detail the ‘structural’ changes that the American economy and society must undergo in order to ensure a technological advantage over China, according to a recent document15 acquired through a FOIA request.
This document suggests that the U.S. follow China’s lead and even surpass them in many aspects related to AI-driven technologies, particularly their use of mass surveillance.
This perspective clearly clashes with the public rhetoric of prominent U.S. government officials and politicians on China, who have labeled the Chinese government’s technology investments and export of its surveillance systems and other technologies as a major ‘threat’ to Americans’ ‘way of life.’16”
The document17 the article refers to was produced by the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI), a government organization created by the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2018.
Its purpose is “to consider the methods and means necessary to advance the development of artificial intelligence, machine learning and associated technologies to comprehensively address the national security and defense needs of the United States,” and ensure the U.S. maintains a technological advantage.
To that end, the NSCAI is pushing for an overhaul of the American way of life and economy in order to usher in a more comprehensive AI-driven surveillance apparatus. In other words, a Great Reset.
How to Resist the Great Reset
Ironically, while the real plan is to usher in a tech-driven globalist-run dystopia free of democratic controls, technocrats speak of this plan as a way to bring us back into harmony with Nature.
As I discuss in “The Global Takeover Is Underway,” the medical tyranny and censorship of anti-groupthink that has emerged during this pandemic are an unavoidable element of the Great Reset, and if you think it’s bad now, just wait until the whole system is brought fully online.
The mere idea of dissent will become a thought of the past, because your life — your health, educational and work opportunities, your finances and your very identity — will be so meshed with the automated technological infrastructure that any attempt to break free will result in you being locked out or erased from the system, leaving you with no ability to learn, work, travel or purchase anything.
It sounds far-fetched, I know, but when you follow the technocratic plan to its inevitable end, that’s basically what you end up with. The warning signs are all around us, if we’re willing to see them for what they actually are. The only question now is whether enough people are willing to resist it to make a difference.
Along those lines, let us carefully reflect on one of the United States’ founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, in his warning and caution with respect to losing our liberty. I frequently reflect on them when I consider potential options in this new contrived crisis challenges we are confronted with:
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. ~ Benjamin Franklin“
If you are open for some practical strategies on how you can respond in light of all the tyrannical interventions that have been imposed on us you can watch James Corbett’s interview with Howard Lichtman below.
http://youtu.be/dJqNQ0Nu_44
One of the Most Powerful Videos I’ve Ever Seen
The following video from Barbara Loe Fisher is one of the most powerful videos that I have ever seen. I am hopeful that watching this video will inspire you to take up the cause and join the fight for vaccine freedom and independence.
There is a cultural war and collusion between many industries and federal regulatory agencies that results in a suppression of the truth about vital important health issues. If this suppression continues we will gradually and progressively erode our private individual rights that our ancestors fought so hard to achieve. Please take a few minutes to watch this video.
Protect Your Right to Informed Consent and Defend Vaccine Exemptions
With all the uncertainty surrounding the safety and efficacy of vaccines, it’s critical to protect your right to make independent health choices and exercise voluntary informed consent to vaccination. It is urgent that everyone in America stand up and fight to protect and expand vaccine informed consent protections in state public health and employment laws. The best way to do this is to get personally involved with your state legislators and educate the leaders in your community.
Think Globally, Act Locally
National vaccine policy recommendations are made at the federal level but vaccine laws are made at the state level. It is at the state level where your action to protect your vaccine choice rights can have the greatest impact.
It is critical for EVERYONE to get involved now in standing up for the legal right to make voluntary vaccine choices in America because those choices are being threatened by lobbyists representing drug companies, medical trade associations and public health officials, who are trying to persuade legislators to strip all vaccine exemptions from public health laws.
Signing up for NVIC’s free Advocacy Portal at www.NVICAdvocacy.org gives you immediate, easy access to your own state legislators on your smartphone or computer so you can make your voice heard. You will be kept up to date on the latest state bills threatening your vaccine choice rights and will get practical, useful information to help you become an effective vaccine choice advocate in your own community.
Also, when national vaccine issues come up, you will have the up-to-date information and call-to-action items you need at your fingertips. So, please, as your first step, sign up for the NVIC Advocacy Portal.


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The 2020 holiday season is widely expected to be one unlike any other , due in no small part to the ongoing public health emergency .
However , Christmas celebrations will also be unique due to an extremely rare planetary alignment , the likes of which have never been seen since medieval times .
Star-gazers will be in for a major treat come December 21 , 2020 – the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jupiter and Saturn will appear extremely close to one another in our night sky , making the planets appear that they might almost collide and becoming one extremely luminous point of light .
The rare celestial treat coinciding with Christmas week will see the Solar System ’ s two largest planets appear as a “ double planet ” for the first time in almost 800 years .
“ Alignments between these two planets are rather rare , occurring once every 20 years or so , but this conjunction is exceptionally rare because of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one another , ” said astronomer Patrick Hartigan in a press release from Rice University in Houston , Texas .
“ You ’ d have to go all the way back to just before dawn on March 4 , 1226 , to see a closer alignment between these objects visible in the night sky , ” he added .
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Consider our own planet ’ s distance from the sun .
Astronomers use what ’ s called astronomical units @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the sprawling expanse of our solar system .
Jupiter lies 5 au from the Earth , while Saturn lies 10 au away .
Since the summer , Jupiter and Saturn have been headed towards each other in our own night sky .
And from Dec. 16-25 , they will appear to be separated by only less than the diameter of a full moon .
While astronomers are recommending that the best views will be seen from around the equator , if good weather permits then the alignment will be clear from any location @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will also be clear during the twilight , for roughly an hour after sunset every evening .
However , a telescope tilted toward the western sky will be the best way to catch a glimpse of the extremely rare event .
“ On the evening of closest approach on Dec 21 they will look like a double planet , separated by only 1/5th the diameter of the full moon , ” Hartigan explained .
“ For most telescope viewers , each planet and several of their largest moons will be visible in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ The further north a viewer is , the less time they ’ ll have to catch a glimpse of the conjunction before the planets sink below the horizon.
” Websites like Stellarium will also be helpful in figuring out where you should look for the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction .
If you don ’ t get a chance to catch Jupiter and Saturn this close together , you can catch the pair again relatively soon – on March 15 , 2080 .
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Saturn And Jupiter Will Align And Create Extremely Rare ‘Christmas Star’ During Winter Solstice
Elias Marat, The Mind Unleashed
Waking Times
The 2020 holiday season is widely expected to be one unlike any other, due in no small part to the ongoing public health emergency. However, Christmas celebrations will also be unique due to an extremely rare planetary alignment, the likes of which have never been seen since medieval times.
Star-gazers will be in for a major treat come December 21, 2020 – the date of the winter solstice – when Jupiter and Saturn will appear extremely close to one another in our night sky, making the planets appear that they might almost collide and becoming one extremely luminous point of light.
The rare celestial treat coinciding with Christmas week will see the Solar System’s two largest planets appear as a “double planet” for the first time in almost 800 years.
“Alignments between these two planets are rather rare, occurring once every 20 years or so, but this conjunction is exceptionally rare because of how close the planets will appear to one another,” said astronomer Patrick Hartigan in a press release from Rice University in Houston, Texas. “You’d have to go all the way back to just before dawn on March 4, 1226, to see a closer alignment between these objects visible in the night sky,” he added.
Of course, these massive planets won’t be close to one another. Consider our own planet’s distance from the sun. Astronomers use what’s called astronomical units (au) to measure distances in the sprawling expanse of our solar system. Jupiter lies 5 au from the Earth, while Saturn lies 10 au away.
Since the summer, Jupiter and Saturn have been headed towards each other in our own night sky. And from Dec. 16-25, they will appear to be separated by only less than the diameter of a full moon.
While astronomers are recommending that the best views will be seen from around the equator, if good weather permits then the alignment will be clear from any location here on Earth.
Jupiter and Saturn will also be clear during the twilight, for roughly an hour after sunset every evening. However, a telescope tilted toward the western sky will be the best way to catch a glimpse of the extremely rare event.
“On the evening of closest approach on Dec 21 they will look like a double planet, separated by only 1/5th the diameter of the full moon,” Hartigan explained. “For most telescope viewers, each planet and several of their largest moons will be visible in the same field of view that evening.” “The further north a viewer is, the less time they’ll have to catch a glimpse of the conjunction before the planets sink below the horizon.”
Websites like Stellarium will also be helpful in figuring out where you should look for the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction.
If you don’t get a chance to catch Jupiter and Saturn this close together, you can catch the pair again relatively soon – on March 15, 2080.
However, the next time Jupiter and Saturn will be so close in earthly night skies will be in 2400.
By Elias Marat | Creative Commons | TheMindUnleashed.com