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Title: Coral Snake's Bites of the Week 2007-11 (The VENOM is BACK, The fraudulent "War on Cancer, Deserting the Aspartame sinking ship, A Passel of Vatican owlHOOTS, More pants wetting hoplophobia from GunGuys.)
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Coral Snake's Bites of the Week 2007-11 (The VENOM is BACK, The fraudulent "War on Cancer, Deserting the Aspartame sinking ship, A Passel of Vatican owlHOOTS, More pants wetting hoplophobia from GunGuys.)

The Venom is BACK!!! and with some great stories from the past weeks dealing mainly with Vatican/Roman/Jesuit/NWO stoogery, a favorite topic here at the Bites. Also included will be a story on the fraudulent nature of current cancer therapy which as been found to AGGRAVATE and ACCELERATE rather than lessen the presence or threat of the disease. Also we have a story of the owlHOOTS from the Aspartame industry beginning to desert that sinking ship and more pant wetter articles from the deceptive gun grabber site, http://gunguys.com.

As always Remember the KEY and enjoy.


Bite One ---> The Cancer "Industry"

The Industry around the "management" of Cancer becomes the recipient of another shocking exposure this week and that exposure starts off the return of the Bites. It seems that the current medical paradigm of Cut, Poison, Burn actually AGGRAVATES AND ACCELERATES rather than reduces or manages cancers. According to an article at the http://rense.com website. According to the article:

{[Treatment May Fuel Cancer's Spread

Treating cancer with surgery, chemotherapy or radiation may sometimes cause tumors to spread, researchers say.

Tests in mice show that using the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin or radiation both raised levels of TGF-beta, which in turn helped breast cancer tumors spread to the lung.

But using an antibody to block TGF-beta stopped the process, Dr. Carlos Arteaga and colleagues at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee have reported.

"We'll be looking to see in what proportion of patients the serum and tumor TGF-beta goes up, and whether the increase correlates with the inability of the therapy to eliminate the cancer in the breast," Arteaga said.

Higher levels of TGF-beta after treatment may be a way to predict which patients are likely to have their cancer come back after treatment, Arteaga added.

TGF-beta, however, is not the only element that is having this effect. Many other compounds, including some immune system signaling chemicals, are also associated with tumor spread and growth.

Researchers are also testing drugs that interfere with TGF-beta to see if they improve chances of survival.

SHL/PC/DB

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=5148&sectionid=3510210]}

With this article being added to all other evidences it can be concluded that the so called "war on cancer" is just another campaign of the NWO/Roman/Jesuit depopulation campaign.

You can read the complete http://rense.com article here:

http://www.rense.com/general76/fuel.htm


Bite Two ---> DFM inc.

Speaking of Cancer and depopulation it seems that some of the NWO's poison manufacturers are leaving the Aspartame industry in order to avoid possible lawsuits or jail sentences when the natural fertilizer hits the rotating device and lying through their teeth about "non-profitability" being the reason for the withdrawal. It seems the man Japanese manufacture of Aspartame DFM inc is now taking this route. According to the http://dairyreporter.com website:

{[DSM has today announced its withdrawal from the aspartame business, citing price erosion and unprofitability as key factors.]

[The main reason for the withdrawal is that this market is not profitable any more, and we see no chance of it being so in the nearby future," DSM senior communication officer Nelleke Barning told FoodNavigator.

"Although we have made many efforts to cut costs, low market prices mean that we just couldn't make this profitable."]

[ DSM's involvement in aspartame, a key sweetener, is through Holland Sweetener Company (HSC), a 50/50 joint venture between the Dutch ingredients firm and Japanese firm Tosoh Corporation.

It is now envisaged that the business will cease to function by end of 2006 with production of aspartame phased out in the fourth quarter of this year.

Barning insisted that negative press surrounding the safety of aspartame has played no part in informing this decision.

"This has not been a factor," she said. "We believe the product is safe, and there have been as many studies supporting this as there have been studies suggesting otherwise."

The fundamental reason behind the withdrawal, she said, was the simple fact that the global aspartame market is currently facing structural oversupply, which has caused worldwide strong price erosion over the last five years.]

You can read the complete http://dairyreporter.com article here:

http://www.dairyreporter.com/news/ng.asp?n=66736-dsm-aspartame-sweetener


Bite Three ---> Dianne Feinstein

It seems that one of the DemocRATS that were elected to get us out of Iraq was actually PROFITEERING from that war and had to resign from a Senate Committee chairmanship because of it. This is the infamous gun grabber by the name of Dianne Feinstein. While she is not getting a bite this week this one for Feinstein should be a reminder to those of you who may be supporting Rosie O Donnel because of her public support for the 9-11 truth movement. What is happening with Feinstein here shows that gun grabbers can simply not be trusted on any other subject or issue either. And if anything O Donnel is an even more rabid gun grabber than Feinstein as O Donnel once said that all gun owners belong in prison regardless of their criminal intent in possessing the firearm.

Getting back to the genuine Bite recipient Feinstein however here are the highlights of an article by the Silicon Valley Metro posted at http://rense.com:

{[Senator Dianne Feinstein has resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee. As previously and extensively reviewed in these pages, Feinstein was chairperson and ranking member of MILCON for six years, during which time she had a conflict of interest due to her husband Richard C. Blum's ownership of two major defense contractors, who were awarded billions of dollars for military construction projects approved by Feinstein.

As MILCON leader, Feinstein relished the details of military construction, even micromanaging one project at the level of its sewer design. She regularly took junkets to military bases around the world to inspect construction projects, some of which were contracted to her husband's companies, Perini Corp. and URS Corp. Perhaps she resigned from MILCON because she could not take the heat generated by Metro's expose of her ethics (which was partially funded by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute). Or was her work on the subcommittee finished because Blum divested ownership of his military construction and advanced weapons manufacturing firms in late 2005?]}

You can read the complete Silicon Valley Metro article here:

http://www.rense.com/general76/warprof.htm


Bite Four ---> Leo Wanta

those of you who have looked in on the Bites and my song parodies last year will probably know the name of Leo Wanta, a former Regan Administration official that claimed he had access to trillions of dollars stolen by the Clinton and Bush crime families through a court judgment that was being held up by Shrubya in the Federal reserve System. Well it turns out that Wanta is in all probability working for the Vatican and lying through his teeth, NOT about the Bush/Clinton theft but about the idea that he had any legal access to funds recovered from it. According to the http://arcticbeacon.com website which first broke the Wantagate story:

{[ Leo Wanta Surfaces Again With More Financial Doubletalk

The former Treasury agent ran for the hills when Vatican involvement was suggested in holding up the $4.5 trillion settlement. He appears to still be running from telling the whole story while not one red cent has been returned to the American.]

[ Leo Wanta and his band of supposed "White Knights" disappeared quickly into the blackness of the night months ago when their veracity was questioned and they were asked to discuss openly any connections to Jesuit duplicity and Vatican financial horseplay.

When public opinion went their way, Wanta and his band of financial fast talkers were more than happy to appear on radio shows and give interviews to alternative publications carrying their story.

But when information surfaced that Wanta, a longtime friend and Treasury agent for one of America's biggest traitor's, former President Ronald Reagan, actually might be a part of Vatican-controlled psyops operation, he went underground, refusing to entertain any questions which might upset the Pope and the Jesuit General's illegal financial applecart.

It is well-known and documented but at the same time well-hidden from the American people that the Jesuit General's financial worldwide financial network has a firm noose around the necks of the American people as the Jesuits were the brains behind the Federal Reserve Banking system and many other illegal banking schemes emanating from the biggest money laundering operation in the World -- The Vatican Bank.

However, for those unaware of the enormous control of the Jesuits and the Vatican over U.S. financial matters and for those who have forgotten about the Wanta story since he went underground months ago after a Vatican connection was raised, Wanta supposedly entered into a $4.5 trillion dollar settlement last May with the Bush administration, signed off by several Supreme Court Justices.

Further, Wanta said the $4.5 trillion settlement was only a small part of more than $27.5 trillion of offshore money illegally being hidden and stolen from the American people by the last three Presidential administrations who backstabbed him and Reagan.]

[ His intentions, according to his critics, was to foment more even more anger against the Vatican's puppet Bush regime while at the same time showing how trillions of American dollars have been stolen, leading to an eventual collapse of the economy.

what is most interesting about the Wanta story to date is that not one red cent of the $4.5 trillion has been returned to the American people. Further, Wanta continues to blame only the Bush administration while failing to look behind the scenes at the real puppet masters pulling the strings.

And since Wanta still fails to answer serious questions about what is really going on behind the scenes and since he still fails to admit to the Vatican's control over the Fed Reserve and many other banking interests in this country, the question must be asked "Who really is Leo Wanta?"]

You can read the complete http://arcticbeacon.com article here:

http://www.arcticbeacon.com/articles/7-Apr-2007.html


Bite Five ---> David Icke

However Leo Wanta is not the only disinformation and kookery creation agent working for the Vatican/Jesuits in the truth and patriot movements. the real gold medal for making patriot and truth movements look like kooks goes to David Icke a "New Age" "Truth" movement leader out of the United Kingdom that like Wanta as also working for the Vatican and lying through his teeth. Icke since the beginnings of his own "Anti Illuminati Truth Crusade" has been promoting probably the most ridiculous theory on the origin of the NWO to date. Basically Icke promotes the theory that Earth has been taken over by giant Geico Geckos from another dimension that can take on human form through ritual pedophilia and the drinking of human blood and these lizards in human form are the leaders of the New World Order/Illuminati including the Pope, Jesuits, Zionist Jews the Bushes and the Clintons amongst others. Such a theory is very damaging to the genuine Patriot, Constitutionalist and Truth movements in two ways. One is that it promulgates a false theory of the origins of the New World Order. (The NWO's genuine historic beginnings are actually the Roman Church's Council of Trent in the 1500s which was called to restore the Pope's worldwide Temporal (political) and Ecclesiastical Powers after the Protestant Reformation and empowered the newly founded Jesuit Order as the secret army for that purpose.). The other is that the acceptance of even the genuine truth from Icke helps the MSM and especially the electric Jesuit (Television) push the idea that the Truth, Constitutionalist and Patriot movements believe EVERYTHING ICKE SAYS including the obviously kooky parts about bush as a giant lizard that just happens to look human by drinking blood and there push the idea of all Patriots, Truth Movement members and Constitutionalists being "kooks". (Again I would like to point to the possibility of Rosie O Donnel being the same type of disinformation agent. Before her support for the Truth and Anti War movements the objects of her advocacy were "Tickle me Elmo" and gun grabbing with concentration camps (prison) for gun owners.)

According to an http://arcticbeacon.com article on David Icke this week:

{[ David Icke Mixes Jesuit Satanism With The Folly of UFO Reptilians

Is he trying to discredit honest truth tellers by mixing in the serious Jesuit message with Reptilian folly? Someone please ask him if he is working for the Jesuits or if he has surrounded himself with the wrong people feeding him silly Reptilian information?]

{[ The next copy of the David Icke newsletter goes out on Saturday and the Arctic Beacon has received an advance copy of his opening message.

Icke seems to be on the "crush the Jesuit" bandwagon for the last month just like the Arctic Beacon has been on for years.

In fact, the editor of the Arctic Beacon has researched Vatican and Jesuit evil ever since working in Rome from 1979-1985. However, he has never mixed the important Vatican and Jesuit issue with things like Reptilians and other UFO hoaxes like Icke.

Further, it is this Arctic Beacon editor's opinion that Icke either works for the Jesuits, trying to mix seriousness with UFO folly, or he has surrounded himself with the "wrong people" feeding him wrong crazy Reptilian information in order to incite fear while now diluting the serious Satanic influence of the Jesuits.]}

You can read the complete http://arcticbeacon.com article here:

http://www.arcticbeacon.com/articles/5-Apr-2007.html


Bite Six ---> Nancy Pelosi

And yet another DemocRAT gun grabber elected by the Truth and Anti War Movements shows her true NWO/Vatican colors this week, this time Nancy Pelosi, the current Speaker of the House. This week marks her exposure as just another Vatican/Jesuit stooge at http://arcticbeacon.com:

{[ Pelosi Is Just Another Paid Vatican Shill?

Why Won?t She Answer Questions or Consider Vatican and Jesuit Involvement in New World Order?]

[ The Arctic Beacon months ago went on the record saying the crowning of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca) as House Speaker would bring no changes and nothing good for the American people.

In fact, when Pelosi was elevated to the top post in the U.S. House, the Arctic Beacon asked her to respond to serious questions about the Vatican?s control over foreign and domestic policy.

Of course, Pelosi like the other Vatican paid shills in the U.S. House and Senate, refused to respond. And her refusal means she is just another one of the ?big time Vatican puppets? having been paid off to keep the truth from the American people while selling out her country for her loyalty to Rome and the New World Order.]

[ To show Pelosi?s Vatican connection the following research was provided by true patriots, trying to awaken Americans to the real beast residing in Rome.

And after reading the following information ask why, when considering who is really behind the New World Order, The Vatican connection is never mentioned.]

[ere are some facts provided to the Arctic Beacon by Nick Rivera about Pelosi?s Vatican connection as well as other facts regarding Vatican influence within the halls of the U.S. government:

?I learned yesterday from this article that Nancy Pelosi personally invited the President of the Order's University of San Francisco Stephen A. Privett SJ to give the Invocation for her Swearing-In as Speaker of the House. Pelosi attended several masses prior to that day with her family.

?Quote from the article: "I really enjoyed meeting members of the Congress like Anna Eshoo and [Prince Hall Freemason] Charlie Rangle," said Privett. "Everyone I met was warm, welcoming and upbeat. I feel that the House is in good hands, that the Democrats will work hard to counter the narrow partisanship that has characterized Congress to this point in an effort to address issues that really concern all of us."

?Being present at this historical moment ranks at the top of Privett's 47 years as a Jesuit.

"It was all the more meaningful for me knowing that the United States' first woman Speaker of the House was Nancy Pelosi from San Francisco, who has a strong relationship with USF and the Jesuits."

?According to the article "Congress has more religious diversity than ever before"

"Catholics remain the largest denominational group in Congress, with 155 members -- 25 in the Senate and 130 in the House. But there are fewer Catholic Republicans in both houses since the 109th Congress and many more Catholic Democrats"

?In the last Senate, Catholic members were nearly evenly split between the parties, with 11 Republicans and 13 Democrats. Now there are 9 Catholic Republicans and 16 Catholic Democrats in the Senate.

?In the House at the start of the 109th Congress, there were 129 Catholics -- 57 Republicans and 72 Democrats. Although the total number of House Catholics in the 110th Congress is nearly the same at 130, the current group includes 42 Republicans and 88 Democrats.

?Even Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., a Muslim who was sworn in as a member of Congress using a Quran once owned by President Thomas Jefferson, was raised a Catholic. He became a Muslim while in college at Wayne State University in Detroit.

?Ellison's mother, Clida Ellison, recently told The Associated Press that she remains a practicing Catholic and attends Mass daily. But she said the controversy over her son's decision to be sworn in using the Quran rather than a Bible was a good thing, "because many people in America are going to learn what the diversity of America is all about."

?The two new Buddhist members of Congress -- Democratic Reps. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii and Hank Johnson of Georgia -- have not spoken publicly about their religion.

?Hirono is among 54 members of the 110th Congress who attended Jesuit institutions of higher education, according to a list compiled by the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities . She earned her law degree in 1978 at Georgetown University Law School in Washington.

?The number represents a nearly 15 percent increase compared to the 109th Congress, in which 47 of the 535 members were alumni of Jesuit colleges or universities , the association said.

?Jesuit Father Charles Currie, association president, called the latest figures "an important reminder that a Jesuit education is meant to lead to lives of leadership and service."

"We are proud that this goal is realized at the highest levels of public service, as well as in countless other ways across the country and around the world," he added in a statement.

?With the election of Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., as Senate majority leader, the 110th Congress also marks the highest congressional leadership position ever achieved by a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as Mormons.]}

You can read the complete arcticbeacon article here:

http://www.arcticbeacon.com/articles/29-Mar-2007.html


Bite Seven ---> Gun Guys

The return episode of the bites would not be complete with out this weeks examples of pants wetting hoplophobia (fear of guns) from http://gunguys.com website:

{[Albany Pushes for a Gun Database

In Albany, NY, authorities are trying to figure out a way to combat the flood of gun violence that?s been affecting them, and they?ve recently come up with a plan: they want to make sure they know where the guns are. As you might expect, the gun guys are furious at any mention of their being held responsible for the firearms that they own.

"If you buy a gun in Albany, Mayor Jerry Jennings wants the police chief to know within 24 hours.

A gun-control law he proposed Wednesday drew immediate fire from critics who said the legislation would only affect law-abiding gun owners without reducing crime. It quickly became a hot topic on a live Web cast on the National Rifle Association?s Web site.

?I can walk into a show and buy as many guns as I like,? Jennings said. ?It?s really a built-in accountability system. We can work more effectively to reduce gun violence in the city.?

Before putting the bill together, Jennings said, his administration examined similar laws in New York City, Chicago and other cities.

Under the law, everyone who sells weapons would need a dealer license approved by the police chief. All handguns would require safety devices to make them childproof. Pellet guns would need to have orange plugs, making them easily distinguishable from handguns. Sale of common kinds of ammunition would be prohibited."

This is hardly groundbreaking legislation? as the article says, there are similar laws in many other cities around the country. And what all of this is about is something that should be very important to gun owners in Albany and elsewhere: responsibility. That?s what this law does? it gives the sheriff the information he needs to stay aware about where the guns in his city are.

"Alderman James Scalzo, who introduced the law, said it is needed to help track gun crime.

?The intent of the legislation is to give the police chief knowledge of who possesses a handgun in the city of Albany,? he said. ?Honest, law-abiding people should be able to have handguns but they should be registered with the chief of police."?

The gun guys don?t like that, because they aren?t interested in being held responsible for the choices they make. They choose to endanger us and our commities by owning firearms? the absolute least they could do is fess up to the danger they?re putting us in.

"Albany resident Kevin Jones said the law, if passed, would prove unconstitutional.

?Other than an outright prohibition, this is the strictest legislation I?ve ever seen,? he said.

Michael Hay of Albany said guns are needed to protect his family.

?I can?t, for the life of me, see why anyone would give a free pass to people?s houses,? he said. ?The criminal element has no idea whether there is a firearm behind that door. If this ordinance is passed, they?ll have a free pass to break in."?

Wait? what? What is he talking about? How does the sheriff keeping a record of where the firearms are give criminals ?a free pass? to break into anyone?s home? That?s complete nonsense.

Now, the Alderman quoted at the end of the story does have a valid point? this law won?t do much to stop crime. To really stop crime, you?ll need laws that keep firearms out of the hands of criminal in the first place? laws like one-gun-a-month and laws that require background checks on all gun sales. But this law is effective after crime has happened? if a crime goes down with a legally owned firearm, cops will have the ability to track down the gun?s owners and get information quickly. Gun owners shouldn?t be able to stand in the way of that simply because they don?t want their local law enforcement to be aware they?re endangering the community.]

This article is particularly interesting because it shows the general Constitution hatred of the gun grabbers that extends beyond the Second Amendment. It also shows the probable Vatican/Roman/Jesuit/NOW involvement in the http://gunguys.com webiste and in the gun grabber movement in general. Ever since the Pope and his Roman Church's "Syllibus of Errors" was written in the in the mid 19th century the THE POPE, HIS ROMAN CHURCH AND HIS JESUIT ORDER have been the leading HATERS of the United States Constitution and still are. A am thinking of making a very strong suggestion to Greg Szymanski that this http://gunguys.com site be looked into as to its possible Vatican/Roman/Jesuit origins.

["Constitution Worship"?is Preventing Us from Seeing the Gun Issue Clearly

Here's a really interesting opinion piece from the LA Times that condemns what's called “Constitution worship.” Our founding fathers created the Constitution to be a “living, breathing document.” It's meant to serve the people, not the other way around. But when a group like the gun lobby (or any other group that advocates the suffering of Americans in slavery to a two-hundred year old piece of paper) uses the Second Amendment as a shield against even the most reasonable of laws, we all suffer. And the ”living, breathing document” is used to end thousands of lives per year.

"Let's unpack the paradox. Congress and state legislatures don't mind amending the Constitution when it comes to technical or housekeeping matters.

“But attitudes shift when it comes to amending other parts of the Constitution” notably the Bill of Rights, but also the post-Civil War 14th Amendment, which says that states may not deny “any person” the equal protection of the laws.?

The conventional argument against reviving the ERA is that the Supreme Court has rendered it unnecessary by using the Equal Protection Clause to knock down barriers to sexual equality. (ERA advocates counter, correctly, that gender is still not a “suspect classification” in the way that race is but the Supreme Court has been narrowing the gap.)

Yet the real reluctance, even among some feminists, to push for adoption of the ERA is rooted in something deeper, a pseudo-religious reverence for those provisions of the Constitution that contain what Justice Robert Jackson, referring to the Bill of Rights, called “majestic generalities.”

The historian Michael Kammen calls this attitude “Constitution worship” and notes that it has a long pedigree. In his 1986 book, A Machine That Would Go of Itself, Kammen quotes a 1908 Supreme Court opinion celebrating the fact that the Constitution?s provisions “are adaptable to the infinite variety of the changing conditions of our national life.”

Really? How about the Seventh Amendment, which guarantees a jury trial in civil cases ?where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars.? That monetary threshold, which has been eroded by inflation big-time (as Dick Cheney would say), is neither a “majestic generality” nor particularly adaptable to changing conditions. But it's in the Bill of Rights, and the Bill of Rights is the true totem of Constitution worship."

The connection to the gun debate and the Second Amendment is obvious. We shouldn't see the Constitution as written in stone, or handed down to us by the hands of God Himself. It's a document created by men two hundred years ago. And those same men gave us the tools and the know-how to change it when it became clear that the law no longer applied. And no matter what reading of the Second Amendment you subscribe to, it is clearly one law that no longer should apply to our changing world.

"After a federal appeals court ruled recently that the Second Amendment protected an individual right to bear arms, Benjamin Wittes wrote an essay for The New Republic in which he suggested: “Let's repeal the damn thing.”

Wittes writes: “If, as gun-control supporters have long argued, the amendment embodies only a collective right and the right to keep guns is indelibly linked to membership in Revolution-era militias ”institutions that no longer exist” then the provision is already a dead letter, and repealing it would therefore be a simple matter of constitutional hygiene. If, on the other hand, the amendment really does “confer on individuals the right to bear arms, then it embodies values against which we should be prepared to fight” (though not with guns, presumably)."

The fact is that we have too much gun violence in America today. Firearms are making violence possible every day in almost every city. We need to do something about it. If the Second Amendment speaks of a collective right, then it should be clear that our world has outgrown the kinds of institutions that made up the “well-regulated militias” the Amendment speaks of. If it's talking about an individual right, then we really do have a problem with it” no law should condone the kind of violence happening in America today, and widespread firearms ownership is making that violence directly possible.

Either way, it's time for the Second Amendment to be seriously reconsidered. We cannot allow the NRA and their ilk to use our own laws against us any longer.]

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"O Donnel once said that all gun owners belong in prison regardless of their criminal intent in possessing the firearm."

Sheeesh, somebody needs to put that ol' bag in a home...MUD

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