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(NaturalNews) In response to growing awareness about the dangers of artificial sweeteners, what does the manufacturer of one of the world's most notable artificial sweeteners do? Why, rename it and begin marketing it as natural, of course. This is precisely the strategy of Ajinomoto, maker of aspartame, which hopes to pull the wool over the eyes of the public with its rebranded version of aspartame, called "AminoSweet".

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You don't have to be a genius to figure this out. Upon ingestion, aspartame breaks down into natural residual components, including aspartic acid, phenylalanine, methanol, and further breakdown products including formaldehyde,[22] formic acid, and a diketopiperazine. Methanol has a high toxicity in humans. If ingested, as little as 10 mL can cause permanent blindness by destruction of the optic nerve and 30 mL is potentially fatal Formaldehyde is used as embalming fluid. The human body is incapable of metabolizing it. In short, the FDA approval of aspartame is yet another example of money trumping science. ABN

Was a top contender for the Romanian presidency zapped out of the race by a shadowy parapsychologist enlisted by his rival? The claim might be dismissed as preposterous in most other EU countries. But here, in the homeland of Dracula, Mircea Geoana's assertion that a "negative energy attack" led to his narrow loss to re-elected President Traian Basescu has been the talk of the nation.

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In this overview, Ventura considers a kind of mind-control enhancement of unwitting people. Consider also, how debilitating unwitting people might work, and be much simpler: BZ Bombs Away. ABN

Dr. Herbert Spiegel treated pain, anxiety and addictions by putting people into a trance. Broadway actors sought his help to overcome stage fright, singers to quit smoking, politicians to overcome fear of flying. For years he had a regular table at Elaine’s, as well as his own place on the national stage.

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President Barack Obama says he has "no intention" of sending US troops to fight militants in Yemen and Somalia and that Al-Qaeda's activities are still centered along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

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Uh-oh. This is Newspeak for we will be invading soon. It works by planting the idea in your mind, thus preparing you to accept an invasion after the immediate conditions of the message have been forgotten. In two weeks, you won't remember he said this, but you will be more likely to accept an invasion as "necessary" or whatever they say then because you have already been exposed to the idea. Sites like this one will post flashbacks and videos showing Obama making this claim, but it won't matter then because even videos are weak renditions of the past and there likely will have been further (very convenient) "provocations." Moreover, his saying this now, will cause you to remember Obama as "really trying" to do the right thing. All politicians want to get their faces on TV saying something agreeable. After a few days, what they said is forgotten but favorable subconscious memories of them remain. This is basic mass hypnosis and this country is in a mass trance state. ABN

MOSCOW, Russia — Bank robbers have threatened tellers with knives, shot their way into banks and tunnelled up into vaults. But one woman in southern Russia chose a more peaceful method: Police say Galina Korzhova hypnotised a bank teller into handing over tens of thousands of dollars in what is believed to be just one in a series of daring, if non-violent, bank robberies.

...Police say that Korzhova is a "tsiganka," or Roma. Police, who are often criticized for racial profiling, say this type of crime is most often perpetrated by Roma who are traditionally involved in fortune telling and are often seen begging in Russia.

The Roma, or Gypsies, are nomadic people who live throughout Europe. Human rights groups say they are severely discriminated against in Russia and that police routinely assume their guilt and harass them.

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Re: Hypnotizing people for money...a comment below this article reads: "This is not news, the American politicians have been doing this to the population for years." Robyn

"The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving someone I wasn't. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning them and fooling them."
— Marilyn Monroe

Perhaps in Obama's future memoirs, there will be a similar quote that reads something like this:

"The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to look at what I actually did. Instead they would simply believe the crap I said in the speeches that were written for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were in love with what they thought I represented. When they found this out, long after it had become obvious that I had never fulfilled any of my campaign promises, they blamed me for disillusioning them."

Note the sheer power of the video medium--after seeing this, you will probably want a burger! Same thing goes for presidents, war policies, sex, cars, and all the rest. Hype rules! Even when you know it's hype! ABN

Researchers say there's new evidence that hypnosis may actually alter brain activity that's behind certain ingrained mental processes.

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FLASHBACK: This article was widely panned as a "swift boat" sort of attack on Obama when it appeared before the election. Reread it today and see what you think. I do not agree with every part of it, but do agree with most of it. Though Obama gave no real indication that real "change" was going to happen, many of his supporters believed strongly that he was set to do all sorts of wonderful new things. So far, he has done little but quietly continue most Bush policies, keep Gates as Secretary of Defense and appoint many Washington insiders. ABN
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Barack Obama’s speeches contain the hypnosis techniques of Dr. Milton Erickson, M.D. who developed a form of “conversational” hypnosis that could be hidden in seemingly normal speech and used on patients without their knowledge for therapy purposes. Obama’s speeches intentionally contain:

- Trance Inductions - Hypnotic Anchoring - Pacing and Leading - Pacing, Distraction and Utilization - Critical Factor Bypass - Stacking Language Patterns
- Preprogrammed Response Adaptation - Linking Statements/ Causality Bridges - Secondary Hidden Meanings/Imbedded Suggestions - Emotion Transfer - Non-Dominant Hemisphere Programming

Obama’s techniques are the height of deception and psychological manipulation, remaining hidden because one must understand the science behind the language patterns in order to spot them. This document examines Obama’s speeches word by word, hand gesture by hand gesture, tone, pauses, body language, and proves his use of covert hypnosis intended only for licensed therapists on consenting patients. Obama’s mesmerized, cult-like, grade-school-crush-like worship by millions is not because “Obama is the greatest leader of a generation” who simply hasn’t accomplished anything, who magically “inspires” by giving speeches.

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We first posted a link to this article in October, 2008. The comment in italics above was written February 22, 2009 when we reposted the link. I highly recommend readers to take a look at this article if you have not already done so. It is a bit long and sometimes too heavy on rhetoric, but the main points are valid and time has shown the predictive value of the article was 100%. That Obama still has apologists and still has followers who are unwilling to hold his feet to the fire, only further corroborates the thesis. ABN

Taiwanese authorities are probing child abuse claims against a school that allegedly made pupils as young as six swallow fire to boost their courage, a report said Thursday.

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Obama to control your television; brainwashing will be “organically” woven into plots and storylines all next week

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There is growing amounts of research being done on how hypnosis affects the brain. For example, when patients were hypnotized to experience a paralyzed limb,

“…the work suggests that brain areas normally associated with the intentional inhibition of movement are not active in people with hysterical paralysis nor hypnotized volunteers, suggesting that it really is the case that they cannot, rather than will not, move.”

One common use for hypnosis is pain relief and anesthesia. In April 2006, the British television channel More4 broadcasted a live hernia hypnosurgery operation.

Some individuals are more hypnotizable than others; research seems to suggest that those with a bigger anterior corpus callosum, which is a part of the brain thought to help focus attention, has show to associate with higher hypnotizability.

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Merck was in trouble. In 2002, the pharmaceutical giant was falling behind its rivals in sales. Even worse, patents on five blockbuster drugs were about to expire, which would allow cheaper generics to flood the market. The company hadn't introduced a truly new product in three years, and its stock price was plummeting.

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Interesting piece, though I was kind of amazed that the word hypnosis was not mentioned even once. Might be good to generally expand the meaning of that word beyond the image of a trance-inducing session followed by a somnolent patient who is susceptible to suggestion. In many ways, virtually everything hypnotizes us. TV, newspapers, doctors offices, pills, friends, poetry, art--you name it, it all affects us on conscious, semi-conscious, and sub-conscious levels. (Good reason right there to turn off the TV.) As the Buddha said: "What you think, you become." ABN

Relinked because we agree! ABN

Police in Italy have issued footage of a man who is suspected of hypnotising supermarket checkout staff to hand over money from their cash registers.

In every case, the last thing staff reportedly remember is the thief leaning over and saying: "Look into my eyes", before finding the till empty.

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TV, without question, induces a hypnotic trance, often within seconds. It amazes me that people actually want to spend money to have persuasive messages transmitted into their homes. Many people go nuts when a Jehovah’s Witness rings their door bell, but will pay big money to spend hours in front of their TV, which is doing a similar thing though more effectively and less honestly. Also, I have been following the digital TV transition from a sort of insider's position for well over a year and have been amazed at how dedicated and efficient government and business have been at rolling out this massive technological change. We see nothing like this level of efficiency in health care, energy, environment, foreign policy, etc. I really do not know if SSS (see below for more) technology is now part of digital TV, but honestly, I would not be surprised at all. ABN

Hypnotherapy is the use of hypnosis for therapeutic purposes. Hypnosis has been used for medical purposes since 1840 when a young surgeon James Braid noticed the benefits of the trance state. Hypnotherapy can be used to help a whole range of problems, both emotional as well as physical. Research has shown that hypnotherapy can be hugely beneficial for those suffering with pain.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Hynotists from around the world are gathering in Daytona Beach this weekend.

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A British woman lost 55 pounds after she was hypnotized to believe that she had weight-loss surgery.

Marion Cornes, 35, said she believed surgeons had placed a gastric band on her stomach shrinking it to the size of a golf ball after paying $1,580 for five sessions with a hypnotherapist.

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This article was widely panned as a "swift boat" sort of attack on Obama when it appeared before the election. Reread it today and see what you think. I do not agree with every part of it, but do agree with most of it. Though Obama gave no real indication that real "change" was going to happen, many of his supporters believed strongly that he was set to do all sorts of wonderful new things. So far, he has done little but quietly continue most Bush policies, keep Gates as Secretary of Defense and appoint many Washington insiders. ABN
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Barack Obama’s speeches contain the hypnosis techniques of Dr. Milton Erickson, M.D. who developed a form of “conversational” hypnosis that could be hidden in seemingly normal speech and used on patients without their knowledge for therapy purposes. Obama’s speeches intentionally contain:

- Trance Inductions - Hypnotic Anchoring - Pacing and Leading - Pacing, Distraction and Utilization - Critical Factor Bypass - Stacking Language Patterns
- Preprogrammed Response Adaptation - Linking Statements/ Causality Bridges - Secondary Hidden Meanings/Imbedded Suggestions - Emotion Transfer - Non-Dominant Hemisphere Programming

Obama’s techniques are the height of deception and psychological manipulation, remaining hidden because one must understand the science behind the language patterns in order to spot them. This document examines Obama’s speeches word by word, hand gesture by hand gesture, tone, pauses, body language, and proves his use of covert hypnosis intended only for licensed therapists on consenting patients. Obama’s mesmerized, cult-like, grade-school-crush-like worship by millions is not because “Obama is the greatest leader of a generation” who simply hasn’t accomplished anything, who magically “inspires” by giving speeches.

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Hypnosis therapy can significantly increase the quality of life for dementia patients by slowing the decline of their cognitive, physical and social abilities, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Liverpool and the Abacus Clinic in Newark, N.J.

Researchers split a number of dementia patients into three groups: one continuing with regular mainstream treatment, one participating in group therapy sessions that encouraged patients to discuss current events with each other, and one undergoing hypnosis therapy.

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Voiding cystourethrography (VCUG) is an invasive medical procedure involving a catheter used to examine the bladder and urethra. This procedure is often used on children and can have a negative impact on the child including distress and pain. In 2005, an article appeared in the journal Pediatrics about the role hypnosis plays in helping children go through the procedure. Doctors need children to be cooperative during the VCUG and researchers wanted to see if hypnosis could relax the children, reduce stress and procedure time.

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I think this comment says more than the article itself, which draws on a very simple distinction to say very little about hypnosis. I tend to believe that hypnotic states are similar to meditative ones and that subtle but very significant changes can be effected during these states if the hypnotist or meditator is skilled. For example, a weird conclusion reached during childhood can easily be upgraded during hypnosis or meditation if the focus is clear and the upgrade is available. Similarly, skilled mental focus achieved during meditation or hypnosis can transform harmful emotional habits, self-limiting inner dialogues, undeveloped perceptions, and so on. In Buddhism, "harmful fixations" are called kleshas, and some of the main ways we transform them or rid ourselves of them are through meditation and mindfulness practices. I find a good deal of similarity between Buddhist practice and hypnosis in this regard, and find it completely unsurprising that subtle states of mind are difficult to measure on laboratory instruments. One problem that often crops up in discussions of these states is many hypnotists have never studied meditation, many meditators have never studied hypnosis, and many of the scientists working with either group are limited by the experimental and theoretical paradigms they bring to the subject. ABN
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Quite apart from the entertainment issue and the suggestibility of the highly suggestible, hypnosis may be a gateway into a truly remarkable state of alert, awakened consciousness, free of the habitual distractions of the discursive mind. In my own clinical work, I have found that this state of thought-free consciousness can provide a healing respite from the torments and trauma of a distressed mind. More-over individuals can easily learn to seek refuge in this dynamic state of undistracted presence even in the midst of their daily routines. Cleary, true healing and growth can only begin when individuals learn to be fully present in all the situations where they have been mentally and emotionally absent.

In contradistinction to the suggestion that hypnosis is a trance-like state, it would seem, that the normal waking state of consciousness is even more trance-like, in that human beings habitually live in their distracted mental chatter. A conscious presence in a purely thought free state of awareness is certainly an awakening from the habitual trance state of mundane consciousness. Hypnosis may be an important portal to that trance free state.

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My husband, Richard, smoked cigarettes for 50 years, having failed several attempts to quit on his own. When a friend told him in August 1994 that hypnosis had enabled her to quit, he decided to give it a try.

“It didn’t work; I wasn’t hypnotized,” he declared after his one and only session. But it did work; since that day, he has not taken one puff of a cigarette.

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Psychologists have used hypnosis to give people the ability to see numbers as colors.

That form of synesthesia is naturally possessed by roughly one in 1,000 people, among them such historical luminaries as physicist Richard Feynman and writer Vladimir Nabokov, who saw "q as browner than k, while s is not the light blue of c, but a curious mixture of azure and mother-of-pearl."

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Hypnosis can induce "synesthetic" experiences - where one sense triggers the involuntary use of another - within an average brain, according to a new study in the journal Psychological Science, the premiere publication of the Association for Psychological Society.

The findings suggests that people with synesthesia, contrary to popular belief, do not necessarily have extra connections in their brain; rather, their brains may simply do more 'cross talking' which can be induced by changing inhibitory processes in the average brain.

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