Message forwarded on from Microwave News: In early October, for the first time in 20 years, the World Health Organization (WHO) will assemble a panel to recommend a new set of exposure guidelines for power-frequency EMFs. Few people have heard about the meeting. Yet, the electric utility industry will be there in force, sitting in
Read more →Ironies In the USA, that supposed bastion of freedon and Democracy (If you believe in the Easter Bunny) it is no secret that under Bush and Co. environmental and health regulations are being gutted to suit corporate interests. The essential primer on this is “Special Interest Takeover – The Bush Administration and the Dismantling of
Read more →Please note in reference to message “Frans van Velden comments on Michael Repacholi’s statement”, Frans adds the following: From my open letter to the WHO these sources have been lost: http://www.who.int/about/en/ click WHO Constitution http://www.mngm.nl Monitoring Network Health and Environment (click internationaal, who are we?) http://www.stopumts.nl Experiences are to be found under ‘verhalen’ and in
Read more →From Frans van Velden MSc, The Hague, The Netherlands July 9, 2005 Open letter to the World Health Organization. WHO should recognize and investigate the reported cases of microwave sickness and electrohypersensitivity (EHS), should advise governments to take care of victims and to take precautionary environmental measurements to prevent the increase of these conditions. Re:
Read more →From Hans Karow: Correspondence from Michael Repacholi to Hans Karow FYI, I suggest your readers first read MicroWaveNews Dr. Louis Slesin’s July 5, 2005 Commentary in http://www.microwavenews.com/fromthefield.html#whoottawa Following is a response from the World Health Organisation’s Dr. Michael Repacholi commenting on Dr. Slesin’s Commentary. Dr. Repacholi is head/coordinator, Radiation & Environmental Health Protection of the
Read more →Iris Atzmon in Israel makes an interesting proposal below that should be taken seriously. As an example of the sort of action that could be taken for instance, the Union of Concerned Scientists has been circulating a petition for scientists to sign that calls for restoring scientific integrity in policymaking in the US as a
Read more →From Louis Slesin, editor of Microwave News If you are wondering what Mike Repacholi has been up to at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) EMF project since he and Leeka Kheifets did a flip-flop on the precautionary princuple back in 2003, check out the agenda and the discussion document for the meeting which Mike is
Read more →While the powerline health controversy continues to bubble away in New Zealand with a major TV documentary now in the making, a similar issue is now taking hold in Canada’s province of Newfoundland (Below). As with New Zealand, the ICNIRP spin doctors will be having meetings with the relevant Canadian authorities spinning their web of
Read more →WTO Talks a Threat to Environment – NGOs Stefania Bianchi BRUSSELS, May 25 (IPS) – Laws protecting the environment, social well-being and health are increasingly coming under attack at international trade discussions, according to new analysis from a leading environmental group. Friends of the Earth International says a growing number of countries are using negotiations
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