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I n t e r n at i 0 n a 1

A World

Wired with Wireless

by Robert James Parsons, Independent Journalist

On 27 March 2018, the Swiss Senate voted to refuse the build nuclear power generating plants to create plutonium
increase in cell tower output necessary for Generation for those bombs was judged greater than the safety of the
Five (G5) technology. This vote was conspicuous for the genetic heritage of humankind. The WHO, beholden to the
little attention given it by the Swiss media, and, where it International Atomic Energy Agency, which has veto power
was mentioned, it was reported in small articles with no over anything that the WHO might do in the area of ionizing
background, much less overall context. radiation and human health, has done nothing in the area
since 1957.
The vote was the result of a major lobbying campaign against
G5, organized by the Swiss Medical Federation (Fédération With electromagnetic radiation, it is no different, for the
medical helvetique or FMH in French), based on serious norms are equally bogus. Called "thermal", they are based
and growing concerns about the health risks of exposure on whether the skin is heated by the microwaves. If not,
to electromagnetic radiation. That it was the conservative the effect of the waves is considered innocuous. Yet, as with
medical profession that had blocked the vote was highly ionizing radiation, the danger is at the level of the cell, and
significant, yet the mainstream media managers did not see there is no safe dose.
fit to inform the Swiss public of this concern.
The best effort to make sense out of this in a format that does
My work in the area of electromagnetic radiation has been not over simplify yet makes it entirely intelligible for the
built on my work in the area of ionizing (atomic) radiation, public is Jean Hêche's brilliant documentary, Ondes, science
which started in 1996, when I began tracking Gulf War illness et manigances (Microwaves, Science and Lies in its English
(which turned out to be radiation poisoning, although this version). It dates from 2014 and was premiered at the Festival
has never been officially acknowledged by the Pentagon - not duflim vert in Geneva in early 2015, but it has not aged at all.
surprising since it took years for the Pentagon to admit that On the contrary, it is more relevant than when it first came
the almost 400,000 veterans suffering from it could even be out.
sick).
The film is a well-aimed frontal attack on the World Health
For me, from the outset, twenty-three years ago, the crux Organization, which I know well from over twenty years of
of the matter in ionizing radiation was that the norms for dealing with it and reporting on matters of international
exposure are bogus. Already in the early nineteen fifties, it public health. The main point made in the film is precisely that
was known, and accepted, that there is no such the WHO's "safety" norms for human exposure to
thing as a safe dose of ionizing radiation. electromagnetic radiation are bogus
The norms are based on the idea and that the elaboration of these
of total absorbed dose by the norms has been anything
body, thus how much but scientific.
a body can take
without being I can vouch for
harmed. this personally,
Yet
the danger is at for I had many
the level of the a wrangle with
Michael
single cell, not Dr
the body. All one needs is Repacholi at the WHO,
for one cell to be irradiated, who was hired to codify
mutate and survive, and it those norms.
can divide and create two, then
four, then eight, then sixteen, and so on Included in Dr Repacholi's hiring
to form a cancerous tumor. contract was the understanding that
he would raise the money to pay for this
However, the need to build nuclear bombs and to immense project extending over several years. In

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