CBC interview with Barrie Trower / Wi-Fi could cause birth defects, British scientist warns / Protest to Stop Smart Meters / WiFi in Ont. schools / Accurate Story?

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Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution News

26 August 2010

Hi All

Last night I did not send out a copy of WEEP news, because I was lucky enough to attend the lecture by Barrie Trower at the University of Toronto.  The information that Barrie provides, may save millions of people from illness and death.  He provides his services free of charge and speaks as an expert in his field and as a person genuinely and very seriously concerned about the human race.

I thank him on behalf of all Canadians, for coming to Toronto and providing his expertise to the press and public.  Barrie is a true gentleman who, I hope you are all able to listen to and meet in the near future.  The large lecture hall was completely full, with standing room only.

Martin Weatherall

CBC Radio 'The Current' interview with Barrie Trower

http://www.cbc.ca/video/news/audioplayer.html?clipid=1573543914

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Wi-Fi could cause birth defects, British scientist warns

The Ottawa Citizen

By Glenn Johnson, Postmedia News August 25, 2010

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/could+cause+birth+defects+British+scientist+warns/3440597/story.html

A Cold War microwave weapons expert is concerned that use of Wi-Fi in schools could lead to long-term consequences if ovary damage in girls creates future genetic disorders.

Photograph by: JOHN KENNEY GAZETTE, Postmedia News; By Postmedia News

OTTAWA — A British scientist and former naval weapons expert has waded into the debate over the safety of wireless networks in Canadian schools, warning generations could face genetic disorders because of prolonged exposure to low-level microwaves.

Barrie Trower, who specialized in microwave "stealth" warfare during the Cold War, was to lecture at the University of Toronto Tuesday night. His topic: safety concerns surrounding use of Wi-Fi systems in public schools.

While Health Canada maintains it is safe, Trower said there are no scientific studies that categorically state there is no harm from prolonged exposure. He also warns we could be threatening the health of future generations of Canadians who can be affected by microwaves at the DNA level.

"When I realized these same frequencies and powers (as weapons during the Cold War) were being used as Wi-Fi in schools, I decided to come out of retirement and travel around the world free of charge and explain exactly what the problem is going to be in the future," Trower told Postmedia News in an interview Tuesday.

"Children are not small adults, they are underdeveloped adults, so there are different symptoms.

"What you are doing in schools is transmitting at low levels," said Trower, who teaches at Britain's Dartmoor College and holds a degree in physics.

Trower said he's concerned about Wi-Fi in schools because "low level microwaves can damage the ovaries in girls."

"That girl could have a genetically deformed child, and that could be carried through generations. You are not just risking the current health of your children, you are risking the future generations of your children in your country with genetic disorders."

Health Canada issued a statement last week that said there is no health threat.

"Based on scientific evidence, Health Canada has determined that exposure to low-level radio-frequency energy, such as that from Wi-Fi systems, is not dangerous to the public," said a statement from the federal agency.

Health Canada said Tuesday it based its conclusion on reviews of studies from around the world and is satisfied there is more than enough evidence to support their view that it is safe.

"Using data from these studies, Health Canada set the general public exposure limits significantly lower than the threshold for any potentially adverse health effects," department spokesman Stephane Shank wrote in an e-mail.

"Health Canada's exposure guidelines for RF (radio frequency) energy are similar to, or more restrictive than, similar health-based international exposure standards. As long as exposures respect these guidelines, Health Canada has determined that there is no scientific reason to consider Wi-Fi dangerous to the public."

"The specified limits for public exposure apply to everyone — including the elderly, individuals with health concerns, children and pregnant women and allow for continuous, 24/7 exposure," Shank wrote.

Trower disagrees and maintains parents should make the schools sign off legally in case there are any health problems in the future.

"Parents should have a document from the school saying they take full legal responsibility for any damage caused by Wi-Fi. If they won't give that, the first question should be 'Why?' "

In Ontario, the debate has gone on since February in Simcoe County, near Toronto. Worldwide, the debate dates back more than a decade.

Last week, the Simcoe school board said it has no plans to remove wireless Internet from its elementary and high schools based on concerns from parents that it may be making students sick.

"We don't put children at risk, but we can't just shut it down and affect the learning of 50,000 students because someone says it might have health effects," John Dance, superintendent of education with the Simcoe County School Board, told Postmedia News at the time.

Simcoe County Safety School Committee member Rodney Palmer equated it to some pesticides, which were once thought to be harmless at any level, but whose use was later curtailed after studies showed any exposure could cause health problems.

"No amount is safe," Palmer said Tuesday.

His group paid the travel expenses for Trower's trip to Toronto, but Trower said he receives no payments and accepts no gifts to maintain his independence.

Other academics differ on whether prolonged exposure to the wireless technology is safe.

Tony Muc, a University of Toronto physics professor, was consulted by the school board and told them that wireless poses no harm.

But Trower's contention about health risks was echoed last week by Magda Havas, a professor in the Centre for Health Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ont. She said other forms of microwave exposure — particularly cellphone towers — have been linked to cancers, heart problems, sleeping problems, skin conditions and short-term memory loss.

Children are also more likely to be vulnerable, due to weaker immune systems and because their bodies are still growing.

"It is possible, and I think it is even probable, that this exposure will have an effect on children," Havas said

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Other similar newspaper stories published around Canada

http://www.montrealgazette.com/cause+genetic+defects+scientist/3439433/story.html

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/world/scientist-warns-school-wi-fi-will-harm-kids-101452399.html

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/296547

http://www.leaderpost.com/scientist+wades+into+safety+debate/3440323/story.html

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Video - Protest to Stop Smart Meters 

California
posted Aug 23 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f63Ml8aiUQ

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT2cUX5E7cE&NR=1

KPFA radio commentators Layna Berman and Dr. Jeffry Fawcett of YourOwnHealthAndFitness.org lay out the case against PG&E's attempted mass installation of wireless so-called 'smart' meters throughout its service area.

They debunk the bio-effects denialists who refuse to look at the massive scientific evidence showing that exposure to wireless radiation is hazardous. Their presentation of the technological, economic, biological and political context for the national 'smart grid' plan and the part 'smart' meters play in it is given visual emphasis with the live, simultaneous 'graphic recording' of cartoonist Brian Narelle of NarelleCreative.net.

They lay out specific actions YOU can take to protect your home and neighborhood from PG&E's electro-smog assault on public health and democratic choice.

more links on Smart Meters

http://emrabc.ca/?page_id=710

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No changes to WiFi in Ont. schools: Dombrowsky

Toronto Sun

Some scientists and researchers say the negative effects of prolonged exposure to electromagnetic radiation and microwaves include headaches, ...

http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/08/25/15139116.html

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Accurate Story?

Hi All

Last week I sent a letter to the Minister of Health for Ontario, detailing very serious health concerns about dangerously high radiation exposure from a Wi Fi system installed throughout the Stratford General Hospital.  The letter is attached.  It was sent to the Stratford Beacon Herald.

On Tuesday 24th August this story was published in the Beacon Herald -

http://stratfordbeaconherald.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2726931 .

The story was written directly from my letter because the reporter tried to contact me and I tried to contact the reporter, both without success.

I ask that you compare the content of my letter with the story and decide whether it is fair, accurate and reflects my serious concerns.  Does it pass on those concerns and provide a warning for the community? 

If you have any concerns or comments about the story, would you mind sending your comments as 'letters to the Editor', to Diana Loveless at 

dloveless@bowesnet.com

and send a copy to me at:

martinwea@rogers.com .

Thanks

Martin Weatherall

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Cancer Cluster near mobile phone mast in Taiwan,

http://ameblo.jp/kitakamakurakeitaing/entry-10629873121.html

1. Tiwan: cancer cluster near mobile phone mast, 40 cancer patient for two year,

2. Taiwan cancer cluster mobile phone mast
53 died for one year.

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Here is a little light hearted entertainment (non EMF)

Hi All - Try this web site and turn up the sound.  This clever piece originated in Australia.  It's also very informative. Just click once on the link below.  Be patient.  It will start by itself.

http://dingo.care-mail.com/cards/flash/5409/galaxy.swf

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One in seven couples have fertility problems / Genetic Mutations / Hazards of Microwave Radiations / Wipes out CB Radio / Wireless Technology Health Risks

W.E.E.P. News

Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution News

24 August 2010

FERTILITY CRISIS IN THE UK

Egg and sperm donors may get thousands of pounds in fertility plan

Significant shift in policy aims to stop more childless couples seeking treatment abroad

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/22/fertility-eggs-sperm-donors

• Denis Campbell, health correspondent

• guardian.co.uk, Sunday 22 August 2010 22.59 BST

Donor-assisted conception is to be made easier by reducing the chronic shortages of donated eggs and sperm. Photograph: ZEPHYR/SPL/Getty Images/Science Photo Library RF

Britain's fertility regulator is planning big changes to the strict rules governing egg and sperm donation in order to try to stop more childless couples from seeking treatment abroad.

The sweeping liberalisation would see the most significant shift in policy governing sperm and egg donation since the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) was established.

The changes could see the amount paid to women who donate eggs rise from £250 to several thousand pounds – but experts have warned the move would see women donating eggs purely for money.

Donated sperm could also be used to start as many as 20 families rather than the current limit of 10, despite fears such a move would increase the risk of half-siblings unwittingly marrying or having children together.

The HFEA intends to make donor-assisted conception easier by reducing the chronic shortages of donated eggs and sperm. Many fertility clinics have waiting lists of two years, and one in seven couples faces fertility problems.

"We want to remove obstacles to donation," an HFEA spokeswoman said. "There are waiting lists of various lengths for people wanting to get access to treatment with donor eggs or sperm. We want to see if our policies are contributing to an unnecessary delay."

The number of Britons opting to go to countries such as Spain and Cyprus to obtain eggs or sperm has persuaded the authority to consider how well the current system is working, she added. Experts fear some fertility centres overseas may offer substandard treatment, and the HFEA is worried that some people are turning to the internet in their desperation to acquire sperm, which may not have been screened to exclude the risk of genetic diseases.

HFEA members and leading fertility doctors agree that an overhaul is necessary, but are divided about what to do. At the moment, paying egg and sperm donors is banned, and they can only receive £250 in lieu of loss of earnings for their action.

Some argue the sum should be doubled, and others that Britain should copy the system in Spain, where women are paid €900 (£740) for each cycle of eggs.

But the HFEA is also examining whether women should be paid several thousand pounds in order to increase the number of egg donors from the current figure of about 1,200 a year. Fertility experts say that is far too few to satisfy the growing demand for eggs, and is forcing more Britons to seek treatment abroad.

The HFEA is looking into whether compensation should be closer to, or even the same as, the sums a woman can receive as a benefit in kind when she takes part in an egg sharing scheme – where a donor gives half her eggs to the fertility clinic and in return gets her own treatment free or at a big discount.

The HFEA spokeswoman said: "Because of the cost of IVF treatment, the discount that someone might receive as a result of egg sharing could be worth several thousand pounds. There is a comparison between the two practices [the two different forms of egg donation], so should they be equalised? Should we bring some parity between egg donors and egg sharers?"

Dr Tony Rutherford, chair of the British Fertility Society, which represents doctors in NHS and private clinics, said the £250 limit was too low to lure donors, but warned that allowing compensation to rise to several thousand pounds would see altruism lost in a rush for cash.

"The principle of paying women to donate eggs for research is established in the UK, with approximately £1,500 being given per cycle. The issue here is that you are potentially straying into territory where the financial inducement becomes the principal reason for donation. You are then accepting that it is morally and ethically right to 'sell' gametes, and if that is the case, why put an artificial limit on the price and [instead] pay the going rate?" said Rutherford, a fertility doctor in Leeds. "Clearly there is a need to redress the balance, as £250 compensation is too low. What society needs to debate is where that limit should be to protect the integrity of donation."

Professor Allan Pacey, a male-fertility expert at Sheffield University, said: "I think the 10 families rule should stay as it is and that the £250 should be increased a bit – maybe doubled – but not reach the sums we see in America, where it gets dirty. Over there, people get thousands of dollars for donating eggs or sperm, and there are greater premiums for good looks, which makes me feel very uncomfortable.

"The payment ceiling could be raised a bit without opening the door to American-style commercialism."

The Catholic church said that it would oppose either larger payments or the 10 families per sperm donation limit being increased. Professor David Jones, director of the church's Anscombe Bioethics Centre in Oxford, and an adviser to the bishops of England and Wales on fertility issues, said: "The church finds IVF ethically problematic and donor conception is worse … because it means the mother and father of the child won't be its biological parents.

So when you start to pay people for it, it's even worse because you are encouraging, in the crudest kind of way, people who aren't going to be involved in the rearing of children to donate sperm or eggs. It's not just the church – a lot of people find the idea of payment problematic, because it's demeaning to procreation, that you should pay someone to take their child from them biologically."

Josephine Quintavalle of Comment on Reproductive Ethics, a socially conservative campaign group, said: "We would be absolutely outraged if the HFEA increases the payment limits above £250.

It's totally looking at the issue from the perspective of infertile couples who need eggs and will pay anything for them, and not from the perspective of the healthy woman they are trying to persuade to donate her eggs, and the risks she would incur by donating."

The HFEA's chairwoman, Professor Lisa Jardine, said today that a move towards the Spanish system was being considered. A report is due to go to the HFEA executive early next month, and public consultation will follow.

The trend towards older motherhood is raising demand for donor gametes as some women do not confront fertility problems until they try to conceive for the first time in their 30s or 40s, said Rutherford.

Susan Seenan of Infertility Network UK, which helps infertile couples, said it was right that the question of payments and the 10 families rule were revisited.

"Many patients are travelling abroad for treatment, often because of the severe lack of sperm and egg donors in the UK. Although many patients do receive a high standard of care abroad, this is not ideal."

Dr Jennifer Speirs, a donation expert at Edinburgh University, said: "On the number of families, the battleline is drawn mainly between the private clinics, who pooh-pooh the idea that unwitting incest between people who are actually half-siblings is a problem, and the psychosocial experts who believe that in our culture the idea of being one of 15 siblings is uncomfortable and that the views of donor-conceived children must take priority."

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The real question that needs to be asked about the above problem is,

Why are these people infertile?

This video may help to explain why (electro magnetic radiation)

Wireless Networks - Genetic Mutations (1:25 min)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ao4Z5-RYTQ&feature=related

Come and see Barrie Trower speak at 155 College St, Room 610,

University of Toronto, Tuesday August 24th (today)

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August 23, 2010:  Pick of the Week #7 (Hazards of Microwave Radiations – A review) gives us some insights into what was known 50 years ago (1960).

Kuo-Chiew Quan.  1960.  Hazards of Microwave Radiations – A Review.  Industr. Med. Surg. 29:315-318, July 1960 and reprinted in Occupational Medicine, Medical News Letter, Vol. 36, No. 10.  November 18, 1960, pp 29-34.

This document, written 50 years ago, discusses the hazards associated with relatively high levels of microwave exposure that might be experienced by those who work near radar installations, as radio frequency heat sealers, or with medical diathermy machines. Note this also applies to those who repair both broadcast and cell phone antennas.

To read more, visit www.magdahavas.com

Dr Magda Havas

drmagdahavas@gmail.com

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Broadband over Power Lines (Wireless) wipes out CB Radio channels in UK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBmk41EGKqg

(Horrible Noises)

Robert R

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Wireless Technology Health Risks

According to the group, their "BioInitiative Report is an examination of the controversial health risks of electromagnetic fields and radiofrequency radiation." It appears as if the main idea behind the report, however, is to point out ...

http://www.devhardware.com/c/a/Networking-Hardware/Wireless-Technology-Health-Risks/

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