Address to Stratford City Council Committee about the danger of Smart Meters / Swiss Schools WiFi / Toxic Triggers

W.E.E.P. News

Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution News

21 October 2010

Press Release

By Martin Weatherall

Candidate for Mayor of Stratford, Ontario.

This is the information that I presented at the City of Stratford Finance and Labour Relations Sub-Committee Tuesday 19 October 2010. Councillor Clifford was Chair, Councillor Mark, Councillor Culliton, Councillor Brown, CAO Shaw, Linda Edwards and Mayor Dan Mathieson were present.

The Committee chair had already read and past a resolution on smart meters without allowing me to speak. The resolution stated that Stratford smart meters were safe because they were within Health Canada safety standards. After having to interrupt the meeting to be heard, I was granted five minutes to make a presentation.

Here are some of the health problems that Stratford residents have experienced, since Smart Meters were installed:

1. Several people have advised me that they have been experiencing sleeping problems since the meters were installed.

2. One person is having to sleep in the basement to avoid radiation exposure from the smart meter and to be able to sleep properly.

3. A person has had to move out of an apartment building, because 29 smart meters were installed in the electrical room next to her apartment and strong radiation was coming through the master bedroom wall and into other areas of the apartment, causing sleep disruption

4. One person with several meters outside his town-home, advised me that he now suffers from frequent headaches since the meters were installed, previously he did not suffer from them.

5. One house owner is unable to use a bedroom and has had to shield other areas of the house because of the very high strength and almost continuous microwave radiation that is being emitted by the smart meter, which is passing through the brick wall and into the bedroom.

6. A person (with six smart meters on the wall of her kitchen) has started to suffer seizures much more often, since smart meters were installed on the wall outside her kitchen.

I then read from this letter, provided to me by another victim, just prior to the meeting:

Re Smart Meters. October 18^th 2010.

Some time ago, I started experiencing sleep disorders, nightmares, vertigo and headaches. Around the same time, my dog's behaviour changed drastically. She too was getting up every hour throughout the night. I would find her huddled in her bed whining and howling, looking terrified and staring at me wide-eyed, like she did not know who I was. I thought that she had a stroke.

After two weeks I was experiencing unexplained fits of rage (only at home) and forgetting things, and the dog's behaviour had escalated to the point she was headed to the vet, never to return home.

In the meantime, I started to hear rumblings around town about the new smart meters. I realized that a panel of these meters had been installed on the outside wall of my building, right around the time all these problems began. This was the same wall that the head of my bed and the dog's bed was against.

I decided to try an experiment. I re-arranged my bedroom furniture so that the beds were against a wall farthest from the smart meters. The meter wall was blocked by armoires and bookcases. Within forty eight hours the headaches and nightmares stopped. The dog's behaviour began to return to normal and we were both sleeping better. By the end of the week, the vertigo subsided, the temper flare ups stopped and the dog was herself again.

Signed

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The committee members showed little or no concern for these victims of smart meter radiation.

Here is a link to the front page news report on this meeting by the Beacon Herald 20 Oct 2010 -

http://www.stratfordbeaconherald.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2808740

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Please see the attached documents from Dr. Magda Havas about Wi Fi in schools, in Switzerland.

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Hi Martin,

I thought you might want to distribute this information. EMFs are listed near the top.

http://www.preventionisthecure.org/

http://www.preventionisthecure.org/toxitriggercharts.html

http://www.preventionisthecure.org/ToxicTriggers1.pdf

Kevin

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W.E.E.P. News

Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution News

20 October 2010

Hi All

I am in the last week of my election campaign as candidate to become Mayor of the City of Stratford, Ontario. 

I have a web site for the campaign -

http://martin-weatherall.ca/ ,

which you may find interesting.

Of special interest may be the Smart Meter section, Stratford SOS (Save our Swans) and the Video and Document section.

Regards

Martin Weatherall

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Dear All,

Please, take a look at this new video, "WAKE UP CALL", which has been produced by Thomas Grønborg in Denmark:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=cczGVhd63pM&gl=US

Best regards
Yours
Olle

(Olle Johansson, assoc. prof. The Experimental Dermatology Unit Department of Neuroscience Karolinska Institute 171 77 Stockholm Sweden & Professor The Royal Institute of Technology 100 44 Stockholm Sweden)

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LVX to replace WIFI ?

Visible Light Communication Embedded within the visible light generated by LED (Light Emitting Diode) lamps are modulating light signals that communicate with other lamps and equipment that possess the same technology at ultra-high speeds. These devices when placed throughout a building or geographic area form a comprehensive wireless communication network capable of providing many services including energy savings, communications and security functions.

Most wireless communications today are produced from radio waves generated from electronic equipment. "WI-FI", "3G Networks" and "Bluetooth" are examples of this applied technology. They each have limitations in data transmission speeds.

For more information click link

http://www.electrictv.net/Home.aspx?PlayID=70

http://www.lvxsystem.com/

http://www.hese-project.org/uk_forum/index.php?id=76

http://www.hese-project.org/uk_forum/index.php

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B.C. groups join push to turn off Wi-Fi at schools

http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20101018/bc_wifi_schools_101018/20101018?hub=BritishColumbiaHome

By: ctvbc.ca
Date: Monday Oct. 18, 2010 2:50 PM PT

The call to get wireless internet technology out of schools is getting louder, as fears grow about the potential dangers the technology poses to children.

A growing number of organizations are pointing to cases and research claiming radiation emitted by Wi-Fi technology can cause a range of health problems, including headaches, an inability to concentrate and heart palpitations.

Sharon Noble, chair of Citizens Against UnSafe Emissions (CAUSE) based in Victoria B.C., says the small convenience Wi-Fi offers is not worth the risk.

"We want wired internet. It's safe. Parents think [Wi-Fi] is cutting edge technology and it's not."

As Noble and other organizations try to get the message out to parents and officials, a public school in Meaford, Ontario has become the first in Canada to shut down wireless internet.

Parent of students at St. Vincent Euphrasia elementary school voted "overwhelmingly" to cut off Wi-Fi, according to a statement released by the school's parent council on Monday.

Their decision comes after a group of Ontario parents dubbed the Simcoe County Safe School Committee spoke out against Wi-Fi in schools this summer.

Parents at Lucerne School in New Denver, B.C., are joining the fight, and are choosing to keep hardwired computer systems.

"We encourage other parents to look into the increasingly evident side effects of wireless routers and computers, particularly to children whose bodies and brains are still developing," said the New Denver Parent Children's Association in a statement.

The group and other affiliated organizations are urging people to bring the message to Parliament by signing a petition. 

Opponents point to research on electromagnetic radiation by Dr. Magda Havas of Trent University, who is asking health officers in each province to issue a warning about the use of Wi-Fi in a school environment.

While Health Canada says there is no "scientific evidence" that Wi-Fi in the classroom is dangerous to children, Havas says the federal guidelines need to be questioned because "the evidence so strongly indicates this form of radiation is harmful." 

Noble says Health Canada "isn't doing its job", and wonders why there is such a push to go wireless with all the questions out there about health risks.

"Why does a kindergarten child need a laptop?" she asks.
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http://www.diariodeleon.es/noticias/noticia.asp?pkid=559549

El 67% de los europeos cree que las antenas y teléfonos afectan a su salud

67% of Europeans believe that the celltowers and phones are affecting their health

18/10/2010 colpisa | madrid

google translation

Currently, the main sources of public exposure to electromagnetic fields are mobile phones, which currently outnumber the number of citizens of the European Union. 67% of Europeans consider that the signals emitted by the antennas of mobile telephony and to some extent affect their health and 58% of the population believes that the authorities do not adequately protect the public from the risks associated with exposure According to the report Electromagnetic Fields, published in June this year by Eurobarometer and the European Commission has made reference to Dr. Alejandro Úbeda, Bioelectromagnetics Section Chief of Hospital Ramón y Cajal de Madrid, during his speech in New Risks public health, which has taken place in the framework of the Sixth National Conference on Health Journalism.

Úbeda emphasized the lack of training and correct and complete information to determine the true impact of mobile phone use in the development of brain tumors. "Although several meta-analysis have provided some evidence that using mobile phones for over ten years could double the risk of being diagnosed with certain brain tumors, the inherent limitations of epidemiological methodology can not yet know for sure if the repeated and prolonged use Mobile is a risk factor. "

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