Powerwatch

13th May, 2011

A new Council of Europe Committee Resolution calls for a dramatic reduction in human exposure to EMFs and microwave radiation from mobile phones and other wireless devices. This Resolution makes a strong call for properly applying the precautionary principle / approach to EMFs – both from electric power and from wireless communications technologies, something that all governments have so far completely failed to do. The Council of Europe represents all 47 Member Countries ensuring respect for its fundamental values: human rights, democracy and the rule of law.

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Dear Sir,

I am asking the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to conduct a thorough criminal investigation of persons employed by or elected to the Government of Canada to enact and oversee the safety regulations for the use of wireless electro magnetic radiation.  These persons would include Ministers past and present and employees within the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Industry who are responsible for regulating and ensuring the safety of wireless microwave radiation.  I have strong evidence, based on personal experiences, the experiences of many other victims, and on the large amount of scientific evidence that I have read, that they have been negligent in these duties, and have placed the health and safety of Canadians in great peril.  I expect this investigation to uncover all the persons responsible for causing such danger.

The suspects in this case have ignored thousands of scientific research documents that show that electro magnetic radiation (EMR) is extremely dangerous and that it is gradually, but continuously, harming Canadians and the environment.  They have set standards and allow exposure to wireless radiation that, over a long period, is likely to cause much cancer, neurological disorders, heart problems, and many other illnesses that may ultimately cause many to die prematurely.  Health Canada and Industry Canada are not only failing to warn Canadians about the dangers, but often they are providing false information that is giving citizens a false sense of security and safety.  Based on widely available scientific evidence, their actions appear to be grossly irresponsible.  Health Canada has set standards that are injurious to the health of Canadians, and Industry Canada, which must be aware of the large number of scientific studies showing significant biological effects caused by low levels of wireless micro-wave radiation, has acted with complicity.

There is strong reason to believe that this investigation will prove to be one of the most important police investigations in Canadian history.  It involves the endangerment of health and the safety of all Canadians and also can affect the future health, wealth, and viability of our entire country.  The harm that is already occurring may take many years to become fully apparent.  The adverse health effects are likely to accumulate each year in proportion to the total amount of wireless radiation exposure, causing a variety of serious illnesses.  Wireless and microwave radiation is likely to cause a large loss of life, massive amounts of illness, and possibly the breakdown of the Canadian medical system.

To illustrate the dangers that Canadians face from microwave radiation (as used in many common household wireless devices), I refer you to this information provided by the late Dr. Neil Cherry, a pioneer electromagnetic scientist and environmentalist, during his presentation to the Australian Senate Inquiry into Electro Magnetic Radiation, 8 Sept, 2000:

This issue has been so politicized.  There are two major casualties, the truth and public health.

We have natural EMR-based communication systems in our brains, hearts, cells and bodies.  External natural and artificial EMR resonantly interacts with these communication systems altering hormone balances and damaging organs and cells.  The brain and the heart are especially sensitive because they mediate and regulate primary biological functions that are vital to life, thinking and heart beat, using EMR signals, the EEG and ECG.  When EMR interferes with the EEG this is communicated to the body by neurotransmitters and neurohormones, including the serotonin/melatonin system.  EMR reduces melatonin. Melatonin is vital for the health of the Immune System, the Brain, the Heart and every cell, because it is the most potent naturally produced antioxidant.  It is a potent free radical scavenger that plays a vital protective role to protect the DNA in every cell.  Reduced melatonin causes cancer, miscarriage, heart disease, neurological diseases, viral and bacterial diseases, etc…

Both through reducing melatonin and through enhancing free radical activity EMR is genotoxic, damaging the DNA and chromosomes, enhancing oncogene expression and transforming cells to neoplastic cells and causing cancer in exposed populations.  Intense chromosome damage of fetuses in the uterus by microwaves, causes prompt miscarriage.  Less intense chromosome damage, largely but not totally repaired by the body’s cell repair system, such as is caused by radio waves, causes fetal damage, congenital malformation, still birth, cot death, etc..

Neurological effects, such as headache, sleep disturbance, concentration disturbance, short-term memory loss, dizziness and nausea, are acute effects that can be experienced over minutes, hours, days and months.  However, cell damage in the brain causes significantly accelerated cell death.  Over years this means long-term memory loss, and neurological diseases such as Epilepsy, Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer’s Disease, and sudden death from violent epileptic seizures.

The heart is similar with short-term problems with cardiac arrhythmia, missed heart beats, etc, sudden death from Heart Attacks and chronic illness and death from heart disease, especially arrhythmic diseases.

Cancer is a chronic disease problem from accumulated genetic cell damage.  Latencies for children and soft tissue cancers are as short as a few years, for most cancers they take 10 to 40 years to develop.  Cancer rates rise rapidly with age over 65 years because of the life-time of accumulated cell damage and the drastic reduction in melatonin that occurs after puberty.

For much greater and detailed scientific evidence of the harm of electro magnetic radiation, I refer you to the Bio-Initiative report, which can be accessed at:  HYPERLINK http://www.bioinitiative.org http://www.bioinitiative.org.  About two thousand scientific research documents have been reference by several scientists within the report.  I have enclosed a copy of the Public Summary of the Bio Initiative Report for your review.  Further important scientific information can be located at the internet site of Dr. Magda Havas, who is the leading Canadian researcher in the field of health effects caused by electro magnetic radiation, at  HYPERLINK “http://www.magdahavas.org/” http://www.magdahavas.org/ .

Strong scientific evidence about the dangers of EMR was presented by scientists and environmentalists at the Canadian House of Commons hearing last year.  Please see:  HYPERLINK “http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=4834477&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=40&Ses=3&File=27” http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=4834477&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=40&Ses=3&File=27 .  By looking at the evidence presented and then by examining the response from Health Canada, investigators will be able to see the cover up that Health Canada and others have engineered.

The dangers and adverse health effects of microwave radiation are not new and have been well researched.  Adverse health effects have been known since the Second World War when radar, emitting and utilizing microwave radiation, was first used.  I have enclosed a document warning about the dangers of microwave radiation from April of 1973, when researchers at Kingston University sent the report entitled Environmental Pollution by Microwave Radiation – A Potential Threat to Human Health to the Canadian Government.

I have also attached a document, Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation 1984, about a book published by the IEEE.  Another important report that I have linked here:  HYPERLINK “http://archive.radiationresearch.org/pdfs/20091016_naval_studies.pdf” http://archive.radiationresearch.org/pdfs/20091016_naval_studies.pdf  came from the US Naval Medical Research Institute.  It was compiled by Lt. Zorach Glazer, who collected over two thousand references to radio frequency and microwave radiation.  These various research papers and reports refer to thousands of scientific studies that illustrate biological effects caused by electro magnetic radiation.  These are just some of the research documents that are being ignored by Health Canada, placing the population of Canada in great danger.

The Safety Code 6 standards that Health Canada has adopted are dangerous to health because the standards are based on simple, theoretical, heating effects.  The regulations completely ignore the biological effects that are being caused to blood, DNA, cell structure, skin, the neurological system, the heart, and the brain.  These combined biological effects are likely to significantly damage the health of Canadians by causing long term biological harm to the population.  There are a number of diseases that have occurred as wireless and micro-wave use has intensified.  These diseases include Chronic Fatigue, Fybromyalgea, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, and Electro Hyper-Sensitivity.  Other illnesses, such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Multiple Sclerosis, and Breast Cancer affect far more people and have become far more common and significant threats since people have become widely and strongly exposed to wireless radiation.

Of particular concern to scientists is the possibility that wireless radiation is damaging the reproductive systems of our population.  This effect has already been scientifically documented in males who carry their cell phones in pockets and on waist belts.  Studies have shown that sperm count has been badly affected by wireless radiation exposure.  What is even more worrisome is that the reproductive abilities of young women may be harmed, damaging the DNA and cell structure of eggs and reproductive organs within the body.  If DNA damage is caused to eggs carried by females, the damage may be passed from generation to generation, harming the human gene pool and endangering the future of our nation.  Scientist Barrie Trower explains the dangers in these recordings:

HYPERLINK “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNdcKGDNYQc” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNdcKGDNYQc     HYPERLINK “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W28WeJNWKLI” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W28WeJNWKLI    HYPERLINK “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcQn2dYfFZk” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcQn2dYfFZk

The biological effects that have been reported in many scientific papers have occurred at very low levels of exposure, often many hundreds of times less than the level that Health Canada states is safe.  Health Canada has ignored children who have complained about symptoms of microwave illness when they are exposed to microwave radiation at their schools.  They have ignored people living near cell phone antennas who have developed symptoms of microwave illness.  They have also ignored environmentalists and scientists who have provided them with scientific evidence demonstrating dangers of low level microwave radiation exposure.  Health Canada has chosen to ignore significant evidence from many creditable sources, showing a deliberate course of negligent and unlawful action.

The faulty and irresponsible safety standards that Health Canada promotes are putting children at an even greater risk than adults, because their bodies and brains are still developing.  Wi Fi is being widely installed in schools, subjecting children to many hours of a significant biological risk.  Health Canada has been informing School Boards that exposure to microwave radiation from Wi Fi systems in schools is safe.  This could not be further from the truth, as scientists have advised.  Children are also being highly exposed to this danger in their homes, because parents are told it is safe to use Wi Fi and other wireless devices.  Massive antenna systems are being installed indiscriminately and carelessly throughout our towns, cities, and around our countryside.  These systems cause further radiation exposure and harm to people and the environment, twenty four hours a day.  Several children around Stratford have developed lymphoma and leukemia, cancers that are greatly increased by exposure to EMR.

A recent example of how false information from Health Canada is endangering Canadians can be found in the letter addressed to Ms. Joan Thomson, City Clerk, City of Stratford, dated March 25, 2011 signed by Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health.  This letter was in response to my letter of February 10, 2011, which cited three scientific studies that indicate serious health problems incurred by children and persons exposed to electro magnetic radiation.  Her message states (in regards to safety code 6), “The levels in the guideline are well below the threshold for any potential harm and are designed to provide protection to all members of the population”.  This is erroneous information, as you will see from the scientific studies.  The guideline protects only from heating effects, as confirmed by the World Health Organization and ICNIRP, and it ignores any biological effects.  In the same letter to Ms. Thomson, the Minister talks about very low exposure levels from Wi-Fi and Smart Meters, but she fails to explain that these levels of microwave radiation are hundreds of thousands of times higher than the natural radiation levels with which humans evolved.

Minister Aglukkaq also mentions insufficiency of evidence of negative health effects.  Her statement is grossly untrue.  For years, the evidence has been available and, as recently as April and October 2010, several internationally acclaimed scientists presented evidence of harm occurring at levels of radiation that are mere fractions of the Safety Code 6.  The Parliamentary sub-committee for Health (HESA) heard that Safety Code 6 is antiquated and inadequate for protection against the radiation from wireless devices.  Nevertheless, Health Canada ignored this information and responded that the weight of evidence indicated that there is insufficient evidence to review or amend the guideline.

The weight of evidence approach mentioned by the Minister fails to tell Canadians that there is simply no evidence that states scientifically that microwave radiation is safe and does not cause any adverse health effects.  The evidence that Health Canada uses to balance against the body of evidence showing adverse effects is simply research that has failed to find an effect, good or bad, and does little more than quantify the vast body of research that is available.  By using a weight of evidence approach, Health Canada is simply ignoring masses of good scientific evidence that demonstrates adverse health effects and danger to the Canadian public.  Had this flawed methodology been applied to the work of brilliant individuals such as Galileo or Darwin, their work would have been lost because the greater balance of scientific theory would have weighed against them.  Meaningful evaluation examines the content, quality, and sources of scientific evidence.  For example, one needs to consider why independently funded studies frequently indicate significant biological effects while industry funded studies do not.  And, since wireless companies have funded the majority of research, the question arises whether the outcome has been skewed by using the weight of evidence approach.  In essence, Health Canada has risked the health of an entire nation based on a simple balancing of scientific research.  It is their duty to invoke and use the scientific Precautionary Principle to ensure safety where there is any doubt.

Imagine the RCMP in a situation involving the safety of many people, where one hundred experts say that everyone will die from the coming catastrophe unless avoidance is taken, and another hundred experts say that they found no such evidence, but they are unable to provide any assurance of safety, either.  How would you balance that?  The responsible action is to investigate the evidence, then, if warranted, take protective measures to ensure the safety of everyone and to tell citizens of the reasons for concern.  There are thousands of scientific studies showing biological effects caused by electro magnetic radiation.  Health Canada is not only failing to take protective action, but is actively undermining the warnings of others who have desperately tried to convey public warnings.  Their actions are deplorable and appear to be done with clear criminal intent to deceive the public.

The City of Stratford is going through a phase that can best be described as “micro-wave madness”.  Mayor Mathieson, City Councillors, and Festival Hydro were provided with a large quantity of strong scientific evidence to show that microwave radiation is dangerous.  Rather than examine the evidence themselves, they have chosen to accept, without questioning or thought, the letter provided by Health Canada.  The false message that Minister Aglukkaq provided in her letter pacified their concerns and made headlines in the local news.  At present the Mayor and Council are trying to win a prize for being one of the most “intelligent communities” in the world, which means that it will also be one of the most radiated.  Unfortunately, because of misinformation from the Ministry and municipal governments, Stratford citizens have been badly deceived and are still mostly unaware of the danger they face.

Health Canada, its researchers and its Minister have a duty to safeguard the Canadian population and they are failing in this duty.  They are providing Industry Canada with a safety shield that permits wireless transmitters to be placed near residences, schools, and hospitals, with no regard to municipal concerns of health or citizens’ vulnerabilities. Many studies have shown that children, pregnant women, and the infirm are more susceptible to the radiation being emitted.  When people become ill as a result of wireless radiation, Industry Canada and the telecommunication companies use Health Canada standards to suggest wireless exposure levels are safe, and to avoid their own culpability.  Health Canada is more like a protection service for the wireless industry than a government ministry responsible for public safety.

The Ministry of Health has been provided with information about the research of Dr. Magda Havas, of Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, which shows clearly that human hearts can be significantly affected by exposure to commonly used wireless devices such as cordless telephones and Wi Fi routers.  As a test subject of Dr. Havas, significant adverse effects on my heart were recorded when a cordless telephone was switched on and off in a blind test.  These effects were later demonstrated on Global Television, for the investigative program 16 x 9 and can be viewed at:  HYPERLINK “http://www.youtube.com/safeschool#p/u/3/KN7VetsCR2I” http://www.youtube.com/safeschool#p/u/3/KN7VetsCR2I .

In addition to these effects, RCMP investigators should note the false statement of safety made by a Health Canada spokesperson in the same video.

There is also another Health Canada false statement in this CBC video:  HYPERLINK “http://www.youtube.com/safeschool#p/u/2/YKyL_brkY5U” http://www.youtube.com/safeschool#p/u/2/YKyL_brkY5U .

The RCMP should be aware that the Government of Canada is making vast amounts of money by licensing the wireless spectrum, and they have a special interest in wireless technologies as a source of revenue.

Canada’s wireless radiation protective guideline is one of the worst in the world.  Why should Canada be exposed to higher levels of radiation than, as examples, China, Russia, or Switzerland?  There is strong evidence that persons within Health Canada are badly failing their duties of office, resulting in physical harm to the Canadian public.  I ask that the RCMP fully investigate these charges.

Here is the opportunity to conduct a major criminal investigation of great national importance.  At some point during your investigation, I would expect that you will understand that the public is at great risk from exposure to wireless radiation.  At that time, I ask that you consider providing a public warning of the dangers, just as you would if a forest fire or a flood were threatening a community.

In my twenty eight years service as a Toronto Police Officer, I never imagined that government incompetence or corruption on this scale could exist.  Over the last seven years, I became ill, developed cancer and could easily have died because of exposure to electro magnetic radiation.  I was also unable to live in my home for five years.  Because of this I have had an education in these invisible dangers that schools, universities, and police colleges do not teach.  I would gladly provide officers with further scientific evidence and arrange for leading scientists, researchers, doctors, environmentalists, and victims to assist with the investigation.

I hope that the RCMP is willing to learn about what is probably the greatest danger that Canadians face, and will complete a thorough criminal investigation without tolerating political interference.

Yours sincerely,

Martin Weatherall