Wi-fi expert Barrie Trower will be hosting a meeting in Swindon on Friday to discuss the issue of wi-fi, and what he perceives are the dangers of the technology.
The meeting will be held at the Pilgrim Centre in Regent Circus on October 8. Doors open at 7pm and the talk starts at 7.30pm. There will be a question and answer session afterwards at this free event.
Ahead of the meeting, Barrie chatted to
Swindon Advertiser columnist, Liz Brackenbury, about his take on the introduction of wi-fi in Swindon.
Liz: Hi Barrie, thank you for inviting me down to interview you. As you know I write a column for the
Swindon Advertiser. I write about topics that concern me as a parent and on subjects which I feel passionate about, especially local issues. One of the subjects I wrote about in the paper was my concerns over the implementation of 1,400 mini masts in Swindon that will create an electro mesh over the town and the effects it might have on Swindon residents’ health. Firstly can you give me a bit of your background, as to what you’ve done?
Barrie: Yes of course. I trained in the1960s with all aspects of microwave technology and microwave warfare. I teach advanced physics as a profession, which again involves microwave knowledge. I am also the author of two TETRA (Terrestrial Trunk Radio) reports for the police federation and I am now invited all over the world to talk on this subject
Liz: Can you tell me what exactly is wi-fi? A lot of people don’t really understand what it is.
Barrie: Wi-fi is a computer system that works off microwaves. It transmits and receives microwaves, the information is carried in the microwaves
Liz: Why should we be concerned about that?
Barrie: Microwaves react with water. That includes water in the body. That’s how microwave ovens work, they react with water. They are not like radio waves. We are now using microwaves for a communication system, these microwaves will react with our water-based bodies
Liz: Surely microwaves have been around since the start of time? They are a natural occurrence. So what’s the problem?
Barrie: Yes that’s true we have evolved with microwaves, but we haven’t evolved with what is coming out of all the mobile phones and wi-fi transmitters. These are unnatural levels. Also the difference is that the planet’s natural microwave background is static. This is not a static field, it’s an osolating field. What microwave communication is using are pulsed microwaves. It’s not the microwave so much that’s the danger, but the fact that it is pulsed. These pulses interfere with our body’s natural rhythms, our brains, our hearts – everything.
Liz: You said your background is in microwave warfare, but what s that got to do with wi-fi?
Barrie: Microwaves have been used in warfare since the 1960’s. They are the perfect stealth weapon. You can’t see them, you can’t feel them, you can’t smell them, you can’t touch them. All you have to do is beam your victim with levels of pulsed microwaves to cause illness, either mental and physical, or both, depending on the frequency used. My job was to measure the level of microwave frequency used and see what illnesses were caused by it.
Liz: Surely you don’t mean that modern wi-fi technology is using the same levels of frequency as were used in warfare to make people ill?
Barrie: Yes, that’s absolutely what I’m saying.
It’s exactly the same microwave frequency used in wi-fi technology that was used in warfare.
Me: Wi-fi seems to be everywhere, in cafes, on trains, in hotels, even in the motorway service station on the way down here. It has been promoted as a good thing. Everywhere seems to be offering free wi-fi? How can this be allowed if this technology has history that links it to human illnesses?
Barrie: Governments have known of the effect on the human body from microwaves since the 1970s. It’s been cited and published in thousands of research papers. The public is being sold a lie. The telecommunications industry is bigger than any government. It can pay another scientist to contradict an independent scientist’s findings, and publish research in their favour. This creates a state of confusion and contradiction. Most people don’t have the time to sift through all this information. Therefore misinformation is circulated. Wi-fi is promoted as a new technology, innovative and ground-breaking when nothing can be further from the truth. The ill-effects of this technology have been known for years.
Liz: What would you say to people who d say this was all scaremongering?
Barrie: I would say scaremongering is when you say something for effect without having the evidence to back it up. I have all the published, cited and documented proof to substantiate what I say. The evidence is here; I can prove and support what I say.
Liz: What would you say to the people of Swindon?
Barrie: What I’d like to say to Swindon is get me in front of your councillors and local MP s. Get me down to Swindon and invite the public and the press and media to be there to be there so they can hear what I’ve got to say. . Invite people from the oncology department, cancer specialists, headteachers, governors, principals, members of the public. Get me down to Swindon and I will prove why...
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The
American military developed electromagnetic weapons long before mobile phones existed.
The ability of certain bands of electromagnetic field to cause health effects, including neurological and behavioral disturbances, has been part of US military and CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) for over 30 years.
In fact, security concern was what first prompted US to study the health effects of low-intensity (or non-thermal) microwaves. Up to 70-80% of the research was funded by military.
Project Pandora
For example, from 1965 to 1970, a study dubbed "Project Pandora" was undertaken to determine the health and psychological effects of low intensity microwaves, the so-called "Moscow signal" registered at American Embassy in Moscow.
A 1987 issue of
Soviet Military Power, a Cold War Pentagon publication, warned that the Soviets might be close to "a prototype short-range tactical RF (radio frequency) weapon".
The Washington Post reported the same year that Soviets had used such electromagnetic weapon to kill goats at 1 kilometer's range. The Pentagon has been pursuing similar devices since the 1960s. Source: "Wonder Weapons" by Douglas Pasternak,
US News & World Report, 7 July 1997.
Dr Milton Zaret, who undertook to analyze Soviet literature on microwaves for CIA, wrote: "For non-thermal irradiations, they believe that
electromagnetic field induced by microwave environment affects cell membrane. And this results in an increase of excitability or an increase in the level of excitation of nerve cells. With repeated or continued exposure, the increased excitability leads to a state of exhaustion of the cerebral cortex cells."
The truth was however not made public
Instead Intelligence documents were censored to hide the fact that Western governments have long been aware of the deadly danger of microwaves.
According to Dr Louis Slesin, editor of the American specialist journal,
Microwave News, US army scientists had succeeded in duplicating Soviet experiments by 1977. This was many years before mobile phones become generally available.
But mobile phone users worldwide have been repeatedly told by industry and Government-funded bodies that there is "no scientific evidence" that mobile phones cause harmful effects.
Dr Allan Frey, who carried out some of the earliest American research, believes
there is "significant evidence" against mobile phones. His own papers reveal that US Defense Department withdrew funding after 3 studies had confirmed these effects.
["Soviet Proof That Mobile Phones Do Cause Brain Damage" by Kathy Moran,
Daily Express (United Kingdom), 10 November 1999]
But Dangers Still Downplayed
US legal stand on consumer issues serves as a safety reference for many countries. In spite of long established evidence,
the US has refused to conclusively acknowledge the truth about electromagnetic field radiation dangers from products.
It has instead adopted contradictory and confusing stands that play down the problem's significance. For example,
In 1990
An Environmental Protection Agency draft report recommended that electromagnetic field be considered a Class B carcinogen. This included formaldehyde, DDT, dioxins, and PCBs. However, due to pressure from utility, military and computer lobbyists, the EPA's final revision did not classify electromagnetic field as a Class B carcinogen.
In the final watered-down version of the report, reference to Class B was deleted, with an explanation that said the basic interaction between electro magnetic fields and biological interactions leading to cancer are "not understood".
Yet, in the same report, they suggest there is a causal link between leukemia, lymphoma and cancer in children with exposure to magnetic fields from residential 60-Hz distribution systems!
In 1998
The majority scientists form a working group of experts gathered by a Government initiated program, the EMF-RAPID (Research and Public Information Dissemination) program.
They voted that epidemiology studies of childhood leukemia provide enough evidence to classify electromagnetic field as a "possible human carcinogen". They released a final report containing this verdict to US Congress in 1999.
The final published report however, states that, "the NIEHS (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) believes there is weak evidence for possible health effects from (power frequency) ELF-EMF exposures..."
Listen to the Russians
Russian scientists have done more studies on electromagnetic field than any other country. For decades, they have been reporting that
electric fields cause
- high blood pressure
- chronic stress effects
- immune system dysfunction
- changes in white and red blood cell counts
- increased metabolism
- chronic fatigue disorders
- and headaches
In fact, there is a disease thoroughly described in Russian and Eastern European medical literature called radio wave sickness. Its existence was usually denied by western authorities (Arthur Firstenberg in the article, "Killing Fields",
The Ecologist, June 2004). Bradycardia or a slow heart rate was said in these texts to be a grave sign.
Western European scientists who advise governments on the safety of electromagnetic field emitting devices however, have vested interest. Thus, they have an industry-slanted view of what constitutes a health risk. In UK for example, they tend to come from nuclear and microwave industries.
As a result, finding after finding does not resolve public concern. In US, for example, a large number of research papers and overview reports have been produced along with numerous conferences over the past 17 years. Unfortunately, the findings remain controversial and contradictory.
