tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79470370258007440072012-01-30T20:35:12.461ZTime For Change in Thanet. An area and council rated in the bottom 10% of the UK's 440 Councils - by the BBC, and Government itself. Stop the Pollution. Stop the Corruption. Stop the Construction. Support Pfizer, Viiv and the UN Millennium Goals.Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.comBlogger2891100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-66933987957429715082012-01-30T20:29:00.004Z2012-01-30T20:35:12.469Z

The Inside Out programme by BBCTV on air pollution at airports:http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01bmq9zIn particular the health of airport workers jeopardised by fine pollution particles from jet engines.Copenhagen Airport has 3x the air pollution than central Copenhagen’s busiest roads.Heathrow and Gatwick refused to comment.With Manston and Infratil already recorded at 4x the EU safety levels

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Same-old same-old from the pensioners club at TDC.Infratil’s Buchanan ignores the overflight restrictions and TDC let him.Silence from new TDC Leader Clive Hart on the missing monitors and fines at Manston.Silence from the new KCC civil servant on Manston and Parkway plop for the real Cabinet of Murphy, JCB, Tarmac, Carillion, and Costain. And Infratil.Silence from McGonigal the new CEO at TDC

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With the rampant abuses at Manston from banned flights by Infratil to civil service endangering the public and political whitewash it’s time for corporate manslaughter charges against Infratil and KCC and TDC.Removing noise and air monitors is a crime.Especially for an airpot slated for expansion and funded on the rates.Banned flights is a crime.Banned overflights is a crime.All we’ve had is the

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An Open Letter to Sue McGonigal of TDC and Andy Mack District AuditorHi Sue and AndyAs the new TDC CE and former Finance Director and Auditor as you know I’m concerned at corruption within Thanet and Kent.I’ve stood as MP and now Mayor on a "stop the pollution, stop the corruption, stop the construction" platform.I’m astonished that you are reporting the TDC accounts are correct.Clearly with now

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BBCTV empty property scandal tonight - yet even in supposed pressure cooker South East: 9,000 empty houses in Kent.Not even including property companies landbanks.Why building more?Why building on floodpalians and greenbelt?

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With support slipping away, the old Gang of Four crew are fading at TDC.The Gang of Four are gone with pay-offs and now Police arrests.And the KCC CEO no doubt being paid off with more shtum money.With Independents holduing the balance of power no doubt there'll be calls to:1. Establish Margate Town Council - with a reduction in size of TDC2. Town tax funds paid direct to the Town Councils with

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The No Night Flights meeting last night and good public consultation has been taken out of the council’s hands.Being "against night flights" but “for the airport” means it stays open – with cancer and noise and night flight attempts every year.For night flights means cancer and noise all night.Infratil and TDC have hardly done anything but lie and fly for years.And stale pensioners remembering

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An article in The Times on 7th Novemebr detailing how "Regional numbers don't add up say airlines".In brief it details regional traffic figures form airports around the Uk and how they're utter nonsense eg Humberside claiming to grow to 12M passengers: 12x the population of the region.The head of Virgin Atlantic(!) described the figures as "utterly ridiculous".Clearly with Manston, claims of an

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With Sandy Ezekiel arrested on suspicion of fraud and misuse of public office the Gang of Four has collapsed.Latchford sacked, and Samuel and White resigned with 0% fraud and payoffs.All that remains is recovering the 0% salary fraud and missing £2M Manston fines and publishing the EKO and ChinaGate costs. The Labour £25k donation has been detailed but nothing else.Silence from the TDC civil

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Quite astonishing: IranAir flying into a ramshackle airport like Manston. Or Europe as it seems to be banned. Certainly from the USA.The US rates it as the terrorist airline of choice - an Iranian equivalent of what the Libyans did at Lockerbie or the recent Yemeni cargo bomb flights.http://www.newsmax.com/KenTimmerman/iranair-airbus-ircg-treasury/2011/06/24/id/401304For Charles Buchanan formerly

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A sudden Royal visit by the Queen to Margate after 20 years and 30 years before that.Which is good. Although so sudden almost no-one has heard of it.Clearly the problems in East Kent are substantial and a visit to the Turner is a good start after the collapse of the political system and civil service.And with the Commonwealth being revitalised with new succession rules and membership on

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Same old nonsense from Bayford and his cancer crew: another farcical consultation.And deliberately ignoring the facts and dangers of night flights and Manston and Infratil and KCC and TDC’s actions.Let’s forget the claims of jobs: they’re ludicrous. An airport the size of Stansted -a few minutes from Heathrow and Ostend. Planning by clownsLet’s forget the rationale for night flights: a few

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And early next week is the announcement of the 7 Billionth person on the planet.Probably in Dadaab refugee camp – poverty slums and ethnic war seems apt for the 21st century.Here in Kent, not one public sector organisation supports the UN Millennium Development Goals – supposedly these should be adopted and adapted by each nation.No UK lead on establishing the UN parliament to ensure global

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Questions to ask Charles Buchanan and Bob Bayford at KIACC - these meetings are fairly random aren't they - given the KCC leadership battle for Carter:@ presumably night flights, and Manston Parkway are no-go now for public funds@ with monitors removed in 2006 when did you know@ why were they not replaced - they only cost a few thousand pounds and Infratil Group makes a profit@ independent

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So that's the monitors removed by Infratil and TDC.But they're claiming they are monitoring.And this has been going on since 2006 when the monitiors were removed?And no fines collected - as yet. At least £2M.And counting - another flight at past midnight last night.And TDC and KCC and the EA bumbling around what's happening to the pollution and water supply.What twits.Criminal twits.No votes in

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A golly-gosh-well-I-never moment as the P.2 Gazette article this Friday on Manston monitoring:(article link)Confirms that monitoring is “done by Infratil and provided to TDC”.Cllr Green expresses surprise at this as do the other councillors.As you would given the opportunity to fake the data or simply not provide it.And hardly news given the repeated Airport Committee meetings and KIACC public

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A shocking documentary on ITV last night on air pollution in Czech Republic:http://www.u.tv/utvplayer/video/139724it claims to be the most polluted factory in Europe as a steelworks with 4 times EU emission levels and 6 times the World helath organisation levels on various toxins.Still we silence on Infratil and Thor - the latter supposedly banned and closed in 1989 and the technology shipped to

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Terrific news that HRH Princess Norodom of Cambodia will be hosting a live interview with Surin restaurant before Xmas.Princess Norodom hosts an English language radio show - the first in Cambodia - on improving the country and Khmer people.She is very interested in the restaurant and Surin Charity and is planning to visit Britain next year.Princess Norodom left during the Khmer civil war and

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The new Planning changes really do seem an appalling free-for-all to pour concrete. A spectacular backwards-step in regulating development which Britain can rightly be proui do and all the more appalling in the Age of Climate Change.Very interesting to see that women will have the right to vote in Saudi Arabia at long last - only Brunei in Asia now denies the vote - although they are are

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Another of the bizarre egg on face but facesaving attempts by our councillors and civil servants around Manston.Not just the silly debate on not allowing night flights even though that’s exactly what has been forbidden under the S106 airport operating rules.Feeble whitewash to cover up the lack of enforcement. And hoping schtum payoffs for Samuel and White will cover over the traces.And now an

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We need to ask questions about Kent’s role in the arms trade.Coming hard on the heels of KCC’s tobacco involvement, news that it is reconsidering its funding of BAE armaments is timely this week.The opening of the DSEi bi-annual arms fair at London’s Excel trade centre hosts not just BAE but 180 other arms companies. And at least 14 authoritarian regimes such as Iraq, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia

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I've had some details from the Dept of Business on the Enterpise Zone at Pfizer.I'll post the details a little later as they are better than I thought not just minor tax breaks.Viiv is being considered to expand Pfizer, Glaxo and Viiv jobs.Surprise was expressed at why 500 new homes were annopunced for the site. It wasn't the Dept's understanding and any application would need to be considered by

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This Sunday marks 10 years after 9-11 but have we learnt nothing? Manston airport remains perhaps Europe’s most dangerous airport. Noise and air monitors removed by Infratil and TDC. Banned EU airplanes regularly flying in and out transgressing all the safety zones. Gunrunning and blood diamond flights from the Congo, Sudan and Sierra Leone spiced with cocaine from Nigeria. And even banned

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An article published in the Independent yesterday on KCC and Big Tobacco - you need to scroll down the letters:http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/letters/letters-free-schools-2349248.htmlAlso a letter published a monht or so ago in the Independent on reforming the IMF:http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/letters/letters-what-signal-are-slut-walkers-sending-out-2297029.htmlAnd an article on

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Yet another Sunday unmarked 747 with illegal overflights into Manston at 10am yesterday. How can unmarked 747's still be flying into Manston? > Speaking from Maidstone Kent Chief Constable Ian Learmonth > announced Operation C.O.C.A.I.N.E. > He said: "We've noticed that we are lacking capacity in > acronyms so we have stepped up activity by combining the > operation name with an acronym. As

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You do wonder at the incompetence of our MP’s, councillors and civil servants – and the public simply allowing them to continue. The Summer nearly over. Seaweed on the beaches. Xmas lights that are faulty. £100k salaries for Town Clerks to spend £20k. Festivals cancelled at the last minute. Silence on Thor and Manston overflights. And with the missing Manston fines will McGonigle be signing

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You do wonder at the incompetence of our MP’s, councillors and civil servants – and the public simply allowing them to continue. More cancer overflights at Manston, and the ludicrous farce of debating the operating restrictions that already exist - and the silly pretence that they’ve been ignored. I thought I’d write something a bit different. An airport on the drinking water supply. An

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I thought I’d write something a bit different. You do reach a point where you just wonder at the incompetence of our MP’s, councillors and civil servants – and the public simply allowing them to continue. More cancer overflights at Manston, and the ludicrous farce of debating the operating restrictions that already exist - and the silly pretence that they’ve been ignored. An airport on the

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A few miscellaneous points:1. A nice letter from the new head of Kent Police Authority on how over flights at Manston may or may not be a Kent Police responsibility with a few drops of whitewash still on it and the swish of buck-passing. 2. Will the regular Sunday afternoon Manston illegal over flight land and take off without Customs or Police? If it does I hope they leave a nice bag of heroin

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Manston crashes and burns.What then?Carter in jail.Buchanan in jail.Infratil's Directors extradited for trial - that rarity of a free passage back to UK for the Kiwi Killers.Sandys and Gale mere irrelevancies.TDC and the Environment Agency in ashes.Kent governance in freefall.Manston can only have the runway dug up. The warehouses and buildings demolished and cleared.The MOD Fire base and fires

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Coughing one up for Infratil.An NHS campaign on lung cancer: East Kent's biggest killer with 428 deaths.You do the maths on what's attributable to the airprot - with monitors removed.http://www.easternandcoastalkent.nhs.uk/whats-new/latest-news/its-not-always-only-a-cough/And yesterday - even on Carnival Day - 2 illegal 747 overflights, one unmarked at 12 noon and 6pm and a Cityjet plane circling

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No noise monitors in place for 5 years.Fake consultations.Gang of Four sacked and paid off for schtum.The latest ludicrous debate on a night flight ban - and overflight ban - that already exists.A Parkway glory project of £10M until last month.Who is the civil servant at TDC and KCC responsible for the airport?Who are the councillors?When did they know the monitors were removed - what have they

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A note to Katherine Kerswell at KCC:As CEO of KCC a 4 star council and CE of SOLACE the Chief> Executive's trade union can you advise on Kent's corruption> scandals:> > * Manston: missing monitors and fines> * c.£200K schtum pay-offs for Messrs Samuel and White of> the Gang of Four> * two paygrade hikes just before dismissal for Richard> Samuel> * 0% pay rises for Samuel and White that are over

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A directly elected Mayor to close Manston and jail Carter and Buchanan and extradite Infratil's Directors.A directly elected Mayor to reduce the number of councillors and ciivl servants.Both local Thanet MP's and Parties seem to shy away from discussing why the 106 has not been enforced by the Gang of Four.And total silence from councillors on the cancer cost and missing fines, nor how they will

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Disastrous failures at TDC by the Ganf of Four and KCC with ManstonGate, ChinaGate, Pleasurama and Westwood Cross and the same empty promises and Buggins Turn councillors - and a couple of thoughts on the TDC election today:* a vote for Independents would be a step forward - several are disenchanted witht he performance of the Parties they used to follow* the main Parties are largely irrelevant

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The KCC leader manifesto below and a couple of thoughts on the TDC election:* a vote for Independents would be a step forward - several are disenchanted witht he performance of the Parties they used to follow* the main Parties are largely irrelevant at a local level - and the previous blocs of Parties has now been broken: no town is automatically Labour or Tory and civil service wasteis subject

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The KCC leader manifesto below and a couple of thoughts on the TDC election:* a vote for Independents would be a step forward - several are disenchanted witht he performance of the Parties they used to follow* the main Parties are largely irrelevant at a local level - and the previous blocs of Parties has now been broken: no town is automatically Labour or Tory* a boycott of the election or

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Bit of a strange response from TDC on my application for Mayor: rejected as:1. Not enough signatories – but speaking to other candidates only 2 signees are required fro Ramsgate Town Council as they and I provided. 10 are required for District but I didn’t apply for that and no form (although there are c.5 forms and a 50 page book) were provided.2. The – optional – statement may be wrong:

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The Ramsgate town Council annual public meeting last week and the same old tripe.The same £300k budget as the Charter Trustees.Nothing done.And now only 3 events for £30k for the year - and admin costs of c.£90k.Simply stale old men - and District double-hatters at that - funding admin until the budget's gone - and the towns collapse, and then raising more tax for waste.An application form

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With redundancy notices for Manston it's clear it's future is not ideal.Especially given both Charles Buchanan and Matt Clarke have both described it as bust.The only question now is: what clean up will be done and who will foot the bill?Clearly it's not Infratil who are pulling out of Europe and Charles Buchanan is simply relying on Paul Carter and KCC's £10M Parkway train station/airport thingy

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An article by Sincerity Agency in today’s Kent on Sunday (Page 34) on Pfizer and the Third World for Kent:http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/koslaunch.aspx?referral=other&refresh=3Hn014XpN1i7&PBID=d7d2b9a4-64e8-44e3-9e11-33b67854552c&skip=I'm on a business drive a the moment so any clients interested in marketing interesting products in an interesting way to interesting people please

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Manston: an unmarked 747 from Ostend direction.Yesterday at 2pm. A Sunday. Illegal overflights of the towns as routine. Presumably no Customs or Police inspections. Presumably no radar and onto the drinking water supply.Aren’t they meant to have serial numbers and file flight logs and cargo manifests? What was it? What was on it? Why overflying the towns? Who's in the radar tower?It looks as if

Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-88074768636502245072011-02-23T12:12:00.002Z2011-02-23T12:20:39.062Z

The collapse of the night flights consultation on Manston airport in November means more farce – following on from the 2008 BAWC non-consultation and EUJet in 2005 when the planes were already flying.Perhaps it’s best to take stock of the future of Manston – given at least two of the Infratil Chiefs describe the loss-making venture as unviable.Clearly Infratil and TDC deliberately removing noise

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Very sad to see the earthquake in Christchurch, NZ - hopefully there'll be a fundraiser in Canterbury at some point.It was 112 Day last Friday emphasising one co-ordinated emergency number across the EU.National numbers such as 999 tap into that for the EU – I think the NZ number is 111.But there isn’t a standard non-emergency number: whether it’s a cat up a tree or info on an earthquake. Again

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Cargolux statement:Cargolux, has never received any complaints on breaching flight routes, and be assured that if this had been the case the company would have taken all necessary actions.For your information our 4 weekly flights to Manston operate as follows:Flight CV7172 on Tuesday: Accra-Manston: dep ACC 05.50 Arr MSE: 12.20Flight CV7194 on Thursday: Nairobi-Manston: dep NBO 03.05 Arr MSE:

Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-5447956822842290762011-02-20T13:41:00.002Z2011-02-20T13:47:06.410Z

2 years on for Leader Carter - some empty bumf on monitoring the problems at Thor etc plops out of the EA.I was told almost exactly 2 years ago the Thor toxic plume had spread beyond the factory – but apparently it hasn’t now. 2 years for a leaflet of bumf and flannel.Thor was banned in 1988 but remained open and expanding for 20 years.Manston removing noise and air monitors and now Paul’s

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Let’s forget about Carter in cahoots with Infratil for the moment: removing monitors, airports on the drinking water supply etc.Here’s the latest KCC structure reform.http://www.kent.gov.uk/jobs_and_careers/new_perspectives/director_pay_scales.aspxPersonally I think it’s not bad as these things go.But two points:1. Here’s the salaries - http://www.kent.gov.uk/jobs_and_careers/new_perspectives/

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Why has Thor remained open since 1987? It should have been banned and closed and cleaned up for the last 20 years. Why was Thor continuing to operate the plant – and expand it – with EA supervision? Why have EA and KCC and TDC simply remained silent ever since?The Chief Constable’s pension needs to be protected to allow him to conduct an investigation into Thor and our civil servants and

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I wouldn’t send him to House of Fraser.Calls for him to be booted upstairs to remove his parliamentary seat in the reshuffles.I still don’t understand how the Electoral Commission jerrymandered Cliftonville into a boundary change – the 10 year census isn’t until this year. How can they claim the population has changed? Why not? At least his silence would be cheaper.Buit what would he do in the

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-17419/Now-living-airports-cancer.htmlToday's Daily Mail on airport cancer.Why the silence from TDC and KCC on cancer?Not one public statement?Why the silence on genetic birth defects?Why the silence on Infratil and TDC removing noise and air monitors - from a school and tower block.Fron an airport slated for expansion.What did you expect from banned

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Air quality Canterbury - newspaper article: way over emission levels with road traffic and Manston over 4x EU emission levels. The article calls for emission levels across East Kent to be published in the newspapers – where are the journalists? Where are the interviews with councillors and civil servants on emission levels? Where are the Manston and Ostend and Luxembourg flight logs? Where are

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What has been going on? How much more cancer? Manston airport built on the East Kent drinking water supply. Silence. 10 out of 12 Kent Districts failing – according to KCC’s own figures.Almost no prte-20102 activity and no post-2012 activity: the last Olympic Games in Britain for 100 years.The Stour/Pegwell Bay and Medway 2 of the 3 most polluted rivers in the UK. Richboro's cancer towers

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Pfizer supposedly closing in East Kent with 3,000 jobs lost. There goes the area. Unless they partner with Viiv http://www.viivhealthcare.com/To help, it seems to me there’s an opportunity to expand – either with Pfizer or others as a joint venture – the existing Viiv portfolio which develops vaccines for HIV etc. 3 of the top 10 HIV drugs are by Viiv and clearly the potential for market growth

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More Cargolux 747 flights over the towns breaching the airport operating conditions.And exactly what monitoring is now undertaken at the airport?Infratil and TDC removed the monitors and haven’t replaced them when the airport was due to expand – so what monitoring is in place now? Or have TDC decided not to bother at all?I don’t remember a council vote on removing monitors do you?4 years of

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I completely forgot the RTC meet tonight on Manston etc – just as well if the councillors and civil servant farce of whether there is or isn’t a consultation last year, this year or next year - but happened to wander past and chatted to Richard Styles the Town Clerk.I mentioned him that the report and accounts and latest budgets are still overdue some 4 weeks after requesting them – and some 3

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A farcical public meeting on Manston and now a farcical consultation-but-not-a-consultation.As usual all the public opposed to whatever nonsense the TDC councillors are suggesting.And now councillors and civil servants scrabbling around to get out of the mess.Just embarrassing.No explanation for over a year’s delay since the first request by Infratil.Stale old men relying on secrecy, pass the

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With cargo flight bombs now an AlQaida option – again Manston is wide open. Random night flights. Egyptair. Banned African flights. Unchecked cargo. Offroute flights etc etc. A few minutes fly time from Canary Wharf.It's a wonder a few bombs aren't hidden under a couple of pallets of heroin from Amsterdam or some Sudanese Kalashnikovs from Ostend.Shouldn’t flights be pulled - the last major

Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-24446439798357115762010-10-28T12:12:00.002+01:002010-10-28T12:26:21.866+01:00

http://www.ruudleeuw.com/ostend.htm “Bulgaria and Slovakia are major sources of arms to be transported to war zones. Airports from where the arms' transfer is organised or effected are mainly Burgas and Plovdiv in Bulgaria, Bratislava in Slovakia, a number of Russian airports, Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates and the airport of Ostend. The arms are subsequently delivered to the Sudanese

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Just another farcical public meeting on Manston again.As usual all the public opposed to whatever nonsense the TDC councillors are suggesting.Empty burble from Mike Harrison – the Chair of the Airport Committee no less - about there might be a consultation or not a consultation and maybe in a month or two.Nor – supposedly - could they say what their own opinions are. How ridiculous to elect

Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-55272657431471214312010-10-10T22:19:00.002+01:002010-10-10T22:26:54.378+01:00

Why the delays and silence from our politicians and civil servants on the pollution, corruption and construction in Thanet?Our politicians and civil servants have failed us:· major pollution incidents and cover-up: highest cancer rate in South East· Third World death rates: 18 year death gap from rest of Kent· deliberate pollution from Manston and Thor· collapse of

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Night Flight blightThe meeting on Ramsgate’s consultation for night flights at Ramsgate town council was much the same. A council room overflowing with people complaining about night flights, cancer, asthma, the drinking water etc.And councillors silent or biting their lips to speak up in favour of night flights.After the meeting one councillor mentioned how wonderful Manston was back in the 1960

Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-13216199198107797432010-10-05T01:57:00.003+01:002011-02-21T01:51:52.514Z

A front cover article in KM for Canterbury and Herne Bay: “shocking report reveals the air we breathe is getting dirtier”.5 permanent monitors in Canterbury just for road traffic.Worth remembering that Manston airport will provide - banned - fuel discharge over Herne Bay and Canterbury.Thanet also has discharge levels over 4x EU emissions – and monitors removed by Infratil and TDC.I’ve written to

Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-54428483052664576372010-09-28T23:24:00.000+01:002010-09-28T23:25:13.697+01:00

Here’s details of Spain’s corruption trial for Malaga council that left the “once-charming beach resort carpeted in concrete” and “developers bungs for cash for votes”.http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/27/spain-biggest-corruption-trial-marbellaBut silence from our cockroach civil servants.Nothing on the mysterious Pleasurama tax haven with no viable construction plans – who was the civil

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The NHS Cancer summary document for East Kent has been sent to me: cancer the biggest cause of death, and East Kent in the lowest quarter of cancer treatments.Seems to me the NHS hasn't been doing its job very well.And Infratil and TDC allowing breaches of the flight paths and removal of monitors have allowed unnecessary increases in cancer deaths, ill-health etc.Seems to me TDC have deliberately

Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-35391409779915274402010-09-25T12:40:00.004+01:002010-09-26T22:48:08.002+01:00

A note below to Bill Hayton KCC Chair for the local KCC meeting: as always more interesting for what's left off the agenda and avoided.Why the silence from our councillors and civil servants on Thor and Manston - not one public statement.How bad is the pollution?And so much for democracy eh?10 tonnes of grit and waster in the Ramsgate waterpumps last week according the Southern Water cleanup

Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-15715089581496758942010-09-22T14:07:00.002+01:002010-09-22T14:18:22.445+01:00

Manston: "shot down in flames" warning of Infratil and council failings on front page of newspaperhttp://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/launch.aspx?referral=other&refresh=7y1Bg0Y85s1X&PBID=84956776-5fe0-4064-a733-83aabf1dd4b7&skip=Fake consultations, repeated 106 breaches, public endangered, removal of noise and air monitors from a school and tower block over years, failure to replace etc

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Aren’t there several missing gaps in Thanet’s public finances whitewashed by our senior civil servants and councillors:1. Where are the Ramsgate Town Council accounts and staffing costs?2. Where are the £1M EKO accounts/million pound memo and invoices and staffing costs and expenses?3. Where are the details of the missing or waived fines for night flights and overflights by Infratil?4. Where are

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I see the glass carbuncle for the harbour slipway has been provisionally approved.Along with the Granville Folly and glass stump for developer profit. And glass B&Q Turner Centre, in Margate. And Halfords Big Box for Vattenfall.We seem to have incompetent councillors and civil servants who having destroyed the towns are unable to put sensible policies in place without grasping at anything and

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A sudden agenda announcement for a meeting all about Manston: 3 ways to describe the same thing: KIA, Manston and a Manston Parway rail station of some sort. The usual charade for decisions taken – even Roger Gale doesn’t bother mentioning the Parkway now. And “Bold Steps” is some vague nonsense of linking Kent planning to Essex in another quango – and nothing done in the meantime. No mention of

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East Kent has a health differential 18 years younger than the rest of Kent – similar to Burma or Haiti.Also with:• An airport on the drinking water supply• Removal of noise and air monitors• Airport runoff draining into the road system and sea at Pegwell Bay• Thor mercury banned in 1988 but still operating 20 years later• Richboro power station derelict for 15 years• Asbestos in buildings• Oil

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Last night not one but 3 security guards stand looking at a car park of HGV's funded on the rates - and then another half dozen lorries parked on the nearby promenade.No doubt having the usual crap in a bag and throw it on the beach.What is it for? To tax-fund a lorry park and derelict promenade? Should the Police be diverted for lorries parked a dozen feet from a specially-provided HGV park?And

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BBC TV rates Thanet as 295th out of 324 areas of England as “least resilient to economic woe”.weblink http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-11164337The debate on the spending review last Thursday night on BBCTV highlighted the terrible state of Thanet and the likes of Paul Carter of KCC and Laura Sandys MP were there to discuss public services etc.Nobody could quite explain how even through

Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-43045999070844351702010-09-10T12:20:00.000+01:002010-09-10T12:21:37.706+01:00

Kent’s faced a strange set of anniversaries this week: the beginning of the Blitz 70 years ago on Tuesday and tomorrow the anniversary of the New York 9/11 attacks.The Blitz has still left its scars on Kent – whether it’s the folk memories of the raids on Ramsgate and Canterbury or still bomb-sites.But AlQaeda? What’s that to do with Kent? Suicide Attacks such as 100 dead in Pakistan this week or

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3ObqcRAh9MArts event in Trafalgar Square today to highlight 10 years on from UN Millennium Goals to end poverty and disease by 2015.Over 167 children die from diarrhoea fronm dirty water and cholera - every hour.100 years of democracy and £60M in council tax-take each year and "Third World Thanet" has Manston airport and Manston Fire on the drinking water

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Not mentioned by councilors or civil servants or MP's at all.No statements about Manston built on the drinking water.Nothing.There is the front page of Your Thanet about banned aircraft flyting onto Manston - so much for UK airspace etc.And why was there a Jumbo jet flying into Manston at 2am and 3:30 am on Sunday/Monday? the airport closes at 11pm. Do they just fly in or did Infratil know? Did

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With widespread concerns over water quality, when will TDC – or NHS - publish the toxin reports and pollution damage for Thor mercury, Richboro and Manston? As well as the raw data for seawater quality and sewage discharges.As with removing the noise and air monitors with Infratil and banned and illegal overflights of the towns, it’s as if our politicians and civil servants are deliberately

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Manston: front page of the newspaper the illegal overflights. No mention of the cancer cost. Where are the grandmothers of the dead?Where are the mothers of the dead? Where are the coroners reports?Silence.On Thor.On Manston - the drinking water and dumping in Pegwell and missing monitors.On Manston Fire station.On Richboro.Silence from Gale and Sandys and 56 councillors and KCC.The resignation

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It’s been 3 months since the lection and Parliament has been on hols for a month or two.What has been done in Thanet?Where are the Thor toxin results or are MP’s not allowed to see those or make them public?Where are the Richboro toxin results?Why is Manston Fire station lighting fires and putting them out with drinking water?Has an extradition request been put in for the criminal Infratil

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No details on Thor mercury factory toxins in Margate, UK (why open when banned in 1988 - and Thor itself handling the cleanup) - also Thor sites around the world and mercury storage and processing in Almaden, Spain and Algeria.http://www.chem.unep.ch/Mercury/Pretoria-proceedings-finalPDFwriter.pdfhttp://www.rsc.org/delivery/_ArticleLinking/DisplayArticleForFree.cfm?doi=a909597gAll reported on by

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Front page of Your Thanet on the pollution into Pegwell Bay from the airport.Very shocking.http://www.yourthanet.co.uk/kent-news/Pegwell-Bay--can-it-take-any-more-pollution--newsinkent39158.aspx?news=localA UNESCO wetland – like the Camargue or Nile Delta and the scum and scoundrels at Infratil have simply tapped a drainage pipe into the road system and dumped aviation fuel and chemicals into the

Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-24737779099079186802010-08-24T22:01:00.002+01:002010-08-24T22:10:02.804+01:00

LD lines goes bust on the Dover-Boulogne route today. One ship will be withdrawn and the remaining one possibly freight only as the Channel ferries consolidate.Not good for Ramsgate Port – a council review tomorrow – as the passenger service never materialised as the ship didn’t fit and apart from c.20 HGV’s per sailing there are few Port jobs not funded by the taxpayer.Weeds on the ferry

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And a 3rd plane - presumably Cargolux - landing at quarter past midnight last night: over an hour since Manston airport should close. Do the CAA and Police check these flights or do Infratil just breach the operating guidelines as and when they feel like it? Why bother smuggling bags of heroin from Amsterdam - just fly a 747 in from Luxembourg on a Sunday and offload pallets of it for London or

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Who is in the radar tower at Manston allowing these breaches of the specified flight paths? Where are the CAA-required flight logs to check the flight paths and fines?How do the Police and Customs check on these random and banned flights?And why does Flybe fly in to Manston from over the Channel end and towns? Isn't it supposed to be flying to Edinburgh?Isn't the reality that Manston has no

Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-32536264835940025662010-08-18T11:04:00.004+01:002010-08-18T11:12:42.328+01:00

Your Thanet letter (P.14):With Margate having a life expectancy 18 years lower than the rest of Kent: dying at 63 instead of 81 years old, we are now on a par with Haiti or Burma.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancyShould we be paying council tax to be killed off this early? More importantly where are the toxin details for Thor, Richboro, Manston fire station and

Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-80216894318507967022010-08-15T17:32:00.002+01:002010-08-15T17:40:05.608+01:00

Clearly the water in Thanet has been mismanaged by TDC, the Environment Agency and KCC over a number of years.1. Manston airport built on the East Kent drinking water reservoir – under the runway. Plus – supposedly banned - overflights of the towns2. Thor mercury on Margate Road: supposedly banned and closed in 1988 but remained open – and still does?3. Manston Fire station: a leftover from RAF

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The A-bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6th and 9th August 1945 killed over 110,000 civilians at once. A flash so bright it burned peoples’ shadows into the pavement. And the same number dying slowly over the next 5 years from burns and cancers.Yet, perhaps as never before, a nuclear free world beckons with North Korea, now declaring its nuclear weapons and missiles, facing renewed sanctions as

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The top 200 civil servants meeting in Margate identified an 18 year health gap between Margate and the rest of Kent. That’s a huge skew for such a small geographic area isn’t it?18 year difference.Dying at 63 instead of 81 – these are Third World death rates aren’t they? Haiti or Burma or Yemen according to this table.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancyWhat went

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I’m sure Osama is a bit busy at the moment to fly in to Manston.But if EgyptAir can fly into Manston from Ostend - and land at 3am - then maybe he could pay Manston a flying visit. Flytime from Cairo is about 4 hours so the 747 must be setting off - even as Manston is supposedly closed from 11pm.Osama himself could fly in at night, flick the transponder off and just keep going until he hit Canary

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The collapse of Manston means they carry the can for failure.A payrise.A new jobtitle.A pension increase.A nod and a wink.But where is the criminal investigation into removing noise and air monitors?Removed from Clarendon school and a tower block. And never replaced.Mobile monitors specified and repeatedly requested by KIACC. But never provided.The only question is did they decide to do it

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A video below on airport pollution and protests in USA.http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=7392927Toxic fumes.Lung cancer.All the things you’d expect.Yet there we have a councillor speaking out about the toxic effects: illness, early death and so on:"We'd like to see the jets be banned now. The toxicity from those jets with no buffer zone is literally killing our

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Why are Richard Samuel and Brian White still working for TDC?As importantly why do we have only silence from our councillors, MP’s and civil servants?Messrs White and Samuel along with Roger Latchford were members and leaders of KIACC the organisation representing the public at Manston and deliberately and repeatedly lied over noise and air monitoring. Infratil removed the noise and air monitors

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A letter today in Your Thanet (P.14) on the water problems at Manston:http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/launch.aspx?referral=other&refresh=4e1E06Qm3k1N&PBID=84956776-5fe0-4064-a733-83aabf1dd4b7&skip= Dear EditorSomething seems to have gone seriously wrong with Thanet’s water supply. Already the aquifer at Manston is topped up with water from East Kent.We have Thanet Earth’s

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Surely Vattenfall the owners of the £780M windfarm, now the world’s largest, just offshore of the Blue Flag beaches of Thanet can help the area. Surely there needs to be a review of the tiny £175,000 planning payment agreed by Brian White at Thanet Council and the need for a 2nd office block and warehouse at the semi-derelict and disused Port.Any competent council would provide a proper funding

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Let's not ask why there is no KIACC the public commitee for Manston any more. Not why Manston would only want to reinstigate it once flights had reached a certain level. Cheaper that way. Vested interests involved then. And no awkward questions on cancer. Until it's too late.Let's not ask why Richard "Tricky Dicky" Samuel quickly resigned as Chair of KIACC at the time of the monitors being

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It does make you wonder how feeble our civil service and Police are.Here we have 2 senior civil servants awarding themselves fake 0% pay rises – if that’s not a fraudulent misuse of public funds I’m not sure what is. And quite deliberate and designed to camouflage the real c.10% payrises from the public and councillors.More importantly we have Infratil specifically regulated with the 106 airport

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What are you doing about Manston? It's built on the drinking water reservoir and the Toxic Three of White, Samuel and Latchford have delberately allowed repeated breaches of the 106 operating guidelines.Here's a report at Logan airport near Boston:"The planes literally skim the rooftops in Winthrop as they approach Logan Airport. With more than a thousand flights a day, the noise and jet fumes

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Sincerity Agency article (www.sincerityagency.com):http://www.kentonsunday.co.uk/blog.aspx?bid=598KOS blog version above and article on P.25: http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/launch.aspx?referral=other&refresh=7Cx1e20Q0D8q&PBID=d7d2b9a4-64e8-44e3-9e11-33b67854552c&skip=Unedited version with some info on Ramsgate Town for Heroes below:A forced Forces Day?Tim Garbutt asks if today’s

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Congratulations on you new role Bob.How will cancer from Manston be reversed?The emissions levels are over 4x the EU limits.Infratil breach the 106 repeatedly eg town overflights and discharge to water – all detailed by the Environment Agency.Clearly KCC have walked away form any further funding and SEEDA funding has closed.And, MK Airlines has gone bust owing the fines that were not provided.Not

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http://savethanetswatersupply.blogspot.com/Manston airport on the underground drinking water supply - see the map above - for 100,000 people. Sensible? Or silly?An airport not only built on the drinking water. But kept open. And the pollution levels detaield for years by the EA simply ignored by TDC's Planning Dept.We seem to have stale politicans that cling to developing an airport either for

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An article published in Kent on Sunday today, page 27:Talking ThailandTim Garbutt discusses this week’s events in Bangkok.As I write this the Thai Prime Minister has been impeached and the previous Prime Minister accused of terrorism. The Thai military have removed the Redshirt protestors in central Bangkok and imposed a curfew and the central shopping area has been burned down in protest.It

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