January 31st, 2008 at 10:00 am
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Its like in spain right now with the elections coming up.
Weve heard Sarko and the fat german one giving their support to the principal opponent RAJOY (son of a f…… bitch).Litterally,those 2 idoits would vote for him…..jajajajajajaja….NOBODY in spain swallow this kind of crap,thank god for that.The spanish are too busy to SURVIVE.They dont believe in the media etc…..they are very critical and DO have a hard life.Not like in the uk where there is social help and the lot…Ok,more sun? so what????
It is just an “apartee” about media and all

January 31st, 2008 at 11:57 am
And if it comes to that, it will be another expensive farce.
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Lets put it like this: there wont be any inquest because the PJ is going to lock them up SOON.
I prefer think in these terms: locked and away for a looooooooooog time

End of story

January 31st, 2008 at 12:56 am
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When you say there should be a little more “respect”, I suspect you mean, and would like, “deference”.

January 30th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Jo

But maybe one day there will be a Maddy INQUEST in this country, like the Princess Diana inquest that is going on at the moment.

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And if it comes to that, it will be another expensive farce.

January 30th, 2008 at 9:57 pm

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Jeez, I really think we need an underground news channel. There’s two layers to this and the underground will win out eventually!

I am actually pissed off with the amount of rubbish we’re fed. There’s definitely a better way, and it’s the way we’re going. SNIP
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Good post. Couldn’t agree more. When I have lived abroad, I used to miss ‘a way of life’, and basically this meant media reporting, particularly serious news journalism and genuinely independent assessments of situations, politics etc.

Now I feel no allegiance to anything here in Britain. Everything is spin and the public are treated like gullible fools. Those with money and influence pull the strings and never seem to be accountable. I wish all the luck in the world to those with the courage to rebel.

SPIN SPIN and MORE SPIN (it used to be called lies IIRC)

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QUOTE ” the Sun readership is mostly C1’s and D2’s. When I wrote a story sympathetic to the Mccanns I got the largest ever email bag between 8 and 10,000 emails. 99.9percent of them were against the McCanns. They said that the coverage was classist. There is some truth in that.”

Not quite as dumb as you took them for granted for then Eh!!!

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The editor doesn’t understand the most basic of matters about research/feedback.

The Sun, by his own admission, has a readership that fits a certain demographic. If they write an article that broadly grates with their demographic then of course you’d expect a lot of negative feedback!

Without intending the slightest offence to Sun readers, I wonder what response the “Turkey Times” might get if it ran an article proposing that since Christmas was such a jolly fun time, that they were supporting a campaign for a mid year Christmas Day in addition to the traditional December one?

Yes you could be right. I myself didn’t pick up on the word “disappearance” but it could have that meaning.

Clarence could only be sure that none of the T9 was involved if he knew what had actually happened and it didn’t involve them. But this doesn’t really make sense.

I think we have to accept that the PJ have done/are doing their job and that the matter has been blocked for political reasons.

Stevo, I recollect them saying [repeatedly, incl. CM] that they “had nothing to do with her DISAPPEARANCE”…
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100% spins and lies from Clarence Mitchell. Sure, theMcCanns probably did not have anything to do with the disposal of the body. I recall Kate once saying “The worst thing is not knowing where she is” which of course meant that she had not been told what was done with the body.

Clarence’s “briefings” from the “police”? He is talking about the retired police detectives who spoke out publicly. The “authorities” think it is a “rare stranger abduction” — sure, anyone can be an authority on the subject if you want them to be. But even if anyone still was contemplating abduction, they would have to assume that possibly McCann acquaintances were involved.

Instead, Clarence is now saying that not only the McCanns have nothing to do with it, neither did anyone they know. How can he be so confident of this?

As I said in 768 last thread, if Clarence Mitchell has the full support of MI5, he does not need to sound plausible or even rational. And it is hard to fathom how he could otherwise be permitted to continue the abduction scam and obstruction of justice for the Team McCanns. It is hard to comprehend why the Madeleine Fund was not frozen long ago, and fund-raising efforts forbidden. After all, it was clearly stated that the cadaverine had come from the girl.

From the Portuguese you have to wonder why they do not present that much evidence now, in order to demand and end to the justice obstruction and the fraudulent fund-raising. They don’t try to stop it, though, and only complain about it. Perhaps they are weaklings, bending to the pressure of the British from the start. It could be that letting the McCanns slip away back to Britain was only the first sign of that. All imho only.

Yep. Same idea.

We seem to be alone! Any lurkers out there?

Hi just_me.

I don’t know whether you get anything in Spain but you certainly couldn’t get insurance when the child I knew was killed. There was a court case actually and the main argument was that a child under 16 was not a breadwinner or potential breadwinner.

Chloe Spain - I dont think you can get insurance for a minor in UK. If your child dies you get a statutory payment of £7,500.

Congratulations! I really admire you for that. I think we should all follow your example.

Can you have life insurance on a child in the UK? I don’t believe you can in Spain. (Could be wrong about this because it was some years ago when a friend of mine’s daughter was killed in a fire.)

Their unconcealed bile, their lack of compassion for the McCanns, their sanctimonious statements about the supposed parenting inadequacies of the McCanns, do not stem wholly from poor reporting.

Certainly, false stories have contributed to their fallacious arguments. But they were uninterested in the rational statements of Mitchell and McGuinness. They took no notice of the subtle arguments of Graef and Mills.

They were the equivalent of those mobs outside courts in murder trials, deaf to facts, cocooned from reality by their own self-righteous demagoguery. Their major aim, outlined in a “manifesto” circulated within the lecture theatre, is to see the McCanns prosecuted for “abandoning” their children

It’s all the same, I guess…

“Their anger may have been sincere, but it became abundantly clear that they are infected with prejudice. Many of the claims they made - about money donated to the McCanns’ fund, about payments to PRs, about the McCanns’ actions and relationship with the police - were obviously based on the inaccurate accusations and innuendos published by so many newspapers”.

Would you believe it?