Madeleine McCann: Scare Stories, Kate McCann’s Job And No Mari Luz
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DAILY EXPRESS: “FIVE ATTEMPTED KIDNAPS LINK TO MADELEINE CASE”
“Detectives searching for Madeleine McCann are now investigating a spate of attempted child abductions across Portugal.
“At least five kidnap attempts have been reported in the past month, leading officers from the Madeleine team to examine the details for possible connections.”
What of the headline “link” to Madeleine McCann – well, the alleged attempted kidnappings all occurred in Portugal
But “Last week Justice Minister Alberto Costa revealed that the head detective, Paulo Rebelo, was coming to the end of his case”, says the WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER
Says Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns’ spokesman: “It’s alarming to hear that this sort of thing can happen, particularly in a country that is so aware of the potential for abduction”
DAILY MIRROR: “Maddy: 5 scares in Portugal”
Police searching for Madeleine McCann are also investigating five attempted child abductions in northern Portugal. They began when a nine-year-old girl was bundled into a car as she got off her school bus. Two more children were attacked last month and last Thursday two men tried to lure a girl of nine into a car. Last Saturday, another child escaped abduction. One police source said: “It is causing a lot of alarm.”
DAILY MAIL: “Madeleine McCann’s disappearance is ‘linked to a string of child abductions’”
Police investigating Madeleine McCann’s disappearance have been alerted over a spate of attempted child abductions in northern Portugal, it has been revealed. At least four children have been targeted in the last month in the region of Coimbra, where a nine-year-old girl escaped from an abductor in December.
It’s five children. The Express and Mirror both say its five
KATE McCANN: “Meanwhile, it is understood Kate McCann is quitting her job as a locum GP to devote her life to children’s charities. Mrs McCann has not returned to work since Madeleine’s disappearance in May and has reportedly told friends she feels she has a lot to offer charity organisations.
THE SCOTSMAN: “Torment of Madeleine’s family ‘is like being crucified’”
Kate McCann’s mother Susan Healey says: “It is almost like being crucified day to day. I read the most stupid things about Kate not crying enough or whatever”
Adding: “Kate and Gerry know they made a mistake and shouldn’t have left the children, they know that, but they certainly don’t deserve what has happened to them. If the Portuguese can’t find out what happened to Madeleine, we have to find out. There is no way Madeleine will fade into insignificance”
Gerry McCann is a “surgeon”
IRISH INDEPENDENT: “Missing Amy’s parents offer cash reward”
The parents of missing Irish expat Amy Fitzpatrick have offered a cash reward for information on her whereabouts. Franco Rey, spokesman for Amy’s Stepfather David Mahon and Amy’s mum Audrey, said: “A substantial reward is on offer to anyone who can provide reliable information on Amy’s whereabouts. Any information received will be treated within the strictest confidence.”
And:
Dubliner Mr Mahon (36) has also travelled to Tangiers in northern Morocco to investigate the possibility the teenager was snatched and taken to Africa.
Rewards have also been offered for missing Briton Madeleine McCann and missing Spanish girl Mari Luz Cortes. The family of five-year-old Mari Luz, snatched from her home in Huelva in south-west Spain on January 13, is offering €300,000 for information on her whereabouts. Rewards totalling £2.6m were offered within 10 days of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance on May 3 last year from the Algarve holiday resort of Praia da Luz.
TYPICALLY SPANISH: “parents of missing Mari Luz are against her image being used in a Madeleine McCann poster campaign”
Mari Luz’s father, Juan José Cortés, said after a meeting with Manuel Chaves, President of the Junta de Andalucía, this weekend, that, while he is not against collaborating in the search for Madeleine and ‘even helping to draw up a poster of all the missing youngsters,’ the lines of investigation into the disappearance of the two young girls are distinct, and are being carried out in two separate countries. EFE [Spanish news agency] said he is considering taking legal action for using his daughter’s image for the campaign.
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February 18th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Matt
I still hope they are spying on the mc canns!
And turn up at the PJ with a colourful dossier a million pages thick!!
February 18th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
462 my post
Link to Forbes’ list of wealthiest individuals:
http://www.forbes.com/lists/results.jhtml?passListId=10&passYear=2004&passListType=Person&searchParameter1=unset&searchParameter2=unset&resultsStart=1&resultsHowMany=25&resultsSortProperties=-numberfield3%2C%2Bstringfield2&resultsSortCategoryName=Worth%28%24bil%29&passKeyword=&category1=category&category2=category
February 18th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
brandon flours, no facts then, typical gossipmonger.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Sorry, full link to book:
http://www.politicospublishing.co.uk/titles.php/itemcode/178
February 18th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
453 val
If you look at the Forbes list of wealthiest people, six of the top 10 are members of the Walton family (of Wal-Mart fame) with a total value of $20 billion each (only a couple of years ago, they were only worth $16 billion apiece). Outrageous!
The commercial practices of Wal-Mart around the world helps them become the wealthiest people on the planet. Who needs that much money? Why do we allow it?
jj 18/16.40
February 18th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
444 MOAH
You could be right.
Just to link this back to the McCanns and their failed attempts to pull the wool over people’s eyes, someone posted on the 3As site that the McCann spin machine arrogantly assumed that because they we intelligent professionals in the world of politics and media it would work.
I posted the following;
QUOTE
Any group that have unfettered power (political and media) over a long period of time start to lose touch with reality. They over-estimate their ability to manipulate public opinion. They start to have what the Greeks called ‘hubris’. Believing they are untouchable, they become arrogant, ignore the opinions of others and think they have a superior position and mission, which cannot be questioned and where the ends justify the means. People don’t like it and eventually everything implodes (the Greeks had a deity that took care of that called ‘Nemesis’).
David Owen wrote a book about it called the “Hubris Syndrome” regarding Bush and Blair in the lead up to the Iraq conflict;
http://www.politicospublishing.co.uk/ti … emcode/178
I think the New Labour mindset, with their spin friends in the media, have this problem.
UNQUOTE
The same could be true for 9/11 …. but as I said, I’m not there … yet.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
455…brandon flours
That many ?
How gross can he get.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
304
Lone Pigeon Says:
February 18th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
ello everyone
________________________
Ello darling
missed you earlier !
Talk about a flying post!
February 18th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
449 Jolie
“I hope that Mr. Cortes knew what he was in for by engaging the McCanns in a public challenge.”
He couldn’t not react. I hope he is well suported.
If the MC’s team starts smearing Mr Cortes’ name, it is a double-edged strategy : it will damage poor Mr. Cortes but it will backfire on Clarrie.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
M3 “Contract”….expires…Mid March…just over 3 weeks.
Extension or dishonourable discharge then ?
February 18th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
451
Justlooking
Is that Prince Charles or the Viet Cong. One don’t surf but I can’t remember which
February 18th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Matt 300 pinkies?
February 18th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
451
Justlooking
I thought I done mad then, I forgot I posted that
I thought who the feck is Charlie???
February 18th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
437 Jolie
I too believe in the corruption of Government and Big Business, and truly glad
I am not growing up today.
On the Financial News last night it was said that Warren Buffet was worth
47 billion….yes billion dollars.!!!!!!!! It”s obscene IMO and proves yet again that
Capitalism doesn”t work, it makes the rich richer and the poor poorer. We”ve
tried Communism, now Capitalism, there”s got to be a happy medium.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
449..Jolie
I wonder what skeletons lurk in Clarence’s closet.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
438
Brandon
Yep!
Charlie beamed a load of high frequency microwaves via an ultra-galactic spy satellite into her mobile phone which could only be heard by people with IQs less than 50 and subversively hypnotised her into not wearing her seat-belt.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
442 Marie
I took your comment as ironic because it is, of course, true
But I then thought that Karen might not have understood me.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
I hope that Mr. Cortes knew what he was in for by engaging the McCanns in a public challenge. For his sake, I hope there are no skeletons in their closet, because they will be discovered by the highly paid team of the McCanns.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Jolie 441
Yes, I noticed that too.
Still, Clarrie will understand that he can’t manipulate everyone.
Spain isn’t England.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/18/satellite_shoot_caper_russia_china_rhubarb_submarine_speculation/
Blimey his another one!
February 18th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
433 Matt.
Thank you for pointing that out. The media is willing to fly all the flags they can to suppport this family, aren’t they? Hilarious.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
443
Gandolf Says:
February 18th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Can any one post the facts of Madeleines case, not unsubstantiated waffle, facts. I will not expect an answer.
________________
You shouldnt be so self critical gandyboy !
February 18th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
440 Anonymousthe1st
The bigger the lie, the more it works. It is bush and his backers that benefit from your indecision.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Can any one post the facts of Madeleines case, not unsubstantiated waffle, facts. I will not expect an answer.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Chloe 429
I read too fast. It’s difficult to keep up with the new posts, and send some.
And to be honest, Hitler is an exception to the rule, that’s why he comes to mind immediately. We get the feeling in my country, that whoever we elect, things aren’t going to change a lot, and that our political authorities don’t have much power.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
427 Marie
Read the comments. People are starting to have a go at the Cortes parents and publishing nasty things about them and their family members.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
426 MOAH
I have no doubt about the positive intentions of the authors of the Zeitgeist film.
As I’ve said, I also believe that were are being fed a crock of sh!t by politicians and the media.
But Bush and friends couldn’t even credibly pin WMD on Sadam Hussein.
You can burn down a Reichstag to artificially create a crisis, but this just seems too grandiose and complex as a covert operation.
9/11 is not cut and dried for me, and I’m not closed minded on the subject…..
February 18th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
now for that yoga.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
So WAS Diana murdered too then?
February 18th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
428 val
I spent a lot of time reading about this subject years ago and ordered some books (that are unread so far–I’m a great starter, but not finisher); unfortunately, my memory is a sieve and I always have to look things up again to refresh my memory.
It’s hard to know what the real truth is. People who do such wrong things like to keep their secrets if they can and proof is hard/impossible to come by. But after many years, some times we do find out.
The best we can do some times is to be an educated, probable guess at to what the truth is.
There is not a lot we can do about something like this, after the fact, I’m afraid. You can learn to distrust everything so much, that it destroys your value of living. I try not to let myself go that far, but I do have much distrust of governments and the elite.