Madeleine McCann: Paedos From Lamp-Posts, Hating Fiona Philips And JonBenet Ramsey
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QUEENSFERRY GAZETTE (Scotland): “We’ve been ad”
A CONCERNED mum has spoken out about the potential hazards posed by new outdoor advertising boards. Janette Sheppard is also worried that other parents may think the boards are simply lamp-posts.
Lamp-posts, for paedos to hide behind… Like those (G)litter bins…
She said: “These have just sprung up – one is outside my son’s primary school. At first glance it would be easy to mistake them for lamp-posts, but they are actually advertising boards.”
The wonders of modern technology. Who would have thunk it. Go on…
“There is a small electronic strip at the top which could be used by the council to post information if a child goes missing. I believe the council also gets some revenue from the boards.”
Making money from missing kiddies. For shame!
“My concern, as a parent, is if the council thinks it’s appro-priate to put one of these boards outside a primary school. Our kids are already inundated with advertising – do they really need more? And what kind of advertising is it going to be?”
Sweets. Peados. Guns. Snuff movies. You know, the usual kids’ stuff…
A West Lothian Council spokesperson said: “The new signs are part of the Amberwatch system, which is designed to allow urgent safety messages to be relayed instantly to the local community. The similar Amber Alerts system in America has been credited with helping locate over 100 missing children, and the parents of Madeline McCann have campaigned to have such a system installed across Europe.”
So there it is. It’s there to advertise when a child goes missing; and when a child doesn’t go missing…
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Review: My Sister, My Love by Joyce Carol Oates”
Review: My Sister, My Love by Joyce Carol Oates - The unsolved murder of a child star is too close to real events for David Robson
A child star… Get ready to be entertained…
Novels based on real-life crime stories always leave a slightly queasy taste. Novels based on unsolved real-life crime stories leave an even queasier one.
Hands over mouths; heres it comes…
There are probably writers already working on fictionalisations of the abduction of Madeleine McCann, but it is hard to feel much respect for them.
They don’t do it for the respect. They do it for the money; like the newspapers…
The same applies, mutatis mutandis, to this ethically questionable piece by Joyce Carol Oates, inspired by a crime that was the talk of America in 1996, when a six-year-old child beauty pageant contestant called JonBenet Ramsey was found brutally murdered in the basement of her parents’ house in Colorado.
DAILY STAR: “THAT’S VERY IRRITATING - FIONA IS BRITS’ MOST HATED CELEB”
IT’S Fiona Philips, GMTV’s soon-to-be ex-self-righteous-Labour-cheering-ultra-violet-toothed-baby-boasting-braying-nodding-head.
FIONA Phillips is more annoying than the washout summer, chavs and Heather Mills.
Mills isn’t annoying; Mills is entertaining.
Her on-screen gaffes include telling the parents of missing Madeleine McCann: “There are light moments. You’ve acquired this odd celebrity status.”
A gaffe? No way. This is the highest praise possible in the GMTV lexicon. GMTV renders everything it touches a celebrity: car crash victim, prime minister, doctor etc. are all touched by the GMTV celebrity wand. A celebrity… nothing bigger, nor better…
100 MOST ANNOYING THINGS FOR 2008
1. Benefit scroungers
2. The credit crunch
3. Tailgaters
4. Cold callers
5. People reading over your shoulder
6. Gordon Brown
7. Fiona Phillips
8. Being bloated
9. Rising fuel prices
10. Falling house prices
11. The wet summer
12. Middle lane drivers
13. Constipation
14. Bossiness
15. Slow internet connections
16. Being put on hold
17. Pregnant women smoking
18. Someone nicking your parking spot
19. Stepping in dog poo
20. Jehovah’s Witnesses
21. Debt companies advertising on TV
22. Skinny people who complain they are fat
23. Queue jumpers
24. Bullying
25. Noisy neighbours
26. Nosey neighbours
27. People parking in disabled bays when they aren’t disabled
28. Junk mail
29. Snobs
30. Noisy eaters
31. Dog owners who don’t clean up after their pets
32. People putting our Olympic achievements down
33. Novelty ringtones
34. Automated phone systems
35. Chavs
36. People who walk slowly
37. People who take their kids to shops and let them run riot
38. Amy Winehouse
39. Sienna Miller’s love life
40. Rude shop staff
41. Wasps
42. Diarrhoea
43. Cristiano Ronaldo
44. People who have their mobile turned off when you really need to get hold of them
45. Dannii Minogue
46. Mosquitoes
47. Kids kicking the back of your chair on a plane
48. Hangovers
49. The hot water running out when you want to take a bath
50. Buses not arriving on time
51. Heather Mills
52. James Blunt
53. Reformed smokers
54. People talking on their mobile on public transport
55. Headaches
56. The smoking ban
57. Toothache
58. Litter bugs
59. Spots
60. People who write “text back” in texts
61. Scientology
62. Russell Brand
63. Screaming kids
64. Alistair Darling
65. Traffic wardens
66. Americans
67. Roadworks
68. Big Brother
69. Pete Doherty
70. Runny nose
71. PDAs (public displays of affection)
72. Flat tyres
73. Ashley Cole
74. Tax returns
75. Finding out that you’ve run out of toilet paper when you really need
the loo
76. Boasters
77. Not having change when you really need it
78. Carol Vorderman
79. Paper cuts
80. Stepping in chewing gum
81. Bad hair days
82. Charley Uchea off Big Brother
83. Mothers-in-law
84. Cashiers giving you your change on top of a receipt
85. Posh Spice
86. CDs that jump
87. Stubbing your toe
88. Getting something in your eye
89. Losing your glasses
90. Cat hair that sticks to your clothes
91. Children who cough in your face
92. Losing your passport
93. People ramming the back of your heels with trolleys
94. Rubbish opening times at doctors and dentists
95. Kate Garraway
96. email spam
97. People using mobiles in the quiet carriage on the train
98. People who don’t remove their shoes in the house
99. Naomi Campbell
100. Troublesome computer printers
And so on…
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October 6th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
yeah!
did you get your car out?
October 6th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
what danny c ?
October 6th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
the poorpriest,
, i’m fed up too.
October 6th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
i’m still wondering if thats you in the video
October 6th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Hi lone
October 6th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
I’m getting fed up with waiting. Why don’t the tapas 7 break their silence pact and get it all over with. They must be suffering considerable stress. How about a plea bargaining from the PJ - we won’t charge you with child neglect as long as you tell us what happened during that holiday.
Otherwise it’s going to be chip, chip, chip away for maybe years. And this thread will get shorter and shorter til maybe one poster a day - gosh I might be able to be “first” one day soon.
What about Doris and her promise of something she knows, but noone else does, but it’s really good, and we will all know soon? Well….. when exactly. I want more interviews with the McScam clan, they are always good for lots of trip ups and surmises and long threads of analysis.
Any anniversaries coming up? I thought maybe 500 days missing, but that one came and went last month without a murmer. That in itself was weird, a significant milestone totally ignored, opportunities missed…….
With all the conspiracy going on, in high and low places, maybe someone will get mysteriously bumped off, someone usually does e.g. driver of a fiat Uno in the Tunnel crash, “suicide” of Dr Kelley (with no suicide note and very little blood)
go on, give us something to talk about…. please……
October 6th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
have you rushed in naming them suspects ….is the correct translation
October 6th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Back to the interview in Vigo,Spain
¿No se habrán precipitado usted al imputarlos?
Did you precipitated in naming them arguidos?
GA
¿Cómo se puede hablar de precipitación cuando los imputamos cuatro meses después de los hechos? Al contrario, creemos que uno de los errores de la investigación fue haber tratado a la pareja “con pinzas”. Pronto vimos que había cosas que no concordaban y ellos fueron tratados con privilegios. Podrían haber sido imputados antes…
How can we speak of of precipitation when they were made suspects 4 months after the facts?
All the contrary,we believe that of the mistakes during the investigation had been to treat them with “tweesers”. We soon realised that things did not fit and they had a privilaged treatement
They could have been incriminated before…..
http://mercedessigueaqui.blogspot.com/
October 6th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
I am back the time of a post
Yeah,Coco since last year the PJ has updated their services and are online all the time.Gonçalito will read you,not to worry about ! Now they”ve got their online media executives and is very much last minute updated on whats going on,like for example,libel towards the PJ a& all…
It does NOT only happen in rothley nowadays
Now about Saint Rothley I only see rather big clouds of discomfort gathering over the Towers of Shame.Are the mccpeople counting their pennies,hesitant over “a” next move?There having a busy monday morning: kate gots her curlers on and gerry is giving her a foot massage and asking her “darlin wotsholwedowedo?”Shol we go to Oprahs? Here kate kicks him in the face….she is furious …
Meanwhile the INfamous, Gonçalo Amaral carries on in his OWN terms a sabotaged criminal investigation
October 6th, 2008 at 11:48 am
coco Says:
October 6th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Give the poor woman a chance.
She’s got things to do.
A wig to keep nicely preened.
Nails to varnish.
Etc.
October 6th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Good Morning Mr. Amaral - if you are looking in. Any chance of you openly asking theUK Justice what she is doing to protect her little charge?
In any other country - somebody would be asking questions. Given that this is like Russia before Glasnost - we are in a bit of a straight-jacket here.
October 6th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Sorry to have missed you Jo. Give my regards to Amaral. Has he got a body-guard? lol
Bless him! He’s like a dog with a cadaver-scent!
October 6th, 2008 at 11:34 am
hello you
October 6th, 2008 at 11:32 am
jo
We are waiting quietly on the sidelines. We havent deserted justice.
Hopefully paynes, martins and the majorca2 news will be out later.
Trouble is we cannot discuss it here.
October 6th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Must be off now….
Bbl
October 6th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Matt
Hi
No.Things are going on at least in spain
There is the full transcript of Amarals interview in Vigo in spanish on “Hasta que se sepa la verdad”
Amaral knows he has full support here in spain.He is hitting the right spot in terms of freedom of expression (still) .
Amaral could have written other boks on other cases but he says without saying it,that here is a very special case because of its massive mediatic backup
-¿Hasta qué punto los medios de comunicación pueden interferir en la labor policial?
Up to which point the media can intervene in the police work?
GA :Ese es un tema muy complejo y con muchos matices. Nuestra Policía Judiciaria no tiene un gabinete de prensa a la altura de los retos actuales, ni asesor de imagen su director general, ni una retaguardia que vaya examinando lo que aparece en prensa o Internet. Con esa orfandad no se puede responder a una prensa británica que parecía muy encauzada hacia la tesis del rapto en sus andanadas informativas y que influyó en la investigación hasta detenerla.
This is a very complex issue with a lots of nuances.Our PJ does not have the infrastructure to manage his director”image nor assesors examining what is published in the media or Internet.With this state of abandon,it is not possible to answer back to the bristish media which seemed to be very involved with the abduction thesis in its publications and influenced the investigation to the point of stopping it…
Clear,net and concise
I wil be put in mod and it is a shame because there is more…..
http://mercedessigueaqui.blogspot.com/
October 6th, 2008 at 11:14 am
jo Says:
October 6th, 2008 at 11:10 am
I think that it is a page numbering fault in the system.
Instead of 82 pages, it should read 82 posts etc.
October 6th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Anyone iiin?
M&A
How comes most of the posts on this the thread have been whooshed clunked?
Thank you
October 6th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Morning jo.
Just a quiet Monday morn.
No news.
Perhaps the Media are taking time to read the Files properly.
They are most certainly taking their time to report the actual contents properly.
October 6th, 2008 at 10:50 am
The Story of The Deserted Madeleine”s Thread
October 6th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Where are the other posts?
October 6th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Not that strange
October 6th, 2008 at 7:56 am
for abduction
October 6th, 2008 at 7:51 am
Insufficient evidence.
October 6th, 2008 at 6:01 am
Considered to be “charged” with what ? the little problem of No Evidence looms large.
October 6th, 2008 at 5:28 am
Amaral in Vigo: ‘Madeleine’s parents are suspected of hiding the body’
The policeman who handled the McCann case, before being removed, affirmed that there are indications of negligence.
F. FRANCO / VIGO Before being removed from the investigation of the Madeleine case, the policemen who were involved came to very firm conclusions. Madeleine died in the apartment of the Ocean Club, there was a simulation of an abduction, the McCann couple are suspected of participating in the concealment of the body, death could have occurred as a result of a tragic accident and there is evidence of negligence in the care and safety of the children.
These are the final theses defended by Gonçalo Amaral, the inspector removed from the so-called Madeleine case, the child who disappeared in the Algarve on May 3, 2007. The Coordinator of the investigation yesterday opened the new season at the FARO Club with a lecture - “The Truth of the Madeleine Mystery,” after being introduced by the FARO journalist, Ujué Foces. Along the same lines and responding to a question, Amaral made it clear: “If I had done the politically correct thing I would not have had to retire but a criminal investigation is only committed to the truth. It should not be concerned about political correctness. But in this case other, not strictly police issues, have prevailed.”
Amaral suspects that, five months after the incident took place on May 3, Portuguese political power had already decided on a strategy. “For me, the investigation was dead from October 2nd 2007, following a new English ultimatum. I have the feeling that the statements made by the national director of our national police sought to prepare public opinion for the inevitable, that is to say, the end of the investigation and the filing of the case.”
Responding to different questions, some generalisations, others specific, including some from Rosa Neira, the mother of the Vigo resident Déborah, who appeared dead in bizarre circumstances, Amaral also gave his impression on the McCann couple, the parents of the girl. “They are normal people, parents who have lost a daughter whom they certainly loved very much and for whom they have cried, and they feel guilty for that. The father wanted to save at least the rest of the family, the children who are left.”
The inspector was referring to the possible negligence for having left the children alone while they had a system of checking every so often but, above all, the suspicion of the concealment of the body falling on them.
Amaral said that the fact that McCanns would be considered as “charged” created a turning point in the investigation between the Portuguese and English police. “There was a spoken understanding between two policemen to continue the line of investigation seriously, facing the possibility that her death had occurred in the apartament but, suddenly, the English changed course without any coherent technical explanation. It was always strange how the couple were treated, even after they were considered suspects, and the police information to which they occasionally had access.”
Concerning the participation of the media he said that “a global phenomenon occurred, never before seen, in which the British press acted with very suspicious organisation, maintaining the thesis of the abduction. They said many things, truths and lies, and attended, in addition to the duty of information, disinformation campaigns that sought to discredit the criminal investigation and those responsible for them, considering them as a Third World country.”
Questions that he had asked himself were reported or left hanging in the air: “How is it possible that a criminal investigation questions Portuguese justice, the Judicial Police and police cooperation between two countries with one of the oldest alliances in the world? What powers hindered and harmed such research? There is something disproportionate in this whole case… ”
Source: Faro de Vigo
Translation by Ines
by Joana Morais
from jos blog
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Very strange indeed.
October 6th, 2008 at 2:54 am
bruce springsteen ? you are joking ?
October 6th, 2008 at 2:51 am
And, since this is insomnia alley, may I express my gratitude to Rasputin for the ‘Dancing in the Dance soundtrack.
If you cannot sleep then Springsteen eases the blow…
October 6th, 2008 at 1:50 am
Good luck with mum Annie1
October 6th, 2008 at 1:48 am
Here’s the thing Annie1, he does not suffer stress!
Concentrates on his work, enjoys the trappings all stress free
bastard