A VERY QUICK FIRST SCAN OF 'LOOKING FOR MADELEINE'

whatsupdoc wrote:

Brian Griffin wrote:

jeanmonroe wrote:

Clay Regazzoni wrote:

Markus 2 wrote: Talking about photos something of the grotesque in this image imo. Awful image for a book cover when you look closely looks also like head planted on someone with cleavage, apart from the out of place facial expression.

Problem is, if they wanted to put an image of Madeleine herself on the cover then they weren't exactly spoilt for choice, were they? The best one was already spoken for - ideally the McCanns would have come up with another that has never been in the public domain, but does such a thing exist?

They could of used this, April 2014, most updated 'aged progression' one, couldn't they?



If i didn't know better i'd think ALL these book 'writers' want the public to ALWAYS only 'look' for an almost 4 years old, frozen in time, 'missing' child.

Weird, innit?

Madeleine the young child has now become an iconic image, instantaneously recognizable, and is therefore the best choice for a book cover for any book about her. Not that the book is about her, but you know what I mean. You would tend to use an image for a biography of a famous person as they looked at their most famous to the eyes of the time you are writing in because you need to create a cover that sells books. If it's David Atemborough, you'd use the picture of him as an elderly man because that's what we remember most on our screens. If it's James Garner, you might use a younger, 'Rockford Files' era image because he looked very different as an old man. I watched a whole film with him in it only to be shocked to see it was James when the end-titles rolled. The age-progressed image is just a possibility, not necessarily truth. That's just a theory, by the way, but I think it might offer an explanation. There's a very good pencil drawing I've seen of Madeleine that would make a nice cover though.


Could the drawing be the one done by HiDeHo's daughter?

http://forum2.aimoo.com/MadeleineMcCann

truthfultiger wrote:

Brian Griffin wrote:

jeanmonroe wrote:

Woofer wrote:Wonder who commissioned S&S to purify the corruption.

"Did both of you 'ghost write' the Summers and Swan book, Looking for Madeleine?"



"Erm, we're not going to comment on that"

That pic of Kate looks so cheeky! She could have done the Cheeky Bingo ads that used to begin and end all the add breaks on the Jezza Kyle show! "Cheeky Bum Bum!"

Kate's kinda foxy.

In my opinion.

Foxy like Knoxy?

Tony Bennett wrote: SUMMERS & SWAN BOOK CONTINUED

MARCOS ARAGAO CORREIA AND THE ‘ABDUCTION’ OF JOANA CIPRIANO

I am going to quote this passage from the Summers & Swan book, about the dodgy, lying lawyer Marcos Aragao Correia, in full, (pp. 218-9):

“Three years later, Aragao Correia would publish a book entitled: ‘The Love Spirits: The Little Girls Who Came from the Stars, a ‘fantastic adventure book that includes real facts’.  

“It combined, he wrote, his ‘knowledge from more than a decade studying the parapsychology and the paranornal, along with important information gleaned during investigations of the Madeleine McCann and Joana Cipriano abductions”.

Abductions? Abductions? Do Summers & Swan really not know that Leonor Cipriano  and her brother Joao murdered Joana, made voluntary confessions to murdering her and disposing of her body while pretending that she had been abducted, and were justly found guilty of the murder and sentenced each to 16 years and 16 years 8 months in prison respectively ? To omit this kind of information would be to perpetrate a deliberate fraud on the readers of this book! And this is indeed a book replete with blatant lies and major omissions.

Then, for good measure, Summers & Swan add this: ”Joana was the eight-year-old who had vanished, presumed murdered, three years before Madeleine (see p. 110)”.

If we go back to p. 110, we see a number of innuendos that Leonor Cipriano and her brother were unjustly convicted, a theme rehearsed in a number of British newspapers who reproduced, time and time again, a picture of Joana Cipriano, with two black eyes, said by the British press to have been caused by Dr Goncalo Amaral and his bunch of police thugs beating her up. In fact, evidence suggests, rather, that she was beaten up good and proper by her new fellow inmates at Odemira Women’s Prison.

But back to p. 110, here are Summers and Swan’s innuendos against Dr Amaral:

“Within twenty-four hours, on 4 May, chief investigator Goncalo Amaral had himself been declared a formal suspect - an arguido - in court proceedings that had to do with another missing girl probe and which were to sully his reputation as a police officer”.

[Not mentioning how Summers and Swan have sullied their own reputations by putting their names to this book - T.B.]


They continue (p. 110): “[Joana’s] mother and uncle had been convicted of murdering her, though no body was ever found. Then, from prison, their mother claimed she had ben tortured into confessing by three of Amaral’s detectives…Amaral would be handed a suspended sentence for making a false statement”.

They carry on:

“In 2007, when the charges against Amaral in the Cipriano case were announced just over  a month into the Madeleine McCann case, the McCanns said through their spokesman that they were ‘naturally very concerned’. It does seem remarkable that Amaral should have been allowed to play a leading role in a major investigation - into the disappearance of another missing girl - where the odour of possible professional misconduct was in the air”.

Then on p. 111 is another calculated smear by Summers & Swan:

“Just before Amaral was charged in connection with the Cipriano case, the British press ran a story suggesting that he was not taking the case seriously. He had been observed taking lunch at a Portimao fish restaurant in the company of Chief Inspector de Sousa. The report stated that there had ben wine and a bottle of Johnny Walker Black Label on the table, and the officers had appeared to be enjoying themselves.

“They had asked for the television to be turned on to catch the news - this was when the McCanns were in Berlin giving a press conference - and, a fellow diner said, were ‘laughing and joking amongst themselves while it was on…[they] seemed to be sharing some sort of in-joke’.”


STATEMENTS BY MARCOS ARAGAO CORREIA THAT DIDN’T MAKE THE SUMMERS AND SWAN BOOK

Bearing in mind that Marcos Aragao Correia was on his own admission chosen by Brian Kennedy to work for the McCann Team (via Metodo 3) - and was employed both on what appeared to be the Arade Dam hoax and the on the prosecution of Goncalo Amaral and four fellow PJ detectives in the Cipriano case - Summers and Swan could have given their readers a much better picture of this rogue and charlatan had they included these passages from a lengthy interview Marcos Aragao Correia gave to a journalist in 2009:

1^ST QUOTE:      

Aragao Correia (speaking about his book) told the journalist: “I mix true facts with imaginary ones, dealing with new aspects of the private investigation that Maddie’s parents carried out into their daughter’s disappearance. In the book I speak about my powers as a medium - and how those powers were useful to develop a private investigation that counted on the support of the Método 3 Detective Agency. I wanted to employ that gift of mine to help discover hard truths about the disappearance of Maddie, without in any way using my gift for material gain. My goal was not to earn money - especially as I am fortunate enough to lead an economical life in Madeira without any financial difficulties - but simply to help those parents who were so distraught and living in such a distressed state. One of the major teachings of spiritualism is that it is only through helping others that we are able to help ourselves. That was what I intended to do in this case: to help this little girl, showing her my all-conquering, precious love”.

And then this 2^nd QUOTE:

“Método 3 submitted me to a test in order to prove beyond all doubt whether or not my medium abilities and my accounts were credible. They were fed up with following false leads. The fact is that the test gave totally positive results, according to what was confirmed to me personally by the Director of Método 3 in Barcelona herself. Following my mediumistic abilities passing Método 3’s stringent tests, Método 3 offered full support to my research. But given the fact that Maddie’s parents preferred to spend the decreasing money from the Find Madeleine Fund mainly following leads based on the belief that their daughter was still alive, they dismissed the possibility of paying professional divers to search the dam. So I offered myself to pay for the first phase of the searches in the dam, having later received much support, including financial support, from mediums and spiritualists who believed in and corroborated my theory”.


CHAPTER 5

Four pages about the bogus charity collectors.

Two pages about lots of burglars.

Two pages about a suspicious man seen by Tasmin Sillence and by ‘a woman who has asked not to be identified’ (p. 63)

One page about the Carole Tranmer sighting of a suspicious man.

A one-page summary of these suspicious men.

Then Summers and Swan conclude this chapter with:

“It was some five hours after Carole Tranmer’s sighting of the man in the lane that Madeleine McCann vanished” (p. 65).


More later

MRNOODLES wrote:Joana Morais - "And? Who cares, that's not the point is it? Don't hide behind what was posted in the media aeons ago, your book is biased but you have a right to be biased if you wish to be, it's your opinion, just don't call it investigative journalism. Now, why did you quote my copyrighted and not for-commercial-use blog without asking for my permission, even though I had clearly refused to answer the really suspicious questions you emailed me and then had the nerve to include quotes lifted from my blog in an insulting chapter titled or reserved for "McCann Haters" an abusive epithet used by the McCanns and their online supporters (real trolls who stalk, harass, send death threats to bloggers like me). A book that is heavily biased, pro McCannish and is clearly an antithesis of my blog's work for the past seven years? Is that how purported "Pulitzer Finalists" act, lift quotes from a blog if the blogger doesn't reply to your queries? Isn't that unethical and unprofessional by any standards of journalism?"

waiting for justice wrote:

MRNOODLES wrote:Joana Morais - "And? Who cares, that's not the point is it? Don't hide behind what was posted in the media aeons ago, your book is biased but you have a right to be biased if you wish to be, it's your opinion, just don't call it investigative journalism. Now, why did you quote my copyrighted and not for-commercial-use blog without asking for my permission, even though I had clearly refused to answer the really suspicious questions you emailed me and then had the nerve to include quotes lifted from my blog in an insulting chapter titled or reserved for "McCann Haters" an abusive epithet used by the McCanns and their online supporters (real trolls who stalk, harass, send death threats to bloggers like me). A book that is heavily biased, pro McCannish and is clearly an antithesis of my blog's work for the past seven years? Is that how purported "Pulitzer Finalists" act, lift quotes from a blog if the blogger doesn't reply to your queries? Isn't that unethical and unprofessional by any standards of journalism?"

Is this on Twitter? 
I don't use it, if so, any chance of someone posting the response to JM. 
I will be interested to see how this one pans out.

Doug D wrote:Express journalism at it’s finest:

SCOTLAND Yard detectives have interviewed a British woman whose three-year-old daughter narrowly escaped being taken by a paedophile suspect just weeks before Madeleine McCann disappeared.
By: James Murray
Published: Sun, September 14, 2014
 
‘The waste ground being searched is close to the Ocean Club where the McCanns stayed’
 
Still being searched then is it?????????
 
‘This is the single most important new piece of information’
Mr Summers
 
Robbyn added: “This is the single most important new piece of information in our book.”
 
Looks like they can’t even attribute the quotes correctly.
 
Good work Mr Murray.
 
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/510625/Police-told-conman-tried-to-take-girl-weeks-before-Maddie

MRNOODLES wrote:Joana Morais - "And? Who cares, that's not the point is it? Don't hide behind what was posted in the media aeons ago, your book is biased but you have a right to be biased if you wish to be, it's your opinion, just don't call it investigative journalism. Now, why did you quote my copyrighted and not for-commercial-use blog without asking for my permission, even though I had clearly refused to answer the really suspicious questions you emailed me and then had the nerve to include quotes lifted from my blog in an insulting chapter titled or reserved for "McCann Haters" an abusive epithet used by the McCanns and their online supporters (real trolls who stalk, harass, send death threats to bloggers like me). A book that is heavily biased, pro McCannish and is clearly an antithesis of my blog's work for the past seven years? Is that how purported "Pulitzer Finalists" act, lift quotes from a blog if the blogger doesn't reply to your queries? Isn't that unethical and unprofessional by any standards of journalism?"

whatsupdoc wrote:

waiting for justice wrote:

MRNOODLES wrote:Joana Morais - "And? Who cares, that's not the point is it? Don't hide behind what was posted in the media aeons ago, your book is biased but you have a right to be biased if you wish to be, it's your opinion, just don't call it investigative journalism. Now, why did you quote my copyrighted and not for-commercial-use blog without asking for my permission, even though I had clearly refused to answer the really suspicious questions you emailed me and then had the nerve to include quotes lifted from my blog in an insulting chapter titled or reserved for "McCann Haters" an abusive epithet used by the McCanns and their online supporters (real trolls who stalk, harass, send death threats to bloggers like me). A book that is heavily biased, pro McCannish and is clearly an antithesis of my blog's work for the past seven years? Is that how purported "Pulitzer Finalists" act, lift quotes from a blog if the blogger doesn't reply to your queries? Isn't that unethical and unprofessional by any standards of journalism?"

Is this on Twitter? 
I don't use it, if so, any chance of someone posting the response to JM. 
I will be interested to see how this one pans out.

Joana has literally hundreds of followers so this breach of copyright should have been followed up.
I haven't been on twitter for quite some time so didn't see it but I'll check it out as we follow each other.

Enid O'Dowd wrote:In summary, it’s surprising that a pair of authors with such impressive CVs have come up with this rehash of the information and misinformation already in the public domain. 
This book is not investigative journalism. Its publication has created a new mystery. Why have the authors put their reputation on the line by producing a book like this?  

nglfi wrote:I don't know who Pam Gurney is but she's very active on twitter,  I've been engaged with someone in a debate before over the McCanns and she cannot resist putting her two penneth in. She  is completely mad so I wouldn't pay any attention to what she says

nglfi wrote:I don't know who Pam Gurney is but she's very active on twitter,  I've been engaged with someone in a debate before over the McCanns and she cannot resist putting her two penneth in. She  is completely mad so I wouldn't pay any attention to what she says

sallypelt wrote:

nglfi wrote:I don't know who Pam Gurney is but she's very active on twitter,  I've been engaged with someone in a debate before over the McCanns and she cannot resist putting her two penneth in. She  is completely mad so I wouldn't pay any attention to what she says

She's a 72 year old woman whose husband is a 74 year old Liverpudlian. I won't reveal any more.

nglfi wrote:

Doug D wrote:Express journalism at it’s finest:

SCOTLAND Yard detectives have interviewed a British woman whose three-year-old daughter narrowly escaped being taken by a paedophile suspect just weeks before Madeleine McCann disappeared.
By: James Murray
Published: Sun, September 14, 2014
 
‘The waste ground being searched is close to the Ocean Club where the McCanns stayed’
 
Still being searched then is it?????????
 
‘This is the single most important new piece of information’
Mr Summers
 
Robbyn added: “This is the single most important new piece of information in our book.”
 
Looks like they can’t even attribute the quotes correctly.
 
Good work Mr Murray.
 
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/510625/Police-told-conman-tried-to-take-girl-weeks-before-Maddie

I'm suspicious of anybody who claims somebody broke into their house, and a) they didn't bother chasing the man so as to get more than just a look at his 'legs', and b) couldn't be bothered to call police even though they thought he could be a paedophile.  Sorry, it didn't happen.

aiyoyo wrote:A second-hand account from a nameless friend of a nameless woman with a cock&bull story. What a load of shites!