Re: BRICK Reviews

by **crusader** 09.09.24 11:23

Bluebagthepirate wrote
She was no longer with us on May 3rd.

But the photo was.

by pinkgladioli 09.09.24 11:30

Yes I get that!
It reinforces that something was deffo stinks when GM likely had this guy as a relation on speed dial to get this so called picture out as soon as his daughter went missing and instead chose to show other photos to the world of a younger Madeleine

by **PeterMac** 09.09.24 12:08

Jill Havern wrote:Possibly the Telegraph and Guardian

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1552519/Parents-release-last-known-photo-of-Madeleine.html

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/may/24/ukcrime

Mitchell sent it to APF on 23/5. His first act as their Spokesman, since he had arrived on the plane WITH GM the previous day
The French Press Agency sent it across the world. - FOR MONEY - so it could be published on 24/5

The same day incidentally that the Totally invented and Lying article about Mrs Boyd and the fictitious waterslide was published

by **Bluebagthepirate** 09.09.24 15:12

crusader wrote:Bluebagthepirate wrote
She was no longer with us on May 3rd.

But the photo was.

Quite.

by Amy Dean 09.09.24 16:52

What a strange story (even by normal McCann standards) was that of the Boyd family who supposedly met Madeleine a day or two before she was reported missing.

We feel so much for Maddie's mum (gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk)

The interview only appeared in an obscure, soon to go out of business, magazine. Why it didn't make headline news in the mainstream media, I don't know.

by Honesty 09.09.24 18:04

Amy Dean wrote:What a strange story (even by normal McCann standards) was that of the Boyd family who supposedly met Madeleine a day or two before she was reported missing.

We feel so much for Maddie's mum (gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk)

The interview only appeared in an obscure, soon to go out of business, magazine. Why it didn't make headline news in the mainstream media, I don't know.

Wasn't Mrs Boyd very upset by the article - because it was completely fabricated.

by **Jill Havern** 09.09.24 18:09

https://whatreallyhappenedtomadeleinemccann.blogspot.com/2016/08/chapter-20-spot-water-slide.html

https://whatreallyhappenedtomadeleinemccann.blogspot.com/2016/08/chapter-39-beyond-reasonable-waterslide.html

by Truthseeker90210 09.09.24 23:07

I purchased Bernt’s book from Amazon and read from fin to back. I can across a description of the back page photo of the book..it sent shivers down my spine.however, this picture isn’t in the Amazon version or Ishtar just me? from this description I could only think about cult rituals.

by **PeterMac** 10.09.24 8:42

Honesty wrote:
Amy Dean wrote:What a strange story (even by normal McCann standards) was that of the Boyd family who supposedly met Madeleine a day or two before she was reported missing.
We feel so much for Maddie's mum (gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk)

The interview only appeared in an obscure, soon to go out of business, magazine. Why it didn't make headline news in the mainstream media, I don't know.
Wasn't Mrs Boyd very upset by the article - because it was completely fabricated.

Extremely. Flung the magazine across the room and burst into tears - according to her.
I spoke to her a few times before I wrote the Chapter and sent it to here in Draft to make sure it was correct.

Guzmaroli emigrated to Australia and is empioyed by YET ANOTHER Murdoch outlet.

https://whatreallyhappenedtomadeleinemccann.blogspot.com/2016/08/chapter-20-spot-water-slide.html

https://whatreallyhappenedtomadeleinemccann.blogspot.com/2016/08/chapter-39-beyond-reasonable-waterslide.html
"IN THE PREVIOUS VERSION OF THE CHAPTER I WROTE:-
Whether Vicky Boyd ever said the things alleged we may never know.

BUT NOW WE DO KNOW

Mrs BOYD IS VERY CLEAR, AND SHE HAS CHECKED HER RECOLLECTION WITH HER MOTHER AND HER HUSBAND. What follows is from face-to-face real-time internet enabled communication

Gusmaroli, with many other journalists in the days following the ‘incident’, trawled up and down the beach speaking to innocent holiday makers trying to find any who would ‘give them a ‘story’. Sometime early in the week of 7th - 13th May she spoke to the Boyd family who were sitting on the beach.
Mrs Boyd recalls that Gusmaroli “didn’t stay very long” and merely “crouched or knelt down” to speak to the family.

Mrs Boyd reported that she thought she might have seen the McCann family on the Wednesday or Thursday during the morning, as they came past with some children. At that stage they did not know the McCanns. They were merely two adults with young children. Mrs Boyd recalls and reported that the weather was “lousy”, grey and cloudy.
Her son Louie engaged with one of the children with the couple for a very short time, measured in no more than seconds or minutes, and a ball was involved. The McCanns, if indeed it was them, continued on their way and the incident concluded, with the Boyd family seeking a warming coffee.

No words were spoken between the Boyds and the McCann parents. The weather was not conducive to sun-bathing, the entire contact took less than 3 or 4 minutes.

And from that Gusmaroli concocted and invented the entire story, embellishing it with totally invented details of date, time, location, activity, weather, speech, and clothing.

It is perhaps worth recording Mrs Boyd’s recollection of her reaction to seeing the article for the first time.
She reports becoming extremely upset, swearing openly, contrary to her usual behaviour, and throwing the copy into the rubbish bin. When another friend showed her the article on a second occasion Mrs Boyd again became angry and again destroyed the magazine, such was her distress at having been traduced in this way.

So far as we can discover Gusmaroli’s article was not syndicated to any other paper. It did not appear in the Daily Mail, which was a tabloid for which she used to write.
The Magazine in question, First, which was published by Emap, was launched in May 2006, but was not the success its US predecessor had been. The Editor resigned, a new editor was appointed and it was re-launched in the spring of 2007. This may explain the Special Introductory price. It makes it look as if it had miraculously “popped up” with its first or second of the new edition tailored for this particular story. But the new Editor also resigned shortly after this edition was published. It disappeared fairly shortly afterwards after a series of stories about not hitting its sales targets.

The publishers have not replied to my emails seeking clarification on a number of points.
Possibly not surprising since I was exploring the economics of sending a journalist to PdL for one 600 word article for an obscure women’s magazine. It does not seem to have been syndicated or churned by any of the usual suspects.

In the previous version of this chapter I wrote - “We shall certainly never know why Gusmaroli, a professional and experienced reporter, did not check even the most basic of the facts being related to her - if indeed they were - or write the article so that it would reflect even some of the truth, some vestige of credibility, or at the very least one or two verifiable details.”

What we can now say, based on the first hand evidence of the witness in question is this -
“We now know on the basis of firm evidence, that Gusmaroli, a professional and experienced reporter, invented almost every aspect of this article, including in it details which were manifestly untrue, and capable of being exposed as such by simple investigation.”

She is described by one of her more recent employers as having “a tradition of breaking exclusives”.
We may hope this was not one of them, and that her CV does not rely on journalism of this type.

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The unworthy suspicion grows that this was a highly detailed and specific commission.
But organised by whom? And when?
Would no one at Emap, the publishing company, object to being coerced or manipulated in this way ?

(Incidentally and obviously ‘a propos’ of nothing, and clearly totally coincidentally, the editor of First,
Jane Johnson, resigned from EMAP on 12 June 2007, to go to News of the World, the now defunct Murdoch tabloid, in the role of Deputy Editor and Editorial Director. Second in Command to the egregious Rebekah Brooks. The edition of 19 May would have been the last one she edited.

Given the length of time it takes to ‘’apply for’ and negotiate a career change of that magnitude, we can safely assume that she knew and had decided some time before June 2007)

. . . .
DRAMATIS PERSONAE

Danielle Gusmaroli emigrated or returned to Australia a few years later, married on Bali (according to her FB and Instagram pages) and now writes for Daily Mail Australia submitting important and in-depth articles on subjects such as homemade toothpaste, chocolate cake, cellulite thighs, wearing nappies during pregnancy, exposed nipples, and why a 10 year old girl thinks sex is disgusting.

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She also writes for, or is employed by the Daily Telegraph Australia, which is not a clone of the British version, but a tabloid in the stable of News Corp, which is ultimately owned by Murdoch who has been mentioned before (vide supra, Editor of First, Jane Johnson). Her articles are syndicated across southern Australia, to publications such as Courier Mail.

by deepeepee 10.09.24 10:05

Truthseeker90210 wrote:I purchased Bernt’s book from Amazon and read from fin to back. I can across a description of the back page photo of the book..it sent shivers down my spine.however, this picture isn’t in the Amazon version or Ishtar just me? from this description I could only think about cult rituals.

Could you tell us what is the description you are referring to?
Do you have a photo to share or can you copy the text for us?

by Amy Dean 10.09.24 11:00

Thanks for the info PeterMac about the Boyd article. I hadn't seen this before and the article has always puzzled me. So it's just a case of a "journalist" (using the word loosely) being more economical with the truth than usual.

by **Jill Havern** 10.09.24 11:05

deepeepee wrote:
Truthseeker90210 wrote:I purchased Bernt’s book from Amazon and read from fin to back. I can across a description of the back page photo of the book..it sent shivers down my spine.however, this picture isn’t in the Amazon version or Ishtar just me? from this description I could only think about cult rituals.
Could you tell us what is the description you are referring to?
Do you have a photo to share or can you copy the text for us?

Bernt describes it as a 'giraffe' with an evil goat head.

Handmade.... think

by Cake Lover 10.09.24 11:09

Or a rocking horse? Either way, it's not attractive. If it has been there since Bernt set up his cameras, I'm surprised it hasn't collapsed. If it was made after he started filming, he has images of the people who did it.

by **Jill Havern** 10.09.24 11:18

From the notes I'm seeing on the Kindle version search, (not from memory now), he captured the Nuggets and Gerry carrying a small dog (at different times) at this spot. The dog turned out to be the Nugget's dog that he saw when he was in the cafe.

Help me out here BlueBag big grin

by Cake Lover 10.09.24 11:23

Perhaps the dog was the model.

by **Jill Havern** 10.09.24 11:27

A model what? huh

By the way...rocking horse is good! And very fitting for a child.

by **Jill Havern** 10.09.24 11:30

From Bernt just now:

It's a dead tree likely from lightning, it is strong but placed upside down intentionally... Evidently, as it has this "on the look out" , an imaginary protector. Nothing sacrificial, just imagination and romanticizing it's purpose and the area.

by Justice for Maddie 10.09.24 11:55

We know there is an obelisk on the cliffs above PdL. They are also important symbols for freemasons and stand for eternity and immortality. So the body could be in this area.

by Justice for Maddie 10.09.24 11:58

by **Bluebagthepirate** 10.09.24 11:59

Justice for Maddie wrote:

We know there is an obelisk on the cliffs above PdL. They are also important symbols for freemasons and stand for eternity and immortality. So the body could be in this area.

But this one is for geo-positioning.

Used by surveyors.

It's legit.

by Justice for Maddie 10.09.24 12:07

Bluebagthepirate wrote:
Justice for Maddie wrote:

We know there is an obelisk on the cliffs above PdL. They are also important symbols for freemasons and stand for eternity and immortality. So the body could be in this area.
But this one is for geo-positioning.

Used by surveyors.

It's legit.

I don't say that the body is near the obelisk, but could be in the cliff area.

by Cake Lover 10.09.24 12:09

Is it the same thing as a triangulation point?

by **crusader** 10.09.24 12:17

Depends what's more important to them, being a freemason or a catholic.
They would have been looking for a hiding place that could possibly never be found and up to now hasn't been.

by pinkgladioli 10.09.24 12:38

I wonder if GM has links to an organisation like the Ancient Order of Hibernians, or a similar one
The AOH is an Irish Catholic organisation, Members must be Catholic and either Irish born or of Irish descent
In his Sister Patricia’s statement she makes a point of mentioning something about Gerry’s roots being important to him I doubt these roots were Scottish based with him being the only one of his Sibling’s being born there.

by **Bluebagthepirate** 10.09.24 14:21

Cake Lover wrote:Is it the same thing as a triangulation point?

Yes.
It's a fixed point for surveyors.

by **Bluebagthepirate** 10.09.24 14:24

The geodesic landmark of Atalaia, high above Luz, was built in 1926. At 108 m (360 feet), the site offers sweeping views along the coast and marks the highest point on the Algarve coastline. The trig point was used back in the day for surveying purposes but is now used by hikers for navigation. It is one of Portugal's +/- 9,000 geodetic landmarks. Geodetic markers are signals that indicate an exact cartographic position and form part of a triangulation network with other geodesic markers. Usually, they are installed in high and isolated places with a clear line of sight to other vertices. Although locals call it "the Monument", it has no historic meaning. Another such marker is the Torre de Aspa on the Costa Vicentina coast, about 5Km from Vila do Bispo, with a nice 360º view.

https://www.komoot.com/highlight/5313884

by Cake Lover 10.09.24 14:34

Bluebagthepirate wrote:
Cake Lover wrote:Is it the same thing as a triangulation point?
Yes.
It's a fixed point for surveyors.

Thank you. There's a small one not far from where I live; it's in a field and I thought it was some sort of marker for the R.A.F.

by **PeterMac** 11.09.24 6:55

Amy Dean wrote:Thanks for the info PeterMac about the Boyd article. I hadn't seen this before and the article has always puzzled me. So it's just a case of a "journalist" (using the word loosely) being more economical with the truth than usual.

That is very charitable, but I think too soft on any test.

I would say it was a Journalist who was given a brief to write a specific story, and was told to find an unsuspecting stooge to insert into it.
Ideally someone who would never read or become aware of the article.

Mrs Boyd NEVER said or implied ANY of the things in the article. It is a total invention.
But the date of publication coincides with other major events in a way which might indicate
coordination at a high level.

by Truthseeker90210 11.09.24 8:35

Wow thanks for posting the giraffe pic. It definitely looks out of place. It makes you wonder if this is close to the final resting place, why would they risk causing attention

by Cake Lover 11.09.24 9:22

It could be something locals, or holiday makers built; they saw the shape of the branches and made a giraffe/rocking horse. It's not necessarily a part of Madeleine's burial place.