tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post7460425558125743012..comments2024-02-04T19:08:45.476+00:00Comments on CRISTOBELL UNDECIDED: THAT OPEN WINDOWRosalinda Huttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01497239700092619580noreply@blogger.comBlogger111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-76719809692339186902018-11-19T09:56:57.162+00:002018-11-19T09:56:57.162+00:00Hi Anon 18 November 2018 at 14:17
Yes, I agree wi...Hi Anon 18 November 2018 at 14:17<br /><br />Yes, I agree with Rosalinda. You made a few good points about the McCanns' smartness.<br /><br />Why would the police wish to have a chat with the McCanns now, more than 11 years down the line, if they’re not under suspicion? Do they perhaps want to inform them about what they’ve been doing? If that would be the case, why not tell us all? If the Operation Grange would need to ask them a few complementary questions regarding what they called the daughter, how they treated her, etc, there must at least be British detectives who’re still suspicious about them, which of course would be very promising.<br /><br />Unfortunately, I’m afraid, that it could be just another blurry manipulated photo of a girl sent anonymously to the Met by the McCanns themselves in collaboration with others (Clarence Mitcell), as was the case with the photo of the Moroccan girl, which the McCanns are asked to have an “opinion” about. It’s of course just a guess, but the McCanns are just as calculating and cunning as you’re implying in your post. <br />Björnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-49117054523976192652018-11-18T23:39:07.239+00:002018-11-18T23:39:07.239+00:00Thank you for your post 14:17.
I think the truth ...Thank you for your post 14:17.<br /><br />I think the truth is Gerry and Kate have no idea how parents of a missing child would act, and they have relied on their own very limited knowledge. Neither of them are empathetic, so have learned nothing from what they have actually seen in their careers as medics. They presented as hysterical, interspersed with patronising and downright hostile. Kate didn't ask for helicopters, she asked, neh demanded, a priest. Meanwhile her husband and his friends were demanding borders be closed and distributing photos of a two year old Maddie.<br /><br />Gerry and Kate were insisting on abduction above all else. She was too small to open the window (later proved to be a red herring) and too small to close the patio doors and outside gates behind her. Someone with malicious intent (Aunty Phil) broke into that apartment and stole that child. <br /><br />The bogeyman for sure. Ugly, Smelly, wearing a bullseye on his sweatshirt, looking like an extra hairy George Harrison, he could also have been a woman according to Clarence. If Clarence's experience of women, includes stubble and a hairy chest, I fear he seeks solace in very strange places. <br /><br />Your opinion is as worthy as any other 14:17, don't ever your voice doesn't count. <br /><br />Does Gerry suffer from mental health problems and depression? Definitely, when it suits him. Rosalinda Huttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01497239700092619580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-4860050395745904892018-11-18T23:05:37.760+00:002018-11-18T23:05:37.760+00:00Great question 17:04, and one that has been allowe...Great question 17:04, and one that has been allowed to slip way beneath the radar. That unholy pact has stood the test of time, whatever they all vowed to keep secret, has remained secret. None of them have spoken, in 11+ years only Gerry and Kate have been the front of their once massive campaign and dare I say it, political movement. Their supporters and even their families have never come out to support them publicly. I am pretty sure they have under anonymity.<br />Why the reluctance to identity themselves as supporters of the parents? If theirs' is the just cause, why the need to hide?<br /><br />The 'Pact' and the 'Collective Decision' are probably one and the same 17:04. The v.manipulative Gerry I imagine, convinced his friends that having left their children unattended too, they too faced disaster.<br /><br />This was a group of ambitious thirty somethings, everything they ever worked for could potentially be wrecked for a 'moment of madness'. And they were selfish, we know that. Read the chilling and callous statement of Rachel as she talks about her sick baby. <br /><br />The truth is, the majority of us, 99.9% could not in a million years have walked out of that apartment leaving our babies on their own. Even the thought of it sends chills. <br /><br />But these people did. And they appeared on camera, the next day, and for as many days thereafter as they could. They turned their tragedy into a profitable business, manufacturing t-shirts and belt badges as others trekked through the bushes and brambles searching for their child. <br /><br />That 'pact' or 'collective decision' 17:04, has, we hope caused all those involved in such an abomination, many, many sleepless nights. Their lawyers can only protect them so far. If the police have enough to prosecute, they are toast. <br /><br />It is quite clear by now that the police will not give up. And they have had ample opportunity. For at least the last 3 years it has continued to receive funding in 6 monthly increments. And for those involved in Madeleine's disappearance, every top up is a step nearer to their conviction. <br /><br />Have the police come up with two new leads - lol, see my latest blog :) Rosalinda Huttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01497239700092619580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-61741241177326197672018-11-18T22:23:05.982+00:002018-11-18T22:23:05.982+00:00Hello John (ref 17 Nov.2018 23:56)
No, John I hav...Hello John (ref 17 Nov.2018 23:56)<br /><br />No, John I haven’t bothered to read anything by Knausgård, not yet anyway. Now and then he appears on Swedish TV and talks about his real personal struggle of life, which I suppose is an inexhaustible source of “inspiration” in his authorship, which essentially is autobiographical but in a kind of fictional form, if I’ve understood the essence of what he tries to say.<br /><br />In Norway he’s perceived as an unethical author, as he uses his closest ones in disclosing his own life, while discussing his own struggle to understand it. His moral character is much more questioned in Norway, than here in our country, where his “intellectualism” and alleged honesty seem to be much appreciated. <br /><br />I’ve learnt that, Knausgård nowadays lives a rather harmonious life in a self-imposed “exile” in southern Sweden with a Swedish wife and Swedish children. In an interview some time ago he revealed, that he reads Swedish newspapers and watches Swedish TV, yet, he says, that he still perceives our Swedish culture from an exterior point of view. As for the linguistic part of the culture, that we’ve in common here in Scandinavia John, no Swede, Dane or Norwegian has to take any language course in order to understand one another and this applies to Knausgård as well, so he’ll eventually be perfectly adjusted to our way of living, though in exile, and be well taken care of here, and perhaps he’ll finally be completely understood as an author as well LOL.<br /><br /><br />Björnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-62727492979548275222018-11-18T21:41:36.123+00:002018-11-18T21:41:36.123+00:00Maybe pact is another word for hoax.Maybe pact is another word for hoax.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-62115180752208007662018-11-18T17:04:40.522+00:002018-11-18T17:04:40.522+00:00It's been over eleven years since David Payne ...It's been over eleven years since David Payne said to a journalist "we have a pact", one of the questions I have is who exactly are the we? Another question is, <br />how many people are actually involved in the pact?<br /><br />It would be interesting to know how big this is, and the true number of the pact participants.<br /><br />The first place I would start is by not believing anyone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-64502557518898638742018-11-18T14:17:12.209+00:002018-11-18T14:17:12.209+00:00According to the DM today the McCanns have had a v...According to the DM today the McCanns have had a visit from the police for a "sit down" chat regarding two leads the police are following, hmmm,well at least they weren't dragged kicking and screaming into their local police station, that's if they've still got one.<br /><br />I was wondering at the time when GM did that Radio 4 interview if something was in the pipeline behind the scenes and he was getting his excuses in early - he didn't think they ever called Madeleine Maddie (now why would he say that at the beginning of a radio interview if it didn't have any significance - didn't a couple hear people calling "Maddie, Maddie, Maddie" at about 9.30 p.m.). Then he went on to mention mental health problems, why did it take 11 years for him to mention this. Was he throwing himself under a bus in case the police came calling and he would use this as a "get out of jail" card and to protect Kate as he couldn't say they both had mental health problems to save their skins as they would have been seen as unfit to care for the twins.<br /><br />I hadn't seen the TV programme "The Cry" so wasn't aware of what it was about before I started reading some of the forums and people were saying GM was trying to bat away criticisms of he and Kate as The Cry seemed to follow Madeleine's disappearance. I think it goes deeper than that and they knew that the investigation was coming to an end and were getting their excuses in before the sh*t hits the fan.<br /><br />Just my opinion of course, for what it's worth.<br /><br />I see that CMoMM has gone underground, now why would that be. Too many people been asking awkward questions lately perhaps.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-29658789960354142572018-11-17T23:56:24.129+00:002018-11-17T23:56:24.129+00:00Hello, Bjorn. You too.
God, I could never read i...Hello, Bjorn. You too. <br /><br />God, I could never read it again. I am though thinking of buying his eccentric translation and commentary on Eugene Onegin this weekend, tho. It's been out of print and horrifically expensive second hand for decades. Now it's out as a paperback.<br /><br />Have you read the Knausgarde stuff? (spelling). I haven't. Yes, yes, I know you're not Norwegian.<br /><br />Anyway, cheers.john blacksmithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01129193861290186160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-68785172601815129912018-11-17T12:49:57.751+00:002018-11-17T12:49:57.751+00:00john blacksmith 16 November 2018 at 15:12
Hello J...john blacksmith 16 November 2018 at 15:12<br /><br />Hello John, and thanks for your comment. Yes, I believe that you’re right about the ”cold-heartedness” in Nabokov’s writing. I suggested in my earlier post, though it was between the lines, that there seems to be something boundless in the Russian soul in terms of emotions, conventions and morals, which can often be seen in the minds of many Russian artisans and writers. As for “Lolita” it’s perhaps, from Nabokov’s perspective, just a provocation against the western culture, and its view upon sexuality and intellectualism, from which he himself had benefited so much.<br /><br />Naturally anyone who reads “Lolita” has to be very much in the mind of an immoral and, in fact, a heartless narrator, who’s a criminal by definition, so it’s inevitable that his (the narrator’s) reasoning affects the reader on many levels, as does the reasoning of Defoe’s narrator Moll Flanders. However, Nabokov himself, as I see it, does not in any way encourage or authorize child abuse or paedophilia in his writing, but on the other hand it’s not so easy to see what his message to humanity would be in “Lolita.”, if it’s not just to make us see how abuse, sexuality and intellectualism are linked together. As soon as I get time to do so John, I’ll revisit “Lolita” to see what more there might be to be found in form of wisdom in it.<br /><br />Have I nice weekend John.<br /><br />Björnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-63359996747799191532018-11-16T18:03:05.836+00:002018-11-16T18:03:05.836+00:00Пётр Устинов... Владимир Набоков...
“…the moon...Пётр Устинов... Владимир Набоков...<br /><br />“…the moon's an arrant thief,<br />And her pale fire she snatches from the sun…”<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-82344873217190024422018-11-16T15:31:08.029+00:002018-11-16T15:31:08.029+00:00I am not on twitter, but the person, who obviously...I am not on twitter, but the person, who obviously is, quoted me correctly. It is gratifying that you either knew or took the trouble to find out who I was. A*<br /><br />Let’s keep smiling.<br /><br />Yours<br /><br />Myles na gC<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-18120854756646462962018-11-16T15:12:07.387+00:002018-11-16T15:12:07.387+00:00Hello Bjorn. FWIW I loved Pale Fire but I still th...Hello Bjorn. FWIW I loved Pale Fire but I still think Lolita is a terribly shocking book. Not for the paedophilia as such, more the truly extraordinary cold-heartedness of the writer, a cold-heartedness which he extends to readers as he manipulates them. <br /><br />Whenever I think of that book I can hear laughter in the background, the sound of Nabokov laughing at us and the rest of the world, a kind of revenge on everyone for driving him out of pre-revolutionary paradise. Just an opinion.<br /><br />Many, many years ago the part Russian Peter Ustinov said on television that Nabokov's flagrantly beautiful, serpentine English style had made him expect the author to be the same in his speech and conversation. <br /><br />Ustinov, a brilliant mimic as well as a highly cultured intellectual, then described a typical conversation with him once the two had met, with Nabokov saying, yes...Oom..ah..sure…[grunt] oom...I dink so...oom... john blacksmithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01129193861290186160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-33012400289094219442018-11-16T11:48:11.061+00:002018-11-16T11:48:11.061+00:00Hello anon 16 November 2018 at 09:33
I’m just fine...Hello anon 16 November 2018 at 09:33<br />I’m just fine, thanks<br /><br />Interesting book about Nabokov, definitely worth reading, I’d think. <br /><br />Talking about Russian authors and Russia, there’s something not quite tangible in the Russian people's soul beyond the Tsar, Lenin, Stalin, Chrusjtjov, Brezjnev, Yeltsin and Putin, that can be searched both in the classical and in the modern Russian literature, of which Nabokov's work is only a part. <br /><br />When I was in St Petersburg a few years ago, I thought about visiting the places where Dostoevsky's main characters in his novel “Crime and Punishment” had lived their lives, but I hesitated, as I feared that the fiction would be too real to me. Revisiting Nabokov’s works, wouldn’t “kindred spirit” or “spiritual togetherness” be an interesting theme of discussion? Just a thought. <br /><br /><br />Björnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-76850609141023852212018-11-16T11:47:54.834+00:002018-11-16T11:47:54.834+00:00Hello. I worked with charities for a time.
Befor...Hello. I worked with charities for a time. <br /><br />Before a charity is registered it must have a history and bona fides to prove it's a reputable body that can be trusted with public donations. <br /><br />To do that means it must be in some way "incorporated", i.e. made into a body, or legal group, so that it, rather than individuals, is responsible for its actions. <br /><br />The way this is done is always the same: you incorporate as a limited, not-for-profit company, which makes you "exist" as a group. But you are limited by "guarantee": each member agrees to put in some money if a failure occurs. <br /><br />The whole point is that it's an interim measure on the way to becoming a registered charity that enables you to perform with the legal rights and responsibilities (insurance, employment etc) of a group. On application, the Charity Commission then studies you and the financial and directorial structure. <br /><br />The way that the MF acted is unusual, in that it failed to turn itself into a charity. As we know, a charity cannot exist for a single named person basically because it can be used for personal enrichment and tax evasion. <br /><br />A trust fund is the normal method of looking after named individuals - but that normally requires non-public donations. And the beneficiaries cannot directly control the money that assists them. But that is precisely what has happened with the MF beneficiaries. <br /><br />Freezing a fund by keeping it a limited company means that the only oversight of the money is company law and the tax systems etc. As long as it has a council or board of directors it can do more or less what it likes as long as it acts within its "terms of incorporation", laid out in its documents at the beginning.<br /><br />The problem here is this: the board of a charity is meant to be independent, i.e deliberately chosen from outside - an "arms length" from the potential beneficiaries. It has a moral and legal duty of care to ensure that decisions, restructurings and so on do not benefit anyone except clients. <br /><br />None of these protections apply in the MF case. Changes have been made to directors and financial allocations that would not be possible in a charity. The reason for all this is that in the climate of hysterical support for the parents in early 2007 its incorporation terms were extraordinarily beneficial to the family of the child, rather than the child herself or other missing children. <br /><br />While millions in donations have gone out of the fund, the child at the centre of it never received a penny. <br /><br />All legal. All provided not by shadowy backers but by the people who sent in their envelopes. And all just so, so unsavoury.<br /><br /><br /> john blacksmithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01129193861290186160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-40949220912080871592018-11-16T09:33:41.116+00:002018-11-16T09:33:41.116+00:00How you doin’, Björn?
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On one occasion, w...How you doin’, Björn?<br /><br />-------<br /><br />On one occasion, when asked about his life, Nabokov replied: “My own life has been incomparably happier and healthier than that of Genghis Khan, who is said to have fathered the first Nabok.” <br />Nabokov at Cornell, ISBN 0-8014-3909-4<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-56585791377827930962018-11-15T21:42:20.025+00:002018-11-15T21:42:20.025+00:00Operation Grange are clearly not giving up on this...Operation Grange are clearly not giving up on this case regardless of the amount of time and money it takes.<br /><br />Someone must believe they can solve this, despite all the false witness statements and fake photographs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-63078633185177352642018-11-15T19:57:01.466+00:002018-11-15T19:57:01.466+00:00https://twitter.com/FlannQuotes/status/32280249460...https://twitter.com/FlannQuotes/status/322802494600273920<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-89386098796838525732018-11-15T14:15:54.567+00:002018-11-15T14:15:54.567+00:00Having considered the matter in, of course, all it...Having considered the matter in, of course, all its aspects, I have decided that that tiny-brain-big-tongue-I’m-funny Dave Bordel is…<br /><br />A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird, Dave.<br /><br />Myles na gCopaleen<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-88199519342129011222018-11-15T12:57:20.778+00:002018-11-15T12:57:20.778+00:00Hi Rosalinda
Thanks for your comment. I hope for t...Hi Rosalinda<br />Thanks for your comment. I hope for the sake of justice that you're right here, as there're so many people on the internet who're now able to detect all of the McCanns' lies and essetially they base their opinons on what they've read in the pj files and on what they've heard the McCanns themselves say. So common sense tells us that the detectives working on the case must see what the "outside world" has seen for so many years.Let's therefore wait and see Rosalinda. "Who waits for something good does not wait in vain", as we say our country. Björnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-88907298941025934962018-11-15T12:04:21.704+00:002018-11-15T12:04:21.704+00:00David Baddiel: "I tend to feed the trolls bec...David Baddiel: "I tend to feed the trolls because it gives me material for my work. I’m sometimes taken aback by the racist and antisemitic abuse I get, but most of the time I’ll get angry for a second, and then remind myself, ‘This is material.’ The trick is not to be too reactive."<br /><br />https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/mar/04/david-baddiel-social-media-is-just-people-saying-stuff-im-used-to-hecklers<br /><br />Trick of the trade.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-22901038324079222482018-11-15T11:41:22.770+00:002018-11-15T11:41:22.770+00:00"Police have applied for more funding to cont..."Police have applied for more funding to continue the search for Madeleine McCann."<br /><br />https://news.sky.com/story/police-seek-more-cash-in-madeleine-mccann-search-11509274<br /><br />"This is not held by the MPS. We do not apply for funding, money is allocated from the Home Office."<br /><br />https://www.met.police.uk/SysSiteAssets/foi-media/metropolitan-police/disclosure_2016/september_2016/information-rights-unit---funding-for-operation-grange<br /><br />Do the MPS apply for funding or don't the MPS apply for funding?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-40149979004920518942018-11-15T11:39:11.314+00:002018-11-15T11:39:11.314+00:00To the writer of the most recent poison pen missiv...To the writer of the most recent poison pen missive, you do not deserve to be published. Your cruel, spiteful little mind immediately correlates sex, drugs and rock and roll with all that is evil in this world, no doubt you too believed John Lennon was a terrorist.<br /><br />I happen to like people with 'pasts', in fact I am highly suspicious of people who have never been high, the strait laced and the God fearing. From what I have seen of US murder documentaries, it is the evangelicals and the pillars of the community who opt for murder rather than divorce. But just to rub it in a bit further, Lance Armstrong and Jimmy Saville.Rosalinda Huttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01497239700092619580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-21450303091675306452018-11-15T11:30:29.077+00:002018-11-15T11:30:29.077+00:00yea, right. thanks for the ass smoke blowing. Now ...yea, right. thanks for the ass smoke blowing. Now lets get back to the day job and conclude on the status and the "review" findings of operational grange eh?.They have had 8 years and 12 million quid and still no outcomes. It stinks of either ineptitude or a dereliction of duty. Over to you smoke blower.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-9378272061102448242018-11-15T10:27:33.152+00:002018-11-15T10:27:33.152+00:00Hi Bjorn, I don't think the Portuguese and Bri...Hi Bjorn, I don't think the Portuguese and British police are wasting any more time following worthless leads, though that is the impression they are trying to give.<br /><br />This case always has the potential to cause a massive media storm and huge embarrassment to those members of the police and establishment who backed the McCanns over the Portuguese Judiciary. The British police agencies who flew out to PDL were at odds with each other,CEOP were looking for an abductor, Leicester police and Mark Harrison suspected the parents.<br /><br />When the Portuguese shelved their files they were not looking for anyone else. That is they were not looking for an abductor because they knew there wasn't one. It could also be said, that they were not going to be sent on any more wild goose chases by Team McCann and their cohorts.<br /><br />Before Operation Grange began, sightings of Madeleine were a regular, almost weekly, feature in our tabloids. I remember one commentator who claimed to have seen a child with the exact same nose as Madeleine. I remember being quite baffled, I've never thought of childrens' noses as being that distinctive, but said commentator was following the advice of Gerry, Kate and US Centre for missing children, and scrutinizing pictures and children above and beyond. That 'nose' may have been among the 100+ leads OG were obliged to follow up.<br /><br />Operation Grange have kept their cards very close to their chests Bjorn. I suspect they are operating under Portuguese Judicial secrecy and of course under their own 'battle plans' - they are not going to let their suspects know what they are up to. Detectives and suspects are often, drawn into cat and mouse games. See the FBI's pursuit of the parents of Sabrina Aisenberg.<br /><br />The injection of £150k says 'we aren't going away' - it is a chilling message to those who have a guilty secret, and for them the 6 month deadline says that's all the time you have left.<br /><br />I think if OG were still chasing leads we would have seen some activity Bjorn. People being brought in for questioning and perhaps even some more digs, but it has been spookily quiet for some years now. That fact alone screams there is not a predator out there.Rosalinda Huttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01497239700092619580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-834822786084044829.post-60527287193297497012018-11-15T04:19:20.610+00:002018-11-15T04:19:20.610+00:00Hi Rosalinda,
Thanks for the information about Eni...Hi Rosalinda,<br />Thanks for the information about Enid O'Dowd's analysis of the McCann's "Leave no stone unturned" charity.<br />Although written a few years back it clearly shows the corruption, expenditure, and filtering of millons in donations into the fund by heartfelt donors.<br />As a financial administrator of charities O'Dowd was surprised by the bad practices and late filings of the fund.<br /><br />She also writes that a spokesperson for Team McCann even wrote to ICEAW ( Institute of chartered accountants of England and Wales) of which O'Dowd is a member complaining about her comments.<br />jcAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com