tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post6453170287227165887..comments2023-10-30T07:28:35.018+00:00Comments on Textusa: Praia da LuzTextusahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06160632687242190030noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-51521163082651952002015-10-22T17:23:49.446+01:002015-10-22T17:23:49.446+01:00Anonymous22 Oct 2015, 17:19:00,
Thank you for pos...Anonymous22 Oct 2015, 17:19:00,<br /><br />Thank you for posting the article but we must disagree very strongly with the phrase "For reasons that are remaining very quiet"<br /><br />The reasons are completely transparent. The money given altruistically is estimated enough. If more needed, more will be asked for.<br /><br />We really do not understand this mysterious and conspirational tone which only helps to spawn myths, misunderstandings and misinformation. Textusahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06160632687242190030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-69170902136834200622015-10-22T17:19:43.269+01:002015-10-22T17:19:43.269+01:00http://portugalresident.com/amaral-supporters-call...http://portugalresident.com/amaral-supporters-call-time-as-appeal-fund-approaches-%E2%82%AC70000<br /><br /><br />Amaral supporters call time as appeal fund approaches €70,000<br /><br />For reasons that are remaining very quiet, the friends and supporters of former “Maddie cop” Gonçalo Amaral have called time on the gofundme online appeal set up to fund his legal expenses as he challenges the court decision ordering him to pay the parents of Madeleine McCann over €500,000 in damages.<br /><br />The Legal Defence for Gonçalo Amaral page will be closing on Wednesday, October 28.<br /><br />At time of writing, it had already raised over €69,860 and donations were still coming in.<br /><br />The latest, as of lunchtime today (Thursday), was for €100.<br /><br />Over the last five months, 2,757 people have responded to the gofundme campaign, set up by a young single mother from Birmingham who was only 14 when Madeleine went missing.<br /><br />Leanne Baulch, 22, explained to us back in May that she had never imagined the response her initiative received, but she felt compelled to do it as she was “desperate to help” a man she felt was being “persecuted”.<br /><br />But as the money flowed in, so too did the unpleasantness, including slurs in the British press that the fund was powered by “sick online trolls”.<br /><br />With Ms Baulch considering her position as a single parent of a toddler, she removed herself from the process altogether a few months ago.<br /><br />The fund then transferred into the hands of the friends of the former PJ detective whose book, “A Verdade da Mentira”, landed him in the hot seat of litigation - with all his assets, including bank accounts “frozen” - in 2008.<br /><br />Unpleasantness appears nonetheless to have continued, with internet manipulation of the appeal’s online code so that a few weeks ago, it virtually disappeared from sight (see http://portugalresident.com/online-intrigue-as-mccanns-close-twitter-pag...).<br /><br />Now those in charge of the fund have decided it should close.<br /><br />Using the headline “Sufficient” - which translated into Portuguese also stands for “Enough” - they have said: “We believe that it is time to close the gofundme page, as the bank account currently stands at an amount that seems largely sufficient to face eventual future expenses”.<br /><br />A source has confirmed to the Resident that other forms of fundraising remain open, while Amaral’s fundraisers are aware that whatever the result of the latest appeal being considered by Lisbon’s Appellate Court, litigation will continue.<br /><br />“If Amaral is successful, for example, we remain fairly certain that the McCann’s would appeal that decision. And so it continues. The next step would be the Supreme Court and then after that the Constitutional Court”.<br /><br />And should Amaral lose the fight which he feels centres on his right to freedom of expression then a new online appeal will be needed to fund a case against Portuguese justice in the European Court of Human Rights.<br /><br />Thus, for now, it is a case of “serenely awaiting” the next judicial decision, while Amaral’s supporters are no less determined to keep funding avenues open.<br /><br />Sending out the latest message to subscribers, the group of friends writing collectively said: “May we use this moment to wholeheartedly thank those who have expressed their support for Gonçalo Amaral’s right to an appropriate defence. Whether you have contributed financially or by sending a support message, you have made an impact. You have made a difference”.<br /><br />As we wrote this article, yet another donation was received as the six-day countdown to closure begins.<br /><br />Meantime, fund organisers continue to confirm that they will donate any money left unused on legal expenses to a Portuguese children’s charity.<br /><br />natasha.donn@algarveresident.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-45685720384105552172015-10-22T06:58:38.741+01:002015-10-22T06:58:38.741+01:00Sufficiency such a rare yet beautiful word.Sufficiency such a rare yet beautiful word.suhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01229359526524987174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-60353493207141818492015-10-21T20:56:59.856+01:002015-10-21T20:56:59.856+01:00We think this decision is wise.
We would like to...We think this decision is wise. <br /><br />We would like to join our voice to the PJGA above and thank all who contributed to help Mr Amaral. You have indeed made a difference.<br /><br />To all those responsible (directly and indirectly) for the fate this man has had to endure for the past 8 and half years, we ask some for some profound reflection within the human being in you.<br /><br />We truly hope that he will soon get a result that takes away this burden.Textusahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06160632687242190030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-5937883142864434532015-10-21T20:45:12.033+01:002015-10-21T20:45:12.033+01:00http://pjga.blogspot.nl/2015/10/sufficient.html
...http://pjga.blogspot.nl/2015/10/sufficient.html<br /><br /> Sufficient<br />Dear friends,<br /><br />Since it was started on April 29, 2015, by Leanne Baulch, the gofundme page dedicated to Gonçalo Amaral's defence has collected donations in excess of 50 thousand pounds. These funds have been transferred to the bank account that is held by Dr Paulo Sargento and other friends of Mr Amaral. Less than half of this amount has been spent on legal expenses for the defence of Gonçalo Amaral.<br /><br />The Paypal account that is associated to the bank account has received over 6 thousand euro during the same period. Donations totaling a smaller amount have also been made directly to the bank account.<br /><br />We believe that it is time to close the gofundme page, as the bank account currently stands at an amount that seems largely sufficient to face eventual future expenses.<br /><br />As we await the verdict of the Appellate Court of Lisbon on the appeal that has been filed by Mr Amaral's lawyer, the remaining funds will be kept in the bank account. They will be used if necessary in the future. Any unused funds will, as we stated in 2009, be donated to a Portuguese children's charity.<br /> <br />May we use this moment to wholeheartedly thank those who have expressed their support of Gonçalo Amaral's right to an appropriate defence? Whether you have contributed financially or by sending a support message - you have made an impact. You have made a difference.<br /><br />Thank you so very, very much.<br /><br />The gofundme page will be closed on the 28th of October, 2015.<br /> Textusahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06160632687242190030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-16632511353196998152015-10-21T17:07:14.887+01:002015-10-21T17:07:14.887+01:00Oh but he never was a suspect .. Apologies origina...Oh but he never was a suspect .. Apologies original link is broken but it is still in this forum. <br /><br />http://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t10552-spin-and-manipulation-round-up-the-usual-suspectsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-51608173400290030252015-10-21T10:35:03.828+01:002015-10-21T10:35:03.828+01:00http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-34583704...http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-34583704<br />Roderick Macdonald obviously no longer a Maddie suspect....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-88481653817102344252015-10-20T15:40:57.092+01:002015-10-20T15:40:57.092+01:00Unknown,
What we find strange is to have been the...Unknown,<br /><br />What we find strange is to have been there children with age to go to school, when they were supposed to be there.<br /><br />On record we have 2 who were 6 yrs old, 1 a 7 yr old, 1 a 8 yr old and another who was 12 yrs old.<br /><br />Also there was a minor who was 17 yrs old.<br /><br />We're guessing both the 12 and the 17 yr old felt quite lonely that but that's our opinion and it's worth what it's worth.Textusahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06160632687242190030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-90670880126322445232015-10-20T15:33:47.828+01:002015-10-20T15:33:47.828+01:00Well said Textusa.
"Portugal is one of the o...Well said Textusa.<br /><br />"Portugal is one of the oldest countries in Europe (much older than England in fact) - Having the same defined borders since 1139, almost 900 years ago. The name Portugal first appears in 868. Lisbon is older than Rome - Around four centuries older to be precise."<br /><br />England on the other hand - a name taken from one of the Germanic tribes who settled there during the 5th and 6th centuries - only became a unified state in the 10th century.<br /><br />The reader is free to draw its own inferences.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-87670255592317652502015-10-20T13:38:54.919+01:002015-10-20T13:38:54.919+01:00Great blog Textusa, thank you.
One question regar...Great blog Textusa, thank you.<br /><br />One question regarding the wider circle of guests. Of their children, were they all of creche going age ? Were older children or teenagers on that holiday and might they twig to something going on, or would they get in the way ?<br /><br />An absence of a certain age group might suggest it was inappropriate for them to be there. <br /> Anonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16809297147680426924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-21162669867922150132015-10-18T17:55:13.264+01:002015-10-18T17:55:13.264+01:00Anonymous 18 Oct 2015, 17:43:00,
Not seeing the d...Anonymous 18 Oct 2015, 17:43:00,<br /><br />Not seeing the disagreement. <br /><br />If money outside, then all those guests were there because of interest outside Praia da Luz as the village holds little or no interest to the economically weel.off? We couldn't agree more.<br /><br />It doesn't in any way alter the perception we had of Luz when we were there. We did not paint any shadowy picture of Luz, <br /><br />We painted a very shadowy picture of the village to the eyes of the rich. Because for the rich, that compact village won't in our opinion even merit a glance much less a consideration from them. It's not Capri to use as an example. <br /><br />Is it fine for the rest of us humans? Yes, it is if one just likes the beach or pool and many seem to be okay with that every single year.Textusahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06160632687242190030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-58082397694542996742015-10-18T17:53:21.677+01:002015-10-18T17:53:21.677+01:00I was afraid you would say that, as I wanted to re...I was afraid you would say that, as I wanted to remain hopeful, but I have to say that reluctantly I agree. You have clarified it and explained the situation very well. But, at some point, the waiting is over and they will be told which scenario to implement. At some point David Cameron will have to choose (if he hasn't already) and i am hoping he 'decides' sooner rather than later, although I guess he may postpone his decision to see what happens with Amaral appeal. Although cant he influence the Amaral appeal decision if there is still any 'establishment collaboration' across countries? <br />Influence it to become what he wants it to become....? <br /><br />Why can he not realise, as you once explained so well, that anything but the whole truth opens another Pandora's box of worms? If I was Samantha and said to him..' Look Dave, come on - you have got to let the truth be exposed. There is no other option ... just do it!' What would he respond? 'look Sam , it';s not as simple as that.. d'you honestly have any idea of the consequences of me allowing the truth to emerge? It would be a total nightmare... they'd bring me down and a lot of others before you know it. No, there's got to be a way of sorting this - there has to be ... just let me think of it....there's no rush! ' <br /><br />Its just so depressing....<br /> <br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-15180407771366546002015-10-18T17:43:59.207+01:002015-10-18T17:43:59.207+01:00Someone else doesn't agree with you:
N.M @Ad...Someone else doesn't agree with you:<br /><br />N.M @AdirenM 4h4 hours ago Portugal<br /><br />Textusa painted a very shadowy PDL on her last blog. But PDL is not the concentrated little village...Money inhabits outside.<br />#Mccann<br /><br />N.M @AdirenM 4h4 hours ago Portugal<br /><br />Ocean Club/Mark Warner worked for shady people from UK that had "shady" businesses with ex-pats MONEY around. #McCann was there on business<br /><br />N.M @AdirenM 4h4 hours ago Portugal<br /><br />Look for UK money on PDL area, check who welcomed #McCann when the Media started harassing them.It's all documented.And this as far as I go.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-79059733858011741682015-10-18T17:34:58.624+01:002015-10-18T17:34:58.624+01:00Anonymous 18 Oct 2015, 16:49:00,
About Operation ...Anonymous 18 Oct 2015, 16:49:00,<br /><br />About Operation Grange we agree fully with Mr Amaral: it's all about political courage and will.<br /><br />Political, so way above Scotland Yard or PJ.<br /><br />Operation Grange is not a police investigation. It's something called that, won't call it a farce because it isn't one, that is waiting to be told on what its findings will be.<br /><br />The Maddie case holds no secrets at Decider level. Everyone knows what happened and have in their hands all the proof they need.<br /><br />Question is what proof they want to use and what proof they want to discard. That is the line that has to be drawn and is extremely difficult to do so as on this side of it people will be safe and on the other people will be shamed.<br /><br />The other option is to not draw any line and archive it. That will bring shame to David Cameron.<br /><br />So our opinion of Operation Grange had the task to rank people by "fall". On the top of the list are the McCanns and at the bottom are the unmentionable ones.<br /><br />Imagine that the list has 500 names. The next task Operation Grange then had was to match proof to people.<br /><br />To make only the first 20 fall, what of the existing proof is needed to use and if it is feasible to only use that.<br /><br />This was done for all possible scenarios. We believe that it was attempted both the patsy one as also one that involved only the T9. They proved not to be feasible.<br /><br />At this moment we think the decision is to choose one within the feasible scenarios (those that respond to the questions we put in our "Maddie's Pandoras' Box" post)<br /><br />But that is not a decision to be made by SY. They are waiting to be told which scenario is to implement and then "find" the proof that fits. This finding already been done a long time ago.<br /><br />So to answer your question, is that Operation Grange is a group of people playing solitaire, sodoku or doing crosswords waiting to be told what to do.<br /><br />It isn't and it never was a police investigation. It's just something a police has found itself in the obligation of doing.Textusahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06160632687242190030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-56002015741674439232015-10-18T16:49:52.197+01:002015-10-18T16:49:52.197+01:00Well I'm so very thankful that you are doing s...Well I'm so very thankful that you are doing so.Even as just a member of the public observing this, it has the power to make me feel very very depressed that justice does not seem to be occurring. Without that, we dont have much at all. <br />Do you have any thoughts about the investigation known as Operation Grange - how quiet it has become. By that, what I really mean is, do you have an opinion as to whether they are actively working on trying to bring justice, or they are simply keeping their heads down following orders on ho to play this... ? Lately I have been wishfully thinking they were spending time on the detail, forensic and otherwise, in bringing the perpetrators to justice. But it may just be wishful thinking. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-42401517166962284592015-10-18T12:30:32.446+01:002015-10-18T12:30:32.446+01:00Anonymous 18 Oct 2015, 12:08:00,
That's the o...Anonymous 18 Oct 2015, 12:08:00,<br /><br />That's the odds we have been fighting against in the last 8 and half years. And we still intend on continuing.Textusahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06160632687242190030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-36423726528056466352015-10-18T12:28:49.169+01:002015-10-18T12:28:49.169+01:00Anonymous18 Oct 2015, 12:15:00
"Staff at Jet...Anonymous18 Oct 2015, 12:15:00<br /><br />"Staff at Jet2 said Portuguese authorities now have tighter controls around "minors"".<br /><br />Not true. The controls are exactly the same as they have been for years. It's called the LAW. The Portuguese LAW. It was in place sometime before Maddie McCann disappeared. Lest people forget, Portugal was not born that day. It existed before. Only 800 years before.<br /><br />"They said that Eilidh (...) needed a letter of consent from her parents and details of who would be collecting her in Portugal". <br /><br />Yes, that's absolutely correct, that's what LAW says. The Portuguese LAW.<br /><br />The law states that a minor (in Portugal anyone under 18) travelling alone must be accompanied by a written authorisation from parents and where it has to be equally stated to whom will the child be handed over by the airline on arrival.<br /><br />The airline is responsible to assign a flight attendant to the child. A flight attendant may be responsible for more than one minor but each minor has to be accompanied from the moment they are left at the airport by their guardians to the moment they are handed over to those stated in the authorisation.<br /><br />Minors flying with just one parent have to be accompanied by an authorisation by the absent parent or a document proving such parent has passed away.<br /><br />If this is about Maddie then literally hundreds of thousands have flown under "Maddie constraint" before and after she disappeared.Textusahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06160632687242190030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-63467413178610747682015-10-18T12:15:35.656+01:002015-10-18T12:15:35.656+01:00http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3277804/Te...http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3277804/Teenager-16-travelling-Portugal-stopped-boarding-Jet2-flight-Madeleine-McCann-case.html<br /><br />in today's online Daily Mail. I read it and just cant see the connection between a 16 year old flying alone and the McCann case. It is simply about a 16 yr old girl who was not aloud to fly alone to Portugal - <br /><br />'According to Jet2 staff, they could not allow her to fly because Portugal had tightened its rules after criticism of its handling of the Madeleine McCann case.'<br /><br />It is either there simply 'cos Madeleine 'sells papers' or is it a strategic article to imply to the general public that the Portugal authorities handled the Mc Cann case badly! <br /><br /><br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-90337502655350732392015-10-18T12:08:49.880+01:002015-10-18T12:08:49.880+01:00But with this level of collaboration, can we hones...But with this level of collaboration, can we honestly expect any truth to emerge? What may have changed such that the British Foreign Office stance will change? Are you able to give your opinion as to what has changed that can now override that directive in 2007? Is it governmental change? Is it enough that this simply wont go away until some truth is allowed toy emerge? What on earth is going to make David Cameron man enough to allow the truth to be exposed (even partially)? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-82798199196805734082015-10-18T11:25:06.845+01:002015-10-18T11:25:06.845+01:00Anonymous 17 Oct 2015, 20:17:00,
The diplomatic p...Anonymous 17 Oct 2015, 20:17:00,<br /><br />The diplomatic pressure that was exerted by the British Foreign Office on Portugal and its media we are certain was done by the British diplomacy worldwide.<br /><br />It became evident that the establishments worldwide collaborated with the British government on this matter. In the diplomatic world there are too many important things at stake and “offending” the British over the truth of a small crime was not worth the risk.<br /><br />Once they accepted collaborating, which they did, they were caught up in the lie. From that moment on the editorial line was clear: follow the Brits on this matter.<br /><br />Up until the dogs let’s sanctify the McCanns, with the dogs let’s demonise them, with them flying home let’s sanctify them again.<br /><br />For some reason CNN was economical with the truth about the case by showing an esplanade that had nothing to do with Tapas and implying it was Tapas. As well as dropping the lens to the floor in the real Tapas esplanade.<br /><br />We showed that very clearly in our “The Proof Ocean Club reads Textusa” post:<br />http://textusa.blogspot.pt/2014/03/the-proof-ocean-club-reads-textusa.html<br /><br />There we have the screengrabs of a CNN video that is no longer available – wonder why?<br /><br />Also do please take into account that there is only so much space for worms in a can and the British Press dominated the territory in Luz.<br /><br />Many countries send in their reporters but soon the source of news on this particular issue was the UK press.Textusahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06160632687242190030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-42627596919459448932015-10-17T20:17:25.713+01:002015-10-17T20:17:25.713+01:00If the UK journalists did in fact pick and choose ...If the UK journalists did in fact pick and choose their photo shoots and angles then what about the foreign media?<br />Surely they wouldn't feel constrained in any way, wouldn't feel the need not to show how small the place is? And we would have heard about it in the UK but we didn't.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-84291550177529848182015-10-17T18:47:40.914+01:002015-10-17T18:47:40.914+01:00Brilliant post Textusa you have wrapped up in this...Brilliant post Textusa you have wrapped up in this blog what I have thought from get go. I love a beach holiday, the sun the beach the water, beautiful wee streets, market stalls, restaurants. We go away as often as we can so we tend to try and get it as cheap as possible so we can get 2 or 3 holidays for the price of one.Even if Pdl was somewhere that I would stay in the summer come the end April it would have no appeal whatsoever for anyone interested in that type of holiday. Of course they were there for swinging and of course the ex pats were in on it. Well done with sticking to your guns I can't possibly see how after reading this anybody with any knowledge of these types of holidays could argue with you. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-48147631885531514262015-10-17T16:09:03.447+01:002015-10-17T16:09:03.447+01:00I accept that in high season with good weather, so...I accept that in high season with good weather, some families who don't care about being involved in local culture, would enjoy a holiday of this sort. I would expect anyone staying for a week to visit another place for some variety.<br />For me PDL gives very little flavour of being in Portugal. It's dreary and lacking in character. I have stayed in Carvoeiro - shops with local pottery, a market, outside cafe area bear beach overlooking the sea, lots of tourists gathering there in the evening.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-1928857212025344832015-10-17T12:57:47.912+01:002015-10-17T12:57:47.912+01:00Thank you Su :)
NualaThank you Su :)<br /><br />NualaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-50162803256179292492015-10-17T11:56:23.670+01:002015-10-17T11:56:23.670+01:00Praia da Luz has a catchy name (Beach of Light), a...Praia da Luz has a catchy name (Beach of Light), a beautiful church and a beautiful beach. It was easy to sell it as a glamorous destination. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com