Its not what you know its who you know, or is it both? In 2007 Gerry McCann was a member of a sub committee as a medical advisor for an independent investigative organisation known as COMARE, or to give it its full descriptive title, Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment. The committees role is described on their website as this: COMARE is a Department of Health expert committee, but it provides independent advice to all government departments and agencies. With the terms of reference being: To assess and advise government and the devolved authorities on the health effects of natural and man-made radiation and to assess the adequacy of the available data and the need for further research. Basically the committee made up of medical experts and scientists were asked by the Labour Government to investigate and advise as to the dangers and risks of radiation given off by power stations, pylons and medical equipment such as CAT scanners. Lets have a look at some other names surrounding the issues COMARE were investigating, and how they are linked to Kate and Gerry: Andrew Brown: Andrew, the younger brother of former Prime Minister Gordon brown, was given the role of head of media relations with EDF Energy in 2004. EDF were a company who would have been more than hopeful of a favourable report from COMARE. The reason for this being that EDF were wanting to build a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset. Those plans are now going ahead having been given the green light just last month. Were not talking pocket change either, with a reported cost of £16 - £25 billion it is clear to see that such a project will not only generate a huge amount of power, but also a huge amount of cash to the fat cats at the top. news.sky/story/1349403/edf-go-ahead-for-hinkley-point-nuclear-reactor Gordon Brown: The former PM, who spoke over the phone to Gerry McCann after Madeleines disappearance. Brown was pushing for the reintroduction of nuclear power plant projects In 2008 he called for oil-rich states to invest heavily in the development of nuclear power in the UK. In March 2008, he made the announcement that not only would the rebuilding take place on the 23 existing reactors, but that it would extend to the development of more brand new sites. If its somewhere between 16 and 25 billion for one site, imagine the amount needed for over 23! Thats a lot of investment, and for that sort of money the potential returns must have been astronomical. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7424158.stm JK Rowling, another financial backer of the McCanns in the early days, although in fairness not anymore, said of Gordon Brown: “I know him as affable, funny and gregarious, a great listener, a kind and loyal friend.” Aww, thats nice.......moving on. As we know Gordon Brown took up the post of Prime Minister at the end of June 2007, in September that year his head of media monitoring, Clarence Eden Mitchell, resigned from his reported £75,000 a year cabinet office job to work as PR consultant for the McCanns. A bold move indeed if he truly believed that Madeleine could be found any day. I have written more on Gordon Brown here: https://facebook/photo.php?fbid=1489950171278179&set=gm.720078951421515&type=1 Tony Blair: In 2006 Tony Blair, having worked behind the scenes on developments for some time, officially showed his hand. He announced that the future of UK power lay with nuclear energy, and pre-empted what Gordon Brown would later follow up, with the introduction of over 23 new power stations. theguardian/environment/2006/may/17/energy.business Blair was also responsible for giving a peerage to Lord Timothy Bell, of Bell Pottinger. Bell Pottinger: Bell Pottinger represented the McCanns, as well as Mark Warner Holidays (The Ocean Club in PDL being one of Warners complexes) A simple google search reveals the PR specialists have enjoyed a long professional relationship with the mighty Carter Ruck, who acted on many occasions for the McCanns. Most recently when they successfully sued the Sunday Times on behalf of the couple on a no win no fee basis. This was after a complaint by the McCanns that the newspaper had claimed Kate and Gerry had hidden the efit that many claim is Gerry himself, for a period of 5 years. It was in fact a year, but that matters not, Carter Ruck won the case, and now the suppression of evidence story appears as though the McCanns did nothing wrong. carter-ruck/Documents/McCann-Press_Release-03102014.PDF The threat of Carter Ruck circling like predators stalking their prey, has every newspaper in the land afraid to print anything that paints the McCanns in a bad light. Newspapers must be sold however, and the McCann case sells, what we find ourselves left with is a set of editors too weak, and without moral substance who decide to print any old rubbish, if that means framing others or printing ludicrous stories, as long as it sells tomorrows fish and chip wrappings then so be it. Back to Bell Pottinger. In November / December 2005, Private Eye revealed that Bell Pottinger was receiving £8,000 a month to give strategic advice to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. The Eye asked: Why is the Bell Pottinger PR firm passing on potted biographies of MPs focusing on their supposed attitude to nuclear power to the Nuclear Decommissioning Agency (NDA)? The NDAs job, after all, is to clean up the mess left by the old atomic generation, not to promote new nuclear power stations. Using the Freedom of Information Act, NuclearSpin obtained a copy of Bell Pottingers pitch to the NDA. It underlined the extent of the companies involvement with the nuclear industry. It states that Bell Pottingers consultants have worked in a variety of capacities with the nuclear industry. These include: -Providing strategic advice and support for the Chairman and Chief Executive of BNFL including crisis management -Advising BNFL on corporate and financial communications -Developing day-to-day public affairs programmes for BNFL and the BNIF -Working with Parliamentarians with interests in the nuclear industry -Monitoring and tracking nuclear issues ranging from Parliamentary committees to public enquiries -Directly managing the in-house communications for the UKAEA and AEA -Technology through privatisation -Briefing and rehearsing industry executives appearing before Select -Committees. -The NDAs briefing paper for potential PR consultants boasted that the NDA is not unique in being an organisation committed to open and transparent engagement with stakeholders, but it may well be the first organisation that has such objectives built in to its statutory requirements. -Nevertheless, Bell Pottingers successful pitch includes: Advising on the handling of particular announcements identifying the issues and bear traps in advance, advising on messaging, media strategy and tactics, questions and answers Advising on an appropriate contact programme ie who are the journalists that should be courted, what are their issues, how best to handle them Providing off the record information. spinwatch.org/index.php/issues/climate/item/432-neutral-government-agency-secretly-discussed-going-pro-nuclear Which brings me nicely onto British Nuclear Fuels Limited. Edward Smethurst: Much is written about Smethurst on the internet, some of it extremely sinister, but lets start with a little background information. edwardsmethurst.co.uk/ Edward Smethurst is a 33rd degree mason (see picture in the comments below). At the age of 23 Smethurst, already a successful property developer, joined the in house legal team at BNFL, he would go on to serve the state owned nuclear company for 7 years, after which in 2000, he joined the board of directors for a conservatory company, Ultraframe. Ultraframe was bought for a sum of £58 million in 2006, by Brian Kennedy, and was the only member of a 13 man board that Kennedy kept on. Smethurst later went on to become a director of the Leaving No Stone Unturned Ltd fund, and became legal advisor to the McCanns. More on Brian Kennedy, and the influence he had on the case can be read here: https://facebook/photo.php?fbid=1489949911278205&set=gm.720078554754888&type=1 Ok, Im nearly there :) if youre still awake I thank you for staying with me and I will buy you all a jar of coffee in this life or the next. So now weve got the names linked to the case out of the way, lets get back to COMARE. In 2011 COMARE announced that, contrary to a German report of studies between 2002 and 2007, nuclear power didnt pose any cancer threat to children. world-nuclear-news.org/RS-Childhood_leukaemia_risk_not_linked_to_nuclear_plants-0905118.html The German report had found a cluster of leukaemia cases occurring near the Krummel nuclear power plant. This wasnt breaking news from COMARE, but more reaffirmation of reports from a time when Gerry McCann was a medical advisor on the sub committee. Would it be fair to assume Gerry played a major role in the report? If not, it is obvious that he was moving within circles of very influential people, and that billions of pounds were at stake. Could that be the reason a sudden influx of a dream team of powerful figures bent over backwards for the McCanns? Goncalo Amaral was asked the following question during an interview for Porto Canal on March 14th 2014: Q: Were you removed from your post and sidelined until you left the Judiciary Police because you were too close to finding the truth? A: “No, no. I left the investigation, I was removed from the investigation because the case had to be dominated politically. Just that. Because I opposed the archiving. I told directors in the Police directly that I did not agree with the archiving. They suggested to me, they told me that there are processes, there are investigations that do not end, that have no result. And that I shouldn’t do a lot. That I should consider the case had ended. I always opposed that. That is why I left the investigation, not because I was close to anything. I don’t see my leaving as being the result of someone fearing anything. The question was that the case is political. Only politics. It’s politics that is driving this matter. When politics enters the investigations, when investigations are politically correct, we get nowhere.” gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk/press/83march14/portocanal_14_03_2014.htm Whatever your thoughts on this, its an interesting topic, and one that the more is looked into seems to throw up more and more links. Im not saying its the catalyst of a cover up, but it certainly makes you wonder.
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