Mr. North - the infowarrior

Well I am some sort of an infowarrior. While the Middle East conflict doesn't concern me directly, the knowledge allows me to see when people play their roles real dirt. Note, I didn't call for objectivism or "Truth" whatever these words mean. But Mr. North did. You can see it on his blog. And he looks very sincere on playing a fair game. One may consider him an innocent man if he swallows the story right from start. Or consider a jerk if looks at the way he tells "the story".

But is there a third chance? That Mr. North is playing a malicious game? That he is a infowarrior concerned with what is going on at Middle East? Well, people could point to his job and his boss, or to the things he has been doing lately as a uberconservative writer. But, frankly, I think that's the worst way to search for the dirt. An american can not be a s-o-b just because he is a US citizen. Besides, if an american does something wrong, still, there is a question how far his guilt is related to be american. Btw Mr. North loves to much to play the nationality game. But, who doesn't. The easiet way to start a conflict is to harass your neighbor for being your neighbor.

To find if Mr. North is guilty of wrongdoing, one has to forget lots of ephitetes or "labels" he may think of. Doing it, one falls into that same game Mr. North has been playing all along. And doesn't come better than Mr. North.

Now what can we do to find that Mr. North is guilty or not? It's simple and complex at the same time. See what Mr. North has been doing all along. He has been writing long stories about Hezbolywood. Hearthbreaking tales on how poor dead mints are used and abused by the terrible Hezbollites "Green Helmet", "White Tee-shirt" and Red Cross fellows. With the full cooperation of the "retouch" media.

For some, it sounds foe conspiration. For others a telltale. But is it innocent or made up for a special purpose? I prayed for the sake and health of Mr. North that it was the first case... No... it's the second... I would say "Gotcha" but no... I wouldn't. I still hoped that Mr. North was not a "death marketeer" as if he was, he had gone too far. However Mr. North occurs to be a Death Marketeer. He has been advertising death and gore to everyone, at the expence of everyone's intelligence.

Frankly I didn't think it would be so simple. But it occurs to be. Truly, a full and unquestionable proof will take some time to be worked out. This guy is really prolific, the Hell damns him...

The facts

Go to "Milking it".
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/07/milking-it.html

Look at the very first photo of the post.
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4640/388/1600/AP%20Qana.jpg

We see the "girl in orange" lying on the ground. This is the very same photo that Mr. North "forgot" no mention in his "debunk" of the Red Cross workers. Its her. There's a white strip on the trousers. Besides other minor details are there, like the way the left hand is closed.

Did Mr. North "forgot" this photo or didn't note it? No. He did saw it (bold mine):

Anyhow, it is now clear that the body of the "girl in orange" is not what is wanted. It is unceremoniously dumped outside, and is later stretchered off to the waiting fleet of ambulances.
From "Qana - the Director's Cut"
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/08/qana-directors-cut.html

So Mr. North did note that her body was, later, laying outside.

Now, on the last masterpiecepiece of Mr. North we see a whole story with pics and video, the "Lights, camera, action!"

http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/08/lights-camera-action.html

Here, there is no single reference to the "dump" fact. People are carrying up and down the girl. It may sound as a lapse of Mr. North but (sorry for the long citation):

Now we must digress slightly to show the normal evacuation route for casualties laid out in this area. This we can illustrate from video footage taken from Arab TV, showing a Red Cross worker carring a different body. As can be seen can be seen from the video and a composite of four "grabs" shown left (double-click to enlarge), the route is straight down the hill to a corner, where the bearers turn left and then continue down a long road. (Eventually, they come to another corner, whence they turn left again which brings them to "Stretcher Alley".)

Returning to the girl in orange pyjamas, we find her body in the arms of a different Red Cross worker - and there is something odd about the location.
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/08/lights-camera-action.html

Congratulations to Mr. North! He would become an excellent actor on some eastern bazaar! Why? Because he turns the story to create a whole continous sequence of his own. He first mumbles a lot about the girl being brought up by some worker, then turns us into a strange speculation where the girl was placed, turns us into a complete different theme and suddenly returns all of us into the story with "a different Red Cross worker".

First. He does not identify the carrying worker.
Second. He mumbles several speculations about where the girl was placed.
Third. He turns us into a story the seems but is not directly related to the main theme.
And fourth. He brings us back to the story in a show of "continuity": "Returning... we find her." And continues his speculative trend with a "different Red Cross worker"
And fifth. All over the story no reference to the "dump". But he knows she was layed on the ground! So why Mr. North doesn't tell it?

Because this would break the idea of staging, the "cut, cut,cut" sequence he wants to sell. That's why. If he mentioned it, then anyone could consider another sequence of events, probably much more realistic and less cinematic. But this is what Mr. North doesn't want. So he avoids any reference to the "dump".

What he did is a typical media trick. "I lead you to see what I want you to see". Surrepticaly, Mr. North is leading his readers to what he wants to show. It's not the first time he does this. One shall note a detail. The photo with "White Tee-Shirt", the red cross man and this girl seems to be one of the most beloved for Mr. North. It appears three times on his blog with two radically different stories to tell (and two slightly different in qualifying "White tee-shirt" man):

"Alright explain this one!":
The second photograph of this pair has a Red Cross worker to the fore, holding the body with which "White Tee-shirt" (background) is to make his "camera run". There is another inset, with the picture expanded as large as it will go without losing definition. Again, look at the tee-shirt. Once again it looks like there is writing across the front.
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/08/alright-explain-this-one.html
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4640/388/320/WTS%20001.jpg

"Qana - the director's cut":
Well, here he is again, this time inside the wreckage and again he is not actually doing anything but watching. But it seems he is doing more than that. We get the distinct impression he is looking for particular bodies. The one in the arms of the Red Cross worker, the body of the "girl in orange" is not one of them. Mr "White Tee-shirt takes no interest in it and shows no emotion.
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/08/qana-directors-cut.html
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4640/388/320/qana%20004.jpg

"Lights, camera, action!":
To see how this played out, we must go to the sequence at the start, where the body of the girl in Richmond's picture - clad in orange pyjamas - is recovered from the wrecked building. We see this in the photograph on the left, where a bearded Red Cross worker is handling the body, with "White Tee-shirt" in attendance although, in this scene, not taking a great deal of interest.
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/08/lights-camera-action.html
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4640/388/320/RC%20001.jpg

So, first he has picks the girl, then he is indifferent and shows no emotion and finally doesn't take a great deal of interest... What's next Mr. North? She is his beloved concumbine?

BTW. About the "different Red Cross worker". Well it is not about these events but it may show the what was the division of work at the place:

http://pro.corbis.com/images/42-17139786.jpg?size=67&uid={339505f4-c4ee-457a-83be-6187340b7b66}

We see behind a worker much like the "bearded Red Cross worker" and in fronr our "different worker". In places where shit happens, rescuers are strictly organised.