Between lies

I promessed to return into Mr. North' s "analysis" but pictures keeps me going and going...

This is a copy taken from a chinese site related to Xinhua News Agency. It is slightly better than other copies analysed before:


The picture is clearly better. The shadows of the glasses can be well seen near the eyes and it is less trashed by JPEG. I made several enhancments of the other pictures I had and they could not give the same detail as this one. Still it shows many of the things seen on other pictures, the sharp pixelisation of details contrasting with the smoothness of other, the baby's hand behind the pants, the false colors of the skin and clothes... Besides it seems to lack focus as the others.

But it is not such a big trouble to try to "return" the focus to the picture. There are tools that restore it with a relative fidelity. Well I used two of these tools to get a more focused picture. The first tool was GreyCstoration. This tool tries to remove the noise while keeping the main features of the picture. It is much better than simple Gaussian blur becuase the second tool tends to restore all the noise seen at the picture. Now the second tool was Refocus-It . An excellent tool, with some limitations, that allows one to try to restore the focus of a blurred picture. And what I got? This:



The result shows a "rubber" texture over everything, the result of too much effort to use GreyCstoration. However we get things that were hard to see on the previous picture. As I remarked before, over Red Channel, Green Helmet seems stressed, the look more lost. Here, the processing of two tools over the whole picture shows a very similar protrait. But be aware! This is not a reproduction of the original picture! It is an enhancement showing details that seem to have been blurred or defocused. It just shows that the "original" news picture may be quite far from the true original. This enhancement does not free us from deliberate and accurate retouches, which seem to have been done at several places. It only remark us details that may have suffered slight retouches.

Anyway it shows a lie, more a pack of lies. Lies going from "Decisive Green Helmet in face of the aggression" up to "photos were staged and people posed". Between freelancer strategist Adnan Hajj and wheelchair strategist Richard North. And between these guys, the media: Internet, the papers, the TV, journalists and agencies . And in the very centre of the Lie: the auditory. Those who keep swallowing news, lying to themselves that the media informs them. People who don't give themselves any benefit of doubt to what goes around the news. These are the Homo Simpsoniens of this world. Which is nearly becoming the whole Mankind...

Return to the original work

I'm going back to the debunking of North's analysis as this was the original intent of my work. The man went too cheap to leave him just unbeaten from any side. His "analysis" deserve him the place of the cheapest Internet pseudo-debunker ever. The only big deed he had is that he got a strong media show to poison the masses.

This does not mean I'll forget the analysis of the pictures, as, without it, it will be hard to give a complete qualified analysis. But, I will not go into every detail of the pictures until I get some heavy artillery at hand. However, this does not hamper my work for now. As the man cannot even tell a face from another, or even colors. Worse, he cannot tell a unsleeved cloth from a shirt clearly carrying sleeves as one can see, directly, on his "analysis" of Qana. Besides he is quite smart to "forget" from what he started the debunk: photos times. On his "final" analysis, there is no word about the times. But not smart enough to know that his links give a hint where did he really get the material for his "debunks".

What is Green Helmet looking at?

On the photo he seems to look straight and his face looks really mean. As if he is judging everything and everyone. But comparations, made after attempts to restore the picture to a "pre-JPEG" status and made between Red, Green and Blue channel, it seems that there is sharp differences at the eyes nose and mouth.

The tool made this difference more remarkable at Red Channel: the protrait is generally blurred at the face, it seems that he is looking a little bit out of the camera, to the left of it, the lips seem about to open and his general view is of a stressed guy. There, he looks "lost" to the posing.

Even before processing the line of the mouth seems too pushed. Did Adnan Hajj replaced "stressed Green Helmet" for "judging Green Helmet"? Quite possible.

For now it is hard to state this as strong evidence that the picture was doctored. To get a strong conclusion, one has to go through the very details of the algorithm. Frankly I experimented with a fresh new program and was more worried at cleaning out the noise to see how much the picture could have been reworked. Much less I tried to "reget" the original. In fact I don't think it is possible to restore it as we have only low-quality copies.

Anyway the result was that the picture carries strong differences between channels. Too strong to consider them "natural".

A summary of the analysis

1. The most visible things that anyone can see:

On most photos, Green Helmet's pants are dark blue and the shirt black. Here, the pants look like jeans and the shirt seems dasrk blue. Besides we see someone's knee on ther picture in some faded pink uniform. However, other photos show that Red Cross workers use uniforms with a saturated "red-orange" tone.

The stripe over the pants looks blueish and faded, while other photos show it bright white. Meanhwile, the jacket has saturated colors.

The stripe at the right leg, seems larger than the left one, which is closer to the camera.

The hand seen at foreground seems to have four fingers only. Under the missing finger one seems to see a large white feature at Green Helmet's leg.

The fingers of the hand seem blurred not because of movement, but looking like covered by a plastic bag, as the blur goes around the border of the hand and not in one direction.

Near Green Helmet's left shoe, the pants look like if they were transparent. A bit of the shoe and a half of a rock seem to be visible through them.

Green Helmet, himself, nearly doesn't cast shadows. There are two clear sources for light (and a possible third). If one looks at the arm of the boy behind Green Helmet, one sees a shadow growing from two directions, one from nearly the camera, the other from other source at its left. But one Green Helmet if is hard to find any good shadows.

Green Helmet looks younger and more shaved than in other photos.

2. Less visible things

If one compares this photo with other, supposedly taken before this one, one sees a similar hand at the foreground. However, that hand is clearly tanned. Here, the skin looks pale.

Green Helmet's face seems to be slightly tanned on many photos. The skin is slightly rugged and the beard is sharp (the last can be seen even on lower resolutions). Here the face is rosy, relatively smooth and the beard seems softer.

At the blurred hand, colors seem to change in contrastable patches from the hand to the arm.

The hand's palm, doesn't seem blurred.

The arm carries a reddish tone from the jacket.

All around the blurred hand's wrist, things carry a very "Van Goghish" look. This can not be a product of JPEG's work as distortions are not linear.

Things seen on processing

Fingers and the right side of the blurred hand are heavily pixelized at enhancement which suggests retouch.

Some sections of Green Helmet's faced are also heavily pixelized.

Ring finger seems slightly "bitten" at its lower section.

At Red Channel, all fingers seem to be visible in full form. However it seems that there is in fact a cause for blurring, caused by the simultaneous movement of Green Helmet's leg and the hand. Meanwhile, this does not explain a large deformation seen at index finger, the pixelization and the sudden disappearence of little finger.

Some enhancing tools suggest that the pants, near the palm of blurred hand, were heavily sharpened or they could be a patch from somewhere else.

A little bit far from the borders one can see blicks of orange (jacket, Green Helmet's cheek, the radio's antenna). Near the jacket, the pants show patches of violet. Most of the jacket shows a very sharp border whith all the rest of the picture. This border seems the have an equal width from the right side of Green Helmet's face and down to the radio.

Things in question

Green Helmt's face seems redrawn or heavily retouched. At certain processings of the image, the face looks much more like the picture from a comic book. However the boy at background, keeps showing a photographic effect, where shades of gray correspond to an iluminated object. One can even trace the source of illumination. However, on Green Helmet one sees only color patches.

The tip of Green Helmet's nose seems to have got its bit of "plastic operation".

The right side of Green Helmet's glasses seem to blick. Some processings suggest a lense much more of the "Top Gun" kind than Green Helmet's trademark elliptic lenses.

Also here, the upper armature seems missing right out of the face of Green Helmet. One sees only a prolongation of the lenses colors over the face "creating" the armature. However, near the eye, one sees a nearly invisible patch of brown, much of the same kind as the glasses armature. This patch is barely a product of JPEG as it is sharp enough. And also it is not a product of the boys jacket which goes much more for black.

The baby's hand seems to be in the background of the pants. However, Green and Red Channels show it more at the foreground. This is also hardly a sole product of JPEG.

WARNING!: Wild fakes on photos from Qana

Warning to everyone who tries to analyse and interpretate the Qana's photos: There are wild fakes among them. Yes, it does not sound news: Adnan Hajj... Again. But there are people who still are using his photos as "evidence" not even realising that most of the picture have been completely overworked. And the fakes are much wider than those seen before. Yesm, they are rough, terrible amateurish but some retouches are more elaborated than one may think at first sight.

What goes is an account of one such elaborated fake. It concerns the following picture:



Many people know it: "Green Helmet picking up the body of a baby from the debris". The general positions of people at the photo and their lookings are seen by some as the most striking evidence of posing for a camera. People use this photo as a proof that events at Qana were staged.

In fact, most of the picture is an attempt to produce a very elaborated fake.

I will not go after all the details I know now. First because I am writing about them on my debunk of Mr. North's article "Milking It? (it is at the end of the current version of the work)". Second, because there are details still demanding some further analysis. Third, because there is one single detail that shall be remarked apart of everything. As it turns us into a wild path of speculations. But first I give a generic account of what I saw:

1. The hand seen at the foreground. Someone tried to wipe it out of the picture. The "ghost" seen around it are not the result of blurring due to the hands movement, but the consequences of using tools to clear it from the photo.

2. However, the arm was sharpened and a strong coloration of red, specially at its border. One may visually see this at its upper edeg, where it "contacts" Green Helmet's jacket.

3. Green Helmet's left arm seems distorted. Yes, his arm complexity is slightly uncommon, and on other pictures one can see his arms with same sort of "Popeye effect". But, no matter this fact, it seems that the lower section of the arm and upper are not in positions one may expect.

3. I tried to scale the picture to have a better view of it. For this, I used a tool that uses 2D DCT algorithm for scaling as it gives much better results than the Cubic Interpolation seen on Photoshop or Gimp. The result was amazing. Green Helmet's jacket, sections of the face, the radio and part of the tee-shirt were sharply pixelized, with clear visible squares in place of soft changes of colors. The phenomena could not be seen at the remaining picture, which pattern correlates to the usual results of 2D DCT algorithm. This highly suggests two things: either these sections were submitted to rough enhancements or these sections came from other photo which had a slightly different resolution. Noting that the radio's antenna seems to "cut" the frontier of the jacket in a suspect way, the last hypotesis has a reason to exist.

However, there is one detail that is more shocking than the above ones. On the picture one sees the hand ofthe baby. It seems slightly behind Green Helmet's blue pants.An enhancement gives a more questionable view, but, still, it seems behind the pants:


The detail of the hand


However:


Blue channel


Green channel


Red channel

For the average people I explain. The large majority of computer pictures are in fact greyscale pictures divided on three channels: Red, Green and Blue. Much like the TV sets most people have. Now on the Blue channel we can see a remarkable shadow over the hand. This shadow is nearly visible at the Green channel, however, the hand seems more over this side of the pants. But on Red channel we can clearly see that the pants ARE behind the hand. Besides the grays gradations, on all channels, are always suggesting that the hand is, in reality, in front of the pants. However, Blue channel shows clearly a mask over the fingers of the baby. Considering that the pants are dark blue, there is a clear evidence that someone tried to mask the hand behind them.

Here is an animation showing the sharp contrast seen at the channels:



Now a question. Why would Adnan Hajj give himself the touble to push the baby's hand behind Green Helmet? An attempt to give him a full "star spot"? Or to mask the contrasts made by other pastings over the picture? Several questions may arise but there is one quite troubling:



This picture comes from Mr. North's article "Act 1, scene 1". Here we clearly see that the hand is in front of Green Helmet's pants. In fact, this and several other details are the basis for people to consider that these pictures were "staged" for the press.

Personally, I agreeded with Mr. North's views on this specific set of pictures, no matter my sharp criticism on many other things he does. On a preliminar analysis of the pictures, made before he published his article, my conclusions were nearly dot to dot with his analysis of this set. However, I knew that one of the pictures was made by Adnan Hajj and I knew that his "Green Helmet rising the baby for the photo" is also widely retouched. So when I went on the detailed analysis of his article "Milking It?", I decided to run every possible analysis before giving a result.

While doing it, I noted the wide retouches, stopped the analysis and went for a picture better than the one published by Mr. North. And, this is the result.

Mr. North is not to be blamed whatsoever on this makeup. The photo I analysed came from sources not related to Mr. North in any way. Specifically: Yahoo!News. Besides it came to me when Hajj's works were still not known to everyone, and we still were under the massive whoopla of Mr. North "times debunking".

Why Hajj would take the trouble to "push" the baby under Green Helmet? Did he know the other picture? And if so, for what purpose he "pushed" him behind? Yes, the baby is not on the same position on the pictures. And Mr. Green Helmet does seem to have made a step behind on one of them. Besides, it seems that he rose and sat between pictures, if one considers the folds at the pants and hypotesis that we are part of the "genuine" photo. But what is real here? Why people moved? And what does it mean all these retouches? An attempt to give them "more visual efffect"? Then, why the hand?

Are we seeing an attempt to "stage" the staging? For whom?

No matter this, I highly recomend to everyone: be very suspect of Qana's photos. We have fakes there. Deliberate ones. Yes, we are seeing, again, Adnan Hajj "trademark". However I know that some photos were subjected to enhacements, one carries a signal of possible blurring. And we have "White Tee-shirt" over many pictures without his bloodied tee-shirt but with a strange brownish spot instead.

Yes, there are ways to find out things and everyone has a right for it. But if you don't have some little knowledge of imaging don't try to interpretate what you see at Qana. First learn a little bit and then go for the hunt. But, never forget to hold up that little bit of scheptics at the backyard and don't run to fast conclusions. Even I, nearly missed the hand. Fortunately one channel showed the pixelization of the jacket more sharply than the others (thanks for the jacket being poisoning orange). And that's when I noted the "blicking" at the hand while crossing the RGB channnels.
PS: I am really against advertisings but spread this news as possible as you can. We may have something much more complex than Hezbollywood's and Mr. North's "Plan 9's" scripts. Whatever it is, people, keep the faith on that famous phrase:

"There is no spoon..."

Frankly, it was the very first thing to come to my mind when I saw the jacket.

KEYNOTES: "Milking it?" - New draft

Here goes a new version on the analysis of Mr. North's article "Milking It?":

KEYNOTES: "Milking it?"

Three parts are mostly complete. I started the fourth part but I couldn't complete it. Besides it is quite raw for the moment. Hope to do it at the end of the week. And I have to correct the language. It has been a long time since I wrote something at this volume.

Frankly this work goes quite large. It is already 24 pages vs. a small article. Yes, I am no less prolific than Mr. North but, I go for the technical aspects and "features", not for the cheap debunking and fast publicity.

Yes, there are no photos. At least, for the moment I don't want to put them there. Besides everyone knows where they come from. And, as I said before, I am not of the kind "look here, go there".


Enjoy it...

Between the mad, the hatred, the war and Qana

Humans are amazing beings. They love to pick every piece of their lives, their History, their beliefs and poblems... and turn all upside down. Such way that we came to extravagant questions as if the Mongolian Empire ever existed, was Cesar the Khan, if the Crusades were Napoleon wars and whatever... Some even use Maths, to "prove" these stories....

But what is more funny is that people go for these tales... They seem innocent. Until one sees people hyperdriving the Holocaust, others denying the very existence of nazi extremination camps.

Sincerly I don't give a dime for what Israel does to give Holocaust a top spot on Nazi crimes. There were the gypsies who were exterminated at a level much higher than the jews. But they don't have magnates or states to speak for them. And, till now, they are one of the most marginalized nations on Earth. Maybe there are reasons for it, maybe not. But that does not avoid us to remind what happened to them at the hands of Hitler and his accolytes.

Israel's Holocaust boost distorts History. Because it forgets that tens of millions of people were also exterminated, killed and starved to death. They were also shot, gassed, burned and raped. And they were not jews. But even with jews, Israel and its lobbies fail to show us the whole picture. Portraits of Holocaust shows us people being driven like cattle to ghettos and camps. They show us the streets, the platoons, the railroads, the camps, the stoves... But does anyone remembers that there was also the countryside, the villages, the mass graves, the shootings, the gassing trucks? Does anyone remembers that, in Belorus, the jewish community was wiped out? Why this side of the nazi enormities is not mentioned? Maybe because on that side of the story we have also gypsies, slavians and nearly anyone who fell under Totenkopf hands being shot, burned and gassed?

The Holocaust overdrive plants its seeds. Now, we have people "revising" it. There was no Holocaust! None, nil, nada. Hitler was a relatively hot head fellow who couldn't deal with his neighbors. If jews died on the mess it was because they fell in the middle of it, like anyone else... No, Hitler hated them but was not after them in the way some draw it. It was just... War...

Today there is a rise of sympathy for Hitler. And, naturally, for his Totenkopf religion. Yes, a religion. The religion of the reincarnation of Devil himself, of Satan, of Iblis. Holocaust "forgets" that behind the "Skull and Bones" symbol there was a whole system of faith. The faith on Superman. The faith that was about to wipe 99% of Mankind, including jews, slavians, asians, africans and even germans. Hitler wanted to create a "new" Man. And was ready to sacrifice everyone for it. Up to the point that, when the Soviets reached Berlin, he stated that germans had to be exterminated because they failed to their fate. He even died on his beliefs.

And today, we see the reborning of the Totenkopf. Under the hand of the man who cannot face God. He cannot stand even a joke or caricature on Him. But he is ready to joke with the fruits planted by the very same reincarnation of the Devil. He is ready to be that same Iblis who cannot face God on his eyes but seeds hatring among the people. Specially over those who suffered most under the nazis, the Europeans.

The name of this man: Akhmenijad.

Holocaust overdrive gives him an advantage point. Muslims seem not to have suffered a lot under Hitler. Yes, it seems. But, it only seems. As we shall remember the War was made not only by Hitler himself. And not only against the jews. It was against the World. And in the most populated muslim country, Hilter's friends considered its natives as unworthy cattle. But who remembers this? The "Ummah" is a great word. As it appears and vanishes at the very moment any "islamic" politician needs it. Including the Ladens of this world. Here "islamic" politicians are no better than their western brothers when using "Democracy".

Anyway, Mr. Akhmenijad keeps an advantage. We didn't have extermination camps burning arabs. And Stalin invaded Iran, while a good piece of the Middle East and North Africa was colonized by brittish and french. So, now he has ground to rise the New Totenkopf. Besides he has an historical advantage. He is in Iran, the true motherland of the nation once called Arians. Which Hitler used as the "fathers" of his religion. No matter that, in fact, he is much more a cousin to the mongols, as many Europeans. But this didn't stop him as it does not stop Akhmenijad. Truly, he tries to give a very "islamic" portrait of his views.

Muslims? How can Muslims dare to make the "Sieg Heil" salute? How can they dare to copy the SS style and behaviour? That can be seen today on the pictures and video shots, specially among so called shiite partisans. I shall note, shiites have nothing to do with it. Ali would curse these people for the whole Eternity and beyond. Because what these people are doing is the very same reincarnation of Evil itself. Hassan al Sabakh and his Assassins did not dare to rise the apolegeptics of Death, the way these guys are doing. These ones are rising the spectre of the Totenkopf, the Dead Head.

Who made them? Israel. If there is someone to kick, Israel can kick itself on his back. They were the hand the fed the monster wishing to destroy them. Because there was no need to distort the past. And there was no need to overdrive. But they did it. They overdrive the "reason" of their existence. The they overdrive their own existence for the last half century.

Yes, no matter the errors, the Beast shall be destroyed. There is no doubts on this. Before it comes strong enough to build its first "Temple" in the homeland of Moloch, there is a utter need to drive it to its knees. But, does that mean Israel keeps the right to overdrive? That it can bomb at his will what comes to its hand? No, because that's feeding the beast even more. She does not need Israel, she needs dead. And, while Israel will feed them, they will be satisfied.

Qana is the hallmark of Israel's overdrive. People died there. How? How many? When? By who? These are questions that shall be answered. No matter the details, Israel has its blame on the events, even if Hezbollah blowed the people there. Because it was Israel who started the war on a all-scale overdrive, not Hezbollah. These provoked it, but Israel went out in a way that was too much wide and wild. There was a moment when they could have put all Western Asia afire. Fortunately, among the Islamic world there are not only hot heads but also reasonable people.

Anyway there were vicitms at Qana. Someone did it and has to pay for it. However the overdrivers came and started a campaign that reaches a level as if there was no Qana's tragedy at all. Yes, someone may have grounds to consider that someone "advertized" the tragedy. Yes, it is correct to bash such people. But that, does not gives anyone the right to forget the victims. Doing it is the same as keeping the Holocaust overdrive. Which will bring us to people who will claim that Qana was either completely wiped out, or there was no such city at all. And which will take us into the point when someone pushes a new trigger fully convinced he will not pay for the consequences.

Today Akhmenijad's accolytes think that way. Today, they opened the "Holocaust caricatures" museum. While I consider that Israel has a duty to look at the mirror for bringing things to this level, still, I sound the warning that is rumbling, today, in Russia:

"The events of the Great Patriotic War are not to be questioned..."

Hope these guys understand the meaning...

Blockbuster

An Oscar for Mr. North. He made the script of his life...
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/08/corruption-of-media.html

Oooops, before getting an oscar he needs to pass the critics, right?

So, let's help Mr. North getting it...

"Act 1, scene 1"
The first photo is new for me. So I ain't gonna comment it for now.
Second photo, yes there are signs of posing. Besides Green Helmet is looking straight at the objective. But whoever is there, the only person making good-looking faces is Green Helmet.
Well, that's a step near to the Oscar

"Act 1 scene 2"
I commented already on this one. No changes... Oscar? Hmmmm...

"Act 1 scene 3"
This time Mr. North seems to have the sequence right. However he doesn't see anything.

On first photo people seem arguing and the older guy seems quite somber. The "stripped tee-shirt man" (with army trousers btw, look further) is not conforting our Green Helmet but giving a quite expectant look towards the baby and the older man. Yes, Green Helmet seems to give some drama here. But, again he seems solo.

On second photo Green Helmet is showing drama. Right. However, Mr. North, is your budget really that bad? You cannot even buy an average monitor? Green Helmet is not looking at the camera. His eyes go straight to the baby (maybe he is afraid of another dust shower like the one Mr. North missed completely at his Act 1, scene 2?)

On third photo both men look surprised, they look above their heads and seem to listen to someone. Anyway all things show they are facing something they didn't expect. Btw, note the army trousers on "stripped tee-shirt man".

Oscar... Oscar... Ahhh Oscar... Well, sometimes, such scripts get Oscars...

"Act two"
I already commented it but, there are a few new pictures and one thing I forgot before. Mr. North! Is your budget that HORRIBLE?! You can't buy even a monocle??? The sleeves you jerk, the sleeves... I ain't even talking about the color of the shirt. Or her face... But the sleeves you idiot. That's like dressing pink shorts on Chewbacca for the last scene...

Ok, for the moment you don't get an Oscar. But I think Holywood can hire you for "Plan 9's" remake...

More to follow(TM - Mr. North)...

Isn't a Festival?

Mr. North does love his cinematogrpahic terms... And loves scriptwriting... He shall contact Green Helmet... They would make the blockbuster of the season...

Yes... He "forgot" his timings... The chronometer stopped working. But that doesn't stop him... For example:

"Clearly, these are not simultanous shots taken from different vantage points. They are posed separately, the two photographers each being given their own unique shots."
Act 1, Scene 2
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/08/corruption-of-media.html

The body was posed... No doubts about that. Staged? Give me a break! One guy did here a thing that he cannot repeat. Ever. Even if he is the Houdini of Hezbolywood camera tricks. Even if the man worked for Lucas, Spielberg and Hitchcock for all life. It is impossible to do the same thing, under the same conditions and know every corner of what is going on around. Impossible.

The true sequence of shots:

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4640/388/320/green%20helmet%20004.jpg
almost instantaneous
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4640/388/320/Reuters%20Qana%2002.jpg
1-2 seconds
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4640/388/320/qana%20victim%2001.jpg

However:
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4640/388/1600/dead%20baby%20afp.jpg
This one is more difficult. The damn watermark blows things a little bit. Besides "Doctor" Hajj also spoils things with his doctoring. Anyway, it is a few seconds from the sequence. Probably it comes up first. However on feature doesn't fit well. It could be after those shots.

So, while we can see a clear posing, I would stop quite far from staging claims. Apart of showing the body, this is the most natural sequence one can see. So natural that makes me wonder if Mr. North came from other dimension in the Universe...

Why?.. Pick the pictures and do the homework. You don't want? Want: "now see here, see there... now look here, now let's go there"? Bow the Cow pal... This ain't the butcher's alley. I don't lead people. I show only the way to go...

KEYNOTES: "Milking it?"

Well here it goes.

KEYNOTES: "Milking it?"

The work is presently divided on three parts. The first one is complete, the second needs some retouches on language and the third is very raw for the moment.

I publish it in its present status and completely as I think that people shall have a value of Mr. North's analysis. As Mr. North readies another "revealing" analysis, I decided it is time to publish my stuff before more snake oil comes up. I know that I don't have the reach this guy has, but I hope that some will think twice before reading another "analysis" from this guy.

Frankly when I finished part one of my work something come to my mind. A feeling of "Los Alamos syndrome": what we have done?..

Years ago we, big average and small guys pushed for the Internet. On my little corner there were also bitter fights. We fought for a more dynamic technology, we fought for a much more flexible network, we fought for a more free network. We fought against pitty commercialists and wild anarchists. We fought against the State and against the uber-liberalists. We fought against secret services and against hackers, terrorists, crooks and thieves. We didn't allow anyone to win, however we gave everyone the Internet.

Today, I have an uneasy feeling that I am like a small Los Alamos scientist... "What have we done?" We believed that the Internet would give information to the people. We thought that people would grow up a little bit more. However Internet fell. Today Internet users are not people who finished or nearly finished University. It is people that barely finished school. It is not people who can work with computers. It is people that barely knows what is a computer. It is not people with a little of technical litteracy. It is people completely illiterate on nearly everything. For them, Internet is not a library of knowledge. It is a Temple of Information. Which some people smartly and wisely use to reach the masses.

That's how Mr. North gets his "five minutes of glory". This "Think Tank reputed member", draws up a story out of nothing, lacking the very bit of literacy to do it well, and people go for him. And the media reaches him and claims that he is an "expert" or even a "professional photographer". Because the media is made of people "no less" literate than Mr. North's...

Yes, some things do help Mr. North... There are fakes, there are stagings there is a infowar running around. But Mr. North got it from the wrong side. However the media seems to have an interest on it...

Anyway, no matter the clear interests of the media and Mr. North, one thing is amazing. People are eating it... In big pieces. And they seem to want more and more... Aleluhia Mr. North, give us more of your "information"...

It gives me a strange feeling I am one of those who created the Bomb... And gave it to Mr. North in a Christmas package...

Yes, I'm going against Mr. North. And I know that I am right. More right than anything else. People may think: "Oh well it is your position, anyway information is relative..." Yes, it is relative. So, some may consider that Mr. North is right while others say I am... So we came into a problem of faith: "Why you don't believe..." And we seem we get stuck here...

But there is a problem. I can deny everything. I can deny Qana, the tragedy, the bodies, the pain, the staging, the show, the people and the media. I can deny the war, Lebanon, Israel, the US, Russia, the World and the Universe. I can deny Socrates, Marx, Christ, the Prophet, God, Allah, Buddha and every Devil Mankind ever imagined or believes. I can even deny the very Existence of everything...

But I cannot deny one thing. It is so deeply embedded on us that cannot deny it, wether he believes on Science, Religion or whatever. There is one thing it is undeniable on our World. So undeniable that we cannot prove neither deny it, yet we all know it exists. And it is the only demonstration of reality that no one can ignore. What follow us from the very start of existence until our death and beyond. What follows everything we see and tells us what is Present, Past and Future.

On his work, Mr. North denied it... So I keep the hunt. Because:

"Those who trade Reality for a bit of Faith, loose their Right to Existence..."

I will not be among them...