Verifying News - An example using photo forensics Part 1.

Mass murder, exploitation, stealth & proxy rape of entire nations. To be enshrined in halls of psychopaths. Bye Bye Obama.

USAID supplied the "White Helmets" who are not the "Syrian Civil Defense" as they say, but a group of jihadis embedded with Al Nusra, ISIS and other religious fanatics whom at least $23,000,000 of USAID money have done their best to turn North Africa and the Middle East into a wasteland.

One of my endeavors has been to verify photographs of the embedded white helmets and other propaganda tools showing them involved in criminal behavior. I don't generally post the verification process. But with all the false news, propaganda and lies, I wanted to include my process in a blog available to the general public.

OK, here is a typical photo from twitter:

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The only information is that the person in the foreground is a "White Helmet" and here he is being photographed with two Syrian Army POWs who were executed by Al Nusra. Executing POW's is a war crime.

Al Nusra is a designated jihadi terrorist group, many of who are foreign mercenaries. They control what western media like to call the "moderate rebels" which haven't existed in the past three or four years. Al Nusra is actually Al Qaedah in Syria, even though they change their name. For all they are supported by USA, NATO, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, their political/religious program is not any different than ISIS.

It appears that the foreground subject is somehow sitting in the back of a minivan. I can see right off from this photo that it has a wierd composition, very bright on the left, quite dark on the right. There are three obvious strangnesses: Top arrow shows the roof bar with a definite straight line break between brightness, middle arrow shows a possibly anomylous shadow, and bottem arrow shows that the foreground person was not pasted on because one can see, even at poor quality, the hairs on his beard with background showing trough.

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I became frustrated and did a search for original posting of the photograph on tineye to do forensic analysis. One of my favorites is https://29a.ch/photo-forensics/#error-level-analysis

The first test is called "Error Level Analysis", There are ways to tweak it, moving sliders back and forth to see if anything anonylous appears. In this case I am showing you ELA 50ES 20HE 0.82

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As you can see, the logo in the upper right (white) was pasted directly on the photo, but only after the photo had been posted, reposted etc. many times as can be seen by the logo in the upper left (still visibly pasted on though rather dim except the bottom row). By using the original photo posting we cannot see the anomalies I was checking from the twitter photo.

Next, Noise Analysis with the following settings: NA NA45 EH MEACC O.91

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Once again we see the differetiation of the upper right logo, semi differentiation of the upper right logo and this time a lot of noise on the three people, but more or less random, instead of delineated into any sort of obviously pasted manner.

At this point of time I will say that even though the twitter posting had anomalies, the original posting appears to be genuine. But lets try one more test!

This one is called "Principal Component Analysis" with a setting of PCE IC MD C2 L I EEH O.69 Once again, on this third test there is not a single anomaly that suggests a composite, i.e. no crop-lines. Everything blends perfectly except the logos.

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I can therefore that the photo has a very high liklihood that it is genuine, a conclusion I may not have reached using the posted and reposted awful quality twitter feed photo.

(To be continued) Part II. Who and what sort of USAID supported "White Helmet" person is in the foreground. (See next essay later).

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In the next part, I will be documenting horrific war crimes committed by USA supported "White Helmets" supported by US AID and European charities. The "White Helmets" were actually nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

The documentation of their crimes is sickening. So, while you all detail USA politics, allow a Bolivian socialist to, I hope, broaden perspective. Without the point of view of the people effected by policies, I don't think there is understanding of the horror the USA has brought to us.

With this essay I wanted everyone to understand that I go to great lengths to verify what I post. I am not simply repeating shit I heard on USA, Syrian, Russian, Palestinian, Israeli, Kurdish, UK or whoever media. They all are lying to greater or lesser degree.

I will tell you another thing. Us folks who aren't USA citizens are bored silly with USA politics which, unfortunately, often dominate our news feeds. To most of us Trump, Clinton, Obama, McCain, all the corporate state pieces of shit who run the USA government are Chucky dolls.

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interesting way to verify the photos. I knew there had to be a technique...thanks for the lesson. I wish I could say I was looking forward to part 2, but this Syria charade disgust me. However, I'll read it. Thanks for your research.

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