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Sure, we live in a system of unequal justice, but what are you going to do about it, peasants?


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2019 Aug 17, 7:59am   505 views  1 comment

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L’affaire Epstein. Boy, do I feel as if I have been played. Look at this diagram. And I insist you look before continuing with this text. Again, go here and scroll down to the large yellow diagram. See the hyoid and the other neck bones, as in the sum total of neck bones?

Now look yet again at the Washington Post account, which was one of the better earlier ones, on the initial Epstein autopsy. This is the first part of the headline: Autopsy finds broken bones in Jeffrey Epstein’s neck. This is the top of the story:

An autopsy found that financier Jeffrey Epstein suffered multiple breaks in his neck bones, according to two people familiar with the findings, deepening the mystery about the circumstances around his death.

Among the bones broken in Epstein’s neck was the hyoid bone, which in men is near the Adam’s apple.

The story unambiguously says there more than one bone broken, as opposed to multiple breaks to the hyoid bone.

Go look at the diagram again. What are the other bones in the neck? The only other bones are all vertebrae, C-1 though C-7. What kind of force do you think it takes to break one of them versus the hyoid? Yet all the attention was directed to what it might mean to break the relatively thin hyoid, and not the spine. And I didn’t even bother looking at what bones there are in the neck. Lordie. No wonder Espstein’s attorneys aren’t buying the medical examiner’s findings. Google confirms my suspicions in 30 seconds:

Cervical spine injuries in suicidal hanging without a long-drop–patterns and possible underlying mechanisms of injury: an autopsy study.

The incidence of cervical spine injuries in suicidal hangings with a short-drop has been reported to be extremely low or non-existent. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency and pattern of cervical spine injuries in suicidal hanging.

METHODS: A retrospective autopsy study was performed and short-drop suicidal hanging cases with documented cervical spine injuries were identified. This group was further analyzed with regard to the gender and age of the deceased, the position of the ligature knot, the presence of hyoid-laryngeal fractures, and the level of cervical spine injury.

RESULTS: Cervical spine injuries were present in 25 of the 766 cases, with an average age of 71.9 ± 10.7 years (range 39-88 years). In 16 of these 25 cases, the ligature knot was in the anterior position. The most common pattern of cervical spine injury included partial or complete disruption of the anterior longitudinal ligament and widening of the lower cervical spine disk spaces, associated with absence of hyoid-laryngeal fractures.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24652079

And note these were still “short-drop suicidal hangings.” According to the Wall Street Journal, the examiner didn’t give any commentary:

In a brief statement, Barbara Sampson, the chief medical examiner in New York City, said Mr. Epstein’s cause of death was suicide by hanging. She didn’t elaborate further, saying she reached her determination after “careful review of all investigative information.”

Perhaps the Washington Post account about multiple bones being broken was incorrect, even thought it came from two sources. That would make the obsession with the hyoid bone at the expense of the cervical vertebrae make sense. However, given that “broken bones” was in the headline, you would think someone would have asked for a correction if such a key point were wrong, particularly, as this discussion indicates, where that factoid takes you. That part of the account is still being treated as accurate with respect to the broken bones; The Hill replayed that part in its write-up of the medical examiner’s findings on Friday.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/08/links-8-17-19.html

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1   Ceffer   2019 Aug 17, 10:36am  

Faceless, nameless, unpeopled, uninterviewed, un-indicted, un-facted, un-time-lined, unknown, un-videoed, murky, sketchy, vague, childish excuses, scenarios only an idiot would fall for. A general prison head, a muscle bound cop cellmate, a public coroner, a random shill (Baden) and a victim are the only named players? With Bill Barr, the Great Anesthesiologist, Dissuader, and Cover Up Artist of the CIA and Deep State at the helm, whose law firm actually defended Epstein and whose father hired Epstein for the original school stint. Barr probably admires Epstein.

Whatever possessed Trump to hire this hack for AG? The legacy press came up with lots of detailed story boards and names when they were promoting the fake Trump scenarios in Russia. Now, docile dim sheep flaking the waters according to their masters' agendas.

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