The Strange World of Jeffrey Epstein

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They found him dead right?

JimbobJones wrote:Clintons do seem to have a long list of dead witnesses and associates. It certainly would not appear beyond them to silence another troublesome stoolpigeon. But we need to look behind the curtain to see this entire blackmail op for what it was. We know WHAT it was. We can have a good idea WHO it was by asking who BANKROLLED it? Who was controlling Jeffrey Epstein? Jeffrey Epstein did not bankroll it. Who was always there actually running things? This operation was too big, he was just the front man, earmarked for the position years ago. So, what tiny over represented country benefits from blackmailing World Leaders to get what they want?...

This is an attempt to suggest that the state of Israel is somehow 'bankrolling' Epstein and there are some who have suggested that Israel killed Epstein. The word 'Mossad' was mentioned on CMOMM just a few days ago.

Mossad, the Israeli secret service, is admittedly a unit that aggressively defends Israel's interests. I do not mean to defend everything Mossad does, but the extent to which people demonise Mossad \and accuse it of such things as organising the 9/11 Twin Towers attack is getting well out of hand. 

Israel is not that wealthy. It is suffering because of the BDI campaign which wants companies world wide to disinvest in Israel and boycott its products.

Had World War II not ended in 1945, millions more Jews might have been killed. Anti-Semitism was rampant in many European countries and had been for decades if not centuries. After the Ottoman Empire, Germany's ally in World War I, was defeated, Jews began to return to the British Mandate of Palestiine. 

By 1947 there was world-wide agreement, apart from a few Arab majority states, that the Jews should be given a very small part of Israel to set up an independent Jewish state. They declared independence in 1948, which the Arabs then, and now, called a 'Catastrophe'. Instead of quietly accepting this, the Arab states mounted a war against the tiny new state but lost out to superior Jewish forces.

In 1967 the Jewish state was again attacked by the Arab states in the 'Six Day War'. The Arab states were again routed, leading to Israel occupying the territory they do now.

Except that they handed back the entire Sinai peninsula back to Egypt in exchange for a peace agreement, and Gaza back to the Palestinians in exchange for a promise of peace from Hamas. That didn't work out well; Hamas keeps on mounting rocket attacks on CIVILIAN settlements in Israel. When Israel retaliates, Hamas deliberately houses its forces and armaments in hospitals and schools, thus inflating the casualty figures.

Today Israel is surrounded by Arab states who want to 'obliterate' and 'exterminate' Israel. Palestinians train their children from toddler age upwards to hate and want to kill Jews. 

Israel is the only democratic state in the region. It has advanced mankind in so many fields...medicine and computers among many.

Israel's not to blame for either funding Jeffrey Epstein or killing him (if this wasn't suicide).

Please do not let us on this forum - unlike Corbyn's Labour Party - start the 'Blame the Jews' game that so many play this day.

Autopsy of Epstein performed, but details yet to be released



JIM MUSTIAN, MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO

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NEW YORK (AP) — The details of how Jeffrey Epstein died in his Manhattan jail cell over the weekend have yet to be released, but medical officials have performed an autopsy on the high-profile inmate accused of sexually abusing underage girls.

Epstein's abrupt death Saturday cut short a criminal prosecution that could have pulled back the curtain on the inner workings of a high-flying financier with [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] to celebrities and presidents, though prosecutors have vowed to continue investigating.

Epstein, 66, had been denied bail and faced up to 45 years behind bars on federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges unsealed last month. He had pleaded not guilty and was awaiting trial.

New York City's chief medical examiner Dr. Barbara Sampson said in a statement that the autopsy on Epstein was performed Sunday. She did not release a determination, saying it was "pending further information."

Sampson said a federal prosecutor was aware that she allowed a private pathologist, Dr. Michael Baden, to observe the examination at the request of Epstein's lawyers. "This is routine practice," she said.

Baden was the city's chief medical examiner in the late 1970s and has been called as an expert witness in high-profile cases including by the defense at O.J. Simpson's 1994 murder trial.

A longtime pathologist said it's not unusual that Sampson didn't immediately release a cause of death after performing Epstein's autopsy.

"They don't want to jump to conclusions or rush to judgment," said Dr. Joe Cohen, who worked at the New York City medical examiner's office in the 1990s and is now in private practice in California.

The [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] remains a mystery, but guards on his unit were working extreme overtime shifts to make up for staffing shortages the morning of his apparent suicide, a person familiar with the jail's operations told The Associated Press.

The person said that the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Special Housing Unit was staffed with one guard working a fifth-straight day of overtime and another who was working mandatory overtime. The person wasn't authorized to discuss jail operations publicly and spoke Sunday on the condition of anonymity.

Epstein had been placed on suicide watch after he was found a little over two weeks ago with bruising on his neck, according to the person familiar with the matter. But he was taken off the watch at the end of July and therefore wasn't on it at the time of his death, the person said.

Epstein's removal from suicide watch would have been approved by both the warden of the jail and the facility's chief psychologist, said Jack Donson, a former prison official who worked for the Bureau of Prisons for more than two decades.
Last week, more than 2,000 pages of documents were released, related to a since-settled lawsuit against Epstein's ex-girlfriend by Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's accusers. The [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] against Epstein, as well as the transcript of a 2016 deposition of Epstein in which he repeatedly refused to answer questions to avoid incriminating himself.

Epstein's July 6 arrest drew national attention, particularly focusing on a deal that allowed him to plead guilty in 2008 to soliciting a minor for prostitution in Florida and avoid more serious federal charges.

His lawyers maintained that the new charges in New York were covered by the 2008 plea deal and that Epstein hadn't had any illicit contact with underage girls since serving his 13-month sentence in Florida.

The federal investigation into the allegations remains ongoing, U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said. He noted in a statement Saturday that the indictment against Epstein includes a conspiracy charge, suggesting others could face charges in the case.

U.S. authorities have said Epstein also had a residence in Paris and used a fake Austrian passport to travel to France in the 1980s. The French government called for prosecutors to open an investigation into Epstein's links to France, with the secretaries of state for women's rights and protecting children releasing a statement Monday.

The statement said it was "fundamental" to launch an investigation in France so that Epstein's death "doesn't deprive the victims of the justice they deserve" and to protect other girls from "this kind of predator."

The Paris prosecutor's office did not immediately comment.


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Tony Bennett wrote:

Mossad, the Israeli secret service, is admittedly a unit that aggressively defends Israel's interests. I do not mean to defend everything Mossad does, but the extent to which people demonise Mossad \and accuse it of such things as organising the 9/11 Twin Towers attack is getting well out of hand.

Sorry Tony... I know you probably have Christian beliefs invested in the existence of Israel.

But... google "9/11 dancing Israelis".... at the minimum Mossad knew it was happening.

Also Christopher Bollyn seems to be on the right track as regards 9/11.

Israel is not a force for good in the world.

The opposite.

BlueBag wrote:

Sorry Tony... I know you probably have Christian beliefs invested in the existence of Israel.

But... google "9/11 dancing Israelis".... at the minimum Mossad knew it was happening.

Also Christopher Bollyn seems to be on the right track as regards 9/11.

Israel is not a force for good in the world.

The opposite.

Sorry Tony... I know you probably have Christian beliefs invested in the existence of Israel.

REPLY:  I concede this is true. I believe the Jewish nation began when God called Abraham away from his family in Haran and chose him to found the nation of Israel in the land of Canaan. Despite the favours God showed the Jews, notably rescuing them from virtual slavery in Egypt, parting the Red Sea for them and conducting them to the Promised Land, etc., they have often done wicked things. And for those things God punished them >> exile to Assyria >> exile to Babylon >> destruction of Jerusalem AD 70

Israel is not a force for good in the world.    


REPLY:  See this list of Israeli achievements and inventions in the last 70 years 


From Wikipedia
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LIST OF ISRAELI INVENTIONS
 
Mathematics

Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma, a mathematical result concerning low-distortion embeddings of points from high-dimensional into low-dimensional Euclidean space contributed by Joram Lindenstrauss.

Development of the measurement of rigidity by Elon Lindenstrauss in ergodic theory, and their applications to number theory.[2]

Proof of Szemerédi's theorem solved by Hillel Furstenberg

Expansion of axiomatic set theory and the ZF set theory by Abraham Fraenkel.

Development of the area of automorphic forms and L-functions by Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro.[3][4]

Development of Sauer–Shelah lemma and Shelah cardinal.

Development of the first proof of the alternating sign matrix conjecture.

Development of Zig-zag product of graphs, a method of combining smaller graphs to produce larger ones used in the construction of expander graphs by Avi Wigderson.

Development of Bernstein–Sato polynomial and proof of the Kazhdan–Lusztig conjectures by Joseph Bernstein

Generalization of the marriage theorem by obtaining the right transfinite conditions for infinite bipartite graphs. He subsequently proved the appropriate versions of the Kőnig theorem and the Menger theorem for infinite graphs by Ron Aharoni.

Development of the Amitsur–Levitzki theorem by Shimshon Amitsur.

Science

Chemistry

Model of quasicrystals, discovered by Nobel prize winner Dan Shechtman of the Technion
Discovery of quasicrystals by Dan Shechtman of the Technion.[5] The discovery led him to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[6]

Discovery of the role of protein Ubiquitin by Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover of the Technion Institute (together with the American biologist Irwin Rose). The discovery led them to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[7][8]

Development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems by Arieh Warshel and Michael Levitt of the Weizmann Institute of Science (presently at University of Southern California and Stanford University, respectively), together with the Austrian-born American chemist Martin Karplus. The discovery led them to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[9]

Physics

See also: Category:Jewish physicists

Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation

Prediction of Quarks by Yuval Ne'eman of Tel Aviv University (together with the American physicist Murray Gell-Mann).[10]

Discovery of the Aharonov–Bohm effect by Yakir Aharonov and David Bohm.[11]

Formulation of Black holes Entropy by Jacob Bekenstein of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[12][13]

Optics

World's smallest video camera – a camera with a 0.99 mm (0.039 in) diameter, designed to fit in a tiny endoscope designed by Medigus.[14]

Development of the "Pillcam" by Given Imaging, the first Capsule endoscopy solution to record images of the digestive tract. The capsule is the size and shape of a pill and contains a tiny camera.[15]

Line free single power bicentric prismatic spectacle lens for correction of anisometropia. Sydney J. Bush UK patent no. 1539381.

Medicine

Pillcam endoscopic capsule developed by Given Imaging

Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation – a notation system for recording movement on paper that has been used in many fields, including dance, physical therapy, animal behavior and early diagnosis of autism.[16]

Development of Azilect, a drug for Parkinson's disease, by Moussa Youdim and John Finberg from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, and commercialized by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries.

Development of the Copaxone immunomodulator drug for treating multiple sclerosis. It was developed in the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel by Michael Sela, Ruth Arnon and Deborah Teitelbaum.[17][18]

Development of the Interferon proteins by Michel Revel from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.[19]

Development of taliglucerase alfa (Elelyso), a recombinant glucocerebrosidase enzyme produced from transgenic carrot cell cultures.[20] Taliglucerase alfa won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug 

Administration in May 2012 as an orphan drug for the treatment of Type 1 Gaucher's disease.[21]

Development of Chimeric Antigen Receptor

Economics

Work of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem explaining irrational human economic choices.[22] The work led Daniel to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics.[23]

Developments in Game theory. Israel Aumann of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem received the 

Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in this field.[24]

The Rubinstein bargaining model, one of the most influential findings in game theory, refers to a class of bargaining games that feature alternating offers through an infinite time horizon. The proof is from Ariel Rubinstein 1982.[25]

Biotechnology

See also: List of Jewish American biologists and physicians

Nanowire – a conductive wire made of a string of tiny particles of silver, a thousand times thinner than a human hair. Developed by Uri Sivan, Erez Braun and Yoav Eichen from the Technion.[26]

World's smallest DNA computing machine system – "the smallest biological computing device" ever constructed, according to Guinness Book of Records, which is composed of enzymes and DNA molecules capable of performing simple mathematical calculations and which uses its input DNA molecule as its sole source of energy. Developed in 2003 in the Weizmann Institute of Science by professor Ehud Shapiro and his team.[27][28]

Theoretical computer science

The concept of nondeterministic finite automatons, introduced by Michael O. Rabin[29]

Amir Pnueli introduced temporal logic into computing science

Lempel–Ziv–Welch algorithm, a universal lossless data compression algorithm created by Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv of the Technion institute, together with the American Information theorist, Terry Welch.[30]

RSA public key encryption, introduced by Adi Shamir with Ron Rivest, and Leonard Adleman[31]
Differential cryptanalysis, co-invented by Adi Shamir[citation needed]
Shamir's Secret Sharing, invented by Adi Shamir[citation needed]

Computing

Computer hardware

USB flash drive, originally marketed as the DiskOnKey

USB flash drive – a flash memory data storage device integrated with a USB interface. The Israeli company M-Systems (in partnership with IBM) developed and manufactured the first USB flash drives available in North America.[32] This claim is challenged by multiple companies in the following four countries who also independently developed USB technology: Singapore (Trek Technology), the People's Republic of China (PRC) (Netac Technology) and the Republic of China (Taiwan). See USB Flash drive § Patent controversy.

The Intel 8088 – the first PC CPU from IBM that was designed in Israel, at Intel's Haifa laboratory.
Quicktionary Electronic dictionary – a pen-sized scanner able to scan words or phrases and immediately translate them into other languages, or keep them in memory in order to transfer them to the PC. Developed by the company Wizcom Technologies Ltd.[33]

Laser Keyboard – virtual keyboard is projected onto a wall or table top and allows to type handheld computers and cell phones. Developed simultaneously by the Israeli company Lumio and Silicon Valley startup company Canesta.[34][35][36][37] The company subsequently licensed the technology to Celluon of Korea.[38]

TDMoIP (TDM over IP) − in telecommunications, the emulation of time-division multiplexing (TDM) over a packet switched network (PSN), developed by engineers at RAD Data Communications[39]
the first Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) based PC to Phone software solution – developed by VocalTec.

Computer and mobile software

Babylon, a single-click computer translation, dictionary and information source utility program, developed by Amnon Ovadia.[40]

GetTaxi, an application that connects between customers and taxi drivers using the its proprietary GPS system, enabling users to order a cab either with their smartphone or through the company's website. It was founded by Israeli entrepreneurs Shahar Waiser and Roi More.[41]

ICQ, an Instant Messaging software developed initially in 1996 by the Israeli company Mirabilis[42] and later procured by AOL.

Mobileye, vision-based advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) providing warnings for collision prevention and mitigation.[43] Many companies developing autonomous vehicles, such as BMW, rely on Mobileye's technology.

OrCam MyEye, is a portable, artificial vision device that allows the visually impaired to understand text and identify objects through audio feedback describing what such people are unable to see.[44]
Umoove, a high-tech startup company that invented a software only solution for face and eye tracking is located in Israel.[45]

Viber, a proprietary cross-platform instant messaging voice-over-Internet Protocol application for smartphones.[46] Developed by American-Israeli entrepreneur Talmon Marco, Viber reached 200 million users in May 2013.

Waze, a GPS-based geographical navigation application program for smartphones with GPS support and display screens, which provides turn-by-turn information and user-submitted travel times and route details, downloading location-dependent information over the mobile telephone network.[47] Waze Ltd., which was founded in 2008 in Israel by Uri Levine, software engineer Ehud Shabtai and Amir Shinar, and is now available in over 100 countries, was acquired by Google for a reported $1.1 billion.[citation needed]

WeCU (pronounced 'We See You') Technologies, is a technology able to pickup, analyze, and identify people in real time. WeCU is being implemented in airports around the world to help identify potential terrorists.[48][49]

Wix.com

Robotics

ReWalk a bionic walking assistance system that enables paraplegics to stand upright, walk and climb stairs.

Development of robotic guidance system for spine surgery by Mazor Robotics.

Defense

IMI Tavor TAR-21

IMI Tavor TAR-21 is an Israeli bullpup assault rifle.

The Uzi submachine gun was developed by Maj. Uziel Gal in the 1950s.

Python a short-range air-to-air missile.

Desert Eagle a short range pistol.

Protector USV is an unmanned surface vehicle, developed by the Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. It is the first of its kind to be used in combat.[50]

Iron Dome – a mobile air defense system in development by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and 

Israel Aircraft Industries designed to intercept short-range rockets and artillery shells. On April 7, 2011, the system successfully intercepted a Grad rocket launched from Gaza, marking the first time in history a short-range rocket was ever intercepted.[51] 

The Iron Dome was later utilized more fully in the Israeli-Gaza conflict of 2012, where it displayed a very high rate of efficiency (95%–99%) in intercepting enemy projectiles. Further production of the Iron Dome system will be financed and supported by the United States government.[52]

Arrow 3 is an anti-ballistic missile defense system capable of shooting down ICBMs and other long range missiles.[53]

David's Sling is an air defense system capable of intercepting enemy planes, drones, tactical ballistic missiles, medium- to long-range rockets and cruise missiles. Along with Arrow 3 and the Iron Dome, it makes up Israel's defense "umbrella."[53]

MUSIC (Multi Spectral Infrared Countermeasure) – a system that counter surface-to-air heat-seeking missiles. It is manufactured by Elbit Systems.[54]

MagnoShocker – combines a metal detector and a taser to immediately neutralize a dangerous person, developed by the mathematician Amit Weissman and his colleagues Adir Kahn and Zvi Jordan.[55]
Wall radar – a unique radar utilizing Ultra Wide Band (UWB) to allow users to see through walls. 
Developed by the Israeli company Camro.[56]

Injured Personnel Carrier on YouTube A unique evacuation method developed by Israeli company Agilite Gear, comprises a strap allowing you to carry the wounded person on your back.
The Emergency Bandage is a first field dressing which can be applied and secured with one hand to prevent bleeding from battlefield injuries.[57]

Agriculture and breeding

Golden hamster – first domesticated for pet use by a Hebrew University of Jerusalem zoologist in 1930

Drip irrigation systems – The huge worldwide industry of modern drip irrigation all began when Israeli engineer Simcha Blass noticed a tree growing bigger than its neighbors in the Israeli desert, and found that it was fed by a leaking water pipe. Netafim, the company founded in 1965 to commercialize his idea, is recognized as the worldwide pioneer in smart drip- and micro-irrigation. It has revolutionized the agricultural industry.[58]

Hybrid cucumber seeds – In the 1950s, Prof. Esra Galun of the Weizmann Institute developed hybrid seed production of cucumbers and melons, disease-resistant cucumbers and cucumbers suitable for mechanical harvesting. Galun and his colleagues invented a technique for producing hybrid cucumber seeds without hand pollination.[59]

Grain cocoons – invented by international food technology consultant Professor Shlomo Navarro, the GrainPro Cocoons provide a simple and cheap way for African and Asian farmers to keep their grain market-fresh, as huge bags keep both water and air out, making sure the harvest is clean and protected even in extreme heat and humidity.[60]

Biological pest control – invented in Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu by a company called Bio-Bee, it breeds beneficial insects and mites for biological pest control and bumblebees for natural pollination in greenhouses and open fields. The company's top seller worldwide and especially in the U.S. is a two-millimeter-long, pear-shaped orange spider that is a highly efficient enemy of the spider mite, a devastating agricultural pest.[60]

AKOL – a Kibbutz-based company which gives low-income farmers the ability to get top-level information from professional sources.[60]

Reusable plastic trays – a Tal-Ya Water Technologies invention used to collect dew from the air, reducing the need to water crops by up to 50 percent.[60]

"Zero-discharge" system – an invention of the Israeli GFA company which allows fish to be raised virtually anywhere by eliminating the environmental problems in conventional fish farming, without being dependent on electricity or proximity to a body of water.[60]

TraitUP – a new technology that enables the introduction of genetic materials into seeds without modifying their DNA, immediately and efficiently improving plants before they're even sowed. It was developed by Hebrew University agricultural scientists Ilan Sela and Haim D. Rabinowitch.[60]

Judean date palm – oldest seed ever to be revived, restoring an extinct cultivar

The Tomaccio cherry tomato was developed by several Israeli laboratories, the dominant ones being those led by Professor Nahum Keidar and Professor Chaim Rabinovitch from the Agriculture Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot Campus.[61][62]

Energy

Super iron battery – A new class of a rechargeable electric battery based on a special kind of iron. More environment friendly because the super-iron eventually rusts, it was developed by Stuart Licht.[63] of the University of Massachusetts.[64]

Consumer goods and appliances

Epilator

Epilator (originally "Epilady") – an electrical device used to remove hair by mechanically grasping multiple hairs simultaneously and pulling them out. It was developed and originally manufactured at 
Kibbutz HaGoshrim.[65][66]

Wonder Pot – a pot developed for baking on the stovetop rather than in an oven.[67]

Micronized coating instant hot water pipes developed by A.C.T.[68]

Games

Rummikub

Rummikub – a tile-based game for two to four players invented by Ephraim Hertzano.[69][70]


Hidato – a logic puzzle game invented by mathematician Gyora Benedek.[71]

Taki – an Israeli card game invented by Haim Shafir.[72][73]

Mastermind – an Israeli board game invented by Mordecai Meirowitz.

Guess Who? – a two-player guessing game invented by Theo & Ora Coster (a.k.a. Theora Design).

Food and drink

Ptitim, also called Israeli couscous worldwide, is a wheat-based baked pasta. It was initially invented during the austerity period in Israel when Rice and Semolina were scarce.

Safed cheese or Tzfat cheese is a semi-hard, salty cheese produced in Israel from sheep's milk. It was first produced by the Hameiri dairy in Safed in 1840 and is still produced there by descendants of the original cheese makers.

Jerusalem mixed grill is a grilled meat dish considered a specialty of Jerusalem. It consists of chicken hearts, spleens and livers mixed with bits of lamb cooked on a flat grill, seasoned with onion, garlic, juniper berries, black pepper, cumin, turmeric and coriander

Sabich is a sandwich, consisting of a pita stuffed with fried eggplant and hard-cooked eggs. Local consumption is said to have stemmed from a tradition among Mizrahi Jews, who ate it on Shabbat morning.

Karat Caviar is a Russian Osetra caviar brand farmed in the Golan and has won several international awards. The Russian Osetra fingerlings were imported from the Caspian Sea.[74][75]

Limonana is a lemonade enriched with spearmint leaves

Bamba (snack) is a peanut butter-flavored snack food manufactured by the Osem corporation in Holon, Israel.[76]

Water-Gen, is an Israeli developed device that offers a low cost method of turning air into water.[77][78][79][80]

Physical exercise

Aviva method

Feldenkrais

Krav Maga

Israel is not that wealthy? By whose standards? They seem pretty wealthy to me. The COUNTRY of Israel likes to project itself being poor as synagogue mice according to the accounts and there are a some very poor Israelis being kept in poverty. However, I expect the REAL ledgers are kept hidden down in the cellars well away from the light of day. Those Israelis who hold absurd "dual nationality" seem to be as rich as Croesus. Maybe the 77 BILLION DOLLARS received from the people of Germany in reparations has  something to do with it. Time they actually distributed it.

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In 2009, UNRWA's total budget was US$1.2 billion,

Nobody believes this was suicide. Nobody. The "deep state" or whatever you wanna call these criminals, don't care that nobody believes it was suicide, "they" want you to know that they killed him, they want you to know that nobody is safe from them. He was murdered, slam dunk certainty. Stop looking so hard. Don't overthink it.

PeterMac wrote:[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East)
In 2009, UNRWA's total budget was US$1.2 billion,

The Palestinians living inside the Palestinian Authority have been given far greater international financial support than most other suffering peoples. Since the signing of the Oslo Accord in 1993, the U.S. government has committed more than $1.3 billion in economic assistance to the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] and [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]. Since the end of 2000, Arab states have transferred to the PA monthly financial aid of $45 million (since April 2002 this sum was increased to $55 million). The EU transfers to the PA approximately $9 million monthly. By the end of 2001, the Palestinians had received $4 billion (the figure is now closer to $5.5 billion) since the 1993 Oslo agreements. This is the equivalent of $1,330 per Palestinian. By comparison, the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe after World War II provided $272 per European (in today's dollars).

These PA revenues do not include the $8-14 billion in assets the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] is believed to have accumulated over the years through drug trafficking, illegal arms dealing, money laundering, fraud, extortion, and legal investments.

We hear a great deal about the suffering of the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], but most of these refugees live in camps under the direct control of [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]. With all of these resources, why hasn’t he managed to build a single home for one refugee family? Where is all the money, and why hasn’t it been used to help the Palestinian people?

A 2003 report by the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] revealed that [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] diverted approximately $900 million from the PA Finance Ministry into secret accounts that he alone controlled. [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] ranked Arafat number 6 on a list of the richest “kings, queens, and despots” with a fortune of $300 million.

ALWAYS follow the money, and keep your eye on the squirrel.

We all know this 'relief' goes on AK47s, rockets and other material designed to kill Jews.

I think I'm correct in saying that NOT ONE Arab country has ever taken in even ONE Palestinian refugee - although some of them are among the wealthiest nations per capita on the planet

Sam S wrote:Nobody believes this was suicide. Nobody. The "deep state" or whatever you wanna call these criminals, don't care that nobody believes it was suicide, "they" want you to know that they killed him, they want you to know that nobody is safe from them. He was murdered, slam dunk certainty. Stop looking so hard. Don't overthink it.

All will never be revealed .

We will be force fed with anything but the truth - as always.

Jeffrey Epstein jail 'a gulag' in lower Manhattan

12 August 2019

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Questions are being asked how Jeffrey Epstein died in custody in New York while being held on sex trafficking charges. So what is the detention facility like where he spent his final days?

Built in 1975, the 12-story Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan - where the financier died in a suspected suicide on Friday night - holds around 800 people awaiting trial or sentencing at the federal court house just a few blocks away.

The brick building has detained such high-profile criminals as Mexican drug kingpin El Chapo, Gambino mafia crime boss John Gotti and World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef.

Like other federal prisons, the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) suffers from shortages of staff and resources, prisoner overcrowding and is plagued by violence and poor sanitary conditions.
The conditions

The jail was built to accommodate 474 inmates, but held 763 male prisoners at the time of Epstein's death, according to a statement from the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Prisoners have described seeing large rats in their cells, air conditioner units so noisy it is impossible to sleep, and absence of any natural light or sanitary water.

As he was sent down for the rest of his life, Mexican drug cartel leader Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán took the opportunity to call the place "torture".

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From left: Bernie Madoff, El Chapo and John Gotti have all spent time in the MCC

Since the government will send me to a jail where my name will not ever be heard again, I take this opportunity to say there was no justice here," he said at his sentencing in July.

"It has been psychological and mental torture 24 hours a day."

Brooklyn College professor Jeanne Theoharis, who has written extensively about MCC, told the Gothamist website in June that the jail resembles conditions found in countries such as "Iran or Russia".

Calling the place a "gulag", she described conditions as "filthy, freezing, no natural light, isolation so extreme that you're punished for speaking through the walls, absurd rules like prisoners not getting to see the newspapers unless they're 30 days old, secrecy so deep that people are force-fed".

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Lawyer Andrew Laufer, who is suing the US government after his client was beaten to death in MCC in 2015, says the Riker's Island prison, which is run by the city, is much more violent than MCC.

He says it's too early to know whether Epstein's wealth may have played a role in his death, amid speculation in the US that he could have bribed guards to be left alone.

He notes that other ultra-rich white collar criminals from Wall Street, only blocks away, are frequent guests of MCC, including Bernie Madoff who was arrested in 2008 for running a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme.

Mr Laufer says that more important than a client's profile or means is the crime itself and the publicity it receives in the media. Sex criminals like Epstein, he says, are more likely to face issues from other inmates, making it unusual that Epstein was not being more closely watched.
The staffing

A representative for workers at the jail told CBS News in New York that the Epstein death is not surprising. Staffing, the representative says, is "completely inadequate", with many workers putting in more than 60 hours per week leaving them "overwhelmed" and "not alert".

According to the Associated Press (AP), the jail is so under-staffed that correctional officers are being offered a $10,000 bonus to transfer there from other facilities.

Guards sometimes work 16 hours a day, according to the AP. A person familiar with the Epstein case told the news agency that a guard overseeing Epstein was working a fifth straight day of overtime - and another was working mandatory overtime - on the day the wealthy financier's body was found.

Staff shortages were worsened after a government shutdown triggered by a budget stand-off between the White House and Democrats over President Donald Trump's insistence on funding for a southern border wall.

n January, during the shutdown, inmates staged a hunger strike over claims they were being denied family visitation rights.

The Bureau of Prisons is already under scrutiny for the death of Boston gangster James Whitey Bulger, who was fatally beaten by another inmate shortly after arriving at a West Virginia lock-up last October.

In February 2018, a British court ruled against extraditing accused hacker Lauri Love - who is diagnosed with Aspergers syndrome and would have probably been held in the MCC - on the grounds that he would present a high-risk of suicide if he was sent there.

Hacking suspect wins extradition appeal

Where Epstein stayed

According to the New York Times, Epstein had recently been moved from suicide watch to the Special Housing Unit where he was meant to be on 24-hour monitoring and given daily psychiatric evaluations.

He was ordered there after he was found on the floor of his cell two weeks earlier with neck injuries, in an apparent attempted suicide.

According to the paper, two guards were meant to check on him every 30 minutes, but those procedures were not followed on the night of his death.

He was also meant to be housed with one other inmate, but his cellmate had reportedly been transferred and no replacement had yet arrived.

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The jail features a recreation yard on the roof

Mr Laufer, the lawyer, says CCTV captures what goes on in the Special Housing Unit, as well as for those prisoners being kept on suicide watch.

He says it's too early to know what contributed to Epstein's death, until an FBI investigation is complete, but either way the prison is facing a "grossly negligent situation".

Investigative reporter Aviva Stahl, who spent a year researching the conditions at MCC, found that the facility shared a single psychiatrist with the other federal prison in New York, the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, and only had a handful of psychologists on staff.

The two facilities had only one psychiatrist to oversee the more than 500 prisoners with diagnosed serious mental illnesses, she says, in addition to any prisoners that have been temporarily placed on suicide watch.

"When you're on suicide watch and a psychologist comes to speak with you, it's not as though you're in a private room having a conversation. It's like through a slot in the door," she tells BBC News.

Experts on prison safety say they are puzzled as to why Epstein, who had attempted to take his own life earlier, was not kept under closer watch.

Cameron Lindsey, a former warden at the federal jail in Brooklyn, told the Times that the psychological evaluation can only reveal so much about a prisoner's state of mind.

He said that the steady release of embarrassing and incriminating evidence against Epstein could have made him wish to kill himself, and that other prisoners would consider him a target due to his fame and the nature of his alleged crimes.

"A psychologist is going to think one way, but a warden needs to think a different way," said Mr Lindsey. "You have to take the conservative, safe route and keep an individual like this on suicide watch."

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Verdi wrote:

All will never be revealed...

Jesus Christ said this to His disciples (Luke 12 v 3):

“Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.” 

I believe this to be true. The Bible says that for all of us there will come a Day of Judgment when everything will be made known.

Jeffrey Epstein's secrets, the McCanns' secrets, Clarence Mitchell's secrets, yours and mine will all be revealed. 

If the story of what happened to Madeleine McCann isn't made known here on earth, I believe that on that Day of Judgment we shall find out the truth. 
   


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Tony Bennett wrote:

Verdi wrote:

All will never be revealed...

Jesus Christ said this to His disciples (Luke 12 v 3):

I didn't realise Jesus was a Freemason
 
I'll get me coat.

If anybody here thinks M O S S A D had nothing to do with this Jeffrey Epstein case they need to investigate a company called Carbyne. Believed to be one of your actual front companies for said gang of crooks, thugs and murderers. JE was one of less than a handful of major investors and just about everybody else involved in that shell company is M O S S A D.

And a bit less of the nauseating "Israel polishing" would be welcome on this board.

Autopsy finds broken bones in Jeffrey Epstein’s neck, deepening questions around his death

An autopsy found that financier Jeffrey Epstein sustained 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. Such breaks can occur in those who hang themselves, particularly if they are older, according to forensics experts and studies on the subject. But they are more common in victims of homicide by strangulation, the experts said.
The details are the first findings to emerge from the autopsy of Epstein, a convicted sex offender and multimillionaire in federal custody on charges of sex trafficking. He died early Saturday morning after guards found him hanging in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan and he could not be revived.
Attorney General William P. Barr, whose department oversees the Bureau of Prisons facility where Epstein died, has described his death as an “apparent suicide.” Justice officials declined to comment on the new information from Epstein’s autopsy.
The office of New York City’s chief medical examiner, Barbara Sampson, completed an autopsy of Epstein’s body Sunday. But Sampson listed the cause of his death as pending.
Asked about the neck injuries, Sampson said in a statement that no single factor in an autopsy can alone provide a conclusive answer about what happened.

“In all forensic investigations, all information must be synthesized to determine the cause and manner of death. Everything must be consistent; no single finding can be evaluated in a vacuum.”
The details add to the bizarre circumstances surrounding Epstein’s death, which have launched a wave of questions and conspiracy theories about how he could have died in federal custody. Even President Trump has egged on speculation, without evidence, that Epstein — whose alleged victims say they were pushed to have sex with his powerful and celebrity friends — might have been killed to keep him from spilling the secrets of others.
The revelation of Epstein’s neck injuries follows reports that officers at the Metropolitan Correctional Center broke protocol and failed to properly monitor him.
Corrections [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] on Epstein for “several” hours before he was found hanging in his cell, a person familiar with the matter said, one of a series of missteps in the hours leading up to his death.
Veteran prosecutors and law enforcement officials were shocked that one of the most high-profile inmates in the country wasn’t more carefully watched. Barr said over the weekend he was “appalled” at serious “irregularities” in jail protocol, and he later transferred the warden to another facility.
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The Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. (Mary Altaffer/AP)
People familiar with the autopsy, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitive stage of the investigation, said Sampson’s office is seeking additional information on Epstein’s condition in the hours before his death. That could include video evidence of the jail hallways, which may establish whether anyone entered Epstein’s cell during the night he died; results of a toxicology screening to determine if there was any unusual substance in his body; and interviews with guards and inmates who were near his cell.
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Jonathan L. Arden, president of the National Association of Medical Examiners, said a hyoid can be broken in many circumstances but is more commonly associated with homicidal strangulation than suicidal hanging.
Arden, who was not involved in the Epstein autopsy, said that in general, a finding of a broken hyoid requires pathologists to conduct more extensive investigation. That investigation can include analysis of the location of the noose, how narrow the noose is, and if the body experienced any substantial drop in the course of the hanging.
The age of the deceased is also important, Arden said. The hyoid starts out as three small bones with joint-like connections but hardens during middle age into a U-shape that can break more easily.
“If, hypothetically, the hyoid bone is broken, that would generally raise questions about strangulation, but it is not definitive and does not exclude suicidal hanging,” he said.
A handful of studies conducted over the past decade have produced conflicting results about the likelihood of a hyoid break in a suicide. In a study of 20 suicidal hangings in Thailand, published in 2010, one-fourth of the men who hanged themselves had broken hyoids. In a larger study of suicidal hangings of young adults and middle-aged people in India, conducted from 2010 to 2013, hyoid damage was found in just 16 of 264 cases, or 6 percent. The study addressed the discrepancies in academic reviews, saying wide variations in findings of hyoid breaks are “possibly due to factors like age of the victim, weight of the victim, type of suspension and height of suspension.”
Hyoid fractures have previously sparked controversy in jailhouse and other contentious deaths.
In 2008, Ronnie L. White, a teenager accused of killing a police officer, died of an apparent suicide in a suburban Washington jail cell. But two days later, the cause of death was changed to homicide when a Maryland state medical examiner discovered the teen had a broken hyoid.
The incident fanned racial tension and fueled conspiracy theories about the suspect’s death in Prince George’s County, Md.
Medical examiners concluded White was probably strangled with a sheet, towel or “crux of the elbow.” The officer who moved his body pleaded guilty to obstruction. But no one was ever charged in White’s death. A federal judge said in 2013 that it remained a mystery whether the inmate was slain or took his own life.
The hyoid bone played a central role in a heated dispute last year over another high-profile death in New York, that of Eric Garner. A New York police officer was accused of using an improper chokehold while trying to arrest Garner and of causing his death. A police officers’ association claimed that an autopsy from Sampson’s office found there was no break of Garner’s hyoid bone, and that this proved that the officer could not have strangled Garner and caused his death.
This “demonstrates conclusively that Mr. Garner did not die of strangulation of the neck from a chokehold,” the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association said.
But Sampson rejected that claim, saying she stood by her conclusion that Garner died of “compression of neck (chokehold), compression of chest and prone positioning during physical restraint by police.” Sampson’s office said Garner’s bronchial asthma, obesity and high blood pressure were contributing factors.
In a widely circulated video of the 2014 incident, the officer was seen grabbing Garner around the neck, pushing him and his face into the pavement. Garner is overheard pleading several times: “I can’t breathe.”
Two weeks later, Sampson’s office concluded the officer’s actions were the primary cause of his death.

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This post is from a retired police officer who also calls himself the Armchair Detective, so it's not Alan Vinnicombe

Epstein Update: Epstein’s Neck Broken in Multiple Places Pointing to Homicide, Experts Say.
The case of the disgraced billionaire financier and hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein is filled with so many strange circumstances, that even the most sceptical readers are having a difficult time believing the official story. Now, after more details have been released from the autopsy, that official story has become even less believable.
The autopsy found that Epstein suffered from multiple broken neck bones, which is not common in cases of suicide. In fact, the Washington Post reported that there were breaks to Epstein’s hyoid bone, which is an injury that experts say is more commonly seen in homicide victims.
An autopsy of Jeffrey Epstein found multiple broken bones in his neck, including fractures more common in strangulation victims, according to the Washington Post.
It is important to know that these details were leaked by someone close to the matter, but the medical examiner has not issued an official statement on the injuries.
On Sunday, Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Barbara Sampson issued a statement saying that further investigation would need to be done to determine the exact cause of death, but no mention of the injuries was made at the time. Sampson also announced that the private pathologist Dr. Michael Baden would be overseeing the autopsy. This choice sparked controversy, considering that Baden was also involved in the autopsies of Martin Luther King Jr. and John Kennedy, two cases that have long been associated with conspiracy theories.
Jonathan Arden, president of the National Association of Medical Examiners, told the Washington Post that the hyoid bone is near the Adam’s apple, and it is most common to see these types of breaks in cases of homicide.
“If hypothetically, the hyoid bone is broken, that would generally raise questions about strangulation, but it is not definitive and does not exclude suicidal hanging,” Arden, who was not involved with the autopsy, said.
(Basically in a hanging the neck is broken where the most resistance is, that is the knot to the noose and in Epstein’s case bed sheets.)
Studies have also shown that it is incredibly uncommon to break the hyoid bone in a hanging suicide. One study that examined hanging suicides in India between 2010 and 2013 found that hyoid damage occurred in only 16 of 264 cases, which is about 6%.
These numbers are staggering and show that there is just a 6% chance that he actually killed himself, considering those injuries.
If Epstein did not take his own life, then who killed him?
It was reported by CBS that screams were heard from Epstein’s cell that night. Suspiciously, the security camera that was tasked with monitoring the area malfunctioned at the time of his death as well.
Those close to Epstein, primarily his lawyers, said that he was so optimistic about the case that it almost appeared “delusional” to anyone who had read the news reports about him. Epstein was entirely convinced that he was going to be absolved of all charges and that he would be able to get the charges dismissed under a “double jeopardy” ruling.
After Epstein’s initial brush with death a few weeks into his stay in prison, he expressed that he was concerned about his well-being and that he didn’t feel safe in the prison. He never mentioned any kind of suicidal thoughts during his stay in prison either.
After Epstein was found dead, Attorney General William Barr said that there were “serious irregularities” at the jail where he was being held.
In a speech to a law enforcement group in New Orleans, Barr said that he was angry with the facility for their “failure to adequately secure” the prisoner.

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16 Aug 2019  
Exclusive: Met Police decided not to conduct full investigation into court claims of sex trafficking of girl in Prince Andrew photo

The Met Police decided not to conduct a ‘full investigation’ into allegations a 17 year old girl was trafficked as part of Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘sex ring.’

Channel 4 News can reveal that the Metropolitan Police began a review of “available evidence” in 2015 after receiving a complaint over claims in court papers that a girl was “forced to have sex with Prince Andrew”.
Channel 4 News also understands that lawyers for Virginia Roberts independently contacted the Metropolitan Police in 2016.
The Metropolitan Police said it “reviewed the available evidence” and decided that the matter “would not progress to a full investigation”.
It is not clear what constituted the available evidence.
The Met Police has refused to answer detailed questions about the allegations and whether they ever spoke to Epstein, his friend Ghislaine Maxwell, Prince Andrew or anyone from the Royal Household.
Prince Andrew has always denied “any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts”.
Tonight, lawyers for Virginia Roberts told Channel 4 News she is “hopeful” that “the London authorities will view the abuse she suffered while in London … as a serious investigative matter.”
In U.S court documents released last week, Virginia Roberts, now Giuffre, alleges that she was one of many girls and young women that were part of a sex trafficking network run by disgraced financier and paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell earlier this month.
In the court documents, Ms Roberts alleges that in 2001, aged 17, she was trafficked to the UK by Mr Epstein, accompanied by Ghislaine Maxwell, during which time she was “forced to have sexual relations with a member of the British Royal Family, Prince Andrew.”
A photo from early 2001, taken in a house believed to be that of Ghislane Maxwell, shows Prince Andrew with his arm around the bare waist of Virginia Roberts. Ms Maxwell is in the background of the photo.
These court documents contain various historical allegations made by Virginia Roberts, who says that she was subjected to repeated sexual abuse, sex trafficking and exploitation by Mr Epstein and his ‘sexual abuse ring’ from 1999 until 2002.
There is no suggestions that Prince Andrew was aware of any of Jeffrey Epstein’s activities.
A complaint to the police regarding the alleged sexual trafficking to the UK of Ms Roberts was received in 2015 from an unconnected third party.
Channel 4 News asked the Metropolitan Police a series of questions about Virginia Robert’s account of what she says happened to her at Maxwell’s London residence in early 2001.
The Met told Channel 4 News: “[We] can confirm that the Metropolitan Police Service [MPS] received an allegation of non-recent trafficking for sexual exploitation.
“The MPS reviewed the available evidence and the decision was made that this would not progress to a full investigation. As such, the matter was closed.”
There are of course several reasons why a full investigation would not be launched, but they have not made clear why further action was not taken on this matter.
Lawyers for Virginia Roberts, now Giuffre, told Channel 4 News: “Virginia Giuffre has been and remains hopeful that, given all the factual evidence that is now in the public domain, the London authorities will view the abuse she suffered while in London …  as a serious investigative matter and they would be prepared to prosecute and hold those responsible accountable — regardless of status or power.”
In a court application filed in 2014 Virginia Giuffre alleged that she was forced to have sexual relations in three places when she was under 18.
The court ruled that “lurid” details in her application were “unnecessary” in determining if she could join the action. It ruled the details around sexual activities concerning Prince Andrew were “immaterial and impertinent” to the application, and should be stricken.

Allegations

Ghislaine Maxwell has previously denied any wrongdoing – including the allegations now in the public domain from court filings in the United States.
Buckingham Palace released a statement in relation to these allegations on behalf of Prince Andrew, the Duke of York.
“This relates to proceedings in the United States, to which The Duke of York is not a party. Any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue.”
“It is emphatically denied that The Duke of York had any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts. Any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation.”

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That one is rather difficult to deny!

CaKeLoveR wrote:That one is rather difficult to deny!

Not really. There was some bougainvillea which has clearly been air-brushed out, 

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I hope Epstein was murdered I have a hatred for all pedophiles I was raped by one when I was 8 years old.
Send them all to this Island
Snake Justice

Imagine the internal tumult that leads to the decision to take your own life - what could be worse?

Eternal damnation if ever there was.

Hi Verdi, "Strange world of Jeffrey Epstein".

An allegation is made against Prince Andrew, 2014, the Metropolitan Police Service make inquiries, then conclude there is No provable case to be answered, case dropped, shelved?

Five yrs later 2019, case Re-opened investigated, Mr Epstein tries to take his own life, whilst on suicide watch, his life is saved.
Yet within a short period the same person is successful in taking his life, whilst "Not on suicide watch"?

Just One of those famous "Coincidences" that just appear to happen, smack bang in the middle of serious charges against "Elites in Society"?

A certain Mr Beech names person's from Parliament on Child Sex abuse allegations, Operation Midland, Yewtree ordered costing over £2.5 Million pounds, the final result the "Fanatsist" is found guilty on Eleven counts of Perverting a Course of Justice and One Fraud charge, they(Met) assisted in filling in claim form?

There are another 30 "Fantasists" awaiting their fate in regards to the named Lord, MP, currently being investigated by Dame Alexis Jay, IICSA Inquiry?

Of course you understand it is entirely coincidental if afore mentioned person's have knowledge to child Abuse Allegations and a certain Religion?

PeterMac wrote:“It is emphatically denied that The Duke of York had any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts. Any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation.” . . .


And any photo purporting to show the Duke with his arm round the naked waist of Virginia Roberts  - - - must have been photoshopped !

If it's the photograph that I have seen, she looks perfectly happy to me.  If there was any sexual contact, judging by that pic I would say it was consensual

sharonl wrote: If there was any sexual contact, judging by that pic I would say it was consensual

Agree!