GroveHillWanderer

CNN is not the only outlet reporting on this. Almost every major news organisation is talking about it. Here's a Fox News report on it. MAGA world erupts over Trump's defense of Bondi amid Epstein files fallout https://www.foxnews.com/politics/maga-world-erupts-over-trumps-defense-bondi-amid-epstein-files-fallout

On what basis do you reckon she's innocent?

No, it was a genuine question. I don't have TikTok and don't know how or where to find his posts on it. All you had to say was, "He mentioned this on his TikTok."

That argument wouldn't wash. She wasn't convicted based on anything to do with any of Epstein's clients. She was convicted based on what she herself did personally, to multiple victims.

I haven't seen this mentioned, either in the OP or in the Mirror article. Do you have a source for this?

Most people working in the UK do not file tax returns. As the UK government website below states: How you pay income tax https://www.gov.uk/income-tax/how-you-pay-income-tax If your tax is deducted automatically via PAYE (which as the website points out, is the case for most people) you don't need to file a tax return. I worked in the UK for many years - I never filed a tax return. I also never filed one after I moved abroad. Never had any comeback from HMRC about it, either.

There's nothing I've seen that indicates that. Unless you class posting videos on TikTok and YouTube as work.

The IDF has acknowledged the strike but claims it was a "technical error." So it's not just Hamas saying this happened, the IDF says it did, too.

It doesn't sound like he's intending to stay in Thailand particularly long-term. According to the Mirror article, he reckons he only has "sufficient funds for a couple of years."

Something occurs to me, in relation to the crash, and the speculation surrounding the fuel control switches. The Indian Air Accident Investigation Bureau's investigators were aware of the potential for a problem with the fuel control switch locking mechanism - they made specific mention of it in their report. So it is absolutely inconceivable to me that they would not have checked for this issue on the part from the downed aircraft. We know that the fuel control switch module was basically undamaged because there's a photo of it in the report. It is smoke-blackened but otherwise completely intact. So it would have been easy to ascertain if the switch was installed correctly or not. Having done that, and if they had discovered that it was incorrectly installed, it would be unconscionable for them not to have issued an immediate request for all Air India's relevant Boeing models to be checked for this issue, and to pass the information on to the relevant international air safety organisations, to be disseminated worldwide, as a matter of urgent concern. However we know that the investigators said that no remedial action needed to be taken on Air India aircraft and no immediate safety concern was flagged up to international authorities, so I think we can be fairly confident that they discovered nothing amiss with installation of the fuel control switches. The FAA also issued a statement to more or less this effect. FAA Interim Report Finds No Immediate Safety Issues with Boeing 787-8 in Air India Crash https://www.eplaneai.com/news/faa-interim-report-finds-no-immediate-safety-issues-with-boeing-787-8-in-air-india-crash

He made donations to a number of educational establishments (most of which gave it back when they found out who it came from) and paid school tuition for the children of the Governor of the Virgin Islands, but I can't see anything about him paying for university education of any of the girls he exploited. Do you have a source for that claim? JPMorgan Chase says Jeffrey Epstein paid tuition for kids of U.S. Virgin Islands governor https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/25/jpmorgan-jeffrey-epstein-paid-tuition-for-kids-of-virgin-islands-governor.html

At that height and speed, no matter how quickly the switches were put back to the run position, it would have been too late. Again according to various experienced pilots (such as Captain Steve, mentioned above) the engines on a 787 would take from 30 seconds to a minute to relight and spool back up to provide sufficient thrust to start climbing again, and once the switches were moved to the cutoff position, the plane was only 19 seconds away from hitting the building.

What bug? There's no sign of there having been any kind of mechanical defect with the plane. Everything that happened is consistent with the fuel control switches being moved one after another, with a one second delay in between, from the run to the cutoff position.

It's true there was an SAIB (an advisory bulletin) that some switches on 737's had been installed incorrectly in such a way that there was a potential for the locking mechanism to be disengaged. However there are a couple of things to note about this. This was only a potential issue and no instance of a switch actually being moved inadvertently has ever been reported. The incorrect installation was only ever reported on 737's, not on 787’s - which have a similar, but not identical switch. The throttle control module on this specific aircraft had been replaced twice, for problems not related to the fuel control switches and no defects with the fuel switches were seen on either occasion. Pretty much all the analyses of the interim report that I've seen, all by current or former pilots including pilots with experience of the 787, say that the issue mentioned in this SAIB almost certainly had nothing to do with this crash. One thing they point out is that even if there were a problem, the odds of it happening to one of the switches during flight would be a million to one - and the chances of it happening to both switches one after another with a 1 second delay in between (the time it would take for a person to move one of the switches, then move the other) would be infinitesimal.

Well, it's actually called the 'run' position but yes, the switches were on when it left the ground.