Andy Campbell 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦

Gen X. Tired of everything, but still here for the occasional shits and giggles.

[Andy Campbell 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @AMCampbell71]

@MikePMoffatt Can I interest you in some Nortel shares? 😁

[Andy Campbell 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @AMCampbell71]

@David_Moscrop Room Rating is still a thing?

[Andy Campbell 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @AMCampbell71]

@richarddeitsch Bob & Brunt were the best duo in sports radio back in the day. You were a great addition to that team too. Thanks for the heads up, have been wondering about the BobCat for a while, should be a good listen.

[Andy Campbell 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @AMCampbell71]

@kinsellawarren Their whole press release begs the Q, what were they REALLY trying to accomplish?
I've run phone banks (yes I'm dating myself) in the past, and yeah, you can make a poll say whatever TF you want. It's all in the Q's, phrasing, and sampling criteria.
But this is beyond the pale

[Andy Campbell 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @AMCampbell71]

@towhey @twitter @X @elonmusk These 'ads' have been in my timeline for months. Block early and block often I say

[Andy Campbell 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @AMCampbell71]

@towhey This was my very first thought. Water prices no longer under control of council to fund other projects.

Water should be a cost recovery only utility. If we're making a 'profit' from a basic essential then we are truly lost

[Andy Campbell 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @AMCampbell71]

@kinsellawarren An interesting alternative explanation

https://t.co/bHFw3tTnJY

[DefenceGeek 🇬🇧 @DefenceGeek]

A Possible Explanation:

The US knew there was a threat to RAF Fairford - that's not in dispute here. The FPCON changes, armed patrol vehicles inside the base and concrete barricades all show that.

It seems possible to me that perhaps these 5 lads (or 8-10 if the eyewitness farmer is correct) were not actually there to attack the base - perhaps (given the fake fuel vans) they were actually in the area trying to steal fuel from local vehicles.

The farmer sees it, calls police. Police (who likely were aware of the USAF concerns) swarm into the area having perhaps not expected the "attackers" so soon. They manage to arrest 5 suspects and treat the 3 vans with every necessary precaution (as they should) - evacuating the neighbourhood, bringing Army EOD in, etc.

The males are initially arrested for Explosives Act offences (pending a safe way to check inside the vans) & go to custody. In the circumstances, further arrested for the Terrorism Act offence. However, after seizing whatever evidence they could (and examining the vans), it looks like police may have determined these aren't the attackers - as I say, potentially fuel thieves in the wrong place at the wrong time?

It's worth noting that if the terrorism act offences were looking likely, police could keep them detained for 48hrs initially before requiring a court to approve a longer period of time. Alternatively under normal arrest powers contained within the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, they can be held for 24hrs initially (extended to 36hrs under authority of a Police Superintendent if specific requirements are met), and up to 72hrs if a further extension is authorised by a court. Now clearly if they were arrested in the early hours of Sunday morning and conveyed either to a local custody, or a dedicated counter-terrorism custody (likely closest in London), the fact they've been bailed today suggests they've spent at most 24-30hrs in custody before evidential review officers and the Crown Prosecution Service have determined there is insufficient evidence to charge them with an offence right now.

So they bail them with conditions not to contact each other as is normal procedure for vehicle interference/theft offences like that. But police need to download and analyse phones, and anything potentially seized from home addresses in order to ensure no link to the Iranian government or IRGC.

Meanwhile, did the actual planned attack get foiled inadvertently? Perhaps? Trump told the world that the US had been monitoring the "attackers" for some time - I'd suggest that if these lads genuinely were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, the actual suspects are now staying hidden until this all blows over a bit.

Either way, we don't have all the facts and that's part of any criminal or CT investigation - so yes, it sounds bad and arguably CTP could have done a better job of explaining it to the public, but they have to play their cards close to their chest right now in case my guesswork here is right and the suspects are still out there somewhere.

[Andy Campbell 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @AMCampbell71]

@leswilliams2 I miss dirty old Yonge St. Head shops, army surplus, arcades, peelers, used book shops, dive bars, and all the rest. Nothing but a sanitized, franchised retail strip now.

[Andy Campbell 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @AMCampbell71]

@richarddeitsch Was sitting in my living room having coffee, watching CNN, my usual morning routine. The first plane had already hit when I turned on the tube, I had the unforunate opportunity to watch the second plane live.

[Maryam @hell_line0]

The first time I watched Return of the Jedi, I wondered how we were supposed to believe that a gelatinous slimy mound of evil who could barely move around and wholly depended on sycophants to cater to his every whim could have possibly amassed such a fortune that he would inspire fear and be running things.

I get it now.

[Andy Campbell 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @AMCampbell71]

@kinsellawarren But not surprising. E Centre has a long history of sending Centre / Centre right candidates. Michael Wilson, Alan rock, both Rob and Doug Ford, John Tory, etc. That being said, it's an important endorsement for Bradford, and walking back the Bloor St bike lane prob didn't hurt.

[Andy Campbell 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @AMCampbell71]

@DominicCardy And Ford is unlikely to do the PM a solid after getting crossed up on Billy Bishop

[Andy Campbell 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @AMCampbell71]

@nspector4 "I'm not a member of an organised party, I'm a Conservative!" Hugh Segal

[Andy Campbell 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @AMCampbell71]

@yyzsportsmedia @NoahKahan Not sure about concerts. But when I went looking for nice Jays tickets I found Rogers Terrace seats on SeatGeek when no one else had anything similar (post rule change).

[Andy Campbell 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @AMCampbell71]

@NoContextBrits

[Andy Campbell 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @AMCampbell71]

@kinsellawarren We have a national prayer breakfast? I thought performative religious politicking was a Yankee thing

[Andy Campbell 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @AMCampbell71]

Good, it saves Carney the trouble of having to decline the invite to this rogues gallery of "democracies" he invented 3 days ago.

[Melissa 🇨🇦 @MelissaLMRogers]

HOLY CRAP 🇨🇦 President Trump withdraws Canada’s invitation to Board of Peace 🤯

This is a MASSIVE hit to Canada on the global scale. Good job, Mark 😒

[Andy Campbell 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @AMCampbell71]

@OleTimeHardball @OTBaseballPhoto Growing up as a GenX Toronto baseball fan, the answer has to be Damaso Garcia. Jersey burning and all. Between him and Tony at SS the athleticism was just nuts.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

A must watch. This video is over 30 years old.

[Andy Campbell 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @AMCampbell71]

@TheUncleMicky @clashreport And countless dead