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John Cleese retweeted
This is very sad to hear. The Free Speech Union’s thoughts are with all of those at The Canary.
Debanking is arguably the most pernicious form of cancellation. We at the Free Speech Union are all to aware of what that expirence is like.
Banks must not have the power to effectively shut down an organisation — let alone the media — by removing their access to their funds purely because they and their staff disagree with its views or ideology.
The Canary will be closed for the foreseeable future.
As of today (Monday 19 October), the Canary will be closed indefinitely.
After multiple attacks this year, from Lloyds debanking us to former employees spreading malicious lies on social media, the situation has become unsustainable, both financially and operationally.
After 11 years, we take this action with deep sadness and regret. The extent of the lies, defamation, and harassment by ex-staff - coupled with the constant attacks by the state and those who’d see us destroyed - has become too much.
However, it is not over. This week, we will publish what really happened at the Canary and push back against the vicious campaign against our team and us.
We may be down, but we’re not out yet.
ALT The Canary will be closed for the foreseeable future. As of today (Monday 19 October), the Canary will be closed indefinitely. After multiple attacks this year, from Lloyds debanking us to former employees spreading malicious lies on social media, the situation has become unsustainable, both financially and operationally. After 11 years, we take this action with deep sadness and regret. The extent of the lies, defamation, and harassment by ex-staff - coupled with the constant attacks by the state and those who’d see us destroyed - has become too much. However, it is not over. This week, we will publish what really happened at the Canary and push back against the vicious campaign against our team and us. We may be down, but we’re not out yet.
John Cleese retweeted
James O'Brien says it is only racists who will claim the France riots are about immigration
Is he deluded, terminally thick or an outright liar?
John Cleese retweeted
TWO TRUTH TELLERS, ONE FARCE
You tell one honest thing at work and regret it.
In 2003, civil servants Katharine Gun and David Kelly did exactly that about Iraq, and the government treated both as the problem.
Katharine Gun was a translator at @GCHQ, Britain's electronic spy agency. David Kelly was a weapons expert at the Ministry of Defence @DefenceHQ.
In January 2003, Katharine Gun read an email from America's NSA asking GCHQ to spy on six UN Security Council countries and lean on their votes for the Iraq invasion.
She leaked it to @ObserverUK, which printed it in March. David Kelly spoke to @BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan about the government's Iraq weapons report.
Katharine Gun was charged under the Official Secrets Act and faced two years in prison.
The ministry confirmed David Kelly's name to journalists who guessed it, after a meeting chaired by Tony Blair.
3 days after MPs questioned him, David Kelly was found dead.
Lord Brian Hutton, a judge the government appointed, largely cleared the government on 28 January 2004. Shocking scenes.
@BBC chairman and director general resigned, and David Kelly's inquest was suspended and never resumed.
4 weeks later, on 25 February 2004, the prosecution offered no evidence against Katharine Gun and gave no reason.
@guardian reported in 2019 that the case was dropped because evidence would allegedly emerge that government lawyers thought the war illegal.
The Chilcot inquiry ran to 2.6 million words and never mentioned Katharine Gun.
Proper thorough, that.
Sources
@ObserverUK @thetimes @BBCNews
John Cleese retweeted
Stephanie Mander, headteacher of Norwood Primary School in Eastleigh, cancelled Easter “in the spirit of inclusivity and respect for the diverse religious beliefs”.
Instead it got changed to “celebrating inclusivity by taking part in Refugee Week”.
John Cleese retweeted
Too clever by half. He correctly notes that Ukraine cannot give up its fortress belt because that'd give the Russians a "straight shot into Kyiv." Yet he insists the war is just about 11% of territory. No, the lie is in his explanation: Putin wants the 11% at the negotiating table because he cannot take it on the battlefield; and he wants it because it gives him another opportunity to make a play for Kyiv at a later date. The Russians don't want to end the war, they want the U.S. to create the more amenable conditions for the continuation of the war in future. The tragedy of Rubio is that he's in better command of the facts than anyone else in this administration but he nonetheless ends up acting a mouthpiece for policies he knows are wrong.
John Cleese retweeted
We need to consider banning European political parties that are loyal to the Kremlin. They would side with Russia if it attacked, and that makes them a serious national security risk
John Cleese retweeted
Trump is clearly freaking out as both parties have universally condemned his decision to remove Lindsey Graham’s sanctions against Russian oligarchs. He’s now trying to argue it’s about some secret plan he has to end the war in Ukraine. You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe this guy’s lies at this point.
John Cleese retweeted
Every single sentence in your post is untrue.
Labour’s 2002 ‘deal’ had very little long-term impact on migrants trying to sneak into the UK by lorry/container/vehicles. It simply moved from Sangette to other routes.
Between 2014-2019 55,000 came in that way — an underestimate since many came in undetected and disappeared into society. Unlike boat people, nearly all of whom are counted.
So it’s an obvious nonsense to say people weren’t being sent back because nobody was arriving. Tens of thousands were arriving.
They switched to small boats when major advances in technology, perimeter defence of lorry/container parks and detection made lorries etc too risky to take.
That’s why, from 2018 onwards, the small boat numbers grew fast.
Nothing to do with EU, Brexit, Dublin rules, fairy dust etc. Why do you peddle such falsehoods?
John Cleese retweeted
This is truly what’s happening. I’ve seen this sort of thing myself.
The people running this country couldn’t be trusted to run a bath properly.
John Cleese retweeted
Ukrainians dying because US restricting intelligence sharing, Zelensky adviser tells BBC bbc.in/4jvuJo2
John Cleese retweeted
“Men cannot be women. We do not hate anybody... We are here defending women.”
Bryce Henson, a retired Marine and Navy SEAL, had a message for the men running CIF:
“Wake up, stand up, and speak up, and show some courage.”
Protect our girls @CIFState why won’t you?
John Cleese retweeted
This is sickening.
A man in a high-vis vest punches a frail elderly disabled man so forcefully he falls to the floor in what appears to be his own room, then ransacks the place while he lies helpless.
Anyone who targets the most vulnerable is the lowest of the low.
I hope this lowlife is hung, drawn & quartered!
John Cleese retweeted
WTFU people, PLEASE!!!!!!
Ukraine and Europe are our allies, Putin & China are not #TrumpIsARussianAsset #TrumpIsATraitor #VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy
John Cleese retweeted
Thomas Massie: The Epstein scandal is “deeper and darker” than anyone imagined.
“It’s bigger than Watergate.”
“It’s not about Joe Biden or Donald Trump.”
“There are degrees of evil here that we’ve never seen at this scale … ”
“Our government was compromised by wealthy, connected billionaires, and by Jeffrey Epstein himself.”
“At the age of 14, these girls that were being sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein were told if they could go find another girl to take their place, then they wouldn’t have to be sexually abused.”
“And some of them took that deal.”
“It’s one thing to be evil to a child.”
“It’s another thing to get a child to do evil.”
