Derrick

Business|insurance|shipping|bitcoin|stocks|bonds|equities

[رضوانہ @Rizvana_Raza]

Israel 🇮🇱 is a terrorist state !

[Derrick @space_derrick]

You helped create this desperate situation by continuing to sell weapons to Israel. You are complicit in the genocide happening in Gaza.

[Yvette Cooper @YvetteCooperMP]

The situation in Gaza is desperate. Today the UK is announcing £23m for @UNRWA to deliver vital support including food, water, education and medical support for Palestinian refugees.

There must be more aid, all crossings opened, and humanitarian agencies able to operate safely.

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

Yvette Cooper says the “situation in Gaza is desperate”. Now perhaps she’d like to tell us WHY?

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The next Prime Minister should steer clear of Starmer’s shameful legacy.

That starts with ending arms sales to Israel, imposing real sanctions, and establishing a public inquiry into Britain's complicity in genocide.

My article for @AJEnglish.
https://t.co/fhL0KbjJm1

[Derrick @space_derrick]

If they have come to the UK, and are properly resettled, why shouldn't they pay back some of my taxes that were spent on them when they start earning.
The money spent on asylum seekers is mind boggling. It should be recouped in some way.

[Kim Johnson @KimJohnsonMP]

This is a tax on refugees.

It's performative cruelty. We shouldn't be punishing people for fleeing war and persecution.

The relentless demonisation of refugees must stop.

https://t.co/KSHZTjNZyX

[Derrick @space_derrick]

Stop selling weapons to Israel.

[Yvette Cooper @YvetteCooperMP]

The situation in Gaza is desperate. Today the UK is announcing £23m for @UNRWA to deliver vital support including food, water, education and medical support for Palestinian refugees.

There must be more aid, all crossings opened, and humanitarian agencies able to operate safely.

[Sophie🧚🏾‍♀️ @virginsophie01]

GO AND FUCK YOUR MOTHER!

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

Memorable quotes from the sharp-penned Ugandan journalist, commentator, and photographer Timothy Kalyegira .@TimKalyegira who went missing for four days before he was charged on Monday, June 29:
-"In this day and age, ruling people for 40 years is a mark of shame, not genius."
-Ultimately we all die poor. Nobody takes their six-bedroom house to the grave."
-On Uganda's economy: "Primitive accumulation of primitive wealth, by primitive people, for primitive reasons."
-"The only profitable economic activity left is praising the First Family, praising government projects, praising Big Men, [or] running for MP."
-"The people with money don't have brains and the people with brains don't have money."

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

The IDF should be proscribed as a terrorist organisation

[Derrick @space_derrick]

Meanwhile there is a whole government agency @UCC_Official responsible for media houses in Uganda but like all other agencies it is nonfunctional. This impunity is appalling!

[Andrew M. Mwenda @AndrewMwenda]

I have just held discussions with Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba @mkainerugaba and we, as leaders of PLU, have agreed that we shall reopen both Daily Monitor and NTV soon. However, we shall first have discussions with the management of both sister companies. I will inform them when we can have this meeting.

[Derrick @space_derrick]

Uganda's situation is dire. Muhoozi is operating with impunity & there is no one to rein on him. The father is senile & the army is full of psychopaths. Critics are abducted, tortured & charged on trumped-up cases. Media houses are getting shut down. Ugandans deserve better.

[Mut Law Conroy @LMutaaya]

The stock market goes down 10% today and then goes up 10% everyday for the next many days. Unfortunately some people panic and sell every time.

[Derrick @space_derrick]

I LOVE IRAN ❤️

[Zara Quinn @_Zaraquin]

I hope in my lifetime i see Israel fall.

[Derrick @space_derrick]

How about you stop fuelling Benjamin Netenyahu's genocide in Palestine and Lebanon?

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Despite Putin’s best efforts to evade sanctions, we will not let him get away with it.

[Derrick @space_derrick]

Meanwhile Uganda is attempting to disown its citizens living abroad. This is just crazy at the least.

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

Uganda’s proposed Sovereignty Bill is the ONLY law in the world openly attempting something this sweeping: it legally turns its own citizens abroad into “foreigners”.

The Bill is explicit. A “foreigner” includes “Ugandan citizens residing abroad”.

That single clause redraws the boundary of citizenship. It means diaspora money, relationships, and even family support can fall under foreign control rules.

So the implications are not abstract.
-A mother in Mbale receiving school fees from her son in London.
-A boda boda rider in Gulu financed by a brother in Dubai.
-A small shop in Mbarara stocked using capital sent from Boston.

All could, in theory, fall under foreign influence rules.

Then the net widens.

The definition of an “agent of a foreigner” includes anyone “directly or indirectly… financed or subsidised” by a foreigner.

Not directed. Not controlled. Simply funded.

-A journalist paid by a locally registered outlet that receives donor support.
-A researcher on a project with partial foreign grants.
-An NGO worker whose salary traces back, however distantly, to external funding.

All can be classified as “agents”.

Clause 22 then imposes a hard ceiling: “a cap on foreign funding of approximately UGX 400 million within any twelve-month period”, beyond which ministerial approval is required.

So:
-A private hospital built with diaspora investment.
-A school supported by an international foundation.
-A construction firm using a foreign loan.

Then comes the sharpest edge.
-Clause 13 creates the offence of economic sabotage, criminalising anyone who “publishes information… that weakens or damages the economic system”.

So:

-A newspaper reporting a currency slide.
-An analyst warning about debt stress.
-A civil society group highlighting inflation pressures.

Even if accurate, such reporting could fall foul of the law.

Finally, Clause 5 prohibits activities that promote foreign interests “against the interests of Uganda”, a phrase the law does not define.

Put together, these clauses do something unprecedented.

-They do not just regulate foreign influence.
-They redefine who is foreign.
-They extend control from politics into everyday economic and social life.

In most countries, including Ethiopia and Ethiopia, sovereignty laws manage outsiders.
Here, Uganda redefined outsiders to include its citizens, basically rewriting the 1995 constitution. Of course it’s in the preparatory and consultation stage and could change for better - or WORSE!

[Derrick @space_derrick]

If Israel was a person, it would be Epstein. It has got a lot of countries in its knots.

[Derrick @space_derrick]

@SindhuReddy IRGC is a national army of Iran. It was designated bse it suited the agendas of those who did.
Israel has broken several international laws & we haven't seen its army being designated a terrorist organisation. It's about time they did.
Laws shouldn't be applied selectively.

[Derrick @space_derrick]

Trump keeps forgetting that him and his Zionist murderous buddy Netenyahu waged an illegal war against Iran. Iran has to rebuild its infrastructure which I am very sure the USA and Israel are not going to finance. Something got to give.

[Derrick @space_derrick]

Now that Israel finished seizing Palestinian land, it has turned its full focus to Lebanon. It continues to murder people and cause chaos in the whole region. Israel must be stopped. The world must act to stop Israel and the murderous Netanyahu.