@Youngded

Writer, TV producer, formerly an Editor of Current Affairs Programmes. Eq Sci. Half Planter.

Joined December 2010
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Deirdre Younge retweeted
"We need tighter border controls, where the drugs are coming in, and we need to cut off the suppliers at the neck. We do not allow this poison into society." Speaking outside the UUP party conference on Saturday, deputy party leader Diana Armstrong called for more support for tackling endemic drug problems in Northern Ireland, weeks after she highlighted a Public Health Agency report finding that vulnerable older men in rural areas were intimidated into carrying drugs from Dublin by bus.
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In case you were wondering what Trump got out of his summit this week with Xi Jinping, check this out: China just froze all of Iran's money there. This is the same China that was buying 90% of Iran's oil exports before Trump's blockade. It's a new world, folks.
伊朗总统佩泽希齐扬:我们在中国的钱全被冻结了。 把自家地底下的石油一船一船运过去, 结果结账的钱全被死死扣在对方银行里,一分都提不出来。 更戏剧的是,把这件憋屈事捅给全世界的, 并不是什么西方情报机构,是伊朗总统本人。 在联合国大会期间, 伊朗总统佩泽希齐扬接受了福克斯新闻主播布雷特·拜尔的专访。 当时拜尔正在追问伊朗给中东各路武装组织发军饷的事, 佩泽希齐扬急着自证清白,直接在全美直播的镜头前倒起了苦水: 我们在中国的钱全被冻结了。 我们甚至没法从一个我们供货的国家把钱拿出来, 更别说拿这笔钱去付给世界上其他角落的人了。 这话一出来,场面可以说尴尬到了极点。 过去几年里,很多宣传都在讲伊朗跟中国本币结算、绕开美元制裁、建立了牢不可破的金融同盟。 怎么真到了算账的时候, 堂堂一国总统,竟然要跑到美国保守派电视台上, 找美国人抱怨自己的战略伙伴扣着钱不给? 这笔钱到底卡在哪了? 很多人第一反应是,是不是中方故意耍赖? 事情远比表面上的恩怨要冷酷得多。 这里面运转着一套环环相扣的单向清算死结。 先看这笔石油是怎么卖出去的。 在严厉的国际制裁下,伊朗每天生产的大部分原油进不了正规国际市场。 超过 90% 的原油,最后都流向了中国山东的那些独立地炼厂,也就是俗称的“茶壶炼厂”。 为了躲避追踪,运油船队得在马六甲海峡关闭应答器,把货在公海上倒腾好几次, 而且每桶油还得打上 5 到 10 美元的骨折折扣。 实打实的工业血液运到了, 那买家给的钱去哪了呢? 钱确实付了,但付的是人民币, 而且直接打进了中国境内的指定账户里,比如专门处理对伊贸易的昆仑银行。 到这一步,账面上看起来皆大欢喜: 你卖了油,我付了钱,大家还绕开了美元。 可当伊朗想把这笔钱调出来用的时候, 真正的麻烦才刚刚开始。 伊朗能把这批人民币换成美元或欧元汇走吗? 做梦。 中国的大型商业银行在全世界有上万亿美元的资产和业务, 谁敢为了伊朗的一笔汇款,去冒被美国财政部外国资产控制办公室次级制裁的风险? 就连当年专门为了这门生意设立的昆仑银行, 在 2012 年被美国财政部重罚切断美元通道之后, 也早就收紧了风控,坚决不碰任何可能踩红线的跨境结算。 那换不成美元,伊朗把人民币直接汇给德国买工业设备、或者汇给巴西买粮食总行了吧? 还是不行。 因为伊朗身上还套着第二道死锁:国际反洗钱金融行动特别工作组(FATF)的黑名单。 伊朗国内因为坚持要给真主党输血, 死活不肯通过联合国的反恐融资公约, 结果和朝鲜一起,常年挂在金融行动特别工作组的最高风险黑名单上。 中国的所有正规银行都要遵守国际反洗钱规则, 面对黑名单上的国家,合规部门有一套法定的严格审查程序。 一笔巨额资金想从中国账户直接汇往第三方国家? 银行的合规系统当场就会自动触发拦截。 这下事情就变得极度荒诞了。 伊朗累积在中国的几百亿美元石油收入, 既不能自由换汇,也不能跨境汇出, 在物理上彻底变成了一张只能在特定商场消费的内部代金券。 你要么把这笔钱继续趴在账上贬值, 要么只能拿着这些钱,去买中国生产的汽车、家电、工程机械, 或者高价请中国的工程队去德黑兰修路。 如果伊朗急需硬通货现金去救急,还有没有别的办法? 只能走香港和迪拜的地下钱庄。 让掮客们在暗网和影子账户里层层倒手, 每一道过桥,都要被抽走 15% 到 20% 的手续费。 一桶原油辛辛苦苦挖出来, 运费加了一层,卖价打了折, 货款变成提不出来的代金券, 最后真想换成活钱,还得被地下洗钱网络再切走两成肉。 当年德黑兰兴高采烈地宣布去美元化, 以为跳出美元体系,就能奔向自由的金融天地。 结果他们一头扎进去才发现, 世界上的规则从来没有变过。 离开了一套有法治、能自由兑换的开放货币体系, 他们换来的根本不是独立自主。 那是一座把实物财富抽走、只留下一串无法提现的数字的单向黑洞。
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Deirdre Younge retweeted
🚨 The Champs Elysee is completely FULL This is unbelievable The people have France have turned out in their hundreds of thousands to see Pope Leo XIV, the atmosphere is electric
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Deirdre Younge retweeted
Update: The Court of Appeal will sit on an emergency basis at 9:30pm to hear an appeal against the order of interim relief to the Garvaghy Road residents. @BelTel
UPDATE: The decision to grant interim relief is now being appealed. The court will hear this appeal tonight. @BelTel
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Deirdre Younge retweeted
Agreement has been reached on the terms for releasing €6.6 billion in funds for Ukraine under the European Peace Facility. The Irish EU Presidency will progress this crucial work, in support of Ukraine, and European security. @Ireland2026eu | 🇮🇪🇪🇺🤝🇺🇦
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🚨BREAKING NEWS Germany has issued orders to 18-year-old men to undergo a mandatory medical examination for military service. Protests have erupted in the country following this decision. More than 45,000 students are taking to the streets in over 100 locations.
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Deirdre Younge retweeted
We’ve already gambled, the standard of Irish education has been significantly lowered and the PISA results showed that. Mixed ability classes, removal of Higher/ordinary, dropping failure to 30%. FF, FG, 3rd level educationalists and NGO activists all culpable.
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Deirdre Younge retweeted
I was brought up as a Prod in Ards. I am dismayed that an unelected extremist gobshite who likes to pontificate on top of a bin has tore the scar tissue off old deep wounds and has both sides here at each others throats all for the sake of his & DUP’s ‘culture war’ #garvaghy
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thank you Melania for defending the honor of Yugoslav socialism 🫡
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Antropoloog Emmanuel Todd (F) zegt op nationale televisie dat de EU een “fantasiecratie “ is die geleid wordt door een bende paranoia psychiatrische gevallen die Europa naar de ondergang voeren. Ursula, Kallas, Merz, Macron,Stubb, Burnham, Zelensky … allemaal gestoord. Juist.
🚨Emmanuel Todd COOKED Ursula, Macron, Merz, Burnham, RUTTI FRUTTI, Kaja Kallas, Stubb,Zelensky and ALL WORMONGERS in BRUSSELS 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥 🚨"This whole story about Russia wanting to invade Europe is a fantasy. Yet there is a European narrative that buys into it. To some extent, this can be interpreted in psychiatric terms: there are paranoid individuals. The problem is that some of them are at the helm." 📑So, maybe the European leaders would like to be in open war with Russia. As for me, I say it frankly, this, that's Europe as a fantasocracy, really. Meaning that all this story of a, of a Russia that would want, to attack Europe, invade Europe, is just a fantasy. You don't believe it? No. That is, I define Russia's war aims in a way, I define Russia's aims in a pretty harsh way in my book and I've done so for a long time. Russia wants to go as far as the Dnieper, they want to take Odessa, maybe turn a rump Ukraine into a new satellite, but they'll stop there and they have no interest in going any further. They don't have the demographic resources, they have no interest in it, strategically. But the real problem is that, the European discourse about this Russian threat exists. So, we can interpret it in part, in psychiatric terms. Psychiatric, seriously. Well, I mean, many of the people who say that are sincere. So yes, yes, there are paranoiacs who exist and so some are in charge. But, but I think, beyond that, there's something wrong in Europe and it is, and it falls into the real how should I say, the real subject of my book: "Dislocation of the West." The whole purpose of the book is to show that. I talk a little about Russia, obviously. I talk a lot about China, I talk a great deal about Iran. But fundamentally, for me, what is interesting is the process of internal dislocation, not simply in Europe, but in Germany, in France, in the Western system and the United States. And it is this process of dislocation that produces this paranoid view of the world. And so here, Russia is simply an object to fixate on for this inner malaise.
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Questo credo sia uno dei migliori interventi che siano mai stati fatti al Parlamento Europeo. Lo ha fatto l'Eurodeputato slovacco Ľuboš Blaha, rivolgendosi a Kaja Kallas. Va letto interamente con attenzione e possibilmente diffuso il più possibile, perché qui dentro c'è davvero tutto: «E' lei che rappresenta la più grande minaccia ibrida per l'Europa! La più grande minaccia ibrida per l’Europa non è la Russia, signore e signori, ma la signora Kallas, che si trova qui tra noi e che vuole trascinarci in una guerra nucleare. Sapete cos’è la disperazione? Quando l’élite tedesca, solo per sconfiggere l’AfD alle elezioni, organizza un’operazione dei servizi segreti a Lipsia e ne attribuisce la responsabilità alla Russia. Hanno completamente distrutto i propri rapporti con la Russia e, nonostante ciò, hanno comunque perso le elezioni. Eccezionale! Nemmeno Mr. Bean avrebbe raggiunto questi risultati. Non solo hanno perso, ma si sono anche dimostrati incompetenti! Signora Kallas, lei parla costantemente di «minacce ibride», ma in realtà si tratta dell’esatto contrario. Siete proprio voi, da molti anni, a condurre una guerra sanguinosa contro la Russia. Le vostre armi uccidono i russi. Vi state armando come ai tempi di Hitler e la vostra retorica anti-russa è al livello dei nazisti. La cruda verità è che la Russia non ha attaccato nessuno dei paesi dell’Unione Europea. Siete voi che avete attaccato la Russia. Siete voi che vi siete spinti fino ai confini russi. Siete voi che, per decenni, avete cercato di provocare un cambio di regime in Russia. E ora avete paura di ricevere ciò che vi meritate, come bambini viziati. Lei è una guerrafondaia estrema, signora Kallas. Se ne vada!» Questo intervento dovrebbe essere mostrato a reti unificate. Invece nulla, meglio diffondere le porcherie di Ursula von der Leyen, Kaja Kallas e il resto dei guerrafondai. Non sia mai dire agli italiani che in Europa c'è chi si oppone alla retorica guerrafondaia... - Giuseppe Salamone
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Great to meet the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, in Munich today where we discussed increasing cooperation between our countries to protect the Common Travel Area.
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As the end of the Assembly mandate looms, MLAs have spent two days debating whether someone should be jailed for trying to “suppress” a gender that an individual just made up on the spot. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…
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The Orange Order has been banned from Marching in Drumcree by the High Court in Belfast.
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The Judge has granted a temporary injunction.
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Over half of homeless individuals were not Irish citizens, and 31.5% were from outside the EU: gript.ie/another-new-homeles…
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I have children aged 25, 23 and 17. I have no idea how to explain the current NI nonsense to them. The fortunate truth is that they really don’t care. The world has moved on many, many times
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Die Ukraine hat uns bisher seit 2022 offiziell rund 189 Mrd. Euro gekostet, genug Geld um jedem der 21,5 Millionen Rentner in Deutschland 8.765 Euro zu geben, niemand von ihnen müsste Flaschen sammeln. Die Ukraine-Hilfe abzulehnen, ist im deutschen Interesse und nicht umgekehrt.
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For those that still don’t understand what Benghazi was all about: 🚨So here's the REAL story: Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to secretly retrieve US made Stinger Missiles that the State Dept had supplied to Ansar al Sharia in Libya WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission. Sec State Hillary Clinton had brokered the Libya deal through Ambassador Stevens and a Private Arms Dealer named Marc Turi, but some of the shoulder fired Stinger Missiles ended up in Afghanistan where they were used against our own military. On July 25th, 2012, a US Chinook helicopter was downed by one of them. Not destroyed only because the idiot Taliban didn't arm the missile. The helicopter didn't explode, but it had to land and an ordnance team recovered the missile’s serial number which led back to a cache of Stinger Missiles kept in Qatar by the CIA. Obama and Hillary were in full panic mode, so Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to retrieve the rest of the Stinger Missiles. This was a "do-or-die" mission, which explains the Stand Down Orders given to multiple rescue teams during the siege of the US Embassy. It was the State Dept, NOT the CIA, that supplied the Stinger Missiles to our sworn enemies because Gen. Petraeus at CIA would not approve supplying the deadly missiles due to their potential use against commercial aircraft. So then, Obama threw Gen. Petraeus under the bus when he refused to testify in support of Obama’s phony claim of a “spontaneous uprising caused by a YouTube video that insulted Muslims.” Obama and Hillary committed TREASON! THIS is what the investigation is all about, WHY she had a Private Server, (in order to delete the digital evidence), and WHY Obama, two weeks after the attack, told the UN that the attack was the result of the YouTube video, even though everyone KNEW it was not. Furthermore, the Taliban knew that the administration had aided and abetted the enemy WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission, so they began pressuring (blackmailing) the Obama Administration to release five Taliban generals being held at Guantanamo. Bowe Bergdahl was just a useful pawn used to cover the release of the Taliban generals. Everyone knew Bergdahl was a traitor but Obama used Bergdahl’s exchange for the five Taliban generals to cover that Obama was being coerced by the Taliban about the unauthorized Stinger Missile deal. So we have a traitor as POTUS that is not only corrupt, but compromised, as well and a Sec of State that is a serial liar, who perjured herself multiple times at the Congressional Hearings on Benghazi. Perhaps this is why no military aircraft were called upon for help in Benghazi: because the administration knew that our enemies had Stinger Missiles that, if used to down those planes, would likely be traced back to the CIA cache in Qatar and then to the State Dept’s illegitimate arms deal in Libya. Forward this again and again and again until everyone reads the true story of Benghazi.
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