💸 🇪🇺 Soros To End 'Most EU Operations' In 'Radical Shift'

George Sorors' Open Society Foundations, which are now controlled by his son Alexander, will cease most of its operations in the European Union.

Citing a "radical shift of strategic direction," OSF says that their new operating model will require "significant further restructuring," and "closing all regional and global programs," according to a letter sent to grantees in Hungary which was seen by Bloomberg.

"OSF will largely terminate funding within the European Union, and further funding will be extremely limited," it reads, without elaborating, except to say that the organization is pivoting because "EU institutions and governments were already allocating significant resources to human rights, freedom and pluralism" inside the bloc.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/soros-end-most-eu-operations-radical-shift

🏳️‍"Two years of Taliban diplomatic engagements. Although they are not officially recognized, they are not isolated at all".

📎 Aaron Y. Zelin

🇺🇸👶 1.3 TFR is now within the realm of the possible for the United States

1.3 by 2030 would work out to only around 2.65 million births a year so if that happened we would have negative growth of 400,000+ annually. That would be devastating.

📎 Demographics Now and Then

JUST IN - First Germany, now the Netherlands enters recession.

https://www.disclose.tv/id/hlb2uymi2f/

@disclosetv

When you are told that migration is useful, because migrants "produce innovations" and "open companies", remember this graph and ask the question - what kind of migrants?

https://www2.itif.org/2016-demographics-of-innovation.pdf

🇩🇪 Germany is getting closer to legalising the recreational use of marijuana.

The German government approved legislation which would permit adults to buy and possess small amounts of the drug. The bill is now in the hands of the Bundestag which needs to give its approval before the law can take effect.

🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/world/europe/germany-legal-marijuana.html

https://archive.ph/SvMmt

🏳️‍ Statement of the Islamic Emirate on the Second Anniversary of the Conquest of Kabul

https://justpaste.it/1m7qk

📎 Spokesman of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

PYRRHIC RESOLUTION | Patrios Vanguard

⚡🇹🇷🇱🇾 Turkey allegedly got a lease on a Libyan port lasting for 99 years, says a local Turkish newspaper.

The Port will be handed over to the Turkish Navy and Ground Forces, which will guarantee a military presence and "ensure the safety of vessels in the Mediterranean."

@themediterraneanman

🇬🇷 🌍 "Greece’s Rise as a Trans-Mediterranean Power: Greece’s Eastern Mediterranean strategic shift to Europe-to-Africa and Europe-to-MiddleEast connectivity"

➡️ 🇬🇷 + 🇪🇺 Connectivity paradigm shift

📎 Prof Michael Tanchum

🇩🇪 Germany walks back plan to meet NATO spending target on annual basis.

The German government has retreated from a plan to legally commit itself to meeting NATO's 2% military spending target on an annual basis, a government source told Reuters on Wednesday.

This wording is softer than Scholz's original pledge in a speech on Feb 27, 2022, in which he announced a "Zeitenwende" or sea change three days after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

"From now on, we will invest more than 2% of the GDP into our defence year after year," Scholz said at the time.

🔗 https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-walks-back-plan-meet-nato-spending-target-annual-basis-2023-08-16/