🇺🇸⚡️- Thomas Massie, live on CNN, names Les Wexner as an Epstein co-conspirator.

Ground zero in demographically disintegrating South Korea is the country’s second largest city of Busan.

Busan in 2035 will be a city of sharp contrasts: booming coastal districts, hollowing inland neighborhoods, a shrinking population, & one of the oldest age profiles of any major city on Earth.

More than 40% of residents will be age 65 or older!

The city will be reliant on immigrants from Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, & the Philippines.

It will also have 500,000 less inhabitants than today for a total population far below 3,000,000.

Bus routes and other mass transit options will be cut back, young people will continue fleeing to Seoul, & schools will close in large numbers.

All of this will be readily apparent to any visitor.

🇪🇸 Increasingly authoritarian Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez accused Elon Musk and Telegram founder Pavel Durov of spreading lies about Spain, insisting that technology companies will not influence the government’s plans to restrict social media access for minors.

Spain plans to ban social media use for those under 16 and to hold platform executives accountable for hate speech. Durov and Musk publicly criticized the proposal.

Spain joins countries such as the UK, Greece, and France in tightening social media regulation, following Australia’s ban for children under 16.

“Democracy clearly will not be influenced by algorithmic tech oligarchs. Yesterday they addressed millions of people through their platforms to spread lies,” Sánchez said in Madrid.

Durov warned on Telegram that the law would force platforms to collect user data and allow governments to control content. Musk called Sánchez a “tyrant and a traitor to the Spanish people” on X.

The Spanish government said Durov’s message to Telegram users proves the need for stricter regulation to protect citizens from misinformation.

Sánchez has criticized tech platforms since last year, when he proposed ending online anonymity and linking user data to an EU digital identity.

U.S. labor force participation rate projected to drop from ~63% in 2025 to ~58% by 2030 as Boomers exit workforce.  This structural decline is driven entirely by demographics & employers will need to hire ~240,000 workers per month for the next 5 years just to replace retirees.

The solution to the global demographic crisis will never be ever larger pronatalist cash handouts, tax incentives, or cheaper housing. The solution is giving those aged 22-35 hope for the future. Childbearing in the developed world today is a vote of confidence in tomorrow.

This helps explain why conservatives in the US have more children than liberals & why South Koreans, Taiwanese,& Thais have so few offspring. If young people don’t see themselves doing well (or at least doing better than their parents) their incentive to have kids diminishes.

🇵🇸 🇪🇺 🇮🇱 Muslim countries, EU join condemnations of Israeli moves deepening West Bank control

The security cabinet decision, announced on Sunday by Defense Minister Israel Katz and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, “dramatically” changes land registration and property acquisition procedures in the West Bank, easing Jewish settlement in the territory. It aims to deepen Israeli control over the territory, including at sensitive sites such as Hebron’s Cave of the Patriarchs. Smotrich said the goal of the new measures was, in part, to “kill the idea of a Palestinian state.”

“The European Union condemns recent decisions by Israel’s security cabinet to expand Israeli control in the West Bank. This move is another step in the wrong direction,” EU spokesman Anouar El Anouni told journalists.

The EU has weighed suspending Israel’s inclusion in agreements with the bloc covering research and free trade in response to Jerusalem’s treatment of the Palestinians, though it has not done so yet. The bloc includes allies of Israel like Germany and Hungary, as well as a number of outspoken critics such as Ireland and Spain. Despite Israeli objections, several EU countries recognized a Palestinian state during the Gaza war sparked by the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack.

The UK joined the chorus of condemnations, with a government statement asserting that “any unilateral attempt to alter the geographic or demographic make-up of Palestine is wholly unacceptable and would be inconsistent with international law. We call on Israel to reverse these decisions immediately.”

Middle Eastern countries, meanwhile, have said moves to annex the West Bank would mark an end to Israel’s normalization in the region. The statement was signed by countries with which Israel has relations, such as Egypt, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, as well as adversaries including Turkey and Qatar. Other signatories included Pakistan, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia.

On Sunday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s office called the decision dangerous, saying it considers the moves part of a war by the Israeli government against Palestinians, in a report published by the PA’s WAFA news outlet.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/muslim-countries-eu-join-condemnations-of-israeli-moves-deepening-west-bank-control/