Once again, anti-semitism is being cynically—and falsely—​​redefined in the press and broader Discourse as “pointing out uncomfortable facts about the nation state of Israel.”

This past weekend, the Israel Crybully Lobby, using a familiar script I’ve detailed before, led a smear campaign against actor Mark Ruffalo because he had the temerity and integrity to note that the family vying to control not only 60 Minutes and CBS News, but CNN and HBO, is a committed and open supporter of Israel and its genocidal military. 

Ruffalo is leading a broad coalition of antitrust activists, creatives, and filmgoers to oppose the pending Skydance Paramount-Warner Brothers Discovery merger and, in doing so, violated an unwritten rule against noting that the father-son duo behind the merger, David and Larry Ellison, are well-documented and open zionist advocates that not only lobby for and support Israel, but “privately” donate to their military. A military that—it’s worth noting—Human Rights Watch, Doctors Without Borders, B’Tselem, Physicians for Human Rights Israel, OxFam, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and dozens of other humanitarian and human rights organizations have determined is committing genocide in Gaza. Ruffalo also pointed out that the Ellisons’ $400 billion fortune was largely built on military and surveillance technology from Oracle that is used, in part, to surveil, imprison, and kill Palestinians, as well combat opposition to Israel stateside.  

Predictably, the Israel Crybully Lobby and its one-note propaganda organs in the nonprofit and media world responded to these comments by accusing Ruffalo of “antisemitism” and engaging in “tropes”—many of which are not, of course, tropes in any traditional sense, but simply Things That Are Awkward To Mention. Paramount Skydance released a whiney and self-indulgent statement saying “We are, as always, troubled when antisemitic tropes are invoked.… Words like ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid,’ applied to a corporate transaction, aren’t just wrong—they’re a bridge too far.” This statement, and related scandalizing of Ruffalo’s otherwise true and banal comments, were echoed by Hollywood press outlets such as Variety magazine, the Hollywood Reporter, and the Wrap, the latter of which is owned by Sharon Waxman, an open supporter of Israel and its genocide in her own right. Needless to say, the Wrap has been covering this like Watergate, with nonstop breathless headlines, even laughably citing NATO-funded think tanker Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib as a “Leading Palestinian Activist.”

This campaign failed at shutting up Ruffalo, who defended himself on Twitter/X, where he received an outpouring of support. But more zionist advocacy organizations—always posing as “antisemitism” monitors, such as the Anti-Defamation League, Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Creative Community for Peace, and L.A. Jewish Federation—joined the pile-on. All four groups are openly supportive of Israel and its genocidal military and largely exist to smear Israel critics as antisemites regardless of the tone or nature of the criticism. 

Despite the “antisemitism scandal” playbook being less and less effective, it’s not stopping the Israel Crybully Lobby from using it to discipline Ruffalo and other actors who dare support basic human rights, or in this case, actors who connect Oracle’s obscene wealth with their intimate involvement in the US and Israeli security state. The whole “antisemitism” and “trope” charge is even more absurd since, in context, in addition to Ruffalo simply citing Oracle’s Executive Vice-Chair Safra Catz’s own dystopian words about their “really profoundly scary technologies,” Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison is open in his support for not just Israel as some romantic abstraction, but the IDF itself. In 2024, upon announcing his purchase of Paramount, Ellison’s Skydance issued a dressed-up press release in the Jerusalem Post detailing how his buying of Paramount would be good for Israel:

“These two young men [Ellison being one of the men] love Israel, are connected to their Judaism, have Zionist values, and it’s very encouraging to see that in such successful families, the values are passed on to the younger generations. Both quietly donate quite a bit to the State of Israel and the IDF. It is positive news for the Jewish world that Korff and Ellison are the next generation of global Jewish leadership, connected to Israel and holding Zionist values.” 

The piece would go on to note that the “article was written in cooperation with SkyDance” which is another way of saying it’s a touched-up press release issued by Skydance. So here is Ellison using his own company to boast how great his purchase of Paramount would be for Israel (setting aside how funny it is to point out how you “quietly” support a cause in your own company’s press release), thus openly acknowledging that his media properties would reflect Israel’s line. A promise immediately confirmed by Ellison’s first major hire post-Paramount purchase: self-identified “zionist fanatic” Bari Weiss, who he immediately put in charge of all of CBS News. The family patriarch, Larry Ellison, has even deeper ties to Israel: In addition to being the single largest private donor to the IDF, leaked emails revealed last year that in 2015 the elder Ellison vetted then-candidate for President Marco Rubio on behalf of the Israel ambassador to the UN. 

Israel is a nation state, a political entity; zionism is an ideology, a worldview that violently privileges Jewish sovereignty in Palestine. Neither are protected religions, cultures, or identities. Adults have to be able to separate these two things—one being an ethno-religious identity and the other being an ideological choice—when discussing the dispossession, occupation, and mass killing of Palestinians, and how this right-wing worldview dovetails with media ownership, US imperialism, the military state, and free speech suppression in the United States. It is certainly possible to criticize Israel and its supporters while engaging in antisemitic tropes, but Ruffalo did not come remotely close to doing this, and it’s deeply cynical to claim he did without presenting any credible evidence. Instead we just get mindless working of the refs, increasingly hollow pro forma language about “tropes” and “antisemitism,” whining and chauvinist solipsism from deluded rich ideologues high on their own zionist media supply. Ruffalo simply noted the open and well-documented ideological commitments that the Ellisons themselves have long championed. Adults should be able to talk about very rich people’s connections to militaries without everyone reaching for the antisemitism smelling salts. This script—where powerful, wealthy and deeply ideological actors cry and whine and piss and moan about being the victims of racist abuse because someone dares highlight their backing of a nation state and its military—is as dangerous and sleazy as it is tedious and, one can only hope, diminishing in its returns.

A Fortaleza de Sagres, em colaboração com o Centro Ciência Viva de Lagos, promove, no âmbito do programa Ciência Viva no Verão, um conjunto de visitas temáticas gratuitas, convidando o público a explorar os diversos patrimónios associados ao Promontório de Sagres, onde os participantes podem descobrir, através de percursos interpretativos e com a colaboração de cientistas, as riquezas naturais e históricas de um dos locais mais emblemáticos do país. 

Este ciclo termina no próximo 2 de setembro, com a realização da visita temática “Do Promontorium Sacrum à Fortaleza de Sagres: Uma viagem pela História”, com início marcado para as 16h00.

Ao longo deste percurso, os participantes terão a oportunidade de conhecer a relevância histórica, cultural e simbólica deste lugar singular, identificado desde a Antiguidade como o mítico Promontorium Sacrum. Localizado num promontório que se eleva cerca de 40 metros acima do mar, nos confins do mundo conhecido pelos antigos, este território foi descrito por diversos autores clássicos como um espaço de grande significado espiritual e geográfico. Inserida numa paisagem cultural moldada pela sua condição de finisterra, a Fortaleza de Sagres destaca-se pela sua importância geoestratégica e pela ligação ao culto vicentino, ao Infante D. Henrique e ao início do período expansionista português.  A origem da fortificação remonta ao século XV, período em que o Infante promoveu a fundação da vila de Sagres. Ao longo dos séculos, a estrutura foi sendo adaptada e ampliada de acordo com a evolução das técnicas militares e da pirobalística. Entre os elementos patrimoniais preservados destacam-se os vestígios da muralha henriquina, caracterizada pelo seu traçado em «dente-de-serra». Atualmente, a Fortaleza de Sagres constitui um importante lugar de memória da expansão marítima europeia, associada ao desenvolvimento da ciência, dos intercâmbios culturais, do comércio e da navegação oceânica. Este valor histórico e simbólico esteve na base da atribuição da Marca do Património Europeu ao Promontório de Sagres. 

A participação é gratuita, mas sujeita a inscrição prévia através do programa Ciência Viva no Verão:

Inscrição Visita temática Do Promontorium Sacrum à Fortaleza de Sagres: Uma Viagem pela História

A XII Feira da Dieta Mediterrânica, que decorre em Tavira, de 3 a 6 de setembro de 2026, volta a afirmar-se como um dos grandes momentos de promoção da identidade, dos produtos, dos saberes e das tradições que caracterizam o território algarvio.

Ao longo de quatro dias, a Feira reúne comunidade, produtores, empresas, instituições e visitantes em torno de um património que se cruza com diferentes dimensões do desenvolvimento regional — da agricultura e alimentação à cultura, inovação, sustentabilidade e valorização dos recursos endógenos.

A CCDR Algarve, I.P., enquanto parceira da Feira desde a sua primeira edição, participa uma vez mais com um programa diversificado de iniciativas, dando continuidade ao trabalho desenvolvido no âmbito do Plano de Atividades para a Salvaguarda da Dieta Mediterrânica na Região do Algarve (PASDM 2023-2027).

Ao longo dos quatro dias, a CCDR Algarve I.P. estará presente com espaço institucional, promovendo o contacto direto com a população, empresas, produtores e demais visitantes e dando visibilidade ao trabalho desenvolvido pela instituição.

Conheça as principais iniciativas promovidas ou apoiadas pela CCDR Algarve no âmbito da Feira:

• 3 SET. | 14h30 – Seminário “Inovação nos Produtos Endógenos | A Dieta Mediterrânica e o Património Cultural”

No Centro de Experimentação Agrária de Tavira (CEAT), especialistas, entidades e projetos irão refletir sobre a salvaguarda, valorização e inovação dos produtos endógenos, a sua relação com a Dieta Mediterrânica e os saberes, tradições e modos de produção que lhes estão associados.

A iniciativa integra o INOVA ALGARVE 3.0 – Programa de Desenvolvimento de Novos Produtos Baseados em Materiais Endógenos Inspirados na Dieta Mediterrânica, promovido pela CCDR Algarve e financiado pelo Programa Regional ALGARVE 2030, que procura estimular a inovação e o desenvolvimento de novos produtos a partir dos recursos e saberes existentes na região.

Inscrições aqui: SEMINÁRIO – Dieta Mediterrânica – Inovação nos Produtos Endógenos

• 3 SET. | 18h00 – Conversas Al-bauhaus – Europe Direct do Algarve, CCDR Algarve I.P.

No stand Europe Direct do Algarve.

• 3 SET. | 20h00 – Filme “Surda” (Prémio Lux do Parlamento Europeu) – Europe Direct do Algarve, CCDR Algarve I.P.

Será exibido o filme “Surda”, o qual recebeu o Prémio Lux do Parlamento Europeu, seguindo-se um momento de conversa com a participação do Gabinete de Informação do Parlamento Europeu em Portugal e o Centro Europe Direct do Algarve, o qual terá lugar no Teatro Municipal António Pinheiro, em Tavira.

• 4 SET. | 9h30 – Visita à Coleção de Fruteiras Tradicionais do Algarve

O Centro de Experimentação Agrária de Tavira recebe uma visita à Coleção de Fruteiras Tradicionais do Algarve, um importante repositório da biodiversidade agrícola regional e do património associado à Dieta Mediterrânica.

A iniciativa permite dar a conhecer o trabalho desenvolvido na prospeção, preservação e valorização das variedades tradicionais, contribuindo para a salvaguarda de um património agrícola único e para a valorização dos recursos endógenos algarvios.

• 4 SET. | 11h30 – Visita guiada à Exposição “O Posto Agrário de Tavira” – CCDR Algarve I.P.

No Centro de Experimentação Agrária de Tavira.

• 4 SET. | 21h30 – VIMAR – Valorização da Cooperação Transfronteiriça

A programação inclui ainda uma ação de promoção dos vinhos do Condado de Huelva, no Mercado da Ribeira, numa parceria entre a VIMAR – Feria del Vino y el Mar, o Consejo Regulador de la D.O. Condado de Huelva e a CCDR Algarve.

A iniciativa reforça a dimensão transfronteiriça da Feira e a cooperação entre o Algarve e a Andaluzia, promovendo o conhecimento e a valorização de produtos associados aos territórios mediterrânicos.

• 4 SET. | 14h30 – Workshop Regional de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional

No CEAT realiza-se o workshop “Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional – Saborear o Algarve 2030: Rede, Inovação e Consumo Local”, promovido pelo Ministério da Agricultura e do Mar, através do GPP, em articulação com a CCDR Algarve.

A iniciativa coloca em debate temas como a produção local, os circuitos curtos de abastecimento, o consumo sustentável, a redução do desperdício alimentar e a promoção de padrões alimentares saudáveis, envolvendo diferentes atores do sistema agroalimentar regional. As conclusões contribuirão para o processo nacional que culminará na Conferência Nacional de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional, no segundo semestre de 2026.

Inscrições aqui: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/uzxDiPPvXL

• 4 SET. | 18h00 – Conversas Al-bauhaus – Europe Direct do Algarve, CCDR Algarve I.P.

No stand Europe Direct do Algarve.

• 5 SET. | 18h00 – Conversas Al-bauhaus – Europe Direct do Algarve, CCDR Algarve I.P.

No stand Europe Direct do Algarve.

• 6 SET. | 18h00 – Entrega do Prémio Inovação – Dieta Mediterrânica

Um dos momentos de destaque da Feira será a apresentação dos vencedores da 3.ª edição do Prémio Inovação – Dieta Mediterrânica, no Jardim do Coreto.

Promovido pela CCDR Algarve, em parceria com o Município de Tavira, a Caixa de Crédito Agrícola Mútuo do Sotavento Algarvio e a Associação In Loco, o prémio pretende distinguir produtos e projetos agroalimentares inovadores que valorizem os recursos endógenos e contribuam para a competitividade e sustentabilidade do setor agroalimentar regional.

Em 2026, o concurso foi alargado a todos os produtores, projetos e empresas sediados no Algarve, independentemente da sua participação na Feira, reforçando o seu papel enquanto instrumento de promoção da inovação regional.

• Exposição “Mário Soares – 100 Anos”

Integrada nas iniciativas de valorização cultural associadas à programação, a exposição “Mário Soares – 100 Anos”, da Fundação Mário Soares e Maria Barroso, estará patente na Biblioteca Municipal de Tavira, de 1 a 14 de setembro, dando a conhecer a vida, o pensamento, os valores e o legado de Mário Soares na construção da democracia portuguesa.

Europe Direct Algarve promove cidadania europeia

A participação da CCDR Algarve na XII Feira da Dieta Mediterrânica conta igualmente com a presença do Europe Direct Algarve, estrutura de missão acolhida na CCDR Algarve, que dinamizará atividades dirigidas a diferentes públicos. Entre as iniciativas previstas estão o jogo de tabuleiro “Valores que me movem”, a Hora do Conto “Contos com Sal (q.b.)”, dinamizada pela Lixarte, e as Conversas Bauhaus – #fazeranossaparte, dedicadas à sustentabilidade, à cidadania e ao papel de cada cidadão na construção de um futuro mais sustentável.

Com esta participação, a CCDR Algarve reafirma o seu compromisso com a salvaguarda da Dieta Mediterrânica e com uma estratégia de desenvolvimento regional que valoriza o território, as pessoas, os recursos endógenos, a inovação e a sustentabilidade, dando simultaneamente a conhecer o papel do Programa Regional ALGARVE 2030 e dos Fundos Europeus na concretização de projetos que contribuem para um Algarve mais competitivo, coeso e sustentável.

A Dieta Mediterrânica é um património vivo, cultural e identitário do Algarve, reconhecido pela UNESCO como Património Cultural Imaterial da Humanidade, tendo Tavira como comunidade representativa em Portugal. Mais do que um modelo alimentar, constitui uma forma de viver e de relação com o território, envolvendo a agricultura, a produção e valorização dos produtos endógenos, a gastronomia, a cultura, a sustentabilidade, a biodiversidade e a economia regional.

A Fast Trip Inside Vaccines’ Nighmare from Serious Adverse Reactions 

We have compiled into a single video just over 5 minutes long five videos recorded by renowned American epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher, who has published dozens of studies in leading international medical journals questioning the safety of vaccines:

The questionable safety of experimental genetic vaccines with the new mRNA biotechnology used for Covid-19 and now already used in Moderna’s new products against influenza and melanoma (on which we will write soon.).

From SONG ON COVID-VACCINE (Video) to the “Brief Battle” vs LETHAL TURBO-CANCER. The Tragic and Mysterious Story of Dolly Parton

The first three videos analyze adverse reactions such as turbo-cancer, microclots, and fetal mortality among vaccinated women.

The questionable safety of pediatric vaccines, which have not been subject to review for over a decade despite their potential to cause genomic integration from fetal DNA and neurological conditions such as autism and other brain disorders (last two videos).

Below you can find investigative posts on the topics and study quoted by Hulsher

Investigative Posts on the topics and study quoted by Hulsher from Turbo-Cancer to Autism

BOMBSHELL on CANCER DANGERS after COVID VACCINES (Video). Korean Study on 8 millions Individuals confirms the Italian Alarm: Higher Risks to Lung and Prostate

Embalmer Survey: KILLERS “CALAMARI” of BLOOD CLOTS raise after mRNA Covid Vaccination linked to Toxic Spike-Fibrin interactions of SARS-Cov-2 BioWeapon

FAUCI & CDC KNEW THAT COVID VACCINES COULD TRIGGER MISCARRIAGE (5 videos). As Denounced by Gospa News in 2021 on 3,573 Cases of Fetal Death among Vaccinated Women

VITAL! US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on AUTISM AND VACCINES: “Studies supporting a link IGNORED by Health Authorities”

Disturbing WARNING on Childhood Vaccines from PUBMED Study! FETAL DNA FRAGMENTS correlated to Genomic Integration and Autism Spectrum Disorders

Germany’s efforts to deport more illegal immigrants is hitting an operational and fiscal roadblock, as official figures show that voluntary departures are now outstripping state-executed deportations. Despite significant financial expenditure, almost 9,000 removal attempts failed in the first six months of the year alone.

The financial burden of these operations is highlighted by a number of incredibly expensive or aborted deportation operations. In May, a chartered flight from Leipzig to Pakistan carrying 33 individuals subject to departure — escorted by 75 federal police personnel — cost approximately €518,000.

The operation is now being referred to as “the most expensive group deportation flight in German history,” with funding provided by the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex.

By contrast, German taxpayers directly absorbed the costs for two unassisted charter flights to Afghanistan in April and June, which each exceeded €300,000. Operations to various African nations, including Nigeria, regularly reached €400,000 per flight with Frontex support, while an additional €5.93 million went toward security personnel for repatriations.

In other words, even small-scale deportation efforts are leading to exploding costs. Deportation numbers are also now falling, according to government data released following a parliamentary inquiry by the Left Party. The report reveals that federal authorities executed 9,663 deportations between January and June, a decline of 18.2 percent compared to the same period in the previous year. During this same timeframe, nearly 9,000 planned deportations failed to occur.

While state-enforced deportations may be falling, more and more people appear to be willing to leave the country of their own volition. Border officials confirmed that 17,892 individuals required to leave the country departed on their own, with roughly 9,300 taking advantage of federal financial assistance to do so.

Despite these exits, Germany’s overall backlog remains huge, according to Welt newspaper. By mid-year, roughly 259,000 foreign nationals obliged to exit the country remained in Germany. Of this group, 77 percent were granted temporary suspension of deportation and slightly more than 60 percent represented individuals whose asylum applications had been formally rejected.

Even after cases were handed over to the German Federal Police, deportations were interrupted by administrative issues and even physical resistance. Out of 734 cancellations that occurred during this final phase, “130 were due to acts of resistance, and in 56 cases there were medical concerns.”

At the same time, many pilots appear to be refusing to transport migrants slated for deportation. Pilots refused passage to scheduled deportees in 280 instances during the first half of the year, a notable rise given that 514 total refusals were logged throughout the entirety of 2025. Official records do not track the specific reasons pilots refuse to conduct these repatriations.

To enforce compliance during transit, police utilized physical restraints in 786 cases, with such measures used “particularly frequently during repatriations to Algeria, Morocco and Nigeria.”

The post ‘The most expensive group deportation flight in German history’ – Deporting just 33 people cost EU taxpayers €518,000 appeared first on Remix News.

Doze pessoas ficaram feridas, uma das quais com gravidade, na sequência de um atropelamento ocorrido na madrugada desta terça-feira, na zona dos bares da Oura, em Albufeira.

Vídeo em https://www.facebook.com/share/v/195TDvubBZ/

O alerta foi dado às 03h13. Segundo o Comando Sub-Regional de Emergência e Proteção Civil do Algarve e a GNR, os militares efetuaram disparos para o ar para travar a fuga do condutor, de 35 anos, que acabou detido com uma taxa de álcool no sangue igual ou superior a 1,2 g/l, o que constitui crime.

As vítimas foram transportadas para os hospitais de Portimão e Faro e para o Centro de Saúde de Albufeira. No local estiveram 58 operacionais, apoiados por 13 veículos, tendo o Núcleo de Investigação de Crimes em Acidentes de Viação (NICAV) estado igualmente presente.

O detido será presente a tribunal esta terça-feira.

Por: Dino Frazão
Data: 25/08/2026

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On 18 August, United States gross federal debt passed $40 trillion for the first time. Two days later, the Australian Government Securities passed $1 trillion for the first time.

The standard explanations are mostly just excuses. Washington will point to COVID debt, to the rate cycle, to the tax bill. Canberra will point to the NDIS, to aged care, to hospitals. None explains why every developed democracy is doing the same thing at the same time, under governments on every side of politics, in defiance of what all of them say they believe about fiscal discipline.

Each of these explanations is a distraction from the core issues: runaway consumptive spending, declining spending efficiency, expansion in the very conception of what government should be responsible for and inability to pursue any significant structural reforms.

Here is what drives everything as the underlying foundational demographic challenge: declining generational stake. The marginal voter and the marginal politician in each of these countries hold a shrinking personal stake in what happens after they die. Not zero. Shrinking — and moving in one direction for nearly 200 years.

In exploring questions like these, Prothean Institute looks to the political and philosophical approach of James Madison: not moralistic, just assume people are self-interested and will act to maximise their own outcomes within the incentive structures that exist.

Therefore, it’s not a moral observation. It is an arithmetic one, and it predicts the budget, the policies and the outcomes we are seeing today.

The calculation nobody says out loud

A person with no children, or one child, can protect their line by accumulating personally. Save enough, buy the house, top up the super, and the inheritance divides by one. A deteriorating country is survivable if your sole heir and his wife get the accumulated assets of 4 grandparents. Personal accumulation works.

A person with four children cannot do this. The estate divides by four, then by sixteen when grandchildren arrive. And with more than four children, the consequences are exponential. There is no savings rate high enough to ensure a large line of descendants against a shrinking economy.

The only strategy that scales is to create a flourishing country over the long term in which descendants can create their own economic prosperity.

Why low fertility erodes economic performance

What matters here is what it does to fiscal policy and the budget.

Four direct impacts are evident:

First, consumption. For a household that has opted out of children, the rational plan is present enjoyment plus a retirement pot or extraction from government pension plans. There is no inter-generational investment to fund. Politically, that household votes for what makes the present comfortable: transfers, subsidies, cost-of-living relief, protection of asset values and avoidance of significant structural reforms.

It does not vote for anything whose cost is now and payoff arrives in the medium to long term, and will happily borrow money for present consumptive spending.

Consumptive spending now accounts for more than the entire government tax revenues in most anglosphere countries, with little federal spending on real intergenerational productive infrastructure.

Second, debt. This is where fertility bites hardest, through a design flaw that low fertility exposed rather than caused. Social Security, the age pension, and every European state pension are pay-as-you-go. Today’s retirees are paid by today’s workers. That is a claim by one cohort on the earnings of another. When the second cohort shrinks, a government has two options: cut the benefit, or borrow from descendants that are likely not even born.

Cutting is possible, but it is politically expensive enough, particularly in a low-fertility environment, that neither Washington, London nor Canberra has seriously attempted it in a generation.

So they borrow from future generations. American net interest is now over $1 trillion per year. In Australia, public debt service costs exceed the budget deficit itself: had Australia lived within its means historically, it could be running budgetary surpluses despite the enormous government spending programs such as NDIS.

Neither country set out to put themselves in these precarious financial situations. It is the compounding cost of incremental decisions and structural reforms consistently deferred.

There is a number that gives this mechanism a formula. Across twenty-three advanced OECD economies from 1980 to 2010, every one-year increase in the median voter’s age is associated with a public debt-to-GDP ratio about 4.5 percentage points higher. A study measuring the age of the electorate (rather than the fertility of the people running it) — but it is what the generational stake predicts.

Third, deferral. Work published in February by the Aspen Economic Strategy Group modelled the American budget under continued low fertility and under an immediate return to replacement fertility in 2026. Deficits are unsustainable through 2055 in both cases — and replacement fertility makes the primary deficit worse by 0.2 to 0.5 per cent of GDP a year for the next three decades, because children cost money long before they pay tax. The fiscal payoff arrives around 2075. It’s the very definition of intergenerational investment.

Read that again, because it is the whole problem in one sentence. A politician who fixed the birth rate tomorrow would spend their entire career, and their successors’ careers, paying for it. The same calculus applies to all significant structural or spending reforms that might yield significant benefit in the long term, but require short-term austerity.

The incentive to act on any significant civilisational issue is not merely weak. It is negative at a political level in a low-generational-stakes political environment.

Fourth, immigration as a ‘cheap’ substitute for children. Once fertility repair or structural reforms to improve productivity are written off as too hard or uneconomical, the rational policy is to substitute population and economic growth with migration, and the low long-term consequences of these policies are not considered relevant to a low-generational-stakes electorate.

In Australia, net overseas migration accounted for 73 per cent of population growth in the year to December 2025. Migration levels have been fought over at recent elections in all Anglosphere countries. What has never been put to a vote is migration as a demographic replacement strategy — the quiet substitution of imported adults for domestic births. It arrived because it is the only lever that shows results inside an electoral cycle.

That is what managed decline is. Not a plan. A sequence of individually rational decisions by people whose personal calculation is satisfied either way.

The biggest problem of our time

Apply the inheritance calculation to the people currently in office, and it makes an awkward prediction.

The senior figures of the American executive have unusually high fertility: Trump (five children), Vance (four), Hegseth (seven), and RFK Jr. (six). Between them they have twenty-two children — an average of 5.5.

Set against the recent leaders of other major Western democracies — Macron (none), Scholz (none), Merkel (none), Albanese (one), Sunak (two), Starmer (two), Trudeau (three) — the average falls to roughly 1.14. The gap is striking.

Yet the high-fertility group is also running one of the largest structural deficits in the developed world.

Elon Musk is the cleanest illustration of the problem. A man with more than ten children entered government specifically to attack the long-horizon fiscal problem, at considerable personal cost to his companies and his public standing. What happened next is an informative bit. The effort achieved a fraction of what it claimed, ran into an entrenched appropriations structure that no executive could break through, and wound down. A high-stakes individual attacked the problem directly, and the low-generational-stakes incentives won. If that does not settle the question of whether personnel can substitute for institutional design, nothing will.

We will not pretend this away. On the most visible short-term test available, the mechanism appears to get the wrong answer.

There are two compounding explanations:

1. The inheritance calculation is a claim about long-horizon incentives, not about the next budget cycle. The same administration has pursued (with mixed success) spending restraint (in particular Musk), reshoring, energy expansion, and family-formation measures — projects whose payoffs, if any, arrive well beyond the current electoral window.

2. Perhaps more important for the argument of this piece: a high-fertility executive still faces low-fertility voter preferences and the same institutional incentives that produced the deficits in the first place. Personnel alone does not rewrite the incentive structure across a population.

Which is, in the end, the point. The deficit is downstream of what the median voter demands and what the institutional design rewards. Changing the people at the top, even when those people have strong personal generational stake, does not automatically change the outcome.

The clearer tests of the underlying mechanism are the structural cases of Singapore and Israel.

The Israeli exception

Israel is the only country in the OECD with fertility above replacement — 2.87 in 2024. If the generational stake operates at population scale rather than only through individual leaders, this is where it should show.

It does. Israel cut general government gross debt from 269.8 per cent of GDP in 1984 to 59.3 per cent in 2019, and ran a budget surplus in 2022.

No other developed country has managed anything close. Over the same thirty-five years, every low-fertility peer moved the other way.

Israeli fertility did not rise during the deleveraging — it sat between 2.8 and 3.1 the whole time. That is the point: the generational stake is not a switch that gets flipped; it is a standing condition that biases policy toward long-term investment. Israel held it continuously and deleveraged continuously. The Anglosphere and Europe held the opposite continuously and did the opposite.

The war since October 2023 has added roughly ten points to Israel’s debt ratio. But borrowing to resolve a problem permanently rather than manage it indefinitely moves cost into the present so that the future inherits a solved problem instead of a costly running one.

Israel did not choose 7 October. What it chose afterwards was to prosecute the problem to a resolution rather than return to managing it — at eight per cent of GDP, three credit downgrades, and sustained international diplomatic cost.

A low-stakes political class facing the same attack has an obvious alternative available: absorb it, restore the prior equilibrium, defer the underlying problem, and protect the status quo. And that is what the west has chosen repeatedly to for its significant challenges.

The Singapore objection

The other obvious rebuttal is Singapore. A fertility rate of 0.87, among the lowest in the world. Yet a budget surplus, a AAA rating, and a net asset position. If low fertility drives debt, Singapore should be a wreck.

Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew had three children, together with a near-dynastic attitude toward generational stake, and he built its institutions, economy and government with this long-term vision. He made sure Singapore voters had little influence for half a century.

He built its retirement system to require workers to contribute to their own retirement over their productive lifespans, rather than draw on the next cohort’s payroll. Half the long-term real return on the national reserves must by law be reinvested rather than spent. Intergenerational investment is built into its economy.

None of that requires virtuous politicians. It is Madisonian design in the strict sense: long-horizon outcomes out of ordinary self-interested people. The recent history of Singapore is also instructive on two points:

1. Voter power growing - As Lee Kuan Yew stepped back progressively from leadership, and the voter influence grew from around 2000, we see the emergence of the very consumptive spending trends evident in other Western democracies.

2. The primary balance — budget excluding investment returns — went negative this year for the first time since the pandemic. The system is now funding current spending from the yield on inherited capital, exactly as the West does

Singapore has not solved low fertility. It bought several decades of insulation from the fiscal consequences with its capital accumulation, and it is now spending the yield.

What follows

Asking the political class to think longer term is wasted breath, and it does not much matter how many children they have.

A voting public that rewards consumption, debt and reform deferral will produce consumption, debt and reform deferral.

Moral exhortation asks people to act against their interest, and Madison’s entire point was that durable institutions never require that, and those that do, fail.

And read the debt figures and intergenerational theft as the cost of failed institutional design.

Forty trillion and one trillion are not the problem; they are the reckoning — addressed to the grandchildren of the people who still have a generational stake.

The corrective is structural, or it is nothing.

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Notes and References

US Department of the Treasury, Debt to the Penny. Total public debt outstanding was $39,986,657,878,071.92 on 17 August 2026 and $40,047,425,768,420.22 on 18 August 2026. https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/

The $1 trillion figure derives from the Australian Office of Financial Management’s issuance schedule as calculated and released by Shadow Treasurer Tim Wilson, 20 August 2026, which puts AGS on issue at $1,000.8 billion on 20 August and $994.8 billion on 21 August following $6 billion of maturities. AOFM’s own last published stock figure was $983.7 billion as at 14 August. Commonwealth of Australia, Budget 2026–27, Budget Paper No. 1, Table 7.1 projects AGS on issue of $982.0 billion in 2025-26 and $1,051.0 billion in 2026-27. https://www.miragenews.com/australia-hits-1-trillion-of-commonwealth-debt-1730112/ | https://www.aofm.gov.au/

Prothean Institute, The Generational Stake: Why Different Fertility Patterns Produce Different Incentive Structures — and What That Predicts About Political Behaviour, Policy Brief, May 2026 (Paper 3, The Divergent Societies series).

Congressional Budget Office, The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2026 to 2036, February 2026. Mandatory outlays $4,529 billion of $7,449 billion total in FY2026 (60.8%); $7,028 billion of $11,416 billion in 2036 (61.6%). https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61882

Commonwealth of Australia, Budget 2026–27, Budget Paper No. 1, Statement 3, Table 3.1 (payments 26.6% of GDP in 2025-26, 26.8% in 2026-27) and Statement 11 historical series (1986-87: 26.9%). These are budget estimates, not outcomes. https://budget.gov.au/content/bp1/download/bp1_bs-11.pdf

Congressional Budget Office, Monthly Budget Review: July 2026, August 2026. Fiscal year to date: Social Security $1,373 billion; net interest $963 billion; Medicare $952 billion; Department of Defense (military) $763 billion. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61983

Commonwealth of Australia, Budget 2026–27, Budget Paper No. 1, Statement 7, Table 7.9 (AGS interest $27,690 million in 2026-27 rising to $40,425 million in 2029-30, +46.0%) and Statement 3 (public debt interest averaging 8.8% annual growth over the projection period, against hospitals 7.3%, defence 6.4%, aged care 5.4%). https://budget.gov.au/content/bp1/download/bp1_bs-7.pdf

Ernest Dautović, ‘The weight of the median voter ageing on public debt’, Constitutional Political Economy, vol. 29 no. 1, 2018, pp. 69–92. Panel of 23 advanced OECD economies, 1980–2010. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10602-017-9248-8

Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees, 2026 Annual Reports, 9 June 2026. OASI depletion fourth quarter 2032 (78 per cent payable); Medicare HI depletion second quarter 2033 (89 per cent payable); seventy-five-year OASDI actuarial deficit 4.42 per cent of taxable payroll, widened from 3.82 per cent, of which approximately 0.33 points is attributed to lower fertility, 0.18 to reduced immigration, and 0.16 to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/TR/2026/

Lisa Dettling and Luke Pardue, Low Fertility and Fiscal Sustainability: The Effects of Past and Future Fertility Rates on the US Federal Budget Outlook, Aspen Economic Strategy Group, 24 February 2026. https://www.economicstrategygroup.org/publication/pardue-dettling-budget/

Australian Bureau of Statistics, National, state and territory population, December quarter 2025, released 18 June 2026. Total population growth 412,500; net overseas migration 301,000; natural increase 111,500. Australia’s total fertility rate was 1.481 in 2024, a record low: ABS, Births, Australia, 15 October 2025.

Statistics Canada, ‘Canada’s total fertility rate reaches new low’, 22 April 2026. https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/9140-canadas-total-fertility-rate-reaches-new-low-2024

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, ‘OBBBA Dynamic Score Comes In At $4.7 Trillion’, on CBO’s dynamic estimate including debt service, FY2026–2035. The conventional provision-only score is $3.4 trillion. https://www.crfb.org/blogs/obbba-dynamic-score-comes-47-trillion

Israeli Government Israel Economy Recent Trends 2026 economic update:
https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/reports/israel-economy-recent-trends/en/Files_eng_israel-economy-recent-trends.pdf

Singapore Department of Statistics, Total Fertility Rate 2025, 26 February 2026 (preliminary resident TFR 0.87, from 0.97 in 2024); Speech by Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong, Committee of Supply Debate 2026. South Korea’s 2025 provisional TFR was approximately 0.80. https://www.singstat.gov.sg/news/total-fertility-rate-2025

Singapore Ministry of Finance, Analysis of Revenue and Expenditure, Financial Year 2026. Net Investment Returns Contribution S$28.48 billion, 17.4 per cent of total revenue (21.1 per cent of operating revenue); primary balance −S$2.57 billion in FY2026 against +S$6.40 billion in FY2025. https://isomer-user-content.by.gov.sg/153/b25a4bb9-db1b-428d-ab48-4528e0ee0d37/fy2026_analysis_of_revenue_and_expenditure_2026.pdf

Introduction by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio

VERSIONE IN ITALIANO

Originally published on October, 6, 2025 – updated with VIDEO on August, 24, 2026

VIDEO – Two MASSIVE COVID shot studies on 8 MILLION people confirm that can trigger Turbo-Cancer in Vaccinated

Excerpt from American Thinker interview to American Epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher

Korean Medical Doctors: “1-Year Cancer Risk Associated with COVID-19 Vaccination”

«The oncogenic potential of SARS-CoV-2 has been hypothetically proposed, but real-world data on COVID-19 infection and vaccination are insufficient. Therefore, this large-scale population-based retrospective study in Seoul, South Korea, aimed to estimate the cumulative incidences and subsequent risks of overall cancers 1 year after COVID-19 vaccination. Data from 8,407,849 individuals between 2021 and 2023 were obtained from the Korean National Health Insurance database».

We can read in the Abstract of the Korean study Kim et al. titled “1-year risks of cancers associated with COVID-19 vaccination: a large population-based cohort study in South Korea” which was conducted by Hong Jin Kim (Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Kyung-in Regional Military Manpower Administration, Suwon) Min-Ho Kim (Informatization Department, Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital, Seoul), Myeong Geun Choi and Eun Mi Chun (both in Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital, 1071, Anyangcheon-ro, Yangcheon-gu, Seoul).

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The research was published on September, 26, 2025 by BMC Biomarker Research 13 (part of Springer Nature).

«The participants were categorized into two groups based on their COVID-19 vaccination status. The risks for overall cancer were assessed using multivariable Cox proportional hazards models, and data were expressed as hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). The HRs of thyroid (HR, 1.351; 95% CI, 1.206–1.514), gastric (HR, 1.335; 95% CI, 1.130–1.576), colorectal (HR, 1.283; 95% CI, 1.122–1.468), lung (HR, 1.533; 95% CI, 1.254–1.874), breast (HR, 1.197; 95% CI, 1.069–1.340), and prostate (HR, 1.687; 95% CI, 1.348–2.111) cancers significantly increased at 1 year post-vaccination» adds the Abstract.

«In terms of vaccine type, cDNA vaccines were associated with the increased risks of thyroid, gastric, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancers; mRNA vaccines were linked to the increased risks of thyroid, colorectal, lung, and breast cancers; and heterologous vaccination was related to the increased risks of thyroid and breast cancers. Given the observed associations between COVID-19 vaccination and cancer incidence by age, sex, and vaccine type, further research is needed to determine whether specific vaccination strategies may be optimal for populations in need of COVID-19 vaccination».

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The Korean study indirectly confirms the warning raised by two Chinese universities in October 2020, even before the Covid-19 vaccines were released, regarding the very serious risks of lung disease that both mRNA and mDNA gene sera could cause.

Furthermore, the study found that booster doses were associated with significantly higher risks of gastric and pancreatic cancer. For pancreatic cancer, the risk more than doubled in booster recipients.

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These statistics confirmed the validity of the warning raised by the late virologist Luc Montagnier and British oncologist Angus Dalgleish.

More details below inside the analysis of American epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher.

Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio – Gospa News director

BREAKING: Second Massive Population Study Finds COVID-19 “Vaccines” Increase Risk of 6 Major Cancers

Originally published by Nicolas Hulscher, MPH on Substack Focal Points – Courageous Discourse by McCullough Foundation

About a month ago, the first-ever population cohort study reported increased cancer risks following COVID-19 vaccination. In Italy, nearly 300,000 residents were tracked for 30 months, showing that mRNA shots significantly increased the risk of overall cancer, breast cancer, bladder cancer, and colorectal cancer

BOMBSHELL! INCREASING RISK of MULTIPLE CANCERS from COVID Vaccines unveiled by First Population-Wide Study on 245,000 Vaccinated

Now, a second—and far larger—population-based cohort study by Kim et al from South Korea has corroborated and expanded upon those findings. Drawing on a massive sample of more than 8.4 million people, this is one of the most powerful cancer-safety datasets ever analyzed.

The results are striking. After accounting for age, sex, comorbidities, income level, and prior COVID-19 infection, COVID-19 vaccination was linked to significant increases in multiple major cancers, with the signal consistent across all vaccine platforms, both sexes, and age groups:

Study Design at a Glance

• Design & data: Population-based retrospective cohort using the Korean National Health Insurance database (2021–2023).
• Population: 8,407,849 adults.
• Exposure: COVID-19 vaccination (analyzed overall and by platform: mRNA, cDNA, and heterologous schedules).
• Matching: Large-scale propensity score matching (1:4 vaccinated:unvaccinated for the main analysis; 1:2 within vaccinated for booster vs non-booster).
• Modeling: Multivariable Cox proportional hazards models (adjusted for age, sex, comorbidity index, income level, and prior COVID-19 infection), estimating hazard ratios (HRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs); analyses stratified by sex and age.
• Outcome window: 1-year incidence of overall and site-specific cancers post-vaccination.

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Key Results — Cancers with Significant Increases (1-year follow-up)

• Overall cancer: HR 1.27 (95% CI, 1.21–1.33) → 27% higher risk of all cancers combined in vaccinated vs. unvaccinated at 1 year.
• Lung cancer: HR 1.53 (95% CI, 1.25–1.87) → 53% higher risk
• Prostate cancer: HR 1.69 (1.35–2.11) → 69% higher risk
• Thyroid cancer: HR 1.35 (1.21–1.51) → 35% higher risk
• Gastric (stomach) cancer: HR 1.34 (1.13–1.58) → 34% higher risk
• Colorectal cancer: HR 1.28 (1.12–1.47) → 28% higher risk
• Breast cancer: HR 1.20 (1.07–1.34) → 20% higher risk

Interpretation: An HR of 1.53 for lung cancer means that vaccinated individuals developed lung cancer at a rate 53% higher than matched unvaccinated peers, over the same one-year follow-up period. Similar interpretations apply to each cancer type.

By Vaccine Platform

• cDNA vaccines (AstraZeneca type): linked to higher risks of thyroid, gastric, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancers.
• Overall cancer HR 1.47 (95% CI 1.39–1.56) → 47% higher risk

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• mRNA vaccines (Pfizer/Moderna): linked to higher risks of thyroid, colorectal, lung, and breast cancers
• Overall cancer HR 1.20 (95% CI 1.14–1.26) → 20% higher risk

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• Heterologous (mixed schedules): linked to higher risks of thyroid and breast cancers.
• Overall cancer HR 1.34 (95% CI 1.21–1.48) → 34% higher risk

Interpretation: The elevated cancer risks were not confined to one vaccine platform. Whether adenoviral-vector (cDNA), mRNA, or mixed schedules, each vaccine type was associated with a measurable increase in overall cancer — and each had specific cancer sites driving the signal. In other words, no vaccine technology was free of cancer risk in this dataset.

Booster-Dose Analysis

• Gastric cancer: HR 1.23 (p = 0.041) → 23% higher risk with boosters
• Pancreatic cancer: HR 2.25 (p < 0.001) → 125% higher risk with boosters

Interpretation: Booster doses were associated with notably higher risks of gastric and pancreatic cancers. For pancreatic cancer, the risk more than doubled in boosted individuals.

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Overall Cancer Trends/Sex & Age Stratification

Overall cancer: Incidence was higher in the vaccinated across every demographic group.

• Women showed the highest relative burden, with 48.4 per 10,000 vaccinated vs. 38.2 per 10,000 unvaccinated at one year.
• Elderly adults (≥75 years) carried the greatest absolute burden, at 119.9 per 10,000 vaccinated vs. 91.7 per 10,000 unvaccinated.
• Younger adults (<65 years) also experienced a clear overall increase, despite lower baseline rates

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Site-specific patterns:

• Men: elevated risks for gastric and lung cancers
• Women: elevated risks for thyroid and colorectal cancers
• Under 65 years: stronger signals for thyroid and breast cancers
• ≥75 years: markedly higher risk of prostate cancer

Interpretation: Both the overall and site-specific results show a consistent pattern — every demographic group experienced elevated cancer risks, though the type and absolute burden varied. Women and the elderly were hit hardest, but no population segment was spared.

Conclusions: Major Increases in Cancer Risk from Chortes Studies in Italy and South Korea. 

Taken together, the evidence is now impossible to ignore. The only two population-level cohort studies ever conducted on COVID-19 vaccination and cancer — one in Italy and one in South Korea — have both found major increases in cancer risk.

The Italian study (≈300,000 people, 30-month follow-up) identified significant elevations in overall cancer, breast, bladder, and colorectal cancers. The South Korean study (8.4 million people, 1-year follow-up) confirmed and expanded these findings, documenting increased risks of overall cancer plus six site-specific cancers (lung, prostate, thyroid, gastric, colorectal, and breast).

BOMBSHELL! INCREASING RISK of MULTIPLE CANCERS from COVID Vaccines unveiled by First Population-Wide Study on 245,000 Vaccinated

Critically, the signal was observed across all vaccine types — both mRNA and viral-vector (cDNA) shots — and in every demographic group analyzed. In plain terms: both major COVID-19 vaccine platforms appear to be carcinogenic

With two independent national datasets converging on the same conclusion, governments, regulators, clinicians, and researchers must confront a sobering reality: nearly 70% of the global population has been injected with a carcinogenic product. The evidence demands immediate market withdrawal of these products.

17 Ways mRNA Shots May CAUSE CANCER, According to Over 100 STUDIES

At the McCullough Foundation, we are deeply investigating both the molecular mechanisms and the population-level data linking COVID-19 vaccination to cancer. We are currently preparing several new studies to expand this critical line of evidence.

This work requires substantial time, expertise, and resources, and we ask for your support in funding this urgent research: mcculloughfnd.org/products/donate-1

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The US military has resumed its campaign of bombing alleged drug-trafficking vessels after a two-month pause in a campaign that many legal experts and human rights groups believe constitutes a murder spree.

In a Monday social media post, US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said it carried out a “lethal kinetic strike on a low-profile vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes” in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday. Two people were killed as a result of the attack, SOUTHCOM claimed.

In announcing the strike, SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis Donovan said the attack was part of a campaign of “imposing total systemic friction on narco-terrorists—disrupting their operations, dismantling their leadership, and eliminating cartel terror across the region.”

Donovan’s boasts about the effectiveness of the boat strikes in combating the drug trade come less than a month after a leaked a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) analysis revealed that the boat-bombing campaign has not “reduced the amount of cocaine entering” the country, as drug cartels have found alternate methods for shipping their product into the US.

With the latest two casualties, the boat bombing campaign launched nearly a year ago by President Donald Trump’s administration has now claimed the lives of at least 223 people.

Adam Isaacson, director of the Defense Oversight program at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), criticized the administration for resuming its boat bombings despite “overwhelming evidence that they are murder; that many, likely most, of the dead are either super-low-level or uninvolved with drugs; and that cocaine supply is unaffected.”

Brian Finucane, senior adviser to the US Program at the International Crisis Group, delivered a similarly scathing assessment, commenting that “the Trump administration’s lawless killing spree at sea resumes.”

Nicholas Grossman, professor of international relations at the University of Illinois, described the boat strike campaign as “murderous” and “illegal,” adding that its victims are “not terrorists” and “may not even be drug traffickers.”

Investigative journalist Camila Lourdes Galarza observed that “there’s still no proof any of the victims” of the boat strikes were involved in the drug trade.

Lourdes Galarza sarcastically added that if the victims had been drug traffickers, “the US would probably give them a deal” like the one given to Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras who was pardoned by Trump last year despite being previously convicted on narcotics trafficking charges.

Spain’s construction industry is undergoing rapid demographic changes. Foreign-born workers in unskilled construction roles now make up 52.6 percent of all workers, according to data from Randstad from the first quarter

The data shows that foreign workers now exceed Spanish nationals for these unskilled roles by nearly 11,000 workers. The contrast is stark compared to pre-pandemic figures, when domestic laborers outnumbered foreign counterparts by more than 33,500.

Overall, the construction industry has lost 22,711 Spanish workers since 2019 while gaining 238,451 foreign employees, a figure that includes individuals with dual nationality. As a result, almost 36 percent of all construction workers, both skilled and unskilled, are now of foreign origin in the country.

The shift is equally evident among bricklayers. In 2019, Spanish bricklayers outnumbered foreigners by 111,000. Seven years later, that gap has narrowed to just 18,000 workers. Foreign labor has gained more than 16 percentage points in this category and currently accounts for roughly 48 percent of bricklayers working in Spain. While Spaniards remain the majority in most skilled roles for now, the statistical gap continues to shrink rapidly. Experts also predict that foreigners will increasingly dominate skilled and managerial positions in the future.

This transformation extends into specialized technical trades. The count of Spanish plumbers fell from 70,932 in 2019 to 57,781 today, while foreign representation doubled after adding over 10,000 workers. One in four plumbers in Spain is now foreign-born. Electricians show a similar dynamic, with about 32,000 foreign workers joining the profession since 2019, driving foreign representation up from under 11 percent pre-pandemic to nearly three out of ten today.

Industry analysts expect these patterns to hold due to impending retirements and low replacement rates among younger Spaniards.

Spain, like many other nations, is attempting to automate the construction industry as much as possible. However, instead of relying on advanced robots, Spain has so far shifted toward a modular construction approach in which concrete panels, bathrooms, and complete structural modules are built indoors in automated, factory-controlled settings that use machinery and assembly lines similar to those in the automotive sector. Cranes then assemble these modular components on site, requiring significantly fewer workers and dramatically cutting project delivery times.

Countries such as South Korea, by contrast, are racing ahead in automated construction, precisely because nations like Spain continue to rely on mass immigration, which is often cheaper in the short term but more costly over the long run.

South Korea does not only use automated construction in planning, but also in deploying commercialized robotics, automated modular manufacturing, and government-mandated smart construction.

Automated facilities, such as Space Factory, use advanced robotic arms to cut materials, assemble structural panels, seal joints, and fit window frames without direct manual intervention.

Unlike standard build sites in Spain, South Korean contractors actively deploy field robotics directly to job sites.

Automated rebar-tying robots and robotic concrete sprayers and finishers are routinely used by major developers, such as Samsung C&T and Hyundai E&C, to reduce heavy physical labor on high-rise residential projects. In addition, unmanned excavators and bulldozers guided by real-time GPS and drone mapping handle heavy site preparation.

Robots are even acting as supervisors to some extent, with autonomous quadruped robots, such as Boston Dynamics’ “Spot,” owned by South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, continuously patrolling construction sites, performing 3D laser scans to verify that progress matches digital blueprints.

As Remix News has previously reported, automation, robotics, and AI are all leading elements of Asian economies, which have chosen efficiency and technology over mass immigration and cheap foreign labor.

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