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.  

Ruffalo simply noted the open and well-documented ideological commitments that the Ellisons themselves have long championed.

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

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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.

The end of ‘Welcome Culture’ – Majority of Germans want immigration moratorium, mass deportations, and believe too many legal migrants arrived

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.

Mass exodus of natives from Germany but sky-high immigration keeps population rising

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