The Far Right’s Campaign to Explode the Population >>
"The threat, we are told here this weekend, is existential, #biological, epoch-defining. Economies will fail, #civilizations will fall, and it will all happen because people aren’t having enough #babies.
“The entire global #financial system, the value of your money, and every #asset you might buy with money is defined by leverage, which means its value depends on growth...." >>
>> "...#NatalCon has attracted attendees who are almost intensely dedicated to the cause of raising the U.S. #birth rate. The broader #natalist movement has been gaining momentum lately in #conservative circles — where anxieties over falling birth rates have converged with fears of rising immigration — and counts #ElonMusk, who has nearly a dozen children, and #ViktorOrbán among its proponents. Natalism is often about more than raising birth rates, though that is certainly one..." >
>> "...of its aims; for many in the room, the ultimate goal is a total #social overhaul, a #culture in which child-rearing is paramount.
At first glance, this conference might look like something new: A case for having #kids that is rooted in a critique of the #market-driven forces that shape our lives and the shifts that have made our culture less #family-oriented....declining birth rates are primarily the fault of “default middle-class ‘life path’ offered by our educational system and ...>
Sabreen al-Rouh Jouda, a premature baby who was rescued from her dying mother’s womb after an Israeli air attack on Gaza, has died, according to a relative and a doctor.
The little girl was pulled out alive just moments after her pregnant mother, Sabreen al-Sakani, was killed.
Sabreen’s home was hit by an Israeli air strike on Rafah on Saturday.
A Palestinian baby girl, saved from the womb of her mother Sabreen Al-Sheikh (Al-Sakani), who was killed in an Israeli strike along with her husband Shokri and her daughter Malak, lies in an incubator at Al-Emirati hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip April 21. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
2025 represents a very important year in US demographics. 2025 is 18 years from the great recession, and every single year since that date has seen a near continuous decline in US births.
That means, every year going forward, there are going to be fewer students going to colleges, few recruits for the military and fewer workers for employers. This is not a small thing coming very quickly. #demographics#babies#genalpha
»Nuzha Awad’s #triplets, Malek, Khader and Moustafa, born two months before the war began when Hamas attacked #Israel on 7 October, did not stop crying as she spoke to the Guardian. She fled #Gaza City when #food and formula for her #babies began to run out […]
“At this age a #child should weigh 8 kilos. They weigh 2 kilos … They don’t have thighs yet. At this stage they are supposed to be crawling and preparing to walk. And now you can see the state they’re in,”«
"Even if the war in Gaza ended tomorrow, for some of the Palestinian territory’s children, it would not help. Hunger and malnutrition have already claimed an estimated 27 young lives, and for many more, it may be too late to reverse the excruciating toll that starvation takes on small, growing bodies"
"At this age a child should weigh 8 kilos. They weigh 2 kilos … They don’t have thighs yet. At this stage they are supposed to be crawling and preparing to walk. And now you can see the state they’re in,” she said.
“Are these the arms of an eight-month-old child? … It’s death there, death, death. Death in the literal meaning of the word.”