The British Empire's New Concentration Camps

May 2, 2013 • 9:12AM

Other than gas ovens, one of the most efficient ways of destroying a nation and killing off its population is to induce skyrocketing youth unemployment. It destroys the future potential of the productive economy. It leads to soaring drug addiction, worsening health conditions, and explosive criminal activity, including epidemics of deranged homicides/suicides. It is the perfect circumstance for terrorist recruitment. And above all, it leads to the rampant cultural pessimism which has always been fascism's breeding ground, and the underpinning of any successful depopulation policy — such as that promoted by the British Empire from Thomas Malthus, to Bertrand Russell, to Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth themselves.

In Europe today, youth unemployment (ages 16-24) has surpassed 50% of the labor force in both Greece and Spain — two of the leading victims of the policies dictated by the infamous Troika (the European Central Bank, the European Commission, and the International Monetary Fund). In fact, the youth unemployment rate has overall more than doubled in Cyprus and the five so-called PIIGS countries (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain) between 2008 and 2012. For example, Greece's youth unemployment had more than doubled, from 22.1% in 2008 to 55.3% at the end of 2012. Spain's had also doubled, from 24.6% in 2008 to 53.2% at the end of 2012 (and further soared to 57% in the first quarter of 2013). Ireland's had more than doubled, from 13.3% to 30.4%. This is the period of the British Empire's "solution" to the 2008 financial meltdown: hyperinflationary bailouts for their banks, coupled with fascist austerity for the population, as enforced by puppets such as Barack Obama, Tony Blair, and the like.

Maps comparing European youth unemployment in 2008 and 2012, present an even more sensuous picture.


In 2008, "only" six European nations had youth unemployment rates of 20% or greater: Spain, Greece, Croatia, Italy, Portugal, and Sweden. None was higher than 25%. But by the end of 2012, the number of nations with youth unemployment above 20% had tripled, to 19. Of these, four had youth unemployment rates between 30-40% (Portugal, Italy, Slovakia, Ireland); and three exceeded 40% youth workforce unemployed (Greece, Spain, Croatia).

The tide of economic fascism is clearly, once again, sweeping Europe.

But the United States has fared no better. America on Barack Obama's watch has seen the real youth unemployment rate soar by nearly 50%, from an estimated 23.8% in 2008, to 34.6% in 2012. (We have calculated real unemployment by taking notoriously- understated official unemployment, plus forced-to-work-parttime, plus discouraged/left-the-workforce).


Back in 2008, there were "only" three states with real youth unemployment rates of 30% or higher: Michigan (34%), Rhode Island (31%), and California (30%). But by 2012, the tide of despair had spread to 60% of the states of the union: 30 states plus the District of Columbia had real youth unemployment rates of 30% or higher. Of these, five exceed 40% (Nevada 42.6%; Illinois 41.7%, Mississippi 41.2%, California 41.2%, and North Carolina 40.4%); and another 11 have rates in the range of 35-40%.

Should we not do as Franklin Roosevelt did, and stop the tide of fascism with Glass-Steagall and related economic policy measures... before it is too late?