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Europe's Modest Proposal To End Unemployment: Slavery

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Having spent weeks talking amongst themselves about the chronic and dangerous rise of youth unemployment in Europe (as we warned here), the Center of planning and Economic Research in Greece has proposed a controversial measure. As GreekReporter reports, the measure includes unpaid work for the young and unemployed up to 24 years old, so that companies would have a strong motive to hire young employees. "Unpaid" work sounds a lot like slavery to us... but it gets better; the report also suggested "exporting young unemployed persons." No comment...

 

Europe's youth unemployment problem is epic - 24.4% of Europe's under-25 population is unemployed...

 

 

GreekReporter notes the solution to Greece's problems...

Centre of planning and Economic Research in Greece has proposed a controversial measure in order to deal with the problem of increasing unemployment in the country.

 

The measure includes unpaid work for the young and unemployed up to 24 years old, so that companies would have a strong motive to hire young employees. Practically, what is proposed is the abolition of the basic salary for a year. At the same time the “export” of young unemployed persons was also proposed to other countries abroad, as Greek businesses do not appear able to hire new personnel.

 

According to the National Confederation of Hellenic Commerce, unemployment especially hits the ages between 15-24. The unemployment rate in Greece stands at 24.6% while 57.2% of young people are without a job. The majority of the unemployed (71%) have had no work for 12 months or more, while 23.3 % of the total have never worked. There were 3,635,905 people employed and 1,345,387 unemployed.

Whether it’s Europe in the 1930’s or the US during the same period (conflicts between strikers, the National Guard and armed militias), unemployment can create a powerful cocktail of unrest.

 

But turning your nation's young into slaves does not seem like a good solution to us...

 

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Sat, 01/25/2014 - 13:12 | 4366757 frenzic
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I think the average wage in Bulgaria is like 300 euros, a bottle of vodka is like 3 euros. You could run the show from there.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 19:53 | 4364893 djsmps
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Did the report mention resettlement of the unemployed youth?

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:50 | 4365055 Oldballplayer
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Don't worry. I hear they get showers upon arrival.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 19:57 | 4364899 FJ
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Son: 1%-Daddy, can I have a female slave for X-mas, please?

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:01 | 4364909 Global Hunter
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"exporting young unemployed persons."  Just where the fuck do they propose exporting them to? 

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:13 | 4364930 Emergency Ward
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Bahrain, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait.  Surplus EuroYouth for oil.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:25 | 4364990 Global Hunter
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Send young unemployed white Europeans to Arab countries to work while they bring in young unemployed Arabs to populate European ghettos.

  Russell Means said that their plan was to use the Indian reserve system worldwide now that they'd used it and perfected against the Indians...crazy conspiracy theorist /sarc 

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:49 | 4365052 Emergency Ward
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Russell Means was good at reading the motives of those in power.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:28 | 4365003 Pressfiretostart
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Africa.....“We’re aware of the difficulties the Portuguese people have faced recently,” Mr. dos Santos said. “Angola is open and available to help Portugal face this crisis.” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/world/africa/portugals-financial-crisi...

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:32 | 4365012 Pressfiretostart
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"Last year, 23,787 Portuguese moved to Angola, compared with only 156 in 2006, the Portuguese immigration observatory said." 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/business/global/14angolabiz.html?pagew...

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:06 | 4364921 AchtungAffen
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Ha!, now Tyler long Greece.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:09 | 4364932 no life
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Will they cook them first, before they export??

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:12 | 4364944 texas sandman
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So, which nationality tastes like chicken?

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:11 | 4364940 Atomizer
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Slavery has never died, they just re-globalized to new regions.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:12 | 4364945 no more banksters
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And there is more:

"It is worth to remember that just about a month ago, Troika lenders asked from the Greek ministries of Labour and Finance to estimate the amount that the insurance funds would save, in case that they would not pay not a single new pension in 2014!"

http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/01/a-new-attack-from-neoliberal....

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:12 | 4364947 TheRideNeverEnds
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Hey now, don't be so quick to dismiss the idea.  How many "youths" did we have unemployed and roaming the streets committing crimes prior to the end of slavery? 

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:19 | 4364965 no life
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And later on, they can emancipate them.... you can really get a lot of mileage out of that one.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:28 | 4365005 Atomizer
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That mileage is the United Nations bullshit who scores millions of dollars of TV time to seek donations for a circus effort. Ask the World Bank if you don’t believe me!

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 21:14 | 4365112 Atomizer
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Did I strike a bad chord with you little fucking weasels? Hahahahahaaahahaaaaaa.

It will all come to public surface very soon. Could your group bring my post down to -20 or so. heheheheee.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:19 | 4364970 I am Jobe
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Amerikan Pussies on the rise

Gillette maker says manscaping on the rise

http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/24/investing/procter-gamble-gillette-mansca...

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:23 | 4364984 10mm
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I been saying it for years. The pussification of America. 

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:35 | 4364999 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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I manscape but I do it with a safety razor, that takes some serious skill and bravery to shave a certain area plus the blades are cheaper than disposables. There is MANscaping then there is woMANscaping.

This on the other hand well you can look for yourself.

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/01/110231-meggings-downfall-human-race-fina...

 

To tie this back to Greece I've used many different types of safety razor blades through the years and best ones so far I've used hands down are BIC Chrome Platinum blades which are made in Greece. They have the perfect angle on the blade that is very sharp but just right between being too sharp like Japanese made Feather blades or too dull like German made Merkur blades.

If you are one of them 'youngins' who wants to cut their shaving bill in more than half switch to wet shaving with a safety razor and shave using ice cold water.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:53 | 4365065 Oldballplayer
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Safety razor?

You are a pussy. Straight razor. No replacements needed. And I have that nice leather strop to get the wife happy.

Sat, 01/25/2014 - 11:04 | 4366471 Bearwagon
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May an older man, who has much experience with shaving, provide a hint: If you are to use a straight razor (which indeed is best) - practice with balloons, practice, practice, practice.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 21:48 | 4365229 10mm
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I do trim the ball sack and hedge clip like a Tuscan wop. Just sayin.

Sat, 01/25/2014 - 06:51 | 4366140 tvdog
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Too much information.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:21 | 4364975 Blue Horshoe Lo...
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They say Greeks love to take it in the ass, but this is ridiculous!

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:21 | 4364976 10mm
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Get me off this FUCKIN planet. 

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 21:04 | 4365093 mick_richfield
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Be careful what you ask for.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:26 | 4364996 BuckShotJones
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I would love to see a williambanzai7 work of Ben Hur's Slave Galley to this topic. "You are all condemned men. We keep you alive to serve this ship...so row well and live" - Quintus Arrius

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:31 | 4365020 ebworthen
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I don't suppose sound money, enforcing the rule-of-law, and productive industry ever occurs to them.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:32 | 4365022 Biggieshort
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Greece needs to start a war with Italy...youth unemployment decrease, GDP increase....everyone wins. /sarc

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:33 | 4365025 Spungo
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Let's re-bomb Dresden. It would take a lot of work to rebuild it and we can make Krugman happy by borrowing the money and dumping that debt on our children.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 21:01 | 4365084 Tim_
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Dresden - A Real Holocaust & Act of Terrorism


"Fifty-nine years ago [2004], on the evening of February 13, 1945, an orgy of genocide and barbarism began against a defenseless German city, one of the greatest cultural centers of northern Europe. Within less than 14 hours, not only was it reduced to flaming ruins, but an estimated one-third of its inhabitants--possibly as many as half a million--had perished in what was the worst massacre of all time."

"There was a three-hour pause between the first and second raids. The lull had been calculated to lure civilians from their shelters into the open again. To escape the flames, tens of thousands of civilians had crowded into the Grosser Garten, a magnificent park nearly one and a half miles square."

"The second raid came at 1:22 a.m. with no warning. Twice as many bombers returned with a massive load of incendiary bombs. The second wave was designed to spread the raging firestorm into the Grosser Garten."

"It was a complete 'success.' Within a few minutes a sheet of flame ripped across the grass, uprooting trees and littering the branches of others with everything from bicycles to human limbs. For days afterward, they remained bizarrely strewn about as grim reminders of Allied sadism."

"Shortly after 10:30 on the morning of February 14, the last raid swept over the city. American bombers pounded the rubble that had been Dresden for a steady 38 minutes. But this attack was not nearly as heavy as the first two."

"However, what distinguished this raid was the cold-blooded ruthlessness with which it was carried out. U.S. Mustangs appeared low over the city, strafing anything that moved, including a column of rescue vehicles rushing to the city to evacuate survivors. One assault was aimed at the banks of the Elbe River, where refugees had huddled during the horrible night."

"In the last year of the war, Dresden had become a hospital town. During the previous night's massacre, heroic nurses had dragged thousands of crippled patients to the Elbe. The low-flying Mustangs machine-gunned those helpless patients, as well as thousands of old men, women and children who had escaped the city."

"In one ironic note, Dresden's only conceivable military target-- its railroad yards--was ignored by Allied bombers. They were too busy concentrating on helpless old men, women and children."

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 22:28 | 4365347 itstippy
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That is what total commitment to war is.  We also saved Hiroshima from our firebombing campaign so we'd have an intact major city to drop the atomic bomb on.

The Romans would march their legions into an uncooperative city, kill every single male from age 12 up, and sell the women & kids into slavery.  Then they'd dump the dead bodies into the city's wells to poison the water supply and salt the surrounding fields so no future crops could be grown.  The word got around.

The next all-out war will be the last if it comes.  China/Russia/U.S.A. would destroy all of humanity before surrendering to a foreign conquerer.

"Shut up and wave yer flag, boy!" 

Sat, 01/25/2014 - 00:47 | 4365698 akak
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Terra delenda est!

Sat, 01/25/2014 - 06:24 | 4366106 Bearwagon
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Ceterum censeo Wall Street esse delendam!

Sat, 01/25/2014 - 04:50 | 4366020 TPTB_r_TBTF
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When Hitler promised the innocent citizens of Dresden more Lebensraum,

they screamed their approval, Jawohl mein Führer!

 

The innocent citizens of Dresden eagerly sent their men and boys into Poland and on towards Moscow.

Whenever Hitler would talk of his plans, the innocent citizens of Dresden screamed, Jawohl mein Führer!

 

When Hitler ordered that London be set aflame with incendiaries, innocent Pilots from Dresden screamed, Jawohl mein Führer!

 

Those poor, innocent citizens of Dresden...

Sat, 01/25/2014 - 06:25 | 4366108 Bearwagon
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You really think they had any choice, other than to send their men and boys directly to the next concentration camp, instead of the war?! Think again ...

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:44 | 4365046 gdiamond22
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How the passage of time and cycles exposes how ignorant our species continues to be; ignoring history and suffering te consequences. The very nation that enlightened the world to liberty and self-government years ago have done a complete 180 to outright slavery. So sad.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:47 | 4365050 KickIce
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So they last an entire ten years before requiring a bailout.  Really sad when you consider world's reserve currency is without a gold standard and they have limited investment in military because we provide so much.  A Socialist utopia.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:54 | 4365067 knicks3005
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Majority of us are glorified slaves anywayz....

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:55 | 4365068 ncdirtdigger
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I'll trade two Tobys for one Nikos and a bottle of Uzo.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 21:18 | 4365134 withnmeans
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Umm, not to be technical, it's Ouzo. But thank you for the reference, I think I will have some now.

 

Carry on my Friends

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:55 | 4365071 The man with po...
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What's so many sheeple don't get about slavery, it was never about racism it was economic. The hatred was merely perpetrated to keep the system going, 'cos decent human beings don't hate or enslave each other. But throw in money and convience and slavery is justified.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 20:58 | 4365078 andrewp111
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Why doesn't the EU simply draft them into a European Imperial Army?

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 21:02 | 4365087 mick_richfield
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Who gives a fuck what Europe thinks?

If I want to see a museum of Western culture, I'm sure I can find one online.

But I don't want to see one. 

 

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 21:03 | 4365088 Atomizer
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 Not going to comment. You make your own judgment. Someone is pulling old philosophies to rekindle failed results.

Theodor Herzl's Diaries as a Bildungsroman

Diaries of Theodor Herzl reveal a Zionist plan to backstab Turkey

 

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 21:10 | 4365106 knicks3005
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I'm just posting so i can get another -2 thumbs

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 21:20 | 4365139 Atomizer
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Fuck those cunts. There tactics may work on Farcebook or Twatter, not here my friend.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 21:13 | 4365110 wisehiney
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Anyone who will be a slave deserves it.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 21:56 | 4365246 satoshi101
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Refuse work in prison, and no condoms for you, or cigarretes for your BF

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 22:04 | 4365275 wisehiney
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And there are the rare individuals with the psyche that relishes slavery.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 22:27 | 4365338 OC Sure
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Do you pay taxes for something that you would not otherwise pay for voluntarily?

To that extent and including loss off purchasing power let's say it is 35%. There you go you are a slave for 4.2 months of the year.

Do you deserve that?

If slavery is being forced to work without pay, then is not having your pay stolen from your work slavery too?

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 22:50 | 4365414 wisehiney
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Not difficult to come out ahead on that deal. Always have, always will. But, yes there is currently a struggle against tyranny and also just the crummy human condition. Living with those conditions does not make one a slave. I find a great deal of satisfaction in overcoming them. Following your reasoning to the extreme you could say "are you not a slave because you have to chew to live?" 

Fuck no, I would never be any kind of slave, and will be a great danger to those who would try to impose it upon me.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 23:44 | 4365538 OC Sure
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Very well, then. Nevermind the remuneration bit. What about your freedom of action? If you are not free to act upon your choices, and are instead impeded upon by tyranny, then are you not a slave to the tyrant who controls you?

To be a slave because you have to chew to live is to say that you would be a slave to nature. This is not true. Nature does not hold men to slavery; only other men claim men as their property.

I certainly admire your spirit! I agree, I would never willingly be a slave. But unless you are entirely tax-free, then I submit to you that you are indeed an unwilling slave regardless of your right not to be one. Even more, if you were entirely tax-free, unbeholden to this lost Republic that now keeps you (that is if you are a US citizen), then are you not still their slave by the mere fact of all the hoops you have to jump through and necessary lifestyle changes you otherwise would not have to acclimate yourself to just so the despots can keep their style of life?

...They are not trying to impose slavery upon you, if, per the above, then they already have.

Sat, 01/25/2014 - 00:13 | 4365628 wisehiney
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Realistically, nearly everyone in this country recieves more from the system than they put into it. Is that a slave? One of endless examples...my grandparents, parents, and many other relatives lived long lives during which they drew many times more from social security, medicare, etc than they ever paid in. I consider that a benefit to me. You should not have to think very hard of the true value that you receive for your tax dollars in  relation to your input. The thing is, it is borrowed money and that will end soon. But any one that lives in this country has lived as a ruler of the world, not a slave. The dollar standard assured that. But not much longer. 

Sat, 01/25/2014 - 00:25 | 4365658 OC Sure
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I agree with you but with one exception. I guess my hang up is that if the input is not voluntary and instead your earnings are confiscated for whatever end and whether you would have or not have voluntarily agreed to whatever service they were redistributed to, then yes you are still not free and are thus a slave in that respect. It is good that their are many  benefits as you can atest that come from the confiscation, but it is still confiscation nonetheless. Are not these benefits that do indeed give us comfort but a ruse to hide the harm that is also done from the loot of the same confiscations? Would not you already voluntarily pay for said benefits if you could?

The gist then is the accountability. Yes, some goes to good, but some goes to evil too. Let the earner decide where their earnings get allocated by their own choice and the ruse disintegrates, does it not?

Sat, 01/25/2014 - 00:39 | 4365685 wisehiney
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A man alone in the jungle or desert or tundra wasteland would sorta want to contribute. I personally feel like the system serve(d) me more than I have served it. Like a good master I have responsibility to take care of my servant. So I willingly contribute, to my own advantage. With good instincts, you learn early to figure out how to bend the world to your will. I've got it made. But tyranny and slavery and other wicked things this way come. Quickly. 

Sat, 01/25/2014 - 00:46 | 4365693 wisehiney
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OK, (sigh), I am not completely happy with the restrictions on my freedom of action. These things are brought about by tyranny of the majority. Security for safety they call it. That is truly how slaves are made. I have resisted giving up my rights all of my life. But such is living as a democracy in what was born a Constitutional Republic. There have and will always be trade offs. Now we have slid down to the steep part of the slope and the cliff's edge is in sight.

Sat, 01/25/2014 - 14:43 | 4366961 OC Sure
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Democracy is the one way transition from Republic to Despotism. It is time to reset the Republic.

I think we are on the same page, wh.

...I hope you are still long bonds as it looks to be a 7 to 10 week run and this was only the 4th week!

 

Sat, 01/25/2014 - 15:38 | 4367057 wisehiney
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Keepin a good chunk of income producer bonds, bought a while back at higher yields, and having a fair amount of success riding the ups and downs with the play money. You know it is bs that this economy can handle higher rates. High rates are self defeating. We have the bastards right where we want them. Until it all blows. Use profits for precious, havin fun and helping out.

Sat, 01/25/2014 - 16:10 | 4367107 Ckierst1
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I suggest that it wasn't borrowed, it was stolen - from from the younger generations and at gunpoint.  I suggest a review of the salient points of The Creature from Jekyll Island.

Sat, 01/25/2014 - 21:41 | 4367631 wisehiney
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Both

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 21:19 | 4365138 rwe2late
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Slavery?

Apparently some are unfamiliar with the current prison industry in the US.

"The prison industry complex is one of the fastest-growing industries in the United States and its investors are on Wall Street. “This multimillion-dollar industry has its own trade exhibitions, conventions, websites, and mail-order/Internet catalogs. It also has direct advertising campaigns, architecture companies, construction companies, investment houses on Wall Street, plumbing supply companies, food supply companies, armed security, and padded cells in a large variety of colors.”
According to the Left Business Observer, the federal prison industry produces 100% of all military helmets, ammunition belts, bullet-proof vests, ID tags, shirts, pants, tents, bags, and canteens. Along with war supplies, prison workers supply 98% of the entire market for equipment assembly services; 93% of paints and paintbrushes; 92% of stove assembly; 46% of body armor; 36% of home appliances; 30% of headphones/microphones/speakers; and 21% of office furniture. Airplane parts, medical supplies,

and much more ..."

Jim Crow type slavery is helping build profits for many corporations:

"At least 37 states have legalized the contracting of prison labor by private corporations that mount their operations inside state prisons. The list of such companies contains the cream of U.S. corporate society: IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T, Wireless, Texas Instrument, Dell, Compaq, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Lucent Technologies, 3Com, Intel, Northern Telecom, TWA, Nordstrom’s, Revlon, Macy’s, Pierre Cardin, Target Stores, and many more"

http://www.globalresearch.ca/prisons-are-big-business-the-prison-industr...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-bi...

And then, of course, there is the more subtle slavery of debt, imposed through undeclared 'wars', unbridled graft, and 'bailouts'.

 

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 21:20 | 4365140 satoshi101
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'NATIONAL SERVICE", or manatory volunteer army's of YOUTH came from HITLER.

Obama & HILLARY have long called for "NATIONAL SERVICE"

Forget NOT that "NATIONAL SERVICE" was the first thing that HITLER did when he got elected, was to make all the kids 'volunteer' and work for free, think brown-shirts.

*

The entire EURO was all part of HITLERS plan for "NEW WORLD ORDER",

So EUROPE is advocating HITLERS youth slavery program. Who could have guessed, but forget not, it will come to NAZI USA first.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 21:29 | 4365170 BuddyEffed
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Any of the surplus youth heading to Africa?  Wouldn't that be a twist or some kind of taper or easing?

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 22:19 | 4365211 Reptil
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YES same thing happening in the Netherlands. The unemployed are tasked to menial, non-productive "jobs" so they can continue recieving unemployment benefits.
So then you would argue... ok, they get paid, right?
Nope. They don't get paid a fair wage for the job description. They get something that far, far below poverty living standards.
So... the practical effect is that people are forced to do labour in a system that doesn't reward them for this work. And lower wage jobs disappear from the job market, because these are taken by these "unemployed".
So they're screwing the job market (and small to medium business, since these do hire normal paid staff), introduce forced labour (gradually, step by step, that't their M.O.), and as the cherry on the pie, raised the salaries for management staff (of these recently "privatised" but still (state) institutions and corporations, while there's no increase in profit margin, production capacity or anything of the sort.
In fact it's not going well at all with these economies, and the austerity measures have a negative effect, a self-reïnforcing spiral downwards.
The reaction of the seperate governments, and the European Commission (representing the EU government) is to fudge the numbers, as documented here on ZH as well.

That's what's going on in several countries in the EU.
And in my opinion they're doing it on purpose, clearing the way for a sort of neo-feudal type of society, a mix of corporatism (fasces), centralised control in some weird burocracy, and kleptocracy since corruption is rife, and not even disputed (EU budget).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEtnqTMXC3Q
German media found out they're being screwed on the energy policy: The german representative is pushing expensive Nuclear and Coal powerplants, and ignoring the more efficiënt and already more profitable efforts of renewables and a smart energy grid (Energiewende) that Germany engaged in. The climate targets set by the European Commission are based on FUDGED NUMBERS. Their solution for nuclear waste, and waste products of the Coal plants is not even theory, it simply doesn't exist. The german government is calling the plans of Commisionary Oettinger (a german!, CDU party) "a wrong move" (for various reasons).
http://www.zdf.de/Frontal-21/Abschied-von-Klimaschutzzielen-31559428.html

So, what happened in neighbouring Netherlands recently? People are generally fed up with the whole BS....... a bunch of dutch got together and said; we do not accept that you're transferring power of descision over budgets to a third party (the power to decide what to do about the crisis, and everything, the PILLAR of government) and you do not have the right to even attempt this, because you (politicians) represent us (the people), and need our consent. They demand (not ask, demand, which is in dutch politics a clear difference) that the electorate is being allowed to decide, through a referendum, about souverignity, and the silent transfer of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hqGMAgYT3A

IMO it is possible there is going to be an escalation, despite the willingness to sacrifice freedom for a little continuïty of existence that many seem to have here, it's possible that there is going to be attempts to poke a stick in the wheel, as society as a whole is being mismanaged, business around me is falling one by one and with it more (poor) unemployed, etc and the turning wheel of government "stimulation" is no longer of any profit for the people, so they're cancelling themselves out. And this is now obvious throughout society, in spite of the number fudging. I think the ones that planned it made a mistake, pushing this, and continuing the strategy of small incremental changes, and instead are embracing even more bold moves like the TTIP/TAFTA, which is a full frontal assault on the parliamentary social-democracy system. And only a small group profits. Those that thought they outsmarted the rest by hijacking the european collective development, and by now "introducing" a form of slavery, yes. Killing the goose with the golden eggs. The society that the affluent draw most benefit from. (stable, safe, profitable, they've been doing well)
With megalomania comes a bit of arrogant stupidity I guess. Personally, I think they (financial, political elite) are being played in turn (and have a function as an instrument).

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 21:48 | 4365227 kchrisc
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"The measure includes unpaid work for the young and unemployed up to 24 years old, so that companies would have a strong motive to hire young employees."

I like the language spin there, "unpaid work," to "hire." Like, Kunta Kinte was "hired?!" LOL

 

Most don't know that the German concentration camps were really work camps owned by the SS. The prisoners were supplied, rented, to the various companies that set up shop around the camps to take advantage of the cheap “labor.” Only when the theft side (property, etc.) of the human trafficking equation got too heavy and overwhelmed the "labor" side, did the SS/Nazis institute mass, organized extermination to maintain profits. "Hate" was the excuse/cover, money and power were the objectives, as they always are.

 

"To the elites, you are nothing more than a farm animal to be worked or eaten."

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 22:08 | 4365232 bobcromwell
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Imagine US youth unemployment without his Military, this country is more socialized than Europe.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 21:54 | 4365242 akak
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What's up with all the downarrows in this thread?

Something tells me that a pro-EU junkmonkey is flinging poo again.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 22:03 | 4365267 sixsigma cygnus...
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Maybe it's some kind of work program from the EU?  Wasn't there a story a few years ago about prisoners in China being forced to click on Facebook pages all day long?

Sat, 01/25/2014 - 06:53 | 4366144 edotabin
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nah, it's Nigel Farage messin' with us

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 21:55 | 4365243 proLiberty
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No mention of suspending or eliminating the minimum wage either! More progressive crap thinking.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 21:59 | 4365256 rsnoble
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The young ones had best just knock down the door and kill every fucking goddamn one of them.

For starters...............at the end of the 1 year free period only a few will get hired.  The rest will get exported (to fucking where I have no idea.......I know probably the fucking US since we only have 6% unemployment now) and in comes the next batch of freebies.  That is EXACTLY what will happen.

Fuck off Greece I hope those kids kill every fucking one of you.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 21:59 | 4365257 hangemhigh77
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They left out the part where they arrest them first.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 22:17 | 4365315 Lokking4AnEdge
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For years New York paid to ship homeless people to Florida....so I guess Greece can pay to ship their younger generation to Germany............what the hell is the difference?

As usual...a good war will solve the unemployment problem in many places.........and it is coming................

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 22:18 | 4365319 yepyep
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While this rhetoric is definately a new low and there is plenty to make fun about, lets not forget that we are all slaves already.

 

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 22:24 | 4365332 cooperbry
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This one really made me laugh hard.  Because, the capitalist in me would say great to removing a minimum wage.  But, the suggestion that young people work for free and not even compete for some form of compensation is something only a committee of failure can come up with.  Oh wait, maybe the "Centre of planning and Economic Research" were the ones the Greek government consulted prior to the bailouts?

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 22:31 | 4365355 Death By Cold S...
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The Next thing to Roll out in Greece will be the Guillotine in town square. I don't think you want any parts of that at all. Stand by its going to make a come back..

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 22:29 | 4365348 Peter Pan
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They propose unpaid work for the 15-25 age group and yet little do they know or admit that there are a large number of adult workers in Greece who have not been paid for months by employers gaming the system either because they know of people's desperation to keep their job or because the government gives them cover from being sued by unpaid workers by using article 99 under the bankruptcy code.

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 23:02 | 4365440 Frostfan1
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So deporting foreigners in Greece is off the table but enslaving the natives is OK?

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 23:50 | 4365567 NoWayJose
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The 'lack' of slavery is an abberation in human history, confined to the last 125 years or so. Prior to that it was the norm, and there is only a thin moral line preventing its return...

Sat, 01/25/2014 - 03:09 | 4365921 Bunga Bunga
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Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.

~Leo Tolstoi

That's why the elites are so furious about  decentralized consensus currencies = the next liberation wave.

Sat, 01/25/2014 - 11:43 | 4366534 michael63636
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Well said.  If you were able to add up all taxes, plus the hidden taxes, and the multiplier effect of taxes, one comes to the conclusion that we are all slaves.

Consider a loaf of bread.  The workers that made it were taxed, so a portion of the bread is tax.  And the trucks that transported the bread to the store, and the trucks that transported the ingredients to the manufacturing plant were all taxed, so a portion of their services and expenses were tax.  And the suppliers of the ingredients also purchased goods and services that had hidden taxes in them, so it is incredible difficult to sort out how much of all goods and services are tax.

Consider the cost of trucking.  The fuel is taxed.  The workers that made the roads were taxed, so the roads cost more than otherwise would be the case.  The refinery workers were taxed.  The metal that went into making the pipes, heat exchangers, distillation columns were taxed, and made by workers that were taxed.  The miners that took the ore out of the ground were taxed.  The equipment that was used to take the ore out of the ground was taxed, and made by workers that was taxed.

How does one calculate the true cost of all the taxes hidden in all goods and services?

And the kicker, in order for me to buy goods and services from you, I have to increase the amount I charge for my goods and services.  And it is the same for you, you have to charge more for your goods and services in order for you to buy from someone else.  And it is the same case for all persons.  So there is a tax multiplier effect that leads to never ending inflation, as people strive to make enough money to buy the goods and services they desire.

One short cut to finding out how much were are slaves due to excessive taxation is to follow the money and gold.

 

Ultimately the taxes find their way into the hands of the Rothschilds.  Take half of all the wealth on earth—gold, silver, real estate, corporations, etc.—and divide by two.  That is the Rothschilds portion.  There are only two nations on earth, the Rothschilds and all the rest.  We are all slave to the Rothschilds, bound by taxes and interest bearing money.

 

Sat, 01/25/2014 - 11:48 | 4366543 michael63636
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The Rothschilds hired Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to write the Communist Manifesto so they would have an ideology to use to over throw the Tsar of Russia.  They were incensed at him because he came in on the side of America in the war of 1812.  The Rothschilds engineered the war of 1812 to force a central bank upon America so they could enslave her. The Tsar did now want a central bank in Russia.

 

The Rothschilds hired apostate Jews from Germany to go to Russia and organize the Bolshevik revolution and kill the tsar and all his family. 

Sat, 01/25/2014 - 11:52 | 4366552 michael63636
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  • Leo Tolstoy Writer
  • Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, also known as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Tolstoy was a master of realistic fiction and is widely considered one of the world's greatest novelists. Wikipedia
  • BornSeptember 9, 1828, Yasnaya Polyana, Russia
  • DiedNovember 20, 1910, Lev Tolstoy, Russia
  • So Tolstoy was originally a Polyana.

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  • Sat, 01/25/2014 - 00:25 | 4365655 tony bonn
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    this proposal is the most wicked i have ever encountered this week, but it is the plan of the plutocrat 1% to re-establish slavery. people need to wake up and dismember this foul power concentration.

    Sat, 01/25/2014 - 00:51 | 4365702 Atomizer
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    How will the American Latinos and African American labor market feel when this new slavery industry steam-rolls over the EBT card and U6 BLS high unemployment rates?

    http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm

    Sat, 01/25/2014 - 04:07 | 4365980 Dre4dwolf
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    and thats why everyone should be armed to the teeth, for when ur govt tries to sell you off as slave labour

    Sat, 01/25/2014 - 04:45 | 4366017 Freewheelin Franklin
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    Unpaid work sounds a lot like an internship, to me. 

     

    So, what type of Welfare benefits do the unemployed get in Greece? I don't know. I'm sure they get something, right? If businesses have to pay taxes to support the unemployed to stay home and play video games, they may as well get a few interns out of the deal. It's better than "breaking windows" to put them to work. 

    Sat, 01/25/2014 - 06:12 | 4366097 olenumbersix
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    Maybe its a choice either slavery or out you go.

    Sat, 01/25/2014 - 11:56 | 4366557 michael63636
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    In the concentration camps they shot the ones that moved the slowest.

    Sat, 01/25/2014 - 06:46 | 4366135 AnAnonymous
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    'Americans' are 'american'. Their nature is eternal.

    'Americans' had always a way to handle a too much of people.

    Triggering a new wave of colonization.

    The way it works in an 'american' world.

    Just take a chair and sit tight. 'Americanism' is the best to ever happen to humanity.

    Sat, 01/25/2014 - 07:15 | 4366150 Ghordius
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    oh dear. you are back.

    please could you put some more beef on this old carcass? you do, from time to time

    I'm european. I am "american" in some of the sense that you give that word, and I am not in some of the other sense that you give that word

    for example, I'm not a brand-fixated consumeristic shopping addict, and I try hard not to search for quick, easy and superficial fixes and answers to everything

    but so are also many Americans

    meanwhile, yes, we are living in an "american" world. get over it, China's time to shine brighter than the sun has to wait for a while

    and then, we will be all "chinese". including the "american" nature that China is absorbing, and the "european" nature that America absorbed

    Sat, 01/25/2014 - 07:27 | 4366190 tip e. canoe
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    we will be all "chinese". including the "american" nature that China is absorbing, and the "european" nature that America absorbed

    the ugly Roman, the ugly Spaniard, the ugly Brit, the ugly German, the ugly American, the ugly Chinese.

    the Imperial Virus moves its way across the Globe, slowly but steadily.

    Sat, 01/25/2014 - 06:55 | 4366147 tvdog
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    There are plenty of young people doing unpaid "internships" in the U.S. Living in momma's basement, going to work every day, getting nothing for it, hoping to someday get hired for real.

    Sat, 01/25/2014 - 07:37 | 4366204 Ghordius
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    exactly. and this Greek Think Tank wants to have a big scale european move in that direction. btw, (source: their website)

     

    "The Centre of Planning and Economic Research (KEPE) was established in 1959, as a small research unit, under the name "Centre of Economic Research". The decision for its establishment was taken by the Prime Minister of Greece at that time, Konstantinos Karamanlis, following a proposal by Xenophon Zolotas, Governor of the Bank of Greece. Its operation was organized by its first President and Scientific Director Professor Andreas Papandreou, who was brought in from the University of California, Berkeley, for that purpose. 

    The primary aims of KEPE since its establishment were the scientific study of the problems of the Greek economy, the encouragement of economic research and the cooperation with other scientific institutions. In 1964, the year KEPE acquired its present name, its objectives widened to include the preparation of short, medium and long-term development plans, the analysis of Greece’s short and medium term economic developments, the formulation of economic policy proposals and the education of young economists.

    In its 51 years of operation KEPE has produced over 650 research publications, as well as a very large number of unpublished studies, reports and position papers in support of economic policy decisions. KEPE’s list of scientific directors, management members, research fellows, visiting scholars and authors includes several prominent economists at the national and international levels. Moreover, the contribution of KEPE’s specialised research library to the support of economic research in Greece has been widely recognized.

    Today, KEPE is the largest economic research institute in Greece and operates under the supervision of the Ministry of Regional Development, and Competitiveness. Its activities are focused on applied research concerning the Greek economy, on the study of economic conjuncture and on the provision of advisory services to the government on issues of economic analysis and policy."

    read the wikipedia story of KEPE's first President and Scientific Director, Professor Andreas Papandreou, who was also the founder of PASOK, Prime Minister, son of Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou and father of Prime Minister George Papandreou (Junior) 

    Sat, 01/25/2014 - 09:41 | 4366351 kenezen
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    As our country suffers real unemployment of our youth of 18% to 30% by conservative reports backed by the governments own numbers of 18%-28% which many think is very low when the unemployed figures of the undocumented sink in.

    Are we far behind? Why are we not on the Chart?

    Sat, 01/25/2014 - 12:36 | 4366455 michael63636
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    It all began with the child labor laws.  Before them children worked.  When they turned 18 they knew how to work.   Alter the child labor laws children were forced to play all day and never learned how to work.  So now when they turn 18 no one will hire them because they have to undo 18 years of conditioning of playing all the time AND teach them how to work.  When an employer hires one of today's youth, and trains them, the new worker quits before the employer gets the benefit of the investment in training.  The parents should have trained their children how to work.     The only jobs today's children are qualified to do is become a senator, congressman or president.
    Sat, 01/25/2014 - 11:27 | 4366509 TDoS
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    The more things change, the more they stay the same. How do you think half of your ancestors got to the US?  Refuse to work in a factory in Englad after you were kicked off your land so some rich asshole could graze sheep on it, and you could be thrown on a ship to the new world to work as an indentured servant.

    The Trouble With Money

    Sat, 01/25/2014 - 11:35 | 4366517 Bagbalm
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    Just call them interns.

    Sat, 01/25/2014 - 14:41 | 4366955 Its_the_economy...
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    China will soon be looking for female youth. And, they won't care how they get them.

    Sat, 01/25/2014 - 18:00 | 4367314 obessoligarch
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    here is the answer....

                                 http://www.thasnasty.com/forum/thread-2096.html

    Sat, 01/25/2014 - 17:29 | 4367248 A Cruel Accountant
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    Eliminating minimum wage is better than this. Being forced to work for free is not freedom!

    Sun, 01/26/2014 - 16:44 | 4369006 mantrid
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    the bottomline: the young generation will work for free so old generation work for ever rising minium wage!

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