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Crisis-led suicide epidemic: Greek mother & son jump to death

May 24, 2012 16:00

A 60-year-old Greek musician and his 91-year-old mother jumped to their deaths from their 5th floor apartment, driven to despair by financial woes. This double death is the latest in a rising epidemic of crisis-induced suicides in Greece.

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Tim Caffery (unregistered) 27.05.2012 14:39

And the violent war society of the signle state of the West says they 'defeated fascism' in WW2. Now it is swelling, like someone commented early, basically in the West's brain, GREEKS. Everyone is distracted by the decline of the US & collapse of the EU, f@ck that narrative! LETS END "WESTERN CIVILIZTION"! Sure religion has orchestrated the deaths of millions upon millions, but let keep it real, "WESTERN CIVILIZTION" has done that over & over-ALL OVER THE SPECIES. It hides behind countries and political arguments but does the same thing expecting different results. Mean while, they genocide every generation. 70-80,000 Mexican kids have literally been DISAPPEARED in the horrific US PharmaFostercare system! That IS GENOCIDAL!!!!!! And now they are getting more cannibalistic. I feel for the beautiful Greek people. Hopefully, they can help heal the West's murderous culture.

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Yankey, Donkey and Monkey are SAME (unregistered) 26.05.2012 21:44

One Greek, Roman mighty rich empire.  Can not even defend their own people.

it is not sword, it is paper bill, which destroys the nation, HOPE THIS HAPPENS TO USA, UK. ISRAEL.

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Ted (unregistered) 26.05.2012 16:54

It´s so ironic... they contributed so much to the modern world  through philosophers, science and medicine.. now I heard cynic people saying "they are broke because they can´t export anything..." Actually If you stop and think we are the ones who are in debt with them,  ideas are priceless stuff. It´sdepressing... But Greece is again, somehow, showing the world a new point of view: the madness of the financial simulacrum where dying and suffering people are like fairy tales in the mind of the powerful people. 

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Panayiotis Panayiotou (unregistered) 25.05.2012 18:50

Seeing a lot of support for golden dawn. A little concerning. We see rises in support for extreme right wing organisations when a country becomes unworkable. Almost beyond redemption. And those organisations and parties always make things much, much worse. 

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chris (unregistered) 25.05.2012 16:33

If Greeks and Europeans want to stop the deliberate genocide being instigated by our elites, global corporations and parasitic banks against us then we must vote or support parties that are hated by the mass-media and the general establishment, as they're the parties that will bring about genuine change. 
Greeks should vote for the "Golden Dawn" political party. They will not slap the wrists of these destructive, degenerative bankers, politicians and CEOs, but will properly deal with these traitors, because that is what they essentially are: a destructive traitor ous force.



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T bagg (unregistered) 25.05.2012 16:20

I wonder how much longer the people will put up with this?  And to think, the crisis is only going to get worse.  How very sad.  At least the bankers will have food and medicine and multi-million dollar bonuses. 

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TASSOS (unregistered) 25.05.2012 15:13

The greatests fires can start with just one spark. That's what the Greek situation is all about. A default will start a domino of rethinking on the deadend financial situations Banksters all over the World have created. MadMax Keiser's strong stance against them takes away any excuse we might had for saying ''I didn't  know''...... Thank you Max, thank you Stacy!

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angie (unregistered) 25.05.2012 15:03

@CrookedCreek, This is a free public forum, so I came back here to read and post again. What do you mean by "why did you return to this forum?" You have no right to ask me such rude question here, Sir/Miss. I said in my previous post that I could not find the latest comments made on this event, and I meant it. I am not a liar. There must be something wrong with the working of this site at that time, so what? I don't want to waste my time on this pointless stuff any more.

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Sleepy cow (unregistered) 25.05.2012 15:02

Bob Klinck (unregistered) wrote in #7
Meanwhile , the shelves of the stores are laden with everything people need in order to live and the merchants are begging for customers.  Obviously two changes are needed:  (1) an income-distribution system suitable for an economy of superabundance and (2) a new system of financial accountancy that doesn't result in burgeoning, unrepayable debt.
Well...this may be achieved only through genetic surgery. The people are the same everywhere and greed is uniformly spread all over the world. I agree with you in theory...but hey, this is what communism preached for a long time and guess what...it ended up in killing millions to reach the 2 goals you're mentioning here.

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Bob Klinck (unregistered) 25.05.2012 14:41

Meanwhile, the shelves of the stores are laden with everything people need in order to live and the merchants are begging for customers.  Obviously two changes are needed:  (1) an income-distribution system suitable for an economy of superabundance and (2) a new system of financial accountancy that doesn't result in burgeoning, unrepayable debt.

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angie (unregistered) 25.05.2012 14:32

CrookedCreek (unregistered) wrote in #3angie (unregistered) wrote in #19I cannot read the latest comments here. What for?Maybe cause you went through the wrong link ....? Did you mean to check the latest Jimmy Choo's boots...? Well, this isn't it...  ----------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- - I don't understand what you are talking about. This board did not work properly at that moment, so please stop giving a free play to your own wild imaginations before checking it out personally. I feel sorry for your silly reply! I really do!

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I and me together (unregistered) 25.05.2012 13:08

Blaming the Germans for everything happens with Greece now is if not superficial then intentionally malicious. Germany was in a far worse position after WW II (of course, determined by its Nazi leaders and war itself) and it managed to survive due to basically 2 factors: (1) the Marshall plan heavily backed by the Americans and (2) the hard working German people and the solidarity they had shown. The first factor has been accomplished in the Greece case: they have received hundreds of billions of euros in the last 2-3 years. The second factor seems to differentiate the Greeks from the Germans. The Greeks are not hard working at all (and bound to all kinds of  governmental subsidies and assistance); neither are they showing solidarity.
This being said, why do they blame the Germans ? Only because Merkel showed them the real face of the Greek society ? Only because the entire world asks them to start working...finally ?It seems there is no way we can compare the Germans and the Greeks after all.. .

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James (unregistered) 25.05.2012 12:14

They all know it's the fault of the bankers. If each suicidal person killed a banking executive instead of themselves, there would soon be no debt. Spread the word, if you're going to go, take one of those pluckers with you!

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CrookedCreek (unregistered) 25.05.2012 11:39

angie (unregistered) wrote in #19
I cannot read the latest comments here. What for? Maybe cause you went through the wrong link ....? Did you mean to check the latest Jimmy Choo's boots...? Well, this isn't it...

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