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Spanish Suicides Rise To Eight-Year High
Europe has an odd definition of recovery: we already knew that in Greece "recovery" means record high unemployment, an entire generation unable to find work, the return of neo-nazism, no ink with which to print tax forms, and even instances where people infect themselves with HIV to get medical benefits. That, and of course, soaring suicides. Now it is Spain's turn.
While the Iberian nation is furiously scrambling to catch up to Greece in terms of sheer economic collapse, even if the government has changed the definition of GDP so many times, somehow Spain dares to look people in the eye and claim its GDP is growing with 26% total, and 54% youth unemployment, one statistic Spain can't change is that the suicide rate has soared and is now the highest in eight years.
The Local reports, using figures from Spain's National Institute of Statistics that in the most recent data from 2012, released on Friday, 402,950 people died in Spain, some 15,039 (3.9 percent) more than in 2011. Of these deaths, there were 3539 suicides (2,724 men and 815 women), up 11.3 percent from the year before, a rate of 7.6 per 100,000 inhabitants. The figures were the highest since 2005.
According to official broadcaster RTVE, suicide was second only to cancer (15 percent of deaths) in the overall 25-34 age group, but the leading cause of death in young men (17.8 percent). Fatalities as a result of traffic accidents fell by 9.5 percent, to 1,915 - that's probably because so few young men and women can afford to buy a car. Or gas. Or both.
Finally in tangential news, a 21 percent spike in the death rate in February and March compared with the previous year was attributed to a late-breaking flu epidemic. The same period saw deaths as a result of respiratory failure rise 53.6 percent year-on-year.
So the next time you hear about the PIIGS much trumpeted "recovery" (which now is finished even before it started courtesy of the sharp relapse of the global economy courtesy of EMs, and in the case of Greece, quite literally based on the latest growth forecasts), think:
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The weather better start to cooperate soon. Things are starting to get out of hand.
Be very careful of falling bodies before walking under Wall St skyscrapers.
Kill the banks...especially the central fiat reserve ones who are wealth shifters of the most insidious kind.
I'm 100% serious.
"Gentlemen! I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States. I have had men watching you for a long time, and am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, I will rout you out!"
That's the only way to liberty, and for a nation to reclaim its true sovereignty. No truly independent nation should have to resort to "borrowing" fiat credits at interest. That's not a nation-state but a state of slavery.
Fractional fiat reserve banking must die permanently, never to be resurrected.
The most high-profile case in Spain was the woman who suicided herself when the bank came to repossess her apartment.
Why are people killing themselves?
Kill the bankers, FFS!
They went green.....not sure what the problem is.
Of course their energy costs will necessarily rise....but I didn't think it would cause them to kill themselves.
"one statistic Spain can't change is that the suicide rate "
You sure about that? What makes that statistic so special? Oh yeah, nobody is making or losing money on it's manipulation (yet).
I hope they ain't killing themselves over money. Driving a cab ain't that bad. I've done it. What a waste of life. It's very sad to see young people make that kind of decision.
What a fucking nightmare. People will learn: poverty is caused. It's not natural. It is caused by the State.
The State causes poverty through control of capital flows leading to epic malinvestments.
Of course this is done as they steal a third of your money through a slave tax (sorry I meant income tax), and then inflate away the rest by the declining buying power of your paper money.
Are people really mystified as to why they are getting poorer? When some assholes steal all of your money, are you really baffled as to the source of the poverty?
God this has to end.
i think spain needs some Esparanza Y Cambio...stat!!!!!
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If you can't speak Spanish, abstain yourself.
Stick to defecating in Mumbai's streets. Or worshipping cows or whatever the fuck you brown skins worship in dirty india.
That was totally uncalled for Stavros http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEAVspqOuJg
Mumbai is an unhygenic shit-hole, the poster and his countryman are probably unaware that their Indian English obfuscates and irritates instead of illuminating and amusing readers and like many of his country men probably do worship 360 thousands gods which theologically speaking is not so disimilar in structure - being an Indo European religion - to the religion of ancient Greeks (which makes your swipe rather ironic) however it does raise an interesting question on why you think, and I'm only going by your previous posts on the subject of your country's predominant religion, your forebears adoption of a bastardised form of Judaism (really nothing more then a plagiarised form of the story of Mithras infused with Jewish messianic beliefs) that much of an improvement on the pagan beliefs of our Hindu friend? Hinduism is thri-theistic, your christianity is trinitarian is it not? Pot, kettle no?
American teenagers are taking guns to school, killing everybody and themselves,... any where else? No
American's OD on drugs, and home-cooked METH daily, ... anywhere else? No
Americans get angry in cars and kill one another, ... anywhere else? No
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American's are too busy KILLING to have time for suicide.
Perhaps yo have not heard of Krokodil....
American's are too busy KILLING to have time for suicide.
That only happens in the gun free zones.......cause everyone knows we are sticklers about following the rules in America.
Some guy tried to rob a restaurant over here.....he got his ass shot! Turns out it was not a gun free zone......he should have done a little more research.
You need to get out more. America has nothing over any other except the illusion we are special. People are people and fucked up everywhere.
Yeah, but American teenagers have ALWAYS taken guns to school. They used to do so in even larger numbers and larger calibers without killing anybody (even though contemporary incidents reflect only a tiny fraction of the total guns brought to school today).
So there is certainly something defective with the current batch of degenerates, but what- devolution?
USA TEENAGER HELL
First let me say, I would rather be a teenager in Spain, if you know what I mean, it would be fine.
Being a teenager in the USA would suck.
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We all know the problem, its easy porn, computer games,...
When we were kids we got stoned, fucked our girlfriends, and drove our motorcycles and cars fast,... shit I can remember in 1950's have 3 cars and 4 motorcycles, and the entire inventory wasn't worth over $200.
It ain't FUN anymore, ... guys now whether 14, or 19, or 24 SNAP... look at all the grad post-docs that snap at 25.
A teenager is supposed to FUCK his nut off and sow oats, now they're drugged on AHD what-not and bored, and stay indoors. Fuck I was never indoors.
Hell yes, I carried my DAISY-570 to school as a kid, and nobody said shit, as long as I didn't shoot another kids eye out it all good, I can remember knock birds off the fence during recess.
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The AIPAC ZIONIST policing has made everything about being 12-24 year male boring HELL.
SOLUTION? Get your child out of the USA go to a place where he can fuck and ride his motorcycle fast, ... SHIT where I live the 14 year old's only have 2 things on their mind bei-jiu and pussy ( whiskey and women and not sure which order ).
SPAIN would be paradise & heaven for a kid over the USA.
Forget the grammar, In what way would it be paradise?
This troll, so strong.
Come on satoshi,either take your meds or put the fucking keyboard down.
Janet Yellen is directly responsible for their deaths.
Portuguese Debt About to Implode? What About Spain?
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/
Greek bailout, Next Portugal, Spain and Italy.
ECB, your children are crying for more and more candy.
I'm too depressed to commit suicide.
I'm too suicidal to feel depressed...
I live in Spain.
This is just a soundbite.
Better to compare suicide rate between Norway and Spain.
You will be surprised. Spaniards are poorer than Norwegians, but they are happier and eat healthier. And the weather is nice.
Scandinavians are famous for their so called "declared happiness", high incomes, high taxes, cold climates and... high suicide rates.
EDIT:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate
Norway is on the same position with Romania. So one of the richest countries on the planet has the same number of suicides per 100,000 people as the poorest country in the EU.
And Romania has 4 times the population of oil-rich Norway. That says it all.
Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, The Netherlands, UK are all way above Spain when talking about suicides.
I know the Spanish pretty well, and let me tell you one thing: they are latins. Lots of bad things about Latins, but they all have a passion for life.
They make the best cars (Italians), they make the best food (French), they have the best parties (Spaniards and all hispanics from the Americas) and they have the best women (Romanians, Brazilians, Argentinians, Colombians...hmmm.. actually all Latin women are hot).
This article is pretty lame.
True. But these Latin countries (Spain, Italy, Romania, etc.) are corrupt to the bone at every level. They'd rather be lazy than being tired (of work). The difference between the Northern European countries and the Southern European countries is that the latter are either catholic or orthodox in attitude while the former ones are protestant/calvinist in attitude. The reformation really made a huge difference in attitude. It is not just the weather.
In Romania the ex prime minister is in jail for corruption.
Any western counterpart in jail..for lets say.. helping the banksters fuck the global economy?
No? Thought not.
All these corruption talk are just what the anglo world likes to believe about the Latin world.
Berlusconi is also about to be put in jail.
The French investigated for corruption Jacques Chiraque.
Is Tony Blair or Bush at the very least investigated for acts of corruption??
Yeah yeah, and Greeks are latin and they make the best Ouzo and olive oil. This however does not stop Greek suicide and societal collapse.
Now this best woman thing; whew... I see why nobody challenged you on this; it's so subjective no one wanted to bother. But Romanian? Shit, they are not even the best in their little sub-region. Ever heard of Bulgaria? Russia? Romanian women... well, to each his own. I'd nominate Italians, Greeks, and even Polish before those, hey but what do I know. I don't even live in Spain.
Regarding the rest of those you obviously have your preferences; but while BRA, ARG, COL women have their place, to suggest that South American women can top the finest from S.E. and E. Asia is just nuts. Ever been to China? S. Korea? I know, Latins dress very skimpily there so they're on display at all times. Columbians are hot; Argentines too but not world's tops, come on now. Asses may be a bit too big in Brazil for most of the world's connisseurs; me included.
Lastly, French make the best food; highly subjective. One thing for sure, it ain't the Americans. Nor the Brits. I'd suggest Italians on this one too, but they're Latin also so you win.
But regarding defending Spain: it's still over. Stick a fork in 'em. Stop insulting India; they will still be around when you guys (Spain) are done and dusted, broken up into 5 new countries - none of which are too important.
And you Conquistador; don't quit your day job.
wrong spot.
free market invisible hand at work here
Don't kill yourself for your Country. Kill the dumb poor bastard that's running your country. It's their fault!
I remember reading that during the bombing of London during the German Blitz the government was afraid the suicide rate would sky rocket. To everyone’s surprise just the opposite happened. Suicide rates plummeted. It not what’s going on in the world that matters. It’s how well you are connected to your neighbors and community.