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Woman Sets Herself On Fire In Front Of Presidency Of Europe's Poorest Country
With French youth revolting, Spanish regions seeking secession, and GREXIT back on the cards, Europe's social unrest concerns are starting to rise once again to troubling levels. However, it is in Europe's poorest nation, Bulgaria that the message of dissatisfaction is loudest. As The BBC reports, a woman has set herself ablaze near the presidency building in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. There were six similar self-immolations in Bulgaria last year, amid anger over chronic poverty and alleged corruption.
When it comes to this, you know there is a problem (Warning: Graphic)
A woman has set herself ablaze near the presidency building in the Bulgarian capital Sofia and is now in hospital being treated for severe burns.
It is not yet clear why the 38-year-old woman doused herself in a flammable liquid and torched herself.
She was engulfed in flames before bystanders managed to put out the blaze and load her into an ambulance.
There were six similar self-immolations in Bulgaria last year, amid anger over chronic poverty and alleged corruption.
Last month Bulgaria's centre-right GERB party won a snap parliamentary election but failed to get an overall majority. The party led by former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov is trying to form a new ruling coalition with smaller parties.
Last year Bulgaria, the poorest country in the EU, was rocked by weeks of protests over low living standards, a banking crisis and allegations of high-level government corruption.
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Maybe she should have bought stocks in US small caps? or the Alibaba IPO?
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wow. helluva thing..
Why couldn't that have been Yellen ?
The police in DC would tase anyone who tried this and the secret service would let you run around the White House looking like a 1950s drag car before they figured out what to do.
That's messed up. You can see her still breathing in the shot just before the fire truck comes screaming up.
She should have run to go hug the president.
Hope this behavior doesn't spread...
If we all light ourselves on fire at once, who will the parasites sponge off of?..
I blame global warming...
Oh, you;re hot today. a laugh a minute.
If a polar bear had set himself on fire, now that would be an outrage. May even motivate some folks into taking action.
Because Yellen is not human.
So now we know a seam of society that is falling appart runs through Bulgaria.
Hmmmm, another tax deduction for the 1% or maybe Bulgaria needs more high tech weapons?
Poor woman. Is this the Bulgarian version of The Girl On Fire and the Hunger Games?
This woman torched herself in protest for lack of freedom in communist state!!! Wait this isn't China? Never mind... This woman must be a crazy lunatic.
Corruption ? In Bulgaria ? Nah; couldn't be.
If Bulgaria voted to secede, NATO would be doing a lot more burning, Odessa style.
She could have gone to UK and got a job as a cleaner.
That's revolting
you can say that again...
while she's burning and minding her own business... THOSE PEOPLE ARE HITTING ON HER WITH COATS AND STUFF!!!
the brutality...
and what if it was just a accident? You know, filling up your zippo with some lighter fuel while smoking a sigarette... AND SUDDENLY SOME JACKASS HITS YOU WITH HIS COAT!! And poof... firestarter...
it's very easy to make fun of someone's anguish and circumstance even when they are to the point of lighting themselves on fire. You show no sign of compassion or empathy. If he/she were your loved one would still make such a comment?
I'm not going to start a facebook rumble about "pitty" and "empathy" here but anybody who kills himself to make a point...
HA!
No pitty here my friend!
95% of all suicides aren't done to actually kill themselves, they're cry's for help.
Empathy?
That would be like putting myself on fire :)
NO GONNA HAPPEN MY FRIEND!
What about: SOLVE YOUR PROBLEMS AND BUCKLE UP!
What do we have left if we can't make fun of this shitshow called earth?
I will agree with you it is a shitshow, but how about a little compassion for our fellow sojourners.
She sure showed them.
What she showed them, I don't know.
I never felt suicide was a good way to make your point or call attention to your cause.
SHE WROTE THE REASON DOWN ON THE NOTE SHE HAD IN HER HANDS!
oh wait....
I agree....she showed them nothing and I agree it is not a goodway, hence the reason why I feel sorry for someone who is so desperate to the point that they think taking their own life will make a difference. Maybe I'm weird but I feel for people like that ...People who have sunk so low that they see no other way out. Then I also feel for their family and the grief and pain they will go through knowing their loved one has done this.
Yes you're weird! Weird like in freaky!
Who in their right mind relates to people who put themselves on fire?
Or you some Gothic emo type?
you're pic kind of gives it away...
Thanks my friend...as does your pic.. Peace!
I wonder if she was HAWT
She showed them nothing?
Here we all are talking abouit it. I'd say that she must've made a pretty compelling point.
You need to read the book, "Man against himself" by Karl Menninger, of the Menninger Clinic. He examines the topic of suicide from many angles; and concludes that there are thousands of suicides every year that are not reported as such. A lot of people just want to kill themselves. What good is t he compassion going to do t hem? do you understand what you're doing; you're making sure you feel good about yourself; because you're one of the Compassionate ones.
meninger,the sigle most destructive factor in American Psychiatry.Owner of the Meninger clinic with royal succession.
Jesus Christ is there an infinite supply of them out there? Lucky you who can afford to ignore a serious study of a subject because you know the author was the single most destructive factor in american psychiatry. Another fucking wing-nut.
Since you mentioned Jesus Christ, what do you think about Menninger's concept of sin and his book titled "Whatever became of Sin?" Does sin exist and is it a cause of most Psychological problems? What do you think of Menninger's Christian approach to Pyscology?
Thanks for your psychological explanation, but Compassion is not a bad thing. Pretty silly question to ask what is compassion going to do for someone who is already dead..obviously nothing. I don't operate form a secular operandi so no need to waste the feel good about yourself operative.
when I see a cat or a rabbit on the road at night...
I flicker my lights of my car so she's blinded so I can hit it...
Oh, of course; you're just keeping up the normal pretense that you're holier than he, me, everybody, certainly all secular people. Such a nice self-hypnotic trance to crawl into.
what amazes me most is the speed at which people are able to take their smartphone...
find that video app...
edit the video...
and upload it to youtube!
I mean... I need 30 seconds just to remember my password to unlock it!
I mean, it's not like you can say: "Excuse me lady, I missed that first part! Can we do a redo?"
Compassion?!?!?!
HERE?!?!?!
On fight club?!?!?!
nope
You forgot the obligatory "My prayers go OUT to the Family". You know, it's the little heartfelt things like that which make social media all the more worthwhile /sarc off.
SAT you don't know me so you can't honestly say that. It is an easy opinion for you to form, if your only knowledge of Christianty comes from the west, but I will join the Apostle Paul and admit I am the chief amoung sinners not holy at all I just don't buy in psyco-analysis that does not take God into consideration. I respect your view point. I also will try to remove the plank from my own eye before I remove the speck from yours. Peace
Pazmaker - I agree. We are all interconnected in this world. This brought tears to my eyes. The suicide rate has skyrocketed here in America too. There is nothing funny about it. If it is not compassion that compels us to fight injustice and corruption then what is the point?
As Paul once stated: "All of creation groans."
so go light yourself up, too.
Paul? you mean Paul Stanley? Peter, Paul and Mary? Hank PAULson?
And some good news:
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/crime/article4257337.ece
300 libian soldier who are in training in Britain will be deported because of sexual misconduct....
yep... I wonder how those angels will do when they will be able to suppress the libian people themselves...
Just what is their training? Advanced sexual misconduct?
I upvoted you for the entertainment value of your post; and because some self-anointed priest censored you by downvoting you. Virtually everything the UK Government does is obviously insane; it's as though they had an insanity test as a pre-hire requirement.
"Maybe she should have bought stocks in US small caps? or the Alibaba IPO?"
You are soooo smart and funny! How do you come up with those clever things to say? I wish I could say smart things like that when I hear about personal tragedies in the news. I wish I was hillarious like you!
Maybe you don't grasp tyler's message that everythng is working out fine for the 1%, for everybody else there are acts of desperation.
ohhh now i get it ... thanks!
saved me the effort; Dr. Obvious strikes again.
Thank you for providing an indepth analysis of the "message". I would not have figure it out myself. And the best way to show concern for the misery of the 99% is to make stupid comments about personal tragedies?
By the way, are you now holding the FED responsible for personal tragedies accross the ocean?
Yes dumbass, all inhabitants of Earth are fucked daily by the Fed. And you have the nerve of acting all wise when you can't comprehend that. No wonder the guy above had to spell it for you and despite your claims to the contrary you still didn't got it.
"Yes dumbass... "
I can sense biterness and anger in your words. Concern for the poor inhabitants of Earth or maybe your dating life?
"...and you have the nerve"
Excuse me! I appologise
Although my delivery was not nice the message is true, dumbass. Cognitive dissonance or outright stupidity is no excuse. Grow up, learn a thing or two about the world around you and it will serve you well. Parrot the party line and you'll die a dumbass.
Your choice!
"Cognitive dissonance..."
Now, I am really impressed! I didn't know such words exist. cognitive dissonance! My vocabulary is growing. You must be knowing something about the world if you can talk like that.
You're cracking me up; stop already. it's like beating a baby. He doesn't know shit; he just wants to spout off the cult dogma of his particular cult.
You can't fault me for trying to help you. Sadly it was all for nothing as you are very much behind the curve on this world thingy.
P.S.: considering your handle i assume you are from Bulgaria and this article struck a nerve. Understand that this is not personal and it detracts nothing from your people or country (hint: a country is a mental construct with no basis in reality (reality being another illusion pulled over your eyes to blind you from the true reality), meant to cage the "citizens" and i see that its working very well on you).
"Although my delivery was not nice the message is true, dumbass. Cognitive dissonance or outright stupidity is no excuse. Grow up, learn a thing or two about the world around you and it will serve you well. Parrot the party line and you'll die a dumbass.
Your choice!"
When I have nothing better to do, I come over here to ZH to look at you Americans lecturing the world and slinging mud at each other. If there ever was a people who hate each other and fall over themselves to trample everybody around, that's it. And you know what? It makes you Americans look like downright morons. Kind of, you know, a nation of rednecks who never got past adolescence, complete with know-all ignorance, prejudices (about just everything around), brutish certainties, words used out of context, lack of anything even slightly resembling thought, a phony superior attitude and an antisocial personality disorder. And the Liberals are just as bad as the Conservatives, if not worse. Hopeless!
Thank the Lord above, if He exists, I was not born in this shithole America.
LOL. perfect handling of a typical interweb idiot.
He still didn't got it. How long have you been trying to learn to speak English? Not very long, I hope.
Obviously you could not figure it out, hence your original comment. How are you "showing concern" for the misery of this young lady? Have you altered your life? Or are you going about your day knowing in the back of your head that there is not one thing you can do or say that will have changed what has happened? We all address these issues in different ways. Dark cynical humor pointing out the corruption just happens to be Tyler's method.
"Dark cynical humor pointing out the corruption just happens to be Tyler's method"
I get it now! Making stupid comments about something that happened to a woman about whom no one knows nothing about is a way to rebel against the system! You are sooo rebelious!!!
"Making stupid comments about something that happened to a woman about whom no one knows nothing about is a way to rebel against the system! You are sooo rebelious!!!"
Talk about making stupid comments. You have no clue what I am or am not doing, yet you presume you do. Go ahead, run off and pout, tear your clothes and set yourself on fire to show solidarity for this young lady. That will fix everything. I'll spell it out slower for you, Tyler is referencing to Janet Yellen's earlier comment about how the poor need to save and invest or start a business which is ludicrous because the poor have no money.
By the way.... they (they being the corrupt bastards who get away with this) are the enemy, not me.
LOL.
now don't forget mr. Tassev; Dr. Engali ordered you to tear your clothes off and set yourself on fire; we expect you to get right on with this. Laughing too hard to type.
Why on earth these people do this to themselves and not take out a couple of "allegedly corrupt"individuals is beyond me.
make it count :)
But, nobody has the right to decide about other peoples lives.
Dr. Engalli does; and he doesn't even care if he gets the right ones, "allegedly" is good enough.
Your fascination with me is heartwarming, but you're borderline creepy.
But that would be a declaration of war on the people in charge if you do that Doc. And that would be illegal and make you a homegrown terrorist which means you should be droned/quarantined for whatever reasons. sarc/ (If I were in their shoes, I would do exactly what you said Doc) but unfortunately, the people in charge have a knack of making sure you blame yourself for your miseries....what a waste of these innocent people to go out like that. Inflicting the pains on yourself and honestly most of the sheeps around her wasnt even doing anything but standing and watching...some were there to try to do something but most didnt.
We need some shock in the system....
Yeah, after 6 previous immolations why would anyone think a 7th would do the trick?
Well, here we are, VOTING today. At least our voice will be finally heard. Right? Right?
Virtually everything is beyond you; but that's another subject. You're cracking me up too. Very entertaining blog today.
Of all the ways to kill oneself. Wow.
Jane Doe, formely known as Drama Queen
yes, that and 9 nails from a nailgun
The wrong people are on fire.
Gut wrenching.
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. George S. Patton
What a wasted suicide.
yep, corrupt assholes won't let that kind of thing slow them down to breakfast.
I bet those corrupted politicians & bankers will pour more petrol for sympathy.
Holy crap...I can understand the despair, but why don't these folks at least take one of the bastards with them?
If anyone caused me THAT much distress, they're coming WITH me.
perhaps despair, the kind of despair that self-immolates or suicides, is absent anger, which tends to be a motivating force.
anger kills the blamed objects, whereas true despair sees no possibility for "change" - and cannot bear to witness/live that truth.
perhaps it's the most honest reaction in the end.
Despair is just anger turned inward.
Joining the EU is signing up for collective suicide.
I must say that the profesional camera's quickly responded at 00:30......
1+1=1
"Europe's poorest country" ?
Sorry, we are ONE, ONE EUROPE, all as poor as CHURCH MICE !!!!!
HONEY, where are the matches?
LOL. Verrry funny blog today.
Flame War!
it sucks europeans are so lazy, its a beautiful place and I hate to see it fall to arabs
The poorest country in Europe is Moldova, not Bulgaria, by a wide margin
The piece was talking about EU, not Europe. I think the poorest EU country might be Romania though or at least very close behind Bulgaria. Out of all the eastern europe EU members i imagine the bulgarians are the best equipped to target the politicians, bankers and cops as the arms ownership is very high (legal and "illegal"). Alas this lady set herself on fire instead of shooting some bastards and get her revenge. Hell, no need to die, just kill a few of them and scare them into doing the right thing. Worst it could have happened was a prison term, not an useless, horrific death.
The title of the article says "... Of Europe's Poorest Country" and it is incorrect. Indeed, Moldova is the poorest, not Bulgaria.
Setting oneself on fire solves everything.
Such graphic protest is one way civilized people can beg everyone in the world to stop supporting their people's oppressors. The international press may hide the oppression, but has difficulty hiding such a graphic protest. Buddhist monks set themselves on fire in Vietnam. Jesus got himself crucified.
Bulgaria, the first European country to undergo a "color revolution", in 1990, apparently party coordinated by James Baker (who later spearheaded the selection of George W. Bush by the USA Supreme Court). Now a member of NATO, the EU, etc., with plenty of USA, "joint bases". Without significant high-tech industry, primarily agricultural and energy-producing, an importantly-placed piece on the Risk board for applying pressure to Russian and Iran, but why SHOULD the international bankers care whether any Bulgarians die for their country?
Catnis Everdeen?
You know...girl on fire.
Too soon?
wait until the collapse of the west, you ain't seen nothing yet
Anyone care to venture when we see our first self-immolation(s) in the US...??
It won't be long....
"Billy, have you seen this?" asks Soros. "I can't stop watching her. It takes me back to my happy, happy childhood."
"What do you mean 'have I seen this', I see everything. That's why I named it the Internet of Everything. She's the seventh one in the last year. So what?" Gates answers.
"Should we be worried?" asks Buffet from the overstuffed leather chair in the corner. "I mean, look what happened in Algieria, or Tibet, or ... wait a minute, what am I saying. Never mind. You can stop now, Ebarry, I'm not in the mood anymore."
"Yassah!"
what a waste fo resources, we have to teach these people to go after major donors, not just themselves, they're leaving meat on the table when there's starving terrorists in Africa.
C'mon people don't go down solo, take an opposition donor with you.
that is smart Smitty ... how about you? would you volunteer?
Story was totally skipped by MSM in the EU.
They say 6 such cases last year. Not a single bit of news about any of them.
And who'd you expect to break the media silence? RT, of course! No one else dares to stand up to the EU... except for Nigel Farage and a handfull of individuals.
In NJ they just jump in front of train...happened today. Lots of people wihtout hope, that we will get our government back from the cronies!
duplicate
Lydia Petrova. Pretty name. Her name was mentioned in a story at focus-fen.net, but now seems scrubbed from the same story.
Hmh.
I have only one burning desire... let me set myself on fire" - Jimi Hendrix/WOD
Well played, sir.
And you know that ooooourrrrr love is burning,
burnin like a flame!
So sad. I'm sorry for your pain, young woman. Rest in peace. I saw your big breath as you lay still, perhaps your last. My heart goes to you and I am glad you are free.
Either you forgot your sarc tag or that's so goddamn saccharine fake that even Milli Vanilli wouldn't sing it.
dupe
3 clues that this did not happen in America, from the provided image:
1. Bystanders are helping
2. No on is filming on camera phones
3. Cops aren't beating the shit out of her for attempted arson/suicide.
How dare you try to kill yourself? Only we have the right to kill you! /sarc
deleted -- holy shit it posted 3 times!
It must be my lucky day.
deleted -- double post
interesting the amount of kike cocksuckers here, poor girl just another goyim vivtim
How Long? Not Long!
Anyone else think it would be more humane to NOT try to save someone who immolated?