I wonder just how many suicides and divorces are occurring in America, with the recession and job losses, I mean, there's an public figure of the numbers and a 'secret' figure of the numbers.

It's just unbelievable that the media is not reporting increased suicides or high cases of divorces, men who have lost trophy wives to the economy... etc.

This is a conspiracy in itself, S&F.

I do not think it goes on just during the Great Depression, but two causes of death you will never see reported honestly in America, and purely for political purposes, are starvation and botched self-induced abortions.

"VIDEO IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE"

I smell conspiracy!!!!

EDIT : NM...Its playing. I went to the youtube link and it said it was removed. Sorry.

[edit on 26-2-2009 by Common Good]

Great find.

For those that wonder why we "Crazy" people stock up on food guns and amo.

If you haven't yet, I recommend reading The Grapes of Wrath. It's hard to ignore the correlations between that period of time and now. It gives me that terrible, history repeating itself feeling.

lol Give me one reason i should believe the Russian?

Look's to me he is trying to stir up something.

Why because 99% of people in the world don't dig up almost 100 year old subject's on a whim.

Originally posted by star in a jar
I wonder just how many suicides and divorces are occurring in America, with the recession and job losses, I mean, there's an public figure of the numbers and a 'secret' figure of the numbers.

It's just unbelievable that the media is not reporting increased suicides or high cases of divorces, men who have lost trophy wives to the economy... etc.

Actually that has been reported.


We have seen many reports on the trophy wife leaving phenomena... even threads here on ATS... which I haven't bothered to look up for you, but recall very vividly.

Russians scientists, economics, talking heads etc have always been finding and spreading fall of America and our economy type studies for decades now, but it's doesn't mean this guys is necessarily wrong based solely on the fact that he is a Russian and recently they have been giving foreboding warnings about our current state of affairs .

I am not sure how accurate his numbers are but I am sure that people especially children died from starvation and "other causes" during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, many certainly were undocumented and unacknowledged by government, but would probably be due to the people and local govt not reporting all deaths and causes of death which counted towards or against the official statistic.

also there was a huge shift in population during the dust bowl, a far more important effect on the population than the depression.

millions of people moved around the country to start whole new lives in new places, they didnt dissapear.

Sure times were very tough in the depression but mass starvation on those scales just didnt happen.
I have relatives that lived through it as do most other americans on this site, and thats one thing youll never hear them tell stories about because it didnt happen.


And to say that the government didnt do anything is ludicrous, read a history book and look a thing called the "New deal"

I suggest as another poster did read the "grapes of wrath" or "tortilla flats" for a little window into '30's america.

We are really lucky though, that our Main stream Medias are not puppets or parrots from our governments, like it is the case in totalitarian countries isn't ?

I never said that they were any better. However, Russia Today does have a way of rewriting history, just as Pravda did.
Two wrongs don't make a right. The further from an event in time, the easier it is to rewrite history.