Monday, November 21, 2011

Injustice Facts @injusticefacts

Collected from the twitter account InJusticeFacts

In 2011, 9 years after the U.S. invasion, 92% of the opiates (heroin and others) on the world market are originating in Afghanistan.

In India, rich farmers allow grain to rot in the open (to keep prices from falling) while tens of millions of Indians starve each day.

To this day, no one in the U.S. government has apologized to Iraqis for wrongly accusing them of possessing WMDs.

Since 1952, $1.7 Trillion have been given to Israel by the U.S, most of it going towards the brutalization of Palestinians and their land.

The world spends 12 times more on military expenditures than on aid to impoverished peoples, even though there is no real war.

Nigeria is the biggest oil exporter in Africa, yet it's population is amongst the poorest on earth because of state corruption.

According to the WHO, there are 287 million overweight children in the world, 74 million obese children and 300 million starving children.

Wal-Mart has a single-day revenue larger than the annual GDP of 36 independent countries.

The yearly revenues of Exxon-Mobil rank above the annual GDP of Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil producer.

The American Rockefeller family built and funded the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Eugenics, used by Nazis to justify mass exterminations.

Indigenous Australians - while only 2% of the population - make up 25% of those in prison.

In 2010, Americans spent $61 billion on weight loss diets, $11 billion more than what is needed to send every student to college for free.

Kim Kardashian's wedding cost $10 million, enough to open 400 schools for impoverished children around the world.

100 million African Americans were born slaves, lived as slaves and died as slaves.

8 American children were killed in the September 11th attacks; 650,000 Iraqi children have died as a consequence of the ensuing invasion.

In 2010, 8 workers in Apple's part factories died from over exhaustion and Apple did nothing but demand even cheaper labor.

Even though JPMorgan has lost 40% of its stock value in 2011 ($90 billion), they scraped $4.6 million to give to their NYPD bodyguards.

Skyscrapers are a colossal waste of energy, the Sears Tower uses more energy than the city of Rockford Illinois,with a population of 147,000

Israel has broke 65 U.N resolutions with no consequences , Iraq broke two and got invaded, bombed and destroyed.

"FIFA has 15 more member states than the ""United"" Nations."

Even though African Americans make up 13% of the U.S. population, they make up 42% of the 3300 inmates on death row.

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