Shocking Realities

I love Hanson, John Mayer, and Justin Timberlake

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According to Warren Buffet, the world's richest man, the U.S. government ?coddles? billionaires and gives them whatever they want.

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Dow Chemicals is the corporation that developed Napalm, a brutal chemical weapon that burned many million innocents to death.

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An estimated 40 million people are living with HIV/AIDS, with 3 million deaths in 2004, yet Pfizer will not allow them to buy cheaper drugs.

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At Disney Theme parks, mascot employees are instantly fired if they speak to children out of character in 8 hour work shifts.

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54% of African Americans rent in densely populated areas in common urban centers in plain terms, they live in ghettos.

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4000 poor people die each day from indoor air pollution caused by the use of solid fuels while celebrities strut in their hummers.

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Lockheed Martin managed to get US subsidies to help sell fighter planes to Poland at the end of 2002/beginning of 2003.

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The world's billionaires have more wealth than the income of the poorest 170 countries in the world.

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Wall Street commodity traders have succeeded in driving up wheat prices by 100% in the last year, they have also doubled world hunger.

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The average student spends 900 hours per year at school and 2200 hours watching television.

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Corporations use more water than the poorest 70% of the world's people.

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2000 children under 5 die each day from indoor air pollution caused by the use of solid fuels while Americans drive around to pass the time.

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The Al Haddad trading company of Tennessee delivered 60 tons of DMMP, a chemical used to make sarin, to Iraq.

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Even though 72% of African Americans are deeply bothered by the expression 'the blacks', it remains very prevalent in the mass media.

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In 1960, the 20% of the world's people in the richest countries had 30 times the income of the poorest 20%, in 1997, 74 times as much.

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Watching television increases your BPM (Bites Per Minute) from 3.2 to 5.1 contributing to the ballooning rate of obesity.

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If you live in a poor country your chances of dying before the age of 5 are 50x higher than if you live in a rich country.

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From 1964 to 1992, Chevron unleashed 18 billion gallons of toxic production water into Amazon forest rivers used for bathing water.

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Germany's political disagreements with the U.S. are comical, considering that the U.S. has its largest military base in Ramstein, Germany.

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83% of office workers say that they are brutally terrified of their office manager.