Injustice World…Here is some..
1-Cost of deploying one U.S. soldier for one year in Iraq, $390,000, enough to feed 10 struggling families in the U.S. for a year.
2-In 2008 the U.S. spent $5000 every second on Iraq.
3-Since 2003, The U.S. spent $980 billion in Iraq, enough to wipe out world poverty for 10 years.
4-U.S. Annual Air-Conditioning Cost in Iraq and Afghanistan: $20.2 billion, enough to wipe out world hunger.
5-In the U.S. it is illegal to support freedom in Palestine but it is legal to invest in CAT bulldozers that knock down Palestinian homes.
6-Militaries around the world insist on using the term ‘collateral damage’ to cover up the ugly reality of ‘dead children and babies’.
7-88% of psychologists either work for the military or the advertising industry, only 4% work to help and heal human beings.
8-Of the $8.5 billion in diamonds that come out of African, only $450 million actually benefits Africans.
9-The average diamond engagement ring sells for $5400, enough to pull 15 families out of poverty.
10-The average diamond engagement ring sells for $5400, enough to pull 15 families out of poverty.
11-Credit card debt is one of the leading causes of suicide in the Western world, killing approximately 22,000 people each year.
12-McDonald’s is the world’s largest distributor of toys, pushing its brand deep into the psyche of young children.
13-Pfizer produces the drug fluconazole (AIDS drug) and it refuses to grant the generic license to it, which would save millions of lives.
14-In Colombia, Nestle replaced an entire factory staff with lower-wage workers and did not renew the collective employment contract.
15-Google’s software keeps reads and keeps copies of all your emails, all your searches and all your virtual communications.
16-Since 2003 7 Palestinians have been killed in their homes by Israeli Caterpillar bulldozer demolitions.
17-Peace activist Rachel Corrie was killed by a Catterpiller D-9 bulldozer while attempting to block the destruction a family’s home in Gaza.
18-Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike each year than all the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
19-Gandhi never received a Nobel Peace Prize, Obama received a Nobel Peace Prize while his soldiers were ‘accidently’ killing Iraqi children.
20-If you eat at McDonald’s once a week, your chances of being obese go up by 140%.
21-The average Israeli uses 12 times as much water as the average Palestinian in a part of the world that has very little water.
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