DID YOU KNOW?
SHOCKBITES FROM:
Trooth-Ache: The Systemic Pandemic
Duped, Disconnected, and Diseased by Designby Jill Ferguson
Did You Know?
- Americans are now the most chronically diseased population in the history of civilization.
- The FDA permits or overlooks the Food Industry's toxic growing, treating, and modifying of the food you feed your family?
- The National Debt continues to increase $1.93 Billion per day since 9/30/2005.
- As citizens struggle to pay at the pump, multi-millionaire and House Judiciary Chairman, James Sensenbrenner, capitalized on his stock in Exxon, BP & Halliburton to the tune of $15,000 in one day!
- At least 35% on the Congress and Senate earn a minimum of $1 million per year ; by comparison less than 1% of Americans make 7 figure incomes.
- The U.S. uses 85% of the world's Ritalin, an amphetamine narcotic. Prescriptions for ADHA have increased 500% since 1991.
- Nearly $1 Billion was spent lobbying in 2004. The pharmaceutical industry spent $800 million on Capitol Hill in lobbying activities and campaign contributions between 1998-2004.
- In March 2006, CBS reported that 21 out of 21 airports failed screening test to detect component parts which could be used to make homemade bombs. At the same time GAO investigators transported radioactive sources across borders at two locations.
- The Senate approved $4 Billion for Avian Flu medications; with a population of 300 Million, the per person cost is $1,334. Roche received a contract for Tamiflu; Gilead receives royalties for Tamiflu; Donald Rumsfeld owns millions of $ in their stocks, Gilead's stock went from 35.0 in January 2005 to 66.7 in May 2006.
- The fastest growing group using antidepressants and other mood altering drugs is children under 5.
- Bush's "No Child Left Behind Act" has received budget cuts of $9.4 Billion.
- The average U.S. executive take home pay is 475 times greater than that of a factory floor worker.
- Wal-Mart costs federal tax payers up to $2.5 Billion a year in the form of federal public assistance programs.
- Exxon-Mobil's 2006 first quarter profits were $8.4Billion . Exxon still refuses to pay punitive damages for the 1989 Valdez oil spill and has spent millions lobbying Congress to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
- The so-called "silver" fillings still used by many dentists, is actually 42-58% mercury. Mercury is the most toxic non-radioactive element on earth.
- In 1983 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of the media industry. By 2004 that number had dwindled to 6 mega conglamorations owning the majority of TV and radio stations, newspapers, magazines, books, records, and movies. Journalists are told what to report, how to report it, and when to report it.
- Vice President Dick Cheney retired from Halliburton during the 2000 election campaign with a severance package of $20 Million . His stock in Halliburton went from $12 in December 2001 to $78 in April 2006. Halliburton received a multi-billion $$$ no-bid contract for reconstruction in Iraq.
- The Department of Veterans Affairs report that up to 40,000 soldiers returning from Iraq and Afganistan suffer symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress; 86% report knowing someone who was seriously injured or killed; 68% reported seeing dead or seriously injured fellow soldiers, 51% reported handling or uncovering human remains; 75% of those deployed to Iraq reported shooting or directing fire at another human being; 48% reported being responsible for the death of another human being.
- Approximately 38,000 American soldiers have been seriously injured in Iraq and Afganistan.
- In March 2006 The U.S. House of Representative passed a bill that removes the right of individual states to issue food warnings superceding the consumer's right-to-know under the guise of "The National Uniformity for Food Act."
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