Facts to Ponder

Starbucks coffee farmers would need to work for 3 days before they could afford to buy a cup of their own coffee.

The average American and European spends more on ice for refreshments than the average human being spends on drinking water.

78% of Disney's top executives do not allow their own children to watch Disney programming because of its poisonous intent.

Out of 15,000 men who put all of their energy and effort into a particular sport, only one makes it to the professional level.

Despite the fact that violent crime is at a 40 year low, the prison population in the U.S. is at an all time high.

Out of the Fortune 500 companies 443 have been proven to use spy workers, who pretend to be regular workers while spying on other employees.

The U.S. government pays farmers $48 Billion a year to not produce food, even while more than a billion human beings starve.

In all of human history imperialist powers have never invaded a nation that was not rich in some kind of natural resource.

Germany has paid $61.8 Billion to Jewish victims, to this day the U.S. has not paid $1 to African Americans for 400 years of brutal slavery.

Out of 20 million Africans that were brought to America as slaves to be exploited, 11 million were killed and dumped overboard in transit.

Between the years 1882 and 1951, 3427 African Americans were brutally lynched for no reason other than race prejudice.

On Election Night 2008, 217 African Americans were assaulted by racists who could not cope with having an African American president.

Of the 7,624 hate crime incidents reported in the U.S. in 2007, 34% were perpetrated against African Americans.

Obama fought to lower the minimum wage in Haiti. The US minimum daily wage is around $58, in Haiti it is $3 a day.

A Vietnamese person working in a Nike Sweatshop for $1 a day needs to work for 12.7 billion days to accumulate the fortune of Nike's CEO.

In a survey of Fox News viewers, it was found that they are 3x more likely to use hate & racist slurs than those who avoid the channel.

In the 50 Cent song 'I get money', the word money is repeated 147 times, while African American poverty is never mentioned.

Bush started a war which cost $3 trillion, bailed out banks with another $3 trillion;raised the debt ceiling 8 times while he was in office.

The average Fortune 500 worker has to work 300 hours (52.5 days of work) to make what his/her CEO makes in one hour.

According to economists, by the year 2025, if the current pace continues, CEO's will be making 2000x than their workers.

Even though CEOs already make 300 times more than the workers, their pay is increasing 7 times more quickly than that of workers.

CEO's are paid 300 times more than what the average production worker makes.

In 2010, CEO pay rose by a whapping 31% while the average worker's pay actually fell by 1% in real terms.

Between 1982 and 2008, the top 1% of Americans earned 80% of all income, that's like one person at a party eating 80/100 pizza slices.

According to economists, for every 1000 points that the DOW climbs, 100 million people join the ranks of the impoverished.

73% of companies that go bankrupt do so because their management begins to embezzle billions of dollars in bonuses.

On average Fortune 500 CEOs fire 362 people on their way to being CEO of the company.

Stephen Schwartzman, CEO of Blackstone, spends on average $3000 per day on lobsters for himself, enough to feed 3000 starving children.

The United States sells an average of $68 Billion in weapons each year to Middle Eastern dictators and 'kings'.

Between 1998 and 2011, 333 in the U.K. were killed while in police detention, while Cameron thinks twitter and free speech are the problem.

According to Cameron, invading Iraq and killing millions of children is legal, but speaking out on twitter against police brutality is not.

On August 11, 2011, UK Prime Minister Cameron suggested that people will be banned from using Twitter for speaking against social injustice.

92% of conservatives in the United States blame Mexican immigrants for the faltering economy instead of greedy Wall Street Banks.

In 2008, the U.S. government spent $200 billion bailing out AIG; three days later, 73 AIG executives collect a $1 million dollar bonus.

American corporations collect 24x more than 'welfare queens', in tax-breaks, corporate welfare and grants (not including bailouts).

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