[Peace-discuss] Fwd: From Milwaukee CWer

[C. G. Estabrook]

>> As many as 237 of the 400 wealthiest Americans are counted by House
>> Republicans as small-business owners.    Some 82% of the Bush tax cuts
>> were made permanent by the “fiscal cliff” compromise. As a result of
>> the compromise ¾ of Americans will pay a higher tax rate in 2013.
>> 
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>> In 2010 24% of Americans identified themselves as Tea Party members.
>> In 2012, only 8% of Americans identified themselves as such.  
>> 
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>> Half of the annual budget of the state of Texas is used for tax incentives to
>> corporations.
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>> Americans own half the privately own guns in the world.  
>> Some 680 of U.S. children under the age of 13 were killed with
>> firearms between 2006 and 2011. On 3/5/2012 the state supreme court
>> decided that the University of Colorado must allow guns on campus.
>> None of the students elected to live in dorms designated for those
>> with concealed-weapon permits.
>> 
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>> Only 2% of the people killed by US. Drone strikes in
>> Pakistan in 2012 were actually Taliban or Al Qaeda leaders.
>> 
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>> Chance a prisoner seeking a commutation of sentence
>> under President Clinton received one: 1 in 90.  
>> Under George W.Bush: 1 in 780.  
>> Under Barack Obama: 1 in 6,631.  
>> ----Harper’s Index,  Feb. 2013
>> 
>> 
>> In the last decade 700 Palestinians lodged complaints of torture done
>> to them by Israeli soldiers. Not a single one was followed up with an
>> investigation or charge.  -----Al Jazeera
>> 
>> 
>> A tank holding radioactive liquid at Washington’s Hanford Nuclear
>> Reservation, the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site, is LEAKING!
>> The storage tanks, which hold millions of gallons of a highly
>> radioactive stew left from decades of plutonium production for nuclear
>> weapons.  The leak could be in between 150 and 300 gallons a year.
>> ----CGL News, 2/17/13
>> 
>> 
>> The United States is deploying troops in 35 African
>> countries, beginning with Libya, Sudan, Algeria and Niger.  This was
>> reported by Associated Press on Christmas Day, last year.  Most of the
>> major media printed nothing about this.
>> 
>> 
>> CITGO-Venezuela Heating Oil Program has helped more than 1.7 million
>> Americans in 25 states and the District of Columbia keep warm since it
>> was launched back in 2005.  -----RSN, 2/13/13
>> 
>> 
>> A report by Yale University detailed institutionalized patterns of
>> abuse affecting many of the 70,000 Third Country Nationals working in
>> the military and contractors funded by taxpayers.  A large number of
>> foreign workers are employed by fly-by-night subcontractors who are
>> funded by American taxpayers. Many of these workers work for less than
>> 25%  the promised wages and in untenable working conditions.
>> -----The New Yorker, “Invisible Army: For foreign Workers on U.S.
>> Bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, War Can Be Hell.”
>> 
>> 
>> The current GAO estimates for delivery, operation and maintenance of
>> about 2,500 F-35 war planes is an astounding $1 trillion.  Lockheed
>> Martin in 2009 made about $3 billion  and in 2010 made about $2.9
>> billion from taxpayers for building this plane.  ----AlterNet
>> 
>> 
>> Native Americans on an oil-rich North Dakota reservation have been
>> cheated out of more than $1 billion by schemes to buy drilling rights
>> for the lowball prices, a flurry of recent lawsuits assert. And, the
>> suits claim the federal government facilitated the alleged swindle by
>> failing in its legal obligation to ensure the tribes got a fair deal.
>> ----ProPublica2/26/13
>> 
>> 
>> The U.S. Air Force is the single largest consumer of jet fuel in the
>> world.  The F-4 Phantom Fighter burns more than 1,000 gallons of jet
>> fuel per hour and peaks at 14,400 gallons per minute. Ten minutes of
>> flight uses as much fuel as the average driver does in one year of
>> driving The military reports no climate change emissions to any
>> national or international body.  In 1940 the U.S. military consumed 1%
>> of the country’s total energy usage. By the end of WDWII, the
>> military’s share rose to 29%.  In Iraq the Army estimated it would
>> need more than 40 million gallons of gas for just three weeks of
>> combat. The full costs of the Iraq invasion, estimated at $3 trillion,
>> would have covered  all of the global costs  in renewable power
>> generation needed between now and 2030 to reverse global warming
>> trends. The U.S. military consumes as much as 1 million barrels of oil
>> per day and contributes 5% of global warming emissions.  Ten of 11
>> U.S. recessions since WWII have been preceded by oil price spikes.
>> -----Truthout, 9/8/11
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