this is true in only 5 other countries: palau, kiribati, marshall islands, micronesia, and nauru.
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60% of all of the wealth in the united states is inherited, not earned. that means that folks who are wealthy pass on their wealth to their offspring, over and over again, and the succeeding generations do literally nothing to earn it. they simply live off of the revenue that having money generates.
how on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash?....the acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the acceptor to membership in the sort of artificial extended family we call a congregation. it is a way to fight loneliness. any time i see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, i think to myself, 'there goes a person who simply cannot stand being so goddamned lonely anymore'. (kurt vonnegut)
the average number of citizens who declare bankruptcy each year due to medical debts that they cannot pay, by country:
- australia - 0
- canada - 0
- denmark - 0
- germany - 0
- great britain - 0
- finland - 0
- france - 0
- iceland - 0
- ireland - 0
- italy - 0
- japan - 0
- netherlands - 0
- norway - 0
- scotland - 0
- spain - 0
- sweden - 0
- united states - 326,000
- wales - 0
the united states has the largest prison population in the world. the despite the fact the the united states supreme court has ruled that jailing people for not having the means to pay fines is unconstitutional, thousands of folks in these states are still sent to jail for it:
- alabama
- arizona
- arkansas
- california
- colorado
- florida
- georgia
- indiana
- maryland
- michigan
- minnesota
- missouri
- oklahoma
- pennsylvania
- south carolina
- tennessee
- texas
- washington
- wisconsin
- wyoming
american employers steal 3 times the amount of money from their employees that is lost due to shoplifting, bank robberies, computer hacks, etc., put together.
this theft is often in the form of hours worked without pay, unpaid overtime, unpaid benefits, additional job duties added without additional pay during layoffs, etc.
most employees never recover these stolen wages. even for those that eventually do, it can take years.
as of this writing, more than 1,700 priests, nuns, and other authority figures within the catholic church are reported to have sexually abused children. and those are just the children within the past 60 years or so, and only the perpetrators that have become public.
the church itself has existed for almost 2,000 years. when do you think the abuse started?
of the more than 14,000 chemicals found in food packaging, about 1 in 4 of them (3,601) have been found in human blood, hair, brains, and/or milk.
many of these are known to disrupt the endocrine system and/or to cause cancer.
according to a study of how police officers spend their work hours, the majority spend more time on officer-initiated stops than they do solving crimes. in fact, as much as 88% of their time, and 79% of that on traffic stops.
of those traffic stops, police officers were more than twice as likely to pull over black driversas opposed to white drivers, and only 11% of those stops were because the officer stopped the driver based on reasonable suspicion of a crime.
police departments in the u.s. and u.k. were originally created to control crowds - not to enforce the law or solve crimes.
the current rate of extinction is faster than any of the 5 previous mass extinctions. the most recent mass extinction (not counting the current one) resulted in the loss of 95% of all life on earth.
in the americas, covid19 was the number one cause of death from 2020 through 2021. hospitals were overrun and many healthcare workers quit due to nonstop mandatory overtime, sometimes for weeks at time. so many people died that refrigerator trucks were stationed outside many hospitals just to temporarily store the dead.
you can see the data in minute detail here.
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