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• Deregulation in the late 1990s is responsible for the financial crisis of 2008 (1+/0- justifications)
• Wal-Mart makes $14 Billion in profit but Ohio taxpayers are paying for their employees' insurance (1+/0- justifications)
• Illegal music sharing creates greater profits for the recording industry and artists than would exist without illegal music sharing. (1+/0- justifications)
• This scientist's concerns were already public because he had publicly published a paper expressing his concern that global temperature data in 2008--2009 did not rise (1+/0- justifications)
• Other scientists writing in the same e-mail chain disagreed with the author and think that 2008--2009 global temperature data are consistent with global warming (1+/0- justifications)
• Most climatologists believe that the Earth has been cooling in 2008–2009 because we are at the nadir of an 11-year solar cycle and last year was a particularly strong La Niña year (2+/0- justifications)
• The three Guantanamo detainees who allegedly commited suicide in June 2006 were actually murdered (3+/0- justifications)
• The pentagon has perpetrated a coverup of the June 2006 death of three Guantanamo detainees (1+/0- justifications)
• The US spends $44 billion on its prison system (1+/0- justifications)
• Between 2000 and 2006 137,000 people died because they lacked health insurance (1+/0- justifications)
• The Federal Reserve returned $46 billion to taxpayers in 2009 (1+/0- justifications)
• The Federal Reserve has promised $5,700 billion ($5.7 trillion) in bailout payments (1+/0- justifications)
• The Federal Reserve profits for 2009 are only 0.1% (1/10 of one percent) of its bailout promises (3+/0- justifications)
• British MI5 helped arm the IRA (1+/0- justifications)
• The world population subsidizes 1/3 of the profits of the world's biggest companies (1+/0- justifications)
• Executives of US corporations are legally required to maximize their corporation's profits (1+/5- justifications)
• Most U.S. domestic terrorism since June 2008 has been directly related to Barack Obama's presidency (1+/0- justifications)
• Sean Hannity's Freedom Alliance charity concerts raised $10M in 2006 but donated just $397K ($0.397M or %3.7) of that amount (2+/0- justifications)
• Sean Hannity's Freedom Alliance charity concerts raised $12.5M in 2007 but donated just $895K ($0.895M or 7%) of that amount (2+/0- justifications)
• The immediate cause of the 2008 financial crisis was the downgrading of securities ratings (1+/0- justifications)
• General Electric, a New York corporation, paid $0 in taxes to the U.S. but had world-wide profits of $10.8 billion (1+/0- justifications)
• Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) thinks that the US government should apologize to British Petroleum for asking the company to create a trust fund of less than one year's profits to restore the Gulf ecosystem from the oil spill they caused. (5+/0- justifications)
• British Petroleum's profits for 2009 were $14 billion. (1+/0- justifications)
• British Petroleum's profits for the first quarter of 2010 were $6.1 billion, more than double their first quarter profits from 2009 ($2.6 billion) (1+/0- justifications)
• British Petroleum's 2010 profits were on track to be double their 2009 profits, or $28 billion (1+/0- justifications)
• The median U.S. household income decreased by over $2,000 between 1999 and 2008 (2008 dollars) (1+/0- justifications)
• The Federal Reserve caused the 2008 financial crisis (1+/0- justifications)
• Germany's economic success since the 2008 financial crisis is due to the country's having used Keynesian spending to counteract the depression (1+/0- justifications)
• Germany has experienced a strong recovery from the 2008 financial crisis (1+/0- justifications)
• The Bush II tax cuts cost $1.8 trillion between 2001 and 2008 (3+/0- justifications)
• The outcome of the U.S. financial crisis of 2008 is that the largest six banks hold assets equaling 63% of GDP in 2010 as opposed to 17% in 1995 (1+/0- justifications)
• In 2007, 41% of U.S. residents believed that Saddam Hussein was involved in the 9/11 attacks (1+/0- justifications)
• In 2006, 50% of U.S. residents believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) at the time the U.S. invaded Iraq (2003) (1+/0- justifications)
• The U.S. national debt was $10.7T in December 2008 when George W. Bush left office (1+/0- justifications)
• In 2008, Bono's charity ONE donated only 1.2% ($184K) of the $14M of revenues to other charities. 53% ($8M) went to executive and employee salaries. (1+/0- justifications)
• The recession of 2008 affected the average person much harder than the rich (1+/0- justifications)
• Adherants of the "sovereign citizen" theory have killed 8 law enforcement officers in the United States between Jan. 2008 and Dec. 2010 (1+/0- justifications)
• Unintended pregnancies cost the U.S. public $11 billion per year (1+/0- justifications)
• Life on earth is at least 3.4 billion years old (1+/0- justifications)
• The US government caused the 2008 financial crisis by pushing home ownership (1+/0- justifications)
• Former U.S. Representative Barney Frank is more responsible than anyone else for the policies that allowed the financial crisis of 2008 (1+/0- justifications)
• In the U.S. a partnership is formed any time two or more persons act together to conduct business and share any profits (1+/0- justifications)