D’Angelo Barksdale: Now you think Ronald McDonald gonna go down to the basement and say, “Hey Mr. Nugget—you the bomb. We sellin’ chicken faster than you can tear the bone out. So I’m gonna write my clowny ass name on this fat-ass check for you.”
Shit. Man, the nigga who invented them things? Still working in the basement for regular wage, thinking of some shit to make the fries taste better or some shit like that. Believe.
As the debate over cutting government spending rages on, billions of dollars of taxpayer money are wasted each year on junk food. Between 1995 and 2010, over 250 billion dollars was spent on subsidizing foods that are making Americans fat. The health effects are devastating. 75 percent of Americans are now considered overweight. One in five kids in the U.S. are obese. RT’s Liz Wahl takes a look at why some politicians feed into the Obesity Industrial Complex.
Industry experts say the tobacco industry’s legal challenge to new graphic warning labels may not hold up in court, but it could mean years before the new labels appear, and could save cigarette makers millions of dollars. (Aug. 18, 2011)
While millions of Americans have been looking for work, big businesses have been piling up the cash. Josh Landis and Mitch Butler wonder what those corporations could do with all the money they have saved up.
UN report says it will cost up to $1bn and 30 years to clean up the damage done by decades of drilling by Shell.
Oil exploration in Nigeria’s south for decades has had a debilitating effect on the environment of the region.
A UN report released last week says it will cost up to $1bn and 30 years to clean up the damage from the oil spill in the region.
Oil company Shell has been accused of serious failures in its handling of the pollution in the Niger Delta but the oil giant has shirked its responsibility so far.
Activists have demanded that Shell’s licence be revoked for the environmental disaster.
But with 90 per cent of the government’s revenue coming from petroleum exports, oil companies seem to have clear political leverage over the issue.
Al Jazeera’s Yvonne Ndege reports from southern Nigeria.
