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Activists hail success of Twitter storm against fossil fuel subsidies
Climate and anti-poverty activists have launched a 24-hour “Twitter storm” against the hundreds of billions of dollars of government subsidies paid each year to the petroleum and coal industry, despite the global economic downturn and the rise in emissions. The blitz, which has been supported by Stephen Fry, Robert Redford,…
Silly Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson is on the teevee telling me that the government can’t tell me what to eat. Which I would have heard if I wasn’t eating a big-ass hamburger and drinking corn-syrup laden soda. Thanks, government subsidies – you taste like delicious!…
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