Green is the new green, but black still gets covered in brown.....

So where do all the "carbon credits" come from if Al Gore sells enough carbon indulgences, and enough western sheeple pile on the green pedi-car? Surely people in poor countries wouldn't lose their land or be forced to lose their food crops to those what want to plant higher "carbon offsetting" crops in order to grab more of the filthy lucre that carbon indulgences industry has created?

Said it ain't so Joe. I mean Al.

The government of Uganda and the U.K.-based “carbon credits” firm New Forests Company — accredited by the United Nations and largely financed by the World Bank and the European Union  are rolling in the carbon dough after 20,000 poor Ugandan farmers were brutally evicted from their lands in order for New Forests Company to plant trees.

“We were beaten by soldiers. They beat my husband and put him in jail,” Naiki Apanabang, who obtained her family’s land in recognition of her grandfather’s military service, told Oxfam investigators. “The eviction was very violent.” Apanabang and her eight children no longer have enough food to eat — let alone money for schooling, unanimously telling investigators horror stories of brutality, shootings, wanton destruction of livelihoods, and more. “The communities Oxfam spoke to describe the evictions as anything but voluntary or peaceful,” the report noted.  Francis Longoli, a small farmer from Kiboga district was tearful: "I remember my land, three acres of coffee, many trees – mangoes and avocados. I had five acres of bananas, 10 beehives, two beautiful permanent houses. My land gave me everything. People used to call me 'omataka' – someone who owns land. Now that is no more. I am one of the poorest now," he says.

Ugandan authorities granted the UN-accredited carbon-trading firm a license to plant trees on the land in 2005. So-called “carbon credits” earned from the plantation would then be sold to companies to offset their emissions of CO₂. The problem was that tens of thousands of people had been living off of the land for decades, using the area to feed themselves and their farm animals.

But not any more!

Greed wrapped in green is the cruelest mistress of all. From multi million dollars homes and private jets, from marriages to Hollywood actresses and living in the Palace of the King of Lesotho - these guys have got it going on over there in Africa. Why - it's as much fun as an Al Gore massage session!

But hey - as long as green is the new green - the old black can still get covered in brown.