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When Coldplay released its second hit album, A Rush of Blood to the Head, the band said that part of the environmental damage caused by its production would be offset by the planting of 10,000 mango trees in southern India.

More than four years after the album’s release, however, many of Coldplay’s good intentions have withered in the arid soil of Gudibanda, Karnataka state, where the saplings it sponsored were planted.

The idea of saving the world while making music was proposed by Future Forests, a British company since renamed CarbonNeutral. It declared that the scheme would soak up carbon dioxide emissions and help to improve the livelihoods of local farmers.

You can dedicate more saplings in Coldplay’s forest, a specially-selected section in Karnataka, India,” its website said. For £17.50, fans could invest in the scheme and receive a certificate packaged in a tube bearing the words “The Coldplay Forest”.

Other musicians, including Dido, KT Tunstall and Feeder followed Coldplay’s example. CarbonNeutral meanwhile, gave the task of planting the trees to a group called Women for Sustainable Development (WSD), as part of a £33,000 contract. WSD is headed by Anandi Sharan Mieli, 44, born in Switzerland of Indian origin and a Cambridge graduate. She now claims that the scheme was doomed from the outset.

In the impoverished villages of Varlakonda, Lakshmisagara and Muddireddihalli, among the dozen that Miss Mieli said had received mango saplings, no one had heard of Coldplay. Most of those who received saplings said they had not been given funding for labour, insecticide or spraying equipment to nurture them.

One woman, called Jayamma was the only person out of 130 families in Lakshmisagara, to receive saplings from Miss Meili, according to Ashwattamma, a farmer’s wife. She said: “No one else got any trees. Some of us were offered saplings but we don’t have any water.”

Jayamma managed to get 50 of her 150 trees to survive because she had a well on her land. “I was promised 2,000 rupees (£26) every year to take care of the plants and a bag of fertiliser. But I got only the saplings,” she said.

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bocopro said:

Suddenly, a cow walks out into the road, the car hits it full on, and the car comes to a stop.  Nancy, in her usual charming manner, says to the chauffeur, “You, get out and check - you were driving.”

So, the chauffeur gets out, checks, and reports that the animal is dead but that it was old.

“You were driving, so you go and tell the farmer,” says Nancy.

Two hours later the chauffeur returns totally plastered, hair ruffled with a big grin on his face.

“My God, what happened to you?” asks Nancy ?”

The chauffeur replies, “When I got there, the farmer opened his best bottle of malt whisky, the wife gave me a slap-up meal, and the daughter made love to me.”

“What on earth did you tell them?” asks Nancy.

“I just knocked on the door and when it opened I said to them, “I’m Nancy Pelosi’s chauffeur, and I’ve just killed the old cow.”

in 'do it for st. Nicholas'.
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neo said:

*
hey… come visit us in fuzzy bunny canada…

“Every month, the most notorious child killer in the country
gets $1,169.47 transferred to a trust account in his name.”

*

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Elvis, Unlicensed Hunka Hunka Burnin' Love said:

Nutless?

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geezerette said:

Republicans-- 2 little 2 late---
I quit watching all the B.S. why get upset with all the crap when we know in the end we’re screwed-- or we’re screwed in***
We have to wait until Nov. but who do we vote for?  Will who ever runs against them be the same? We have but a few months to find out.

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Elvis, Unlicensed Hunka Hunka Burnin' Love said:

OT,

I am here in Nigeria, on an offshore platform with the father of Lance Cpl. Jon Eric Bowman. 

http://www.iraqwarheroes.com/bowmanj.htm

Johnny Bowman is the Night Rig Manager on our rig and his son can be referenced in the above link.  It is a big honor for me to work with such great people. 

Fi

008

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mary said:

DoubleU, ...so right.

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DoubleU said:

Joe, the democrats are only half of the problem.

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JoeBandMember said:

I will never cast another vote for a Democrat.

Not even WA State Senator Tim Sheldon, who has sided with gun owners many times.

Fuck ‘em all.  They can and will rot in Hell.

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JoeBandMember said:

The Democrats will cause the violence and then get their dupes in the communist media to blame conservatives.

A friend of mine witnessed ABC news bringing protesters to the R convention in ‘68.

They’ve only gotten more brazen since then.

in 'Stop Makin' Stuff Up'.
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JoeBandMember said:

They want racism, and carefully cultivate it.

To their dupes in the communist media, it doesn’t even have to actually happen to be reported.

in 'Stop Makin' Stuff Up'.
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DoubleU said:

People don’t want this bill.
People are sick of the cries of racism at every corner.
This will all backfire on the dems… but maybe that is what they are looking for.

in 'Stop Makin' Stuff Up'.
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logdog"complacencyphobe"smith said:

While looking for Buzeses quote, found this little gem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pbp0hur9RU&feature=player_embedded

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logdog"complacencyphobe"smith said:

Here ya go, Buzz:

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
John Stuart Mill

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Buzz Bannister - Private Guy said:

“If you will NOT fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will NOT fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will HAVE to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have ...to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”

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GLENN MARK CASSEL AMH1(AW) USN RETIRED said:

I just want to hog tie and brand his sorry commie, fag, junkie, scumbag ass.
And are we sure he isn’t banging hillary?

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Kristopher said:

Same as the bogus death threat from a tea partier ... it never happened.

If they don’t have video of it, assume they are lying.

Because they lie.

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mojo said:

Chihuahuas make good bait if you’re trolling for Rotties, I hear.

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mojo said:

I thought her forehead card would say “So easy a caveman could do her"…

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PeggyU said:

Maybe they realize they’ve been such horrid specimens of humanity that they are starting to get skeered that the earth might open up and swallow them ....?

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PeggyU said:

Reminds me of the witch in Coraline for some reason.

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