March 10, 2011, Multiply, whats at stake?, more on Trump

what's at stake, more on Trump.

Mar 10, '11 5:12 PM for everyone

Fromhttp://www.indiegogo.com/Youve-Been-Trumped

‘’We've been battling the police and the Scottish Government, to film a story we feel must be told.  You've Been Trumped is an urgent examination of Donald Trump's plans to construct a luxury golf resort on one of the most environmentally sensitive stretches of land in Europe.’’

What's at Stake

Described as 'Scotland's Amazon rain forest' by the country's leading climate change expert, the stretch of untouched coastal wilderness north of Aberdeen has Britain's top conservation ranking.
No large scale development is supposed to take place there.  Yet Donald Trump is now building a millionaire's playground -  a gated community consisting of 1500 houses, a 450 bed hotel and two golf courses.
Donald Trump claims he has 'great support' from the environmental groups.  However, the film reveals how every major conservation group in Scotland has come out against the plan - including Scottish Natural Heritage, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the Scottish Wildlife Trust, and the Ramblers Association.  Scottish Natural Heritage - the Government's own environmental agency - says the resort will destroy the “the crown jewels” of Scotland’s natural heritage. And Scotland is bursting with golf courses already.
Yet Mr Trump has convinced ( some of) the Scottish Government to upend the planning process and its own environmental laws on the pretext that the project is “in the national interest”. 
The documentary calls into question this extraordinary decision. And follows a cast of real-life "Local Heroes" (the classic film was made just up the coast)  as they battle against the odds to protect the ancient, globally important landscape that has been the backdrop to their lives. Their homes are under threat too - the authorities could level them to improve the view from the Trump hotel.
During the course of filming we became amongst the first journalists ever jailed in the United Kingdom simply for conducting an interview. Our crime? Investigating the cutting off of an 86-year-old woman's water by crews employed by Mr Trump. Our footage and camera equipment was confiscated too. According to the National Union of Journalists, this police action was 'unprecedented'. 

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Zk-MHQE2xPQ

 

 

delete reply mitchylr wrote on Mar 11, '11 Let's hope this film gets to a much wider audience, because there are still many people totally unaware of what he is doing.

delete reply mitchylr wrote on Mar 11, '11 Only one problem with that Frank....Murdoch isn't ours. He's Australian.

edit delete reply forgetmenot525 wrote on Mar 10, '11 bennett1 said Both men are a pox upon the world. an amoebae on the pox which infests the pox

delete reply bennett1 wrote on Mar 10, '11 Both men are a pox upon the world.

delete reply nemo4sun wrote on Mar 10, '11 veryfrank said 'The Donald' wants to be president, a snowball has a better chance in hell. We'll take him back if you promise to take Rupert Murdock and his band of democracy crushing yellow journalists. lol i second that :)

edit delete reply forgetmenot525 wrote on Mar 10, '11 veryfrank said 'The Donald' wants to be president, a snowball has a better chance in hell. We'll take him back if you promise to take Rupert Murdock and his band of democracy crushing yellow journalists. OMG...what a choice...............the old saying 'caught between a rock and a hard place' applies

delete reply veryfrank wrote on Mar 10, '11 'The Donald' wants to be president, a snowball has a better chance in hell. We'll take him back if you promise to take Rupert Murdock and his band of democracy crushing yellow journalists.