British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt To Block Wind Farm (nytimes.com)

HughPickens.com writes: Sewell Chan reports at the NYT that Britain's highest court has unanimously rejected an attempt by Donald J. Trump to block the construction of a wind farm near his luxury golf resort in northeast Scotland. Trump has vowed to stop further development on the project if the offshore wind farm — 11 turbines, which would be visible from the golf resort 2.2 miles away — goes forward. Trump spokesman George A. Sorial denounced the ruling as "extremely unfortunate for the residents of Aberdeen and anyone who cares about Scotland's economic future" adding that the wind farm will "completely destroy the bucolic Aberdeen Bay and cast a terrible shadow upon the future of tourism for the area. History will judge those involved unfavorably, and the outcome demonstrates the foolish, small-minded and parochial mentality which dominates the current Scottish government's dangerous experiment with wind energy."

Nicola Sturgeon, first minister of Scotland, withdrew Trump's status as a business ambassador to Scotland last week after Trump called for Muslims to be barred from entering the United States. Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen has stripped Mr. Trump of an honorary degree it awarded him in 2010. Trump's mother was born in Scotland and moved to the United States in the 1930s. " I think I do feel Scottish," said Trump at one time.

Comments

Re:Wow...

[bobbied]

It's no secret Cabal. In fact it's no secret at all.. It's "group think" and a lack of journalism standards and ethics. Gone are the days a journalist was basically independent and could investigate anything and write his stories as he saw fit. Nowadays, it's keep the advertisers happy and avoid ticking off the huge corporation that owns you, your product and pays you expenses.

Re:No rational arguments

[dave420]

"Muslims are encouraged to lie and cheat nonbelievers to reach their ends"

Aaaah I get it. You are woefully, wilfully ignorant about Islam. You are also woefully, wilfully ignorant about how much of the US economy depends on immigrants, legal and otherwise. It will be quite a surprise when your world comes tumbling down due to your misplaced rage and lack of critical ability.

Re:No rational arguments

[nukenerd]

>There are already nearly 3 million Muslims in America, anything that makes them feel more discriminated against .... is very likely more dangerous than the risk that immigration poses.

Immigrants I have known have actually been uneasy about further immigration, and don't hesitate to say so. They can express this view because they do not need to fear being thrown in jail for "racism". Some reasons :-

1) They, the sane ones anyway, are generally trying to integrate themselves. The arrival of fresh immigrants sets back their agenda because it keeps alive the idea that immigrants are a bunch of intruding newcomers. More bluntly, they want to pull up the drawbridge.

2) They know that continued immigration only raises the native people's resentment and anger against them, if not today then possibly reaching exploding point at some time in the future. We in the west tend to assume everlasting political stability; they have probably seen otherwise.

3) The further immigrants are importing a way of life, rules and culture that the original ones were trying to escape from. There are now large parts of cities (here in the UK) that look like you are in an Asian or African country, where a dark-skinned woman without a burka gets hard looks from the people there. I expect we shall soon see the laws permitting bigamy to satisfy the hard-line Muslims. [I once had a Muslim GF who wanted to escape from having to wear a burka]

4) They recognise that the country (the UK anyway) is already desparately overcrowded.

5) They are not blinded by "white guilt",

6) They can see straight away that the majority of immigrants are not political refugees (the usual "reason" for admitting them to the UK) but are adventurers, skivers, petty crooks for whom things have got too hot at home, jocks escaping from getting a girl pregrant back home, men escaping the draft, and are looking for easy money, easy women, and streets "paved with gold". They get disappointed.

You're talking about them like they're ticking time bombs. Where did you get that idea?

I cannot imagine