We’ve All Been Trumped - in Scotland.
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2018 12:29 pm
We’ve All Been Trumped.
A Scottish doco from 2011 abut the opposition of the simple people of Aberdeen Shire to Trump’s proposed ocean view new golf course and residential/hotel development for rich and famous US golfers – maybe just the rich and sleazy or the rich and fatuous. The locals lost.
Low tech, slow, 1 ¾ hours, funny, dark, implacably opposed to Trump, shows his 1 meter hair strand bring unfurled in the wind, clear about Salmond’s supplicating support for him, the use of strong arm tactics by his private security force – and lots more. It wanders a lot and the accents need subtitles because their version of English is occasionally unintelligible.
Trump's public media attacks on the locals were viscous and out of control - things we now know are his very essence.
There is a compelling case that the council, maybe, and police, definitely, were not doing their job in the interests of the community – or maybe even the law. Anyone who thinks he is a decent man will find little/nothing in this to support their view.
Its as much a story about how the poor and powerless will always loose if someone rich wants what they have and probably parallels what happens in Egypt where community interests are sacrificed to property/tourist developers or where thousands are evicted from Nile-side land and other land because they couldn’t navigate the labyrinth of the land registration morass in Egypt. Even where they have it doesn’t matter.
Very positively reviewd and has won awards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ve_Been_Trumped
The Telegraph was more guarded and gave the review job to someone who doesn’t do reviews, just hard right wing opinion pieces. Not unexpectedly he found the film too ideological – just not his ideology. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tva ... eview.html
The LA Times looks to the public interest, something the Telegraph cares little for, and comments that the Scot police appear to be acting improperly in favor of Trump. http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/16 ... d-20120817
The director made a follow up doco and Trump threatened to sue him for it and sue any journalists who covered it in reviews in newspapers. The Telegraph would probably advocate a Sisi – 10 years jail for ‘spreading false news’ – 15 years for Guardian journalists. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... nald-trump
Variety thinks its sequel goes too far and is unbalanced. https://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/y ... 201903550/
Its free.
Boris Johnson’s view on the virtues of Trump are well known and identical to those of Boris’s ‘owner’, The Sun King, who has been in this country for 10 days writing headlines and giving direction – on the removal of our PM, a man he targeted a long time ago. https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/nationa ... e-malcolm/ written by a very distinguished journalist and former editor of major quality newspapers.
That this Scottish community got no support from their MP, civil rights organization, any major conservation society or the legal profession I find odd. The poverty/basic living standards of the locals was a surprise.
A Scottish doco from 2011 abut the opposition of the simple people of Aberdeen Shire to Trump’s proposed ocean view new golf course and residential/hotel development for rich and famous US golfers – maybe just the rich and sleazy or the rich and fatuous. The locals lost.
Low tech, slow, 1 ¾ hours, funny, dark, implacably opposed to Trump, shows his 1 meter hair strand bring unfurled in the wind, clear about Salmond’s supplicating support for him, the use of strong arm tactics by his private security force – and lots more. It wanders a lot and the accents need subtitles because their version of English is occasionally unintelligible.
Trump's public media attacks on the locals were viscous and out of control - things we now know are his very essence.
There is a compelling case that the council, maybe, and police, definitely, were not doing their job in the interests of the community – or maybe even the law. Anyone who thinks he is a decent man will find little/nothing in this to support their view.
Its as much a story about how the poor and powerless will always loose if someone rich wants what they have and probably parallels what happens in Egypt where community interests are sacrificed to property/tourist developers or where thousands are evicted from Nile-side land and other land because they couldn’t navigate the labyrinth of the land registration morass in Egypt. Even where they have it doesn’t matter.
Very positively reviewd and has won awards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ve_Been_Trumped
The Telegraph was more guarded and gave the review job to someone who doesn’t do reviews, just hard right wing opinion pieces. Not unexpectedly he found the film too ideological – just not his ideology. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tva ... eview.html
The LA Times looks to the public interest, something the Telegraph cares little for, and comments that the Scot police appear to be acting improperly in favor of Trump. http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/16 ... d-20120817
The director made a follow up doco and Trump threatened to sue him for it and sue any journalists who covered it in reviews in newspapers. The Telegraph would probably advocate a Sisi – 10 years jail for ‘spreading false news’ – 15 years for Guardian journalists. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... nald-trump
Variety thinks its sequel goes too far and is unbalanced. https://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/y ... 201903550/
Its free.
Boris Johnson’s view on the virtues of Trump are well known and identical to those of Boris’s ‘owner’, The Sun King, who has been in this country for 10 days writing headlines and giving direction – on the removal of our PM, a man he targeted a long time ago. https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/nationa ... e-malcolm/ written by a very distinguished journalist and former editor of major quality newspapers.
That this Scottish community got no support from their MP, civil rights organization, any major conservation society or the legal profession I find odd. The poverty/basic living standards of the locals was a surprise.