Trump Strikes Again!

Last night I discovered a further twist in the saga of the Trump Enterprises plans for a golf resort near Balmedie, Aberdeenshire. He is wanting to forcibly buy land bordering the Menie Estate using compulsory purchase laws to push people out of their homes.

As if the whole project isn't horrible enough!

To find out more about the campaign against his golf resort (which includes TWO golf courses, a hotel, hundreds of holiday homes and the stabilising of sand dunes!) please see this site. To complain about the expansion of his resort and the compulsory purchase orders please go here (please do so by highlighting the negative aspects of such an expansion on material grounds etc. otherwise your complaint will be rejected).

Please spread the word!

E-Petitions

Recently I felt moved by an article on the BBC news website to sign an e-petition calling for the PM to apologise for the prosecution of Alan Turing. I'm not really sure whether there is any point in such things, but anyway, I browsed some other e-petitions. It's quite an amusing thing to do - I'd recommend it! There are some truly baffling ones, silly ones, racist ones, all kinds of ones! However, I found some which I whole-heartedly agree with and I would like them to be shared and spread around. (Whether they make any difference or not is to be disregarded here for the purpose of optimism and the naive belief in democracy.)

Here they are (including the Turing petition) -

A petition calling for the ban of a particularly nasty weedkiller called Aminopyralid: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/aminopyralidban/

. . . ban of a horrible insecticide called Neonicotinoid: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/BeeDeath/

. . . more funding for research into honeybees and their diseases etc. (this one is particularly important so please do sign this one, if only one!): http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Honeybees/

. . . Alan Turing petition: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/turing/

. . . to tackle the issue of over-population (thus silencing critics who believe in use of similar pesticides etc. as above as means of providing enough food for all of us (amongst numerous other reasons to reduce the population size)!!!): http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/toomanypeople/

. . . for planning laws to favour low-impact, sustainable houses and projects: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/LowImpactLiving/

. . . to ensure Sites of Special Scientific Interest are protected from development: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/protect-dunes/