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Tilda Versus Trump Over Scottish Golf Course

It's a ginger battle royale. Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton has come out in support of the campaign to stop Donald Trump from building his billion-dollar golf resort near Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Swinton lent her star power in favor of the four hold-outs who have refused to surrender their land to Trump's ambition. She compared the government attempt to push the landowners into selling their land to the notorious "Highland Clearances" of the 18th and 19th centuries when many tenants were pushed off their ancestral lands in favor of rich landowners.

As part of a statement quoted in Page Six, Trump claimed to have never heard of the actress and accused her of using the situation in order to get "some easy publicity for herself." It's a pretty silly claim given that the androgynous actress is notoriously reclusive. Trump also did some name dropping of his own saying that Sean Connery is in support of the project.

Whose Side Are You On?
Trump!	105 (24.1%)
Tilda!	330 (75.9%)

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New Massive Development Planned For North Carolina

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Estates

A new resort being planned for North Carolina will be bigger than two small towns combined. The 6,000-acre development known as Laurelmor will be a luxury home community of around 1,500 homes, 1,000 condo units or hotel rooms, two golf courses, a spa, water park, equestrian center and a network of new roads where there is now just timberland. Environmentalists have some concerns about the massive development's effect on the local watershed. The project is the latest from Ginn Clubs and Resorts which has created developments in Florida and in the Caribbean (an example is shown here). Lots will start to be sold in October and the resort will open in the third quarter of 2009. The minimum lot price is said to be $750,000 and the smallest houses in the development will be around 3,000 square feet.

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