What do you all recon about what you can find below? I'm not going to share my opinion in this post and I don't want people to think that I'm trying to upset anyone. I just wonder what others think, especially because most of you are Londoners. The following is taken from this website: http://counterolympicsnetwork.wordpress.com ------------------------------ The Counter Olympics Network links people and organisations critical of some or many aspects of the 2012 Games. Issues of concern include: the corporate takeover of the Games (with sponsors that profit from sweatshops, poison local people, pollute the planet, and so much more); the eviction of local people from their homes and businesses to make way for the Olympic sites, and prioritising the interests of global corporations at the expense of small businesses; the privatisation of public space; the introduction of repressive policing and surveillance in conjunction with the Games, and the use of the Games to promote acceptance of the militarisation of society (in particular â siting missile launchers on domestic roofs in East London, employing 42,000 private security staff on top of the vast police and military presence, increasing stop and search powers which target and alienate local young people, placing warships on the Thames and at Weymouth, and introducing preventive detention and ASBOs to intimidate peaceful anti-Olympics protesters); the threat to both the lives and livelihoods of Londoners caused by the VIP Lanes for dignitaries on London roads; the encouragement of nationalism, in contradiction to the supposed spirit of the Olympics; the sanctioning of gender apartheid in Olympic teams; the âbody fascismâ mentality in elite sport; the hypocrisy of a Paralympics sponsor, ATOS, which is also responsible for wrongly removing welfare payments from tens of thousands of people with disabilities; the multi-billion-pound expenditure, much of it on temporary facilities, and most of it unnecessary at a time of supposed austerity. ------------------------------------ Please look here to find info about some of the key sponsors for the games: http://www.greenwashgold.org/ And finally: Police given powers to enter homes and tear down anti-Olympics posters during 2012 Games Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...nti-Olympics-posters-Games.html#ixzz21IQJlOa0
I will never pay a penny to the Olympics just as I will never pay a penny to FIFA. I hate both organisations, they are sponsored by coke and mcdonalds and that tells you all you need to know about them. ATOS were fined $25m in the US for preventing servicemen getting compensation for injuries sustained in battle, they use the same rating system here.
So.... you're feeling really sad? Anyway, I'm off. I'll check back in the morning but please post your thoughts! I want to know how normal Londoners feel.
"The powers were introduced by the Olympics Act of 2006, passed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, supposedly to preserve the monopoly of official advertisers on the London 2012 site." Bastard thieving scum the lot of them be they Tories or Labour.
Yep i suppose i am. People can't enjoy things for what they are or once were. This is a very historic moment for all English/British people. Enjoy it.
Not fussed about the Olympics just wish they would get on with it kinda sick of hearing about it everyday day !!
sadly a lot of your comments do just go hand in hand with big money. we live in a world were money talks. the rich do what they like and to hell with the rest of us. i think more effort should be put into making the money put into the olympic last longer. keeping as many facilities open longer. more money needs to be put relocating all the homes and parks that where taken and probably never replaced. sadly the olympics are very easy to hijack where peoples views. sponsers political ideas and so on and so. i think every one needs to remember there always to side to every story and you can not enjoy one side with out looking at the other
I said my piece many months ago on a thread I'd created, so I'm not going to rain on anyone's parade any further. Genuinely pleased for those that can get excited about the whole shooting match. Wish that I could.
As i stated before. i love the olympic games and everything it stands for. Sadly its been taken over by money and drug cheats, but to have the Games in my home city makes me proud. i'd love to be there and see any of the events. Sadly, a lot of people have been given a rough ride, bussiness lost / affaected, homes moved and land eaten up. You cant blame this on the Olympics...Only the people who organise and run the olympics! Dont understand how anyone could dislike having the top athletes in the world, display thier talents, in thier own city....? All other factors being ignored.
holding the olympics has alot of positives and negatives it would be the same if we were to hold the world cup but I am sure we would all favour that I am 50/50 on it myself
As a resident of London we're already being hugely inconvenienced by the games and those living in the 'East London corridor' who run businesses are facing massive losses with no compensation. Traffic lights have been reprogrammed already (why?) which allied to the 'Olympic' lanes make a large portion of central London a virtual no-go area. The VIPs have all booked into hotels in Park Lane and Piccadilly, hence VIP lanes cutting through the busiest areas of London, why couldn't they have built a big hotel near the stadium? It would have been cheaper for the city. Telling people to go on holiday is an outrageous insult to the locals and shows the scant regard politicians hold for the people they represent. I've taken their advice and am leaving on a cruise on Friday and return the day of the closing ceremony. I feel sorry for those who will have their livelihoods damaged in the name of corporate branding...
My thoughts on the Olympics: - Waste of money - Money making racket (train fares, hotel prices, etc.) - Security shambles (that's the most worrying part)
Not interested in the Olympics apart from 100 metres, a bit of boxing and the Rhythmic Gymnastics 'cos my mates daughter is in the team. As to the road closures, I have customers in East London who are going to lose money because they can't do deliveries on a regular basis. The authorities have told retailers to order 2 weeks' stock. Great idea!! If you can pay for it, store it AND it is not fresh food that will perish within that time!!!
