Nuclear waste and other tales from London: Capitalism and the Olympics

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http://www.peoplesworld.org/nuclear-waste-and-other-tales-from-london-capitalism-and-the-olympics/

In an idealized worldview, the Olympic Games are a symbol of international sports excellence and friendly global competition.

A symbol of what could be, perhaps, but the "corporatization" of the Games have made it a playground for the super-rich and a profit-driven event. The Games have become a hopeful, yet often futile, source of economic revitalization and jobs for the host city or country, which instead often winds up in debt. Greece is case in point.

In a crowd-funded video from Italy, documentarian Enrico Masi shows the underbelly of the London Games. It is in English with Italian subtitles.

"The Golden Temple" tells a bleak story from East London. Capitalism - a society based on consumerism and maximum rate of profit - falls far short in meeting the needs of all in attempts at economic revitalization.

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Video at the link here: http://www.produzionidalbasso.com/pdb_897.html

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1. On top of a nuclear waste dump, with missiles installed on roof tops... What's up with that, UK?

Likely to have armed drones in attendance, no doubt. Skynet has gone online, if media tropes are true.
This also bears a depressing resemblance to something royalty would have staged in the past, too.

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2. You're right. It's moved into bread and circuses territory.

It's such a shame. I used to love the Olympics when I was young, it really seemed like a venture of international peace and cooperation. Missiles on roof tops and nuclear waste? There's a metaphor in there somewhere.

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3. Stranger than fiction sometimes.

The UK has really jumped the shark with the rooftop missiles on top of the nuclear waste.

You couldn't make this stuff up.