The history of the Olympic Games almost without exception brands it as a lie.
To greater or lesser degrees, the Olympics bring gentrification, graft and police violence wherever they nest. 

It's also difficult for B.C residents to see how this will help their pocketbooks, given that the prov. gov't pledged to the International Olympic Committee that any cost overruns would be covered by taxpayers.

"The "Olympic Ideal" is part of one of the world’s most successful marketing campaigns, built around concepts that almost everyone can agree upon: world-class amateur sport and peaceful competition.

But a rising chorus of critical voices say that the Olympics are deeply implicated in the expropriation of land, money and resources. From movements demanding "No Olympics on Stolen Native Land" to angry business owners, resistance to the Olympics economic and social agenda is growing.

The Olympics budget includes a billion dollars for security. A billion dollars each will be spent on a new convention centre, a larger highway to Whistler, and SNC Lavalin's rail link from the Vancouver airport to downtown.

In the political and economic maneuvres leading up to the 2010 Olympics, a different "ideal" has been revealed – one of exclusive contracts, sponsorship deals, displacement, social cleansing, and corruption. At times, sport seems like an afterthought.

Many of the real stories behind the Olympics remain to be told."

see: http://www.dominionpaper.ca/topics/2010_olympics

Human Rights and the Olympic Movement (Lecture 5 of 5)The Contribution of the Olympics to the Promotion of Human Rights; Alwyn Morris (LA,1984). Part of the “Mohawk nation” living in Canada ...

www.slideshare.net/.../human-rights-and-the-olympic-movement -

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In relation to comments about politics intruding on the Olympics

1) Both the USA & Canada boycotted the 1980 Olympics because Russia invaded Afghanistan &

2) the Lubicon Cree called for the 1984 boycott because of SUNCOR O&G exhibition " The Spirit Sings" to highlight the hypocisy of "celebrating" Indigenous cultural while systemically destoying their community since within 5 yrs. the Lubicon Crees' territory had over 500 O&G wells & within 2 yrs. 95% of the Crees were on welfare after their traplines were bulldozed & businesses told NOT to purchase furs from the Crees. Food source dropped from 200 moose /per year to 20- but the O&G employees had great fun shooting off their guns!!lol

Nevermind that both levels of Alberta courts were stacked with O&G lawyers & that Canada's Supreme Court had judges that ended up on the board of directors of said O&G companies. SSHHH! -that's on the QT..lol

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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/10/15/bc-1936-olymp...

"These games represent the first point of contact between Canada and Nazi Germany," exhibit curator Frieda Miller told CBC News Thursday."

Duh, NOT!!!...the first point of contact was the medical experiments performed on Indigenous children at residential schools - covertly or disavowed....

but maybe if the sentence was:' These games "offically" represent the first point of contact...

The schools & religious orders made money from medical experiments, children disappeared -but who cares & who knows - payment from DIAND as long as their names were still on the books.

http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/historyfiles/audio/HFH-Sept23-02.mp3

( DIAND archives: 13 children re: Sechelt Residential school/1939 2 shots given by German doctors...listen  especially for about death of Maisie Shaw & the various official answers by DIAND/United Church/RCMP)

over 1200 Nazi scientist brought over by the Americans, most worked on space program but about 200 worked on medical experimentation. RCMP aka given Canadian name: "Bob Armstrong" -SS tattoo/ id # 091374SS



CANADIANS - learn your history- all of it, not just the "nice parts"...LOL

FYI:The Truth Commission into Genocide in Canada
email: hiddenfromhistory@yahoo.ca OR kevin_annett@hotmail.com
website: www.hiddenfromhistory.org