Fight Corporate Crime and Boycott the 2012 Olympics
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February 02 2012
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When asked my idea to fight corporate crime, the banksters and their political lackies I say hit them loudly and where it hurts: boycott the London 2012 Olympics.
Those of you old enough to remember will recall the monumental pain inflicted on the old Soviet Union by the boycott of the Moscow Olympics in 1980. I can think of no better opportunity for the 99 percent of us to hurt the self-serving Establishment than use the Moscow Olympic boycott as our template for action.
I'm not advocating the forced withdrawal by athletes - that is unlikely being that the governments of the richer nations aren't going to give up their slice of the action. Anyway, most folk agree the athletes deserve their chance of sporting glory and shouldn't become 'collateral damage.'
No, what I'm suggesting is a strictly financial embargo as consumers - don't patronize the brands, don't buy the merchandise, don't watch the TV broadcasts. If you attend the games make your voices heard and protest, shout loud, raise banners and make the corporatists cringe.
The 2012 Games has 55 sponsors, including Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Visa, BP, BA and other big hitters. They've thrown in just shy of £700 million, and they are a key source of funding for the £9.3bn cost of putting on the Games. They expect a lot back for their investment. A consumer boycott of the games would hit hardest those multi-nationals investing many millions in advertising and would cause pain in the heart of the world's financial capital: the City of London.
PR Gurus Says London Olympics is Prime Time TV Promo
‘Sponsorship now is about how you get your brand ethos, how you connect with the fan worship and how you’re smart and how you own the story that surrounds the sport,’ says PR guru Mark Borkowski. The 'story' from the London Games should be that taxpayers are saying 'no' to paying for trillion-dollar bank bailouts. We say 'no' to corporate largesse and we say no bank is 'too big' to fail. Let them all fail. End the theft from taxpayers and the asset stripping of debtor nations, otherwise we will retaliate.
Let's not be the slaves to the global elite lording it in London. Let's not allow them to use the occasion to exploit us further during what is fast becoming the worst global economic recession - bigger that the Great Depression of the '30's (far more painful and devastating once the Euro fiat currency collapses).
Why Boycotting the Olympics Makes Sense
History tells us that great international causes need great rallying points in place and time. The whole world was stunned by the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute that involved the African American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos giving the Black power salute at the Olympic Stadium in Mexico City. The event was one of the most overtly political statements in the history of the modern Olympic Games.
Time magazine followed up by showing the five-ring Olympic logo with the words, "Angrier, Nastier, Uglier", instead of "Faster, Higher, Stronger."
And the free world rejoiced at the political triumph achieved at an even earlier Olympics in 1936. It has long been regarded as the greatest sporting snub in history - when Adolf Hitler stormed out of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin because Germany had been humiliated by a black man: American sprinter, Jesse Owens, winning four gold medals.
No to Bank Bailouts, False Flag Attacks and Mainstream Media Cronism
This year the 'ninety-nine percent,' sick of the spoon fed propaganda spouted by the mainstream, will have few better opportunities to seize a platform for a peaceful demonstration than London and hurt those 55 leading corporate brands.
‘For those sort of brands it’s a case of keeping you up there,’ says Borkowski. ‘How would it look now if McDonald’s weren’t part of some of those big events?' Yes, Mark and how will it look for them and their corporate bedfellows when we show them up for the globalist exploiters their truly are?
Apathy, willful ignorance and abdication of responsibility are our enemies. Don't sit back while the ' Global Elite' and their lackies in the mainstream media distract us with faux news of false flag attacks, dumbed down entertainment and showbiz trivia. Let's use the Internet (while 'they' still allow us) to educate ourselves, coordinate our efforts and make a difference.
Take your cue from history and see that it happens in London.
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Can't say i have watched any Oil-limp-ics for decades. They are about as useless, outdated, politically corrupt and irrelevant as the UN.
Having been involved in amature boxing and seeing what "Olimpic" rules and Computer Scoring have turned that sport into. I'll pass.
Does anyone else remember the "If the US Wins, You Win!" promotion? In the US McDonalds gave away a Big Mac hamburger for each gold medal, an order of fries for a silver medal, and a Coke for a bronze? In 1984 it cost them millions more than they expected when someone was a no show.
I used to simply delete all the suggested fromage and ask that the Government Servant addressed should strip the Foundation of all Charitable status and make forigen foundations pay heavy fines for interfering in Canadian affairs.
I think they are onto me!
Actually I disagree with everything else on this letter and I'm using these people's naivete to tell you they are full of crap.
There has been no warming at all for 15 years and the Suzuki Foundation should be defunded and monitored as ecoterrorists.
Ignore the pleas to stop the pipeline, it's astroturf nonsense funded by foreigners.
And my name appears as 'Suzuki Isaliar'.
I like snowboarding, I watched that a few years back when we pretty well cleaned everyone's clock in the half pipe event.
Big surprise, we won in a sport that for the most part we invented.
Worked in a sports bar a number of years ago, not that I cared about it being a sports bar, I just needed the paycheck.
The biggest irritation to me then (as now) are all the lazy wannabe's or used to be's that flip out over the results of a sporting event claiming "we" won.
The team, or the competitor won. The sports fan sat on their ass and watched. They are not a part of the "we" that trained, worked, and succeeded in winning.
Good riddance to a nasty dishonest little man.
No doubt the Coalition will find some equally odious swine to take his place at the Ministry for Energy and Climate Change.
Despite this, I and Mrs Joker will be celebrating tonite with some opaque beverages.
Yes, I agree with you.
These people have no shame. They should be held accountable for all their actions. Although he still says he is innocent- what about the ludicrous waste of tax payers money?
This guy has foisted a ridiculous energy package on the unsuspecting UK populace,that will have dire consequences for the economy for years.
Unbelievable!
If you are not familiar, ITN is the independant TV News Service, unlike the BBC it is not quite as liberal left and biased towards the Global Warming religeon.
ITN's Special Reports are quite damning and hard hitting, it could be quite an interesting watch, also, more evidence of the tide turning against the eco loonies.
Lets hope they give a more balanced look at it than the one-sided BBC crapathon.
Oh -Ed Davy the employment minister is taking over the post.
Have a great Friday. From freezing cold Denmark. I am sitting with 3 jumpers and a scarf plus thermal underwear and still cold -12 centigrade outside. I long for some globull warming in this country. If only we were a little closer to the sun!
Been meaning to chat for some time.
I spent a lot of time in Denmark in the 1980s when I worked for DFDS Seaways, usually in the spring/summer/autumn, never experienced a winter there though but had some great times, spent a lot of time in Sweden and Norway too, went up to the Arctic Circle one winter, spectacular.
Yep, I saw, Ed Davey is in the job.
Huhne is our very own Al Gore, his property portfolio is quite extensive and he has a carbon footprint the size of Wales, this is the man who has landed us with the highest energy bills in Europe.
Right now I wager he is consoling himself with a gin bottle in one of his dozen or so mansions.
Yep, do as I say, not as I do.
Don't you just luurrve it?
Have a good weekend, I might get myself some Danish beer this afternoon from our local store and think back to old times in Scandinavia.
This is so very typical of the limousine liberals (progressives).
I have not watched the olympics since 1976, except for the "Miracle on Ice" in 1980.
I'm still groaning.
A lotta more groaning to go.
I hate the Olympics, not the athletes, I admire them, especially the British ones who support and fund themselves with no help from government etc, unlike the rest of the sodding world, where sport is a national industry.
Groan.
Two weeks holiday beckons come summer.
The English are a slightly happier nation today, what was really weird was how arrogant Huhne was right up until the last hour, he seemed convinced he was not going to be charged, on the news Thursday evening he was positively euphoric.
Probably on his eigth bottle of Gin by now in any one of a dozen of his properties.
I love it when someone like that gets what is coming.
Ho Ho Ho what a day
I usually enjoy your submissions, and get a lot from them, but I reckon you have jumped the shark with this one.
Yes, the Olympic committee is just another club of boondogglers with their snouts in the trough, and pretty much the only winners, aside from the medal winners, are the corporations that sponsor the events.
I just don't see that this is as significant, or even relevant to, the greatest scam ever perpetrated on mankind - ACC.
Who's effin' on the take from energy companies???? These hypocritical bast*rds have the nerve to accuse deniers of being in the pay of industry????
Dare one of them ever mention of funding again.
This is the same amount of money that exxon secrets says Exxon paid to 'discredit' globull warming.
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