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Lenskyj's "Olympic Industry Resistance: Challenging Olympic Power and Propaganda" tells more. She explains uncritical scoundrel media coverage, especially the unprincipled bidding process, host city preparations, and promotional materials concealing Olympism reality.
Fundamental rights and freedoms are denied to ready venues for scheduled events. Protests are criminalized. Repressive tactics are used. Abuse is commonplace and extreme. So is out-of-control corruption, exploitation, and profiteering.
Corporate propaganda is exposed. So are educational materials designed to indoctrinate kids into the "Olympic family." It's to secure ready future audiences. Children are even used in promotional materials as good will bidding and hosting ambassadors. Power brokers spare nothing for self-aggradizement and big bucks.
Olympism is big business. The London summer games is billed as perhaps the city's biggest ever spectacle. It's expected to gross about 10 billion pounds (about $16 billion dollars). Tourists are expected to spend another $3 billion or more.
Security will cost over $2 billion. Total costs will top $30 billion. Brits, of course, will pay the tab. They get the bill, not the profits. This in a city with nearly one-fourth of the population impoverished. In some areas, child poverty approaches 50%. Conditions are getting worse, not better.
Homelessness is increasing. Kids are starving on streets. They'll be swept out of sight before the games begin. Elitism, luxury, and over-indulgence will be featured.
Protests will be dealt with harshly. Suppressing them is prioritized. Encampment-type ones close to venues are banned. Forcible removals are planned. Power brokers and profiteers demand it. So do media scoundrels wanting viewers to see illusions, not reality.
Billions have been spent constructing venues, an 80,000 seat stadium, infrastructure, luxury hotels, other accommodations, Olympic Park, acquiring land, and more. Nothing's spared except people needs neglected to create London's biggest ever extravaganza.
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