This video from Canada shows how a police state is being set up for Vancouver’s 2010 Olympics.
The billion-dollar security operation being mounted in conjunction with the Winter Olympic Games will turn Vancouver, a metropolitan region of more than two million people, into a quasi-police state for the duration of the Games: here.
The Afghan war and the Winter Olympics: here.
Vancouver Winter Olympics: A festival of corporate greed: here.
London Assembly members have warned that the virtual privatisation of the capital’s 2012 Olympics site after the Games end will “risk isolating” some of Britain’s poorest communities.
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Vancouver Winter Olympics: A festival of corporate greed
By Roger Annis
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada — On February 12, 2010, the
corporate sporting behemoth known as the 21st Winter Olympic Games
opened to great fanfare here. In a time of economic hardship and
government cuts to social programs across Canada, huge sums of public
money have been spent to stage this uber spectacle.
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