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  • #76
    Originally posted by Drake Tungsten View Post
    Why are you blaming Canada? Calgary held the best Winter Olympics ever...


    First Winter Olympics to turn a profit, first Olympics to streamline media with the single International Broadcast Centre, first Olympics to have an indoor speed skating oval...the Calgary Olympic Oval is still host to 17 of the 32(?) world records for speedskating. We even have functioning Zambonis. And no one was killed on our luge track.



    Plus the finest Winter Olympians to ever compete graced those games:
    Eddie the Eagle:


    The Jamaican Bobsled Team:
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    • #77
      You do have to admit that the rest of Canada doesn't know how to host an Olympics, though. Montreal was a ****ing disaster and Vancouver seems to be turning out the same way.
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      • #78
        Vancouver and Montreal both have tremendous track records of failure. At least Montreal had a winning hockey team at one point.

        Vancouver has never won anything of importance. After they won the bid for the games, their luck had run out. They're lucky they could open the front doors to the stadium for the opening ceremonies..
        "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
        Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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        • #79
          Asher - Can you just imagine the cluster**** that would occur if TO were ever awarded the games?

          It would be an epic disaster.
          "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
          "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

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          • #80
            Originally posted by Wezil View Post
            Asher - Can you just imagine the cluster**** that would occur if TO were ever awarded the games?

            It would be an epic disaster.
            Yeah, it'd be even worse than Vancouver & Montreal. Even the PanAm games are inching towards disaster territory, and they're much, much smaller and no one even cares about them. And it's 5 years away.
            "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
            Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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            • #81
              88-89 was terrific for Calgary. Spectacular hosting of the Olympics, followed up by a Stanley Cup Victory...over Montreal, in Montreal.
              "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
              Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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              • #82
                Did anyone figure out what the protesters were protesting? I'm still confused...
                I'm consitently stupid- Japher
                I think that opinion in the United States is decidedly different from the rest of the world because we have a free press -- by free, I mean a virgorously presented right wing point of view on the air and available to all.- Ned

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                • #83
                  Originally posted by Theben View Post
                  Did anyone figure out what the protesters were protesting? I'm still confused...
                  Cost overruns/ want to bash stuff/ poverty/eco-something-or-other/globalization/Desire for free weed/ capitalism/sports elitism/ desire to be on TV/generally angry or bored

                  I think that list covers most of their reasons. If the protesters figure out any other motivations I am sure they will shout it the next time they break something you know-- oppressive-- like a newspaper vending machine or the boxes that contain the free alternative papers
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                  • #84
                    Originally posted by Theben View Post
                    Did anyone figure out what the protesters were protesting? I'm still confused...

                    Originally posted by notyoueither View Post
                    http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/...438/story.html
                    The rally was organized by the Olympics Resistance Network to protest capitalism and "aimed to disturb 'business as unusual' on the first day of the Games," according to a news release.
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                    • #85
                      The ORN "About Us" web page devotes more text to defending indigenous land rights than to nebulous opposition to capitalism or 'business as usual', whatever that means.

                      They also have this curious page:

                      ORN Responds to Police Allegations of Undercover Cop

                      December 3, Vancouver Coast Salish Territories - According to reports by 24 hours news, on Monday Victoria Police chief Jamie Graham alleged that an undercover police officer was driving a bus organized by the Olympic Resistance Network to transport protesters to Victoria for an anti-Olympic Torch Relay protest on October 30.

                      A little more research turned up this article in the Vancouver Sun:

                      Are police trying to infiltrate anti-Olympics groups?

                      The B.C. Civil Liberties Association believes it is possible such "agents provocateur" may be used by the Vancouver 2010 Integrated Security Unit and/or the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
                      But the proof of such activities is, like smoke, difficult to grab on to. What the BCCLA and others point to for evidence is the incident involving at least three undercover Sûreté du Québec police officers at the 2007 Montebello leaders summit, where one officer was photographed carrying a rock.

                      There is a history of Canadian police agent provocateurs. Couple years back, some 'anarchists' were photographed wearing identical footwear to the police who arrested them. That's quite the coincidence.

                      Police accused of using provocateurs at summit

                      Police confirm that only four protesters were arrested during the summit – two men and two women. All have been charged with obstruction and resisting arrest.

                      "But we see very clearly in that video three (other) men being arrested . . . How do (police) account for these three people being taken in, being arrested? Where did they go?" Singh said.

                      "I have no hesitation in saying they were police agents . . . and they were caught red-handed."
                      ...
                      Neither the RCMP nor the Surete du Quebec would comment on the video or even discuss generally whether they ever use the tactic of employing agents provocateurs.

                      Youtube of peaceful protesters confronting agent provocateurs.
                      Last edited by HalfLotus; February 17, 2010, 22:46.

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                      • #86
                        There is a history of Canadian police agent provocateurs. Couple years back, some 'anarchists' were photographed wearing identical footwear to the police who arrested them. That's quite the coincidence.




                        Yes, CAT workboots in Canadian winters are hilariously uncommon.

                        http://img.alibaba.com/photo/11115978/Cat_Work_Boots.jpg
                        "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                        Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                        • #87
                          Except it wasn't winter. The pictures were taken in the month of August.

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                          • #88
                            Oh holy ****. Are you ****ing serious with this ****?
                            "My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
                            "The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund Freud

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                            • #89
                              Originally posted by HalfLotus View Post
                              The ORN "About Us" web page devotes more text to defending indigenous land rights than to nebulous opposition to capitalism or 'business as usual', whatever that means.

                              I think the article is making the anti-capitalist link to the people who think showing up at major events and breaking things is a good idea.

                              Also, ORN uses the term anti-capitalist a lot.
                              We are working towards a global anti-capitalist and anti-colonial convergence against the Games from February 10th-15th 2010.
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                              • #90
                                Yeah they do embrace anti-capitalism, but still odd that the media reports don't mention the indigenous issue at all considering it is a major stated focus of their organization.

                                "Based on this call, our organizing as natives and non-natives alike is largely being done under the slogan of "No Olympics on Stolen Native Land".

                                Not a big deal, just really poor reporting imo. Bad reporting makes me curiouser.

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