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The Occult Nature of the Olympics Closing Ceremony
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2012-08-14T08:41:13.501Z
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<p><span class="headline">The Occult Nature of the Olympics Closing Ceremony <br></br></span> <span class="date">2012 08 13<br></br></span></p>
<p>By Ishtar Babilu Dingir | <a href="http://www.ishtarsgate.com/forum/showthread.php?3318-The-Occult-Nature-of-the-Olympics-Closing-Ceremony&p=17791#post17791">IshtarsGate.com</a></p>
<p>"Occult" just means "hidden" and so in…</p>
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<p><span class="headline">The Occult Nature of the Olympics Closing Ceremony <br/></span> <span class="date">2012 08 13<br/></span></p>
<p>By Ishtar Babilu Dingir | <a href="http://www.ishtarsgate.com/forum/showthread.php?3318-The-Occult-Nature-of-the-Olympics-Closing-Ceremony&p=17791#post17791">IshtarsGate.com</a></p>
<p>"Occult" just means "hidden" and so in itself, it is a neutral word. It is neither good nor evil. The outcome of any occult act lies in the intention of the performer of it. But as many are increasingly becoming aware, there has been a silent and subterranean occult war going on for some time across the world between various Freemasonic groups. <br/> <br/> While we’re watching surface events, others are working the geometries, archetypes, leyline energies and numbers underneath that which appears to be happening on the surface, and these underground factors engage a part of our brain of which we’re largely unconscious, which is why it’s called the unconscious mind. <br/> <br/> However, like the seven-eighths of the iceberg which lies under the water, our unconscious minds are more powerful than our conscious minds (the eighth of the iceberg above the water) in dictating the direction of our lives.<br/> <br/> It’s my belief that the main aim of all the psy-ops campaigns in recent months, about false flag attacks and possible ET invasions or Disclosure at the Olympics, has been to get us all to watch. They can’t programme our unconscious minds if we don’t watch what they put on our screens. So they needed us to be present and engaged ~ and I would say they’ve succeeded massively in drawing most of us in to be a part of their occult offering to the gods. <br/> <br/> Why do I believe that the London Olympic Games 2012 was an occult ritualistic ceremony to the gods? Well, partly because it always was.<br/> <br/> As Mike Williams wrote in his article <a href="http://www.ishtarsgate.com/forum/showthread.php?3281-The-Olympic-Spirit-How-the-Games-Began-as-a-Religious-Ceremony&p=17593#post17593" target="_blank">How the Olympic Games Began as a Religious Ceremony</a>, when the Olympics began, back in history, it was nothing to do with sport. The original Olympics were purely a ceremonial ritual dedicated to the gods of Olympus, and that hasn’t changed.<br/> <br/> The sporting bit of the Olympics was adopted much later on, and even today, it’s only an excuse, to add to the enchantment of the masses. The Games themselves are just a veneer to hide the real Zionist Game and that is to perform a magical ritual which is carried out by the use of certain symbols, numbers and geometrical shapes and various other forms of alchemy which programs the unconscious minds of those watching and engaging.<br/> <br/> <b>The Divine Marriage<br/></b> <br/> There was a lot of occult, alchemical symbology on display in the opening ceremony, and there are articles covering that in the Further Reading section below. But the main implant took place when the five rings became enflamed. This was to represent the spinning flaming wheels of the Old Testament prophet Elijah’s chariot as he ascended to Heaven.</p>
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<p><span class="text5"><span class="text5"><br/> <br/> As the Game was broadcast all over the world, the programming continued with the original implant of the opening ceremony being constantly reinforced by the regular flashing up on our screens of the five rings, and Vangelis’s <i>Chariots of Fire</i> playing in the background. <br/> <br/> The athletes are awarded miniature versions of these wheels in the form of medals, the unconscious implication being that winning the Olympics will get than an audience with the gods of Olympus, just like Elijah. <br/> <br/> But then like all occult ceremonies which have to be closed down when the aim has been achieved, we had last night’s closing ritual.<br/> <br/> The day before, organiser Kim Gavin had said:<br/> <br/> "If the opening ceremony was the wedding, tonight will be the ’disco after the marriage.’"<br/> <br/> Whether Gavin realised it or not, this was an allusion to the Divine Marriage, or Alchemical Marriage, a rite once practised by Rosicrucians and nowadays by Freemasons, and based on the text <i>The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz</i>. <br/> <br/> The Divine Wedding is a metaphor for the most important stage in an alchemical process, known as a conjunction, which is a conjoining (or joining) of two substances to form a new substance with its own characteristics. This new substance is known as the Child of the Conjunction, or the Philosopher’s Stone. The Philosopher’s Stone is said to turn base metal into gold, and to offer the boon of immortality. <br/> <br/> And so now that the aim of the creating the Philosopher’s Stone had been achieved, the ceremony needed to be closed down with thanks, gratitude and celebration. <br/> <br/> <b>The Alchemy of the Closing Ceremony</b><br/> <br/> It was an amazing show ~ as you would expect from something designed to fully engage the audience ~ and there were some brilliant performances (my favourites were Russell Brand as The Egg Man and Annie Lennox ). It was wonderful to see people having such a great time, especially the athletes and volunteers who deserved a great party after all their hard work.<br/> <br/> However, underlying the show and the party, and unbeknown to most of those taking part, it was a Freemasonic closing ritual. <br/> <br/> At the beginning, the struts of the London Eye which provided the backdrop for most of the activities of the first hour were set in the position of the saltire cross of the Scottish Rite of Freemasons. I’ve written extensively elsewhere about the deeper meaning and history of the saltire cross, but in a nutshell for now, it is about death and resurrection.<br/> <br/> One of the highights featured a stepped pyramid created out of 303 white boxes to Kate Bush’s <i>Running Up That Hill</i>, and when the song got to, "If I could make a deal with God" all the dancers were in full prostration on the floor. <br/> <br/> In numerology, the O counts for zero, so in other words, the white boxes making up the pyramid represented the number 33, the most significant number for any Freemasonic ritual and the highest order that can be achieved.<br/> <br/> The main numbers being used in the closing ceremony were 4, 7 and 27 ~ again all highly significant Freemason numbers (for instance, 40 members of Stomp, 400 lbs gold went into making all the gold medals, 270 singing schoolchidren, 70,000 volunteers etc.)<br/> <br/> The classic masonic black-and-white chequered floor was flashed up, dozens of times, on the screen behind one of the performing bands, as a background to an Olympic medal in the foreground. <br/> <br/> And then, at the end, the ultimate Freemasonic symbol of all, the phoenix rising from the ashes, to the sung words of "...we can rule the world" by Take That and the backdrop turning into the image of the famous masonic compasses and <b>ruler.</b> <br/> <br/> <i>Yeah, you and me we can ride on a star <br/> If you stay with me, girl, we can <b>rule</b> the world <br/> Yeah, you and me we can light up the sky <br/> If you stay by my side, we can <b>rule</b> the world</i><br/> <br/> <br/></span></span></p>
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<p><span class="text5"><br/> <br/> <br/> In any occult closing ritual, the last action performed is the dowsing of the flame of the candle. In this case, it was the putting out of the torch or cauldron.<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> This article is being discussed <a href="http://www.ishtarsgate.com/forum/showthread.php?3318-The-Occult-Nature-of-the-Olympics-Closing-Ceremony&p=17791#post17791" target="_blank">here</a> on Ishtar Babilu Dingir’s forum, Ishtar’s Gate.</span></p>
Post Games UK: full-blown police state
tag:12160.info,2012-08-14:2649739:Topic:950181
2012-08-14T05:20:27.234Z
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<p>London that is widely known as a perfect example of surveillance society with its watchful CCTVs, is now a perfect example of a police state after the massive Olympics militarization, a fact even organizers implicitly…</p>
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<p>London that is widely known as a perfect example of surveillance society with its watchful CCTVs, is now a perfect example of a police state after the massive Olympics militarization, a fact even organizers implicitly acknowledge.</p>
<p>Organizers decided earlier this year to dress the official mascot for the 2012 Olympics in London, where the security and surveillance cordon are nicknamed the Ring of Steel, in a Metropolitan police outfit.</p>
London Olympics an 'Economic Failure'
tag:12160.info,2012-08-06:2649739:Topic:941647
2012-08-06T12:01:34.716Z
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<p>London Olympics may seem to have failed. However, it depends on what you set as the goal. The official and the real goals are not at all the same thing. The Olympics succeeded in increasing the British national debt, the real goal.</p>
<p>Research group Experian said the Olympics appear to have <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/48481081" target="_blank">adversely affected</a> the number of people visiting shops in West London, with decreases week-on-week and year-on-year of 11.65 percent and…</p>
<p>London Olympics may seem to have failed. However, it depends on what you set as the goal. The official and the real goals are not at all the same thing. The Olympics succeeded in increasing the British national debt, the real goal.</p>
<p>Research group Experian said the Olympics appear to have <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/48481081" target="_blank">adversely affected</a> the number of people visiting shops in West London, with decreases week-on-week and year-on-year of 11.65 percent and 12.40 percent respectively on the first Saturday of the Games.</p>
<p>On the first Sunday however, visitors numbers were up marginally.</p>
<p>"The Olympics are an economic failure as London is totally empty: hotels, restaurants, streets," Roubini tweeted. "It turns out London is totally empty. A zombie city."</p>
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<p><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/london-olympics-economic-failure-roubini-093903718.html">http://finance.yahoo.com/news/london-olympics-economic-failure-roubini-093903718.html</a></p>
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Olympics fans find ways to circumvent NBC's online control
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2012-07-31T13:31:29.312Z
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<div id="articleInfo"><p class="byline">By <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=us&n=liana.baker&">Liana B. Baker</a> and <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=us&n=yinka.adegoke&">Yinka Adegoke</a></p>
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<p>(Reuters) - It took Jason Legate, a Walnut Creek, California-resident, all of 10 minutes to connect his computer to a London-based server and access BBC's coverage of the <a href="http://www.reuters.com/london-olympics-2012" title="Full coverage of the 2012 Summer Olympics">Olympics</a> Saturday, thereby circumventing NBC's lock on coverage in the United States.</p>
<p>The 31-year-old system administrator said he has watched at least 12 hours of live BBC coverage (his favorite sport so far - judo) since he set up a virtual private network (VPN) connection to send all his Internet traffic to a server in London.</p>
<p>Legate is one of many viewers who, turned off by NBC's ironclad control of access to Olympics coverage in the United States and spotty online streaming, has resorted to a workaround--sometimes legal, sometimes not--to watch the Games when and how they want on feeds from countries such as the UK and Canada.</p>
<p>NBC, which spent $1.18 billion for the rights to broadcast the Olympics on the Internet and on television in the United States, has made it impossible for people without a pricey cable or satellite subscription to watch the Olympics live in the United States. Viewers can receive a complimentary four hours of live content with a temporary pass.</p>
<p>Only those customers who are first "authenticated" as paying cable or satellite subscribers have access to live streaming of every Olympic event, a move that has led to a explosion of anger at the network on Twitter under the unofficial "#NBCfail" hashtag.</p>
<p>Other complaints included NBC streaming that didn't work and the network bombarded viewers had too much advertising.</p>
<p>For its regular network coverage, NBC, which is owned by cable giant Comcast Corp, has tape-delayed some of the most popular sports for the U.S. prime-time audience, meaning they air nearly five to six hours after they have happened.</p>
<p>This helps NBC maximize its return-on-investment by saving the top events for the largest audience and thereby the biggest advertising pay-off. But it has also led to event spoilers and criticism that the network was putting the interests of its business over those of its viewers.</p>
<p>The tape delay and some glitches in the coverage fueled wider criticism of NBC. But NBC spokesman Chris McCloskey, who declined to comment on the matter, pointed to the 7 million live streams, which was a record on the first day of competition. The company is making every event available live online -- except the opening and closing ceremonies.</p>
<p>Enter a small but vocal group of tech savvy Olympics fans who are finding new ways to watch the world's biggest sports event away from their TV sets.</p>
<p>These fans use techniques that make it seem like their computers are located outside the United States, giving them access to streaming access to the Games held by companies other than NBC in countries such as Canada or the UK. Think of it as a sporting version of how Internet users in<a href="http://www.reuters.com/places/china" title="Full coverage of China">China</a> access banned websites by routing traffic through servers in Hong Kong in order to fool government censors.</p>
<p>"Because all of my Internet traffic looks like it's coming from that box in England, the BBC thinks I'm located in England," Legate said of the workaround he utilizes.</p>
<p>Like NBC in the United States, the BBC's Olympic rights only allow it to show the games to users in the UK. For example, when from the United States to watch a BBC or CTV stream for example they are greeted with various messages telling them that they don't have access.</p>
<p>Legate still pays for cable service through his local provider Astound, but said he decided to boycott NBC after he was unable to find a live broadcast of the opening ceremonies last Friday. He was also miffed by comments made by an NBC spokesman to the LA Times on Friday about the opening ceremony not translating well online because it is "complex" and requires context for a U.S. audience.</p>
<p>"To me, it just felt like they were insulting everyone so I basically decided to boycott NBC for the duration of the games, which meant I had to find an alternative," he said.</p>
<p>Legate said he has set up the same connection for a friend who wanted to watch dressage, an equestrian event that she could not find on NBC.</p>
<p>People who are finding ways to circumvent NBC's restrictions seem to be spreading the word to friends, like New York City journalist Kate Gardiner, who sent out a public service announcement message on Twitter last weekend to urge her followers to use a service called TunnelBear.</p>
<p>The 26-year-old has been using the service to keep up with live swimming broadcasts even though she does not own a television.</p>
<p><span>TunnelBear is a VPN service that sends a user's Internet connection to....<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/31/net-us-olympics-tech-workaround-idUSBRE86U02R20120731" target="_blank">REST 'O THE STORY</a></span></p>
The Nazi Origins Of The Olympic Torch Relay
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2012-07-28T13:58:48.349Z
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<p><span class="headline">The Nazi Origins of the Olympic Torch Relay<br></br></span> <span class="date">2012 07 27<br></br></span></p>
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<p><span class="headline">The Nazi Origins of the Olympic Torch Relay<br/></span> <span class="date">2012 07 27<br/></span></p>
<p>By Martin Rogers | <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/news/olympics--torch-relay-nazi-adolf-hitler-london-berlin-ancient-greece-flame-.html">Yahoo Sports</a></p>
<p><br/> When the most famous flame in sports winds its way through the streets of London before entering the Olympic Stadium and providing the 2012 Games with one of its most iconic images, it will be seen as a touching gesture of symbolism, grace and a nod to the ancient world.<br/> <br/> Yet while the torch relay began once again at the historic site of Olympia on May 10 and is an integral part of any Games, its modern incarnation comes laced with sinister undertones that can be traced back to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party and the controversial 1936 Olympics in Berlin.</p>
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<p><span class="text5"><br/> <br/> Many of those witnessing the final journey of the flame July 27 will have little idea that its origins do not lie in ancient Greece, and was instead formulated as a major part of the Nazis’ plot to shift international opinion in their favor.<br/> <br/> "There had been no such torch relays in the ancient Games or, for that matter, in any of the 10 modern Summer Olympics preceding the Berlin Games," wrote renowned author David Clay Large in his outstanding book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Games-The-Olympics-1936/dp/0393058840" target="_blank">"Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936,"</a> which was published in 2007. "The torch relay was one of but many ways in which the Nazi Games helped define the modern Olympic experience as we know it today."<br/> <br/> <br/> The torch relay would play a major role in the propaganda offensive backed by Hitler and orchestrated by Dr. Joseph Goebbels. In the lead-up to the Games, the Nazi Propaganda Ministry supported a relay of the Olympic flame that would not only provide spectacular footage for Olympia, the 1938 film that was used to promote the Nazi ideal ahead of World War II, but could also be used for significant political and public relations benefit.<br/> <br/> The ancient Greeks had run relay races that involved flames as part of their worship to the Gods, but there had been no such symbolism in the modern Games. There had been a flame at Amsterdam in 1928 and Los Angeles in 1932, but it did not come from Olympia and there was no relay.<br/> <br/> Yet ahead of Berlin, the Nazis wasted no opportunity to ensure the flame’s journey was used to promote the party ethos. At the lighting ceremony in Greece, a German ambassador dedicated the torch to Hitler himself, while a band played the marching song of the Sturmabteilung, the Nazi Party army, according to Large.<br/> <br/> "The Nazis used the Olympics to give the German public an exaggerated sense of national superiority that later was used in the service of military aggression," said Dr. Rafael Medoff, director of Holocaust Studies at the David S. Wyman Institute in Washington D.C. "The games also gave Hitler a way to soften his public image in order to allay the international community’s concerns about his bigotry, violence and militarism."<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda chief, carefully orchestrated coverage of the torch’s journey toward Berlin, which stretched through the Sudetenland, the region of Western Czechoslovakia that Germany wished to, and eventually would, annex.<br/> <br/> Organization of the relay was left to Carl Diem, a leading German sports administrator and chief organizer of the Berlin Games who willed his extraordinary collection of memorabilia to a trust when he died in 1962. Yet Diem himself had a mixed past. He was a strong administrator and promoter of sports, and was not a Party member. Indeed, his wife’s Jewish heritage led to him being regarded with suspicion by some Nazi higher-ups.<br/> <br/> However, toward the end of the war he gave an impassioned speech exhorting young German soldiers to fight until the death even as the full force of the Allied machine closed in.<br/> <br/> Walter Borgers, director of the Carl and Lies Diem Archive, spoke of Diem’s passionate belief in the torch relay.<br/> <br/> "He saw this as his life’s work," Borgers said. "He decided to make the relay part of the ceremony. It was the best advertising campaign of all time."<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> Diem and film director Leni Riefenstahl created much of the vision, but it was wholeheartedly embraced by Hitler and the Nazis. On the last part of the relay through Germany, only blue-eyed blond males were selected and the torch led Hitler and other senior party members into the Olympic stadium.<br/> <br/> The imagery was powerful and the PR spin was, sadly, effective in persuading many observers that the Nazi regime was strong, but not brutal.<br/> <br/> "To a significant extent, these Nazi deceptions worked," Medoff said. "The New York Times reported to its readers that the Germans displayed ’good will’ and ’flawless hospitality.’ The Associated Press predicted that the games would help ’assure peace’ in Europe."<br/> <br/> The truth of course, was very different and within three years the entire continent was at war. Yet when hostilities finally ceased and the Games restarted in London in 1948, the torch relay was considered an element worth keeping.<br/> <br/> Over the past 10 weeks, about 8,000 people will have carried the torch through 1,019 cities, towns and villages en route to London. How many know of the relay’s murky origin is anyone’s guess. <br/> <br/> <br/> Article from: <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/news/olympics--torch-relay-nazi-adolf-hitler-london-berlin-ancient-greece-flame-.html" target="_blank">sports.yahoo.com</a></span></p>
London officials threaten to erase Banksy’s ‘Olympic’ street art (with poll)
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2012-07-28T13:56:52.154Z
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<div class="imagetext"><h1 id="photocaption">London officials threaten to erase Banksy's Olympic themed street art</h1>
<h2 id="photocredit"><b>Photograph by:</b> Banksy , Screengrab</h2>
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<div id="page1"><p>Banksy gets his Olympic spirit on with two new pieces of street art. Unfortunately, London officials are threatening to erase them.</p>
<p>Known for his irreverent graffiti, Banksy's two Olympic theme artworks feature a pole-vaulter and another one depicting an athlete throwing a missile instead of a javelin. However, London officials have placed a ban on street artists and their works, according to The Guardian.</p>
<p>"This attack on one of contemporary London's most renowned traditions reveals how deeply uncomfortable the cultural relationship between this city and the Olympics really is," writes Jonathan Jones in The Guardian. "An event that is all about massive finance, colossal scale, hyper-organisation and culture delivered from above is being superimposed on a capital that happens to be best at improvisation, dirty realism, punk aesthetics and low art. It's like Versailles versus the sans-culottes. And this time Versailles is determined to win."</p>
<p>What do you think, will erasing London's street art change the city's identity for the better or worse?</p>
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The Social-Media Olympics: Are Officials Restricting Free Speech?
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2012-07-28T13:49:39.220Z
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<h1 class="entry-title">The Social-Media Olympics: Are Officials Restricting Free Speech?</h1>
<div class="entry-deck">Social-media gaffes are costing Olympians dearly. But should they have more leeway to express themselves?</div>
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<h1 class="entry-title">The Social-Media Olympics: Are Officials Restricting Free Speech?</h1>
<div class="entry-deck">Social-media gaffes are costing Olympians dearly. But should they have more leeway to express themselves?</div>
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<div class="fb-friction-less-login"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="http://olympics.time.com/contributor/sean-gregory-london/" title="View all posts by Sean Gregory / London">Sean Gregory / London</a></span> <span class="meta-sep">|</span> <span class="entry-date"><abbr class="published" title="2012-07-26T17:40:53-0400">July 26, 2012</abbr></span> <span class="login-msg"><br/></span></div>
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<div class="entry-thumb-description">Swimming Australia has ordered Olympic swimmers Nick D'Arcy, left, and Kenrick Monk to return home after their events after a picture of them posing with guns was posted on Facebook</div>
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<p>Olympic athletes might want to treat social media like fatty foods, excessive late-night frivolity before their competitions and steroids.</p>
<p>Stay away.</p>
<p>Twitter has already gotten one athlete booted from the Olympics. A triple jumper from <a href="http://topics.time.com/greece/">Greece</a>, Paraskevi Papachristou, wrote a tweet on Sunday, and the Hellenic Olympic Committee is prohibiting her from participating in the Games. In response to reports that mosquitoes are carrying the West Nile virus in her country, Papachristou wrote: “With so many Africans in Greece, the West Nile mosquitoes will be getting home food.” Papachristou has also written missives supporting a far-right political party in Greece, Golden Dawn. “We are not here just to get medals, but to promote the Olympic ideals, to show our character,” Isidoros Kouvelos, head of the Greek Olympic mission, <a href="http://m.sltrib.com/sltrib/mobile2/54557985-218/olympic-papachristou-greece-committee.html.csp">told</a> Skai TV in explaining the expulsion. Papachristou <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/26/london-2012-greek-athletes-racism?newsfeed=true">apologized</a>.</p>
<p>Papachristou’s punishment seems reasonable: her words were stupid and horribly insensitive. But are Olympic officials too sensitive to free speech? During the Games, the Greek Olympic governing body has now banned its athletes from posting and tweeting personal opinions not related to the Olympics. But why should all Greek athletes be restricted from expressing themselves because of one transgression? Shouldn’t governing bodies trust their athletes? Here, the organization is playing the role of chaperone, telling its kids what they can and cannot do at the big party.</p>
<p>(<strong>MORE:</strong> <a href="http://olympics.time.com/2012/07/26/target-practice-how-the-u-s-became-an-archery-power/?iid=op-main-feature">Target Practice: How the U.S. Became an Archery Power</a>)</p>
<p>In <a href="http://topics.time.com/australia/">Australia</a>, a decision to penalize a pair of swimmers for their social-media behavior has ignited a national debate. Last month Nick D’Arcy, who races in the 200-m butterfly, and Kenrick Monk, a freestyle swimmer, wielded weapons while posing for a <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/olympics/swimming-london-2012/darcy-and-monk-fire-up-swimming-australia-with-gun-photo-20120607-1zyj0.html">picture</a> in a California gun shop after a meet. They posted the photo on <a href="http://topics.time.com/facebook/">Facebook</a>; it sparked outrage. “I now have concerns regarding your lack of judgment,” Nick Green, chef de mission for the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC), <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-2156796/London-2012-Olympics-Nick-DArcy-Kenrick-Monk-sent-home-early.html">wrote</a> in a letter that was also published on the AOC’s website.</p>
<p>A spokesman for an Australian gun-control group told the <em>Daily Herald</em> that Monk was holding the same guns used by the man who killed 35 people in Port Arthur, Australia, in 1996. Though the picture was taken well before the July 2o shooting in Aurora, Colo., that killed 12 people and injured dozens more, in the wake of that tragedy it is particularly cringe-worthy.</p>
<p>Plus, both athletes aren’t choir boys. D’Arcy was left off the Beijing Olympic team, and 2009 World Championship team, for assaulting a fellow Australian swimmer in a 2008 incident. He pleaded guilty to recklessly causing grievous bodily harm; his 14-month jail sentence was suspended. In 2011, Monk told cops a hit-and-run incident left him with a broken elbow. He later admitted to lying to the police. Monk fell off his skateboard.</p>
<p>After the gun photo went viral, Green allowed D’Arcy and Monk to keep their spots on the Olympic team. However, the AOC banned D’Arcy and Monk from using social media during the Olympics. Green also ordered the pair to fly home immediately after their races. But what, exactly, does that penalty accomplish? All swimming races end on Aug. 4, the midpoint of the Games. Traditionally, athletes are able to unwind a little — or a lot — after their competitions end. The AOC is essentially waving its finger at D’Arcy, 25, and Monk, 24, like an angry parent.</p>
<p>Still, many Australians support the Olympic committee’s decision. “People will not be applauding if D’Arcy is on the medal stand,” says Clinton Maynard, an Australian radio reporter who is in London covering the Olympics. His fellow radio reporter, Murray Olds, has a different take. Olds calls people who support the postrace banishment for the swimmers “bloody idiots.” (Olds also used a more profane adjective.)</p>
<p>“Please,” Olds says. “Guess what — in America, gun shops exist, sadly. Come on, it’s just silly.” Both D’Arcy and Monk, who were not made available to comment in London, have <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/gun-toting-swim-stars-nick-darcy-and-kenrick-monk-apologise/story-e6frg7mf-1226388646969">apologized</a> for the picture. “It was just a bit of fun, a bit of bonding with the boys,” Monk said in an <a href="http://www.news.com.au/sport/london-olympics/swimmer-kenrick-monk-queries-harsh-penalty-for-gun-photo-saga-with-nick-darcy/story-fndpu6dv-1226431220819">interview</a> with an Australian news site last week. “There was nothing to it and we meant nothing by it.” The AOC did not return a call seeking comment.</p>
<p>With over 10,000 athletes at the Olympics, and many of them as obsessed with social media as you or I, we may see more social-media scandals. So athletes: please use common sense. And officials: maybe ease up a bit.</p>
<p><strong>MORE: </strong><a href="http://olympics.time.com/2012/07/26/diving-the-new-sport-for-wunderkinds/?iid=op-main-lede2">Diving — the New Sport for Wunderkinds</a></p>
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Queen Checks Her Nails As Great Britain Team Enters Opening Ceremony
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2012-07-28T13:45:56.158Z
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<p><span class="font-size-1"><em><strong>Queen Elizabeth II had a distraction while members of the Great Britain team entered during the opening ceremonies.- <span class="ppy-text">Courtesy of…</span></strong></em></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-1"><em><strong>Queen Elizabeth II had a distraction while members of the Great Britain team entered during the opening ceremonies.- <span class="ppy-text">Courtesy of @IamRichGlazzard</span></strong></em></span></p>
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<p class="firstParagraph">The crowd at Olympic Stadium in London waited in anticipation as delegations from 205 countries entered before <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Great+Britain" title="More news, photos about Great Britain">Great Britain</a>'s.</p>
<p class="inside-copy">But when the time came for the host nation to march, one observer had something else on her mind.</p>
<p class="inside-copy"><a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/People/Politicians,+Government+Officials,+Strategists/World+Leaders/Queen+Elizabeth+II" title="More news, photos about Queen Elizabeth II of England">Queen Elizabeth II of England</a> was shown on the broadcast picking her nails as the delegation of the host country took the field last among the parade of nations as is the custom during the opening ceremony of the Olympics.</p>
<p class="inside-copy">Yet, NBC's Matt Lauer said that the queen was "cheering wildly."</p>
<p class="inside-copy">The 86-year-old monarch was sitting next to International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge and her husband, <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Prince+Philip" title="More news, photos about Prince Philip">Prince Philip</a>, at the time of her distraction.</p>
<p>In a comedic entrance to the stadium before the athletes marched, she appeared in a video that showed her with actor <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/People/Celebrities/Actors,+Agents/Daniel+Craig" title="More news, photos about Daniel Craig">Daniel Craig</a>, the most-recent star of the <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/People/Fictional+Characters/James+Bond" title="More news, photos about James Bond">James Bond</a>movies</p>
<p class="inside-copy">She later declared the <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Events+and+Awards/Sports/Olympic+Games" title="More news, photos about Olympic Games">Olympic Games</a> open.</p>
Disney's cartoon shows olympic nuclear attack
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2012-07-27T16:51:52.009Z
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President of Israel, Peres, cancels trip to London Olympics
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2012-07-27T06:11:05.657Z
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<div class="body"><p>President Shimon Peres on Tuesday cancelled his trip to London for the opening of the Olympic Games.</p>
<p>The cancellation is not related to the International Olympic Committee's refusal to have a minute's silence in memory of the eleven Israeli athletes who were murdered by Palestinian terrorists during the 1972 Olympics in Munich.</p>
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<p>Rather it is to do with the upholding of religious Jewish practice.</p>
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<div class="body"><p>President Shimon Peres on Tuesday cancelled his trip to London for the opening of the Olympic Games.</p>
<p>The cancellation is not related to the International Olympic Committee's refusal to have a minute's silence in memory of the eleven Israeli athletes who were murdered by Palestinian terrorists during the 1972 Olympics in Munich.</p>
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<p>Rather it is to do with the upholding of religious Jewish practice.</p>
<p>The opening ceremony of the London Olympics will take place on a Friday evening. There are no hotels within walking distance of the stadium. Peres, who is a good walker, would not have mind walking the extra mile if there was a hotel at the end of it – but there isn't, aside from which it would place a most unenviable burden on his security detail.</p>
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