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BBC Olympics Holocaust Eugenics Coverage Excludes The Disabled
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2012-08-15T09:56:47.742Z
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<p><span class="headline">Holocaust Eugenics Coverage Excludes the Disabled<br></br></span> <span class="date">2012 08 14<br></br></span></p>
<p>By Nicky Clark | …<a href="http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/10/holocaust-eugenics-coverage-shouldnt-exclude-disabled-people/"></a></p>
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<p><span class="headline">Holocaust Eugenics Coverage Excludes the Disabled<br/></span> <span class="date">2012 08 14<br/></span></p>
<p>By Nicky Clark | <a href="http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/10/holocaust-eugenics-coverage-shouldnt-exclude-disabled-people/"></a><a href="http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/10/holocaust-eugenics-coverage-shouldnt-exclude-disabled-people/">http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/10/holocaust-eugenics-coverage-shouldnt-exclude-disabled-people/</a></p>
<p>Last night, as part of the BBC’s fantastic Olympic coverage, a short documentary was shown on nature versus nurture and the triumph of black athletes in the face of racism and oppression, competing in the men’s 100 metres for the past 100 years.<br/> <br/> I’d missed the beginning but tweeted about eugenics and the abhorrent practices of this philosophy. It was touted as science and the origins of the T4 Euthanasia project began as a way of cleansing German society of “undesirable” disabled German children. Most shocking to me is that the killing began after the parents of a severely disabled boy had written to Hitler seeking permission to kill their “defective” son and he had agreed.<br/> <br/> Then I started receiving tweets from those who hadn’t missed the start of the film but who were shocked that this part of disability history had been overlooked.<br/> <br/> I was able to see the film in its entirety on iPlayer. I was deeply moved by the beauty of the film, by the celebration of the athletes who struggled and who triumphed against unbelievable odds of discrimination.<br/> <br/> Unbelievably to me though, in the section of the documentary detailing the atrocities of the Nazi Eugenics regime, disabled people had been excluded from mention. The list rightly detailed Roma, the ‘promiscuous’, gay people, communists and Jewish people but the hundreds of thousands of disabled men women and children were ignored.<br/> <br/> This is the BBC. They have at their disposal archives and resources far in excess of mine however this untold and shameful aspect of the Holocaust isn’t often spoken about. There was no one to speak out for disabled people when their extermination was permitted, but this should make us more determined that their murders should never be forgotten, because it is from the secret legacy of the past that we gain a glimpse of the future.<br/> <br/> As the Nazi stranglehold on Germany rolled forward, on the 14th of July 1933 the Law for the prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases made sterilization of disabled people compulsory.<br/> <br/> <img src="http://www.redicecreations.com/ul_img/21194disabled_smaller.jpg" align="left"/>The Nazis so enamoured by their myth of racial purity were also terrified by the notion that disabled people were thriving and would eventually dominate, thereby “polluting” the gene pool and exterminating their myth of perfection. Using Social Darwinism in its most sickening form they began to murder disabled children by lethal injection. This was a slow process, so they perfected a method of gassing children and the mobile gas vans began rolling up to the institutions and sanatoriums special schools and clinics. Parents whose disabled children lived at home were lied to. They were told their children were going to receive dedicated treatment to help them.<br/> <br/> Estimates suggest that 5000 disabled children were murdered in total.<br/> <br/> Later doctors and midwives were instructed that all new disabled babies had to be registered. With a tick chart doctors would decide which babies would live and which would die. This was expanded to adults and encompassed those considered to be “feebleminded”. Originally meant to describe mental illness the criteria was further expanded.<br/> <br/> Some records show that more than 200,000 disabled people were murdered in the Holocaust but the official record keeping halted when Hitler ended the programme after it became more widely known and objected to. However the killings continued in secret.<br/> <br/> There is however one notorious hospital which was officially sanctioned by the Nazis. Mentally ill people entered the sanatorium at Hadamar and never left. Its secret history estimates that 10,000 psychiatric patients were murdered here.<br/> <br/> In the war trials that followed seven staff members were tried for killing Russian and Polish soldiers and the evidence that was revealed finally told the hideous truth about the “special measures” reserved for those disabled people who did not fit with societal norms.<br/> <br/> This truth was released as deliberate propaganda being promoted in newspapers and in schools. German children were taught to hate in their lessons. A typical mathematical question posed to millions of German children would be how much it might cost for a disabled person who didn’t work and occupied a hospital bed when there wasn’t enough money for wounded soldiers or new homes to be built. Ad campaigns featuring pictures of disabled people asked “why should disabled people take bread from decent non-disabled German mouths?”<br/> <br/> [...]<br/></p>
<div align="center"><img src="http://www.redicecreations.com/ul_img/21194nazidisabled.jpg" align=""/><br/><span class="imgtext">Nazi Poster - translation: 60,000 Reich marks. What this person suffering from is hereditary defects costs the People’s community during his lifetime. Comrade, that is your money too.</span></div>
<p><span class="text5"><br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> Read the full article at:</span><a href="http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/10/holocaust-eugenics-coverage-shouldnt-exclude-disabled-people/">http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/10/holocaust-eugenics-coverage-shouldnt-exclude-disabled-people/</a></p>
Olympics, you looked better on the telly
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2012-08-15T09:54:04.060Z
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<h1>Olympics, you looked better on the telly</h1>
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<h1>Olympics, you looked better on the telly</h1>
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<p>Having spent much of the last fortnight watching the Olympics in a Gallic farmhouse, my family and I were relishing our visit to Stratford. Not for sporting reasons, admittedly; to my eyes the Games would be much better if they combined the events (synchronised swimming/taekwondo or the ten metre dive/javelin, anyone?) but simply to be A Part Of It All.</p>
<p>As Londoners there was a sense that we were somehow missing the party; no amount of video-montage highlights, slow-mo Hi-res repeats of Mo Farah being pushed along by the other runners from behind as if by repelling magnets, could compensate for being present: for being able to tell friends and future generations: “I was there”.</p>
<p>So it was that on Saturday we set out for Stratford, in order to soak up the ambience, be a part of this joyous celebration of modern, multi-culti Britannia; for our children, aged 8 and 5, to one day tell their own gilled grandchildren “I remember 2012…”</p>
<p>It’s probably safe to say that our kids won’t forget the 2012 Olympics; hopefully in future years they, like the country, will dwell more on the sunshine, the happy, mingling crowds, the fantastic achievements of the athletes and the stunning opening and closing ceremonies than any negative aspects to the occasion; nevertheless, while conceding this may seem rather curmudgeonly, it should be placed on record that attending Stratford wasn’t quite the triumph of humanity I had been led to expect from the telly highlights.</p>
<p>On arriving at the Park, we were filtered through airport-style security, manned by machine-gunned policemen, relaxed-looking army types and volunteers. I do get the reason there has to be security – really I do – but did they REALLY think we might have somehow poured flammable glycerine in our water bottle? And what did they really expect to find beneath my five-year-old son’s hat, a stick of TNT – or, worse, a Pepsi?</p>
<p>Worse even than the hard-nosed security was the prevalence of purple-clad volunteers, many of them sitting in high chairs, exhorting everyone to “SMILE!” After a while this, and the fact our kids were constantly being implored to give the foam-fingers of volunteers “high-fives!” (has a more empty, meaningless gesture ever been conceived?) began to take on sinister undertones.</p>
<p>Before attending the Olympic Park I found JG Ballard’s “Kingdom Come” slightly disappointing; too much fear of the masses, the football crowd and housing estate. But as we walked through the milling crowds, and orders to “have fun!” crackled through loud-speakers, the book didn’t seem so far-fetched.</p>
<p>cont. - <a href="http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/13/olympics-you-looked-better-on-the-telly/">http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/13/olympics-you-looked-better-on-the-telly/</a></p>
The Occult Nature of the Olympics Closing Ceremony
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2012-08-14T08:41:13.501Z
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<p>Via: <a href="http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=21168">http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=21168</a></p>
<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>
<div align="center"><img src="http://www.redicecreations.com/ul_img/21170phoenixmason.jpg" align=""/><br/><span class="imgtext">(Thanks to Jeffrey Borresson for the above photo)</span></div>
<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>
2012 Olympics: Fanfare and Symbolism of the Closing Ceremonies
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2012-08-14T08:40:18.023Z
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<p><span class="headline">2012 Olympics: Fanfare and Symbolism of the Closing Ceremonies</span></p>
<p><span class="date">2012 08 13<br></br></span></p>
<p>By Ian Garland |…</p>
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<p><span class="headline">2012 Olympics: Fanfare and Symbolism of the Closing Ceremonies</span></p>
<p><span class="date">2012 08 13<br/></span></p>
<p>By Ian Garland | <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2187413/London-2012-Closing-Ceremony-Feeling-sad-end-Games-Eric-Idle-leads-80-000-crowd-rendition-Always-Look-Bright-Side-Life.html">DailyMail.co.uk</a></p>
<p>The audience at the Olympics closing ceremony were treated to a taste of Britain’s comedy heritage tonight when Monty Python star Eric Idle appeared onstage.<br/> <br/> The actor led the 80,000-strong crowd through a singalong rendition of Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, while a bizarre troupe of dancers performed around him.<br/> <br/> They included jigging Morris Dancers, a choir of rugby players and skating nuns and when the song finished, a human cannonball was launched across the stadium.<br/> <br/> He was followed by a performance by pop icons Queen, including vocals from Jessie J and from beyond the grave, by the band’s late singer Freddie Mercury.</p>
<div align="center"><img src="http://www.redicecreations.com/ul_img/21166olym_phoenix.jpg" align=""/><br/><span class="imgtext">As the flames in the Olympic cauldron get weaker, the phoenix flies higher over the crowd in the stadium below</span></div>
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<div align="center"><img src="http://www.redicecreations.com/ul_img/21166olym_pyr.jpg" align=""/><br/><span class="imgtext">Artists arrange white boxes within the Olympic Stadium. The boxes represent the 303 events that took place during London 2012. The boxes form a pyramid.</span></div>
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<p><span class="text5"><br/> <br/> [<i>RIC Ed Note</i>: The festivities also included a phoenix rising from the ashes of the Olympic torch, a step pyramid being assembled before the crowd, golden goddesses parading, the undead, iconic deceased singers rising from the grave, and more...]<br/> <br/> For the full article and photo gallery, visit: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2187413/London-2012-Closing-Ceremony-Feeling-sad-end-Games-Eric-Idle-leads-80-000-crowd-rendition-Always-Look-Bright-Side-Life.html" target="_blank">dailymail.co.uk</a></span></p>
Post Games UK: full-blown police state
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2012-08-14T05:20:27.234Z
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<h2 id="title"><a href="http://www.hangthebankers.com/post-games-uk-full-blown-police-state/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://www.hangthebankers.com/post-games-uk-full-blown-police-state/">Post Games UK: full-blown police state</a></h2>
<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>
<h2 id="title"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.hangthebankers.com/post-games-uk-full-blown-police-state/" title="http://www.hangthebankers.com/post-games-uk-full-blown-police-state/" rel="nofollow">Post Games UK: full-blown police state</a></h2>
<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>
"Truth Community" Derails NWO "FALSE FLAG" ! London Closing ceremony - flag handed to Rio de Janeiro
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2012-08-12T23:03:23.580Z
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<p>News for <em>closing ceremony</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><a href="http://static.foxsports.com/content/fscom/img/2012/08/12/Flag-bearers_20120812171754635_660_320.JPG" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="http://static.foxsports.com/content/fscom/img/2012/08/12/Flag-bearers_20120812171754635_660_320.JPG"></img></a> <br></br></em></p>
<p><em> </em><span class="tl"><a class="l" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19236754"><em>Closing ceremony</em>: Olympic flag handed to Rio de Janeiro</a></span></p>
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<p>News for <em>closing ceremony</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><a target="_blank" href="http://static.foxsports.com/content/fscom/img/2012/08/12/Flag-bearers_20120812171754635_660_320.JPG"><img class="align-center" src="http://static.foxsports.com/content/fscom/img/2012/08/12/Flag-bearers_20120812171754635_660_320.JPG"/></a><br/></em></p>
<p><em> </em><span class="tl"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19236754" class="l"><em>Closing ceremony</em>: Olympic flag handed to Rio de Janeiro</a></span></p>
<p><em> </em><span class="tl"><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/olympics/slideshow/Closing-ceremony-London-says-goodbye-47441.php" class="l"><em>Closing ceremony</em>: London says goodbye</a></span></p>
<h3 style="white-space: normal;"><a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/olympics/story/london-games-come-to-end-with-closing-ceremony-081212" class="l">Olympics end with <em>closing ceremony</em></a></h3>
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<h3 style="white-space: normal;"><span class="tl"><a href="http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/12/13245297-at-olympic-handover-party-brazil-steps-up-to-rio-2016-challenges?lite" class="l">At <em>Olympic</em> handover party, Brazil steps up to Rio 2016 challenges</a></span></h3>
<p><span class="tl"><a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/08/12/2948698/as-london-olympic-games-end-attention.html" class="l">As London <em>Olympic</em> Games end, attention turns to Rio</a></span></p>
<div style="text-align: center; float: left; margin-top: 7px; width: 74px;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19236754"><img src="https://news.google.com/news/tbn/xY22pr1WpG4J/6.jpg" alt="" class="th" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;" border="1" height="72" width="72"/><br/></a><cite style="display: block; font-size: 11px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: gray; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 5px;">BBC News</cite></div>
London Olympics an 'Economic Failure'
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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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Go for the Gold! (Pay the IRS.)
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2012-08-01T19:16:22.312Z
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<p>Sad enough that these "Medals" aren't Gold,Silver,or even bronze ;)</p>
<p>Because conservatives are scrooges, the good folks at Americans for Tax Reform have gone through the fine print to find out what our Olympians will have to cough up to the IRS should they be lucky enough to win any medals in London.</p>
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<p>Even by the standards of our government, <a href="http://www.atr.org/win-olympic-gold-pay-irs-a7091" rel="nofollow">the numbers are…</a></p>
<p>Sad enough that these "Medals" aren't Gold,Silver,or even bronze ;)</p>
<p>Because conservatives are scrooges, the good folks at Americans for Tax Reform have gone through the fine print to find out what our Olympians will have to cough up to the IRS should they be lucky enough to win any medals in London.</p>
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<p>Even by the standards of our government, <a href="http://www.atr.org/win-olympic-gold-pay-irs-a7091" rel="nofollow">the numbers are insane.</a></p>
<p>For instance: Americans who win bronze will pay a $2 tax on the medal itself. But the bronze comes with a modest prize—$10,000 as an honorarium for devoting your entire life to being the third best athlete on the planet in your chosen discipline. And the IRS will take $3,500 of that, thank you very much.</p>
<p>There are also prizes that accompany each medal: $25,000 for gold, $15,000 for silver, and $10,000 for bronze.</p>
<p>Silver medalists will owe.... <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/go-gold-pay-irs_649187.html" target="_blank">MORE:</a></p>
Olympics fans find ways to circumvent NBC's online control
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2012-07-31T13:31:29.312Z
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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 Enchantment of the Olympics and the Earthstars Matrix
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2012-07-28T14:01:17.824Z
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<p><span class="headline">The Enchantment of the Olympics and the Earthstars Matrix <br></br></span> <span class="date">2012 07 26<br></br></span></p>
<p>By Ishtar Babilu Dingir | <a href="http://www.redicecreations.com"></a><a href="http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=20907">http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=20907</a></p>
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<p>Amid concerns about a possible false flag attack on the Olympic stadium, what hasn’t yet been mentioned is that the Olympic Park ~ as well as the…</p>
<p><span class="headline">The Enchantment of the Olympics and the Earthstars Matrix <br/></span> <span class="date">2012 07 26<br/></span></p>
<p>By Ishtar Babilu Dingir | <a href="http://www.redicecreations.com"></a><a href="http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=20907">http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=20907</a></p>
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<p>Amid concerns about a possible false flag attack on the Olympic stadium, what hasn’t yet been mentioned is that the Olympic Park ~ as well as the whole of the Greater London area ~ is protected by a pair of nine-mile-high giant spirits who are quite visible to the naked eye, if you know where to look. <br/> <br/> The Olympics Games are being held on the festival of the god Lugh/Lug/Lud, whose visage can be seen engraved into landscape, guarding the east of London. There is also an enormous unicorn that is plainly visible, guarding London to the west ~ just as the lion and the unicorn appear in the Coat of Arms for Great Britain. <br/> <br/> The landscape giants of the lion and the unicorn are part of the Enchantment of London and the Earthstars Matrix, which appears to have been put into place long before even the Templars came into these lands, in the days of the Druids.<br/> <br/> <b>The Lion and the Unicorn</b><br/> <br/> The Olympics is always held on the same dates, beginning 27th July, and it coincides with the time that the ancient Celts (and Gauls) would call Lughnasadh ~ the festival at which they honoured their sun god, Lugh/Lug/Lud. Lud is the British equivalent of the Greek Zeus or the Roman Jupiter. <br/> <br/> Known as Lugh in Ireland, he was Lud in England of which the main capital city, before the Romans, was known as Caer Lud (Lud’s Town, now London). Around the eighth century BCE, the Britons built a temple to Arianrhod, Lud’s female counterpart, by the western city gate on a hill. They called it Luds Gate, but we now know it as Ludgate Hill. <br/> <br/> The spring of his river, the river Lud/Lea, is actually within an earthwork enclosure known as Waulud’s Bank, which is a landmark along the St Michael ley line. It flows into the Lea Valley and then just before Temple Mills (formerly a Templar stronghold) it loops round to surround the whole of the Olympic Park like a moat. <br/> <br/> Lud is one of the guardians of the sacred city of London, the other being the unicorn, and both can be seen like huge landscape giants ~ Lud as the male kingly sun god lion (Lleu means ‘lion’ in Welsh) guarding London to the east, and the unicorn as the intuitive female moon goddess guarding the west. <br/> <br/> It’s difficult to make out their bodies now that suburban Greater London has become so built up, but their heads and forelegs are quite distinct. On top of that, Lud the solar lion is wearing a crown, just as he appears in the coat of arms for Great Britain.<br/></p>
<div align="center"><img src="http://www.redicecreations.com/ul_img/20906unicorn027.jpg" align=""/><br/><span class="imgtext">The unicorn to the west</span></div>
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<p><span class="text5"><span class="text5"><br/> <br/> Chris Street has written about these landscape giants in the chapter entitled <i>Guardians of the Sacred City</i> in the book <i>Legendary London and the Spirit of Place</i>, edited by Anthony Thorley. <br/> <br/> “The head, back and mane of the Lion is defined by various features, including the A113 road from Passingford Bridge and Chigwell to Woodford. Meandering alongside it, virtually all the way, is the river Roding, adding a curly mane. The lion’s face follows the B175 road from Passingford Bridge through Stapleford Abbots to Romford. <br/> <br/> “The eye is in the area of Battles Hall and St Mary’s Stapleford. The lion’s mouth is in the area of Havering at Bower, and its chest is the A112 through Chadwell Heath. The paws rest comfortably in Dagenham, defined by parts of the A125 and A111.<br/> <br/> "The kingly stature of the lion is emphasised by the surprising fact that some of the old paths, tracks and boundary lines above its head can actually be linked up in the shape of very regal crown, remarkably similar to the one on the real crest.”<br/> <br/> There are lots of Red Lion pubs marking the silhouette of the lion, and the horn of the Unicorn is exactly at a place called Horn Hill.<br/> <br/> So is it just coincidence that images of a lion and a unicorn can be made out so clearly in the landscape around the London? According to Chris Street, no, because the images form a meaningful part of a remarkable discovery known as the London Earthstars Matrix. <br/> <br/> This London Earthstars Matrix is also emblazoned on the London landscape but in a different way to the lion and the unicorn ~ yet all three are fundamentally connected.<br/> <br/> The Earthstars of London refer to a ground-breaking piece of work in which it has been discovered that the sacred sites of London are not distributed at random. They connect in a vast and complex geometric pattern or matrix which includes many old but lesser known parish churches and sacred hills, as well as Westminster Abbey, St Paul’s Cathedral, Southwark Cathedral and the Tower of London. <br/> <br/> Says Chris Street:<br/> <br/> "Two of the most important ley alignments in the capital pass through the Earthstars’ lion and unicorn ....<br/> <br/> "Running through the lion is a royal ley line which combines a solar energy path aligned to midsummer sunrise ...<br/> <br/> It is also known as the Coronation Leyline, because it is in direct alignment with three sites where the kings of Great Britain have been crowned. <br/> <br/> “The Coronation line runs through the King’s Stone at Kingston-upon-Thames (where seven Saxon kings were crowned), and St Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey …<br/> <br/> "The unicorn has an appropriate alignment of churches linked to the lunar divine feminine aspect. Most of its churches are dedicated to Mary, who is often depicted standing on a crescent moon, as the Christian version of the virgin moon goddess archetype. <br/> <br/> "And at the heart of the unicorn is Harrow-on-the-Hill, where the St Mary the Virgin church is at the centre of an extraordinary pentragram of sacred leys and holy hills all radiating at a perfect 72 degrees."<br/> <br/> The five points of the Harrow-on-the-Hill star are Horsendon Hill, Barn Hill in Wembley, Belmont Hill in Stanmore, Dabb’s Hill in Ruislip and St John’s in Pinner. <br/> <br/> <b>Christopher Wren</b> <br/> <br/> Anthony Thorley says it’s evident from earlier drafts of his plans that he never got to use that Christopher Wren knew of the Earthstars Matrix when he was given the commission to rebuild the sacred sites of London after the Great Fire. <br/> <br/> Anthony has devoted a whole chapter to this subject, Sir Christopher Wren’s Secret London in his book Legendary London and the Spirit of Place.<br/> <br/> In all, the Earthstars Matrix comprises nineteen designs ~ mostly pentagrams, hexagrams, circles and triangles.None of them are separate. Each connect to the whole. Chris Street says that it is a recognisable temple ground plan, but on a vast scale and covering more than 400 square miles of Greater London. <br/> <br/> And this giant sacred but hidden temple is protected on both sides by the holy protector guardians of Great Britain, the lion and the unicorn, as shown on the royal coat of arms.<br/> <br/> <br/></span></span></p>
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<p><span class="text5"><span class="text5"><br/> <br/> <br/> © Ishtar Babilu Dingir<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <b>Former Sunday Times journalist and now a shaman, healer and writer, Ishtar Babilu Dingir is the creator of <a href="http://www.ishtarsgate.com/index.html" target="_blank">ISHTAR’S GATE</a> and the <a href="http://ishtarsgate.wordpress.com/?page_id=1790&preview=true" target="_blank">HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON.</a> <br/> She is also the author of <a href="http://ishtarsgate.wordpress.com/lord-of-the-dance-by-ishtar/" target="_blank">LORD OF THE DANCE</a>, a book about life in India with the late Sri Sathya Sai Baba.</b> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/></span></span></p>
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<p><span class="text5"><br/> <br/> <br/> <b>FURTHER READING</b><br/> <br/> This article is being discussed on Ishtar’s Gate forum. Just click on <a href="http://www.ishtarsgate.com/forum/showthread.php?3269-The-Enchantment-of-the-Olympics" target="_blank">this link to go to it.</a> <br/> <br/> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Legendary-London-Spirit-Place-Changes/dp/1906289220" target="_blank">Legendary London and the Spirit of Place: New Light on the Great Changes of Our Times,</a> edited by Anthony Thorley.<br/> <br/> <a href="http://www.earthstars.co.uk/books/earthstars/" target="_blank">Earthstars: Geometric Ground Plan Underlying London’s Sacred Sites</a><br/> <br/> <a href="http://www.ishtarsgate.com/forum/showthread.php?3235-Harmonic-Resonance-Landscape-Zodiacs-and-Crop-Circles" target="_blank">Harmonic Resonance, Landscape Zodiacs and Crop Circles</a><br/> <br/> <a href="http://www.ishtarsgate.com/forum/showthread.php?3132-The-Glastonbury-Zodiac-and-the-Mysteries-of-Britain" target="_blank">The Glastonbury Zodiac and the Mysteries of Britain</a></span></p>