Fall Colors Canadian Style - 2010 Olympic rant #21 etc · 28.10.08 by colin newell
Was sipping an amazing cup of Level Ground Trading coffee today with my boys… my boys being retired Math profs, engineers, gardeners and fellow techies.
The mug of choice today was Tanzanian Mbeya – it is a dark roast that resonates with dark chocolate notes, vanilla and mystery. For the last week or so I have been sampling coffee from a little known upstart roaster by the same of Peter Cross – and his stuff is amazing too.
Yea. I am heading into a new marathon of coffee tasting – broadening my horizons as fast as possible… because I was in a bit of a rut coffee wise. Anyway. Onwards.
So. It was between sips of delicious brew that one of my table mates uttered the unthinkable: “Colin… did you know that VANOC just raised RAISED no less the number of tickets available to the general public to 30% of tickets!?”
He continued, “I would have thought that all of the tickets would have been available to the general public…”
His comments were unexpected… and like that feeling you get when you wake up from a really restful dream… only to realize that you are still living in a flawed World… it hits you.
And that is when I offered… “The Olympics were never intended for you and me. The Olympics were originally created to entertain royalty and the elite – and on some level they still are. I mean, look at the IOC in general. It is populated with Princes and big-wig international players, industrialists and the like. The IOC does not have average people working for it.” Not for average people. Never was. Never will be. And since it has become entirely about making money for VISA and McDonalds and lining the pockets of those lucky enough to get a piece of the action, it is about us even less.
I reminded my coffee mate that VANOC, save for one member, consists entirely of developers and industrialists who gain to really profit from all the construction and land grabs. Do more people need a wake-up call about the great big Olympic lie?
Obviously yes.
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Amen again!
— Mark Oct 31, 09:14 am #