On Wednesday 19th May, the Official olympic site unveiled the new official mascots monstrosities to the world. What the fuck are these things? Even the usually compliant BBC is having a pop at them saying that mascot is an ancient Greek word for “overpriced novelty”. BBC Video.

And over at the blatent BBC spoof site, News Arse, they say

“The team behind the 2012 Olympics have unveiled their one-eyed trouser mascots, Wenlock and Mandeville, who will be responsible for drawing global derision in the run up to the London event.
The mascots were created for children, according to Chairman Lord Coe, who said, “They will help connect young people to that feeling you get when you think you might recognise something, but then think ‘no, it couldn’t be, could it?’.”

The general public will of course get to love these six foot walking surveillance cameras just as they have grown to love the biggest CCTV network in the world. The kids this is aimed at are being buttered up to accept cameras in every aspect of their daily lives. Who knows they may even put real cameras in the thousands of the miniture monstrosities they will no doubt sell to parents for their drones kids to have as constant companions from when they go on sale to the end of the olympics.

There are some alternative mascot ideas here.

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Hot on the heels of the Olympic Theme Song comes this, that was sent via a friend (Thanks L.M.L.)

In 2012 the Olympics will be held in London and a Facebook group has opened as a source to petition for Iron Maiden, one of England’s biggest bands, to open the ceremony.

Not only are they aiming to petition for Iron Maiden to open the Olympics, they are also wanting you to help make the band number one by purchasing the single “The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner” on July 19^th 2010. (Taken from espyrock.com whose tagline is “Spice girls Free Zone” ha ha ha – bloody marvelous)

There are two facebook pages dedicated to this – links at espyrock.com

Beats the fucking Spice Girls and Eddie could enter every olympic event just for a laugh – Gold medal for whoever thought this one up

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So the BBC has suggested that the 2012 olympics needs a show stopping theme and has suggested a mash up of The Clash – London Calling over the strings of “Jerusalem” – lovely.   Also Dizzy Rascal doing a rap version of “We Are The Champions” . Can anyone see the irony here.

First off we are NOT the champions as the olympics hasn’t even started yet so to have this as the olympic theme would be tempting fate and more than a little presumptious.

But do the BBC know something we don’t? Take a look at the first suggestion again. For anyone not familiar with either song then it would seem like a good idea having the tune to a hymn written by Charles  Hubert Hastings Parry (William Blake only wrote the words) which is mooted by many as being Englands National Anthem, with a song whose title alone would call up images of London and make it seem like the perfect fit.
Which to me it is, as i have always been a big Clash fan and know what the lyrics mean. But for those of you that don’t, read on.

Incidently for those that don’t know England does NOT have a National Anthem. God Save The Queen is the anthem of  The United Kingdom and The Commonwealth – of which there is no Common Wealth

London Calling was written by Joe Strummer and Mick Jones of The Clash. Strummer re-wrote the words many times until the final release one was settled on – Mick Jones had previously rejected a lyric which concerned mobs in Soho. The title itself is from the BBC World Service’s station identification: “This is London calling …”, which was used during World War II, during broadcasts mainly to foreign countries.
Makes sense so far and seems like a good olympic choice but dig a little deeper.

The lyrics reflect world events with the reference to “a nuclear error” to the incident at Three Mile Island, which occurred  in 1979. Joe Strummer has said: ‘”We felt that we were struggling about to slip down a slope or something, grasping with our fingernails. And there was no one there to help us.’”

The line “London is drowning/And I live by the river” comes from concerns that if the River Thames flooded, most of central London would drown, something that led to the construction of the Thames Barrier and the irony wasn’t lost that Strummer lived in a tower block by the river.
Also in “The Complete Clash”  by Keith Topping, it  says  “In London Calling, Strummer acts as an observer of the resultant winter-world of the apocalypse.”

So in effect London Calling is about a post apocalyptic world. Combine that with the fact that Jerusalem is about  a perfect England of the imagination, but one that could exist in reality if only we all worked together, then you have a truly vicious vision of the future London after the Olympics, one that could not exist without some kind of major event happening or am i tempting fate again.

Jerusalem has also been used as an anthem by both the Labour Party and The BNP (British National Party) so do we really want this as an anthem for the olympics.

A London 2012 spokesman said: “We are looking to be able to cater for all musical tastes and for that reason all music genres will be represented from pop to classical across our music programmes which include ceremonies and the Cultural Olympiad.” (more on this money pit later)

What they mean is they will employ the most expensive Orchestra they can find who will write an absolute dirge which we will be embarrassed to even hum. Expect people to fork out a fiver for the CD with the badly designed cover and crap olympic logo, which will be given to a charity shop a month later and have a price label of a shit designed 50p – which is about 50p more than it’s worth – and eventually given away with every purchase coz they got so many of em.

I had an idea to do an Alternative Unofficial Olympic Podcast of all the British songs that should be considered for the Olympics. The BBC started it off with The Clash-  London Calling and i am going to add The Skids -  “The Olympian” (lyrics) and Queen – “Bicycle Race” (lyrics).
If any one has any more suggestions please leave them in the comment box and when i have enough suggestions i will put up a podcast for you listening and download.

Its got to be better than the bloody Spice Girls

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Sorry about the lack of updates lately been busy doing non web things.

Anyway here is a massive fail which appears on MP for  Hackney North and Stoke Newington, Diane Abbots own website.
The cameraman must have realised what a classic cock up this is but her own PR person didn’t. Just like everything else concerned with the olympics – FAIL.

And thanks to Joe Public at UK Resistance for pointing out i had missed a classic olympics logo based on the infamous goatse website that featured on BBC London – Video Link

It has been uploaded to our Logo Gallery

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So that bastion of truth known as the BBC is going to make an Olympic film about Seb Coe and Steve Ovett. (How many people said “who?”). Neither of them is involved in the making of the film, so it will be a fantasy film.

Christine Langan, the creative director of BBC Films, said yesterday that she hoped that the film would be shot in summer 2011, with an intended release in March 2012.
No stars or director are yet attached to the script that William Davies is working on, but Langan anticipates using unfamiliar actors to play the athletes and bigger names for the supporting roles, as with An Education.
“This is a gem of a story, about British sporting life and more,” she said. “The essence of the story is universal.”

So if the script is being worked on,how the hell does Langen get away with quoting the last line. It’s a gem of a story is it, how can you know this without reading the script and “the essence of the story is universal” is it? To whom is it universal.  Certainly not me or anyone else who has a modicum of intelligence and realises that the only universal thing about this film will be the hype and the amount of money made from it by the fools who will watch it and buy the “official” merchandise which will no doubt be emblazoned with that shitty design.

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British taxpayers’ access to tickets for the London 2012 Olympic will be limited because of European Union competition law, raising serious concerns that the Olympic venues will not be full of local fans.

Sports fans in European Union countries have the legal right to buy the London 2012 tickets when they go on sale to the public next year.
With London so accessible and the mandatory inclusion of European involvement in the local ticket programme, the demand for the 9.3 million London Olympic and Paralympic tickets is expected to be particularly intense.
But Telegraph Sport has been told that Britons will not have any exclusive access to the tickets, nor any advance purchase opportunities.
On a political level there are approaches being made to see if there is any possibility of reserving a percentage of tickets for the British public, but early indications appear that any such move would contravene the European Union act.
Lord Coe, the chairman of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games, said on Tuesday: “The reality is we signed the European Union act in 1971, we are part of the European political landscape and my instinct is that the tickets have to be made available to Europe at the same time as Britain.”

So the government are spending Millions of pounds on an Olympics that we may not even be able to get tickets for in our own fucking country. This is disgusting, you can reserve tickets in YOUR OWN COUNTRY for just about any major sporting event, and any other country gets allotted a certain amount of tickets afterwards and no one has said a damn thing about it til now. This particularly happens in football.
So why is this not happening for the Olympics? Because this Olympics is not about the athletes, which it should be, this Olympics is not about the fans, which it should be and it’s not even about this country, which it also should be. Its about money, power and control. Taking your money, from your Olympics and giving it, yes giving it, to other countries to make sure that the people of this country are controlled and have no choice but to pay for these games for the rest of our lives.
BOYCOTT THE OLYMPICS, don’t give “Official” money makers ANY of your hard earned. Don’t let the Government get away with selling our pride abroad.

And to the person who asked why i’m against athletics. I’m not against athletics, or the athletes and wish them the best of luck.
I AM AGAINST this charade called the Olympics which steals money from the host countries own people and gives it away to other countries. I’m against the politcal aganda of the olympics and the farcical way that the Government think it is their god given right to break any law they wish in making these olympics happen for THEM, I am against the constant laws that are and will be made up to criminalise people for having a good time, that stop people selling “Unofficial” merchandise to make a couple of extra quid for themselves rather than the Government and I am against how the government think that the Olympics is THEIR games.
It’s fucking not, it’s OUR games and we have a right to be offered tickets first and to be able to go to OUR games without being harrased for taking photos or dropping a flyers (considered litter) or being told that we cannot demonstrate against the Olympics in our own fucking homes.
WAKE UP people, this games isn’t about us or the athletes or anything to do with sport, its about power and money and they’re not getting a penny out of me.

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Plans for the use of the Olympic Park venue after 2012 are “still unclear”, a London Assembly report has said.
The “continuing uncertainty” could make the venue “an island of prosperity, cut off from the surrounding community”.
The report also said if a football club took over the main stadium it “may affect the character of the park and its surroundings”.
The Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) said finding long-term uses for the venues was a “fundamental aim”.

Full Article Here

Meanwhile, West Ham football club had expressed an interest in aquiring the new Stadium after the olympics, but have been told they won’t get it. Olympics Minister Tessa Jowel said, “It will be a grand prix athletics stadium.
We have made that commitment, that was one of the reasons that we bid to win the Games and so that is a given.”
But Jowell acknowledged that Gold and Sullivan(West Hams owners) could still petition the Olympic Park Legacy Company, the body that will rule on the stadium’s future.

And no doubt West Ham will be told to sod off. The OPLC which is yet another money making scam, are already turning down offers for the Stadium. Why?? Do they think that once all the hype and buzz have calmed down that they are going to have a flourishing, sustainable sports center. Wasn’t that what was supposed to happen to the Millenium Dome?? And, apart from a fucking great eyesore in London, what purpose does it serve. Absolutely nothing worthwhile.
Somebody once asked what the difference between a “Cross Your Heart” bra and the Millenium Dome was?? The answer was simple. Nothing. Very impressive on the outside but fuck all on the  inside.
I can almost guarantee that a year or two after the Olympics, that London will have another white elephant on its hands, West Ham will still be at the Boleyn Ground (Upton Park), London will still be up to its eyeballs in debt, along with the rest of the country and the olympic stadium will be used about 4 times a year and left to rot after that.
Let West Ham have it, if they want it. At least it will be used regularly even if there will be a dirty great running track separating the crowd from the action.

Own goal OPLC – we shall see

Updated bullshit here but at least they are aware of the”white elephant” the olympic site and many others could turn out to be. Millenium Dome all over again

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The London 2012 olympics just keeps getting better. Not content with fleecing us out of as much money as is possible, it now turns out that the entire olympics site is built on contaminated ground. Londonolympics2012.com reported that:

“According to reports, it has been revealed that London 2012 chiefs have covered up land that is possibly contaminated with asbestos and radioactive materials with a huge and bright orange sheet. Spanning more than 600 acres it is buried at a depth of 31inches to protect the health and safety of future builders and homeowners.”

So why the hell build the entire olympic site on it. As Britain News (among others) reports:

“The scale of the task, with a fixed deadline of 2012, was one of the major reasons for the resignation in 2006 of Jack Lemley, the former chief executive of the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA).
Shortly after quitting, Lemley had claimed Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell and her team had severely underestimated the problem, saying: “I said it would be enormously expensive because of the technical process of cleaning it up.”

Well, they haven’t cleaned it up have they, no, they saved a few quid by burying it under the olympic site. Now call me stupid or paranoid or whatever you like but looking at the potential terrorist targets and the history of violence at the games, this site seems the logical place that a terrorist would attack. Just how good is the security on these building sites anyway? All it would take is for a device to be placed in the foundations of this site that could be triggered at a later date (for example: right in the middle of the Olympics) and you have a catastrophe on your hands that would make 911 look tiny in comparison. IF any device tore thru the admittedly thin layer of plastic into what is underneath (asbestos & radioactive material), showering whatever is there, into the air, in a city that would be full of millions of people at this time. Well, it doesn’t bare thinking about.
It’s about time this Government stopped cutting corners (or bright orange plastic sheeting) and addressed the real issue of security at these olympics sites NOW, before anything happens.

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