My Advice To London’s Mayor Boris Johnson: Pull The Plug On 2012 Olympics

October 23, 2009

Now that everyone in Britain apart from Lord Coe accepts that it would not be a great idea to host the summer Olympic Games in 2012 in London, considering that there is no money available, StirringTroubleInternationally once again calls on London’s Mayor Boris Johnson to make that crucial decision and simply pull the plug on the Games. Yes, after the Government itself accepted last year that had it known that a crisis was coming it would have rejected the idea of staging the Games in London, Mr Johnson should tell the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that the British capital simply does not have the money to provide the same level of organisation as the Chinese did in 2008. Because, so that you know, that is what the President of the IOC, Jacques Rogge, has demanded. He wants London...

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Category: Point Of View
Tags: London, Olympics

A Cynical Look At Outpourings Of Jubilation. What’s The Point?

October 5, 2009

In the past week we have witnessed huge numbers of people rejoicing on the streets of their respective cities, in their respective nations, due to different reasons. Scenes of jubilation broadcast across the world included loud laughter, screaming, tears of joy and even hysterical shaking and hugging of random people. Happiness radiated on the faces of men, women and children. Now let us get all these outpourings of joy in some sort of order. First came the scenes of jubilation on the streets and beaches of Rio de Janeiro and other Brazilian metropolises, as the country celebrated winning the right to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Then came the scenes of joy from Ireland where supporters of the Lisbon treaty were celebrating the victory for the ‘yes’ vote. Later massive outpouring...

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Category: Let's Be Cynical
Tags: elections, Greece, Ireland, Lisbon treaty, Olympics, Portugal

President Obama Gets Humiliated In Copenhagen. Even Though It Was Predictable

October 3, 2009

That was one big public relations disaster that the U.S. President Barack Obama has suffered: imagine, he flew to Denmark for the sole purpose of helping to secure Chicago’s bid to stage the Summer Olympics of 2016, and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), very publicly, ignored his pleas and awarded the Games to Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro.Who on earth in the White House came up with this stupid idea in the first place? Because Mr Obama himself could not have decided to jet off to Europe, to spend five hours in Copenhagen, telling the IOC how Chicago was the best city in the world for hosting the 2016 Olympics, and then fly back home. At a time when more pressing matters demanded his attention in the United States. The White House advisors should have foreseen a situation when...

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Category: Living In America
Tags: Barack Obama, Denmark, IOC, Olympics

The Bid For The London 2012 Olympics Was A Con. The Games Should Be Scrapped

December 7, 2008

Thomas Mathew writes: We, at StirringTrouble, have long been promoting the idea of scrapping the London 2012 summer Olympic Games, simply because Britain can’t afford to stage a competition equal in its razzmatazz and level of organisation to the Chinese 2008 Games. It was total madness right from the start to decide to host this disaster and even spend a huge amount of money on winning the right to stage the Olympics. According to some people we spoke to, the British National Olympic Committee (NOC) had blown £100 million on the campaign to persuade the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to choose London as the stage for the 2012 Games. Just because some developers wanted to make money on the construction of the Olympic sites and some politicians, including the then Prime Minister,...

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Category: Life In The UK
Tags: London, Olympics

China Is Set To Dominate the World in 2050.

August 10, 2008

Martin McCauley writes: The Olympic Games s have placed China at the centre of world attention – even though the conflict in South Ossetia did spoil the occasion by distracting the world media. But still, many people are finding out more about China and are quite probably wondering whether the time of Chinese dominance is approaching? Could it be that China will replace the US as the most powerful nation on the planet? And if it does, what would it mean for the rest of us? A recent study by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace attempts to predict where China will be in 2050, and beyond. It makes sobering reading for Americans and Europeans. The Carnegie fund concludes that the Chinese economy will be the same size as the American one in 2035 and that the country will produce...

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Category: Around The World
Tags: China, Olympics, South Ossetia

Olympics? The Chinese Communists Have Other Problems On Their Minds

August 8, 2008

(By a leading expert on international affairs.) ‘Cadres decide everything’, was one of the wisdoms produced by the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. What he meant was that in a communist run state party functionaries on the ground should enable the leadership to exercise effective control over the masses. It is now becoming clear that this system, which has existed for decades in China, is now breaking down. The Communist Party of China (CPC) leadership is increasingly alarmed the growing number of incidents that have revealed that local Party officials are getting out of touch with the population. They have failed to anticipate and pre-empt public protests in five western provinces. First there were the Tibetan violent demonstrations, then came the uproar caused by the collapsing schools...

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Category: Around The World
Tags: China, Communist Party, Olympics