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Starry Messenger

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2. You're right. It's moved into bread and circuses territory.

Reply to freshwest (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 2, 2012, 07:19 PM

Jul 2012

It's such a shame. I used to love the Olympics when I was young, it really seemed like a venture of international peace and cooperation. Missiles on roof tops and nuclear waste? There's a metaphor in there somewhere.

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Nuclear waste and other tales from London: Capitalism and the Olympics [View all] Starry Messenger Jul 2012 OP

On top of a nuclear waste dump, with missiles installed on roof tops... What's up with that, UK? freshwest Jul 2012 #1

You're right. It's moved into bread and circuses territory. Starry Messenger Jul 2012 #2

Stranger than fiction sometimes. limpyhobbler Jul 2012 #3