The Dark Side of the London Olympics (Part 1/4)

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Title	:	The Dark Side of the London Olympics (Part 1/4)
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Edwin should have bought some teeth instead of Olympics tickets!
Comment from : Wide Awake News

7:35
Comment from : Deiftwaser

someone got up on Vice with his throwie but the throwie is the most awful ive ever seen xDbr if you're gonna make history, show the world you have skill instead of showing them how lame your style is xD
Comment from : Alexandre `Levasseur-Lyonnais

They’re complaining about how the area has a lot of noise, I’m sure their flats are worth a lot lot more now because of the regeneration not to mention the incredible views they get from their balconies I’d love to live in one of the flats overlooking the Olympic park
Comment from : Josh W

Fast forward 8 years and it’s no wonder people are dying of radiation As for ping pong, we all know how that ties in with pizza-gate, don’t we?
Comment from : Earl Mcraw

What?? Lots of beds, nurses, doctors, children?? Virus?? Boris Johnson on bed?
Comment from : Zulkifle A Rahim

Fuck the Olympics fuck england too
Comment from : microtechmachineshop

HMM So this man can afford to book a flight to China and go to that Olympics but cannot afford to get a train and book a ticket to the London Olympics Even if the London Olympics were expensive, they surely weren't THAT expensive
Comment from : Liam Murtezaoglu

I'll direct you to a comment written on the Olympic-Bid-Supporting-Newspaper, The Guardian Might I add, this was written at a time when the paper actually took a microscopic modicum of respecting Free Speech(a basic principle they constantly ignore today) In response to another user, heavyrail, HarperSmythe retorts and counters: "your naive belief that the Olympics offers opportunities is not borne out by the facts The whole "opportunities" hype is always part of the spin that organizers use to get the local populace to support the bid Rarely do you see the press cover the aftermath of the games (not just the immediate aftermath, but say, 2, 5 or 10 years later)?brbrSome alternative press journalists have covered this and the facts disprove all the claims about any economic opportunities benefitting the host city Host cities wind up with enormous debts for many years afterwards, environmental damage (causing more economic strains), and severe problems with local infrastructure and housing Atlanta is still paying for the Olympics, homelessness has shot up since the Olympics, and the local environmental damage bill has been pretty high The games do nothing for employment or tourism London hardly has problems attracting tourists Atlanta has experienced no tourist increase since the games (in fact, their tourism has decreased since the games) The Olympics take out of their host cities far more than they give -- and they give next to nothing" HarperSmythe, 12th June 2007 brbrThe Comment itself is located in the article here: wwwtheguardiancom/commentisfree/2007/jun/12/commentOlympics2012brbrCurrently, the displaced citizens of the Clays Lane co-operative (demolished after 16 years of operation, despite the area being the largest co-operative housing project in Europe as a whole when it was completed in 1991) are either living on strings financially or have been given little to zero compensation in regards to their displacements In addition, London has experienced little change in their tourism rates Are in bigger debts than they originally were in 2005 And have failed to curtail their high crime rates, which are one of the highest in Northern Europe brbrThe lack of a plan for the park is also evident, with the Lea Valley itself experiencing a decline in Biodiversity and an increase in toxic Phosphates in the water sustainablehackneyorguk/profiles/blogs/phosphate-pollution-in-the-river-lea-from-sewage-and-homes and the question of the handling of hazardous and radioactive waste has remained hidden and obscured since 2012 wwwgamesmonitororguk/node/845 brbrIn addition to this, West Ham United's purchase of the Stadium was also fraught with nepotism within the committee and is hilariously dependent on the Club's position in the Premier League (this is also discounting the fact that they could have shared the stadium with the local club, Leyton Orient, but neither West Ham, or the committee responsible with "upholding London 2012's legacy" which has proven to be a total farce in action each year we move on from the Overpriced and Overpromoted shitshow that was the aforementioned Games brbrSo should West Ham suffer successive relegations, or for that matter, face financial ruin or collapse within 99 years (which is quite likely, considering that they are not usually considered a competitive side in London, let alone England), the Stadium, and to an extent, the entire park is in jeopardy, as any park that relies on a sports team is solely dependent on the ability and status of said team, regardless of the actual owners brbrSo now, I can say with complete confidence that the London Olympics was and still is a complete farce and a waste of taxpayer's money in the extent of a complete waste of corporate and Government money I can't really add more here
Comment from : DREADER1

Utterly bullshit
Comment from : Jack Vowles

there is a nice park there now
Comment from : Benedict Case

To be honest, this stuff happens where ever the Olympics is being held Its happening in Rio now After the Olympics is over, most of those places become empty Rarely being used and ends up just being a eye sore to the locals
Comment from : Joey X Smith

1:09 HOLY FUCK THAT IS A SCHNOODLE XD
Comment from : Akio Kuro

UK never deserved to be the host Such wide spread corruption and looting amongst the politicians mks my flesh crawl Fuckin limeys
Comment from : WMD

same deal with FIFA world scam
Comment from : slackologist

Really? 4 different parts on THIS? Dramatised much? There were protests and debates around it, but not to the extent where somebody would choose to make a 50 minute documentary on it
Comment from : Electra Heart

God that tower on the side looks like a pile of wank, what were they thinking?
Comment from : Dedfaction

the oriental girl has the most thickest upper class english accent ever
Comment from : Naz P

This isn't a new phenomenom The "regeneration" of an area, resulting in the locals with real roots to the place being turfed out, has been an ongoing process for many years It occurred to my dad's family in the 70's They were moved from Hoxton to wembley I found this quite sad as (through the use of ancestrycouk) I discovered that 4 generations of my dad's family had been born on one street of hoxton, skipping my grandads generation because of ww2 Nowadays, Hoxton certainly isn't a place that a middle income family of 5 could afford to live in
Comment from : rajr90

I'm not british but it seemed to go much better than they had expected and it really brought the country together Sounds corny, but I genuinely believe it
Comment from : Freja Gonzalez

The opening ceremony demonstrated how the rich prospered on the backs of the poor during the industrial revolution and yet the organisers threw the local communities under the bus IRONY
Comment from : Teh Goat

I agree
Comment from : Oliver Mutter

An English-Japanese woman? Very interesting mix
Comment from : lilkujo

wtf? A Westfield mall?????? Wow I live in LA and we have one of those? Damn commercialization sure can travel didn't know it was Aussie either
Comment from : lilkujo

I know this is terrible And i will get hate on this But I love the Olympics because it is basicly an event that every country can participate in i know it is a huge waste of money but I am not affected by it Sure the poor are the ones who loose out but I am not poor, and I do not care Again, I know it is bad for me saying this but it is my opinion
Comment from : Dystor L

No, you are not listening to me People in London are literally being evicted from their homes and moved to different cities as a result of gentrification When they get moved miles and miles away, they get placed in inadequate accommodation for an indeterminate amount of time, meaning their kids can't go to school You would be pissed off if that happened to you They don't want "everything given to them", they just want to keep their homes that they currently live in
Comment from : Johnny Latore

If a woman with 2 kids is getting moved to a hotel, the only thing that has changed is where she lives so she still has to work Your excuse saying the mother cant go to work to look after her kids anymore is lame What do you think she did before? They want a new house They want everything given to them
Comment from : CypherGlitch

Holy shit talk about Stalin era re locations
Comment from : D3adtrap

At least they have a roof over their head and have an opportunity to work and the children CAN still get an education, and they will get put into homes again They have not closed the schools listening to the people complain in this clip is painful Yes i totally understand the government treating their people that way is shit If it happened here to me I would be pissed
Comment from : CypherGlitch

Stop being a twat Single mothers have been forced to leave their cities and live in one bedroom hotels with their children, this means they can't get jobs and their children can't receive an education because they've been forced into these conditions for an indeterminate amount of time But I suppose you think anyone who has a problem with that is just "whinging", right? People should NEVER be pissed off about anything unless they've had a nuke dropped on their house, right?
Comment from : Johnny Latore

"getting evicted from their homes and forced to live in hotels" Not hotels?!?!?! being forced to live ion hotels, oohh yeah that is something to complain about Was the room service not up to scratch? The poor chinese did not even get that They kicked them out, arrested anyone who complained and were left homeless
Comment from : CypherGlitch

Did you miss the bit about the gentrification? The guy at 10:10 starts talking about it Poor families in London have been getting evicted from their homes and forced to live in hotels in places like Birmingham and Manchester, this isn't just something that happened during the Olympics, it's still happening in London right now and it will continue because of the new benefit caps being introduced That's pretty serious and I wouldn't call it "whinging"
Comment from : Johnny Latore

And I bet everyone in your country is just fucking perfect Piss off
Comment from : Johnny Latore

Look at the stadium in China Do you really think people use that?
Comment from : RezaQin

What the fuck? His point was that a Northern city didn't get the Olympics, and that's really typicalof course it's was hosted in London Anything important that happens in England is automatically London-centric I live in the South but I find it really annoying that London and the South basically rule the whole of the rest of the UK!
Comment from : Laura Dhert

So basically vice you went around to everyone who hated the Olympics I got to see some nips though, that bird was smuggling peanuts whilst talking about Ridley Scott's wet dream
Comment from : Damp Echo

Why can't the old man go to the games?
Comment from : RichoRosai

Yep and they put on a big show to try to show we accept the native culture
Comment from : TheJLJuke

Don't make generalizations about entire populations Many people think the same of us but that's not true either Part to whole fallacy is, after all, a fallacy
Comment from : ff7pianist

man, the whole world is fucked up
Comment from : 360MonaLisa

Don't cry
Comment from : Oliver Mutter

Such a burn Can you teach me?
Comment from : Oliver Mutter

You have to love Boris
Comment from : Oliver Mutter

You both got parts right but what wrong with being civil yes it is based in cities but it would be nice to share it out but it wasn't really possible BE NICE
Comment from : lewis wright

At least your keeping your homes China pushed out the poor out of their homes to make room for the olympic games (demolished their homes) and it was against the law to protest They arrest any one who complained, they arrested them under a law similar to an anti government law Bloody greenies, "they made the top of a sewer pipe into a tarmac walkway/ "theme park" Another great example to why they are called The Whinging Poms; "I didn't get free or cheaper tickets because of all the noise"
Comment from : CypherGlitch

the deso rap good message, worst possible delivery
Comment from : Jack Ford

Go Lybia!!!
Comment from : Hector Carrasco

all i'll say is most people in scotland never watched that Olympic pish lol
Comment from : Jamie Williamson

nothing is perfect
Comment from : johnfuckingwayne

Yah surrey was a paradise before the games
Comment from : klsdfjsldf

I thought she was a very feminine-looking and sounding guy with long hair, at first She seems cool, lol
Comment from : SrtaTacoMal

Wah wah wah we want our government handouts! Cry me a friggin river
Comment from : 262mommy

London did a terrible job so much misplaced people offering that fencer a constalation prize man so sad she deserved gold other events to like boxing just a shame
Comment from : SlipsterTrickster

AND SOUNDS LIKE A DUDE
Comment from : Dan Clark

The Olympics were a biased sporting avent Once again the south of England gets all the money and attention and the north is forgotten about Only the cycling and a few football games (soccer) where placed in the north of England, but London got everything It should have been equally shared
Comment from : MultiBlackman97

10/10 would still bang though
Comment from : Kayoooooo

Leah borromeo could get the d
Comment from : wetlknbouteskimos

My uni at 0:32 - 0:45 !!!! Wuup wuup!
Comment from : Mordawan

@tejaswell said
Comment from : uel786

Olympics is one of the greatest ever on earth concerning games and sports No matter what happens in any of this olympic events or host cities, it's work of uniting, friending and promoting souls on earth SO LET US ALL GROW IN THE SPIRIT OF THE OLYMPICS
Comment from : Olusi Omowunmi

it's weird for me as an American to see black people speak so legibly
Comment from : stealthop

You're comment is such a stereotypical assumption, it's saddening
Comment from : toby708y

Yo dumbass thats not the reason since there are lots of minority athletes represent GB in Olympics
Comment from : joker12346969

Not Really
Comment from : thegod50

haha shes hot though!
Comment from : thegod50

7:45 she sounds like a guy
Comment from : Bara

Asian Whoa-Man at 7:50
Comment from : The Original Gamer

#yup
Comment from : griffin Johnson

People who support gentrification are often just as poor as those being evicted, but are so desperate to separate identities from ppl of color etc they force themselves to say they're upper class, or would be if not for their (fellow) underclass taking their "tax dollars" via welfare Like that tool a few comments below pretending to be rich, when truly rich people dont need to tellpeople about it
Comment from : DougglesMagnificent

the Olympics did NOTHING for the working class of London & that's the truth its all the toffs who were spunking their pants in excitement over the shitty Olympics!!
Comment from : Smurf 45

3:21 Bottom left corner RHCP Fuck Yeah
Comment from : Jake Sili

dam i wish i had a British accent
Comment from : Carlos

meh gentrification is good for wealthy people like myself :) It usually leads to safer communities that are more well rounded Back in the 70's & 80's New York (even Manhattan) was one of the most dangerous cities in the united states Today it's full of the brightest and most innovative people in the country
Comment from : Christopher Wallace

1:03 Hang on a minute What gender is s/he?
Comment from : Spice Algeria

I use to live in london, and it use to be beautiful Now its a giant shithole There were alot of good ppl there and I do feel sorry for them
Comment from : oldschoolman1

Woah
Comment from : Hsiao Lung Wang

I live in Bby and work at a drug and alcohol facility in downtown I can assure you that the police did not round up the homeless and send them into the suburbs They handed out tickets, and arrested some who did not pay so as to keep them in jail during the Olympics If they did move them into the nearby cities, they would have just gotten on the skytrain and moved back into downtown Don't make such broad assumptions
Comment from : Christina Staal

Nope, try again
Comment from : Mark W

I seem to have not grasped the meaning of your statement
Comment from : Nicholas Ystad

Real irony behind Olympics is that they r very much political All these corporations involved in them r sending global message Spreading a fear around and placing missiles on the roofs is one of them Suddenly there r bomb attacks and terrorist r coming from nowhere Darkest spot is always under light not somewhere in Afghanistan or Iran We r going into very dark age of information control and government oppression all governed by rule of money Terrorist is a global name to be feared of
Comment from : Ano Nymous

The lady who said I'm really excited in the beginning teached me to swim lol yolo
Comment from : F1faHarris2000

please dont call yourself huey freeman youre obviously not smart enough to understand the brilliant undertones of "the boondocks" so do not disgrace their characters by making foolish comments or representing yourself under the false guise of an abstract character
Comment from : The Stone Philosopher

I'm from Brazil and I'm sad that they actually came here It's going to mess the country a little more
Comment from : Miami Disconnection

Probably transgendered like Jaye Davidson
Comment from : Jeorney

Also you have to understand that they are kids! Teenagers aren't concerned about a lot of important things and that is typical regardless if you are talking to a black kid, white kid, orange kid or purple kid Kids are rarely into the same stuff as adults and most adults care about the olympics
Comment from : MrsTruthTeller