Tag: olympics

  • Smaller Hill, Shorter Sled: How the Olympics Infantilize Women Athletes

    from slate.com: Why are the Olympics half-assing their women’s sports? The abbreviation of women’s competition is a testament to the lingering belief that female bodies are physically incapable of going as long, hard, or high as male ones. When the modern Olympic games kicked off in the 19th-century, women were barred from competition completely, and…

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  • Interview w/ Michael Vail of StratRisks on Sochi, TPP, Ukraine

    Interview w/ Michael Vail of StratRisks on Sochi, TPP, Ukraine

    For our first installment of ‘Geopolitiks’ – a new series examining the real “news of the world” – we’re joined by Michael Vail of the indispensable StratRisks.com to help us look at the five-ring Sochi circus, the looming Trans-Pacific Partnership and the shaky situations in the Ukraine, South Sudan and more. “Read all about it!”…

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  • New World Next Week: Episode181 – Bankster Suicides, Sochi Circus, Academic Torrents

    New World Next Week: Episode181 – Bankster Suicides, Sochi Circus, Academic Torrents

    NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode181 – Bankster Suicides, #Sochi Circus, Academic Torrents Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Harvard Economist Is Pulling All His Money From Bank Of America Harvard Economist…

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  • Sochi 2014 Security Updates

    The Sochi Olympic Games and the Threat of a Terrorist Attack. Who is Behind the Caucasus Terrorists? Putin says Boston marathon bombing by Chechen brothers justifies intense Sochi security Putin’s ‘ring of steel’ becomes obvious at Olympics Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/02/04/216915/putins-ring-of-steel-becomes-obvious.html#storylink=cpy Snow cannons to surveillance boxes, here’s the tech at play in Sochi Journalists to…

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  • Sochi Flashback: “Satanic Dancing on the Bones of Our Ancestors”

    July 3, 2013: Islamist Rebel Vows ‘Maximum Force’ to Stop Sochi Olympics* from reuters.com: Russian Islamist rebel leaders urged their fighters on Wednesday to use “maximum force” to prevent President Vladimir Putin staging the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. In an online video recorded in a forest, Doku Umarov said an order not to…

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  • Sochi Officials Order Stray Dogs Killed Ahead of Olympics

    Sochi Officials Order Stray Dogs Killed Ahead of Olympics

    from foxnews.com: Thousands of stray dogs have been living amid the mud and rubble of Olympic construction sites, roaming the streets and snowy mountainsides, and begging for scraps of food. But as the games drew near, authorities have turned to a company to catch and kill the animals so they don’t bother Sochi’s new visitors…

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  • US, Russia Forces Hunt Jihad Widow Feared Inside Olympic Zone

    from foxnews.com: U.S. counterterrorism operatives are helping Russian security agents in the hunt for four female potential terrorists, including a “white widow” — the wife of a dead terrorist — who could already be inside the massive security zone set up for next month’s winter Olympics. Ruzanna Ibragimova, the 22-year-old widow of a jihadist killed…

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  • 24-hour Drone Surveillance to Be Imposed on Sochi Olympics

    from rawstory.com: The spider-like helicopter can whirr up straight into the sky, hover over cars and people, zoom in on a license plate and then take a close-up of a man’s face in the crowd. If there is suspicious movement at Russia’s Sochi Winter Olympic Games next year, surveillance drones positioned over stadiums, roads and…

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  • London 2012 Olympics Closing Montage (Imagine)

    What would John Lennon think? Lennon was a great believer in sharing and living in peace, but I doubt in his song “Imagine,” no countries meant giving up sovereignty for governance by a global elite? Or, Lennon would agree no possessions meant forfeit- ing all material belongings to a privileged few?  People living cradle to…

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  • #PopOcculture: Cosmic, Creepy, Cults and More

    #PopOcculture: Cosmic, Creepy, Cults and More

    Did James Holmes Call Diggity Dave? // Synchrocinematic Willy Wonka Director Dies // Joan Rivers to #ADL: #STFU! – “Germany is where banning books started, and it can start here” // Unification Church founder Rev. Moon in critical condition // 93yr-old Billy Graham in NC hospital with bronchitis // #Audio #Satire: Christian Porn Film Climaxes…

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  • Occult Symbolism in XXX Olympiad Medal

    Occult Symbolism in XXX Olympiad Medal

    You may remember searching for hidden pictures in those children’s magazines? It seems far out, but theGroxt details hidden symbols on 2012 Olympic medal. It’s an impressive presentation that includes Nike, the Greek Goddess; Vishnu, Hindu God and Moloch, the Owl of Bohemian Grove fame. Observations on Dog Star Sirius and stargate located there as…

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  • Media/Memes: Olympics, Elvis, Obits and more

    With pop, performance and pride, #London extinguishes #Olympics flame and passes the torch to #Rio* Spice Girls, The Who, Muse to rock Olympics closing ceremony* Here Are the Closing Ceremony Performances From The Who, Muse and Ray Davies That NBC Didn’t Broadcast* Here’s the Kate Bush Song That Was Cut from the U.S. Broadcast of…

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  • Episode269 – Mind Games

    Episode269 – Mind Games

    “We’re playing those mind games together, pushing the barriers, planting seeds” on Media Monarchy: Episode269 – Mind Games w/ Movie Mind Control, Comedy Killers and the “Hunter Gets Captured By The Game” Newspurge + Fluoride, Fraud and Pharma Guns on Food World Order – Curiosity, Cold Fusion and Epic Hacks in Cyber/SpaceWar – Shooters, Sacrifice…

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  • #PopOcculture: Sikh, Psyops, Shooters and more

    #PopOcculture: Sikh, Psyops, Shooters and more

    #TwilightLanguage: Wisconsin Sikh Shooting* Dark Knight’s Sikh Link* Sikh Shooter ID’ed* Who Was Wade Michael Page?* ‘9/11’ tattoo skinhead responsible for massacre in Wisconsin* Before he shot up the Sikh Temple, Wade Michael Page was an army psyops specialist* Wisconsin Killer Fed and Was Fueled by Hate-Driven Music* White Supremacists Reflect on the Sikh Temple…

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  • #Newspurge: The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game

    Econocrash: Stocks waver; signs on the economy hard to read* Joseph Stiglitz: ‘This Deficit Fetishism Is Killing Our Economy’* Standard Chartered may lose NY license over Iran ties: “You F*cking Americans. Who Are You To Tell Us, The Rest Of The World That We’re Not Going To Deal With Iranians?”* Video: The Truth about TARP*…

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