The seventh anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon will be coming up on 11th September 2008.

The European United for Truth movement will be holding a march in Brussels on Sunday 7th September calling for a reopening of the 911 investigation.

http://www.unitedfortruth.org/

Here is a video of last year’s march:

http://www.dailymotion.com/vid.....vuZ1nfl6fi

In Greece there will be a screening on Thursday 11th September of Stelios Kouloglou’s “Reportaz horis Synora” programme on the 911 attacks, the many unanswered questions relating to them and the American citizens’ movement that continues to call for a real investigation of them and prosecution of those really responsible.

The programme is in Greek (with a lot of English, admittedly, subtitled in Greek.

The screening will be on the island of Aigina, in Aigina town, at 9 o’clock in the evening. The venue is the Symposio restaurant, P. Ireioti and Neoptolemou. Telephone 22970 23818.

This indeed is awful.

Now on the politics vs Games issue. It WAS wrong to give it to China. Leaders did NOT do enough but did do SOMETHING as some Chinese human rights activists will say. And the opportunities given highlighted issues like Tibet that were forgotten.

The main problem with the Games is drugs of course – as well as the anti-Hellenic conspiracy to show that numerous Greek athletes took that drug the weightlifters did; the consipracy includes the opposition to the participation of innocent bird Thanou to the games.

Leaving for the beach right now.

To those who complain that sports should be separate from politics: I agree. But handing the Olympics to certain countries (such as China) reinforces the link, rather than weakening it. The greed of the IOC for more success, more money, more publicity, has politicised the Games. By the way, did anyobody comment that Georgia and Russia (both competing) are now (effectively) at war on the opening day of the Games?

It’s a horrible dilemma for me. Politically everything in me screams “boycott the whole thing”. But the rest of me loves the sports.

It’s utterly disgusting the amount of money that is spent on sports in general and the Olympics is the “icing on the cake”. (we are still paying for 2004 I think) There is SO much strife and need in the world that that kind of money could really change.

I do find the “coming together” ideal of the games very moving but the flag waving turns me off too.

The world has ignored Darfur almost completely. Perhaps it’s only the games that can bring a spotlight to the genocide ? Sad but this is the way we seem to operate.

Ach ! I’m so confused…

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Of course, we here in the States have the same image problem. But we don’t have the Games.

Time for rented movies and some good books.

It was in many ways -the globe, the lighting of the flame, the “painting” etc.- unforgettable.

Yet while Athens celebrated mainly the individual, Beijing celebrate the masses.

As for the Olympics, Bollybutton, I was very disappointed by the opening ceremony. It was “nice” but not at all spectacular like 2004. Nice and excessively slow. Ah well, now the games begin… and that is what it’s all about isn’t it ?

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Adonis: I am not interested in your opinions on the work of people more able than you. Unlike you, I am also not interested to have the last word. However, I do insist that you respect the rules of this blog yet you persist in flouting them as if they are not relevant. You have already been told that personal attacks are not acceptable; that principle is in the blog rules and is also a standard of behaviour that the civilised world embraces.

That you, like so many Greek people, find it normal and acceptable to engage in direct personal attacks, adorned with frequent nasty little remarks, says something about the culture of the country. I have no further comment to make.

I suggest you start calling Oath Taken Adonis if he keeps calling you Martin