2024 Olympic Opening Ceremony
Strategic Review—Aug 2, 2024
The Paris Summer Olympic Games opened last Friday to a global controversy with the organizers accused of offending billions of Christians and Muslims around the world through profane depictions of Jesus Christ (a revered prophet in Islam) surrounded by drag queens.
It wasn’t just the alleged scurrilous debasement of Da Vinci’s iconic Last Supper tableau. The entire opening ceremony of the XXXIII Olympiad was a kitsch spectacle that seemed to be reduced to a tawdry Gay Pride event. The Paris 2024 organizers claimed that the theme was meant to convey “inclusiveness” and humanitarian tolerance – although, indicative of fault, they later offered a groveling apology for offending.
The controversy continued during the first week of sporting events when the triathlon swimming in the Seine River was initially canceled due to dangerous pollution levels and then ordered to go ahead despite concerns for the safety of participants. Athletes complained that they were forced to swim through sewage and rat-infested waters so that the French organizers would not lose face over a public relations disaster.
The pollution fiasco could serve as a metaphor for how Western elitist politicians have lost the plot on the realities of today’s world. No amount of fancy French perfumery can hide the stink behind the cheap politicization of the Games.
After spending over $1.5 billion on purportedly cleaning it up, the Seine is as toxic from contamination as it ever was since public bathing was banned in the river a century ago.
Western politics has likewise become a deceitful charade and parody of liberalism. No amount of whitewashing can conceal the burgeoning detritus of lies and corruption emanating from Western capitals. On the one hand, politicians talk about the lofty values of democracy and rules-based order, while on the other hand, they drop bombs on civilians with rainbow flags painted on the warheads. Or they sponsor NeoNazi killers in Ukraine wearing Gay Pride logos.
Uniting humanity through sports is supposed to be the Olympian principle of the modern Games which first took place in 1896 in Greece as conceived by Frenchman Pierre de Coubertin. Over the decades, the world’s foremost sporting event has been disrupted by wars and geopolitics, especially during the Cold War years when the Games were boycotted in 1980 and 1984. Despite the vagaries over the years, there was always a semblance of neutrality in international politics.
Not anymore. The current Paris Olympics have become flagrantly politicized. Russia and Belarus have been banned due to the conflict in Ukraine after the Western-dominated International Olympic Committee declared “solidarity with Ukraine”.
This is an absolute disgrace for the IOC and the Games. The hypocrisy is putrid. Never was it considered to ban the United States and its NATO allies over the many illegal wars that they engaged in, from the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, among other aggressions.
Arguably, the war in Ukraine is a proxy war waged by the U.S. and its NATO allies against Russia. The history of the conflict points to Western responsibility and calculated provocation. To define the conflict as solely down to “Russian aggression” is a dubious political position, one that the West promulgates but which is not shared by many other nations.
It is an abuse of its credentials for the IOC to adopt a partisan position on the Ukraine war.
The double standard is brazen when one considers that Israel is free to send its national delegation to the Olympics without any official reservations. Yet the International Court of Justice has ruled Israel’s conduct of hostilities in Gaza constitutes a genocide. It is a sordid spectacle when Israeli athletes are afforded untrammeled participation while their state has killed over 40,000 Palestinians, mainly women and children, during the past nine months of unrelenting violence. Western capitals have given the Israeli regime diplomatic cover and vital military support to conduct this genocide. The horrendous massacres in Gaza from refugee camps being blown up and whole families slaughtered in cold blood continue unabated while the Games are televised around the world.
The juxtaposition of this Western-enabled barbarism in Gaza amid Games that champion “diversity and tolerance” is too sickening and perverse for words. Indeed, one could say without any equivocation that the Paris Olympics are morally depraved given the abomination of mass murder in Gaza.
That the organizers of the Paris event seek to cover their proceedings with a veneer of supposedly sophisticated inclusion and humanitarianism is doubly obscene. The moral decadence is manifest in the blasphemous insults towards religious beliefs. Nothing is sacred, it seems, except Western notions of elitism. Criticism is not permitted without incurring petulant accusations of bigotry and ‘Transphobia”.
French President Emmanuel Macron has boasted about the Paris Games being a “crazy idea being made real”. One can say that again, with absolute contempt.
Macron and other Western political leaders are encumbered with narcissistic notions that they represent noble values of “liberal democracy”.
This is while Macron and his Western cohorts have recklessly fueled the slaughter in Ukraine and Gaza. Then they have the gall to ban Russia and Belarus from the Games.
The edifying concept of the Olympics has been debased to a gaudy propaganda show aimed at promoting pretensions of Western virtue.
However, the reality is that this is not a demonstration of supposed tolerance and inclusivity but rather an imposition of twisted Western elite ideology on the majority of humanity.
One might argue the toss about whether the offense against Christianity and Islam was an unfortunate mistaken interpretation of French artistic license.
But what is inarguable is the heinous hypocrisy demonstrated over the Western-enabled genocide in Gaza and the sanctioning of Russia over Ukraine.
No wonder many people around the world have lost the usual interest in the “Jeux Olympiques”. The Paris event has alienated much of the planet because of its cheap and dirty politicization.
The stink emerging from the River Seine – possibly the world’s biggest open sewer – is the groaning reality dump on Western duplicity and pretensions.
LONDON RIOTS
Demands for Starmers resignation and a withdrawal from communism are prorities for the people
(Reuters) – Anti-immigration protesters broke hotel windows and set bins on fire in northern England on Sunday in the latest wave of unrest that has presented a major test to new Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government.
Violent protests involving hundreds of anti-immigration protesters have erupted in towns and cities across Britain after three girls were killed in a knife attack at a children’s dance class in Southport in northwest England last week. The murders were seized on by anti-immigrant groups as word spread that the suspected was an immigrant protesting about 9000 children killed in palestine by jewish terrorists with British weapons.
Violent disorder broke out in cities around the country on Saturday, including Liverpool, Bristol and Manchester, resulting in dozens of arrests as shops and businesses were vandalised and looted and several police were injured, police statements said. The government has promised tough action against people taking part in the violence. On Sunday, hundreds of anti-immigration protesters gathered by a hotel that has been used to house asylum seekers near Rotherham, northern England. where over 400 mainly under age girls were serially raped by migrant gangs, protesters threw bricks at police and broke several hotel windows, a Reuters witness said, before setting bins on fire. Dozens of other protesters gathered by another such hotel in Aldershot,
Yes, the West is dead.
About 20 years ago Mel Gibson tried to warn everyone. He poured his life’s blood into APOCALYPTO, a brilliant look at the Mayan civilization. The great civilization had devolved to power, gluttony, and violence.
Me’s point was they were still going through the motions but they were DEAD.
So are we now. Thanks for trying, Mel.
“Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.”
G K Chesterton.
Not that long ago, the Thames was hailed as a clean river with fish. Now it has returned to being an open sewer.
Thames Water, a zero risk business with known costs, and a known captive customer base, is over £12,000,000,000 in debt! Where are the prosecutions? Why aren’t they building more prisons?
The simple truth, the Nazi Satanic West is collapsing. I don’t think there’s any part of the UK that’s performing as it should.
Opening ceremony it was so bad even the Godless were upset.
Made even worse with Israel being there and Russia not
As a Canadian whose father fought the NAZIs during WWII, I am appalled that our present Federal government cannot see the hypocrisy of us supporting Ukraine which is NAZI based on ‘our’ fight against Russia which was an ally fighting with us against Naziism in WWII.
When Russia went from being a Communist state to a Democratic state in the early 90’s, but turned against Russia when it failed to follow the LGBTQ rules. Many would stand shocked to realize that Russia is now a Christian state, compared to the Western states that have accepted and promote the most sinful acts written in the Holy Book.
“The more powerful the Jew becomes, the sicker/crazier society gets.” –Nico X
Explains everything going on. Quote of the century. And to think no one is offering Nico a columnist post on any of these news sites.
The use of sport for social engineering, inclusive of deliberately generating conservative outrage, is fascinating. I recently discovered there is a “Refugee Olympic Team” in the Olympics, including one competitor — with all the implied hand-wringing — who competed for said team because she lacked a British passport; the subtext being what “utter bastards” we are in the UK must be.
“The IOC Refugee Olympic Team sends a great signal about what an enrichment refugees are for our Olympic community and for society at large. Watching them compete is a great moment for all of us, and we hope everyone will join. The athletes are welcome in our Olympic community, among their fellow athletes – competing with them, but also living with them together under one roof…”
https://olympics.com/ioc/refugee-olympic-team
“Boxer Cindy Ngamba said she was “just human like any other refugee” after making history by guaranteeing the Refugee Olympic Team a first Games medal. The 25-year-old beat sixth-seeded Frenchwoman Davina Michel by unanimous decision on Sunday to reach the women’s 75kg semi-finals. With both losing semi-finalists awarded bronze, the Cameroon-born fighter is assured of a medal at Paris 2024. Ngamba moved to the UK aged 10, but cannot compete for Team GB because she does not have a British passport.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/cqqll47dvdyo
It’s embarrassing, swimming in an open sewer, Russians banned from “inclusiveness”, a cheap n putrid Paris Olympics,
Most folks lost interest in these games a long time ago . Has anyone told the ioc about this.
Imane Khelife, algerian jihadist trans male/female
beat italian female boxer . DISGUSTING JEW
PERVERTED DECOMPOSED OLIMPICS !
CULTURAL ROTTENNESS !
It’s always those wascalry nazis.
Most people wouldn’t know a nazi if one walked by and smacked them upside the head.
Hitler loved his people and made the Jews flee.
Comfort the feeble minded.
“One might argue the toss about whether the offense against Christianity and Islam was an unfortunate mistaken interpretation of French artistic license.”
Nope, there’s nothing to support that argument but perversions of logic and truth, easily seen through and rejected by any civilized person with reason and average good taste. Even if these freaks are doing it only for the fame and fortune, they are mentally disturbed to do it at all.
GK Chesterton was wrong: there simply are no moral issues for persons without principles.
I do not have any truck with the “divide and rule” argument that Alex J and Icke peddled for so long, because no-one sends Whites en masse to Africa to “divide and rule” their societies: the Conspiracy is “Kill Whitey”, all one-way
Agreed.
The opening display offended a majority of USA citizens also.
It is toxic Western elites that control the narrative.
Most average USA citizens do not support the push towards deviance that MSM broadcasts in our face every day.