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July 28th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The opening of the 2012 London Olympics included a 27 million dollar promotion of Britain’s National Health Service while the UK government slashes services from the health care system.
Press TV has interviewed Neil Faulkner, Counter Olympic Movement in London about corporate opportunism in advertising tagging along with these Olympic Games and the irony of spending millions to showcase an Olympic Games in a city under severe austerity. What follows is an approximate transcript of the interview.
Press TV: It seems with the crowd behind us there marching onto another location, the message coming out of London is 12 billion pounds well spent?
Faulkner: Well, it’s certainly not and I think your reference to the NHS is appropriate. The Cameron government is planning to cut 20 billion pounds from our public health service over the five year term of the government and that contrasts with the 12 billion in basic costs of the Olympics and an estimated total cost of 24 billion.
So, Danny Boyle’s reference to the National Health Service was very ironic in the opening ceremony yesterday and more generally I think what we’re looking at is the use of the London 2012 Olympics to make statements about corporate power, about class privilege; and I also think about war on terror militarization.
I mean, we’ve got a ghastly list of major international corporations that have become sponsors of the London 2012 Olympics using it as an opportunity to give themselves a PR makeover:
Companies like Dow Chemicals responsible for the Bhopal disaster; BP responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster; ATOS responsible for driving disabled people in Britain off benefits and into poverty.
We’ve got class privilege – we’ve got the ticketing scandals and the reservation of up to two thirds or even three quarters of the tickets at top events for Olympic officials and corporate sponsors.
We’ve got a ribbon of class privilege across our city with 35 miles of road made available to the A-lite pushing ordinary people on to congested carriageways so they can get from their five-star hotels to the Olympic venues.
We’ve got 50,000 security personnel deployed in East London. Well, that’s a bigger level of militarization since we had in the Second World War.
Press TV: The question then, Neil, becomes are you a spoil sport? If the moment is here and the world’s eyes are on the UK, why don’t you just let that go, sweep it under the carpet we just move on?
Faulkner: There are two different Britain’s you see. There is the Britain of the millionaires and the corporations; there’s the Britain of those who are getting much richer as the rest of us have austerity imposed upon us. That austerity is now eating into the social fabric, eating into our public services pushing us back to levels of inequality that we haven’t seen since the 1920s.
What our rulers are wanting to do of course is to use the London 2012 Olympics to project the message Britain is open for business; Britain is open to make profits in; Britain is a place, which is stable under the control of the rich and the corporations so other people should come and invest here.
That’s not the message we want to communicate, we want an alternative message, which is about democracy; it’s about the empowerment of ordinary communities; it’s about social equality and spreading resources; it’s about defending public services; it’s about not wasting 24 billion on a showcase for the A-lite, but using that 24 billion to make good some of the cuts that are being made in our public services and creating a real long term legacy by doing so.
SC/JR
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