Will London hold the Olympic games next year? (IMAGE heavy)

[nadinbrzezinski]

Mexico did... unless this is the foretaste of actual revolution, London will, but the questions are starting.

The real question, a few are asking is WHY is it happening... and I hope the Prime Mnister does not take lessons from Echeverria... who had effective command and these days should face the jury for those crimes.

[Electric Monk]

1. That connection had not occurred to me yet. Interesting question.

k&r

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. The echoes are at times amazing

I read on a cursory pass through BBC that the french were questioning if London could.

This is part of the legacy of those games... the housing



It became low income housing. And people in London, some are that close to the developments are throwing molotovs right now, are questioning what is going to happen with all that;

[Prometheus Bound]

2. Brown? Better fix that.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Problem is, can he?

I mean the response from Echeverria, who later became president, was a form of soft fascism... it was NOT fun growing up during those years.

[Prometheus Bound]

5. No, I mean you got the wrong Prime Minister in your last sentence.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Oh sorry

thanks mind fart