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London Olympics 2012 : A city under lockdown
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A photo essay by Paul Stuart
11 August 2012
This photo essay on the London Olympic Games includes a number of images showing the unprecedented security clampdown in the capital during the Games, their rampant commercialism and the hosting, in London’s financial district, of many super yachts owned by the global elite.
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Corporate sponsors tighten grip on the Olympics
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By Paul Stuart
2 August 2012
The accumulated impact of corporate sponsorship on each successive games is choking to death whatever remains of the original Olympic ideal.
The Daily Telegraph quoted Marina Palomba, for the McCann Worldgroup agency, who said the sponsorship rules this time were “the most draconian law in advance of an Olympic Games ever.”
The London Olympics commercial sponsors include Visa, Coca Cola, McDonald’s, Cadburys, Heineken, Samsung, Nature Valley, Adidas, Lloyds TSB, BT, Proctor & Gamble and EDF energy. Organisers have drawn up a list of things banned in the Olympic park, including “any objects or clothing bearing political statements or overt commercial identification intended for ‘ambush marketing.’”
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Global elite descend on East London for Olympics
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By Paul Stuart
27 July 2012
The Royal Dock complex, adjacent to London’s financial district at Canary Wharf, is hosting up to one hundred super yachts, including twenty of the world’s most opulent, as the Olympic Games begin.
Its transformation into a Monaco-style marina playground for the super rich is a telling rebuttal to all the official rhetoric about the “peoples’ games.”
East London’s Royal Docks, including the Royal Albert Dock, the Royal Victoria Dock and the King George V Dock, was once a centre of industry and trade employing hundreds of thousands of workers.