There WILL be a terrorism situation at the Brazil Olympics... You heard it here first!

[tatehill2000]

hahaha,,, this is awsome,, i have a feeling there will be a thousand more stories like this one,, countries not wanting to expose their athletes to the dangers of the living arrangements,


[h=1]USA Basketball Is Going To Stay On A Luxury Cruise Ship During Rio Olympics[/h] [h=2]All hands on deck![/h]
08/03/2016 10:20 am ET | Updated 19 hours ago
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Thomas Lipe Sports Department Intern, The Huffington Post



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<figcaption style="width: 630px;" class="image__caption js-image-caption"> The USA Basketball team plans to stay on the Silver Cloud cruise ship for the Olympics. </figcaption> </figure>

Both the men’s and the women’s USA basketball teams will not be staying in the Olympic village for the 2016 Rio Olympics. Instead, the teams will spend their downtime on a luxury cruise ship. USA basketball will also be providing a much larger second ship for “Olympic families,” according to ESPN.
Chairman of USA Basketball Jerry Colangelo first told ESPN’s Marc Stein of their plans to stay on the cruise liner back in March. The men’s and women’s team will be staying on the “Silver Cloud,” operated by Silversea Cruises. The ship will be anchored in the Port of Rio.
The luxury accommodations should not come as a surprise to anyone, however. Beginning in 1992 with the “Dream Team,” USA basketball stopped checking into the Olympic Village and began finding other locations to house their athletes. One of those locations was a cruise ship at the 2004 Olympics in Athens.
“We don’t stay in the village because we don’t feel it’s the best way to prepare for competition,” USA basketball spokesperson Craig Miller told the Associated Press. “The players have a long professional season and they want to spend as much time as possible with family and friends.”
Not to mention the difficulty many basketball players must have literally fitting into the Olympic Village accommodations. The average player height in the NBA is 6-foot-8, according to the Washington Post.
“The beds aren’t made for 7-foot (2.13-meter) players,” Miller said. “Sometimes I’ve seen [players] put their luggage at the end of the bed so their feet can rest there.”
And if the USA basketball teams didn’t stay in the Village for the past six Olympics, then there was definitely no way they were going to stay there for Rio. There have been multiple reports concerning the subpar state of this year’s Olympic Village.
Dallas Mavericks center Andrew Bogut, who will compete with Team Australia in Rio, posted an image of himself doing some handiwork to try and improve what he sarcastically labeled as “IOCLuxuryLodging.”


There is one downside to the cruise ship, though. The last time the men’s team stayed on one, in 2004, they failed to bring back the gold medal.
So here’s hoping cruise ships aren’t bad luck for Team USA.

 

[tatehill2000]

And welcome to DAY 1


<header><header class="">[h=1]With Heavy-Handed Symbolism, Officials Lose Keys To Olympic Stadium [/h]</header>
Barry Petchesky



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Let the Games begin, once they can just get this damn thing open.


</figure> The opening ceremony isn’t until Friday evening, but the Olympic events kicked off at the Maracanã yesterday with some women’s soccer, a necessity to cram all the matches in. And just before kickoff, officials realized they didn’t have the key to one of the stadium’s two gates. Enter the fire patrol with the bolt cutters.

 

[jersey_dude]

And welcome to DAY 1


<header><header class="">With Heavy-Handed Symbolism, Officials Lose Keys To Olympic Stadium

Man, I always knew that Brazil has it's own problems, but didn't realize they are so bad.
This Olympics is exposing the country being a 3rd world shit-hole...
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[StevieRay]

Shit hole may be understatement

 

[ML Dog]

NBA center Andrew Bogut comments upon living conditions in Rio

Morgan J. Wolf

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As if there hasn't been enough people bashing the accommodations in the Athletes' Village in Rio, add Andrew Bogut's name to the list of people who are dissatisfied with the living conditions.

Interestingly, Bogut has gone a step further in creating the ironic hashtag #IOCLuxuryLodging, with which he'll be posting to Twitter about all the bad things he's encountered with his living quarters in Rio.

Like this:

Andrew Bogut ‏<s>@</s>andrewbogut <small class="time"> Aug 1 </small> Andrew Bogut Retweeted Andrew Deeming
<s>#</s>IOCLuxuryLodging will not comment on our delegates penthouse villas in downtown Rio.

Andrew Bogut added,
<s>@</s>andrewbogut I'm sure the IOC delegates also have similar accommodation... <s>#</s>IOCLuxuryLodging


Andrew Bogut ‏<s>@</s>andrewbogut <small class="time"> Aug 1</small>
Andrew Bogut Retweeted Daniel Shandler

At <s>#</s>IOCLuxuryLodging we believe a bed is not vital for sleep. Fine tuned athletes can sleep standing up.

Andrew Bogut added,
I can't believe Olympians are sleeping in single beds. The airplane would've been more comfortable. How do the ballers fit <s>@</s>andrewbogut ?


Andrew Bogut ‏<s>@</s>andrewbogut <small class="time"> Aug 1 </small>

<s>#</s>IOCLuxuryLodging. Putting together a shower curtain so we can shower and not flood the place.

<s>#</s>IOCLuxuryLodging.

 

[ML Dog]

 

[ML Dog]

Another Reason that much of The World will hate USA Basketball, both Men's and Women's Teams, during The Olympics is that they get to stay on the Luxury Cruise ship Silver Cloudwhile basketball players from other countries have to deal with leaky pipes, beds way too small for tall people and rooms that don't have any furniture or TV sets which athletes from India had to go buy for themselves.

Members of India’s Olympic contingent in Rio have reportedly been forced to purchase their own TVs and furniture, following the unavailability of the facilities in the Olympic Village. Hockey India president Narinder Batra posted a picture of the hockey team members assembling furniture after Performance Director Roelant Oltmans bought chairs and tables for both the men and women teams.

The Silver Cloud is a 296-guest cruise that weighs over 16,000 tons. It includes a pool deck, panoramic lounge areas, fitness center and luxurious guest suites.


Let’s take a look inside, courtesy of Silversea Cruises.

 

[tatehill2000]

I think the NBA is paying for that ship to be there,,, (only for americans,,, sorry Bogut)

 

[tatehill2000]

Nice,,, the govt. is just murdering ALL gang members and drug dealers,,,

you know whats genius about this idea,,, is that AMERICA did it already,,, and that shit WORKS,,, its called Katrina!!! hahahahhaha,,,, hey its true bitches,,, Norleans crime was cut by OVER 70% in the coming years,, and lol,,, HOUSTONS (the location of 80% of the poor criminals relocated) Crime went up 40%% (thats insane by the way).

hahaha


[h=1]Killings Rise In Rio’s Favelas As Controversial Police ‘Pacification’ Effort Stalls[/h] [h=2]Deadly police violence, corruption and a recession have undermined support for the security initiative.[/h]
08/04/2016 06:10 pm ET

Brad Brooks

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<figcaption style="width: 630px;" class="image__caption js-image-caption"> Brazilian Army soldiers stand atop sand bags during the dismantling of their base at the Mare slum complex in Rio de Janeiro in June 2015. Brazil’s “police pacification unit” program has stagnated in recent years. </figcaption> </figure>

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Atop the chipped blue metal table sat two 9 mm pistols and small plastic packets of cocaine and marijuana. Two young men slouched in white plastic chairs, while a third held a rifle in a corner 10 meters away.
It was midday this week, not far from a main road in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro’s most developed and supposedly “pacified” slum that straddles a mountain and sits right between the main Barra and Copacabana Olympic zones.
A uniformed police officer stood just 150 meters away, up a sinuous, narrow asphalted lane.
How long had the gang members returned to openly carrying weapons in Rocinha, where 3,000 police and armored personnel carriers in late 2011 invaded to drive out traffickers?
“If you are not buying, move along,” was the terse response from one man at the table, who appeared to be in his late teens.
The scene was emblematic of problems plaguing the stagnated “police pacification unit” program, or UPP, which started in 2008. Its ambitious goal: to push heavily armed gangs from slums and construct permanent police outposts.
There were early successes but they have faded with murder rates again on the rise. A lack of serious follow-up investments because of exhausted public finances and insufficient political will now threatens the entire program.
While most residents are pleased the gangs have less of a presence than before the program began, they also expected to see improved schools, health clinics and sewage systems.
Rio’s city government says it has spent $1.8 billion reais ($560 million) on social programs since 2011. But with so much need for the roughly 20 percent of Rio’s population that lives in slums, frustration over what residents see as a lack of progress has exacerbated tensions with heavily armed police.

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<figcaption style="width: 630px;" class="image__caption js-image-caption"> A woman holds a sign that reads in Portuguese “Favela asks for peace” during the burial of Roseli dos Santos de Jesus in Rio de Janeiro on June 21, 2016. Homicides and police killings have spiked in the favelas this year. </figcaption> </figure> “People around here are more afraid of the police than we ever were of the drug gang,” said Alex de Mello, a fishmonger who has lived 24 years in Rocinha. “At least with the gangs, if you minded your business you probably would be left alone.”
To date, 38 police pacification units have been created, putting over 9,500 police into the shantytowns, or “favelas”, where 1.5 million people live, according to Rio’s state government.
The effort was meant bring security ahead of the Olympics and the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament, with the promised legacy of delivering basic social services to the favelas.
Authorities openly stated the effort could not end the drug trade, but sought to at least disarm it. For several years, drugs continued to be sold out of “pacified” areas but without the obvious presence of weapons. That has changed.
For the first five years, the program was a smash success on the security front. By 2012, murders in Rio and the surrounding Baixada Fluminense area had plummeted 40 percent from the 2008 level of 3,856 killed.
“Then we had the Rocinha effect,” said Robert Muggah, research director at the Rio-based Igarape Institute, a security and development think tank. “Pushback against the program began in 2013 and reached a crescendo with the killing of Amarildo.”
A 42-year-old construction worker who lived in Rocinha, Amarildo Souza was abducted, tortured and “disappeared” by pacification police in July 2013.
They falsely claimed he had ties to gangs. His body has never been found.
Twelve officers were found guilty in his case, with the former commander of Rocinha’s UPP unit sentenced in February to over 13 years in prison.
Souza’s death followed years of complaints of heavy-handed policing, and was the final straw for residents fed up that the promised social services never appeared.
Several subsequent episodes of police killing innocents, including children, and officers caught colluding with drug gangs have made things even worse. Add an ongoing recession, and public and institutional support for new UPPs waned.
The last unit created was inaugurated in May 2014 - since then, nothing.

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<figcaption style="width: 630px;" class="image__caption js-image-caption"> A general view of the Rocinha favela. Roughly 20 percent of Rio’s population live in slums. </figcaption> </figure> [h=4]MORE MURDERS[/h] Five years after the pacification programs began, homicides suddenly spiked again. Killings in 2013 returned to the pre-UPP level, with 3,879 murders in Rio and Baixada Fluminense as emboldened gangs carried out brazen attacks on police.
The killings dipped again for the following two years, but climbed 7.5 percent to 1,518 murders in the first six months of this year compared to the same period in 2015.
As worrying, the number of people killed by police has jumped 12 percent in that same time frame. They spiked 62 percent in May and June with 127 people killed by officers - mostly young, black and poor men.
Rio’s outspoken Mayor Eduardo Paes has bashed state officials on the security front, saying they have done a terrible job.
The state’s security chief Jose Beltrame loudly laments the fiscal crisis, openly questioning how he can adequately protect the population when his 2016 budget was slashed by 30 percent.
Rio state, which oversees security forces, is the second most indebted in Brazil. The interim governor declared a “state of calamity” in June to secure enough federal funds to pay police and keep hospitals open this year.

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Renata Neder, a Rio-based human rights advisor with Amnesty International, blamed the Olympics for the increase in police violence because of more frequent slum raids.
“You increase the number of operations then you increase the number of people being killed,” she said. “The security for the Games is resulting in rights violations.”
Rio’s state security secretariat said in an emailed statement that “the UPPs are not going to end” and that a state decree from 2015 enshrining the pacification policy was a guarantee the effort could not stop when new governments are elected.
Shantytown residents are not so sure.
A survey released last month by the Getulio Vargas Foundation think tank found that over 43 percent of slum residents think the pacification program “will end” after the Olympics, while slightly over 41 percent think it will continue.
The survey questioned 2,000 people in 20 different slums.
Although gang members sell drugs and carry weapons, they still have much less of a presence than before the pacification programs were implemented.
Jeruza Lima, a 28-year-old born and raised in Rocinha who runs a tiny snack food store, said she thinks the UPP improved life in the community and she hopes the policing effort continues for long after the Olympics end on Aug. 21.
“You no longer see the gangs walking around heavily armed, setting the rules of how we live our life,” she said.
“For me, Rocinha is a better place now with the police here. They can’t go away – can they?”

 

[arniesarmy]

Another example of US pussification.

 

[ML Dog]

I think the NBA is paying for that ship to be there,,, (only for americans,,, sorry Bogut)

I Tweeted Bogut that Team Jamaica Girls need a tall guy to help them install a light source in their unfinished bathroom and that he needs to please come Help Them cuz no one else around, its getting Dark and they cannot reach high enough plus do not have tools so if he could please bring the proper tools to install a light source in the roof.

Took me, like, 6 Tweets to do that.

Man. 144 Characters and Welsh/Irish People ain't compatible.

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WATCH: Jamaicans arrive to unfinished rooms inside the athletes' village two days before the #RioGoldRush Olympics. VIDEO: pic.twitter.com/FlZrHyay42

— Jamaica Gleaner (@JamaicaGleaner) August 4, 2016
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[ML Dog]

How exactly does one bet some of this stuff, "Handicap" things when we don't know if The Jamaicans and other athletes are sleeping properly, Basketball guys trying sleep on 6 foot long beds they themselves near 7 feet long?

Hockey Players and other athletes having to spend their time assembling tables, chairs and other furniture....trying to get TVs to work?

Nice Strategy Brazil to sell TVs & Furniture.

Fucking Unbelievable.

Totally defies belief.

 

[StevieRay]

What a disgrace. What an embarrassment. Committee should be banned for not making sure everything was up to par.

 

[ML Dog]

I think the NBA is paying for that ship to be there,,, (only for americans,,, sorry Bogut)

You Reckon the BEST WAY to "Handicap" an ATS Wager against Bogut's Team would be to Tweet this picture to him, the night before a AM Day game of theirs?

 

[ML Dog]

HEY BOGUT

NAIL AND HAIR SALON

FUCKING SPA DUDE

MUDBATH

MASSAGES

is there a great +444 Line somewhere on Andrew Bogut getting sent HOME disqualified SUSPENDED kicked out of The Olympiad?


I might be able to "work some thing" here.



make us some Coin. :toast:

 

[tatehill2000]

HEY BOGUT

NAIL AND HAIR SALON

FUCKING SPA DUDE

MUDBATH

MASSAGES

is there a great +444 Line somewhere on Andrew Bogut getting sent HOME disqualified SUSPENDED kicked out of The Olympiad?


I might be able to "work some thing" here.



make us some Coin. :toast:

lolol,, just fade him,,, plenty of moments for him to quit,

 

[jersey_dude]

I Tweeted Bogut that Team Jamaica Girls need a tall guy to help them install a light source in their unfinished bathroom and that he needs to please come Help Them cuz no one else around, its getting Dark and they cannot reach high enough plus do not have tools so if he could please bring the proper tools to install a light source in the roof.

Took me, like, 6 Tweets to do that.

Man. 144 Characters and Welsh/Irish People ain't compatible.

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WATCH: Jamaicans arrive to unfinished rooms inside the athletes' village two days before the #RioGoldRush Olympics. VIDEO: pic.twitter.com/FlZrHyay42

— Jamaica Gleaner (@JamaicaGleaner) August 4, 2016
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[ML Dog]

Maybe he gets some Jamaican pussy tonight thanks to you!<iframe style="position: absolute; visibility: hidden; display: none; width: 0px; height: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none;" allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" id="rufous-sandbox" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Fuckin SHARP DUDE like a new razor cuz that was my actual Master Plan was to get him Hooked up with the light-skinned Jamaican Girl havin' all types of SEX thus depleting himself plus having to Spoon With her on an air matress cuz Team Jamaica ain't got no beds or just sleep outside on the beach so that I could completely HAMMER opponents of Team Australia Men's Basketball PLUS like + as many points as I could get.

Asswipe Bogut STILL has not replied to my Tweet though. Maybe He is gathering together tools.



Stupid of me to include the "tools" deal....

I felt it made it sound more authentic though, like...actually real.

 

[ML Dog]

I'm gonna ReTweet Bogut that Team Jamaica Girls HAVE THE TOOLS just please come over.



How many letters is that? ^^^^

 

[tatehill2000]

BOOM,, I am setting the OVER UNDER on ARMED muggings of athletes at 37,, keep in mind the ENTIRE australian delegation was robbed 4 days ago (50-70 people) with the FALSE fire alarm


[h=1]Russian Vice-Consul Shoot And Kills Attacker Near Rio Olympic Park[/h] [h=2]The vice-consul, aged in his 60s, is an expert in jiu-jitsu.[/h]
05/08/2016 8:23 AM AEST | Updated 2 hours ago

• Anthony Sharwood Sports Editor, HuffPost Australia

Pilar Olivares / Reuters
Security has been a concern ahead of the Opening Ceremony of Rio 2016.



Reports are emerging that Russia's vice-consul has shot and killed an assailant in the Rio de Janeiro suburb of Barra da Tijuca -- the same suburb which is home to Rio's main Olympic Park complex.
The attack reportedly occurred on the Avenue das Americas on Thursday morning Rio time, a large thoroughfare directly across a shallow lagoon from Olympic Park, and extremely close to where the Australian Olympic Committee plans to stage several open-air athlete press events on Friday, Rio time.
Rio newspaper O Globo (The Globe) reports that the vice-consul was reacting reacted to a robbery. The 60-year-old man, whose identity was not disclosed, was driving with his wife and daughter when his car was caught in a traffic jam. Two suspects approached him and one broke the window of his car with a gun.
The vice-consul, who is an expert in the martial art jiujitsu, took the gun from the burglar and shot him dead. The other man ran away.