Why the Olympics are a “City Killer”
Check out this interview from February 4, 2022.
Category: Corruption
2022 Winter Olympics – The Genocide Games
After the COVID Games in Tokyo in 2021 (delayed by a years), we now have the Genocide Games in China.
Here’s the REAL Olympic Gold!
You can’t make this stuff up! Rio 2016 head arrested for corruption. He had 16 gold bars worth almost $2 million! Can you imagine the corruption, waste and debt that would’ve piled up by a Chicago Olympics??
No Games Co-Founder Tells Like It Was (and Is)
From WBEZ-FM Chicago Public Radio’s Worldview program from July 19, 2016 (35 minutes):
2016 Bid Still Costing Us – BIG Time
Tom Tresser was asked to weigh in on the ongoing costs of the 2016 Olympic bid. Mayor Daley demolished the Michael Reese Hospital site in 2009 in an effort to impress the IOC. That will end up costing us as much as $150 million!
Olympic Struggle of London 2012 Resisters
From The Red Pepper, a UK publication. “Resistance to the 2012 Olympics has been widespread and under-reported, starting with London’s bid to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to host the Games back in 2004. Protests are planned to continue through to after the sporting events finish, in order to challenge the ‘legacy’ of a corporate …
No Games Story Told In Depth
Tom talked about the story and strategy behind the No Games campaign at the College of Complexes. This video is divided into three sections – the first part is the story and is about 45 minutes. The second is questions from the audience. The third is mostly unrelated to the No Games narrative.
No Games Chicago Story Told – Secrets Revealed!
All of 30 people made it to The Experimental Station Tuesday night to hear No Games organizers Bob Quellos and Tom Tresser reveal the story behind the “Battle for the Bid.” A conversation was at least started about what lessons for civic Chicago can be taken from the bid process and the opposition to it. …
Reader Columnist: “Dear IOC…”
By Ben Joravsky, from today’s Chicago Reader, “One last argument for why Chicago doesn’t need, want, or deserve the games.” It’s been almost six months since I last wrote to encourage you not to award Chicago the 2016 games. Back then, as you recall, I was welcoming some of you to town for your official …
2016 Orders Anti-Bid News Report Cancelled
From the Drudge Report: FOX-TV CHICAGO ORDERED NOT TO RUN ANTI-OLYMPICS STORY Sun Sep 27 2009 21:56:11 ET A local TV station that reported on Chicagoans NOT wanting the Olympics has been told NOT to run the report again, insiders tell the DRUDGE REPORT! The Chicago Olympic Committee told FOX Chicago that its broadcast “would …