On The Plus Side.

I suppose saying there's 4 days until the start of the Olympics is just another way of saying there's just 20 days until the end of the Olympics.

Today (23/7/12) in Britain police in Manchester are searching for two missing sisters, Liana and Teigan (Irish names) aged 8 and 11 who failed to return home yesterday (22/7/12) after playing in a local park. The investigation is still at a very early stage so I almost hesitate to write this. However the Olympics has always been a hot-bed of paedophilia. This is especially true of sports like women's gymnastics which features flexible young women prancing about in not very many clothes. You may remember at the 2008 Olympics there was a big scandal about whether some of the competitors were over 16 years old or not. This was because people from primarily Anglo-Saxon countries such as the USA and UK would feel uncomfortable talking about how much they enjoyed perving over the competitors if they were younger then 16. For the US part is was also an effort to promote discussion about a having 16 as a universal global age of sexual consent. The 2012 Olympics will end with the Olympic flag being passed from the 2012 hosts Britain to the 2016 hosts Brazil. As I've mentioned before Brazil has significant problems with child prostitution which it is working hard to eliminate ahead of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics by reaching out to visiting nations and introducing sexual age of consent laws. Therefore it has always been highly likely that the 2012 Olympics will be marred by a grisly child sex murder.

That said there is also a strong possibility that the girls are safe and well and the police are just putting on a performance to give the news channels the opportunity to discuss the progress of the Olympic flame as it makes it's way close to my house. Obviously they couldn't just discuss the progress of the Olympic flame because that would be too simple and that leaves little chance of foreigners being confused. At around 10:25 that's just 35 minutes away. As you may have noticed I'll be doing something else.

Edited at around 15:00 on 23/7/12 to add;

Using my smartphone at around 10:55 I found out via Twitter that Manchester police had found the two missing girls safe and well. Apparently they'd been taken for a sleep over (read as drink and drugs) in an abandoned house by a older girl (14 y/o). At almost exactly the same time a Norwegian athlete was carrying the Olympic torch in front of my local shops. Unfortunately you wouldn't have been able to see that on the BBC livestream because apparently too much traffic on the 3G network caused the signal to drop out.

Apart from the obvious reason the fact that the two girls were found safe and well is good news because it demonstrates my first instincts tend to be correct. The incident also touches on something I was hoping to save until the end of the Olympics under the title; "If You Enjoyed the Olympics Feel Free to Thank the USA on Your Way Out." Since the security operation for the 2012 games started over a year ago it quickly became obvious that Britain intended to hit the visiting foreign delegations as hard as possible. This made large traffic blocking demonstrations, riots and false flag terrorist attacks all very real possibilities. However since around the start of 2012 the USA has been putting extensive pressure on Britain to tone it the f**k down. One element of the argument over whether it would be too late to change the uniforms of the USA team from a Chinese manufacturer is just one example of this. So Britain is now trying to make something of a joke about how far they'll be prepared to go to find out who was aware of the pressure from the USA and what they think about it. Further examples of this from to today alone include the news that a lawyer who was in hospital in Bristol has died from his injuries, news that a man has been arrested after 8 people were (lightly) injured by a dog in Hastings and the news that in Newcastle which saw Saturday's (21/7/12) gas explosion the council have taken over Olympic security at the St James Park football stadium from G4s.

Readers with long memories will remember that in the arguments with the Notting Hill Housing Trust (NHHT) over number (#) 50 Beechwood one issue was NHHT's claim that they had provided security to contain problems at the address. However it quickly turned out that their "Security" was not trained or licensed by the Security Industry Authority (SIA). Getting their staff SIA licenses has been one of the big problems G4s has been having. Funnily enough although I doubt I'll get the time to write a full update I've been hit by a sudden urge to change the name I use for the Syrian insurgents from the Saudi Irregular Army (SIA) to the more accurate but unwieldy Saudi and Qatari Irregular Army (SQIA).