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		<title>Olympic Games: Carrying the Torch Deeper Into the Perilous Austerity Forest</title>
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			<title>Dennis Loo says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The difference between the UK and Greece is that the UK is an imperialist power, not what it once was, but still a major imperialist country. Greece, on the other hand, is not an imperialist power. So the UK has the ability to impose its will over other countries and also the ability to extract superprofits out of others to a scale that Greece cannot match. But, still, given all these differences, they share the fundamental problems that neoliberal policies bring and it's being felt most severely by the working classes.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Dennis Loo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Yasmeen S says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Greece is in big economic down spiral. Even after its two bail outs Greece might be facing the boot out from the eurozone. I would dare to say that London will face an even bigger downfall than that of Greece. Greece is backed up by troika, for now, but who will rescue London? Aside from monetary cost,Joshua Mills in his article " The Elusive Economic Lift of The Olympics" states that there is also traffic, hence, pollution, littering, and crime. These cost are usually not taken into account, adding to the illusive idea that hosting the Olympics will boost economical situations.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Yasmeen S</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
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