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"Dark" Days Ahead: Main Power Supplier For Brazil Olympic Games Pulls Out
Back in July, we asked if Olympians at the upcoming summer games in Rio would be swimming in feces. “Extreme water pollution is common in Brazil, where the majority of sewage is not treated. Raw waste runs through open-air ditches to streams and rivers that feed the Olympic water sites,” AP explained. “As a result, Olympic athletes are almost certain to come into contact with disease-causing viruses that in some tests measured up to 1.7 million times the level of what would be considered hazardous on a Southern California beach.”
Obviously, spending billions on modernizing the country’s basic sanitation infrastructure isn’t in the cards now that the government is mired in a fiscal crisis and desperately needs to cut spending in order to hit what certainly look like unrealistic primary surplus targets.
We’ve long predicted that the country’s economic and political strife would end up having an adverse impact on the games and sure enough, we found out earlier this month that athletes in Olympic village will be asked to pay for their own air conditioning and will not have televisions in their rooms. In short, organizers can no longer depend on the government (and who knows what the government will look like by the time the games commence) to fund cost overruns. That means spending only as much as Brazil expects to take in from sponsorships, ticket sales, and a grant from the International Olympic Committee.
Apparently, the games were already some $520 million over budget. The government was supposed to cover that (and more) but obviously that’s out of the question given Brazil’s worsening fiscal crisis. “By the time the Games begin, the committee plans to have 500 fewer paid staff than the 5,000 it originally expected,” Bloomberg said, adding that “the deepest cuts will probably come from operational areas like catering, transportation and cleaning services.”
Well, if you thought all of the above was bad, consider that now, a major supplier of power has reportedly backed out of the event, suggesting that in addition to unsanitary conditions and no air conditioning, athletes could well run out of energy - literally.
As Reuters reports, “longtime Olympic power provider Aggreko has pulled out of a tender to supply generators for the games in Rio de Janeiro next year, dealing a major blow to organizers rushing to secure an energy source for the world's largest sporting event.”
With Glasgow-based Aggreko, it’s the experience that counts. The company has helped power nine Olympics and six World Cups and although Rio 2016 spokesman Mario Andrada told Reuters he was comfortable with the companies still competing for the tender, some say he probably shouldn’t be.
"There is increased risk of it going to someone who doesn't have the experience. Are there people out there with enough equipment? Probably. But in terms of the operational side of things, Aggreko are pretty good at this," said Will Kirkness, an analyst at Jefferies.
While Aggreko didn’t give a reason for pulling out, Reuters suggests they may have become exhausted with the planning process which, if you go by the 2012 London games, is behind by about 12 months.
Of course it’s also likely that Aggreko worried it wouldn’t get paid. As noted above, and as we discussed two weeks ago, the government can’t fund cost overruns, which means that if the planning committee exceeds the budget, it’s not clear who would cover the bill.
More worrisome is that “the temporary power contract guarantees a stable and secure energy supply for international broadcasters.” Interruptions in coverage mean lost ad impressions and if advertisers and sponsors become concerned that Brazil will ultimately be unable to deliver, they could begin to rethink their commitment.
Additionally, one has to wonder how long it will be before fans begin to rethink their plans to attend.
After all, no one wants to go to an opening ceremony where the only light is the Olympic torch.

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The Olymics have become a commercialized farce.
It's like Christmas on steroids.
Just cancel olympics anyone see greeces venues from 10 years ago?What a waste of resources
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of scammers..
I’m just glad that the money that is still being scammed down there isn’t being scammed in Chicago.
Ol’ Iranian Chicago south side property owning Valerie is crying in her Cabernet.
Between this and the FIFAWorld Cup crony-looters, they all deserve to go down.
Is it just me or is it crazy to pull out of that?
pods
New Olympic event in Track and Field next year: The Shit Put.
***The Sweaty Shit Put in the Dark
FIFY
Aggrekko in the US rents large deisel generators. Brazil has power infrastructure, the generators are probably just for standby power.
Air conditioning? Avg temperature in july in Rio is 75F. it is winter there in july. No AC required.
Swimming in shit? Obviously, the Olympic selection committee didn't do a very good job vetting the locale, or setting the standards for the games. Bonuses all around for the selection committee i'm sure.
I am very skeptical that there will be an Olympic games at all. Russia will likely pull out. China may boycott too. Brazil is officially in a DEPRESSION while facing a growing discontent with it's own people amid widespread corruption charges. Bacteria along the swimming channels is still a concern.
I've been wrong before. But I'm right far more often. And from my vantage point, I just don't see it coming together.
Its about time people realize that the Olympic games are a waste of time and money
like f1.
But...how could this happen when Mitt Romney saved the olympics already?!?!?
A bunch of criminals were trying to bring the Olympics to Boston. They were stating how economically beneficial the Olympics are. The catch is that the local government needs to sign off on covering any overages just in case the numbers don't work out. Well, the numbers haven't worked out for decades so the citizenry threw the criminals out. Boston's loss is LA's gain. Just sign on the dotted line.
At least F1 pays for itself.
The circuses are endangered. Next goes the bread.
Can't UpVote this enough.
Miami - FL / U.S.A
December 16th, 2015
If Brazilian certified assholes just like you, somehow manage to fly without a motor attached to their useless ass, and a pair of wings, certainly your own shit-hole's town would have an additional airport.
Just put the runners in treadmills and generate some power. Shit, do I have to think of everything?
LBS: Since South Africa found out about the length of the FIFA "shaft" during and mostly after their world cup event (FIFA walks away once its done, no help here); the only good thing to come out of it for SA was to withdraw its Olympics hosting bid. Once burnt, twice shy. Of course that hasn't stopped the squandering of money on other useless projects.
How many more Olympics can be held in the current mega-event format? I suspect that countries are going to start looking at the cost-benefit and walk away from it.
No, its always going to be a showcase for socialism. Each country wanting to host the Olympics will, with great fanfare and marketing get the citizens to fund, at ENORMOUS expense to fund the cost of it under the guise of pride and patriotism.
That's all it takes is a very expensive marketing campaign to get the people to endorse another pocket picking.
Its almost a measure of and a competition of which country has become the most socialist.
It's still a nearly 100% accurate currency short that comes around every 4 years.
There is always another canadian city willing to step up to the plate
Here's a thought....why not go back to previous event sites that already have the facilities?
Because that makes sense and we can't have any of that. Here is what happens to Olympic venues that are not used after the Olympics.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/haunting-pictures-of-the-abandoned-s...
my parents live about 15 minutes from the abandoned olympic tennis venue in atlanta. Hasnt been touched in many mnay years and is falling apart. Looked good in '96 though...
Well Greece is stiil paying (through the teeth) for this..
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/gallery/2014/aug/13/abandoned-athens-olympic-2004-venues-10-years-on-in-pictures
This is gonna be perfect, shining a world spotlight on another socialist miracle.
+100 That's damn funny - sad but true.
If they time it just right they can have the impeachment trial for their socialist President Dilma Rousseff going on at the same time as the Olympics. Hell, they can even do it on a split screen.
Riveting television ;-)
What's the big deal? Throw on a few more shifts and print up a few extra billion! It's so simple, people!
Is the judging gonna be on a 0 to 6 scale or 0 to 10?
Miami - FL / U.S.A
December 16th, 2015
To be quite frankly with you, it will certainly be a miracle if they won't run out of toilet paper !......
Malinvestment in steroids.
The Olympics should he held in three (to five) established first class (western) venues across the globe...Australia, US, EU.
but but but how else will my friends make money?
"The Olymics have become a commercialized farce."
Few things haven't. I recommend watching the BBC documentary "The Century Of The Self", which casts a critical view on the (over)consumer culture and the consequences that it has for both people and planet.
They already fixed the planet from Paris, everythings fine now.
Did you say 'fixed' or 'f*cked'? 'Fine' or 'finalized'?
Bwa ha. + 1
You deserve those + 24 (and still counting).
Consumers of the World Unite! /sarc
And you socialists are leading the charge! Y'all are so enlightened you don't need God, you have your SELF!
Wait, you posted an advertisement for a BBC show to complain about over-commercialization?
Won't be long before they cancel Christmas, too, the most commercial of holidays.
It is the mid-winter comsumerplaooza that will get cancelled.
Churchs will be open for midnight mass.
"Churchs will be open for midnight mass."
Why? "Christmas" has nothing to do with Christianity... or vice-a-verse-a.
The whole system has become untenable, the fix is in and there is no way back......
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/12/the-fix-is-in-franc...
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Take a look at LiveLeak. There are video murders showing up every day in Brazil. It seems like 20% of the population is the police and the other 80% is off duty police.
Don't worry Brazil, Obama also have a secret plan for you and your power supplier....
If you like your power supplier, you can pay triple and accept a higher deductible.
If the lights don't come on when the games start, it was probably that YouTube video.
Also, do not schedule your wedding near the Olympics -- drones will be in the air maximizing collateral damage. If you want to be safe from drone strikes, schedule your wedding near an ISIS camp, Obama never targets those.
Lastly, the public should be aware that TSA perverts will be at all airports, groping children and innocent civilians. Hot Brazilian women and terrorists that post threats on Facebook will be waved through without any screening.
The only reason I click on any "Brazil" or "Sweden" or "Norway" links is for larger pics of the clickbait.
Yes, and I rate the article from 1 to 5 based upon scenery in the photo. This one was a five, of course.
You liked that bottle-blonde?
[The curtains don't match the carpet...]
Dude, she's Brazilian, there ain't no carpet at that house.
pods
True, but the awnings are likely fake too:
http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/full-width/images/2012/04/blogs/graphic-detail/20120428_WOC079.png
Greece went bankrupt after (and partly because) it organised the Olympic Games in 2004. Now Brasil is taking it to another level, going bust BEFORE organising the Olympics. Pulling out saves lives.
"olympic interruptus" - has a nice ring to it...
Sounds like they need the growth and the animal spirits.
it's a brazil gang bang..another stiff dick will soon stick it in.. (pulling out in a catholic country is birth control at it's finest, NO?)
Remember, always finish on Bach never on Debussy.
Well-done Conan.
The Olympic committee and FIFA.
The ultimate Brazilian spit roast.
The Olympics are rigged with steroids and shit anyway. Not fun anymore.
Stupid idea having it in Brazil.
Didnt the IOC look the place over before they pulled the trigger on this deal?
Money - always follow the money trail.
Yep. They guys who gave it to Brazil already have their stash o' cash.
Haha,
"Olympians die of Mysterious Disease-" Roysters
"German Soccer Team Taken Hostage."
"Russia launches airstrikes to defend their portion of the Olympic Hell-Hole."
Assuming we get that far, the 2020 Olympics are the ones what's gonna be interestin'!
When a politician (lets call the IOC bureaucrats what they are) visits a location, they fly over in $200 million armor protected helicopters with fighter escorts. Take off and landing sites are closed for 10 blocks in every direction. All homeless people, protesters, etc have been moved out of sight and off camera (got to have a photo op!).
"Dignitaries" (air quotes) are plied with lots of alcohol and food that the local people can't afford. Most of the food will be thrown out. Extra booze (there is always lots of extra) goes into the bureaucrats luggage.
If you think the politicians see the same areas as the athletes (never mind the public), you are naive. Even if the politicians weren't doing their photo op in front of a Potemkin village (stage props if you missed the reference), they are way to sloshed to know what is happening.
The IOC isn't much different than the Brazil government (or any G7 government for that matter). High fees/taxes. Perks that make S&P500 CEOs jealous. Unlimited free food and booze. Five star hotels. Armored limousines that get police escorts thru traffic jams.
They have never gone outside the Ritz-Carlton in their lives, but somehow we expect them to know about Motel-6?
Brazilians never pull out early
If Aggreko won't do it, it must be bad.
Agreeed...Aggreko is large enough to handle logistics anywhere. There must be an extreme risk they won't get paid.
Or they had a call from one of the US economic hitmen "Drop the gig or else, capiche?"
The NSA is monitoring all communication just for this reason - evidence for blackmail or other threats.
Mght not have anything to do with getting paid. Maybe getting your equipment back when the riots start.
That's why they call it a dark age.
Ay least the Brazilians have some nice muff to bury their sorrows in..
take Greece off Europes' hands, serious..
put the summer games in Athens along with state of art airport(airbase). america be a f-ng hero as well as capitalistic shits we are right in heart of Med..nothing like oil port and ship building!
Ain't socialism grand?
Brasil = Societal socialism and Economic corporatism.
Calling a black person "preto/preta" is a prosecutable offence.
They are negro and negra.
They had to genderize it! Philistines!
who cares!as long as the blonde babes can be seen
Swap the torch for a Zippo
LMFAO!!!!!
There's your fucking Olympics Europe. Shove them up your broke ass!!!
BRIC countries all have the same development, namely currency collapse. China next.
TAM Brazilian Airlines flight JJ8065 last night from Madrid to São Paulo returned to Madrid after 1.5 hrs due to a bomb threat:
"TAM Flight JJ8065 on FlightRadar24 Twitter"
Is this the Rio 2016 Olympian wreckers getting into their stride?
Aggreko is probablly the world's #1 supplier of generators, and an event like the Olympics would need a shit-ton of them. If Aggreko is saying they don't want any more of this it must be a clusterfuck of Biblical proportions. You'd wonder why a company would back out of the single largest event using their equipment, but there comes a time when you just don't need the headaches; you can't possibly make any money and your people very well might quit on you.
The sports bubble is one that hasn't gotten enough attention. It, too, is powered by over-financialization over the past 30+ years. In most American cities, they're building at least one sports palace with public money, while claiming they don't have enough money to fix the streets or buy new textbooks for the schools. Here in Minneapolis, in the past 20 years we've built an ice arena, a college football stadium, a baseball stadium, we're nearly done with a more-than $1 Billion football palace, we're going to build a little soccer stadium, and it's almost time for a new NBA arena. By the time that's done, the hockey arena will need rebuilding, if the finance scam hasn't stopped spinning by then.
The special events, like NCAA tournaments, World Series, Super Bowl and various all-star games take the grift to a higher level. The high-rollers simply demand all the luxury hotel rooms, limos, fine dining, booze, communications infrastructure; all for free. They demand complete control of major metropolitan areas and the paramilitarized police forces. The amount of money an urban area bleeds out is outrageous. Bartenders, cabbies and hookers might come out ahead, but then again, they might not.
The Olympics and the World Cup are even huger scams. Entire nations are bled dry so the elites can party. The average person's chances of getting in to one of these events and having a good time are essentially nil.
I'm a huge sports fan and I can't wait for this shit to collapse. I'm going to minor-league baseball, high-school hockey, women's basketball; wherever the game is still more important than the grift. It's getting more and more difficult to find.
Swmnguy I totally agree. But dem asses ...
"The sports bubble is one that hasn't gotten enough attention."
Then let's give it some:
1. The "kids" are cutting the cord on cable, because they can't afford an iPhone 8 and $150 month cable.
2. The cable companies respond by offering ala carte plans to lower the cost to the "kids".
3. Consumers look at the "menu", see $30+/month for ESPN and deselect ESPN.
4. ESPN revenue dives and ESPN cannot offer lucrative contracts to various sports.
5. *POP*
That's a bubble that needs pricking.
American men have largely traded in their gonads for a fucking sports jersey. Before this whole sports circus came along men would spend their time talking about politics, finance, pussy, civics, cars, and then maybe a little sports. Nowadays most "men" I overhear out and about talk obsessively about "their" team. Baseball season turns into football turns into basketball and now everybody fucking loves hockey and they're not even from MN at like you swmnguy. Meanwhile the world is going crazy around them but they're too obsessed with their god damned teams to pay attention. They think they're macho but I call them all a bunch of pansies.
You have no vision or civic pride. How can you be a world class city without pro sports teams? What company will move to your city without skyboxes? Don't give me that shit about educated workforce, lower taxes and better quality of living . How can your downtown exprience a grand re-birth without a giant money pit?
Dear Rams if you need help packing to go back to L.A. give me a call
And this is how it ends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB1LuCUovW4
All true. But then again, the fucksticks in this State elected Dayton. Can you say "embarrassmnent?? The free shit crowd ecompasses all socio economic levels. Down here in Farmington, look at the high school they built on the backs of the taxpayers. Completely insane even in the land of 10,000 taxes
Look on the bright side. You will have great venues for the Hunger Games!!! LOL
Bread and circuses baby.
Busty blonde Brazilian babes will always have work
As a cohort, yes. Individually, not so much; work starts drying up around their mid-30's and the new crop takes over. Cycle of life.
How do they train for swimming freestyle though sewage in the dark?
"Glub, Glub!"
"Hans! Wass is Loss?"
"Somezing has me! Help!"
"I'll swim to you!"
"No, call the XFiles! This thing is not human! Arrrrgghh!"
Man, last time I was in Rio, folks were getting robbed AT the 5-star hotels.
I can see this is going to be a very interesting Olympics.
"ABC Sports goes to Howard Cosell, live in Rio"
"Jim, in an unprecedented spirit of co-operation, hundreds of countries have brought Honda generators to Brazil. However, there is a problem getting gas. Lines are two miles long in places! Last night, swimming was held under flashlights!"
"Look at that little monkey go!" Poor Howard; one of the first casualties of the culture wars.
If you go to the top of the hills surrounding Rio and look down at the semicircular bay you can see the following 3 things:
1. the magnificent azure blue of the open Atlantic beyond
2. the shit-brown bay water
3. the sewage outflow station in the center of the bay
Best sewage: Praias Vermelha (Urca), Flamengo & Botofogo...
Never enter the water.
"ISIS To Boycott Olympics"
Ankara, Royterz News:
"Abu Biden AL-Deleware said today ISIS would not attack the Brazilian Oympics.
"There is nothing we can do to make it worse or get publicity," said abu Biden."
This is probably a bargaining tactic. They want more money up front.
If they are half-wits (never mind smart), they will demand full payment, cash only, upfront.
You don't provide services on credit to corrupt dead beats -- something the folks in Washington DC might want to think about as they "go Greek" financially speaking
Flood the Amazon basin with a dam .... if all that water dropped 10 feet .... it would produce moar poar .... than all the coal fired plants in China ?
This would be a good Olympics .... to boycott ?
I wouldn't pull out...
Wait are we talking about the olympics or the flag girl?
Yaaaa Socialism rocks!
It seems that getting the Olympics is akin to the SI cover jinx.
Electricity? Minor details.
The original Olympics didn't have any electricity either, unless a thunderstorm passed by.
But wait, there's golf at the Olympics next year !!!!!
And Sychronised Swimming and 7-man Rugby and Horse Ballet, and Ball Bouncing to music!
Someone must save the games.
Didnt they just get dicked down by FIFA recently? Shitty priorities
jacques gone rogge rogue pump few more "Victory nickels" olympics.
fb extra zucker loaf mountain...
philanthropy zuckerberg FB
Rumor has it that toilets that flush will cost Olympic Athletes two bits and a salad tossing.
Miami - FL / U.S.A
December 16th, 2015
Brazil's upcoming Olympics over budget on $ 520 million dollars straight to the Biggest Two for One Shittiest Outdoor Toilet on earth’s surface.
Indeed, for a miserable socialist corrupted to the bone such as Dilma Vana Rusev, a Bulgaria's communist dissident, whose own criminal father have in mid 1930’s fled his country to France, living completely behind his own family in order to save his communist-criminal neck.
A legit mid 60's terrorist and VPR's urban guerrilla leader, who was in fact at Cuba's jungle to be fully trained, from the experted hands of the up most repressive, depressive, undemocratic and communist-criminal regime within Latin America's history, commonly recognized in today's world as Cuba’s Castro brothers communist regime.
For someone such as Dilma Vana Rusev, who remains willing until today's date to showing her deeply disrespectful attitude towards to her own Brazilian Armed Forces, addressed them "as dictators", while she’s was by fact accompanied with her own communist and criminal ex-husband within Brazil's territory, who have assaulted at gun point local financial institutions for a quick cash achievement, and literally blew up a local military headquarter with a unique purpose to illegally and criminally ceased military weapons and ammo during the course of a military intervention against a communist expansion occurred on Brazilian soil on past March 31st, 1964 commonly known as coup d'etat.
Many unanswered questions, included if the Olympians at the upcoming summer games due in Rio would be swimming in feces. “ the extreme water pollution, which is surely common in Brazil, where the majority of sewage is not treated.
A unique shit-hole on earth’s surface that literally receives on the daily basis a massive 4 tons of raw waste, accompanied with garbage from its local residents, that phisically runs throughout an open-air ditches to streams and rivers that is currently feed the Olympic water sites. As a result, Olympic athletes and staff are certain to come into contact with a disease-causing viruses that tests have already showed a massive scale up to 1.7 million times the level of what would be considered hazardous on a Southern California beach in the U.S territory.
After all, no one wants to go to an opening ceremony, where the only light will be the Olympic’s torch facing a unique oversized smelly outdoor toilet.
Perhaps, Rousseff’s would take in consideration to grant a free aid originated from Brazil’s tax payers to provide to her own V.I.P's outdoor prostitutes to at least been able and capable to fully speaks a foreign language, while performing their state-of-art blow job, which isn’t considered news within Brazil’s whores’ house, at all.
I am an American living in Brazil and live just a short distance from the Olympic park and a lot of the venues. Its complete chaos here. You are dealing with people who will "missappropriate" anything they can get their hands on here. Im in the volunteer program also and its well, I dont even know how to explain the disorganization. Its a fact that millions of dollars are missing here and unaccounted for. Many people have lost their homes and pretty much everything for this Olympics. The people who were protesting the golf course being built on protected sanctuary by the lake have been assualted and had their possesions destroyed by "unidentified" persons. That would be the Policia Militar. If you come here for the Olympics, just watch youreslf. You are in for a surprise. This incedent is just one of a very long list of problems here. Im considering backing out of the program. Too scary now. Im sure that by the time it starts many things will be secured, but still, its gonna be sketchy. All the things you hear about the pollution and robberies of some athletes, quite true. Broad dayligt robberies and big beach sweeps in tourist areas by gangs of kids are common in tourist spots. I can assure you the Policia Militar will be hiding some sins before during and after. If it was up to me, I would cancel it.