ChrisMayLA6,
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Meanwhile in #Paris..... having been subjected to a #bedbug infestation & a #sewage problem in the #Seine, now the #Olympics organisers are picking a fight with Paris' riverside #book stalls that they want to absent themselves from the banks while the opening ceremony as their stock boxes are apparently a security risk...

How this will play out for the Paris mayor & Olympics management remains to be seen

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riggbeck,
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@ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon

The Olympics are like a vampire sucking the life out of any city foolish enough to let them in. Or perhaps that flying city in Gulliver's Travels that raids the countryside beneath it for supplies.

negative12dollarbill,
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@riggbeck @ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon
Last I checked, Montreal still had a tax on the books which they added in 1976 for their Olympics.

BillySmith,
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@negative12dollarbill @riggbeck @ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon

I live in East London where the Olympics took place in 2012.

The local property taxes had been increased in 2007 to cover the costs, but the local borough still went into debt to cover the costs.

We'll be paying this off for decades.

paul_ipv6,

@ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon

sure. it's only an integral part of the charm of paris. no biggie.

probably need to get rid of all the sidewalk cafes too. yet another security risk.

le sigh....

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@paul_ipv6 @ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon They could make it a lot safer by not allowing any people.

rooftopjaxx,
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ChrisMayLA6,
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@rooftopjaxx @bookstodon

rubbish, but Google Translate & the pictures suggest all is not well for the #Olympics

rooftopjaxx,
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@ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon we were recently struck by the similarities (State of Exception'n'all) between the Olympics Enabling Act - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/12/enacted) and that other enabling act - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Enabling-Act
YMMV

fkamiah17,
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@ChrisMayLA6 In my experience of "les bouquinistes", not well.

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