Different incidents during all of the summers which were presented by the mass media uniformally as examples pointing to the two following things:

1. that the experts staffing the positions in the hospitals are unfit or incompetent
2. that there is a lack of staff and/or equipment in the hospitals.

Big confusion and conflicting information are filling the newscasts globally regarding the situation existing in the area of S. Ossetia, the condition of the Georgia-Russia war armistice, the causes of the different actions from both sides but also the position and involvement of the international community, the E.U. and the U.S.A. in the whole affair.

From the Opening Ceremony alone it is obvious that symbolist in the Olympic Games is very important. This was shown by the mass media and it is obvious if we make a comparative chart of the different symbols that are projected each time in each set of Games and the way they are done but also the sociopolitical conditions relevant for each time.

Driving and like a barrage was, though all the media both within and internationally, the presentation of the swimming athlete Phelps who was described with adjectives like ‘super-athlete’, ‘athlete-phenomenon’, ‘king’ and others.

Also, through all the television channels without fail, there was a great focus on the reason of his career of choice with the characterizations ‘dyslexic’, ‘diagnosed with ADHD’, ‘child of divorced parents’, etc.

While most media are reporting on current events in Georgia, some calling it civil war, others calling it an insurrection, still others labeling it an invasion, few are giving facts or commentary concerning the background. A documentary aired last Friday night on public radio here brought up a number of interesting issues concerning the outbreak of violence.

A great reaction from the Greek People was caused when, as the Greek team was entering the Olympic stadium of Beijing the television cameras showed the former king and outcast by double People’s Order Constantine Glyxbourgh as the current and official representative of the Greek government in China. The fact becomes even more vivid with the information that the minister of foreign affairs D. Bakogiannis was present in the proper officials’ places but was not chosen as the rightful representative of Greece by the director and therefore the production and the ones who funded it.

War fray between Georgia and Russia began, breaking the Olympic armistice as everyone is saying. That which is highly alarming (beyond the pointless loss of life and fortune) and which is not mentioned except in a convoluted and imprecise way is the reason for this fray.

A lot of exultation was in news stories in the television channels, describing how despite the threats of the Skopjan state and its leader that the march of the Skopjan team in the Olympic Opening Ceremony of Beijing would be done under the sign ‘Macedonia’ and not ‘FYROM’ which is (improperly as we demonstrate in the matching blog) their official name, in the end they marched with their official name. The fact was described as ‘disorderly retreat’ and in some way a prevalence on the part of Greece.

A profound impact is created in every Citizen who is aware of modern history the presence of soldiers/ officers who marched on different occasions in the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games with the goose step: a manner of step which, like the swastika is associated regardless of origin with the most racist, totalitarian and violently imperialistic political and ideological schema: Nazism.

With a great investment of human and material dynamic/ potential the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games of Beijing where 2008 people in every phase of the artistic part, different people every time, tried to present a programme which heralds the “technological force and the human element”.