The Rio Farce, The Nations March, and NBC does not want us watching the stream!!!

• In what has to be one of the most BONE-HEADED moves in the history of the streaming coverage of the Olympics (ranking right up there with requirement to have a cable subscription or similar), NBC's Olympics website will NOT allow you to watch tonight's Opening Ceremony out of time with your time zone's airing of the event on NBC.  As of writing, the Parade of Nations has begun, but NBC's coverage to the East Coast will be one hour tape-delayed.  Out around these parts:  Try four!  And, if you try to go to NBCOlympics.com -- they'll give you a stream of it...  When it airs on NBC!!!  That's right, three separate streams (one for Eastern/Central, one for Mountain, one for Pacific).
• And it's official:  The decision to even pull the streams to the tape delay is censorship + ratings = more money for NBC and the IOC (who gets some of the commercial money) and the abiliry for the narrative to be controlled in case anything stupid happens.  (Yahoo!) 
• Twitter reaction is fierce.  #NBCFail is already being hashtagged.
• EDIT 5:49 PM PDT:  And it's clear Twitter is joining in.  In Worldwide Trends is a hashtag that has about 7,500 tweets.  I'd swear #NBCFail has had many times this in the last 45 minutes or so!
• We now basically have an idea of who will light the cauldron at the stadium tonight.  It appears the honor will fall to Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima.  A Brazilian marathoner, de Lima was part of one of the most infamous incidents of the 2004 Athens Games when a defrocked priest attacked de Lima while he was leading the Olympic marathon two-thirds of the way through!  de Lima could only muster bronze from that incident, but was given the Games' main sportsmanship honor in exchange!
• Argentina was booed by the Brazilian crowd upon their entry.
• There is an Independent Olympic Athletes team -- separate from the Refugees -- Inside the Games noting this is essentially Kuwait's team.
• Interesting factoid from Michael Devitt of Inside the Games:  Each of the 11,000 athletes has a cartridge -- a seed for a tree for a forest to live as a legacy to the Rio Games near the staging area or close to the stadium.  Each of the 206 teams will plant a different species of tree for an Olympic forest.