London Olympics' Closing Ceremony: War of the Worlds

[fish5133]

Olympic Closing Ceremony date is sunday 12th August


War of the worlds lyrics

[Disco_Destroyer]

I do like the idea of a world state but 1st we need to bin the corporate thugs and other power elite. hmm nah that won't happen lol

[TonyGosling]

The War Of The Worlds was used by Orson Welles to scare the American People nearly to death just before the outbreak of World War Two. Here's the end of Mack White's superb article gathered off an old site memes.com or was it memes.org ?

Television and the Hive Mind
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=13624
http://www.mackwhite.com/tv.html

........There is no doubt that we have been brought closer to the "hive mind" by the mass media. For, what is the shared experience of television but a type of "Vulcan mind-meld"? (Note the terminology borrowed from Star Trek, no doubt to make the concept more familiar and palatable. If Spock does it, it must be okay.)
This government report would have us believe that the hive mind will be for our good--a wonderful leap in evolution. It is nothing of the kind. For one thing, if the government is behind it, you may rest assured it is not for our good. For another, common sense should tell us that blurring the line "between individuals and the entirety of humanity" means mass conformity, the death of human individuality. Make no mistake about it--if humanity is to become a hive, there will be at the centre of that hive a Queen Bee, whom all the lesser "insects" will serve. This is not evolution--this is devolution. Worse, it is the ultimate slavery--the slavery of the mind.
And it is a horror first unleashed in 1938 when one million people responded as one--as a hive--to Orson Welles' Halloween prank.
In a sense, those people who fled the Martians that night were right to be afraid. They were indeed under attack. But they were wrong about who was attacking them. It was something far worse than Martians. Had they only known the true nature of the danger facing them, perhaps they would have gone to the nearest radio station with torches in hand like the villagers in those old Frankenstein movies and burned it to the ground, or at least commandeered the new technology and turned it towards another use--the liberation of humanity, instead of its enslavement.

Ian Crane could be right

[TonyGosling]

linked from the above

US report foretells of brave new world

By Nathan Cochrane - July 23 2002
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/20/1026898931815.html

A draft government report says we will alter human evolution within 20 years by combining what we know of nanotechnology, biotechnology, IT and cognitive sciences. The 405-page report sponsored by the US National Science Foundation and Commerce Department, Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance, calls for a broad-based research program to improve human performance leading to telepathy, machine-to-human communication, amplified personal sensory devices and enhanced intellectual capacity.

People may download their consciousnesses into computers or other bodies even on the other side of the solar system, or participate in a giant "hive mind", a network of intelligences connected through ultra-fast communications networks. "With knowledge no longer encapsulated in individuals, the distinction between individuals and the entirety of humanity would blur," the report says. "Think Vulcan mind-meld. We would perhaps become more of a hive mind - an enormous, single, intelligent entity."

Armies may one day be fielded by machines that think for themselves while devices will respond to soldiers' commands before their thoughts are fully formed, it says. The report says the abilities are within our grasp but will require an intense public-relations effort to "prepare key organisations and societal activities for the changes made possible by converging technologies", and to counter concern over "ethical, legal and moral" issues. Education should be overhauled down to the primary-school level to bridge curriculum gaps between disparate subject areas.

Professional societies should be open to practitioners from other fields, it says. "The success of this convergent-technologies priority area is crucial to the future of humanity," the report says.

http://wtec.org/ConvergingTechnologies/Report/NBIC-pre-publication.pdf

[Mo Kingbird]

On the 14 and 15 of July, activists are going to tag Adidas clothes with a mock "exploitation" logo based on the brand's famous three stripes in protest, particularly to its sponsorship of team gb for the olympics and also it's slave labour production methods.

Get involved:

http://www.waronwant.org/olympics-blog/17591-trying-out-our-adidas-clo thing-tags-in-the-sportswear-department-at-john-lewis?utm_source=Y12AB &utm_medium=email%20