How 9/11 changed America: In statistics Five years after the 11 September attacks, how has America changed? Click through these graphs to explore long-term trends in selected aspects of life. We include the five years preceding 2001 for comparison.
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I found this very interesting. Air travel didn't change much long term, defence spending had a massive jump post 9/11 (unsurprisingly). The increase in hate crime post 9/11 is a pretty depressing statistic.
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vacatetheword wrote:
I found this very interesting. Air travel didn't change much long term, defence spending had a massive jump post 9/11 (unsurprisingly). The increase in hate crime post 9/11 is a pretty depressing statistic.
It all makes sense if you ask me. Thanks for showing that.
-Sunny
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"Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was relatively low on the list of news priorities before the World Trade Center attacks. He has once again fallen down the news agenda as efforts to find him have failed."
I think this is wrong. Americans have realized Bin Laden is not the all powerful boogeyman Bu$h made him out to be, so interest in his capture has been reduced to a Bill Maher punchline.
this is going to sound stupid, but i think 9/11 killed the star trek franchise.
well, rick berman had a lot to do with it too but the show "enterprise" was jsut starting when the attacks happened. my husband and i watched two seasons of fairly good star trek stories with a cast that had some potential (2001 and 2002 seasons) ...then all of a sudden the story line changed to a "revenge, let's save the earth from the xindi threat" thing.
the third season, the 2003 season, was a huge long idiotic tale of going after some aliens that had attacked earth. it totally paralleled what was going on in the world, and it killed my star trek.
no one wanted to watch humans going out and exploring anymore as in the days of star trek past. they wanted to see humans going on revenge missions, and that just does not fit with gene roddenberry's star trek universe.
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kiddo wrote:
this is going to sound stupid, but i think 9/11 killed the star trek franchise.
well, rick berman had a lot to do with it too but the show "enterprise" was jsut starting when the attacks happened. my husband and i watched two seasons of fairly good star trek stories with a cast that had some potential (2001 and 2002 seasons) ...then all of a sudden the story line changed to a "revenge, let's save the earth from the xindi threat" thing.
the third season, the 2003 season, was a huge long idiotic tale of going after some aliens that had attacked earth. it totally paralleled what was going on in the world, and it killed my star trek.
no one wanted to watch humans going out and exploring anymore as in the days of star trek past. they wanted to see humans going on revenge missions, and that just does not fit with gene roddenberry's star trek universe.
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Haha.
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this is going to sound stupid, but i think 9/11 killed the star trek franchise.
well, rick berman had a lot to do with it too but the show "enterprise" was jsut starting when the attacks happened. my husband and i watched two seasons of fairly good star trek stories with a cast that had some potential (2001 and 2002 seasons) ...then all of a sudden the story line changed to a "revenge, let's save the earth from the xindi threat" thing.
the third season, the 2003 season, was a huge long idiotic tale of going after some aliens that had attacked earth. it totally paralleled what was going on in the world, and it killed my star trek.
no one wanted to watch humans going out and exploring anymore as in the days of star trek past. they wanted to see humans going on revenge missions, and that just does not fit with gene roddenberry's star trek universe.
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If anything, it killed a budding genre of blockbuster action villains. After the Cold War ended, Islamic terrorists were just starting to take over. I doubt too many moviemakers are going to dabble in that often.
True Lies still is one of the best action movies ever.
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broken iris wrote:
I think this is wrong. Americans have realized Bin Laden is not the all powerful boogeyman Bu$h made him out to be, so interest in his capture has been reduced to a Bill Maher punchline.
I don't think that assertion would hold up if you polled Americans. I don't think the vast majority of Americans know the difference between terrorism and Osama bin Laden.
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but the show "enterprise" was jsut starting when the attacks happened. my husband and i watched two seasons of fairly good star trek stories with a cast that had some potential (2001 and 2002 seasons) ...then all of a sudden the story line changed to a "revenge, let's save the earth from the xindi threat" thing.
