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Hey people! what do you consider to be the single most significant event of the last 10 years and why? In my opinion i would probably say the fall of the twin towers as this lead to war, controversies about religion, terrorist activity.
What about you guys?
thanks!
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apart from this quote
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Personally significant - the fact that labour got back into power despite all the lies and deceit - it inreased my cynicsm with the general public.
Globally significant - would go along with you cheeky - the twin towers for pretty much the same reasons - as well as raising the profile of civil liberty degradation.
So we mean the most significant event globally?
Nationally, I'd have to say Labour's election in 1997, although Dunblane does deserve a mention (or three I suppose! :-p) A close second would be 7th July - the first major terrorist attack on England for at least 5 years (someone correct me, I haven't time to check my facts).
Internationally I think the Twin Towers and Katrina, for showing the vulnerablility of the USA, and especially the former for truly demonstrating that money can't buy you safety and hapiness. Obviously also for the consequences cheeky mentioned.
OH 9/11 without a doubt!!!!
Personally I could say labours election in 97 and list the reasons why i was glad to see the back of the tories, including corruption, abuse of power, lies deceit, selling arms to tyrants like saddam without telling parliament, oh gawd there's too many to list ...but then that would just give one or two carte blanche to turn this into yet another evil blair iraq thread, which would be a shame..but then if i didn't mention it, they'd still bring it up sometime, so what the heck...
A lot less lies and deceit that preceded the previous 18 years...
Postings like mine make you disillusioned!!!
Its about opinions mate we all have them and they vary as regards the issues, its called democracy.
Disillusioned is the most overused word in politics.
It'll be used again when the next government [probably a tory one] will get elected..
It's telling that people have thus far chosen almost exclusively negative examples such as disasters and terrorism. I don't think the event which has led to the most death should automatically be the deemed the most significant.
Perhaps the rough draft of the human genome announced in 2000 will, in the future, prove to be more significant than how much spin the government of this small island puts on events. Alternatively, the G8 Summit and consequent aid/ debt cancellation could significantly change life in Africa.
The significance of Newton or Darwin's theories was not fully understood until decades after publication.