Nat, we've learned nothing, done nothing, since 9-11, save for honoring & burying the dead.
We still genuflect, daily, to the same multi-national corporate dieties who created the current situation..
their wholly owned media outlets still deflect & distract us from the evident, fundamental truths.. this is one planet...we are all one race, one people, and if we lose sight of natural symbiosis & synergy, we will all die, at our own hands, the corporate execs will have the most toys, and be just as dead as the rest of us, which is apparently, their goal

What Bumper said. <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/bawling.gif" width=21 height=16>

I mean what I said, in my 9-29 post..
if you look at the destructive, extractive practices, being carried out, world-wide, by the most powerful nation-states & multi-national corps, thru their leaders, and their financial and production entities, it sure looks like nihilistic petulence, to me....., as if they are saying....
"I've got mine, f**k you & the future!!"
as for me, I want to die naturally making love, under a palm tree.. not frikaseed, by environmental implosion, or as the
4 billionth casualty in a world-wide, pseudo- religious war!
THEY, are rapidly hi-jacking the future & WE need to take over the cockpit, to save spaceship earth!