Do you draw any conclusions between the Bush regime and "The Party" from George Orwell's novel 1984?
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No. But I Sure Do From The Clinton/Gore "Regime"!Here's Why; As of 1996, all Vehicles Must Conform to the Insane EPA-OBD II Law that Applies to the Car that You're Driving, Right Now! That Law Dictaes that all Vehicles under that law must Run at 14.7 Parts of Air to 1 Part of Fuel. Any Deviation from that, even if Fuel Economy is Improved, and Emissions are Lowered, will Result in a Failed Vehicle Inspection, and the Vehicle will be Illegal to Operate! That's the Law! And Clinton/Gore did it,"Because It's Good For The Children"! This is Insane!Please! Don't "Blame Bush" for That! So what's the suppressed Alternative? I've come up with a way to Convert Regular Pump Gasoline into Propane. I'm not the First, only the Latest. I went to the US Patent Office, and Checked Out the "Wild Stories" about how other similar Vapor Fuel Units have been kept off the Market. Guess What? It's True! Case in Point, the Pogue Carburetor, which is on File as having Achieved 100 + MPG on a Flathead Ford V-8 that, at best with a Conventional Fuel System got 15 MPG! My System could get 50 + MPG with even the Largest SUV, with an Equally Remarkable drop in Engine Pollution Emissions ! My System is Safe, Compact, and uses Low Pressure Air to turn Gasoline into Propane. To Run an Engine on Conventional Propane requires the use of a Large, Expensive, Cumbersome Tank, which must be Hauled with the Vehicle. Also, Expensive, Complex Fuel Metering Equipment. And, Finally the Extra Hassle of Specialized Refilling of the Tank. So much Hassle, that even with Gas at $3.00 per Gallon, it's just not worth it! See, on a Molecular Level, all Petroleum is the Same! I can Prove it! I can also Wind Up in Jail, or Worse! Every Vehicle on the Road could get at Least 50 + MPG, but thanks to Clinton/Gore, "It Ain't Gonna Happen"! Want Further Proof? Go to http://energy21.freeservers.com/bookrep.html Please, if You have an open Mind, Read it all!Don't"Blame Bush"
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Finally, someone who's been reading the de-classified documents besides me.  Bush Sr. was the best drug dealer, EVER.  His CIA ran the Drugs from which airport...Mena, Ark.  Who was governor?  Yup, Clinton!!!!  People WAKE UP.  Bush and Clinton have been in bed since the early 80's.\n\nDude, the War on Drugs enabled the USG to DOUBLE DIP.  Just like today:  under the Taliban, growing poppies in Afghan was a death sentence.  Now, under US/Afghan rule, Afghanistan has regained its spot as #1 poppy producing country.  HELLO!!!\n\nThe Afghan War was never funded by America until the Iraq war began...why...because we teamed with poppy producers to share the wealth..billions, while the USG kept billions to FIGHT the very drugs used to finance the downfall of the Taliban.  Granted, this is my own interpretation of the data...and I will not be proven correct or incorrect until the documents are declassified, in about 40 years, but, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and talks like a duck, then you bet ur azz, its a duck.\n\nP.S.  The Savings and Loan scandal of the 80's was also a cover up...but you need to find that out for yourselves.
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It's unclear, but the parallels between the story and the things happening in politics at the time are fairly convincing. For a good look at all the supposed allusions, see "The "Wizard of Oz" as a Monetary Allegory " by Hugh Rockoff in the Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 98, No. 4 (Aug., 1990) , pp. 739-760
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I think my hair stands straight up when I hear anything our Georgie boy says or does. I've been beginning to think that if someone were to say " green " he'd say " red."  To think this administration got into office twice, quite literally, makes me shake my head. The war in Iraq was based on lies. I do not condone the vicious brutality of Sadam, but I understand, somewhat, as to why his country was ruled in the manner in which it was; the tribes can't get along! We're stuck in another Vietnam. I'll take my son underground, before I give him up to such a sensless mess.
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It makes a nice story, but it is a myth. \n\nA close look will clearly show the fall of the Soviet Union resulted almost entirely from internal political struggles. The correlation with Reagan’s "anti-Communist" rhetorical stance was merely coincidental, not causal. If you review the available US intelligence documents you will see that the fall of the Soviet Union was completely unexpected--certainly not in any way the result of a planned campaign or strategy.\n\nUnfortunately these self-serving myths are usually more popular than reality, even though the correct information is easily available to anyone who bothers to look. Unfortunatly their understanding of economics appears to fall into the same pattern.
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Yes, it is definitely Shakespearean.  There is a great article on the Bush 41 in the New York Times by Maureen Dowd (Nov. 9, 2006 Op-Ed) entitled "A Come-to-Daddy Moment."  The title says it all.  An excerpt from that article:\n\n"Two trusted members of the Bush 41 war council, Mr. Baker and Mr. Gates, have been dispatched to discipline the delinquent juvenile and extricate him from the mother of all messes."\n\n"Mr. Gates [was] already on Mr. Baker's 'How Do We Get Sonny Out of Deep Doo Doo in Iraq?'" study group."
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Sign the Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime        \nWritten by Administrator    \n\n http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11&Itemid=19#_email_form\n\n\n\nYour government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights. \n\nYour government is openly torturing people, and justifying it. \n\nYour government puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night.\n\n\nYour government is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.\n\nYour government suppresses the science that doesn't fit its religious, political and economic agenda, forcing present and future generations to pay a terrible price. \n\n\nYour government is moving to deny women here, and all over the world, the right to birth control and abortion.\n\nYour government enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance.\n\nPeople look at all this and think of Hitler — and they are right to do so. The Bush regime is setting out to radically remake society very quickly, in a fascist way, and for generations to come. We must act now; the future is in the balance.\n\nMillions and millions are deeply disturbed and outraged by this. They recognize the need for a vehicle to express this outrage, yet they cannot find it; politics as usual cannot meet the enormity of the challenge, and people sense this.\n\nThere is not going to be some magical "pendulum swing." People who steal elections and believe they're on a "mission from God" will not go without a fight.\n\nThere is not going to be some savior from the Democratic Party. This whole idea of putting our hopes and energies into "leaders" who tell us to seek common ground with fascists and religious fanatics is proving every day to be a disaster, and actually serves to demobilize people.\n\nBut silence and paralysis are NOT acceptable. That which you will not resist and mobilize to stop, you will learn — or be forced — to accept. There is no escaping it: the whole disastrous course of this Bush regime must be STOPPED. And we must take the responsibility to do it.\n\nAnd there is a way. We are talking about something on a scale that can really make a huge change in this country and in the world. We need more than fighting Bush's outrages one at a time, constantly losing ground to the whole onslaught. We must, and can, aim to create a political situation where the Bush regime's program is repudiated, where Bush himself is driven from office, and where the whole direction he has been taking society is reversed. We, in our millions, must and can take responsibility to change the course of history.\n\nActing in this way, we join with and give support and heart to people all over the globe who so urgently need and want this regime to be stopped. \n\nThis will not be easy. If we speak the truth, they will try to silence us. If we act, they will try to stop us. But we speak for the majority, here and around the world, and as we get this going we are going to reach out to the people who have been so badly fooled by Bush and we are NOT going to stop.\n\nThe point is this: history is full of examples where people who had right on their side fought against tremendous odds and were victorious. And it is also full of examples of people passively hoping to wait it out, only to get swallowed up by a horror beyond what they ever imagined. The future is unwritten. WHICH ONE WE GET IS UP TO US.\n\nThe World Can't Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime!
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I like this one!! I read Orwell's epic a long time ago,as time went on I couldn't see it.Now as a man of 58 years, my feelings have changed.I consider myself of above average intelligence,I've lived a pretty good life,I've particapated in two wars,been around the world twice.My views of George's work has also changed.The man had a sight akin to Nostradamas,some of the things he wrote of are showing signs of coming to fruition,these are just my views of course,but as time goes on the things he penned can linked to the way our future is progressing.Just a thought.
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Hi Chris, given the restrictions I'm not sure if this will be of help, anyway have a look and see what you think.\n\nFahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury\n\nI have found  9 summaries for you to look at, via the links below. \n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com/search.php?title=Fahrenheit+451\n\nhttp://www.freebooknotes.com/results.php3?title=F\n\nhttp://www.sparknotes.com/lit/451/\n\nThese links will give you a summary of the book, character analysis, plot and much more, so that you will be able to answer literary questions. A short extract is included as an example of what you can expect from the summary\n\nIn the last two years, however, a growing discontent has grown in Montag, a “fireman turned sour” who cannot yet name the cause of his emptiness and disaffection. He characterizes his restless mind as “full of bits and pieces,” and he requires sedatives to sleep.  …..\n\nhttp://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-106,pageNum-31.html\n\n1984 by George Orwell\n\nI have found 18 summaries for you to look at, click a link below. I have included a short extract to give you a taste of what the reviews have to offer and they’re FREE..!!!\n\nhttp://litsum.com/1984/\n\nhttp://www.freebooknotes.com/book.php3?id=1\n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com/free_book_notes/1984_.php\n\nPlot Overview\n\nWinston Smith is a low-ranking member of the ruling Party in London, in the nation of Oceania. Everywhere Winston goes, even his own home, the Party watches him through telescreens; everywhere he looks he sees the face of the Party’s seemingly omniscient leader, a figure known only as Big Brother. The Party controls everything in Oceania, even the people’s history and language. Currently, the Party is forcing the implementation of an invented language called Newspeak, which attempts to prevent political rebellion by eliminating all words related to it. Even thinking rebellious thoughts is illegal. Such thoughtcrime is, in fact, the worst of all crimes.  More…..\n\nhttp://www.freebooknotes.com/page.php?link=http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/1984/&book=1\n\nAdditional Resources\n\nWelcome to Charles' George Orwell Links\n\nOn this site you'll find the best of Orwell's essays and books as well as reviews, news articles and images. In addition, there are hundreds of links to other Orwell web sites.\n\nhttp://www.netcharles.com/orwell/\n\nBiographies and Bibliographical Information on George Orwell\n\nhttp://www.netcharles.com/orwell/bio.htm\n\nGeorge Orwell Biography\n\nhttp://www.netcharles.com/orwell/articles/george-orwell-biography.htm\n\nEssays on George Orwell\n\nhttp://www.netcharles.com/orwell/ctc/essays.htm\n\nTIME MAGAZINE\n\nGeorge Orwell\n\nhttp://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101831128,00.html\n\nOrwell Up Close\nOn the 100th anniversary of his birth, a clutch of new biographies explores the wintry genius of George Orwell — a hero claimed by left and right\n\nhttp://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901030630-460190,00.html\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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The book 1984 closely mirrors the Soviet Union under the iron fist of Stalin.  The beginnings of the party go along with the Bolsheviks -- Goldstein is a Trostky-like character.  It provides great insight into a dictatorship and serves as a warning for society.   I think it's important for everyone to read Orwell's lesson...plus, it's ridiculously entertaining.
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George Bush and the Republican party
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George Orwell's, animal farm II staring George Bush as the evil pig.
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To everybody that does not get this question.\nHe is referring to the novel "1984" by George Orwell.\n\nhttp://summarycentral.tripod.com/1984.htm In 1984, George Orwell warns of the terrifying dangers that man may create for himself in his quest for a utopian society.  It warns that people might believe that everyone must become slaves to the government in order to have an orderly society, but at the expense of the freedom of the people.\n\n\nAnd yes it has been.
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Amazing how the Neocons criticised "libs" for "cut and run". Now that Dems are pushing for a draft so the US can achieve "victory", Republicans are running scared. Geroge Orwell once said that a Republican is someone too afraid to fight and too fat to run. I believe him. Hypocracy is the hallmark of the neocon, and why we have not achieved victory in Iraq.
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"Big Brother" is from a novel written by British author George Orwell called "1984" - it's about an omnipotent government controlling every aspect of citizen's lives.
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And here is a book put out by those who have come up with the plan of action......by the way Bush was instrumental in organizing this commission.\n\nGo down on the left to the PDF link to read it yourself.....\n\n(((("nonalcoholic2", there is your proof, if you care to read it.))))
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Last strong push around the two promary parties was Prrt Party against the first Bush.\nAfter that scare the two parties toughen the rules!!