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Wednesday, 25 June 2008
WHAT YOU CAN DO
What You Can Do
The destruction of 27 democratic constitutions, 27 national parliaments, 14 national currencies and 14 central banks by the "European" Union has been brought about by the same forces which were twice defeated in the first 50 years of the 20th century.
These various powers have now largely achieved what they fought two world wars to attain - an integrated anti-democratic, corporatist European Superstate under German domination.
Here is what you can do to make a difference: Most of these steps can be either y reproduced in or adapted to local national circumstances:
1. See the list of companies and individuals most identified with the destruction of the free nations of Europe (British Eurofederalists on this site). Boycott the companies and vote against the individuals and tell them why and what they need to do to regain your custom or vote (i.e. reject the Euro and the European Union, withdraw from any Eurofederalist business organisations and support a common market of sovereign democratic nations).
2. Similarly note the Eurofederalist MPs listed in that section and seek to have them de-selected and defeated - regardless of their party or political beliefs. Do not forget that there is no point in voting for an MP who shares some of your political beliefs if the Parliament to which he wishes you to elect him has no constitutional power to do anything.
3. In Britain - join the British Declaration of Independence (formerly the South Molton Declaration) and force your MP to sign before the next election. You can influence him/her by pledging your vote on the website www.bdicampaign.org Outside Britain ensure that the same kind of campaign is run in your country. The BDI is a mode which can be adapted to other countries - so long as the people have a vote! The BDI provides a solution to the grave crisis in Europe - by forcing your elected representatives to recognise the sovereignty of the people. The BDI allows the voter to take back control of the political process. If a political party provides an equal or better constitutional policy the BDI website will certainly inform you and recommend that policy.
4. Buy and distribute the leaflets. Hundreds of thousands of these have been bought and distributed and are influencing those who do not normally take an interest in politics and do not have time to read books. Use the facts and arguments in these leaflets in your letters to the press and MPs. Those outside Britain should translate the leaflets and use them in their campaigns.
5. Engage in day-to-day political affairs - writing to the press, writing to complain to your MP, going to public meetings. Politics is a grubby game which decent people find rather pathetic and so avoid. However, when your nation, your parliament and your democracy are in danger of extinction YOU MUST ACT.
5. Fight all Proportional Representation systems of voting. In Germany the Social Democratic Party - the Party of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder - was found to be selling places on proportional representation candidate lists. In Cologne they had rewarded party supporters with well-paid jobs if they (among other favours) stepped down from their (usually high) place on the PARTY LIST.
All PR systems have lists of candidates for whom the electorate cannot vote but who nevertheless, if they are high up the list, will be elected to parliament under that system. PR systems give enormous power and patronage to the Party machine over its members and voters and therefore to the executive in Government over the Party. This naturally enhances the authoritarian nature of politics in those countries - and makes the destruction of their national constitutions rather easy, as we have seen in the European Union.
In Germany for instance the Free Democratic Party was in Government for decades without a break even though they averaged only 7-8% of the vote.
PR also means that even after the election no one knows who the Government will be - until the party hierarchies have, in smoke-filled rooms, bargained with usually small parties with less than 10% of the vote. It is at this stage that non-democratic power - like favours to trade unions and big business and the European Commission - can and do enter the equation.
All PR systems take power away from the true sovereigns - the people - and make the MP accountable not to the voters but to the party hierarchy and ultimately to the Government machine and anti-democratic corporatist interests.
taken from Free Nations : http://www.freenations.freeuk.com
ARABS WANT TO BE ISRAELIS
Anyone with any familiarity at all with the reality in Israel knows that an enormous majority of Arabs living in Israel would never dream of living in Palestine were there ever to be such a country, and it's not hard to fathom their line of reasoning: Israel is a free democracy with an ever-rising standard of living (and at the moment one of the strongest currencies in the world, but that's a different matter), while the Palestinians can be relied upon to screw up whatever chances they're offered with perfect consistency. That's why there was such an outcry among Israel's Arabs when in 2004 Arik Sharon proposed redrawing Israel's border so that the towns alongside the north-western flank of the West Bank be re-mapped into the West Bank. That's why Avigdor Lieberman is perhaps the most hated and feared of all Israeli politicians in the eyes of Israel's Arabs: he advocates a similar move. (And note: not a single Arab would have to leave his home. The border would simply be moved a few miles west, leaving the homes in putative Palestinian territory... shudder...).
Life for Israel's Arabs is far from perfect and leaves much to be desired, but it's a lot better than life in any other Arab country, unless you're a millionaire Saudi sheik or a fully subsidized citizen of a Gulf State living off oil and the sweat of disenfranchised Pakistanis.
It's also a well-known but never mentioned secret that the Arabs in East Jerusalem, who aren't even full Israeli citizens, dread the day the city will be divided and they'll end up on the Palestinian side; when Israel began putting up that evil wall a few years ago, tens of thousands of Palestinians scrambled to make sure they were inside it, on the Israeli side, and not outside it, on the Palestinian side. It doesn't take much imagination to understand them: would any of you make a different choice in their situation? Of course not.
Still, having said all that, it's still a bit surprising to read that 77% of the Palestinians who have Israeli citizenship, wouldn't want to live in any other country in the world. Not in America, not in Norway, not in Australia, not even in the UK, home of the Guardian. Nope. They want to stay in Israel. Moreover, if you follow the link, you'll find lots of other interesting statistics, almost all of them positive. I recommend.
Now, if you were a person who cares about people and their well-being, a mantle often claimed by the so called Progressives, or the political Left, or Liberals, depending on the country you live in, you would be celebrating all this, and perhaps even commending Israel for having proven that Arabs actually can be productive and functioning citizens in a modern democracy even in the Mideast, and not only when they move to New Jersey, and if so they can certainly be encouraged to do so in France, Algeria, Saudi Arabia or Lebanon. But I wouldn't recommend holding your breath until the praise starts coming in, not from those people anyway.
taken from the Blog Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations - http://yaacovlozowick.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
Battlestar Galactica, or BSG, is a franchise of science fiction films and television series, the first of which was produced in 1978. A series of book adaptations, original novels, comic books and video games have also been based on the concept. A reimagined miniseries aired in 2003, with a regular television series starting in 2004.
All of the Battlestar Galactica productions share the same premise: In a distant part of the universe, a civilization of humans live on planets known as the Twelve Colonies. In the past, the Colonies have been at war with a cybernetic race known as the Cylons. With the help (knowing or unknowing) of a human named Baltar, the Cylons launch a sudden sneak attack on the Colonies, laying waste to the planets and devastating their populations. A few thousand of the human survivors flee into space aboard any spacecraft they can reach. Of all the Colonial Fleet, the Battlestar Galactica appears to be the only military ship that survived the attack. Under the leadership of famed military leader Commander Adama, the Battlestar Galactica and its crew take up the task of leading the small fugitive fleet of survivors into space in search of a fabled refuge known as Earth.
Main article: Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)
Glen A. Larson, the Executive Producer of Battlestar Galactica, has stated in many interviews that he originally conceived of the Galactica premise in the late 1960s, which he originally called Adam's Ark. However, he was unable to get the project greenlit for many years.
Battlestar Galactica was finally produced in the wake of the success of the 1977 film Star Wars. In fact, 20th Century Fox sued Universal Studios (the studio behind Battlestar Galactica) for copyright infringement, claiming that it had stolen 34 distinct ideas from Star Wars. Universal promptly countersued, claiming Star Wars had stolen ideas from the 1972 film Silent Running (notably the robot "drones") and the Buck Rogers serials of the 1940s. The lawsuit was eventually dismissed in 1980.
Initially, Larson envisioned Battlestar Galactica as a series of made-for-TV movies (a three-hour pilot and two two-hour episodes) for the ABC television network. A shortened version of the three-hour pilot, Saga of a Star World, was released in Canadian theaters (before the series aired) and American theaters (after the series aired), and instead of two additional movies, a weekly television series followed.
During the eight months after pilot was broadcast, 17 original episodes of the series were aired (five of them two-part shows), totaling 24 hours of broadcasting. Citing declining ratings and cost overruns, ABC canceled Battlestar Galactica in April, its last episode "The Hand of God" premiering on April 29, 1979.
Further information: List of Battlestar Galactica (1978, 1980) episodes
Main article: Galactica 1980
During the autumn of 1979, ABC executives met with Galactica's creator Glen A. Larson to consider a relaunch of the series. A suitable concept was needed to draw viewers, and it was decided that the arrival of the Colonial Fleet at contemporary Earth would be the storyline. A new television movie entitled Galactica 1980 was rushed into production. Again, it was decided this new version of Galactica would be made into a weekly series. Despite the early success of the première, the show failed to achieve the popularity of the original series and was canceled after only ten episodes.
In this 1980 sequel series, the fleet finds Earth and covertly protects it from the Cylons. This series was a quick failure due to its low budget (e.g., recycling footage from the 1974 Universal Studios film Earthquake, during a Cylon attack sequence), widely-panned writing, and ill-placed time slot (Sundays at 7:00 p.m., a time slot generally reserved for family-oriented programming and, more specifically, 60 Minutes). The show also had to adhere to strict content restrictions such as limiting acts of violence and being required to shoehorn educational content into the script and dialogue. To cut costs, the show was set mostly on contemporary Earth, to the great dismay of fans. Another factor for fan apathy was the nearly complete recasting of the original series: Lorne Greene reprised his role as Adama (and worked pro bono), Herb Jefferson Jr. played (now Colonel) Boomer in only half of the episodes (with almost no screentime), and Dirk Benedict as Starbuck for only one (the abrupt final episode), which was mostly unused footage from the original series. Some syndication packages for Battlestar Galactica incorporate the episodes of this series.
Besides a re-edited version of the pilot, released originally in Canada, Europe and parts of Latin America and, following the broadcast of the series, in the U.S., two other Battlestar Galactica feature films were released in cinemas. Both Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack and Conquest of the Earth were made up of various episodes of the original series and Galactica 1980 respectively. (See: List of Battlestar Galactica feature films)
Attempted revivals
The original series maintained a cult fandom, which has supported efforts by Glen A. Larson, Richard Hatch, and Bryan Singer (independent of one another) to revive the premise.
Richard Hatch produced a demonstration video in 1998–1999 which featured several actors from the original series combined with state-of-the-art special effects. This video, titled Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming, was displayed at science fiction conventions, but did not lead to a new series.
In 1999, Wing Commander producer Todd Moyer and original series producer Glen A. Larson revealed plans to produce a motion picture based on the television series.[2] [3][4] It would have featured Battlestar Pegasus.
In 2000, the director and an executive producer of the X-Men film, Bryan Singer and Tom DeSanto, began developing a Galactica television miniseries with Studios USA for FOX. Intended to air as a backdoor pilot in May 2002, filming was scheduled to begin in November 2001.[5] However, production delays caused by the September 11, 2001 attacks meant Bryan Singer had to drop out, due to his directing commitments on X-Men 2. This led Fox to lose interest in the project.
2003 reimagining
Main article: Battlestar Galactica (reimagining)
Despite attempts to revive the series over the years, none came to fruition until it was reimagined in 2003 by Universal Television in association with Sky One and the Sci-Fi Channel with Ronald D. Moore as the creative force behind it. Edward James Olmos stepped into the role of Commander Adama. A weekly new Galactica series followed, premiering on Sky One in the UK and Ireland in October 2004, and on Sci-Fi in the U.S. in January 2005.
Miniseries
Main article: Battlestar Galactica (TV miniseries)
In December 2003, the American Sci-Fi Channel broadcast a three-hour miniseries that reimagined Battlestar Galactica. This miniseries was so successful that Sci-Fi opted to develop this new version of Galactica into a television series.
Television series
Main article: Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)
Featuring critically-acclaimed veteran actors Edward James Olmos as Commander William Adama and Mary McDonnell as President Laura Roslin, the new series first aired in the UK and Ireland on Sky One in October 2004. The series debuted in North America on the Sci-Fi Channel in January 2005. Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Grace Park and Tricia Helfer round out the original cast.[6]
An edited version of the "pilot" miniseries was broadcast on NBC—a corporate sibling of the Sci-Fi Channel—on January 9, 2005, five days before the Sci-Fi series premiere.[citation needed] NBC also aired three selected first-season episodes to promote the show in advance of the second-season premiere in July 2005. Three seasons aired on Sci-Fi and Sky One between 2005 and 2007. A two-hour film (set during the show's second season), Battlestar Galactica: Razor, aired on Sci-Fi on Saturday November 24, 2007, as a prelude to the fourth season. A fourth and final season began airing on April 4, 2008.[7][8] Owing to production delays caused by the 2007-2008 Writers Guild strike, it has been reported that the fourth season will be split into two 10-episode pieces, the second part of which may air as late as 2009. The fourth season will also air on Universal HD beginning in July 2009. [9]
The series has won widespread acclaim among many mainstream non-genre publications. Time magazine,[10] Rolling Stone magazine[11] and New York Newsday[12] named it the best show on television in 2005. Other publications like The New York Times,[13] The New Yorker[14] and National Review[15] also gave the show positive reviews.
Webisodes
Main article: Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance
The webisodes were a series of shorts produced to promote the third season of the show. They filled in some of the events between the second and third seasons and featured some of the main cast. These webisodes were made so as not to reveal what would happen in the beginning of season three. Season 3 was also set up so that missing the webisodes would not leave a viewer confused about the story.
Each of the ten webisodes was approximately three minutes in length, and they were released twice a week leading up to the U.S. Season 3 premiere.
Main article: Battlestar Galactica: Razor
Battlestar Galactica: Razor is a television film produced and broadcast in the gap between Seasons 3 and 4. It chronicles events on Battlestar Pegasus in two time periods, both of which are "in the past" with respect to the Season 4 continuity. The "present day" framing scenes are set during Lee Adama's command, in the latter half of Season 2, while "flashback" scenes depict Helena Cain's command in the period between the Cylon attack and the reunion with Galactica in the second season episode Pegasus. It aired in the United States and Canada on November 24 and in Britain and Ireland on December 18, 2007. An expanded version was released on DVD on December 4, 2007.
Main article: Caprica (TV series)
Caprica is a proposed television series described as "television's first science fiction family saga". Caprica will be set on the fictional planet Caprica around fifty years before the events depicted in the 2004 reimagined series. The show will revolve around two families, the Adamas and the Graystones, the building of the Cylons, and the beginnings of the first Cylon War. A two-hour backdoor pilot is scheduled to air in late 2008.[16][17]
Main article: Battlestar Galactica (comic book)
A series of comic book publishers have adapted Battlestar Galactica since its inception.
Marvel Comics published a 23-issue comic book series based upon the show between 1978 and 1981. Other comics have since been published by Maximum Press, Grandreams, Look-in Magazine, Realm Press and, currently, Dynamite Comics. Of all these series, only those by Marvel, Grandreams and Look-In actually completed their storylines and brought the story to a conclusion. All the other series were canceled at various points during their run, with no resolutions.
Both the Grandreams and Look-In comic strips take place early in the series. The other comic series based on the 1978 series have been set after the final episode of the series and ignored Galactica 1980.
The Maximum press series began with the discovery of a completely unpopulated Earth some fifteen years after the conclusion of the TV show. The look and the feel of the comics had been changed considerably from the series, to give the stories a "more nineties" feel.
The Realm Press series picked up immediately after the conclusion of the final episode of the original series in an attempt to present what they called "Season two" of the original show.
Dynamite Entertainment are currently publishing comic books featuring both the classic and reimagined Battlestar Galactica series.
Games
A Battlestar Galactica video game was published on the Sony PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Xbox platforms.
Wiz Kids, Inc. (a collectible game manufacturer) produced the Battlestar Galactica Collectable Card Game based on the 2003 mini-series and 2004 TV show. The premier set of this game was released in May 2006. After the release of one expansion set, Wizkids announced the game's cancellation on March 13, 2007.[18]
The original series inspired a Battlestar Galactica board game. The game is set during a training mission, where two to four players maneuver pieces representing Colonial Vipers in order to capture a damaged Cylon Raider. Skillful play includes using terrain elements and a number of special-ability cards to the players' advantage.
A Battlestar Galactica role playing game was released in August 2007 by Margaret Weis Productions at Gen Con.[19]
A community-created space flight simulator game set in the Battlestar Galactica universe is in development. Beyond the Red Line is based on the open-source FreeSpace 2 game engine. In 2007 a multi-player demo, including three single-player missions, was released. Work on the full version of the game is continuing. Players can participate in deathmatch-style dogfight missions, or in team-based missions, on the side of the Colonials or the Cylons. Beyond the Red Line won the 2007 Mod of the Year award.[20]
Development of a community-created real-time strategy Battlestar Galactica game is also in progress. Battlestar Galactica: Fleet Commander is a Homeworld 2 total conversion. Beta versions of BSG: Fleet Commander are available for Windows and the Macintosh. Players command human or Cylon fleets from both the original series and the 2003 reimagined version of the series. [21][22]
Cylon Attack by A&F Software for the BBC Micro in the 1980's was another game based on the original series (1978)
Superscape, a mobile phone entertainment company, announced the launch of an action-game based on the series. Through a licensing deal with Universal Studios Consumer Products Group, the Battlestar Galactica mobile phone game is available for download now worldwide for Java enabled handsets.
FASA in 1979 released a tabletop counter piece game for Battlestar Galactica based on the fighter combat, which included the Galactica and a basestar to be launched from, attack with and attacked/defended. The counters for the Vipers and the Raiders included three model versions MKI/MKII/MKIII not just the MKII Viper and Raider MKI.
The computer game Epic released by Ocean software in 1992 featured a similar plot to Battlestar Galactica as well as similar ship models and characters.[23]
See also
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List of Battlestar Galactica characters
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Battlestar Galactica (ship), which appears in the above works of fiction
Battlestar Galactica (video game), the 1978 and 2003 video games
Battlestar Galactica Collectible Card Game
Battlestar Galactica (comic book), the various comic book adaptations.
Battlestar Galactica terminology
Religious and mythological references in Battlestar Galactica
Battlestar Galactica Interview with cast members
References
1-^ People's Choice Awards Past Winners:1979 - pcavote.com
2-^ Glen Oliver (March 16, 1999). GALACTICA Reborn ((Todd Moyer talks to Glen about the new movie, Richard Hatch press release, etc. !!!)). aintitcoolnews.com. Retrieved on 2006-06-14.
3-^ Science Fiction News of the Week
4-^ BattlestarGalactica.com : 'Battlestar Atlantis - The Glen Larson / Todd Moyer partnership'
5-^ El Cosmico (February 22, 2001). A New BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Series Is Coming!. aintitcoolnews.com. Retrieved on 2006-06-14.
6-^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407362/
7-^ Blend Television: Battlestar Galactica Premiere Date Set
8-^ LA Times Show Tracker: 'Battlestar Galactica': Say it ain't frakkin so!
9-^ Blend Television: Now That The Strike Is Over, When Will My Shows Come Back?
10-^ Time Magazine Dec. 16, 2005 issue
11-^ Rolling Stone Magazine Jan. 27, 2006
12-^ New York Newsday Dec. 25, 2005
13-^ "Ron Moore's Deep Space Journey," The New York Times July 17, 2005
14-^ "Across the Universe," The New Yorker Jan. 23, 2006
15-^ "Starborn Society," The National Review Jan. 20, 2006
16-^ The Hollywood Reporter: Sci Fi unveils 'Battlestar' prequel
17-^ Blend Television: Scifi Greenlights Battlestar Galactica Prequel
18-^ Battlestar Galactica Collectible Card Game
19-^ Gen Con 2007 In A Nutshell
20-^ Mod of the Year 2007, phase 2
21-^ BSG: Fleet Commander
22-^ Fleet Commander Development forum
23-^ MobyGames page for Epic
External links
Official site
Battlestar Galactica (pilot movie) at the Internet Movie Database
Battlestar Galactica (1978 series) at the Internet Movie Database
Battlestar Galactica (reimagined) at the Internet Movie Database
Battlestar Wiki
Battlestar Galactica (1978) at TV.com
Battlestar Galactica (2003) at TV.com
Amazon.com interview with Battlestar Galactica star Katee Sackhoff
spacecast.com interviews with the cast of Battlestar Galactica
THE INVADERS - TV SERIES - IMAGES
The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them. For him, it began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a shortcut that he never found. It began with a closed deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey. It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy. Now David Vincent knows that the Invaders are here, that they have taken human form. Somehow he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun.
THE INVADERS
The Invaders, a Quinn Martin Production, was an ABC science fiction television program created by Larry Cohen that ran in the United States for a season and a half between 1967 and 1968. Dominic Frontiere, who had provided scores for The Outer Limits, provided scores for The Invaders as well.
Season One has been released as a DVD set in the United Kingdom. The first season was released on DVD in the United States on May 27, 2008.[1] [2]
Narration
The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them. For him, it began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a shortcut that he never found. It began with a closed deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey. It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy. Now David Vincent knows that the Invaders are here, that they have taken human form. Somehow he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun.
Premise
The series was produced by Quinn Martin, who drew on two sources for the inspiration for the show. One was his previous series, the immensely popular The Fugitive, which had ended in 1967. Unlike Richard Kimble of The Fugitive, however, David Vincent of The Invaders is more the pursuer than the pursued.
Another inspiration was the wave of "alien dopplegänger" films which had come ten years before in the 1950s, typified by Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and the British film, Quatermass 2 (1957), known in America as Enemy from Space. While these paranoid tales of extraterrestrials who posed as humans and lived among us while planning a takeover are usually linked with a Red Scare subtext, Martin simply wanted a premise that would keep the hero moving around and that would explain why he couldn't go to the authorities (not only had the aliens infiltrated human institutions already, but most humans would dismiss a claim of alien invasion as a paranoid delusion).
Roy Thinnes starred as architect David Vincent, who accidentally learns of an alien invasion already underway and thereafter travels from place to place, trying to foil the aliens' plots and warn a skeptical populace of the danger. As the series progresses, Vincent is able to convince a small number of people to help him fight the aliens, most significantly millionaire industrialist Edgar Scoville (Kent Smith) who became a semi-regular character as of December, 1967.
The Invaders were never given a name, nor was their dying planet. They were not even shown in their true, alien form; their human appearance was a disguise. Unless they received periodic treatments requiring equipment that consumed a great deal of electrical power, they would revert automatically to their alien forms. One scene in the series showed an alien beginning to revert, filmed fuzzily and with flashing lights.
They had certain characteristics by which they could be detected, such as the absence of a pulse. Nearly all were emotionless and had little fingers which could not bend, although there were many "deluxe models" who could manipulate this finger. There were also a number of mutant aliens, who unlike the majority of aliens had emotions similar to those of humans, and who opposed the alien takeover. Their existence could not be documented by killing one, for their dead bodies would always glow red and disappear, along with their clothes, any items they were carrying at the time and anything they touched when dying.
An Invader ship landing. The spaceship by which they reach the Earth is a flying saucer of a design derivative of that shown in the contestable photographs of George Adamski, but instead of having three spheres on the underside, the Invaders' craft has five shallower protrusions. It was a principle of the production crew to not show them with set and prop designs and control panels that were utterly alien from the conventional human ones (such as H.R. Giger would later present in Alien). The Invaders' favorite means of killing someone is by applying a disk with five glowing lights to the nape of the neck, which will cause a cerebral hemorrhage.
In 1995 the series was reprised as a three-hour TV miniseries also titled The Invaders. Scott Bakula starred as Nolan Wood, who discovered the alien conspiracy, and Roy Thinnes reprised his role from the series of David Vincent, now an old man handing the burden over to Wood. The miniseries has been released in some countries on home video, edited into a single movie.
Books
There was a total of seven paperbacks and two hardback published based on the TV series:
by Pyramid Books in the US, all in 1967 : Invaders and Enemies from Beyond, both by Keith Laumer; Army of the Undead by Rafe Bernard.
by Corgi (a Transworld imprint) in the UK : Halo Highway by Keith Laumer (1967), Meteor Man, by Keith Laumer under the pen name "Anthony Le Baron" (1967), The Autumn Accelerator by Peter Leslie (1967), Night of the Trilobites by Peter Leslie (1969).
by Whitman (a subsidiary of Western Publishing) in the US in hardback : Dam of Death by Jack Pearl (1967).
The Invaders: Alien Missile Threat, by Paul S. Newman, A Big Little Book, Whitman Publishing Company, 248 pages, hardcover, 1967.
Note that Army of the Undead by Pyramid and Halo Highway by Corgi are the same story.
Trivia
The pilot episode of the series, "Beachhead", was remade years later in 1977 for another Quinn Martin series, Tales of the Unexpected, where it was retitled "The Nomads".
Gold Key Comics published four issues of an Invaders comic book based upon the TV series in 1967-68, years before Marvel Comics published their own, unrelated Invaders superhero series.
A pre-Internet urban legend (of the missing show kind) has circulated about a hypothetic final episode of the original series. According to it, David Vincent finally manages to convince the authorities and the mainstream of the Invaders' plans, and a massive invasion attempt is successfully thwarted. However, the final scene shows Vincent speaking through a transmitter to a different species of space invaders, to tell them that the coast was now clear -i.e. Vincent's fight had taken place in his position as a mercenary of the second alien race.
Episodes
Season one (1967)
1-Beachhead
2-The Experiment
3-The Mutation
4-The Leeches
5-Genesis
6-Vikor
7-Nightmare
8-Doomsday Minus One
9-Quantity: Unknown
10-The Innocent
11-The Ivy Curtain
12-The Betrayed
13-Storm
14-Panic
15Moonshot
16-Wall of Crystal
17-The Condemned
Season two (1967-1968)
1-Condition: Red
2-The Saucer
3-The Watchers
4-Valley of the Shadow
5-The Enemy
6-The Trial
7-The Spores
8-Dark Outpost
9-Summit Meeting - Part 1
10-Summit Meeting - Part 2
11-The Prophet
12-Labyrinth
13-The Captive
14-The Believers
15-The Ransom
16-Task Force
17-The Possessed
18Counterattack
19-The Pit
20-The Organization
21-The Peacemaker
22-The Vise
23-The Miracle
24-The Life Seekers
25-The Pursued
26-Inquisition
1-Condition: Red
2-The Saucer
3-The Watchers
4-Valley of the Shadow
5-The Enemy
6-The Trial
7-The Spores
8-Dark Outpost
9-Summit Meeting - Part 1
10-Summit Meeting - Part 2
11-The Prophet
12-Labyrinth
13-The Captive
14-The Believers
15-The Ransom
16-Task Force
17-The Possessed
18Counterattack
19-The Pit
20-The Organization
21-The Peacemaker
22-The Vise
23-The Miracle
24-The Life Seekers
25-The Pursued
26-Inquisition
External links
The Invaders at the Internet Movie Database -- the original series
The Invaders at the Internet Movie Database -- 1995 miniseries/movie
The Unofficial Web Site and Episode Guide -- fan site
Monday, 23 June 2008
Hello Dolly (Full Version) - Barbra Streisand
HELLO DOLLY
Dolly
Hello, Harry
Well, Hello Louie
It's so nice to be back home where I belong
You're looking swell, Manny
I can tell, Danny
You're still glowin', you're still crowin'
You're still goin' strong
For the band's playin'
One of my old favorite songs from way back when
So bridge that gap, fellas
Find me an empty lap, fellas
Dolly'll never go away again
Waiters
Hello Dolly!
Well, Hello Dolly!
It's so nice to have you back where you belong
You're looking swell, Dolly,
We can tell, Dolly,
You're still glowin', you're still crowin'
You're still goin' strong.
We feel the room swayin'
For the band's playin'
One of your old fav'rite songs from 'way back when
Dolly
So here's my hat fellas
I'm stayin' where I'm at, fellas
Waiters
Promise you'll never go away again
Dolly
I went away from the lights of Fourteenth Street
And into my personal haze
But now that I'm back in the lights of l4th Street
Tomorrow will be brighter than the good old days
Waiters
Those good old days
Hello, Well Hello Dolly
Well hello, hey look there's Dolly
Dolly
Glad to see you Hank, let's thank my lucky star
Waiters
Your lucky star
Dolly
You're lookin' great, Stanley
Lose some weight, Stanley?
Dolly's overjoyed and overwhelmed and over par
Waiters
I hear the ice tinkle
See the lights twinkle
And you still get glances from us handsome men
So...
Dolly
Golly gee, fellas
Find me a vacant knee, fellas
Waiters
Dolly'll never go away again
(A DANCE follows Dolly and the waiters)
Waiters
Well, well hello, Dolly
Well hello, Dolly
It's so nice to have you back where you belong
You're lookin' swell, Dolly
We can tell, Dolly
You're still glowin', you're still crowin'
You're still goin' strong
I hear the ice tinkle
See the lights twinkle
And you still get glances from us handsome men
So...
Dolly
Wow wow wow, fellas
Waiters
Hey, Yeh!
Dolly
Look at the old girl now, fellas
Waiters
Wow!
All
Dolly'll never go away again.
Barbra Streisand - Don't Rain On My Parade (1975)
DON'T RAIN ON MY PARADE
Don't tell me not to live,
Just sit and putter,
Life's candy and the sun's
A ball of butter.
Don't bring around a cloud
To rain on my parade.
Don't tell me not to fly--
I've simply got to.
If someone takes a spill,
It's me and not you.
Who told you you're allowed
To rain on my parade!
I'll march my band out,
I'll beat my drum,
And if I'm fanned out,
Your turn at bat, sir.
At least I didn't fake it.
Hat, sir, I guess I didn't make it!
But whether I'm the rose
Of sheer perfection,
Or freckle on the nose
Of life's complexion,
The cinder or the shiny apple of its eye,
I gotta fly once,
I gotta try once,
Only can die once, right, sir?
Ooh, love is juicy,
Juicy, and you see
I gotta have my bite, sir!
Get ready for me, love,
'Cause I'm a "comer,"
I simply gotta march,
My heart's a drummer.
Don't bring around a cloud
To rain on my parade!
I'm gonna live and live now,
Get what I want--I know how,
One roll for the whole shebang,
One throw, that bell will go clang,
Eye on the target--and wham--
One shot, one gun shot, and bam--
Hey, Mister Arnstein, here I am!
I'll march my band out,
I will beat my drum,
And if I'm fanned out,
Your turn at bat, sir,
At least I didn't fake it.
Hat, sir, I guess I didn't make it.
Get ready for me, love,
'Cause I'm a "comer,"
I simply gotta march,
My heart's a drummer.
Nobody, no, nobody
Is gonna rain on my parade!
Barbra Streisand Cry me a river (1967)
"Cry Me A River"
Now you say you're lonely
You cry the long night through
Well, you can cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you
Now you say you're sorry
For being so untrue
Well, you can cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you
You drove me, nearly drove me, out of my head
While you never shed a tear
Remember, I remember, all that you said
You told me love was too plebeian
Told me you were through with me and
Now you say you love me
Well, just to prove that you do
Come on and cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you
I cried a river over you
I cried a river...over you...
Barbra sings People
PEOPLE
People,
People who need people
Are the luckiest people in the world
Were children needing other children
And yet letting our grown-up pride
Hide all the need inside
Acting more like children than children
Lovers
Are very special people
Theyre the luckiest people in the world
With one person,
One very special person
A feeling deep in your soul
Says you are half now youre whole
No more hunger and thirst
But first be a person who needs people
People, people who need people
Are the luckiest people in the world.
With one person
One very special person
A feeling deep in your soul
Says you are half now youre whole
No more hunger and thirst
But first be a person who needs people
People, people who need people
Are the luckiest people in the world.
Memory- Barbara Streisand
Memory
Daylight
See the dew on the sunflower
And a rose that is fading
Roses whither away
Like the sunflower
I yearn to turn my face to the dawn
I am waiting for the day . . .
Midnight
Not a sound from the pavement
Has the moon lost her memory?
She is smiling alone
In the lamplight
The withered leaves collect at my feet
And the wind begins to moan
Memory
All alone in the moonlight
I can smile at the old days
I was beautiful then
I remember the time I knew what happiness was
Let the memory live again
Every streetlamp
Seems to beat a fatalistic warning
Someone mutters
And the streetlamp gutters
And soon it will be morning
Daylight
I must wait for the sunrise
I must think of a new life
And I musn't give in
When the dawn comes
Tonight will be a memory too
And a new day will begin
Burnt out ends of smoky days
The stale cold smell of morning
The streetlamp dies, another night is over
Another day is dawning
Touch me
It's so easy to leave me
All alone with the memory
Of my days in the sun
If you touch me
You'll understand what happiness is
Look
A new day has begun
GETTING WARFARE RIGHT
Interesting long article in the NYT about the interrogation of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, otherwise known as KSM, the operational commander of 9/11, and a mass murderer who wanted to murder even more
I remember wondering at the time where he'd disappeared to. So now we know: it was Poland, because the Poles were eager to help, but also because in Poland there wasn't much chance of anyone on the outside being an al-Qaeda supporter who might try to spring him.
The important part of the article, to my mind, is its descriptions of the deliberations in the CIA on procedure, and specifically on the use of torture. They were suddenly faced with a brand new but exceedingly dangerous new challenge; they didn't have the faintest idea how to deal with it and weren't set up to do so; failure to do the job meant lots of additional innocents would be murdered. So they improvised. As we know in retrospect, some of the improvisations were seriously wrong, and they seem to have been aware of this even at the time, but not aware enough, or not confident enough in their ability to succeed without the torture.
Seen from the perspective of a historian rather than an ideologue, that seems pretty much right to me. Warfare is a nasty business even when you're on the right side of it. The stakes are high, the dangers are acute, and no matter what you do, at least some things will inevitably go wrong. Life and death decisions must be made NOW, not later, because if they're made later people will die first. So it's a combination of trial and error, measuring success vs. failure on the fly, while always trying to adhere to an overarching moral code that directs some sides and is totally irrelevant to others.
The advocates of the moral code are right when they demand that their side get it right sooner, not later, and their watchdog role really is important, because the warriors must by definition focus on the goal of saving the lives of their people and don't always take full account of the moral implications. The role of the warriors, however, is at least as crucial as that of the watchdogs, since if they don't do their job innocents will die. A healthy democratic society manages to balance these things, at least most of the time, or with reasonable success. That's what makes them so different from their enemies, who are often bothered by being foiled, but lack moral qualms. The watchdogs in the democracies must always remember that, too, else their moral equivalence blind them to the utter necessity of waging the war.
Finally, unlike what the political ideologues like to shout all the time, the story being told here isn't about the Bush administration in any immediate way. It's conceivable that had the top been more aware of the moral issues things might have been done somewhat differently, but the discussions for or against torture described here weren't taking place at the White House, they were unfolding at a much lower level, where the war against the Islamsts was being waged.
taken from the Blog Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations :http://yaacovlozowick.blogspot.com
JERUSALEM, A CAPITAL FOR 3.000 YEARS AND FOR ALL ETERNITY
A lecture Al Jazeera's Viewers will not soon forget
Prof. Mordechai Kedar of the Arab Studies Department in Bar-Ilan University was an unusual guest on Al Jazeera's Arabic channel.
He was interviewed on Jerusalem day and used the stage given to him to defend Jerusalem as Israel's capital in a heated debate. Prof. Kedar was interviewed by one of Al Jazeera's top journalists. When asked about Israel's intentions to build housing units in areas beyond the Green Line (1967 border) in Jerusalem he answered:
"To tell you the truth I don't quite understand this. Must Israel ask permission from some other authority in the world? It has been our capital for 3,000 years. We have been there since the time your forefathers used to drink wine, bury their daughters alive, and pray to multiple gods... why must we speak about this? It has been our city for 3,000 years and will be for eternity.
"He then continue to stun his interviewer and probably most of Al Jazeera's viewers by claiming Jerusalem was never mentioned in the Quran and that the West Bank is not occupied territory.
Putting political opinions aside, Prof. Kedar sure gave Al Jazeera a performance they will not soon forget.
Sunday, 22 June 2008
ARISTIDES DE SOUSA MENDES
Aristides de Sousa Mendes, GCC, OL (July 19, 1885–April 3, 1954), pron. IPA: [ɐɾiʃ'tidɨʒ dɨ 'so(ou)zɐ 'mẽdɨʃ] (full name: Aristides de Sousa Mendes do Amaral e Abranches) was a Portuguese diplomat who ignored and defied the orders of his own government for the safety of war refugees fleeing from invading German military forces in the early years of World War II. Between the 16 and 23 of June 1940, he frantically issued Portuguese visas free of charge, to over 30,000 refugees seeking to escape the Nazi terror, 12,000 of whom were Jews.
Early life
Aristides de Sousa Mendes was born in Cabanas de Viriato, in Carregal do Sal, in the district of Viseu, Beira region, Portugal, on July 9, 1885. His family had aristocratic origins, since his mother Maria Angelina Ribeiro de Abranches de Abreu Castelo-Branco was a maternal granddaughter of the 2nd Viscount de Midões. His father, José de Sousa Mendes, had been a judge on the Supreme Court, and Sousa Mendes’ twin brother César would become Foreign Minister in 1932–33 under the António de Oliveira Salazar regime.
Sousa Mendes studied law at the University of Coimbra, together with his twin, and both obtained their law degrees in 1908. In 1908, he married his childhood sweetheart, Maria Angelina Ribeiro de Abranches (born August 20, 1888); they eventually had 14 children, born in the various countries where he served. Shortly after his marriage, he began the diplomatic career that would take him and his family around the world. In his early career, he served in Zanzibar, Kenya, Brazil, and the United States before being assigned to Antwerp, Belgium in 1931. In Belgium he meet the Nobel Prize winners Maurice Maeterlinck and Albert Einstein. After almost 10 years of dedicated service in Belgium, Sousa Mendes was assigned to the consulate of Bordeaux in France.
The consul was still in Bordeaux at the outbreak of World War II and the invasion of France by the Nazi army of Adolf Hitler. Salazar managed to maintain Portugal's neutrality in the war, but his own personal opinions favoured Hitler as far as the combat against Communism was concerned. On November 11, 1939, he issued orders that consuls were not to issue Portuguese visas to "foreigners of indefinite or contested nationality; the stateless; or Jews expelled from their countries of origin". This order was followed only six months later by one stating that "under no circumstances" were visas to be issued without prior case-by-case approval from Lisbon. Similar policies against Jewish immigration were adopted much earlier by the United States and the United Kingdom.
The Jewish Virtual Library biography of Sousa Mendes records the consul's response as follows:
Within days of the new orders, Sousa Mendes was taken to task for having granted a visa to a Viennese refugee, Professor Arnold Wizrntzer. Called to task by his superiors, Sousa Mendes answered: "He informed me that, were he unable to leave France that very day, he would be interned in a concentration [read, detention] camp, leaving his wife and minor son stranded. I considered it a duty of elementary humanity to prevent such an extremity."[1]
Thus it was in a deliberate act of disobedience that Sousa Mendes issued an estimated 30,000 visas to Jews and other persecuted minorities: political dissidents, army officers from occupied countries, and priests and nuns. These visas were not all to individuals, but sometimes to families; in at least one case, the visa covered a family of nine people.[2] Sousa Mendes was inspired to this act in part through his friendship with Rabbi Chaim (Haim) Kruger[3], who had fled to France from Antwerp.
The earliest of these visas were issued in the months between the 1939 and mid-1940 decrees, a period during which he attempted to protect his family by sending all but two sons home to Portugal and sending constant telegrams to Lisbon with coded requests for approval of the visas, in order to preserve his post while obeying his conscience. The majority of the visas, however, were issued after a harrowing three-day crisis of conscience in mid-June, 1940, shortly after Franco changed the status of Spain from "neutral" to "non-belligerent," [1], which suggested time was running out for Portugal to follow its ally and neighbor. The consul offered a visa to his friend the rabbi, who responded, "I can't accept a visa for us and leave my people behind."[4] The distraught consul took to his bed in confusion from June 14th to the 16th. From his crisis, Sousa Mendes emerged on June 17, 1940, determined to obey what he called a "divine power" and grant visas to everyone in need, at whatever cost to himself.
Working feverishly with Rabbi Kruger, the two remaining Sousa Mendes sons and their mother, and a few refugees, the consul formed an assembly line that processed visas all through that day and well into the night. They made whatever changes were necessary to the usual procedure: the consul signing with just his surname, not registering the visas or collecting fees, and stamping visas on pieces of paper. The sense of urgency was heightened even more when Marshal Henri Petain announced that day that France would sign a peace agreement with Germany. The assembly line kept working all through the following day. A delegate of the House of Habsburg, after having to wait his turn in the seemingly endless line, left with 19 visas for the imperial family of the Archduke, who later returned in person to obtain an additional stack of visas for Austrian refugees.
On into June 19, the assembly line marched on through stacks and stacks of visas, even as the city was bombed by German planes. At this point, Sousa Mendes rushed to the consulate at Bayonne, near the Spanish border where his visas were being honored for the crowds rushing out of the country. Finding that consulate overwhelmed, he took over responsibility from his subordinate there, Consul Machado, and set up a second assembly line to process thousands more exit documents. (Machado reported this behavior to Portugal's ambassador to Spain, Teotonio Pereira, who favored Germany and worried that accepting those unacceptable to Hitler would ruin Portugal's relationship with Franco; Pereira promptly set out for the French border.) He went on to Hendaye to assist there, thus narrowly missing two cablegrams from Lisbon on June 22 to Bordeaux and Bayonne ordering him to stop even as France's armistice with Germany became official. In an article for a religious magazine in 1996, his son John Paul Abranches told the story:
As his diplomatic car reached the French border town of Hendaye, my father encountered a large group of stranded refugees for whom he had previously issued visas. Those people had been turned away because the Portuguese government had phoned the guards, commanding, "Do not honor Mendes's signature on visas."
Ordering his driver to slow down, Father waved the group to follow him to a border checkpoint that had no telephones. In the official black limousine with its diplomatic license tags, Father led those refugees across the border toward freedom.[4]
He traveled to the border at Irun on June 23, where he personally raised the gate to allow disputed passages into Spain to occur. It was at this point that Ambassador Pereira arrived at Irun, declared Sousa Mendes mentally incompetent and invalidated all further visas.[5] An Associated Press story the next day reported that some 10,000 persons attempting to cross over into Spain were excluded because authorities no longer granted recognition to their visas.[1]
As Sousa Mendes continued the flow of visas, Salazar sent a telegram on June 24 recalling him to Portugal, an order he received upon returning to Bordeaux on June 26 but followed only slowly, not arriving in Portugal until July 8. Along the way he issued Portuguese passports to refugees now trapped in occupied France, saving them by preventing their deportation to concentration camps.[1]
He saved an enormous number of lives, but lost his career for it. In 1941, Salazar lost political trust in Sousa Mendes and forced the diplomat to quit his career, subsequently ordering as well that no one in Portugal show him any charity.[6] He found he also could not resume his law career, as he was prevented from registration, and he was made to surrender his foreign-issue driver's license.[4]Just before the war's end in 1945, he suffered a stroke that left him at least partially paralyzed. In his later years, the formerly much-honored diplomat was abandoned by most of his colleagues and friends and often blamed by some of his close family members.[7]Aided by a local Jewish refugee agency — which had begun to feed the family and pay their rent upon discovering the situation — the children moved to other countries one by one in search of opportunities they were now denied in Portugal, though all accounts by them indicate they never blamed their father or regretted his decision. His wife, Angelina, died in 1948. Stripped of his pension, he died in poverty on April 3, 1954, still in disgrace with his government.
This ill-treatment by his government for acts considered heroic in other countries was not unique to Sousa Mendes. Others similarly dishonored include Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul in Kaunas, Lithuania; Carl Lutz, the Swiss Vice-Consul in Budapest, Hungary; and Paul Grüninger, chief of police in the Swiss canton of Sankt-Gallen (Saint-Gall). Ironically, the actions that caused Salazar to dismiss his diplomatic representative brought considerable praise to him and to Portugal, seen internationally as a haven of hospitality for refugee Jews; the magazine Life called Salazar "the greatest Portuguese since Henry the Navigator" (July 29, 1940).[4][7][1]
Posthumous honors
Family members seeking to clear his name sought to have his story published in magazines and began to contact Jewish visa recipients living in New York. In 1966 Sousa Mendes was honored at Israel's Yad Vashem memorial to the Holocaust as one of the "Righteous Among The Nations," one of the first steps in the long journey. In 1986, inspired by the election of a civilian president in Portugal, his son John Paul Abranches began to circulate a petition to the Portuguese president within his adopted country, the United States. As journalists began to tell the story, it came to the attention of two members of the California delegation of the United States House of Representatives, Portuguese-American Rep. Tony Coelho and Rep. Henry Waxman, who had a family member saved by Sousa Mendes' signature. These two men introduced a resolution in Congress to recognize his humanitarian actions, a resolution that was passed in 1987.
Also in 1987, the Portuguese Republic began to rehabilitate Sousa Mendes' memory and granted a posthumous Order of Liberty medal, one of that country's highest honors, although the consul's diplomatic honors still were not restored. On March 18, 1988 the Portuguese parliament officially dismissed all charges, restoring him to the diplomatic corps by unanimous vote and honoring him with a standing ovation. He was promoted to the rank of Ambassador[8]He also was issued the Cross of Merit for his actions in Bordeaux. In December of that year, the U.S. Ambassador to Portugal, Edward Rowell presented copies of the congressional resolution from the previous year to Pedro Nuno de Sousa Mendes, one of the sons who had helped in the assembly line at Bordeaux, and to President Mário Soares at the Palácio de Belém. In 1994 former President Soares dedicated a bust of Sousa Mendes in Bordeaux, along with a commemorative plaque at 14 quai Louis-XVIII, the address at which the consulate at Bordeaux had been housed. [9]
A commemorative stamp was issued in Portugal, 1995; image can be find at http://www.caleida.pt/filatelia/aleph/ficha?emi_00_01+7747
A great homage was done in memory of Aristides Sousa Mendes at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 11 May and 10 November 2005, in a benefit performance on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of UNESCO and the fortieth anniversary of Portugal's admittance. The baritone Jorge Chaminé gave a recital at the Great Hall. The French writer Jean Lacouture wrote that "in more than 50 years as a listener all over the world, I never heard such an incredible performance. What a marvellous homage to this great man!"
The mansion that Sousa Mendes had to abandon and sell in the poverty of his final years was left for decades to rot and decay, and at one time was to be razed and replaced by a hotel. However, with reparations funds given by the Portuguese government to Sousa Mendes' heirs in 2000, the family decided to create the Aristides de Sousa Mendes Foundation (Fundação Aristides de Sousa Mendes, in Portuguese). With assistance from government officials, the foundation purchased the family home in order to develop a museum in his honor.[10] The house was classified as a Portuguese National Monument on February 3, 2005. The two events at UNESCO raised a 6,000 euro donation for the foundation; even so, the foundation's president said in 2006 that the organization was finding it difficult to raise sufficient additional funds for the renovation.[11]
On 14 January 2007, he was voted into the top ten of the poll show Os Grandes Portugueses (English: The Greatest Portuguese), on 25 March 2007, the day of the results revelation, he was voted into third place, behind deceased communist leader Álvaro Cunhal (runner-up) and deceased dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (winner).
In February 2008, Portuguese Parliamentary Speaker Jaime Gama led a session which launched a virtual Museum, on the World-Wide Web; it offers access to photographs and other documents chronicalling Mendes' life. The site includes content in Portuguese, but translations into other languages are planned.[12]
Otto von Habsburg, heir of the Austrian-Hungarian Emperor, who was detested by Hitler and by him condemned to death
Norbert Gingold, pianist
Charles Oulmont, French writer
I will not condone murder, therefore I disobey and continue to disobey Salazar.
My desire is to be with God against men, rather than with men against God.
If thousands of Jews can suffer because of one Catholic [Hitler], then surely it is permitted for one Catholic to suffer for so many Jews.
I could not have acted otherwise, and I therefore accept all that has befallen me with love.
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Notes
1-^ a b c d e Aristides de Sousa Mendes: The Jewish Virtual Library
2-^ "Portuguese Righteous Gentile," article by Rufina Bernardetti Silva Mausenbaum, Portugal On Line (Portugal Em Linha)
3-^ John Paul Abranches Highlights Denver Conference (Commemorating 500th Anniversary of Forced Conversion of Portuguese Jews), reprinted from HaLapid Fall 1997
4-^ a b c d "A Matter of Conscience," by John Paul Abranches, Guideposts, June 1996, pp. 2-6.
5-^ The Jewish Virtual Library article notes that a Spanish newspaper headline the next day announced the sudden insanity of "the Consul of Portugal in Bayonne," an ironic error that labeled Sousa Mendes' accuser as the one who had lost his faculties.
6-^ Sousa Mendes, With God Against Men, The Raoul Wallenberg Foundation (Argentina)
7-^ a b Words of Remembrance by one of his sons, Luis Felipe, at saudades.org
8-^ AT&T News February 19, 2008
9-^ Picture available at Aristides Sousa Mendes-Le juste de Bordeaux (The Righteous One of Bordeaux) - site in French and Portuguese
10-^ Aristides de Sousa Mendes: A Testimonial (retrieved August 26, 2006)
11-^ Foundation with "difficulties" in restoring house, LUSA Agency, February 2, 2006 (article in Portuguese)
12-^ AT&T News February 19, 2008
This article was expanded partially with material from the articles on Sousa Mendes in the Portuguese and French Wikipedias.
11.[http://www.att.net/s/editorial.dll?pnum=1&bfromind=7406&eeid=5704108&_sitecat=1505&dcatid=0&eetype=article&render=y&ac=2&ck=&ch=ne&rg=blsadstrgt&_lid=332&_lnm=tg+ne+topnews&ck=ristides de Sousa Mendes, o Cônsul injustiçado, by Diana Andringa, Portugal, 1983
Further reading
Fralon, Jose Alain (author) and Graham, Peter (translator). A Good Man in Evil Times: The Story of Aristides De Sousa Mendes--The Man Who Saved the Lives of Countless Refugees in World War II. 2001, Carroll & Graf Publishers, ISBN 0-7867-0848-4.
External links
Aristides de Sousa Mendes Virtual Museum (in Portuguese) (archives, documents, interviews, testimonials)
Jewish Virtual Library: Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Hero of the People Series: Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Holocaust Rescuers Bibliography
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