Tule Lake Internment Camp Two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on December 7,1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order No. 9066, a proclamation that ultimately consigned 110,000 Japanese Americans to ten internment camps scattered throughout the United States. Tule Lake was the largest of the internment camps with a peak population of 18,789 persons of Japanese descent. Tule Lake was the only camp turned into a high-security segregation center, ruled by martial law and occupied by the United States Army. Stripped of their constitutional rights, Japanese American men, women and children were allowed one trunk per person and sent to camps around the country - leaving behind their homes, businesses and personal belongings built over a lifetime. Tule Lake Prisoner of War Camp Just a few miles north of the ancient lava flows of Lava Beds National Monument - nestled next to a high bluff -- lies a group of buildings weathered by more than sixty-years of extreme temperatures and the dry dust-filled winds of the Modoc Plateau. These rustic buildings, scattered like unwanted tumbleweeds in the wind, once housed Japanese American internees, and both Italian and German prisoners-of-war. The Tule Lake Branch Prisoner of War Camp (Camp Tulelake) was originally used as a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in the 1930's. (This camp should not be confused with the nearby Tule Lake War Relocation Center.) The camp, built between 1935 and 1938, contained some thirty structures - including administration, barracks, mess hall and hospital -- all grouped around a central courtyard. Japanese Americans who were interned at the Tule Lake Relocation Center (five miles to the east) who refused to answer the WRA's loyalty questionnaire were arrested and temporarily held at the CCC camp. A second group of Japanese Americans arrived in October of 1943 when evacuee farm workers at the Tule Lake Relocation (Segregation) Center went on strike. To break the strike, 234 Japanese Americans from other relocation centers were brought in to harvest crops in the area. For their protection, the Japanese Americans were housed at the CCC camp. As the war intensified in Europe, modifications were made to the CCC camp. A double fence was erected to form a compound around the barracks and mess hall. Four guard towers with searchlights were built at the corners; a patrol road, gate and sentry post were added as well. Italian POWs lived at the camp first and then were replaced by German POWs in late 1944, after the Allied invasion of Normandy, France. The Italian and German POWs were brought in to help local farmers clear canals of moss and algae and to help in harvesting their crops. The Italian and German POWs were often paid more than the Japanese American internees to do the same type of work. Camp Tulelake reached its peak population of more than 800 POWs by the end of October 1944. Today, only five of the original CCC buildings remain. The buildings, which include the mess hall and kitchen, a barracks, garage, paint shop, and pump house, are presently abandoned and in poor condition. Camp Tulelake now resides on land within the Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge. A barbed wire fence prevents public access to the buildings and no signs are posted to indicate the structures' historical significance. The current plan for the CCC/World War II POW camp is the demolition and destruction of the remaining buildings.

Author: loakjoe
Keywords: Tule Lake Internment Camp World War II Japanese Americans POWs
Added: September 7, 2008

http://www.CentralMovieNetwork.com/tmd.htm The Pool (film) The Pool is a 2007 drama film co-written and directed by Chris Smith. Besides Bollywood veteran Nana Patekar, the film starred non-professional actors - Venkatesh Chavan, Jhangir Badshah and Ayesha Mohan. The story revolves around a young janitor working at a hotel in port city of Panjim, India, who sees from his perch in a mango tree a luxuriant garden and shimmering pool hidden behind a wall. In making whatever efforts he can to better himself, Venkatesh offers his services to the wealthy owner of the home. Not content to simply dream about a different life, Venkatesh is inquisitive about the home's inhabitants and his curiosity changes the shape of his future. Though filmed in Hindi, a language Smith didn't know, the film earned good reviews. Besides winning a Special Jury prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, the film won accolades from Geoffrey Gilmore, director of the Sundance Film Festival. In the same year, it was screened at the Vienna International Film Festival and International Film Festival of India. The Pool Production After American Job (1996), American Movie (1999), Home Movie (2001) and The Yes Men (2003), Milwaukee-based director Chris Smith read a story, written by Randy Russel, about a person from a graduate school in Iowa. This person, who is out running, sees a swimming pool and gets obsessed with swimming in it. He follows around the people who own the place and tries to befriend them. However, Smith clarified that the film's story evolved from it in a "completely different way from there". He said that though they had a draft in hand while beginning the shooting, his goal was to let the environment (the actors, their experiences and observations) shape the story. The film is a collaborative result of a crew that was half-based in India and United States. The crew included producer Kate Noble, creative consultant Xavier Leplae, whose film I'm Bobby was shot in the Goan state of India. Xavier's brother, Didier Leplae, who composed the score with Joe Wong in Milwaukee, had it arranged by a Bollywood composer, and recorded by a small orchestra in Mumbai. The film also credits independent film representative and producer John Sloss, who has handled all of his films, as being his "conduit to the rest of the world," and said that it was Sloss' work on his behalf that "has allowed me to stay in Milwaukee." Barry Polterman, who edited The Pool and American Movie, continued his association with Smith with this film. Though the story was originally set in Iowa, Smith chose the port city of Panjim, Goa due to his long-time fascination with the city, especially the contrast between the rich and the poor. For the 65-day shoot, Smith and his crew moved to India for a five month period. While referring to this cinematic endeavor as an experiment, he felt that the journey to India was crucial in clearing up his creative space to work. Smith once thought of aborting the project because they were unsuccessful in locating a bungalow with a pool. Eventually, they managed to lease one from a New Zealand-born India-based person. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pool_(film)

Author: JustReleasedTrailers
Keywords: The Pool 2007 2008 official movie trailer theatrical film preview release short clip Chris Smith Nana Patekar Venkatesh Chavan Jhangir Badshah Ayesha Mohan
Added: September 6, 2008

I have to concede this democracy crap is a very interesting sideshow, although perhaps "Grand Guignol freak show" would be a better way to put it. It's very easy to wander off on silly tangents over things like conventions and buy into, or appear to buy into, this thoroughly bogus idea that any of that happy horse shit means something. It doesn't. We need to bear in mind the by now indisputable fact that we are all aware of somewhere in our subconscious, that these elections are all as phony as a $3 bill. They are rigged, their results are predetermined in advance by men in business suits without souls who control the Diebold corporation and its voting machines, and we really have no choice as to whether or not we will have a geriatric and senile old thief sitting by the door in the White House, or a gibbering Indonesian con artist. That decision has already been made for us. I suspect it's Obama, or he simply would not have been allowed to get this far. Of course, one man can still un-decide that but probably won't. The chances that the lightning bolt of change, of human intervention in the schemes of devils, will ever occur, are almost non-existent. But we can all dream of the glorious day when we turn on CNN and see the screaming, hysterical, blubbering media talking heads howling like dogs, and know that all of a sudden the sun looks a little brighter, a weight has been lifted from our souls, and life seems a little more worth living.

Author: LethalKillingMachine
Keywords: World Trade Center Attacks WTC 9/11 People Falling to Their Horrific Deaths Grand Guignol freak show LethalKillingMachine
Added: September 4, 2008

Robert Taylor was one of the greatest leading man of the golden era of cinema. He had not only charm and dashing good looks but also real acting skills that allowed him to play all type of characters in different genres, always giving fine performances. Through more than three decades of career he made western, drama, film noir, comedy, epic and even musical. Robert Taylor is undoubtedly a true legend of the World Cinema. I hope you enjoy watching these fragments of his movies that I have selected. Robert Taylor is Charley Gilson, a buffalo hunter from Dakota, who meets Sandy McKenzie (Stewart Granger) , a well-known an ex-buffalo hunter, when all of his cattle are killed by a huge buffalo. Charley takes advantage of the opportunity and asks Sandy to join him in hunting buffalo, but Sandy refuses, he had abandoned the trade after growing weary of all the killing. But realizing he has no choice, Sandy finally agrees to become Charley's partner, and in town, he hires two men to round out the party: Jimmy O'Brien ( Russ Tamblyn) , a red-headed "half-breed" who has decided to leave the reservation and live as a white man, and Woodfoot (Lloyd Nolan), a peg-legged alcoholic who once was known as the best skinner in the territory. The hunt hasn't started yet, but Sandy, Woodfoot and Jimmy begins to know the violent temper of Charley, his human qualities: arrogance, greed, racism, lust, with virtually no regard for human beings and animals. Cast Robert Taylor ... Charlie Gilson Stewart Granger ... Sandy McKenzie Lloyd Nolan ... Woodfoot Debra Paget ... Indian girl Russ Tamblyn ... Jimmy O'Brien ... and more Director ... Richard Brooks Original Music ... Daniele Amfitheatrof Cinematography ... Russell Harlan

Author: elmonjeblanco
Keywords: Robert Taylor Stewart Granger Debra Paget Russ Tamblyn Western Richard Brooks The Last Hunt Indian War Classic Films
Added: September 3, 2008