Rooster "Cock-A-Doodle-Do"
"Oak-He-Doe-$he. Of course one couldn't be one without the other. Amazing."
In history, January 17…
… 1706, born Benjamin Franklin, American printer, author, diplomat, and scientist.
Benjamin Franklin was the most famous American in his day. Wherever he went, crowds formed. People worldwide pictured Franklin when anyone said, "American."
http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/index.htm
… 1893, Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown as a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate.
… 1899, born Al Capone, Gangster.
… 1931, born James Earl Jones, American stage and motion-picture actor, noted for his particularly deep voice. His distinctive voice has become well known through his character of Darth Vader in the films Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Return of the Jedi (1983); as Mufasa in The Lion King (1994); and through many television commercials. He was born in Arkabutla, Mississippi. Raised in Michigan by his maternal grandparents, Jones overcame a stutter while in high school and won a scholarship at the University of Michigan, where he eventually studied drama. He moved to New York City in 1955 to pursue a stage career, and was united with his father, actor Robert Earl Jones, who had left the family before his birth. After years of playing bit parts, Jones won recognition for his performance in Jean Genet's The Blacks (1961) and in 1962 won an Obie Award (given for off-Broadway theater work) as best actor. In 1964 he appeared in Othello, by English writer William Shakespeare, for the first time, a role he repeated several times.
… 1942, born Muhammad Ali, Boxer.
… 1945, Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews, disappeared in Hungary while in Soviet custody.
… 1955, the submarine USS Nautilus made its first nuclear-powered test run from its berth in Groton, Conn.
… 1961, in his farewell address, President Eisenhower warned against the rise of "the military-industrial complex."
… 1977, convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, 36, was shot by a firing squad at Utah State Prison when the ban on the capital punishment is lifted.
… 1991, Iraq launches seven SCUD missiles into Israel and Saudi Arabia after coalition forces began massive air strikes.
… 1994, a 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck Southern California, killing at least 61 people and causing $20 billion worth of damage.
… 1999, United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan recommends that the UN pull its peacekeeping forces out of Angola as civil.
… 2000, decrying the Confederate flag as a symbol of slavery and racism, nearly 50,000 people marched to South Carolina's Statehouse on Martin Luther King Day to demand the banner be taken down.
Michael Moore Today
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addresses marchers during his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. Aug. 28, 1963.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
Martin Luther King Day 2005: A Day On, Not a Day Off; Americans nationwide honor Dr. King's legacy by serving others
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- For hundreds of thousands of Americans across the country, January 17 will be a day "on" for service-not just a day off from work-as they honor Martin Luther King Jr. by engaging in service activities for their communities and neighbors.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=982
National memorial to Martin Luther King still short of funds
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States marks the birthday of Martin Luther King, as a private group struggles to gather funds to raise a monument to the slain civil rights leader among Washington's landmark memorials.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=985
Beyond Elections; Dr. King's Teachings on Strategy and Tactics
By Paul Rockwell / Common Dreams
According to Arundhati Roy, "There is no discussion taking place in the world today that is more crucial than the debate about strategies of resistance."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=983
From The Seattle Post Intelligencer
Russia protests summary box
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WHO: Thousands of Russian retirees and military veterans.
WHY: On Jan. 1 the government replaced welfare benefits like free public transportation and medicine with monthly stipends.
WHERE: The demonstrations have focused lately on St. Petersburg, but have occurred nationwide and spread Sunday to Samara and Sevastopol.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Russia%20Protests%20Summary%20Box
The Moscow Times
Benefit Protests Bring Concessions
By Oksana Yablokova
Staff Writer
Alexander Demianchuk / Reuters
A woman gesturing at a rally Sunday in St. Petersburg, where thousands of pensioners blocked the city center to protest the swap from Soviet-era benefits to cash payments.
As the biggest protests yet against the ending of Soviet-era benefits hit President Vladimir Putin's hometown of St. Petersburg, Health and Social Development Minister Mikhail Zurabov on Sunday promised nationwide help for pensioners with transport fares.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/01/17/001.html
Government Makes Mess of Reforms
With the protests against the monetarization of benefits showing no sign of fizzling out, the federal government seems slowly to be getting the message that something needs to be done.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/01/17/005.html
Goodbye to Benefits, Even for the President
One day, Vladimir Vladimirovich™ Putin was headed to work at the Kremlin. His long limousine flew swiftly over the icy asphalt. Around the presidential limo ran the jeeps of his bodyguards, the jeeps' blue sirens flashing. Right in the middle of the road stood a bunch of pensioners.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/01/17/009.html
The Washington Post
Seamounts Offer Marine Life Peaks of Viands
By Cheryl Lyn Dybas
Special to The Washington Post
Monday, January 17, 2005; Page A06
"Hic sunt dracones," warned the black "X" on many an ancient mariner's map, marking spots in the unknown depths where dragons or serpents were thought to lurk. Since Plato's long-ago tale of the sunken island of Atlantis, humans have wondered whether lost worlds, teeming with life, might lie hidden in the ocean deeps.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A14272-2005Jan16?language=printer
Rice Goes From the Inside to The Front
State Nominee May Face Tough Transition
By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 17, 2005; Page A01
National security adviser Condoleezza Rice flew into Jerusalem on June 28, 2003, and immediately rushed to a meeting on the West Bank with Palestinian officials. During the session at a Jericho hotel, a rapt Rice watched a flashy PowerPoint presentation on a security fence being built by the Israelis that had begun to encroach on Palestinian lands.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A14268-2005Jan16?language=printer
The Long Road Out of Lake Charles
Wilbert Rideau, Convicted Three Times for a 1961 Killing, Goes Free
By Wil Haygood
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 17, 2005; Page A01
LAKE CHARLES, La. -- It ended in the night, much as it had begun nearly 44 years ago.
In 1961, a young black man named Wilbert Rideau kidnapped three whites and shot and stabbed one of them to death after a bank robbery in this town with the sweet-sounding name.
Late Saturday night, a mixed-race jury found Rideau -- who had been convicted of murder three times by all-white juries -- guilty of manslaughter. That allowed him to walk out of prison a free man because he had already served nearly twice the maximum sentence for that crime. The verdict ended a decades-long ordeal for a man who had gained fame as a prison journalist, winning the prestigious George Polk and Robert F. Kennedy awards and sharing an Academy Award nomination for a documentary film.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A14560-2005Jan16?language=printer
For One Contractor, A Road Too Hard Peril Eclipsed Pay On Iraq Supply Job
By Jackie Spinner
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 17, 2005; Page A01
BURNET, Tex. -- At night, after their work was finished and the desert moon had risen over their camp, some of the civilian truckers who hauled military supplies across Iraq would gather at their base in Kuwait and watch videos.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A14325-2005Jan16?language=printer
Gay Rights Groups Map Common Agenda
Priorities Include Right to Marry, Ending Restrictions on Military Service
By Evelyn Nieves
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 17, 2005; Page A03
The November elections seemed to spell trouble for the gay equal rights movement, what with 11 new state laws banning same-sex marriages and wins for social conservatives in Congress.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A14261-2005Jan16?language=printer
The Sydney Morning Herald
Toll tops 175,000 as Lanka adds thousands
January 17, 2005
Asia's tsunami death toll topped 175,000 on Monday as officials in Sri Lanka said the more they cleared up, the more bodies they found.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Asia-Tsunami/Toll-tops-175000-as-Lanka-adds-thousands/2005/01/17/1105810837214.html
Denmark warns of imminent attack in Aceh
January 17, 2005 - 10:19PM
Denmark's Foreign Ministry issued a warning to Danes in Indonesia's Aceh province to be on the alert for what it feared could be an "imminent terror attack on foreign relief workers".
"Several countries had received this warning and we in Denmark have decided that the source and the content of the warning were sufficient to go out with it," Niels-Erik Andersen, of the Foreign Ministry's security section, said.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Breaking-News/Denmark-warns-of-imminent-attack-in-Aceh/2005/01/17/1105810845630.html
Hill commits troops to Aceh
January 17, 2005 - 8:44PM
Defence Minister Robert Hill committed Australian troops to staying in tsunami-hit Aceh as long as Indonesia wanted them and as long as there was work to do.
Indonesia's top general in the devastated region praised the Australian relief contribution.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Breaking-News/Hill-commits-troops-to-Aceh/2005/01/17/1105810841612.html
Super fertility - it's very European
January 18, 2005
A region in the human genome that appears to promote fertility among Europeans has been discovered by researchers in Iceland.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Health/Super-fertility--its-very-European/2005/01/17/1105810845681.html
Maternity unit fails to deliver
By Ruth Pollard, Health Reporter
January 18, 2005
A dramatic decrease in births at Camden Hospital has prompted another government-commissioned review of the troubled maternity unit, nine months after it was given a clean bill of health to continue delivering babies.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Health/Maternity-unit-fails-to-deliver/2005/01/17/1105810845506.html
PM's wife taken to hospital
January 17, 2005 - 9:44PM
The Prime Minister's wife, Janette Howard, was taken to hospital but it is unclear exactly what was wrong with Australia's first lady.
A spokesman for Prime Minister John Howard, who is on annual leave, confirmed Mrs Howard, 60, had been taken to Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney on Monday for some routine tests.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Breaking-News/PMs-wife-taken-to-hospital/2005/01/17/1105810844442.html
Korean deaf team bashed at their hotel
By Selma Milovanovic
January 18, 2005
The South Korean Deaflympic team won seven gold medals in Melbourne, but its athletes and officials are leaving Australia shocked after a violent attack left their team leader in hospital.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Korean-deaf-team-bashed-at-their-hotel/2005/01/17/1105810848170.html
Ukraine election appeal hearing starts
January 17, 2005 - 9:19PM
The Ukraine Supreme Court began hearings on Monday on what appeared to be the last appeal by former prime minister Viktor Yanukovich over alleged fraud in the presidential election he lost to Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Breaking-News/Ukraine-election-appeal-hearing-starts/2005/01/17/1105810842866.html
Mandela supports anti-poverty plan
By Patrick Wintour
January 18, 2005
A grieving Nelson Mandela threw his weight behind a proposed "Marshall plan" for tackling poverty and debt in Africa, saying he would travel to London next month to lobby a meeting of G7 finance ministers.
Mr Mandela formally retired from public life last year, but held a press conference last week to reveal that his son had died of AIDS.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Mandela-supports-antipoverty-plan/2005/01/17/1105810846412.html
Water rise imperils pharaohs' temples
January 18, 2005
Cairo: Egypt has launched a rescue plan to drain off water from the Nile threatening two pharaonic temples in the Luxor region in the south of the country.
The river's water table had risen due to extensive irrigation of nearby fields, placing the Karnak and Luxor temples in imminent danger, said the Supreme Council of Antiquities, which is responsible for Egypt's historical monuments.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Water-rise-imperils-pharaohs-temples/2005/01/17/1105810846415.html
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