[Peace] News from Neptune on UPTV 1/17/14

[C. G. Estabrook]

NEWS FROM NEPTUNE for the third week of 2014:
(David Green, David Johnson, & C. G. Estabrook 
7pm Friday on <urbanapublictelevision.org>)
A "Things Are Not What They Seem" Edition:

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqDovP6w_xc>

Produced and directed by Caleb Seripinas on Urbana Public Television.

January 17 is a day of ambiguous statements, including a speech by the U.S. chief magistrate this morning.
See David Swanson, "Obama Fans Aren't even Pretending That Was a Good Speech"  <http://davidswanson.org/node/4296>.

On this day in 
• 1904 – Anton Chekhov's 'The Cherry Orchard' receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre;
• 1961 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address in which he warns against the "military-industrial complex"; and
~ on the same day, Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo after he helped win its independence from Belgium in June 1960, is murdered - on Eisenhower's orders.

“The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.” ― Rosa Luxemburg, murdered 1/15/1919 by a Social Democratic government.

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