8 Hour Work Day

LEADERONIA- Today our Great Leader is on the way to Chicago, Il.
This city in the middle of the United States, was the center of
the great worker struggle that took place in 1886.

In 1884 the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions
demanded an eight-hour workday in the United States, to come
in effect as of May 1, 1886. This resulted in the general strike
and the U.S. Haymarket Riot of 1886, but eventually also in the
official sanction of the eight-hour workday.[from Wiki]

Read more on the Haymarket Tragedy

FREEDOM DAY

1994, Nelson Mandela was elected South Africa's first black president.
Click here to see photos of celebration of last year Freedom Day in Pretoria.
The Great Leader invites all people of Leaderonia to dedicate a thought
about real freedom and courage that this Great Leader represents.

Fischia il Vento

Il 25 Aprile si festeggia la Liberazione,
Per celebrare questo avvenimento il
Grande Leader invita il Popolo di Leaderonia
a cantare una canzone cara a lui stesso.

Clicca qui per scaricare il documento MP3

Fischia il vento, infuria la bufera,
scarpe rotte eppur bisogna andar,
a conquistare la rossa primavera
dove sorge il sol dell'avvenir.
Ogni contrada è patria del ribelle
ogni donna a lui dona un sospir,
nella notte lo guidano le stelle
forte il cuore e il braccio nel colpir.
Se ci coglie la crudele morte
dura vendetta verrà dal partigian;
ormai sicura è gia la dura sorte
contro il vile che noi ricerchiam.
Cessa il vento, calma è la bufera,
torna a casa fiero il partigian
Sventolando la rossa sua bandiera;
vittoriosi e alfin liberi siam.

Si Ringrazia l'Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d'Italia

Comrade Kosmonaut

1961- Yuri Gagarin is the first man to enter the airless void of
the infinite space, on his Vostok 1 rocket.

January 5th

1589 Caterina De' Medici dies at 69 years of age.
1878 Birth of Nelly Roussel. Free thinker, anarchist and feminist.
1914 Ford Motor Company announced that there would be a new
daily minimum wage of $5 and an (shortened) eight-hour work day.
1919 Revolt in Berlin by the Spartacists. led by Karl Liebknech
and Rosa Luxembourg.
1977 Italian Communist Party leader Enrico Berlinguer speaks
in Bucarest, Romenia to other leaders about Eurocommunism.
1979 Charlie Mingus dies.
1969 Birth of Marylin Manson.

Blind hunger, read anger

1809-Louis Braille was born. He developed system of writing
that could be felt and interpreted by the blind; not widely recognized
until after his death; died Jan 6, 1852
1932-Ghandi begins fast to win suffrage for untouchables
1997-80.000 rally in Ogoni portion of Nigeria against
military dictatorships and Shell oil

New Category

The Great Leader is proud to announce that for the new year
there will be new categories added in to Leaderonia Journal.
Thanks to Her Greatness's younger brother, the Great Leader
was provided with a long sought 2005 Slingshot organizer,
which informs the GL everyday of facts happened in History.

2005-Quadrantic Meteor Shower
1781-Inca Rebellion.
Inca besiege Cuzco (Peru) in attempt to dislodge Spani
1964-450.000 public school kids strike in NYC to protest
segregation and poverty

There will be more source added and mentioned to provide
Lederonians with accurate information on History.

Weekly Review 12/21

The Office of Analysis of Information has approved the
pubblication of the weekly review, Great Leader' favorite
re-cap of the World news:

Via Harper's Magazine

[...]A virtual island on the planet Calypso sold for $26,500,
and the United States forgave $4.1 billion in Iraqi debt.
Congressman John Conyers Jr. said he would ask the FBI to
investigate "inappropriate and likely illegal election tampering"
in Ohio during the presidential election, and Gillette unveiled
its newest product, a vibrating razor for women called
"The Venus Vibrance."[...]

Weekly Review

Posted on Tuesday, December 21, 2004. By Theodore Ross andArno Kopecky.

Time Magazine named President George W. Bush "Person of the Year" and praised him for "reframing reality to match his design." Tommy Franks, George Tenet, and Paul Bremer III were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, and Donald Rumsfeld announced that from now on he would personally sign condolence letters sent to the families of soldiers killed in action, instead of using a machine. Fox News hired Zell Miller. United States military officials couldn't explain the failure of the most recent missile shield test, but maintained that it was "a very good training exercise." Senator John McCain said he had no confidence in Donald Rumsfeld. Scientists discovered a new monkey species, andMuamar Qaddafi said President Bush couldn't have won the election without him. The supreme court of Kansas declared that the state's death penalty is unconstitutional but then issued a stay of its own ruling. Representative Billy Tauzin, an author of the House Medicare Drug Law, announced that he will become alobbyist for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. The Securities and Exchange Commission accused Fannie Mae of cheating on its taxes. Pfizer admitted thatCelebrex doubled the risk of heart attack in certain patients, but declined to take it off the market, and a survey found that one fifth of all FDA scientists had been pressured to recommend approval of a new drug. The DEA told the University of Massachusetts it couldn't grow marijuana on campus. The Trust For America's Health reported that two thirds of U.S. states were not adequately prepared for a bioterrorist attack, and the National Guard was offering a $15,000 enlistment bonus. President Bush made privatizing social security a major priority for his second term, and his daughter Jenna considered becoming a schoolteacher. Scientists announced that 70.6 percent of husbands are obese.

The Iraqi Special Tribune opened hearings into the crimes of prominent former Baath government officials, most notably Hassan Al-Majeed, aka "Chemical Ali." Evidence against him included a tape on which he boasted that if any Kurd defied him, he would "blow him away, cut him open like a cucumber," and bury him with a bulldozer. The election season began in Iraqwith 73 parties participating, and car bombs killed more than 60 people in Najaf and Karbala. Fourteen U.S. Marines were convicted of abusing Iraqi prisoners, including one soldier who used an electronic device to make a detainee "dance." The United States Army decided to drive less and fly more. TheUnited Nations reported that there had been widespreadsmuggling of oil out of Iraq under the Coalition Provisional Authority, the British House of Lords said the indefinite detention of foreign terrorism suspects violates EU human rightslaws, and Osama bin Laden urged Muslims to attack oil facilities in Iraq and the Persian Gulf. Saddam Hussein met with his lawyer. Mahmoud Abbas called for an end to political violence, and Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom called Yasir Arafat'sdeath "an opportunity we should not miss," while Palestinianmilitants insisted that "the blessed Intifada will continue" and an Israeli raid in Gaza left 11 dead. The Pentagon announced it wanted to spend more time spying. The Tenth International Convention on Climate Change ended with a resolution for all parties to meet again soon, and General Motors sued a Chineseautomaker for cloning the Chevrolet Spark. Russian border guards discovered an underground "vodka pipeline" used to smuggle alcohol into Estonia, and an Australian man nearly diedafter his "jug helmet," a beer-drinking device made from a hose and a power drill, malfunctioned. Workmen discovered that U.N.headquarters in Geneva were bugged.

The prime minister of Spain accused his predecessor of erasing all computer files related to last year's Madrid terrorist bombing. "Not a single trace of any files was left behind," said one official, "zero, nothing." Augusto Pinochet had another stroke. A Washington State man received a three-year prison sentence for attempting to circumcise his eight-year-old son, and a Minnesotacompany was building a power plant that will be fueled primarily by turkey droppings. The Australian government warned its citizens to avoid major hotels in Indonesia. Russiaforced the Yukos oil conglomerate to auction off its largest subsidiary to a little-known company with suspected government ties in a sale that was widely interpreted as a way to punish Yukos's politically outspoken founder, Boris Khodorkovsky, who is currently in jail. A virtual island on the planet Calypso sold for $26,500, and the United States forgave $4.1 billion in Iraqi debt. Congressman John Conyers Jr. said he would ask the FBI to investigate "inappropriate and likely illegal election tampering" in Ohio during the presidential election, and Gillette unveiled its newest product, a vibrating razor for women called "The Venus Vibrance." A general from the African Union called the situation in Sudan a "bomb that could explode at any moment," as a deadline to end hostilities there was ignored. Scientists estimated that ten percent of all bird species will become extinct by the end of the century, and enrollment was down at London's premier Santa school. Twelve million honeybees died in a Las Vegas freeway accident.