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Stateside: Prelude To The 2008 Election, Part 3
Sunday, 30 December 2007, 6:28 am | Rosalea Barker
Aside from the websites devoted to reporting recent developments on the subject of the validity of election results, and news reports such as this one on AlterNet, dated 27 December, about the status of the new Holt bill, saying that introduction ... More >>
Stateside: Life Imitating Cartoon Art?
Thursday, 27 December 2007, 11:16 pm | Rosalea Barker
It's not often I see a movie on TV and want to go out the next day and buy it, but on Christmas Eve I enjoyed the kids' cartoon movie Madagascar so much that I decided on Christmas morning to go to the nearby Walgreen's and get it. More >>
Stateside: Prelude to the 2008 Election, Part 2
Sunday, 23 December 2007, 12:13 am | Rosalea Barker
In February 2007, Holt—along with 216 co-sponsors—introduced H.R. 811 in the US House of Representatives to amend the Help Americans Vote Act with respect to ballot verification and mandatory paper record audit capacity. The bill also proposed ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Exclusion Tactics?
Monday, 17 December 2007, 2:49 pm | Rosalea Barker
The Gannett corporation—owner of 23 television stations and publisher of more than a thousand newspapers, including Air Force Times, Army Times, the Defense News, Federal Times, Marine Corps Times, Navy Times, and 23 daily newspapers across the country, ... More >>
Stateside: Prelude to the 2008 Elections, Part 1
Monday, 17 December 2007, 10:19 am | Rosalea Barker
This first part of a series, provides background and a summation of activity to date on what has become an extremely hot and divisive topic in the world of verified voting activists: the banning of DREs. Although this April 2007 YouTube video relates specifically ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: My Mardi Non-Gras
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 1:04 pm | Rosalea Barker
I came away from my Tuesday in New Orleans thinking that the Crescent City’s new motto must be “if at all”. That pretty much sums up the sense of abject resignation I felt coming from the few people I spoke to there before the moon moved into my ... More >>
Greg Palast awarded PEN Oakland Censorship Award
Tuesday, 11 December 2007, 10:08 am | Rosalea Barker
On Saturday, December 8, 2007, investigative journalist Greg Palast was given the PEN Oakland Censorship Award at an event held at the Rockridge Public Library. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: The Big Empty?
Monday, 10 December 2007, 3:00 pm | Rosalea Barker
On Tuesday, December 4, 2007, the Times-Picayune newspaper published the list of names that will be removed from the voter lists for Louisiana’s Congressional District 1, which includes the city of New Orleans, because they failed to return address ... More >>
Stateside Travel: From DC To CA Via The Southeast
Monday, 10 December 2007, 9:51 am | Rosalea Barker
I left DC on a Sunday evening just as the front edge of a winter storm hit the District, bringing cold rain that by the next day would be tinged with sleet. In sunny weather, you normally wait just a few minutes before one or a half-dozen taxis cruise by looking ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Thank You For Nothing
Thursday, 6 December 2007, 11:42 am | Rosalea Barker
Thank you, Mr President was an event held at the National Press Club, Washington DC, on Monday, November 26, 2007. David Gregory (NBC), Dan Rather (HDNet), David Sanger (New York Times), and Helen Thomas (Hearst Newspapers) participated in discussion ... More >>
Stateside: Annapolis in the Rearview Mirror
Monday, 3 December 2007, 9:39 am | Rosalea Barker
On the day after the Annapolis Conference, I joined an on-the-record conference call that had been arranged by the Council on Foreign Relations so that the media could get the benefit of the views of its President, Richard N. Haass, a frequent commentator ... More >>
Stateside At Annapolis: When We Played Our Charade
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 10:42 am | Rosalea Barker
Master Ed, aka The Editor, has requested an overview of my day at Annapolis. (I would, of course, respectfully call him Mr Ed or Sir Ed if those territories had not already been occupied.) Truth be told, my day began the previous evening when I took a bus ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Annapolis Wrap-up
Wednesday, 28 November 2007, 2:50 pm | Rosalea Barker
The conference is over, the media pit is being dismantled. The final event of the day was Condoleezza Rice’s brief remarks to reporters. They will no doubt be posted here as soon as they’re available: More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Annapolis Overview
Wednesday, 28 November 2007, 2:36 pm | Rosalea Barker
Before the speeches from Bush, Abbas, and Olmert, I took the liberty of asking Tony Walker, International Editor of The Australian Financial Review , and former Middle East correspondent for the Financial Times for his overview of the conference. More >>
Stateside At Annapolis: Here’s Hoping!
Wednesday, 28 November 2007, 9:41 am | Rosalea Barker
Dawn in Maryland was a sky of blue and gold ribbons, coincidentally, the colors of the Navy Academy at Annapolis. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Voices From Florida
Sunday, 25 November 2007, 10:37 am | Rosalea Barker
Following on from the voter interviews I did in New Hampshire in August, which are here: >>LINK , in October, on the first evening of the Florida state Democratic Party convention, I took the opportunity to interview some voters there as well. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: NMAI, Haere Mai
Sunday, 25 November 2007, 10:35 am | Rosalea Barker
Greetings from Indian Country this Thanksgiving Day. Because, as the narration of one of the movies at the National Museum of the American Indian says, all of the Americas is Indian country. More >>
The 3 Or 4 Slap Solution To The Two-Finger Problem
Thursday, 22 November 2007, 12:02 am | Rosalea Barker
In a pilot program starting this November 29 at Washington’s Dulles airport, travelers arriving in the United States will be fingerprinted using a ten-finger process instead of the current two-finger biometric identification process. More >>
The 3 Or 4 Slap Solution To The Two-Finger Problem
Thursday, 22 November 2007, 12:02 am | Rosalea Barker
In a pilot program starting this November 29 at Washington’s Dulles airport, travelers arriving in the United States will be fingerprinted using a ten-finger process instead of the current two-finger biometric identification process. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Rugby with a Cause
Tuesday, 20 November 2007, 11:17 am | Rosalea Barker
DC’s cold weather lifted for a day on Sunday, November 18, making for a very pleasant outing to Trinity University to watch some rugby. Since 1997, the NZ Embassy has fielded a rugby squad to play a local select side and in the process benefit school ... More >>
