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Stateside With Rosalea: Thumbnose McBush
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 1:33 pm | Rosalea Barker
Forget Quickdraw McGraw. The President of the United States has it all over that guy when it comes to outdrawing anyone who challenges his authority. Pesky scientists, for example. More >>
Major Economies Meet on Energy Security & Climate
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 1:15 pm | Rosalea Barker
Crikey! Should we start worrying? The White House Office of Communications press release given out today (Friday NZT) on the subject of energy security and climate change was edged in black. Are we that close to the planet’s demise? More >>
Stateside: Pig In A Poke From Piggy In The Middle
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 1:15 pm | Rosalea Barker
Senate Judiciary Committee Chair, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) was mincing no words when he asked the Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell, if he was trying to sell the committee a “pig in a poke” at a hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: The Duchy of Craw
Monday, 24 September 2007, 12:53 am | Rosalea Barker
My first three weeks in the nation’s capital city have led me to the unhappy conclusion that DC doesn’t stand for District of Columbia—Latin for dove—but for the Duchy of Craw. So much is stuck in my craw, it’s more choked up than a presidential candidate ... More >>
Images: 360 @ 7 On Washington's Mall
Wednesday, 19 September 2007, 10:17 am | Rosalea Barker
Perhaps to make up for the fact that all its public memorials glorify revolutionaries, warmongers and war dead, DC tries hard to emphasize culture as well. Central to this effort is the National Mall, a broad pedestrian avenue that stretches from the Capitol ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Sloganeering
Monday, 17 September 2007, 9:55 am | Rosalea Barker
According to the ANSWER Coalition, 100,000 people marched in the anti-war rally on from Lafayette Park, opposite the White House, to the steps of the Capitol Building on Saturday, September 15. (The AP report put the crowd at “thousands”.) Culminating ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Brassed Off
Friday, 14 September 2007, 4:32 pm | Rosalea Barker
It’s been a bizarre week in DC, no more so than the day I went to the general strike rally on Tuesday. Two guys turned up there wearing tinfoil hats; I’m not sure if they were seriously trying to avoid being taken over by some CIA thought control ... More >>
Images: A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition Press Conference
Thursday, 13 September 2007, 12:26 am | Rosalea Barker
As one of the many media representatives at today’s press conference said, prefacing a question to Cindy Sheehan: “This is Petraeus Week in Washington; this is a hard sell.” He was referring to the September 15 “Mass March and Die-In” the A.N.S.W.E.R. ... More >>
D.C. Truth Peace Impeachment Rally, 9/11/07
Wednesday, 12 September 2007, 11:53 am | Rosalea Barker
DC’s notoriously hot muggy weather finally broke this morning, just in time for a rally billed as “the historic union of the 9/11Truth, Peace and Impeachment movements”. Organizers had framed it as part of a general strike, but the fact that so many truck ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Up North For A While
Saturday, 8 September 2007, 4:01 pm | Rosalea Barker
Here in Washington DC on Labor Day Monday, a cartoon in this morning’s Washington Times says it all. In Grand Avenue , by Steve Breen, a mother and child are sitting at a dining table, and the mother is saying, “Labor Day is the unofficial end of ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: The AntiiPhone
Wednesday, 4 July 2007, 9:56 am | Rosalea Barker
With the Apple uNowot being released on Friday, I thought I'd give you a squizz inside Rosalea's gizmological universe, where no bank robberies, contracts or monthly subscriptions are required. More >>
Another day of infamy in the US of A
Thursday, 21 June 2007, 10:38 am | Rosalea Barker
::Three Soldiers' Tales:: 1997 I'm sitting in an Arab language class in Lower Hutt and the soldier sitting next to me, part of a peace monitoring force in Gaza, is describing how--for no reason other than to amuse themselves--Israeli soldiers will ... More >>
Stateside: Let’s Play Spot The Kernel Of Truth!
Monday, 11 June 2007, 2:38 pm | Rosalea Barker
Reportedly muttering under his breath, “Hot damn, that Lee Baca’s got balls,” the California Governor signed the Anti-smacking (Paris Hilton) Act, 2007, into law at the weekend. The legislation “merely affirms in law what is standard police ... More >>
Stateside: All Aboard the Moving Plaza!
Saturday, 9 June 2007, 9:49 pm | Rosalea Barker
No, not a self portrait. This is the business end of the zero-emission fuel cell bus that was parked on the plaza outside Oakland City Hall this week. The occasion was a forum on community planning and transit oriented development. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Shamorial Day
Monday, 28 May 2007, 9:13 pm | Rosalea Barker
The high fructose corn syrupy celebration that is Memorial Day in the United States is a sham. Not that the creator of the original commemoration didn’t see that coming: More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: All Over The Map
Tuesday, 22 May 2007, 11:20 am | Rosalea Barker
Bad parliament! Naughty parliament! To bed without any supper, parliament! I’d smack your collective botty if it wasn’t for that news crawl going across the bottom of my local early morning TV news in the middle of last week: New Zealand parliament ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: Dahr Jamail On Lebanon
Monday, 14 May 2007, 1:56 pm | Rosalea Barker
Sometimes, living in the United States, I feel like tribespeople living in the highlands of Papua New Guinea have a better chance of getting coverage of world events than I do. Nonetheless, I do my best, even if it means I have to sit in a drafty old ex-church ... More >>
Stateside: Cliffs Notes for Poll Watchers
Friday, 11 May 2007, 11:02 am | Rosalea Barker
Last week, I went to see pollster Peter D. Hart present some of the results of a survey conducted by the polling organizations of Peter D. Hart and Neil Newhouse for NBC News and The Wall Street Journal from April 20 to 23, 2007. The full report ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Screenings
Wednesday, 2 May 2007, 10:23 am | Rosalea Barker
Just asking cos yesterday when I was over in San Francisco watching some movies in the International Film Festival I could smell a burning smell, like the one that sometimes wafts my way down here in Oakland when there’s an oil refinery fire at ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: Anzac Service, Grace Cathedral
Tuesday, 24 April 2007, 1:02 pm | Rosalea Barker
This afternoon, Sunday, April 22, Grace Cathedral in San Francisco hosted an ANZAC Day service, as it does every year. http://www.gracecathedral.org/ More >>
