AskWHYBlog: Carol Harvey In San Francisco

2006-02-04T01:44:00.000-08:00

WHY DO PUBLIC CORPORATIONS CAUSE SUCH HARM?THE CORPORATION: "BAD" VERSUS "BAT"Two charming gentlemen gazed at the blue San Francisco Bay. I asked, "Do your watches tell the correct time?"They laughed, "In the Netherlands and Germany. Yes." Ever the diplomat, I divulged I was writing an article about Bad Corporations taking over the world. "All corporations aren't bad," said the man with the

2006-03-30T22:07:00.000-08:00

SEARCHING WMDs: WHERE IS BAYVIEW BLIGHT?SEARCHING FOR WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION: WHERE IS BAYVIEW BLIGHT? On Thursday, March 23, 2006, a brilliant blue day between spring storms, the buildings of Bayview Hunters Point shone white in the sun like the San Francisco neighborhoods I crossed getting there. "The Bayview has the warmest and sunniest weather of all San Francisco," said Willie Ratcliff,

2006-04-25T19:15:00.000-07:00

DO WE EVER LEARN OUR HISTORY LESSON?The centerpiece of Michael Moore's, "Bowling for Columbine" is a South Park cartoon. A cracker-accented bullet jauntily greets "Boys and Girls." "Ready to get started? It’s time for a brief history of the United States of America. "Once upon a time there were these people in Europe called Pilgrims, and they were afraid of being persecuted. So, they all got in a

2006-01-01T03:18:00.000-08:00

SHALL WE FASHION A BRAVE NEW WORLD TOGETHER?HELLO TO ALL!Happy New Year! It is 12:43 a.m on January 1, 2006. You are the first beautiful people with whom I am talking in this New Year. The music from a raucous party across the street in San Francisco's Pacific Heights energizes my thoughts.SOME PHILOSOPHICAL-POLITICAL MUSINGS: OUR OPTIONS HAVE RUN OUTWhat follows is a first draft of some

2005-12-04T01:15:00.000-08:00

WILL SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR HOUSE HOMELESS FAMILIES? (This article also appeared in "The Street Spirit," "Street Sheet," and "BeyondChron" on-line)On Thursday, September 20, 2005, San Francisco's Homeless families camped out at City Hall under the Mayor's office balcony. Their goal was to hold Mayor Gavin Newsom to his October 13 promise to focus on housing them "first." They presented their

2005-12-03T00:54:00.001-08:00

WAS KATRINA THE CLASSIST-RACIST PERFECT STORM? TV news from New Orleans was horribly real and really horrible. We saw poor people, mostly black, wading hip-deep in rushing water. Elderly women gripping walkers trudged down the freeway. Disabled folks in wheelchairs, slumped dying or dead. A sign on a corpse read, "Here lies Vera. God help us!" --- A plea for Divine aid when humans didn't

2005-05-24T01:58:00.000-07:00

TIM RUSSERT: WHERE IN THE WORLD IS HOWARD DEAN?Where did Vermont Governor Howard Dean go after his ill-fated 2004 Presidential run?Howard Dean is back, alive and kicking. He is incisive and on point. There is no growling. On the Sunday, May 22, 2005 “Meet The Press,” in his first television interview since he was elected National Democratic Committee Chairman on February 12, 2005, Howard Dean

2005-12-03T00:54:00.000-08:00

DOWNING STREET MEMOS TO BUSH AS TAPES TO NIXON?************LEST WE FORGETA second leaked "Downing Street"-type memo has surfaced in the Sunday Times On Line (June 12, 2005) suggesting the Bush administration was contemplating "Running Start"/"Generated Start" military action against Iraq as early as November 2002.*************(Article originally published 12 June 2005)Today, Sunday, June 12, 2005

2005-12-01T23:54:00.000-08:00

DID BUSH AND COMPANY FIX THE WAR?(Written: May 31, 2005)On May 1, 2005, The Times of London printed a highly classified document containing minutes of a July 23, 2002 meeting at 10 Downing Street. This was the first in a series of what has come to be known as "The Downing Street Memos."This memo was sent during the time the White House was insisting it had no plans to invade Iraq."The Smoking

2005-05-07T22:35:00.000-07:00

CAN YOU NAME A FEW GOOD LINKS? MAY 2005 UPDATE.For San Francisco News, try the companion blog"Carol in San Francisco."Did you know this entire year is devoted to Albert Einstein? It's the 100th anniversary of his Theory of Relativity and the 50th anniversary of his death. I interviewed 10 San Franciscans to see if they knew the meaning of E=MC2. Check out the interesting results on my Albert

2005-11-30T00:41:00.000-08:00

THE TORTURE QUESTION: WHICH PRESIDENT BOILS PEOPLE ALIVE?************"We mould these little monsters such as Saddam, Karimov, and General Manuel Noriega, and they do our dirty work until such a time when it is no longer expedient, at which point we extract revenge and dress it up as a moral crusade; or enduring freedom." - Martin Samuel************(See Wiki news,16 May 2005;"Uzbeks fleeing

2005-10-29T02:48:00.000-07:00

WHAT IS CINDY SHEEHAN'S UNANSWERABLE QUESTIONIN OCTOBER 2005, WE SEE CINDY SHEEHAN CARTED OFF TO JAIL FOR LYING IN FRONT OF THE WHITE HOUSE IN A VIGIL FOR DEAD SOLDIERS LIKE HER SON, CASEY SHEEHAN. LET US REVISIT HOW THE SHEEHAN PHENOMENON BEGAN AT CAMP CASEY OUTSIDE CRAWFORD, TEXAS.During a call for my bank balance, the worried teller confided that her husband had enlisted in the National Guard

2005-10-29T03:03:00.000-07:00

DID SF SUPERVISORS BLOCK BIG CORPORATE HEALTH CARE?SAN FRANCISCO SUPERVISORS, PRESIDENT AARON PESKIN AND SUPERVISOR CHRIS DALY, REFEREE MANAGEMENT-UNION CLASS WAR AND ACT TO BLOCK THE CORPORATIZAION OF NATIONAL HEALTH CAREDID SEIU-UHW BLOCK CORPORATIZATION OF OUR HEALTH CARE BY SUTTER CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER?Read President Peskin's letter to Martin Brotman, M.D. below. NEWS UPDATE:

2005-06-05T00:02:00.000-07:00

WILL BUSH'S BUDGET SLASH THE FOOD STAMP PROGRAM?NATIONAL HUNGER AWARENESS DAY SET FOR TUESDAY, JUNE 7NUTRITION ACTIVISTS TO LOBBY BUSH BUDGET FOOD STAMP CUTSHUNGER’S SAVAGERY Dieters know hunger’s hollow ache can stop you cold. During a 15-day spiritually motivated water and coffee fast, I discovered a hunger-busting phenomenon described in a Franz Kafka story. Middle Age “Hunger Artists” would

2005-10-29T02:02:00.000-07:00

HOW DOES ACTUAL HUNGER FEEL?EXPERIENCING THE SAVAGERY OF HUNGERby Carol HarveyIt's time to consider how hunger feels as Bush Republicans gut social programs and push for food stamp cuts using Hurricane Katrina reconstruction as an excuse.If you've attempted a weight loss diet, you have an appreciation for the savagery of hunger. That hollow ache in the stomach and debilitating muscle weakness are

2005-05-18T00:37:00.000-07:00

WILL NEWSWEEK'S FLUSHING THE KORAN BRING JIHAD?Striking that there have been so many major mainstream media mistakes of late. First reporter, Jayson Blair, seriously undermined the New York Time's century-old gold standard credibility by manufacturing news. Then there was Dan's Rather pathetic apology in September 2004 for unauthenticated documentation of lapses in Bushes' National Guard record.

2005-01-02T22:06:00.000-08:00

CAN YOU NAME A FEW GOOD LINKS?For San Francisco News, try the companion blog"Carol in San Francisco."For "Justice News and Homeless Blues" in the Bay Area try "Street Spirit," a world class social justice newspaper newly on line. Terry Messman, Editor. A publication of the American Friends Service Committee.San Francisco Call. For Betsey Culp's love affair with Everything San Francisco.The SF

2005-01-09T21:02:00.000-08:00

"HOTEL RWANDA"/ DARFUR/ TSUNAMI: WHAT HUMAN RIGHTS?Hotel Rwanda," a movie in recent release, is set in the capital city, Kigali, during the horrors of the 1994 "ethnic cleansing" of a million members of the Tutsi tribe by the Hutus. Don Cheadle plays Paul Rusesabagina, a Hotel manager who saved 1,200 people from death by first cloistering them in his four star hotel, and then using his keen

2005-04-22T23:59:00.000-07:00

CALIFORNIA DRUG FELON? GET YOUR FOOD STAMPS NOW!CALIFORNIA LIFTS LIFETIME BAN ON FOOD STAMPS FOR DRUG FELONSBy Carol HarveyThe rich and powerful often have a close personal relationship with addictive substances. Every month or so, it seems, a famous Hollywood actor is caught with drugs. Neither media figures nor politicians are exempt. Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh recently entered

2005-04-17T19:05:00.000-07:00

OUR NEXT STEP? OPEN LETTER TO MICHAEL MOORE TWENTY-TWENTY HIND SIGHT: Reagan, Bush, Rove, Frist: NeoCon "Next Step" is Saturday, April 23, 2005.I am an unabashed admirer of Michael Moore, and I am on his mailing list. He (and His) wrote today asking what our "Next Step" Should be.His e-mail and my answer are below."maillist@michaelmoore.com" wrote:Friends, How's it going? Ready for the next

2005-03-18T20:01:00.000-08:00

IS HOMELESSNESS A PROBLEM IN YOUR CITY?New York? Chicago? Atlanta? Boston? Los Angeles? After visiting San Francisco, Philip Mangano, George Bush's homeless Czar, said The City By the Bay had the worst homeless problem in the Nation! That's quite an indictment! Especially since it lives by tourism. (I actually ran into a couple of tourists on Fisherman's Wharf who said they came here just

2004-12-28T01:19:00.000-08:00

WHO REFUSED TO SIGN THE PATRIOT ACT? ANSWER: A single Senator and 66 Representatives refused to sign the Patriot Act in 2001. Here are profiles of three: UPDATED FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 2005, TO INCLUDE: REPRESENTATIVE BERNIE SANDERS, INDEPENDENT, VERMONT (See above: 'Which Congress Member is Undoing the Patriot Act?') REPRESENTATIVE BARBARA LEE, DEMOCRAT, CALIFORNIA AND SENATOR RUSS

2005-01-28T19:04:00.000-08:00

WHICH CONGRESS MEMBER IS "UNDOING" THE PATRIOT ACT? There he is with his shock of white hair, the 64-year old Independent Vermont Representative, still stumping his small state from stem to stern to keep his seat in Congress! He does this even though polls show him far ahead of all comers. Vermonters know him as simply "Bernie." Born in Brooklyn, educated in Chicago, Bernie Sanders

2005-01-23T20:58:00.000-08:00

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS THE AskWHYBlog AUTHOR? She has been busy doing other stuff recently. Also, she has been (undisguised editorial opinion) APPALLED at the $40 million spent on Bush's huge Inaugural Bash, 5 MILLION MORE than the $35m Tsunami aid --- APPALLED At how this exacerbates the already shaky profile of the U.S. Government around the world. According to tourists I have

2005-01-05T23:15:00.000-08:00

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