Joe Clarke
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:47:34 -0700
Joe (I'd hammer out justice) Clarke Anthony West wrote:
I copy that, Joe. Furthermore, the notion Penn has nothing better to do at its power breakfasts than conspire to take over West Philadelphia, is a hoot. That'd be like sending in the Marines, to conquer ... Grenada. Surely Wharton's strategists are capable of grander visions.Pennspiracy theorists out there may enjoy what follows. When Philadelphia voters became passive consumers of notorious Wharton secret agent Michael Nutter, perhaps they didn't reckon on picking up all his fellow Pennspirators as well. In addition to PennPraxis, whose sinister effort to develop the Delaware River with community input and without casinos has received big publicity lately, Nutter has been stocking his cabinet with fellow Penn tools for months.The list is long, but let's take a look at just one: Senior Penn Fellow Mark Alan Hughes was just named Director of Sustainability -- Philly's first "green czar". This engaging 007 of Ivy-League corporate skullduggery had recently completed a stint posing as a columnist for the working-class-cred Daily News (how fiendishly clever can Judith Rodin get?).In the course of his columnar duties, Hughes wrote a very interesting column on ... that's right, the Penn Alexander School and real estate! Check it out at _http://www.mahughes.org/showarticles.cfm?artid=207_. Hah! That just about clinches it ... whatever "it" means.-- Tony West Joe Clarke wrote:I made an appointment with L & I to be tortured, but they never showed up! What do you got to do to get them to come out? But seriously now: I don't think that the vertical integration of corporate America with L& I or the police department to route small time businesses is very likely. It seems like the corruption that exists in some of the city departments would thwart any meaningful alliance to conquer Philadelphia and the world. I think the recent PHA, Kenny Gamble & HUD fiasco shows how the "left hand is cutting off the right hand in order to get to the money first. Ironically, the City may be our last best hope to defeat the Military Industrial Christian Zionist Complex's march to Armageddon. However I do believe that Penn is another matter. It was just announced that Penn Praxis was hired to do an evaluation of the Casino sites, to see if it was rammed through. Rendell and Nutter are both Penn Alum's. I believe the School Board has had a cozy relationship with Penn's Graduate school of Ed for many years, providing it with many of its own. I know that the NIS -- Neighborhood Information System -- is a joint project between Penn school of Urban planning, Social Work, and the City's Bureau of records. The online resource database for social workers, S.O.S., was also a product of the City and Penn. Penn's got its fingers in many pies. The financing of the Wharton School's expansion deserves its own scrutiny. "Penn-gemoney" is here to stay and it seems to operate below the radar of the local media (which has its head in the clouds, literally, with its Dopellar 750, pregnant reporters and Health reports that are really infomercials for cosmetic surgeries that never seem to be covered by any insurance companies.)---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
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