I don't believe that Nutter and Rendell have drunk the Kool Aid, I just
mean that they--Penn--are all over the place and should be subject to
the same scrutiny by the media as say Geno's steaks. I don't believe
that Penn is a passive bon homie that's there to help out our city. The
important question to ask is "What's Penn's interest in all this?" We
know that Penn has been ethically challenged when it came to getting
patents on medicines like retina-A or gene therapy. Was it New
Horizons, that pyramid investment scheme that Penn got into and lost
big, but was able to recoup some of its losses, while smaller investors,
e.g. churches, were not? (They were embarrassed into giving some of it
back). Penn's questionable donor portfolio would be complete if it
included Ken Lay along with Saul Steinberg and Michael Milken. I think
that they should consolidate all their questionable donations and build
another research center named the Misbegotten Munificent Medical
Center. Or perhaps The Wharton Redemption Annex where Penn can
offer--for a significant price-- a baptism of rehabilitation. How about
the Hon. Richard Cheney Valet Service at the Wharton Conference Center?
Sounds like the old indulgence scheme, recycled at the new secular Mecca
of Penn. (I expect Lutherans on this list to dust off their 99 theses,
get their hammer and nails out and head for the doors of
Steinberg-Dietrich Hall.)
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.)
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