from:"Glenn moyer"

[UC] Another business closure on 39th

2008-07-09 Thread Glenn moyer

Next to OHara's Fish House, the chinese restaraunt, Hong Cong Cafe was also 
closed with no warning.  The dark force wiped out those old businesses for 
working class people with ease.  I have no information about dishwashers and 
servers or how many may have become homeless, etc. because of these 
corporate/government strongman tactics.

I was reading the city paper and Phila Business Journal along with list posts 
from 2003.  Many people will remember that the UCD use of L&I for Baltimore Ave 
harrassment was widely exposed and reported at that time.  

The report in the city paper revealed that one business was hit with 10,000 in 
renovations.  As soon as the owner completed these, he was given another 10,000 
of violations. (A post by Tony West confirmed that Masser/UCD presented this 
L&I policy at an SHCA meeting.)

A closed group, a Baltimore Ave planning group, was reported as having 
legendary "leaders" Melani Lamond and Barry Grossbach.  A leader of the 
targeted and oppressed long term businesses was not permitted to join this 
group which was also working with UCD/L&I.

Those anointed are very very consistent!  Say goodbye to your friends with 
small businesses and let's sing a classic for Mel, Barry, and UCD:

Oh Penn!
Won’t you buy me
A Mercedes benz
The anointed, drive porches
I must make amens
Screwed.. all my neighbors
No help from my friends
Oh Penn!
Won’t you buy me 
A mercedes benz

Oh Penn!
Won’t you buy me 
A seat on the board
Dialing for dollars
Is trying to brand me
I’ll stick, their vision
Where citizens cannot see
Oh Penn!
Won’t you buy me 
A seat on the board

Oh Penn! 
Won’t you buy me
The illusion of power
I will screw my neighbors
Please don’t let me down
Prove that you love me
And send them to prison
Oh Penn!
Won’t you buy me
The illusion of power

Sing it with me now…

Oh Penn!
Won’t you buy me
A Mercedes benz
The anointed drive porches
I must make amens
Screwed... all my neighbors
No help from my friends
Oh Penn!
Won’t you buy me 
A mercedes benz


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Re: [UC] police in Clark Park / arrest at 44th and Locust

2008-07-11 Thread Glenn moyer


University City has barely 
>any crime at all.
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>Mark


Mark,

Your tone indicates serious frustration.  If you've been subjected to the 
"literature" of Penn Real Estate surrogates, UCD and Penn Praxis; your reaction 
makes sense.

For decades Penn called West Philly, Clark Park etc, a killing field.  That was 
hooey.  

Over the past decade, it graded its "community partnerships" with A++ "report 
cards"  using another pile of upscale hooey.  Cleaner and safer; cleaner and 
safer.  Hooey, hooey, hooey!


Although many people on the list try to offer truthful stories and accounts, we 
are constantly buried under piles of corporate propaganda best conceptualized 
as ruthless corporate hooey.  The truth comes in little bursts.  The hooey 
comes in super tankers and our tiny band of anointed neighbors gorge themselves 
and revel in it.


Crime patterns vary.  If you have been watching corporate/government policies 
between the Penn hooey spins like me, you probably see how crime could be much 
worse right now. I certainly expect it to increase with more violence.  We have 
been too busy with the sheer tonage of hooey and cousin hatred to notice the 
idiocracy we have created.

 While we have applauded our brand of upscale hooey, the real traumas that lead 
to serious violence and an unhappy society have festered. Many could see that 
beyond the piles and piles of hooey but are hoplessly in love with the riches 
promised below every hooey pile. But reality is there beyond the hooey mountain.

Many of our brothers and sisters are married to what they see as gold crusted 
hooey.  Mark, I hope you will join us dreamers and imagine a world not covered 
with any hooey at all!  We are not alone!

Glenn



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>> When I rode by yesterday around 8.30, there were two cars already on the 
>> playground and four more on the way.  An ambulance, sirens on, might also 
>> have been going to the park or
>> might just have been passing by.
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>You didn't see *anything*, Jimmi.  Okay?  University City has a VERY low 
>crime rate!
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>On the same topic: I ALSO didn't see a man being arrested for armed 
>robbery right outside of my house last night at 11:15pm.  The dozen police 
>cars (marked, un-marked, and undercover) blocking Locust St. just west of 
>44th must've been a figment of my imagination.  University City has barely 
>any crime at all.
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>Mark


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Re: [UC] P. City Planning Commission info

2008-07-26 Thread Glenn moyer



"This was the agenda for yesterday's meeting. I did not attend."
 
Ray and Frank,
Sorry for the long delay.  I checked the PCPC web site a few days prior to the July 15th meeting.   PCPC had not posted the agenda. (So much for a new improved PCPC.) They had instead placed this link to the Nutter speech.  
A Daily News reporter sagaciously used the word, "platitudes," as he pondered this June 17 speech.  See what you think? 
http://www.philaplanning.org/pubinfo/address061708.pdf
 
Nutter: ""Not In My Backyard" is a knee jerk response from people standing outside a process they deem lacking in credibility but a transparent and inclusionary process will encourage shared responsibilities."'
 
This Nutter statement is very troubling to me.  While this seems to speak the truth like the platitudes on the Penn Praxis web site,  Nutter provides absolutely nothing throughout the speech about the ways government will respond so that it ceases to be a partner in a deficient process which is not transparent!
Reform of government processes so that government does not aid the exclusion and disempowerment of the voices of citizens was a more important topic than more bombardment from the great Penn Praxis visions.  The ignored government  reform "vision" was the vital follow-up "plan" that would have suggested that the mayor's speech was not intentional platitudes meant to fool the citizens!  
After all, Nutter went on about the great Penn Praxis visions, without touching the comprehensive failure of Philadelphia government and his actual duty to the citizens!  The speech completely ignores his job and the very tangible beginnings of reform that he could champion.  (He could do something about the process.  But he seems to lecture the developers with their own platitudes while it appears that he is in fact giving them "the NIMBY wink")
(The PCPC and PHC don't even keep an accurate written public record of their public hearings!!)
 
The use of the Nimby metaphor does not make the mayor seem cool or give the intended message that he "gets it."  It is not a thoughtless "knee-jerk" response that causes citizens to reject the schemes of bold and great visionaries.  It is a rather outrageous metaphior for  citizens doing their duty and Nutter is absolutely reinforcing  it  (Those that fail to see the big picture of fighting for "freedom and democracy" are knee jerk traitors!)
 Imperialists, liars, and scoundrels who demand secrecy, misinformation, and exclusivity must be rejected outright by informed and dutiful citizens.  Falsely calling the victims response, a NIMBY response, while giving a free pass to powerful neo-colonialists does not inspire.  
Far from showing an understanding of the current deficient process, Mr Nutter is blaming divisiveness and oppresive slow downs on a thoughtless, "knee jerk reaction" by unsophisticated citizens.
The Nimby metaphor always has attempted to reduce and silence all discussions of appropriateness as "knee jerk."  If a citizen catches a con man or bank robber, should he or she properly focus on the criminals bold vision and his big picture???
  The message Nutter seems to be sending is that unscrupulous developers must pay more attention to not being caught!   In my reading, Mayor Nutter seems to be calling for new and improved spin/ trickery because citizens have a thoughtless NIMBY response..  
A close reading of the speech leads me to conclude that the Mayor is indeed using platitudes as a distraction.  In my opinion,  a political leader failing after making a good faith effort at reform is much easier to forgive than using platitudes as a smokescreen to blind the very citizens wanting to be inspired and offering trust   I hope this speech is remembered at election time!
 
I personally believe the hotel is going to be temporarily shelved as a longer term unpopular project like we have seen with the takeover of Clark Park and establishing BID.  Penn Real Estate needs to continue to put their people in place and refine the spin as the grassroots opposition fades from memory.  (Wink wink, know what I mean?)
Sometime in the future, we will read about the beginning of constructiion the day after it passes city council approval due to overwhelming neighborhood support at the numerous public forums.  (Remember Clark Park)
When I was with Penn researchers listening to such platitudes, these doing everythng big picture speeches; we used to joke about used-car salesmen.  It's not very funny but it helps avoid depression.   I hope Mr. Nutter has a Toyota for me.
Glenn
 
 
 
 
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[UC] The permanent stage for Clark Park

2008-07-27 Thread Glenn moyer


Neighbors,

I have told many of the stories about the UCD master plan for Clark Park and 
the associated problems.  I don’t think I told you about the plans for a 
permanent performance stage in the bowl.

At the beginning of Penn’s “community partnerships” like the creation of UCD, 
an effort to recruit me to the ranks of the anointed was contemplated.  Of 
course, my principals quickly identified me as one who will not be bought.

For the sake of brevity, I founded the Clark Park Music and Arts Community in 
1998 and was very involved when UCD announced its hidden plans to redesign 
Clark Park with a closed hand picked steering committee to “represent the 
community.”

It was my last offer to join the anointed.  I was repeatedly approached to 
speak favorably about a permanent performance stage in the bowl.  I can tell 
you numerous reasons to reject such a change but certainly one of them was a 
loyalty to the neighborhood.  I believed this would be highly unpopular and 
completely unnecessary for our group, Woodland ave Reunion, Spiral Q, etc.  Of 
course, I said they should ask all of you.

Hahaha!

I think people can now see that the Penn vision wants park events like the 
orchestra to support it’s cronies real estate schemes.  They never were 
interested in our grassroots, vital, community-building events except to 
replace and control these.  That is why park users have been excluded all 
along.  

(It also is a reason Penn is ramming a BID to create a precedent of taxing the 
poor for the marketing schemes of the rich.  The desired rich people don't have 
time for community like we once had.  They want upscale entertainment and UCD 
door prizes using our nickels and pennies.)


Why invite a group of citizens to the planning table when they are not welcome?


Silencing is a regular tactic against those activists who will not be bought.  
I’m no longer involved to “blow the whistle” as Penn plans the use of that big 
fat city check from Mayor Nutter.  The anointed made it clear to me that the 
personal cost for me to stay active in park issues would be far too high. 
(Consider the almost immediate pattern  of the ad hominem strategies when 
dissent emerges.) 

You may not have heard about this stage plan before.  The Penn design firm, to 
their credit, reported my rejection of the idea at one of the few public 
pitches in 2001-02.  We have no way to find out in advance if they will bring 
this stage plan back with the dog park.  I thought you all should know the 
story as we must prepare for last moment surprises in Penn’s park.

Sincerely,
Glenn


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Re: [UC] P. City Planning Commission info

2008-07-28 Thread Glenn moyer



>as far back as december 2007 the term 'nimby' was used to 
>describe neighbors who were opposed to the proposed hotel at 
>40th and pine:
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Yes, and nothing could be farther from the truth!  I went to the two PHC 
meetings, the PCPC meeting, and the last minute SHCA zoning committee meeting.  
The opposition, these Nimby's, were brilliant!

The Penn team came off as disingenious, secretive, and evasive at each meeting. 
 In contrast, NIMBY speaker after NIMBY speaker brought up questions, 
observations, and stated positions showing tremendous involvement and thought.

The NIMBY label is pretty nasty.  But the point is that it is completely absurd 
to pin the Campus Inn opposition with this label. Absurd to suggest that the 
opposition is a knee jerk "sour grapes" reaction because the marketing wasn't 
spinning enough of a smokescreen for a great vision.

I think the mayor owes our NIMBY's an explanation.

Glenn



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>> A Daily News reporter sagaciously used the word, "platitudes," as he 
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>administration fall to the wayside when the next takes the 
>reins. Luckily, Mayor Nutter showed his commitment to the 
>City of Philadelphia, not his pride, when he endorsed 
>PennPraxis's action plan to encourage the development Penn's 
>Landing in a community-friendly manner, a report initiated 
>by former mayor John F. Street.
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>of ten simple and clear propositions shows its ability to 
>integrate the needs of the community with the practical 
>limitations involved in development.
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>Nutter deserves credit for his strong support of this plan, 
>which affirms his agenda: helping Philadelphia to become 
>what Philadelphians want it to be. With the initiative, he 
>also upholds his promise to work with local universities to 
>the benefit of the entire city.
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>anything to win a vote, it is refreshing to see a city 
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Re: [UC] The permanent stage for Clark Park

2008-07-28 Thread Glenn moyer

I don't know!

I saw that post from Al.  Unfortunately, I left town the next day.

A friend sent me a postive reaction to the FOCP meeting and some new leadership 
directions!  I hope it's true.

I want to give any support I can if the FOCP is ready to change directions.  
They must take seriously their members directive to publish meetings properly 
in the University Review!  I would very much like to have attended that meeting.

It is completely inappropriate for any group to make deals with UCD on behalf 
of the community on a project such as a redesign of a park belonging to the 
citizens of the City of Philadelphia.  

FOCP could certainly take a leading role.  But their overall success comes with 
the process they engage and not the amount of dollars spent.  That process 
could secure trust and support instead of mistrust and bad feelings.

Does anyone have any more information about the FOCP gathering?  (Please 
remember, an FOCP meeting can only be considered an official meeting if proper 
notice has been given)

Thanks for more reports,
Glenn  

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>> to their credit, reported my rejection of the idea at one of the few public 
>> pitches in 2001-02.  We have no way to find out in advance if they will 
>> bring this stage plan back with the dog park.  I thought you all should know 
>> the story as we must prepare for last moment surprises in Penn’s park.
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Re: [UC]

2008-07-29 Thread Glenn moyer


>There's never enough good restaurants in our neighborhood, and I am  
>happy to hear that Distrito has opened at last.
>

I agree with Dave's observation.  Few people in their right mind would have 
considered opening a restaurant in the area referred to as "The District."  It 
had nothing to do with the commercial viability of the area, as the Clark Park 
Farmer's market demonstrates.  It was always the activities of civic 
associations such as SHCA, Regent square, FOCP, Cedar Point Park, etc that made 
trying to open a restaurant a foolish plan. 

I think long term residents might be interested in discussing this.  When UCD 
moved off the Penn/Drexel campuses to invade our neighborhoods west of 40th, 
why did they choose these civic associations to act as their pawns  

Our civic associations weren't just the enemy of small landlords and college 
students.  They weren't only the mechanism to bully neighbors about paint 
colors.  Our civic associations used the same outrageous tactics which we have 
come to know so well to keep out any restauranteer who was not associated with 
them.  (Note, I generally don't call the relationships between the anointed, 
friendships.  I think of them as inter gang loyalty relationships.)

UCD was proclaiming a desire for more restaurants and activities in Clark 
Park, etc.  I clearly remember people telling me that I should be happy to have 
UCD because they seemed to share my views regarding the provincialism which the 
associations embodied.  Why didn't UCD seek out leaders in the community to 
work cooperatively?  Why did they instead pursue a master slave relationship 
with these provincial civic association leaders?

Due to serendipitiy, UCD is responsible for the opening of new restaurants.  
It's not the UCD giving itself an A+ on its report card that opened the door to 
restaurants. (Did you catch the quote from Mayor Nutter when he called the UCD 
report card, "STRONG EVIDENCE?"  Hahaha!) 

UCD called off its wild dogs to allow restaurants.  It is the master slave 
relationship that made upscale restaurants a possibility.  (Let's not forget 
the closures of restaurants and UCD's dirty little secret shenanigans against 
working class businesses.)

My proposaal of the Clark Park farmer's market is an excellent example of the 
pre-UCD damage done in this area.  The dynamic leader of the farmer's market 
Trust, Bob Pearson, told me that my clark park proposal was among their 
favorites the day I withdrew the proposal.  When the trust wanted to expand the 
network of markets after their initial pilot market in South Philly, one of the 
guidelines was the support of local civic associations.

I was still very naive!  I followed the only known process to engage FOCP.  I 
approached their lawyer in the park and asked how I can be placed on the agenda 
to address their board and members with this idea. (The Trust did not want 
secret back door deals to start markets.  They wanted their markets started 
with transparency and the support among the grassroots neighborhood of people 
living here)   

Not only did the lawyer refuse to give me any details of their secret 
unannounced meetings, he told me that "the commmunity was against any farmer's 
market."  He made a questionable remark about it becoming a big barbeque pit.

As any potential restauranteer, in his right mind, I went back to Mr Pearson 
and told him that I was willing to make time to help establish the market but I 
could not afford the time to deal with the outrageous nastiness known as the 
FOCP!

UCd did not go and find the Farmer's Market Trust.  A year later after the Penn 
invasion/colonization began, Mr Pearson went to the UCD Master to present the 
proposal.  Friends of Clark Park had no part in the creation of the market.

So as my example shows, the master slave relationship between FOCP/SHCA, etc 
and UCD is indirectly responsible for openings for some upscale restaurants.  
As I suspected, upscale people like the farmers market too.  But the farmer's 
market trust had great and noble goals.  Promoting the UCD A+ propaganda was 
not one of these.

Others should share their stories about their own experiences with the 
contemtible civic association tactics.  There is an empty store at 46th and 
Baltimore where a restaurant was wanted.  There was a restaurant planned at 
46th and Chester where the Palmetto grocery stor was located.  Too many 
newcomers think that you can simply contact these civic associations and speak 
with them as if they are mature adults!

I think we owe it to newcomers to share the real history of our neighborhood 
and these dysfunctional damaging civic association tactics that led to few 
restaurants!

Thanks for your attention to my long post,
Glenn





 


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Re: [UC] Re: [Ucneighbors] Dock Street - more staff needed?

2008-08-01 Thread Glenn moyer

Has anyone called UCD?  They could have their boys at L&I pass out Dock St 
applications when they close down working class restaurants.  Sadly, UCD hasn't 
returned my calls since 2003.

I never had this problem getting excellent food with the excellent staff at 
OHaras or the Hong Kong Cafe.

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>Hi John,
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>I passed on your concern to Rosemarie, an owner of Dock Street. She  
>said they are working on this problem and just hired and trained  
>additional servers.
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>Hopefully your experience will be better the next time you visit them.
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>> Street whilst the number of wait staff has remained the same?
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>> the time to wait for service is so long that it isn't reasonable to  
>> stick with it; now, the only option is to order well in advance and  
>> get a take out growler, if you can.  This is during the week -  
>> during the weekend, it is impossible.
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>> It'd be nice if they would at least consider hiring more help;  
>> waiting 90 minutes for a couple of pizzas and beer is beyond  
>> unreasonable, IMO.
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[UC] UCHS public statement?

2008-08-01 Thread Glenn moyer

Has anyone seen the public statement regarding the e-mail vote by the 
University City Historical Society board?  

Background:  At a public hearing, a Philadelphia city planning commission 
hearing, a gentleman  testified that the UCHS board had conducted a vote to 
support the Campus Inn.  He stated that he had gotten some information from the 
President of the group that the "vote results" did not favor support for the 
Campus Inn.  And on this list, a preliminary on-line edition of the UC Review 
was posted that confirmed that some type of vote occurred. 

 For whatever reason, the story was never printed in the Review.  The on-line 
edition confirmed the public testimony but the "vote" results were not 
revealed.  A quote attributed to Ms. Belynda Stewart indicated that she would 
release the results in the form of a public statement.  I later heard a rumor 
that there had been no UCHS meeting with deliberations and vote but that the 
"vote" was done via e-mail by someone.


I just finished searching the March and May newsletters published by Mr. Mike 
Hardy.  I looked around the web site also but couldn't find anything about the 
Campus Inn or vote??  

Did I miss it?  Was it published in the UC Review?  Was it reported on the 
secret censored Penn list?

I am hoping the public statement includes a copy of the ballot and any 
introductory message attached.  There have been so many problems with surveys 
and votes locally and the offenders always refuse to reveal the data or hard 
copies of the instruments.  It makes them look really really bad like the FOCP 
surveys and secret votes.  (We caught the FOCP cheating with votes a couple 
years ago only because so many of us gave them money out of fear at the dog 
park vote.  We would never have known how FOCP cheats had a hand count not been 
publicly visible and not the usual secret ballots!)

In other news, Campus Apartments won some sort of award from UCHS.  (I don't 
think it was an award for their massive trash violations but then I never pay 
attention to civic association awards.)  

More importantly, UCHS has hired two interns from Penn to photograph and 
surveil some 300 local properties this summer.  We found out a couple years ago 
at a UCD dog and pony show that UCD has already compiled massive data on all 
property owners.  As I recall, UCD was publicly questioned but refused to 
disclose any details of its surveilance program.

Please contact me if you have any info about the UCHS public statement.  I'll 
go back to waiting for the results of the UCD "internal investigation."  I 
still want to learn more about the University's court which referred the Penn 
students whose constitutional rights were violated (as they became coerced 
indentured servants for UCD political favors and activities.)

Thanks,
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Re: [UC] VERY IMPORTANT COMMUNITY MEETING Thursday, 8/7, 7 p.m.

2008-08-03 Thread Glenn moyer



Hi Melani,
I don't understand the adjectives "very important."
I'm not being cheeky.  Is there some problem involved with these agenda items which we need to know?  
Meetings can be tough for busy people.  I think very important meetings need more information provided or it's confusing.
Best,
Glenn
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Aug 3, 2008 10:21 AM To: univcity@list.purple.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [UC] VERY IMPORTANT COMMUNITY MEETING Thursday, 8/7, 7 p.m. Monica Allison, President of Cedar Park Neighbors, asked me to pass this information along:Community Meeting Thursday August 7, 2008 at Peoples Baptist Church 5039 Baltimore Ave 7:00 pmAgenda items are:  Temporary Relocation of the Philadelphia Federal Credit Union and Proposed Large Scale Planters along Baltimore Ave.Presentations will be made by the Credit Union and Fairmount Park Art Association.We need community input on both items!  Please plan to attend.--http://www.cedarparkneighbors.orgCedar Park Neighborsc/o Calvary Center for Community and Culture4740 Baltimore AvePhiladelphia, PA 19143Melani Lamond, Associate BrokerUrban & Bye, Realtor3529 Lancaster Ave.Philadelphia, PA 19104cell phone 215-356-7266office phone 215-222-4800, ext. 113office fax 215-222-1101**Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos.(http://autos.aol.com/cars-BMW-128-2008/expert-review?ncid=aolaut000517 ) 

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Re: [UC] Re: Ohara's and Hong Kong cafe

2008-08-03 Thread Glenn moyer

Roger,

Here is what I know.  Hong Kong was closed first.  I don't know any details but 
I was told it too was closed down.  The mortgage office Ray mentioned was new 
news.

I got the report about Oharas from a long time employee.  It was closedd in the 
middle of the afternoon.  There were more inspectors (health and L&I) than 
usual.  When presented with the list, the manager/owner(?) told employees it 
would be forever closed.  I understand that some customers didn't get their 
lunch.

I think there is another cycle of this pattern locally.  One owner told me he 
spent a lot of money taking L&I to court for harrassment.  I understand the 
court sided with him.  I know another owner who was having problems but he sold.

This type of trouble was reported about Baltimore Ave in a few publications 
back in 2003.  The lack of accountability in city government is widespread!

Glenn



-Original Message-
>From: Roger Harman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Aug 3, 2008 12:13 PM
>To: UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: univcity 
>Subject: [UC] Re: Ohara's and Hong Kong cafe
>
>Did I miss something?  Were Ohara's and Hong Kong closed for violations?
>Roger
>
>besides ohara's and the hong kong cafe, the gmac mortgage
>> office at chestnut hall (39th & chestnut) is also closed,
>> with 'available' signs in the windows. this leaves penn's
>> treatment research center and the upenn federal credit union
>> the remaining ground floor venues at that building. will L&I
>> soon close them for violations as well?
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Re: [UC] VERY IMPORTANT COMMUNITY MEETING Thursday, 8/7, 7 p.m.

2008-08-04 Thread Glenn moyer



"All wording is Monica Allison's.  I was asked to forward for her."
That;s great!  It is a good example of grassroots communication spreading in a neighborhood.
It all started with the simple act of a proper meeting announcement from the Cedar Park group.  It is so simple to publish a meeting notice and agenda in the local paper two weeks in advance.  Then community minded people like you can continue to spread the word through additional networks.  By the night of the meeting, the entire neighborhood is properly notified.  People feel safe because their neighbors are trustworthy, and whatever the issue; people respect each others views and participation as the fair process brings out the best in them.  
(I saw this grassroots phenomena when illegally posting Clark Park festival posters.  People would pass me and say, "I heard about it, my friend's band is playing"  The thing is Melani, the neighborhood all seemed to know before the first press releases came out!)
I'm down here in Spruce Hill and I'm used to SHCA, FOCP, and UCHS.  That is why I wondered about calling it, "very important."  The pattern here is that useless dog and pony shows are called very important while the groups demand money.
The actual very very important meetings are never announced and always closed.  The people in the neighborhood either find out at the very last minute or after it is too late.  The people feel cheated betrayed and angry.  Divisiveness often ripples through the neighborhood for a long time and the outcome is always bad.
I wasn't paying attention to the UC Review and West Side Weekly.  Pass on my compliments to Monica and Cedar Park for showing the right way to announce a meeting!  But do tell her that she should reveal more about the agenda when calling something very important.  
Example:  If I discovered that citizens were meeting to brainstorm a method to force SHCA, FOCP, and UCHS to disband,  I would be running up and down the streets screaming; "please please come, it's very very vitally important.  Do you see my point?
Glenn

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Aug 3, 2008 4:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], univcity@list.purple.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [UC] VERY IMPORTANT COMMUNITY MEETING Thursday, 8/7, 7 p.m. In a message dated 8/3/08 3:50:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi Melani,I don't understand the adjectives "very important."I'm not being cheeky.  Is there some problem involved with these agenda items which we need to know? Meetings can be tough for busy people.  I think very important meetings need more information provided or it's confusing.Best,GlennAll wording is Monica Allison's.  I was asked to forward for her.Melani LamondMelani Lamond, Associate BrokerUrban & Bye, Realtor3529 Lancaster Ave.Philadelphia, PA 19104cell phone 215-356-7266office phone 215-222-4800, ext. 113office fax 215-222-1101**Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos.(http://autos.aol.com/cars-BMW-128-2008/expert-review?ncid=aolaut000517 ) 

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Re: [UC] Re: Ohara's and Hong Kong cafe

2008-08-04 Thread Glenn moyer

"The weird part was that they stormed in at 1:30 AM with 15-20 uniformed officers, two guys from L&I and someone from the LCB. All they found was the absence of the exit sign and made all patrons and employees leave (causing refunds in some cases). It seemed really odd to me that it was conducted like a raid. L&I must be on a mission of some sort throughout the city."
Thanks for sharing your experience.  It's so important for all of us to tell about these occurences.
Two things.  Whatever the uniform of these storm troopers, they are always going to pile on false charges.  These "enforcement officers" can do anything they please unless video recorders are on.  And if they see you recording them, you will certainly get beaten and arrested.
(That bicyclist who was recently filmed getting whacked by the NYC cop had a whole series of serious charges brought against him before the film hit the internet.)
Secondly, the storm trooper tactics also promote a general sense of fear.  The use of intimidation, in ways which only a decade ago would have caused public outcry, has become standard open practise.  These tactics are not being hidden.  
The mass reaction or lack of reaction seems carefully studied and built upon.   
 After world war II, people looked back at what was occuring in Germany in the thirties.  Very similar oppressions and system break downs were occuring like across America and the District today.  People were intimidated but they also reported this hope that the injustices would stop before getting to them.  So long as they keep silent!
While the intimidation is in everyone's face, we are told the victims were bad businesses.  The people denied rights to be heard about the future of Clark Park were prostitues, drug addicts and gangs.  It's all the same process.
So everyone gets to see the big stick but we turn our eyes when it's only undesireables being whacked!  In the late 40's, it was much easier to see how the system collapse started much earlier in Germany.  But it was far too late.
Stay safe,
Glenn

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Aug 3, 2008 8:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], univcity@list.purple.com Subject: Re: [UC] Re: Ohara's and Hong Kong cafe That bar on Spruce was called Kelliann's, used to be Murphy's. I heard that it was recently sold by the owner, who made a nice profit. Also, L&I shut down a Caribbean Restaraunt (where I work weekends) on 52nd and Walnut for not having an exit sign up by the stairway that leads from the second floor to the first. The weird part was that they stormed in at 1:30 AM with 15-20 uniformed officers, two guys from L&I and someone from the LCB. All they found was the absence of the exit sign and made all patrons and employees leave (causing refunds in some cases). It seemed really odd to me that it was conducted like a raid. L&I must be on a mission of some sort throughout the city.-Original Message-From: Wilma de Soto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: Glenn moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Roger Harman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Cc: UnivCity listserv Sent: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 5:33 pmSubject: Re: [UC] Re: Ohara's and Hong Kong cafe
I noticed the Irish bar at the corner of 44th & Spruce Sts., (I can't
remember the name), is also closed.

On 8/3/08 3:33 PM, "Glenn moyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Roger,
> 
> Here is what I know.  Hong Kong was closed first.  I don't know any details
> but I was told it too was closed down.  The mortgage office Ray mentioned was
> new news.
> 
> I got the report about Oharas from a long time employee.  It was closedd in
> the middle of the afternoon.  There were more inspectors (health and L&I) than
> usual.  When presented with the list, the manager/owner(?) told employees it
> would be forever closed.  I understand that some customers didn't get their
> lunch.
> 
> I think there is another cycle of this pattern locally.  One owner told me he
> spent a lot of money taking L&I to court for harrassment.  I understand the
> court sided with him.  I know another owner who was having problems but he
> sold.
> 
> This type of trouble was reported about Baltimore Ave in a few publications
> back in 2003.  The lack of accountability in city government is widespread!
> 
> Glenn
> 
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
>> From: Roger Harman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Sent: Aug 3, 2008 12:13 PM
>> To: UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Cc: univcity <Univcity@list.purple.com>
>> Subject: [UC] Re: Ohara's and Hong Kong cafe
>> 
>> Did I miss something?  Were Ohara's and Hong Kong closed for violations?
>> Roger
>> 
>> besides ohara's and the hong kong cafe, the gmac mortg

Re: [UC] Re: Ohara's and Hong Kong cafe

2008-08-04 Thread Glenn moyer


>I noticed the Irish bar at the corner of 44th & Spruce Sts., (I can't
>remember the name), is also closed.

And the small businesses on 44th behind Kellianne's appear to be closed too.  I 
don't think these brandless small businesses, which served the local community, 
were compatible with the UCD brand.  

Were any of these businesses, OHara's, One Love, Kellianne's, Hong Cong Cafe, 
etc. ever promoted by UCD like the famous Sugar Hill Bakery?  Why do some 
businesses get dozens of newsmercials promoting them while others in business 
for decades are never ever mentioned?

Glenn




-Original Message-
>From: Wilma de Soto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Aug 3, 2008 5:33 PM
>To: Glenn moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roger Harman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
>UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: UnivCity listserv 
>Subject: Re: [UC] Re: Ohara's and Hong Kong cafe
>
>I noticed the Irish bar at the corner of 44th & Spruce Sts., (I can't
>remember the name), is also closed.
>
>
>On 8/3/08 3:33 PM, "Glenn moyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Roger,
>> 
>> Here is what I know.  Hong Kong was closed first.  I don't know any details
>> but I was told it too was closed down.  The mortgage office Ray mentioned was
>> new news.
>> 
>> I got the report about Oharas from a long time employee.  It was closedd in
>> the middle of the afternoon.  There were more inspectors (health and L&I) 
>> than
>> usual.  When presented with the list, the manager/owner(?) told employees it
>> would be forever closed.  I understand that some customers didn't get their
>> lunch.
>> 
>> I think there is another cycle of this pattern locally.  One owner told me he
>> spent a lot of money taking L&I to court for harrassment.  I understand the
>> court sided with him.  I know another owner who was having problems but he
>> sold.
>> 
>> This type of trouble was reported about Baltimore Ave in a few publications
>> back in 2003.  The lack of accountability in city government is widespread!
>> 
>> Glenn
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>>> From: Roger Harman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> Sent: Aug 3, 2008 12:13 PM
>>> To: UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> Cc: univcity 
>>> Subject: [UC] Re: Ohara's and Hong Kong cafe
>>> 
>>> Did I miss something?  Were Ohara's and Hong Kong closed for violations?
>>> Roger
>>> 
>>> besides ohara's and the hong kong cafe, the gmac mortgage
>>>> office at chestnut hall (39th & chestnut) is also closed,
>>>> with 'available' signs in the windows. this leaves penn's
>>>> treatment research center and the upenn federal credit union
>>>> the remaining ground floor venues at that building. will L&I
>>>> soon close them for violations as well?
>>> 
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Re: [UC] Clarification of subjects for Thursday Cedar Park Neighbors mtg, 7 p.m.

2008-08-05 Thread Glenn moyer



Thank you Melani.  I hope the other civic clubs study this and learn from Cedar Park's leadership!  Tell monica, "well done."   
The UC Review also deserves thanks.  It is a great local community paper and they do an excellent job printing important community announcements.  Unlike the Spruce Hill civic clubs, I never had any trouble getting important announcements printed. 
Glenn
 
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Aug 4, 2008 8:19 PM To: univcity@list.purple.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [UC] Clarification of subjects for Thursday Cedar Park Neighbors mtg, 7 p.m. With this update, CPN President Monica Allison clarifies her earlier message (both printed below):The meeting is to address both the questions below.  No one knows much on either subject that is the purpose of the meeting, to explain what is going on with each proposal.  The credit union has to relocate their facility while there building and the one next to it is demolished and rebuilt.  The grand planters are planned for 5 cites, 3 of which are within the Cedar Park boundaries.  In order for CPN to offer or deny support to either project, we need the community's input.  Both subjects are of impact to our neighborhood. -Community MeetingThursday August 7, 2008at Peoples Baptist Church 5039 Baltimore Ave7:00 pmAgenda items are:  Temporary Relocation of the Philadelphia Federal Credit Union and Proposed Large Scale Planters along Baltimore Ave.Presentations will be made by the Credit Union and Fairmount Park Art Association.We need community input on both items!  Please plan to attend.- Monica Allison, President, Cedar Park NeighborsSent by:Melani Lamond, Associate BrokerUrban & Bye, Realtor3529 Lancaster Ave.Philadelphia, PA 19104cell phone 215-356-7266office phone 215-222-4800, ext. 113office fax 215-222-1101**Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos.(http://autos.aol.com/cars-BMW-128-2008/expert-review?ncid=aolaut000517 ) 

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Re: [UC] Re: L&I Sucks (Was Ohara's and Hong Kong Café)

2008-08-05 Thread Glenn moyer

Title: Re: [UC] Re: L&I Sucks (Was Ohara's and Hong Kong Café)

Kimm,
This is my experience too! The first time I called L&I the abondoned building next to mine was in terrible condition. It had a leaking roof and basement both channeling water to me. The owner was a city employee but needed to keep this building to circumvent some residency requirement.
Because I pushed, L&I gave me a fire hazard violation because a tenant must have had a bicycle in the hallway. The abandoned house continued the same way for a few more years until the owner renovated when he could make money. It was a nightmare.
Currently, I have a split tree that has already fallen on my building. The owner of the lot had his drunks tie up the tree with a rope. It's more than a year. After getting the usual run around, I gave up so that i wouldn't get in serious trouble.
These "enforcement officers" are not working to protect and serve the citizens. That would be real work. In an iron triangle relationship, the government agencies find a great comfort zone serving powerful special interests. As long as that is maintained, the powerful special interests give a free pass to the agencies. They can sit around in locked offices eating doughnuts with their phones on silent.
In a plutocracy, we little people have no political power. We don't have government officials that are interested in forcing their agencies to protect and serve us. The officials have "visions" and photo ops that are much more important to them!
Good luck,
Glenn
-Original Message- From: Kimm Tynan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Aug 3, 2008 10:34 PM To: univcity@list.purple.com Subject: Re: [UC] Re: L&I Sucks (Was Ohara's and Hong Kong Caf=?ISO-8859-1?B?6Q==?=) I wish they’d get on a mission to take down the dead tree in my neighbor’s yard. If it falls on one of the neighboring houses (including mine) someone could be killed, and my neighbor ain’t going to do anything about it. I reported it to L&I in January. After hounding them for months and appealing to John Fenton and Jannie Blackwell, an inspector finally reported the complaint unsubstantiated in April. Notice, I don’t say an inspector came out, because there’s no way anyone could look at this tree and not see it is very very dead and very very dangerous. Sort of like the DHS social workers who report complaints unsubstantiated just to get the file off their desks. After more hounding and hell raising I got another inspector to actually come out while I was home to appease the crazy lady and he took one look at it and said “Oh, yeah, that’s ID (imminently dangerous.)” He assured me it would be down within a week, maybe a little more. It’s now been over a month, and the tree still looms. I started calling L&I again this past week. The main number constantly goes to hold, and after awhile you get cut off. I tried the district office but no one answers the phone. I called the secret supervisors’ number I got from the deputy commissioner’s office. They gave me the number for the inspector who said the tree was ID. I called his number for half an hour and got a busy signal (the other inspector’s number constantly went to a voicemail box that was full and couldn’t take anymore messages.)So, I’m thrilled to hear L&I has resources to storm businesses in the wee hours of the morning for missing exit signs. The difference, of course, is that commercial code violations are revenue generators, while dead tree abatement is an expense.When this tree falls and kills someone, you all can say you heard it here first.KimmOn 8/3/08 8:31 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That bar on Spruce was called Kelliann's, used to be Murphy's. I heard that it was recently sold by the owner, who made a nice profit. Also, L&I shut down a Caribbean Restaraunt (where I work weekends) on 52nd and Walnut for not having an exit sign up by the stairway that leads from the second floor to the first. The weird part was that they stormed in at 1:30 AM with 15-20 uniformed officers, two guys from L&I and someone from the LCB. All they found was the absence of the exit sign and made all patrons and employees leave (causing refunds in some cases). It seemed really odd to me that it was conducted like a raid. L&I must be on a mission of some sort throughout the city.-Original Message-From: Wilma de Soto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: Glenn moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Roger Harman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Cc: UnivCity listserv Sent: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 5:33 pmSubject: Re: [UC] Re: Ohara's and Hong Kong cafeI noticed the Irish bar at the corner of 44th & Spruce Sts., (I can'tremember the name), is also closed.On 8/3/08 3:33 PM, "Glenn moyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Roger,> > Here is what I know. Hong Kon

[UC] Re: [UC] RE: L&I Sucks (Was Ohara's and Hong Kong Café)

2008-08-05 Thread Glenn moyer



For a more heartbreaking example, look at the current Department of Human Services scandal.  There, they're playing with kids' lives.
 
 
Absolutely!  This tragedy is a double whammy with a national policy failure adding to dysfunctional city government.  
 
Social service systems show the same policy pattern, (Wilma and I were discussing) as the “No Child Left Behind” policies.  With NCLB, the political policy never was intended to improve education. The specific similarity is the foolish process of evaluation and on-going supervision.
 
Replacing quality evaluation and on-going professional development with a single standardized outcome measure is foolish.  It emphasizes punishment rather than continuous improvement.  It is expedient and usually gives a false picture.  It encourages deception and hides problems.  It causes stress and burnout among the very important front line workers.  It results from our society not valuing social service work as a profession.  It is the common process I saw during my years interacting with various social service systems.
 
Evaluation and supervision should be an eagerly anticipated time for front line staff!  Like the professional student looks forward to mentoring, the front line staff could look forward to supervision as the most important component of life long development.
 
As a society, we undervalue the work of social service providers until such a tragedy comes along.  Then agency leaders and policymakers try to fentonize a few front line people to cover the massive policy failure.  Nationally, we first watched the government’s torture policy pinned on a low functioning soldier through the process of fentonization. 
 (Fentonization: The process of covering failed or unethical policies as only a personal failure of a front line worker.  The policy issues are downplayed and the status quo is maintained.)
 
This toxic culture is failed policy from the top down.  No one working in human services should work in isolation.  At the most extreme, total incompetence can continue indefinitely.  And all of the good workers get burnt out as society’s needs are not met.  But agency leaders do not make this a priority; they are too busy hangin with important people or making money on the side.
 
It is very important that people do not let anger and sensationalism obscure the total system and its failures.  If we don’t look at the leaders and policies and start demanding, then it is our love of expediency and our ignorance that will leave that child’s death without any meaning! 
 
Glenn 
 
 
 
   
-Original Message- From: KAREN ALLEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Aug 5, 2008 11:31 AM To: Glenn moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kimm Tynan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, univcity@list.purple.com Subject: [UC] RE: L&I Sucks (Was Ohara's and Hong Kong Café) 

For a more heartbreaking example, look at the current Department of Human Services scandal.  There, they're playing with kids' lives. 

Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 07:06:20 -0400From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; univcity@list.purple.comSubject: Re: [UC] Re: L&I Sucks (Was Ohara's and Hong Kong Café)

Kimm,This is my experience too!  The first time I called L&I the abondoned building next to mine was in terrible condition.  It had a leaking roof and basement both channeling water to me.  The owner was a city employee but needed  to keep this building to circumvent some residency requirement.Because I pushed, L&I gave me a fire hazard violation because a tenant must have had a bicycle in the hallway.  The abandoned house continued the same way for a few more years until the owner renovated when he could make money.  It was a nightmare.Currently, I have a split tree that has already fallen on my building.   The owner of the lot had his drunks tie up the tree with a rope.  It's more than a year.  After getting the usual run around, I gave up so that i wouldn't get in serious trouble.These "enforcement officers" are not working to protect and serve the citizens.  That would be real work.  In an iron triangle relationship, the government agencies find a great comfort zone serving powerful special interests.  As long as that is maintained, the powerful special interests give a free pass to the agencies.  They can sit around in locked offices eating doughnuts with their phones on silent.In a plutocracy, we little people have no political power.  We don't have government officials that are interested in forcing their agencies to protect and serve us.  The officials have "visions" and photo ops that are much more important to them!Good luck,Glenn 
-Original Message- From: Kimm Tynan Sent: Aug 3, 2008 10:34 PM To: univcity@list.purple.com Subject: Re: [UC] Re: L&I Sucks (Was Ohara's and Hong Kong Caf=?ISO-8859-1?B?6Q==?=) I wish they’d get on a mission to take down the dead tree in my neighbor’s yard.  If it falls on one of

[UC] DHS

2008-08-06 Thread Glenn moyer

[UC] Pay to play in city hall

2008-08-08 Thread Glenn moyer



http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20080808_Editorial__Pay-to-Play.html


This reminds me of putting Martha Stewart in jail.  The public is to believe 
that the pay to play system is over-hahaha, hahahaha!


Those clowns in city hall don't know the first thing about representative 
democracy.  They don't understand why public records of public testimony are 
important.  

Gee whiz, public records would make it much harder for developers and their 
good good buddies to cheat.  Only NIMBY's want to interfere with progress!

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[UC] PCPC and indictment

2008-08-11 Thread Glenn moyer

Here is a link to the "minutes" of the May 20 meeting of the Philadelphia City 
Planning Commission.  The Campus Inn portion begins on page 4.  Please forward 
this to any neighbors whom you know attended!

http://www.philaplanning.org/pubinfo/minutes/5-20-08%20mins.pdf


Here is the reported PCPC agenda for July 15.  Item 4 is the subject which led 
to the charges against Kelly's aid, The Mechanical Access Parking Garage.


http://www.philaplanning.org/pubinfo/agendas/agenda080715.html


Many of us attended the May 20 meeting and testified.  Do any of you believe 
that this is an accurate and complete record of the hours we spent May 
20

None of our testimony was included.  Many of our names were not reported.  I 
gave the dates and exact wording of false information provided to the 
Philadelphia Historic Commission. Now, it never happened and I am invisible! 

This is the same type of outrageous "minutes" which the PHC keeps!  These 
minutes are so incomplete, so edited, and so outrageous these constitute a 
false record of the proceedings being put forth by our city government!

Remember too, the report provided on the list by Andrew and I about the 
prohibition of citizen recordings at "public hearings."  Not only does the city 
gaurantee a pay to play system by creating false incomplete records which hide 
civil servant wrong-doing as much as wrong-doing by corporate developers; it 
protects its "public hearings" from the prying ears of citizen journalists.

The Novemeber 2007 meeting of the PHC should be studied!  If we had transcripts 
of the "public hearing" to look at, all citizens of Philadelphia could review 
the shenanigans of the PHC staff!

Instead of relying on my eyewitness report, citizens would clearly see in the 
record; PHC reverse and change policy.  Without any real discussion, they 
bypassed their own architectural committee and policy so that they could 
approve the Campus Inn on the spot!  The staff leader, Farnham, drew laughter 
when he asserted that the public could have reviewed the new secret plans being 
presented that day-hahaha.

I think its time to stop focusing on just the Kelly office and look at how the 
city is gauranteeing pay to play in its most basic processes! The mayor wants 
to give this PCPC lots of new power like SHCA wants to give the PHC 
stormtrooper power!  If the mayor wants reform, he needs to talk about basic 
public records and accountability instead of the silliness of NIMBY's and the 
brilliance of Penn Praxis! 

Sincerely,
Glenn
 

 




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Re: [UC] PCPC and indictment

2008-08-12 Thread Glenn moyer



"A Commission with weighty responsibilities should provide transcripts of proceedings for the public record that ensure a paper trail that gives their decisions verifiability.
 
Instead, the sloppy record of the hearing tells us that it's business as usual. "
 
 
This goes way beyond sloppy record keeping.  This is falsification of the official record.  These "minutes" even pretend to be transcripts to more completely fool the public 
 
A review of this false record indicates a 2-3 minute meeting at which a bunch of NIMBY's are opposed to progress while refusing any explanation.  As anyone reviews this, they would ask, Why didn't a single NIMBY offer even one reason for opposition that day?
 
Minutes are a minute by minute record of important proceedings.  The Philadelphia City Planning Commission and Philadelphia Historic Commission are boldly and openly lying to the public when they call this crap minutes or transcripts!
 
This is not a simple one time mistake by the person taking minutes as suggested in Mr Siano's response.  It was the Commission that approved these "minutes"  It is Andrew Altman, Alan Greenburger, Patrick J Eiding, Anuj Gupta representing Camille Cates Barnet, Bernard Lee, Natalia Olsen de Savyckyj, Nilda Ruiz, Joseph Smick, Peggy Van Belle representing Rob Dubow whom are responsible for this false record!  Gary J Jastrzab is acting executive director.
 
If our neighbors rally and send a certified letter (with a copy of this falsified record) to the mayor and all journalists covering the pay to play system, I suspect the front line employee will be singled out to take the fall.  At the PHC, I saw first hand that the primary responsibility of these employees is to gaurd the real record from the prying public.  If our neighborhood exposes this corrupt system, these employees will be fentonized in order to maintain the status quo.
 
Do none of these people understand the importance of public records in a representative democracy?  This paper trail is not some footnote but the foundation of a democratic process and American ideals!  These minutes are documentation  of a Boss Tweed government.
 
Glenn
 
 
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Aug 11, 2008 5:27 PM To: UnivCity@list.purple.com Subject: Re: [UC] PCPC and indictment 
In a message dated 8/11/2008 4:40:18 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
KAREN ALLEN wrote:> Thanks, Glenn, for posting this.>  > The minutes simply report the names of the people who testified in > opposition. There is NO reporting of what was said.  How can the > Commission  or outside parties review the differing positions fairly if > the reasons for the opposition are not reported???  >  > Andd you're right, Glenn, your name isn't even listed!!!There is a "Ben Boyer" listed among those introduced by David Fineman. I suspect that the person taking the minutes misheard it.
They got mine wrong, too.
 
Considering that Mr Fineman provided the list it writing and also supplied the Commission with the prepared text of all of our testimonies, these minutes do not instill confidence that this Commission is meeting the new level of responsibility assigned to it by the mayor.
 
A Commission with weighty responsibilities should provide transcripts of proceedings for the public record that ensure a paper trail that gives their decisions verifiability.
 
Instead, the sloppy record of the hearing tells us that it's business as usual. 
 
Al Krigmanreminding you that you read it first, here, on the popu-list


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RE: [UC] PCPC and indictment

2008-08-12 Thread Glenn moyer



"The minutes simply report the names of the people who testified in opposition. There is NO reporting of what was said.  How can the Commission  or outside parties review the differing positions fairly if the reasons for the opposition are not reported???"
 
Ah Karen.  You ask such mean, processaholic questions.  But NIMBY's never offer reasons for their views.  NIMBY's have a "knee jerk reaction" and sit around yelling "NO" to all great visions.  This record shows precisely how NIMBY's behave when they try to destroy progress and hurt everyone.
This public record is very clear.  The PCPC staff worked hard to approve the vision for the hotel.  Tom brilliantly answered all possible objections.  A group of silly, stupid NIMBY's sat in silence while their lawyer said, NO! NO! NO!
It's all right there in the official minutes of the city of Philadelphia!  
I'm glad the names of the NIMBY's were reported.  The district's worst offenders list needed some new targets for trash tickets and L&I raids.   What other reason for listing the NIMBY names; could the city possibly have?
 
Glenn
-Original Message- From: KAREN ALLEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Aug 11, 2008 4:18 PM To: Glenn moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, univcity@list.purple.com Subject: RE: [UC] PCPC and indictment 

Thanks, Glenn, for posting this. The minutes simply report the names of the people who testified in opposition. There is NO reporting of what was said.  How can the Commission  or outside parties review the differing positions fairly if the reasons for the opposition are not reported???   Andd you're right, Glenn, your name isn't even listed!!!  > Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:03:26 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: univcity@list.purple.com> Subject: [UC] PCPC and indictment> > Here is a link to the "minutes" of the May 20 meeting of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission. The Campus Inn portion begins on page 4. Please forward this to any neighbors whom you know attended!> > http://www.philaplanning.org/pubinfo/minutes/5-20-08%20mins.pdf> > > Here is the reported PCPC agenda for July 15. Item 4 is the subject which led to the charges against Kelly's aid, The Mechanical Access Parking Garage.> > > http://www.philaplanning.org/pubinfo/agendas/agenda080715.html> > > Many of us attended the May 20 meeting and testified. Do any of you believe that this is an accurate and complete record of the hours we spent May 20> > None of our testimony was included. Many of our names were not reported. I gave the dates and exact wording of false information provided to the Philadelphia Historic Commission. Now, it never happened and I am invisible! > > This is the same type of outrageous "minutes" which the PHC keeps! These minutes are so incomplete, so edited, and so outrageous these constitute a false record of the proceedings being put forth by our city government!> > Remember too, the report provided on the list by Andrew and I about the prohibition of citizen recordings at "public hearings." Not only does the city gaurantee a pay to play system by creating false incomplete records which hide civil servant wrong-doing as much as wrong-doing by corporate developers; it protects its "public hearings" from the prying ears of citizen journalists.> > The Novemeber 2007 meeting of the PHC should be studied! If we had transcripts of the "public hearing" to look at, all citizens of Philadelphia could review the shenanigans of the PHC staff!> > Instead of relying on my eyewitness report, citizens would clearly see in the record; PHC reverse and change policy. Without any real discussion, they bypassed their own architectural committee and policy so that they could approve the Campus Inn on the spot! The staff leader, Farnham, drew laughter when he asserted that the public could have reviewed the new secret plans being presented that day-hahaha.> > I think its time to stop focusing on just the Kelly office and look at how the city is gauranteeing pay to play in its most basic processes! The mayor wants to give this PCPC lots of new power like SHCA wants to give the PHC stormtrooper power! If the mayor wants reform, he needs to talk about basic public records and accountability instead of the silliness of NIMBY's and the brilliance of Penn Praxis! > > Sincerely,> Glenn> > > > > > > > You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the> list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see> .

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[UC] Letter to Penn Praxis

2008-08-13 Thread Glenn moyer

Neighbors, I'm very eager to hear the Penn Praxis reporting about this serious 
failure! Is my excitement about a partnership for reform clear?


Dear experts,

I was very moved by the vision articulated on the Penn Praxis website!  You are 
correct. It is vital that stakeholders are always included and treated fairly 
in all project planning in their communities.  Without honesty and fairness, 
citizens tend towards a condition of learned helplessness as citizens, or they 
respond with anger towards oppression and their perceived oppressors.

Today, I'm writing about the crisis before us.  

I suspect that your staff is currently drafting a report and planning a press 
conference about the outrageous and unacceptable situation at the Philadelphia 
City Planning Commission and Philadelphia Historic Commission. I wish to share 
what I know with your experts and pledge my help to solve this crisis together. 
 

As you surely know, but the general public does not; these organizations are 
passing out false records of public proceedings.  Our city needs vision not 
corruption.   I know deeply in my heart that we citizens need to join Penn 
Praxis and call for the resignations of these city commissions, and call for a 
blue ribbon panel to review and reform the failed policies which gave rise to 
this horrendous failing in the most basic and fundamental government processes!

Acting upon our shared vision for planning our city together, experts and 
common citizens; in any other manner, would be seen as completely unacceptable 
in our representative democracy and diametrically opposed to our American 
values!  My fear is that any other action, as a starting point for our future 
vision, would open all of the beauty of Penn Praxis' exhaustive and 
comprehensive city planning, so widely reported, to ridicule as insider 
propaganda.  The public would laugh at us and mistrust us.

I want your staff to know that I look forward to working together with them.  
At the press conference, please reach out to other members of the public who, I 
believe, are very excited to assist in this important civic duty.  Because so 
many of us are sick of feeling cheated, deceived and excluded from most 
planning of large scale projects which come into our communities, we are primed 
to follow your leadership.

Together we will stop these failures and rebuild the Philadelphia City Planning 
Commission and Philadelphia Historic Commission from the bottom up.  We will 
uncover all the conflicts of interest and cronism endemic in corporate Americas 
outrageous use of government for their own selfish purposes.  We will free the 
citizens of Philadelphia from the constant threat of treachery and corruption 
while corporate theives raid us.  We will stand together for the principals of 
democracy and justice!  It is time for action! 

Thank you in advance for your expert exposure of this crisis.  My heart is 
racing as I wait for the press conference!

May the Gods be with us,
Glenn of West Philadelphia


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[UC] PCPC alert

2008-08-14 Thread Glenn moyer

Neighbors,

I went to the Philadelphia City Planning Commission web site to do further 
study of their "public records."  There is a special PCPC meeting August 19, 
2008 noted on their home page.  No agenda for this meeting is listed at this 
time; only the agenda for July is listed.  

>From the web site, there is no way to tell if this is "the move" by Campus Inn 
>developers.  If anyone on the list has any info about the planned agenda, 
>please post it to the list.  We cannot count on the PCPC for honest public 
>information.


I was making fun of Penn Praxis yesterday.  Of course, I don't expect any help 
from them with the PCPC crisis.  It's obvious that the University is attempting 
to exploit cracks in the corrupt city system and deepen them while making a 
grab for governmental power.

Consider:  After Penn's "extensive" study of PCPC and city planning 
recommendations, is it conceivable that they failed to detect the keeping of 
false records of public proceedings?  Why did they have the mayor call for 
increased power to this PCPC commission rather than recommending procedural 
changes to bring the standards up to the 19th, 20th, or 21st century standards? 
 Are they dumb at Penn Praxis?

When you consider the connection between Penn Real Estate entities and the 
deepining crisis with our government, have you considered, what are they 
teaching young people at the school of design?  Are they openly teaching 
contempt for citizens and democratic procedures?

Thanks for any info you may have about August 19.  Saving our rights is up to 
us!

Glenn 

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Re: [UC] FW: Hotel hearing at Planning Comnmission

2008-08-14 Thread Glenn moyer


Tuesday, August 19th at 1 PM   
 Phila. Planning Commission Meeting
On the Agenda  traffic study for 40th St. Hotel.
 
Thanks Karen!  Very interesting.  This agenda remains unannounced on the PCPC web site.
If anyone has not sent in opposition as part of the organized groups, you may wish to copy each commissioner.  I visited the PCPC office in person.  The staff was helpful but didn't have a written explanation of how submissions from the public are handled.
I asked if I could hand deliver a submission for each commissioner and they said that was possible or by mail.  Here is the web link, it has the office location and commissioner names (If you have not been in the building recently, be informed to take your ID for security)
Has anyone inspected the petition submitted in support of Campus Inn or the other submissions of support?  Anything there from the civic associations?  You can respond off-list.
http://www.philaplanning.org/
Glenn
-Original Message- From: KAREN ALLEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Aug 14, 2008 2:13 PM To: "Listserv, UnivCity" , "Listserv, UC Announce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: [UC] FW: Hotel hearing at Planning Comnmission 

Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:58:02 -0400From: Subject: Hotel hearing at Planning ComnmissionTo: Tuesday, August 19th at 1 PM   
 Phila. Planning Commission Meeting
On the Agenda  traffic study for 40th St. Hotel.

Please try to attend



The PCPC will review the traffic study submitted by the developer.  A response from
those in opposition has also been submitted.

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[UC] Press conference about new PCPC director

2008-08-14 Thread Glenn moyer

Dear neighbors,

I got this from a reliable source.  It might offer a chance to ask important 
questions.  Don't know???


"Tomorrow Mayor Nutter announces the incoming Executive Director of the 
Philadelphia City Planning Commission. The press conference will be held 
in the Mayor's Reception Room - City Hall, Room 202."

If you go, security for the upper floors is at the NE corner of Tammany Hall.  
Depending on circumstances there might be a significant wait.  It was better 
the past couple of times I went through.  Ooops, I should have said, City Hall.

Glenn

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[UC] PHC trick planned for PCPC

2008-08-14 Thread Glenn moyer

Sorry for the important posts about the secret PCPC emergency meeting.  
Unfortunately, we never get appropriate notice and neighbors must scramble.  
This is important to some people.

If you were at the PHC Architectural Committee rejection of the Campus Inn in 
Oct. 2007 and the Nov. 2007 PHC meeting giving approval to the Campus Inn by 
the full commission, you will have seen the trick which is coming!

Karen revealed that PCPC has the "traffic study"  for the campus Inn on their 
unannounced agenda for the 19th.  When I visited the PCPC office in June, I was 
told that Campus Inn was not on the agenda largely because THE TRAFFIC STUDY 
had not been submitted.  The false record of the May 20 hearing called 
"minutes" highlights a request for the TRAFFIC STUDY.  

It appears from the build-up that the only thing holding back approval of the 
Campus Inn is a TRAFFIC STUDY!


Neighbors, when the PHC changed it's procedures to approve the Campus Inn after 
a 4.5 to 1.5 rejection by the Architectural committtee, the developers misled 
the full commission into believing that the "set-back" was their only 
objection.  It was not the only issue causing rejection by the architects!  It 
was an off the cuff remark by the woman voting .5 vote against and .5 vote for 
approval.

In Nov., the Campus Inn developers presented new secret plans on the spot, 
adding an additional story to the height.  Instead of taking the 10 stories 
illegally to the property line/sidewalk, they asserted that taking 3 stories 
illegally to the property line was acceptable to the architects with stories 
4-11 set back from the property line.  IF WE HAD THE TAPES OR TRANSCRIPTS YOU 
WOULD ALL BE ABLE TO SEE ALL OF THIS!!!  

We can assume some of the commissioners honestly believed this was the only 
objection from the architectural committee being by-passed for no reason, so 
their quick and ostensibly routine approval of the Campus Inn was cloaked.  The 
Penn team, of course, knew the truth.

On Tuesday, we are going to see a pretense that the only issue delaying 
approval is review of the traffic study.  I suspect that since the public had 
an opportunity to testify (although that has been eliminated via the false 
"public record"), we will not be allowed to speak against the quick and 
ostensibly routine approval of the Campus INN.  Is that why we get this late 
unannounced agenda discovered by Karen?

This is exactly what happened at the PHC  Please forward this to the 
neighbors.  This is no joke, this is what to expect.

Glenn  

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[UC] Chasing the elusive meeting

2008-08-15 Thread Glenn moyer



"I have it from a reliable source that:
•   The Campus Inn discussion has been postponed until September 16. 
•   A criticism of the traffic study was submitted by the Woodland Terrace 
attorney and is being distributed to all members of the commission."





The elusive meeting seems to strike from nowhere.  Many times it is invisible 
until it is at your throat.  If you manage to spot it, as if by magic, it will 
vanish at the last moment.

With patience and stealth, the demon meeting can wait for months or years.  
When you least expect it in the middle of the night, it reappears with renewed 
vigor slaying its targets.

Some believe the lowly NIMBY has no chance against this wild and uncontrolled 
beast spawned in the depths of colonialism.  With names like city council, the 
mayor’s office, the city planning commission, and the historic commission, the 
ruthless meeting also preys upon the very soul of the endangered specie called 
the citizen.

As the endless battle continues, only the gods know which specie, citizen or 
the elusive meeting; will inherit all the districts while condemning the 
vanquished to oblivion.  May the endless struggle go on!  All NIMBY's and 
whores to your stations!

At my post,
Name withheld
 



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[UC] PCPC director, Greenberger

2008-08-15 Thread Glenn moyer

The new director of the PENN City Planning Commission, PCPC, is currently a 
board member, Mr A. Greenberger


"He's someone who understands Philadelphia's great planning tradition and is 
inspired to bring the city back to that level," Altman said. "He's 
entrepreneurial. He [has] management experience, teaching experience at Penn. 
It's a home run."

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20080815_Architect_named_to_head_city_planning_agency.html


Note: Mr Greenberger was in attendance at the PCPC hearing when numerous 
citizens testified against the Campus Inn on May 20, 2008.  On June 17, 2008 
following the M.Nutter platitude speech, Mr Greenberger was in attendance when 
the false record of the May 20, 2008 PCPC proceedings was approved as the 
official public record. 

I'd say Penn struck a goldmine with it's home run!  

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[UC] I'm going to ask Tom

2008-08-16 Thread Glenn moyer

Tom, oh Tommy,

Are you out there in listland?

Sam would like to know when the PCPC is going to approve and recommend the 
Campus Inn?   He would like to stay for 5 to 7 days and give this hot french 
poodle the business.  She is so hot!

He assumes a few $15 martinis at the Spruce Hill Cafe will do the trick.

Don't worry, he told me that all secrets will be our secrets.  He's our kinda 
dog.  If any NIMBY tries to get the truth out of him, he will bite them in 
Clark Park.

Your upscale pal,
The dirty dog



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Re: [UC] 45th street

2008-08-18 Thread Glenn moyer



"Don't worry, Ruth's Chris Steak House is hardly likely to open up there."
The vision places Ruthies cow at the old O'Haras.  45th and Baltimore is a Starbucks destination, silly.  And if we're lucky, we'll get a McDonald's where the People's market got whacked.  
It's all in the vision, man.  We, of the district, need to focus on paying our BID tax and allow the shock and awe storm troopers, L&I , a brief respite to catch up on their donuts.
The vision is divine!
Glenn of the district
-Original Message- From: "Elliot M. Stern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Aug 17, 2008 4:20 PM To: SH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Cc: University City List Subject: Re: [UC] 45th street 
Don't worry, Ruth's Chris Steak House is hardly likely to open up there.

Elliot

On 17 Aug  2008, at 2:42 PM, SH wrote:

Hi,The little café on Baltimore between 45th and 46th is closing for a month.She is looking for someone to take over for a few months and might end upclosing.Does anyone know a small business person who is interested in keeping it aneighborhood café rather than walmarting it with $15 martinis?- SharonYou are receiving this because you are subscribed to thelist named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see.


Elliot M. Stern
552 South 48th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19143-2029
United States of America
telephone: 215-747-6204
mobile: 267-240-8418
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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[UC] Georgia discussion tonight

2008-08-19 Thread Glenn moyer

Neighbors,

This announcement may be of interest to peace activists and the general public.

"In response to an overwhelming positive feedback on an 
email we forwarded with the International Action Center's 
on-line petition calling for "US Hands Off Georgia and 
Russia - End NATO Campaign" the Philadelphia IAC is 
inviting any one interested to take part in a discussion 
about this conflict on Tuesday, August 19th from 7-9pm at 
the Calvary Church, 48th & Baltimore Ave. (on the #34 
subway-surface line from Center City & 30th St).

Our apologies for the late notice.  If you can not attend 
but are interested in continued discussion on this or 
other current topics, the Philly IAC meets on Tuesday 
evenings at 7pm at Calvary.  All are welcome!"


I'm shocked to watch the government and a compliant media do this again.  The 
people are being bombarded with this message which ignores how the current 
conflict started and the history of US allies.  A million Iranians died at the 
hands of US backed Iraq.  Many  Russians died at the hands of those now labeled 
terrorists in the long Afghanistan war.

As a world citizen committed to non-violence, I hate to see Georgian and 
Russian brothers and sisters killing each other.  But the swift Russian 
intervention was understandable and predictable.  Continuing to pump up the 
revisionism and aggressive NATO arms build up, the government and corporate 
media just make the country look stupid and hypocritical. 

Announcement and my opinion,
Glenn




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Re: [UC] 45th street

2008-08-20 Thread Glenn moyer

"That's for sure, the same goes for Starbucks. Even if they were not closing down sites and business was good, I don't think we would ever see a Wawa/Starbucks in such a residential part of University City. I'm not sure what the plan is but I really hope People's Market reopens as the same type of store. It was always a great daytime alternative to A-Plus, even with the limited selection the basics there were fairly cheaper. "
Yes, the prices for staples like yogurt, beans, and plantains were very reasonable for a small store- A real people's neighborhood market.
You make another good point. What if the big businesses don't want us anymore because of the economy? Penn is a big business. It wants other big businesses with big pockets to replace the small businesses in the neighborhood. But if the stormtroopers close all the small businesses without replacements lined up, the neighborhood will look like Berlin after the war.
Maybe we should beg Penn/L&I to have some big businesses lined up before anymore small businesses are whacked. Thoughts?
Glenn
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Aug 18, 2008 1:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], univcity@list.purple.com Subject: Re: [UC] 45th street That's for sure, the same goes for Starbucks. Even if they were not closing down sites and business was good, I don't think we would ever see a Wawa/Starbucks in such a residential part of University City. I'm not sure what the plan is but I really hope People's Market reopens as the same type of store. It was always a great daytime alternative to A-Plus, even with the limited selection the basics there were fairly cheaper. -Original Message-From: Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: UnivCity@list.purple.comSent: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:32 pmSubject: Re: [UC] 45th street
I'd be very surprised if Wawa ever opens another store in the city.

Frank

On Aug 18, 2008, at 10:21 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I forget the name, but the breakfast they had there will be missed!And a Wawa would be cool but it's a small space. Wawa Express? ;)-Original Message-From: Cappy Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: UC Email List <univcity@list.purple.com>Sent: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 9:43 amSubject: Re: [UC] 45th street

Be a sarcastic as you want, but I wouldn't mind a Wawa within walking distance of 49ty & Baltimore...
Also... I didn't even know there was a cafe at 45th & Baltimore. Does it have a name?
--Cappy

- Original Message From: Glenn moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: Elliot M. Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; SH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Cc: University City List <UnivCity@list.purple.com>Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 8:13:16 AMSub ject: Re: [UC] 45th street
"Don't worry, Ruth's Chris Steak House is hardly likely to open up there."
The vision places Ruthies cow at the old O'Haras. 45th and Baltimore is a Starbucks destination, silly. And if we're lucky, we'll get a McDonald's where the People's market got whacked.
It's all in the vision, man. We, of the district, need to focus on paying our BID tax and allow the shock and awe storm troopers, L&I , a brief respite to catch up on their donuts.
The vision is divine!
Glenn of the district
-Original Message- From: "Elliot M. Stern" Sent: Aug 17, 2008 4:20 PM To: SH Cc: University City List Subject: Re: [UC] 45th street
Don't worry, Ruth's Chris Steak House is hardly likely to open up there.

Elliot

On 17 Aug 2008, at 2:42 PM,20SH wrote:

Hi,The little café on Baltimore between 45th and 46th is closing for a month.She is looking for someone to take over for a few months and might end upclosing.Does anyone know a small business person who is interested in keeping it a< br> neighborhood café rather than walmarting it with $15 martinis?- SharonYou are receiving this because you are subscribed to thelist named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see<http://www.purple.com/list.html>.

Elliot M. Stern
552 South 48th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19143-2029
United States of America
telephone: 215-747-6204
mobile: 267-240-8418
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[UC] Re: [UC-Announce] Seeking Nominations for Inspirational Gardens Awards

2008-08-20 Thread Glenn moyer


"You may post announcements to this list, but this list attempts to
prevent discussion.  Please use univcity to discuss messages on this
list.  Subscribers of univcity receive all mail to this list."


Mark,
I was confused at first but then I realized you were talking about the censored 
upenn list.  You are correct, the barking cheese list was founded on the 
principal of destroying community discussion.  But we are unable to discuss 
messages posted there because the archives are secret.  Before they closed the 
archives to outsiders most people thought it was a waste of time anyway.  So 
no, we don't receive the mail to that list and I highly doubt that any posts 
from it warrant serious comment.

Of course, it should be viewed as a tremendous embarrassment to both the 
Annenberg School of Communication and the University of Pennsylvania.  It is 
not a public list like proclaimed and it is a monument to censorship and the 
destruction of community discussion.  It makes a mockery of the guidelines for 
the use of electronic resources at Penn.  It reinforces the belief that the 
University of Pennsylvania is a propaganda centered organization and not an 
institution that once caused universities to be held in high esteem.

Some people theorized that the reason it was so boring was because of the 
intimidation against discussion at its founding.  It looked like it was founded 
as a fan club for a local gun nut while a group of uncivil cyber bullies tried 
to outdo each other with good neighbor posts.

Example:  "Hey does anybody know which escort service gives the best rates?  
Thanks neighbors." 

Meanwhile the cyber bullies came back to this public univcity list with the 
intention of destroying our public discussions.  I would continue to post any 
UCD stuff at that site because UCD is considered barking cheese too, but as you 
indicated if you have any intelligent comments or wish discussion use this 
public listserv.

Thanks for your observation,
Glenn  




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Re: [UC] Re: [UC-Announce] Seeking Nominations for Inspirational Gardens Awards

2008-08-20 Thread Glenn moyer

Yes, it was my mistake.  When I got the message, I thought it was funny and 
didn't realize where it came from until it came back.

I didn't mean to annoy Mark,  My apologies.

Glenn

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>Isn't the comment below related rather to univcity-announce? "Announce" 
>lists do not allow discussion. But that's a "purple" spinoff ... aka 
>"the villanova list". That's the one we're now reading.
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>Crossposting can lead to confusions like this. All UC-list subscribers 
>also get UC-announce posts but the reverse is not true.
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>> censored upenn list.  You are correct, the barking cheese list was founded 
>> on the principal of destroying community discussion.  But we are unable to 
>> discuss messages posted there because the archives are secret.  Before they 
>> closed the archives to outsiders most people thought it was a waste of time 
>> anyway.  So no, we don't receive the mail to that list and I highly doubt 
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Re: [UC] PCPC director, Greenberger

2008-08-21 Thread Glenn moyer

from penn's website


 > Congratulations to Alan Greenberger! City Planning
 > Lecturer named to Planning Commission.
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 > A hearty congratulations to Lecturer Alan Greenberger for
 > being appointed to the Philadelphia Planning Commission
 > by new Mayor Michael Nutter! Alan's voice and vision are
 > sorely needed.
 >
 > It is an exciting time to be in Philadelphia with the new
 > mayoral administration. As noted by the Philadelphia
 > Inquirer, "Nutter has hundreds of appointments to make,
 > and roughly 60 different board and commissions to attend
 > to. He chose to announce zoning and planning first."


http://www.design.upenn.edu/new/about/newsdetail.php?nid=218


Back when I was a beautiful baby boy, we had this little chant when these 
secret loves were spotted.

Michael and Praxis
Sittin' in a tree
K-I-S-S-I-N-G

Michael and Praxis
Sittin' in a tree
K-I-S-S-I-N-G




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>> The new director of the PENN City Planning Commission, PCPC,
>> is currently a board member, Mr A. Greenberger
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>> "He's someone who understands Philadelphia's great planning
>> tradition and is inspired to bring the city back to that
>> level," Altman said. "He's entrepreneurial. He [has]
>> management experience, teaching experience at Penn. It's a
>> home run."
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>> Note: Mr Greenberger was in attendance at the PCPC hearing
>> when numerous citizens testified against the Campus Inn on
>> May 20, 2008. On June 17, 2008 following the M.Nutter
>> platitude speech, Mr Greenberger was in attendance when the
>> false record of the May 20, 2008 PCPC proceedings was
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[UC] Speaker's corner

2008-08-22 Thread Glenn moyer

Hey Susan,

Congrats on your upcoming trip to civilization!  During my daily blessing of 
the animals, I asked the gods and goddesses to watch over your hellcat.  Who 
needs an animal shrink when a pagan blessing is available?

You'll be near to one of my favorite places on the planet, Speaker's Corner in 
Hyde park.  If you find yourself wandering nearby, say a little prayer for us 
in the colonies from that holy spot.

Some of us would like to renew the revolution and bring representative 
democracy to the oppressed colonials.

Bon voyage,
Glenn

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[UC] They make us look sweet

2008-08-23 Thread Glenn moyer

Neighbors,

I was reading this news story from St Petersburg Fl.  What is shocking are the 
readers' comments following the story.  One responder did complain that this 
paper allows this anonymous posting.

I haven't decided which frightens me more.  The secret lists, like the Penn 
UCNeighbors and this newspaper, or what is inside the participants which gets 
unleashed.

Be prepared, they go pretty far.

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/aug/21/212359/st-pete-officers-disciplined-removing-tribute-teen/


FYI:  The local chapter of the Uhuru movement sets up the popular flea market 
in Clark Park.  (Uhuru is the Kiswahili word meaning freedom.)  Apparently, the 
Florida governor ordered a review of the investigation of the killing.

>From the very civil popu-list,
Glenn



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[UC] A modern vision

2008-08-26 Thread Glenn moyer

I was thinking about consumers and progress when this children’s poem popped in 
my head.  I hope the older ones like it.  

Lovely little songbird
Above the village tree
Soaring to the good word
As preying minds can see

Tiny eyes seek heaven
Far beyond the smoke
Love’s hope is freely given
As crawling creatures choke

Lovely little songbird
Is frail beneath the tree
An angel soaring upward
With strength to carry me...

Lo creatures of the single mind
Crawling over hell,
Eat any world which they shall find
They ring the dinner bell…

Lovely little songbird
Now silent in the pot
No one's soaring upward
While hell is getting hot. 








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[UC] Building the wall on Baltimore

2008-08-27 Thread Glenn moyer

Liz says-

"Zoning rules and Housing codes should not be bent to profit a few, especially 
when the impact could be so over reaching.  The proposed Hotel would change the 
Streetcar and main Auto entrance of our nationally designated Historic 
"Victorian" neighborhood.  It would also establish a precedent which could be 
used against us, very soon, at the now Campanella owned SE corner of 43rd & 
Baltimore (formerly an Italianate Home and Community garden)."


I’ve been getting very excited about the upcoming approval of the Campus Inn by 
the Penn City Planning Commission.  Finally, I can see victory over the 
district trash cops.

I’d like to take this opportunity to announce my plans to build a three story 
wall nestled against the sidewalk in front of my house on the 4300 block of 
Baltimore!

Lots of people thought that the Trustees vision wanted to set a precedent by 
smashing all zoning rules in the residential neighborhood being transformed to 
a BID.  Eureka!

Lets see these trash coppers give me a ticket for furniture on my porch when a 
three story wall will go straight up from the sidewalk!  Ha-Ha!  Thank you 
Campus Inn.  Thank you, Trustees.


When I first thought of the precedent being set to build three stories against 
the sidewalk, I got depressed.  How can a little guy like me finance such a big 
wall?

But then the light-bulb lit up above my head.  Eureka!  Thank you Campus Inn!

I’d like to take this opportunity to announce plans for the construction of the 
Spruce Hill Tower.  My bleak abandoned back yard will be transformed into an 
11- 25 story tower of green efficiency apartments nestled against my neighbors 
property lines.  

I share the vision of the University City Historical Society and Spruce Hill 
Civic Association leaders for increasing density along public transportation 
routes.  I hope to rent these affordable units mostly to large immigrant 
families working at local boutique hotels.

After the upcoming PCPC announcement, the smashed zoning rules will allow the 
Spruce Hill Tower erection to rise 11 stories against my neighbors property 
lines.  But I’m hoping my good good friends, the important community leaders of 
SHCA and UCHS, will approve my request to allow the Spruce Hill Tower to rise 
to 25 stories.  We can have one of their famous open public forums at the 
Spruce Hill Café martini bar, wink-wink. 

Did I happen to mention, the University City Historical Society Observation 
Deck, on top of this green erection will have a glorious view of the Franklin 
Building and the Hub?

As we await the glorious announcement by the PCPC, all I can say is:

Thank you Campus Inn!  Thank you, Trustees!

Friend of the anointed,

The ex-leftist wanker, Glenn






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[UC] FCC letter in UC Review

2008-08-27 Thread Glenn moyer

Dear neighbors,

The editor of the UC Review published this important letter in today's edition.

http://www.weeklypress.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=97&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=838&wpage=&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=2392&hn=weeklypress&he=.com


Lots of people complain about the poor journalism of the corporate media today. 
 But this push for complete corporate media monopolies will certainly bury the 
concept of a free press.  

Killing journalists won't be required as it is in "friendly regimes."  The 
people's right to a free press will simply be purchased.

Mr. Christian's letter also gives an explanation of how this FCC push will 
impact the media business from an experienced point of view.

This is very important and if you still have some hope for representative 
democracy here, I would consider sending a letter supporting the suggested 
legislative action. 

A very important issue,
Glenn

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Re: [UC] Forwarded from

2008-08-28 Thread Glenn moyer

So perhaps these bodies' muteness to date isn't 
so curious. Joining the fray late rather than early is often moral and 
often smart.


Nonsense.  

Both SHCA and UCHS leaders betrayed this community and their own memberships.  
The gangs' leaders have been secretly colluding with the Penn team from the 
beginning, over a year ago, while doing everything in their power to keep all 
Penn's plans secret.  They were secretly involved with the initial attempt to 
demolish the property over a year ago and continued to cloak the false claims 
of massive community support.  

The leaders of both groups were present in October when the development team 
boldly lied about SHCA conducting open public forums and generating massive 
public support.  This was reported by me immediately and confirmed by Andrew on 
the list the day the lies were first uttered.  Not until February (and despite 
numerous public requests for data by me) did Mr. Grossbach admit that these 
claims were false while assserting that they should be "swept under the rug."

People will remember that SHCA provided a cloak at their elections to give the 
false appearence of an announced public meeting.  People will remember that 
SHCA attempted to quietly have another "public meeting" at their clubhouse 
until opponents discovered the trick and forced a move to an appropriate venue.


While testifying in direct support of the Campus Inn, UCHS newsletter editor, 
Mr. Mike Hardy, has continuosly forgotten to mention the Campus Inn or the 
secret e-mail vote in the UCHS newsletter he controls.  Instead of reporting 
the Campus Inn plans to the UCHS members, Ms. Stewart, the president, also 
watched the bold lies of the the development team in October.  

Instead of telling the truth to the community, Ms. Stewart published a letter 
in the UC Review complaining that a lowly UCHS member offered her personal 
opposition in testimony.  Asserting that she spoke for the 500 members, she 
stressed that an award winning real estate saleslady spoke in favor of the 
hotel.  That was not silence as you are asserting. 

Announcing all of these issues to their members was the most important job 
these leaders are trusted to do.  It has nothing to do with their support or 
opposition.  These leaders have betrayed the trust and duty to their members 
and members of this community.  They have been abusing their power in the 
effort to shield the Campus Inn for whatever personal reasons they may have.


And while the PCPC did not know where the file of public submissions was 
located when I attempted to inspect these, I've heard that a letter from UCD's 
Lewis Wendell was among them.  But then few citizens of the district have much 
respect left for that contemptible front for Campus Apts/Penn real estate 
agenda.

So no, SHCA and UCHS leaders have not been silent at all; they have simply been 
deceptive.  These leaders show the same contempt for the community which the 
FOCP leaders have shown for years as it did backroom deals with UCD.  These are 
not little mistakes by hard working volunteers.  This is the evidence of how 
wholely these gangs jump at the divide and conquer strategy used by the Penn 
colonialists rather than their duty to their neighbors and the community.

It is clear and deliberate abuse of power against the needs and security of 
their neighbors.  Forget about the oranges, let's seperate the bad apples from 
the abused residents of this neighborhood.  

Shame, shame, shame!!!


Mr. Moyer

  






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>From: Anthony West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Aug 27, 2008 6:43 PM
>To: univcity 
>Subject: Re: [UC] Forwarded from "SCRUB" -- Unisys Sign Denied by Zoning Board
>
>Let's separate the apples from the oranges first.
>
>Neither UCD nor PennPraxis has any sort of warrant to weigh in on a 
>zoning issue, until some neighborhood group asks them for their 
>assistance. It would be bizarre and stupid for them to do so.
>
>The hotel proposal is clearly in SHCA's bailiwick, likewise in UCHS's 
>bailiwick. It looks like there has been some ducking, dodging and 
>deferring by both those bodies.
>
>Typically this happens in politics when communities are split; when 
>there are pros and cons; when there are supporters and detractors. In 
>this case, that's what we find. Lussenhop has his petitions, Woodland 
>Terrace has theirs, no? So perhaps these bodies' muteness to date isn't 
>so curious. Joining the fray late rather than early is often moral and 
>often smart.
>
>There are at least three stations of official approval before anything 
>can happen: the Historical Commission, the Planning Commission, the 
>Zoning Board of Adjustment. Did I miss any? Passing one test does not 
>predict passing another.
>
>In addition, development proposals are subject to constant revision and 
>evolution -- the process is intended to foster just that.
>
>I have no idea at this point what the eventual outcome will be. That's 
>where I grow curious.
>
>--

Re: [UC] Sheehan's Foreign Fix

2008-08-28 Thread Glenn moyer



Elliot,
Thanks for the report.  
It's hard to be certain of anything in this city.  We are more likely to get misinformation than the truth.  When major city commissions, like the planning and historical commission, are to corrupt to keep accurate public records of their own hearings, we can safely assume that the corruption and deceptions are deep and profound.
This closing of Sheehan's seems very similar to the closings of O'Haras here and Bob and Barbaras in Mr. Levy's center city district.  
It's a rapid and complete unannounced closure of a long time business.  The property available sign pops immediately and long term customers are completely surprised.
Frankly, I'm a bit surprised that the businesses on that block weren't targeted in 2003 when UCD made its first push at cleansing Baltimore Ave.  Please post anything else you discover about this closing.  If the other businesses are about to fall, I and I think others would like the chance to say goodbye to our long term neighbors.
Thanks,
Glenn
-Original Message- From: "Elliot M. Stern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Aug 27, 2008 5:08 PM To: University City List Subject: [UC] Sheehan's Foreign Fix 
I don't know exactly what's up, but remember having noticed a sign Saturday or Monday that the property is available for lease.


Elliot M. Stern
552 South 48th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19143-2029
United States of America
telephone: 215-747-6204
mobile: 267-240-8418
[EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:36:15 EDTFrom: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [Ucneighbors] Sheehan's Foreign FixTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"Anyone know what's up with Sheehan's Foreign Fix in the 4500 block of  Baltimore?  I tried calling and got the message that the phone number  is disconnected.Bruce McCullough

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RE: [UC] Forwarded from

2008-08-28 Thread Glenn moyer



So reading between the lines, that didn't sound very neutral to me.
 
Yes, UCHS and SHCA leaders chose to heavily involve themselves as active members of the Penn/Campus Apts agenda last summer.  Claiming that because some neighbors hired a lawyer, they needed to go silent now is so ridiculous and so condescending to this community that I laugh openly at their pathetic humiliation.
 
After the first secret backroom meeting, they could have recused themselves from involvement and made a very simple announcement of Lussenhop’s basic intention to develop.  That could have been a responsible way to carry out their minimum duty to both their groups and this community with whatever personal support for the thing they wished to add.
 
But they chose to keep their members in the dark and have at least one more backroom meeting of which we know.  SHCA and UCHS members found out about the delisting and hotel like the rest of us when the UC Review broke the story.  At that point, we learned that the Penn team had tried to sneak a secret delisting of the property, to clear the way for demolition, with the knowledge and cooperation of these “leaders.”
 
The betrayal of the community and the organizations membership by those leaders was confirmed at that early point.
 
Then, in October and Novemeber, the development team was repeatedly lying in testimony to a government commission about previous public meetings and community support while these leaders were present.  First ignoring the issue and then claiming it was all a little mistake, 4 months later, the excuse is again laughable.
 
If it was a mistake in October, why did Grossbach, Hardy, and Stewart not correct the development team before it was repeated in more official testimony?  Why did the Penn team fail to ask Grossbach, Hardy, or Stewart why that hot head Moyer repeatedly testified that the public forum claims were not true before repeating the very same claims?  Why was an additional claim made in official testimony that a third public forum was scheduled the following week with SHCA?  And why did that turn out to be an SHCA election without a Lussenhop presentation on the agenda given to members?    
 
Hahaha Mr. Grossbach we had one hell of a lot of mistakes in a row!  Then, it’s time to go silent because a lawyer is hired-hahaha.  Who is this guy kidding?
 
All of the problems you correctly report about UCHS are just more of the same.  They refuse even the most basic announcement to keep their members ignorant while their leaders are trying every method possible to pretend that the community supports the hotel.
 
It’s time for the members of SHCA and UCHS to stand up and tell these clowns to retire.  If they don’t want their group to continue to be used by a few while the groups lose all credibility as community organizations, they need to act now!!!  We will not know whether it is money or the perception of power these clowns are after.  But community leaders in reputable community organizations conduct themselves ethically and transparently when doing community business.  Period!
 
Take care,
Glenn
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I agree with everything Glenn says here.  I was that "lowly UCHS member" who spoke against Campus Inn at the first PHC hearing, and I was specifically named in Belynda Stewart's editorial letter to UC Review, where she made a deliberate point of saying that I was merely a one-out-of-500 member, and did not speak for the organization. She then went on to pump up the opinion of another one-out-of-500 member by stating that the proposal was supported by a prominent neighborhood Realtor who was also a former UCHS Board member (as was I, but that somehow didn't get mentioned. Oddly, the fact that I've served on the boards of a number of community groups over the past 20 years got left out too).  So reading between the lines, that didn't sound very neutral to me. It also seems very odd that there has been NO official public announcement of the UCHS Board vote against the proposal, which was announced by an individual Board member testifying at the PCPC hearing earlier in the summer (but unfortunately, since the PCPC hearing minutes do not include the text of what the witnesses said, that's not readily apparant to those who were not in attendance).    Karen Allen   > Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:50:36 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Univcity@list.purple.com> Subject: Re: [UC] Forwarded from> > So perhaps these bodies' muteness to date isn't > so curious. Joining the fray late rather than early is often moral and > often smart.> > > Nonsense. > > Both SHCA and UCHS leaders betrayed this community and their own memberships. The gang

Re: Re: [UC] Sheehan's Foreign Fix

2008-08-28 Thread Glenn moyer

>  One of my neighbors told me yesterday that she spoke with Mr. Sheehan and he 
> told her that his partner withdrew from the partnership and took money with 
> him (i.e., double-crossed Sheehan) but that Sheehan wants to stay in business 
> at that location.  No info on the "For Lease" sign.  Also no indication of 
> Penn/City conspiracy.  -  Mark Jenson

Mark,

Thanks for the info.  It gives a temporary relief to my concern for friends on 
that block but is certainly not a victory for due process in Phila.  Good luck 
to Mr. Sheehan!

As I mentioned, there is no way for the public to know the truth about many 
occurences like closing People's Market.  What you call the "Penn/City 
conspiracy" is very real yet specifics are always elusive.  Keep your eyes and 
ears open and keep on sharing info honestly as you receive it.  And I hope the 
citizens and our immigrant friends continue to seek and ask questions in search 
of the truth.

Take care,
Glenn

-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Aug 28, 2008 11:04 AM
>To: University City List 
>Subject: Re: Re: [UC] Sheehan's Foreign Fix
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>  One of my neighbors told me yesterday that she spoke with Mr. Sheehan and he 
> told her that his partner withdrew from the partnership and took money with 
> him (i.e., double-crossed Sheehan) but that Sheehan wants to stay in business 
> at that location.  No info on the "For Lease" sign.  Also no indication of 
> Penn/City conspiracy.  -  Mark Jenson
>
>
>From: Glenn moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: 2008/08/28 Thu AM 08:19:20 CDT
>To: "Elliot M. Stern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> University City List 
>Subject: Re: [UC] Sheehan's Foreign Fix
>
>
>
>
>Elliot,
>Thanks for the report. 
>It's hard to be certain of anything in this city.  We are more likely to get 
>misinformation than the truth.  When major city commissions, like the planning 
>and historical commission, are to corrupt to keep accurate public records of 
>their own hearings, we can safely assume that the corruption and deceptions 
>are deep and profound.
>This closing of Sheehan's seems very similar to the closings of O'Haras here 
>and Bob and Barbaras in Mr. Levy's center city district. 
>It's a rapid and complete unannounced closure of a long time business.  The 
>property available sign pops immediately and long term customers are 
>completely surprised.
>Frankly, I'm a bit surprised that the businesses on that block weren't 
>targeted in 2003 when UCD made its first push at cleansing Baltimore Ave.  
>Please post anything else you discover about this closing.  If the other 
>businesses are about to fall, I and I think others would like the chance to 
>say goodbye to our long term neighbors.
>Thanks,
>Glenn
>
>
>-Original Message-
>From: "Elliot M. Stern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Aug 27, 2008 5:08 PM
>To: University City List 
>Subject: [UC] Sheehan's Foreign Fix
>
>I don't know exactly what's up, but remember having noticed a sign Saturday or 
>Monday that the property is available for lease.
>
>Elliot M. Stern
>552 South 48th Street
>Philadelphia, PA 19143-2029
>United States of America
>telephone: 215-747-6204
>mobile: 267-240-8418
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:36:15 EDT
>From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [Ucneighbors] Sheehan's Foreign FixTo: mailto:[EMAIL 
>PROTECTED]" target=_blank>[EMAIL PROTECTED]Message-ID: <href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" target=_blank>[EMAIL 
>PROTECTED]>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"Anyone 
>know what's up with Sheehan's Foreign Fix in the 4500 block of  
>Baltimore?  I tried calling and got the message that the phone number  is 
>disconnected.
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[UC] Public records, Campus Inn

2008-08-29 Thread Glenn moyer



“(but unfortunately, since the PCPC hearing minutes do not include the text of 
what the witnesses said, that's not readily apparant to those who were not in 
attendance).”


Karen,

You brought up a very important matter for all Philadelphians.  Yesterday, I 
was so livid to read the suggestion that SHCA  and UCHS leaders were being 
"smart" and "moral."  But their pathetic scheming seems petty compared to this 
issue you raise!

This Campus Inn struggle has serendipitously uncovered the foundation of the 
pay to play system of Phila. corruption.  I have attended 2 PHC hearings and 2 
PCPC hearings which bared the system.

It is truly mind boggling that the commissioners of these commissions can week 
after week approve false records of their official proceedings.  These 
commissions have tremendous power to affect the lives and communities of all 
Philadelphians.

The commissions do not allow citizens to independently make recordings of 
official public hearings.  They claim interchangeably to produce either 
“minutes” or “transcripts” as the reason citizen journalists may not make 
independent recordings of hearings.  They mask the false records to look like 
transcripts so that the appearance is that the hearing was a routine 2-3 minute 
session.

These false records are produced by the lower level secretaries for these 
commissioners.  These secretaries work under these bosses 5 days a week so 
editing out everything that does not support the commission staff goals is a 
natural phenomena when accountability and truth have no importance.

But why do the commissioners approve this system?

When the PHC overturned the rejection of its architects and approved the 
obviously predetermined commitment to approve the Campus Inn, it was obvious to 
anyone in attendance as it would be to anyone reading accurate transcripts!  
After witnessing these shenanigans, I read the “minutes/transcripts” from the 
architectural committee.  (Remarkably they weren’t available to the public 
prior to the November meeting at which the prearranged approval was granted.)

Every single bit of important information, both testimony from the development 
team and testimony from the public, was missing!  Every single bit!

As you point out, the hour of testimony from the public at the PCPC was 
completely removed too.  The picture anyone would draw from reading the 
“minutes” from that meeting would be completely wrong.

This system, falsifying records, cries out to developers to cut back room 
deals.  It completely shields any agency staff from appearing to be involved 
with backroom deals as their co-workers do the editing.  The people assembled 
at the November PHC meeting could not know the details of the backroom deals 
but could feel the tremendous feeling of helplessness under the yoke of a 
corrupt government.

If the public and journalists had access to accurate and honest transcripts, 
the fact that backroom dealing had obviously occurred would be reflected in 
those transcripts too. All Philadelphians could see what their government is up 
to and not just those in attendance! 

It seems ridiculous to have any hope for an honest responsible government if 
the people don’t stand up to this system.  The Deputy mayor, Altman, and PCPC 
Director, Greenberger and the PHC commissioners have been approving these false 
records.  

This gang style protectionism of their part of a corrupt system needs to be 
addressed by the people or it is going to continue!

Thanks for bringing this up,
Glenn




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[UC] Palin as prez

2008-08-30 Thread Glenn moyer

Thanks Karen,

I'm glad you provided this info to the list.  It's such a very important 
development.

I was shocked when I heard Palin's basic background and lack of experience.  
With McCain's health history and age the chance that she could be President is 
far too high for such an outlandish choice.  I felt that way before these 
additional scary details.

It is obviously a bizzare attempt to get Hilary supporters.  To me, it seems 
inconceivable that any women for Hilary would be swayed by a choice like her.

This was a frightening choice. 

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[UC] The effete intelligentsia

2008-08-30 Thread Glenn moyer

Have any of you seen these "effete intelligentsia" cats at the gelati shoppe?

I'm part of the shot and beer intelligentsia and I don't know them.  If you see 
them, tell them comrade Glenn sends his blessings.  They probably need some 
kind words to revitalize them.  Nasty folks probably call them all sorts of 
names.

But tell them not to chortle over their gelati too soon.  The piece that Cindy 
posted about voting because of emotion and image makes some good points.  The 
effete dumbigentsia aren't interested in reason or common sense when a beauty 
queen gives a call to war.

Glenn
The International Order of the Shot and Beer Intelligentsia 

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Re: [UC] RE: McCain's dangerous choice

2008-08-31 Thread Glenn moyer

http://mudflats.wordpress.com/ 

Ana,

That is a good link.  

To me, troopergate is the very important issue to follow.  It will be an 
indication of Palin's executive style and McCain's leadership in choosing her.

Picking someone with the ideology that might appeal to certain voters is 
something to be expected-  As Biden's foreign policy experience seems to 
compliment the Democrat ticket.  (Don't get me wrong, I like Biden but believe 
US foreign policy direction since World War II is a tragedy.)

But in addition to Palin's foreign policy hole, troopergate gets right to the 
questions of ethics and abuse of power.  This trashy soap opera reminds me of 
the firing of federal prosecutors by the current.  

This is an important scandal to watch as the details unfold.

Long live the polar bears,
Glenn

-Original Message-
>From: Ana Kostich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Aug 30, 2008 4:09 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Listserv, UnivCity" , 
>"Listserv, Penn Employees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [UC] RE: McCain's dangerous choice
>
>
>And, to complement, you just have to check what Alaskan politicians are 
>saying: great link.
>
>http://mudflats.wordpress.com/ 
>
>Also, the Wikipedia entry on her was heavily altered [embelished] 24 hours 
>before the announcement so that the Wicki creator had to restrict further 
>access to her entry [heard it on NPR yesterday].
>
>Ana
>
>
>Ana
>
>
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: univcity@list.purple.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: FW: McCain's dangerous choice
>Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:32:03 -0400
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Please forward.
>
>
>
>
>Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:19:42 -0700
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: McCain's dangerous choice
>
>
>
>
>Dear MoveOn member,
>Yesterday was John McCain's 72nd birthday. If elected, he'd be the oldest 
>president ever inaugurated. And after months of slamming Barack Obama for 
>"inexperience," here's who John McCain has chosen to be one heartbeat away 
>from the presidency: a right-wing religious conservative with no foreign 
>policy experience, who until recently was mayor of a town of 9,000 people.
>
>Huh?
>
>Who is Sarah Palin? Here's some basic background:
>
>
>
> *   She was elected Alaska's governor a little over a year and a half ago. 
> Her previous office was mayor of Wasilla, a small town outside Anchorage. She 
> has no foreign policy experience.1
>
> *   Palin is strongly anti-choice, opposing abortion even in the case of rape 
> or incest.2
>
> *   She supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000. 3
>
> *   Palin thinks creationism should be taught in public schools.4
>
> *   She's doesn't think humans are the cause of climate change.5
>
> *   She's solidly in line with John McCain's "Big Oil first" energy policy. 
> She's pushed hard for more oil drilling and says renewables won't be ready 
> for years. She also sued the Bush administration for listing polar bears as 
> an endangered species—she was worried it would interfere with more oil 
> drilling in Alaska.6
>
> *   How closely did John McCain vet this choice? He met Sarah Palin once at a 
> meeting. They spoke a second time, last Sunday, when he called her about 
> being vice-president. Then he offered her the position.7
>
>This is information the American people need to see. Please take a moment to 
>forward this email to your friends and family.
>
>We also asked Alaska MoveOn members what the rest of us should know about 
>their governor. The response was striking. Here's a sample:
>
>
>She is really just a mayor from a small town outside Anchorage who has been a 
>governor for only 1.5 years, and has ZERO national and international 
>experience. I shudder to think that she could be the person taking that 3AM 
>call on the White House hotline, and the one who could potentially be charged 
>with leading the US in the volatile international scene that exists today. 
>—Rose M., Fairbanks, AK
>
>
>She is VERY, VERY conservative, and far from perfect. She's a hunter and 
>fisherwoman, but votes against the environment again and again. She ran on 
>ethics reform, but is currently under investigation for several charges 
>involving hiring and firing of state officials. She has NO experience beyond 
>Alaska. —Christine B., Denali Park, AK
>
>
>As an Alaskan and a feminist, I am beyond words at this announcement. Palin is 
>not a feminist, and she is not the reformer she claims to be. —Karen L., 
>Anchorage, AK
>
>
>Alaskans, collectively, are just as stunned as the rest of the nation. She is 
>doing well running our State, but is totally inexperienced on the national 
>level, and very much unequipped to run the nation, if it came to that. She is 
>as far right as one can get, which has already been communicated on the news. 
>In our office of thirty employees (dems, republicans, and nonpartisans), not 
>one person feels she is ready for the V.P. posi

[UC] Palin firings while Mayor

2008-08-31 Thread Glenn moyer

I've had a chance to look at the original reports of Palin's current 
troopergate.  It's very interesting to read the scandal unfold in July.  All of 
the KTVA reports and Anchorage Daily News articles are organized at the bottom 
of this first link.

  I'm sure we'll hear more about this info in the second link.  It appears that 
VP candidate Palin made some questionable firings as mayor too.

I think these original reports warrant a close reading.  If you wanted to give 
the benefit of the doubt in the current troopergate, the similar 1997 firings 
indicate a serious pattern.  Such similarities in the two scandals point to a 
willingness to abuse power and almost childish arrogance.

Let's see if these reports are verified.  This has nothing to do with ideology 
or experience.  


http://www.realitywindow.com/archives/2008/08/learning-about-sarah-palin.html


http://hatthief.blogspot.com/2008/08/vetting-sarah-palin-irl-stambaugh-walt.html


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[UC] unbelievable Palin 1996!

2008-08-31 Thread Glenn moyer

While searching the Anchorage Daily News to research the firing of the Wasilla 
police chief I found this!  This is an unbelievable series of events but their 
it is in the archives!

Oct 1996, Palin asks for "resignations" of 5 top officials to test "loyalty" to 
her new administration.  In January, she fires two of them, with a note on 
their desks, for no reason.  Just as she fired the top state cop for no reason 
according to the initial report, she fired the top cop in her town of 5000.

Just like the current troopergate, this led to legal action.  It appears the 
Wasilla firings were because these officials supported the other guy in the 
election.

A new mayor requests "resignations" to prove "loyalty" because these officials 
supported the other guy?Is her ridiculous denials of involvement in the 
new troopergate believable with this pathetic petty arrogant start to her 
political career

These town officials were doing their jobs for years and I found no indication 
of any type of problem.  

I stumbled onto this and have not seen coverage of this episode.  Feel free to 
forward this far and wide. Palin is a bully!
 

http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AS&p_theme=as&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_text_search-0=new%20AND%20wasilla%20AND%20mayor%20AND%20asks&s_dispstring=new%20wasilla%20mayor%20asks%20AND%20date(1996)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=1996&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=_rank_:D&xcal_ranksort=4&xcal_useweights=yes



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[UC] A Progressive's point of view post Palin

2008-09-02 Thread Glenn moyer



For years, the only presidential candidate who excited my best hopes has been 
Congressman Kucinich.  I was given and read Obama’s, The  Audacity of Hope, 
when it was first published.

I like him and trust him within the framework of a corporate government.  The 
day after the election, it’s time to hold Obama accountable and build a 
progressive coalition and progressive party.  The Green party seems like a 
possibility to me for now.

The thing is by having a great candidate like Dennis, he’s shown that even 
though the failures of the Republican/Democrat corporate ruled government has 
successfully made the people ignorant of too much, when the people speak from 
the heart they still embrace a progressive agenda.  Whether it’s healthcare, 
free speech, rights, or war and peace, the majority agree with Kucinich’s 
“progressive” policies.Yet look how the media controlled this election.  
Ouch to reason and sanity!

Alas, now is not the time to focus on the failures of the Democrats.  Like 
Dennis, I’m big time for Obama right now.  This Palin, as President 
possibility, is insanity upon insanity upon far out insanity!

Get everybody out to vote.  Independents, fiscal conservatives, and the 
intelligentsia could easily be complacent for different reasons.  All of us are 
probably freaking out over Palin.

This is an important election. Get the people out to vote and they’ll do the 
right thing.

Peace, justice, and mother earth,
Glenn


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Re: [UC] UCHS and SHCA politics (Was: Re: Forwarded from)

2008-09-03 Thread Glenn moyer

>Nothing Glenn writes is veracious. He monotonously alleges "secret" 
>conspiracies, of which he never offers evidence. Where are the 
>transcripts? Where are the tapes? Where are the participants with second 
>thoughts who go public on the conspiracy? In this case, they don't exist.


Hahaha.  I love it when West details my lies from events he didn't attend.  
When I detailed the UCD/FOCP Quality of Life Task force for the list, he also 
detailed my lies in his brilliant condescending manner to you little people.  
Even when he is not present, he can explain my bad and evil nature to all of 
you because none of you are brilliant like Mr. Tony West-hahaha.

Of course the non-existant but veracious, Karen, confirmed my accounts in 
question.  (You see, Tony knows that all of you are stupid and forgetful.)

And many people out there also confirmed and witnessed the problems with 
SHCA/UCHS behavior as well as the unacceptable "public records" which I linked 
to the list for all to see. 

I do need to apologize and clear the record about one comment I made several 
years ago.  Before I knew Mr. West I once said, "he seems like a pompous ass 
but he can't be as bad as the leaders of FOCP."

I'm very sorry, it was a terrible mistake made in ignorance.  I think we are 
looking at the next President of SHCA/UCHS! 

The dishonest leftist wanker,
Glenn  


-Original Message-
>From: Anthony West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sep 2, 2008 6:35 PM
>To: univcity 
>Subject: [UC] UCHS and SHCA politics (Was: Re: Forwarded from)
>
>Everything Karen writes is veracious. I am a member of UCHS and I do 
>believe the positions taken by the Board of Directors of any civic group 
>should be reported in its newsletters to its members in a timely manner. 
>Maybe I missed that notice -- I'm a sloppy reader of all the newsletters 
>that nestle in my mailslot -- but I didn't notice that announcement.
>
>That is, however, the only "public announcement" any association needs 
>to make about its decisions. Its chief obligation is to its members. 
>Nonmembers who want to know what an association is up to, must either 
>join the association, or ask nicely. Not my rules
>
>Nothing Glenn writes is veracious. He monotonously alleges "secret" 
>conspiracies, of which he never offers evidence. Where are the 
>transcripts? Where are the tapes? Where are the participants with second 
>thoughts who go public on the conspiracy? In this case, they don't exist.
>
>Conspiracy-theory peddlers never lack a market. They appeal to 
>widespread, deeply human concerns. There are conspiracies, after all.
>
>But they are seldom unmasked by conspiracy theorists. True learning 
>requires an open-mindedness that is deeply threatening to those who need 
>life to be cast in stark, angry clashes of black and white. They can't 
>listen to the other side, or even acknowledge its humanity. As a result, 
>they are poor sources of information about everyday life; and the more 
>important the practical issues are, the less reliable are paranoid 
>answers, for most of us.
>
>-- Tony West
>
>
>> I was that "lowly UCHS member" who spoke against Campus Inn at the 
>> first PHC hearing, and I was specifically named in Belynda Stewart's 
>> editorial letter to UC Review, where she made a deliberate point of 
>> saying that I was merely a one-out-of-500 member, and did not speak 
>> for the organization. She then went on to pump up the opinion of 
>> another one-out-of-500 member by stating that the proposal was 
>> supported by a prominent neighborhood Realtor who was also a former 
>> UCHS Board member (as was I, but that somehow didn't get mentioned. 
>> Oddly, the fact that I've served on the boards of a number of 
>> community groups over the past 20 years got left out too).  So reading 
>> between the lines, that didn't sound very neutral to me.
>>  
>> It also seems very odd that there has been NO official public 
>> announcement of the UCHS Board vote against the proposal, which was 
>> announced by an individual Board member testifying at the PCPC hearing 
>> earlier in the summer (but unfortunately, since the PCPC hearing 
>> minutes do not include the text of what the witnesses said, that's not 
>> readily apparant to those who were not in attendance).   
>>  
>> Karen Allen  
>>  
>> > Both SHCA and UCHS leaders betrayed this community and their own 
>> memberships. The gangs' leaders have been secretly colluding with the 
>> Penn team from the beginning, over a year ago, while doing everything 
>> in their power to keep all Penn's plans secret. They were secretly 
>> involved with the initial attempt to demolish the property over a year 
>> ago and continued to cloak the false claims of massive community support.
>> >
>> > Shame, shame, shame!!!
>> >
>> > Mr. Moyer
>
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Re: [UC] A Progressive's point of view post Palin

2008-09-03 Thread Glenn moyer



Thanks.  I read that he had spoken but didn't see it.  I'll look it up.
Isn't he great?
-Original Message- From: Amirah Leslie Naim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Sep 2, 2008 10:58 PM To: univcity@list.purple.com, Glenn moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: Re: [UC] A Progressive's point of view post Palin 



Kucinich have a rousing speech at the DNC.  It was one of my favorite moments!  He brought the house down!--- On Tue, 9/2/08, Glenn moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Glenn moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: [UC] A Progressive's point of view post PalinTo: univcity@list.purple.comDate: Tuesday, September 2, 2008, 4:23 PMFor years, the only presidential candidate who excited my best hopes has been
Congressman Kucinich.  I was given and read Obama’s, The  Audacity of Hope,
when it was first published.

I like him and trust him within the framework of a corporate government.  The
day after the election, it’s time to hold Obama accountable and build a
progressive coalition and progressive party.  The Green party seems like a
possibility to me for now.

The thing is by having a great candidate like Dennis, he’s shown that even
though the failures of the Republican/Democrat corporate ruled government has
successfully made the people ignorant of too much, when the people speak from
the heart they still embrace a progressive agenda.  Whether it’s healthcare,
free speech, rights, or war and peace, the majority agree with Kucinich’s
“progressive” policies.Yet look how the media controlled this election. 
Ouch to reason and sanity!

Alas, now is not the time to focus on the failures of the Democrats.  Like
Dennis, I’m big time for Obama right now.  This Palin, as President
possibility, is insanity upon insanity upon far out insanity!

Get everybody out to vote.  Independents, fiscal conservatives, and the
intelligentsia could easily be complacent for different reasons.  All of us are
probably freaking out over Palin.

This is an important election. Get the people out to vote and they’ll do the
right thing.

Peace, justice, and mother earth,
Glenn


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Re: [UC] UCHS and SHCA politics (Was: Re: Forwarded from)

2008-09-03 Thread Glenn moyer



A Tale of Two Wankers
Leftist Wanker:  All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
President of FOCP: Glenn's a liar liar, pants on fire.  Get out the death ray.  Ray's a liar liar pants on fire.  I am the emporer of Clark Park.  I am the emporer of Clark Park, you stupid people.  It's apples and oranges.  Glenn's a wanker.  Glenn's a wanker.  A horse a horse, my kingdom for a horse
A chorus of wankers:  Alas poor king.  Here is a pony.  Bye bye poor king. Bye-bye.
...a short play by the district intelligentsia
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sep 2, 2008 6:48 PM To: univcity@list.purple.com Subject: Re: [UC] UCHS and SHCA politics (Was: Re: Forwarded from) 
 
 
In a message dated 9/2/2008 6:37:38 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Everything Karen writes is veracious ... Nothing Glenn writes is veracious.
Oh, I think I get it. Something like this?
 

 
Left to right: Karen, Glenn
 
Al Krigmanreminding you that you saw it first, here, on the popu-list
 
 
 
 
 


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[UC] Brave public school children in chicago

2008-09-03 Thread Glenn moyer

These brave children in Chicago are fighting the oppression of poor people 
happening in cities across the nation.  Some may believe that if children want 
to be good children, they should move their families to elite catchment 
districts built to keep them out.

I pray these brave children will be shown mercy from the war contractors and 
police.  Remember '68 Chicago.  


http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h25Dp22bLwMyo-g2MUiwq4f6qX0wD92V02NG0

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[UC] Police, accountability in Inq/Review

2008-09-03 Thread Glenn moyer

Remember after the Republican convention when the police and DA tried to "throw 
away the key" on the kid from West Philadelphia.  He was given a million dollar 
bail.

The city used enormous resources to frame this guy but a judge ultimately threw 
out all charges.  It seemed journalists had video showing that the police 
evidence was false.  

Then we see that the police can kill people and it won't even be investigated.  
These families know that the police will always be innocent of all charges, but 
this city is so corrupt they have to show that they won't even investigate.

They've succeeded. I'm very intimidated.  Domestic spying why not domestic 
torture.  And if mercenaries from brutal dictatorships get to shoot Iraqi 
civilians, why shouldn't Philly's finest have some fun.
 

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_top_stories/20080903_City_police_shootings_get_mired_in_system.html

and this letter in today's review is painful

http://www.weeklypress.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=82&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=853&wpage=&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=2392&hn=weeklypress&he=.com

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[UC] Arresting and beating journalists

2008-09-03 Thread Glenn moyer

The Feds and riot cops are attacking protestors and rounding up journalists at 
the RNC.  Amy Goodman from Democracy Now and two producers have been arrested.  
They are charging the producers with felony riot and one was bloodied.

The AP also reported a photogapher arrested. Fox news had their people embedded 
with the stormtroopers.   They are using rubber bullets and some types of 
firecrackers to hurt protestors ears and cause burns.

They have been doing preemptive raids on activists around the city.  They have 
raided the people who follow protests and document police abuse.

You can watch the You tube video of Amy Goodman's arrest.

Cheri Honkala described the harrassment at area Bushvilles on an interview you 
can check out at democracynow.org.  

The federal regime is forming fusion centers with local police gangs across the 
country.  They are turning local police gangs into their storm troopers and 
spies while giving them a green light to attack justice, peace, and poverty 
activists.  (It happened here in Francisville)

The brutality of this regime has gone beyond the point of no return.  We need 
help from the international community!

Glenn   

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Re: [UC] UCHS and SHCA politics

2008-09-04 Thread Glenn moyer

Literary Analysis of the West Strawman Ad Hominem Technique

Mr West’s post provides an excellent text for analysis of contemporary yellow 
journalism.  Due to the richness of the text, the strawman ad hominem hybrid of 
the first paragraph is examined.

Mr. West begins by assigning false information about Ms. Allen’s post to the 
list.

Cloaked as a mistake, the author of yellow journalism hopes a high percentage 
of readers will accept the substituted false information as fact.  Then, he 
assigns bad intentions and motivations to his target based on his 
self-aggrandized analysis of the false information.  This is the strawman 
portion beginning the text.  Historically, it tended to stimulate a flurry of 
posts on the public list before the barking cheese listserv was created.

Employing a disingenuous civil tone, the technique moves to the ad hominem 
portion of the strategy.

The author portrays the target as lacking control with an intense unfounded 
anger.  The reader is told, that based on Mr. West’s analysis and hidden 
information, Ms. Allen lashes out widely at people disconnected with his 
alliance.  (In this case, University of Penn Real Estate and the corporate 
developers behind the push to change zoning laws.) 

In short, the hope of the ad hominem strategy relies on the reader immediately 
dismissing the target’s opinions and information because of her enormous 
character defects being asserted.  Consequently, the author need not refute 
anything Ms. Allen reports or discusses.

The author’s portrayal of himself is that of a wise and principled teacher.  
His lesson concludes pointing to the target’s unacceptable destructive behavior 
and mental state with awkward disingenuous flattery.  Because of the seeming 
complexity and wisdom of the author’s analysis, he points out that the targets 
wildness is at least honest.  The text:  

Glenn,

Karen didn't "confirm your accounts"; she said she agreed with you.
Karen particularly agrees with you in your intense anger over the 40th &
Pine proposal. She is angry not just at people who oppose her, but at
undecided people who acknowledge both sides of the dispute. It's a
common, if unfortunate, feature of extreme partisanship. I don't think
extreme partisanship is healthy in this issue, but it's possible to hold
strong views in an honest way, as Karen does.


Here is Ms. Allen’s original comment in response to Mr. Moyer’s eyewitness 
accounts.  Mr. West was not in attendance but asserts hidden sources and 
information.

“I agree with everything Glenn says here.”

Why does the professional yelllow journalist employ such fallacious techniques? 
 The strawman ad hominem technique is generally employed when dishonest, 
destructive and unethical objectives are sought.  It is simultaneously 
condescending to readers whom the author views as inferior and hopeful of time 
constraints for analysis and fact checking. Authors of this literary device 
generally employ a vast array of technques collectively known as yellow 
journalism and often become addicted to the process. 

Literary Analysis of the West Strawman Ad Hominem Technique
by Glenn Moyer September 2008 




-Original Message-
>From: Anthony West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sep 3, 2008 10:43 PM
>To: univcity 
>Subject: Re: [UC] UCHS and SHCA politics
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>Glenn,
>
>Karen didn't "confirm your accounts"; she said she agreed with you.
>Karen particularly agrees with you in your intense anger over the 40th &
>Pine proposal. She is angry not just at people who oppose her, but at
>undecided people who acknowledge both sides of the dispute. It's a
>common, if unfortunate, feature of extreme partisanship. I don't think
>extreme partisanship is healthy in this issue, but it's possible to hold
>strong views in an honest way, as Karen does.
>
>Karen listed several points on which she felt she had been dissed by a
>group she is a member of, that inherently owes her some duties. We don't
>have to agree with her take on them, but they were all cogent and
>specific, not embroidered with emotive interpretation.
>
>The problem with your habit of accusing everyone you disagree with of
>being a "conspirator" is that you never adduce any evidence of an actual
>conspiracy. There are many, many reasons why factions disagree with each
>other and conspiracy is seldom the best explanation for either side's
>behavior. With no real evidence, it's just empty partisan rhetoric.
>
>In the case at hand, one could just as easily accuse the anti-hotel
>faction of being a "conspiracy". Clearly it holds private meetings and
>off-line strategy discussions, etc. But that's the way of the world!
>There's nothing wrong with it. Both sides can do it.
>
>To charge a conspiracy without meaningful evidence is untruthful. L

[UC] Small town anger and elite media

2008-09-04 Thread Glenn moyer


It seems quite clear from the performance last night that important issues are 
off the discussion table for the remainder of election season.  The fiscal 
conservatives and Libertarian leaning Republicans are expected to stay silent 
as the Rove machine exploits the worst trends in political discussion.

Any discussion of Palin’s qualifications are going to be called hatred of 
hockey moms, God, and small town America.  Foreign policy discussion is hatred 
and sabotage of war heroes while enabling terrorists.  

I grew up in a small town in central PA, and therefore; offer this insight into 
what is being invoked.

As a child during the sixties and seventies, I was told repeatedly that 
Philadelphia and New York City should be fenced off and blown off the face of 
the earth.  I know the anti-urban hatred of what is called a leftist elite and 
den of welfare queens.  It depends on exploiting fear of outsiders, exploiting 
racism, and ignorance.  Over decades it assisted a suburban middle class flight 
to starve urban centers of resources causing things like the urban suburban 
funding gap for public schools.  This is a vile and terrible way to erect a 
partisan wall against the discussion of issues.

I hope the Libertarians and fiscal conservatives overwhelmingly reject this 
association as the coming weeks unfold.  These conservatives have fiscal 
philosophies as far away from Bush and McCain as I differ on foreign policy 
from the Republocrats.  As far away as I stand from these folks 
philosophically, I never feared and condemned them like I condemn this terrible 
direction for this campaign.  All of us have a lot more to fear than a real 
discussion of funding policies!

If you missed it, watch last night’s show. 



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Re: [UC] FW: Hotel hearing at Planning Commission

2008-09-05 Thread Glenn moyer



>"There have been some design changes to the extended-stay proposal," he 
>said. "They will be presented at that meeting. If the proposal passes 
>that step, then next it will go to the Spruce Hill Zoning Committee."
>

This part must be a mistake.  Mr. Grossbach announced publicly that the Spruce 
Hill zoning gang would recuse itself because a group of neighbors hired an 
attorney.

You know how those conspiracy theorists will be!  Has Mr Datz and the 
development team made some arrangement with the Grossbach gang which has not 
been announced to the SHCA members and the public?  The recusal was made before 
a large assembly of the public from the community.

If SHCA wanted to retain a shred of respect in the community, they would 
certainly first need to announce new dealings with the developers publicly such 
as in the UC Review.  People with whom I've spoken have lost a great deal of 
respect for the SHCA organization because of the previous backroom dealing 
uncovered to date.

Do you see why Mr. Datz must have made a mistake?  I'm sure Mr. Datz knows that 
te proposal will be quickly approved at the PCPC.  I don't think that part is 
really in question.

Citizen journalist,
Mr. Moyer

-Original Message-
>From: Anthony West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sep 4, 2008 4:32 PM
>To: UnivCity listserv 
>Subject: Re: [UC] FW: Hotel hearing at Planning Commission
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>Ed Datz of the U. Penn real-estate office confirmed this at the First 
>Thursday meeting today.
>
>"There have been some design changes to the extended-stay proposal," he 
>said. "They will be presented at that meeting. If the proposal passes 
>that step, then next it will go to the Spruce Hill Zoning Committee."
>
>-- Tony West
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>> I have it from a reliable source that:
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>> * The Campus Inn discussion has been postponed until September 16.
>> * A criticism of the traffic study was submitted by the Woodland
>>   Terrace attorney and is being distributed to all members of the
>>   commission.
>>
>>   *Al Krigman*
>>   reminding you that you read it first, here, on the */popu-list/*
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[UC] Distrust of city policies in Inq

2008-09-05 Thread Glenn moyer

People following the pay to play government and Campus Inn may find this 
article interesting.  The one lawyer suggests that average Philadelphians don't 
trust the process-hahaha.  Deputy mayor and PCPC commissioner, Altman, doesn't 
get it.

This clown Altman doesn't understand that the false records he approved as PCPC 
commissioner show the basic contempt the government real estate speculators 
have for the average Philadelphian. In order for the city to be trusted, 
someone needs to apologize for falsifying records to gaurd the pay to play 
system.

Someone like Altman or the Mayor needs to take a stand and work to stop the 
cities policies of falsifying records.  All this Altman seems to see are the 
dollar signs.  He seems clueless about the need for integrity, honesty and 
accurate records to give confidence in the process.  He only seems to focus on 
how devvelopers need to circumvent the dreaded NIMBY!

http://www.philly.com/philly/business/homepage/20080905_Philadelphia_development_panel_discusses_distrust.html

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[UC] SHCA question for Mr. Datz

2008-09-05 Thread Glenn moyer

"Ed Datz of the U. Penn real-estate office confirmed this at the First 
Thursday meeting today.

"There have been some design changes to the extended-stay proposal," he
said. "They will be presented at that meeting. If the proposal passes 
that step, then next it will go to the Spruce Hill Zoning Committee."

-- Tony West"



Dear Mr. Datz,

I had given up on the published contact info for the Spruce Hill Civic 
Association.  It took over four months for your hard working volunteer, Mr. 
Barry Grossbach, to provide a confirmation that false testimony to a government 
commission should be swept under the rug.  

I am publishing this request to a public listserv so that Tom can forward it to 
you.  In the future, may I conduct business with the Spruce Hill Civic 
Association directly with you?  If not, could you assign a University attorney 
to be a liaison to the community for SHCA business?

Please understand, I take a lot of mean criticism for annoying the hard working 
low functioning volunteers about times, dates, and locations of things.  I was 
even told to commit suicide.

Here is my question.  Can you provide me the date that the Woodland Tr. Group 
withdrew its opposition to the Campus Inn and discharged their attorney?

Your field worker, Mr Barry Grossbach, made a public statement in February that 
the SHCA would remain uninvolved with the Campus Inn since an attorney had been 
retained by a respectable ad hoc neighborhood collection of citizens.  

I often cannot come to the Thursday University of Pennsylvania meeting at 8 AM 
or the 8AM Penn Praxis meeting to conduct Spruce Hill Civic Association 
business with you.  If Tom could hand deliver to my home, the Woodland Tr. 
Group’s official request to place the Campus Inn before the SHCA; I would 
appreciate it

If Mr. Grossbach was not authorized to recuse the zoning committee in February, 
which you and I witnessed, could you have Tom deliver a copy of your reprimand 
and the results of your internal SHCA investigation.  You see, many of the 
local troublemakers don’t trust your hard working volunteers at your SHCA.

Back me up Ed, I’ve been telling the good people that your staff has been in 
charge of SHCA for a long time.  Help me calm their fears.

I want you to know that I am looking forward to future dealings with the Spruce 
Hill zoning committee under your leadership.  I want to talk to you about 
setting up an upscale bar at the next May Fair.  I just came up with a new 
upscale specialty drink with anointed vodka, "The Dirty Little Whore."

Thank you very much,
Glenn, the leftist wanker, Moyer




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Re: [UC] Distrust of city policies in Inq

2008-09-05 Thread Glenn moyer



"Whew! talk about the vision of the anointed! Altman's quote suggets he's upset that the Unisys sign was turned down.
Or am I misreading it? "
 
No Al.  You're a very good reader.  
That's our Deputy mayor and current or former PCPC Commissioner.  What do you expect from a man who doesn't value honest record keeping? 
Glenn
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sep 5, 2008 1:12 PM To: UnivCity@list.purple.com Subject: Re: [UC] Distrust of city policies in Inq Whew! talk about the vision of the anointed! Altman's quote suggets he's upset that the Unisys sign 
 
 
In a message dated 9/5/2008 12:39:25 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://www.philly.com/philly/business/homepage/20080905_Philadelphia_development_panel_discusses_distrust.html
 
Whew! talk about the vision of the anointed! Altman's quote suggets he's upset that the Unisys sign was turned down.
 
Or am I misreading it?

 
Always at your service & ready for a dialog,Al Krigman -- 36-year local resident, housing provider, curmudgeon, and all-around crank,


It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here.

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RE: [UC] Distrust of city policies in Inq

2008-09-06 Thread Glenn moyer



"Furthermore, this sign decision is a positive indication that the fix isn't always in and that the Nutter administration does care about public process.  It may not always get it right, but it is trying to move in the right direction."
 
With the greatest respect for you Andy and other city employees, NO; you are not correct about this.  This is important and I’d like to take the time to explain.
 
A comparison between public hearings and healthcare research will make the point.  I spent many years in that field.
 
If a researcher is presenting his findings and detailing an elaborate comprehensive research design, when a group of his peers shout out, “you falsified your data;”---
 
The presentation will stop.  All value for the study and the researcher’s findings and conclusions is gone.  It’s like building a skyscraper on quick sand; it won’t stand.  
 
Mr. Altman is not moving towards a fair understandable process for transparent city planning.  He is/was a commissioner for the PCPC.  He attended the May 20th , public hearing, attended by dozens of our neighbors.  The public record of that meeting has been falsified and then offered to the public.  Mr. Altman has responsibility for those false records, that false data.
 
The Philadelphia Historic Commission also offers a false record of public hearings.  I witnessed the PHC refuse to allow one of our neighbors to make an independent record of a public hearing asserting interchangeably that “transcripts” or “minutes” are produced.
 
At this point, we move beyond the assumption of complete incompetence in developing this falsification of records system.  Now, we have a system that seems designed to cover-up wrongdoing and backroom deals because these commissions actively interfere with citizen efforts to bring forth truth and transparency.  It is unclear if Andrew would have been arrested had he recorded the event.
 
Most Philadelphians cannot attend these hearings nor maintain notes during long delays such as the delay between PCPC hearings, May 20 and September 16.  Honest and accurate public records allow the only possibility that the process can be transparent and respected by all Philadelphians.  The Levy/Altman panel being reported had no value other than as deceptive propaganda.
 
How empowered do our neighbors feel as citizens when they read the false records of a proceeding they witnessed personally?
 
After almost two hours, I gave exact quotes of false testimony, exact dates, and the location where the actual tape of the PHC hearing was located.  In the false PCPC record, all of this was removed.  In fact, I, a citizen, was completely eliminated from the public record.  I am invisible.   My presence in the room was not recorded because I wasn't part of the group with an attorney.
 
It is not believable that Mr. Altman wants to create a fair and transparent process.  While the public is already disempowered at the hands of our city government, this “reform” can only be interpreted as an attempt to completely eliminate any public participation in the planning process and eliminate any remaining safeguards against ruthless corporate power unleashed in backroom pay to play deals. 
 
Do you see why Mayor Nutter’s June 17 speech is viewed as a series of platitudes? 
 
 This rhetoric is not believable.  The Mayor wants to vastly increase power to a PCPC which has zero credibility.  False public records of public hearings are as basic a problem as falsifying data in healthcare research!!  The skyscraper on quick stand does not stand!
 
That is far from the correct or ethical direction for this city government.  Thanks for your attention.
 
Respectfully,
Glenn
-Original Message- From: Andy Frishkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Sep 5, 2008 5:52 PM To: Glenn moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], univcity@list.purple.com Subject: RE: [UC] Distrust of city policies in Inq 

Actually, I think you are misreading it.  Limited inside knowledge here, but my understanding is that the City wants Unisys to locates its jobs here and the economic development agencies responsible for assisting Unisys were willing to support the sign since Unisys made it a requirement.  The economic development agencies are disappointed that Unisys may follow through on its threat not to locate here, not that the sign was rejected.   Furthermore, this sign decision is a positive indication that the fix isn't always in and that the Nutter administration does care about public process.  It may not always get it right, but it is trying to move in the right direction.Andy 

Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 14:44:28 -0400From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; UnivCity@list.purple.comSubject: Re: [UC] Distrust of city policies in Inq

"Whew! talk about the vision of the anointed! Altman's quote suggets he's upset that the Unisys sign was turned down.Or am I misreading it? " No Al.  You're a very good reader.  T

Re: [UC] PennPraxis and 40th St.

2008-09-06 Thread Glenn moyer

>Anthony West wrote:
>
>> PennPraxis facilitates a regular monthly forum at which neighbors who
>> are either for or against the hotel proposal can communicate and learn.
>> This is not a panacea, but running meetings is PennPraxis' chief stock
>> in trade. If regular public meetings can't help your faction, then yes,
>> PennPraxis hasn't helped it and can't help it. It's not a sort of
>> Planning Police, if that's what you have in mind.

Ray,

You might not know how funny this is!  At 8AM, Penn Praxis holds these "regular 
forums" at the old folks home.  Nurses wheel down their clients for donuts.  As 
Praxis and Tom do the blah-blah, the folks take naps in their wheel chairs and 
the nurses get to go out for a smoke.  Once Praxis shuts up, the folks get to 
socialize a bit before they're wheeled away.  

(I made a mad dash for the door because the Penn cop was giving me the eye 
after I called Tom's drawings deceptive.  They had that drawing where the teeny 
weeny 10 story building was hiding behind the gigantic 3 story historic 
building.)

People don't think Penn Praxis does anything useful.  These geriatric socials 
are very important for the well being of these folks.  It's meant to make a 
pretense of public engagement for Penn but luckily both the low paid nurses and 
old folks get some donuts, coffee, and a little group nap.

>> If the people who show up at Friends of 40th St. meetings frequently
>> express concern about the hotel proposal, then PennPraxis would likely
>> record it in some way. By the same token, if nobody ever mentions
>> opposition at any of  these regular meetings, that too becomes a datum
>> -- a way to measure public opinion. No one owns a copyright to the
>> phrase "the neighbors", after all.
>> 

Hahaha.  There are no little green men collecting datums for Penn Praxis.  
Besides the sleeping old folks, it looks like a used car salesman convention at 
these "forums."  This whole process Mr. West describes in detail and the little 
alien data collectors are just something in Mr. West's head-hahaha!

Citizen journalist,
Glenn

-Original Message-
>From: UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sep 6, 2008 1:48 AM
>To: ucityList 
>Subject: Re: [UC] PennPraxis and 40th St.
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>Anthony West wrote:
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>> PennPraxis facilitates a regular monthly forum at which neighbors who
>> are either for or against the hotel proposal can communicate and learn.
>> This is not a panacea, but running meetings is PennPraxis' chief stock
>> in trade. If regular public meetings can't help your faction, then yes,
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>> express concern about the hotel proposal, then PennPraxis would likely
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>> opposition at any of  these regular meetings, that too becomes a datum
>> -- a way to measure public opinion. No one owns a copyright to the
>> phrase "the neighbors", after all.
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>> As for UCHS -- didn't Karen recently mention that one of its board
>> members testified to its opposition to the hotel proposal at some public
>> hearing? That sounds like help for the anti-hotel faction. It was clear
>> she had wanted even more help. But that doesn't mean it didn't help.
>> 
>> SHCA helps both sides as well as the ZBA by providing a Zoning
>> Committee. An organization that acted without a report from its Zoning
>> Committee would seem impetuous and unreliable. In a long game, one needs
>> a closer as well as an opener.
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Re: [UC] PennPraxis and 40th St.

2008-09-07 Thread Glenn moyer

Well this NIMBY hasn't been put in his place so forcefully since Mr. West's 
last post.

"as a matter of fact, anyone can read all about 
>penn's proposed hotel, in great detail, in the meeting 
>minutes posted on the friends of 40th street website. just 
>click on all the recent links there:"

Unfortunately, it appears that Tony's little green men have delivered the 
massive hotel data to the PCPC, Penn City Planning commission.  It's in the 
secret backroom file marked, "Unanimous Community Support of The Campus Inn by 
Penn Praxis."

Another NIMBY Wanker,
Glenn



-Original Message-
>From: UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sep 6, 2008 10:05 PM
>To: univcity 
>Subject: Re: [UC] PennPraxis and 40th St.
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>Glenn moyer wrote:
>>> Anthony West wrote:
>>>> PennPraxis facilitates a regular monthly forum at
>>>> which neighbors who are either for or against the
>>>> hotel proposal can communicate and learn. This is not
>>>> a panacea, but running meetings is PennPraxis' chief
>>>> stock in trade. If regular public meetings can't help
>>>> your faction, then yes, PennPraxis hasn't helped it
>>>> and can't help it. It's not a sort of Planning
>>>> Police, if that's what you have in mind.
>> 
>> 
>> Ray,
>> 
>> You might not know how funny this is!  At 8AM, Penn
>> Praxis holds these "regular forums" at the old folks
>> home.  Nurses wheel down their clients for donuts.  As
>> Praxis and Tom do the blah-blah, the folks take naps in
>> their wheel chairs and the nurses get to go out for a
>> smoke.  Once Praxis shuts up, the folks get to socialize
>> a bit before they're wheeled away.
>> 
>> (I made a mad dash for the door because the Penn cop was
>> giving me the eye after I called Tom's drawings
>> deceptive.  They had that drawing where the teeny weeny
>> 10 story building was hiding behind the gigantic 3 story
>> historic building.)
>> 
>> People don't think Penn Praxis does anything useful.
>> These geriatric socials are very important for the well
>> being of these folks.  It's meant to make a pretense of
>> public engagement for Penn but luckily both the low paid
>> nurses and old folks get some donuts, coffee, and a
>> little group nap.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>>> If the people who show up at Friends of 40th St.
>>>> meetings frequently express concern about the hotel
>>>> proposal, then PennPraxis would likely record it in
>>>> some way. By the same token, if nobody ever mentions 
>>>> opposition at any of  these regular meetings, that
>>>> too becomes a datum -- a way to measure public
>>>> opinion. No one owns a copyright to the phrase "the
>>>> neighbors", after all.
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>> Hahaha.  There are no little green men collecting datums
>> for Penn Praxis.  Besides the sleeping old folks, it
>> looks like a used car salesman convention at these
>> "forums."  This whole process Mr. West describes in
>> detail and the little alien data collectors are just
>> something in Mr. West's head-hahaha!
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>I'm sorry, glenn, but penn praxis and friends of 40th street 
>are NOT mere window dressing! they're NOT shams! the people 
>who attend them are WELL-INFORMED and WIDE AWAKE at 8 am! 
>just ask al! as a matter of fact, anyone can read all about 
>penn's proposed hotel, in great detail, in the meeting 
>minutes posted on the friends of 40th street website. just 
>click on all the recent links there:
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>http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/local/40th//reference.html
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>furthermore, glenn, uchs and shca have been extraordinarily 
>helpful to the neighbors in their opposition to this 
>proposed hotel! for one thing, uchs and shca knew about the 
>hotel plans back in april 2007, long before the public knew 
>about it in oct 2007 when uc review first published the 
>story. that was helpful! and ever since then, uchs and shca 
>have silently witnessed false testimony at the phc and pcpc 
>hearings -- without saying a word! that, too, was enormously 
>helpful! in addition, uchs and shca have held numerous 
>public meetings where the overwhelming public opposition to 
>the hotel was demonstrated, and, true to their missions, 
>uchs and shca have upheld and championed their constituents' 
>mandate to oppose the hotel. that was above and beyond helpful!
>
>and not only that, glenn, but ucd has been very visible and 
>vocal in

Re: [UC] PennPraxis and 40th St.

2008-09-07 Thread Glenn moyer

and who are easily 
>frightened by security officers,

I read a story once about a young kid who was killed running away from cops.  
His mother said he was terrified of cops since they had beaten him up and 
framed him.

Tony, will you sing this song with me at the next Praxis meeting to help ease 
the fears of NIMBY wankers?
 

I love Penn cops
I love Penn cops
Why don't you 
Why don't you
They only shoot the bad guys
Only shoot the bad guys
Whoopsie do
Whoopsie do


-Original Message-
>From: Anthony West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sep 6, 2008 6:56 PM
>To: ucityList 
>Subject: Re: [UC] PennPraxis and 40th St.
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>This community room is used as meeting space by various groups. 
>Collectively, any people from around the community attend these groups' 
>meetings there. A meeting in a senior residence hall is as normal as one 
>in a church hall or a school auditorium.
>
>I don't think the presence of senior citizens at a public meeting is a 
>fit subject for ridicule. Contemptuous, dismissive jokes about their 
>health, etc. aren't funny. More importantly, they don't invalidate the 
>meeting. Public meetings should make it easier, not harder, for seniors 
>with activity limitations to attend.
>
>Community members who insist on old-folk-free venues, and who are easily 
>frightened by security officers, probably should steer clear of this 
>venue. Most people find it's a convenient, well-equipped meeting space.
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>-- Tony West
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>Glenn moyer wrote:
>> You might not know how funny this is!  At 8AM, Penn Praxis holds these 
>> "regular forums" at the old folks home.  Nurses wheel down their clients for 
>> donuts.  As Praxis and Tom do the blah-blah, the folks take naps in their 
>> wheel chairs and the nurses get to go out for a smoke.  Once Praxis shuts 
>> up, the folks get to socialize a bit before they're wheeled away.  
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>> (I made a mad dash for the door because the Penn cop was giving me the eye 
>> after I called Tom's drawings deceptive.  They had that drawing where the 
>> teeny weeny 10 story building was hiding behind the gigantic 3 story 
>> historic building.)
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Re: [UC] PennPraxis and 40th St.

2008-09-07 Thread Glenn moyer

>I don't think the presence of senior citizens at a public meeting is a 
>fit subject for ridicule. Contemptuous, dismissive jokes about their 
>health, etc. aren't funny. More importantly, they don't invalidate the 
>meeting. Public meetings should make it easier, not harder, for seniors 
>with activity limitations to attend.


I wasn't making fun of seniors-hahaha.  I was making fun of you, your 
propaganda, and Praxis. 

I guess others could fault me for "contemptuous dismissive jokes" about someone 
with mental health issues but it's so much fun.

And the wankers on the UC-list needed to understand why Tom and Praxis never 
give "public forums" except at Penn's tightly controlled 8AM meeting and at the 
geriatric donut social surrounded by armed Penn coppers.

Citizen journalist clarifying yellow propaganda,
Honest and satirical Mr. Moyer  




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>From: Anthony West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sep 6, 2008 6:56 PM
>To: ucityList 
>Subject: Re: [UC] PennPraxis and 40th St.
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>This community room is used as meeting space by various groups. 
>Collectively, any people from around the community attend these groups' 
>meetings there. A meeting in a senior residence hall is as normal as one 
>in a church hall or a school auditorium.
>
>I don't think the presence of senior citizens at a public meeting is a 
>fit subject for ridicule. Contemptuous, dismissive jokes about their 
>health, etc. aren't funny. More importantly, they don't invalidate the 
>meeting. Public meetings should make it easier, not harder, for seniors 
>with activity limitations to attend.
>
>Community members who insist on old-folk-free venues, and who are easily 
>frightened by security officers, probably should steer clear of this 
>venue. Most people find it's a convenient, well-equipped meeting space.
>
>-- Tony West
>
>
>Glenn moyer wrote:
>> You might not know how funny this is!  At 8AM, Penn Praxis holds these 
>> "regular forums" at the old folks home.  Nurses wheel down their clients for 
>> donuts.  As Praxis and Tom do the blah-blah, the folks take naps in their 
>> wheel chairs and the nurses get to go out for a smoke.  Once Praxis shuts 
>> up, the folks get to socialize a bit before they're wheeled away.  
>>
>> (I made a mad dash for the door because the Penn cop was giving me the eye 
>> after I called Tom's drawings deceptive.  They had that drawing where the 
>> teeny weeny 10 story building was hiding behind the gigantic 3 story 
>> historic building.)
>
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Re: [UC] PennPraxis and 40th St.

2008-09-09 Thread Glenn moyer

So, are you for more meetings or against more meetings? Take a stand, 
>concisely. More meetings, or no more meetings?
>
>-- Tony West
>

These "regular meetings" never have agenda items publicly announced in advance. 
 These are not the "public forums" you are pretending.  Scheduled at 8 AM, it 
is ridiculous to contend that it is the duty of community members to dutifully 
attend all of these meetings for the anointed to catch Lussenhop.

The one time he was caught and the geriatric social was announced a day or two 
in advance in the UC review, Lussenhop didin't show!!!  He showed up next time 
at 8 AM.

Why must community members attend all monthly 8AM, tightly controlled dog and 
pony shows, or lose their chance at voicing their views or asking questions?  
It's absurd when Lussenhop could announce any real public forum which he wants 
to assert.

Oh yes, Lussenhop does assert that there "have been lots of meetings"

The one time he was caught by the community, he was told to shove his Campus 
Inn where the sun don't shine.

Sorry West old boy, you need the barking cheese gang to back you up with the 
death ray.  Without them, you're just a wanker up the creek without a paddle.

A trusted citizen journalist,
Mr. Moyer




-Original Message-
>From: Anthony West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sep 8, 2008 6:34 PM
>To: University City List 
>Subject: Re: [UC] PennPraxis and 40th St.
>
>He had about 20 minutes. That's a lot at First Thursday, because the 
>agenda is always packed.
>
>No way a development of this scale can be resolved in any one 20-minute 
>presentation. Thus -- more meetings are needed, many more.
>
>So, are you for more meetings or against more meetings? Take a stand, 
>concisely. More meetings, or no more meetings?
>
>-- Tony West
>
>
>> "It was a long First Thursday meeting, packed with agenda items, and 
>> Tom had only a few minutes to make his presentation." -- Melani Lamond
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[UC] Pop goes the weasel

2008-09-09 Thread Glenn moyer

Pop Goes the Weasel or Penn Sugar Frosted Community Engagement 


Citizen 1: Hey, there’s Tom hiding behind that old dude in the wheel chair.  

Citizen 2: No, no, there he is at the Spruce Hill Civic Association anointing.  
No wait, that’s him hiding with the Anointed Historical society in the slime at 
the Horn and Hardart!  

Citizen 3: Tom’s meeting everywhere and nowhere at all!

All Citizens: Pop goes the weasel!  Pop goes the weasel! Pop goes the weasel!



A concise illumination of the Tom/Tony meeting strategy for Campus Inn,

The Wanker
PS.  As I sit here in the free world looking at beautiful lake Ontario, I 
couldn’t motivate myself to wank with Mr. West until now.  Sorry for the 
wanking delay.


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Re: [UC] PennPraxis and 40th St, 1st Thurs.

2008-09-10 Thread Glenn moyer

the office could be more
> effective with greater resources. The timing of the first
> Thursday monthly meeting at 8 a.m. prohibits many people
> from attending, particularly residents who have school-age
> children to attend to. The committee recommends that more
> resources should be provided to this office so that it can
> hold more than one meeting a month, advertise it more widely
> and develop alternative strategies to inform the public. In
> addition there is an impression that while the University
> does seek community opinion on new initiatives, in fact in
> most cases the key decisions have already been made and the
> University is unlikely to reverse them.

Yes, the committee's report is pretty good despite seeking info from Melani.

Many people do not realize that this meeting was conducted for years as 
invitation only.  It was designed for the anointed only.

When I founded the Clark Park Music and Arts Coommunity, I tried to work 
collabaratively with this Penn office.  I took the University at its word and I 
put forward several proposals based on Penn's initiatives.  Specifically, 
retaining students in the city and constructive engagement with the rich 
cultural and artistic assets in this community.

I asked on a few occasions to present to the anointed at this first Thursday 
meeting because I foolishly hoped for a constructive relationship with them.  I 
was not permitted and instead presented to Melani's group, the UCCC, in an 
attempt to work with the anointed.

I don't know when they decided to allow other members of the public attend this 
1st Thursday dog and pony show.

After Councilman Blackwell blasted UCD and Penn, Penn Real Estate sent their 
people like Andrew Zitcer to watch Bryan from the back of the room.

I went to one more of these things directly after UCD's violation of the law 
was the topic.  Penn real estate so obviously tightened this dog and pony show 
that there was no reason to spend that much time surrounded by the anointed.

They post their report in the Review but never the agenda in advance.  It is 
not intended as community outreach by the U.  It is part of the courtship with 
the anointed, as privledged anointed, allowed to support the Penn agenda.

glenn

-Original Message-
>From: UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sep 10, 2008 1:47 AM
>To: univcity 
>Subject: Re: [UC] PennPraxis and 40th St.
>
>Glenn moyer wrote:
>> These "regular meetings" never have agenda items publicly
>> announced in advance. These are not the "public forums" you
>> are pretending. Scheduled at 8 AM, it is ridiculous to
>> contend that it is the duty of community members to
>> dutifully attend all of these meetings for the anointed to
>> catch Lussenhop.
>>  
>> The one time he was caught and the geriatric social was
>> announced a day or two in advance in the UC review,
>> Lussenhop didin't show!!! He showed up next time at 8 AM.
>> 
>> Why must community members attend all monthly 8AM, tightly
>> controlled dog and pony shows, or lose their chance at
>> voicing their views or asking questions? It's absurd when
>> Lussenhop could announce any real public forum which he
>> wants to assert.
>
>
>
>'first thursday' meetings were evaluated back in 2004
>
>http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/v50/n23/comm_relations.html
>
>
>> This report represents the findings of the Committee on
>> Community Relations for the Fall semester 2003
>> 
>> Does the community need a watchdog for University real
>> estate activities?
>> 
>> To explore the feasibility of a watchdog role for our
>> committee, we first sought input from the community on this
>> issue. We met with Ms. Melani Lamond, the secretary (an
>> elected office) of the University City Community Council
>> (UCCC). This group is an umbrella organization of University
>> City neighborhood organizations and special interest groups,
>> including Cedar Park Neighbors, Garden Court Community
>> Association, Walnut Hill Community Association, Powelton
>> Village Civic Association, Saunders Park Neighbors, Squirrel
>> Hill Community Association, and a few other groups. The UCCC
>> is comprised of the presidents of the individual
>> organizations in order to provide one strong group that
>> could give advice, share expertise, and build consensus. Ms.
>> Lamond is also an Associate Broker at Urban & Bye Realtor, a
>> University City real estate office. Ms. Lamond shared with
>> us some issues that had been contentious between the
>> community and the University but felt that, in general, the
>> community, or at least those members who are activ

Re: [UC] The truth about the 'old folks home' (Was: Re: PennPraxis and 40th St.)

2008-09-11 Thread Glenn moyer

>It's actually worse than that. There is no "old folks home." There is no 
>"nursing home." There are no nurses. The description Glenn wrote below 
>is a falsehood -- a complete fabrication -- a figment of Glenn's 
>imagination.
>
>University Square Apartments is a subsidized-rent facility consisting 
>entirely of separate apartments. "75% of our units are for seniors and 
>25% for handicapped residents," said University Square Services Director 
>Marc Desir. "So you will see a lot of wheelchairs in the building. But 
>all our residents are living independently. There are no nurses, no 
>aides or other physical-care providers."
>
>500 neighbors live at University Square. They are active in the 
>community and they regularly participate in local affairs.
>
>It is always wise to assume nothing Glenn says about any meeting 
>anywhere -- or any people at the meeting -- is true, without independent 
>confirmation.
>
>-- Tony West
>

You've got to love or be frightened by the lengths West goes to attack his 
targets' character.  I hope he didn't frighten Mr. Desir with one of his 
breathless outbursts!  

West and Siano continue trying to prove my bad character by making up 
disrespect for the elderly-hahaha.  Because these two believe in their superior 
abilities over other list members, readers are asked to believe that my 
comments have been a mean demand to exclude the elderly from "community 
discussions"  Hahaha.

As the Penn committee reported about the first Thursday meeting, these 8AM 
Praxis meetings (dog and pony shows) are not designed for the vast majority of 
people in the community!

Most list reader's understand that Glenn's point is that the elderly are being 
used as Praxis attempts to dishonestly claim a process for "community 
engagement."  Of course, the facility would be fine for a 7 PM announced 
community forum.  But Praxis does not want that.  

Once you've witnessed the Penn operatives claim that such 8AM meetings were 
open community forums, most people would understand that the entire purpose is 
future deception.

Consider:  How many of our neighbors would go to a regular 8AM dog and pony 
show for which the agenda is kept secret?  No one, of course.  It's easy to 
understand why Praxis needs a "captive audience."  When a weasel pops in with a 
hotel sales pitch, the community at large has no way to discover it in advance.

As I uncloak this "Friends of 40th St" charade, West and Siano cannot defend 
Penn's "community engagement" so this is the straw man ad hominem tactic to 
which they always return.  

(Speak of respect- Remember how Siano was part of the barking cheese gang 
having perverse pleasure when the homeless man was murdered on 49th.  Several 
list members asked the cheesehead gang to stop as they kept going.  Yet it is 
my observation of the unethical use of the elderly which is called evidence of 
bad character and lack of respect?) 

As the Penn committee also observed about the other 8AM dog and pony show, the 
Penn business plan is preconceived.  Praxis has absolutely no interest in the 
participation of the elderly any more than the participation from any of us. To 
Praxis, these people are simply compliant bodies. 

As to West's wanking-  You folks don't need me to explain that personal care 
assistants are often referred to as nurses.  And an independent living facility 
is different from the traditional nursing home with the availability of 24 hour 
medical care.

I helped a neighbor who referred to himself as a nurse.  I worked in that 
building for a short time.  West's "got him" is not so exciting as his breaking 
news of committeeman7 and voteforandytoyy.

Hope everyone enjoys all the wanking,
Glenn   

-Original Message-
>From: Anthony West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sep 10, 2008 4:16 PM
>To: ucityList 
>Subject: [UC] The truth about the 'old folks home' (Was: Re: PennPraxis and 
>40th St.)
>
>
>Brian Siano wrote:
>> And some people even manage to endure being around the nursing-home 
>> residents whom Glenn finds so comical and amusing.
>
>Glenn moyer wrote:
>> At 8AM, Penn Praxis holds these "regular forums" at the old folks home.  
>> Nurses wheel down their clients for donuts.  As Praxis and Tom do the 
>> blah-blah, the folks take naps in their wheel chairs and the nurses get to 
>> go out for a smoke.  Once Praxis shuts up, the folks get to socialize a bit 
>> before they're wheeled away.  
>>
>> (I made a mad dash for the door because the Penn cop was giving me the eye 
>> after I called Tom's drawings deceptive.  They had that drawing where the 
>> teeny weeny 10 story building wa

Re: [UC] The truth about the 'old folks home'

2008-09-12 Thread Glenn moyer

>The real problem, Glenn, is your consistent disrespect for the truth, 
>not for the elderly. You invent things that never happened, and then try 
>to pass them off as reality with audiences you think might not be in a 
>position to know better.

With consideration for list members, I will sing this song rather than wanking 
with Mr West:

For the benefit of Mr. West

For the benefit of Mr. West
there will be a secret show at 8AM
Tommy-boy will all be there
Late of Pablo Fanques fair, what a scene
Over wheelchairs, horses, hoops and garters
and lastly through a hogshead of real fire
In this way Mr. West will challenge the world.

The celebrated Mr. West
performs his feats secretly at Clark Park
Tommy-boy will dance and sing
as Mr. West flies through the ring, don't be late
Belynda and Barry assure the public
their production will be second to none
And of course Henry the horse dances the waltz...

-Original Message-
>From: Anthony West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sep 11, 2008 8:59 PM
>To: ucityList 
>Subject: Re: [UC] The truth about the 'old folks home'
>
>The real problem, Glenn, is your consistent disrespect for the truth, 
>not for the elderly. You invent things that never happened, and then try 
>to pass them off as reality with audiences you think might not be in a 
>position to know better.
>
>Many readers on this list know better about University Square Apts., 
>though. It's been around for a long time. Your words are false and your 
>tales unreliable. That's what counts.
>
>-- Tony West
>
>
>Glenn wrote:
>> West and Siano continue trying to prove my bad character by making up 
>> disrespect for the elderly-hahaha.  Because these two believe in their 
>> superior abilities over other list members, readers are asked to believe 
>> that my comments have been a mean demand to exclude the elderly from 
>> "community discussions"  Hahaha.
>>   
>
>
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[UC] The Brakeman article, reform

2008-09-12 Thread Glenn moyer

Neighbors,

Brakeman’s article gives much greater detail about this “development" or 
"reform" panel than the initial Inq. coverage.

http://www.weeklypress.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=1&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=863&wpage=&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=2392&hn=weeklypress&he=.com


It seems quite clear that the reform of city government that we have heard so 
much about means burying the pay to play system deeper.

While there is no responsible process to provide transparency for  proposed 
developments now, these planners, Altman/Levy, are giving voice to the 
“processaholic” nonsense which we saw on the list.

Whether a citizen has gotten bogus trash tickets, encountered the police or 
injustice system, or been mistreated in some other way by the city, all 
Philadelphians know viscerally that city hall is broken.   

Increasingly, the damned civic associations are being cited as the reason that 
the pay to play system needs to be buried deeper.  I’ve noticed that the 
general public is being lumped in with the contemptible gangs like UCHS and 
SHCA.  Instead of rejecting the civic gangs’ contemptible agendas, these 
plutocrats are making a pitch to remove transparency and the public from the 
process.  The “city experts” who currently falsify public records now seek to 
conduct secret business with developers in the comfort of locked backrooms.

A fair and transparent public process is not a terrible burden for developers 
or citizens.  In fact, all sides would benefit and be able to trust a fair 
process whether they prevail or not.  But read the comments from Altman closely.

There is no mention of fixing the Dept of streets, taxes, police, etc. by 
instituting time tested reforms and processes like accurate public records 
throughout city hall.  It’s all about approving developments faster and more 
secretly than already occurs.  Lumping citizens in with these damned civic 
gangs and creating the image of process as processaholism cannot be ignored.

Altman and Levy want an all out plutocracy.  Like the "fight for freedom and 
democracy," we better look at their intended “reforms” rather than the 
mountains of bull before it is too late.

Citizen journalist and citizen of Philadelphia,
Glenn
PS:  It's refreshing to read a report from a competent journalist like 
Brakeman.  


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[UC] Correcting the record, I lied

2008-09-12 Thread Glenn moyer

When I published the lyrics of, "For the Benefit Of Mr. West," I shamelessly 
lied about the last line of this stanza.  See the correction below.  The vile 
and unforgivable lie appears at the end.

The celebrated Mr. West
performs his feats secretly at Clark Park
Tommy's boys will dance and sing
as Mr. West flies through the ring, don't be late
Belynda and Barry assure the public
their production will be second to none
And of course Hardy the horse dances the waltz...
Filthy lie: (And of course Henry the horse dances the waltz...)



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[UC] Detroiting of Phila and PHC

2008-09-13 Thread Glenn moyer

This op-ed in the current UC Review will be of interest to those of you 
confused about the historic designation proposal put forward by the SHCA and 
UCHS on behalf of the "community."

Opponents warned that the massive power placed in the Philadelphia Historic 
Commission would not give any protection to "historic assets" in the 
neighborhood.  Instead the power would be used by Campus Inn supporters, such 
as SHCA and UCHS leaders, to force working class and fixed income neighbors out 
of the neighborhood.

The key in this report is the refusal of the corrupt PHC to contact the people 
organized with an appliication to protect the buildings.  It doesn't matter 
whether the buildings should have been ultimately demolished for the parking 
lot.

The "incomplete application" reason provided for the PHC conduct is the key.  
It's such a pathetically lame justification for the pay to play system that it 
arrogantly insults our itelligence.

I'd like to thank Al for putting up with the constant ad homiem abuse and 
having the courage to lead opposition against this UCHS and SHCA proposal.  
This report shows that the opponents were correct.


http://www.weeklypress.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=97&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=858&wpage=&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=2392&hn=weeklypress&he=.com

Despite the efforts of the Kennedy House residents, who had submitted a 16-page 
application in mid-June to nominate the buildings for the City’s Historic 
Register, a demolition permit was recently granted with no notice given to the 
residents. The Philadelphia Historical Commission now says the resident’s 
application was incomplete. So why couldn’t they have called the residents, not 
just as a courtesy, but in the interest of preserving a remarkable, Georgian 
Revival building? Why is the city’s preservation establishment a serial 
disappointer, continually rubber-stamping demolitions when they should be at 
the front line of defense? Where’s the new day in Mayor Nutter’s historically 
diminished Philadelphia?! 



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Re: [UC] The Sunday Inquirer-

2008-09-15 Thread Glenn moyer

Wilma and Al,

I agree with everything you've said.  I think this column by Judge Rendell 
about education and democracy adds to the discussion.

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20080915_U_S__needs_an_educated_citizenry.html


These coded terms "radical Islam" and "axis of evil" demonstrate the open 
exploitation of the exploding ignorance and fear that dominate US society.  

Marx called religion the opiate of the people.  But the history of the 20th and 
21st centuries along with the history of the last 2000 years, show me that the 
organized Abrahamic religions, devoted to the concept of hell, are also among 
the most dangerous weapons of mass destruction.

Watching the Palin revolution reminds me that radical Christianity is identical 
to radical Islam.  Not everyone in the US is a radical crusading Christian but 
the role of radical Christianity is not even discussed here.  It's dangerous to 
speak about and can lead to death threats or death.

Why do so many people then assert that all people of other societies are tied 
to radical Islam?  Why is it OK to ignore the oppression many populations in 
the world face while calling them radical Islam?  Or is that the real reason 
for this coded language?

Since we go along with this concept that outsiders are allies of the legions of 
devils and demons flying out of hell, we don't need to understand them we only 
need to kill them.

When the US arms and pushes state sponsored terrorism as it did with Sadam 
Hussein, Bin laden and countless regions around the globe, we can sit back with 
our blissful ignorance and say, "they are evil."

When we pushed and backed Sadam, a million Iranians and Iraqis died.  This was 
revenge because the Iranians rose up and kicked out the oppressive U.S. backed 
Shah of Iran.  Now our government is pushing Georgia like bin Laden was pushed 
to kill Russians and we are arming terrorists to destabilize Iran, Bolivia, 
Columbia, Pakistan, Venezuela and many more which have not been discovered. 

To me, this society looks like a state sponsor of terrorism in the name of 
radical Christianity.  People in many parts of the world must face hopelessness 
for the future and the knowledge that they can be slaughtered whenever wealthy 
corporations want oil or gold found near them.  Their fear of radical crusading 
Christianity can certainly lead them to radical Islam.  To an outsider like me, 
these religions seem identical.

U.S. fears are generated mostly by ourselves.  We condemn large portions of our 
own population to stress and misery leading them to radical christianity.  we 
keep our own people ignorant.  There is no discussion about the policies that 
lead to failed education of the young and addiction, because we arm gangsters 
to kill peasants in far away places and call it the war on drugs.  We can stay 
blissfully ignorant because we are willing to endlessly kill demons to ease our 
fear. 

With an honest study of history and literature, the young could resist these 
fantasies of demons flying out of hell.  The monotheist organizations are not 
going to teach the young the lessons that people like Jesus were 
revolutionaries dedicated to peace and justice for all people.  They won't 
teach that such heroes would condemn modern monotheism and the hatred which 
feeds it and takes humanity towards self-caused armegeddon.  These 
organizations have become such entrenched tools of ignorance and weapons of 
oppression that i can't see change coming from within.

The beasts are not flying from hell but arise from the ignorant and fearful 
portions of our own hearts.

Peace,
Glenn

-Original Message-
>From: Wilma de Soto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sep 14, 2008 11:49 AM
>To: Al Airone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, UnivCity listserv 
>Subject: Re: [UC] The Sunday Inquirer-"Deceptive Advertising"
>
>I know they shouldn't make it that easy.  As you stated it wasn't difficult
>to determine the political impetus behind it.
>
>Nevertheless, the deceptive quality of the product placement in addition to
>
> the fact that many people are already afraid of Barack Obama,
>
> the uncanny and timely placement in the nation's newspapers
>
> coupled with the fact many people take the radical right's assertions at
>face value as if it were The Holy Gospel
>
>This sets a dangerous precedent.
>
>A friend of mine in a high corporate position actually believed a "memo"
>from the RNC stating Obama, a father of to daughters, was in favor of
>teaching Kindergartners sex education.
>
>It made NO sense at all, he did not read the law in question, (had he done
>so he would have seen it for the lie it is), yet he believed it.
>
>This man is a reasonably intelligent person. What about others who are not
>that the RNC is hoping to instill fear in with this rhetoric and will
>fervently accept it at face value?
>
>I suppose I would not mind as much if what they were saying was true, but
>most of it is specious.
>
>
>
>
>On 9/14/08 9:14 AM, "Al Airon

[UC] Is an after party planned?

2008-09-16 Thread Glenn moyer

Neighbors,

Today is the day that the Penn City Planning Commission recommends the Campus 
Inn!  Does anyone know if Tom has an after party planned?

I can't afford the $15 martinis at the spruce Hill Cafe.  I was hoping Tom 
could spring for a few bottles of bathtub gin or wood alcohol for the neighbors.

As this columnist reminds us, if you are connected to the federal pay to play 
system, you can have hookers, booze and blow.

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/opinion/20080916_The_only_thing_missing_from_this_election__The_real_issues.html
  

Is our pay to play city a second rate city or a city that would make K Street 
proud?  And does Biden wear underwear with the American flag on it or is he a 
traitor?

A thirsty neighbor,
Glenn

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[UC] Unanimous approval for Campus Inn

2008-09-16 Thread Glenn moyer

I thought the Penn Commission would have 1 vote against or at least an 
abstention to make it look good.  But it was unanimous.

I could tell that I made some of them uneasy.  I outed both the Penn historical 
commission and this Penn planning commission for their false records.  I told 
them that eventually the real public record would reveal what is going on.

So they had that PHC goof, Farnham, come up and nervously give some bull.

I felt bad for the neighbors.  Some of them had some hope in the city process.

Glenn 

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Re: [UC] Fwd: PCPC Meeting on Gov't Access Channel 64

2008-09-16 Thread Glenn moyer






This is great!!  I saw the videotaping but assumed it was another attempt to bury a pretend record.
Can someone please make a copy of this?  Please please?
I knew my testimony was the right thing to say, but assumed that the Oct and Nov Phc tapes would end up in the shredder before the sun set.
There is something called the Pennsylvania Right To Know Law.  We, the people, have the right to copy the official recordings of public records and we have the right to request  transcripts of the PHC proceedings from last year as well as the May 20 PCPC hearing!!!
I would like some allies to take on this Philadelphia play to play system.  Those of you who wish to address not just the hotel but this underlying destruction of our democracy, let me know.
You most certainly will have a Campus Inn and more, if we do not take on the underlying corruption before this system is buried more deeply.
Please make a recording if you can.
Glenn
  
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Dear PCPC Agenda Mailing List Subscriber:Today's (September 16, 2008) City Planning Commission meeting will be rebroadcast on the City of Philadelphia's government access channel (Channel 64 - Comcast Cable) on the following dates and times:Tuesday 9/16 6pm 11pmWednesday 9/17 3am 5pm===Philadelphia City Planning CommissionOne Parkway, 13th Floor1515 Arch StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19102-1583Voice:    215.683.4615Fax:  215.683.4630E-Mail:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]Web:  www.philaplanning.org===

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Re: [UC] Fwd: PCPC Meeting on Gov't Access Channel 64

2008-09-16 Thread Glenn moyer



http://www.phila.gov/channel64/
 
Go to live video and audio feed and you will get the feed of today's performance.  This is not the city's official record.  
Can someone capture this and record it?
This is very important!
Glenn
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Dear PCPC Agenda Mailing List Subscriber:Today's (September 16, 2008) City Planning Commission meeting will be rebroadcast on the City of Philadelphia's government access channel (Channel 64 - Comcast Cable) on the following dates and times:Tuesday 9/16 6pm 11pmWednesday 9/17 3am 5pm===Philadelphia City Planning CommissionOne Parkway, 13th Floor1515 Arch StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19102-1583Voice:    215.683.4615Fax:  215.683.4630E-Mail:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]Web:  www.philaplanning.org===

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[UC] More PCPC details

2008-09-17 Thread Glenn moyer

Neighbors,

The famous “traffic study” highlighted in the May 20, false PCPC record, was 
the central item highlighted for the prepared unanimous approval of the Campus 
Inn.  Of course, this was to be expected. 

At the end of the "public hearing", both the new director, Greenberg, and 
Altman were ready with their “this is so hard speech.”

Like before, the most important issues raised were completely ignored.  The 
commission brought Farnham out after I explained that the PHC architectural 
committee, at the beginning of this pay to play process, had rejected the 
Campus Inn for numerous reasons!  Farnham ignored this fact and the commission 
played the ostensible “questioning” of Farnham but completely failed to ask 
Farnham for an explanation of the architectural committee rejection.

Farnham even claimed that the PHC commission approved the Campus Inn with 
advice from the architectural committee.  What the PHC actually did last 
November was change its policy on the spot to ignore the rejection of its 
architects. The architects rejected this hotel for all the numerous reasons 
which were excluded from all public record of testimony.  The commissioners 
voted to ignore them so that it could rubber stamp approval.

The PCPC does not allow any mechanism to correct misinformation.  At the end, 
the entire development gang and Farnham highlighted that the corner would 
become a ghetto  without this hotel.  While Esaul Sanchez watched and the 
entire Penn team, including the PCPC commissioners, made these claims (for the 
benefit of recordings) none of them corrected the misinformation.

When SHCA was publicly cornered in Feb, many of you will remember that Mr. 
Sanchez of Penn Real Estate admitted that there was great interest in the 
historic mansion and that he had received 20 proposals from University 
programs.  The false assertion that the corner would be a dilapidated corner 
for forever without this hotel became the most important bullshit of the day.  
I held up a hand written “20 proposals” but no correction of the misinformation 
was offered in testimony.

The commission was well prepared with “this decision is so hard” statements to 
cover that the decision had been determined in advance.  They wanted to 
“balance the needs of the community” but keep the corner from becoming a 
permanent ghetto.

To watch this pay to play in action seems so pathetic.  But a city and  society 
that is too ignorant to understand the reasons for democratic processes is 
going to have a pathetic government.  Our society deserves our government but 
the rest of the world and humanity does not deserve the consequences.

Most sincerely,
Glenn 


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Re: [UC] Three terrible ideas, and the Nutter Administration is just getting its feet wet

2008-09-17 Thread Glenn moyer






Also, is the report in the DP really true, that the developers' attorney "said the approval application submitted to the ZBA stipulated that the hotel be used for extended-stay visits only"?
 
No Al.  This is the typical journalism of the DP, Public Record, National Enquirer.
The reporter never talked to me, for example.  She completely made up my statement about "you don't live here"  I confronted the Penn commission about the falsification of city records not because they ignored me personally.
The "journalist" should be ashamed of herself.
Of course, they will take overnight guests.  This story is bullshit about bullshit.
Glenn
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The UNISYS sign on One Liberty Place (the ZBA turned it down, does anyone know where the PCPC stood on this?) 
Putting the Foxwoods slot parlor into the space now occupied as The Gallery (Nutter and Rendell are for it; Chinatown leaders -- whose area backs up onto the Gallery -- are strongly opposed. Has anyone really considered issues like traffic, the clientele it will attract to Market Street East, the chance that people will really use SEPTA to get there?) 
Campus Inn (whatever happened to "vox populi, vox dei est"? Also, is the report in the DP really true, that the developers' attorney "said the approval application submitted to the ZBA stipulated that the hotel be used for extended-stay visits only"? If this is the case, then what happens if someone comes in and just wants a room for the night? Will they be legally required to either turn the person down or rent the room for whatever the stated minimum for "extended stay" is, whether the person uses it or not? And what will be the definition of "extended stay" -- three or more days, five or more days?)
Enquiring minds want to know.
 
Al Krigmanreminding you that you read it first, here, on the popu-list

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RE: [UC] Three terrible ideas-Campus Inn

2008-09-17 Thread Glenn moyer



"In this case, that would be Spruce Hill Community Association."
Karen,
I don't know if you heard this.  (I think it was Primavera, one of the Penn lawyers, testifying.)  He testified that the developers "had to" get approval from this Spruce Hill association for the hotel project to proceed.  OK then, let's see about that!
Barry must have been lurking behind the wall the whole time.  I didn't see him until the end when I spotted him immediately scurrying to  the Penn team.
Personally, I feel the people of this community need to take this damned SHCA to the federal authorities to get them stripped of their 501 c 3 status.  We have been waiting since february for this SHCA " the community" to show at least some minimal integrity and responsibility to the real people of this community instead of to Lussenhop, DiRitis, and Adelman.
I've been calling out to people to take action against this SHCA/UCHS/FOCP gang.  I know it's hard for our neighbors to get into conflicts with these people.  Nothing about neighborhood conlicts is pleasant.
Penn is not going to stop its destruction of this community.  Our neighbors, these "anointed," have proven their betrayal and have proven where their loyalties lie.
The vast majority of people in this neighborhood are going to need to decide if they are going to continue to allow these anointed to betray us because the conflict would be unpleasant!  They better consider the consequences of staying silent.
(I wonder how Melani is reporting her performance on the censored Penn list?-hahaha)
Glenn 
-Original Message- From: KAREN ALLEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Sep 17, 2008 11:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], univcity@list.purple.com Subject: RE: [UC] Three terrible ideas-Campus Inn 

At yesterday's hearing (I was the "woman holding a large sign reading NO HOTEL in our HOOD", thank you very much, DP!), I had a concern regarding the "75 dedicated parking spaces" Penn promised in their parking lots: I was concerned that Penn was promising that now just to get the building built, and once it was up, the parking spaces would disappear. The agreement will be between Penn and the developers, which means that the neighbors would have to rely on Lussenhop and Campus Apartments a/k/a David Adelman to demand enforcement of that agreement.  Given Lussenhop and Adelman's relationship with Penn, it is highly doubtful, in my opinion, that if Penn told them that the spaces were being pulled, they would do anything to enforce the provision unless, of course, it hurt their bottom line.  If the result was simply a matter of causing parking problems for the neighbors, Lussenhop/Adelman/Penn would just send their mouthpiece out to insult everybody's intellegence by telling them some sob story about how there was never really any such agreement, how if there was, poor Penn can't be expected to live up to their agreements; that Penn's mission is education, not parking; and that the neighbors should just shut up and convert their kids' play yards/side yards/rear bedrooms into parking lots.  Or they would trot out rental-property mogul "Danny" DeRitis to tell everyone (paraphrasing his testimony yesterday) that he lived in this neighborhood leventy-zillion years ago, and since he left, there are "hardly any residents" in that area anyway [apparantly, his tenants don't count as residents].  In light of this concern, I broached the question to the Commission: who has standing to enforce the parking provision? Did the neighbors have to rely on two like-minded parties for the enforcement of this provision?  Later in the hearing, it was stated that the local community association would have standing to enforce the parking provision.  In this case, that would be Spruce Hill Community Association.  Yo, Chris O'Donnell: I know a good paving contractor! 

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The UNISYS sign on One Liberty Place (the ZBA turned it down, does anyone know where the PCPC stood on this?) 
Putting the Foxwoods slot parlor into the space now occupied as The Gallery (Nutter and Rendell are for it; Chinatown leaders -- whose area backs up onto the Gallery -- are strongly opposed. Has anyone really considered issues like traffic, the clientele it will attract to Market Street East, the chance that people will really use SEPTA to get there?) 
Campus Inn (whatever happened to "vox populi, vox dei est"? Also, is the report in the DP really true, that the developers' attorney "said the approval application submitted to the ZBA stipulated that the hotel be used for extended-stay visits only"? If this is the case, then what happens if someone comes in and just wants a room for the night? Will they be legally required to either turn the person down or rent the room for whatever the stated minimum for "extended stay" is, whether the person uses it or not? And what

[UC] DP hits homer for the Trustees

2008-09-17 Thread Glenn moyer

Carl Primavera, the developers' lawyer, said the approval application submitted 
to the ZBA stipulated that the hotel be used for extended-stay visits only.


Above is simply one lie in the DP.  I've studied this DP article.  Most of you 
have probably already considered that this Penn City Planning Commission 
performance was timed to coincide with the Trustees meeting.

Because of my experience with what I call the "Penn process for community 
destruction,"   I can also assure you that the delay from the May 20 tabling of 
the Campus Inn until yesterday has many purposes.  The use of false records by 
the commissions allows the pretense that a review of the traffic study was the 
only issue, way back in May.

It also allows the opposition time to disorganize.  Penn and the developers 
work continuously to make mega money.  Neighborhood volunteers organizing to 
oppose do not have the resources to dedicate for monitoring and fighting.  The 
delay aids that.

But neighbors, this DP report is a new and very troubling part of this Penn 
machine.  This is not just poor journalism.  The entire report about my 
testimony is a complete lie.  The so called reporter completely ignores the 
serious charges that I made that both commissions, PCPC and PHC, were creating 
and presenting false records of their hearings.  And when the reader reads the 
lie, he or she sees the perfect NIMBY, Glenn Moyer.

This journalist is very much in control of her little mistakes.  Her 
representation of all the issues brought by neighbors was perfectly ended with 
the lie about the most damning testimony of the day.

I reminded the commission that in May I had in fact testified about the lies 
the developers made at official PHC hearings.  Those PHC records created were 
also a false record, a misrepresentation of the hearings.

How could such a technically skilled writer not understand the juicy story that 
my testimony provided??  She never intended to accurately porrtray the 
issues.  And what a perfect creation of this NIMBY character, Glenn Moyer.  
Damn she is a skilled propagandist.

I think many of us know the DP is generally full of a lot of shit.  But please 
re-read this skilled piece of propaganda.  What is the connection the DP has 
with the Trustees?
Consider how this DP article is going to make the Trustees approval of the 
hotel extremely easy tomorrow???

Thanks for your indulgence,
Glenn 




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RE: [UC] Three terrible ideas-Campus Inn

2008-09-17 Thread Glenn moyer



And Mr. Esaul Sanchez!
I wrote a hand written sign and held it up a couple of times for the commissioners and Mr. Esaul Sanchez  to see.
"20 proposals"
At the end, the Penn wolves continued to assert that there was no interest in the historic building.  40th and Pine would be a ghetto forever and the Nimbys were going to cause the building to rot.
 All of the people who caught the SHCA zoning committee  back in February will remember Mr. Esaul Sanchez from Penn Real Estate.
In Feb, Mr Esaul Sanchez confessed that he had seen "20 proposals" from other Penn departments.  And why would anyone else put forth a proposal for a building Penn is landbanking?
Yesterday, the entire Penn team, Mr. Esaul Sanchez, and Mr. Glenn Moyer knew that the assertions being reinforced after we testified were completely false.  Mr. Esaul Sanchez could have come forward and told the PCPC the truth, but the public and mr. Glenn Moyer were not provided an opportunity to correct lies from developers after the public testimony is completed.
Unscrupulous developers need to keep their best lies for after the public testimony.  That way the PCPC process protects their lies.  Well done PCPC, well done Penn, well done Mr. Esaul Sanchez!
Glenn
 
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In attendance:On the Penn team were: Lussenhop, Adelman, their lawyer, some guy from the hotel chain, some guy from Penn, Dan DeRitis, Melani Lamond, Barry Grossbach, this downtown real estate agent named Jeff Block who said he lives in UC, and some blonde woman that Melani apparantly knew who said she lived  on Pine and that parking would not be a problem. Besides Glenn and myself were the residents from Pine Street and Woodland Terrace, including Marianna Thomas, Mary Daniels, Mary Nixon, and their attorney. Also, Dick Tyler (former head of the Historic Commission) Fran Byers, and a few other women whose names I did not know.   > Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:27:35 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: univcity@list.purple.com> Subject: Re: [UC] Three terrible ideas-Campus Inn> > KAREN ALLEN wrote:> > Or they would trot out rental-property mogul "Danny" DeRitis to tell > > everyone (paraphrasing his testimony yesterday) that he lived in this > > neighborhood leventy-zillion years ago, and since he left, there are > > "hardly any residents" in that area anyway [apparantly, his tenants > > don't count as residents].> > > who else testified at yesterday's hearing? do you remember > who else from the neighborhood was there?> > > ..> UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN

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[UC] Retraction in the DP

2008-09-18 Thread Glenn moyer

Campus Inn opponents,

The DP printed a retraction today regarding the reporter's fictional creation 
of the quintessential NIMBY, Glenn Moyer.  Yesterday's DP press release for the 
Campus Inn, the day prior to the Trustees meeting, portrayed a struggle about 
smart developers being hampered by low functionig NIMBYs from the neighborhood.

The editor's have promised follow-up to give an accurate representation of the 
real and serious issues involved.  They have also indicated that they will 
investigate the serious accusations I made in my real testimony against both 
the PHC and PCPC.

Managing editor is Julliette Mullin.

As some neighbors have pointed out, Penn is setting an incredible precedent.  
This is not about variances. Penn and their city commissions are eliminating 
all zoning requirements for all projects of the University of Pennsylvania Real 
Estate in any residentially zoned neighborhood in the city.

If zoning should be abandoned, let it occur through open and transparent 
legislative processes and have it apply for all of us.  I want to keep a small 
herd of goats and start making goat cheese.

This is much deeper than low functioning NIMBYs calling out and holding signs.  
Today's retraction is only the first step for the DP to professionally correct 
the mistakes.  

Stay tuned.  I have pledged full cooperation to see all of these issues 
explored.  Either contact me or contact Ms. Mullin directly to provide your 
contact information if you were present and can corroborate the false record 
keeping by the two Penn/Phila Commissions, PCPC and PHC.

Let's see how this evolves over the coming weeks.  Eventually we should be able 
to obtain transcripts of today's closed door Trustees meeting.  I expect that 
the Trustees will be approving the Campus Inn today behind those closed doors.

The real Glenn



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[UC] Link to Tues PCPC hearing

2008-09-18 Thread Glenn moyer

Here is the link to the PCPC hearing.  Please note, there is now a public 
record that the PCPC and PHC have been accused of creating inaccurate records.  

It's the clip marked Campus Inn: 

http://www.planphilly.com/node/3904

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Re: [UC] Campus Inn -- after PCPC, what next?

2008-09-19 Thread Glenn moyer

>There's a useful summary of the consequences of PCPC approval of the 
>Campus Inn project in today's Daily Pennsylvanian:


No! 

This is a continuation of the press release started Wed.  This writer has 
maintained a close association with the development team. She continues to make 
no effort to investigate the portrayal of community opposition as anything that 
a reader would interpret other than the reactions of NIMBYs.  This is 
propaganda for uninformed University readers!

Note the change from the previous lie about a gaurantee (extended-stay only) 
from Primavera.  (Primavera's ridiculous comparison to a take out order placed 
at Le Bec Fin)
I blasted the original lie to the two senior editors who printed the retraction 
of the reporter's outrageous false reporting of my testimony.  (Compare the 
NIMBY character, Glenn Moyer, to the video.  Please note the video is an hour 
long.  My testimony is approximately 28 minutes.  This example of false 
reporting makes the propagandistic intent obvious.)

All of the promises from Penn and cronies about parking spaces, trash 
collection, extended-stay use only, etc. are nothing but a smokescreen.  None 
of these promises would ever be enforceable by members of the community.


Did the DP cover the previous May 20 hearing?


The development team obviously brought her and prepared her because we all knew 
that the PCPC was going to recommend the project the day before the Trustees 
meeting.  The DP and this reporter have twice been used to put out these 
dishonest press releases which look like journalism.

I posted a comment on the on-line edition of the DP.  It may not yet be 
available.

Glenn
PS: The reporter may be seeking a job at the Public Record.  

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>Campus Inn project in today's Daily Pennsylvanian:
>
>http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2008/09/19/News/News-Analysis.Zoning.Approval.Likely.After.Recommendation-3440684.shtml
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[UC] Here is the reason for the DP press release

2008-09-19 Thread Glenn moyer

These comments were posted at the end of today's DP press release for Campus 
Inn.  These two DP "reports" were intended to create contempt for our community 
by misleading the students!

"Does anyone else notice there are endless food options at Penn but getting a 
room for visiting parents is virtually impossible during the bookends of the 
academic calender? Penn has no problem enabling obesity and alcohol abuse but 
does zilch for the people who fork over the checks." 

"How is this a bad thing at all? We need to gentrify this area. Build a hotel. 
Do anything and everything possible to raise property values and make this area 
safer... 

(not put together well b/c it's 3:00 am and I'm tired)."


Hahaha.  Peggy Sue and Billy Bob need an extended stay hotel, 5-7 nights, so 
they can make dumplin's for grandpa at the VA hospital. 

They call us NIMBYs and treat us like we are incredibly stupid. 

Glenn 



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[UC] Did anyone see this from the DP?

2008-09-19 Thread Glenn moyer

I missed this one.  This an interesting "editorial"   

It makes sense that some young writer, inexperienced journalist, would be 
susceptible to the snakes behind the Penn propaganda machine.  I doubt Ms Hart 
understood how she and the DP were being used. 



http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2008/03/03/Opinion/Editorial.Responsible.Development-3246870.shtml

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[UC] UCD press release in DP today

2008-09-22 Thread Glenn moyer

http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2008/09/22/News/Residents.Weigh.In.On.Baltimore.Ave.Makeover-3443440.shtml

'After five years of support from the Main Street program, McNulty said, "the
hope is that it will feel like more of a cohesive experience as you go up
Baltimore, rather than little pockets of businesses. It'll feel like it's
thriving all the way up the street."'

Ms. Harte, tossed a few extra comments in this press release for UCD. It gives
more of an appearance of balanced reporting to toss in random statements.
Hahaha, she certainly doesn't need to look far to find massive distrust of
Penn/UCD projects!

In 2003, UCD denied using L&I to pressure Baltimore Ave businesses into facade
"upgrades" when it was reported in the city Paper. Then, in the Philadelphia
business Journal, "the corridor manager" seemed to take pride about this
inappropriate use of a government agency.

During the mayoral primary, it was revealed that UCD was violating federal law
while doing "favors"

Now, UCD will pay itself $50,000, and pass out $25,000 favors per year to
supporters. Ostensibly, UCD wants to homogonize Baltimore Ave into something
like the "Cereality" corridor of Walnut st where upscale businesses come and go.

UCD passes out massive favors to upscale businesses like Sugar Hill Bakery.
These businesses are targeted as supporters for the BID, Penn's scheme to gain
taxation rights to further gentrification without any accountability.

Any business that doesn't play along is going down hard as we've seen
repeatedly.

Penn's unilateral vision about beautification is absurd, (eg. The Hub, Radian,
the 40th and Locust artwork, Walnut St).

Who the hell told UCD that we want to destroy the long term businesses on
Baltimore Ave to get a rotating group of upscale Cereality, Sugar Hill Bakery,
etc. facades?

Is this the work of that damned SHCA/UCHS?

Glenn

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Re: [UC] Did anyone see this from the DP?

2008-09-22 Thread Glenn moyer

>it's fascinating how, as far back as march, the dp was 
>framing the question of the hotel in terms of parking.
>
>and here we are now, with pcpc scheduling its hearings about 
>the hotel in terms of parking.
>
>what happened to the main issue: the hotel's massive scale 
>and height and footprint?
>

Yes, you noticed this attention to the single issue, parking.  I previously 
posted a prediction that a superficial discussion of the "traffic study" would 
precede PCPC approval at the 2nd hearing.  I wanted a public record to 
demonstrate how obvious the pattern between the false record keeping, 
propaganda and the subsequent hearings becomes to a witness.

All of the comprehensive testimony and discussions about the various issues 
were completely edited out of the official "public record."  Here is the link 
to a two hour hearing, May 20, reduced to four pages on the PCPC website (pages 
4-8).  Please note how these "minutes" appear like transcripts and the need to 
review this traffic study is highlighted.  

Anyone witnessing the two earlier PHC hearings and "the public record" of same, 
would have expected the superficial discussion of "the traffic study" the 
moment they read these PCPC records! The backroom dealing is not hard to 
recognize, in person, even though it is impossible to see from the public 
record. 

They've got a tight little system between city hall, the DP, and the Franklin 
building. 

http://www.philaplanning.org/pubinfo/minutes/5-20-08%20mins.pdf

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>From: UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sep 22, 2008 1:00 PM
>To: University City List 
>Subject: Re: [UC] Did anyone see this from the DP?
>
>Glenn moyer wrote:
>> I missed this one.  This an interesting "editorial"   
>> 
>> It makes sense that some young writer, inexperienced journalist, would be 
>> susceptible to the snakes behind the Penn propaganda machine.  I doubt Ms 
>> Hart understood how she and the DP were being used. 
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>> http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2008/03/03/Opinion/Editorial.Responsible.Development-3246870.shtml
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>it's fascinating how, as far back as march, the dp was 
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>
>and here we are now, with pcpc scheduling its hearings about 
>the hotel in terms of parking.
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Re: [UC] UCD press release in DP today

2008-09-22 Thread Glenn moyer

>The most shocking thing about the article is that UCD is keeping 2/3  
>of the grant for administration and only doling out 1/3 for actual  
>improvements!


That's because UCD is Penn, in form and substance.  When I came to Penn, I 
wanted to pursue grant money.  Unless things have changed, this is Penn's 
formula.  I think it was a 60% to 40% split but that was in th nineties.  Any 
policy these UCD clowns have, is handed down directly from Penn.  I doubt 
service organizations would ever get that type of administrative cut.

Self promotion, consultant fees, Penn lawyers, all need funds while L&I hit 
lists require staff time.

Glenn

-Original Message-
>From: Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sep 22, 2008 11:41 AM
>To: UnivCity@list.purple.com
>Subject: Re: [UC] UCD press release in DP today
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>The most shocking thing about the article is that UCD is keeping 2/3  
>of the grant for administration and only doling out 1/3 for actual  
>improvements! This money is from the National Trust for Historic  
>Preservation. Even the full $75,000 wouldn't go very far for that kind  
>of thing. What nerve!
>
>Frank
>
>On Sep 22, 2008, at 10:58 AM, Glenn moyer wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2008/09/22/News/Residents.Weigh.In.On.Baltimore.Ave.Makeover-3443440.shtml
>>
>>
>>
>> 'After five years of support from the Main Street program, McNulty  
>> said, "the hope is that it will feel like more of a cohesive  
>> experience as you go up Baltimore, rather than little pockets of  
>> businesses. It'll feel like it's thriving all the way up the street."'
>>
>>
>> Ms. Harte, tossed a few extra comments in this press release for  
>> UCD.  It gives more of an appearance of balanced reporting to toss  
>> in random statements.  Hahaha, she certainly doesn't need to look  
>> far to find massive distrust of Penn/UCD projects!
>>
>> In 2003, UCD denied using L&I to pressure Baltimore Ave businesses  
>> into facade "upgrades" when it was reported in the city Paper.   
>> Then, in the Philadelphia business Journal, "the corridor manager"  
>> seemed to take pride about this inappropriate use of a government  
>> agency.
>>
>> During the mayoral primary, it was revealed that UCD was violating  
>> federal law while doing "favors"
>>
>> Now, UCD will pay itself $50,000, and pass out $25,000 favors per  
>> year to supporters.  Ostensibly, UCD wants to homogonize Baltimore  
>> Ave into something like the "Cereality" corridor of Walnut st where  
>> upscale businesses come and go.
>>
>>
>> UCD passes out massive favors to upscale businesses like Sugar Hill  
>> Bakery.  These businesses are targeted as supporters for the BID,  
>> Penn's scheme to gain taxation rights to further gentrification  
>> without any accountability.
>>
>> Any business that doesn't play along is going down hard as we've  
>> seen repeatedly.
>>
>>
>> Penn's unilateral vision about beautification is absurd, (eg. The  
>> Hub, Radian, the 40th and Locust artwork, Walnut St).
>>
>> Who the hell told UCD that we want to destroy the long term  
>> businesses on Baltimore Ave to get a rotating group of upscale  
>> Cereality, Sugar Hill Bakery, etc. facades?
>>
>> Is this the work of that damned SHCA/UCHS?
>>
>> Glenn
>>
>>
>>
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[UC] The fascist oligarchy

2008-09-24 Thread Glenn moyer


With the latest welfare for Wall street, I think the Reagan revolution should 
be regarded as complete.  For nearly thirty years, the middle class has been 
addicted to the hate of anyone less fortunate as they saw paradise among the 
pack of wolves.

Deregulation never had anything to do with getting “government off the backs” 
of small businesses.  Like in our city, the attacks on small businesses and the 
attacks on personal rights and freedoms have continuously increased while big 
businesses increasingly bulldoze through their corporate controlled government. 
 

The L&I storm trooper reality juxtaposed with the Campus Inn cruise control is 
exactly the system the middle class has demanded.  By the way, hang the poor 
children, welfare queens,  the old, and the helpless! 

Deregulation was never anything more than, “throw the stupid middle class to 
the wolves.”  Of course, distracted by hate of the lower classes, the middle 
class made a mad dash for the pack.  

As the mantra, “don’t raise my taxes,” appeased an ignorant middle class, the 
income inequality (trickle up economics) hasn’t been as extreme since the 
twenties before the great depression.  Also in the twenties, ignorance and hate 
was exploited in a similar far away place called Italy.

With propaganda like our modern spin, enemies were identified for the Italian 
masses while a government system called fascism was given to the people.  The 
recent mass arrests of journalists in St. Paul and the other overwhelming 
warning signs the few “elitists” have been screaming about were mapped out long 
ago.

Oh well… all hail King Henry and Queen Sarah as they go hunting moose and 
middle class vermin! 

Sadly,
Glenn 


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[UC] Gihon Jordan remembered

2008-09-24 Thread Glenn moyer

 

Here is the link to the UC Review:

http://www.ucreview.com/


I didn’t know Mr. Jordon until the Quality of Life Task Force staged by the 
UCD/FOCP (2002).  I will always remember him as the only person to come to my 
defense because of principals while the anointed gang and government turned 
their back on the Magna Carta.  

Standing up for principals has become increasingly rare especially against the 
will of unscrupulous power brokers.  Back in 2002, action against events in 
Clark Park and dog walkers had been the primary reasons for that “task force.”

Secret complaints from unknown, secret, good neighbors, after all other 
strategies were exposed; became the final evidence for FOCP policy still in 
effect today.  The justification for denying the most basic ancient due process 
to me was the insinuation that I might retaliate against the good neighbors if 
I were permitted to see these complaints.  

While the police and city officials sat silently beside the UCD and the 
anointed, Mr. Jordan made the only objection and showed to me his strong 
principals.  

Anyone who criticized the demand for the Iraq war as war drums were beating, or 
has faced the wrath of one of our local civic associations knows the courage 
necessary to openly stand up for principals even when these are overwhelmingly 
unpopular with "community" power brokers.

Mr. Jordon, thank you.  You nor your principals will be forgotten.

Glenn





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Re: [UC] Gihon Jordan remembered

2008-09-24 Thread Glenn moyer

Thanks Brian.

-Original Message-
>From: Brian Siano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sep 24, 2008 1:41 PM
>To: univcity@list.purple.com
>Subject: Re: [UC] Gihon Jordan remembered
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>The word is spelled "principles."
>
>Glenn moyer wrote:
>>  
>>
>> Here is the link to the UC Review:
>>
>> http://www.ucreview.com/
>>
>>
>> I didn’t know Mr. Jordon until the Quality of Life Task Force staged by the 
>> UCD/FOCP (2002).  I will always remember him as the only person to come to 
>> my defense because of principals while the anointed gang and government 
>> turned their back on the Magna Carta.  
>>
>> Standing up for principals has become increasingly rare especially against 
>> the will of unscrupulous power brokers.  Back in 2002, action against events 
>> in Clark Park and dog walkers had been the primary reasons for that “task 
>> force.”
>>
>> Secret complaints from unknown, secret, good neighbors, after all other 
>> strategies were exposed; became the final evidence for FOCP policy still in 
>> effect today.  The justification for denying the most basic ancient due 
>> process to me was the insinuation that I might retaliate against the good 
>> neighbors if I were permitted to see these complaints.  
>>
>> While the police and city officials sat silently beside the UCD and the 
>> anointed, Mr. Jordan made the only objection and showed to me his strong 
>> principals.  
>>
>> Anyone who criticized the demand for the Iraq war as war drums were beating, 
>> or has faced the wrath of one of our local civic associations knows the 
>> courage necessary to openly stand up for principals even when these are 
>> overwhelmingly unpopular with "community" power brokers.
>>
>> Mr. Jordon, thank you.  You nor your principals will be forgotten.
>>
>> Glenn
>>
>>
>>
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[UC] teacher vacancy report

2008-09-25 Thread Glenn moyer

This would suggest that there is more to the issue of public schools than the 
"no child left behind" rhetoric.  If public school teachers are lazy overpaid 
dummies with a cushy job, why do poor Philadelphia children sit waiting in 
classrooms year after year?

What happens to kids when they are abandoned in classrooms with substitute 
teachers acting as early prison gaurds?  

Yes I know, the nine, ten, and eleven year old kids should pull themselves up 
by the boot straps and move their families to the district with the good 
families. 

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20080925_Philly_teacher-vacancy_rate_hits_an_8-year_high.html

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[UC] Patterns, lies and fear

2008-09-30 Thread Glenn moyer



People who watched the public access video of the Campus Inn charade may have 
noticed the appeal to fear which is vital to the fascist transformation.  After 
the public was procedurally silenced at "the hearing," viewers saw the entire 
development team; PCPC, PHC, and Penn Real Estate lie repeatedly about the 
future of the 40th and Pine St. location.  

Neighbors who caught the SHCA zoning committee in Feb., remember that Esaul 
Sanchez of Penn Real Estate confessed that 20 proposals had been received from 
Penn academic departments for use of the site.  But like the Clark Park 
hellhole, without UCD rule; and a district without a BID or HD, 40th and Pine 
would become a gateway for Satan!  Unless, of course, it is surrendered 
helplessly to the Campus Inn.

Fortieth and Pine is a district patriot act, the district war on terrorism, and 
the district Wall St. welfare.  

While a few citizens have seen the pattern between lies and fear pulling an 
increasingly helpless mass of consumers toward the establishment of a fascist 
nation, those consumers have blissfully ignored the path to fascism as the end 
game emerged.

The middle class can bitch about the Campus Inn and the all out thrust to 
transfer all wealth and power to the oligarchs, as they are doing now.  
Unfortunately, middle class neighbors, like the American middle class, refused 
to consider the warnings when Penn was calling the people of Clark Park whores, 
drug addicts, and gangs.  Nationally, the middle class refused to consider the 
beginnings, thirty years ago, when they declared war on the disempowered people 
of the country and world while gambling that they would become one of the rich 
and famous oligarchs.

District Palin, you’ve gotten what you demanded!  Enjoy the homeland security!  
 Your personal security and liberty are just the faded ideals of leftist 
wankers.

Waiting for the barking cheese death ray and Blackwater Inc.,
Glenn


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