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