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Obama Center Underwater, Trouble In Helsinki
Nope, it’s not rising water in Lake Michigan, brought on by global warming, er, climate change, that’s putting the Obama Center underwater—although drainage is a problem, too. The article is strictly financial, and describes the continuing struggles of the deluxe basketball center with adjoining building:
Chicago’s Obama Center Is Under Water
It doesn’t have the money it promised the city it would raise under a May 2019 master agreement for the Jackson Park property.
We have been fighting the construction of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago’s historic Jackson Park for the past four years. The center, which is scheduled to open in February 2025, is being built in a dangerous place. The water table is high enough to require constant drainage—a peril that will be compounded by major storms off Lake Michigan. An award-winning alternative design on private land west of nearby Washington Park would be less costly and safer to build and would provide far better access to the South Side community that is the center’s target audience.
The Obama Foundation just released its annual report and 990 tax forms for 2021. Together they show that the Obama Presidential Center’s financial foundations are as rickety as its physical ones. The Foundation’s 2020 annual report exhibited some financial candor, estimating that $300 million in annual donations for four straight years would be necessary to meet all future construction and operating costs. The 2021 return revealed that the foundation had raised only $159 million, about 8% less than it raised in 2020. Those dollars must pay for all foundation activities, including payroll, fundraising, public relations, and scholarship and grant programs.
How soon they forget! Barry, we hardly knew ya. It’s apparent, or so it seems to me, that Obama is basically another globalist figurehead leader, to be trotted out when needed.
Speaking of globalist figurehead leaders …
Readers should be aware that minor globalist (Davos) “nations” in Europe are largely staffed by “heads of state” with pretty much no credentials—girls who took fluff courses at minor colleges, etc. Jacinda Ardern in NZ is a pretty good example of the type. These girls do the bidding of their elderly patrons, er, mentors: Soros and Schwab. In Europe, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania—and Finland—come to mind. I’m sure I’m missing some. And to be fair, there are also the pretty boys in the Davos stable—Justin, Emmanuel, and others. Empty dresses, empty suits.
Things have gotten livelier, however, since the days of Angela and the serious Davos devotees. In Finland, one of those countries like Sweden where joining NATO and seriously p*ssing of Russia was never a choice that the Davos rulers presented to the people, there’s a scandal brewing. At least I think so. I’m not sure how seriously the Finns take their governments, now that they’ve been subcontracted to Davos:
Hunter would feel right at home.
Imagine how seriously Putin takes this crowd. He knows who the real rulers are. And I’ll bet he figures he can handle them.
If the Obama Presidential Center is seen as a jobs program, rewarding friends and punishing enemies, then everything is going swimmingly.
and don’t forget Ursula, mother of seven and heavily credentialed, president of the EC, or Chief Scold, and Anne Hildago, Mayor of Paris…she has made the City of Light a perpetual construction site, minus the lunch boxes and good humour, and hellish for drivers of cars…