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Image/Article source: Guardian -- Towering over a low-income area of Chicago, and wrapped in a speech that’s hard to decipher, this controversial monolith feels like a menacing sci-fi HQ. Is it a monument – or a mausoleum?
Lacking a royal family or a state religion, the US presidency has swelled to fill the void, transforming over the decades into a national personality cult, complete with its own secular temples to these powerful men. The latest pharaonic edifice is about to open on Chicago’s south side, where it looms on the skyline as a towering totem to the 44th president, Barack Obama.
..sheer walls of granite erupt from the ground at a steep angle, before tapering to form a chiselled 70-metre-high monolith. It looks hewn and cleft, towering over the 19-acre campus like a stocky, truncated obelisk. Rising above the low-rise, low-income neighbourhood, the building has an ominous presence, its mostly windowless heft recalling a menacing sci-fi headquarters, with small chamfered openings suggesting portals from where drones might be launched, or lasers fired. Some have compared it to a flak tower, others to a “Klingon prison”.
An elevator finally whisks you past a private presidential suite to the “sky room” at the tower’s summit, where panoramic windows frame the city, beneath a momentous white pyramid-shaped ceiling – the pharaonic chamber at last!* It was intended to have a celestial quality, with blue words by artist Idris Khan tumbling from the sky. But, in a major blunder, the pyramid doesn’t culminate in a skylight, but a solid white plasterboard ceiling – perhaps an unintended metaphor for barriers that must still be overcome.." [much more/*see pics - full article at link]
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Obama selling ugly merch shaped liked his presidential center — as architects reveal he pushed for ‘Death Star’ design "Former President Barack Obama’s presidential library is hocking pricey merch shaped like the unsightly Chicago tower — as the project’s architects revealed the former commander-in-chief himself was behind the “Death Star” design that’s been widely mocked since construction began... The comments echoed people’s reactions to the center itself — which has been called an “obamanation” by some and compared to trash cans, Jenga towers, the Death Star and litterboxes, along with prisons, the Eye of Sauron and Easter Island heads."
Obama Presidential Center opens to the public Juneteenth weekend "The highly-anticipated opening will be a full-weekend affair with events running on June 18 through June 21, including a series of ribbon cuttings, talks, and activations. -- Valerie Jarrett, Obama Foundation CEO, noted, “The opening of the Obama Presidential Center will be a beacon of hope to the world.."
Protesters raged, critics mocked — now Obama says his library’s actually opening '"I always see it as a cenotaph, a tombstone, a crusader fortress in brutalist style," one art historian told the outlet in November."
‘Living, breathing legacy’: Sneak peek into the new Obama Presidential Center in Chicago "It is a living, breathing legacy.. -- In addition to the grand opening, there will also be a ceremony held on June 18.You can still be a part of this historic moment from anywhere in the world. We will broadcast the entire ceremony live Thursday, June 18 so you can tune in from anywhere! .. According to museum officials, the campus spans nearly 20 acres.."
Inside the $850 million Obama Presidential Center ahead of its Juneteenth opening "Unlike the libraries of other modern presidents, the Obama center will not be operated by the National Archives and Records Administration. Instead, it will be privately run by the Obama Foundation. The distinction gives the center more freedom in how it presents stories and less red tape around funding."
Obama Presidential Center Will Open On Juneteenth, Former President Says "The long-awaited center in Jackson Park will have a dedication ceremony June 18 followed by its opening to the public on Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the end of slavery in America."
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The whole thing all about the invented-fictional character 'Obama': touted as literally a 'demigod' (and here), played off as the actual 'biblical antichrist (and here) - now a bizarre monument rises on the landscape -- heavily cryptic design .. privately funded privately run .. it's "living and breathing".. according to Obama Foundation CEO Valerie Jarret ("living and breathing"? -- that's scary) --- Obama next chapter now going live (and breathing?) apparently - hmm what could go wrong.. stay tuned..
Rev. 18:4
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