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Napoleon Harris, Thornton Township supervisor and state senator, challenged in committeeman race
Thornton Township Supervisor Napoleon Harris is facing a challenger as he seeks reelection as the township’s Democratic Party committeeman: former ally and township Trustee Stephanie Wiedeman.
Wiedeman, who was elected interim township trustee during a town hall style caucus on Jan. 25, chose not to seek reelection once Harris, who is also a state senator, announced he would seek the supervisor position.
She says she maintained a decades-long relationship with Harris, and trusted he would get the township on the right track after the tumultuous term of former Supervisor Tiffany Henyard, who was also mayor of Dolton and remains under federal investigation.
But Wiedeman said since Harris was sworn in in May, that relationship has deteriorated, with Wiedeman being rehired within the township and quitting two weeks later. Now, she’s challenging Harris for committeeperson and supporting the efforts of former members of Henyard’s township administration to disqualify him from seeking election.
“I don’t know what to say outside of our current leadership is selfish,” Wiedeman said Wednesday. “I really think there needs to be a community approach, and I’m not seeing that.”
Wiedeman said she joined Keith Price and Michael A. Smith in looking over Harris’ nominating petitions, not thinking she would find anything that could disqualify the former NFL player and longtime state senator from the local party position.
“But once we got the petitions and we started to go through them and we started to see some of the things we saw, I was just like, this is unbelievable,” Wiedeman said.
Wiedeman, Price and Smith allege Harris’ nominating petition for the March 17, 2026 primary includes eight pages of duplicate signatures. Wiedeman said these sheets had “exactly the same signatures on them,” but were differentiated by the circulators listed and the days on which they were notarized.
“This was very intentional,” Wiedeman said. “Honestly, it felt like cheating, and I don’t agree with that at any level, for anybody, for any reason.”
Price and Smith also claim Harris does not live in Thornton Township, another potentially disqualifying challenge.
Stephanie Wiedeman, right, is congratulated after she was elected to be a Thornton Township trustee in a special meeting Jan. 21, 2025, in South Holland, called to allow voters to directly choose a new trustee to replace Gerald Jones, who resigned in October 2024. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune)
Burt Odelson, attorney for both Harris and the township, said he has looked over the contested signatures and agreed some petition sheets were copies that “shouldn’t have been in there.”
However, Odelson says, the Cook County Electoral Board will find that excluding the copies, Harris still has enough signatures to remain on the ballot.
“He has enough signatures,” Odelson said. “I wish he had more, but he has enough.”
The Electoral Board will consider objections to Harris’ candidacy for committeeman at a hearing at 3 p.m. on Dec. 4 at 69 W. Washington St. in Chicago. Wiedeman faced her own objection to signatures from Anthony McCaskill, which she said the Electoral Board dismissed Nov. 17.
State Sen. Napoleon Harris addresses the large crowd at the Thornton Township Board of election watch party at Beggars Pizza in Lansing on April 1, 2025. (John Smierciak/for the Daily Southtown)
As Thornton Township committeeman, an unpaid political seat, Wiedeman she hopes to boost voter engagement, which she said has sharply declined over the past decade. She also expressed disappointment in Harris pulling levers at the state level to continue collecting a $202,000 salary as supervisor despite a local ordinance meant to reset the salary to $57,000.
“Another advantage to this is that you get a say in what our leadership looks like,” Wiedeman said. “I would be able to endorse leaders that I see fit for these communities, that we see fit for these communities.”
Odelson called the break between Wiedeman and Harris “an interfamily feud” and said Harris’ connections in Springfield will continue to help party organizers and the township as a whole.
“We’re still, at the township, digging out from the Henyard years — as far as money, what was spent, where it was spent, personnel,” Odelson said. “He’s done programs in the short time he’s been there, but again, we’re hampered by the fact that there are things that he’s trying to correct.”
ostevens@chicagotribune.com
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/26/napoleon-harris-thornton-township-democratic-leadership/
OpenAI Needs To Fill $207 Billion Funding Hole By 2030: HSBC
OpenAI Needs To Fill $207 Billion Funding Hole By 2030: HSBC
As the AI ‘circle jerk‘ rages on, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, will need to raise at least $207 billion more by 2030 to simply keep the lights on, according a new analysis by HSBC which takes into account recently disclosed megadeals with Microsoft, Amazon and Oracle.
Even with bullish assumptions that include 3 billion users, rapid subscription growth, and a giant slice of enterprise AI spending, the company’s projected revenues are nowhere near its exploding bills for energy and chips, the bank says.
“OpenAI is a money pit with a website on top,” according to FT‘s Bryce Elder, who notes that the bigger AI models get, the more cash they burn – and the winner in the LLM landscape may come down to who can continue raising money the longest.
The Math Behind the $207 Billion Hole
HSBC’s model runs through 2030 and arrives at these headline numbers:
Cumulative data-center rental costs (2025-2030): $792 billion – rising to $1.4 trillion by 2033!
Projected cumulative free cash flow: $282 billion
Additional liquidity from Nvidia/AMD deals, undrawn facilities and cash on hand: ~$68 billion
Net funding shortfall: $207 billion (plus a $10 billion buffer)
Key revenue assumptions that still leave OpenAI in the red:
Total users reach 3 billion by 2030 (44% of global adults outside China), up from ~800 million today
Paid-subscriber conversion rises from ~5% today to 10% by 2030
Consumer AI market generates $129 billion annually by 2030 ($87 billion from search, $24 billion from advertising)
Enterprise AI market hits $386 billion; OpenAI’s share slips from ~50% today to 37%
Resulting 2030 revenue run-rate: roughly $174 billion (in line with CEO Sam Altman’s public hints of $100 billion by 2027 and continued hypergrowth)
HSBC also estimates cloud compute contracts that total up to $1.8 trillion in lifetime value, and notes that out of the 36 gigawtts of power they’ll need, just one-third will be online by 2030. OpenAI’s annual rental bill will approach $620 billion once capacity is fully online later in the decade.
Biggest Challenges To Come
According to the report, there are several pressure points that could worsen this outlook, possibly forcing drastic action…
Investor Fatigue: “If revenue growth doesn’t exceed expectations and prospective investors turn cautious, OpenAI would need to make some hard decisions.” -FT
Debt-market jitters: Oracle’s recent bond volatility after its OpenAI deal shows how quickly sentiment can sour.
Contract lock-in: With most cloud deals running for 4-5 years and containing stiff penalties for early exits, OpenAI has little wiggle room.
Competition: “OpenAI’s consumer market share slips to 56 per cent by 2030, from around 71 per cent this year. Anthropic and xAI are both given market shares in the single digits, a mystery “others” is assigned 22 per cent, and Google is excluded entirely.” -FT
No AGI in the model: HSBC explicitly excludes any revenue or efficiency windfall from artificial general intelligence – an omission that could prove either prudent or massively conservative.
While HSBC provides a sobering view of OpenAI, they’re actually very bullish on AI as a concept…
We expect AI to penetrate every production process and every vertical, with a great potential for productivity gains at a global level. [ . . . ]
Some AI assets may be overvalued, some may be undervalued too. But eventually, a few incremental basis points of economic growth (productivity-driven) on a USD110trn+ world GDP could dwarf what is often seen as unreasonable capex spending at present.
GPT COUNTERS!
For shits and giggles we asked ChatGPT if it thought HSBC was correct in their analysis. While the LLM mostly agreed, it said that the bank ignored;
architectural efficiency improvements
distillation
sparse expert models
on-device inference
agent-delegated execution
reinforcement-learning-optimized efficiency
quantization
open-weight local models replacing cloud calls
In other words, “There is no historical precedent in computing where efficiency didn’t massively improve as scaling occurred.”
What say you?
Tyler Durden
Wed, 11/26/2025 – 16:50
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/openai-needs-fill-207-billion-funding-hole-2030-hsbc
Burrow y Jackson se vuelven a enfrentar, pero podría no ser tan espectacular como la campaña pasada
Por NOAH TRISTER
En dos juegos la temporada pasada, Joe Burrow lanzó para 820 yardas contra Baltimore, pero los Ravens ganaron ambos encuentros. Lamar Jackson, en cambio, pasó para 638 yardas y corrió para 88 contra Cincinnati.
Este jueves se vuelven a enfrentar, pero no es seguro que cualquiera de los dos quarterbacks tenga una actuación digna de fuegos artificiales frente a una audiencia nacional en el Día de Acción de Gracias.
Burrow jugará por primera vez ante Baltimore desde la semana dos, y aunque los Bengals ciertamente dan la bienvenida a su regreso tras la cirugía por una lesión en el dedo del pie, la falta de ritmo podría ser un factor. Jackson, por su parte, regresó de su lesión en el tendón de la corva el mes pasado, pero ha lidiado con problemas en la rodilla, el tobillo y el dedo del pie desde entonces y parece menos explosivo de lo habitual al correr.
“Estamos ganando, así que de eso se trata todo. No puedo controlar una lesión”, dijo Jackson. “Cosas así suceden. Desafortunadamente, está sucediendo en el momento equivocado, creo”.
Los Ravens (6-5) están ganando, ayudados por un tramo favorable en el calendario han ganado cinco seguidos para igualar a Pittsburgh en la cima de la AFC Norte. Por su parte puede que Burrow no tenga suficiente para salvar a los Bengals (3-8), que solo tuvieron una victoria sin él.
El pronóstico inicial era que Burrow estuviera fuera al menos tres meses y regresar hasta la semana 15 ante los Ravens. Pero logró estar de vuelta aproximadamente dos semanas y media antes de lo esperado.
“Las victorias y los campeonatos de división que hemos ganado son las cosas más emocionantes que hemos hecho, pero siempre que tienes una oportunidad como esta contra un oponente divisional que ha ganado cinco seguidos y estás jugando un jueves por la noche frente al mundo, es una oportunidad emocionante”, expresó Burrow.
Si Cincinnati va a hacer un último esfuerzo para llegar a los playoffs, tendrán que empezar ya. Los próximos tres juegos del equipo son contra los Ravens, los Bills y luego nuevamente los Ravens.
Amenaza profunda
Ja’Marr Chase de Cincinnati regresa tras una suspensión de un juego por escupir a Jalen Ramsey de Pittsburgh. En nueve juegos contra Baltimore, incluidos los playoffs, Chase tiene 67 recepciones para 1.046 yardas y nueve touchdowns.
La temporada pasada Chase tuvo 21 recepciones para 457 yardas y cinco touchdowns en dos juegos contra los Ravens, un récord de la NFL para yardas recibidas por un jugador contra un oponente en una temporada.
Pero Tee Higgins de Cincinnati sigue en el protocolo de conmoción, lo que podría abrir la puerta para que Mitchell Tinsley sea nuevamente titular. Tinsley fue titular en lugar de Chase el fin de semana pasado.
Más estrictos
¿Realmente han mejorado tanto los Ravens en defensa, o simplemente se han enfrentado a una competencia más débil? Esa es la pregunta para Baltimore antes del juego de esta semana después de que mantuvieron a sus seis oponentes anteriores por debajo de los 20 puntos. Eso incluye enfrentamientos con los Rams y los Bears, pero también con los Dolphins, Vikings, Browns y Jets.
Burrow y Chase parecen representar una prueba bastante formidable.
“Tienen una ofensiva muy bien organizada. Saben lo que están haciendo”, dijo el entrenador de los Ravens, John Harbaugh. “Los principios están integrados en ella, y esas son las cosas con las que tienes que lidiar. Ahora con Joe ejecutándolos, y él es el principal, el sistema fue construido para Joe Burrow. Así que eso es lo que estamos tratando de defender”.
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Deportes AP: https://apnews.com/deportes
Barcelona se atasca en la Champions, pero Flick es optimista sobre recuperación del equipo
MADRID (AP) — Hansi Flick cree que su Barcelona debe jugar “de forma más agresiva” ahora que el equipo azulgrana se ha sumido en una mini-crisis en la Liga de Campeones.
La derrota del Barcelona por 3-0 ante Chelsea el martes dejó al equipo en el 15to puesto antes que se completara la quinta fecha el miércoles. Venían de empatar 3-3 de visita al Club Brujas. En ambos partidos, los errores defensivos fueron costosos.
En Stamford Bridge la noche del martes, el Barcelona fue superado y su ataque no logró marcar por primera vez en 53 partidos. Fue un golpe de realidad para el club catalán que había levantado su rendimiento en España.
“Hemos visto al Chelsea más dinámico y es lo que quiero de mi equipo”, manifestó Flick. “Tenemos que luchar más y jugar de forma más agresiva”.
Fue la segunda derrota del Barça en esta edición de la Liga de Campeones. Perdió en casa ante el Paris Saint-Germain a principios de octubre. Con tres partidos restantes en la fase de liga, el conjunto catalán recibirá al Eintracht Frankfurt el próximo mes.
“Soy positivo de cara a los próximos encuentros. Nos quedan tres partidos y estoy confiado en que los podemos ganar”, sostuvo Flick.
Flick comentó que las cosas podrían haber sido diferentes en Londres si Ferran Torres hubiera convertido su oportunidad a corta distancia en el quinto minuto, cuando falló desde cerca del punto de penal con sólo el portero por vencer. Dijo que la tarjeta roja al defensor Ronald Araújo a los 44 minutos también incidió.
“Empezamos bien, con buenas oportunidades, de Ferran, y luego con uno menos ya era muy difícil. No tuvimos la intensidad necesaria, pero soy positivo de cara al futuro”, dijo. ”Con uno más se juega mejor. Para el Chelsea jugar contra diez es una gran ventaja”.
Flick señaló que también fue costoso que el equipo perdiera “balones fáciles bajo presión”.
Chelsea controló la posesión y tuvo tres veces más intentos que el Barça, cuya joven estrella Lamine Yamal fue anulado durante el partido.
Los azulgranas no habían dejado de marcar al menos una vez en un partido desde diciembre de 2024 contra Leganés en La Liga española, marcando la racha más larga en la historia del club.
De esos 53 partidos, el Barça ganó 39, empató siete y perdió siete, anotando 151 goles en el proceso.
Fue la cuarta derrota del equipo de Flick en sus últimos 10 partidos en todas las competiciones, con las otras ocurriendo cuando enfrentó a otros oponentes difíciles como el Real Madrid, el Sevilla y el PSG.
El Barça recibirá al Alavés el sábado en La Liga.
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Deportes AP: https://apnews.com/hub/deportes
Fiscalía mexicana investiga a dueño de Miss Universo por presunto tráfico de drogas y armas
Por FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ
CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — El dueño del concurso Miss Universo, el empresario mexicano Raúl Rocha Cantú, es investigado por la Fiscalía General de México por presunto tráfico de drogas, armas y combustible, dijo el miércoles a The Associated Press un funcionario federal.
El proceso contra Rocha Cantú surge en medio de la controversia que se dio en la última edición del certamen y la orden de arresto que emitió la víspera un tribunal de Tailandia contra la copropietaria de la Organización Miss Universo, Jakkaphong “Anne” Jakrajutatip, en relación con un caso de fraude.
La Fiscalía General de la República dijo en un comunicado que desde noviembre de 2024 abrió una carpeta de investigación por delincuencia organizada, en relación con narcotráfico, robo de combustible —conocido localmente como huachicol— y tráfico de armas. Señaló que se están obteniendo datos fundamentales para continuar y ahondar la investigación contra una persona identificada como Raúl “R”. Un agente federal, que habló en condición de anonimato porque no está autorizado para hablar públicamente del caso, dijo a la AP que el investigado es Rocha Cantú.
La AP solicitó una reacción a la Organización Miss Universo, pero no hubo respuesta de momento.
Hace diez días, un juez federal había emitido trece órdenes de captura contra algunos de los implicados en el caso. La Fiscalía no informó la identidad de los procesados, pero detalló que entre los detenidos está una funcionaria federal.
El funcionario que habló con AP no confirmó ni descartó que el empresario mexicano esté entre las trece personas que tienen orden de captura por el caso.
Según medios locales, Rocha Cantú también se vio envuelto en el polémico caso del Casino Royale de la ciudad norteña de Monterrey, en el estado de Nuevo León, que sufrió un atentado en agosto del 2011 donde murieron 52 personas. El casino era operado por las empresas CYMSA Corporation y Entertainment Enterprises of Mexico de las que Rocha Cantú era socio.
Por el caso fue condenado en julio pasado a 135 años de prisión a Baltazar Saucedo Estrada, señalado como narcotraficante y quien fue considerado el autor intelectual del ataque al casino.
Jakrajutatip fue acusada de fraude y luego liberada bajo fianza en 2023. No se presentó como se requería en un tribunal de Bangkok el martes. Dado que no notificó al tribunal sobre su ausencia, se consideró que existía riesgo de fuga, según un comunicado del Tribunal del Distrito Sur de Bangkok.
La copropietaria del concurso Miss Universo y su empresa, JKN Global Group Public Co. Ltd., fueron demandados por presuntamente defraudar a Raweewat Maschamadol al venderle bonos corporativos de la empresa en 2023. Este último afirma que la inversión le causó una pérdida de unos 930.362 dólares.
JKN adquirió los derechos del certamen de Miss Universo de IMG Worldwide LLC en 2022. En 2023, vendió el 50% de sus acciones de Miss Universo a Legacy Holding Group USA, que es propiedad de Rocha Cantú.
El paradero de la copropietaria de Miss Universo sigue siendo incierto. No se presentó en la 74ª competencia que se celebró en Bangkok a principios de este mes.
La última edición del certamen estuvo marcada por la polémica, incluyendo una reprimenda mordaz por parte de un organizador tailandés a Fátima Bosch de México, quien fue coronada Miss Universo 2025 el 21 de noviembre. Se informó que dos jueces se retiraron, con uno sugiriendo que había un elemento de manipulación en el concurso. Por separado, la policía tailandesa investigó acusaciones de que la publicidad del evento incluía promoción ilegal de casinos en línea.
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La periodista de The Associated Press Berenice Bautista contribuyó a este despacho desde la Ciudad de México.
Electoral Board removes one Will County board candidate, other cases pending
A Democratic candidate for Will County Board’s District 11, which covers the Bolingbrook area, was removed from the primary ballot but is appealing the Electoral Board’s decision.
Other County Board candidates who filed to run in the March 17 primary election had their petitions challenged, but were ordered to remain on the ballot.
One Democratic candidate for Will County’s District 4, which covers the Homer Glen and Mokena areas, still has a case pending before the Electoral Board.
The Electoral Board held several hearings this month to determine who is eligible to run in the primary. Hearings are expected to continue next week to determine whose names will ultimately be printed on primary ballots.
Because the Will County board operates on staggered terms, eight out of the 11 districts are up for election next year. Each district has two representatives, and control of the board, which has been evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, is at stake.
District 11
In the 11th District, Barbara Ann Parker, the DuPage Township clerk, and Tyler Giacalone, the founder and president of Young Democrats of Will County, objected to one another’s candidacy petitions.
Parker alleged Giacalone did not live in the district for at least a year before the primary and was ineligible to appear on the Democratic primary ballot.
During the hearing, it was shown that Giacalone moved to the district in June and had not lived in the district for a year, but was a legal voter, according to the Will County clerk’s office. He was ordered removed from the primary ballot in a 2-1 decision by the Electoral Board, documents show.
Giacalone is appealing the decision, saying that he should be included because he would live within the 11th District one year before the general election in November.
Will County Judge Ben Braun is expected to set a hearing date on his appeal next week. Giacalone’s attorney Burt Odelson is looking for an expedited hearing so that ballots can be printed.
Giacalone said he wants to prepare Will County for its long-term future needs and address the budget, housing, transportation, infrastructure and safety.
Giacalone said he believed that Parker’s petitions were invalid because she did not list the district number she was seeking, which created confusion, according to the Will County clerk’s office.
The office Parker sought was identified on her statement of candidacy and on most of the petition pages, the Electoral Board ruled, and did not create confusion. The petitions as a whole “were in substantial compliance with the Election Code,” and she will appear on the ballot, the board ruled.
The Democratic primary for District 11 also includes incumbent Jacqueline Traynere, a County Board member since 2008, and Sheldon Watts, a past candidate for Bolingbrook mayor.
The top two vote-getters in March will face Republican Steven Smith in November for two, two-year terms.
District 11 incumbent Elnalyn Costa, a Bolingbrook Democrat, is the only Will County board member not to seek reelection.
District 2
In District 2, which covers eastern Will County, candidate Neil “Muggsy” Gallagher survived several objectors and will appear on the Republican primary ballot against incumbents Judy Ogalla, of Monee, and Frankie Pretzel, of New Lenox.
The 17 objectors all claimed Gallagher was not a Republican and agreed to have their objections consolidated into one case.
The objectors presented evidence of the candidate’s voting history, which showed that he voted as a Democrat as recently as 2024, but that election cycle has since been completed, documents filed with the county clerk’s office said. Gallagher did not vote in 2025, documents show.
Party-switching is addressed by case law and is allowed when it occurs after a completed election cycle, documents said.
“I have had life-long conservative and Republican values,” Gallagher, of Manhattan Township, said. “These objectors, who have never met me, don’t change that. I’m not the kind of guy who needs my name all over the place, but all the things I do for my community are much more important.”
He said he voted in a Democratic primary to select the most moderate candidate in 2024 and has pulled both types of ballots. He said he votes for the “person, not the party,” but has conservative roots and beliefs based on his agricultural and farming upbringing.
Gallagher said he is challenging the incumbents because he is concerned with growing truck traffic and thousands of acres of prime farmland taken out of production by commercial solar facilities and warehouses.
Gallagher is a member of the Manhattan Irish Fest executive committee, a member of the Providence High School Men’s Club, a supporter of the Will County Farm Bureau and was involved with the Will Cook Soil and Water Board.
The top two vote-getters in the Republican primary will face Democrat Bob Howard in November for two, two-year terms.
District 4
In District 4, Democratic candidate Sheri Boniecki-Cooling, a member of the Homer Township Democratic Organization, Illinois Democratic Women of Will County and Homer Township Open Space committee, challenged the signatures and petitions for William Pratt, a retired union electrician, and Kevin Koukol, a past candidate for Homer Glen trustee.
At a hearing Tuesday, the Electoral Board determined Pratt had enough signatures to remain on the ballot.
In a recent social media post, Pratt said he has been a member of the Democrat Party since 1976 but is concerned the party veered to the fringe left. He urged Democrats to return “back to the center” and be the “common sense party.”
A hearing held Tuesday on Boniecki-Cooling’s challenge to Koukol’s candidacy was continued to Dec. 3.
Koukol incorrectly indicated on his petition papers that he was running for a seat in District 6 and not District 4, Boniecki-Cooling’s attorney Christopher Abbasi said.
The County Board seat for District 6, which is the Joliet area, is not up for election in 2026.
The error was noted by the clerk’s office, and Mark Gawron, a representative who turned in the papers on behalf of Koukol, changed the district number.
“It’s never appropriate to alter a notarized document because it compromises the integrity of that document,” Boniecki-Cooling said.
The Electoral Board said it could not make a decision on the case until it receives more information on whether a notarized document could be changed. The hearing was continued.
The top two vote-getters in the Democratic primary will face the top two vote-getters in the Republican primary for two four-year terms.
In the Republican primary, incumbents Steve Balich, of Homer Glen, and James Richmond, of Mokena, are seeking reelection and are being challenged by Michael Lepore, a Homer Glen trustee, and Pawel Tyrala, a part-time farmer, businessman and entrepreneur of Homer Township.
Michelle Mullins is a freelance reporter.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/26/electoral-board-removal/
Connecting The Dots… Reveals A Dire Picture
Connecting The Dots… Reveals A Dire Picture
Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,
“Reflect on what happens when a terrible winter blizzard strikes. You hear the weather warning but probably fail to act on it. The sky darkens. Then the storm hits with full fury, and the air is a howling whiteness. One by one, your links to the machine age break down. Electricity flickers out, cutting off the TV. Batteries fade, cutting off the radio. Phones go dead. Roads become impossible, and cars get stuck. Food supplies dwindle.
Day to day vestiges of modern civilization – bank machines, mutual funds, mass retailers, computers, satellites, airplanes, governments – all recede into irrelevance. Picture yourself and your loved ones in the midst of a howling blizzard that lasts several years. Think about what you would need, who could help you, and why your fate might matter to anybody other than yourself. That is how to plan for a saecular winter. Don’t think you can escape the Fourth Turning. History warns that a Crisis will reshape the basic social and economic environment that you now take for granted.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning
Knowing who to trust and who to distrust at this point in history is the most important quality for anyone who expects to maneuver their lives and those of their loved ones through the final years of this Fourth Turning. I trust people who base their opinions on facts, not some government approved narrative regurgitated by legacy media bubble headed bimbos and “expert” talking heads. Michael Burry, Ed Dowd and Edward Snowden are men whose opinion I value.
They have all put their careers on the line telling the truth, when virtually everyone else was toeing the Deep State/Wall Street/Big Pharma line regarding the surveillance apparatus monitoring everything we say on our phones or type on our computers; the Federal Reserve/Wall Street manufactured housing bubble to replace the Dot.com bubble; the Covid plandemic created as an excuse to manufacture trillions of new debt because our empire of debt began seizing up in September 2019; and the current Everything Bubble (commercial real estate, residential housing, stocks, bonds, bitcoin, AI).
I’ve been a huge fan of Ed Dowd since reading his principled, factual, data driven destruction of the Covid narrative in real-time when the world had lost its mind and had bowed down to the authoritarian dictates of our government overlords. He was right all along about the Covid scheme to enrich Big Pharma, politicians, and legacy media, while seeing how far the ignorant masses could be pushed before they pushed back. Other than Ed and a small minority of other brave truth tellers, the globalist elite scheme worked to perfection, with billions injected with a toxic gene altering concoction, and the power of government enhanced and broadened.
The tweet below from Ed Dowd was from sixteen months ago, four months before the election of Donald Trump. Absolutely no one was speculating about the scenario Ed laid out. And now his “conspiratorial conjecture” is playing out in real time. No one with any brains wanted the dementia ridden basement dummy or the cackling brain dead hyena, and their cult party of death and destruction to continue their reign of terror on our nation.
Trump and his MAGA legions swept into power (or was he ushered into power?) with promises of America First, an economic renaissance, retribution for the criminal politicians in DC who conducted a coup against Trump, the instantaneous end of wars, MAHA, releasing the Epstein client list, and drastic reduction in government spending through Musk’s DOGE initiative. The level of hope and enthusiasm from Trump’s base, and even the moderates who voted against Kamala, was off the charts. NOT ANY MORE.
This needs to be said now and I will be attacked. I have no proof so it’s a literal conspiracy theory but bears watching with eagle eyes.
Conjecture: If I were in the shadows and had an agenda of ushering in a reset to control the end of the current ponzi debt based fiat system…
— Edward Dowd (@DowdEdward) July 23, 2024
The real owners as described by George Carlin and/or the invisible government as described by Edward Bernays, really don’t care which figurehead from the uni-party is installed at the top of this dung heap of debt. The fleecing of the national treasury continues unabated by the ruling class, and the plight of the plebs deteriorates on a daily basis. But they have been convinced by their overlords to continue going deeper into debt, while thinking they can vote their way out of this delusional debt debacle of a floundering empire.
Trump’s closure of the border and continuing modest efforts to deport the tens of millions of illegal invaders is about the only real positive I’ve witnessed in his first year in office. The old “at least he’s not Kamala” mantra is wearing thin and does not explain his exasperatingly stupid decisions and bloviating pronouncements on a daily basis. Those who adhere to the principles of liberty, freedom, transparency, free speech, not policing the world, and fiscal responsibility are extremely disappointed, but not surprised by the results under Trump thus far. His absolute vitriolic hatred for Rand Paul, Thomas Massie, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, who voted with him 90% of the time, tells me all I need to know about Trump’s moral compass and adherence to the Constitution.
Despite the initial publicity campaign (propaganda) for DOGE and the huge cuts to spending which Trump spewed on a daily basis, the national debt increases by $6.5 billion PER DAY, just as it did under the pants shitting president before him. Future generations are incurring $3.3 billion PER DAY of interest on the now $39 trillion national debt. Trump’s tariff revenue is like pissing in an ocean of debt, as he acts like he is going to send us $2,000 checks with the money he just made us pay by imposing the tariffs. The big beautiful bill cut nothing. Ignoring future recessions and multiple looming wars, the CBO projects the debt to go up by another $23 trillion in the next ten years. I’ll take the over, if the entire Ponzi scheme doesn’t collapse beforehand.
The president who was going to end all the wars funded Israel’s mass genocide in Gaza and their attacks on Iran, while bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities with U.S. forces. Trump has continued to fund Ukraine’s futile war against Russia, while utilizing U.S. weaponry and personnel to conduct drone attacks within Russia. Trump and his NATO minions are conducting a proxy war against Putin, risking a WW3 and nuclear scenario. And now, under the guise of fighting the drug war, he is blowing up speedboats and planning to overthrow Maduro in Venezuela. I’m sure this is about illegal drugs and not the 300 billion barrels of oil sitting under Venezuela’s footprint.
It seems the government shutdown, which 95% of the country didn’t even notice because the government does absolutely nothing but shake us down for tax dollars to distribute to their cronies and enrich themselves, has allowed Trump and his bureaucrat minions to pretend they can’t calculate and announce the true figures regarding GDP, CPI, and employment. If the numbers were good, they would be shouting them from the roof of the White House. The fact they are refusing to report key economic data tells you all you need to know.
Now no Q3 GDP report?
The wheels must be coming off the “Golden Economy” bus. https://t.co/wb0GnYa15b
— Edward Dowd (@DowdEdward) November 25, 2025
I guess the fact government reported inflation in January 2025 when Trump took over was 3.0% (real figures of 5% to 10%) and it continues to run at 3.0% today doesn’t actually support Trump’s narrative of lower prices. And the average person, who shops for groceries, pays their monthly electric and gas bill, buys clothes, pays rent or a mortgage, and lives in the real world, knows they are being screwed while the ruling class reaps the windfall of inflated stock prices and want even more.
Trump threatening Powell to reduce interest rates isn’t to help you. It’s to help his real constituents on Wall Street, in corporate executive suites, and globalist billionaires who pull his puppet strings. Senior citizens who depend on interest income will be screwed coming and going, as their income will decline and the rise in inflation will make their living expenses rise further. I can’t understand why consumer confidence continues to fall and delinquencies on car loans, credit cards, student loans, and mortgages hit multi-year highs every month.
If Trump ever had any conservative principles, he has completely abandoned them. His totalitarian tendencies show themselves more each day, as he picks winners and losers within the economy, threatening to deport the Intel CEO one day and then investing $9 billion of your tax dollars in that company a week later. He is now all in on the AI scam, throwing billions of your tax dollars at these scam artists at Nvidia, Palantir, Oracle and the rest of the lying Silicon Valley scum, bilking investors and ultimately the tax payers out of their hard earned money. If this entire AI narrative is nothing but hot air and fraudulent promises, and it accounts for half of the country’s GDP growth, we will relive the Too Big To Fail 2008 bailout when it all blows up in the not too distant future.
If AI doesn’t work, it will risk recession, blowing out fiscal deficits into insufficient foreign UST demand.
If AI works, it will undermine the U.S. fiscal position (~half of US Federal receipts come from employment), blowing out deficits into insufficient foreign UST demand. https://t.co/z9koZiptU3
— Luke Gromen (@LukeGromen) November 24, 2025
Catherine Austin Fitts has been warning about the coming digital gulag for years. We now have a state sanctioned bubble in AI, with the billionaire club cheering it on, knowing they will be bailed out again when it all goes to shit, like bubbles always do. The fact Trump is encouraging this and adding fuel to the fire reveals this is all part of the ultimate plan to enslave us under the guise of saving the world once again. First it was the great financial crisis (2008/2009), then it was Covid (2020-2022), and now for the coup de grace with the implosion of the everything bubble and rollout of CBDCs, digital surveillance, social credit scores, and living under the thumb of a global authoritarian aristocracy.
Pulling the plug on massive subsidy invested in the digital gulag and shifting resources to investing in our young people is the pathway forward. https://t.co/l3Se9zw6NN
— The Solari Report | Catherine Austin Fitts (@solari_the) November 24, 2025
The globalists attempting to enact their WEF sanctioned Great Reset agenda see China as the template for enslaving the populations of the Western world. They are already monitoring the vast majority of all your communications, as Edward Snowden revealed over a decade ago. The noose tightens around our necks, as Trump and his acolytes enact measures to further reduce our liberty, freedom and rights. This is all building towards a final showdown. One day within the next few years the powers that be will pull the final block out of this jenga tower of unsustainable debt and it will all come crashing down. They will rush to assure you they can fix this if you just trust them once again and agree to their conditions of survival.
🚨 EDWARD SNOWDEN’S CHILLING WARNING IS NOW UNFOLDING IN REAL TIME
What China built… is exactly what Western governments are quietly preparing for.
Snowden is crystal clear:
Every photo, every purchase, every message, every movement — all of it is being fed into algorithms pic.twitter.com/X8RGFsRfY1
— karma (@karma44921039) November 23, 2025
I think I’ve connected the dots, and they paint a dire picture of the future, unless we refuse to comply with their plans. Will you and I have the courage to resist and fight their diabolical enslavement plans? Fourth Turnings always come down to a final battle between good and evil, with clear winners and losers. If they win, we become slaves in their digital gulag for eternity. If, against all odds, the liberty minded, freedom loving citizens of the world can somehow defeat these billionaire psychopaths in suits, along with their armies of feckless bureaucrats and politicians, future generations will have the opportunity to blaze a new path forward. I’m not a guy who hangs my hat on a hope narrative, but I am willing to fight for a better future for my children and their children. I hope you join me in this fight.
Tyler Durden
Wed, 11/26/2025 – 16:25
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/connecting-dots-reveals-dire-picture
Mbappé factura triplete en siete minutos en el partido de Champions del Real Madri ante Olympiakos
Kylian Mbappé facturó el segundo hat trick más rápido en la historia de la Liga de Campeones al marcar el miércoles tres veces para el Real Madrid en poco menos de siete minutos contra el Olympiakos.
El astro francés anotó a los 22, 24 y 29 minutos después de que el portugués Chiquinho había adelantado Olympiakos por delante en el octavo minuto del encuentro en Grecia.
La tripleta de Mohamed Salah para Liverpool contra Rangers en 2022 había roto el récord del más rápido jamás anotado en la Liga de Campeones, según Opta Analyst. El delantero egipcio necesitó seis minutos y 12 segundos para marcar sus goles después de ingresar al partido siete minutos antes de su primer gol.
Fue el quinto hat trick de Mbappé en la Liga de Campeones, y el segundo esta temporada. Había anotado tres veces contra Kairat en la segunda jornada de la fase de liga.
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Deportes AP: https://apnews.com/hub/deportes
Elgin News Digest: Nurtured by Nature program at Raceway Woods Sunday; state rep holding winter clothing, essential toiletries drive
Nurtured by Nature program at Raceway Woods Sunday
The Forest Preserve District of Kane County will host a free “Nurtured by Nature” program from 10 to 11 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 30, at Raceway Woods Forest Preserve, 17N702 Western Ave., Carpentersville.
Open to anyone 18 or older, the session will incorporate gentle stretching, deep breathing and a focus on awareness during a hike designed to nurture the mind, body and spirit, according to the forest preserve district’s website.
To register, call 630-444-3190, email programs@kaneforest.com or go to www.kaneforest.com/register.
The history of Disneyland will be discussed during a presentation being held Dec. 4 at the Gail Borden Public Library in Elgin. (AP)
Program on Disneyland being held Thursday at Elgin library
A free talk on “Disneyland: Creating the Happiest Place on Earth” will be presented from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4, in the Elgin Room at the Gail Borden Public Library, 250 N. Grove Ave., Elgin.
The presentation will cover how Walt Disney turned an orange and walnut grove in Anaheim, California, into one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, according to the library’s website. The park was built across the street from Disney’s Burbank studio.
Attendees will learn how Disneyland developed from a simple idea into an entertainment empire with theme parks all over the world.
To register to attend, go to attend.gailborden.info/event/14577533.
State rep holding winter clothing, essential toiletries drive
State Rep. Anna Moeller, D-Elgin, will be collecting winter clothing and essential toiletries between Dec. 5 and 18.
In addition to new or gently used winter coats and other items, the drive is seeking donations of toiletries, including toddler-sized diapers, baby wipes, soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, tampons, sanitary napkins and deodorant, according to a news release.
Drop-off locations include:
Taylor Family YMCA, 50 N. McLean Blvd., Elgin;
The Centre of Elgin, 100 Symphony Way, Elgin;
Rep. Anna Moeller’s District 43 Office, 164 Division St., Elgin;
Streamwood Community Center, 777 S. Bartlett Road, Streamwood;
Park Place Family Recreation Center, 550 S. Park Blvd., Streamwood;
Dundee Township Adult Activities Center, 665 Barrington Ave., Carpentersville.
For more information, call 847-841-7130 or email StateRepMoeller@gmail.com.
A discussion of the book “Running 10: The History of the Valley Fox Trot” will be held Dec. 6 at the Gail Borden Public Library in Elgin. (Elgin Valley Fox Trot)
Elgin Valley Fox Trot history program featured at Elgin library
The book “Running 10: The History of the Valley Fox Trot” will be discussed from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, in the Elgin Room at the Gail Borden Public Library, 270 N. Grove Ave., Elgin.
Typically held in late May, the Elgin Valley Fox Trot race has been a community tradition for 48 years and draws a large number of runners, walkers and volunteers, according to the library’s website. Attendees will learn the history behind the Fox Trot from the race book’s author and race co-director Edward Bates.
To register to attend, go to attend.gailborden.info/event/14563952.
Carpentersville seeks pension board, events committee members
Carpentersville is accepting resident applications to serve a 3-year term on its 5-member fire pension board and a 2-year term on its events advisory committee.
The fire pension board meets quarterly, and training related to the position will be provided for the person who is selected, according to a social media post. The events advisory committee meets periodically to plan the village’s special events, and members typically volunteer at those events.
To apply for either role, send a letter of interest and a resume to hr@cville.org.
Villagomez named to Gail Borden library foundation board
Rafael Villagomez has joined the Gail Borden Public Library District Foundation Board.
“The library has shaped generations in Elgin. I am honored to serve on the board to help sustain its mission, and strengthen one of the most trusted institutions in the community,” Villagomez said in a news release.
Villagomez is the managing broker for Epic Real Estate Group in Elgin. He serves as a deacon at St. Joseph Catholic Church, president of the Elgin Hispanic Network and an advisory board member for the Elgin Salvation Army.
The foundation raises money to support library exhibits and literacy efforts. To learn more about it, go to www.gailborden.info/foundation/about.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/26/elgin-raceway-fox-trot-disneyland-library/
Hinsdale seeks more volunteers for snow shoveling program
Hinsdale is seeking additional volunteers for its snow shoveling referral program, which connects residents over age 60 or who have a disability with volunteers willing to shovel snow for them.
“We’re a little low on volunteers this year,” said Rachel Russo, the village’s marketing and communications specialist. She also said that both volunteers and residents requesting assistance need to reapply each year.
The program started in 2021, has worked well and has grown in popularity, said Mike Hayes, Hinsdale’s Parks & Recreation superintendent.
“The village’s role is to allow those needing help and volunteers to connect, but it’s pretty much a self-running program,” he said.
Ed Weingartner, an 85-year-old Hinsdale resident who has lived in the village for about 50 years, is again taking advantage of the program and is very happy with it.
“It’s important that the village put this together, and it’s very well managed, but it’s up to me to pick and choose someone,” he said.
Contact information for participating volunteers is shared with those in need of snow shoveling assistance, and residents will contact the volunteers directly when assistance is needed. The volunteer is responsible for either shoveling the snow or notifying the resident if they are unable to complete the work.
While it is a volunteer service and there is no payment is required, any compensation would be worked out between the parties, Hayes said.
The village does not conduct background checks on any of the participating volunteers or clients. Both parties should conduct their own interviews and/or reference checks if desired before agreeing to work with a particular client or volunteer, Hayes said.
More information is at www.villageofhinsdale.org/snowshovelprogram.
Chuck Fieldman is a freelance reporter for Pioneer Press.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/26/hinsdale-volunteer-snow-shoveling/
