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2024-01-09 10:58:00

The public channel has decided to suspend Denis Collard from presenting the weather forecast until October 14, 2024. A temporary eviction caused by his potential candidacy for the municipal elections, which would taint his obligation of neutrality. The presenter is already a municipal councilor for Bertrix and for the province of Luxembourg.

”I did indeed receive notification that I was being removed from the air as of December 25. Whether I run for office or not, it’s all the same. I am considered a notorious activist,” Denis Collard told our colleagues at Sudinfo.

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2024-01-09 11:01:00

The value of the dollar in Russia fell for the first time in 2024 to 89.92 rubles. This follows from data from the Moscow Exchange.

The dollar once morest the ruble fell below 90 rubles, namely to 89.92 rubles, they say on the Moscow Exchange website. Such a drop in the value of the American currency occurred for the first time since December 29, 2023.

Screenshot: Mosbirzhi website

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2024-01-09 10:56:00

Do the works on the northern metro threaten the stability of the Schaerbeek town hall? The royal commission on monuments and sites is concerned regarding this. And fears a scenario like that of the Palais Du Midi. According to a document released by RTBF this morning, the commission expresses fears regarding the stability of assets within the project perimeter. Including the community house

A municipal hotel which is a listed Flemish neo-renaissance style building. A jewel of Brussels heritage dating from 1887 for its oldest parts. As is Place Colignon on which it is located. It is under this site that the excavators will come into action at a depth of 30m, to drill a tunnel reserved for metro trains. One of the seven stations of the extension of metro line 3 to Evere is to be built there. A 4 and a half km route which joins Albert to Bordet via the new Toots Thielemans station.

This opinion from the commission follows the submission of a second permit request for the extension of the metro.

The Royal Commission on Monuments and Sites expresses fears regarding the stability of the buildings located on the perimeter of the project, including the Schaerbeek municipal hotel. A concern also expressed for the case of the Palais du Midi. Recent events have proven him right. The marshy ground of the Senne did not allow the drilling of the 120 meter tunnel under the palace. Finally, the Palais du Midi will be dismantled from the inside to pass the cranes through the roof and dig the tunnel.

To avoid the same scenario at Place Colignon, the Commission asks that all necessary precautions be taken to ensure that the Schaerbeek municipal hall is maintained in perfect condition. More technically, it requires the installation of witnesses or sensors in the building and calls for the carrying out of a real heritage study.

The municipality is keen to obtain monitoring to guarantee the stability of the municipal hotel by keeping it accessible and in operation during the work.

The project owner Beliris wants to be reassuring and reminds us that the town hall at Place de Colignon is not built on the Senne valley as is the case with the Palais du Midi. Inventories before, during and following work are also planned for all buildings on the square thanks to permanent monitoring of movements via a principle of sensors on the municipal hotel as well as on neighboring buildings.

A.C.

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2024-01-09 10:56:40

Hawaii’s regulatory framework is stacked once morest the mom-and-pop businesses in favor of large corporations and special interests.

The big question that people like to ask here in Hawaii is, “How do we diversify the economy?” This is usually followed by a similar question, “How do we stop being so dependent on tourism or real estate in Hawaii?”

To be honest, I suspect most people in Hawaii already know the answers, or at least, those who have spent more than five seconds in local government most definitely should. Asking these questions has become an intellectual form of virtue signaling, much like the fictional Patrick Bateman of “American Psycho” pretending to discuss politics with his friends over dinner with polished talking points while internally boiling over with narcissistic resentment.

Can we dispense with the pretentiousness and concern trolling and just tell the truth for once in Honolulu? We’re not dependent on tourism and real estate in Hawaii because that’s all we’ve got; we’re dependent on tourism and real estate because that’s all we’re allowed to do here.

I feel sorry for the average Honolulu resident. Most of them probably grew up like the average 20th century American did, learning to tie their shoes, color coloring books inside the lines, be polite, work hard, study hard in school, be a good sport, and always obey the rules.

Why do we obey the rules? Because the rules are supposedly there to make things fair for everyone, and as long as you obey the rules, wait your turn, work hard, and be persistent, you will succeed in life. (I agree, by the way.)

But then we notice something interesting: The vast majority of people making the rules here in Hawaii are not elected by “average people” but by corporations, political action committees and powerful unions, all of which benefit from rules, regulations, laws, exemptions, licenses, subsidies and contracts or partnerships with the government. Rules, in their case, are made to make things unfair for their competitors.

All that stuff you learned to do growing up? Forget it, that’s just for you to obey, not those who made the rules and those who get the exemptions.

Yes, everyone wants to run for office in Hawaii because everyone knows that this is a palace economy and the only way to get what you want is to have someone in office who can give it to you.

Don’t believe me? Next time someone throws their hat into the ring for a local election, try having a discussion with someone regarding their chances of success. I guarantee you won’t hear “this person will win because they’re extremely egalitarian and a math whiz.” Instead you will hear “such-and-such group wants this person” or “the so-and-so people are backing him because they need this-and-that.” It’s disgusting.

These are entities that compete by making it illegal to compete with them, that socialize expenses by making the public pay for investments but then privatize profits for themselves, and that always come out on top, because what they do is conveniently considered “an important part of the economy” by those in power.

These same groups through dollars hold powerful sway over for-profit media to influence public opinion, and for those they can’t trick or cajole, they intimidate through the use of synthetic activist movements and protests in the community.

So how does this pertain to “diversifying” the economy in Hawaii?

Small business needs to be supported if we want to diversify the economy away from tourism. (Kuʻu Kauanoe/Civil Beat)

If you haven’t already, you should make it this week’s homework assignment to get a copy of John Steinbeck’s novella “The Pearl” and read it. The story revolves around a poor fisherman who by chance discovers a giant pearl large enough to sell for a price that might get him and his family out of poverty.

The fisherman can’t actually sell the pearl for the price he wants, however, because everyone in his town is directly or indirectly on the payroll of the same pearl cartel. His physician, his church, his friends, and even the pearl buyers at the market are all owned by the same entity, and so, everyone is hellbent on getting him to sell his pearl for less than it’s worth or tricking him into giving it up for free. He’s stuck in poverty because the town keeps him in poverty, even when he has value to offer.

That’s not diversity; that’s monopoly, and it’s a perfect allegory for what Hawaii has become.

The key to economic success has always been the innovation of small business owners. Why is that? Because the people in your community who live next door to you understand your interests, observe your habits and are able to adapt to your needs. They can invent a solution to your problem, create a product for your desire and find a price that you can afford to get it to you.

The problem is, the minute they start to do that, established and entrenched corporate and government interests start to say to themselves, “wait a minute, these guys are taking away our business, or making money and we’re not getting our cut … let’s find a way to claim what they’re doing is bad for the environment, culturally insensitive, or dangerous to public safety, and then we’ll get it banned or heavily regulated.”

America was built by small business, and Hawaii, and America, can be saved by small business, if we allow it.

The fact that things as seemingly innocuous as cesspools, building permits, even vehicle safety checks are all corrupted in Hawaii tells you just how deep the tentacles of manipulation can go in this state. We can’t compete and we can’t succeed so long as the rules benefit some at the expense of others.

So let’s be honest. If we really want to “diversify” Hawaii and build the economy, we have to allow the mom-and-pop small businesses to be able to innovate and profit without someone shutting them down.

These are the people who are eliminated by compliance costs that are set by those who can afford to pay them in the hopes that others cannot. These are the people who have the ability to see the world in a new and better way, but are often shut out by those who depend on the world being run in an old and outdated way. These are the people who get their startup funds from their family and neighbors, not taxpayers and central banks.

America was built by small business, and Hawaii, and America, can be saved by small business, if we allow it.

So if we are serious regarding increasing the quality of life and the abundance of wealth for the average person, we have to allow people to do the things that they enjoy and that their community makes profitable.

If we’re going to ask questions like “how do we diversify the economy” we need to be prepared for the honest answer: We diversify it by allowing people to do what they want, not what the government and their friends want.

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