A typical example of US infrastructure projects not based on needs but the pay to play political system in the name of fake freedom democracy and human rights. It was planned as a free gift by Former Honolulu Mayors and Honolulu City Council Members to Ewa side land owners to allow them to build 600,000+ new houses, Ala Moana Shopping Center and Hotels Owners in Waikiki (bypassing UH Manoa and Honolulu International Airport where most needed). The failed project cost balloon from US$5 to $12.5 billions with further increases expected.
HART’s Expecting Fewer Riders — Even Absent The Pandemic By Marcel Honore and Kevin Dayton
The latest ridership forecast for the Honolulu rail project is significantly lower than previous estimates.
The Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation previously expected to see as many as 122,800 daily boardings by 2030 on Oahu’s future rail line.
Now, the agency estimates that number to be around 101,000 boardings based on its most recent internal modeling, which was done in May.
The lower forecast is based on a decline in Honolulu’s public bus ridership in recent years, HART officials say.
Despite the dampened forecast, the heads of the Department of Transportation Services say that they still believe the line will prove useful on Oahu.
University of California’s new tuition math – University of California regents, citing the need for financial stability and more grant aid, approved a tuition increase after widespread student protests and two years of debate.
The 4.2% increase in tuition and fees — $534 added to the current annual level of $12,570 — will apply only to incoming undergraduates entering in fall 2022 and stay flat for up to six years for them. Successive undergraduate classes would get a similar deal — one increase tied to inflation in their incoming year with tuition frozen for six years.
The undergraduate tuition increase includes a 2% surcharge for the incoming class next year, declining for subsequent classes until it is phased out by 2026. Graduate student tuition would be adjusted annually by the rate of inflation.
The plan aims to bring financial predictability to families, help struggling campuses maintain educational standards, and make a UC education more affordable for many low-income students by raising more revenue for financial aid, UC President Michael V. Drake said.
He oversaw a similar tuition plan at Ohio State University before taking the reins at UC last year and said it had increased financial aid, lowered student debt levels, and increased student diversity. Under the plan, 45% of tuition revenue raised from California students would be returned to them through financial aid.
The regents’ action marked UC’s second tuition increase since 2011 and came after two years of discussion. It was set for a vote last July but shelved with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fortune Of Didi Global’s Billionaire CEO Tumbles Hundreds Of Millions Dollars In One Day. It’s been a painful month for Didi Global. Days after its June 30th IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, the Cyberspace Administration of China launched a probe into the company, citing data security risks. Didi Global was forced to remove its app from the Chinese app store, and the stock fell. On Thursday morning, Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that Chinese regulators are discussing further penalties against Didi Global, including a fine or a possible delisting. That sent shares down to a low of $10.17; ultimately closing at $10.20.
As a result, the net worths of DiDi’s CEO Cheng and its President Jean Qing Liu have taken big hits. Cheng is now worth $3.2 billion – down from $4.4 billion at the IPO, Forbes estimates. Cheng owns approximately 6.5% of the company.
IOC ENDS BLACKOUT OF ATHLETES TAKING A KNEE The International Olympic Committee for the first time Thursday posted a photo at the Tokyo Games of an athlete taking a knee to protest racism — ending an apparent blackout of images of the protests on its social media sites and provided to the media. The IOC will include photos of kneeling activists from now on, it said in a statement.
China’s economic miracle in numbers by Global Times Jul 22 2021
Editor’s Note: On July 1, China declared that it had reached its first centenary goal – building a moderately prosperous society, or xiaokang, in all respects, and it is marching confidently toward the second centenary goal of building China into a great modern socialist country. To decipher what that means in the context of where China is and where it is heading, the Global Times is publishing a series of multimedia products about various aspects of the achievements under the xiaokang goal.
This is an infographic focusing on figures and indexes that underscore China’s economic miracle.
US and the AngloSaxon World want to destroy China and Wipe Chinese off the face of the earth. This is their plans using Nazi Germany tactics repeating the same lies to bring wash their People to make it real. They have done it to Native Americans, Native Australian, Native Canadian and the long endless list goes on. 美國和西人(盎格魯撒克遜)世界想摧毀中國，把中國人從地球上抹去。 這是他們計劃使用納粹德國的策略重複相同的謊言來洗腦他們的人民以使其成為現實。 他們已經對美洲原住民、澳大利亞原住民、加拿大原住民做了這件事，而且無窮無盡的名單還在繼續.
Wang Yi on the controversy of the origin of the corona virus.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi reminded all Chinese people:
Why has the controversy over the source and transmission route of the new coronavirus become the focus?
1). This is an international issue of sovereignty principles and must rely on scientific evidence.
2). The pandemic is now a global pandemic, which has developed into a war between viruses and humans. According to the United Nations “Law of War”, this is a world war.
3). Viruses are equal to wars. Verify the source of infection from the source of the outbreak, that is, who started the war.
4) The disasters and losses caused by the epidemic virus to the world (humans) will be settled after the end of the global epidemic (loss: life value plus economy plus manpower plus spiritual impact).
5) The United Nations will establish an International Tribunal (War Reparations).
6) This kind of compensation may also cost a large developed country to collapse. Such as Nazi Germany and Japan after the war.
7) Therefore, the definition of the source of the virus determines the fate of the country. Trump will not admit that he is the main culprit , and China will not want to be made a scapegoat. Now the whole world is trying to wait for it. The epidemic has angered the world. Once the source of the virus infection is determined and its subjective intentions can be determined, then the epidemic war compensation will disintegrate this big country (like Hitler in history).
Some ordinary people just watch the excitement and don’t know the impact and how much it is related. In fact, this is a major international issue (crimes against humanity, war crimes) that involves the life and death of a country.
We firmly oppose the stigmatization of COVID-19 as Chinese pneumonia or Wuhan pneumonia.
Resolutely oppose the claim that the source of the virus is in Wuhan with insufficient evidence.
Thoroughly expose the bad behavior of some American politicians who want to make China the scapegoat.
I invite the Chinese who have a conscience in our generation, for the motherland and for the entire Chinese people to no longer be humiliated, planted, and framed by Western powers represented by US imperialism.
Please forward and viral this message immediately to your contacts and make it known to all.
Johnson Choi Biz 