LA Times Says White Drivers Cause Air Pollution in Los Angeles Which Negatively Impacts People of Color

Sammy Roth, a writer for the LA Times and the weekly Boiling Point newsletter, published an article in which he claimed that many people of color in the Los Angeles area are subjected to a form of environmental racism as a result of the presence of affluent and white drivers.

Roth shared a new study from USC researchers that found Angelenos who drove more were subjected to less air pollution than those who drove less.

“It may sound like a paradox, but it’s not. It’s a function of the racism that shaped this city and its suburbs, and continues to influence our daily lives — and a stark reminder of the need for climate solutions that benefit everyone,” said Roth.

According to Roth, the primary finding of the study is that the amount of lung-damaging “fine particulate matter” that residents of a specific area of LA County are exposed to decreases by an estimated 0.62% for every one percent increase in miles driven to and from work by those residents.

He asked the study’s lead author, Geoff Boeing, a professor at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy.

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“He told me it largely comes down to the shameful history of Los Angeles County’s low-income communities of color being torn apart to make way for freeways — a history that has been extensively documented by The Times. Today, many residents of the county’s whiter, more affluent neighborhoods — who were often able to keep highways out of their own backyards — commute to work through lower-income Black and Latino neighborhoods bisected by the 10, 110 and 105 freeways and more.”

“It’s not like commuters are coming in and shopping in those communities, patronizing restaurants,” Boeing said. “They’re just driving through to get from one side of the city to the other.”

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The study itself is titled, “Local Inequities in the Relative Production of and Exposure to Vehicular Air Pollution in Los Angeles.” The study’s abstract defines its findings in explicitly racial terms.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/la-times-says-white-drivers-cause-air-pollution-in-los-angeles-which-negatively-impacts-people-of-color/

Game Over: FDIC Shutters Silicon Valley Bank, Appoints Receiver

Update (1135ET): Game over for Silicon Valley bank.

*FDIC: SVB BANK CLOSED BY CALIFORNIA REGULATOR

*FDIC: SVB BANK IS FIRST INSURED INSTITUTION TO FAIL THIS YEAR

*FDIC CREATES A DEPOSIT INSURANCE NATIONAL BANK OF SANTA CLARA

*FDIC: NAMED FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE FDIC AS RECEIVER

*FDIC CREATES A DEPOSIT INSURANCE NATIONAL BANK OF SANTA CLARA

*SILICON VALLEY BANK INSURED DEPOSITORS TO HAVE ACCESS MONDAY

As we noted before, while the FDIC noted that SVIB had $175BN in deposits as of Dec 31, note that some $151.5BN of these are uninsured, which means they get exactly zero although a sizable number of them likely pulled their deposits in the past few days.

And just like that SVB is no more: a historic collapse which in many ways was faster than Lehman, and which has seen SIVB stock plunge from $763 to 0 in 16 months.

Full FDIC statement below:

Silicon Valley Bank, Santa Clara, California, was closed today by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver. To protect insured depositors, the FDIC created the Deposit Insurance National Bank of Santa Clara (DINB). At the time of closing, the FDIC as receiver immediately transferred to the DINB all insured deposits of Silicon Valley Bank.

All insured depositors will have full access to their insured deposits no later than Monday morning, March 13, 2023. The FDIC will pay uninsured depositors an advance dividend within the next week. Uninsured depositors will receive a receivership certificate for the remaining amount of their uninsured funds. As the FDIC sells the assets of Silicon Valley Bank, future dividend payments may be made to uninsured depositors.

Silicon Valley Bank had 17 branches in California and Massachusetts. The main office and all branches of Silicon Valley Bank will reopen on Monday, March 13, 2023. The DINB will maintain Silicon Valley Bank’s normal business hours. Banking activities will resume no later than Monday, March 13, including on-line banking and other services. Silicon Valley Bank’s official checks will continue to clear. Under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, the FDIC may create a DINB to ensure that customers have continued access to their insured funds.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/silicon-valley-bank-crashes-65-halted-pending-news

The Financial Times Demanded Twitter Remove RFK, Jr, Ty and Charlene Bollinger, and Others for Challenging COVID-19 Vaccines

The Democrats are livid that Elon Musk allowed journalists to come into Twitter after he purchased the company and release damning information that the government, corrupt politicians (like Adam Schiff), corrupt NGOs, Big Media and Big Tech colluded to censor, shadow-ban, and purge conservative content.

On Thursday, before the House Judiciary subcommittee, the Democrats expressed their disgust with Elon Musk and two journalists who are uncovering the actions at Twitter that prevented average Americans from partaking in free speech.

The Democrats were raging at Elon Musk for revealing that the Democrats and their corrupt allies committed multiple crimes to censor the free speech in America.

One tweet that was released by Taibbi before his House interview related to a Big Media outlet demanding Twitter remove some COVID-19 vax offenders.

The Financial Times demanded that Twitter remove Bobby Kennedy, Jr., Ty and Charlene Bollinger, and more. The reason for the request was that they were not parroting that the narrative that the COVID-19 vax was necessary or even safe.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/the-financial-times-demanded-twitter-remove-rfk-jr-ty-and-charlene-bollinger-and-more-for-challenging-covid-19-vaccines/

Chinese Communist Party-Owned App TikTok Hires Biden Connected Firm as it Comes Under Scrutiny in Washington

The video sharing app TikTok is coming under increased scrutiny because it is owned by the Chinese Communist party and people believe it’s basically a spy app.

State governments and colleges all over the country are banning the use of it on official phones.

And now, TikTok has hired SKDK, a firm with ties to Joe Biden, to help it navigate the politics of DC.

Isn’t that just perfect?

TikTok, the wildly popular Chinese-owned social media app, has hired top Biden-connected consulting firm SKDK as it faces increasing scrutiny in Washington, according to two people, including one with direct knowledge of the hire.

The public affairs and political consulting firm is providing communications support to the company, which has come under government scrutiny, with senators recently introducing a bipartisan bill empowering Biden to restrict or potentially ban the service.

The hiring came in the last few months, according to the person with direct knowledge of the hire. A spokesperson for SKDK declined to comment while a spokesperson for TikTok who also declined to comment.

The fire TikTok has faced in D.C. has been building for a number of years after the Trump administration tried to ban the app. It has continued with the Biden administration’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. conducting a national security review of TikTok.

SKDK is seen as the most well-connected Democratic firm in Washington with former top employees in senior and mid-level roles in the Biden administration. Anita Dunn, a founding partner, returned to the White House last May where she is senior adviser after a stint in the early part of the Biden administration and work on the 2020 campaign. Other former SKDK employees in the Biden administration include deputy White House communications directors Kate Berner and Herbie Ziskend, deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh and Interior Department press secretary Tyler Cherry.

This is a huge development.

If Biden and Democrats want to downplay the notion that they’re in the pocket of the Chinese Communist party, this is not the way to do it.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/chinese-communist-party-owned-app-tiktok-hires-biden-connected-firm-as-it-comes-under-scrutiny-in-washington/

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CITIZENS OUTRAGED Over Impending Decision By Unelected Bureaucrat to Takeover 162,000 PRISTINE ACRES of Northern Michigan Land For National Guard…Plan Will Double Size of Already Largest Training Facility in U.S.==

100 Percent Fed Up exclusive-The Michigan National Guard wants to DOUBLE the size of its training facility at Camp Grayling. As the largest National Guard training facility in the United States by far, Camp Grayling currently spans 148,000 acres or almost 240 square miles in northern Michigan. If approved, this proposal will more than double the amount of state-occupied land to almost 500 square miles.

Opposition to the proposed 162,000-acre addition is overwhelming and, in today’s polarized society, is shockingly nonpartisan. Local residents, over 40 township/county governments, state reps and senators, our district congressman, veteran Jack Bergman, and literally every conservation group are emphatically against the land grab, which is proposed as a 20-year, no-cost lease from the DNR. Conservation concerns include potential chemical warfare pollutants, experimental weapons testing, and environmental changes affecting the region’s plentiful wildlife and abundant vegetation.

And why, at every turn, does Director Lott appear determined, even eager, to accommodate ONE general’s request while ignoring the pleas and sound arguments of thousands of Michigan residents who continue to steadfastly oppose this massive land grab?

One of the more vocal opponents is a combat veteran and retired Lt. Colonel in the National Guard–Mike McNamara, who recently said, “As a retired Lieutenant Colonel and former Deputy Post Commander, if I thought for one minute this would save just one soldier’s life, I’d be 100% behind this expansion. But this expansion proposal is NOT about that.”

Surprisingly, there has been little in the way of a detailed explanation for why they need the significant additional land mass. They say it is required to properly train for expected new warfare, which includes low-impact cyber, electromagnetic warfare, and unmanned aircraft that necessitate long distances. Yet, many argue that the Camp’s current acreage is underutilized. Camp Grayling in Northern Michigan is already tens of thousands of acres larger than other states’ National Guard Training Areas. In other words, National Guard units in ALL other states achieve the same degree of combat preparedness, and they ALL do so on a fraction of the amount of land currently accessible to Michigan’s National Guard at Camp Grayling.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/citizens-outraged-over-impending-decision-by-unelected-bureaucrat-to-takeover-162000-pristine-acres-of-northern-michigan-land-for-national-guard-plan-will-double-size-of-already-largest-training-fa/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/citizens-outraged-over-impending-decision-by-unelected-bureaucrat-to-takeover-162000-pristine-acres-of-northern-michigan-land-for-national-guard-plan-will-double-size-of-already-largest-training-fa/

Two Former Merrill Traders Sentenced To One Year In Prison For Precious Metal Manipulation

Two former Merrill Lynch traders were each sentenced to a year and a day in prison Thursday for manipulating the precious-metals markets, the US Department of Justice said Thursday.

Edward Bases, 61, and John Pacilio, 59, used large “spoof” orders to push precious metal prices up and down for their own gain, the Justice Department said in a statement.

They were convicted in Chicago in 2021 for fraudulently pushing market prices up or down by placing large “spoof” orders in the precious metals futures markets that they did not intend to fill. As a result they manipulated the price of gold, silver and platinum prices in the direction they wanted from 2008 to 2014.

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/two-former-merrill-traders-sentenced-one-year-prison-precious-metal-manipulation

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/two-former-merrill-traders-sentenced-one-year-prison-precious-metal-manipulation

Watch: Fauci Defends Gain-of-Function, Mocks Lab Leak Censorship

In a remarkable interview Thursday, Anthony Fauci had the gall to defend dangerous gain of function research, which in all likelihood was the direct cause of the COVID pandemic, and mocked the idea that a lab leak is being covered up.

Appearing on Fox News, Fauci told anchor Neil Cavuto “If you shut off all gain of function research. Did you get the flu shot this year, Neil? If you did, and you got it from an influenza vaccine, that was gain-of-function that made that influenza vaccine. That’s what people don’t understand.”

https://rumble.com/v2cfmls-is-he-kidding-me-fauci-mocks-jordan-over-lab-leak-theory-censorship.html

Russia issues latest report on US-funded biolabs in Ukraine

The facilities continue to operate with dangerous pathogens, the defense ministry in Moscow claims

US-funded biological research laboratories are continuing to operate in Ukraine in spite of official statements indicating that they had been “deactivated,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a Friday report on Washington’s international pathogen research programs.

According to the commander of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, Moscow has obtained documents that suggest Kiev has continued to coordinate with the Pentagon in the military biological field, including the transfer of pathogenic biomaterials.

Kirillov pointed to an official appeal from ‘ch2m-hill’ – a key Pentagon contractor – to Ukrainian companies participating in a “program to counter particularly dangerous pathogens in Ukraine.”

The document reports on the continuation of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s (DTRA) biological program in Ukraine and outlines future tasks, such as consolidating collections of dangerous pathogens and deploying systems for managing bio risks and monitoring the epidemiological situation.

Kirillov also stated that, in January 2023, the government of Ukraine published a new set of requirements for the “accounting, storage, transportation and destruction” of various pathogens, which included instructions for the international transportation by air of substances with the highest hazard class. He noted that the transport document templates provided in the guidelines only featured examples of US labs as recipients or senders of the hazardous biomaterials.

The lieutenant general warned that Kiev and Washington could potentially use their research to carry out “provocations with dangerous pathogens,” which they would later blame on Russia.

In his report, Kirillov reiterated Russia’s concerns with the potential risks associated with the “dual-use” programs that the US implements on its own territory and abroad.

He pointed out that the work of US biolabs on dangerous pathogens “seems to be the height of recklessness” against the backdrop of viral outbreaks such as anthrax and cholera in various parts of the world and the rise in animal diseases such as African swine fever, avian influenza, and foot and mouth disease.

The commander also drew attention to the US pharmaceutical industry’s attempts to secure “unlimited profits” by conducting “directed evolution” research on the Covid-19 virus, in order to “proactively develop new vaccines,” which Pfizer R&D director Jordan Walker admitted to in a Project Veritas expose.

Kirillov also reiterated Russia’s position that the main goal of US bio programs across the world was to “establish global biological control” by degrading the national health systems of other countries and subverting the provisions of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) with its own rules, which were developed to serve the interests of Washington and its allies.

https://www.rt.com/russia/572769-ukraine-us-pathogen-research/

Glenn Youngkin Calls for Gender Neutral School Bathrooms at CNN Town Hall

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin called for more gender-neutral bathrooms to be added to Virginia's public schools.

GOP Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin called for more “gender-neutral bathrooms” to be added to public schools during a CNN Town Hall in which he joined moderator Jake Tapper to field questions from students and parents on education issues.

Governor Glenn Youngkin was elected in a pro-parental rights wave that was largely spurred by the massive backlash to the trans bathroom rape of a teenage girl in a Loudoun County high school by a “gender-fluid” male in a skirt. During his Thursday night CNN town hall, Youngkin called for more gender-neutral bathrooms to be placed in public schools when questioned on school sports and restroom policies by a 16-year-old “transgender man.”

After plainly stating that athletes should compete in sports against their own biological sex, Governor Youngkin took a big step to the left, saying that “we need gender-neutral bathrooms” in public schools.

“What’s most important is that we try very hard to accommodate students,” Youngkin said. “That’s why I have said many many times, we just need extra bathrooms in schools. We need gender-neutral bathrooms, and so, people can use the bathroom that they in fact are comfortable with.”

https://nationalfile.com/video-glenn-youngkin-calls-for-gender-neutral-school-bathrooms-at-cnn-town-hall/