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Thursday, August 15, 2019

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The Hillary Clinton Dead Pool

ILLEGAL ALIEN WANTED FOR CHILD RAPE, CAUGHT IN LOUISIANA

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) – United States Border Patrol (USBP) says an undocumented immigrant was arrested in Baton Rouge Wednesday, Aug. 7 on charges of felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile and forcible rape.

Agents responded to a call for assistance from the Walker Police Department Wednesday on I-12 regarding three people. Once agents arrived on scene, they found a vehicle with two people in it, who reportedly admitted to being in the country illegally. The two people, both Guatemalan citizens, were taken into custody and taken to USBP’s Baton Rouge Station for processing. The third person presented a valid permanent resident card and was released, officials say.

During processing, it was discovered the driver, identified as Pascual Mas-Xocholij, 40, had given a fraudulent name. Mas-Xocholij was wanted in East Baton Rouge Parish for felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile and forcible rape, officials say. The other person was processed for being in the country illegally and was turned over to ICE/ERO.

“For the third time in the past few months, New Orleans Border Patrol worked closely with a local department, this time the excellent Walker PD, to arrest an illegal alien accused of bringing harm to our most precious resource – our children. I also find it remarkable that a large percentage of the New Orleans Border Patrol are deployed to south Texas to assist...

Amid a rash of news reports Wednesday claiming the U.S. is headed for a recession, thanks in large part to President Donald Trump’s tariff-centric trade policies, comes a little-noticed report indicating that China, our main economic competitor, isn’t doing so well after all.

While most of the media ignored it, The Wall Street Journal reported on a raft of bad economic news for China that likely explains why Beijing was so quick to end its currency manipulation a week ago after the president warned of further trade consequences.

Specifically, the WSJ noted that unemployment in China has spiked amid slowdowns in the country’s manufacturing sector and decreased consumer activity, all of which threaten the Asian giant’s 6-6.5 percent annual growth rate target:

China reported a raft of weak economic data, adding to evidence that the world’s second-largest economy is slowing further as it remains locked in a trade war with the U.S.

The jobless rate in Chinese cities returned in July to its highest level since regular reporting on the data began, as employers turned cautious. Other key economic readings for the month, including factory production, consumption and property investment, came in much lower than expected.
While China earlier reported a surprise jump in exports in July, economists say the more-than-yearlong trade conflict with the U.S. has dented market confidence, forcing manufacturers to scale back production and investment, and prompting consumers to tighten purse strings.

“The cooling of economic activity last month was even worse than that of 2008 when industrial production was hit by the global financial crisis, while domestic consumption remained strong,” noted Zhaopeng Xing, an economist with ANZ.

He added that because of the economic downturn, the Chinese Communist Party would have to implement stimulus policies this year in order to reach the...

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The Latest in Corporate Gun Control: Grading Banks on Their Gun-Related Business

The forces fighting for total civilian disarmament first utilized the power of government to pressure financial institutions to stop doing business with the gun industry. The Obama administration undertook that effort via Operation Choke Point.

The general outline is the DOJ and bank regulators are putting the screws to banks and other third-party payment processors to refuse banking services to companies and industries that are deemed to pose a “reputation risk” to the bank. Most controversially, the list of dubious industries is populated by enterprises that are entirely, or at least generally, legal.

Allegedly sketchy, but still legal businesses like payday lenders, escort services, pornographers and, yes, firearms and ammunition manufacturers and retailers.

As American Banker wrote once the Obama administration was safely in the rear-view mirror . . .

Those involved in Operation Choke Point demonstrated a blatant disregard for the rule of law and due process, as well as the U.S. regulatory system, and the effect of their actions will resonate for years to come. All Americans should demand answers and corrective action, including the immediate removal of all those involved from their current positions — including both (FDIC Chairman Martin) Gruenberg and (FDIC Chicago Regional Director Anthony) Lowe, who still serve in FDIC leadership.

That all finally came to an end after the 2016 election. But the pressure on banks and insurers then shifted from the federal to the state level. After Parkland, New York’s Governor Andrew Soprano and his Consigliere of Financial Services, Maria Vullo, put the squeeze on banks and insurers with operations in New York (i.e., almost all of them). They let it be known, in no uncertain terms, that they wanted to see them stop doing business with the NRA and to cut off their Carry Guard insurance program. Others have since jumped on board.

The NRA has sued New York over their strong-arm tactics and that legal action is still working its expensive way through the courts.

In the wake of those moves, a number of banks and other businesses made ostentatious announcements letting all the good people know that they’d decided not to touch any gun money any more because it’s all so icky. Too-big-to-fail lenders like Citigroup and Bank of America were prominent among them. It was all part of a new corporate gun control pushby big American business against the déclassé gun industry.

Now, as the New York Times reports, some operation calling itself Guns Down America is publishing a scorecard of big banks and the degree to which they’re doing business with gun makers, the NRA and other firearms-related entities. They’ve just published the grades at isyourbankloaded.org.

Guns Down America and our partners reviewed public financial and legal filings to determine how much business the nation’s 15 largest banks have conducted with gun manufacturers, the NRA, and the top recipients of NRA contributions in Congress. Based on this information, we have graded the banks on a 100-point scale.

If you’re keeping score at home, a failing grade is very much a good thing (see above).