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JOHN SCHINDLER: Media Bites on Trump’s Kremlin Ties, But Clinton’s Are Long-Standing and Deep.

The involvement of the Clinton Foundation in a shady lucrative deal to sell the Kremlin 20 percent of America’s uranium—the most militarily useful of all chemical elements, given its nuclear applications—was so outrageous even the mainstream media took notice. I’ve previously exposed how the Podesta Group, a Democratic lobbying firm which is closely tied to Team Clinton, has worked for the biggest bank in Russia, which is owned by the Kremlin—and linked to Russian intelligence. I’ve also brought to light how Hillary, as secretary of state, helped the Clinton Foundation and her close friends make millions of dollars off sweetheart deals with Russia’s “Silicon Valley”—which, yet again, is mostly owned by the Kremlin and has documented links to its spy agencies.

Yet the real “smoking gun” which may conclusively link Clinton, Inc. to Moscow and its intelligence services goes back to the Cold War and constitutes a remarkable case of mainstream media unwillingness to pursue juicy stories when they reflect badly on Democrats.

It involves Armand Hammer, who died back in 1990, but in his decades in the limelight was a famous industrialist who lived lavishly.

Read the whole thing, which includes the media’s apparent lack of interest in pursuing the Moscow-Gore-Clinton connection.

But then the mainstream media has never been much interested in uncovering connections between Moscow and prominent Democrats.

BIG MONEY IN ASTEROIDS: Asteroid mining, that is.

The reality is that the Earth’s crust is saddled with uneconomic materials, while certain types of asteroids are almost pure metal. X-type asteroids, for example, are thought to be the remnants of large asteroids that were pulverized in collisions in which their dense, metallic cores got separated from the mantle. There is one such X-type asteroid near earth that is believed to hold more platinum than ever mined in human history. Asteroid mining companies such as Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries are the first-movers in the sector, and they’ve already started to identify prospective targets to boldly mine where no man has mined before.

HMM: Reuters/Ipsos Poll: Trump Gains Ground On Clinton. “Several battleground states that were leaning toward Hillary Clinton have shifted in recent days to become toss-ups, a Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project reported Friday. In Florida and North Carolina, Donald Trump and Clinton are now reportedly tied. The two candidates are also neck-and-neck in Ohio. In Michigan, Clinton’s lead over her Republican rival has decreased, they say, and the state is too close to call. Still, the States of the Nation project is predicting the Democratic nominee has about a 90 percent chance of winning the 270 electoral votes necessary to secure the presidency.”

The polls are so volatile that no matter what happens, somebody will be able to claim they predicted it.

RESET: Serbian FM Says Belgrade Plans To Sign Pact With Russian-Led Eurasian Economic Union.

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said Belgrade plans on signing an integrated agreement with the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).

Dacic said during a visit to the Russia city of Suzdal on November 3 that Serbia has “free-trade-zone agreements with certain EAEU members, but they differ.”

He added that Belgrade is now planning to sign a common agreement good for all members of the EAEU.

Dacic said his government would work to find a “unification with all of these [separate] agreements [with individual EAEU members].”

Serbia has traditionally close ties to Russia but also hopes to become a member of the European Union.

And Moscow continues chipping away at Europe from every possible angle, no matter how small.

IT’S COME TO THIS: DC Attorney: FBI Agents Working To Expose Top DOJ Officials. “DiGenova, who has bureau sources close to the FBI investigation, named Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, Assistant Attorney General Peter Kaznick, Assistant Attorney General John P. Carlin, and Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell as senior level staff at DOJ have who have ‘done something that they are going to regret.'”

BLUE MODEL BLOWUP: Will the Blue Model Lose the Election for Hillary?

Day Two of Philadelphia’s major transit strike is underway, and rumor has it, the protesting unions are using the upcoming election to pressure officials for a settlement. . . .

Pennsylvania is an important battleground state and although polls of the state still show Hillary Clinton up, with the national race tightening, there’s a lot of pressure to make sure her operation in Pennsylvania delivers. As a bastion for the state’s Democrats, Philadelphia is crucial for Clinton’s success.

The possibility of the strike extending into next week raises the question, will the blue model lose Pennsylvania for Hillary?

I love how the Philly authorities are willing to enjoin the strike to ensure people can vote, but not to ensure that people can, you know, get to work.

IN DA HOUSE:

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This morning’s map from RealClearPolitics. If Florida flips, the count changes to 269-269 and then the madness begins.

CLINTON’S STATE DEPARTMENT: A RICO Enterprise.

Whatever the relevance of the new e-mails to the probe of Clinton’s classified-information transgressions and attempt to destroy thousands of emails, these offenses may pale in comparison with Hillary Clinton’s most audacious violations of law: Crimes that should still be under investigation; crimes that will, in fitting Watergate parlance, be a cancer on the presidency if she manages to win on November 8.

Mrs. Clinton appears to have converted the office of secretary of state into a racketeering enterprise. This would be a violation of the RICO law — the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act of 1971 (codified in the U.S. penal code at sections 1961 et seq.).

Hillary and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, operated the Clinton Foundation. Ostensibly a charity, the foundation was a de facto fraud scheme to monetize Hillary’s power as secretary of state (among other aspects of the Clintons’ political influence). The scheme involved (a) the exchange of political favors, access, and influence for millions of dollars in donations; (b) the circumvention of campaign-finance laws that prohibit political donations by foreign sources; (c) a vehicle for Mrs. Clinton to shield her State Department e-mail communications from public and congressional scrutiny while she and her husband exploited the fundraising potential of her position; and (d) a means for Clinton insiders to receive private-sector compensation and explore lucrative employment opportunities while drawing taxpayer-funded government salaries.

Read the whole thing.

WHAT’S DUMBER, THAT SHE DID THIS, OR THAT HER COLLEAGUES WANT TO KICK HER OUT FOR DOING IT? Oregon Tax Prof Nancy Shurtz Says She Wore Blackface To Halloween Party To Teach Lesson As Author Of Black Man In A White Coat.

Oh, it’s not even close. It’s her colleagues. What a disgrace. Related thoughts from Eugene Volokh: “We have reached a bad and dangerous place in American life, and in American university life in particular.”

If a cabal of right-wing conspirators set out to discredit and destroy the academy, it couldn’t do a better job than the academy is doing to itself.

UPDATE: Volokh link was broken before. Fixed now. Sorry!