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Now that we know how Russia is interfering with the US elections, ZeroHedge is even more suspect. We give you the front page from Sunday October 23. All the entries are varieties on three themes:

• The corruption and decline of the US
  
• Evil Hillary and Democrats and US government
  
• The unjust vilification of Putin in Western media
  

Basically the whole website's raison d'etre seems to be to undermine the US and boost Putin's Russia. No surprise if you read the previous entries above.

Earlier this morning we wrote about the obvious sampling bias in the latest ABC / Washington Post poll that showed a 12-point national advantage for Hillary.  Like many of the recent polls from Reuters, ABC and The Washington Post, this latest poll included a 9-point sampling bias toward registered democrats.

New Podesta Email Exposes Dem Playbook For Rigging Polls Through "Oversamples" | Zero Hedge

You know the decline is well underway when all respect for the practical limits of government and the judicious use of common sense, and a light touch, to govern the affairs of the people has been lost.  That’s about the time political graft and corruption become the dominant operating model. In the later stages of degradation, how to federally regulate the use of public restrooms for those conflicted with the sex designation on their birth certificate becomes the central focus of popular discourse. The point is, miracle economies always lose their magic sooner or later.  The luster fades.  And growth dissipates beneath a series of irrational and intolerable raids by the treasury upon the common man. In the United States, and the world, the great economic growth miracle peaked over 40 years ago.  Here we turn to the Wall Street Journal for edification.

Prepare For The Unthinkable | Zero Hedge

(Needless to say, 40 years ago marginal tax rates were much higher and inequality much lower, but anyway)

In addition to providing a glimpse into the internal, and often confrontational, dialogue that took place within the Clinton campaign on topics ranging from Hillary's email server, to coordination and collusion with the media, to the planning how to attack Bernie Sanders, to the fascinating strife and conflicts of interest within the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative, the Podesta leaks have also been instrumental in providing the public with insight into Hillary's flip-flopping views on the TPP. Indeed, as the WSJ put it recently, a running question through the presidential race has been whether Hillary Clinton is sincere in saying she opposes the 12-nation Asian trade deal that is one of the Obama administration’s top overseas priorities.

Leaked Soros Memo Exposes Obama's Secret TPP Negotiations; Hillary "Flip-Flopping" | Zero Hedge

Most of this is rather innocuous stuff that is being scandalized with endless innuendo. Any insight in Republican email exchanges, if these ever become public, would make that instantly clear. 

Those waking up to read the news this morning will undoubtedly be "shocked" by the latest ABC / Washington Post goal seeking report (aka "poll") that shows Hillary opening up a 12-point lead with likely voters after the latest debate last Wednesday.  Ironically, this latest polling farce was "embargoed for release after 9 a.m." EST which will certainly make it a dominant topic of conversation on all the morning talk shows.

This Is How WaPo's Latest Poll Gave Hillary A 12 Point Advantage Over Trump | Zero Hedge

One truth the best and the brightest of our founding fathers knew in their bones: government would always be the preeminent threat to individual security, prosperity, liberty, and happiness. Strip away the irrelevant dross and history boiled down to one theme: the individual versus the state. Government, an institution gestated in fear of violence, inevitably uses the violent power that it has either wrested for itself or has been granted against its supposed beneficiaries. The founders knew that human nature never changes, that those in control of a government would inevitably be corrupted by their power and employ it to their own design and advantage. Their solution was enumerated powers, an overlapping separation of those powers, a myriad of procedural encumbrances, the Bill of Rights, federalism, and limits on the government’s abilities to tax, raise armies, and wage war. The idea was to make it harder for this new government to do what governments had done throughout history. They had to have realized that any effort to constrain a government ultimately depended on the wisdom and virtue of those in power. Wisdom and virtue in perpetually short supply, they also had to have realized that their effort would eventually fail. And fail it has. Donald Trump is making more waves by charging that the electoral system is “rigged,” and for refusing to pledge that he will not challenge the official results of the election. Our entire government is massively rigged, an agglomeration of scams, testament to terminal philosophical deterioration and default. Its partners in crime have reacted vehemently against even the suggestion that the election could be rigged. Their fear: once discussion is allowed about rigged elections, people may take umbrage at all the other scams and actually do something about them.

Trump "Truthers" Versus Hillary's "Hysterically Hyperventilating Hypocrites" | Zero Hedge

But of course they don't tell you how elections are rigged, this is supposed to be self-evident.

In what may be the most significant modification to Medicare since the program began in 1966, on Oct. 15, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final rule for implementing the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). It dramatically changes how Medicare pays doctors for their services. Does it really matter how doctors get paid? Yes — the success or failure of the new payment system will profoundly influence the future of the U.S. health care system. And while the goals of MACRA are laudable, its implementation carries a number of unknowns and the potential for unintended consequences — for patients and doctors alike.

Risk Of "Mass Exodus" Of Doctors From Medicare Looms | Zero Hedge

Yes, it's all falling apart, that's ZeroHedge's main message since its inception. We're still waiting for the dollar to collapse, the stock market, bond market, US economy to collapse, gold going through the roof, etc. If you would have invested on ZeroHedge insights, you would be poor by now..

While the US is pondering how to undo Duterte's dramatic reversal in policy, when last week the Philippines president announced he would align himself with China while abandoning his country's 60+ year strategic alliance with Washington, Beijing is already thinking one step ahead, specifically as pertain to China's claims over the South China Sea, where the Philippines had been one of the biggest hurdles to Beijing's territorial claims: claims which after last week have taken a far back seat as Duterte seeks to rebuild from scratch the country's new regional policy. Which explains why overnight, in an op-ed in the official Chinese mouthpiece The People's Daily, China asserted it would never allow the US to run amok in South China Sea waters, after a US Navy guided-missile destroyer, the USS Decatur, sailed through the waters of the Xisha Islands on Friday without the Chinese approval.

China Mocks America's "Declining Global Influence", Slams US Attempts At "Destabilizing Peace" | Zero Hedge

Cash is the new “barbarous relic” according to many central banks, regulators, and some economists and there is a strong, concerted push for the ‘cashless society’. Developments in recent days and weeks have highlighted the risks posed by the war on cash and the cashless society. The 

Cashless Society - Is The War On Cash Set To Benefit Gold? | Zero Hedge

Never mind cash is actually a great instrument for criminals and tax dodgers..

The Pro-Clinton, Anti-Putin propaganda machine of the western media continues to pump out demonization drudgery to ensure when war is unleashed, a sheep-like America will line up behing their 'chosen' leader to cheer on the nukes (and to distract attention from the demise of US hegemony and the loss of the American Dream).

Which Would Be The Better Economist Cover? | Zero Hedge

This entry is especially funny. A few simple questions.. What business does Russia actually has in Syria? How do Russians benefit from this? Why do the bomb hospitals, aid convoys, not once, but multiple times?