Scoop Media is my top source for news on current U.S. government and political events. Yes, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have far more writers and more resources. Yes, the London papers have Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, John Laughland and a few other greats. Yes, Sam Smith - writing from the slimey bog of Washington, D.C. - has the funniest, most insightful editorials.

However, when it comes to the deeper US news, such as the truth of 911, $4 trillion missing from US coffers or voter fraud in the 2000 and 2004 Presidential Elections, it is Scoop that meets the most important standard of excellence. Scoop has no material omissions — an omission being that which George Orwell properly described as the greatest form of lie.

On 911, Scoop started the “questions” format with their early publication and promotion of a researcher named “Malcontent X” and expanded it by creating the UnAnswered Questions wire which was instrumental in gathering a critical mass of citizens and intelligence that then mushroomed into the 911 truth movement — decimating the official story beyond redemption.

Scoop has provided a global publishing platform for investigative reporters, writers and researchers - such as Jason Leopold - who the US media tried to silence. For years, Scoop has published my pieces about trillions missing from the US Treasury, US financial fraud and the deterioration in the U.S. credit and currency.

Starting with Bev Harris’ groundbreaking work on U.S. voter fraud, Scoop has provided in deapth coverage of the systematic destruction of the U.S. voting system.

Scoop has now published a new piece by Michael Collins that puts more meat on the bones of allegations that the 2004 Presidential Election was fraudulent — American Coup: The Urban Legend of USA’s Election 2004. (Print version here) along with a complimentary publishers comment The Urban Legend: Sludge Report #177 - Bigger Than Watergate II. (Print version here). With American Coup, Scoop has also published American Coup II - 1998 to 2008. This piece is a collection of links on what is now their vast library of articles on U.S. voter fraud.

Collin’s “American Coup” is very important. I recommend it to you, along with the related pieces, and ask that you circulate it to members of your network who are working on or interested in voter fraud and the preservation and reinvigoration of democracy on Planet Earth.

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Thanks to Progressive Review for bringing the following to our attention. If you are looking to understand what is holding up the stock market, here is an item for your consideration:

70% OF CLASSIFIED INTELLIGENCE BUDGET GOES TO CORPORATE CONTRACTS

TIM SHORROCK, SALON - More than five years into the global “war on terror,” spying has become one of the fastest - growing private industries in the United States. The federal government relies more than ever on outsourcing for some of its most sensitive work, though it has kept details about its use of private contractors a closely guarded secret. Intelligence experts, and even the government itself, have warned of a critical lack of oversight for the booming intelligence business.

On May 14, at an industry conference in Colorado sponsored by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the U.S. government revealed for the first time how much of its classified intelligence budget is spent on private contracts: a whopping 70 percent. Based on this year’s estimated budget of at least $48 billion, that would come to at least $34 billion in contracts. . .

“Those numbers are startling,” said Steven Aftergood, the director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists and an expert on the U.S. intelligence budget. “They represent a transformation of the Cold War intelligence bureaucracy into something new and different that is literally dominated by contractor interests.”

See The Corporate Takeover of US Intelligence

I am in the middle of Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity is Near I am not sure what I think of it yet. The gist of it is clear — change will continue to accelerate. Today a quick video called Shift Happens came around. I don’t know if the data is accurate — but it communicates a bit of the same gist in a much faster way than Kurzweil’s 600+ pages. One piece of news I walk away with from Kurzweill is that the adoption of control technology will be successfully marketed to many as anti-aging technology. More on that later. Bottom line, as TD Jakes says, “get ready, get ready, get ready!”