Michael Collins is a writer in the Washington, DC area. He got involved as a citizen journalist, outside his career, due to his concern about the dreadful series of elections that began in 2000 when, as he quotes, "the last became first." He writes for "Scoop" Independent News out of Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand. "Scoop" Director and Co-Publisher Alastair Thompson has taken a keen interest in American politics for years. "Scoop" has published the who’s who of election news and commentary found in the compendium, American Coup II. Collins describes his excellent relationship with "Scoop."

I can’t say enough positive things about Alastair and the organization. I was in online services in the '80s and early '90s and I’ve followed the net’s expansion closely since then. "Scoop" has one of the best collections of internet publishing talent around, imho [in my humble opinion].

Collins is also the editor of www.electionfraudnews.com, a web site devoted to election news.

What’s motivated you to write so extensively on voting rights and election fraud?

“I knew the situation was serious. I was shaking all over. But I was amazed by the complexity of my mind — the most clear part was just the speed and agility of my mind. I immediately began talking to him in a calm voice and engaged in eye contact. But he was not in his eyes. He was in his own world — pointing a gun at me.”

Is this a good time to address the big lie? You know, the lie about our stark, raving helplessness in the face of armed danger and malevolence? Fortress Gun Nut has the whole country hostage to the big lie that a safe America is an armed America, and yet as our stockpile of weaponry, domestic and otherwise, increases, so does our fearfulness, and so does the danger.

And the heroes are often indistinguishable from the perps. We’re all heroes in our own minds. We all watch the movies and imbibe the whack ’n’ win culture. We all learn that real justice must be delivered at the point of a sword that is terrible and swift.

"They wanted them poor niggers out of there and they ain't had no intention to allow it to be reopened to no poor niggers, you know? And that's just the bottom line."

It wasn't a pretty statement.  But I wasn't looking for pretty.  I'd taken my investigative team to New Orleans to meet with Malik Rahim.  Pretty isn't Malik's concern.

We needed an answer to a weird, puzzling and horrific discovery.  Among the miles and miles of devastated houses, rubble still there today in New Orleans, we found dry, beautiful homes.  But their residents were told by guys dressed like Ninjas wearing "Blackwater" badges:  "Try to go into your home and we'll arrest you."

These aren't just any homes.  They are the public housing projects of the city; the Lafitte Houses and others.  But unlike the cinder block monsters in the Bronx, these public units are beautiful townhouses, with wrought-iron porches and gardens right next to the tony French Quarter.

Raised up on high ground, with floors and walls of concrete, they were some of the only houses left salvageable after the Katrina flood.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29, 2007 – The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has entered into a consent agreement with Aurora Organic Dairy (Aurora) in response to a Notice of Proposed Revocation issued earlier this year alleging violations of National Organic Program (NOP) regulations. Under the consent agreement, Aurora’s Platteville, Colo., facility must meet several conditions in order to continue to operate as a certified organic dairy operation. These conditions include removing certain animals from the organic herd and ceasing to apply the organic label to certain milk. Additionally, AMS will exercise increased scrutiny over Aurora’s operations during a one-year probationary review period. If Aurora does not abide by the agreement during that time, AMS may withdraw from the agreement and could revoke the organic certification for Aurora’s Platteville, Colo., plant.

COLUMBUS Ohio. There is a quiet revolution happening in Ohio and the impact that the revolutionaries are having is about to be felt quite loudly this Labor Day- September 3. Five business people and a handful of dedicated volunteers – secretaries, chefs, business owners, farmers and teachers – came together on a cold fall day last year to talk about their dream of bringing green living out into the open for Ohioans. They walked the fields of the Flying J farm – fighting off the cold wind as they surveyed the picturesque lake and thought about how they could use one organic farm near Columbus to grow an interest in green living among Ohioans.

The original dreamers-turned-organizers were no ordinary folks. Richard Jensen, owner of the Flying J came from a background as an OSU college professor turned organic farmer – and a successful one at that. The Flying J Farm is known in the central Ohio area for first-rate grass-fed beef and organic produce. Annie and Jay Warmke, owners of Blue Rock Station, a green living center established in 2004 is the home of Ohio’s first Earthship, a home made of tires, cans, bottles and straw bales. This year 3,000 people