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The Tap Blog started twenty years ago. I had retired and gone to live in Manila. Being eight hours ahead gave me time to analyse the various newsfeeds and write something pertinent before the western world awoke. It was conventionally political writing, until 2009 when a reader sent in a comment suggesting I studied some videos and writings of Dr Stan Monteith of Radio Liberty in Monterrey Bay. This was 2009. Read more...
Iran has been formally invited to join the Mecca Agreement — the trilateral defense pact between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey — with enthusiastic engagement already underway between Islamabad and Tehran, according to sources detailed in this episode. Host Zulfiqar Ali and Larry Johnson break down what it means that Bahrain has asked to join the …
Source: https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-forbidden-truth-about-oct-7th-even.html Oct 7th is the foundation upon which Greater Israel is being built and unfortunately the pro-Palestine movement is doing nothing at all to shatter it. Even Norman Finkelstein has fallen for the manufactured atrocity story comparing the events of Oct. 7th to a slave rebellion here in the U.S. which saw dozens of non-slave owning white people …
Source: https://henrymakow.com/2026/08/unseen-cameroon-a-journey-thro.html Atumo Ezekiel Acha This updates an article I posted six months ago, a reminder of the desperation driving millions from the third world to migrate to the West. I want them to stay and build their own countries. That’s why I am supporting this brilliant young man who sent me …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/gary-d-barnett/this-mass-acceptance-of-tyrannical-evil-is-directly-related-to-the-intentional-dumbing-down-of-americans/ “Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?” ~ Peter Hitchens One wonders how we got to where we are today; a society of non-critical thinkers, non-thinkers period, relying on the State as if a parent or …
Source: https://henrymakow.com/2026/08/mike-stone—white-women-defen.html At Clancy’s trial, taking place at Plymouth, Massachusetts, about 40 miles outside of Boston, hundreds of women have shown up dressed in pink to demonstrate and support her. Look at the pictures. It’s all White women White women want the legal and moral right to do whatever they want while …
Japan is occupied territory. Germany is crumbling. These US vassal states need to wake up and see that that is what they are. The future belongs to Asia. Baltic States These are acting suicidally. The population is dropping as they are EU, and all the young people leave for better jobs abroad – as in Poland, Bulgaria, Romania. …
Three times in a week, silver to gold ratio closes on 66.6 It’s like a symbol or a statement. In the Western markets the gold to silver ratio is being defended. In China and Asia generally there is less interest in such matters. Western bankers probably are sitting on massive silver shorts and lose money when the …
Pakistani Deputy PM and another government spokesman say China will back Pakistan in walking away from US $10 billion stranglehold. Pakistan will stand firm extending China’s overland corridors through to Iran, as China wishes, against the wishes of the USA. If the Mecca defensive alliance of Saudi, Turkey, Syria, UAE and Pakistan holds, and China …
Europe’s fertilizer plants are shuttered, diesel is spiking, harvests are collapsing and global food supplies are about to get crushed, all while Russia stands ready to make Europe crawl for energy and grain. Trump and Bessent may deliberately let Europe fall to rescue Japan, accelerating industrial collapse, empty shelves to force a new system. 🎧 itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/adapt2030
Source: https://mileswmathis.com/arday.pdf August 20, 2026 Just my opinion as usual What a freak show! And I say that not because he is black. It would be just as freak if he were white or any other ethnicity. It is freak because he is an actor, and his stage direction was to play up the freaky at all …
Turkey hopes to manufacture F35s and have the planes, against the wishes of the Israelis. Trump does nothing to rein in Israel. Whether Gaza, Lebanon, Syria or elsewhere. Maybe Turkey and Israel will be fighting a war, as the US progressive defeat and withdrawal leaves a power vacuum. Turkey is the key strategic country in the region, …
Source: https://escapekey.substack.com/p/911 This essay is not about controlled demolition, insider trading, or who knew what in advance. The question here is simpler. What institutional infrastructure was developed as a direct consequence of the event, what did it connect to, and what is the net function of the system that now exists? The purpose of a system is what …
Source: https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-forbidden-truth-about-oct-7th-even.html Oct 7th is the foundation upon which Greater Israel is being built and unfortunately the pro-Palestine movement is doing nothing at all to shatter it. Even Norman Finkelstein has fallen for the manufactured atrocity story comparing the events of Oct. 7th to a slave rebellion here in the U.S. which saw dozens of non-slave owning white people …
Source: https://henrymakow.com/2026/08/mike-stone—white-women-defen.html At Clancy’s trial, taking place at Plymouth, Massachusetts, about 40 miles outside of Boston, hundreds of women have shown up dressed in pink to demonstrate and support her. Look at the pictures. It’s all White women White women want the legal and moral right to do whatever they want while …
Three times in a week, silver to gold ratio closes on 66.6 It’s like a symbol or a statement. In the Western markets the gold to silver ratio is being defended. In China and Asia generally there is less interest in such matters. Western bankers probably are sitting on massive silver shorts and lose money when the …
Europe’s fertilizer plants are shuttered, diesel is spiking, harvests are collapsing and global food supplies are about to get crushed, all while Russia stands ready to make Europe crawl for energy and grain. Trump and Bessent may deliberately let Europe fall to rescue Japan, accelerating industrial collapse, empty shelves to force a new system. 🎧 itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/adapt2030
Turkey hopes to manufacture F35s and have the planes, against the wishes of the Israelis. Trump does nothing to rein in Israel. Whether Gaza, Lebanon, Syria or elsewhere. Maybe Turkey and Israel will be fighting a war, as the US progressive defeat and withdrawal leaves a power vacuum. Turkey is the key strategic country in the region, …
Source: https://henrymakow.com/2026/08/unseen-cameroon-a-journey-thro.html Atumo Ezekiel Acha This updates an article I posted six months ago, a reminder of the desperation driving millions from the third world to migrate to the West. I want them to stay and build their own countries. That’s why I am supporting this brilliant young man who sent me …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/gary-d-barnett/this-mass-acceptance-of-tyrannical-evil-is-directly-related-to-the-intentional-dumbing-down-of-americans/ “Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?” ~ Peter Hitchens One wonders how we got to where we are today; a society of non-critical thinkers, non-thinkers period, relying on the State as if a parent or …
Japan is occupied territory. Germany is crumbling. These US vassal states need to wake up and see that that is what they are. The future belongs to Asia. Baltic States These are acting suicidally. The population is dropping as they are EU, and all the young people leave for better jobs abroad – as in Poland, Bulgaria, Romania. …
Pakistani Deputy PM and another government spokesman say China will back Pakistan in walking away from US $10 billion stranglehold. Pakistan will stand firm extending China’s overland corridors through to Iran, as China wishes, against the wishes of the USA. If the Mecca defensive alliance of Saudi, Turkey, Syria, UAE and Pakistan holds, and China …
Source: https://mileswmathis.com/arday.pdf August 20, 2026 Just my opinion as usual What a freak show! And I say that not because he is black. It would be just as freak if he were white or any other ethnicity. It is freak because he is an actor, and his stage direction was to play up the freaky at all …
Source: https://escapekey.substack.com/p/911 This essay is not about controlled demolition, insider trading, or who knew what in advance. The question here is simpler. What institutional infrastructure was developed as a direct consequence of the event, what did it connect to, and what is the net function of the system that now exists? The purpose of a system is what …
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