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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...
Mohammad Marandi says US is threatening various more attacks on Iran. The world is no longer convinced the US is capable of delivering on the threats, and is getting tired. China, Pakistan and many other have had enough. Iran will soon be able to launch aggressive war to drive the US completely …
Summary Webb argues that Ohio’s “Silicon Heartland” data-center buildout is anchored by Leslie Wexner — Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent benefactor, whom she links to alleged organized-crime ties and the Mega Group that spawned Birthright Israel — who used public-private partnerships and his New Albany Company to seize de facto control of local and state government …
Chris passed just over a year ago But his website is still functioning: https://newensign.com/ And I thought that this is worth pointing out to Tap readers Because, under the tab “Library” at the top, there are 2000 book pdf’s that Chris accumulated over the years About the Library “The New Ensign Library, consists of some 2000 reformatted books, as many of …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/08/16/american-history-is-too-important-for-trigger-warnings/ I remember the first time I came across a “trigger warning.” I was on a university campus in the ‘90s, attending the first lecture of a new history professor. As I perused her course syllabus, I was impressed with the reading list and organization. Then I spotted an incongruous “warning” to women and African Americans suggesting …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/08/15/how-do-the-maga-tard-npcs-rationalize-this/ Exactly one year ago Trumpenstein declared he was going to reduce the debt and give all us schmucks tariff dividend checks. One year later we are $3 trillion deeper in debt, Amazon and the other mega-corp retailers have gotten billions in tariff refunds after increasing the prices on the shit we bought, and we …
Source: https://winteroak.org.uk/2026/08/17/how-england-was-colonised/ My understanding of what lies beneath the surface of the modern world has vastly increased since I first read the book by Richard Hunt that I described in my last article [1] – and this learning accelerated dramatically six years ago. So it was inevitable that in my second reading of To End Poverty: The Starvation of the …
Who is Benjamin Netanyahu — and what made him the man he is today? For decades, Netanyahu has dominated Israeli politics, becoming the country’s longest-serving prime minister. But this is not a biography of his political career. It is an attempt to psychologically understand the man behind it and the forces that shaped. From the influence of …
India’s slow to see how the political situation is moving. By standing in opposition to Iran, India is damaging her own interests. Now the Turkey, Saudi and Pakistan axis is starting, India is like Europe, no friends anywhere and what’s more no energy supply. Loyalty to the US hegemon, and the British, is not …
The new Iranian commander Rezaei intends to cut the world’s internet links that pass through the region, if the US continues with its aggression. That would have worldwide effects. The cellphones in the hands of the Washington estate agents running the USA would freeze. How would they check their stock prices?
End System of Choice for the Rich and Mercury for the Poor! Help Bring Mercury-Free Dentistry to All Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola August 17, 2026 Improve Your Health by Optimizing Your Circadian Rhythm Improve Your Health by Optimizing Your Circadian Rhythm What They Don’t Tell You About Autoimmune Disorders and Arthritis. mercury free dentistry week dental amalgam ban Story …
Iran’s Strategy Vindicated as US’s Logistics Chain Hobbled and Stretched by Early Strikes Simplicius Aug 17 On the Iranian front, the most interesting item over the transom today are new reports vindicating something many analysts have proposed since the beginning of the conflict. Namely, that US’s naval problems in the theater all stemmed from Iran’s deliberate …
Source: https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/we-cant-vote-our-way-out-of-this We can’t vote our way out of this matrix We can vote for politicians, but the bankers hold all the power and we’ve no way to overturn their policies at the ballot box. This will have to be fought, sooner or later. Western “liberal democracies” seem stuck on the road to nowhere. The most …
We flew into Istanbul at about 4am from Manila and over the next hour so many flights arrived from all over, that the airport was packed. Maybe two hundred flights in about three hours came in, and another two hundred left within four hours. The queues for international transit were unbelievable, and everyone …
UA Emirates ships 2000 kilograms of gold to Iran. Called a goodwill gesture. Plus $3 billion in cash. Gold is over £100 a gram – Over £100,000 a kilogram – Over £200,000,000 in total or nearer $300 million. TAP – I am posting this from Istanbul airport at 5 am Sunday. The place …
Summary Webb argues that Ohio’s “Silicon Heartland” data-center buildout is anchored by Leslie Wexner — Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent benefactor, whom she links to alleged organized-crime ties and the Mega Group that spawned Birthright Israel — who used public-private partnerships and his New Albany Company to seize de facto control of local and state government …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/08/16/american-history-is-too-important-for-trigger-warnings/ I remember the first time I came across a “trigger warning.” I was on a university campus in the ‘90s, attending the first lecture of a new history professor. As I perused her course syllabus, I was impressed with the reading list and organization. Then I spotted an incongruous “warning” to women and African Americans suggesting …
Source: https://winteroak.org.uk/2026/08/17/how-england-was-colonised/ My understanding of what lies beneath the surface of the modern world has vastly increased since I first read the book by Richard Hunt that I described in my last article [1] – and this learning accelerated dramatically six years ago. So it was inevitable that in my second reading of To End Poverty: The Starvation of the …
India’s slow to see how the political situation is moving. By standing in opposition to Iran, India is damaging her own interests. Now the Turkey, Saudi and Pakistan axis is starting, India is like Europe, no friends anywhere and what’s more no energy supply. Loyalty to the US hegemon, and the British, is not …
End System of Choice for the Rich and Mercury for the Poor! Help Bring Mercury-Free Dentistry to All Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola August 17, 2026 Improve Your Health by Optimizing Your Circadian Rhythm Improve Your Health by Optimizing Your Circadian Rhythm What They Don’t Tell You About Autoimmune Disorders and Arthritis. mercury free dentistry week dental amalgam ban Story …
Source: https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/we-cant-vote-our-way-out-of-this We can’t vote our way out of this matrix We can vote for politicians, but the bankers hold all the power and we’ve no way to overturn their policies at the ballot box. This will have to be fought, sooner or later. Western “liberal democracies” seem stuck on the road to nowhere. The most …
UA Emirates ships 2000 kilograms of gold to Iran. Called a goodwill gesture. Plus $3 billion in cash. Gold is over £100 a gram – Over £100,000 a kilogram – Over £200,000,000 in total or nearer $300 million. TAP – I am posting this from Istanbul airport at 5 am Sunday. The place …
Chris passed just over a year ago But his website is still functioning: https://newensign.com/ And I thought that this is worth pointing out to Tap readers Because, under the tab “Library” at the top, there are 2000 book pdf’s that Chris accumulated over the years About the Library “The New Ensign Library, consists of some 2000 reformatted books, as many of …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/08/15/how-do-the-maga-tard-npcs-rationalize-this/ Exactly one year ago Trumpenstein declared he was going to reduce the debt and give all us schmucks tariff dividend checks. One year later we are $3 trillion deeper in debt, Amazon and the other mega-corp retailers have gotten billions in tariff refunds after increasing the prices on the shit we bought, and we …
Who is Benjamin Netanyahu — and what made him the man he is today? For decades, Netanyahu has dominated Israeli politics, becoming the country’s longest-serving prime minister. But this is not a biography of his political career. It is an attempt to psychologically understand the man behind it and the forces that shaped. From the influence of …
The new Iranian commander Rezaei intends to cut the world’s internet links that pass through the region, if the US continues with its aggression. That would have worldwide effects. The cellphones in the hands of the Washington estate agents running the USA would freeze. How would they check their stock prices?
Iran’s Strategy Vindicated as US’s Logistics Chain Hobbled and Stretched by Early Strikes Simplicius Aug 17 On the Iranian front, the most interesting item over the transom today are new reports vindicating something many analysts have proposed since the beginning of the conflict. Namely, that US’s naval problems in the theater all stemmed from Iran’s deliberate …
We flew into Istanbul at about 4am from Manila and over the next hour so many flights arrived from all over, that the airport was packed. Maybe two hundred flights in about three hours came in, and another two hundred left within four hours. The queues for international transit were unbelievable, and everyone …
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