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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, as I recall. Read more...
Source: https://johnhelmer.net/the-war-to-end-all-wars-against-russia-isnt-ending/ It’s a brave king who fights on after losing his arms and his legs. It’s a foolish king who asks his army and his people to believe in the certainty of swift victory and then requires them to pay the costs of attrition. Or is it the other way round — the lionheart who promises blitzkrieg …
Source: https://www.winterwatch.net/2026/06/strong-evidence-mounts-that-neo-caligula-trump-has-frontotemporal-dementia/ The latest in Trump’s daily high strangeness exhibition was slumping over with closed eyes in the Oval Office. Prelude to the slump: Neo-Caligula sundowning: The causes of Neo-Caligula’s behavior could be a combination of rapidly evolving fronto-temporal dementia layered over uncontrolled type 2 diabetes. The latter causes blood glucose spikes that in turn results in fatigue and …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/06/no_author/kiev-regime-increasingly-relies-on-us-ai-techno-companies-to-wage-war-on-russia/ The introduction of more advanced AI systems allowed the US Military Industrial Complex to dramatically expand the use of programs such as PRISMA. The overall implications of this technofascism are so multifaceted that they require an entirely separate analysis, but we can certainly conclude there’s nothing positive about it. Combining unmanned systems and …
Former CIA Analyst Larry Johnson and Col. Lawrence Wilkerson join the show as Iran continues to retaliate against US aggression, this time launching missiles at a US Destroyer in the Gulf of Oman. Iran has said it isn’t done yet, and Trump appears paralyzed. Two of the top analysts in geopolitics with a wealth of experience break …
Some good news today Funny how the little primary elections are blown up to mean much more than they actually do Meryl Nass Jun 5 Before Tuesday, it was said that Trump’s picks were winning all their primaries. Republian members appeared to stay in line, in part as a result. Then 2 days ago, Trump’s picks did …
Source: https://thomassheridan.substack.com/p/the-sound-bite-is-the-psychic-gulag Today, there is more social capital in calling someone a name rather than in having a debate to work things out. The slur or insult is always poorly defined or undefinable on purpose. The objective is to dehumanise your rival before they can explain their situation and rationale. None of this is by accident. People across …
Some compelling points made by Miri about this recent headline story Source: https://miriaf.co.uk/henry-nowak-is-our-george-floyd/ In that it’s another fake psyop, but aimed at “the right” rather than “the left” this time. On May the 4th of this year – Star Wars date! – I wrote an article exploring the latest machinations of online controlled opposition narrative-steerers, and I said this: “I’m writing …
Some pointers here for Western Europe’s war ambitions Source: https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/7811018b-986f-4d46-9fea-c3e3e3e1a226?isFromFeed=true Currently, Russia faces a bit of a problem. Western nations have taken to supplying the former Ukraine with missiles, drones and components for their manufacture. The US is also involved: the former Ukraine receives targeting information from Palantir and uses Starlink satellite communications. This …
Israel pulled back from attacking a Lebanese city (Abahe, Abaye, Abay – 300,000 – 400,000 people) when Iran threatened to destroy Northern Occupied Palestine in reply, and told the Israeli population to leave their homes. M Marandi says other Gulf States are refusing to accept Lebanese refugees, as are other regions within Lebanon. Laith …
Peter Oborne, associate editor of Middle East Eye, argues that if Abdullah II goes to war to protect the holy site, Jordan may find it has more allies than US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expect. Middle East Eye reported last week that the US and Israel are conspiring to strip …
Source: https://www.winterwatch.net/2026/06/winston-churchill-and-the-1943-starvation-of-bengal/ “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. They are the beastliest people in the world next to the Germans.” — Winston Churchill Winter Watch is not a fan of Winston Churchill. In fact, we consider him near the top of the list of the nastiest leaders of the 20th century. Churchill …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/05/no_author/tune-out-almost-all-media-social-media/ The enormous health benefits of returning to the physical world of nature, in person contact, and physical books A few weeks ago I had the startling realization that I have spent far too much of my adult life watching — and trying to understand — the pathological behavior of the gangster oligarchy that rules …
Source: https://www.unz.com/bhua/when-argument-becomes-opium-amartya-sen-indian-paralysis-and-the-indianization-of-the-west/ I wrote an essay titled “The Myth of India Becoming the Next China” last November to debunk a popular but fallacious Western narrative. https://huabinoliver.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-india-becoming-the-next The essay continues to get views and feedback. A reader recommended the 2005 book The Argumentative Indian, by an Indian author Amartya Sen, to understand the cultural roots of the state of affairs in …
Source: https://www.winterwatch.net/2026/06/strong-evidence-mounts-that-neo-caligula-trump-has-frontotemporal-dementia/ The latest in Trump’s daily high strangeness exhibition was slumping over with closed eyes in the Oval Office. Prelude to the slump: Neo-Caligula sundowning: The causes of Neo-Caligula’s behavior could be a combination of rapidly evolving fronto-temporal dementia layered over uncontrolled type 2 diabetes. The latter causes blood glucose spikes that in turn results in fatigue and …
Former CIA Analyst Larry Johnson and Col. Lawrence Wilkerson join the show as Iran continues to retaliate against US aggression, this time launching missiles at a US Destroyer in the Gulf of Oman. Iran has said it isn’t done yet, and Trump appears paralyzed. Two of the top analysts in geopolitics with a wealth of experience break …
Some compelling points made by Miri about this recent headline story Source: https://miriaf.co.uk/henry-nowak-is-our-george-floyd/ In that it’s another fake psyop, but aimed at “the right” rather than “the left” this time. On May the 4th of this year – Star Wars date! – I wrote an article exploring the latest machinations of online controlled opposition narrative-steerers, and I said this: “I’m writing …
Israel pulled back from attacking a Lebanese city (Abahe, Abaye, Abay – 300,000 – 400,000 people) when Iran threatened to destroy Northern Occupied Palestine in reply, and told the Israeli population to leave their homes. M Marandi says other Gulf States are refusing to accept Lebanese refugees, as are other regions within Lebanon. Laith …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/05/no_author/tune-out-almost-all-media-social-media/ The enormous health benefits of returning to the physical world of nature, in person contact, and physical books A few weeks ago I had the startling realization that I have spent far too much of my adult life watching — and trying to understand — the pathological behavior of the gangster oligarchy that rules …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/06/no_author/kiev-regime-increasingly-relies-on-us-ai-techno-companies-to-wage-war-on-russia/ The introduction of more advanced AI systems allowed the US Military Industrial Complex to dramatically expand the use of programs such as PRISMA. The overall implications of this technofascism are so multifaceted that they require an entirely separate analysis, but we can certainly conclude there’s nothing positive about it. Combining unmanned systems and …
Some good news today Funny how the little primary elections are blown up to mean much more than they actually do Meryl Nass Jun 5 Before Tuesday, it was said that Trump’s picks were winning all their primaries. Republian members appeared to stay in line, in part as a result. Then 2 days ago, Trump’s picks did …
Source: https://thomassheridan.substack.com/p/the-sound-bite-is-the-psychic-gulag Today, there is more social capital in calling someone a name rather than in having a debate to work things out. The slur or insult is always poorly defined or undefinable on purpose. The objective is to dehumanise your rival before they can explain their situation and rationale. None of this is by accident. People across …
Some pointers here for Western Europe’s war ambitions Source: https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/7811018b-986f-4d46-9fea-c3e3e3e1a226?isFromFeed=true Currently, Russia faces a bit of a problem. Western nations have taken to supplying the former Ukraine with missiles, drones and components for their manufacture. The US is also involved: the former Ukraine receives targeting information from Palantir and uses Starlink satellite communications. This …
Peter Oborne, associate editor of Middle East Eye, argues that if Abdullah II goes to war to protect the holy site, Jordan may find it has more allies than US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expect. Middle East Eye reported last week that the US and Israel are conspiring to strip …
Source: https://www.winterwatch.net/2026/06/winston-churchill-and-the-1943-starvation-of-bengal/ “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. They are the beastliest people in the world next to the Germans.” — Winston Churchill Winter Watch is not a fan of Winston Churchill. In fact, we consider him near the top of the list of the nastiest leaders of the 20th century. Churchill …
Source: https://www.unz.com/bhua/when-argument-becomes-opium-amartya-sen-indian-paralysis-and-the-indianization-of-the-west/ I wrote an essay titled “The Myth of India Becoming the Next China” last November to debunk a popular but fallacious Western narrative. https://huabinoliver.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-india-becoming-the-next The essay continues to get views and feedback. A reader recommended the 2005 book The Argumentative Indian, by an Indian author Amartya Sen, to understand the cultural roots of the state of affairs in …
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