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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...
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/09/charles-hugh-smith/were-living-in-a-tragicomic-parody/ It’s hard to take a joke when our entire economy and financial system is the joke. We’re blessed/cursed to be living in a very peculiar era in which parodies are taken with the utmost seriousness, an absurdist state of affairs captured by the classic line from the 1959 film North by Northwest: “So horribly sad. How …
Source: https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/looks-like-anglin-was-right-after-all/ Donald Trump does not want to kill millions of Iranian civilians. But Trump has a gun to his head and time is running out. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is getting dangerously low, long-term interest rates are edging up, and a global oil shock is just around the corner. What …
Source: https://dfreality.substack.com/p/the-dark-side-of-the-moon-jack-parsons “Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will.” ― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth It is the afternoon of Halloween — October 31st, 1936. In a desolate desert basin outside the City of Angels, beneath the San Gabriel …
Source: https://winteroak.org.uk/2026/09/04/an-a-z-of-the-modern-mega-racket/ by Paul Cudenec, who reads the article here Art of the modern variety is concerned less with aesthetics than with accumulation. When the cabal owns the art critics, the media and the cultural institutions, artificial value can be ascribed to works endowed with neither beauty nor meaning. Their only meaning is in the making and laundering …
Jiang Xueqin, also known as Professor Jiang, meets The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and discusses the future of US empire while cruising through one of the country’s most notoriously blighted areas – LA’s Skid Row. On his drive, Jiang presents a daring prediction of the next phase of the Iran war, then offers a scathing critique of …
Source: https://henrymakow.com/180302.html CIA agent, feminist leader Gloria Steinem convinced three generations of women to seek power instead of love. This key article is a reminder that modern culture is the product of Illuminati social engineering. The world is controlled by the satanist central banking cartel which is extending its control over credit into a political, economic and cultural …
Source: https://off-guardian.org/2026/08/27/is-ai-fear-porn-prepping-us-for-a-major-psy-op/ Nuclear bombs, 9/11 and the greatest financial crisis of modern times…the media is comparing AI to all three! And so we’re back in the world of scary AI. I know, I said I wasn’t going to write about this anymore – and, I know, I have a series on water bankruptcy to continue – but …
Source: https://thomassheridan.substack.com/p/harpies-and-the-three-white-feathers The Harpies (Greek: Harpyiai, meaning “snatchers”) were fearsome winged creatures in Greek mythology, described as female figures with bird-like features. They were the daughters of the sea god Traumas and the Oceanid Electra. Their primary role was to serve as agents of divine punishment, abducting individuals or tormenting those who had offended the gods. One …
UK government wants to grow the economy with government spending. Neo-Keynsians ignore the effect of expanding government debts. Interest rates move in long term cycles. The low was 2020 and since then interest rates are rising. Long term interest rates could rise from 5 (4.7%) to more than 7%. Inflation is …
Your home is likely your biggest asset, but as catastrophic floods tear through the Grand Canyon & Nepal, supercell winds in the midwest and hurricanes making landfall, insurance giants like State Farm are withholding billions in payouts. Insurance companies are beginning to deploy A.I and drones to “nitpick” your property for any reason to deny …
Source: https://www.unz.com/bhua/how-china-wins-wars-that-the-us-launches/ Chinese philosophy is ancient Taoism is central to that philosophy, it predates Christianity Tao talks of “action through in action” So the US “inadvertently” boosts China by its global aggression China reaps the benefits Is the US policy really “inadvertent”? The rise of China was created by the Western oligarchs at the end of 20th Century See Anthony Sutton and others China …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/09/02/a-way-to-measure-the-gyp/#more-426358 We’re told “inflation” is just needing more dollars to buy stuff – not that the stuff actually costs more. This is bullshit. I can prove that it is bullshit. In the mid-1990s, I was working as a journalist – just as I am today only back then I was working for The Washington Times and I …
Source: https://henrymakow.com/2026/09/sept-1–how-to-live-in-the-mom.html Ronald Lauder, the father-in-law of the current Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh is on the list Translated from Turkish Former Israeli Intelligence Officer Ari Ben-Menashe: “Jeffrey Epstein was an agent used by Israel to blackmail American politicians. The U.S. government and Trump are hostages to Israel because of the tapes and files they …
Source: https://www.unz.com/jnino/the-kushner-soros-money-trail-nobody-talks-about/ The Kushner-Soros Money Trail Nobody Talks About Behind the partisan noise, George Soros keeps making deals with the very Zionists he is accused of opposing George Soros has spent decades wearing the black hat. Israeli officials and American conservatives alike brand him a funder of anti-Zionist causes and an …
Source: https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/looks-like-anglin-was-right-after-all/ Donald Trump does not want to kill millions of Iranian civilians. But Trump has a gun to his head and time is running out. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is getting dangerously low, long-term interest rates are edging up, and a global oil shock is just around the corner. What …
Source: https://winteroak.org.uk/2026/09/04/an-a-z-of-the-modern-mega-racket/ by Paul Cudenec, who reads the article here Art of the modern variety is concerned less with aesthetics than with accumulation. When the cabal owns the art critics, the media and the cultural institutions, artificial value can be ascribed to works endowed with neither beauty nor meaning. Their only meaning is in the making and laundering …
Source: https://henrymakow.com/180302.html CIA agent, feminist leader Gloria Steinem convinced three generations of women to seek power instead of love. This key article is a reminder that modern culture is the product of Illuminati social engineering. The world is controlled by the satanist central banking cartel which is extending its control over credit into a political, economic and cultural …
Source: https://thomassheridan.substack.com/p/harpies-and-the-three-white-feathers The Harpies (Greek: Harpyiai, meaning “snatchers”) were fearsome winged creatures in Greek mythology, described as female figures with bird-like features. They were the daughters of the sea god Traumas and the Oceanid Electra. Their primary role was to serve as agents of divine punishment, abducting individuals or tormenting those who had offended the gods. One …
Source: https://www.unz.com/bhua/how-china-wins-wars-that-the-us-launches/ Chinese philosophy is ancient Taoism is central to that philosophy, it predates Christianity Tao talks of “action through in action” So the US “inadvertently” boosts China by its global aggression China reaps the benefits Is the US policy really “inadvertent”? The rise of China was created by the Western oligarchs at the end of 20th Century See Anthony Sutton and others China …
Source: https://henrymakow.com/2026/09/sept-1–how-to-live-in-the-mom.html Ronald Lauder, the father-in-law of the current Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh is on the list Translated from Turkish Former Israeli Intelligence Officer Ari Ben-Menashe: “Jeffrey Epstein was an agent used by Israel to blackmail American politicians. The U.S. government and Trump are hostages to Israel because of the tapes and files they …
Source: https://dfreality.substack.com/p/the-dark-side-of-the-moon-jack-parsons “Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will.” ― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth It is the afternoon of Halloween — October 31st, 1936. In a desolate desert basin outside the City of Angels, beneath the San Gabriel …
Jiang Xueqin, also known as Professor Jiang, meets The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and discusses the future of US empire while cruising through one of the country’s most notoriously blighted areas – LA’s Skid Row. On his drive, Jiang presents a daring prediction of the next phase of the Iran war, then offers a scathing critique of …
Source: https://off-guardian.org/2026/08/27/is-ai-fear-porn-prepping-us-for-a-major-psy-op/ Nuclear bombs, 9/11 and the greatest financial crisis of modern times…the media is comparing AI to all three! And so we’re back in the world of scary AI. I know, I said I wasn’t going to write about this anymore – and, I know, I have a series on water bankruptcy to continue – but …
UK government wants to grow the economy with government spending. Neo-Keynsians ignore the effect of expanding government debts. Interest rates move in long term cycles. The low was 2020 and since then interest rates are rising. Long term interest rates could rise from 5 (4.7%) to more than 7%. Inflation is …
Your home is likely your biggest asset, but as catastrophic floods tear through the Grand Canyon & Nepal, supercell winds in the midwest and hurricanes making landfall, insurance giants like State Farm are withholding billions in payouts. Insurance companies are beginning to deploy A.I and drones to “nitpick” your property for any reason to deny …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/09/02/a-way-to-measure-the-gyp/#more-426358 We’re told “inflation” is just needing more dollars to buy stuff – not that the stuff actually costs more. This is bullshit. I can prove that it is bullshit. In the mid-1990s, I was working as a journalist – just as I am today only back then I was working for The Washington Times and I …
Source: https://www.unz.com/jnino/the-kushner-soros-money-trail-nobody-talks-about/ The Kushner-Soros Money Trail Nobody Talks About Behind the partisan noise, George Soros keeps making deals with the very Zionists he is accused of opposing George Soros has spent decades wearing the black hat. Israeli officials and American conservatives alike brand him a funder of anti-Zionist causes and an …
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