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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, section 2 here: https://winteroak.org.uk/2026/09/25/the-acorn-113/#2 [Plus audio version] If it is really true that the world has long been under the domination of one system, and that apparently different arrangements such as communism, fascism and “democracy” are really just camouflaged versions of the same thing, then we would expect to find evidence of that. When we peeled away …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/09/24/the-breaking-of-trumps-prefrontal-cortex/ Stucky Summary: Trump is well on his way to becoming even more demented than fJB. God help us. =============================== When high-level security advisers emerge from an intelligence summit at the Élysée Palace in Paris confessing to a literal “sense of vertigo”—looking down into the abyss of simultaneous, systemic collapse across the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and …
By Chuck Baldwin September 24, 2026 (To subscribe to my columns at no cost, click here.) “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” Howard Zinn Under two U.S. presidents, one a Democrat and one a Republican, the U.S. government has partnered with the apartheid State of Israel in committing genocide in Gaza …
Source: https://www.winterwatch.net/2026/09/israelis-demonstrate-in-spades-the-gangsters-they-are-at-un/ “The wicked become even worse when they are tolerated.” – Tolstoy Epic mentally ill absence of self awareness. Hall empties out before Netanyahu’s display. Gangster behaviors during speech- the beeper threat. What was the purpose of this? Pagers are universal sign of killing people Israel doesn’t like. Cracker-ass canned applause in the background Random off the cuff remarks …
Source: https://russiatruthdotcom.substack.com/p/the-podium-of-decay-trumps-grotesque If the world needed a definitive visual epitaph for the unipolar era, it was delivered on the green marble rostrum of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2026. Standing before the delegates of 193 nations, Donald J. Trump did not project the austere authority of a global superpower. What unfolded was …
Source: https://www.unz.com/article/why-i-am-an-ai-doomer/ In Greg Johnson’s version of Animal Farm, the chickens labor mightily to create a being that is immeasurably smarter and more powerful than they are, on the assumption that this being will serve them. In a way, they were right, for when their new creation, “man,” came online, he served his creators up for …
Source: https://off-guardian.org/2026/09/20/surface-thinking/ People don’t care because they don’t know. Simple as that. I know I’ve been through this a million times, but I just don’t think I’ve nailed it. Maybe now. It’s nuance, still, but it’s something more than I have written about before. My stepson got married a few weeks ago, and I officiated the ceremony. …
Source: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/09/21/a-world-turned-upside-down/ Can civilisations pull together the fragments of older insights and knowing to give the context by which to make moral discourse intelligible again? Outline of a talk given at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 7 Sept 2026 The global future is often framed as being that of a muli-polar or multi-nodal world, with the implicit …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/09/boyd-d-cathey/the-successful-revolutionary-long-march-through-our-institutions/ Over five decades ago, between grad schools, I served as the assistant to conservative writer and philosopher Russell Kirk, in Mecosta, Michigan. Being a Southern boy, the one significant thing I recall about the climate up there was that we had snow on the ground —and lots of it—from around Thanksgiving all the way …
An exploration focused on examining the machines and tools used to usher in a reset and complete the process. Many events indicate there was a concerted effort to bring about the destruction and removal of the previous civilization. This process also appeared to include recycling and repurposing materials and even survivors from the previous civilization …
Source: https://www.winterwatch.net/2026/09/zio-empires-weapon-production-is-bone-dry/ The mentally ill fantasist “leadership” has really done a number. The U.S. has been denutted. Pentagon officials have told their own inspector general the firing rate “has resulted in strategic inventory shortfalls and revealed industrial base bottlenecks. No rare earth magnets; the wait is not 5 years; these products can never be made in the USA …
Source: https://roguemale.org/2026/09/20/from-1066-to-2026-800-years-of-financial-enslavement/ 960 Years of Financial Enslavement – A Prelude to the presentation, ‘A Fistful of Shekels’ on 9th October, 2026. Originally recorded back in February, 2026, this is a very squelchy ramble around Shipley Park and Mapperley Lake, Derbyshire in which I attempt to condense 960 years of English and Welsh history into some thirty …
Source, paywall: https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/ The term “deep state” has long stopped being a mere political slogan and has become part of an analytical framework. It is indispensable for explaining the continuity of agendas and priorities despite the constant churn among the public members of ruling elites. It serves the essential function of maintaining continuity. It is able …
Source: https://mileswmathis.com/resist.pdf September 20, 2026 No, this isn’t about the political resistance—the fist in the air. It is about the human resistance to all things new. And the inability to listen. Just as people have no appetite any more for anything but sugar-coated fatballs, they have no ability to listen to anything but themselves or to some sexed-up …
They often say that imagery is everything in the land of politics, right? And we’ve seen this, haven’t we, numerous times, like the disgraced former British Deputy Prime Minister Angela Raina out on some kind of rubber dingy inside Brighton’s sea with a vape. And this is supposedly the people that …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/09/24/the-breaking-of-trumps-prefrontal-cortex/ Stucky Summary: Trump is well on his way to becoming even more demented than fJB. God help us. =============================== When high-level security advisers emerge from an intelligence summit at the Élysée Palace in Paris confessing to a literal “sense of vertigo”—looking down into the abyss of simultaneous, systemic collapse across the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and …
Source: https://www.winterwatch.net/2026/09/israelis-demonstrate-in-spades-the-gangsters-they-are-at-un/ “The wicked become even worse when they are tolerated.” – Tolstoy Epic mentally ill absence of self awareness. Hall empties out before Netanyahu’s display. Gangster behaviors during speech- the beeper threat. What was the purpose of this? Pagers are universal sign of killing people Israel doesn’t like. Cracker-ass canned applause in the background Random off the cuff remarks …
Source: https://www.unz.com/article/why-i-am-an-ai-doomer/ In Greg Johnson’s version of Animal Farm, the chickens labor mightily to create a being that is immeasurably smarter and more powerful than they are, on the assumption that this being will serve them. In a way, they were right, for when their new creation, “man,” came online, he served his creators up for …
Source: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/09/21/a-world-turned-upside-down/ Can civilisations pull together the fragments of older insights and knowing to give the context by which to make moral discourse intelligible again? Outline of a talk given at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 7 Sept 2026 The global future is often framed as being that of a muli-polar or multi-nodal world, with the implicit …
An exploration focused on examining the machines and tools used to usher in a reset and complete the process. Many events indicate there was a concerted effort to bring about the destruction and removal of the previous civilization. This process also appeared to include recycling and repurposing materials and even survivors from the previous civilization …
Source: https://roguemale.org/2026/09/20/from-1066-to-2026-800-years-of-financial-enslavement/ 960 Years of Financial Enslavement – A Prelude to the presentation, ‘A Fistful of Shekels’ on 9th October, 2026. Originally recorded back in February, 2026, this is a very squelchy ramble around Shipley Park and Mapperley Lake, Derbyshire in which I attempt to condense 960 years of English and Welsh history into some thirty …
Source: https://mileswmathis.com/resist.pdf September 20, 2026 No, this isn’t about the political resistance—the fist in the air. It is about the human resistance to all things new. And the inability to listen. Just as people have no appetite any more for anything but sugar-coated fatballs, they have no ability to listen to anything but themselves or to some sexed-up …
By Chuck Baldwin September 24, 2026 (To subscribe to my columns at no cost, click here.) “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” Howard Zinn Under two U.S. presidents, one a Democrat and one a Republican, the U.S. government has partnered with the apartheid State of Israel in committing genocide in Gaza …
Source: https://russiatruthdotcom.substack.com/p/the-podium-of-decay-trumps-grotesque If the world needed a definitive visual epitaph for the unipolar era, it was delivered on the green marble rostrum of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2026. Standing before the delegates of 193 nations, Donald J. Trump did not project the austere authority of a global superpower. What unfolded was …
Source: https://off-guardian.org/2026/09/20/surface-thinking/ People don’t care because they don’t know. Simple as that. I know I’ve been through this a million times, but I just don’t think I’ve nailed it. Maybe now. It’s nuance, still, but it’s something more than I have written about before. My stepson got married a few weeks ago, and I officiated the ceremony. …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/09/boyd-d-cathey/the-successful-revolutionary-long-march-through-our-institutions/ Over five decades ago, between grad schools, I served as the assistant to conservative writer and philosopher Russell Kirk, in Mecosta, Michigan. Being a Southern boy, the one significant thing I recall about the climate up there was that we had snow on the ground —and lots of it—from around Thanksgiving all the way …
Source: https://www.winterwatch.net/2026/09/zio-empires-weapon-production-is-bone-dry/ The mentally ill fantasist “leadership” has really done a number. The U.S. has been denutted. Pentagon officials have told their own inspector general the firing rate “has resulted in strategic inventory shortfalls and revealed industrial base bottlenecks. No rare earth magnets; the wait is not 5 years; these products can never be made in the USA …
Source, paywall: https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/ The term “deep state” has long stopped being a mere political slogan and has become part of an analytical framework. It is indispensable for explaining the continuity of agendas and priorities despite the constant churn among the public members of ruling elites. It serves the essential function of maintaining continuity. It is able …
They often say that imagery is everything in the land of politics, right? And we’ve seen this, haven’t we, numerous times, like the disgraced former British Deputy Prime Minister Angela Raina out on some kind of rubber dingy inside Brighton’s sea with a vape. And this is supposedly the people that …
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