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Ring! Ring! Mind Your Bling! (updated August 1st 2026)

Curteis jewellery replatingThe 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...


The Pits: Zelensky’s torture chamber network in the public eye

This is what Dmitry Orlov recently reported on his blog: “Step four was to prepare Europe for war, squandering whatever money remained on weapons procurement and rather unsuccessful military recruitment. But here the former Ukraine can lend a hand: its recruitment officers, known as the TeTseKa, have become quite expert at press-ganging civilians into military service …

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