Ring! Ring! Mind your Bling!
Thu 1:32 pm +00:00, 14 May 2026UPDATE 15.05 – It’s interesting that precious metal prices have fallen the day after the US/China get together. China probably agreed to lower their price on physical precious metal as a goodwill gesture, with the western banks all holding loss-making short positions on their paper traded futures markets at huge values. This gesture can easily be reversed if the US were to do something to upset the Chinese hosts. The US is a vast debtor nation. China a creditor nation. The US exercises military power and threat. China can put on pressure by selling US Treasuries and restricting supply of especially silver, but also gold. Precious metals are a part of the strategic picture.
Never forget, by the way, that paper money is/was a promissory note to exchange the paper note for silver. The dollar was a silver coin and was a day’s pay, as was a shillingsilver coin a day’s pay in Britain. This was the case for centuries all over the world. In the British system, twenty shillings (20 days pay) were one pound sterling i.e. 16 ounces of 92.5% silver, which was a month’s pay for a working man. Again a silver coin was a day’s pay for centuries until 1914 when the link to precious metal in London ended. The paper with false promises (I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of £ etc (£ is L for Libra meaning a pound in weight of silver – same as lb in potatoes and carrots) today is an echo of what was once real. You could at one time exchange your promissory paper for silver at a bank. Now your paper or screen money has no real value as governments spend beyond their means and consistently destroy paper/electronic wealth with inflation.
What was £1 in 1914 today, in 2026 is around £3,500, a month’s pay for a working man in London. Money has halved in value about every ten years ever since the link to precious metal was removed. There were about 16 ounces of silver to one ounce of gold at that time. Today around 60 ounces. 16 ounces of silver cost about £1,000 today, while gold seems nor far off its traditional value at £3,500 an ounce at today’s value. Only governments and banks keep silver’s value lower than it should be using paper trading in the derivatives market. Some analysts believe silver needs to be revalued at some point. The supply needs to rise again as the metal is needed for its electrical properties, with the world moving over to alternative energy, electric cars and heating/cooling systems.
Meanwhile It would be no harm to hold some silver as an investment, and a protection against inflation. Silver Britannias or rounds might even become useful as cash money again if electronic money and digital ID makes it hard to transact. Who would refuse a silver coin, when all else is computer or phone screen tracked transactions?
ELECTROPLATING
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 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.
I watched these videos describing how a secret elitist Satanic Freemasonic cult planned the First World War, and orchestrated it, and also how the AIDS epidemic was no problem for the governments of the world. In fact they couldn’t get enough of it. Dr Stan’s understanding of the world was at once shocking to me, and at the same time, persuasive. I had always had doubts about history and news narratives, but with Dr Stan Monteith’s brilliant analysis, a new world view took over from my previous innocent state of ignorance. I soon found many other sources, online and in print, and the falsity of most news narratives started to become more apparent.
Blogging on here since then for all that time has had its ups and downs. Revealing the Hampstead Whistleblower Kids brought probably hundreds of millions of visitors as the story went global, and nearly brought about the closure of the blog. Many excellent people have joined me since those days, and The Alternative View took over the running of The Tap more recently, and our unique visitor numbers today hover around the 50,000 per month mark.
One way we can help pay for the running of the blog now is advertising as we have such good traffic numbers.
The latest ad, Ring! Ring! Mind Your Bling! is one of my own.
My company offers a reasonably priced jewellery replating service, which is not an easy thing to find direct to the actual platers. Most others take in work and send it off to platers, and are not only more expensive, but are not able to guarantee the depth of plating and quality of the work.
Many people have bought jewellery pieces which over time lose their finish. We put them back as good as new by stripping them back and replating with fresh metal. This can put the value back into a jewellery collection, and enhance the wearer’s enjoyment, whether Rhodium plating on a ring, Gold onto silver or gold, or gold onto a base metal, with great finish and a depth that will last many years.
FUNDING THE TAP BLOG
Donations are very few on the blog, which is hardly surprising, although they are more than nothing, and we get regular donations from a few loyal supporters. These are a great help in meeting day to day costs. Maybe we can do better on here by selling a needed service which is in demand, and bring readers some joy.
If you need some replating for your family’s jewellery, I can guarantee you will not be disappointed with the results or the price, and it all helps pay the fees of running the blog, which for a while now, has been back in the UK.
The world is in a period of gut-wrenching change with many challenges for humanity to live through.
Sharing thoughts and ideas each day on The Tap makes it a lot easier for a media sceptic to navigate through the maze, and realise we are not alone. Far from it, the younger generation is more on board today with so-called ‘conspiracy’ than the older generation ever was, who still mostly prefer Disney and Hollywood versions of history, and news channel fabricated reality. The final step for people will be to understand that fear and anxiety and depression make us easy prey for demons to move in and afflict us. Only God can remove the dark clouds from our minds and send the demons packing, with incredible speed.
Not only can we sharpen our wits by checking out alternative news channels, and reports, and contribute to a global awakening on The Tap. The good news is that we can find help from outside ourselves, the moment we ask for it, and be granted spiritual protection from Satanic informational manipulation going on 24/7.
Some of you might at the same time brighten up your ancient jewellery purchases (or ask your wives if they’d be interested – I am told Tap readership is more male than female), and let them shine again as new!
Ask if you need any more information, and the team will reply about the pieces you want to discuss. Our customers are invariably delighted after they’ve replated their jewellery. You’ll never know if you don’t enquire.
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