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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://henrymakow.com/2026/08/unseen-cameroon-a-journey-thro.html Atumo Ezekiel Acha This updates an article I posted six months ago, a reminder of the desperation driving millions from the third world to migrate to the West. I want them to stay and build their own countries. That’s why I am supporting this brilliant young man who sent me …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/gary-d-barnett/this-mass-acceptance-of-tyrannical-evil-is-directly-related-to-the-intentional-dumbing-down-of-americans/ “Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?” ~ Peter Hitchens One wonders how we got to where we are today; a society of non-critical thinkers, non-thinkers period, relying on the State as if a parent or …
Source: https://henrymakow.com/2026/08/mike-stone—white-women-defen.html At Clancy’s trial, taking place at Plymouth, Massachusetts, about 40 miles outside of Boston, hundreds of women have shown up dressed in pink to demonstrate and support her. Look at the pictures. It’s all White women White women want the legal and moral right to do whatever they want while …
Source: https://mileswmathis.com/arday.pdf August 20, 2026 Just my opinion as usual What a freak show! And I say that not because he is black. It would be just as freak if he were white or any other ethnicity. It is freak because he is an actor, and his stage direction was to play up the freaky at all …
Source: https://escapekey.substack.com/p/911 This essay is not about controlled demolition, insider trading, or who knew what in advance. The question here is simpler. What institutional infrastructure was developed as a direct consequence of the event, what did it connect to, and what is the net function of the system that now exists? The purpose of a system is what …
Source: https://henrymakow.com/2026/08/patrick-ocarroll–khomeini-zionist.html The attached photo shows Ayatollah Khomeini without his turban or beard, and resembling a British Freemason. The powerful evidence is that he was British-Indian, that his father was British Mid-East “adventurer” William Richard Williamson of Bristol, England, and that his mother was Indian, from either Punjab or Kashmir. World wars …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/capt-randall/lazy-americans-eat-this-crap-who-fed-it-to-em/ Each time I go to the grocery, I see mindless obese shoppers loading carts with processed garbage and cases of soft drinks. The stores have aisle after aisle of industrially manufactured fake foods, many times on low BOGO-priced enticements. Solid clean commodities are limited and require basic cooking skills. I have relatives, “shiteaters”, …
Source: https://taoisnow.org/magazine/5-reasons-why-iran-stopped-attacking-israelis-after-failed-mou-treaty/ Before the MoU peace agreement, Iran attacked apostate-Israel. To what extent, I don’t know. Greetings “End / Interesting Times” Friends, Before the MoU peace agreement, Iran attacked apostate-Israel. To what extent, I don’t know. Social media footage showed multiple variations of Tel Aviv under fire. Some videos looked like Hiroshima the day after the bomb. Others …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/08/16/the-era-of-information-junk/#more-423612 Anyone who has cleaned out the house of an elderly relative knows that finding something and learning something are not necessarily the same thing. You open a closet expecting family history and discover thirty years of thrift store clothes. The next cabinet contains old utility bills, extension cords, broken electronics, and a collection of …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/08/18/when-the-rule-of-law-fails-this-is-a-warning-of-end-of-a-government/#more-423864 The Collapse of the Rule of Law Confirms the Fall of a Nation This time by 2032 Historically, the collapse of the rule of law is often seen not just as an indicator, but as a primary mechanism through which a government falls or transforms into something else. Many thinkers have argued that when …
Chris passed just over a year ago But his website is still functioning: https://newensign.com/ And I thought that this is worth pointing out to Tap readers Because, under the tab “Library” at the top, there are 2000 book pdf’s that Chris accumulated over the years About the Library “The New Ensign Library, consists of some 2000 reformatted books, as many of …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/08/16/american-history-is-too-important-for-trigger-warnings/ I remember the first time I came across a “trigger warning.” I was on a university campus in the ‘90s, attending the first lecture of a new history professor. As I perused her course syllabus, I was impressed with the reading list and organization. Then I spotted an incongruous “warning” to women and African Americans suggesting …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/08/15/how-do-the-maga-tard-npcs-rationalize-this/ Exactly one year ago Trumpenstein declared he was going to reduce the debt and give all us schmucks tariff dividend checks. One year later we are $3 trillion deeper in debt, Amazon and the other mega-corp retailers have gotten billions in tariff refunds after increasing the prices on the shit we bought, and we …
Source: https://winteroak.org.uk/2026/08/17/how-england-was-colonised/ My understanding of what lies beneath the surface of the modern world has vastly increased since I first read the book by Richard Hunt that I described in my last article [1] – and this learning accelerated dramatically six years ago. So it was inevitable that in my second reading of To End Poverty: The Starvation of the …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/gary-d-barnett/this-mass-acceptance-of-tyrannical-evil-is-directly-related-to-the-intentional-dumbing-down-of-americans/ “Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?” ~ Peter Hitchens One wonders how we got to where we are today; a society of non-critical thinkers, non-thinkers period, relying on the State as if a parent or …
Source: https://mileswmathis.com/arday.pdf August 20, 2026 Just my opinion as usual What a freak show! And I say that not because he is black. It would be just as freak if he were white or any other ethnicity. It is freak because he is an actor, and his stage direction was to play up the freaky at all …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/capt-randall/lazy-americans-eat-this-crap-who-fed-it-to-em/ Each time I go to the grocery, I see mindless obese shoppers loading carts with processed garbage and cases of soft drinks. The stores have aisle after aisle of industrially manufactured fake foods, many times on low BOGO-priced enticements. Solid clean commodities are limited and require basic cooking skills. I have relatives, “shiteaters”, …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/08/16/the-era-of-information-junk/#more-423612 Anyone who has cleaned out the house of an elderly relative knows that finding something and learning something are not necessarily the same thing. You open a closet expecting family history and discover thirty years of thrift store clothes. The next cabinet contains old utility bills, extension cords, broken electronics, and a collection of …
Chris passed just over a year ago But his website is still functioning: https://newensign.com/ And I thought that this is worth pointing out to Tap readers Because, under the tab “Library” at the top, there are 2000 book pdf’s that Chris accumulated over the years About the Library “The New Ensign Library, consists of some 2000 reformatted books, as many of …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/08/15/how-do-the-maga-tard-npcs-rationalize-this/ Exactly one year ago Trumpenstein declared he was going to reduce the debt and give all us schmucks tariff dividend checks. One year later we are $3 trillion deeper in debt, Amazon and the other mega-corp retailers have gotten billions in tariff refunds after increasing the prices on the shit we bought, and we …
Source: https://henrymakow.com/2026/08/mike-stone—white-women-defen.html At Clancy’s trial, taking place at Plymouth, Massachusetts, about 40 miles outside of Boston, hundreds of women have shown up dressed in pink to demonstrate and support her. Look at the pictures. It’s all White women White women want the legal and moral right to do whatever they want while …
Source: https://escapekey.substack.com/p/911 This essay is not about controlled demolition, insider trading, or who knew what in advance. The question here is simpler. What institutional infrastructure was developed as a direct consequence of the event, what did it connect to, and what is the net function of the system that now exists? The purpose of a system is what …
Source: https://henrymakow.com/2026/08/patrick-ocarroll–khomeini-zionist.html The attached photo shows Ayatollah Khomeini without his turban or beard, and resembling a British Freemason. The powerful evidence is that he was British-Indian, that his father was British Mid-East “adventurer” William Richard Williamson of Bristol, England, and that his mother was Indian, from either Punjab or Kashmir. World wars …
Source: https://taoisnow.org/magazine/5-reasons-why-iran-stopped-attacking-israelis-after-failed-mou-treaty/ Before the MoU peace agreement, Iran attacked apostate-Israel. To what extent, I don’t know. Greetings “End / Interesting Times” Friends, Before the MoU peace agreement, Iran attacked apostate-Israel. To what extent, I don’t know. Social media footage showed multiple variations of Tel Aviv under fire. Some videos looked like Hiroshima the day after the bomb. Others …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/08/18/when-the-rule-of-law-fails-this-is-a-warning-of-end-of-a-government/#more-423864 The Collapse of the Rule of Law Confirms the Fall of a Nation This time by 2032 Historically, the collapse of the rule of law is often seen not just as an indicator, but as a primary mechanism through which a government falls or transforms into something else. Many thinkers have argued that when …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/08/16/american-history-is-too-important-for-trigger-warnings/ I remember the first time I came across a “trigger warning.” I was on a university campus in the ‘90s, attending the first lecture of a new history professor. As I perused her course syllabus, I was impressed with the reading list and organization. Then I spotted an incongruous “warning” to women and African Americans suggesting …
Source: https://winteroak.org.uk/2026/08/17/how-england-was-colonised/ My understanding of what lies beneath the surface of the modern world has vastly increased since I first read the book by Richard Hunt that I described in my last article [1] – and this learning accelerated dramatically six years ago. So it was inevitable that in my second reading of To End Poverty: The Starvation of the …
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