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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://corbettreport.substack.com/p/where-is-the-empire-moving Of all the July 4th think pieces I read this year, the most surprising was Kit Knightly’s piece for Off-Guardian.org, “America Was Never the Problem.” I say “surprising” because most such Independence Day articles are written by and for Americans and are generally some variation of the lament that “kids these days don’t know what …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/07/capt-randall/psycho-planet/ I awoke before the Sun,…thinking. The realizations of a lifetime crystallized into the summation of our pathetic situation on this once glorious planet. . As a child, life was all Jingle Bells and Easter Bunnies. Later, most folks would just as soon kick ya to the curb in their rush to where? Much …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/07/17/trumps-iran-infrastructure-attack-timeline-tells-the-real-story/#more-418598 Submitted by A Veteran Intelligence Analyst & Former U.S. Military Officer SOTN Exclusive July 11, 2026: U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham died on the evening of Saturday, July 11, 2026 from following a brief and sudden illness. (Source: Russian philosopher & Putin advisor Alexander Dugin has claimed that Mossad was behind the death of United States Senator Lindsey Graham …
Source: https://henrymakow.com/2026/07/patrick-ocarroll—corps-supply-hitler.html Section 3(a) of the “Trading with the Enemy Act” of 1941 actually made it legal to trade with Nazi Germany in wartime. World wars are contrived for power, profit and depopulation. Patrick O’Carroll (henrymakow.com) Professor Antony Sutton stated it perfectly, “For all their manufactured wars, the Western …
Source: https://www.unz.com/jcook/the-west-wont-punish-the-settlements-its-two-state-solution-was-always-a-sham/ If I asked you to cut off your arm, would you do it? What if I pointed out that that your arm regularly punched a neighbour in the face so violently that it broke their nose and teeth, and left them unconscious? Would you cut your arm off then? I’m guessing …
Source: https://jupplandia.substack.com/p/mediocrity-is-a-weapon I have been thinking a lot about the Odyssey lately, and I have shared my thoughts on it in two pieces here. I don’t intend for this to be another Odyssey piece, and I want this to be a much broader discussion of the use of mediocrity as a weapon and the inherent triumph of mediocrity in a …
Source: https://www.unz.com/article/the-judeo-christian-illusion/ In my previous article, “The Forgotten Divide Between the Original Jesus Movement and the Modern Church,” I argued that the simple spiritual movement associated with Jesus of Nazareth gradually evolved into a powerful religious institution. I suggested that the earliest communities of believers were centred on devotion to God, personal transformation, and the fellowship of ordinary …
Source: https://www.patreon.com/ExitStrategyWorld/posts/stanislav-why-i-104800416 Sojourn to the Motherland I have been asked an unfathomable amount of times, both by Americans and Russians, why I moved back. Answering the same questions, even in two different languages gets tiresome. However, over the past five years, things have changed. From Russians, who have rediscovered their pride in being Russian and …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/07/14/energy-world-war/#more-418146 It’s time to realize that we are in an Energy World War, so I just put together this new war map. I wrote a Substack titled “The Great Energy World War” about this last April, and it has aged well. https://steelcutter.substack.com/p/the-great-energy-world-war The asterisked text in the bottom right is critical. We are entering a new and …
Source: https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/ann-widdecombes-murder-and-what-it The first time I met Ann Widdecombe was actually rather terrifying. It was at one of my first ever speaking events for Reform UK, in Kent, where Ann was speaking ahead of me. If you were ever fortunate enough to see Ann speak live, then you’ll know how the sheer force of her oratory vastly exceeded …
Source: https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/swarthlands-update-caracas-under Swarthlands Update: Caracas Under Total Trump Occupation Government, Tehran Riddled With Mossad Assets When the Venezuela thing happened, the entire story behind what was really going disappeared under the sea of nonsense triumphalism from all concerned sides. To this day, we still haven’t heard a full or accurate accounting of what happened and to …
Source: https://miriaf.co.uk/ann-widdecombe-is-our-charlie-kirk/ Ann Widdecombe is our Charlie Kirk In the same way that Henry Nowak was our George Floyd. In my article of July 7th, entitled ‘Everything is STILL a publicity stunt for Reform‘, I wrote: “The establishment knows that faith and trust in it is at an all-time low following the covid fiasco, so, in order to re-engage …
Source: https://wendywilliamson.substack.com/p/financialization-the-parasite-and-the-host “The economy doesn’t work for you — it works to extract from you.” —Michael Hudson Financialization is a word you have probably heard in economic news, but its true meaning is rarely explained. The popular media treats it as the natural growth of finance in a modern economy—simply the evolution of markets. But financialization is not …
Source: https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/revealed-kremlin-insider-explains The news of Lindsay Graham’s demise shortly after visiting The “Banderastan of Nazi KKK-SS-Ukraine” (as Kremlin insiders like myself refer to it) has dominated the headlines. We have Top Patriots who consult with Putin on a weekly basis like Larry Johnson, confirming and reconfirming that Putin ordered the hit on Graham, for …
Source: https://www.winterwatch.net/2026/07/newspeak-truth-bombs-ingroup-metafavoritism-and-social-trust/ What is Hate? To preface, let’s start with the English-language definition of the word “hate.” Hate: feel intense dislike for. (Golly, put the handcuffs on.) Synonyms: loathe, detest, dislike greatly, abhor, despise, execrate, feel aversion towards, feel revulsion towards, feel hostile towards, be repelled by, be revolted by, regard with disgust, not be able to bear/stand, be unable …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/07/capt-randall/psycho-planet/ I awoke before the Sun,…thinking. The realizations of a lifetime crystallized into the summation of our pathetic situation on this once glorious planet. . As a child, life was all Jingle Bells and Easter Bunnies. Later, most folks would just as soon kick ya to the curb in their rush to where? Much …
Source: https://henrymakow.com/2026/07/patrick-ocarroll—corps-supply-hitler.html Section 3(a) of the “Trading with the Enemy Act” of 1941 actually made it legal to trade with Nazi Germany in wartime. World wars are contrived for power, profit and depopulation. Patrick O’Carroll (henrymakow.com) Professor Antony Sutton stated it perfectly, “For all their manufactured wars, the Western …
Source: https://jupplandia.substack.com/p/mediocrity-is-a-weapon I have been thinking a lot about the Odyssey lately, and I have shared my thoughts on it in two pieces here. I don’t intend for this to be another Odyssey piece, and I want this to be a much broader discussion of the use of mediocrity as a weapon and the inherent triumph of mediocrity in a …
Source: https://www.patreon.com/ExitStrategyWorld/posts/stanislav-why-i-104800416 Sojourn to the Motherland I have been asked an unfathomable amount of times, both by Americans and Russians, why I moved back. Answering the same questions, even in two different languages gets tiresome. However, over the past five years, things have changed. From Russians, who have rediscovered their pride in being Russian and …
Source: https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/ann-widdecombes-murder-and-what-it The first time I met Ann Widdecombe was actually rather terrifying. It was at one of my first ever speaking events for Reform UK, in Kent, where Ann was speaking ahead of me. If you were ever fortunate enough to see Ann speak live, then you’ll know how the sheer force of her oratory vastly exceeded …
Source: https://miriaf.co.uk/ann-widdecombe-is-our-charlie-kirk/ Ann Widdecombe is our Charlie Kirk In the same way that Henry Nowak was our George Floyd. In my article of July 7th, entitled ‘Everything is STILL a publicity stunt for Reform‘, I wrote: “The establishment knows that faith and trust in it is at an all-time low following the covid fiasco, so, in order to re-engage …
Source: https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/revealed-kremlin-insider-explains The news of Lindsay Graham’s demise shortly after visiting The “Banderastan of Nazi KKK-SS-Ukraine” (as Kremlin insiders like myself refer to it) has dominated the headlines. We have Top Patriots who consult with Putin on a weekly basis like Larry Johnson, confirming and reconfirming that Putin ordered the hit on Graham, for …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/07/17/trumps-iran-infrastructure-attack-timeline-tells-the-real-story/#more-418598 Submitted by A Veteran Intelligence Analyst & Former U.S. Military Officer SOTN Exclusive July 11, 2026: U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham died on the evening of Saturday, July 11, 2026 from following a brief and sudden illness. (Source: Russian philosopher & Putin advisor Alexander Dugin has claimed that Mossad was behind the death of United States Senator Lindsey Graham …
Source: https://www.unz.com/jcook/the-west-wont-punish-the-settlements-its-two-state-solution-was-always-a-sham/ If I asked you to cut off your arm, would you do it? What if I pointed out that that your arm regularly punched a neighbour in the face so violently that it broke their nose and teeth, and left them unconscious? Would you cut your arm off then? I’m guessing …
Source: https://www.unz.com/article/the-judeo-christian-illusion/ In my previous article, “The Forgotten Divide Between the Original Jesus Movement and the Modern Church,” I argued that the simple spiritual movement associated with Jesus of Nazareth gradually evolved into a powerful religious institution. I suggested that the earliest communities of believers were centred on devotion to God, personal transformation, and the fellowship of ordinary …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/07/14/energy-world-war/#more-418146 It’s time to realize that we are in an Energy World War, so I just put together this new war map. I wrote a Substack titled “The Great Energy World War” about this last April, and it has aged well. https://steelcutter.substack.com/p/the-great-energy-world-war The asterisked text in the bottom right is critical. We are entering a new and …
Source: https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/swarthlands-update-caracas-under Swarthlands Update: Caracas Under Total Trump Occupation Government, Tehran Riddled With Mossad Assets When the Venezuela thing happened, the entire story behind what was really going disappeared under the sea of nonsense triumphalism from all concerned sides. To this day, we still haven’t heard a full or accurate accounting of what happened and to …
Source: https://wendywilliamson.substack.com/p/financialization-the-parasite-and-the-host “The economy doesn’t work for you — it works to extract from you.” —Michael Hudson Financialization is a word you have probably heard in economic news, but its true meaning is rarely explained. The popular media treats it as the natural growth of finance in a modern economy—simply the evolution of markets. But financialization is not …
Source: https://www.winterwatch.net/2026/07/newspeak-truth-bombs-ingroup-metafavoritism-and-social-trust/ What is Hate? To preface, let’s start with the English-language definition of the word “hate.” Hate: feel intense dislike for. (Golly, put the handcuffs on.) Synonyms: loathe, detest, dislike greatly, abhor, despise, execrate, feel aversion towards, feel revulsion towards, feel hostile towards, be repelled by, be revolted by, regard with disgust, not be able to bear/stand, be unable …
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