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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: Pages 79 to 84 in the following book SYMBOLS, SEX, AND THE STARS – Internet Archive SYMBOLS, SEX, AND THE STARS In Popular Beliefs An Outline of the Origins of Moon and Sun Worship, Astrology, Sex Symbolism, Mystic Meaning of Numbers, the Cabala, and Many Popular Customs, Myths, Superstitions and Religious Beliefs. by ERNEST BUSENBARK While engaged …
Source: https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-toxic-effects-of-fraudulent-money Perhaps the most powerful defining feature of modern societies is the monetary system at their foundation. To convey some of the absurdities of this system, economist and former hedge fund manager Bernard Lietaer wrote a parable titled, “The Eleventh Round” in his book, The Future of Money. Once upon a time, in a small village in the Outback, …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/06/29/caught-in-a-trap-and-cant-walk-out/#more-415734 See video at the end of the post =================== The phrase “fighting inflation with debt” is one of the funniest lines ever. For those not paying attention, the hand picked, by your overlords, politicians spend $2 trillion per year more than they collect in revenue and the Fed prints the fiat to cover that nut. This …
Source: https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/strelkov-status-update-a-new-uaf To the newbies, Strelkov is the man who started the Donbass rebellion and who was arrested for criticizing the Kremlin, calling them foreign agents, essentially. ============ First up, more suicidal tactics, frontal assaults on fortified positions in Donbass. Here: In principle, the situation is STILL developing STRICTLY WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE ENEMY’S STRATEGIC PLAN: our troops …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/07/gary-d-barnett/military-weather-modification-as-a-pretext-to-extreme-power-and-control/ “The purpose of science is to discover the true nature of Earth and Universe and to share that knowledge with people everywhere. That’s what I do.” ~ J. Marvin Herndon, Ph.D. To expand on Dr. Herndon’s comment above, let me state that science is not about hiding the truth, it is not about not questioning all conventional thinking …
Source: https://www.unz.com/article/is-russia-going-to-attack-western-europe/ As reported in the daily press, the Mette Frederiksen regime’s state-controlled television has just aired yet another smear campaign against Russia, portraying it as an aggressive state that, with its approximately 150 million people, intends to subjugate all of Europe—with its approximately 500 million inhabitants (which would make the Russians a minority in their …
Source: https://www.winterwatch.net/2026/07/neo-caligula-trumps-corruption-for-the-ages/ Another tsunami wave of Neo-Caligula corruption is sweeping in. We learn about an insider trade on a small company called Axon which Trump purchased two weeks before it was awarded a $220 million Taser contract. This chart illustrating the trades made by each administration since 1990. Revealingly previous Presidents have 0 versus Neo-Caligula’s (second term) …
Source: https://mileswmathis.com/censor2.pdf June 29, 2026 It’s just Newspeak, isn’t it? War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. Censorship is Free Speech. Doubleplusungood. Nothing could be clearer evidence of how corrupt and Orwellian the world has become than this argument at calawyers.org that censorship is protected free speech. The argument from these “attorneys” is that Google …
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLN0SHHcPPw&t=1s Keir Starmer has resigned. The headlines call it a political earthquake. The truth? It changes almost nothing — because the people who actually run Britain were never on the ballot in the first place. In this investigation, I break down why swapping one Prime Minister for another — whether it’s Andy Burnham or anyone …
Source: https://www.unz.com/article/the-hoax-that-wont-die/ “the first and continuing reports that Jews were being wiped out by the Nazis in Poland were supplied to newspapers around the world by the World Jewish Congress” … HOAX “the first information about Hitler’s decision to ‘exterminate’ European Jewry — attributed to an annonymous German industrialist who is said to have visited Switzerland in July …
Source: https://iaindavis.substack.com/p/functional-oligarchy Democracy? No, we live under an oligarchy, and have done for thousands of years too Rich lists are utterly meaningless, because they exclude the oligarchs ============================ Oligarchy is a very old system of governance and one we have never really escaped. More than 2000 years ago, Aristotle stated that oligarchy (oligarchia) becomes the governance system “when men of …
Source: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/06/war-on-iran-new-clash-over-strait-passage-lebanons-capitulation-ignites-new-civil-war.html War On Iran: – New Clash Over Strait Passage – Lebanon’s Capitulation Ignites New Civil War the last days there were two developments in Lebanon and Iran that will likely cause the war to reignite into a much larger conflagration. Iran insists on having control over the Strait of Hormuz. But at least half …
Source: https://www.oftwominds.com/blogjune26/dynamics-make-sense6-26.html These dynamics and the incentives they generate lead to systemic crisis and collapse. As I noted in What Once Explained Everything Now Explains Nothing, the simplicity of either-or ideologies appeal to us. Identifying with an ideology is like having a favorite sports team: yea for our team! Our team good, other team bad. The roots of this simplistic …
Source: https://theethicalskeptic.com/2026/06/21/the-hypostasis-of-the-archons/ Several readers have asked that I publish my complete rendition of The Hypostasis of The Archons, having been intrigued by excerpts from that work which I have cited in various articles at The Ethical Skeptic. Accordingly, that material is provided in this article. The document commonly called The Hypostasis of The Archons (The Underlying Reality of …
Source, paywall: https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/ Since diplomacy, in the western understanding of the term, has degenerated into an exchange of insults and the laborious process of negotiating agreements which nobody ever intends to keep, all that remains is war. Or, perhaps, the plural form — wars — is more appropriate, since there are several ones going on …
Source: https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-toxic-effects-of-fraudulent-money Perhaps the most powerful defining feature of modern societies is the monetary system at their foundation. To convey some of the absurdities of this system, economist and former hedge fund manager Bernard Lietaer wrote a parable titled, “The Eleventh Round” in his book, The Future of Money. Once upon a time, in a small village in the Outback, …
Source: https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/strelkov-status-update-a-new-uaf To the newbies, Strelkov is the man who started the Donbass rebellion and who was arrested for criticizing the Kremlin, calling them foreign agents, essentially. ============ First up, more suicidal tactics, frontal assaults on fortified positions in Donbass. Here: In principle, the situation is STILL developing STRICTLY WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE ENEMY’S STRATEGIC PLAN: our troops …
Source: https://www.unz.com/article/is-russia-going-to-attack-western-europe/ As reported in the daily press, the Mette Frederiksen regime’s state-controlled television has just aired yet another smear campaign against Russia, portraying it as an aggressive state that, with its approximately 150 million people, intends to subjugate all of Europe—with its approximately 500 million inhabitants (which would make the Russians a minority in their …
Source: https://mileswmathis.com/censor2.pdf June 29, 2026 It’s just Newspeak, isn’t it? War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. Censorship is Free Speech. Doubleplusungood. Nothing could be clearer evidence of how corrupt and Orwellian the world has become than this argument at calawyers.org that censorship is protected free speech. The argument from these “attorneys” is that Google …
Source: https://www.unz.com/article/the-hoax-that-wont-die/ “the first and continuing reports that Jews were being wiped out by the Nazis in Poland were supplied to newspapers around the world by the World Jewish Congress” … HOAX “the first information about Hitler’s decision to ‘exterminate’ European Jewry — attributed to an annonymous German industrialist who is said to have visited Switzerland in July …
Source: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/06/war-on-iran-new-clash-over-strait-passage-lebanons-capitulation-ignites-new-civil-war.html War On Iran: – New Clash Over Strait Passage – Lebanon’s Capitulation Ignites New Civil War the last days there were two developments in Lebanon and Iran that will likely cause the war to reignite into a much larger conflagration. Iran insists on having control over the Strait of Hormuz. But at least half …
Source: https://theethicalskeptic.com/2026/06/21/the-hypostasis-of-the-archons/ Several readers have asked that I publish my complete rendition of The Hypostasis of The Archons, having been intrigued by excerpts from that work which I have cited in various articles at The Ethical Skeptic. Accordingly, that material is provided in this article. The document commonly called The Hypostasis of The Archons (The Underlying Reality of …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/06/29/caught-in-a-trap-and-cant-walk-out/#more-415734 See video at the end of the post =================== The phrase “fighting inflation with debt” is one of the funniest lines ever. For those not paying attention, the hand picked, by your overlords, politicians spend $2 trillion per year more than they collect in revenue and the Fed prints the fiat to cover that nut. This …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/07/gary-d-barnett/military-weather-modification-as-a-pretext-to-extreme-power-and-control/ “The purpose of science is to discover the true nature of Earth and Universe and to share that knowledge with people everywhere. That’s what I do.” ~ J. Marvin Herndon, Ph.D. To expand on Dr. Herndon’s comment above, let me state that science is not about hiding the truth, it is not about not questioning all conventional thinking …
Source: https://www.winterwatch.net/2026/07/neo-caligula-trumps-corruption-for-the-ages/ Another tsunami wave of Neo-Caligula corruption is sweeping in. We learn about an insider trade on a small company called Axon which Trump purchased two weeks before it was awarded a $220 million Taser contract. This chart illustrating the trades made by each administration since 1990. Revealingly previous Presidents have 0 versus Neo-Caligula’s (second term) …
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLN0SHHcPPw&t=1s Keir Starmer has resigned. The headlines call it a political earthquake. The truth? It changes almost nothing — because the people who actually run Britain were never on the ballot in the first place. In this investigation, I break down why swapping one Prime Minister for another — whether it’s Andy Burnham or anyone …
Source: https://iaindavis.substack.com/p/functional-oligarchy Democracy? No, we live under an oligarchy, and have done for thousands of years too Rich lists are utterly meaningless, because they exclude the oligarchs ============================ Oligarchy is a very old system of governance and one we have never really escaped. More than 2000 years ago, Aristotle stated that oligarchy (oligarchia) becomes the governance system “when men of …
Source: https://www.oftwominds.com/blogjune26/dynamics-make-sense6-26.html These dynamics and the incentives they generate lead to systemic crisis and collapse. As I noted in What Once Explained Everything Now Explains Nothing, the simplicity of either-or ideologies appeal to us. Identifying with an ideology is like having a favorite sports team: yea for our team! Our team good, other team bad. The roots of this simplistic …
Source, paywall: https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/ Since diplomacy, in the western understanding of the term, has degenerated into an exchange of insults and the laborious process of negotiating agreements which nobody ever intends to keep, all that remains is war. Or, perhaps, the plural form — wars — is more appropriate, since there are several ones going on …
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