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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...


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Fake Paris jewels heist. Plus Wikipedia and AI, out of the frying pan and into the fire

  Source, including links that did not copy across: https://mileswmathis.com/xai.pdf by Miles Mathis First published October 30, 2025 I also want to comment briefly on the alleged Louvre theft 11 days ago. Many readers are asking me about it, since they can see it doesn’t add up. It screams fake from every line. Yes, and that is because …

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