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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, as I recall. Read more...
Source, paywall: https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/ Let’s take a quick trip down memory lane. All the way back in 1996 and newly married I went back to the US from Russia. We decided to settle (for the time being) in the US because it was bad times in Russia and good times in the US (also for the …
Source, paywall: https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/ Today is the 81st anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany and its European allies (Italy, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Finland, Slovakia, Croatia) and various supposedly neutral countries which were occupied by Nazi Germany and contributed to the Nazi war effort (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway…). Essentially, the USSR was attacked …
Source: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/05/08/european-leaders-arent-blind-to-kiev-corruption-they-key-partners-in-massive-extortion-racket/ EU leaders like Kaja Kallas, the bloc’s top foreign diplomat, have played dumb about the endless scandals seeping out of Kiev. There was more evidence this week of the Kiev regime’s endemic corruption. And yet the European Union leaders are lining up to send a massive €90 billion ($105bn ) loan to this regime, a …
Source: https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/the-40-days-war-and-the-future-fall Now, as my readers know, the Mullahs came to power because of help from the CIA, which wanted to toppled the Shah. This is Wikipedia tier knowledge, yet people still ignore it. Yes, the Shah was originally put into power with the help of the British, and was an ally of Israel for most …
John breaks down one of the most overlooked espionage scandals of the modern era — the French intelligence operations of the 1990s and how their methods shocked even other Western agencies. NEXT – Europe’s got six weeks of jet fuel left. The world’s at a very dangerous point.
We’re supposed to be the good guys. Tucker and John Kiriakou( @DeepFocuswithJohnKiriakou ) discuss how governments use drugs as a weapon. Watch the full conversation here: • Ex-CIA Officer John Kiriakou on the Truth … Russia is no threat to the USA, says John. I know these guys. They want to engage and negotiate.
Patrick Bet-David asks former CIA officer John Kiriakou how hard it really is to trace foreign money behind influencers, from Qatar suitcases and King Charles cash to EU bribery scandals, then they dig into why Congress fails at oversight and why Americans no longer trust the CIA.
Sent from Ian. A houseplant just changed everything we thought we knew about consciousness. In 1966, Cleve Backster, a CIA interrogation specialist with a polygraph machine, was looking for ways to time how long it took different substances to travel up through plant tissue. So, he attached electrodes to a dracaena plant in his office and watered it, …
No one explains the world better than Patrick Henningsen. Here you hear exctly where we are positioned today. The world’s leaders have abandoned the rules based world we once knew. Countries like Iran, China and Russia try to hang on to the standards of the world as it was pre-US moral collapse – and many …
Investigative journalist Max Blumenthal exposes the gag order and media blackout around the trial of six Palestine Action activists who pose a threat to the “special relationship” between the U.K. & Israel. Max and Katie make a connection to repression in the US, like the violent NYPD crackdown on protests of West Bank land theft …
In this video, Dr. G — clinical and forensic psychologist and body language expert — analyzes the newly released handwritten note allegedly found in Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell, a document many are now calling a possible suicide note. Dr. G examines whether the wording, emotional tone, phrasing, and psychological presentation are actually consistent with Jeffrey …
Grayzone editor and investigative journalist Max Blumenthal argues that a London stabbing fits a suspicious pattern of “antisemitic” attacks being used by Keir Starmer and pro-Israel groups to criminalize Palestine supporters. For more of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at – / patreon-full-max-157487338 00:00 Setting up the UK stabbing story 00:52 …
Iran has Donald Trump over a barrel and according to Alexander Mercouris of The Duran, all Tehran has to do is wait. With Saudi Arabia blocking US military operations, Gulf states abandoning further escalation, and American oil reserves being rapidly drawn down to suppress prices, Mercouris delivers a detailed analysis of why a major global …
Source, paywall: https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/ Today is the 81st anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany and its European allies (Italy, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Finland, Slovakia, Croatia) and various supposedly neutral countries which were occupied by Nazi Germany and contributed to the Nazi war effort (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway…). Essentially, the USSR was attacked …
Source: https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/the-40-days-war-and-the-future-fall Now, as my readers know, the Mullahs came to power because of help from the CIA, which wanted to toppled the Shah. This is Wikipedia tier knowledge, yet people still ignore it. Yes, the Shah was originally put into power with the help of the British, and was an ally of Israel for most …
We’re supposed to be the good guys. Tucker and John Kiriakou( @DeepFocuswithJohnKiriakou ) discuss how governments use drugs as a weapon. Watch the full conversation here: • Ex-CIA Officer John Kiriakou on the Truth … Russia is no threat to the USA, says John. I know these guys. They want to engage and negotiate.
Investigative journalist Max Blumenthal exposes the gag order and media blackout around the trial of six Palestine Action activists who pose a threat to the “special relationship” between the U.K. & Israel. Max and Katie make a connection to repression in the US, like the violent NYPD crackdown on protests of West Bank land theft …
Grayzone editor and investigative journalist Max Blumenthal argues that a London stabbing fits a suspicious pattern of “antisemitic” attacks being used by Keir Starmer and pro-Israel groups to criminalize Palestine supporters. For more of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at – / patreon-full-max-157487338 00:00 Setting up the UK stabbing story 00:52 …
Source: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/05/08/european-leaders-arent-blind-to-kiev-corruption-they-key-partners-in-massive-extortion-racket/ EU leaders like Kaja Kallas, the bloc’s top foreign diplomat, have played dumb about the endless scandals seeping out of Kiev. There was more evidence this week of the Kiev regime’s endemic corruption. And yet the European Union leaders are lining up to send a massive €90 billion ($105bn ) loan to this regime, a …
John breaks down one of the most overlooked espionage scandals of the modern era — the French intelligence operations of the 1990s and how their methods shocked even other Western agencies. NEXT – Europe’s got six weeks of jet fuel left. The world’s at a very dangerous point.
Patrick Bet-David asks former CIA officer John Kiriakou how hard it really is to trace foreign money behind influencers, from Qatar suitcases and King Charles cash to EU bribery scandals, then they dig into why Congress fails at oversight and why Americans no longer trust the CIA.
Sent from Ian. A houseplant just changed everything we thought we knew about consciousness. In 1966, Cleve Backster, a CIA interrogation specialist with a polygraph machine, was looking for ways to time how long it took different substances to travel up through plant tissue. So, he attached electrodes to a dracaena plant in his office and watered it, …
No one explains the world better than Patrick Henningsen. Here you hear exctly where we are positioned today. The world’s leaders have abandoned the rules based world we once knew. Countries like Iran, China and Russia try to hang on to the standards of the world as it was pre-US moral collapse – and many …
In this video, Dr. G — clinical and forensic psychologist and body language expert — analyzes the newly released handwritten note allegedly found in Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell, a document many are now calling a possible suicide note. Dr. G examines whether the wording, emotional tone, phrasing, and psychological presentation are actually consistent with Jeffrey …
Iran has Donald Trump over a barrel and according to Alexander Mercouris of The Duran, all Tehran has to do is wait. With Saudi Arabia blocking US military operations, Gulf states abandoning further escalation, and American oil reserves being rapidly drawn down to suppress prices, Mercouris delivers a detailed analysis of why a major global …
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