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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...
Brian Berletic Aug 7, 2026 Eurasia/Middle East The US continues waging war and proxy war against Iran with Iran targeting US-backed Kurdish proxies in what looks like preemptive or spoiling operations in northern Iraq; US munition stockpiles are reportedly very low, however the US continues making missiles and slowly expanding production – meaning the US will …
Source: https://winteroak.org.uk/2026/08/07/paranoia-or-perceptivity/ A book review by Paul Cudenec, who reads it here In July, I mentioned in passing that the legendary counter-cultural artist Robert Crumb, now nearly 83 years old, had spoken out about possible industrial manipulation behind the Covid debacle. [1] Further investigation led me to get hold of his new cartoon book (the first in 23 years), which …
Source: https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/global-greening-hits-new-record/ Must be all that CO2! Plant food NOT poison Global mean vegetation greening reached a record high last year, extending an already significant multi-decade upward trend, according to recent findings published in Nature. In fact, 2025 set a record for global vegetation greening with a steepening of the average trend. Top of the list with 77.6% showing …
Bookstores boycotted it. Reviewers tried to bury it. It still sold over 1,000,000 copies and hit #1 on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. Read the book they still don’t want you to read. This week, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted 8-5 to hold …
Source: https://sonar21.com/us-navy-and-marine-officers-on-board-ships-in-the-arabian-sea-are-failing-to-feed-their-enlisted-personnel-properly/ Some of them are losing weight fast it seems Still should leave plenty in store I imagine given that the average yank BMI is nearly 30 Cybele Mayes-Osterman, a reporter at the USA Today, wrote a story on April 16 that buried the lede… The enlisted personnel on board ships deployed to the Iranian war zone …
A new Pentagon-IDF tie-up deepens military integration while ordinary US citizens get more war, more debt, and less to hope for at home Published 5 Aug, 2026 12:09 | Updated 5 Aug, 2026 13:10 By Tara Reade, an RT contributor, author, geopolitical analyst and former Senate Aide. You can find Tara’s work at tarareadepodcast.com @ReadeAlexandra …
https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/08/03 “This is occurring without any official record of the quantities removed or independent oversight, and before international and local investigative committees have had the chance to survey, examine, and document the sites. This risks destroying crucial evidence of genocide and the remains of victims still unaccounted for under the rubble,” Euro-Med said in a press …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/08/05/government-propaganda-is-a-trojan-horse/#more-421928 If the Trojan War were being fought today, the Greeks would not need to hide inside of a big, wooden horse and hope to be dragged inside Troy’s city gates. They’d simply disseminate all kinds of lies on social media and wait for the Trojan people to fight each other. Such is the power of corrosive …
Source: https://theblueskymaiden1.substack.com/p/pmi-analysis-now-banned-by-microsoft Read the previous post before this one first No Introduction- amazingly for a change The PRONOUN MANIA quantification system, that Serge & Myself devised to see the machinery beneath persona in writing , has been BANNED by Microsoft straight after the work on MIRI AF was published ! It is TOO POWERFUL & ACCURATE A GUAGE… IT REVEALS …
Source: https://theblueskymaiden1.substack.com/p/miri-afs-mechanical-missives Contents:
INDRODUCTION . THE CLOSED SYSTEM Cognitive‑Architecture of Miri AF A Haunted House of Horror & Threats . THE PRONOUN MANIA INDEX . The Ratio‑Stability Table The “WTF” Moment . The Pronoun Mania Index (PMI): USE SRI ERI & CRI in more depth . Why is she doing this & what is she using …Evidence emerges that a placebo or less toxic COVID vaccine may have been used in some states or for some politicians Meryl Nass Aug 5 Ethical Skeptic ☀ @EthicalSkeptic “The standout finding was that the single best-performing site in the entire country – the one with the lowest (and even favourable) mortality statistics – was located …
WHY would we want to meld our military and intel agencies with Israel? That would make us guilty of genocide too. The Senate needs to expunge these provisions from the National Defense Authorization Act, or our sovereignty is done for. The United States of Israel If Section 219/1217of the NDAA becomes law, we will have surrendered …
Aug 5, 2026 Dimitri Lascaris speaks with Laith Marouf, Executive Director of Free Palestinian TV, about the manufactured migrant crisis in Ceuta, the Spanish enclave on the southern side of the Strait of Gibraltar. Dimitri and Laith also discuss Israel’s ongoing genocide in southern Lebanon and the Lebanese Prime Minister’s hostile attitude toward the Lebanese resistance. Also …
Source: https://winteroak.org.uk/2026/08/07/paranoia-or-perceptivity/ A book review by Paul Cudenec, who reads it here In July, I mentioned in passing that the legendary counter-cultural artist Robert Crumb, now nearly 83 years old, had spoken out about possible industrial manipulation behind the Covid debacle. [1] Further investigation led me to get hold of his new cartoon book (the first in 23 years), which …
Source: https://sonar21.com/us-navy-and-marine-officers-on-board-ships-in-the-arabian-sea-are-failing-to-feed-their-enlisted-personnel-properly/ Some of them are losing weight fast it seems Still should leave plenty in store I imagine given that the average yank BMI is nearly 30 Cybele Mayes-Osterman, a reporter at the USA Today, wrote a story on April 16 that buried the lede… The enlisted personnel on board ships deployed to the Iranian war zone …
https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/08/03 “This is occurring without any official record of the quantities removed or independent oversight, and before international and local investigative committees have had the chance to survey, examine, and document the sites. This risks destroying crucial evidence of genocide and the remains of victims still unaccounted for under the rubble,” Euro-Med said in a press …
Source: https://theblueskymaiden1.substack.com/p/pmi-analysis-now-banned-by-microsoft Read the previous post before this one first No Introduction- amazingly for a change The PRONOUN MANIA quantification system, that Serge & Myself devised to see the machinery beneath persona in writing , has been BANNED by Microsoft straight after the work on MIRI AF was published ! It is TOO POWERFUL & ACCURATE A GUAGE… IT REVEALS …
WHY would we want to meld our military and intel agencies with Israel? That would make us guilty of genocide too. The Senate needs to expunge these provisions from the National Defense Authorization Act, or our sovereignty is done for. The United States of Israel If Section 219/1217of the NDAA becomes law, we will have surrendered …
Source: https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/global-greening-hits-new-record/ Must be all that CO2! Plant food NOT poison Global mean vegetation greening reached a record high last year, extending an already significant multi-decade upward trend, according to recent findings published in Nature. In fact, 2025 set a record for global vegetation greening with a steepening of the average trend. Top of the list with 77.6% showing …
Bookstores boycotted it. Reviewers tried to bury it. It still sold over 1,000,000 copies and hit #1 on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. Read the book they still don’t want you to read. This week, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted 8-5 to hold …
A new Pentagon-IDF tie-up deepens military integration while ordinary US citizens get more war, more debt, and less to hope for at home Published 5 Aug, 2026 12:09 | Updated 5 Aug, 2026 13:10 By Tara Reade, an RT contributor, author, geopolitical analyst and former Senate Aide. You can find Tara’s work at tarareadepodcast.com @ReadeAlexandra …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/08/05/government-propaganda-is-a-trojan-horse/#more-421928 If the Trojan War were being fought today, the Greeks would not need to hide inside of a big, wooden horse and hope to be dragged inside Troy’s city gates. They’d simply disseminate all kinds of lies on social media and wait for the Trojan people to fight each other. Such is the power of corrosive …
Source: https://theblueskymaiden1.substack.com/p/miri-afs-mechanical-missives Contents:
INDRODUCTION . THE CLOSED SYSTEM Cognitive‑Architecture of Miri AF A Haunted House of Horror & Threats . THE PRONOUN MANIA INDEX . The Ratio‑Stability Table The “WTF” Moment . The Pronoun Mania Index (PMI): USE SRI ERI & CRI in more depth . Why is she doing this & what is she using …Evidence emerges that a placebo or less toxic COVID vaccine may have been used in some states or for some politicians Meryl Nass Aug 5 Ethical Skeptic ☀ @EthicalSkeptic “The standout finding was that the single best-performing site in the entire country – the one with the lowest (and even favourable) mortality statistics – was located …
Aug 5, 2026 Dimitri Lascaris speaks with Laith Marouf, Executive Director of Free Palestinian TV, about the manufactured migrant crisis in Ceuta, the Spanish enclave on the southern side of the Strait of Gibraltar. Dimitri and Laith also discuss Israel’s ongoing genocide in southern Lebanon and the Lebanese Prime Minister’s hostile attitude toward the Lebanese resistance. Also …
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