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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: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/05/02/africa-the-next-oil-bonanza-the-failure-of-using-force-alone-letter-from-south-africa-02-05-26/ The Middle East is on fire. Ongoing constricted global oil supply lines might elevate the Gulf of Guinea to a new strategic importance. Protect & Survive My “Letter from South Africa” was interrupted by reporting on the war in Iran. The recent …
Dr. Heather Lynn | The Ancient Entropy Equation, Ritual Sex Magic, & The Broker Class Dr. Heather Lynn is an author, historian, and former professor who explores the hidden knowledge and forbidden histories that traditional academia often overlooks. With expertise spanning archaeology, education, history, and technology, Dr. Lynn connects myth, magic, and science and brings a …
Source: https://www.unz.com/ishamir/blessings-from-heaven/ I have two news items for you today, a good one and a bad one. Should we begin with a good one? OK, so we shall. The Good News In the parched lands of the Middle East, the rains are few and far between. My readers who live in lands of temperate climate, in the US …
The begging bowls are coming out. These are high spending countries experiencing very steep reductions in their cash in flow. They either sell off assets or raise cash. All their currencies are pegged to the dollar, the currency of the country that was the financial hyperpower, the USA. They won’t break the link to the …
Ukraine has now struck the Tuapse oil refinery four times in under two weeks — and the latest attack came right after a Trump-Putin phone call aimed at de-escalating the conflict, raising serious questions about who is actually controlling Ukrainian military operations. Alex Christoforou of The Duran breaks down the explosive resurgence of the Mind corruption …
The war in Lebanon has displaced a million people in South Lebanon. The Israelis are destroying the towns and villages but being hit hard by FPV drones, and won’t be able to stay around. In Palestinian Gaza, Hamas is still in charge, once a democratic orgnisation, now a militia. Hezbollah in Lebanon is a state within a …
Source: https://leohohmann.substack.com/p/king-charles-shows-up-in-dc-beating Talks about ‘shared values’ and ‘unyeilding resolve’ in ‘defending Ukraine’ …but what does that look like and where does it end? Depopulation is the key to it all. Just when you thought the war drums couldn’t be any louder, with extremist Israel-firsters pushing for continuing and expanding the killing fields in Iran, Lebanon, Gaza, …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/05/doug-casey/energy-lockdowns-and-the-new-era-of-government-control/ May 1, 2026 International Man: Governments learned during COVID that populations will tolerate extraordinary restrictions if they’re sold as an emergency. Could an energy crisis become the next excuse for lockdown-style controls? Doug Casey: We’re looking at something much worse than another lockdown, as bad as that was. The big question is whether we’re now …
Source: https://mileswmathis.com/chapito.pdf April 30, 2026 Sam Cooper at the Bureau.news ran an article today under the title Federal Prosecutors Charge Sinaloa’s Governor, a Senator, a Mayor, and Seven Other Senior Mexican Officials With Running a Narco-State for the Chapitos It claims: In what appears to be the frst instance in American legal history of the Justice Department indicting …
Patrick Henningsen: Iran’s CHILLING Message to Trump – Ships Turning Back Near Hormuz. Who initiated the ceasefire in Iran? Who initiated the call to Putin? Trump. He cares about the news cycle. What’s the story? Out at sea The USS Gerald Ford strike group has withdrawn from the northern Red Sea. Defending Israel from Yemen. Heading back to …
Source: https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2026/04/welcome-to-technocracy.html Elon Musk dreamed of it. His name comes from a story written by a Nazi about a technocracy living under ground on Mars ruled by The Elon. Peter Thiel and Alex Karp saw the possibility of a technocracy developing under the auspices of Total Informational Awareness program started by the neocons using 9/11 as cover while Jeffrey Epstein …
This strategy was planned decades ago – to cut off Asia from supply of energy. Unfortunately US strategy is working. A long blockade suits the US strategy well. Not just military. Economic. Energy. Food. Trade. Media. Politics. The US strategy is to dominate the world across all spectra. Military is only a part of the …
Source: https://henrymakow.com/2026/04/april-29—pedo-king-declines-.html (Left, Jimmy Savile, 1926-2011, was the Jeffrey Epstein of his day.) The imposter Trump regime continues to invent reality. Trump pretends Iran is on the verge of collapse when it’s the other way around. The Epstein class continues to pretend they are not imposters. Trump has zero credibility. The world is deserting the US-Israel shit …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/04/28/kill-switch-of-freedom/#more-406394 “The government should be afraid of the people, the people shouldn’t be afraid of the government.” ― Edward Snowden “The freedom of a country can only be measured by its respect for the rights of its citizens, and it’s my conviction that these rights are in fact limitations of state power that define exactly where and when …
False flags – no time. This is raw American and Israeli aggression from sexually deviant Epstein compromised regimes of Satanists who believe demonic power will bring them victory, as long as they sacrifice children and families to satisfy the lust for human suffering in their demons. Ranged against them – Christian and Moslem Russia allied with …
Dr. Heather Lynn | The Ancient Entropy Equation, Ritual Sex Magic, & The Broker Class Dr. Heather Lynn is an author, historian, and former professor who explores the hidden knowledge and forbidden histories that traditional academia often overlooks. With expertise spanning archaeology, education, history, and technology, Dr. Lynn connects myth, magic, and science and brings a …
The begging bowls are coming out. These are high spending countries experiencing very steep reductions in their cash in flow. They either sell off assets or raise cash. All their currencies are pegged to the dollar, the currency of the country that was the financial hyperpower, the USA. They won’t break the link to the …
The war in Lebanon has displaced a million people in South Lebanon. The Israelis are destroying the towns and villages but being hit hard by FPV drones, and won’t be able to stay around. In Palestinian Gaza, Hamas is still in charge, once a democratic orgnisation, now a militia. Hezbollah in Lebanon is a state within a …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/05/doug-casey/energy-lockdowns-and-the-new-era-of-government-control/ May 1, 2026 International Man: Governments learned during COVID that populations will tolerate extraordinary restrictions if they’re sold as an emergency. Could an energy crisis become the next excuse for lockdown-style controls? Doug Casey: We’re looking at something much worse than another lockdown, as bad as that was. The big question is whether we’re now …
Patrick Henningsen: Iran’s CHILLING Message to Trump – Ships Turning Back Near Hormuz. Who initiated the ceasefire in Iran? Who initiated the call to Putin? Trump. He cares about the news cycle. What’s the story? Out at sea The USS Gerald Ford strike group has withdrawn from the northern Red Sea. Defending Israel from Yemen. Heading back to …
This strategy was planned decades ago – to cut off Asia from supply of energy. Unfortunately US strategy is working. A long blockade suits the US strategy well. Not just military. Economic. Energy. Food. Trade. Media. Politics. The US strategy is to dominate the world across all spectra. Military is only a part of the …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/04/28/kill-switch-of-freedom/#more-406394 “The government should be afraid of the people, the people shouldn’t be afraid of the government.” ― Edward Snowden “The freedom of a country can only be measured by its respect for the rights of its citizens, and it’s my conviction that these rights are in fact limitations of state power that define exactly where and when …
Source: https://www.unz.com/ishamir/blessings-from-heaven/ I have two news items for you today, a good one and a bad one. Should we begin with a good one? OK, so we shall. The Good News In the parched lands of the Middle East, the rains are few and far between. My readers who live in lands of temperate climate, in the US …
Ukraine has now struck the Tuapse oil refinery four times in under two weeks — and the latest attack came right after a Trump-Putin phone call aimed at de-escalating the conflict, raising serious questions about who is actually controlling Ukrainian military operations. Alex Christoforou of The Duran breaks down the explosive resurgence of the Mind corruption …
Source: https://leohohmann.substack.com/p/king-charles-shows-up-in-dc-beating Talks about ‘shared values’ and ‘unyeilding resolve’ in ‘defending Ukraine’ …but what does that look like and where does it end? Depopulation is the key to it all. Just when you thought the war drums couldn’t be any louder, with extremist Israel-firsters pushing for continuing and expanding the killing fields in Iran, Lebanon, Gaza, …
Source: https://mileswmathis.com/chapito.pdf April 30, 2026 Sam Cooper at the Bureau.news ran an article today under the title Federal Prosecutors Charge Sinaloa’s Governor, a Senator, a Mayor, and Seven Other Senior Mexican Officials With Running a Narco-State for the Chapitos It claims: In what appears to be the frst instance in American legal history of the Justice Department indicting …
Source: https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2026/04/welcome-to-technocracy.html Elon Musk dreamed of it. His name comes from a story written by a Nazi about a technocracy living under ground on Mars ruled by The Elon. Peter Thiel and Alex Karp saw the possibility of a technocracy developing under the auspices of Total Informational Awareness program started by the neocons using 9/11 as cover while Jeffrey Epstein …
Source: https://henrymakow.com/2026/04/april-29—pedo-king-declines-.html (Left, Jimmy Savile, 1926-2011, was the Jeffrey Epstein of his day.) The imposter Trump regime continues to invent reality. Trump pretends Iran is on the verge of collapse when it’s the other way around. The Epstein class continues to pretend they are not imposters. Trump has zero credibility. The world is deserting the US-Israel shit …
False flags – no time. This is raw American and Israeli aggression from sexually deviant Epstein compromised regimes of Satanists who believe demonic power will bring them victory, as long as they sacrifice children and families to satisfy the lust for human suffering in their demons. Ranged against them – Christian and Moslem Russia allied with …
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