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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, towards the end here: https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/gotcha-trump-rejects-iran-peace-deal I just don’t have any real barometer for measuring what society even consists of anymore. My mental models for it are completely outdated. The internet stuff that I see, I don’t really ever see IRL. I’ll tell you what I do see. The Western Whites I see are mostly 30+ year old female Instagram …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/09/no_author/all-wars-are-bankers-wars-iran-and-the-bankers-endgame-2/ “The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.” —Prof. Caroll Quigley, Georgetown University, Tragedy and Hope (1966) In February 2026, the United States and Israel …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/09/mark-keenan/indias-75-million-moon-landing-where-is-the-evidence/ On August 23, 2023, India’s government space agency, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), announced an extraordinary achievement: its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft had successfully landed on the Moon, see Endnote [i]. Not merely reached lunar orbit. Not flown past the Moon. Landed on it. The Vikram lander had supposedly travelled approximately a quarter of a million miles …
Source: https://www.unz.com/article/stop-mad-king-donalds-iran-war/ Dear Members of Congress, In truly deranged remarks to world leaders at the U.N., Donald Trump declared that “I have a big decision to make,” whether to negotiate a deal with Iran or instead to “annihilate the Islamic Republic” and drive Iran “into hell with no chance of survival.” He posed …
Source: https://www.winterwatch.net/2026/09/the-after-the-close-weekend-manipulation-cycle-situation/ Bessent: “I AM THE HOUSE NOW! Bet against me if you want.” Iran says the US is lying about negotiations to manipulate the oil price. Everyone knows what’s going on but the algos still trade on every fake headline. …
Source: https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/war-is-inevitable-washington-has Beneath all the Trump social media bluster, there was a serious Deep State push happening behind the scenes under the Trump regime to offload the Donbass war to EUrope, and to refocus on the Middle East. We are in the middle of a massive reshuffling of priorities, troop deployments, and primary targets. Washington is …
Source: https://alt-market.us/something-has-changed-and-world-war-over-ukraine-is-back-on-the-table/ By Brandon Smith The eyes of the world have been fixated on the war in Iran for the past six months, meanwhile, the single-most dangerous flashpoint on the planet has gone mostly ignored. Until, that is, waves of Ukrainian drone strikes activated a run on global diesel markets. Suddenly, everyone …
Source, section 2 here: https://winteroak.org.uk/2026/09/25/the-acorn-113/#2 [Plus audio version] If it is really true that the world has long been under the domination of one system, and that apparently different arrangements such as communism, fascism and “democracy” are really just camouflaged versions of the same thing, then we would expect to find evidence of that. When we peeled away …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/09/24/the-breaking-of-trumps-prefrontal-cortex/ Stucky Summary: Trump is well on his way to becoming even more demented than fJB. God help us. =============================== When high-level security advisers emerge from an intelligence summit at the Élysée Palace in Paris confessing to a literal “sense of vertigo”—looking down into the abyss of simultaneous, systemic collapse across the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and …
By Chuck Baldwin September 24, 2026 (To subscribe to my columns at no cost, click here.) “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” Howard Zinn Under two U.S. presidents, one a Democrat and one a Republican, the U.S. government has partnered with the apartheid State of Israel in committing genocide in Gaza …
Source: https://www.winterwatch.net/2026/09/israelis-demonstrate-in-spades-the-gangsters-they-are-at-un/ “The wicked become even worse when they are tolerated.” – Tolstoy Epic mentally ill absence of self awareness. Hall empties out before Netanyahu’s display. Gangster behaviors during speech- the beeper threat. What was the purpose of this? Pagers are universal sign of killing people Israel doesn’t like. Cracker-ass canned applause in the background Random off the cuff remarks …
Source: https://russiatruthdotcom.substack.com/p/the-podium-of-decay-trumps-grotesque If the world needed a definitive visual epitaph for the unipolar era, it was delivered on the green marble rostrum of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2026. Standing before the delegates of 193 nations, Donald J. Trump did not project the austere authority of a global superpower. What unfolded was …
Source: https://www.unz.com/article/why-i-am-an-ai-doomer/ In Greg Johnson’s version of Animal Farm, the chickens labor mightily to create a being that is immeasurably smarter and more powerful than they are, on the assumption that this being will serve them. In a way, they were right, for when their new creation, “man,” came online, he served his creators up for …
Source: https://off-guardian.org/2026/09/20/surface-thinking/ People don’t care because they don’t know. Simple as that. I know I’ve been through this a million times, but I just don’t think I’ve nailed it. Maybe now. It’s nuance, still, but it’s something more than I have written about before. My stepson got married a few weeks ago, and I officiated the ceremony. …
Source: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/09/21/a-world-turned-upside-down/ Can civilisations pull together the fragments of older insights and knowing to give the context by which to make moral discourse intelligible again? Outline of a talk given at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 7 Sept 2026 The global future is often framed as being that of a muli-polar or multi-nodal world, with the implicit …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/09/no_author/all-wars-are-bankers-wars-iran-and-the-bankers-endgame-2/ “The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.” —Prof. Caroll Quigley, Georgetown University, Tragedy and Hope (1966) In February 2026, the United States and Israel …
Source: https://www.unz.com/article/stop-mad-king-donalds-iran-war/ Dear Members of Congress, In truly deranged remarks to world leaders at the U.N., Donald Trump declared that “I have a big decision to make,” whether to negotiate a deal with Iran or instead to “annihilate the Islamic Republic” and drive Iran “into hell with no chance of survival.” He posed …
Source: https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/war-is-inevitable-washington-has Beneath all the Trump social media bluster, there was a serious Deep State push happening behind the scenes under the Trump regime to offload the Donbass war to EUrope, and to refocus on the Middle East. We are in the middle of a massive reshuffling of priorities, troop deployments, and primary targets. Washington is …
Source, section 2 here: https://winteroak.org.uk/2026/09/25/the-acorn-113/#2 [Plus audio version] If it is really true that the world has long been under the domination of one system, and that apparently different arrangements such as communism, fascism and “democracy” are really just camouflaged versions of the same thing, then we would expect to find evidence of that. When we peeled away …
By Chuck Baldwin September 24, 2026 (To subscribe to my columns at no cost, click here.) “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” Howard Zinn Under two U.S. presidents, one a Democrat and one a Republican, the U.S. government has partnered with the apartheid State of Israel in committing genocide in Gaza …
Source: https://russiatruthdotcom.substack.com/p/the-podium-of-decay-trumps-grotesque If the world needed a definitive visual epitaph for the unipolar era, it was delivered on the green marble rostrum of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2026. Standing before the delegates of 193 nations, Donald J. Trump did not project the austere authority of a global superpower. What unfolded was …
Source: https://off-guardian.org/2026/09/20/surface-thinking/ People don’t care because they don’t know. Simple as that. I know I’ve been through this a million times, but I just don’t think I’ve nailed it. Maybe now. It’s nuance, still, but it’s something more than I have written about before. My stepson got married a few weeks ago, and I officiated the ceremony. …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/09/mark-keenan/indias-75-million-moon-landing-where-is-the-evidence/ On August 23, 2023, India’s government space agency, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), announced an extraordinary achievement: its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft had successfully landed on the Moon, see Endnote [i]. Not merely reached lunar orbit. Not flown past the Moon. Landed on it. The Vikram lander had supposedly travelled approximately a quarter of a million miles …
Source: https://www.winterwatch.net/2026/09/the-after-the-close-weekend-manipulation-cycle-situation/ Bessent: “I AM THE HOUSE NOW! Bet against me if you want.” Iran says the US is lying about negotiations to manipulate the oil price. Everyone knows what’s going on but the algos still trade on every fake headline. …
Source: https://alt-market.us/something-has-changed-and-world-war-over-ukraine-is-back-on-the-table/ By Brandon Smith The eyes of the world have been fixated on the war in Iran for the past six months, meanwhile, the single-most dangerous flashpoint on the planet has gone mostly ignored. Until, that is, waves of Ukrainian drone strikes activated a run on global diesel markets. Suddenly, everyone …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/09/24/the-breaking-of-trumps-prefrontal-cortex/ Stucky Summary: Trump is well on his way to becoming even more demented than fJB. God help us. =============================== When high-level security advisers emerge from an intelligence summit at the Élysée Palace in Paris confessing to a literal “sense of vertigo”—looking down into the abyss of simultaneous, systemic collapse across the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and …
Source: https://www.winterwatch.net/2026/09/israelis-demonstrate-in-spades-the-gangsters-they-are-at-un/ “The wicked become even worse when they are tolerated.” – Tolstoy Epic mentally ill absence of self awareness. Hall empties out before Netanyahu’s display. Gangster behaviors during speech- the beeper threat. What was the purpose of this? Pagers are universal sign of killing people Israel doesn’t like. Cracker-ass canned applause in the background Random off the cuff remarks …
Source: https://www.unz.com/article/why-i-am-an-ai-doomer/ In Greg Johnson’s version of Animal Farm, the chickens labor mightily to create a being that is immeasurably smarter and more powerful than they are, on the assumption that this being will serve them. In a way, they were right, for when their new creation, “man,” came online, he served his creators up for …
Source: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/09/21/a-world-turned-upside-down/ Can civilisations pull together the fragments of older insights and knowing to give the context by which to make moral discourse intelligible again? Outline of a talk given at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 7 Sept 2026 The global future is often framed as being that of a muli-polar or multi-nodal world, with the implicit …
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