The Tap Blog - The Home for Media Sceptics

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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...


Trump – The moon is ours…what about the earth?

Trump redesigns space force uniforms to resemble nazi. Distraction strategies of President Trump. Ansarallah’s advances in Yemen appear to be a positive development for Iran and its network alliances – however the organization has previously held this territory, it extends (perhaps overextends) the organization in terms of operations and logistics, and may feed into US objectives rather …

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