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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...
UPDATE 15.05 – It’s interesting that precious metal prices have fallen the day after the US/China get together. China probably agreed to lower their price on physical precious metal as a goodwill gesture, with the western banks all holding loss-making short positions on their paper traded futures markets at huge values. This gesture can easily …
MILITARY TUBE TODAY FLASH⚡ In the UAE, they have started installing protective grilles against drones around oil depots. Metal structures and fences are being erected around strategic facilities to create a physical barrier for drones.🚀💥🔥 David Hearst sees the Middle East reshaping as Saudi awakens to Israeli/Emirati threat | …
Is Tramp offering to open up the US to Chinese investors, as part of a deal? Will the US be able to buy BYD cars? Tramp is insulting female journalists. He’s falling asleep in front of the cameras every day. His megalomania is going off the scale – corruption into the billions, scams on the public, insider trades …
As Donald Trump prepares for his historic visit to Beijing—the first since his first term—the geopolitical landscape has shifted dramatically. In this deep-dive analysis, Wyatt from Defense Politics Asia (DPA) breaks down why Xi Jinping is entering these negotiations with his hands tied, while the United States holds a significant strategic upper hand. From the …
Leasehold ABOLISHED? Huge News For UK Homeowners Leasehold reform is back in the spotlight after the King’s Speech confirmed major plans to overhaul how flats and homes are owned in the UK. Could leasehold finally be abolished — and what does this mean for homeowners, landlords and property investors? In this video, we break down …
This has an effect on USI allies who can’t work out what the hell Tramp is going to do next. Iran is playing like an adult, with a long term strategy, and it’s starting to pay dividends. Gordon sends – Here’s the original PD Tramp. Spot the similarity with The White House regime of today. Uncanny. See …
The New Atlas Anger, Disappointment, Confusion, and Delusional Hope Ahead of US-China Meeting ▪️The US ultimately seeks to contain and subordinate China/destabilize and destroy it if necessary – and with everything it does it seeks to undermine China’s economic, technological, and political rise, while enhancing its own domination over it and the …
@manuelvega1100 Fantastic discussion with the Duran..they are truly exceptional… The coverage of UAE and the Gulf States and the pressure on them from USI to openly participate in the war against Iran. The Israelis want the Gulf States to openly align with Israel against Iran. ‘You’re either with …
How come this ancient country of deserts and mountains and no advertising industry, just dozens of camels, and impossible to locate on a map, has managed to produce a weapons industry of world class sophistication? Nah. It can’t be. I’ve never come across such a thing in a single movie in seventy years, thinks PD …
Do you get it now? Source: https://henrymakow.com/the_united_states_is_a_masonic.html For people around the world, the US represented freedom and opportunity. But in fact the US was created to kill, enslave and dispossess the masses, as we are rudely discovering today. Freedom and opportunity are illusions gradually dispersing …
Source: https://miriaf.co.uk/reforming-the-right-at-the-gaylord-texan-resort/ Closing lines: “Gaylord” is primarily used as a slang term for a foolish, incompetent, or uncool person. Colloquially, it acts as a derogatory term… often intended to describe someone as effeminate, weak, or generally “lame”. So, just like they tell us with the Hanta-Pantovirus (‘Hanta’ being a Hungarian word meaning ‘nonsense’ or ‘balderdash’), they’re telling us with …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/05/ellen-brown/the-abundance-paradigm-why-ai-forces-rethinking-of-money-itself/ By Ellen Brown The Web of Debt Blog May 12, 2026 A Universal Basic Income (UBI) has long been proposed as a way to cushion the blow of jobs lost to automation. Under that model, everyone receives a modest monthly payment – enough to cover basic needs and prevent extreme poverty. But Elon Musk …
This attempted pandemic is the dullest so far with nothing noteworthy to talk about. The script needs completely rewriting or the whole pantomime will die, and the profits of the impresarios, who grew rich on DieQuick19 will crash. Symptomatic Andes Hantavirus enters the US–while a potential very early treatment [CQ/ HCQ] is suppressed. …
MILITARY TUBE TODAY FLASH⚡ In the UAE, they have started installing protective grilles against drones around oil depots. Metal structures and fences are being erected around strategic facilities to create a physical barrier for drones.🚀💥🔥 David Hearst sees the Middle East reshaping as Saudi awakens to Israeli/Emirati threat | …
As Donald Trump prepares for his historic visit to Beijing—the first since his first term—the geopolitical landscape has shifted dramatically. In this deep-dive analysis, Wyatt from Defense Politics Asia (DPA) breaks down why Xi Jinping is entering these negotiations with his hands tied, while the United States holds a significant strategic upper hand. From the …
The New Atlas Anger, Disappointment, Confusion, and Delusional Hope Ahead of US-China Meeting ▪️The US ultimately seeks to contain and subordinate China/destabilize and destroy it if necessary – and with everything it does it seeks to undermine China’s economic, technological, and political rise, while enhancing its own domination over it and the …
How come this ancient country of deserts and mountains and no advertising industry, just dozens of camels, and impossible to locate on a map, has managed to produce a weapons industry of world class sophistication? Nah. It can’t be. I’ve never come across such a thing in a single movie in seventy years, thinks PD …
Source: https://miriaf.co.uk/reforming-the-right-at-the-gaylord-texan-resort/ Closing lines: “Gaylord” is primarily used as a slang term for a foolish, incompetent, or uncool person. Colloquially, it acts as a derogatory term… often intended to describe someone as effeminate, weak, or generally “lame”. So, just like they tell us with the Hanta-Pantovirus (‘Hanta’ being a Hungarian word meaning ‘nonsense’ or ‘balderdash’), they’re telling us with …
Is Tramp offering to open up the US to Chinese investors, as part of a deal? Will the US be able to buy BYD cars? Tramp is insulting female journalists. He’s falling asleep in front of the cameras every day. His megalomania is going off the scale – corruption into the billions, scams on the public, insider trades …
Leasehold ABOLISHED? Huge News For UK Homeowners Leasehold reform is back in the spotlight after the King’s Speech confirmed major plans to overhaul how flats and homes are owned in the UK. Could leasehold finally be abolished — and what does this mean for homeowners, landlords and property investors? In this video, we break down …
This has an effect on USI allies who can’t work out what the hell Tramp is going to do next. Iran is playing like an adult, with a long term strategy, and it’s starting to pay dividends. Gordon sends – Here’s the original PD Tramp. Spot the similarity with The White House regime of today. Uncanny. See …
@manuelvega1100 Fantastic discussion with the Duran..they are truly exceptional… The coverage of UAE and the Gulf States and the pressure on them from USI to openly participate in the war against Iran. The Israelis want the Gulf States to openly align with Israel against Iran. ‘You’re either with …
Do you get it now? Source: https://henrymakow.com/the_united_states_is_a_masonic.html For people around the world, the US represented freedom and opportunity. But in fact the US was created to kill, enslave and dispossess the masses, as we are rudely discovering today. Freedom and opportunity are illusions gradually dispersing …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/05/ellen-brown/the-abundance-paradigm-why-ai-forces-rethinking-of-money-itself/ By Ellen Brown The Web of Debt Blog May 12, 2026 A Universal Basic Income (UBI) has long been proposed as a way to cushion the blow of jobs lost to automation. Under that model, everyone receives a modest monthly payment – enough to cover basic needs and prevent extreme poverty. But Elon Musk …
This attempted pandemic is the dullest so far with nothing noteworthy to talk about. The script needs completely rewriting or the whole pantomime will die, and the profits of the impresarios, who grew rich on DieQuick19 will crash. Symptomatic Andes Hantavirus enters the US–while a potential very early treatment [CQ/ HCQ] is suppressed. …
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