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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...


Israel launched a wave of air strikes across Iran early on Friday morning with over 200 Israeli warplanes.

A residential building in Tehran that was struck by Israeli warplanes early on Friday News Brief – June 13, 2025 Israel launched a wave of air strikes across Iran early on Friday morning with over 200 Israeli warplanes. Around one hundred sites linked to Iran’s military or its nuclear program were targeted At least six Iranian nuclear …

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