The Tap Blog - The Home for Media Sceptics

The Tap is an independent blog powered and fed by the readers. Please send in the news and stories that you think are of interest to an awakened audience. Read more...

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...


How Covid totalitarianism infrastructure was facilitated post 9/11

Source: https://escapekey.substack.com/p/911 This essay is not about controlled demolition, insider trading, or who knew what in advance. The question here is simpler. What institutional infrastructure was developed as a direct consequence of the event, what did it connect to, and what is the net function of the system that now exists? The purpose of a system is what …

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