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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...


A decade of dissent: smears and revelations

Source: https://winteroak.org.uk/2025/03/10/a-decade-of-dissent-smears-and-revelations/ In the latest part of his retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, editor Paul Cudenec looks back on its content in 2023. The online document covering the entire decade can be found here. The Acorn in 2023 featured some important deep dives into the toxic reality of a world run by global organised crime. One of these was a …

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