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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...


Plane Crash Tragedy: Did Understaffing and DEI Hiring Policies Contribute to the Disaster? – UKC

Great segment by Mike and Patrick   https://rumble.com/v6fg80g-plane-crash-tragedy-did-understaffing-and-dei-hiring-policies-contributed-t.html?e9s=src_v1_upp https://rumble.com/v6fg80g-plane-crash-tragedy-did-understaffing-and-dei-hiring-policies-contributed-t.html?e9s=src_v1_upp Full news and all the source links: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-31st-january-2025 – ABC News: Schumer slams Trump for throwing out ‘idle speculation’ – SkyVector: Flight Planning / Aeronautical Charts – CNN (2024): FAA still short about 3,000 air traffic controllers, new federal numbers show – Everything Policy: Diversity and Air Traffic Control

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