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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. Read more...
It is gratifying to see so many aspects of the climate scam having been debunked, or fallen by the wayside over the past year, as data centers became the next big thing. (And the ascension of the data centers seems to be collapsing as well, since the profits from AI are much less than predicted. …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/07/brandon-smith/election-integrity-is-representative-democracy-a-foolish-fantasy/ Yes it is, it needs radical reform The current system is bust, it needs reforming He suggests a few possible reforms below, he’s from the US, but his points are valid here in UK too, in fact across the whole of the “West” I could think of quite a few more reforms too I’m not holding my breath …
Source: https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/simply-compare-the-behavior-of-washington It seems like the media has been given orders to only speak in hushed tones about the new war on Iran and the invasion of Lebanon. You could be forgiven for not having even noticed that Washington is back to bombing Iran on the regular and that these are serious attacks, almost a prelude …
Source: https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/where-is-the-empire-moving Of all the July 4th think pieces I read this year, the most surprising was Kit Knightly’s piece for Off-Guardian.org, “America Was Never the Problem.” I say “surprising” because most such Independence Day articles are written by and for Americans and are generally some variation of the lament that “kids these days don’t know what …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/07/capt-randall/psycho-planet/ I awoke before the Sun,…thinking. The realizations of a lifetime crystallized into the summation of our pathetic situation on this once glorious planet. . As a child, life was all Jingle Bells and Easter Bunnies. Later, most folks would just as soon kick ya to the curb in their rush to where? Much …
Jul 17, 2026 #Iran #IranUS #Hormuz In this emergency Friday briefing, Pepe Escobar, Larry Johnson and Zulfiqar Ali break down why Iran’s missiles have suddenly become accurate — the panel reports a shift from US GPS to China’s BeiDou satellite guidance — and why the next 72 hours may decide whether the Iran–US war stays …
Meryl Nass Jul 17 · Meryl’s CHAOS letter (Critical Health Analysis and OpinionS) The MSM have been very quiet on what we are doing to Iran and what Iran is doing to the rest of the Middle East over the past 6 days of aggressive bombings. Civilian infrastructure has been hit badly (war crimes) but the …
Vanessa Beeley Massive cover up. A very high percentage of the population of children in Israel is victim – the ultra-orthodox Haradi Jews are the biggest perpetrators. Most families have around six children. This sector will become a majority of the population in time. Ritual abuse. Doctors. Rabbis. …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/07/17/trumps-iran-infrastructure-attack-timeline-tells-the-real-story/#more-418598 Submitted by A Veteran Intelligence Analyst & Former U.S. Military Officer SOTN Exclusive July 11, 2026: U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham died on the evening of Saturday, July 11, 2026 from following a brief and sudden illness. (Source: Russian philosopher & Putin advisor Alexander Dugin has claimed that Mossad was behind the death of United States Senator Lindsey Graham …
Source: https://henrymakow.com/2026/07/patrick-ocarroll—corps-supply-hitler.html Section 3(a) of the “Trading with the Enemy Act” of 1941 actually made it legal to trade with Nazi Germany in wartime. World wars are contrived for power, profit and depopulation. Patrick O’Carroll (henrymakow.com) Professor Antony Sutton stated it perfectly, “For all their manufactured wars, the Western …
MILITARY TUBE TODAY BREAKING🚨 Serbian President Vučić refused to sign the final declaration of the Ukraine–Southeast Europe summit in Kiev, directed against Russia. According to Serbian newspaper Politika, the document called for tightening anti-Russian sanctions, continued military and financial support for Kiev, and advancing Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic integration. Serbia was the only participating state to reject the declaration.🎯🎯
Itapirkanmaa2 8 minutes ago “Last night [16/17-07-26], the US launched massive airstrikes against Iran, with damage reported to several Iranian infrastructure facilities, including six bridges. The map screenshot shows the locations of the main US airstrikes. Iran has been striking targets in the Middle East for over six hours. This time, in addition to US military bases, …
Source: https://www.unz.com/jcook/the-west-wont-punish-the-settlements-its-two-state-solution-was-always-a-sham/ If I asked you to cut off your arm, would you do it? What if I pointed out that that your arm regularly punched a neighbour in the face so violently that it broke their nose and teeth, and left them unconscious? Would you cut your arm off then? I’m guessing …
Source: https://jupplandia.substack.com/p/mediocrity-is-a-weapon I have been thinking a lot about the Odyssey lately, and I have shared my thoughts on it in two pieces here. I don’t intend for this to be another Odyssey piece, and I want this to be a much broader discussion of the use of mediocrity as a weapon and the inherent triumph of mediocrity in a …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/07/brandon-smith/election-integrity-is-representative-democracy-a-foolish-fantasy/ Yes it is, it needs radical reform The current system is bust, it needs reforming He suggests a few possible reforms below, he’s from the US, but his points are valid here in UK too, in fact across the whole of the “West” I could think of quite a few more reforms too I’m not holding my breath …
Source: https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/where-is-the-empire-moving Of all the July 4th think pieces I read this year, the most surprising was Kit Knightly’s piece for Off-Guardian.org, “America Was Never the Problem.” I say “surprising” because most such Independence Day articles are written by and for Americans and are generally some variation of the lament that “kids these days don’t know what …
Meryl Nass Jul 17 · Meryl’s CHAOS letter (Critical Health Analysis and OpinionS) The MSM have been very quiet on what we are doing to Iran and what Iran is doing to the rest of the Middle East over the past 6 days of aggressive bombings. Civilian infrastructure has been hit badly (war crimes) but the …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/07/17/trumps-iran-infrastructure-attack-timeline-tells-the-real-story/#more-418598 Submitted by A Veteran Intelligence Analyst & Former U.S. Military Officer SOTN Exclusive July 11, 2026: U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham died on the evening of Saturday, July 11, 2026 from following a brief and sudden illness. (Source: Russian philosopher & Putin advisor Alexander Dugin has claimed that Mossad was behind the death of United States Senator Lindsey Graham …
MILITARY TUBE TODAY BREAKING🚨 Serbian President Vučić refused to sign the final declaration of the Ukraine–Southeast Europe summit in Kiev, directed against Russia. According to Serbian newspaper Politika, the document called for tightening anti-Russian sanctions, continued military and financial support for Kiev, and advancing Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic integration. Serbia was the only participating state to reject the declaration.🎯🎯
Source: https://www.unz.com/jcook/the-west-wont-punish-the-settlements-its-two-state-solution-was-always-a-sham/ If I asked you to cut off your arm, would you do it? What if I pointed out that that your arm regularly punched a neighbour in the face so violently that it broke their nose and teeth, and left them unconscious? Would you cut your arm off then? I’m guessing …
Source: https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/simply-compare-the-behavior-of-washington It seems like the media has been given orders to only speak in hushed tones about the new war on Iran and the invasion of Lebanon. You could be forgiven for not having even noticed that Washington is back to bombing Iran on the regular and that these are serious attacks, almost a prelude …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/07/capt-randall/psycho-planet/ I awoke before the Sun,…thinking. The realizations of a lifetime crystallized into the summation of our pathetic situation on this once glorious planet. . As a child, life was all Jingle Bells and Easter Bunnies. Later, most folks would just as soon kick ya to the curb in their rush to where? Much …
Jul 17, 2026 #Iran #IranUS #Hormuz In this emergency Friday briefing, Pepe Escobar, Larry Johnson and Zulfiqar Ali break down why Iran’s missiles have suddenly become accurate — the panel reports a shift from US GPS to China’s BeiDou satellite guidance — and why the next 72 hours may decide whether the Iran–US war stays …
Vanessa Beeley Massive cover up. A very high percentage of the population of children in Israel is victim – the ultra-orthodox Haradi Jews are the biggest perpetrators. Most families have around six children. This sector will become a majority of the population in time. Ritual abuse. Doctors. Rabbis. …
Source: https://henrymakow.com/2026/07/patrick-ocarroll—corps-supply-hitler.html Section 3(a) of the “Trading with the Enemy Act” of 1941 actually made it legal to trade with Nazi Germany in wartime. World wars are contrived for power, profit and depopulation. Patrick O’Carroll (henrymakow.com) Professor Antony Sutton stated it perfectly, “For all their manufactured wars, the Western …
Itapirkanmaa2 8 minutes ago “Last night [16/17-07-26], the US launched massive airstrikes against Iran, with damage reported to several Iranian infrastructure facilities, including six bridges. The map screenshot shows the locations of the main US airstrikes. Iran has been striking targets in the Middle East for over six hours. This time, in addition to US military bases, …
Source: https://jupplandia.substack.com/p/mediocrity-is-a-weapon I have been thinking a lot about the Odyssey lately, and I have shared my thoughts on it in two pieces here. I don’t intend for this to be another Odyssey piece, and I want this to be a much broader discussion of the use of mediocrity as a weapon and the inherent triumph of mediocrity in a …
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