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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, as I recall. Read more...
An Oxford mathematician just issued a warning the world is ignoring. In this powerful teaching, Professor John Lennox — mathematician, philosopher and Christian apologist from Oxford University — exposes the terrifying connection between Artificial Intelligence, transhumanism, and biblical end times prophecy. What is happening right now in Silicon Valley was written in Scripture thousands of …
The article on Israel spying on the US (especially wrt the Iran war) has become big news. Here is the NYT story Meryl Nass Jun 6 Thought you might want the long version. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/us/politics/pentagon-sees-growing-espionage-threat-from-israel.html Recent U.S. intelligence reports have raised concerns about Israeli spy agencies eavesdropping on American negotiators working on a peace deal with Iran, amid rising …
The “meat” funded by billionaires isn’t what you think it is, and this investigation breaks down the additives, processing changes, and rise of engineered alternatives blurring the line between real and fake meat. Fourth-generation ranch owner & farmer Joel McCafferty unpacks why this shift is happening now—and what most consumers are already missing on their …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/06/03/bamboozled-once-again/#more-387640 “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give …
Source: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/06/war-on-iran-iran-needs-escalation-to-avoid-the-ceasefire-trap.html A typical U.S. tactic against a strategic target is to ‘boil the frog’ by slowly increasing the temperature of the water it is sitting it. The conflict in Ukraine is an good example for this. Hits against Russia, directed by the CIA, are escalated bit by bit while Russia is reluctant to more severe …
Source: https://off-guardian.org/2026/05/20/fake-wars-higher-prices-what-a-multipolar-world-order-really-means/ he world is changing. The once dominant imperial power of the United States is faltering, hollowed out by corruption, over-extended by hubris, eaten away by the cancers of hatred, nationalism and greed. Even according to its own propaganda outlets, America has “become the villain”, is “Officially an Empire in Decline”, and we are witnessing its “final act”. And, as …
Source: https://garydbarnett.substack.com/p/the-planned-merger-of-the-us-and “But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep – into evil.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra Can you imagine the U.S. and Israeli militaries merging as one? Can you …
Source: https://johnhelmer.net/the-war-to-end-all-wars-against-russia-isnt-ending/ It’s a brave king who fights on after losing his arms and his legs. It’s a foolish king who asks his army and his people to believe in the certainty of swift victory and then requires them to pay the costs of attrition. Or is it the other way round — the lionheart who promises blitzkrieg …
Source: https://www.winterwatch.net/2026/06/strong-evidence-mounts-that-neo-caligula-trump-has-frontotemporal-dementia/ The latest in Trump’s daily high strangeness exhibition was slumping over with closed eyes in the Oval Office. Prelude to the slump: Neo-Caligula sundowning: The causes of Neo-Caligula’s behavior could be a combination of rapidly evolving fronto-temporal dementia layered over uncontrolled type 2 diabetes. The latter causes blood glucose spikes that in turn results in fatigue and …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/06/no_author/kiev-regime-increasingly-relies-on-us-ai-techno-companies-to-wage-war-on-russia/ The introduction of more advanced AI systems allowed the US Military Industrial Complex to dramatically expand the use of programs such as PRISMA. The overall implications of this technofascism are so multifaceted that they require an entirely separate analysis, but we can certainly conclude there’s nothing positive about it. Combining unmanned systems and …
Former CIA Analyst Larry Johnson and Col. Lawrence Wilkerson join the show as Iran continues to retaliate against US aggression, this time launching missiles at a US Destroyer in the Gulf of Oman. Iran has said it isn’t done yet, and Trump appears paralyzed. Two of the top analysts in geopolitics with a wealth of experience break …
Some good news today Funny how the little primary elections are blown up to mean much more than they actually do Meryl Nass Jun 5 Before Tuesday, it was said that Trump’s picks were winning all their primaries. Republian members appeared to stay in line, in part as a result. Then 2 days ago, Trump’s picks did …
Source: https://thomassheridan.substack.com/p/the-sound-bite-is-the-psychic-gulag Today, there is more social capital in calling someone a name rather than in having a debate to work things out. The slur or insult is always poorly defined or undefinable on purpose. The objective is to dehumanise your rival before they can explain their situation and rationale. None of this is by accident. People across …
Some compelling points made by Miri about this recent headline story Source: https://miriaf.co.uk/henry-nowak-is-our-george-floyd/ In that it’s another fake psyop, but aimed at “the right” rather than “the left” this time. On May the 4th of this year – Star Wars date! – I wrote an article exploring the latest machinations of online controlled opposition narrative-steerers, and I said this: “I’m writing …
The article on Israel spying on the US (especially wrt the Iran war) has become big news. Here is the NYT story Meryl Nass Jun 6 Thought you might want the long version. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/us/politics/pentagon-sees-growing-espionage-threat-from-israel.html Recent U.S. intelligence reports have raised concerns about Israeli spy agencies eavesdropping on American negotiators working on a peace deal with Iran, amid rising …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/06/03/bamboozled-once-again/#more-387640 “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give …
Source: https://off-guardian.org/2026/05/20/fake-wars-higher-prices-what-a-multipolar-world-order-really-means/ he world is changing. The once dominant imperial power of the United States is faltering, hollowed out by corruption, over-extended by hubris, eaten away by the cancers of hatred, nationalism and greed. Even according to its own propaganda outlets, America has “become the villain”, is “Officially an Empire in Decline”, and we are witnessing its “final act”. And, as …
Source: https://johnhelmer.net/the-war-to-end-all-wars-against-russia-isnt-ending/ It’s a brave king who fights on after losing his arms and his legs. It’s a foolish king who asks his army and his people to believe in the certainty of swift victory and then requires them to pay the costs of attrition. Or is it the other way round — the lionheart who promises blitzkrieg …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/06/no_author/kiev-regime-increasingly-relies-on-us-ai-techno-companies-to-wage-war-on-russia/ The introduction of more advanced AI systems allowed the US Military Industrial Complex to dramatically expand the use of programs such as PRISMA. The overall implications of this technofascism are so multifaceted that they require an entirely separate analysis, but we can certainly conclude there’s nothing positive about it. Combining unmanned systems and …
Some good news today Funny how the little primary elections are blown up to mean much more than they actually do Meryl Nass Jun 5 Before Tuesday, it was said that Trump’s picks were winning all their primaries. Republian members appeared to stay in line, in part as a result. Then 2 days ago, Trump’s picks did …
Source: https://thomassheridan.substack.com/p/the-sound-bite-is-the-psychic-gulag Today, there is more social capital in calling someone a name rather than in having a debate to work things out. The slur or insult is always poorly defined or undefinable on purpose. The objective is to dehumanise your rival before they can explain their situation and rationale. None of this is by accident. People across …
The “meat” funded by billionaires isn’t what you think it is, and this investigation breaks down the additives, processing changes, and rise of engineered alternatives blurring the line between real and fake meat. Fourth-generation ranch owner & farmer Joel McCafferty unpacks why this shift is happening now—and what most consumers are already missing on their …
Source: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/06/war-on-iran-iran-needs-escalation-to-avoid-the-ceasefire-trap.html A typical U.S. tactic against a strategic target is to ‘boil the frog’ by slowly increasing the temperature of the water it is sitting it. The conflict in Ukraine is an good example for this. Hits against Russia, directed by the CIA, are escalated bit by bit while Russia is reluctant to more severe …
Source: https://garydbarnett.substack.com/p/the-planned-merger-of-the-us-and “But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep – into evil.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra Can you imagine the U.S. and Israeli militaries merging as one? Can you …
Source: https://www.winterwatch.net/2026/06/strong-evidence-mounts-that-neo-caligula-trump-has-frontotemporal-dementia/ The latest in Trump’s daily high strangeness exhibition was slumping over with closed eyes in the Oval Office. Prelude to the slump: Neo-Caligula sundowning: The causes of Neo-Caligula’s behavior could be a combination of rapidly evolving fronto-temporal dementia layered over uncontrolled type 2 diabetes. The latter causes blood glucose spikes that in turn results in fatigue and …
Former CIA Analyst Larry Johnson and Col. Lawrence Wilkerson join the show as Iran continues to retaliate against US aggression, this time launching missiles at a US Destroyer in the Gulf of Oman. Iran has said it isn’t done yet, and Trump appears paralyzed. Two of the top analysts in geopolitics with a wealth of experience break …
Some compelling points made by Miri about this recent headline story Source: https://miriaf.co.uk/henry-nowak-is-our-george-floyd/ In that it’s another fake psyop, but aimed at “the right” rather than “the left” this time. On May the 4th of this year – Star Wars date! – I wrote an article exploring the latest machinations of online controlled opposition narrative-steerers, and I said this: “I’m writing …
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