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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...


Programming the peasants – Conscription is the logical next tool for a state that has run out of easier ones

  Source, halfway down here: https://internationalman.com/articles/riots-in-the-streets-repression-in-the-markets-europes-collapse-enters-its-next-phase/ Most of Western Europe runs structural deficits it has no political mechanism to close, which incidentally is why they’re going to war. France hasn’t balanced a budget in half a century and is now fighting over pension reform its own street can veto. Italy carries debt north of 130% of GDP into …

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