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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...
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/09/no_author/a-nation-of-technoserfs/ I cannot, indeed, understand the way you live, and your house is strange to me. You give me a bath such as the Emperor himself might envy, but no one attends me to it; a bed softer than sleep itself, but when I rise from it I find I must put on my own …
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXM0g5Beu4k Thomas Sheridan is an Author, filmmaker, Alternative Folklorist, and Satirist who has spent a life from Wall Street to the Jungles of South Asia attempting to discover the emerging—often elusive—mythology of modern humans within the present technology-saturated era. Heavily inspired by the work of Carl Jung, Bruno Bettelheim, and Joseph Campbell, Thomas Sheridan has …
Source, paywall: https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/ Russia was never an empire in the Western sense; it was, rather, an anti-empire. Russia never followed the Western imperialist model of colonial exploitation. Instead, it lavished aid on countries and fostered local development. Russia financed economic and social development in the 14 other Soviet Socialist Republics, the Eastern Bloc countries in eastern …
Somewhere for Israelis to leave to if Israel were to fall. Not only Cyprus. The US and Israel will use airbases in Greece, Bulgaria and Romania once Iran pushed the US/Israel out of the former bases across the Middle East. Israel is buying Greek islands. Mossad operating out of Greek islands. Israel owns about 60% of Gaza, but …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/09/04/freedom-is-much-more-important-than-democracy/#more-426526 J.B. Shurk (American Thinker) — Our rights do not come from government. *** Democracy invites despotism. When understood as majority rule, democracy means that fifty-one of every hundred citizens can have their way with the other forty-nine. “But I want to keep my possessions, weapons, and children.” Too bad, the majority have decided to redistribute your property to …
Source: https://mileswmathis.com/clancy.pdf September 4, 2026 Just my opinion as usual, based on free internet research and protected by the Constitution I knew it was faked as soon as I learned it was televised. Televised=CIA fake trial. Period. I have proved that many times, starting with the O. J. Simpson fake. It’s on CourtTV, a CIA front. Everything on …
Brian Berletic looks across conflicts and sees an overview. The US is trying to disrupt and destroy the multipolar world. Iran. Russia. China. The entire war on Iran is a crime. How can Vance justify this to the American people? What was the strike on the wedding party?
“JD Vance says he’s doing ‘God’s work – and if that leads to the end times, OK’ Vice-president says in an evangelical podcast he would feel ‘not shocked if the antichrist was walking among us’ Roger checks him and his statement out. What are the end times? False teachers and false prophets. Is the anti-Christ walking among us? Roger is …
In this video, we examine Escobar’s extensive reporting on international politics, Eurasian affairs, and the shifting balance of global power. Known for his in-depth analysis and on-the-ground reporting, Escobar offers a distinctive perspective on geopolitics, diplomacy, and the changing international landscape. Putin’s meeting in Vladivistok says Indonesia is Russia’s main partner in South East Asia. The SCO …
The Son of Krakatoa “Anak Krakatoa” erupted the most violently since 1883, birds are fleeing the area in mass numbers to windows rattling 100 miles away from intense pressure waves. Ash climbs to 50,000 feet and begins to blanket Sumatra and Java. Are we witnessing a repeat of the cataclysmic 1883 eruption that changed the …
A drone strike on Kiev’s SBU headquarters is exposing a brutal turf war inside Ukraine’s own intelligence services, right as Witkoff and Kushner land in Moscow with a fresh ceasefire proposal for Putin. Alex breaks down Zelensky’s suspiciously timed unilateral truce, the Leipzig drone false flag rattling Germany, and the new post war Middle East plan …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/09/charles-hugh-smith/were-living-in-a-tragicomic-parody/ It’s hard to take a joke when our entire economy and financial system is the joke. We’re blessed/cursed to be living in a very peculiar era in which parodies are taken with the utmost seriousness, an absurdist state of affairs captured by the classic line from the 1959 film North by Northwest: “So horribly sad. How …
Source: https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/looks-like-anglin-was-right-after-all/ Donald Trump does not want to kill millions of Iranian civilians. But Trump has a gun to his head and time is running out. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is getting dangerously low, long-term interest rates are edging up, and a global oil shock is just around the corner. What …
Source: https://dfreality.substack.com/p/the-dark-side-of-the-moon-jack-parsons “Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will.” ― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth It is the afternoon of Halloween — October 31st, 1936. In a desolate desert basin outside the City of Angels, beneath the San Gabriel …
Source: https://winteroak.org.uk/2026/09/04/an-a-z-of-the-modern-mega-racket/ by Paul Cudenec, who reads the article here Art of the modern variety is concerned less with aesthetics than with accumulation. When the cabal owns the art critics, the media and the cultural institutions, artificial value can be ascribed to works endowed with neither beauty nor meaning. Their only meaning is in the making and laundering …
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXM0g5Beu4k Thomas Sheridan is an Author, filmmaker, Alternative Folklorist, and Satirist who has spent a life from Wall Street to the Jungles of South Asia attempting to discover the emerging—often elusive—mythology of modern humans within the present technology-saturated era. Heavily inspired by the work of Carl Jung, Bruno Bettelheim, and Joseph Campbell, Thomas Sheridan has …
Somewhere for Israelis to leave to if Israel were to fall. Not only Cyprus. The US and Israel will use airbases in Greece, Bulgaria and Romania once Iran pushed the US/Israel out of the former bases across the Middle East. Israel is buying Greek islands. Mossad operating out of Greek islands. Israel owns about 60% of Gaza, but …
Source: https://mileswmathis.com/clancy.pdf September 4, 2026 Just my opinion as usual, based on free internet research and protected by the Constitution I knew it was faked as soon as I learned it was televised. Televised=CIA fake trial. Period. I have proved that many times, starting with the O. J. Simpson fake. It’s on CourtTV, a CIA front. Everything on …
“JD Vance says he’s doing ‘God’s work – and if that leads to the end times, OK’ Vice-president says in an evangelical podcast he would feel ‘not shocked if the antichrist was walking among us’ Roger checks him and his statement out. What are the end times? False teachers and false prophets. Is the anti-Christ walking among us? Roger is …
The Son of Krakatoa “Anak Krakatoa” erupted the most violently since 1883, birds are fleeing the area in mass numbers to windows rattling 100 miles away from intense pressure waves. Ash climbs to 50,000 feet and begins to blanket Sumatra and Java. Are we witnessing a repeat of the cataclysmic 1883 eruption that changed the …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/09/charles-hugh-smith/were-living-in-a-tragicomic-parody/ It’s hard to take a joke when our entire economy and financial system is the joke. We’re blessed/cursed to be living in a very peculiar era in which parodies are taken with the utmost seriousness, an absurdist state of affairs captured by the classic line from the 1959 film North by Northwest: “So horribly sad. How …
Source: https://dfreality.substack.com/p/the-dark-side-of-the-moon-jack-parsons “Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will.” ― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth It is the afternoon of Halloween — October 31st, 1936. In a desolate desert basin outside the City of Angels, beneath the San Gabriel …
Source, paywall: https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/ Russia was never an empire in the Western sense; it was, rather, an anti-empire. Russia never followed the Western imperialist model of colonial exploitation. Instead, it lavished aid on countries and fostered local development. Russia financed economic and social development in the 14 other Soviet Socialist Republics, the Eastern Bloc countries in eastern …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/09/04/freedom-is-much-more-important-than-democracy/#more-426526 J.B. Shurk (American Thinker) — Our rights do not come from government. *** Democracy invites despotism. When understood as majority rule, democracy means that fifty-one of every hundred citizens can have their way with the other forty-nine. “But I want to keep my possessions, weapons, and children.” Too bad, the majority have decided to redistribute your property to …
Brian Berletic looks across conflicts and sees an overview. The US is trying to disrupt and destroy the multipolar world. Iran. Russia. China. The entire war on Iran is a crime. How can Vance justify this to the American people? What was the strike on the wedding party?
In this video, we examine Escobar’s extensive reporting on international politics, Eurasian affairs, and the shifting balance of global power. Known for his in-depth analysis and on-the-ground reporting, Escobar offers a distinctive perspective on geopolitics, diplomacy, and the changing international landscape. Putin’s meeting in Vladivistok says Indonesia is Russia’s main partner in South East Asia. The SCO …
A drone strike on Kiev’s SBU headquarters is exposing a brutal turf war inside Ukraine’s own intelligence services, right as Witkoff and Kushner land in Moscow with a fresh ceasefire proposal for Putin. Alex breaks down Zelensky’s suspiciously timed unilateral truce, the Leipzig drone false flag rattling Germany, and the new post war Middle East plan …
Source: https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/looks-like-anglin-was-right-after-all/ Donald Trump does not want to kill millions of Iranian civilians. But Trump has a gun to his head and time is running out. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is getting dangerously low, long-term interest rates are edging up, and a global oil shock is just around the corner. What …
Source: https://winteroak.org.uk/2026/09/04/an-a-z-of-the-modern-mega-racket/ by Paul Cudenec, who reads the article here Art of the modern variety is concerned less with aesthetics than with accumulation. When the cabal owns the art critics, the media and the cultural institutions, artificial value can be ascribed to works endowed with neither beauty nor meaning. Their only meaning is in the making and laundering …
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