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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...
Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief of Miles Franklin Media, speaks with Catherine Austin Fitts, Publisher of The Solari Report, about what Fitts warns could become a “digital slavery system” built around programmable money, digital ID, AI, surveillance, and financial control. Fitts argues that while much of the debate has focused on CBDCs, the bigger threat may …
Source: https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=328294 Money that Britain doesn’t have Pictured above, a Royal Navy Type 26 frigate. A new report argues that the Royal Navy needs to purchase eight new Type 26 submarine frigates on top of the eight already ordered Britain’s military needs an extra £70bn to make it war-ready, a report has warned. A study published by the Centre …
Source: https://jupplandia.substack.com/p/blind-deaf-and-dumb-the-british-political It’s incredible watching British TV studios discussing Starmer’s departure and the problems that face the next Prime Minister. This morning’s Good Morning broadcast was a typical and representative example. Good Morning includes former Labour Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls as one of its main presenters. It doesn’t seem to occur to anyone involved that Ed might be somewhat …
Source: https://www.winterwatch.net/2026/06/making-sense-of-the-soh-traffic-to-date/ This is being hailed as a big victory. First looking at the feeble outgoing it is mostly Iranian heading for China with little relief elsewhere. Notice that yesterday only 12 vessels left the region and only 8 the previous day. These are commercial vessels and not all are crude tankers. It is easy to see …
Source: https://www.unz.com/imercer/two-genocides-down-does-judaism-need-a-reformation-and-is-this-jew-allowed-to-ask/ And some folk think that Muslims are the problem? Read this: Inescapably, it is not Muslims of the Ummah, in the name of Islam, who have committed the Twenty-First Century’s two Holocausts—in Gaza and Southern Lebanon … In examining the causal factors in the criminal psychopathy on display in contemporary Israel, I have questioned “The Judaism-Zionism …
In 1953, Bernard Baruch was pictured with his two “obedient schoolchildren”, Churchill and Eisenhower Source: https://henrymakow.com/2026/06/bernard-baruch-puppeteer.html Jewish financier Bernard Baruch controlled US culture and politics throughout the mid-twentieth century on behalf of the Rothschild banking cartel. By Patrick O’Carroll (henrymakow.com) Bernard Baruch (1870-1965) served as the very TEMPLATE for how the Zionists …
The public won’t stop looking and asking. It won’t go away. The British Royals are deeply involved. Politicians like Mandelson standing around in his underwear. Starmer resigning. Branson. Trump. Musk. Clinton. Kidnap. Torture. Rape. Murder. The Criminal Cult that rules the western world. On …
Source: https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/crimea-suspends-gasoline-sales Crimean gas stations have halted all fuel sales, with gasoline reserved exclusively for “public services that ensure life and security” on the peninsula. In a video message announcing the decision on June 21, the head of Crimea, Sergey Aksenov, urged “everyone to stay calm and trust only official sources of information”, adding that he would update residents …
Source: https://richardsauder.substack.com/p/a-photo-worth-ten-thousand-words Dear Readers, this is a priceless photo. It reveals everything: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLggidgWoAE6k1B?format=jpg&name=small A doddering old man. He’s mostly sure that it’s either Thursday morning or Friday afternoon – – of last week! One of the three, it has to be. The Secret Service nurse just changed his diaper and powdered his ample bottom in the medical alcove off of the …
Source: https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/lavrov-i-think-we-were-tricked-again Another day, another trick pulled on Moscow by their esteemed Western colleagues. Here: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said he does not even want to consider the possibility that the 2025 Putin-Trump summit in Alaska was intended to buy time to rearm Kyiv. He added that Moscow is willing to resume negotiations with Ukraine …
Source: https://www.unz.com/article/which-country-is-the-big-loser-from-the-ramadan-war/ While the US certainly suffered some reputational damage and significant economic costs from its unprovoked attack on Iran, the United Arab Emirates may really be the big loser. Let’s focus on Dubai. Think of Dubai as the World’s most expensive adult theme park that has no emergency exit. For decades, Dubai sold itself to the …
Source: https://mileswmathis.com/oblib.pdf June 19, 2026 Can someone—anyone—explain how that cost almost a billion dollars? They certainly didn’t waste any money on glass, since it has no windows. It looks more like the Obama Memorial Gulag. Didn’t waste any money on stone, either, since that looks to be simple concrete. That isn’t what a billion dollars of …
Source: https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=328294 Money that Britain doesn’t have Pictured above, a Royal Navy Type 26 frigate. A new report argues that the Royal Navy needs to purchase eight new Type 26 submarine frigates on top of the eight already ordered Britain’s military needs an extra £70bn to make it war-ready, a report has warned. A study published by the Centre …
Source: https://www.winterwatch.net/2026/06/making-sense-of-the-soh-traffic-to-date/ This is being hailed as a big victory. First looking at the feeble outgoing it is mostly Iranian heading for China with little relief elsewhere. Notice that yesterday only 12 vessels left the region and only 8 the previous day. These are commercial vessels and not all are crude tankers. It is easy to see …
In 1953, Bernard Baruch was pictured with his two “obedient schoolchildren”, Churchill and Eisenhower Source: https://henrymakow.com/2026/06/bernard-baruch-puppeteer.html Jewish financier Bernard Baruch controlled US culture and politics throughout the mid-twentieth century on behalf of the Rothschild banking cartel. By Patrick O’Carroll (henrymakow.com) Bernard Baruch (1870-1965) served as the very TEMPLATE for how the Zionists …
Source: https://richardsauder.substack.com/p/a-photo-worth-ten-thousand-words Dear Readers, this is a priceless photo. It reveals everything: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLggidgWoAE6k1B?format=jpg&name=small A doddering old man. He’s mostly sure that it’s either Thursday morning or Friday afternoon – – of last week! One of the three, it has to be. The Secret Service nurse just changed his diaper and powdered his ample bottom in the medical alcove off of the …
Source: https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/lavrov-i-think-we-were-tricked-again Another day, another trick pulled on Moscow by their esteemed Western colleagues. Here: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said he does not even want to consider the possibility that the 2025 Putin-Trump summit in Alaska was intended to buy time to rearm Kyiv. He added that Moscow is willing to resume negotiations with Ukraine …
Source: https://mileswmathis.com/oblib.pdf June 19, 2026 Can someone—anyone—explain how that cost almost a billion dollars? They certainly didn’t waste any money on glass, since it has no windows. It looks more like the Obama Memorial Gulag. Didn’t waste any money on stone, either, since that looks to be simple concrete. That isn’t what a billion dollars of …
Source: https://jupplandia.substack.com/p/blind-deaf-and-dumb-the-british-political It’s incredible watching British TV studios discussing Starmer’s departure and the problems that face the next Prime Minister. This morning’s Good Morning broadcast was a typical and representative example. Good Morning includes former Labour Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls as one of its main presenters. It doesn’t seem to occur to anyone involved that Ed might be somewhat …
Source: https://www.unz.com/imercer/two-genocides-down-does-judaism-need-a-reformation-and-is-this-jew-allowed-to-ask/ And some folk think that Muslims are the problem? Read this: Inescapably, it is not Muslims of the Ummah, in the name of Islam, who have committed the Twenty-First Century’s two Holocausts—in Gaza and Southern Lebanon … In examining the causal factors in the criminal psychopathy on display in contemporary Israel, I have questioned “The Judaism-Zionism …
The public won’t stop looking and asking. It won’t go away. The British Royals are deeply involved. Politicians like Mandelson standing around in his underwear. Starmer resigning. Branson. Trump. Musk. Clinton. Kidnap. Torture. Rape. Murder. The Criminal Cult that rules the western world. On …
Source: https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/crimea-suspends-gasoline-sales Crimean gas stations have halted all fuel sales, with gasoline reserved exclusively for “public services that ensure life and security” on the peninsula. In a video message announcing the decision on June 21, the head of Crimea, Sergey Aksenov, urged “everyone to stay calm and trust only official sources of information”, adding that he would update residents …
Source: https://www.unz.com/article/which-country-is-the-big-loser-from-the-ramadan-war/ While the US certainly suffered some reputational damage and significant economic costs from its unprovoked attack on Iran, the United Arab Emirates may really be the big loser. Let’s focus on Dubai. Think of Dubai as the World’s most expensive adult theme park that has no emergency exit. For decades, Dubai sold itself to the …
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