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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...
Russia doesn’t wage war the way the West does and that difference may be deciding the outcome in Ukraine, the Middle East, and now Africa. In this deep-dive episode, Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris are joined by military analyst Stanislav Krapivnik, fresh from a visit to the Donbas front, for a sweeping breakdown of three simultaneous …
Former US Army Officer and geopolitical commentator Stanis Krapivnik joins to discuss Iran’s response to the US naval blockade that has Trump in panic about the consequences of his long war, plus much more in geopolitics. UAE pumping station was hit by Saudi, not by Iran. Hezbollah attacking Israeli equipment inside Israel. Christians in Lebanon allying with …
Source, paywall: https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/ Let’s take a quick trip down memory lane. All the way back in 1996 and newly married I went back to the US from Russia. We decided to settle (for the time being) in the US because it was bad times in Russia and good times in the US (also for the …
Source, paywall: https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/ Today is the 81st anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany and its European allies (Italy, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Finland, Slovakia, Croatia) and various supposedly neutral countries which were occupied by Nazi Germany and contributed to the Nazi war effort (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway…). Essentially, the USSR was attacked …
Source: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/05/08/european-leaders-arent-blind-to-kiev-corruption-they-key-partners-in-massive-extortion-racket/ EU leaders like Kaja Kallas, the bloc’s top foreign diplomat, have played dumb about the endless scandals seeping out of Kiev. There was more evidence this week of the Kiev regime’s endemic corruption. And yet the European Union leaders are lining up to send a massive €90 billion ($105bn ) loan to this regime, a …
Source: https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/the-40-days-war-and-the-future-fall Now, as my readers know, the Mullahs came to power because of help from the CIA, which wanted to toppled the Shah. This is Wikipedia tier knowledge, yet people still ignore it. Yes, the Shah was originally put into power with the help of the British, and was an ally of Israel for most …
John breaks down one of the most overlooked espionage scandals of the modern era — the French intelligence operations of the 1990s and how their methods shocked even other Western agencies. NEXT – Europe’s got six weeks of jet fuel left. The world’s at a very dangerous point.
We’re supposed to be the good guys. Tucker and John Kiriakou( @DeepFocuswithJohnKiriakou ) discuss how governments use drugs as a weapon. Watch the full conversation here: • Ex-CIA Officer John Kiriakou on the Truth … Russia is no threat to the USA, says John. I know these guys. They want to engage and negotiate.
Patrick Bet-David asks former CIA officer John Kiriakou how hard it really is to trace foreign money behind influencers, from Qatar suitcases and King Charles cash to EU bribery scandals, then they dig into why Congress fails at oversight and why Americans no longer trust the CIA.
He believed he was superior to his constituents, telling those who elected him to leave if they disapproved of his changes. On 7 May, 2026. the nation went to the polls and delivered a humiliating defeat to him and the Labour Party, signaling their rejection of his policies and his leadership. Despite this resounding loss, …
Sent by Ian. America Had Free Electricity, No Income Tax, and No Central Bank — All Before 1913 💡🏛️ What if the United States once operated in a completely different way than it does today? This video explores the period before 1913—a time before the Revenue Act of 1913 introduced the modern income tax system, and …
Sent from Ian. A houseplant just changed everything we thought we knew about consciousness. In 1966, Cleve Backster, a CIA interrogation specialist with a polygraph machine, was looking for ways to time how long it took different substances to travel up through plant tissue. So, he attached electrodes to a dracaena plant in his office and watered it, …
Sent From Ian. A lightbulb has been burning since 1901. In 1924, a secret cartel made sure no one would ever build another one like it. From a fireproof material that survived nuclear-level heat to an electric car GM crushed in the desert, these ten inventions worked — and that’s exactly why they were destroyed. We …
Former US Army Officer and geopolitical commentator Stanis Krapivnik joins to discuss Iran’s response to the US naval blockade that has Trump in panic about the consequences of his long war, plus much more in geopolitics. UAE pumping station was hit by Saudi, not by Iran. Hezbollah attacking Israeli equipment inside Israel. Christians in Lebanon allying with …
Source, paywall: https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/ Today is the 81st anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany and its European allies (Italy, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Finland, Slovakia, Croatia) and various supposedly neutral countries which were occupied by Nazi Germany and contributed to the Nazi war effort (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway…). Essentially, the USSR was attacked …
Source: https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/the-40-days-war-and-the-future-fall Now, as my readers know, the Mullahs came to power because of help from the CIA, which wanted to toppled the Shah. This is Wikipedia tier knowledge, yet people still ignore it. Yes, the Shah was originally put into power with the help of the British, and was an ally of Israel for most …
We’re supposed to be the good guys. Tucker and John Kiriakou( @DeepFocuswithJohnKiriakou ) discuss how governments use drugs as a weapon. Watch the full conversation here: • Ex-CIA Officer John Kiriakou on the Truth … Russia is no threat to the USA, says John. I know these guys. They want to engage and negotiate.
He believed he was superior to his constituents, telling those who elected him to leave if they disapproved of his changes. On 7 May, 2026. the nation went to the polls and delivered a humiliating defeat to him and the Labour Party, signaling their rejection of his policies and his leadership. Despite this resounding loss, …
Sent by Ian. America Had Free Electricity, No Income Tax, and No Central Bank — All Before 1913 💡🏛️ What if the United States once operated in a completely different way than it does today? This video explores the period before 1913—a time before the Revenue Act of 1913 introduced the modern income tax system, and …
Source, paywall: https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/ Let’s take a quick trip down memory lane. All the way back in 1996 and newly married I went back to the US from Russia. We decided to settle (for the time being) in the US because it was bad times in Russia and good times in the US (also for the …
Source: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/05/08/european-leaders-arent-blind-to-kiev-corruption-they-key-partners-in-massive-extortion-racket/ EU leaders like Kaja Kallas, the bloc’s top foreign diplomat, have played dumb about the endless scandals seeping out of Kiev. There was more evidence this week of the Kiev regime’s endemic corruption. And yet the European Union leaders are lining up to send a massive €90 billion ($105bn ) loan to this regime, a …
John breaks down one of the most overlooked espionage scandals of the modern era — the French intelligence operations of the 1990s and how their methods shocked even other Western agencies. NEXT – Europe’s got six weeks of jet fuel left. The world’s at a very dangerous point.
Patrick Bet-David asks former CIA officer John Kiriakou how hard it really is to trace foreign money behind influencers, from Qatar suitcases and King Charles cash to EU bribery scandals, then they dig into why Congress fails at oversight and why Americans no longer trust the CIA.
Sent from Ian. A houseplant just changed everything we thought we knew about consciousness. In 1966, Cleve Backster, a CIA interrogation specialist with a polygraph machine, was looking for ways to time how long it took different substances to travel up through plant tissue. So, he attached electrodes to a dracaena plant in his office and watered it, …
Sent From Ian. A lightbulb has been burning since 1901. In 1924, a secret cartel made sure no one would ever build another one like it. From a fireproof material that survived nuclear-level heat to an electric car GM crushed in the desert, these ten inventions worked — and that’s exactly why they were destroyed. We …
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