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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...
Israel is arming Greece, Athens treats Israel as a vital partner, above all as a counterweight to Turkey. But arms sales, high rents blamed on Israeli property buyers, and revulsion at the Gaza war are turning that partnership into a domestic liability. Critics call the relationship asymmetrical, even colonial. Can Israel’s friendship with Athens survive its own unpopularity? Mathilda Mallinson …
At the end of WW1 Russia collapsed, and Armenians were massacred by Turks. Other than that Armenia has depnded on RUssia for its security. In recent years Armenia has done well from trade with Russia. Economic levers are now being played by Russia, threatening, inter alia a cut off of the gas …
Has the British Royal Family quietly become one of the world’s most powerful financial institutions? Former MP and bestselling investigative author Norman Baker joins Andrew Gold to explain why he believes the monarchy has accumulated extraordinary wealth, influence and legal privileges that receive far less public scrutiny than they should. Drawing on years of research, …
Source: https://www.winterwatch.net/2026/08/european-war-about-to-go-into-overdive/ As mentioned in our, last Fearsome Three podcast the Russians have secretly mobilized 500,000 reservists and will strike towards Kiev from Belarus. Belarus will pin the flanks. Russia has brought in large numbers of North Korean mercenaries right as the Big Brain Trump fantasist regime pulls it’s carriers out of east Asia. Odessa will be taken …
Source: https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/two-systems-are-before-the-world This is part 1 of a 3-part report on the subject which, to my mind, could be the most important subject matter for us to learn about. The better we can understand it, the brighter the future we can leave behind for future generations, and the less likely that we’ll fall into old, false …
Source: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/08/27/al-qaidas-greatest-victory/ The catastrophic gesture by the UN secretary-general, precisely because of the office he holds, amounts to an assault on international law of the gravest kind. The UN secretary-general, António Guterres, visited Damascus in his official capacity and met Syria’s “interim president”, now known as Ahmed al-Sharaa after spending most of his life under the name …
Today gold fell at the same moment that silver dropped, bringing the silver ounce price to $66.60 at the same time as touching 66.6 in the gold to silver ratio. Gold falling from $4600 to $4450 an ounce. What that is signalling to insiders, I couldn’t tell you. But it has to mean something. …
Source: https://escapekey.substack.com/p/operation-iraqi-freedom The United States invaded Iraq in March, 20031 . Following a swift military campaign which ultimately ended with the capture of Saddam Hussein2 , Paul Bremer was named head of the Coalition Provisional Authority on the 6th of May, 20033 . CPA governed by decree — not democratic mandate — and over the thirteen months that followed, …
The global food system is hitting a breaking point as a “perfect storm” of El Niño, geopolitical instability and logistics collapses converge. JP Morgan and Oxford Economics are now sounding the alarm on a potential global food crisis that could see prices skyrocket by 12% or more into 2027. We are looking at the very …
Source: https://winteroak.org.uk/2026/08/28/a-cult-both-crazed-and-cruel/ The first thing that springs into your mind when I mention “Chabad Lubavitch” may be the strange affair of the secret tunnel or tunnels discovered under its base in New York in 2024. But be careful not to partake of what Newsweek termed “frenzied speculation” about the peculiar behaviour of Chabad members and the sighting of a stained …
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq8wx_nW6bI Vid works despite the dodgy thumbnail Both Jason Arday and Mo Farah wrote exceedingly dishonest and horribly misleading autobiographies and had them published, leading in both cases to many questions.
Source: https://www.winterwatch.net/2026/08/the-emerging-food-catastrophe/ This typically most impacts countries with large numbers of poor like the US. 42 million in US are below poverty line. Around one third of the world’s nitrogen fertilizer normally moves through the Strait of Hormuz, and shortages now could reduce future crop yields. Nitrogen fertilizer goes into about half of all crops grown globally. The …
The official story is that he is in Moscow, however there is nothing at all to verify that, we rely entirely on Russian assertions, no evidence at all He left Syria in December 2024 but he’s still not shown up anywhere publicly Everybody thinks he is in Russia but there is literally ZERO evidence for that The Russian …
Source: https://theleahfiles.substack.com/p/the-currency-killer-scott-bessent?r=qrouj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web All while having connections to Epstein and Ehud Barak. Between August 11 and August 24, 2026, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent executed a sequence of decisions that, taken together, amount to the most aggressive restructuring of the American financial system in modern history. He did it in thirteen days and it’s being buried in the …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/08/26/dollyland/#more-425318 Lionel Mandrake @ Worldlyturnings (Dollyland Media) Singer Dolly Parton just passed away, reportedly after a“brief (turbo) cancer battle.” Dolly Parton didn’t just jab in public. She helped funded mRNA research at Vanderbilt University to help create the CV19 Vax that has killed and maimed millions. Did they really need her money? Of course not. What they needed was …
At the end of WW1 Russia collapsed, and Armenians were massacred by Turks. Other than that Armenia has depnded on RUssia for its security. In recent years Armenia has done well from trade with Russia. Economic levers are now being played by Russia, threatening, inter alia a cut off of the gas …
Source: https://www.winterwatch.net/2026/08/european-war-about-to-go-into-overdive/ As mentioned in our, last Fearsome Three podcast the Russians have secretly mobilized 500,000 reservists and will strike towards Kiev from Belarus. Belarus will pin the flanks. Russia has brought in large numbers of North Korean mercenaries right as the Big Brain Trump fantasist regime pulls it’s carriers out of east Asia. Odessa will be taken …
Source: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/08/27/al-qaidas-greatest-victory/ The catastrophic gesture by the UN secretary-general, precisely because of the office he holds, amounts to an assault on international law of the gravest kind. The UN secretary-general, António Guterres, visited Damascus in his official capacity and met Syria’s “interim president”, now known as Ahmed al-Sharaa after spending most of his life under the name …
Source: https://escapekey.substack.com/p/operation-iraqi-freedom The United States invaded Iraq in March, 20031 . Following a swift military campaign which ultimately ended with the capture of Saddam Hussein2 , Paul Bremer was named head of the Coalition Provisional Authority on the 6th of May, 20033 . CPA governed by decree — not democratic mandate — and over the thirteen months that followed, …
Source: https://winteroak.org.uk/2026/08/28/a-cult-both-crazed-and-cruel/ The first thing that springs into your mind when I mention “Chabad Lubavitch” may be the strange affair of the secret tunnel or tunnels discovered under its base in New York in 2024. But be careful not to partake of what Newsweek termed “frenzied speculation” about the peculiar behaviour of Chabad members and the sighting of a stained …
Source: https://www.winterwatch.net/2026/08/the-emerging-food-catastrophe/ This typically most impacts countries with large numbers of poor like the US. 42 million in US are below poverty line. Around one third of the world’s nitrogen fertilizer normally moves through the Strait of Hormuz, and shortages now could reduce future crop yields. Nitrogen fertilizer goes into about half of all crops grown globally. The …
Source: https://theleahfiles.substack.com/p/the-currency-killer-scott-bessent?r=qrouj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web All while having connections to Epstein and Ehud Barak. Between August 11 and August 24, 2026, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent executed a sequence of decisions that, taken together, amount to the most aggressive restructuring of the American financial system in modern history. He did it in thirteen days and it’s being buried in the …
Has the British Royal Family quietly become one of the world’s most powerful financial institutions? Former MP and bestselling investigative author Norman Baker joins Andrew Gold to explain why he believes the monarchy has accumulated extraordinary wealth, influence and legal privileges that receive far less public scrutiny than they should. Drawing on years of research, …
Source: https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/two-systems-are-before-the-world This is part 1 of a 3-part report on the subject which, to my mind, could be the most important subject matter for us to learn about. The better we can understand it, the brighter the future we can leave behind for future generations, and the less likely that we’ll fall into old, false …
Today gold fell at the same moment that silver dropped, bringing the silver ounce price to $66.60 at the same time as touching 66.6 in the gold to silver ratio. Gold falling from $4600 to $4450 an ounce. What that is signalling to insiders, I couldn’t tell you. But it has to mean something. …
The global food system is hitting a breaking point as a “perfect storm” of El Niño, geopolitical instability and logistics collapses converge. JP Morgan and Oxford Economics are now sounding the alarm on a potential global food crisis that could see prices skyrocket by 12% or more into 2027. We are looking at the very …
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq8wx_nW6bI Vid works despite the dodgy thumbnail Both Jason Arday and Mo Farah wrote exceedingly dishonest and horribly misleading autobiographies and had them published, leading in both cases to many questions.
The official story is that he is in Moscow, however there is nothing at all to verify that, we rely entirely on Russian assertions, no evidence at all He left Syria in December 2024 but he’s still not shown up anywhere publicly Everybody thinks he is in Russia but there is literally ZERO evidence for that The Russian …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/08/26/dollyland/#more-425318 Lionel Mandrake @ Worldlyturnings (Dollyland Media) Singer Dolly Parton just passed away, reportedly after a“brief (turbo) cancer battle.” Dolly Parton didn’t just jab in public. She helped funded mRNA research at Vanderbilt University to help create the CV19 Vax that has killed and maimed millions. Did they really need her money? Of course not. What they needed was …
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