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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://stylman.substack.com/p/two-rules-for-the-cartesian-crisis Text below starts about a third of the way down at the link =============== One of the places we went and didn’t fully resolve was the question of how anyone is supposed to know what’s true anymore. Bret eloquently calls this the Cartesian Crisis – that moment when you realize how much of what you thought …
Source: https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/donald-trump-pulls-the-trigger/ The article below is more of the same really, it’s got some interesting points I’m posting it to ask a pertinent question, that nobody seems to be asking: Can anyone seriously believe that the occulted western/global, old family, $ trillionaires would leave the US in the hands of this bozo and his Zionist boss? Just because the …
Source: https://mileswmathis.com/nelson.pdf Images didn’t copy across, see link for all images First published April 15, 2026 Yes, that’s Admiral Horatio Nelson, Duke of Bronte, hero of Trafalgar etc. Though you are likely to remember him more like this, his painting at warfarehistorynetwork.com: The usual gentilification we have seen many times, perhaps most famously with George Washington and Isaac Newton. With …
Source: https://off-guardian.org/2026/04/16/eu-rolls-out-sort-of-digital-identity-card/ The EU is rolling out its official age verification app according to the joint statement issued by EU President Ursula von der Leyen and Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen [emphasis added]: It is our duty to protect our children in the online world, just as we do in the offline world. And to do that effectively, we …
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders delivered a fiery speech in the Senate, calling for an immediate halt to American military aid to Israel and condemning the ongoing war in Gaza as well as its expansion into Lebanon and Iran. Sanders argued that U.S. taxpayer money should not support what he described as illegal and destructive military …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiDmQ6NTBgs Trump is a megalomaniac and a fool. Jeffrey Sachs. Where are the grown-ups? The US government is not functioning. Calling Hamas terrorists because they make war criminally is the incorrect term, says Sachs. They can be accused of committing war crimes, as they are warriors fighting Israel who commits genocide against the Palestinians.
As predicted a month ago, the US Marine Expeditionary Unit deployed to the Middle East is now imposing a blockade on Iranian oil to China; Those fixated on “Israel” are distracting away from what is ultimately an act of war on China amid what is quickly shaping into World War 3; …
De industrialisation and national security By johnredwood on March 28, 2026 There was meant to be a debate on Thursday in the Lords on national security and civil preparedness for war. I put in to speak. It was cancelled as votes delayed the progress of business and the government decided to defer the …
They are giving the green light to Israel to violate Lebanese territory. Only Hezbollah is resisting to save Lebanon. Israel wants to destroy all possibility of negotiations. Trump is an Israeli puppet. If the attacks on Iran resume, the Gulf States will be destroyed. Kushner and Witkoff are Israeli assets. Not experienced as diplomats. Negotiations were a hoax. Rubio …
Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau warn that the landslide victory of Péter Magyar over Viktor Orbán is not the liberal restoration the West is celebrating, but rather the replacement of one right wing leader with a fresh face of the same illiberal nationalism. ‘We are Brexiteers without the exit’
And here is a possible reason for this – Does Trump have a rational mind? He claims the war with Iran is mostly over? Yet he’s sending more forces into the region. Israel wants Iran weakened, and Lebanon divided by civil war. Conning the US public no problem. Professor Diesen says Israel is overstretched. What is Israel’s connection …
Source: https://libertysentinel.substack.com/p/trump-cabinet-members-attend-secret The future of warfare, artificial intelligence, Arctic security, digital finance, and war in the Middle East were on the agenda at the secret Bilderberg meeting that just took place in Washington, D.C., at the Salamander Hotel. Among the who’s who of official attendees: U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, Secretary of the U.S. Army Daniel …
Source: https://chinarbitrageur.substack.com/p/beijing-cares-about-oil-beijing-doesnt For two nights I have told you two things. First, the war fought over the past six weeks was not the Iran War — it was WWIII. Second, the side that lost is System A, and it has left behind five tombstones in physical fact — every one of them carved by its own …
Source: https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/donald-trump-pulls-the-trigger/ The article below is more of the same really, it’s got some interesting points I’m posting it to ask a pertinent question, that nobody seems to be asking: Can anyone seriously believe that the occulted western/global, old family, $ trillionaires would leave the US in the hands of this bozo and his Zionist boss? Just because the …
Source: https://off-guardian.org/2026/04/16/eu-rolls-out-sort-of-digital-identity-card/ The EU is rolling out its official age verification app according to the joint statement issued by EU President Ursula von der Leyen and Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen [emphasis added]: It is our duty to protect our children in the online world, just as we do in the offline world. And to do that effectively, we …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiDmQ6NTBgs Trump is a megalomaniac and a fool. Jeffrey Sachs. Where are the grown-ups? The US government is not functioning. Calling Hamas terrorists because they make war criminally is the incorrect term, says Sachs. They can be accused of committing war crimes, as they are warriors fighting Israel who commits genocide against the Palestinians.
They are giving the green light to Israel to violate Lebanese territory. Only Hezbollah is resisting to save Lebanon. Israel wants to destroy all possibility of negotiations. Trump is an Israeli puppet. If the attacks on Iran resume, the Gulf States will be destroyed. Kushner and Witkoff are Israeli assets. Not experienced as diplomats. Negotiations were a hoax. Rubio …
And here is a possible reason for this – Does Trump have a rational mind? He claims the war with Iran is mostly over? Yet he’s sending more forces into the region. Israel wants Iran weakened, and Lebanon divided by civil war. Conning the US public no problem. Professor Diesen says Israel is overstretched. What is Israel’s connection …
Source: https://mileswmathis.com/nelson.pdf Images didn’t copy across, see link for all images First published April 15, 2026 Yes, that’s Admiral Horatio Nelson, Duke of Bronte, hero of Trafalgar etc. Though you are likely to remember him more like this, his painting at warfarehistorynetwork.com: The usual gentilification we have seen many times, perhaps most famously with George Washington and Isaac Newton. With …
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders delivered a fiery speech in the Senate, calling for an immediate halt to American military aid to Israel and condemning the ongoing war in Gaza as well as its expansion into Lebanon and Iran. Sanders argued that U.S. taxpayer money should not support what he described as illegal and destructive military …
As predicted a month ago, the US Marine Expeditionary Unit deployed to the Middle East is now imposing a blockade on Iranian oil to China; Those fixated on “Israel” are distracting away from what is ultimately an act of war on China amid what is quickly shaping into World War 3; …
De industrialisation and national security By johnredwood on March 28, 2026 There was meant to be a debate on Thursday in the Lords on national security and civil preparedness for war. I put in to speak. It was cancelled as votes delayed the progress of business and the government decided to defer the …
Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau warn that the landslide victory of Péter Magyar over Viktor Orbán is not the liberal restoration the West is celebrating, but rather the replacement of one right wing leader with a fresh face of the same illiberal nationalism. ‘We are Brexiteers without the exit’
Source: https://libertysentinel.substack.com/p/trump-cabinet-members-attend-secret The future of warfare, artificial intelligence, Arctic security, digital finance, and war in the Middle East were on the agenda at the secret Bilderberg meeting that just took place in Washington, D.C., at the Salamander Hotel. Among the who’s who of official attendees: U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, Secretary of the U.S. Army Daniel …
Source: https://chinarbitrageur.substack.com/p/beijing-cares-about-oil-beijing-doesnt For two nights I have told you two things. First, the war fought over the past six weeks was not the Iran War — it was WWIII. Second, the side that lost is System A, and it has left behind five tombstones in physical fact — every one of them carved by its own …
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