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Ring! Ring! Mind Your Bling! (updated August 1st 2026)

Curteis jewellery replatingThe 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...


Putin Pledges Russian Diesel to Help Trump Win Elections in November – There is no such thing as The Resistance.

  Source: https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/putin-pledges-russian-diesel-to-help I could not have predicted something like this. I simply could not have. This is simply too … vulgar. If I were a writer, my political thriller novella would be rejected for including such an unsubtle plot beat. Real life could not have the president of a country being bombed by another country pledging diesel to the …

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