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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...


Iran SEIZES Tel Aviv’s Skies, Hezbollah Fires 300 Rockets, Israel OVERWHELMED | Prof. Jiang Xueqin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86oAF_6Tl20 The night Iron Dome CRACKED. Hezbollah launched 300 rockets and suicide drones at northern Israel — and 100 punched straight through. Prof. Jiang Xueqin breaks down the brutal saturation tactics that overwhelmed Israel’s most celebrated defense system, the staggering economic cost bleeding Tel Aviv dry, and Iran’s strategic hand coordinating the entire operation. From Hezbollah’s …

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