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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...


Iranian min-subs and hi tech mines select which ships can pass and which cannot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1WWqcUxi6U&t=28s Subs sit in silence at 30 metres depth waiting for targets to appear. The subs lay mines that differentiate and identify the ships passing overhead. The Iranian navy cannot fight in open ocean against the US flotillas But in the shallow and narrow channels Iran can control which ships can pass and which ships cannot. Allies of Iran can …

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