On April 15, 2025, the Australian documentary show titled Border Security featured Pete, an American man traveling to Australia to visit his girlfriend, Anna, of ten years. He caught the attention of the airport security since he was traveling alone, and only had six dollars in his possession, raising alarms that he might be a drug mule. Pete explained he was very excited to finally meet Anna since they have never been togerther in person, never used FaceTime or Skype to communicate visually in real-time, and he has sent her tens of thousands of dollars over the years.
Long story short, Anna didn’t pick Pete up from the airport, didn’t answer his many calls, didn’t visit him at his hotel, and had her friend Natasha contact Pete to say Anna left days ago on a vacation with her children.
Pete summarized his predicament saying, “Everybody’s against me, [saying] ‘Oh you’re you know quit sending money blah blah blah.’ I can’t. She’s an investment now, to me you know? She’s my family. I’m going home today, going back to work supporting Anna. She’s the most important thing in the world to me.”
All sane people watching can plainly see Pete was getting scammed for his money. His kind, naive nature was being used against him by someone malevolent enough to want to do such a thing, and smart enough to pull it off.
This episode is a microcosm of the situation humanity is experiencing when it comes to the realm of politics.
People who are kind and naive are being scammed on a large scale by other people, who are nefarious and have esoteric knowledge about how to extract resources unjustly from good people.
The good people are in such denial about the existence of evil, they will spend tens of thousands of dollars and in some cases sacrifice their lives (in war) before acknowledging the reality staring them in the face.
In James Corbett’s new book, Reportage: Essays on the New World Order, two glaringly obvious examples of contradictory beliefs the average voter holds are presented.
First, from page 133 in a section titled, “How to Really Defeat Globalism,” Corbett asks, “We rightly lock up a murderer who takes another’s life, yet we praise a murderer dressed in uniform as a hero for spilling the blood of our “government’s” enemies. Why?”
When it comes to the wars of other countries, one can more easily detect the unjustifiability of engaging in mass murder. But when someone is so financially and emotionally invested through taxes paid and time spent adoring members of their domestic political class, they become Pete in Australia: unable or unwilling to objectively analyze their situation through motivated reasoning. Like Pete, they will erect a psychological excuse factory which cranks out any justification that dismisses the possibility that they have been lied to or scammed.
On page 185, Corbett refers to the cognitive dissonance many American voters have when it comes to the Global War on Terror:
“The average establishment news junkie, for example, can go from hailing Osama Bin Laden and his band of Al Qaeda agents as “warriors for peace” in 1990s Afghanistan to reviling them as the epitome of evil responsible for the September 11, 2001, terror attacks to accepting them as necessary allies in the war against Bashar al-Assad in Syria in the 2010s—all without experiencing cognitive whiplash.
That the masses are capable of holding these flatly contrary positions at various times is itself a testament to the power of these non-terroristic techniques of persuasion. But what’s even more remarkable is that the people who are molded by these master manipulators don’t even notice these contradictions as contradictions.”
To put icing on this psychopathic cake of propaganda, the corporate press then has the nerve to denounce those who question official narratives as “conspiracy theorists.”
First, it’s well known that people frequently conspire to commit fraud and murder, thousands of people in America are in prison as a causal result of such conspiring, or a “legal charge that involves the planning or agreement between two or more parties…”
Second, the corporate press and the masses of voters are constantly engaging in conspiracy theorizing.
Examples include, but are not limited to, the rich are out to exploit the poor, whites seek to oppress blacks, men seek to oppress women, Russia is trying to take over the world, China is trying to take over America, Iran wants to nuke Israel and America, Al-Qaeda has sleeper cells in America, Muammar Gaddafi supplied troops with Viagra to encourage mass rape, Saddam Hussain tried to take over the Middle East, the Soviets tried to invade America starting with Vietnam, Adolf Hitler tried to take over the world, Kaiser Wilhelm II tried to take over the world, and the Spanish Empire was the root of all evil.
Everyone agrees that there are evil people who conspire against others, leaving us with the questions, how can we determine who is conspiring, and what, if anything, can we do about it?
Reportage is an exceptional book which combines primary sources with a logical analysis of their implications, increasing the likelihood both of the above questions can be answered. The book is not a pessimistic “black pill” intended to depress readers about the world around them, but a harmonious exposé on the conspirators and a manuel for how to proceed with sanity in an insane world.
