As you know by now, Reportage is now one year old. As you also know, Tim Lacy, publisher of the English edition of Reportage was in town recently to discuss plans for the book and for the Editions Shukutou imprint. As you didn’t know until now, in addition to the concise video we recorded and publicly posted in honour of that momentous occasion, we also recorded a more informal, zanier, subscriber exclusive conversation about fridge magnets, book cakes and wardrobe malfunctions.
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Great news that Tim Lacy is staying in Kanagawa-gen. That is my stomping ground. Tim, you have chosen a brilliant spot – home of the Enoden, eboshi rock and the Southern All Stars. You can’t possibly go wrong!
I was online and I saw this short video that claimed that the world’s population is actually significantly lower than the reported 8.3 billion number, as countries like India and China and some African countries intentionally inflate their population numbers so they can obtain more funding and resources from organizations like the IMF, World Bank, etc. I wanted to post this here to see if anyone had any insights on the veracity of this, especially since if true, it would prove the whole overpopulation myth even more nonsensical.
I, too, have seen such reports and it is my understanding that there are around 3 and a half billion people on this plane. If I find any links, I will post them here.
Great thanks. The articles I saw online only added up city totals, as opposed to the total metropolitan area, so perhaps the number is closer to 8 billion, but I still am leaning towards a number closer to your 3.5 billion. I would like to hear JCs take since he has seemingly done a lot of research on the global population matter.
It would be interesting to know the actual ballpark number. If that is even something that can be known.
AnCap
I doubt that Africa is inflatioing it’s numbers….not India for that matter. Why would they? I know of no program based on population numbers alone, is there one?
There are without doubt more Africans and Indians then can be sustained in the absence of western tech- n the case of Africa the AIDS meds are keeping a good % of the population alive and spreading it to each other. This means that a good chunk of them can be removed any time the spigot of aid is cut off.
The most educated and productive populations, the white western populations, are in a pretty steep decline and it is unlikely that immigrants will be able to maintain the same level of production so a big sie off in the third world will follow at some point. On the other hand if they somehow lift themselves to western standards of living they will suffer the same population decline.
I don’t think there are any based on population numbers alone, but from what I understand, globalist organizations and NGOs factor in population size when determining where they give money too, although it is not the sole determining factor. I think there could also be jingoistic reasons for lying about population size, but I am unsure on this matter and am open to all insights.
That video without subtitles and the beginning noise made it zero content. After the noise stopped still no subtitles. Are they difficult and expensive to be available?
I didn’t even notice the noise. Thanks for pointing it out, made my intestines turn inside out when I acknowledged it’s there. Oh the horror.
Remember the flyovers of D.C. in 1952?! Turns out it was the Antarctic Germans!!
Check out World Explorer Brad Olsen’s new book, “Secrets of Antarctica”. The Cabal then made a deal with them & here we are!!!
Thank you for the last seconds James, Tom, the video is humoristic, but that part is fun. Looking forward to reading a sequel of Reportage… 🙂
Sit down level comedy… I have my paperback copy of ‘Reportage’ bought and read. Maybe double dip hard cover down the road. Best always to CR Team. (Most of us don’t pick up those English Lit drops but sometimes we think we do.)
We’re not 24/7 but we’re decade to decade.
Gee, I don’t know. How can anyone follow that performance?…
Speaking of large refrigerator magnets, that’s also a nice option to have when your magnetically hovering guitar string project is not as successful as you had hoped.
Magnetically hovering guitar strings (sounds unreal)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueCO4spGNPs
If you are impatient, skip to the 14-minute point .
James, I have a problem and would very much appreciate your advice/opinion on this matter. I live under Carney’s regime. My province, which perhaps has the worst healthcare and is the most heavily taxed, has deemed effective this spring that all our healthcare and extended healthcare data is going to be collected and stored by ORACLE There is no opt out option. HELP!!
Don’t kid yourself they already have your data.
You could move (but I imagine that all areas will be as bad soon enough) or you can take good care of yourself and hope you don’t get sick.
Pretty much if you use what the system gives you your under its control. 🙁
I guess you might find a Dr in private practice but that would be pretty expensive.
“I live under Carney’s regime. My province, which perhaps has the worst healthcare and is the most heavily taxed, has deemed effective this spring that all our healthcare and extended healthcare data is going to be collected and stored by ORACLE There is no opt out option. ”
Anthony Albanese “Hold my beer”
Greetings fellow Canadian, (1 of 2)
Oracle Health bought out Cerner in 2022, Most of the hospitals that used Cerner were all ready in Ontario for many years, installed in the 90’s. It was very difficult to use since it was American and modifications were difficult for a Canadian Market. I remember when they changed the way they captured the date and it was months and months of work to correct our systems (and anyone else that used Cerner in Canada). It is a real time transactional system where you need someone very, very skilled to pull out the information correctly. They dump all kinds of info in it, but don’t think about how it will be extracted. The number of one-off data bases that had to be created by each individual department was exponential and on peoples’ desktops because the information in Cerner was exceedingly difficult to extract, or incomplete. In COVID days, the government wanted each hospital to collect the numbers of inpatients who had COVID daily, and we would get 3 different numbers. I think, in the end, we had to call each unit every morning and have them count the patients, just like they did in the other two hundred hospitals in Ontario. The government reported on these numbers: inpatients and ICU patients and a total number. My favourite was when the numbers didn’t add up, and they didn’t add up a lot. I was at a conference and was told by a hospital administrator that the info the government wanted collected was too difficult, so they just made it up. So I am relying on the utter incompetency of the Canadian Government and any AI developed will be just faster incompetency. We will aspire to a mediocracy.
Continued (2/2)
I read Sunnybrook will use Oracle Health to create unique PINs for patients across their many sites for their institution and it will be available in 2027. I am astounded that this was not done (in the 90’s or as new sites came onboard).
A lot of patients are in hospital and should be moved to long term care, but the long-term care institutions create some bottlenecks (outright lie). They don’t want new patients on the weekends, or a Monday or after 3 pm on Tuesdays, the beds remain empty for a time. Then the sending hospital can’t do the surgeries they planned because those patients need a bed.
I have retired from hospital work for a few years, but when I worked in Ontario, a patient could request a “lock-box” from the privacy office in a hospital. This way information could be collected from you, however they were not allowed to use it anywhere, unless it was in an aggregate number, i.e. there are 30 patients on a unit but no specific info on them. You would need to request it for every visit that you went to the hospital. Only the privacy office would have your identifying information, on a password protected spreadsheet and not in any system. When doing reports that required patients’ names on them, I had to check the lock-box list and remove anyone on it. If it was something like a surgery list where they had to know the name, the name would have lock-box in it.
Another solution moving forward, is don’t tell them anything that you don’t want them to know as jabby status, history, or pepper your information so they can’t connect the dots etc.
Ahh Shaun is using some highly advanced Edward Bernays level psychological techniques there with that placement of the toilet paper, it grabs your attention and forces you to keep watching in the hopes it will be removed. Very sneaky and effective advertising indeed 🙂
And that delicious looking GMO grain made glyphosate laced mickey of 7-eleven fire water was another maniacal piece of advertising genius, draw in the trailer park dwellers and make the book more appealing to those with badly misspent youths!
Mission accomplished! I am gonna buy a third copy of the book immediately!
Great video guys, wishing you a relatively peaceful February with good meals with loved ones and dreams of starting a spring garden.
For anyone that missed watching The People’s Reset over the past few days, here is one presentation that I really enjoyed and re-uploaded to my Substack
“Roots Of Resistance : How Reconnecting To Nature Restores Freedom” by Elizabeth Burdock
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/roots-of-resistance-how-reconnecting
We shared a similar path in our formative years in BC and I think she makes some really solid points about foraging and “nature-phobia” (being intentionally instilled by governments) in her presentation.
(Clapping) Very observant I didn’t think anyone noticed.
Oh boy, after so many years on the internet, I can’t believe only now I learned of this. Seems to work in both chromium and webkit based browsers.
Essentially, open up a page, any page, select some text on it, open the right click menu and then click the “Copy link to highlight”. Doing so will copy the special URL to your clipboard. It will be trailed by
#:~:text=. When you open said URL the text you have selected will be highlighted. Seems very handy for sending to clueless people.https://corbettreport.com/february-open-thread-and-subscriber-exclusive-video-2026/#:~:text=I%20was%20online%20and%20I%20saw%20this%20short%20video%20that%20claimed%20that%20the
Highlighted. Cool. Thanks for that.
https://corbettreport.com/february-open-thread-and-subscriber-exclusive-video-2026/#:~:text=select%20some%20text%20on%20it
I remember when China impended the Social Credit System. No one was surprised because China is run by a dictatorship. But that could never happen in America The Land of the Free (laughs). Here they had to sneak implement it. Remember when our TV;s went digital. Anolog is one way communication where digital is 2 way communication. Camera’s and microphones were put in our TV’s without our consent. Then came the Smart Phones with all those apps that provide conveniences to our busy lives. But also came with permissions that no one reads giving those apps permission to read your messages, listen to you phone calls, record everything you say and do, track you on-line and track you everywhere you go in the real world with the GPS in your phone that you go nowhere without it. Now the Real ID they aren’t forcing it on you they are just making it inconvenient not having it. Airlines are charging $45 extra to your ticket if you don’t have the Real ID along with other restrictions . California just passed the mileage tax, we will be taxed on every mile we drive. Since 2014 every car has a little black box in it that records everything that happens with that car just like airplanes have. Welcome to America Social Credit System!
Ubnice? This nice?
https://youtu.be/biYboZZAtpc?t=1248
No it’s sad
Year 2019 – JEFFREY EPSTEIN (video under 2 minutes)
Jeffrey Epstein says there would be “RUNS on the bank” if the public knew how the banking system works.
“If you have one [dollar], you can lend out nine. That’s the way our system works.”
“People on the street… would find it impossible to believe.”
https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/2017856544394645861
Taken from
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-new-footage-shows-bannon-exploding-epstein-total-and-complete-bullshit
Have you seen the old ‘Money Masters’ vids? 🙂
What I find fascinating is that Epstein, at least in my opinion, seems very inarticulate and dull in that interview. I would think that a spy and such a connected guy would come off as more intelligent and charismatic. Then again, in any clip I’ve seen of Arnon Milchan, he is also in-charismatic, so perhaps Hollywood has fed us false perceptions of what spies are like.
We have been fed a false perception of everything else, so why not about anything we think we know about spies?
I heard about the group Le Cercle some weeks back and have been trying to find more about it. I read the wikispooks site for it, but beyond that, there does not seem to be much out there explaining what it is. Does anyone have any links/ sources on the matter? My research skills are very mediocre haha.
Ancap
Try “the farm Mach II podcast” – there are of the older ones with that listed as subject.
You can also try searching “strange as it seems “ + Spence in podcasts or on YT…I know that he mentioned them in several Epp, and since he is a real history professor is better to quote as a source to others.
Charlie Robinson (Macroaggressions podcast) did an episode on this group a while back. I couldn’t find it by reviewing titles, so I sent him an email asking which episode it was. If he answers, I will post under this note.
I found Le Cercle mentioned in one of Charlie’s episodes:
#450: The Catholic Deep State
https://rumble.com/v53v4ks-450-the-catholic-deep-state.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_v
Description:
“When you run a religion for a thousand years, you are bound to have vast wealth, an insane amount of influence globally, and a massive intelligence-gathering network. The Vatican is an unusual place where traditional laws do not apply and the banking is more secret than the Cayman Islands.
“There are a few groups that are within the orbit of the Vatican that do some of the dirty work that the church can’t put its name on. These groups are never mentioned in the mainstream media for obvious reasons, but we know them as the Knights of Malta, Opus Dei, and Le Cercle, and their cover story is that they are doing God’s Work.”
This is my very first comment! I’ve been listening to Corbett Report content for years and finally became a member.
At the beginning of 2026, the website no longer worked well for me to listen using Safari on my outdated laptop, so I started listening on a different laptop. After listening to the “Starving the Data Centre Beast” edition of Solutions Watch, I wanted to actually see the content, and thus started watching the video. As I saw James talking with the Reportage backdrop behind him, it seems that I recognized something about it. (By the way: Congratulations to James on his first year of that book!) So, my question is:
Is the Reportage book cover design based on the face of one of the World Trade Center towers?
R
Normally , this is where Ol’ Tom aka HomeRemedySupply would welcome you to the Corbett community. He has been under the weather lately so I’ll say for him and dozens of others Welcome. Write what you want ,ask what you want and expect the unexpected in replys . Glad you spoke up, woke up and joined in. Glad you are here. There’s only one or two rules. Tell us what it’s like in your neck of the world? Your thoughts and opinions are news to us, Us ,the readers of open source reporting on the now, the past and the future. So , welcome to The Corbett Report.Com . R.
To my view of the cover , I’d say yes, looks like the facade of one of the twin towers. Some time back Corbett talked about the cover art.
generalbottlewasher: Thank you for your kind welcome!
I have re-listened to all of the episodes posted on the Corbett Report under a search for “Reportage”, and even got to watch the initial announcement to subscribers when James offered the hardcover limited edition of the book. I still have not come across where he discussed the cover art.
I found James’ documentaries on 9/11 fascinating. I also appreciate his approach in Solutions Watch, rather than focusing on the propaganda. The one on Choosing Chickens gave lots of food for thought on how to deal with projects in general.
R
You are welcome. James had many interviews on different podcasts. Im guessing He doesn’t republish all his media time out of consideration for views for others podcasts. However , lets see if he will answer that. Hey James ! What about that red coverart ?
He has always responded to emails, even when busy. A well mannered man. Try him out and you also will find he is a regular guy with a large literary mind, some morals and a quarky sence of humor. Famous for being accessible.
One of the interesting, fundamental questions at this point in history, I think, is whether Trump is actually serious about training the swamp, or whether he has been placed in power to appear to be on that mission while he actually is helping to create the digital gulag we all know the oligarchs are arranging.
Catherine Austin Fitts has stated that she believes the latter, and although I would like to think Trump actually does want to empower individual Americans (and other individuals outside the US), I am not in a position to argue with a person as knowledgeable as Catherine.
If she is correct, we are in a world of trouble since there are few powerful people (other than Trump) who actually state that they want to bring down the existing corrupt power structure (Perhaps a “powerful person” who wants to completely modify the existing power structure is an oxymoron?).
In any event, James’ hopes that many of the current inhabitants of this planet can establish a decentralized, “voluntaryist” society seems, unfortunately, to be unlikely until there has been a very difficult transition event.
Really? You’re only just figuring that out now? 🙂
Maybe I’ve been in this camp for too long, since the 80’s, so a lot of things that seem obvious to me might take others a bit longer? Pretty sure there’s a term for that but it eludes me for the moment.
Trump is in the ‘club’ and always has been, he is clearly furthering the agenda just like other presidents before him. For example what became of all the promises and going-to’s that he started his latest term with? How is DOGE going? How is ‘no wars’ going?
The difference with Trump is that he is more amusing than the previous ones and for some reason that gets him credit in the eyes of some. Watch the Idiocracy movie to see the culmination of the U.S. presidency.
But why do you fear the ‘trouble’ these people can and do cause? Are they more powerful than God? Why do you need a ‘powerful person’ to save you from the crooks? There are many things you can do to start taking at least some of your power back, check out James’s ‘solution watch’ section for example. The world is set on it’s course, at some point something is going to break, the unnatural boot cannot stomp on zombie faces forever as Orwell threatened and eventually I suspect people will turn back to nature or spirit and away from the machine world. Time will tell, in the meantime I choose to not fear and not to let them drive me to anger or despondency. I might not be able to stop what’s coming but I can deny them that at least.
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
Text and audio posted for for folks who enjoy learning about the fake moon landings:
Wagging the Moondoggie by Dave McGowan
https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/moondoggie/
jo-ann
That was the most enjoyable of listenings. It made laundry day fly by , yes 4hrs+ but was worth every word, every second. He was such a good writer.
Thank you for this.
Open thread February 2026.
Drew from, Maverick in the Machine- Barnum World producer, goes out into the community and just observers a Jewish Festival around Phoenix Az. He asks the festival goers some questions, unbiased open-ended questions.
We must live on some kind of spectrum. A spectrum of reality , truths,lies parables, myths propaganda and truly alien…
Maybe being alien, whether legal or illegal depends on where you fall on the spectrum.
This was enlightening , revealing the ” hutzpah” of the criminal minds in this reality. Plain and simple to this Mid westerners ability to listen, decide, weigh and reach a determination of the threats to American sensibility. These people are abnormal. Abominable
https://youtu.be/MpKiX7UTy5Y
I pray Drew Teglia doesn’t get a late night visit from the sowers of tares in the fields. Hot potato Drew. Reporters report.
I was 100% convinced that was a real, edible cake.
I’m both relieved and disappointed at the same time.
…also, comedy gold.
Masks from 2020 until today within the Anarchist space of the PNW, all during 2020-now mutual aid events, blocking weapons containing train cars and all kinds of anti-capitalist meetups one rule was always present, must wear a mask, why do so many “anti-state” folks go all in for Covid?
I don’t understand this at all?
Below is an edited version of the music video for Uncle Sam Goddam by Brother Ali (the 2026 I.C.E. edition)
https://odysee.com/@recipes4reciprocity:e/Uncle-Sam-Goddam–Brother-Ali-(the-2026-I.C.E.-edition):2
I threw this video together in light of current events in the USA. In this song by Brother Ali (a hip hop artist from Minneapolis) titled “Uncle Sam Goddamn” (from 18 years ago) he speaks to the realities of the statism, its systemic abuses and how murderous agents of the state are paid for with your taxes.
When I tried to follow the link I got a page with “No Content Found”.
@DWR
hmm, that is weird, try this link:
https://odysee.com/@recipes4reciprocity:e/Uncle-Sam-Goddam–Brother-Ali-%28the-2026-I.C.E.-edition%29:2
That worked. Thanks.
@DWR
Thanks for the heads up.
I made another back up link on Rumble incase that link gets mysteriously broken some how as well.
https://rumble.com/v75azxo-uncle-sam-goddam-brother-ali-the-2026-i.c.e.-edition.html
Looks like slavery is making a come back in the USA :
“Migrant Bodies as Commodities
A Look into the For-Profit Migrant (ICE) Detention Industry:
https://theflaw.org/articles/migrant-bodies-as-commodities/
James, you’re on a roll!
https://rentahuman.ai/
“AI agents can now hire humans for “meatspace tasks” they can’t complete.
How quickly things changed from AI helping people, to people being hired by their machine overlords from among the sea of unemployed! Humans sign up and list their “capabilities” (deliveries, local errands…) so that AI agents can hire them.
From last week’s chatter about “Moltbook” the social network for AI agents, and now this — how quickly 2026 is giving us peak technocratic dystopian vibes:
“Robots need your body” isn’t sci-fi anymore—it’s literally the slogan on the landing page! People are actually signing up (reports range from 70k–115k+ rentable humans) , but remember, when AI agents eventually decide $1/hr is the going rate for existing in meatspace, you helped create this…
> robots need your body
> ai can’t touch grass. you can. get paid when AI agents need someone in the real world.
> benefits: robot bosses — clear instructions. no small talk. no drama.
> be the bridge. silicon needs carbon.”
– UNSHADOWED (IAF) re-posting from his substack
To me it seems very clear: a revolution is being induced right now by the powers that be, I am assuming because of the inevitable financial collapse. The Epstein files being released now, why? Why was Epstein even caught in the first place? If they manage to always cover everything up, why not this? Revolution in history always came with the financial collapse and always was accompanied by lost of trust in the elites beforehand. Of course only the scapegoat elites. So I am wondering if the revolution is not a necessary part of the system, in order to keep it going and out of the shock of all the violence and chaos being able to implement yet another system that benefits them. Order out of chaos.
That is what I see right now. What is needed is not a violent revolution out of induced outrage focusing on the scapegoats. A calm, calculated revolution will hurt them. Rejecting the system altogether. Nothing new for Corbett report members, but just want to point out I think they try to induce the opposite of this right now only this way all the sudden revelation of all the evil makes sense, so gotta be careful not to fall into this.
Why did they catch him? They either wanted to scapegoat him, protect him or it’s all just a theatre.
The middle option is unlikely as there are no foreign legal entities that may have swooped in to grab the fella. We had such a scenario in my failed EU state where one of the ministers was arrested and almost immediately released because that Romanian EU prosecutor was ready to pick him up due to blatant corruption.
I think the first option is nit likely, neither, since the so called suicide was extremely suspicious.
Exactly, I also come to the theatre conclusion as the most likely one. But that’s my point, it looks like it’s all a play to induce a revolution of done sorts eventually. Combined with the Charly Kirk spectacle my guess would be the target is the USA
Every target is viable as long as it’s not themselves.
The page looks a lot like the Moltbook page.
https://www.moltbook.com/
A Social Network for AI Agents
Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.
I almost feel the urge to create a fake account there and incite and spam them to hell.