Here’s your ‘reserve currency’ thought for the day: Every US dollar is a check written on an account that is overdrawn by over 30 trillion dollars. It’s true. The “full faith and credit” of the US Treasury is largely a myth held together by an institutional framework that rests on a foundation of pure sand. In fact, the USD …
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The World of Western and Eastern Billionaire Oligarchs
Herland Report: Billionaire Oligarchs: Russia’s wealthiest 0.01% (the top 1% of the top 1%) have taken about half their wealth, around $200 billion, out of Russia and stashed it in the UK and other havens. At the same time, America’s wealthiest 0.01% have taken around $1.2 trillion out of the United States, principally to avoid paying taxes. So, in terms of …
Read More »Bishop Harry Jackson on Racism: Forgiveness is the medicine that heals Wounds
The Herland Report TV (HTV): Hanne Nabintu Herland speaks to bishop Harry Jackson about forgiveness, hatred, racism and redemption. “My father experienced gross racism, yet he said that I shouldn’t judge people by their skin colour. This was even before Dr. Kings statements became so famous,” says Bishop Harry Jackson, a leading American social conservative activist, commentator, author and …
Read More »Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: America Was Destroyed in My Lifetime
Herland Report: America Was Destroyed: I am a member of a fading generation of Americans who grew up in the 1940s and 1950s when the United States was a nation. I was a member of a homogeneous population with a common language, Christian religion, common morality, and shared values and outlook. In Atlanta Georgia of those years people in …
Read More »Paul Craig Roberts on the American unipolar world view: The United States is exceptional, everyone else (including Europe), are dispensable
Herland Report: Dr. Paul Craig Roberts states in this exclusive interview with Herland Report that “the worst thing that have happened in my lifetime was the collapse of the Soviet Union.” “This was absolutely the worst thing. As long as the Soviet Union was there, there was a limit to Washington and its ability to bully and dominate,” states …
Read More »French Revolution: A study of Mob Rule and its Elites
Herland Report: The French Revolution Tyranny: The great rulers in history knew perfectly well how to control the mob. Empires often ruthlessly pushed for conquest of the weak and revenues from the conquered, yet he who holds the moral high ground tends to win in the long run. So states the Chinese man of wisdom, the military genius Sun …
Read More »The Collapsing American Military
Herland Report: The Collapsing American Military: Dan Goure and David T. Pyne have raised valid questions about how well the US would fare in a military conflict with Russia and China. Not well they conclude. See here and here. Possibly the articles by Dan Goure and David T. Pyne are sincere concerns of military analysts worried about Washinton’s unrealistic hubris. …
Read More »Coercive governments and righteousness: How a Gun to the Head silences the People
Herland Report: There are two ways of getting things done: persuasion or coercion. You either convince someone of the value of your ideas or you hold a (literal or metaphorical) gun to their head. The latter has been the norm throughout human history. Most of what we value about the contemporary West is a shift toward the former occurring over the …
Read More »Why do we celebrate Easter? Five answers from Billy Graham
Herland Report: Billy Graham was a leading spiritual leader who preached to hundreds of millions during his life time. He served as a minister to presidents, statesmen and world leaders and held crusades all over the world. At Easter, his answers to central spiritual questions about the meaning of life and the afterlife is central. Why do we celebrate …
Read More »The NAZI mentality and its relevance today, now present in global elites
Herland Report: The NAZI mentality: When the President of the Assembly of the League of Nations in 1940, Carl J. Hambro wrote a book about the German occupation of Norway during World War II, he explained brilliantly the NAZI mentality. Based on a remorseless conviction of national egotism, the essence of the possessive NAZI doctrine was that “it is …
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