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DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
Sat Jun 28, 2014, 06:54 PM Jun 2014

Keiser Report: Russell Brand talks revolution with Max & Stacy (E620)



RT · Published on Jun 28, 2014

In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert are joined in the first half by Russell Brand to talk about the austerity headlines. They chat about the UK government's expanding debt and growing deficit, despite the alleged austerity and GDP expanding thanks to heroin addiction and prostitution. Russell learns about the water cannons bought for use against anti-austerity protests which the government itself will stoke. Finally, they talk about the people revolting as they must do when the social contract has been broken: and crypto currencies are one of the most visible revolts. In the second half, Max interviews Russell Brand further about his independent media outlet - The Trews; they discuss revolution and spiritual journeys.




''Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.'' ~Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America - 1840

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Keiser Report: Russell Brand talks revolution with Max & Stacy (E620) (Original Post) DeSwiss Jun 2014 OP
OMG- Brand is hillarious - "meek Revolution; like a little piece of foreskin peeking out under the newthinking Jun 2014 #1
That is a marvelous...and disheaertening ..quote. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2014 #2
De nada. DeSwiss Jun 2014 #5
I can't help it, I want to say it. zeemike Jun 2014 #3
! DeSwiss Jun 2014 #6
Interesting. zeemike Jun 2014 #9
''As above, so below.'' DeSwiss Jun 2014 #11
! zeemike Jun 2014 #12
Hi zeemike! DeSwiss Jun 2014 #13
Cue the music... MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #29
that's no problem BelgianMadCow Jul 2014 #32
+1!!! Well worth the time and some draw dropping statements! Dustlawyer Jun 2014 #4
Austerity was always about the transfer of wealth..... DeSwiss Jun 2014 #7
In the video, the point is made that revolution may not be the way we are used to it. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2014 #8
Exactly. DeSwiss Jun 2014 #10
here I am hanging about BelgianMadCow Jun 2014 #22
Yes sir, buddy! DeSwiss Jun 2014 #25
Hey, good to see you again. zeemike Jun 2014 #30
lurking about BelgianMadCow Jul 2014 #31
Yes it does. zeemike Jul 2014 #33
That is my sincere hope. I am not into blood and guns or violence of any kind. Dustlawyer Jun 2014 #14
It's possible. DeSwiss Jun 2014 #15
Good point... MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #28
Russell Brand is brilliant. Unknown Beatle Jun 2014 #16
Sprinkle in a little Jon Stewart..... DeSwiss Jun 2014 #18
and chop in some Chomsky n/t BelgianMadCow Jun 2014 #21
! DeSwiss Jun 2014 #24
"Now of course I'm egotistically driven, but..." BelgianMadCow Jun 2014 #17
I cancelled my ego's driving license. DeSwiss Jun 2014 #19
Are you familiar with Jean M.Auel's Earth's Children series? BelgianMadCow Jun 2014 #20
Yes. Although I've never read them. DeSwiss Jun 2014 #23
Love it! eom MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #27
I'm always fascinated to watch Russell Brand… This is a GREAT Keiser Report MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #26

newthinking

(3,982 posts)
1. OMG- Brand is hillarious - "meek Revolution; like a little piece of foreskin peeking out under the
Sat Jun 28, 2014, 07:07 PM
Jun 2014

door". OMFG, where does he get it from?

zeemike

(18,998 posts)
3. I can't help it, I want to say it.
Sat Jun 28, 2014, 08:07 PM
Jun 2014

Russel Brand is the new Jesus.

Sounds crazy until you think that both of them were revolutionaries, and both had the same answer of how to change their life by changing themselves...neither one of them needed to be divine to know or say that.

Not to win by fighting with them and competing with them, but to make them irrelevant in your life, and let them get wrinkled and old and die a natural death like they were people.
And it can be done.

Sounds like a Gospel (good news) too me, and he preaches it well with humor and some serious monologue...and he preaches it well.

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
11. ''As above, so below.''
Sat Jun 28, 2014, 08:50 PM
Jun 2014

Prof Shankar Balasubramanian in front of a painting by artist Annie Newman that
represents quadruplex DNA




We are evolving whether we know it or not.......

Dustlawyer

(10,494 posts)
4. +1!!! Well worth the time and some draw dropping statements!
Sat Jun 28, 2014, 08:07 PM
Jun 2014

Towards the beginning when Stacy talks about how the deficit continues to grow despite the Austerity, I suspect that maybe the poor, elderly and sick are not the problem blowing up the budget. Perhaps it is the very wealthy and the corporations not paying their fair share of taxes, getting subsidies they don't need, and favorable government contracts. There is a reason why the Regulatory Agencies here in the U.S. are starved for money and cannot inspect the industries that they are the watch dogs for.
The fact that the British government is buying water cannons and training police on their use in preparation for a possible revolution, while not unexpected, hearing it is disconcerting. Over here in the States OWS caught the Plutocrats and their police minions off guard. A quick $20,000,000 donation from Wall Street to the NYPD pension fund took care of that problem. Now they are ready for us should a revolution happen. Are we ready for them?

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
7. Austerity was always about the transfer of wealth.....
Sat Jun 28, 2014, 08:31 PM
Jun 2014

...from the people directly into the pockets of the 1%.

- As for being ready, I'm past ready.


dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
8. In the video, the point is made that revolution may not be the way we are used to it.
Sat Jun 28, 2014, 08:32 PM
Jun 2014

That it can be a quiet method of many changes and choices which simply bypass/ignore TPTB.

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
10. Exactly.
Sat Jun 28, 2014, 08:50 PM
Jun 2014

Revolt =/= Violence.

In fact quite the opposite.

We can bring the whole shebang to a halt.

Simply by doing NOTHING.

- Absolutely NOTHING.

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
25. Yes sir, buddy!
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 06:11 PM
Jun 2014
- And it becomes an absolutely astounding power when we all do nothing TOGETHER!




Global Consciousness Project (GCP)






What the scientist don't understand as yet, is that we are all in conscious contact with each other all the time. But in our present state of evolution only a hand-full of us can notice anything. But that is changing too.

It gets better.......
 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
15. It's possible.
Sun Jun 29, 2014, 12:17 AM
Jun 2014

Humanity needs to take a few ''sick days'' is all.

Globally.

With the Internets, that is now possible,

For example, I'm sick of the way TPTB are running things, and most everyone else is too.

But they'll never change without an equal power making them change.

Fortunately for us (if we can ever get our shit together), their tenuous hold on power has a glaring weakness.

It all runs on a schedule.

And like the teamsters of old, we're the delivery boys who hold all their cards.

- Literally......

Unknown Beatle

(2,672 posts)
16. Russell Brand is brilliant.
Sun Jun 29, 2014, 05:41 AM
Jun 2014

We need more people like Russell Brand, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders in this world.

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
18. Sprinkle in a little Jon Stewart.....
Sun Jun 29, 2014, 07:21 PM
Jun 2014

...a tag' of Stephen Colbert -- and just a smidgen of Bill Maher and we'll have it cookin'.

- I like Bill, it's just that he's better as a condiment. Like salsa.....

BelgianMadCow

(5,379 posts)
20. Are you familiar with Jean M.Auel's Earth's Children series?
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 05:09 PM
Jun 2014

because that's what I though of after grinning. I bet you do.

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
23. Yes. Although I've never read them.
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 06:02 PM
Jun 2014

I first read Jean's ''Clan of the Cave Bear'' back in 1983. It was eye-opening and mind-bending for me, because it was the first time that I'd known of an author who tried (successfully in my view) to think like prehistoric people did. She developed relationships and whole plots based upon their daily struggles using the known archaeological information about their lives that we had at the time. In this instance -- an obvious Cro-Magnon baby has been left alone and has come into contact with Neanderthals, but rather than kill her they raise her as one of their own. It was and is a fascinating book, IMHO. I hadn't read the children's books but I've heard others speak about them with favor.

- I still have the Clan of the Cave Bear book as a matter of fact, thanks for reminding me!

MrMickeysMom

(20,453 posts)
26. I'm always fascinated to watch Russell Brand… This is a GREAT Keiser Report
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 06:22 PM
Jun 2014

I think the best explanation for what TRUTHSEEKERS reach out to do in these times is how Brand philosophizes his part of "the revolution".

He's experienced a pretty full spectrum of vibration (being quite truthful of the drug culture, sex, then being successful on stage with all this in his routines. Now he sees what a lot of us talk about here. And it's really the same message, but with a charisma.

It's, "I've been there, done that" and realizes his own mortality. We've all gotten to that point (I'd hope) where we realize the precious time we have left on earth. He could be dangerous. He's able to be ignored by the mainstream (BBC) when drawing 50,000 people to his stream of consciousness about greed and who's in charge of a tribal nature long felt but recently forgotten.

IS it time to push humanity back to being human and not simple some corporate producer for the one percent? He's asking vast crowds that question, I suppose, and getting attention.

Whhooooo-oo-o-oo-oo--

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