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Related: About this forumKeiser 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.
newthinking
(3,982 posts)door". OMFG, where does he get it from?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Thank you for the Keiser reminder...listening now.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)zeemike
(18,998 posts)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.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)Whether you look down or up it is always more complex than we know.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)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.......
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)(from Jesus Christ, Superstar)
. "He's daaaangerous!"
BelgianMadCow
(5,379 posts)because we all are. He has "just" found his voice.
Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)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)...from the people directly into the pockets of the 1%.
- As for being ready, I'm past ready.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)That it can be a quiet method of many changes and choices which simply bypass/ignore TPTB.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)Revolt =/= Violence.
In fact quite the opposite.
We can bring the whole shebang to a halt.
Simply by doing NOTHING.
- Absolutely NOTHING.
BelgianMadCow
(5,379 posts)turns out I'm changing the world! :partyhat:
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)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.......
zeemike
(18,998 posts)BelgianMadCow
(5,379 posts)DU still has wonderful people and insights.
zeemike!
zeemike
(18,998 posts)And they are what makes it worth it.
Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)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......
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)I thought of the the similarities with the reaction to OWS, too.
Unknown Beatle
(2,672 posts)We need more people like Russell Brand, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders in this world.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)...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)BelgianMadCow
(5,379 posts)lol
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)BelgianMadCow
(5,379 posts)because that's what I though of after grinning. I bet you do.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)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)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)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--