Russell Brand's Revolution: Interview with Owen Jones - Full Length | Guardian Live Dec 2014 ( Strong language)..

[Cidersomerset]

This is a very good discussion and Russell explains his views about many things and
talks about his past , addiction and other subjects . If you can get past his flamboyant ,
lyrical rhetoric and strong language there is loads of content and common sense ideas.


CAUTION......SPONTANIOUS STRONG LANGUAGE AT TIMES........


Russell Brand's Revolution: Interview with Owen Jones - Full Length | Guardian Live

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Published on 8 Dec 2014


Russell Brand speaks to Guardian columnist Owen Jones about capitalism, democracy
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I did post a 15 min segment of this talk a few weeks ago if some bits seem familiar ..

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...-Guardian-Live


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Listening to Owen Jones interviewing Russell it was obvious he was an activist himself
so I wondered what his views were and found this presentation he gave about corporate
elites and more.....Very good summery of social power over the last century and how
the elites always get to the top whatever the system, the establishment ends up
corrupted by the corporate and other elites. There have been several attempts at
real democracy and things are certainly better than our grandfathers in some ways,
but modern 'serfdom' is alive and well governed by debt from 'cradle to grave'...



Owen Jones - Who Runs the Country? Shady World of British Establishment - Dangerous Times Festival

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VBUxyzVtO58

Published on 8 Jun 2014

[Cidersomerset]

This is why Russell cannot lead a modern media revolution with out public help
as he is open to be set up. But you can also turn it around and say if you are
trying to beat a system , some times you have to play them at their own game.
What ever happens as I have pointed out many times and Russell has himself ,
including the vid above he is an activist/campaigner not a potential political
leader , as he says he is a narcissus show off with too many flaws , but is
full of good intensions and is certainly putting himself on the proverbial
'chopping block' so to speak , as always time will tell. Russell is a very
easy target for TPTB to discredit and 'push off the wagon'. So don't look
at him as a 'Messiah or leader just a 'media Savvy , ex street wise addict
trying to put his voice to some social good.


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There will be a lot more of this , if Russell get more traction with the public....................




Russell Brand film on RBS bankers funded by City investors – including former RBS banker

Saturday 20th December 2014 at 10:42 By David Icke


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Russell Brand film on RBS bankers funded by City investors - including former RBS banker

Russell Brand's film about 'financial inequality' is largely funded by high net worth City
investors who were able to offset their investment against tax





Russell Brand claims to despise bankers, but relies on them for funding Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

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‘When Russell Brand wanted to film himself confronting bankers about their bonuses,
he chose to storm RBS, regarding the bank as the very embodiment of the capitalist
system he so despises.

But, not for the first time, Brand has left himself open to accusations of hypocrisy after
it emerged the film company he set up is largely funded by City investors – including
a former RBS banker.

Brand raised almost £1 million by issuing shares in Mayfair Film Partnership Ltd, the
production company making his next film, a documentary called Brand which will
explore his ideas on the redistribution of wealth.’

At least 11 of the 21 main investors in the company are current or former employees
of banks or other financial institutions, while a 12th is a pension fund. They were all
able to claim tax relief by offsetting the money they invested in the shares against
their income tax, as part of a government scheme to attract investment in high
risk start-up companies.

Brand has repeatedly argued that bankers should pay more tax, and has blamed them
for much of the trouble faced by society’s poorest in the wake of the financial crash.

Mayfair is understood to have been set up to make a film called Happiness, which
never got off the ground, before it switched its attention to the new film.

Earlier this week Brand was accused of being a “bully” by an RBS back office worker
after he and a film crew tried to get into an RBS office in London saying he was
making a film about “financial inequality”.

Joseph Kynaston Reeves, who found himself locked out with his lunch going cold after
security staff locked the doors to keep Brand’s film crew out of the building, wrote a
blog describing Brand as a “prancing millionaire” which became an internet sensation.

Mr Kynaston Reeves pointed out that Brand, who is making his film with the director
Michael Winterbottom, had picked the wrong building, as the traders he was targeting
worked elsewhere. He also pointed out that Brand, with a personal fortune of between
£9 million and £15m, was far wealthier than him or any of his colleagues.

The biggest investor in Mayfair, with £225,000 of shares, is the Premier League footballer
Wes Brown, while £150,000 of shares are held by a pension fund administered by the
pensions firm Hazell Carr.

Other major investors include a former head of international business at Danske Capital,
with £100,000 of shares, and a managing director at JP Morgan Chase, with £50,000 shares.

Fellow investors work or have worked at City institutions including Credit Suisse,
Dresdner Kleinwort, Bank of Nova Scotia, Societe Generale and Peel Hunt.

Under the Government’s Enterprise Investment Scheme, the investors were able to
make their share purchase highly tax efficient.

The EIS, brought in to help smaller high-risk companies to raise finance, enables individual
investors to claim tax relief at 30 per cent of the cost of the shares, to be set against their
income tax liability for the year in which the investment was made. At the time the shares
in Mayfair were sold, the tax relief rate was set at 20 per cent.

Wes Brown, for example, would have reduced his income tax bill by £45,000 in the year
he bought his shares. Brand only owns 30 shares in the company.

HM Revenue and Customs specifies that EIS tax reliefs “are not considered to be avoidance of tax”.

Brand threatened to sue the Sun newspaper earlier this month after it accused him of
hypocrisy for paying around £76,000 a year in rent for his London home to a company
based in the British Virgin Islands.

A spokesman for Brand said he was unavailable for comment.

Meanwhile another of Brand's campaigns appeared to be paying dividends, as the US
investors who planned to evict scores of families from the New Era estate in east
London are on the verge of pulling out.

Brand joined protestors against the plans by Westbrook Partners, which is now said
to be close to selling the estate to an affordable housing provider.


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[Buzzie]

I have a strong suspicion that Brand is an example of "controlled opposition". This is someone who is put out there by the elites or with approval of the elites who run things. This is done to make the dissatisfied population think there is someone who is speaking up for them. In the end, nothing changes and Russell Brand has a good time, experiencing all the adoration and applause. We will see if sometime in the future he gets a nice big pay off.

[Cidersomerset]

I have a strong suspicion that Brand is an example of "controlled opposition". This is someone who is put out there by the elites or with approval of the elites who run things. This is done to make the dissatisfied population think there is someone who is speaking up for them. In the end, nothing changes and Russell Brand has a good time, experiencing all the adoration and applause. We will see if sometime in the future he gets a nice big pay off.

That's exactly how they work in the UK it was Left Labour. Right Conservatives and
the majority in the middle not sure who to vote for.Then there was the Liberal
revival that was hijacked by Clegg and all three parties more or less morphed into
one blurred elite ideology over the past decade or so. With the web people are
seeing the divide between the class's come back as it was pre WW11 , only
the mainstream media ignores it and reports of poverty are shrugged off by
Parliamentary elites and corporate media.

The corporate conveyor belt between politics and industry is unhealthy and seems
even worse in the US , where they have been hijacked far more and seem to be
run by their own royal elite of interbred related families. Even Obama is related on
his mothers side to these bloodlines that have monopolised power in the US more
or less since 1776 , but openly since Bush Snr......

Nigal Farage UKIP will be backed by the same old 'Banksters' indirectly as will any
party like the Greens ,that look like breaking thru, the same would be with Russell.
But he knows he could not run , and is promoting alternate thoughts & ideas.Hes
accused of telling people not to vote, but 60 odd percent did not vote in the last
general election and that was nothing to do with him, Apathy has set in for
decades. Which suits the establishment fine, as long as one of the tired old parties
get in and it is business as usual behind the curtains, the Bilderbergers, and other
corporate and secret societies that run the world are perfectly happy.

[Shezbeth]

One of the inherent problems with Brand is that he has enough problems that he can be dismissed as controlled opposition, while he could be an honestly flawed bloke who (like many on this forum in particular) have gotten fed up.

It's a tricky thing, determining who is sincere and sane in the 'game' of alternative information disseminating. Without guys like Morgan Freeman to narrate the viewer into a receptive trance, its hard to take anyone seriously or credible. Personally, I don't trust Brand, but neither do I distrust him as his efforts to date seem to be more efficacious than many "big names" in the emerging alternative "industry". Having said, I would neither rule out the 'controlled opposition' angle; for one I don't discount the means of "the opponent", and for two I don't disregard the potential that he - as an inherently (as we all are) flawed individual - is not subject to bias and agenda.

My suggestion to all who might be reading is "Don't trust, but don't dismiss" this particular individual (Brand). If he rubs you the wrong way maybe its an insincerity, or maybe its his method of proactively addressing heroine addiction (he's far more level headed then some recovering H-addicts, I'll testify to that right NOW!).

[Cidersomerset]

Dance until we die!..( Strong Language).....

new Sunday 21st December 2014 at 08:18 By David Icke

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lF72PvxXm3c