REVOLUTION..Vibrant/provocative interview...Russell Brand interviewed by Jeremy Paxman BBC Newsnight....

[Cidersomerset]

I saw the tlr for this earlier and just watched the full interview 11 mins on
Newsnight. At least Jeremy Paxman has given him the platform, and Russell was
not overawed and came over well imo...

NEWSNIGHT - Paxman vs Brand. Full Interview.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3YR4CseY9pk

Russell Brand: I've never voted, never will'

Comedian Russell Brand has told the BBC's Jeremy Paxman that he has never
voted, and he never will, as the UK's political system has created
a "disenfranchised, disillusioned underclass" that it fails to serve.

"I am not that I am not voting out of apathy. I am not voting out of absolute
indifference and weariness and exhaustion from the lies, treachery and deceit of
the political class that has been going on for generations", he added.

Speaking to Newsnight, he suggested that politicians were only interested
in "serving the needs of corporations" and that a administrative system based on
the "massive redistribution of wealth" should replace the status quo.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24648651

[ghostrider]

It has to be said , Russell is one of the most AWAKE celebrities I've ever seen , he gets it ... We need more like him in mainstream media ... He is always clear on what he thinks and says ...

[onawah]

We need a thread devoted to Russell Brand, John Stewart and Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central and the like.
Like Divine Fools throughout history, they help keep us sane and looking at life from the right perspective.

[Wind]

It's funny that when I didn't know much about him I just thought that he was another brainless celebrity, but oh boy how wrong was I!

[Robin]

Posted by Wind (here)
It's funny that when I didn't know much about him I just thought that he was another brainless celebrity, but oh boy how wrong was I!

Ditto. I have always found him appallingly annoying in all of his films. Now that I know what he stands for I definitely appreciate him more as a person. He even acknowledges that he has contributed to the mass ignorance with the roles he has played. But he seems like quite a polite and confident character.

[Cidersomerset]

It has to be said , Russell is one of the most AWAKE celebrities I've ever seen , he gets it ... We need more like him in mainstream media ... He is always clear on what he thinks and says ...

I agree, he has experianced rock bottom, and the high life because of his
addictive personality anything he does he will throw himself into.

The last bit about Jeremies ancestor is cut from this which was quite
poignant on the tele interview especially his face in response to
Russell.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MKj0BpTErTY

[Cidersomerset]

Russell Brand Takes On Jeremy Paxman (Plus Beard) On BBC's Newsnight (VIDEO)


The Huffington Post UK | By Paul Vale Posted: 23/10/2013 22:59 BST | Updated: 24/10/2013 04:22 BST



On the back of Brand’s forthcoming guest editorship of the New Statesman, Paxo
charged in: “Who are you to edit a political magazine?”

“A man who was asked by an attractive woman,” replied the comedian and actor.
Following a rant that spanned "current paradigms", "voting practises" and "political
apathy," Brand barked across the hotel room “grow your beard”. “You are a very
trivial man,” countered Paxo, both comfortable in their cross-cultural badinage.

Brand has found a more serious edge of late, interspersing tales of shagging and
not taking drugs with pleas for a fairer world, a greener world and one in which
Associated Newspapers is mashed to a pulp.

russel brand

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3YR4CseY9pk

Brand took on Paxo... and the established social order


“What will your revolution look like,” growled Paxo from behind said beard.

“I’ll tell you what it won’t be like,” said Brand in a moment of clarity, “a huge
disparity between rich and poor, where 300 Americans have the same amount of
wealth as the 85 million poorest Americans, where there is an exploited and
underserved underclass that are being continually ignored and where welfare is
slashed while Cameron and Osborne go to court to defend the rights of bankers to
continue to receive their bonuses. This has to be addressed.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013...tml?ref=topbar

[Cidersomerset]

Russell Brand on revolution: “We no longer have the luxury of tradition”


But before we change the world, we need to change the way we think.
By Russell Brand Published 24 October 2013 9:58



Russell Brand asks: "Is utopian revolution possible?" Photo: Reuters/Cathal McNaughton


When I was asked to edit an issue of the New Statesman I said yes because it was
a beautiful woman asking me. I chose the subject of revolution because the New
Statesman is a political magazine and imagining the overthrow of the current
political system is the only way I can be enthused about politics.

When people talk about politics within the existing Westminster framework I feel a
dull thud in my stomach and my eyes involuntarily glaze. Like when I’m conversing
and the subject changes from me and moves on to another topic. I try to remain
engaged but behind my eyes I am adrift in immediate nostalgia; “How happy I was
earlier in this chat,” I instantly think.

I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like
most people I regard politicians as frauds and liars and the current political system
as nothing more than a bureaucratic means for furthering the augmentation and
advantages of economic elites. Billy Connolly said: “Don’t vote, it encourages
them,” and, “The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being
one.”

I don’t vote because to me it seems like a tacit act of compliance; I know, I know
my grandparents fought in two world wars (and one World Cup) so that I’d have
the right to vote. Well, they were conned. As far as I’m concerned there is nothing
to vote for. I feel it is a far more potent political act to completely renounce the
current paradigm than to participate in even the most trivial and tokenistic manner,
by obediently X-ing a little box.

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic
system is what interests me, but that’s not on the ballot. Is utopian revolution
possible? The freethinking social architect Buckminster Fuller said humanity now
faces a choice: oblivion or utopia. We’re inertly ambling towards oblivion, is utopia
really an option?

I heard recently Oliver Cromwell’s address to the rump parliament in 1653 (online,
I’m not a Time Lord) where he bawls out the whole of the House of Commons
as “whores, virtueless horses and money-grabbing dicklickers”. I added the last one
but, honestly, that is the vibe. I was getting close to admiring old Oliver for
his “calls it as he sees it, balls-out” rhetoric till I read about him on Wikipedia and
learned that beyond this brilliant 8 Mile-style takedown of corrupt politicians he was
a right arsehole; starving and murdering the Irish and generally (and surprisingly
for a Roundhead) being a total square. The fact remains that if you were to recite
his speech in parliament today you’d be hard pushed to find someone who could be
legitimately offended.


Rest on link.....

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics...-on-revolution

[sian]

The last bit about Jeremies ancestor is cut from this which was quite
poignant on the tele interview especially his face in response to
Russell.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=MKj0BpTErTY

i also agree with the point you made above, as i remember part of the original episode with Jeremy Paxman of "Who Do You Think You Are" by the BBC. wouldn't do to rattle the gage eh! (the episode in question, also not available on YouTube where many of the others in the series are)

[Soulboy]

Posted by onawah (here)
We need a thread devoted to Russell Brand, John Stewart and Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central and the like.

Sorry, slightly off topic alert

Hi Onawah, I mean no disrespect or anything of the sort with what I'm going to say now. I honestly don't think Brand deserves being put in the same sentence as Stewart and Colbert because they are completely different from him.

I don't think Jon and Stephen are part of the solution or even helping at all. They poke fun at both parties, play the red vs blue game and it's often very funny, granted, but what they essentially do is limit the scope of what is allowed to be mentioned in public debate amongst the so-called 'Liberals' of the country (like in front of the water cooler in the office, for example), parade around such wonderful people like Greenspan and former presidents and treat them like they're honourable people to the extent where I'd call both, Jon and Stephen, cheerleaders of the system.

When Joe Sixpack watches their shows after a long hard day of whatever he does for a living, he feels informed and rebellious and like he has seen all there is to know about current events, when in fact it's just the same old rubbish that CNN is shoving down everyone's throat with an added twist of a joke on something really minor and/ or meaningless with an air of "that's how it is. There's nothing we can do about it" attitude.

These two presenters never allow the discussion where it needs to go, they ridicule conspiracy theorists and softly manipulate the masses in their TV studios that are jam-packed with dark symbolisms (pentagrams all over the place, the so-called 'statue of liberty' behind them on the screen, the 'C' of Colbert looking like an Oruboros with a snake belly illustrated by blue and white stripes and much more if you look closely and are aware of the meanings, using bright colours that are proven to disorient the human mind if used in the manner that it's done, and if all that were not bad enough, mnemonic mind control techniques are being used in their shows, much of which I would imagine they have no influence in or even knowledge of whatsoever) All I'm saying is they have a huge team of very intelligent writers doing the work for them that they then read off a teleprompter while adding bits of 'spontaneous humour' where they think of something funny, whereas Brand is really interested in human progress, needs nobody to write his jokes/ speeches and even sometimes reminds me of George Carlin at his best, etc.

People have said to me in the past that the situation in America would be far worse without these two presenters, but I strongly disagree with that. I think things would be MUCH better as debate among the slowly awakening minds would have broader limits. I can very well imagine how people, after seeing the Daily Show or the Colbert Report, find most of the views expressed on PA ridiculous or far-fetched because they're being told it's all nonsense and conspiracies dreamt up by lunatics with too much time and mental issues (this Colbert does very frequently as well as skilfully, a master manipulator, I got so annoyed with that that I eventually stopped watching him altogether) I just cannot sit through another one of their shows where they ask softball questions (which I suspect are even scripted) to the members of the so-called 'elite' and present them to their viewers like they are respectable and fine upstanding gentlemen who deserve our fullest respect and admiration for their 'service to humanity'.

Brand is in a league of his own compared to the other two, in my opinion. None of the things Brand says in this short interview would get a second's mention on the other presenters' shows, I think, at least not without ridiculing them.

OK, end of rant, haha

[sian]

if Brand gets the like of Paxman's and his following on British TV (which is quite huge, especially, in the mid fields of the population) to look outside the box then we could be in business. Paxman does not take prisoners, he's respected by many as he asks brutal questions at times, he won't give up the bone! times are changing, Paxman doesn't usually melt down as he did with Brand, gave him food for thought for sure. time will tell.

[Taurean]

"I don't need the right from you, I don't need the right from anybody, I'm TAKING IT." Russel Brand:

Could catch on !

[white wizard]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3YR4CseY9pk

This will get bigger in time.

[Artworks]

Perhaps this is he who Cliff High was waiting for as a maker in the data!

[Delight]

" Change things? Why wouldn't we? Why is that naive? Why is that not my right? Because I am (a(n) fill in the blank) actor?
I mean, I have taken the right. I don't need the right from you. I don't need the right from anybody. I'm taking it."

We have to take back our higher mind that does have it. He feels like my passionate self that knows I am cause.
He is so able to speak from the stream a flow that feels so deep and authentic. It is almost impossible to imagine it is not really speaking to the human real person in this inetrviewer and uncover his PERSON there. This is proof to me that the "take" of the right to change is in the middle of our own body and if we let it out, it will just take it's right.

[Sabrina]

Brilliant Band - making Paxman looking very faded old school with an agenda to maintain that he can hardly prop up. The old world weary cynicism won´t wash any more...

[Cidersomerset]

if Brand gets the like of Paxman's and his following on British TV (which is quite huge, especially, in the mid fields of the population) to look outside the box then we could be in business. Paxman does not take prisoners, he's respected by many as he asks brutal questions at times, he won't give up the bone! times are changing, Paxman doesn't usually melt down as he did with Brand, gave him food for thought for sure. time will tell.

Russell has been interviewed by Jeremy Paxman before
he came out so to speak. They talk about celebrity and
fame. Its a good interview in the aftermath of 'Sax gate'
an overblown carfuffle about a prank that went over
the top.

Also at the end he alludes he wants to aspire to higher
consciousness,

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hYM7SzJMKns

[onawah]

Very good points, Soulboy.
I never looked at Stewart and Colbert from that perspective, but you may be absolutely right.
I agree that Brand is in a class of his own, and if we had someone like him broadcasting his views regularly in the US, he'd probably be silenced very quickly.
But he can take some well aimed shots the way he's doing his thing now.

The UK has Brand and Simon Parkes too.
There's hope for the Brits yet, apparently.

The viselike grip of the MSM on the minds of the American public is a lot tighter, it would seem, but hopefully it will be all the more explosive when it finally slips...

Posted by Soulboy (here)

Posted by onawah (here)
We need a thread devoted to Russell Brand, John Stewart and Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central and the like.

Sorry, slightly off topic alert

Hi Onawah, I mean no disrespect or anything of the sort with what I'm going to say now. I honestly don't think Brand deserves being put in the same sentence as Stewart and Colbert because they are completely different from him.

I don't think Jon and Stephen are part of the solution or even helping at all. They poke fun at both parties, play the red vs blue game and it's often very funny, granted, but what they essentially do is limit the scope of what is allowed to be mentioned in public debate amongst the so-called 'Liberals' of the country (like in front of the water cooler in the office, for example), parade around such wonderful people like Greenspan and former presidents and treat them like they're honourable people to the extent where I'd call both, Jon and Stephen, cheerleaders of the system.

When Joe Sixpack watches their shows after a long hard day of whatever he does for a living, he feels informed and rebellious and like he has seen all there is to know about current events, when in fact it's just the same old rubbish that CNN is shoving down everyone's throat with an added twist of a joke on something really minor and/ or meaningless with an air of "that's how it is. There's nothing we can do about it" attitude.

These two presenters never allow the discussion where it needs to go, they ridicule conspiracy theorists and softly manipulate the masses in their TV studios that are jam-packed with dark symbolisms (pentagrams all over the place, the so-called 'statue of liberty' behind them on the screen, the 'C' of Colbert looking like an Oruboros with a snake belly illustrated by blue and white stripes and much more if you look closely and are aware of the meanings, using bright colours that are proven to disorient the human mind if used in the manner that it's done, and if all that were not bad enough, mnemonic mind control techniques are being used in their shows, much of which I would imagine they have no influence in or even knowledge of whatsoever) All I'm saying is they have a huge team of very intelligent writers doing the work for them that they then read off a teleprompter while adding bits of 'spontaneous humour' where they think of something funny, whereas Brand is really interested in human progress, needs nobody to write his jokes/ speeches and even sometimes reminds me of George Carlin at his best, etc.

People have said to me in the past that the situation in America would be far worse without these two presenters, but I strongly disagree with that. I think things would be MUCH better as debate among the slowly awakening minds would have broader limits. I can very well imagine how people, after seeing the Daily Show or the Colbert Report, find most of the views expressed on PA ridiculous or far-fetched because they're being told it's all nonsense and conspiracies dreamt up by lunatics with too much time and mental issues (this Colbert does very frequently as well as skilfully, a master manipulator, I got so annoyed with that that I eventually stopped watching him altogether) I just cannot sit through another one of their shows where they ask softball questions (which I suspect are even scripted) to the members of the so-called 'elite' and present them to their viewers like they are respectable and fine upstanding gentlemen who deserve our fullest respect and admiration for their 'service to humanity'.

Brand is in a league of his own compared to the other two, in my opinion. None of the things Brand says in this short interview would get a second's mention on the other presenters' shows, I think, at least not without ridiculing them.

OK, end of rant, haha

[meat suit]

TOTALLY GREAT!
thanks for posting....

[carriellbee]

Russell should have answered "!" to the question at 2:25...

I also agree with his notion of not voting. I believe that voting is useless and implies approval of the system, which is corrupt and causing great harm to the earth and all of its inhabitants.