Russell Brand on Revolution

[ItWillNeverWork]

...you haven't read this one.

Christ! I couldn't even read past the first line of the passages you just quoted. That really is awful.

 

[J Ed]

I think that people over exaggerate about the way that Brand speaks, which is alright as it goes but my god that writing is pretentious as fuck

 

[butchersapron]

Three more utterly damning quotations. The last being the most serious of course.

Thanks, Alain De Botton, for being such a cherry-lipped clever clogs and nudging me toward the light and away from town square executions.

Johann Hari, you tireless, brilliant, adrenalized busybody, your research, passion, advice, and constant interfering and advancement of your own gay agenda has been thrilling and helpful and I know your book, Chasing the Scream, will be a hit.

Usama Hasan, Tariq Ramadan, Dave Boyle and Laurence Easeman for your unused but greatly appreciated contributions—it was only deadlines that stymied us.

 

[frogwoman]

Three more utterly damning quotations. The last being the most serious of course.

Fuck. I actually didn't think this of him.

 

[J Ed]

Tariq Ramadan is also no stranger to nasty reactionary politics

 

[cantsin]

Three more utterly damning quotations. The last being the most serious of course.

fuck - I guess at least it means he ditched Eastmans contribution before it made it to print - baffling nonetheless - the million $$$ question for me is whether anyone was pointing out the facts about Eastman ( ie : Fash FB activity etc ), and RB was ignoring them, or were people not so aware of LE 's pedigree at the time ?

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Three more utterly damning quotations. The last being the most serious of course.

I could probably do a google to find out, but who are those people in the last quote?

 

[butchersapron]

fuck - I guess at least it means he ditched Eastmans contribution before it made it to print - fecking baffling nonetheless - the million $$$ question for me is whether anyone was pointing out the facts about Eastman ( ie : Fash FB activity etc ), and RB was ignoring them, or were people not so aware of LE 's pedigree at the time ?

No idea on that front - i imagine people telling Brand not to go near someone like that is quite likely to push him towards them though. If they did and finding out was the reason he was ditched before publication then that opens up more questions about the Brand/Easeman event planned for post-publication.

 

[butchersapron]

I could probably do a google to find out, but who are those people in the last quote?

The last one, the very last one is far-right prick. Dave Boyle is an interesting bloke who i met years ago though the football supporters groups.The first two i don't know too much about but i do know Ramadan has been placed in the dieudonne milieu - i.e far right anti-semitism, beyond left and right etc

 

[elbows]

Fuck. I actually didn't think this of him.

Apologies for being tedious and somewhat annoying, but you probably sort of did think this of him, at least in terms of the final quote, because I posted it on October 25th and you liked my post.

#397

 

[Orang Utan]

yep, youre right about that! i think he has made up for it now though, he is trying hard to be a good man. He has changed. That's what is exciting about the whole Russell Brand 'story' - he was lost and now is found - the greatest cliche of words, imaginable, has happened to a once egotistical, hopeless and hapless addict. I find that refreshing. And he is a force for good. Another thing, you think the Rubberbandits would get mixed up with someone transparent? get to fuck!

What are rubberbandits?

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

http://tariqramadan.com/english

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Apologies for being tedious and somewhat annoying, but you probably sort of did think this of him, at least in terms of the final quote, because I posted it on October 25th and you liked my post.

#397

To be fair, I just googled that Easeman guy only to find out that I'd previously visited a link to a story about him and completely forgotten.

 

[frogwoman]

Apologies for being tedious and somewhat annoying, but you probably sort of did think this of him, at least in terms of the final quote, because I posted it on October 25th and you liked my post.

#397

I probably did yes. But I don't think I read it properly. I knew he had some involvement with easeman but didn't know (or remember) that he had had his contribution 'stymeed' with that being the stated reason. That said I am quite forgetful at the moment

 

[frogwoman]

To be fair, I just googled that Easeman guy only to find out that I'd previously visited a link to a story about him and completely forgotten.

I can hardly remember what day of the week it is ffs

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

I can hardly remember what day of the week it is ffs

Monday.

 

[elbows]

No matter, I'm sure that was just my ego blowing my own trumpet that I posted that quote on this thread during the original fallout from the Easeman debate invitation.

At the time, I seem to remember it was rather hard to find Easeman expressing his most dubious thoughts in great depth on the internet, I mostly had just the damning snippets that people had screenshotted from his twitter or whatever, and his subsequent crying about being smeared.

However it seems he then gave some dodgy internet radio interview, which I haven't forced myself to listen to, but I think the written synopsis for it is rather telling in oh so many ways, no room for doubt here, ticks all the boxes:

Laurence Easeman is a long time researcher, filmmaker and anti-usury social justice campaigner. He is an activist for Monetary Reform and Land Reform through the abolition of Usury, the creation of Interest-Free Credit and a contemporary system of Tribal Anarchy. At the core of Laurence's work is a struggle against the cabal of Private International Bankers that have a monopoly over our money supply. He believes that if we are to experience any real sense of freedom then we must find solutions to that monopoly, because banking is nothing more than institutionalized usury. We begin by discussing Laurence’s timeline and how he became interested in understanding the hidden mechanisms of banking and money. He describes how once he uncovered the truth behind the fraudulent mortgage industry, a mega-scam essential to the enslavement of the Western population. He decided to test his personal power and challenge an eviction notice issued by the bank carrying his home mortgage, bringing him considerable media attention. Laurence explains how at this time he was inspired by the Dennis Wise documentary The Greatest Story Never Told, which led him to produce the now viral YouTube video entitled The People vs. The Banks. Then, Laurence discusses his recent appearance in the headlines when a smear campaign was launched against him following a botched panel discussion with Russell Brand. Later, Laurence shares his views on what he calls “Revolution Light,” a trap of the Marxists that is restraining the people from forming any true sense of a revolution because any form of openly questioning the constructs and speaking out is so quickly demonized. We wrap up with Laurence sharing some thoughts on the global elitists’ agenda of pushing mass immigration to a crisis point, causing the destabilization of the west and the breeding out of native European peoples.

Anyway I went straight to that page on that site, so I haven't checked out what else that radio station is peddling or who is behind it, so I shall break the link for now:

http://www.redicecreations.co m/radio/2014/11/RIR-141124.php

 

[Pickman's model]

I think that people over exaggerate about the way that Brand speaks, which is alright as it goes but my god that writing is pretentious as fuck

over exaggerate? you're talking hyperbolics!

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

First post on his twitter is some nutty shit about 'Cultural Marxism'.

eta: Easeman, that is, not Brand. Give it a few years and who knows though.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I really don't like the way that Brand writes, urgh

Christ! I couldn't even read past the first line of the passages you just quoted. That really is awful.

He does sometimes come across like he's delighting in his own erudition and vocabulary so deeply that he doesn't realise how wanky he's coming across. He has these fits of being a sort of Poundland Will Self, but without the irony.

And yes, I'm totally aware of what a smug cunt the above makes me sound.

 

[Pickman's model]

He does sometimes come across like he's delighting in his own erudition and vocabulary so deeply that he doesn't realise how wanky he's coming across. He has these fits of being a sort of Poundland Will Self, but without the irony.

And yes, I'm totally aware of what a smug cunt the above makes me sound.

you sound like a poundland terry eagleton

 

[elbows]

He does sometimes come across like he's delighting in his own erudition and vocabulary so deeply that he doesn't realise how wanky he's coming across. He has these fits of being a sort of Poundland Will Self, but without the irony.

Nice

I watched one of his videos where he was quite obviously aware of how cringeworthy a name The Trews was for his youtube thing, but what the hell, call it that anyway decide his frontal lobes.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Nice

I watched one of his videos where he was quite obviously aware of how cringeworthy a name The Trews was for his youtube thing, but what the hell, call it that anyway decide his frontal lobes.

Cringey is the word of the hour when it comes to Brand. If Ricky Gervais was still funny then he might have invented him. It still remains to be seen if Brand isn't an entirely fictional construction.

 

[emanymton]

Better than that, see if it's in the library...

There are certain online 'shops' where you can get an ebook version for free.

 

[FNG]

Just reading an excerpt, from the prologue

I’ve greeted a cavalcade of gleaming false idols like a jam-jar native, prostrate before the great white master.

this is the guy that did a documentary with sunny Handel about Black Pete but finds this an acceptable metaphor?

Blokes a fraud.

 

[Pickman's model]

There are certain online 'shops' where you can get an ebook version for free.

given the excerpts which have been posted i am not sure i'd want a copy, free or no

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Some sort of Rasputin figure, convert to Islam and become Yusef Brand

 

[rekil]

I really don't like the way that Brand writes, urgh

I think he has infected Enda Kenny somehow. Check out this gibberish.

Spoiler

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

It's like Edna stitched a number of beat haikus together