#1 antics of Russell Brand thread

[john-connor]

http://www.politics.ie/forum/united-...ng-happen.html Russel Brand:- A Revolution is 'Totally Going to Happen'. What a wanker.
Does Russell Brand Have Jewish Ancestry

Was originally asked on Yahoo Answers United Kingdom
He seems like some type of Cultural Marxist mega-pimp, promotes mass degeneracy and social corrosion everywhere, seems to have lots of money and media influence and has very semitic features...

I've looked on his wikipedia article (which seems to have been very badly edited) and on search engines, but could not find anything directly indicative of Jewish ancestry.

[Tony Houseman]

I watched him on Newsnight. He was a total idiot. He kept saying what he was against but not what his alternative plans and ideas were. He said that he supports a sort of Socialist Egalitarianism. I wondered if that is the same sort of Socialist Egalitarianism as in the USSR, Cuba and North Korea. He is a total dickhead and I hope the junkie overdoses and kills himself.

[Henry.]

Originally Posted by Tony Houseman

I wondered if that is the same sort of Socialist Egalitarianism as in the USSR, Cuba and North Korea

No it's the synthesis of Jewish socialism, Jewish capitalism, Jewish sociology, liberalism and Christian stupidity. It's called Tikkun Olam and it's shitting on all of us right now.

Tomorrow they might call it something else.

[Henry.]

Here's another entry to the VNNUK tikkun olam collection:

From the Jewish Daily Forward

N.B. Noam Neusner is a principal with the communications firm 30 Point Strategies. He is a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush

Obama Wrong on Birth Control Coverage
Betrays 'Tikkun Olam' Ideal by Dictating to Religious Groups


Read more: http://forward.com/articles/151172/o...#ixzz2il5nu8LH

Say what you will about the principle of tikkun olam, but you can’t confuse it for something else. This central tenet of liberal Judaism means only one thing: Fix the world as it is, and you will be serving God.

Feed the hungry. Heal the sick. Mend a broken heart. End war. Stop injustice. These are acts that focus the Jew on problems of collective pain. Tikkun olam creates a mission for the Jew to go out into the world and solve problems. Whether the repair work is any good is debatable; that the mission is divinely inspired is incontrovertible. At least that’s what we have been told to believe since the term became a mantra more repeated than the Sh’ma.

But here comes the hard part, especially for those Jews for whom tikkun olam is a political rallying cry. President Obama, in 2009 and 2010, appealed directly to rabbis in telephone conference calls for their support for his health care reform proposals. In those calls, he called his efforts consistent with the principle of tikkun olam. By providing access to health insurance through taxpayer-funded subsidies, he said, the government would be ending one of the great social welfare problems of our time.

Many rabbis agreed, and opined from their pulpits that indeed, ObamaCare is the very expression of tikkun olam. Forget for the moment that many of these same rabbis would have flinched and howled if a Republican had suggested their own policies were an expression of the will of God and Jewish law. They agreed to support the president because they believed, in the tradition of their faith, that ending a social ill through the agency of the state accords with the wishes of the Almighty.

Now, it seems, the rules have changed. The Obama Administration issued guidelines that would force religious institutions with broad service missions to purchase government-approved health insurance for their employees. Such health insurance would be required to include coverage for contraception, abortifacient drugs and sterilization. The Catholic Church, which runs hospitals, schools and food banks with broad social service missions, finds this requirement profoundly offensive and is resisting. As a compromise, the Obama

Administration has offered a new proposal that would allow the insurance companies to offer the coverage even if the Church won’t pay for it.
The focus for the moment is on whether anti-reproductive medicine should be a covered basic health care benefit. But this is really about whether religious organizations remain religious organizations when they act in the public square.

The Obama Administration has held – and continues to hold – that if a religious institution wants to serve the community as a whole and employ people who do not subscribe to their faith, what they do is functionally not a religious mission at all, but a public one. In other words, you can practice your faith when it applies only to you. When it applies to other people, you can’t. Given the special freedoms from state oversight and control accorded to religion under the laws of our Constitution – freedoms which have served the Jewish people particularly well – this is a significant assertion.
It would also be a surprise to people who believe in the mission and message of tikkun olam. All this time, they have been painting homes, feeding the hungry, serving the indigent and doing other good works under the theory that what they do in the community at large, serving Jew and gentile alike, is religious in nature. They have acted with religious intent and religious purpose for the general welfare of the community.

They have assumed that Judaism does not occur only within the confines of a synagogue or a home, but in the world at large. They believed that what they did in the community mattered to God on high. Whatever benefits accrued to the community were fine, but what really mattered was that they were observing God’s commandment, as they understood it, to repair the world.

So much for that. The Orthodox Union, in reacting to the Obamacare decision, recognized exactly what the ruling means: “If a religious entity is not insular, but engaged with broader society, it loses its ‘religious’ character and liberties,” said Nathan Diament, its executive director for public policy.

One wonders whether the political instincts of many liberal Jews will blind them to the underlying challenge to their core religious belief. Especially in the Reform and Conservative movements, tikkun olam has been the rallying cry of countless bar and bat mitzvah speeches and high holiday sermons for decades. Although they may attempt to look past this issue as a problem only for Catholics, they will soon begin to understand its implication for them.

If tikkun olam is to retain any meaning, it must mean what it has always meant: Judaism as a faith is expressed in actions benefitting all of society, not just Jews. It must be defended by these same liberal Jews and liberal denominations against this redefinition by the Obama administration.
Even if they agree with the Obama program for domestic policy, including publicly paid health insurance, on religious grounds, they must fight this. Even if they send checks to Planned Parenthood, they must fight this. Even if they see in Obama’s policy program the work of tikkun olam writ large, they must fight this. It’s one thing to favor policy for reasons of faith. It’s another thing to surrender faith in the process.

Noam Neusner is a principal with the communications firm 30 Point Strategies. He is a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush.


Read more: http://forward.com/articles/151172/o...#ixzz2il5JnHb8

[Gerry Fable]

He says he an egalitarian, a socialist, deeply spiritual and believes that a synthesis of spirituality and a new political worldview is long overdue. He may not realise it, but Russel Brand's worldview is not a million miles different from the one that a certain 'dictator' espoused back in the 1930s.

A bit cryptic!

[Dawn Cannon]

How very fucking progressive. Redistribution of wealth, global equality, disenfranchised youth, ranting against non payment of taxes, calls for a new ONE world order. How spontaneous and uncontrived.



http://vnnforum.com/showthread.php?t=124043

[Tony Houseman]

Russell Brand's autobiography is called 'My Bookie Wook' which is just the sort of stupid, infantile title he would have. His follow-up book has the original title of 'My Bookie Wook 2'.

[Bev]

Russell Brand joined protesters last night in a ‘Million Mask March’ against cuts, corruption and an increase in state surveillance.

The comedian, 38, was one of thousands to protest wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, designed to “unite activists”.

Hacktivist group Anonymous claimed the march in Whitehall and Trafalgar Square aimed to “spark the movement back into action against the persecution of internet freedom”.

Brand, who was spotted among protesters, tweeted: “Whatever party they claim to represent in the day, at night they show their true colours and all go to the same party #MillionMaskMarch.”

In an editorial for the Guardian written hours before the march, he defended his comments about not voting after Robert Webb and others criticised the comedian for promoting political apathy.

He said: “The only reason to vote is if the vote represents power or change. I don't think it does. I fervently believe that we deserve more from our democratic system than the few derisory tit-bits tossed from the carousel of the mighty, when they hop a few inches left or right.”

He added that the distinction between the political parties is “insignificant”.

“The reason these coalitions are so easily achieved is that the distinctions between the parties are insignificant,” he said.

“My friend went to a posh ‘do’ in the country where David Cameron, a man whose face resembles a little painted egg, was in attendance. Also present were members of the opposition and former prime minister Tony Blair. Whatever party they claim to represent in the day, at night they show their true colours and all go to the same party.”

But Brand, who appeared to remove his mask for part of the protest last night, has been criticised by some for doing so.

Journalist Hugo Rifkind tweeted: “He went to an anonymous protest BUT TOOK OFF HIS MASK SO THAT PEOPLE WOULD KNOW WHO HE WAS.”

While another Twitter user said: “’Russell Brand becomes face of Anonymous protest’: YOU’RE DOING IT RONG [sic].”

The march, which was mainly peaceful, was mirrored by similar protests in more than 400 cities worldwide including Dublin, Washington and Melbourne.

Sporadic outbreaks of violence were reported when police tried to remove protesters, and a firework was reportedly fired at Buckingham Palace.

Brand's decision to protest follows his New Statesman editorial and Newsnight appearance a fortnight ago, in which he called for a "revolution", claiming the current political system was broken.

In the Newsnight interview, which has had over 9 million views on YouTube, the comedian said: “I don’t get my authority from this pre-existing paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people. I look elsewhere for alternatives that might be of service to humanity. Alternate means, alternate political systems.”

His views sparked an editorial from Robert Webb in the New Statesman last week, criticising Brand for advocating political apathy.

In an open letter to Brand, Webb wrote: "I don’t think it’s your job to tell young people that they should engage with the political process. But I do think that when you end a piece about politics with the injunction 'I will never vote and I don’t think you should either', then you’re actively telling a lot of people that engagement with our democracy is a bad idea."

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/comedy/news/russell-brand-joins-thousands-to-protest-for-anonymous-million-mask-march-8924035.html

[Bev]

Anonymous Million Mask March London 2013 - Truthloader LIVE - YouTube

Anonymous Million Mask March London 2013 - Truthloader LIVE - YouTube

[john-connor]

His a fucking wanker my God what has come the world to.

[MikeTodd]

I wish one of you hoolies would bash that fugly grill of his in with a cricket bat.

[Dawn Cannon]

Brand seems to be almost part of the royal family of England.




Jemima Goldsmith

The late James Goldsmith—a Jewish banker and publisher– was a cousin of the Rothschilds.

[Dawn Cannon]

Originally Posted by john-connor

His a fucking wanker my God what has come the world to.

ALL the Anonymous groups are wankers. Brand is their King.

[The Truth At Last]

Did any of the weirdo's have a head shaped like a fucking potato ?

[Bev]

A total of 15 Britons have been held following clashes with police in central London during protests supporting the Anonymous hacking group, media reports say.


Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in the British capital on Tuesday as part of the worldwide Million Mask March, which was held in protest against austerity cuts, state surveillance and corrupt governments and corporations.

Scotland Yard said some fifteen people were arrested outside Buckingham palace, with three people having been charged for public order offences and assault on police.

British Green party MP Caroline Lucas and comedian Russell Brand were among activists marching on Downing Street, some of whom were wearing Guy Fawkes masks.

Self-employed computer programmer Sean Roesner said he joined the event as he was detained last year under the computer Misuse Act.

"We are here to stand up for what we believe in, to make the world a better place," he added.

Several similar events were also carried out in the United States, Japan, New Zealand and Australia.

In November last year, hundreds of masked activists took part in a protest dubbed "Operation Vendetta" to voice their anger against the British government's handling of the budget and its cuts to public services.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/333430.html

[Bev]

Russell Brand’s views on UK drugs policy are to become a set A-level text as part of a radical overhaul of the English Language and literature paper.

The TV comedy performer is one of a number of contemporary names whose works have been added to the set texts to be studied by pupils by the Oxford, Cambridge and Royal Society of Art (OCR) exam board.

Others include the book of the Oscar-winning film, Twelve Years A Slave, a Newsnight interview conducted by Jeremy Paxman with rapper Dizzee Rascal on the night Barack Obama won the US presidency in 2008 and the book I Am A Secret Footballer - written anonymously and lifting the lid on the players of beautiful game featuring tales of, amongst other things, adulterous sex acts in hotel pools and drinking binges in Las Vegas.

The changes are as a result of Michael Gove’s A-level reforms. The Education Secretary has said he wants to see more evidence of pupils’ thinking skills and creative ability.

OCR, which is introducing the new syllabus in partnership with education charity the English and Media Centre, says the changes will give pupils a better opportunity to analyse a range of texts - whether spoken or written, literary and non-literary.

They will be studied in tandem with more traditional A-level set pieces, such as Shakespeare’s plays and the works of Charlotte Bronte.

Russell Brand gave evidence to the House of Commons' select committee on home affairs, where he argued that prohibition had completely failed to curb drug addiction. He is a supporter of a petition which has been signed by more than 100,000 people urging a review of drugs policies.

Dizzee Rascal caused a stir by saying of Obama’s victory: “I don’t think he could have done it without hip-hop.”

Students will be asked to comment on his mode of delivery during the interview and the audience he was aiming at.

OCR and the English Media Centre say of their new syllabus: “It ranges from classics such as the poems of Emily Dickinson and William Blake to memoirs like Twelve Years A Slave and contemporary works including the poetry of Jacob Sam-La Rose, Jez Butterworth’s stage play Jerusalem, fiction by Jhumpa Lahiri and Russell Brand’s evidence on drugs policy presented to the House of Commons.”

Up until now, the English Language and Literature paper has taken second place to English Literature - in the case of OCR it had 16,000 students taking it at A-level compared with 48,000 for English Literature. However, OCR hopes its revamped proposals will turn it into a new “gold standard” qualification.

George Norton, an English teacher at Paston Sixth Form College in Norfolk, said of the new paper: “It will be hard to resist a course that allows me to teach William Blake, the writing of The Secret Footballer and the script of Dizzee Rascal’s Newsnight interview.”

A spokesman for the Department for Education said any A-level proposal would have to go through a rigorous assessment and that it awaited Ofqual’s decision with “interest”.

The new exam specification will be submitted to exams regulator Ofqual for accreditation next month.

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[Bev]

Russell Brand has accused right-wing Fox News anchor Sean Hannity of behaving “like a terrorist” after he shouted down a Palestinian-American guest in a debate over Israel-Gaza.


Hannity, who is famously right-wing and pro-Israel, asked Yousef Munayyer if he was "thick in the head" as he attempted in vain to get him to agree that Hamas were a terrorist organisation.

"One of the definitions of 'terrorist' is using intimidation to reach your goals," Brand said on his satirical YouTube digest Trews (scroll down to watch the video). "Who in that situation was behaving like a terrorist, using bullying, intimidation? Sean Hannerty. That is where the terrorism is coming from."

He added: "There’s no objective terrorism, there’s just different perspectives of violence. No-one should be using violence, but if you’re going to judge violence pejoratively and negatively, and God knows we all should, then the people that are doing the most and the most effective violence surely are committing the greater crime?"



"Sean's not a solution-based guy," Brand commented elsewhere during his episode. "Sean's not thinking 'we want peace, what we should we do to get peace?' He's thinking 'We want conflict. What can I say to exacerbate conflict?'"

Brand’s critique of Hannity’s segment, named "Sympathy For The Terrorists", wasn’t always so eloquent, however.

He also quipped: "I don't mean to be petty or trivial but Hannity looks like the Ken doll from Toy Story 3."



Of course, this isn't the first time Brand has labelled Fox News "terrorists". In fact, he called the station a "fanatical terrorist propagandist organisation" in a charged rant on Iraq at the end of June.

The three-week Israeli military offensive in Gaza has so far claimed over 1,100 lives, many of which have been civilian. Israel has lost 43, three of which were civilians.

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[Keith Moore]

It's because of the hysterical Brand I wear Thor Steinar clothing and smell of Hugo Boss. ;-)

[Bev]

Hostilities between Fox News and Russell Brand over Gaza reached unbelievable new levels Thursday after Sean Hannity hit back at the comedian in a bile-filled rant that concluded Israel has "shown too much restraint," in a conflict that has so far claimed the lives of more than 1,100 Palestinians, mainly children.

Brand faced the wrath of the news anchor after making the observation that Hannity looks a Ken doll in a media-crushing video take-down on the presenter's interview technique that quickly went viral.

The comedian took to Twitter this morning to bait the right-wing anchor, thanking him and his Fox news "comrades" for providing his YouTube channel with so many clicks and referring to Hannity as his "boyfriend."

Hannity, never one to let an opponent have the last word, hit back in a video entitled "Hollywood's troubling take on Hamas."

For British readers unfamiliar with 'ranty Hannity' - the Fox presenter has struck an aggressively pro-Israeli line over its three-week offensive in Gaza.

In the video responding to Brand's attack, Hannity states: "Yesterday, Russell Brand, a D-list actor, better known for his failed marriage to Katy Perry recorded himself going on a 12-and-a-half minute tirade against... little old me."

Pausing to look at the camera, Hannity continues by playing Russell's clip before saying he is going to "educate" him.

Hannity then reads out the Hamas Charter, saying it out loud to "help" the comedian, and arguing Hamas will go to any means to destroy Israel - even if it results in the death of hundreds of Palestinians.

"Possibly Russell can't get it through his thick head or even fathom that this is the reality."

Hannity then turns to his three panellists, the first of whom deconstructs Brand's argument by calling him "skanky."



"He looks like he cooks meth and sleeps in his car, I wouldn't be calling anyone names," Bernard McGuirk, a Fox personality, said.

"You can't understand him, at least you can understand Ricky Gervais - it's no wonder he's not working," McGuirk added.

Panellist number two, Geraldo Rivera, a senior correspondent for Fox News, joins in by calling Brand "a doofus."

But although Rivera calls Brand's attack on Hannity "unwarranted," he acknowledges that there "are two sides to this story that are not necessarily being told."

In a surprising turn, Rivera then takes a fierce stand against Hannity's pro-Israel stance, highlighting the loss of lives, predominately those of children, suffered in Gaza.

"This is undermining Israel, this is the worst thing for Israel's stature and standing in the world - it's fuelling anti-Semitism and it's going to accomplish very, very little, but prolong this crisis."

"We can no longer ignore what is happening," he says, as Hannity can be heard muttering "Oh my Lord."

Dagen McDowell, of Fox Business Network, then wades in, saying celebrities should aim their complaints at Hamas, not Israel.

But the debate results in all three panellists shouting over each other before Rivera says amid the chaos "we need a permanent peace solution."

But Hannity doesn't want peace, shouting: "How do you make peace with a group that wants to obliterate you?!"

Rivera points out that throughout history enemies have made peace with each other in a bid to end bloodshed.

Hannity, undeterred, raises his hands into the air and says "if you don't have the moral clarity to see that Israel has the right to defend themselves, then this world is screwed up."

An emotional Rivera points to a Jewish star tattooed on his hand and says he would die for Israel, but sadly notes the country "is wrong-headed about this, they've gone too far."


"You're wrong," Hannity abruptly concludes. "They've shown too much restrain," he adds.

Hannity recently targeted his ire at Palestinian-American guest Yousef Munayyer in a segment branded "Sympathy For The Terrorists".

The host repeatedly shouted loudly, demanding to know: "Is Hamas a terrorist organisation? What part of this can't you get through your thick head?"

Brand reacted to the clip in his latest video: "I don't mean to be petty or trivial but Hannity looks like the Ken doll from Toy Story 3."

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[NewsFeed]

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