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Even in the entertainment industry, "comedian" Russell Brand is known for his outspoken socialist beliefs.  Which is why it was so entertaining to see Brand confronted at his latest liberal cause by a gutsy reporter willing to challenge Brand on the hypocrisy of his beliefs by asking him a simple question.

According to the Huffington Post UK:

Activist Russell Brand clashed with a Channel 4 News interviewer on Monday when the journalist asked him about the price of his own house.

The comedian had earlier joined hundreds of residents from an east London estate to march on Downing Street protesting against the threat of eviction.

Tenants in the New Era estate in Hoxton, which was originally built as affordable housing for workers, say they could face homelessness after US investment firm Westbrook Partners bought it out.


http://www.mrctv.org/blog/liberal-blowhard-russell-brand-throws-hissy-fit-after-being-confronted-price-his-home-0




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I love how the rich man has been saved from the claws of the evil press by the poor woman...  ;D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauche_caviar

Im not sure Russell Brand fully understand what the exact problems/solutions are between the gap of rich and the poor.   Are any of us experts?

He dealt with the situation poorly this time for sure.

I agree with him on some things, he has tweeted before something like.... when you are poor you cant talk about inequality because you appear jealous, when you are rich and talk about inequality you are a hypocrite. At what point can any of us talk about inequality?    - great point no?

Headline: Liberal Blowhard Russell Brand Throws A Hissy Fit After Being Confronted About The Price Of His Home

Newsworthy Factor: 0
Journalistic Integrity: 0
Likelihood conservatives repost: 100

Ooooh, this "article" even comes with a solicitation to donate, so they can subject an ever-increasing audience to their very worth-reading journalism!

How long until The Blaze picks up this hot story?   ;)

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Conservative blogspam aside, I actually did learn something from your post. I was previously unfamiliar with the term gauche caviar, and now I'm a little bit smarter!

https://i.imgur.com/0UZvDrk.png

This is a good point. But the difference I think is that Brand isn't merely talking about inequality; he's indicting the current system. If he believes the system is not just and unfairly harms the poor, then the perception of him living lavishly suggests that while he's willing to talk about the inherent unfairness, he's not willing to give up the rewards the system has unfairly bestowed upon him. That undermines his critique of the system in my opinion. I'm not unsympathetic to the idea that there is inherent inequality in the way the US capitalist system is set up (crony capitalism), but that's not the same argument Brand is making. Or if it is, he's doing it in such a partisan and confrontational manner that I dismiss it entirely as typical class warfare rather than well-reasoned critique.

But articles like the one posted aren't for intelligent consideration or designed to spark a constructive dialogue on the topic. If the headline doesn't give it away, just read the comment section on it and you see the only reason it was posted was to provide a place for like-minded conservatives to have a place to circlejerk all over some "libtard" so the website owner can collect his advertising money. What a beautiful system!

he has tweeted what i said again i just saw, also left his take on the moment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMjBqrWQ_5g&feature=youtu.be

just thinking about your post jaysabi

As long as you reply to all my posts I am happy  ;). I will make sure to serve you a blaze mike browning with extra click baits on top, compliment of the chief, next time... BUT...

... That is why I never block anyone and make sure to be polite with everyone here because you never know when and from whom you learn something new. Of course I have a political bias but I post a lot of links from sources I despise more often than you would believe. Check my posts. I only get people from reacting to links with a conservative bias, never from links with a leftist bias. Funny how that work. Google and adsense and what not make sure those people make money, does not matter whom.


I don't make money posting here. Not yet anyway. I may make money in the future.
But now not even a link for some bitcoin gambling sites or a link to promote some exchange website as a signature with cute stars around it to make it look like a two-bit Vegas casino begging for sluts playing their slots...

He has given up some of the rewards the system has unfairly bestowed upon perhaps? i guess we cant be sure maybe his Hollywood career was dead anyway, wont the way he acts now burn bridges in some areas of his acting/media career?  I guess he is profiting in other ways with books sales now. Also he has given some time/put in some work to whatever campaign this was.  

I agree its very basic critique of the system but he has opened eyes of some, perhaps he plays a vital role?  - for me personally i only now occasionally see what he has to say on subjects.

Promoting something like bitcoin seems way better for political change but the mainstream dont get it or use it so in the current format the system doesnt change.


haha yeah totally nothing ground breaking in this story/video etc for sure

 :)  We have very different world views, but you're a respectful poster and I enjoy our back and forth because of it. Plus, I don't know where the really good conservative troll bait is on the internet, and you post it here so I don't have to go looking for it.  ;)

russel brand happens to be a person who is highly paid, he isn't exploiting anyone or making them homeless

Well, most of the time:


 :o  Hey, gots to get paid like the authors of those articles you're always posting!  ;)

Russel Brand has a good spirit but what he really wants is fight statism but he doesn't know it.

With me you get both great conservative oriented links from amazing websites and... the links from the liberal viewpoint for entertainment :)

Then again we are both on bitcointalk. So as long as you are not working hard for the people snowden told us about you have seen the light.. Well... Maybe part of it anyway... ;)

haha hes on the front page on UK biggest and shittest newspaper today

http://usvsth3m.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/sun.jpg

I thought he handled it pretty well and it was hardly a 'hissy fit' but he's exactly right with the quote above as you can't win whether you're rich or poor and you will be attacked regardless. I think he mentioned in another video that it was less than ten years ago that he was destitute and collecting dole (state unemployment benefits), but I find it kind of bizarre that people expect 'socialists' to be penniless all their life and live in squats yet the moment they turn their life around and aquire some wealth and move out of squalor and poverty they're suddenly a hypocrite when that's not the case. Brand quite clearly doesn't have all the answers and maybe he is a hypocrite in some regards but I've never met a human being who wasn't in exactly the same position poor or rich.

Ok he could have handled it better hows that? i guess it was ok, it showed he has a heart i think.  A short answer like what saddampbuh posted would have been alright.

Brand is making an impact politically... right or wrongly, misdirected, whatever, he is trending pretty fast for "boring political stuff".

Lets look at his youtube subscriber stats vs someone like infowars or the young turks - a decent comparison and he is growing much faster vs others, lets also bare in mind he covers much UK stuff and we are smaller vs USA.

Infowars: (been around for years)

919,403 subscribers
 
The Young Turks: also been around for many years:

1,838,586 subscribers

Russell brand:

792,674 subscribers already, he started this trews thing 9 months ago, had like 100k subs on his channel iirc, in 6 months he would probably be #1 "political show" on youtube at this pace.

EXACTLY! Everybody needs to eat. Thanks to my posts the possibility of you eating more often expands... :) I do like your signature. It defines what a free market with free thinkers should be.

Isn't what appears on the front page makes it UK's biggest and shittest newspaper today? In that case he is a perfect fit, right at home  :D

Interesting.... He does not like to pay taxes? How novel for a rich dude! Too bad I can't go to page 5...

I can honestly say that there is nothing that makes me question human nature quite like the circulation figures of The Sun.

Well done Rupert Murdoch - you have succesfully undermined a nation in nurturing its citizens deepest and most closely guarded bigotries and vanities.

In the light of the Milly Dowler phone hacking scandal (http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/jul/04/milly-dowler-voicemail-hacked-news-of-world) you will forgive me if I don't take The Sun's character assasination of Russell Brand as anything but the highest of praises to Russell the human being and man.

 He must be doing something right .


  Nothing to see here - move on gentlemen, move on.

Brand had a run-in with Fox News as well (another piece of the Murdoch empire), so it's not surprising to see The Sun target him.

Rich people and their pissing matches, amiright?

Its good news for brand really, the argument by the sun is terrible, brand gets more hits off the back of it.  They are either stupid or want to send people his way.

I don't think The Sun puts that much thought into it honestly. It's kind of a case where they have to manufacture news to sell their rag of a paper, and what passes for news better these days than a classic case of class warfare hypocrisy?  EXPOSED!

Brand should let poor people visit his home, making his point even more valid. He will get exponentially more hits and make more money on the back of the naive. Win-Win for him  ;)

Murdoch would gladly destroy the likes of Russell Brand at the drop of a hat.

  He would attempt to do this by, what is colloquially known in the trade as, "monstering" him.
   [I thought the Leveson Enquiry was supposed to address these issues - but as it turns out, Leveson was merely granting us the illusion of democratic accountability (whilst in practice being wholly ineffectual)]

Nick Davies explains the process in his book "The Hack Attack" :-

    "And when Murdoch’s men bully, their victims really feel it. All these members of the power elite have seen what Murdoch’s news outlets can do, using their stories in the same way muggers in back alleys use their boots, to kick a victim to pulp. “Monstering”, they call it – a savage and prolonged public attack on a target’s life, often aimed at the most private and sensitive part of their existence, their sexual behaviour, inflicting maximum pain and maximum humiliation.

A monstering from Murdoch’s droogs is a terrible experience. If the damage they did were physical – visible – the courts could jail them for years. As it is, they inflict grievous emotional harm, the kind of injury from which some victims simply never recover. Indeed, there are some who have been left suicidal by the experience.

Once it starts, the monstering cannot be stopped by the victim.....

.....Eventually, the monstering stops, usually because some new target has arrived; or because the target has been destroyed. Sometimes, even destruction is not enough. In his diary, Alastair Campbell recalls the ferocious monstering that was given to the then transport secretary, Stephen Byers, in the spring of 2002, which continued even after he had resigned: “It’s like they get a corpse but then are disappointed there is nothing left to try and kill, so they kill the dead body too.”

The fear of this monstering generates power far beyond the relatively small number of victims who are attacked. All those in the power elite are prone to fear Murdoch, because none can be sure that they will not be next to be kicked by the tabloid boot."


       Don't buy into Murdochs monstering - boycott his media outlets by your purchasing power.

Otherwise, it could be you next.

Oh, if only I had 1% of the life necessary to be legitimate Murdoch take-down target...

LOL - yes, me as well.

Even so, how about -

"Shameless Bitcoin Jay scams hooker with phoney lefty lucre"



TBH, we are all fucked when a good man/woman is undermined/destroyed/exploited for the sake of Murdochs sales revenue - wether we as individuals take the onslaught doesn't really matter.

Hes an old idiot who probably cant please a woman sexually anymore, being him or one of these other rich old guys is probably fun for a little while only.  Aim for a little cash and chill.

One wishing to be as rich as 1% of murdoch's $$.. The other one wishing to replace him in his bed.. No wonder russel brand has such royal fans, gauche caviar for sure....


Looks like this thread is about Other People's Property now  ;D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJgFU3U4X_Y

Some people need to be flayed alive to send a messag.

who said that?

Russell brand is a good rich guy and can sexually please any woman, because he is not murdoch. That is what I get from his cheerleaders here so far.

At least we can all agree he has no sense of humor and never had...  8)

lol ok great... see ya

You're not making much sense here. : / So what if he's rich and has a great home? If he gave all that up, would that change a lot for other people? Maybe it would help a couple of people, but not much more. For real change to happen, more people need to be active and informed about problems in society, and I think that is what he is doing right.

London used to be a big and a dirty place because of heavy industries. Rich people would build amazing castles and manors away from London. The working class would try to live as close as possible to their factory.

Fast forward 90 Years. England does not produce anything anymore. Now it is fashionable to be rich and live in London. Homes owned by the descendants of that old working class are pushed to sell and move out (the value is up, taxes, cost of living in the capital, etc). That put more and more pressure to the (above poor not quite) middle class.

Before, rich people chose to stay away from the capital as much as possible, poor people had no choice. Now rich people like russell brand can have a home in the capital AND have a home away from the capital. Poor people in 2014 still have no choice. Because he is famous other rich cheerleaders may even elect to buy near where he lives, pressuring poor people around him even more.

I have NOTHING against russell brand's money, to the contrary. He is supposed to be talented and was compensated for it, a lot of people love him for obscure reasons. He did not steal his money.

But russell brand is the very definition of what gauche caviar looks like...  :)

Hold the front page - RB has given away his house and wealth  :o

  "Backward Brand blows fortune on crack and smack", reveals old friend.

So your critique of him is only that he has things in common with other rich people, while doing work to help others and expose problems in society. But you didn't answer my point, what difference would it make if he only had a house in the suburbs or whatever? Would he be able to help more people that way, if that is what he wants to do?

I said him and other rich people (who may not care about poor people or care much more than him) make property values go up, putting more and more pressure to sub-middle class people living in London.

Russell brand is a burden for the poor as far as cost of living in London.

He would have helped much more had he decided to live on a 30 million yacht yearlong, away from old dead working class places that used to produce stuff, now replaced by hip internet startups and venture capitalists (I have nothing against them either).

I tried to make my thought as russell-cheerleader-brain compatible as possible. If you still do not get it, I would understand how russell brand got so rich  :)

Art and commerce battle for the soul of London's Soho after the closure of famed burlesque and sex clubs and skyrocketing property prices




Madame Jojo's is dead, but the risque London institution is not passing quietly.

The closure of the venerable burlesque nightclub has ignited a battle between developers, residents and entertainers for the soul of Soho, the city's late-night hub, red-light district and creative heart.

As soaring London property prices fill once-scruffy areas with glass condos and office buildings, protesters including actor Benedict Cumberbatch are rallying to try to stop Soho going the way of New York's Times Square, a tourist playground with the rough edges removed.

'I think it's a robbery. It's a robbery from the people who visit Madame Jojo's, and it's a robbery of the people who perform there,' said musician Tim Arnold, standing in front of the club's locked doors and unlit sign.

A singer-songwriter who performs as the 'Soho Hobo,' Arnold has enlisted friends and fellow performers including Cumberbatch, actor-comedian Stephen Fry and Roger Daltrey, lead singer of The Who, to try to reverse the closure.
Arnold has Soho blood in his veins. His grandmother was a performer in circuses and variety shows. His mother was a 'Windmill Girl' at Soho's first nude revue club, the Windmill Theatre.

Arnold has seen many music venues close over the years, but losing Madame Jojo's was the last straw. Everyone from Adam Ant to Adele has performed at a venue famed for its art deco interior and eclectic lineup of DJs, musicians, comedians, burlesque shows, drag acts and cabaret nights.

'All areas of culture cohabit in Soho,' said Arnold, who sees the club as a symbol of the area's diversity. 'That's the success of it. It's a microcosm of what really we'd all like the world to be.'

The club was closed in late November after an altercation in which bouncers attacked an unruly customer with a baseball bat. But local officials had already approved the site for demolition and redevelopment as a 'high quality' complex of retail outlets, restaurants, offices and apartments.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2866581/Art-commerce-battle-soul-Londons-Soho.html


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This is very good news for russell brand and his real estate capital, and other I am fighting for the poor on TV and Youtube-socialists like him...

I think Russell Brand comes off as a little off putting and I never really liked him but in this instance I'd have to give it to him. He kinda has a point in the video. He doesn't have to come out there and speak on behalf of those that were struggling to get housing. It was his choice to speak. He could've just done what every other celebrity does on their off-day--smoke cigars, do blow, whatever they do. I think the reporter was just trying to get a rise outta him but he handled it pretty well imo.

Brand only helps his pocket and the value of his real estate first. To be on TV and having a microphone on his face is what he does for a living, like a porn star buying new knee pads every week, with a microphone on her face. What do you think he does when he is off air or off youtube then? Not smoking cigar? Not do blow?

Buying off lands and properties with his cash then put those poor people in is what he DOES NOT do  ;)

Hijacking, as suggested so as not to further derail someone else's topic. Quote is from other topic.

So is "Wilikon" a pseudo-character? Based on your political beliefs, but exaggerated? Or something like that?

I love the term 'Caviar Left' and have added it to the taxonomy of identifiers for our hypocritical enemies in the Free Shit Army:

Latte Liberals (SJW worth <$100K)
Martini Marxists (SJW worth <$250K)
Chardonnay Socialists (SJW worth <$5MM)
Champagne Stalinists (SJW worth <$10MM)
Gauche Caviar (SJW worth <$500MM, EG Russell "don't ask me about my rent" Brand)
Limousine Liberals (SJW worth ~$1000MM, EG Dianne Feinstein)
Progressive Plutocrats (SJW worth >>$1000MM, EG Nancy Pelosi & Bloomberg)

You are welcome. Make sure to share the "caviar left" as much as the "gauche caviar" term.

Gauche Caviar on a T Shirt will force people to ask you the meaning of it, then you educate with facts... ;)