Serious allegations of rape, sexual assault and misconduct have been levelled by the Legacy Media (LM) against the comedian, actor, author and political commentator Russell Brand.
Hope is hope. There is no such thing as false hope. Ignorant senior medics say the same as you just did if a patient suggests using natural treatments for their condition...or healing.
Isn't it infuriating that the Legacy Media (nice term!) continues to point the finger even after we know about Prince Andrew, Leslie Wexner, and Hunter Biden?
These aren't cases of the pot calling the kettle black.
It's more like slugs calling humans slimy because sometimes we get runny noses.
Brand used to really annoy me, however, the past few years has shown another, more positive and likeable side of him. This massive trial-by-media and cancellation campaign here is pretty hypocritical. Funny how Epstein's list, Hunter's laptop from hell, Joe's child sniffing etc. is being conveniently ignored. Wish there was the same media coverage/outrage for Sound of Freedom and the child trafficking. As they say, one law for us, one law for them. And while I'm here, "free Julian Assange".
Sorry? You wasted your typing skills on THIS? Are you having a laff?
Russell Brand is a tool of the Black Nobility and has been ever since he first appeared in our faces. It is so abundantly obvious I am stunned that nobody has pointed it out to you.
Brand is frequently used to 'lead the young' - remember him discouraging youngsters from voting? Remember him making it seem cool to be sexually motivated and high on drugs?
Now Dispatches has gathered together a few weak anecdotes to create a tell-lie-vision sensation and bring in the viewers. Oh yawn. Haven't we seen this thousands of times?
Russell Brand is as phoney as a nine bob note. This is all a distraction to prevent us from focusing and discussing the totalitarian coup that WEF and UN are cementing behind closed doors.
Stupid people will follow this story to the last salacious splutter in the media. Brand will gain a few million more 'followers' and Dispatches staff will get their brown paper bags full of cash for their trouble.
Ouch Frances! Yep I agree it is another distraction from the WEF/WHO/UN agenda that I usually write about. But I also feel there is enough here to at least consider if it is not also an attack on someone who is popularising inconvenient information. Rather like the equally questionable Joe Rogan.
I have been told many times that Brand is a Black Nob stooge but, for the life of me, when you look at his statements I cannot figure out how they serve the Black Nobs interests. He seems to believe the whole Climate Scam thing but, let's be honest, he's not alone there. Nonetheless, there is that I suppose.
I think it more likely that his use to the Black Nobs is that, if they can discredit him---and I fully accept he may have been elevated precisely because they knew they could one day discredit him---they can then discredit everything he has said and everyone who agreed with or more specifically "followed" him.
As for encouraging young people not to vote (which I applaud) but then encouraging them to vote for Corbyn (which I deplore) Brand certainly revealed himself to be flaky. But surely no one is surprised by that?
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I feel very sorry for Russell Brand and his family. He will be a Black Nob plaything until the day he dies, like Tony Blair. Opus Dei will have him christened Catholic and kissing the Pope's ring (in both senses of the word) if that suits their agenda.
They give, yes.... but they take away more.
Keep an eye on the events at the UN in NY this week. That is where the sovereignty is draining down a rat infested sewer atm.
Is Darren Allen a tool of the Black Nobility? If so, damn they're good!
Also, many devout anarchists (such as myself and Paul Cudenec) were able to transition fairly easily from believing in climate change to a more skeptical position without altering much about our analysis or strategy proposals. How, you ask?
Well, because climate scam is one way of framing a very real ecological crisis. The casino capitalism of Wall Street depends on infinite growth, which is impossible on a finite planet. Is the ecological crisis caused by climate change? No, it's caused by industrial capitalism. Is it man-made? You betcha.
As Darren Allen puts it:
"Climate change, or global heating, is almost certainly happening, and it is almost certainly caused by man-made activities, specifically our prolific production of carbon dioxide, although even if neither of these statements is true, it doesn’t matter because our civilisation is still doomed, for the same reason that every civilisation is doomed; we have outrun our resource base. The hyper-complexity of our technological system depends on fossil fuels; gas, coal and, most of all, oil. Everything we use is made from oil, transported with it, our food is effectively grown on a layer of it and our economies are entirely dependent on petrochemical products produced from oil which, very soon, will be too expensive to extract. When this happens — when the energy required to extract coal, oil and gas approaches that which they provide — it will be game over.
The collapse that we’re facing, and the suffering it will entail, will be, first of all, unprecedented. Unbelievable — we’ll all be walking around saying ‘I don’t believe it, I don’t believe it…’ We’re already starting to say this, particularly those of us who live in poorer towns, or who work in A&E, or who have to deal with ‘low-income groups’; but these are early days. The misery and madness facing us will make these days of frustration and fear seem like paradise. Not convinced? Keep watching the news, see if it gets any better.
The collapse we’re facing, that has now begun, is also our fault. Man-made. We have based our societies on intensive agriculture, a practice which demands more energy than it provides (and then provides a surplus which must be managed and defended, which demands more energy). We have created societies based on exploitation, of nature and of human nature, which has compelled us to ‘progress’ to a point, after thousand years of intensive agriculture, and a hundred years of hyper-intensive industrialisation, when there’s nothing left to exploit. Our ability to create more and more complexity from fossil fuels has only served to dig ever more rapidly through the raft we are floating on, while making it ever more flimsy and fragile; not to mention desolate, inhuman and hideously ugly.
So it really doesn’t matter if the earth is warming or cooling, if either is caused by CO2, or volcanos, or solar radiation, nor does it really matter how much or how little global heating, or cooling, will end up contributing to the series of punishing blows that we can expect in the years ahead. Who knows what will be the ‘final’ cause of our collapse. Perhaps a nuclear war? Or a series of violent revolutions? Or mass starvation? Or a mass cull? There might even be a real pandemic? Probably all of the above, but it’s unimportant, just as it’s unimportant what disease finally claims someone dying of old age. Cancer? Pneumonia? Heart attack? Heartbreak? Furniture? Interesting perhaps, but in the end it’s irrelevant. And now they’re dead.
This is the principle reason why I have little to say about climate change; because, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if it’s happening or not. It doesn’t matter if it’s caused by CO2 or not. It doesn’t matter if it is an elite conspiracy or not. Civilisation is inherently self-destructive, and we have almost destroyed ourselves. This is not a doomer prophecy, it is a physical fact of the universe. You cannot exponentially expand complexity on finite, non-renewable sources of energy and you cannot run a hyper-complex society on an exhausted resource-base any more than you can literally split the moon in two."
Last thing I'll say is that I'm firefighting in Canada right now and each year is hotter and dryer. The glaciers are melting, previously unnavigable waterways are opening up for longer and longer each year, and the fires are getting worse year after year.
I for one don't believe in science, and favour shamanic explanations for natural phenomena, but this part of the world is experiencing effects consistent with the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis. But I think that the framing of climate change is suss to say the least - global problems require global solutions, hence we need global governance. I get it. But the "climate change is a scam" line is easy for anti-environmentalists to adopt to allow them to feel better about raping the Earth for the profit of multinational corporations.
Iain, if you happen to have time to be interested in an indigenous perspective on climate change, I recommend Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change, which you can find here: https://www.isuma.tv/inuit-knowledge-and-climate-change. I haven't watched it recently, and maybe I'd feel differently about it now, but this movie will at the very least convince you that the Arctic is warming rapidly.
I haven't gotten into the weeds on the climate issue because, like I said, I don't believe in science. But believing in climate change does not mean that someone is controlled opposition. Talk to any shaman - they'll tell you the ecological crisis is very much real. The climate change narrative is a deceptive framing of a real problem.
We need to destroy it, of course, and I applaud your work on this, Iain. But let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
What is now called erroneously climate change was (previous to 2000) called POLLUTION. Climates change, to bleat on about changing climates and not INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION is inane. Yet, that is the new fashion.
Russel Brand is not an Anarchist by any real definition of the term.
Anarchism is the only ISM that appealed to me in my youth (1970's), however when I met a lot of Anarchists in London/Greenwich I was revolted by their willful ignorance on overt cons (Space Hoax/ Nuclear/ Technological scams etc) , and almost all of them were posh twerps wearing camo/army surplus clothing, lived in grotty squats & had a dog on a piece of string. The poorer ones tended to be glue sniffers or cider heads, smack heads & petty thieves.
I am a genuine Shaman compared to the endless impostors out there (some have never even communed with certain plants & claim you don't need to- because they are devious lying shits) & I can tell you categorically climates ALWAYS change & the present important change is an INTERNAL change to mitigate, External changes are essentially a process beyond our scope, though Industrialization does need to be confronted.
You are correct to point out CAPITALISM is the 'evil' nature in general- rather than devil worship or 'communism'!
btw - the mess we are in now is due to the ancient SHAMEN who lost touch with the 'plantlife'/ direct communion and began ACTING. This pretense instigated the first Priest Kings & the puppetry that transpired.
You're quite the character. Man, I love Substack. It's like the laundromat of the internet. But let's keep on track, shall we? What has Rusell Brand done that is incongruent with his professed beliefs?
Let's keep in mind that there are many flavours of anarchism and there's quite a lot of wiggle room. It wouldn't be able to accomodate anarchists, who are a very contrarian bunch, if that wasn't so. What anarchists have in common is mostly that we don't like being told what to do, thus we subscribe to a philosophy that extends to others what we demand for ourselves. So the easiest way to prove that Brand is n't an anarchist would be to think of an example of time he forced someone to do something against their will.
If Russell Brand did rape someone, that would be certainly be incongruent with anarchist values, as rape is a violent form of forcing one's will upon another person.
I'll also point out that if put anyone under the microscope, you could probably find instances of times their actions are incongruent with their professed beliefs. That's called being human.
If people expect their leaders to be guiltless, they're going to be waiting forever.
Are you really as dim & shallow as your appear here?
What a sanctimonious twat you really are.
''You're quite the character. Man, I love Substack. It's like the blocked bog of the internet.'' poor Iain Davis, he likes your feeble replies while making a point of ignoring mine- what a great way to give himself away as the 'hype clown' this latest apologist piece of his implies.
What silly games is Iain playing with his subscribers here - it seems he's just as shifty & bigoted as the UKC whom he collaborates with, overt controlled opps making opposition boring, redundant and as hypocritical as possible?
tROT ON little muledog the circus has a massive ring!
Russell Brand is the most famous anarchist Deist in the world. He is preaching a message of critical thinking, spiritual enlightenment, political anti-authoritarianism.
Everything good. If you're going to accuse him of being controlled opposition, you've got to back it up. Is it just the fact that he's a Hollywood celebrity? Well, Kropotkin was a Russian prince.
Coming from the punk scene, I saw way too many examples of "Fuck that band, they're not cool, they're pop". But if people are honest, most of us got into bands like Green Day, Blink 182, Goldfinger, etc before we ever found Black Flag, Aus-Rotten and Crass.
Russell Brand is entry-level conspiracy theory, entry-level anarchism, entry-level spirituality. It's accessible, and he's a great spokesperson because he's charming, funny, good-looking, highly successful, relatable, etc. His success benefits us. His viewers are our future readers. And I think he's well aware of his niche.
Writing for one's peers instead of for the masses is a constant temptation for people like us. But if we're talking about the Black Nobility, Project Mockingbird, and how reality is ultimately an illusion, we're limiting our audience to people who are pretty far down the rabbit hole already.
Back it up with what? You said it.... "Russell Brand is the most famous anarchist Deist in the world. He is preaching a message of critical thinking, spiritual enlightenment, political anti-authoritarianism."
THAT is all the evidence you need. People don't get to be world famous UNLESS they are approved. ffs.
So your argument is that because he's famous, he's secretly working for the system?
As far as I know, he was the only A-list celebrity to express his doubts about the 9/11 narrative. I believe this adversely affected his career. How do you explain that?
Seems to me like he passes the test of being a real critical thinker.
I've got a quick checklist that I run through to see if someone is truly an independent thinker. This is a quick and dirty test that weeds out a lot of people.
Did they:
1) Express their doubts about the offical 9/11 story?
2) Were they opposed to the "War on Terror"?
3) Did they espouse non-compliance and critical thinking during the COVID pseudo pandemic?
4) Did they take a nuanced anti-war position early on in the Ukraine War?
There's precious few people who pass this test. We should cherish and respect the people who do. It means they have a twenty-year track record of being on the right side of history.
Although I respect people who have the courage to change their minds, all four of these of this issues were of tremendous historic importance and required a strong moral stance. Intelligent, politically-savvy people should have aced this test, but sadly, few did. Russell Brand did.
Tons of people will hear about Russel Brand, and associate him with rape. Then, in another year or so, they'll bring forward someone else, and people will be more likely to believe it, because it will be the second time they've heard about it.
I think it's all because he has put out videos that question the narrative. That narrative being that "government is always good always..." 😉👉
"Russell Brand is a tool of the Black Nobility". You can say that again, Frances! I mean, the likely Essex lad somehow managed to get himself voted 'Shagger of the Year' no less than three years on the trot.
The award came from the Sun, a UK tabloid famed less for its coverage of current events than for the UK launch of the topless Page Three Girl, guaranteed to make a sex addict out of any red-blooded man.
As it happens, the Sun is run from same gadarene stable as the more "respectable"Times and Sunday Times, owned by media tycoon Rupert Murdoch - alias "The Dirty Digger".
To quote, without prejudice, from Murdoch's Wikileaks entry: "Many of Murdoch's papers and television channels have been accused of biased and misleading coverage to support his business interests. . .and political allies. . . and some have credited his influence with major political developments in the UK, US, and Australia".
I have known a lot of sexy guys, most of whom are dead now. They spawned enough kids to fill Essex schools with mini-me versions of themselves during the wildly wonderful 70s. Despite admitting to fathering 20 or more kids each, not one of them would want to be known as Murdoch's appointed Shagger of the Year!
Russell disgraces Essex men and is an embarrassment to Essex women. He 'sold his soul' to the East India Company for fortune and fame. He went 'up west' and shagged brainless wannabes; he out-gurus the Dalai Lama; he leads the daft to become even dafter and never know it.
Now we see him playing the part of the court jester, keeping all eyes on his soap opera life while Rome builds the final stages of the digital Panopticon via the foolish nodding donkeys at the UN this week.
"Just sign here, gentlemen!" "Here, do have another canape!" while the world sleeps on, grateful that they have not been consumed by the ritual burnt sacrifices to celebrate the ancient Roman festival of Vulcanalia.
You are commenting on a conversation which was some time ago. I stopped communicating with the owner of this account because it was more than apparent that we would never agree. Russell Brand has, since then, proven to be a terrible Pied Piper character and I hope that more people recognise his modus operandi for the darkness of it now.
I like learning! Too bad teaching is a bad thing now!
You know the word "guru" means teacher, right?
Aristocrats like Bertrand Russell turned the English people against spirituality to the point where you now think being a spiritual teacher is inherently sleazy. Sad.
You unadulterated mug. Russell Brand is no spiritual teacher. What utter nonsense. Look mate, RB comes from the same part of UK as me. He is clearly a conman. Essex blokes are like that but they are usually a lot less transparent than RB.
You don't live in the UK and don't know his history. In a way, I wish I could say the same.
So he's clearly a conman because he's from Essex? One of Nevermore's co-founders is from Essex. You calling him a conman?
This is what you sound like to me:
Englishman 1: Where ya from?
Englishman 2: The other side of the street.
Englishman 1: Fuck the other side of the street! There's only one side of the street!
Half of my ancestors were of English descent, by the way, and my maternal grandfather was an amateur historian. You don't know what I know. You seem to be leaning a little too far into the "you're from the other side of the street!" schtick. I'm not claiming to be a history buff or anything, but the traditional way to prove the superiority of your historical knowledge is by sharing historical facts, not accusing other people of knowing less than you. Just saying.
It really is rude to tell someone that the energy they spent writing an article was a total waste of time. To critique it is one thing, but just to call it trash? That's rude by any standards. Aren't English people supposed to have manners?
Yet another clear and obvious stich up. It's the Assange/Corbyn (and numerous others) smear campaign all over again.
The corporate-capitalist empire and their disinformation media do this same smear campaign every single time a dissenter becomes influential and tells the people what is going on. It's like a broken record by now. How can anyone still be that gullible as to believe that these billionaire-owned propagandists are here to promote anything other than the ruling class' interests?
Russell is innocent until proven guilty. I personally feel he is not guilty of any of the charges. Most people do not trust the western media anymore. I think this is a hit job by the media and I saw his speech on the Bill Maher show and he is absolutely on the right track about all the corruption, lies and just pure evil of all the powerful people behind all this chaos in the world and particularly in the West.
I am a very paranoid person and I'm highly suspicious of all public figures. I've called out numerous people for being controlled opposition, and when I did so I made my case
Calling someone controlled opposition and leaving it at that is bad sportsmanship if you ask me.
normally when the media report on crime/abuse, it does so based off of an ongoing ploice investigation or by recieving tips from the public. I would say this is how it's done 99% of the time.
in this case however, it reverses the process. they started with the hypothesis that Brand is a predator, then launched an investigation to find any victims willing to come forward.
this doesn't imply guilt or innocence, but considering who and what Brand represents to the powerful, the whole thing stinks to high heaven...
Yes, the hypocrisy is obvious but so is the question as to why now, when none of this stuff is new. If Brand is controlled opposition, this story is yet another diversion just in case the media felt like asking the big questions eg about the 4th Industrial Revolution and The Great Reset. Plus, it makes it look like if you support somebody in the alternative media with a big following, you will be let down by them or their handlers. They are not to be trusted or named in polite company.
Coincidentally, I was just reading about Russell Brand yesterday when I was told he was the leading story on "the news"! I was reading about him as I'd had a gut feeling he wasn't legit. I knew he was a womaniser years ago but a fighter of The Establishment, that didn't seem likely. I do wonder if there is actually any real resistance to The Establishment.
Yes, I did. I doubt you did judging from your uncouth comments. Just a little work would show you that quite a few question whether a member of the establishment switching over to the truth movement and being allowed to attract many followers, is genuine. You would be naive not to wonder.
The article, that you didn't understand, mentions some common names and pretends that means he's related to the most prominent examples of the name. Have you really never met a Campbell, or a Nichol, or a Bennett? NPCs come in different flavours midwit. Post proof from the article that I'm wrong.
Ian. What a piece of sanity in a disgusting ogre fest of hypocrisy. If this really was, as the LM claim, all about the ladies and their welfare (which, in every case like this, it undoubtedly should be) then where is the big joint investigation into Joe Biden - where there are similar claims? Where are their deep dives into the footballers- where the story always comes after police arrests.
I’m not advocating these deep dives would necessarily be a good thing- but it is LM that are setting that standard for itself.
It’s clear the coverage is politically motivated. That doesn’t mean the claims are untrue.
We all make mistakes. He wrestled with his demons and survived. Unlike 99 percent of people who don’t want to admit that they themselves have a shadow which hides within and is their controlled opposition. You can see the shadows twitching within the MSM presenters and guests when discussing Brand.
Ahem to that. People are such fucking hypocrites. You telling me that if you were in Rusell Brand's shoes you wouldn't have slept around? Give me a break.
Excellent Iain, thank you for your wonderful research and reporting as always. It seems that 'innocent before proven guilty', a fundamental tenet of common law, has been hijacked by the globalist media as described here: https://ministryofinjustice.co.uk/
Personally, I am suspicious of him but I have no solid ground for my suspicions apart from that time when he encouraged his followers not to vote and then at the last moment he changed his tune and said that he would vote for the Labour Party.
Thomas Sheridan called him out and for that, he got a lot of abuse from RB fanatics.
Red Ice Radio, (before it turned into a neo nazi platform) stepped up and defended Thomas Sheridan.
Man, if that's the worst thing he's done after years in the public eye... that says something.
Of course, I'm opposed to legitimizing the sham of electoral "democracy" by voting, but c'mon, you'd have to be the snootiest anarchist in the world to seriously hold something so inconsequential against someone who has done so much to spread knowledge.
They accused Assange of rape ...
They accused Tate of rape ...
They accuse Brand of rape ...
Yet THEY hid Epstein's abuse of young girls.
(And they STILL hide his client list.)
not to mention Prince andrew
Don't forget Rod Coronado and Skyler Williams!
Russel is off the reservation so they must destroy him.
This is what liberals do if they can’t kill you in a plane crash, shoot you in the back of the head or induce a heart attack.
Notice how the #Me Too Movement didn't apply to "Creepy Joe" when Tara Reade claimed she was raped.
Btw, last I heard Tara was in Moscow seeking refuge in fear of her physical safety as she was going to testify in a congressional hearing...
After all, what's good for the goose is good for the gander, especially if we are all about "saving democracy."
There's no democracy left to 'save'.
Another reason why folks shouldn't waste time voting...
You don’t mean that. If you did you wouldn’t subscribe to Substack articles. There’s always hope & we must fight or we will have no chance.
There's always hope, but "false" hope is foolish.
Hope is hope. There is no such thing as false hope. Ignorant senior medics say the same as you just did if a patient suggests using natural treatments for their condition...or healing.
Believing in bulshitter politicians is false hope.
wasn’t metoo funded by the same anita dunn of SDK who was joes campaign manager?
some slimy stuff there i forget the details of
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-metoo-workplace-harassment-20190314-story.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9801185/Israeli-firm-Pegasus-spyware-paid-Biden-adviser-Anita-Dunn-PR-advice.html
Isn't it infuriating that the Legacy Media (nice term!) continues to point the finger even after we know about Prince Andrew, Leslie Wexner, and Hunter Biden?
These aren't cases of the pot calling the kettle black.
It's more like slugs calling humans slimy because sometimes we get runny noses.
Slugs, a very fitting term.😁
Brand used to really annoy me, however, the past few years has shown another, more positive and likeable side of him. This massive trial-by-media and cancellation campaign here is pretty hypocritical. Funny how Epstein's list, Hunter's laptop from hell, Joe's child sniffing etc. is being conveniently ignored. Wish there was the same media coverage/outrage for Sound of Freedom and the child trafficking. As they say, one law for us, one law for them. And while I'm here, "free Julian Assange".
Sorry? You wasted your typing skills on THIS? Are you having a laff?
Russell Brand is a tool of the Black Nobility and has been ever since he first appeared in our faces. It is so abundantly obvious I am stunned that nobody has pointed it out to you.
Brand is frequently used to 'lead the young' - remember him discouraging youngsters from voting? Remember him making it seem cool to be sexually motivated and high on drugs?
Now Dispatches has gathered together a few weak anecdotes to create a tell-lie-vision sensation and bring in the viewers. Oh yawn. Haven't we seen this thousands of times?
Russell Brand is as phoney as a nine bob note. This is all a distraction to prevent us from focusing and discussing the totalitarian coup that WEF and UN are cementing behind closed doors.
Stupid people will follow this story to the last salacious splutter in the media. Brand will gain a few million more 'followers' and Dispatches staff will get their brown paper bags full of cash for their trouble.
Ouch Frances! Yep I agree it is another distraction from the WEF/WHO/UN agenda that I usually write about. But I also feel there is enough here to at least consider if it is not also an attack on someone who is popularising inconvenient information. Rather like the equally questionable Joe Rogan.
I have been told many times that Brand is a Black Nob stooge but, for the life of me, when you look at his statements I cannot figure out how they serve the Black Nobs interests. He seems to believe the whole Climate Scam thing but, let's be honest, he's not alone there. Nonetheless, there is that I suppose.
I think it more likely that his use to the Black Nobs is that, if they can discredit him---and I fully accept he may have been elevated precisely because they knew they could one day discredit him---they can then discredit everything he has said and everyone who agreed with or more specifically "followed" him.
As for encouraging young people not to vote (which I applaud) but then encouraging them to vote for Corbyn (which I deplore) Brand certainly revealed himself to be flaky. But surely no one is surprised by that?
I feel very sorry for Russell Brand and his family. He will be a Black Nob plaything until the day he dies, like Tony Blair. Opus Dei will have him christened Catholic and kissing the Pope's ring (in both senses of the word) if that suits their agenda.
They give, yes.... but they take away more.
Keep an eye on the events at the UN in NY this week. That is where the sovereignty is draining down a rat infested sewer atm.
Darren Allen believes in the Anthropogenic Global Warming hypothesis, and that AGW is most likely caused by greenhouse gas emissions.
See: https://expressiveegg.org/2022/09/04/it-really-doesnt-matter/
Is Darren Allen a tool of the Black Nobility? If so, damn they're good!
Also, many devout anarchists (such as myself and Paul Cudenec) were able to transition fairly easily from believing in climate change to a more skeptical position without altering much about our analysis or strategy proposals. How, you ask?
Well, because climate scam is one way of framing a very real ecological crisis. The casino capitalism of Wall Street depends on infinite growth, which is impossible on a finite planet. Is the ecological crisis caused by climate change? No, it's caused by industrial capitalism. Is it man-made? You betcha.
As Darren Allen puts it:
"Climate change, or global heating, is almost certainly happening, and it is almost certainly caused by man-made activities, specifically our prolific production of carbon dioxide, although even if neither of these statements is true, it doesn’t matter because our civilisation is still doomed, for the same reason that every civilisation is doomed; we have outrun our resource base. The hyper-complexity of our technological system depends on fossil fuels; gas, coal and, most of all, oil. Everything we use is made from oil, transported with it, our food is effectively grown on a layer of it and our economies are entirely dependent on petrochemical products produced from oil which, very soon, will be too expensive to extract. When this happens — when the energy required to extract coal, oil and gas approaches that which they provide — it will be game over.
The collapse that we’re facing, and the suffering it will entail, will be, first of all, unprecedented. Unbelievable — we’ll all be walking around saying ‘I don’t believe it, I don’t believe it…’ We’re already starting to say this, particularly those of us who live in poorer towns, or who work in A&E, or who have to deal with ‘low-income groups’; but these are early days. The misery and madness facing us will make these days of frustration and fear seem like paradise. Not convinced? Keep watching the news, see if it gets any better.
The collapse we’re facing, that has now begun, is also our fault. Man-made. We have based our societies on intensive agriculture, a practice which demands more energy than it provides (and then provides a surplus which must be managed and defended, which demands more energy). We have created societies based on exploitation, of nature and of human nature, which has compelled us to ‘progress’ to a point, after thousand years of intensive agriculture, and a hundred years of hyper-intensive industrialisation, when there’s nothing left to exploit. Our ability to create more and more complexity from fossil fuels has only served to dig ever more rapidly through the raft we are floating on, while making it ever more flimsy and fragile; not to mention desolate, inhuman and hideously ugly.
So it really doesn’t matter if the earth is warming or cooling, if either is caused by CO2, or volcanos, or solar radiation, nor does it really matter how much or how little global heating, or cooling, will end up contributing to the series of punishing blows that we can expect in the years ahead. Who knows what will be the ‘final’ cause of our collapse. Perhaps a nuclear war? Or a series of violent revolutions? Or mass starvation? Or a mass cull? There might even be a real pandemic? Probably all of the above, but it’s unimportant, just as it’s unimportant what disease finally claims someone dying of old age. Cancer? Pneumonia? Heart attack? Heartbreak? Furniture? Interesting perhaps, but in the end it’s irrelevant. And now they’re dead.
This is the principle reason why I have little to say about climate change; because, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if it’s happening or not. It doesn’t matter if it’s caused by CO2 or not. It doesn’t matter if it is an elite conspiracy or not. Civilisation is inherently self-destructive, and we have almost destroyed ourselves. This is not a doomer prophecy, it is a physical fact of the universe. You cannot exponentially expand complexity on finite, non-renewable sources of energy and you cannot run a hyper-complex society on an exhausted resource-base any more than you can literally split the moon in two."
Last thing I'll say is that I'm firefighting in Canada right now and each year is hotter and dryer. The glaciers are melting, previously unnavigable waterways are opening up for longer and longer each year, and the fires are getting worse year after year.
I for one don't believe in science, and favour shamanic explanations for natural phenomena, but this part of the world is experiencing effects consistent with the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis. But I think that the framing of climate change is suss to say the least - global problems require global solutions, hence we need global governance. I get it. But the "climate change is a scam" line is easy for anti-environmentalists to adopt to allow them to feel better about raping the Earth for the profit of multinational corporations.
Iain, if you happen to have time to be interested in an indigenous perspective on climate change, I recommend Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change, which you can find here: https://www.isuma.tv/inuit-knowledge-and-climate-change. I haven't watched it recently, and maybe I'd feel differently about it now, but this movie will at the very least convince you that the Arctic is warming rapidly.
I haven't gotten into the weeds on the climate issue because, like I said, I don't believe in science. But believing in climate change does not mean that someone is controlled opposition. Talk to any shaman - they'll tell you the ecological crisis is very much real. The climate change narrative is a deceptive framing of a real problem.
We need to destroy it, of course, and I applaud your work on this, Iain. But let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
What is now called erroneously climate change was (previous to 2000) called POLLUTION. Climates change, to bleat on about changing climates and not INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION is inane. Yet, that is the new fashion.
Russel Brand is not an Anarchist by any real definition of the term.
Anarchism is the only ISM that appealed to me in my youth (1970's), however when I met a lot of Anarchists in London/Greenwich I was revolted by their willful ignorance on overt cons (Space Hoax/ Nuclear/ Technological scams etc) , and almost all of them were posh twerps wearing camo/army surplus clothing, lived in grotty squats & had a dog on a piece of string. The poorer ones tended to be glue sniffers or cider heads, smack heads & petty thieves.
I am a genuine Shaman compared to the endless impostors out there (some have never even communed with certain plants & claim you don't need to- because they are devious lying shits) & I can tell you categorically climates ALWAYS change & the present important change is an INTERNAL change to mitigate, External changes are essentially a process beyond our scope, though Industrialization does need to be confronted.
You are correct to point out CAPITALISM is the 'evil' nature in general- rather than devil worship or 'communism'!
btw - the mess we are in now is due to the ancient SHAMEN who lost touch with the 'plantlife'/ direct communion and began ACTING. This pretense instigated the first Priest Kings & the puppetry that transpired.
You're quite the character. Man, I love Substack. It's like the laundromat of the internet. But let's keep on track, shall we? What has Rusell Brand done that is incongruent with his professed beliefs?
Let's keep in mind that there are many flavours of anarchism and there's quite a lot of wiggle room. It wouldn't be able to accomodate anarchists, who are a very contrarian bunch, if that wasn't so. What anarchists have in common is mostly that we don't like being told what to do, thus we subscribe to a philosophy that extends to others what we demand for ourselves. So the easiest way to prove that Brand is n't an anarchist would be to think of an example of time he forced someone to do something against their will.
If Russell Brand did rape someone, that would be certainly be incongruent with anarchist values, as rape is a violent form of forcing one's will upon another person.
I'll also point out that if put anyone under the microscope, you could probably find instances of times their actions are incongruent with their professed beliefs. That's called being human.
If people expect their leaders to be guiltless, they're going to be waiting forever.
whats your point Nevermore?
To be a time vampire?
Are you really as dim & shallow as your appear here?
What a sanctimonious twat you really are.
''You're quite the character. Man, I love Substack. It's like the blocked bog of the internet.'' poor Iain Davis, he likes your feeble replies while making a point of ignoring mine- what a great way to give himself away as the 'hype clown' this latest apologist piece of his implies.
What silly games is Iain playing with his subscribers here - it seems he's just as shifty & bigoted as the UKC whom he collaborates with, overt controlled opps making opposition boring, redundant and as hypocritical as possible?
tROT ON little muledog the circus has a massive ring!
What's the UKC?
Russell Brand is the most famous anarchist Deist in the world. He is preaching a message of critical thinking, spiritual enlightenment, political anti-authoritarianism.
Everything good. If you're going to accuse him of being controlled opposition, you've got to back it up. Is it just the fact that he's a Hollywood celebrity? Well, Kropotkin was a Russian prince.
Coming from the punk scene, I saw way too many examples of "Fuck that band, they're not cool, they're pop". But if people are honest, most of us got into bands like Green Day, Blink 182, Goldfinger, etc before we ever found Black Flag, Aus-Rotten and Crass.
Russell Brand is entry-level conspiracy theory, entry-level anarchism, entry-level spirituality. It's accessible, and he's a great spokesperson because he's charming, funny, good-looking, highly successful, relatable, etc. His success benefits us. His viewers are our future readers. And I think he's well aware of his niche.
Writing for one's peers instead of for the masses is a constant temptation for people like us. But if we're talking about the Black Nobility, Project Mockingbird, and how reality is ultimately an illusion, we're limiting our audience to people who are pretty far down the rabbit hole already.
If you know something about history yet cannot apply it to the present, what use are you?
Can you back up your assertion that Rusell Brand is controlled opposition or not?
Back it up with what? You said it.... "Russell Brand is the most famous anarchist Deist in the world. He is preaching a message of critical thinking, spiritual enlightenment, political anti-authoritarianism."
THAT is all the evidence you need. People don't get to be world famous UNLESS they are approved. ffs.
So your argument is that because he's famous, he's secretly working for the system?
As far as I know, he was the only A-list celebrity to express his doubts about the 9/11 narrative. I believe this adversely affected his career. How do you explain that?
Seems to me like he passes the test of being a real critical thinker.
I've got a quick checklist that I run through to see if someone is truly an independent thinker. This is a quick and dirty test that weeds out a lot of people.
Did they:
1) Express their doubts about the offical 9/11 story?
2) Were they opposed to the "War on Terror"?
3) Did they espouse non-compliance and critical thinking during the COVID pseudo pandemic?
4) Did they take a nuanced anti-war position early on in the Ukraine War?
There's precious few people who pass this test. We should cherish and respect the people who do. It means they have a twenty-year track record of being on the right side of history.
Although I respect people who have the courage to change their minds, all four of these of this issues were of tremendous historic importance and required a strong moral stance. Intelligent, politically-savvy people should have aced this test, but sadly, few did. Russell Brand did.
I didn't read the whole thing it's WAY too long.
I wonder if there was a hidden joke at the end for those who made it. 🤔
I don't know if Brand is "controlled" or not. He did some videos that got people looking around though, and that's never bad.
But yes, this story -- is a story about nothing. If there's no police investigation, then there's no story.
Just people saying stuff.
Yep, that is the partly point of my TLDR article. But I also speculate about other possible agendas behind the apparent attack.
All they have to do is plant the seed.
Tons of people will hear about Russel Brand, and associate him with rape. Then, in another year or so, they'll bring forward someone else, and people will be more likely to believe it, because it will be the second time they've heard about it.
I think it's all because he has put out videos that question the narrative. That narrative being that "government is always good always..." 😉👉
"Russell Brand is a tool of the Black Nobility". You can say that again, Frances! I mean, the likely Essex lad somehow managed to get himself voted 'Shagger of the Year' no less than three years on the trot.
The award came from the Sun, a UK tabloid famed less for its coverage of current events than for the UK launch of the topless Page Three Girl, guaranteed to make a sex addict out of any red-blooded man.
As it happens, the Sun is run from same gadarene stable as the more "respectable"Times and Sunday Times, owned by media tycoon Rupert Murdoch - alias "The Dirty Digger".
To quote, without prejudice, from Murdoch's Wikileaks entry: "Many of Murdoch's papers and television channels have been accused of biased and misleading coverage to support his business interests. . .and political allies. . . and some have credited his influence with major political developments in the UK, US, and Australia".
Funny old world, innit.
I have known a lot of sexy guys, most of whom are dead now. They spawned enough kids to fill Essex schools with mini-me versions of themselves during the wildly wonderful 70s. Despite admitting to fathering 20 or more kids each, not one of them would want to be known as Murdoch's appointed Shagger of the Year!
Russell disgraces Essex men and is an embarrassment to Essex women. He 'sold his soul' to the East India Company for fortune and fame. He went 'up west' and shagged brainless wannabes; he out-gurus the Dalai Lama; he leads the daft to become even dafter and never know it.
Now we see him playing the part of the court jester, keeping all eyes on his soap opera life while Rome builds the final stages of the digital Panopticon via the foolish nodding donkeys at the UN this week.
"Just sign here, gentlemen!" "Here, do have another canape!" while the world sleeps on, grateful that they have not been consumed by the ritual burnt sacrifices to celebrate the ancient Roman festival of Vulcanalia.
You are commenting on a conversation which was some time ago. I stopped communicating with the owner of this account because it was more than apparent that we would never agree. Russell Brand has, since then, proven to be a terrible Pied Piper character and I hope that more people recognise his modus operandi for the darkness of it now.
You're mean!
I am consistently mean to shills and traitors, yep. Get over it, youngun, you have much to learn.
I like learning! Too bad teaching is a bad thing now!
You know the word "guru" means teacher, right?
Aristocrats like Bertrand Russell turned the English people against spirituality to the point where you now think being a spiritual teacher is inherently sleazy. Sad.
You unadulterated mug. Russell Brand is no spiritual teacher. What utter nonsense. Look mate, RB comes from the same part of UK as me. He is clearly a conman. Essex blokes are like that but they are usually a lot less transparent than RB.
You don't live in the UK and don't know his history. In a way, I wish I could say the same.
What's a mug?
So he's clearly a conman because he's from Essex? One of Nevermore's co-founders is from Essex. You calling him a conman?
This is what you sound like to me:
Englishman 1: Where ya from?
Englishman 2: The other side of the street.
Englishman 1: Fuck the other side of the street! There's only one side of the street!
Half of my ancestors were of English descent, by the way, and my maternal grandfather was an amateur historian. You don't know what I know. You seem to be leaning a little too far into the "you're from the other side of the street!" schtick. I'm not claiming to be a history buff or anything, but the traditional way to prove the superiority of your historical knowledge is by sharing historical facts, not accusing other people of knowing less than you. Just saying.
It really is rude to tell someone that the energy they spent writing an article was a total waste of time. To critique it is one thing, but just to call it trash? That's rude by any standards. Aren't English people supposed to have manners?
Yet another clear and obvious stich up. It's the Assange/Corbyn (and numerous others) smear campaign all over again.
The corporate-capitalist empire and their disinformation media do this same smear campaign every single time a dissenter becomes influential and tells the people what is going on. It's like a broken record by now. How can anyone still be that gullible as to believe that these billionaire-owned propagandists are here to promote anything other than the ruling class' interests?
I agree.
Does beg the question if 'they' want you to look at this, what else don't they want you to look at right now ?
midazolam and morphine in Parliament and on gb news
Russell is innocent until proven guilty. I personally feel he is not guilty of any of the charges. Most people do not trust the western media anymore. I think this is a hit job by the media and I saw his speech on the Bill Maher show and he is absolutely on the right track about all the corruption, lies and just pure evil of all the powerful people behind all this chaos in the world and particularly in the West.
Nice to hear someone talking sense!
I am a very paranoid person and I'm highly suspicious of all public figures. I've called out numerous people for being controlled opposition, and when I did so I made my case
Calling someone controlled opposition and leaving it at that is bad sportsmanship if you ask me.
Well done. Interesting parallels with the Assange set-up. https://drowningwitches.com/2019/07/02/6590/
normally when the media report on crime/abuse, it does so based off of an ongoing ploice investigation or by recieving tips from the public. I would say this is how it's done 99% of the time.
in this case however, it reverses the process. they started with the hypothesis that Brand is a predator, then launched an investigation to find any victims willing to come forward.
this doesn't imply guilt or innocence, but considering who and what Brand represents to the powerful, the whole thing stinks to high heaven...
As always to be expected... a balanced, intelligent analysis of the issue. Thank you for proper journalism.
Yes, the hypocrisy is obvious but so is the question as to why now, when none of this stuff is new. If Brand is controlled opposition, this story is yet another diversion just in case the media felt like asking the big questions eg about the 4th Industrial Revolution and The Great Reset. Plus, it makes it look like if you support somebody in the alternative media with a big following, you will be let down by them or their handlers. They are not to be trusted or named in polite company.
Coincidentally, I was just reading about Russell Brand yesterday when I was told he was the leading story on "the news"! I was reading about him as I'd had a gut feeling he wasn't legit. I knew he was a womaniser years ago but a fighter of The Establishment, that didn't seem likely. I do wonder if there is actually any real resistance to The Establishment.
http://mileswmathis.com/brand2.pdf
These are all common names fuckwit.
Russell Brand is anything but common. Sadly, swearing is.
Did you even read the bullshit you linked to? Everyone called Campbell or Brand or Bennett is part of the elite ffs?
Yes, I did. I doubt you did judging from your uncouth comments. Just a little work would show you that quite a few question whether a member of the establishment switching over to the truth movement and being allowed to attract many followers, is genuine. You would be naive not to wonder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3tgjHtml4M
Nothing that you mention addresses my point about the article...
The article, that you didn't understand, mentions some common names and pretends that means he's related to the most prominent examples of the name. Have you really never met a Campbell, or a Nichol, or a Bennett? NPCs come in different flavours midwit. Post proof from the article that I'm wrong.
Post proof that Brand is not a limited hangout.
Ian. What a piece of sanity in a disgusting ogre fest of hypocrisy. If this really was, as the LM claim, all about the ladies and their welfare (which, in every case like this, it undoubtedly should be) then where is the big joint investigation into Joe Biden - where there are similar claims? Where are their deep dives into the footballers- where the story always comes after police arrests.
I’m not advocating these deep dives would necessarily be a good thing- but it is LM that are setting that standard for itself.
It’s clear the coverage is politically motivated. That doesn’t mean the claims are untrue.
I kinda hope, if the allegations are true, that one of the four is Andrew Sachs' granddaughter.
That would be karma.
https://www.nationalworld.com/news/people/sachsgate-russell-brand-jonathan-ross-andrew-sachs-georgina-baillie-prank-calls-explained-4338823
Brand has always made my Spidey go into overdrive, and when I add YouTube + Harari + 6 million followers = one humungous red flag !
My suspicion is that he's an agent provocateur that has crossed a line, and TPTB are trying to silence/discredit him.
As someone else noted earlier on UKC, why now ?
We all make mistakes. He wrestled with his demons and survived. Unlike 99 percent of people who don’t want to admit that they themselves have a shadow which hides within and is their controlled opposition. You can see the shadows twitching within the MSM presenters and guests when discussing Brand.
Ahem to that. People are such fucking hypocrites. You telling me that if you were in Rusell Brand's shoes you wouldn't have slept around? Give me a break.
Excellent Iain, thank you for your wonderful research and reporting as always. It seems that 'innocent before proven guilty', a fundamental tenet of common law, has been hijacked by the globalist media as described here: https://ministryofinjustice.co.uk/
However, some are on the narrow path: https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/the-enemy-within-vaxx-contract-red?sd=pf No mention anywhere of the revealed Pfizer Vaxx contract that I can see?
Blessings
AP
An obvious political attack
The time has come to face the demons of his past.
Will see what man he really is.
Personally, I am suspicious of him but I have no solid ground for my suspicions apart from that time when he encouraged his followers not to vote and then at the last moment he changed his tune and said that he would vote for the Labour Party.
Thomas Sheridan called him out and for that, he got a lot of abuse from RB fanatics.
Red Ice Radio, (before it turned into a neo nazi platform) stepped up and defended Thomas Sheridan.
A bit of recent history of the "truthers" world.
Always trust your gut instincts...
Man, if that's the worst thing he's done after years in the public eye... that says something.
Of course, I'm opposed to legitimizing the sham of electoral "democracy" by voting, but c'mon, you'd have to be the snootiest anarchist in the world to seriously hold something so inconsequential against someone who has done so much to spread knowledge.
Perhaps you are right.