Sir Bob Geldof has thrown his weight behind Russell Brand's call for a political revolution, warning that the current system of democracy "may not be viable for much longer".
Speaking to the Huffington Post UK, Geldof praised Brand for his "articulacy and expressing the anger of the moment", after he sparked a controversy with an essay in the New Statesman magazine calling for the "overthrow of the current political system".
The Irish rockstar and political activist said: "We have to change and it needs to be in the context of how we live now rather than with some old-hat political ideal."
Geldof blamed the failure of capitalism on the banks going "out of control" and due to human greed, inventing "completely spurious" financial products.
"They ceased to [give money to others] and gave it to themselves through fraud, outright international global gangsterism.
In an impassioned attack on recent banking scandals, he went on: "That's what it was. Mispricing of products, fraud. Mis-selling of products, fraud. Fixing the interbank lending rate. Fraud. It was fraud on an unprecedented scale! They sucked billions out of the world economy, destroying individuals, companies and countries."
"Russell [Brand] is completely right. That model cannot sustain us as we saw, it bankrupted Greece, almost Italy, almost France and almost Ireland. It just can't work."
Geldof spoke to HuffPostUK after talking to young entrepreneurs at an event hosted by the Rockstar Group, a mentoring organisation.
The musician spoke at the event about his entrepreneurial journey, drawing on his time with the Boomtown Rats, founding the Band Aid charity super-group and starting up the Live 8 and Live Aid concerts.
Geldof warned Brand that replacing the current political system with anarchy was "not viable or plausible", adding: "You can't just have a free for all. It just wont work because we will form structural organisations within that as it's the kind of thing we do."
However, he said the bankers' immense levels of pay posed a serious threat to society. "When you have these supposed masters of the universe averaging more than 248 times the average worker's pay, you have a serious problem of inequality. Inequality stops a society functioning and so it has to stop.
"I do think the version of democracy that we have been living with just may not be viable for very much longer. We will have something where we have proper freedom and elected representation."
"Nor can you in a four year electoral cycle put into place programmes that would help to ameliorate the effects of that. If the economy is affected in that way by definition politics are so that the politics that we've grown up with in a different economy cannot work in a new one, there has to be a newer type of politics.
"You will see a change in the type of politics. It'll still be our government, it needs to be otherwise you'll have problems and it still needs to be a more coherent economy."
Leaving aside the obvious stupidity of saying we need a new political system, but we still need representatives, which is the existing political system, the phrase "there has to be a newer type of politics" seems quite familiar...
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Bob "establishment" Geldof supports russell "rothschild tool" brand in calling for a revolution.....as long as it does not affect their money or status no doubt....the desperation of the system to control every facet of any genuine coming together to implement change has been revealed via agents like icke and jones on the fringes, and these scared little pawns from the mainstream, i wouldnt have someone like those types telling me how to make a cup of tea never mind implement change....
the fear from the top of the pyramid becomes ever more glaring as they know their plans to steer those who do see through their immense charade, via icke et al has failed massively, so they are going for the mainstream muppets ensemble to play on "celebrity cult" followers to follow the pied pipers of babylon towards a engineered solution dressed as revolution...like geldof and brand....desperate acts of a desperately scared control system.
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Bob "establishment" Geldof supports russell "rothschild tool" brand in calling for a revolution.....as long as it does not affect their money or status no doubt....the desperation of the system to control every facet of any genuine coming together to implement change has been revealed via agents like icke and jones on the fringes, and these scared little pawns from the mainstream, i wouldnt have someone like those types telling me how to make a cup of tea never mind implement change....
the fear from the top of the pyramid becomes ever more glaring as they know their plans to steer those who do see through their immense charade, via icke et al has failed massively, so they are going for the mainstream muppets ensemble to play on "celebrity cult" followers to follow the pied pipers of babylon towards a engineered solution dressed as revolution...like geldof and brand....desperate acts of a desperately scared control system.
This is pretty similar to how I see it, except that you forgot it's Sir Bob "establishment" Geldof, just so we know how anti-establishment he is.
The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. The true measure of a man is this: how quickly he can respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give - Philip K. Dick.
Bob "establishment" Geldof supports russell "rothschild tool" brand in calling for a revolution.....as long as it does not affect their money or status no doubt....the desperation of the system to control every facet of any genuine coming together to implement change has been revealed via agents like icke and jones on the fringes, and these scared little pawns from the mainstream, i wouldnt have someone like those types telling me how to make a cup of tea never mind implement change....
the fear from the top of the pyramid becomes ever more glaring as they know their plans to steer those who do see through their immense charade, via icke et al has failed massively, so they are going for the mainstream muppets ensemble to play on "celebrity cult" followers to follow the pied pipers of babylon towards a engineered solution dressed as revolution...like geldof and brand....desperate acts of a desperately scared control system.
This is pretty similar to how I see it, except that you forgot it's Sir Bob "establishment" Geldof, just so we know how anti-establishment he is.
Oh yes forgot to defer to his granduer status as a knight of the 'realm'...for making hundreds of millions for the 'realm' africa
It shows the mentality when some moron decided geldof could add any credibility to brand , when neither of them have any between them bar being "celebs"....Icke jumped on the bandwagon with brand to boost each other but it proved to be exactly what it was....a sham by two agents of the system attempting to boost each others status to sell the control systems engineered "awakening".... they are all about as much use as a jelly hammer....to anyone with instincts and integrity....as they and the system they represent have none....just fear and they sell that daily...via tv/radio/news etc etc etc and icke/jones and the majority of the so-called "truth" movement
If Geldof had finished off that statement and asked for something like Swiss style direct democracy instead then he would've been perfectly accurate and got my agreement.
Why the hell he said all that and then tagged on that epic fail is beyond me. Representative democracy is what we already have ffs lol...
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"When I interviewed Bob on my radio show in Paris a few years back, I asked him if he thought he had enough basic knowledge about economics to make weighty proclamations and he said, "Yes," wherein I asked him a very simple question that any first year economics student would know; "what is the relationship between interest rates and bond prices" and he hadn't a clue.
The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. The true measure of a man is this: how quickly he can respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give - Philip K. Dick.
It's just more "get things done" crap. Less mandate in exchange for more "progress" without mentioning what that "progress" is, why it is needed and what its aims are.
We don't need to get things done. We need to get things undone.
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