Saudi arms. Deal we really started to stumble on a central feature of british politics over the last 2 years. Has been many of the great events. I was to see him when i was Prime Minister. And would be willing to support taking them with whatever they came to me and of discussion from there on Everything Else was. He explained to mrs thatcher this was a deal with saudi arabia. Things differently. They wanted 3. 6000000000 pounds in commission. Of course majority of most people understand this broad. Will train you to Work Together against the terrorists who threaten the way of life of us this is. One day i started crying and it was a mob to look at it coming it might actually he said ive been working for a travel company and we had a kind of slush fund we used to distribute to saudis and other arabs when they came to britain for be all to help the path of alms deals so. I did tell the sex workers stories that when the saudi military officers would come along he would present them with canteens of cut 3 that was something that they liked another thing they liked was girls so he would take about the town and get the girls. To be honest its not quite small beer payments made some of them from rather on as manic activities aiming chips to the talks about cool downs that sort of thing theres only 2 things that count in business my friend money and sex the rest you can write as much as you like is absolute garbage you can measure weapon beautiful the president s secretary. Because the more distracted looking at your secretaries the you want to have your talking about. And that is sometimes old as you need to be. To use an Escort Agency called lunch is because of the specialties thought the chief of staff of the army life long did so with. Anything. We had there secretary of the embassy come and review the photos she said i want to swim with this one i was disappointed with this one i had the girls i ride one day before and i said girls i know you will be paying them. Simply for this but do me a favor if you give the people talk that is relevant please bring your cross because i could use it in for each interesting information i will give over 2000 your bonus so it was 60 grand i signed the contract with 3000000 so it wasnt ideal. M m i phone rang again. It was another whistle and he said you have no idea what it is that youre getting into here. And he said this slush fund is much much bigger than you realize our job was to look after the really high level people those who used to come to england who were being bribed essentially by b. People of the level of the head of the Saudi Air Force who was a royal prince or. We would fly the 2 of us actually and they would buy cars dresses and it wasnt shopping like you would i would think in the end when they gather together all the shopping we would charge an entire jumbo jet to fly it all back to saudi arabia it was in the attempt to try and trace through the Bank Accounts who the ultimate beneficially saw that the case became really very serious as the trail appeared to lead towards senior members of Society Royal family. The most outrageous 6 was that maybe 80 i dont want it to go the way with prince bandar but one point i made him a present of a huge commercial airline had all of his various which he promptly have painted in the silver colors of the Dallas Cowboys and rees favorites a very good team i mean is the fly around in that quite cheerfully. The case centered on establishing the ultimate beneficiary of exceptionally knowledge amounts of money paid by the share space for consultancy said historians will look for sure theres evidence that fashion of this is that. Some 12000000 in cash for his work as a fixer. Think about politicians is that theyre very much like prostitutes but only more expensive. The pull of the exit dated by the whims of the arms industry politicians are nothing more than sales reps by their friends that have as much power as a middle ranking executive in the 2 martin ident of the day did with the tolls. When an executive goes to broad a foreign official he says to himself look ive taken a lot of risk to take this 5000000. 00 that im paying to the Prime Minister of x. Y. Z. Who makes an arrangement with Prime Minister of x. Y. Z. Ill hand over the 5000000 could you take half of that 5000000 and you send it the following bank account and shortfall and well share in the florida. The 1st time an executive does that and he collects 2500000. 00 he says wow this is a Good Business to be and within moments of that realisation he is no no longer in the business of selling airplanes hes in the business of selling bribes and he is now scouring the world for somebody to find to bribe. Me its. As if you. Can. Choose to. Do. What i had to do. But its. Out exemption. Each child could. Be as careful so. By. All. This. I. Mean. When. Im in the phone rang again. This was somebody who said you have no idea what youre getting into he said this whole be a thing is much much bigger it goes right to the very top what he had was something that you never see as a journalist swiss bank records of International Corporate payments going all over the world he showed me how be a set of a whole system with lloyds bank under which they channeled secret payments into the British Virgin islands offshore companies called red diamond from red diamond the money went into this guys Swiss Bank Account and he then used it to distribute to the local politicians taking a big check himself of course you know i can surely surely we dont we are the i believe most companies all to the business of late lives as you said just love sums up what they do employees of government it is just part of the way business is done. We were actually able to publish what was the most dangerous story the prince bandar had been given not just the claim but over the years the total of 1000000000 pounds we did not invent. Corruption i mean i mean he would have been and they had hanky panky and they had to go down to and so i mean this is this is human nature i should branch state run and a friend. What is great. Of course none of us are greedy its only the other fellows greed. This world runs on individuals pursuing their selfinterest. All those people who believe that greed violence etc these primal socalled primal instincts other religions things and Everything Else is a social construction theyve lost their mind and for the last 50 years at least policy has been made based on the assumption of greed and its ruined the wouldnt. Catch on its believe there is new nature of society so you have to nurture individual is i dont accept that at all i think there are a very many good Public Policy research does for creating society. In the beirut theres a lot to you. Theres a comment isnt a good 47 kalashnikov. A society that decides that the bulk of its budget is going to go to arms manufacturing building of a military eccentric this is made a moral decision that militarism is more important then the creation of wellbeing for the population. Thats not the world i want to live in i want to live in the real world and the real world is peopled by real emotions including love and generosity. Oh. And a very warm welcome to you watching us inside. My god if you want is freedom the freedom of human beings of individuals to pursue their own say is i think what they term freedom means is economic license and economic license of those who control property and those who control capital has in fact been a threat not only to equality but a threat to the freedom of peoples all over the world and not only in europe and the United States but nafta in asia and in latin america i want you to name me any society in which you have any large measure of that freedom where capitalism and Free Enterprise has not been the predominant mechanism of the Free Enterprise system has spread through the force of on send notes on through wielded by governments that was Government Intervention under the name of the Free Enterprise system but of Government Intervention which destroyed the cretins of many people not least of which are the people of chile. From the 1950 s. All the way through the 1970 s. The cia and the u. S. Military were engaged in covert actions throughout central mad america throughout africa really throughout the world where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up right Wing Military juntas funding and arming death squads like the contras in nicaragua or battalion 316. 00 and under us and i and there were these spate of assassinations across the globe. In countries like mine people have been killed to be quiet to know that any day any time youre going to be killed you dont know how but its coming. We were fighting in only god and still we are fighting you know body guards minds that dont want to work going inclusiveness they just pick. Action is not only about taking from the earth but taking from the people. Even to dreams take on the next. To last half of what is called the cold war i dont know it to be a very hard war for many parts of the world. From the standpoint of want it but i am not cause the victims or what i will think of really as of people trying to make their own futures. There was an attempt in the global south to create an alternative imagination for people. But in the early 1970 s. Is this attempt was destroyed and it was stopped through a real genuine attempt by the global lot to take over the institutions of the world including the world bank the i. M. F. Souls not simply that the people of the south were incapable of carrying forward their dreams. It was a very strong with these dreams were assassinated. Its not just the one off killings the cool year the cool day. Its the entire dream that had to be killed. To be sure to read a book. On cutting myself. But i asked him better and man. What a true or a looser because on the end. Was he not one to us got a testimony most of it in me but hes. When i said kind of thing this year. The whole lead on. N t you know who leno to menards them and. You know be able to command. Decency yeah them and eat. Each other thing good to see. The joint hearings of the House Select Committee to investigate covert arms transaction with iran. And the select committee on secret military assistance to iran in the neck iraq when opposition will come to Order Congress began to address what they perceive to be an insanely out of control series of covert actions with little to no congressional oversight we have been supplying lethal weapons to terrorist nation involving the Us Government in military activity in direct contravention of the law and lying to the congress now i believe that democracy cannot survive that kind of abuse. And people like dick cheney and Donald Rumsfeld who are relatively new to government at the time did not like when congress had we need to step in and confront the National Security state and whats become a very out of control kill program cheney then went on during the reagan years in the eightys to serve in congress and when the iran contra scandal broke out into the open cheney did not like. Congress being involved with anything that the executive branch was doing. You had to see understand that emanated from the highest echelons of power and the Reagan Administration was acting as though it had nothing to do with it ive told you all that i know and you know the truth of the matter is for quite some long time all that you knew was what i told. You. Our witnesses morning is mr Robert Mcfarlane the former National Security adviser to the president. Mr mcfarlane we welcome you to the committee and we look forward to your testimony. Mr mcclellan. Did you have any discussion about the possibility. Of in effect farming out the whole contra support operations in nicaragua to another country which will call country run yes thats correct and did you in fact succeed in obtaining money from another country. Which well call country toe. Thats correct. I had they practice meeting periodic lee with the official from country to about assistance we could provide some cases arms sales. And he intended to provide a contribution of a 1000000. 00 per month to the contras through the end of the year. You have no problems working with us we have no problem working with the United States government and unless the cia does not work for the government then i think we have a bigger problem there have been a cases or some other question that you know well thank heavens both the case and was not in connection with saudi arabia. I think that there was a substantial shadow government. Try to run for it if they actually manage day. These events have been characterized by some pretty strong statements weve heard talk of a grave constitutional crisis and even been treated to talk about a coup in the white house not only does cheney sort of defend iran contra but he argues that iran contra is actually a model for how the us should be conducting its National Security policy he is a radical subscriber to this notion of the unitary executive effectively what youre doing is saying on certain parts of american policy we dont have a democracy we have a dictatorship. As a matter of fact i was. Very definitely involved in the decisions about support to the Freedom Fighters my idea to begin with. In my opinion there is no justification for further restrictions on the power and flexibility a future president. In the National Security lead today is mostly composed of people who hit the revolving door multiple times during their last nomination of richard b. Cheney to be secretary of the friends is a make a name for themselves in the private industry and then they come into the go. This revolving door keeps the National Security very small and very wealthy. And increasing its wealth as it goes up the journey to the extent that then when you get to the top as cheney did then you can become a member of the plutocracy that runs the country to this is an impressive crowd the haves and the have more. Money commissioned a study by halliburton to find out how much more of the Defense Department could be privatized proud to serve our troops in which he laid to get this 1000000. 00 contract and of course returned a verdict that oh mr secretary lots more of it can be privatized. Dick cheney leaves the Defense Department and goes and heads halliburton himself and he spends the entire 990 s. Building up the war empire well if were going to talk about star wars we might as well invite darth vader i. Am. Happy to accept. When he comes back into power as Vice President and then they start hiring halliburton to you know in advance even if u. S. Troops going into iraq. Snellen equipment was being deployed to the gulf its hard to look at this and not say these guys had a very Long Term Plan for how they were going to increase the powerful infrastructure of private companies. What weve essentially done is to create a network of corporations that have the firepower of small nation states that could you know overthrow some small governments around the world. In essence we in the United States have privatized the ultimate Public Function war. I want to get on the market right now you know bombs have got a time with them like food. You know munitions as good as got to known so by that its. Cut. And you can treat. In iraq the f. 16 s and i say ts way firing 6000000 dollars within seconds coming back really army and going up again. 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