Informed as you can see the saudi arabia is a strong friend and would be willing to support taking them with whatever the kingdom needs and of discussion from there on Everything Else was going to get he explained to mr thatcher this was a deal with saudi arabia and their full things were done differently. They wanted 43000000000. 00 with a weapon that was 6000000000. 00 pounds in term of. The majority of most people understand this broad. Well continue to Work Together against the terrorists who threaten the way of life a pacifist. One day i saw growing and it was a man coming to my actually he said ive been working for a travel company. We had a kind of slush fund we used to distribute. 2 saudis and other arabs when they came to britain for be all to help the path of alms deals. I did tell the 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 quite small being their payments made some of them from rather as manic activities i. Talked about cooldowns that sort of thing theres only 2 things that count in business my friends 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 and i scored agency or kids because of the specialties thought the chief of staff of the army life. If. We had secretary of the embassy come and review the photos she said i won this one i won this one i would just want to win this one i had the girls i arrived one day before and i said girls i know you will be paid handsomely for this but do me a favor if you get any people thought that is relevant please bring your cross because i could use it in for you interesting information i want you out of the 2000 euro bonus so it was 60 grand i signed a contract worth 3000000 so it wasnt ideal. M m i phone rang again. It was another whistle blower 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. We would fly the 2 of us angelicas and they would buy cause dresses that wasnt shopping like you would i would think in the end when they gather together all the shopping we would charter an entire jumbo jet to fly it all back to saudi arabia it was in the camp to try and trace through the Bank Accounts who the ultimate beneficiary saw that the case became really very serious as the trail appeared to lead towards senior members of the saudi royal family. The most outrageous example was that maybe 80 i dont order to smooth the way with prince bandar at 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 memories favorite American Team i mean is the flyer of him 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 Decisions Health plans theres evidence that mark fashion of this is that your son got 12000000. 00 in cash for his work as a fixer. Think about politicians is very much like prostitutes but only more responsive. Politics is it dated by the whims of the arms industry politicians are nothing more than sales reps by their friends to have as much power as a middle ranking executive in. Martin ident of the day they do 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 but you take half of that 5000000 and you send it to the following bank account and switzerland will share in this for. 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. We. Had to feed. 2 thieves. To. Get. Them some what its from. These outs it seems. Like. Each child to clean. The chests. I tease. Mine. 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 is this swiss bank records of International Cover payments going all over the world he showed me how be it set up the whole system with lloyds bank under which they channeled secret payments into a British Virgin islands offshore Company 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 we dont like until he is sure we dont we and i believe those companies all to the business of. Policy as you suggest laws of supply they do employees of government it is just the way the 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 that total of 1000000000 pounds we did not invent. Corruption i mean adam and eve would have been and they had hanky panky and they had to go down to edit so i mean this is this is human nature i show you to prince of state run and a friend. How do you agree. Of course none of us are greedy its only the other fellows greed. This the world runs on individuals pursuing their selfinterest. All those people who believe that greed violence etc these primal socalled primal instincts other real instincts and Everything Else is a social construction theyve lost their mind and for the last 50 years a least policy has been made based on the assumption of greed and its ruined the wouldnt. Catch on x. 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 is for creating society. In the beirut theyre saying hello to you. As 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 made a moral decision that militarism is more important then the creation of wellbeing for the population. This is 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. Cank. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you that. Was introduced at a changed global geopolitics forever and you cant own invented gunpowder coyness changed now the whole notion of what money is and you cannot uninvented theres no turning back. You mentioned 635 and you have a career and career involves using your i phone in your computer and things like that being in an office. Perhaps you sort of getting to mix a circular t. V. You could have to stop doing all this in this kind of you lose the minutes must be from my world became smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up learning it in a box. Or out at a very strong Magnetic Field i felt in my head. I think of it like a real hard pressure my skin burns and that Wireless Access Point theyre just continues on saying with our students in the schools. We are just continually bathing our citizens in this microwave radiation it is certainly electro small and its getting worse. 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 and these who control property and those who control capital has in fact been a threat not only 3 quality 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 some notes on through wielded by governments that was Government Intervention under the name of the Free Enterprise system but a Government Intervention which destroyed the cretins of many people not the 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 and there were these spate of assassinations across the globe. Including the slave 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 oligarch and still we are fighting you know body guards mines 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. The last half of what is called the cold war i dont know it to be a very hard war for many parts of the wood. 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. He 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 us the real book. Uncanny how much you know. By a symbol or any man. Should more allusive be present on the yen. Was he not one to us got a testimony most given me by these. When i said kind of thing this year. The whole leave home. N t you know who leno to notice 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 pill 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. To. Our witness this morning is mr Robert Mcfarlane the former National Security advisor to the president. Mr mcfarlane we welcome you to the committee and we look forward to your testimony. Mr mcfarlane. 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 will cause a country to. Thats correct. I had the practice meeting periodic lee was the official from country to the systems we could provide some cases arms sales. And he intended to provide a contribution of a 1000000. 00 per months 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 with the government then i think we have a bigger problem there are many cases or some other question that you know well thank heaven both occasion was not in connection with saudi arabia. I think that there was a substantial shadow government. Trying to run Foreign AffairsUnited States 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 u. S. 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 long 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 lead very small and very wealthy. And increasing its wealth as it goes up the chimney 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 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 and was 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 even obamas of got a time limit there like food. You know munitions as good as what you know so buy that its new to cut. And you can take. A look. In iraq that if these fields and i faith is where firing 6000000 dollars within seconds coming back we are me and going up again. Theres no hope and harm because theres always a small cobble of people for wars really really Good Business. It doesnt matter that were losing the war in afghanistan albertan could care less its good for them good for profit. Oh sure sure and then. It ought to have knowledge of the. Bad luck i was hopeful about oh youll be good enough if it were your last year alone. The world is driven by a dream shaped by. The dares thinks. We dare to ask. Gunpowder was introduced in a changed global geopolitics forever and you cant on invent gunpowder coyness change now the whole notion of what money is and you cannot uninvented theres no turning back. Is youll be via reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe from. The isolation pool community. Are you going the right way or are you being led so. Direct. What is true watch is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or a maid in the shallows. What politicians do. We put themselves on the line they did accept it or reject. So when you want to be president. Or something i want to. Have to go right to the person which it was before 3 of them or 2 people that ive been pushed to always in the waters and that. There should be. Thousands of american men and women she was just sort of in their countrys military and the decision. Every thing came to a complete. The day that i was right to be instructed you know told to shut up but theyd kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in and you graham my arm and he raped me with his birthing curia if you take into account that women dont report because of the extreme retaliation and its probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the u. S. Military rape is a very very traumatizing thing tat happen but ive never seen trauma like ive seen from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished dont be offended and almost 10 year career or chose very invested in and i gave a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an hour in violence male sexual predators for the large part of charge of whoever is there to prey upon whether thats a man or when. They. Are not. Invoking the russian menace as general Election Campaign gets under way in the u. K. Boris johnson attempts to mitt his main rival jeremy cool with claiming the labor party thought it was over the script how poisoning. A major u. S. Network acknowledges it didnt run explosive allegations of sexual abuse by the disgraced financier Geoffrey Epstein because the story didnt meet its editorial standards. 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