Dollars worth of equipment these radios stopped it and congress wouldnt approve it because they feared the saudi would strengthen israel so Ronald Reagan handed the deal of their effectively to his political soulmate sacha un seen nothing yet was. A very tough act to follow. When we stumbled on the saudi arms. Deal we really started to stumble on a central feature of british politics over the last 30 years his Royal Highness prince has been at the heart of many of the great load event of the polish time. I was always fish to see him when i was. Minissha because he brought me a short great insight on bold proposal was. Informed that you consider saudi arabia as 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 therefore things were done differently. They wanted 43000000000. 00 worth of weapons that was 6000000000. 00 pounds increment. 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 going and it was a mob to come 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 along. I did tell these sexual trysts or is that when saudi military officers would come along he would present them with canteens of cut through that was something that they liked another thing they liked was girls so he would take about the town and get them girls. To be honest it seemed like quite small beer payments made some of them from rather on as manic activity is aiming chips to the talks about cooldowns that sort of thing theres only 2 things that count in business money for money and sex the rest you can write as much as you like is absolute garbage you can measure weapon beautiful depends of the secretary. Because the more distracted looking at your secretaries the you want to have your talking about. And that is sometimes all that is you need. To use and i scored Agency Cold War kids because of the specialties of the chief of staff of the army life long but some of them. If. We had their secretary of the embassy come and review the photos she said i want this one i want this one i would just want it with this one i had the girls i arrived one day before and i said girls i know you will be paid to answer me for this but do me a favor and if you get any people talk that is relevant please bring your cross because i could use it in for each interesting information i will get over 2000 euro 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 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 those who used to come to england who were being bribed essentially by be 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 charter 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 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 want to to spoil the way with prince bandar at one point i made him up. Presence of a huge commercial airliner all of these various which he promptly have painted in silver colors of the Dallas Cowboys memories favorites a very good team i mean used to fly around in that quite cheerfully. Case. On establishing the ultimate beneficiary of exceptionally knowledge amounts of money paid by the share space for consultancy said these things. Theres evidence that fashion of this is that your son got 12000000 in cash for his books as a fixer. Think about politicians is very much like prostitutes but only more responsive. Politics is it that 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 wall to martin ident of the day did with that told. What 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. To make sure 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 you go to church or wilshere in the floor. The 1st time an executive does that 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 has no scouring the world for somebody to 4 and to bribe. Its. As if you. Can. To feed. It to. Them see what it. Is out exchange. Each child to call. The cheerful city. I tease. 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 gem of this swiss bank records of International Call for payments going all over the world he showed me how be it set up a whole system with lloyds bank under which they channeled secret payments into the British Virgin islands offshore companies called red diamond and 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 certainly sure we dont we at all i believe those companies all to the business of late. But also as you suggest a lot of sums of money to employees of governments it is just for the way business is done. We were actually able to publish what was the most dangerous story the prince banned. Had been given not just the claim but over the years a total of 1000000000. 00 pounds we did not invent. Corruption i mean i doubt many would have him and they had hanky panky and they had to go down to ed so i mean this is this is human nature i sure lutrell pinch a 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 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 no 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 initiatives for creating societies. And the beirut there saying allude to you. Is a comment isnt make it 47 kalashnikov. The 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 wood and the real world is peopled by real emotions including love and generosity. As this is a stick from the open water bottle found in the stomach of the fish the brand is part of the Cocacola Company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea was that lets tell consumers theyre the bad ones theyre the litter box or try. Thats where industry should be blamed for all this waste to company has long promised to reuse the plastic. Soon 6 feet so. That soon call sets for their plastic a 6 day course the only stay on your own at a special project funding. 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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 control property and those who control capital has in fact been a threat not only to equality 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 onset notes on this one 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. 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 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 hot war for many parts of the wood. From the standpoint of want it but i am not cause the victims or what i would 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. 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 read a book on how uncanny how much you know. But i asked him better and man. What a shrewd more elusive cousin the. Man. Was he not one to us got a testimony a most if they meet buddies. When i said kind of thing this year. The whole leave home. N t you who leave to notice them and. You know be on 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 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 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 well call country to. Thats correct. I had the practice meeting periodic lane with the official from country to about assistance we could provide some cases arms sales. And they 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 occasions when some americans are question that you know well thank heavens those occasion was not in connection with saudi arabia. I think that there was a substantial shadow government trying to run for if they actually managed a. 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. Of 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 going to. Make a name for themselves in the private industry and then they come into the go. This revolving door keeps the National Security leak very small and very wealthy. And increasing its wealth as it goes up the cheney 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 did 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. 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 1990 s. Building up the hollow burton war empire well if were going to talk about star wars we might as well invite darth vader i. Have to do except. 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 and personnel and 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. When you know right now you know bombs have got a time limit dont like food. You know munitions and. So by that its. In iraq. And thats a tease were firing 6000000 dollars within seconds coming back we are me and going up again. Theres no hope of any more because theres always a small cobble of people for whom war is 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. Margins you know the mentally ill. I dont want this you have no knowledge or the. Bad law or this whole guilt about a boy is really good enough then i dont know your last year alone. In the big pain years and crossed i started as 10 years and i think its time to sh