Very fact of. The saudi. 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 because he sure. As you can see. And would be willing to support taking them with whatever they came to me and the discussion from there on Everything Else was going to get. He explained to mrs thatcher this was a deal with saudi arabia and the full things were done differently. They wanted 43000000000. 00 worth of weapons that was 6000000000. 00 pounds in commission. Majority of most people understand this broad. Will train you to Work Together against the terrorists who threaten the way of life past 50. Or 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 to be all to help the path of alms deal 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 them girls. To be honest it seemed like quite small being their 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 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 use an Escort Agency called launches because of the specialties thought the chief of staff of the army life long gets a little. If. We had their secretary of the embassy come and review the photos she said i won this when i won this one i was disappointed 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 4 huge interest the information i will get out of the 2000 euro bonus so it was 60 grand i signed the contract with 3000000 so it wasnt bad deal. 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 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 angelicas and they would buy cause dress 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 the saudi royal family. The most outrageous example 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 rays favorites a very good team i mean used to fly around in that quite cheerfully. The case centered on establishing the ultimate benefit. Exceptionally knowledge amounts of money paid by the sharing space for consultancy said the things you think theres evidence that this is that your son got 12000000 in cash for his work as a fixer. I. Think about politicians is that theyre 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 to 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 to the following bank you go to churchill and wilshere in the floor. The 1st time an executive does collect 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 4 and to bribe. Heads of you. Can. Choose to. I. Have to do. This out examine. Each child call. Each careful city. Mall. I ts. 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 as a journalist swiss bank records of International Corporate payments going all over the world he showed me how the scent 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 for himself of course you know i can certainly sure we dont we are the i believe most companies all to the business of. Lives as you said just loves of supply they do employees of government so it is just part of 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 plane 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 edit so i mean this is this is human nature i show you to prince of state run and a friend. What is great. Of course none of us are greedy its only the other. List the world runs on individuals pursuing their separate interests. 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 hundreds 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. In the beirut theyre saying allude to you. Theres a committee isnt making 47 kalashnikov. The society that decides that the bulk of its budget is going to go to arms manufacturing building of a military eccentric these have 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. Was introduced in a changed global geopolitics forever and you cant on invent gunpowder coyness change them out the whole notion of what money is and you cannot uninvented theres no turning back. Imagine. 635 if you ever. Career involves using your eyes filled in your computer and things like that being in an office. Perhaps you sort of getting to have it circular. You could have to stop doing all of this and this is tell you lou the minutes before. My world became smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up winning it box. Very strong Magnetic Field on my head in my head. Its like a real hard pressure my skin burns and that Wireless Access Point there just continues on saying with our students in the schools. We are just continually they are citizens in this microwave radiation it is certainly electro small and its getting worse. Thousands of american men and women choose to serve in their countries military and the decision. Every song came to a complete. The day that i was raped. You know told to shut up kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in and he grabbed my arm and he write me with his birthing 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 us military is a very very traumatizing 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 and be offended and almost 10 year career or chose very invested in and i gave a sex offender who was not even going to justice or put on the registry this is simply an hour and violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether thats a man or woman. 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 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 had 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 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 man 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. 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 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 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 day 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 disagree and. Uncanny how much you know. By the asem but are any mere. Mortals who are looser because the t. M. Sutras should be the one to us got a testimony most given me by these. When i said kind of thing this year. The whole lead on. N t you know who lead to what are the salmon. You know be able to command. Decent thing yeah that minty. Egypt 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 were 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 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 jus in fact succeed in obtaining money from another country. Which will 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 they intended to provide a contribution of a 1000000. 00 per month to the contras through the end of the year. You have no problem. 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 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 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 his 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. Would. Want to get on the market right now no bombs have got a time limit theyre like food. You know munitions as good as what you know so by that its. Cut. And you can operate. In iraq the f. 16 s and i say ts were firing 6000000 dollars within seconds coming back really army and going up