and very well now can see you know what's not. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to be. the 2 going to be press this is like the full story in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the lawyers in the house. they sit. in a world of big partisan through things a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to

stop slamming the door on the bath shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. still. we are at war. i'm responsible for the deployment of thousands of young americans to battle in a distant land. some will kill. you some will be killed. and so i come here with an cute sense of the costs of armed conflict. filled with

difficult questions about the relationship between war and peace and our effort to replace one with the other. thomas he turned to. you know i need to make. thomas a truth i started. i stand before you tonight in my red shift on evening ga. before. my face

off limit often my family had gen a way. of know with. the might this extraordinary deal between the united kingdom and saudi arabia in which. ronald reagan wanted to sell the saudis billions and billions dollars worth of equipment but these reading be stopped it and congress wouldn't approve it because they feared the saudi would strengthen israel surround reagan handed the deal with are effectively to his political soulmate sacha un see nothing there it's. 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. french has been at the heart of many of the great. polish. i was always pleased to see him when i was prime minister because he brought me a short insight and bold proposal was. informed as you can see that saudi arabia is a strong friend and would be willing to support taking them with whatever became their needs and of discussion from there on everything else was going to get he explained to mr strachan this was a deal with saudi arabia and their full things were done differently. they wanted $43000000000.00 worth of weapons that was $6000000000.00.

in the. majority of most people understand this broad. we'll continue to work together against the terrorists who threaten the way of life a pacifist. one day i started crying and it was a man. and he said i. i've 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 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 the other thing they liked because girls so he would take about the town and get the girls. to be honest it's not quite small beer payments made some of them

from rather on as manic activity is gaining chips talks about cooldowns that sort of thing there's 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 special taste of the chief of staff of the army like. you think. we had secretary of the embassy come and review the photos she said i won this with i win this one up with this one i win this one i had the girls i arrived one day before and i said girls i know you will be paid handsomely for do this but do me

a favor and if you get any people thought that is relevant please bring your cross because i could use it in for the church interesting information i will get over 2000 euro bonus so it was 60 grand i signed the contract with 3000000 so it wasn't ideal. m m i phone rang again. it was another whistle blower and he said you have no idea what it is that you're 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 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 angelica's and they would buy cars and dress and it wasn't 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 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 may be a new 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 presently have painted in the silver colors of the dallas cowboys and rays favorite american 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 to see. if there's evidence that mark fashioned this is that your son got 12000000 in cash

for his work as a fixer. think about politicians is very much like prostitutes but only more expensive. polities is it dated by the whims of the arms industry politicians. nothing more than sales reps by their friends that have as much power as a middle ranking executive and want to martin a dent of the day they do with the polls. when an executive goes to broad a foreign official he says to himself look i've taken a lot of risk to take this $5000000.00 that i'm paying to the prime minister of x.y.z. who makes an arrangement with prime minister of x.y.z. . i'll hand over the 5000000 could 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 he's in the business of selling bribes and he is now scouring the world for somebody to find to bribe. heads a few. who can. chew through it. to . get to. them see what it. is out it seems. each child could.

be cheerful. with. this. i t's. mine. when. i'm in the phone rang again. this was somebody who said you have no idea what you're 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 germ of this swiss bank records of international cover 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 company called red diamond from red diamond the money went into this guy's swiss bank account and he then used it to distribute to the local politicians taking

a big check himself of course we don't like until he is sure we don't 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 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 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 it's only the other fellow's greed. the world runs on individuals pursuing their self-interest. all those people who believe that greed violence etc these

primal so-called primal instincts other religions things and everything else is a social construction they've lost their mind and for the last 50 years at least policy has been made based on the assumption of greed and it's ruined the wouldn't . catch on x. believe there is new nature of society so you have to nurture individual is i don't accept that at all i think there are a very many good public policy initiatives for creating society. in the beirut they're saying hello to you. as a comment isn't a good 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. and we're going to fulfill the prophecies of politics to the people and come out. there with all but the. pretty rough. now you want to 1st correct that. no.

fault. in my i phone i have a 1000 times the capability of the of the computers and we had on board the spacecraft at that time i mean it's ridiculous that in my back pocket i have much much more capability than we had in the one in the entire apollo program. 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 in 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 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 through wielded by governments that was government intervention under the name of the free enterprise system but a government intervention which destroyed the freedoms 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 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 you're going to be killed you don't know how but it's coming. we were fighting in the league i am still we are fighting you know body guards minds that don't 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 don't 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 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 their dreams. he was a very strong with these dreams were assassinated. it's not just the one off killings the cool year the cool day. it's the entire dream that had to

be killed. to be sure to do this and read a book. on karate or myself. by a symbol or any man. with a shoe or a looser because the man. who can she be the one to us got a testimony most if they meet buddies. when i said kind of thing this year. the whole leave home. and. you know who leave to notice them and. you know be able to command. decent thing 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 what's become a very out of control pill program cheney then went on during the reagan years in the eighty's 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 i've 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 with. 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 that's correct and did you in fact succeed in obtaining money from another country. which we'll call country to.

that's correct. had they practice meeting periodic lee who was the official from the country true about the systems 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 had no problems or 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 bennett cases or some americans are 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. trying to run foreign affairs united states. these

events have been characterized by some pretty strong statements we've 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 you're doing is saying on certain parts of american policy we don't 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 leak 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 we're 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. an eloquent that was being deployed to the gulf it's 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 we've essentially done is to create a network of corporations that have the fire power 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 obama's of go to time with the like food . you know munitions as good as what you know so by that it's. cut. and you can operate. in iraq that if this feels and i say tease we're firing 6000000 dollars within seconds coming back really army in going up again.

there's no oath and harm because there's always a small cobble of people for war really really good business. it doesn't matter that we're losing the war in afghanistan albertan could care less it's good for them good for profit. you know. i don't know it's under the. bed law was her place really did it last. year last year.

the good news if you like and use the term deep state you're no longer deemed a conspiracy theorist the bad news the deep sea is very real and powerful and a danger to the democratic process the deep state as the 4th branch of government as it gave us cons.

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