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yes, the one i got still, i got down. i can't tell you that. how many do you think i can't? i can't. i can't tell what you're dealing with a minute people. i'm going to just say i this and elizabeth and this ah. this it in selecting god is mounted by the wealthy says, and i quote with both of the one that they look you will not for to hear anybody they go full, he will learn how to do so. tradition. if you don't fight with the stinks from the
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spirit with arrows, listen the tradition. so if you are trying to single this me disoriented them cycle in kind of swollen for that is not the case. may be critical of people who used to be fighting when they were very young, that they now go to war. you think that's a problem? not that's not a problem. not a problem. just that by steps, young people are taking that from much that yes, if i step sure. and even if they had started when they were 12 years old or they're not 13 that's. that's not a problem. not a problem. is that the job? that's a car guy. his car. yeah. yeah. he's with god. so what are we us with plastic when they were the school fees for
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the me get my job ever got something and resorted to use the guy now because of their discipline, that people will kind of what you're telling them is what they do on the on the english the down to sure. they've got the the credit companies recon comment that we sometime i'm in oregon, i'm dealing with for some one time i
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i i the private military industry is a part of how the country is in my tours today. um, ah, the us government doesn't track the number of contractors it uses in places iraq or afghanistan. we know it's a log. we don't really know exactly how many i spent several years working with in the industry have a military background. and one of the differences between being a soldier i found and being a private military contractor,
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sad. when you work for the u. s. military or any military, you take a sacred oath that you're going to serve and fight for your country as necessary, die to protect a way of life. one that you believe it. i am an american soldier. i'm a warrior and a member of a t. o. i will never accept defeat me. i will never quit. i'll never leave a fallen comrade. it's the complete opposite in the private mil to world. you look at the budget 1st, the loyalty of these companies and these business men's change depending on the market forces we operate in the world's challenging complex emerging markets. the middle east is absolutely the core for our business. today. we care in power. we perform into the right of this industry is not just what you see is what you get. ah,
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when you see a company, you don't know exactly who's working for them. they hire and they sometimes create will they call subs subcontractors? ah ah ah, there's been commanders and afghanistan, who just simply said, we don't know who the subs of the subs the subs are. so you have all these layers of a contract. ah ah,
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body control starts to fade quickly. the deeper you go from the top to the bottom, ah, united states army and the military in general is so reliance on the private sector . i would call the dependency. but we don't know who's the on the ground presence of these companies overseas. we just don't know i me o me . time to to this training can come together with it to 2 white men from the security company. oh,
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we're driving out in a small truck and what's was to come through this far as the landscape, not so far away from from the airport. when we enter the camp and get out of the car, the 1st thing we see is that you can an instructor who is in charge of the training of the making that could line up in order to receive these guys from the caird company. the mocking form from iraq should i do not hear from you. you should actually need to the fact that we're supposed to what are you not on tv now for those who basic i will report. he's all if you put at the top right. if i took you to the for monsieur young governor perspective,
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the iraqi couldn't was considered a quite good deal in the sense that they could actually take local chapel, make us setting their way to rack for a couple of years. and then returning them after 2 years with money and from that overseas deployment, this could serve to stabilize security and syrian ah, i down in the beginning of the swimming course that will not build weapons presence. so there are using these wooden sticks a with us after a couple of days into the training that the weapons arrived and the well being
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lined up at these wooden tables within in the middle of the big cam. a . there was this tension and excitement also attention mainly because now it's actually getting into something very real for many of the recruits. so the 1st time holding a weapon, since the ending of the civil law a with many were starting to to shake and some were way mist asking to cry. when that when this hook up the weapons and not being able to to handle him. oh,
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young, on the war has been for mainly by young veterans alone. you're looking for young men to perform military jobs. the chances are quite good that they have also been child soldiers. the right job got me. ah, i need to put it in the show you that do you have the money to shoot up fish or if not every day, remember me to the few my father, you know, i don't give me
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me when i was young. i don't have things that i didn't send to her good for you monday. what went days because i've been shop. have you come on when you go the on hers just before you have to do it by then you don't do dutch. you to have the, the new chinese issue agenda my hash ah, i look forward to recruiting she'd been home and kelly
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retorted, co massage issue that i'm bidding you to learn that research should be back to. i'm lucky, i am a mother. you know that you may hear that i think i look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders at conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence at that point, obviously is to great trust, rather than fear i would like to take on various jobs with artificial intelligence
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. real, somebody with a robot must protect this own existence with when we think of war and the warrior who fights it, we have this image on our mind of a man in uniform. bmw and uniform means they're fighting as part of the military serving a nation. the cause that they fight for their force, political patriotism. and yet when you look at the wars of the 21st century, they don't match those assumptions anymore. now, we have outsourced a lot of our warfare to private military companies in the background of this
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changing nature. of war and who fights it. that dates back to the very start of the private military industry itself. through until the early ninety's, the for the security industry is adult murky industry. outright must needs to bring down governments for the cash with outcomes to 1st prop a private miniature company. it was exactly that. it was a private company that could field a full all me if i had just had time they had so just through incredibly highly trained and have moved into the private sector with brushes. and we corporate
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videos, which we saying is your maturity to purchase schools with executive outcomes. it is a legend in this business. they formed in south africa as apartheid. and they had a background in some of the special police forces during apartheid. delete units had death squads, some of the most controversial units in terms of their human rights records. no one dan to go with. they worked for oil companies, they worked for governments like angola and certainly own. and this became controversial and international that he stepped in and said that you can't hire executive outcomes. so another company called san line international out of london
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sort of ended up taking on some of e o 's contracts. sandlon. this is a company that provides military consultants, this house is full governments all large corporations for. ready at the time, the idea was to get very posh english officers on top of these private military companies. and tim spicer was an officer in the military and british military. i got out and was asked to come help with a company called san la. what exactly comes row going to be unless we think they're extremely good, extremely professional in a very good track record. there are no. ready skeletons in the cupboard, is it, well, i mean we think we're doing a human rights record and we would use. ready the hires the same people
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to south africa but now they're legitimate because they are working under a contract. ready ready in spice's arrival gave an almost instant. ready samples of respectability to what had previously been a muslim world. and i didn't personally have any difficulty with the word must be added to the image that it comes up in most people's mind. if i tell him it comes by 1000 communion, for newspaper, dashing and charming, public school educated guards officer. and that really wasn't matching the feature ministry before then. it changed the agenda, the global agenda. and what problem that company was i, jim spicer, was considered a respectable hand of a mercenary organization. but at 1st his business affairs didn't go too well. he was dogged by failure me. for example, you got
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a phone call from a fellow indian with a type passport who was under house arrest for financial scandal. and he contacted tim spicer and wanted him to restore the president of cheryl. was the president cheryl in was back in power. this guy would then get his contracts for diamonds to be able to make money, but it didn't work out that way. the company line run by tim spicer full, but mommy candle isn't requested by customs and excise and he's acute smuggling illegally. when a private firm gets involved in foreign politics for the benefit of a criminal, you have to stop and ask, okay, this really happened or is this fictitious? james bond type story, but it was a true story. these things tend to happen very often times.
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but he'd always somehow managed to get with in pop and you're getting sound like we're arrested at. the airport cuddled spicer, spacing firearms charges linked to his bid to provide south african trade mercenaries to put down a local result. they were thrown out of the country, but it was, it seems by some ways understood that the media is a risk but can be turned. he had to deal with the bad publicity from this operation, which previously would have been completely undercover. but i suppose spices either genius or stupidity was to make it public and say officially, no, this was a contract. this is the contract i signed. recently, retired british can lead a band of messengers is safely back in this country. so has this put him off his new career as a hired gun? i am going to continue with this new new business of yours sand line international
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. well, i think we go to a number of lessons to learn from this particular episode. i think that we will continue to try and develop our business as long as we can do it in a sensible way. sand line eventually collapsed under the weight of bad publicity. was that a failure? in the short term, you could say that was not a successful company in terms of delivering an enormous amount of money to a shout and said, conversely, it launched him spice on a career where he was able to found what would then become significant possibility companies in the world mm hm.
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who, when 911 heard everything changed to the contractor content and the armed forces went up astronomically at this hour. american and coalition forces were in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, ideologically, republicans, my party wanted every single public function to be scrutinized, analyzed, evaluated, and if possible, privatized, general shinseki, the head of the u. s. army at the time, testified to congress and said, if we're going to do a rock, it's gonna take several $100000.00 us troops and very quickly, the rest of the bush administration react negatively. and he's absurd,
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that's crazy. it's not going to require those amount of troops, and they actually essentially drummed him out of the military. it turned out he was right. we did deploy several 100000 forces. it was just through private military. ah, so in the early days of iraq, it was a gold rush. you had companies coming out of nowhere in gwin blackwater. really like a cowboy while long last when nobody at any control. anybody doing anything with firearms in this country could say their private military company was an atm for these companies? well, the basic idea of a contractor versus recruiting training and supporting military events is the
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difference in hiring a prostate or getting married. so instead of a soldier who has an ex cost of a, you're now paying a contractor in a times $10.00. you're welcome. what has happened is that america has basically married a prostitute and has been active. paying them for a very long period is almost carriers with what it was good example, if you invite a country to connect a bit, a few things. but none of your iraqi left her to run a very low ship from using private military contractors for understandable to asked to using private military contractors. wholesale in my view took place without much
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debate and all everybody locked in contractors offer some gray area benefits to politicians. and everybody is concerned like do we have a 1000 boots the ground? nobody ever asks how many contractors there? there's don't really count boots on the ground with the u. s. military. i wanted to put 1000 books in the ground and there's 4 counseling contractors. it's a way of, you know, having a course of 5000, but without politically risk. ah, what they're shooting at you make a you? yes. yeah. with bank guy.
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did you get a skirt suit? part of it. my son brought up in ricocheted in his car with right with the private security companies had the sensitivity of a van from bull elephant civilians would often if not always get caught in the crossfire. ah. ringback what governments have always done because they would do 2 things at once. you fight and you win, hawks and mines. private industry companies did not do much company on the ground opening fight. they were very, very noticeable. they would play rock music,
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but you know, this was not, there was no subtlety. this was not a, even the military were more discreet than the prob, security companies. so they were, it was, they were very, very public slap in the face for the average iraq, you on a daily basis. it's a real problem for the military. so we felt the contractor presence in iraq in particular. but afghan too was becoming contrary to what mission was for the armed forces. therefore their presence was more dangerous than it was help. ah, well the panoramic no. certainly no borders applied to the keys
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these big organizations that are amalgamating and pulling all that data together. they're not looking at you as an individual necessarily the booze data being collected so much data that there's a real possibility of privacy violation. and that's something most of us wouldn't want to wells transparent, but we must live with permanent surveillance. oh, is your media reflection of reality? in the world transformed what will make you feel safer? isolation for community. are you going the right way? or are you being led? so direct. what is true? what is great?
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