somebody had mcginnis the commissioner about potential legal challenges from so meant the states no confirmation on that as of yet. but it does have to go before the leaders of the 27 members of the european union. once it gets passed there, which it looks like it will, it goes to the european parliament where more than half of any piece have to vote in favor of it. right now it does seem like it would squeak by not looking at probably quite a few months. so before we see this new rules come into place and we see gas or some gas projects and nuclear power labeled as green energy projects by the european union. what are so for now? my name is peter scott, and i'll be back again in 30 minutes. ah . as long as humans are at the end of the day, self interested, you can pretty well predict which way bitcoin is going. and the fact that nations

will make it legal tender and now be a hassle. are going on in the house, raise to manage it. always once the impossible day. first day 8 said to the government, police, bob, a new government b. they say similar to any italy, or please don't touch my might and private my phone patch, my business don't touch my freedom. and this is an impossible contradiction with every turnaround and traverse. circle. with

for the influx of contractors went largely, uncontrolled by yosemite was disorganized non purpose, it just was too much going on in war zones. and there was no coordination really between the companies. but the problem was that we had all of these different private military companies running around we, we'd outsourced too quickly. they weren't coordinated both in contract terms, but also an on the ground operational terms. so what is your answer to a problem of outsourcing? outsource more, we outsourced it to a private military company to coordinate the seem to be ideal for you as company was a huge contract. it was half a $1000000.00 or just under that and was just soon the one of the large big american companies would win it. and it didn't work out that way. ah, paneled him spies that hit the headline 2 years ago during the army to africa fair

involving his old company, sand line, but channels, fines and now has developed a thriving business in private security. and he recently won that month's a 1000000 pound contract. well tim spices with me now. tim. good morning. what's your summary of the situation in terms of chaos or lauren over? i would advise people to go that if the measures in put in place for their protection are sound. mm hm. you said contract in iraq was to oversee the communication coordination for all of the private security companies on the ground with in effect, it meant that they were the general in charge of all the private contracts. at that point, the u. s. military was the largest military presence in iraq together,

all of the private military contractors, spices effectively in charge of the 2nd largest, unfortunate. mm. spicer is a fairly well known figure in british political and media circles. mm hm. but at the time of the award of the contract for iraq, it was awarded by a on logistics contracting sell in virginia, not in iraq by a group of essentially acquisition bureaucrats who had no experience with the private military industry. no knowledge of the different players. and referred to him as that british guy from, with

the, the world of private security contractor, when they heard that this company called aegis one this contract and that the people that were working for him were so africans, and not america. there was, there was period when you're applying for these contracts, your bid will include you and your businesses personal history. it doesn't say, you know, by the way, we were involved in this international controversy that almost caused a foreign minister of job b, g 's prisons in iraq was relatively stand free of one video which was posted on youtube for each is contract i who is following that gun while playing rock music with

ah love with no legal actions. what type of what do your weapons in this battle in iraq? for me it's, it's the ability to coordinate and, and continue to help the reconstruction effort. ah, very rapidly, he just became a huge company and it made tears. why sort of extremely healthy, non majority of americans now think it was a mistake to go to war in iraq. early in the iraq war, the president stood before a banner that said, mission accomplished 3 and a half years later, the debate is back over why the u. s. as in iraq, in the 1st place,

public support for the war is falling. more americans want the troops to come home in a brief ceremony on a base on the edge of baghdad, the united states took down the flag of its command here to mark the end of the military mission. the u. s. money was starting to be pulled out of the rocky field refreshes and the industry had to go through a very complicated reset. this companies had to realize that they weren't gonna get that level of money again. and so they had to offer different package of deals with that meant they would have to hire cheapest soldiers

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and i'm playing off memory self, but i'm pretty good at that. it was about $1000.00 to $1200.00. and then, oh, i don't know, 6 months a year ago, it became a garden guards at about $800.00 a month. and we'd ask the question of security companies because of the lowest price, technically acceptable. rushed to the bottom is what some call it y y o gone. it's now vs provings in columbia county. so we don't have a chance to get the award unless we use a guidance because there are $2.00 to $400.00 less. and now on this most recent trip, the company that is winning all the awards that had this was 1st i'd heard of, well, well we've got a good strategy. we're using sierra leonean. so you asked the question so, so what are we paying for me? but $250.00 a month. you know, i guess rhetorically, i don't expect can answer and you can go a little lower. can we find someone? it's like, we'll do it for boarding room. you know, that has such a terrible country that maybe they'll just go out of the country and be a free security guard. i mean,

that's pretty inexpensive. i say that it sounds facetious, but it's real. know you get what you pay for. ah, i i the original goal was not to bring soldiers or soldiers from the poorest countries on earth, but the u. s. meeting system requires that you pick the lowest bidder. so the became the status quo and iraq to have multiple layers of foreigners, iraqi people, for where they came from. one who they fought for so. so that would be with the colombian marines. and i say i used to be with range in the uganda. and as you know,

came out of the, again, an army of the chileans that i was with when i spent the month of blackwater or from pinochet's private guard. and some of these countries are known for extremely brutal wars, whether it's columbia sierra leone. and there's not a lot of discussion about where did your letters so long as you are in the army and you meet certain criteria. and sometimes you don't have to be in the army to meet this criteria. so the u. s. system and of course, any business is going to put out a specification. if you can match that specification and your costs is lower than you in the job. 031, you know, they directly we sell advertised as content to us and decide who sees what content when, and how much of it. facebook claims that these algorithms are there to learn about

our specific preferences. actually, this is untrue. they are shaping preference. if tomorrow the person finds a fake point where the video, when it's saying the last, then this content ranks. huh. you know at least 20 percent or maybe even 40 percent . oh good. that's true. yeah. was a very dangerous thing. mm hm. ah. so you cut your cost, you make more profit, you get the soldier that you want, but you also majorly dilute the professionalism and the effectiveness of those. so a

company is self interest, is different than national self interest. companies are problematic. what they do natural, except here we're not creating toys. are producing things that result in war. the what do you do if you have somebody from the philippines working for an american, having the company in afghanistan, who tell somebody what jurisdiction does that person fall under? we don't know international law such that it doesn't really have a category for arms civilians the so several governments including the british and the government,

decided to start creating international norms and standards of how these prognostic . we should behave inertia kind of contact was instigated or started by switzerland and international community. a group of companies in n, joe's and states got together. and they formulated a sort of a self regulatory car to contact these companies. so companies would sign up to this code promising they would not violate that they would not commit human rights atrocities are not committed, war crimes, etc. so you can point to wow, representatives of a couple of nations and oh, by the way, the private military themselves got around the table in switzerland and they agreed

about good norms to aim for her to contact you not work. the idea that a company would voluntarily confess it's committed abroad. i just, why would they do the reality is that most golf clubs have more enforcement mechanisms than these kind of documents do. ah, and about 15 countries, i've been involved and programs to reintegrate children who are served an armed forces. it's a contradiction in terms on the one hand western countries of pump large sums of money into the reintegration of former child soldiers. but now we have governments like the u. s. supporting the so called security companies that recruit people and continue their exposure to violence and cement their identities as perpetrators of

violence as soldiers that make it impossible to ever reintegrate into civilian life . while i was in a distant ccsi, i says, i was a child. i was was my job professional, joe is his weapon. ah! at one time window kits came into our camp killer. laura crucial, francis. i was in touch with tara looking now. we had a exclusion has taken place. i think about suing when people are dying on the

street. the explosion is sticking out all over the city. and at any time how to going to show how to bomb or what shave express. i think about my going to what happens. yeah before. ah, with the 5 teams what iraqi demonstrated and and added to the full force a sure. does anybody remember so deceased. well, i mean what to have them in should i know

a lot of people running income gum fighting for what i like to watch around in try to for anita. ah. i feel easy. i did. i don't, you know, it's not a good one that goes to one douglas and i'm just as makes me a check up with the issues. ready it may seem like an actor free, well, it is not young people unfairly on have no jobs. they're desperate to feed themselves and their families and result is that it becomes harder and harder to ever find their way back in the civilian life. and a may plant seeds of violence wherever they go. well, with weapons, always remember one thing i'm to myself, my wife will say when i, when i have a white one, i sure would you in control when you are not in the west?

it's a weapon because i'm control which mean i can do anything with the former child soldiers have been trained to take pride in their skill and their ability to, to kill people. i think it's affection to claim that they are somehow stable, that they can self regulate as well known that young people who have extensive history of violence and being fed drugs and manipulated over time they develop problems of impulsivity high levels of aggression. it becomes very difficult to change the mindset. it's spacious to say that they've been carefully selected or that they're, that it's safe to hand them

a gun and expect them to do a quote, professional job. ah, you know, i spend my life working to aid the rehabilitation and the regression of young people and it pains me see my own government supporting the behavior so called security companies. you know, we pride ourselves on being a moral people trying to do the right thing. what we're doing is we're exploring people using young people who've been child soldiers, deliberately sending them into the jaws of combat and further violence. nothing could be worse for these young people. nothing could be worse for security. me as a close connection between this industry and policymakers.

me is private military firm. this really poach retired general officers and admirals from the armed forces because they have connections in my case. and i mean, i only have the bathroom by spreading. mm . ah ah ah, it's real, don't you get what to pay for? mm.

ah. trucks judging street will continue to act for governance. you're going to see private companies literally engaging in warfare. these are companies that are interesting out. countries data companies that would throw on our money these companies that did allow stuff, same fundamental, if your citizen of democracy and your government takes action that you don't agree with, you can vote that government out if i company or from the old countries doing something

you disagree with please. ah ah people carroll lot one or a dead soldier or dead marine shows up in this country. we start asking yourself, why did they die? why do what were they fighting for? nobody bothers asked by the contractors. all who cares? mean there is nobody going to die and come home in a body bag at denver, or dover, or whatever. ah, every american who serves,

joins and unbroken wine of euros. i am awed by their sacrifice ah, win and get them in look and i haven't done. i've looked on my food yet. i do intend to put our ming had them coming to them. you will come in and keep the handle. who did he got it on me? what the needy god ah, there's no one protest in the street, civil contractors kill ah ah, country still exercises its foreign policy, the use of force and violence in these 4 regions. it is using proxies, contractors,

3rd country nationals, and in obscuring their role. oh ah, you think that you get somebody from here earlier than that? it's really your money. it's your tax money doing it, but making sure the politicians are in trouble. ah military contractors make a decision to go to war a lot easier. ah, that's part of ending a war responsibly. his standing by those who fought it. the

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