this is no central plank support. dot com is gonna call them right now. if they stop tonight, the manny he always wants the impossible day. first, they 8 said to the government, police, public, you government b. they say similar to any is the all, please don't touch my, my private life. don't touch my business, don't touch my feet. and this is an impossible contradiction with every turn around that traffic circle. they're trying to get away from

the influx of contractors went largely uncontrolled by yosemite was it was disorganized non purpose. it just was too much going on in war zones. and there was no coordination really, between the companies a, the problem was that we had all of these different private military companies running around we'd, 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, but it didn't work out that way for can on tim spies that hit the headlines

a few years ago during the arms to africa fair involving his old company, sand line. but candles, fines and now has developed a thriving business in private security. and he recently won that monthly 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 older? i wouldn't advise people to go that if the measures in put in place for their protection all sound. mm hm. you said contract in iraq was to have received communication, coordination for all of the private security companies from the ground, with in effect. it meant that they were the general in charge of all of the private contracts. at that point, the u. s. military was the largest military presence in iraq. but if you added

together, all of the private military contractors spice was to be in charge of. the 2nd, which is unfortunate from 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,

with 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 sell africans and not america. there was, there was furious when you're applying for these contracts. your bid on, you know, 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. his job with b g 's, presence in iraq was relatively stand for you have one video which was posted on youtube from a huge is contract. i who is foreign a gun while playing rock music 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? said 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, this is nina rack 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 starting to be pulled out of the rocky field operations and the industry had to go to a very complicated reset. this companies had to realize that they weren't gonna get that level of money again. i'm so they had to offer different package of deals with that meant they would have to hire cheapest soldiers

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oh i i all work undertaken by ages is carried out to the highest standards of professional competence and integrity. our track record is extensive and our highly trained men and women are dedicated to supporting the mission and at hand with outstanding performance. when we 1st started into theater, we were briefed on peruvian and colombian guards, and the natural question you ask is, so what do you pay for these folks at the time? 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 of what some call it y y o gone. it's now vs provings in columbia. 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 forms? $250.00 a month. you know, i guess rhetorically. i don't expect an answer. can we 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 afraid, security guard. i mean, that's pretty inexpensive. i say that it sounds facetious, but it's really no. will you get what to pay for?

mm. in. mm hm. the original goal was not to bring soldiers or ex soldiers from the poorest countries on earth, but the u. s. bidding system requires that you pick the lowest bidder. so the became the status quo and iraq to have multiple layers of foreigners. you know, i reckon as his people for where they came from and who they fought for. so some guy would be with the colombian marines as a, i used to be with the marines in on the uganda. and as you know, came out of the, again, an army, the challenges that i was with when i spent the month of blackwater from pinochet's

private guard. and some of these countries are known for extremely brutal wars, whether it's columbia, sarah leon, 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, mass had specification and your cost is lower than you in the job with

or fibro, the ukraine continues unabated with the u. s. and u. k. taking the lead. however, not only for members are and or even ukraine is attempting to dampen expectations of an armed conflict with russia. will washington in london get their way? 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 ah, a company is self interest is different than national self interest. companies are problem maximizes what they do

. that's natural, except here, we're not creating toys. we're producing things that can result in wor, no, no, no, no. what do you do if you have somebody from the philippines working for an american private, all trade company in afghanistan, who kill somebody? what jurisdiction does that person fall under? we don't know. the international law such that it doesn't really have a category for arms civilians, so subway governments, including the british and the glass government decided to start creating international norms and standards of how these probability we should behave

with. ready ready contact was instigated or started by switzerland and the 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 it, they would not commit human rights atrocities or not commit 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 a table in switzerland and they agreed about good norms to aim for. ready her to contact you not work, the idea that a company would voluntarily confess crimes if committed abroad. why would they

do that? the reality is that most golf clubs have more enforcement mechanisms than these kind of documents. i and about 15 countries, i've been involved and programs to reintegrate children who are served in armed forces or it's a contradiction in terms on the one hand western countries have pump large sums of money into the reintegration of former child soldiers. but now we have governments like the u. s. supporting these 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.

ah, now i was, i tested this is, i was a child. i was was it my job professional job is his weapon. at one time window kits came in to our camp at kill a lot of crucial fancies. ours, on top of our look in that we are the exclusion is taking place. i think about swallowing when people are dying on the street, the explosion is sticking all over the city. and at any time how they're going to show how to ball or whatever exposure,

i think about my going to what happens. yeah, before. ah . 20 the brooks was in iraq. d, a 1st team for iraqi more stated and intended to need for force. i should very many member so dishes to walk. i mean what to have them insured on your machine. i don't know people running into come in came, didn't come fighting for what i would like to want to run and try to find out

how again, what's going on here. you know, this is not a good one because the one i just wish i had to make up with and they seem like an actor for well as not young people unfairly and have no jobs are desperate to feed themselves and their families and result is that it becomes harder and harder to ever find their way back into civilian life and a scene of violence wherever they go. well, we always remember one thing, i'm my stuff, my wife, when she, when i, when i have a wife one i should be in control when you are not in the work, it's a weapon because i'm full on turn off. which mean i can do

anything with the former child soldiers. i've been trained to take pride in their skill and their ability to, to kill people. i think it's a fiction 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,

i spend my life working to aid the rehabilitation and the regression of young people. and it pains me, i 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. private military firms. really poach, retired general officers and admirals from the armed forces because they have

connections in my case to read enemy. i formally haven't measured by ah, [000:00:00;00] i say that it shows that it's real know you get what you pay for me. ah,

the church street will continue to act for governance. and you're going to see the private company between engaging in warfare. me, companies that are interesting now, countries these companies to throw on our money these companies that allow stuff and fundamentally to assist in the democracy and your government takes action that you don't agree with. you can vote that government out if

a company or from your country is doing something. you disagree with a people carol, lot one dead soldier or dead marine shows up in this country the we start asking yourself, why did they die? why do, what would they fighting for? nobody bothers asked by the contractors. all a who cares? mean there's 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 line of euros. i'm on my their sacrifice

ah, win and get them in alaska. i'm not food. my doing kind of what our main hit them. yes ma'am. you come in and keep the handle. who did he got in on me? well, the needy god. oh, no one protest in the street civil contractors killed ah ah, country still exercises its foreign policy. the use of force and violence in these foreign regions is using proxies, contractors, 3rd country nationals, and in obscuring their role.

oh, you think that you can end up in iraq or somebody from sierra leone and up against it? it's really your money. it's your tax money doing it, but making sure that politicians doesn't trouble. ah. private military contractors make a decision to go to war a lot easier. ah, part of ending a war responsibly is standing by those who fought with. mm

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the 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 they'll be a hash for going on in the house, right? this is all smart city, is a city that using technology to make people's life easier to happier, collecting a lot of data to try to improve the way things are in theory. these big organizations that are now the mating and pulling all that data together. they're not looking at you as an individual, necessarily a similar stage 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 us with come up and say this expect us to believe it without showing a shred of evidence. that is actually true. the us state department spokesperson is grilled after refusing to prove claims that russia is preparing a full supply get stock as a pretext to invade ukraine. something there is no longer being branded as imminent as the white house seemingly phones down its war rhetoric. at least 6 children are killed in heavy fighting in northwest syria, while president biden, hales, the skill and bravery of american commandos, claiming they killed the leader of islamic states. the same location in the same