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Saudi Arabia freezes new trade with Canada for urging activists' release, including women’s rights activists Samar Badawi and Nassima al-Sadah reuters.com/article/us-sau…
Saudi Arabia to withdraw all Saudi students studying at Canadian schools
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Saudi Arabia's state airline will suspend all flights to and from Toronto starting next week, amid a intensifying diplomatic row with Canada cnn.it/2KAHU2V
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Imagine being this willfully ignorant.
For Reference: www-mercurynews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.mercur…
Also for reference: nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna8…
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On the second episode of Hasan Minhaj’s new show, he highlights the role Saudi money plays in propping up Silicon Valley companies. Now @Netflix has removed the episode at the request of the Saudi government. ft.com/content/5121f0…
The episode was only pulled in the KSA.
"Clearly, the best way to stop people from watching something is to ban it, make it trend online, and then leave it up on YouTube."

Hasan Minhaj speaks out after Netflix pulls an episode of "Patriot Act" in Saudi Arabia. wapo.st/2CKVJLC
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Russia's domestic security agency says it has arrested U.S. citizen Paul Whelan on espionage charges. The FSB said that the American man detained in Moscow on Friday.
Spying charges carry a prison sentence of up to 20 years in Russia. cbsnews.com/amp/news/paul-…
Paul Whelan's lawyer tells NYT he hopes he can be part of a prisoner exchange with the US [for Butina] nytimes.com/2019/01/03/wor…
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💣Complicit💣

Let this sink in...

Kush urged Trump to stand by MBS, & argued that outrage over Khashoggi’s brutal murder “will pass, like the kidnapping of Lebanon’s PM & the killing of a busload of children by a Saudi airstrike.

📌WH had TS SIGINT in advance of killing.
💣Complicit2💣

Saudi Arabia is putting money in Trump’s pocket. Is that shaping U.S. policy?

"It certainly looks that way to me," Trump said as he departed from Joint Base Andrews. "It's very sad. Certainly looks that way."

📌Rumor has it MBS & Kush chat via WhatsApp! #SIGINT
💣Complicit3💣

📌CT:”Trump (& some adult family) negotiated a deal w/ the Saudis and the Emiratis for 3.6 billion to get rid of Iran nuclear deal & reimpose sanctions.

The payment was made in two installments.

📌The first last year & the second earlier in 2018”

#Complicit
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Saudi Arabia Timeline:
2016 JAN 2
Saudi Arabia announces the execution of 47 people, inclShia cleric Nimr Baqir Al-Nimr, over "terrorism charges" middleeastmonitor.com/20160102-saudi…

2016 DEC 1
OPEC to slash production as Saudi shoulders majority of burden middleeastmonitor.com/20161201-opec-…
2017 MAY 20
US & SA reach $110B+ arms deal, WH announces
Israeli minister expresses concern
middleeastmonitor.com/20170521-israe…

2017 MAY 22
Trump takes the first official direct flight from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to Tel Aviv, Israel
middleeastmonitor.com/20170518-trump…
2017 MAY 24
Qatari State News Agency hacked after it reported remarks purportedly by its ruler criticizing US FP after Trump's visit to SA

middleeastmonitor.com/20170524-qatar…
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It is all well & good that companies & lobbyists are reassessing #Saudi Arabia over reported murder of #JamalKhashogg. BUT! Where the fuck have all these people and firms been for decades? The violations of the #Saudi monarchy have never been a secret. nyti.ms/2CcsOjL
Glad to see people pay attention, finally, and I wish it hadn’t been over such a gruesome crime. I wish people and firms had started boycotting #Saudi royal family over its gender apartheid that affects all women there. Or the #Yemen war. Or jails full of activists. Or. And. Or.
This was my first oped about #Saudi Arabia for a US newspaper - ironically enough, The Washington Post. Fifteen schoolgirls had died in a fire because religious police wouldn’t let them out because the girls weren’t wearing a cloak and a headscarf washingtonpost.com/archive/opinio…
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1/ The #Saudi kidnapping of #Khashoggi reminds me of the kidnapping of #Hariri. It is meant to embarrass the other party, this time the gov of #Turkey, and provoke a diplomatic crisis. This is drug Cartel methods. It has no other goal than to assert power over the other.
2/ However, resorting to these methods to assert power in the political and international affairs sphere is always a sign of weakness and a sign of a power in crisis. #SaudiArabia
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#Saudi Arabia says #Canada's statement on the arrest of activists in the Kingdom is an unacceptable interference in its internal affairs, expels the Canadian ambassador and freezes all future trade. bbc.in/2vs6crl
"In her first public response to Saudi Arabia's actions, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Monday: 'Let me be very clear ... Canada will always stand up for human rights in Canada and around the world, and women's rights are human rights'." aljazeera.com/news/2018/08/s…
Direct investment was already down in #Saudi Arabia after some of the recent disturbances; this spat with #Canada is unlikely to help. on.wsj.com/2OgITYl
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BREAKING: Saudi Arabia recalls its ambassador to Canada, considers Canadian ambassador persona non grata. Freezes all new trade and investment transactions with Canada: Saudi Press Agency.
Comes days after Canadian government said it was 'gravely concerned' about arrests of activists in Saudi Arabia, including sister of jailed blogger Raif Badawi, and called for their release. Background: cbc.ca/1.4770268
Latest on Canadian relations with Saudi Arabia:
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