Saudi Arabia Sets Beheading Record While Using Twitter Spy To Catch Dissidents

Saudi Arabia is setting a new record this year by beheading more alleged criminals than ever. Also, Saudi Arabia was paying a pair of Twitter employees to hand over personal data of people who were critical of the regime. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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Saudi Arabia is setting a new record this year by beheading more victims, more criminals. Okay. The thing that struck me about this is here. What do, what did we just, how many billion dollars did we, did Biden just say we're gonna send to, we're gonna send to the Saudis? How many billion? Was it 20, $23 billion?

$23 billion, yeah.

$23 billion. We're gonna give 'em $23 billion in aggressive weapons, not defense weapons, but in aggressive weapons that are things like, well, they're, they're, they're F 35. It's the top, it's the top of our technology, high tech drones that are used for aggression, not support, not defense, excuse me.

Well, yeah. And, and you know, this is again, one of the biggest human, human rights abusers on the planet and we've known this for decades. Every administration, you know, for the last, well, pretty much my entire life has said, we're okay with your human rights abuses. You have that thing we love so much, oil, so we're not gonna call you out for any of this. And we have 120 people that have lost their heads in Saudi Arabia so far this year in just the first six months. And it's for things like participating in pro democracy.

41 of them.

Demonstrations.

41 people beheaded for participating in democratic types of protests, 37 for non-violent events to where the government won't even release what they beheaded that person for. These are the same people that Biden called ruthless pariah. It's this psycho, it's this psycho self appointed, unstable prince that's in charge of everything. And, and this is, this is what we're agreeing. Yeah, this is a good idea. Let's, let's give him $23 billion in weapons. Now you talked about oil. You, you've done some great stories, where you said it's not really just about oil. It's also about the weapons industry. That's where the big money is here. When we send $23 billion to say, look, we're gonna send you all the, the people who make the money on that is people like Raytheon.

Yeah.

You know, they, they, they love this. They, they don't mind that this guy's a ruthless psychopathic killer, do they?

No. No, absolutely not. In fact that, that works a little bit in their favor because they know, okay, this guy's unstable. He's gonna go attack everybody he can out there. The more missiles he uses, the more he has to come back and beg us to buy from us.

Yeah.

So we continue to make money. So we'll look the other way when you line up 30 people who were protesting, because they want actual rights in their country.

And beheads them.

Yeah. You cut their heads off with a sword. That's what they call put before the sword.

But how, how do you go from saying these are ruthless pariah to say, okay, ruthless pariah, we know you're psychopaths. We know Israel is right next door. We see what you're doing in Yemen. You are just leveling Yemen. But we're gonna give you more, not defensive weapons, these are aggressive attack kinds of weapons. This is a story I go, you see in the, you see in corporate media? No, of course not because MSNBC, CNN, you look at their, their, their shows at night, they're advertising Raytheon. Like, you know, let's go buy a missile. You tell me. All that is is they're buying access to MSNBC's talking heads. That's why they put all those war pimps on there. People who would go to war with entire world if we let 'em.

Well. And we actually, you know, found this story in the British media, I think it's important

Interesting.

To point out to people. So.

Interesting. You, you found this story. Good find.

Saudi Arabia's been paying a pair of Twitter employees to hand over personal data of people who are critical of the regime. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins joins me to talk about what's happening. Farron, we just did a story on the fact that this year Saudi Arabia.