North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un sent the United States a hospital
bill for Otto Warmbier, the young American college student who was
tortured to death by the regime.
According to reporting from Fox News, the bill was never paid.
The
U.S. received a $2 million hospital bill from the North Korean
government for the care of American Otto Warmbier, who fell into a coma
for unknown reasons while he was imprisoned in the country before he
died in the U.S. in 2017, Fox News has confirmed.
Pyongyang
authorities insisted the U.S. envoy sent to retrieve the University of
Virginia student sign a pledge to pay the bill before allowing
Warmbier’s comatose body to return to the United States, the Washington
Post reported Thursday. Sources familiar with the matter confirmed the
bill and the amount to Fox News.
Op-ed: Filling the Mainstream Media Void By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side
Patriots on American Political Radio
As we were all focused on Passover and Easter preparations and
celebrations, and as the fire at the Cathedral of Notre Dame
dominated the 24/7 news cycle, three other key news stories slowly
started making the rounds including last Friday's political bombshell
concerning former presidential candidate and now Utah Senator Mitt
Romney.
So let me start by saying that I volunteered and campaigned for
Romney twice...when he ran for the nomination against John McCain
and when he ran for the presidency against Barack HUSSEIN Obama.
Romney's message and platform were strong as well as his having
political experience as the Republican governor of a blue state. He
was business savvy and ever so handsome...the epitome of a loving
husband and family man. I worked hard as a campaign volunteer and
even got to watch Romney debate Obama at a special “invite only”
debate watching party. And while I felt he was not forceful enough
against Obama at certain points in that particular debate, I held out
hope that he'd pull off a presidential win...he truly was the better
candidate...the better man...for the job after all.
Never did I think Americans would be so misguided or foolish
enough to elect a community organizer, let alone an islamic condoner,
to the presidency of these United States. But then I never thought
the liberal media would be so successful in anointing a seemingly
politically inexperienced half-black man as America's supposed
“saviour-in-chief.”
And sadly, I too was fooled for the man I thought Mitt Romney was
back then has now morphed into nothing but the late RINO John
McCain's Senate replacement. And Romney is worse than McCain for
McCain's disdain for Donald Trump could be called a somewhat
“righteous stand” against Trump's uncalled for POW
comments. But Romney...an early critic of candidate Trump...put on a
grand show of pretending to mend fences when he was asked by now
President Trump to interview for the position of Secretary of
State...which fortunately he did not get.
Fool me once...shame on you. Fool me twice...shame on me. Fool me
three times...and it's time for me to set right a grievous wrong as
my head hangs in shame for ever having supported this man. And
why...because Romney never moved on from his anti-Trump
stance...it grew and festered as he became just another RINO come
home to the Senate to roost.
A RINO indeed for Mitt Romney could not keep his mouth shut or his
tweeting finger still after reading the redacted version of the
Mueller report. Choosing to criticize President Trump, his
administration, and the report itself, Romney, last Friday, tweeted
that he was “sickened” by the “dishonesty and
misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land
including the President.”
“Sickened” by what...that no evidence of “collusion”
either by Trump or his campaign was found...“sickened”
that no chargeable “obstruction of justice” was
found...“sickened” to such a degree that even proverbial “nice
guy” former AR Gov. Mike Huckabee felt he had to jump to Trump's defense by
saying that what made him “sick” was the thought that,
“Mitt Romney might have become president in 2016.” But Mike Huckabee is right...for
what Mitt Romney did was give the Democrats fodder to keep the
“collusion” now
morphing into “impeachment”
nonsense going...but maybe that was RINO Romney's intention all
along...payback for Trump's publicly criticizing him after losing to
Obama most likely. Any thing's possible in today's heated political
climate with Romney likely continuing to spew his anti-Trump
rhetoric.
Next up and coming on the heels
of the Notre Dame fire, the Indian Ocean island nation of Sri Lanka saw a
wave of eight early Sunday morning explosions rocking three Catholic
churches holding Easter services as well as three upscale tourist
hotels. At least 359 people were killed (as per the latest count) with 500+ more injured,
including at least two Americans (one being 40-year old Dieter Kowalski from
Denver CO) and eight British citizens among those listed as killed.
Now believed to be in response to last month's Christchurch, New Zealand mosque massacre, the well coordinated attacks, as per
Sri Lanka’s Defence Minister Ruwan Wijewardene, were carried out by Sri
Lankan “muslim extremists” from "National Thowheed
Jama'ath" (NTJ)... a local groupthat is both the fairly new
islamist faction of the two decades old less extremist group
Thableekh Jamaat, the group previously known for vandalizing Buddhist
statues, and who in 2016 saw one of its leaders being arrested for
“inciting racism.”
And with said attacks being highly suspected of having help from an “international
terror network”...to that affect ISIS' news agency Amaq announced earlier this week on Telegram (via the NAshir News Agency)
that the attacks in Sri Lanka were carried
out by ISIS fighters. Also of note is that "National Thowheed Jama'ath”has on numerous occasions not only threatened to kill Sri
Lankan nonbelievers but to bring islamic fundamentalism to the
country as well.
And to date over 40 arrests have already been made, and two of the
seven suicide bombers...including Mohamed Azzam Mohamed, who blew
himself up at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel's Taprobane Restaurant as
people were eating breakfast and Zahran Hashim, a well-known muslim
“preacher” who claimed, “Allah created this land for
Muslims”...have been identified as members of said goup. But to
make matters worse, local intelligence had received warnings a full
ten days prior to the attacks that “prominent churches”
could be the target of suicide bombers. In fact, "National Thowheed
Jama’ath" was specifically named in a police advisory to local
security services as one they believed posed a threat to Catholic
churches.
However, due to what he called “friction” within
opposing factions of the government leadership, Prime Minister Ranil
Wickremesinghe issued a statement saying that neither he nor his
cabinet ministers had been notified about those warnings so little to
nothing was done to keep the churches safe...safe from what Finance
Minister Mangala Samaraweera called “a well-coordinated attempt
to create murder, mayhem and anarchy.”
Mission accomplished I'd
say...mission accomplished because like within the different sects of
Christianity who are constantly at odds with each other over just whose
version of Christianity is the version Jesus intended...Sri Lanka has
also seen religious issues arising from its own 1983-2009 civil
war...a war between Hindu separatists from the minority Tamil ethnic
group vs. the Sinhalese ethnic Buddhist majority. And as long as
religious odds exist within a given country, islam will continue
making inroads into that country whether or not they had significant
numbers population wise, as now witnessed in Sri Lanka, a nation of
23 million people that currently is less than ten percent
muslim...less than ten percent now but whose numbers are rapidly
growing.
And as Sri Lanka starts to bury its dead, more bombs were discovered...bombs that thankfully did
not go off. Found by Sri Lankan police were 87 bomb detonators at
the capital of Colombo's main bus station, and on Monday a large bomb
was defused on an access road leading to the country's international airport.
So as the scale of the intent to do as much carnage as possible
becomes reality, Sri Lanka is being held hostage in fear of those who
truly are out to kill us all.
And lastly, a big news item this week saw President Trump again
standing strong not just against Iran herself but against Japan,
South Korea, Turkey, China, and India saying that they will no longer
be exempt from U.S. economic sanctions and could face economic
penalties themselves if they continue to import oil from Iran.
Announced in a televised news conference this past Monday by
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the decision not to reissue those
country's waivers when they expire this May 2nd, was made after
already having granted those countries extra time...as in eight
waivers...to find other oil suppliers. Being done to “bring
Iranian oil exports to zero” by
“squeezing Tehran’s government” of
even more much needed revenue...revenue that had been $50 billion a
year before the sanctions ...while at the same time trying to both
force political change in the islamic nation as well as trying to get
Iran to “rein in”
its military actions across the Middle East, most especially in
Syria.
However, while U.S. officials say
they don't expect to see any significant reduction in the actual
“supply of oil”
given production increases by other countries including Saudi Arabia
and the UAE...and with Saudi Energy Minister Khalid a-Falih saying
that his country "will coordinate with fellow oil
producers to ensure adequate supplies are available to consumers
while ensuring the global oil market does not go out of balance"...I
still must play “devil's advocate”
for a bit as we must be forewarned that this move could...and I only say
could...still lead to higher oil and gas prices at the pump...at
least temporarily...as sometimes prices have nothing to do with
“supply” but have everything
to do with simple “demand.”
And that “demand”
was reflected by Monday's global crude prices rising three percent in
Asia to more than $74 a barrel, the highest they've been since
October, as soon as word of what Trump was doing leaked out. And
let's not forget that this move...as rightful as we feel it may
be...will indeed draw the ire of some of our allies while at the same
time seeing a White House shuffling of some policy priorities,
including maybe putting the all-important, ongoing trade talks with
China and the garnering of China's assistance in helping to contain
Kim Jung-un's nuclear ambitions, on the back burner for a bit.
So while Italy, Greece, and Taiwan, three other countries also originally waivered in, have stopped importing oil from
Iran, the a fore mentioned five “big boys” have not. In
fact, those five have actually begun lobbying for said waivers
to be extended yet again no matter that Trump said “time's up.”
And as for our NATO (supposed) allyTurkey, they continue to claim that Iranian oil is
critical to meeting Turkey's energy needs and that as Iran's neighbors
they cannot completely cut economic ties or close its economy to
Iranian goods nor can Iran's economy be closed to Turkish goods.
Well obviously they can be or else President Trump would not be
doing what he is doing...as in cutting off the head of the snake
while its body withers and dies on the ground. A hoped for fitting
end to the mother of all snakes...Iran.
So there you have it...three of this week's top stories as we move
away from Notre Dame a bit...confident that it will be rebuilt...and back
we go to stories that do have a greater and more direct impact
on our country than does 850-year old Notre Dame.
Copyright @ 2019 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved. ********************************************************************************************************** For more political commentary please visit myRIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS partner Craig Andresen's blog The National Patriot to read his latest article,Collusion Delusion.
Friday, April 26th from 7 to 9pm EST on American Political Radio,RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS
Craig Andresen and Diane Sori discuss 'Filling the Mainstream Media Void'; 'Collusion Delusion'; and
important news of the
day.
This is quite a coup for the Trump administration. Best to keep him
far away from the Democrats. They would return him to the murdering
mullahs.
A senior Iranian military officer affiliated with the
country’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, has fled the Islamic
Republic with a cache of secret documents said to contain information on
Tehran’s military plans, according to reports.
Ali Nasiri, a former IRGC brigadier general who once headed Iran’s
counterintelligence operations, is reported to have fled Iran and
requested political asylum at a U.S. embassy in an unnamed Gulf country,
according to a report carried in Iran Commentary, an online news portal
that publishes information about Iran’s human rights abuses and illicit
activity.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, in an online video
Thursday, officially declared his candidacy for president in 2020,
capping off weeks of intrigue and media speculation.
He enters
a crowded field of Democratic contenders aiming to unseat President
Trump -- nearly 32 years after he announced his first campaign for
president. The campaign is Biden’s third for the White House, having
also unsuccessfully run in 1988 and 2008.
"The core values of this
nation, our standing in the world, our very democracy, everything that
has made America -- America -- is at stake. That’s why today I’m
announcing my candidacy for president of the United States," Biden
tweeted early Thursday.
With
the announcement, which followed months of deliberations, Biden becomes
a front-runner in an incredibly crowded field of Democratic
presidential contenders all vying to face off next year against Trump.
On Tuesday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dept. Commerce v. New York, the case against the Trump administration for adding a question about citizenship to the 2020 census.
According to those who watch SCOTUS closely and were in the room, it looks like the Trump administration is on the way to a win.
In
Supreme Court arguments on adding a citizenship question to the census,
all signs pointed to the usual 5-4 split, meaning that the court’s
conservative majority is poised to allow the question.
Ilhan Omar falsely claims “thousands” of Somalis killed during 1993 Black Hawk Down mission, adds “NotTodaySatan”
By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch
It’s hard to tell if she meant the American troops were Satan or the
person with whom she was conversing. Journalists should ask her, but of
course, we have no journalists. In his selective memory, he forgets to
also mention the thousands of Somalis killed by the American forces that
day! #NotTodaySatan https://t.co/wrFocrZymQ — Ilhan […] Read in browser »
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