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RICHARD GREENE’S SWASHBUCKLER FILMS

Richard Greene is best remembered for his portrayal of Robin Hood on television from 1955-1960 but he starred in several swashbuckler movies before his success on the small screen.

THE DESERT HAWK (1950) – This fun but hilariously inauthentic Arabian actioner starred Yvonne De Carlo as Scheherazade, whose father is forcing her into a marriage to the evil Prince Murad. Word of the lavish wedding reaches Omar the Blacksmith (Richard Greene) who is secretly the roguish bandit leader called the Desert Hawk.

Planning to steal the treasure trove of wedding gifts at the affair, the Desert Hawk disguises himself as Murad and marries Scheherazade before abandoning her by making off with the priceless gifts. He is aided by his two bizarrely miscast colleagues – Jackie Gleason as Aladdin and Joe Besser as Sinbad. (?)

The real Murad is furious about the theft, so he has his men slaughter some innocents and blame it on Omar and his band in order to justify an all-out war against the Desert Hawk. Scheherazade realizes how vile the real Murad is and escapes him disguised as a slave girl.

Omar recognizes the “wife” he ran out on and buys her as a harem girl at auction. Amid much action, the pair continue defying the villainy of Murad until the inevitable happy ending. Rock Hudson appears as Ras in this 77-minute flick. Future Johnny Carson Tonight Show producer Freddy De Cordova directed.  Continue reading

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NEWS ROUNDUP: MARCH TWENTIETH

End this week with a current events roundup from  Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

TRUMP GETS JAPAN, THE NETHERLANDS, BRITAIN, FRANCE, ITALY AND GERMANY TO AGREE TO HELP SECURE THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ. This despite their previous claims that they would not.

DEMOCRATS CONTINUE THEIR ABSURD ATTEMPTS TO LABEL IRAN A “FOREVER WAR” WHILE IGNORING THE UKRAINE WAR – WHICH STARTED WITH JOE BIDEN’S REMARK TO PUTIN THAT A “MINOR INCURSION” INTO UKRAINE WOULD BE ACCEPTABLE – AND WHICH HAS BEEN GOING ON SINCE 2022.

PROBE FINDS THAT FACULTY MEMBERS ARE FUELING ANTISEMITISM ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES. Democrat politicization of the “educational” (LMAO) system needs to end.

OREGON SCHOOL PRINCIPAL WHO CELEBRATED CHARLIE KIRK’S ASSASSINATION JUST SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS IN PRISON FOR POSSESSING AND SHARING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. Democrats in the educational system have replaced Catholic priests in the public consciousness when it comes to scandals involving children. 

STATE OF WASHINGTON SPECIAL ED TEACHER CHARGED WITH RAPING A TEN-YEAR-OLD STUDENT – AND FILMING THE RAPES. The rapes allegedly happened up to “five times per day.” Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

IN DEMOCRAT-HELD CALIFORNIA, EVEN MORE HOSPICE FRAUD HAS BEEN UNCOVERED – THIS TIME BY CBS. Continue reading

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MARCH EIGHTEENTH NEWS ROUNDUP

 Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog is here with a mid-week current events roundup.

U.S. SENATE ADVANCES THE SAVE ACT TO ENSURE ELECTION INTEGRITY ON A PROCEDURAL VOTE. Now it faces full debate on the Senate floor. * AND REMEMBER, REQUIRING I.D. TO VOTE IS ALREADY THE POLICY IN EUROPE AND MANY, MANY OTHER NATIONS so don’t buy the Democrat nonsense about it being “voter suppression.” More HERE.

FREQUENTLY DEPORTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WITH LONG CRIMINAL RECORD NOW ARRESTED FOR SHOVING TWO MEN IN FRONT OF A SUBWAY TRAIN. More HERE. Needless to say, Democrat-run New York is threatening to release him.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT GANG MEMBER IN ALABAMA CHARGED WITH MURDERING A WOMAN, HER DAUGHTER AND HER TWO-YEAR-OLD SON. Democrats will be canonizing him any day now. 

TRUMP EFFECT: INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION ROSE EVEN HIGHER THAN EXPECTED IN FEBRUARY.

MASSIVE “MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN” RALLY IN SUPPORT OF PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THE IRAN STRIKES.

REPUBLICAN ANDREW RICE DEFEATS DEMOCRAT OPPONENT IN VIRGINIA SPECIAL ELECTION.

DEMOCRAT PROPAGANDIST JOY REID MAKES IMBECILIC CLAIM THAT WOMEN IN AMERICA HAVE IT “ONLY MARGINALLY BETTER” THAN WOMEN IN IRAN. Privileged one-percenter Democrat women love to pretend that in order to hide their cowardice when it comes to Islam’s treatment of women. Continue reading

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NEWS ROUNDUP: MARCH SIXTEENTH

Time for another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog here in an America where last night saw the most callous and uncaring bloated rich pigs in the world refusing yet again to donate their $350,000 per nominee Swag Bags to charity. Nothing that such privileged one percenters have to say is worth anything.

MOTHER OF WOMAN MURDERED BY AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT DUE TO DEMOCRAT POLICIES SPEAKS OUT.

DEMOCRAT-RUN FAIRFAX COUNTY REFUSES TO TURN OVER TO ICE AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WHO SEXUALLY ABUSED AT LEAST NINE STUDENTS. “Illegal immigrants uber alles” remains the Democrat motto.

IN MINNESOTA, YET ANOTHER ELECTION OFFICIAL ADMITS THAT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS VOTE IN STATES THAT GIVE THEM DRIVER’S LICENSES. The SAVE Act is direly needed.

DEMOCRAT PARTY

DEMOCRAT POLICY IN VIRGINIA THAT PREVENTS COLLEGES FROM ASKING ABOUT AN APPLICANT’S CRIMINAL HISTORY OR DENYING THEM ADMISSION BASED ON CRIMINAL HISTORY ENABLED THE OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY SHOOTER MOHAMED JALLOH. More blood on Democrat hands because of their insane policies.

ANTHROPIC DONORS GAVE NEARLY ALL OF THEIR TWO HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS IN POLITICAL DONATIONS TO DEMOCRATS. That is NOT “politically neutral.”

DEMOCRAT CHUCK TODD GETS CLOBBERED ON X FOR HIS INCREDIBLY STUPID QUESTION.

JURY CONVICTS ANTIFA TERRORISTS. Remember how many years Democrats spent trying to convince the public that Antifa didn’t exist?

DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET NPR TRIES WHITEWASHING THE MICHIGAN JIHADIST’S FAMILY. Continue reading

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FLASHBACK: SOME OF THE PREVIOUS TIMES THAT ANTI-TRUMP FOOLS FELL TO PIECES AND PRETENDED HIS ACTIONS WERE THE END OF THE WORLD

The lying, ignorant, uninformed and emotionally unstable zealots who spend their every waking moment hating President Donald Trump haven’t changed. They still exaggerate everything into Apocalypse of the Week stories like they did during his first term. And like all these previous lies, time will no doubt prove this week’s anti-Trump lies wrong, too. 

FLASHBACKS

JANUARY 31st, 2017 – DEMOCRATS HYSTERICALLY OVERREACT TO PRESIDENT TRUMP’S NINETY-DAY IMMIGRATION HALT FROM SEVEN NATIONS.

JANUARY 24th, 2017 – DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS CAUGHT LYING BY CLAIMING THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP REMOVED A WHITE HOUSE BUST OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

JANUARY 23rd, 2017 – ANTI-TRUMP LOONS CLAIM PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL DO THINGS THAT ARE FAR BEYOND ANY PRESIDENT’S ACTUAL POWERS. Trump-haters are brainwashed enough that they would probably believe he might invalidate the law of gravity if media outlets told them to.

JANUARY 7th, 2017 – DEMOCRATS STILL PUSHING ABSURD RUSSIAN COLLUSION CLAIMS ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP. Continue reading

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MARCH THIRTEENTH NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog is here with another current events roundup in a world where Democrats and war criminal Vlad Putin have both expressed their “unwavering support for Tehran” and its regime of Mad Mullahs. (Meanwhile, Joe Biden’s invitation to Putin for a small incursion into Ukraine caused a war that has been going on since 2022.)

DEMOCRAT SENATOR JOHN FETTERMAN COURAGEOUSLY SPEAKS OUT ON HOW THE DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET THE NEW YORK TIMES PROVIDES DISTORTED IRAN COVERAGE.

MARLOW ON DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET CNN’S BLATANTLY FALSE STORIES DEFENDING IRAN-ALLIGNED TERRORISTS. More HERE.

EVEN THIS FORMER CLINTON OFFICIAL ADMITS THAT THE “IRAN THREAT WAS GROWING. OTHER PRESIDENTS DIDN’T DO ENOUGH.” 

DR. DONELL HARVIN, FORMER D.C. INTELLIGENCE CHIEF, STATES TRUMP IS RIGHT ABOUT HOW AT LEAST ONE THOUSAND SIX-HUNDRED UNACCOUNTED FOR IRANIANS CROSSED THE BORDER UNDER JOE BIDEN’S REFUSAL TO ENFORCE IT.

POLL: EIGHTY-SIX PERCENT OF REPUBLICANS SUPPORT PRESIDENT TRUMP’S IRAN ACTIONS DESPITE DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS CLAIMING TRUMP LOST THEIR SUPPORT.

MELANIA DOCUMENTARY DEBUTS ON AMAZON PRIME AS THE NUMBER ONE MOVIE IN AMERICA.

PRESIDENT TRUMP HOSTS CELEBRATION OF WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH.

TRUMP Rx PROVIDES THE PHARMACEUTICAL REFORM NEEDED BY THE WORKING CLASS BUT ANTI-TRUMP PSYCHOPATHS AVOID USING IT. Trump Derangement Syndrome is pathetic.

OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY SHOOTER MOHAMED JALLOH WAS PREVIOUSLY CONVICTED OF SUPPORT FOR ISLAMIC TERRORISM.

UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLICIES THE U.S. TRADE DEFICIT HAS DROPPED BY FIFTY-SEVEN POINT SIX PERCENT. Continue reading

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THE ADVENTURES OF LIEUTENANT PETROSINO (1912) SILENT FILM ABOUT THE REAL-LIFE DETECTIVE

THE ADVENTURES OF LIEUTENANT PETROSINO (1912) – This 47-minute silent movie was a rushed look at the career of New York City Police Detective Joseph Petrosino, who specialized in fighting organized crime. I meant to cover Petrosino years ago, but other topics kept taking priority.

Petrosino has become all but forgotten here in 2026, but he was once so popular that hundreds of thousands attended his funeral, which was declared a holiday in New York. He was murdered by organized crime in 1909, and his posthumous fame made him the hero of Dime Novels like old west figures Buffalo Bill Cody and others.

I’ll do more detailed examinations of Joseph Petrosino in the near future, but for now I will review this 1912 flick while peppering in a few notes about the man’s real-life saga which was far too broadly presented on the big screen.   

THE REEL PETROSINO – Still in uniform, Joseph has made a name for himself as a tough cop capable of dealing with Italian gangs like the Black Hand, the Mafia and the Camorra. When Mafia bank robbers humiliate a pair of policemen who try taking them in, the storied Petrosino is sent for.

     He quickly finds the gang, subdues them and drags two of them in to be booked as the others flee. The arrested criminals rat out their colleagues. That night at the dinner table, Joe brags to his wife Adelina about his exploits. 

THE REAL PETROSINO – Born in 1860, Joseph Petrosino joined the New York City Police Department as a uniformed cop in 1883. He made excellent use of his fluency in Italian to solve crimes in Italian-American neighborhoods that were easy prey for organized gangs from the Old Country. Continue reading

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NEWS ROUNDUP FOR MARCH ELEVENTH

It’s a mid-week current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

IRAN EXPERT LISA DAFTARI ADDS HER VOICE TO THOSE POINTING OUT THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP DID NOT START A NEW WAR, HE IS ENDING THE WAR IRAN STARTED. Aaron Flint agreed HERE

URBAN WARFARE SCHOLAR STATES THAT IRAN CONFLICT IS NOT A “FOREVER WAR” LIKE IRAQ BECAME UNDER THE REPULSIVE GEORGE W. BUSH.

MUSIC VIDEO: DEATH TO KHAMENEI.

EVEN MORE FIGURES ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP’S TAX CUTS PRODUCING LARGER TAX REFUNDS FOR WORKING CLASS VOTERS. Just like during his first term, but anti-Trump loons ignored the facts then and now to lie that the tax cuts only help “the rich.”

NBC POLL: ICE HAS HIGHER APPROVAL RATING THAN DEMOCRAT PARTY, AS DOES PRESIDENT TRUMP OVER AOC, KAMALA HARRIS AND OTHER DEMOCRATS. More HERE. And HERE.

DR. MEHMET OZ EXPOSES EVEN MORE OBAMACARE FRAUD.

DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLED OUT FOR “IGNORING MILLIONS OF IRANIANS THRILLED WITH THE DEATH OF KHAMENEI” SO THEY CAN PUSH THEIR ANTI-TRUMP BIAS.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT JOSE MARTELL-ARIAGA ARRESTED FOR FIFTY-SIX CHILD SEX CRIMES GETS BOOKED IN DEMOCRAT-RUN CHARLOTTE AREA AS A “WHITE MALE” SO DEMOCRATS CAN CONTINUE TRYING TO SKEW CRIME STATISTICS TO MATCH THEIR POLITICAL PARTY’S DISTORTIONS

DEMOCRAT PARTY

PRIVILEGED WHITE DEMOCRAT WOMEN FORM GROUP TO TARGET ICE AGENTS.

DEMOCRAT-RUN CHICAGO TEACHER’S UNION PRIORITIZES THEIR POLITICAL DEMONSTRATIONS OVER ACTUALLY TEACHING THEIR STUDENTS TO READ. Democrat politicization of the “educational system” (LMAO) continues. Continue reading

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MARCH NINTH NEWS ROUNDUP

 Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog is back with another current events roundup from an America where Ukrainiacs are still trying to pretend that the regime in Iran isn’t at least as bad as crazed war criminal Vlad Putin’s regime.

FORMER IRANIAN POLITICAL PRISONER KIAN TAJBAKHSH POINTS OUT THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS WORKING TO END THE WAR THAT IRAN HAS BEEN WAGING AGAINST AMERICA SINCE 1979. More HERE.      TAJBAKHSH ALSO DISCUSSES HOW THE MONEY THAT OBAMA SUBSERVIENTLY PAID TO IRAN FINANCED TERRORISM

DEMOCRAT HENRY CUELLAR COURAGEOUSLY AGREES THAT IRAN HAS BEEN AT WAR WITH AMERICA SINCE 1979 AND IT WAS TIME TO STRIKE BACK.

IRANIAN OPERATIVE ASIF MERCHANT FOUND GUILTY OF PLOTTING TO KILL AMERICAN OFFICIALS INCLUDING PRESIDENT TRUMP.

ALFREDO ORTIZ AMONG THOSE PROMOTING TRUMP’S WORKING CLASS FAMILIES TAX CUTS. The greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime. 

ICE ARRESTS MORE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FOR MURDER, CHILD RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULTS ON WOMEN.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN IDAHO ARRESTED FOR TRAFFICKING CHILDREN FOR SLAVE LABOR AND POSSIBLY MORE. People who are like Renee Good and Alex Pretti support that over ICE. 

IN DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY STATE” MARYLAND, FOUR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT MEMBERS OF MS13 INDICTED FOR MURDERING FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD. As always, victims get no “sanctuary” under Democrats – only the perpetrators do.

NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS UPHOLDS TRUMP’S PRESIDENTIAL AUTHORITY TO SUSPEND RESETTLEMENT.           SEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT SMACKS DOWN ANOTHER LOWER COURT JUDGE WHO RULED AGAINST ICE. Continue reading

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FLASHBACK: HEROIC WOMEN FIGHTING MUSLIM OPPRESSION

Given all the heroic women in Iran and elsewhere who are defying theocratic oppression while shaming the cowardly white Democrat women of America who think cosplaying in Handmaid’s Tale outfits is “daring”, here are several women who demonstrate REAL courage. 

FROM SEPTEMBER FIFTH, 2019 – 

Natasha Fatah

NATASHA FATAH

And we have more members of the real-life League of Extraordinary Women! Reporter NATASHA FATAH, who covers stories that privileged white Western leftists refuse to cover. ALINEJAD MASIH, the woman behind the #WhiteWednesdays campaign for Iranian women’s rights. And SABA KORD AFSHARI, who was sentenced to 24 years in prison by Iran for removing her hijab in public. You know … those same hijabs that condescending white leftist women LOVE to wear to pretend they’re showing solidarity with Muslim women.

FOR THE LINK TO THEIR STORY PLUS MANY OTHER COURAGEOUS WOMEN HEROICALLY FIGHTING MUSLIM MISOGNY AND OPPRESSION SEE BELOW:

For Natasha, Alinejad and Saba click HERE 

For Raheel Raza click HERE

For Shams Bandar click HERE

For Asra Nomani click HERE

For Nadine al Budair click HERE

For Anni Cyrus click HERE

For Nonie Darwish click HERE

For Qanta Ahmed click HERE Continue reading

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