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DEADBEAT AT DAWN (1988) ULTRAVIOLENT INDIE FILM

DEADBEAT AT DAWN (1988) – Four years in the making, Deadbeat at Dawn is rightfully called America’s Street Fighter – as in the 1974 Sonny Chiba movie, NOT the later video game. Writer and director Jim Van Bebber also starred in this 81-minute film as street gang leader Goose. 

That antihero wields a self-taught bone-crushing, blood-spurting, throat-ripping mongrelized form of martial arts that makes Sonny Chiba’s beatdowns in Street Fighter look almost gentle by comparison.

Audiences not only wince at the violence in Deadbeat at Dawn, they thrill to the stunts that Van Bebber and his collaborators were able to pull off without the benefit of professional stuntmen or fight choreographers.

The risks taken by our auteur and his cast embody the ballsy guerilla filmmaking spirit as surely as Jorg Buttgereit’s efforts on both sides of the Berlin Wall in the early 1980s. The makeup and special effects for the butcher’s shop of injuries and dismemberments suffered by various characters are more like horror films than action flicks. Continue reading

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SEPTEMBER FIRST ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Here’s a Monday current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

CHICAGO’S DEMOCRAT MAYOR SIGNS ORDER TO PROTECT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN THE CITY AND OBSTRUCT ENFORCEMENT OF IMMIGRATION LAWS. “Illegal immigrants uber alles” is still the Democrat motto.

HUFFINGTON POST AMONG THE DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS WHO WERE CLAIMING PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS DEAD ONLY TO BE PROVEN WRONG BY HIS SATURDAY GOLF OUTING AND MORE. I will point out again that anti-Trump loons need professional help.

ANOTHER REMINDER ABOUT THE SHOWBOATING ANTI-TRUMP JUDGES WHO OVERSTEP THEIR AUTHORITY.

LABOR DAY 2025 OBSERVED UNDER DONALD TRUMP, THE GREATEST PRESIDENT FOR THE WORKING CLASS AND THE POOR DURING MY LIFETIME. More HERE.

UNDER TRUMP’S POLICIES, LABOR DAY WEEKEND GAS PRICES ARE AT THEIR LOWEST POINT IN FIVE YEARS.

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: AUGUST TWENTY-NINTH

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog does another current events roundup.

ICE ARRESTS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT PEDOPHILE FOUND LIVING INSIDE A CHILDREN’S DAYCARE CENTER IN DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY” STATE CALIFORNIA. As usual, perpetrators get “sanctuary” but not the public. More HERE.

MEXICO’S PRESIDENT POINTS OUT THAT BILL CLINTON DEPORTED MORE MEXICANS THAN TRUMP HAS. If so, that’s because Clinton didn’t have pathetic District Judges overstepping their authority by trying to block his every move and requiring months-long appeals to higher courts.

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLICIES CAUSE THE ECONOMY TO SOAR HIGHER THAN EXPECTATIONS. More HERE.

CONSUMER PRICES FALL AND INFLATION STYMIED.

MINNEAPOLIS POLICE CHIEF: MANY PARENTS AND TEACHERS WANT POLICE OFFICERS BACK IN SCHOOLS. He also says a day doesn’t go by that they don’t need outside help HERE. It’s like Democrats with their defunding and other attacks on police plus no-cash bail have left the cities they run in dire straits.

DHS HEAD KRISTI NOEM: OVER FIVE THOUSAND ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CAUGHT IN DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY” CITY LOS ANGELES.

DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN JOHN LARSON CALLS FOR “UPRISING” AGAINST ICE ENFORCEMENT OF IMMIGRATION LAWS. Even now, it is STILL “Illegal immigrants uber alles” with Democrats.

WINSOME SEARS’ PRIVILEGED WHITE DEMOCRAT OPPONENT ABIGAIL SPANBERGER VOWS TO TURN VIRGINIA INTO A SANCTUARY STATE FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. More HERE.

DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM STILL IGNORING LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY STANDARDS FOR TRUCK DRIVERS. See above. How many more have to die, Gavin? Continue reading

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SWASHBUCKLER MOVIE: GIANT OF THE EVIL ISLAND (1965)

GIANT OF THE EVIL ISLAND (1965) – Also released as The Mystery of the Evil Island, this film starred Mission: Impossible‘s Peter Lupus going by the name Rock Stevens. After mild success in a few Italian peplums, Lupus got his one and only swashbuckler movie with this little honey.

Peter stars as Captain Pedro Valverde, a Spanish Empire naval officer who is out to bust up the evil pirate Captain Moloch and the various crews that prey on shipping while using Moloch’s fortress on the Evil Island as a base. That being said, Pirates of Evil Island would have been a more fitting title, but what can ya do?

Pedro’s predecessor as captain of his ship has retired after a career of fruitlessly trying to nab the pirate Moloch. Newly arrived Captain Valverde meets cute with the local governor’s daughter Bianca (Dina DeSantis) and the two fall in “love.” 

Our hero soon goes undercover – well, he wears black clothing instead of his uniform and tilts his hat slightly over one eye – in the nearest town. Pedro ends up in a swordfight to help a beautiful young lady named Alma (Halina Zalewska) in a violent dispute over her jewelry. Continue reading

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AUGUST TWENTY-SEVENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Typical anti-Trump fundamentalist

Time for another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog here in an America where anti-Trump fascists continue with their daily unhinged headlines that are on the order of TRUMP HAS INCREASED THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN HE EATS ON A DAILY BASIS! and DEMOCRATS VOW TO MAKE 24/7 HYSTERIA THEIR STRATEGY FROM NOW ON!

Anyway, the ignorance shown by so many Trump-haters is why I want to remind them that they should ask themselves a few questions before they mindlessly go along with The Party’s daily dose of panic – 

Can they name at least 7 or 8 previous presidents and their political party affiliation without looking online? Can they trace the process through which a bill becomes a law? Can they name the sources where the general public can look up political contributions? Can they use their own words to explain their political opinions – if “political opinions” isn’t too strong a term for their childish “Trump is evil” babbling. 

Can they even name their state’s Senators or House reps or Governors? Grow up, anti-Trump fundamentalists. Learning the routine, mundane details of politics may give you less of a rush than apocalyptic ravings, but they can certainly help to calm you down and stop frothing at the mouth.  

VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS TRY BLAMING BLACK REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE WINSOME SEARS FOR THE RACIST SIGN A WHITE DEMOCRAT WAVED AT HER.

GORKA ON ABBEY GATE AND PRESIDENT TRUMP. Related HERE.

ZOHRAN MAMDANI FAILS AT HIS WEIGHTLIFTING APPEARANCE.

TEN FBI WHISTLEBLOWERS AGAINST THE BIDEN REGIME’S POLITICIZING OF THE BUREAU GET VINDICATION. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: AUGUST TWENTY-FIFTH

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog does another current events roundup.

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE ESTIMATES FOUR TRILLION (YES, TRILLION) DOLLAR REDUCTION IN U.S. DEFICIT FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP ADJUSTING TARIFFS TO MATCH THE WAY OTHER COUNTRIES WERE GOUGING AMERICA FOR FAR TOO LONG. Related item HERE. And HERE.

SENATOR TIM SCOTT CALLS OUT PRIVILEGED WHITE DEMOCRAT CRITICS OF BLACK REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE WINSOME SEARS FOR “COSPLAYING” JIM CROW. More HERE. Democrat racists STILL hate people of color who refuse to obey them about politics.

ARTHUR ENGORON, POLITICAL HACK MASQUERADING AS A JUDGE, GETTING DESERVED RIDICULE AND CRITICISM AFTER AGAIN BEING OVERRULED IN HIS UNCONSTITUTIONAL TARGETING OF PRESIDENT TRUMP.  

SUPREME COURT JUSTICES BLAST ANTI-TRUMP LOWER COURT JUDGES WHO ARE VIOLATING DECISIONS THE SCOTUS HAS ALREADY ADDRESSED JUST TO DRAG OUT THE SAME ISSUES OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Last week marked “the third time in a matter of weeks” the Supreme Court had to reverse a lower court on an issue it had already addressed just because their initial ruling went in favor of Trump.

           More HERE in an item that makes a persuasive case that a president would be justified in defying repeated illegal court orders from lower courts. Just cite the Supreme Court’s previous ruling as the reason for defying the overreaching lower court.

FACULTY LOUNGE FASCIST: DEMOCRAT “HISTORY TEACHER” – WHOSE CLASS HAS A SIXTY-NINE PERCENT FAILURE RATE – ABUSED HER AUTHORITY TO BROWBEAT A STUDENT SHE LABELED CONSERVATIVE AS “MOST LIKELY TO BECOME A DICTATOR.” The repulsive propagandist even provided a copy of the “award” to embarrass the student in front of the class. More HERE. The worst of the privileged white Democrats apparently drifted into “teaching”.  Continue reading

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AUGUST TWENTY-SECOND ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Time once again for a current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

An arrested drunk? Nope, it’s the alleged judge.

APPEALS COURT THROWS OUT THE JUDGMENT AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP THAT WAS IMPOSED BY CORRUPT “JUDGE” ARTHUR ENGORON AND NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL LETITIA JAMES DURING THE DEMOCRATS’ LAWFARE ATTEMPTS TO SABOTAGE TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN FOR REELECTION. Political hack Engoron was overturned AGAIN as rational people knew would happen from the beginning.

        Democrats flushed the justice system down the toilet in their unhinged political persecution of President Trump. The cases against him were clearly travesties all along. 

TRUMP WIN HAILED AS A VICTORY FOR “NOT JUST TRUMP, BUT FOR ALL AMERICANS HARMED BY THE FAR LEFT’S ILLEGAL LAWFARE.”   Marlow laid it out HERE

PRESIDENT TRUMP ADDS HIS OPINION ON THE OUTCOME. Needless to say, he doesn’t mince words. More HERE.

DHS AND ICE ANNOUNCE ARREST OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT JONATAN MONZON-OLIVARES, WHO ALREADY HAS THIRTY-EIGHT ARRESTS AND FIFTEEN CONVICTIONS, INCLUDING SEXUAL ASSAULT. “Under the Biden Administration, serial criminal illegal aliens were allowed to terrorize Americans. We are restoring law and order and putting the safety of Americans first. No longer is America a safe haven for the world’s criminals.”

BIDEN-HARRIS REGIME EXPOSED FOR IGNORING RED FLAGS ON THEIR ABUSE OF THE AUTOPEN FOR THEIR ILLEGIT PARDONS, ETC. A scandal the Democrats continue trying to distract from, along with the way we had an unfit buffoon being paraded before the cameras as “president” while unelected and still unknown figures made presidential decisions.

DNI TULSI GABBARD COMMENDED FOR HER WORK IN CLEANING UP AMERICA’S POLITICIZED THREE-LETTER AGENCIES. More HERE. She continues to investigate the Russia Hoax against Trump HERE.

DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET THE NEW YORK TIMES WARNS THAT THE PARTY IS LOSING REGISTERED VOTERS BY CRISIS PROPORTIONS. More HERE. That can happen when your political party becomes a combination of fascists and the Mafia.  Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: AUGUST TWENTIETH

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog does another current events roundup.

DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS ABSURDLY TRY TO SPIN ANTI-TRUMP NARRATIVE OUT OF THE PRAISE THAT WORLD LEADERS SHOWERED PRESIDENT TRUMP WITH OVER HIS PEACE EFFORTS BETWEEN UKRAINE AND RUSSIA. Finland’s President Alex Stubb even dissed Joe Biden by emphatically stating “I think in the past two weeks we’ve probably had more progress in ending this war than in the past three and a half years.” More HERE.

ZELENSKY PRESENTS TRUMP WITH A SPECIAL PUTTER GIFTED BY A UKRAINIAN SOLDIER WHO SUFFERED AMPUTATION

PRESIDENT TRUMP MAKES THE U.K. DROP ITS DEMAND THAT APPLE PROVIDE THE U.K. GOVERNMENT WITH AMERICAN USERS’ ENCRYPTED DATA. Starmer was way out of line for ever trying to get that from Apple.

KAROLINE LEAVITT BRAVELY TORCHES THE IRRATIONAL, OVER THE TOP DEMOCRAT MEDIA LIES ABOUT THE ALASKA SUMMIT BETWEEN TRUMP AND PUTIN. She said it perfectly. More HERE.

CONGRESSMAN BUDDY CARTER STATES “ONLY DONALD TRUMP” COULD MOVE PUTIN AND ZELENSKY TOWARD PEACE. Carter further stated “He (Trump) has done more to negotiate peace in the last eight months than anyone in the history of the world.”

DEMOCRAT MAYOR OF BOSTON AGAIN REFUSES TO COOPERATE WITH ICE. THE DHS RESPONDS.

DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS AUTHORIZES TAXPAYER FUNDS TO PAY FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO ATTEND IN-STATE UNIVERSITIES, BUT NOT CITIZENS. Pure spite seems to drive the Democrats’ “Illegal immigrants uber alles” actions these days. Continue reading

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AUGUST EIGHTEENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Time for the latest current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER STARMER COMMENDS PRESIDENT TRUMP AND STATES UKRAINE IS “CLOSER TO PEACE” AFTER TRUMP-PUTIN SUMMIT IN ALASKA.

U.S. MANUFACTURING CONTINUES TO ROAR BACK UNDER TRUMP. Remember when Obama pompously gloated that “them jobs ain’t comin’ back.”

TREASURY ADVISOR STATES THE BLUE-COLLAR BOOM WILL GET EVEN BETTER UNDER TRUMP’S POLICIES.

DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS REVEAL NINETEEN HIDDEN CLINTON FOUNDATION BANK ACCOUNTS IN PROBE OF HILLARY’S ONGOING BRIBERY/ “PAY TO PLAY” SCANDALS.

HILLARY BITTERLY CONTINUES RANTING ABOUT HOW DONALD TRUMP SUCCESSFULLY KEPT HER AND HER CORRUPT RETINUE OUT OF THE PRESIDENCY. It’s hilarious how her rightful defeat apparently haunts her every waking moment.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN OHIO CHARGED WITH FILMING HIMSELF SEXUALLY ABUSING A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD GIRL. Is he the next Cause Celebre for Democrats, who often romanticize figures like this?

CONGRESSWOMAN ASHLEY HINSON DISCUSSES PRESIDENT TRUMP’S SUCCESS ON THE BORDER AND FIGHTING CRIME

CORRUPT “JUDGE” BOASBERG’S TIES TO FISA AND THE RUSSIA HOAX AGAINST TRUMP.

MORE ABOUT THE ONGOING INVESTIGATION INTO LETITIA JAMES’ SCANDALS. “No one is above the law.”

THE TALIBAN CELEBRATES THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIDEN-HARRIS REGIME’S DISASTROUS WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN BY PARADING THE MILITARY HARDWARE THAT BIDEN AND HARRIS LEFT FOR THEM. More HERE. And HERE.     THE TALIBAN HAS MADE LIFE HELL FOR WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN. And gutless, privileged white Democrat poseurs in Handmaid’s Tale costumes are silent about it.

DEMOCRAT MAYOR OF NEW ORLEANS CHARGED WITH FRAUD, CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE, WIRE FRAUD AND FALSE STATEMENTS BEFORE A GRAND JURY. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: AUGUST FIFTEENTH

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog serves up another current events roundup.

PRESIDENT TRUMP, THE MODERN DAY FDR, MARKS THE NINETIETH ANNIVERSARY OF SOCIAL SECURITY AND HIS OWN PROTECTION OF THE PROGRAM FOR GENERATIONS OF SENIORS TO COME. Have I mentioned lately that Trump is the greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime? 

AT LEAST SEVEN NATIONS HAVE CALLED FOR TRUMP TO RECEIVE THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. More HERE. He’s the Peace President, but I doubt the establishment will ever grant him the Nobel Prize.

ELI CRANE BASHES OBAMA FOR HIS RECENT HEALTHCARE RANT, REMINDING HIM “YOU’VE DONE ENOUGH DAMAGE” WITH HIS DISASTROUS OBAMACARE WHICH BENEFITED INSURANCE COMPANIES AND THE FINANCIALLY COMFORTABLE BUT DAMAGED THE POOR AND THE WORKING CLASS.      

SENATOR MIKE LEE ADDED HOW OBAMACARE “MADE HEALTHCARE LESS AFFORDABLE FOR HARDWORKING AMERICAN FAMILIES, WHO HAVE SEEN THEIR HEALTHCARE COSTS SKYROCKET – WHILE A SMALL HANDFUL OF HEALTHCARE GIANTS HAVE REAPED A WINDFALL OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS A YEAR. Very true. Obama did untold damage.

EVEN MORE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHILD ABUSERS, RAPISTS AND KILLERS ARRESTED BY ICE IN DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY” HOLES IN NEW YORK, ILLINOIS AND MARYLAND. Democrats offer no sanctuary for victims, just perpetrators.

NEW JERSEY “SANCTUARY” JUDGE FREED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT AFTER HE WAS CHARGED WITH KILLING A WOMAN AND HER ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER. But no mercy for victims in Democrat “sanctuaries.”     

IN DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY” NEW YORK, ICE ARRESTS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CONVICTED OF REPEATEDLY RAPING HIS NINE-YEAR-OLD STEPDAUGHTER. No Democrats will ever champion her, just her rapist.

CHINA HITS CANADA WITH OVER SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT TARIFF, YET THEIR PM ISN’T SNIVELING LIKE HE DID OVER TRUMP TARIFFS. Of course not. Continue reading

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