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NEWS ROUNDUP: MARCH THIRTIETH

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

DEMOCRAT CONGRESSWOMAN ILHAN OMAR, ALREADY UNDER FIRE FOR HER ROLE IN THE MINNESOTA FRAUD RINGS, EXPOSED OVER HER TIES TO SOMALILAND GENOCIDE.

DEMOCRAT CONGRESSWOMAN PRAMILA JAYAPAL CALLS FOR REPARATIONS FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. What an obscene insult to all the victims of illegal immigrant crime and their loved ones.

BLACK ICE AGENTS LAUGH AT DEMOCRAT SOYBOY WHO CALLS THEM FASCISTS. More HERE.

JUAQUIN JAMES MALPHURS SAYS HE IS STICKING WITH TRUMP AND PRAISES HIM

IRANIAN REFUGEE SAYS TRUMP IS THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO CLEARLY SEE THE THREAT POSED BY THE CURRENT IRANIAN REGIME

TWO TEXAS POLICE OFFICERS CHARGE INTO BURNING MOTEL AND SAVE GUESTS. Remember, you will NEVER see anti-police “activists” risking their lives to save the lives of others like this.

PHILADELPHIA DEMOCRATS CHEER FOR MORE DEAD AMERICAN SOLDIERS. How very on-brand for the party of criminals and fascists.

HEY DEMOCRATS, ZELENSKY RECOGNIZES THE THREAT POSED BY THE CURRENT IRANIAN REGIME. Iran’s current regime is at least as bad as crazed war criminal Vlad Putin’s Russia. Continue reading

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MARCH TWENTY-SEVENTH NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog is back with another current events roundup from an America where wormy, weaselly people who will celebrate when President Trump inevitably dies pretend to be outraged that he doesn’t follow their orders to mourn the corrupt, failed and disgraced Robert Mueller.

     AND where Democrats try to pretend they aren’t causing the shutdown but also keep saying they will “keep the shutdown going” until their demands are met.

ICE ARRESTS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FOR RAPING A FIVE-YEAR-OLD GIRL ON LONG ISLAND. Privileged white one-percenter Bruce Springsteen couldn’t care less about the victim and still rails against ICE instead. 

YET ANOTHER BIDEN-RELEASED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHARGED WITH KILLING SIXTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD VICTIM.

PRESIDENT TRUMP HONORS SHERIDAN GORMAN, ANOTHER VICTIM OF DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY” POLICIES. I will point out again that victims get no sanctuary from Democrats – only the perpetrators do.

FOUR-TIMES DEPORTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY” CITY NEW YORK CHARGED WITH MURDERING EIGHTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD MAN. Should illegals be referred to as “Bruce Springsteen fans?” 

DEMOCRAT SENATOR CHRIS MURPHY OPENLY STATES THAT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE THE PEOPLE DEMOCRATS “CARE ABOUT MOST.”

MARLOW POINTS OUT THAT DEMOCRATS ARE SACRIFICING INNOCENT PEOPLE’S LIVES ON THE ALTAR OF THEIR LATEST “PECULIAR INSTITUTION” – ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

EXAMINING THE UTTER HEARTLESSNESS OF 2026 DEMOCRATS.

UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLICIES JOBLESSNESS IS NEARLY AT AN ALL-TIME LOW.

DEMOCRATS FEEL PROTECTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIMINALS IS JOB ONE. Continue reading

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MORE SILENT MOVIES FROM CUBA (1908-1913)

Last March Balladeer’s Blog examined several pioneering silent movies made in Cuba, from Havana’s Fire Drill (1897) – the very first Cuban-made film – to 1901 coverage of the Constitutional Assembly, to 1906 film footage of the religious festival La Tutelar de Guanabacoa, which could be openly celebrated back then.

Wrapping up the nine shorts was Cuba’s first horror film – 1907’s La Leyenda del Guije del Rio Sagua – about an evil man being transformed into a clawed, hairy monster called a guije.

A TOURIST IN HAVANA (1908) – A documentary short depicting the sights to be seen by tourists in 1908 Havana. The director was Enrique Diaz Quesada, who founded the first film studio in Cuba alongside his brother Juan. This short debuted on September 15th at Havana’s Payret Theater.   

EL CABILDO DE NACION ROMUALDA (1908) – Another Quesada short, this one capturing a publicly performed Cabildo Afro-Cuban religious ceremony. Such Cabildos dated back centuries and originated as figurative “bread and circuses” for the Cuban slave population, but they also preserved songs, dances, chants and drum music dedicated to the deities that had been worshipped back in Africa. No copies of this movie have survived. The work was filmed at a garden in the Esquina de Tejas. Pepe Acosta produced.

RESTORATION OF THE REPUBLIC (1909) – Part of the silent newsreel series Cuba al Dia, this covered the departure from Cuba of the disgraced and corrupt Provisional Governor Charles E. Magoon.

INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT GENERAL JOSE MIGUEL GOMEZ (1909) – Another newsreel, this one filming the inauguration of Magoon’s elected successor.

JUAN JOSE (1910) – First filmed version of the irreverent Spanish satirical play of the same name written in 1895 by Joaquin Dicenta. The storyline involved a worker fighting with his employer over a woman they both love. This 1910 production ran 16 minutes and starred Boffield Garrido.        Continue reading

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NEWS ROUNDUP: MARCH TWENTY-FIFTH

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

ADDITIONAL DETAILS ABOUT THE BIDEN-RELEASED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WHO KILLED SHERIDAN GORMAN. Privileged white one percenter Bruce Springsteen won’t write a song about her.   SENATOR JOHN FETTERMAN COURAGEOUSLY SLAMS THE DEMOCRATS FOR THEIR TONE-DEAF RESPONSE TO GORMAN’S MURDER. More HERE.

DEMOCRATS AGAIN BLOCK DHS FUNDING.

FATHER OF YOUNG WOMAN KILLED BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT DRUNK DRIVER SPEAKS OUT.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FOUND GUILTY OF REPEATEDLY RAPING AN ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL. But garbage like Bruce Springsteen root for the rapist just because he’s here illegally. And people like Renee Good and Alex Pretti want to protect such people from ICE. But sadly, raping children is pretty much the Democrat Party brand now.

SURVEY: EIGHTY-THREE PERCENT BELIEVE BALLOTS SHOULD BE RECEIVED BY ELECTION DAY. But sadly, Democrats don’t care what the people want.

THE PRIVILEGED ONE-PERCENTER DEMOCRAT WOMEN OF CODE PINK CONTINUE SUPPORTING THE CUBAN REGIME AS IT SAVAGELY OPPRESSES ITS PEOPLE. The grotesque Code Pinkers are being pampered in hotels with generators while the Cuban people suffer without power. More HERE. And HERE.

AND MORE PRIVILEGED ONE-PERCENTER DEMOCRAT WOMEN FOUND GUILTY FOR THEIR UNHINGED ATTACKS ON ICE. Continue reading

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R.I.P. CHUCK NORRIS: MY FAVORITE FILMS

With the passing of the iconic Chuck Norris I’m taking a look at my favorite films of his. I was never the biggest Norris fan, so this list is purely from the perspective of a casual fan.

I’m such a casual fan, in fact, that I wasn’t going to do an R.I.P. post about him but I decided to do one based on the vicious attacks on the late Norris by deranged Democrats who always tell the rest of us to “separate the art from the artist” when their celebrities are criticized in any way.

INVASION USA (1985) – Psychotronic cinema in its purest form, Invasion USA was so firmly in the realm of fantasy that it’s ridiculous that some critics tore into it so deeply. The same type of critics probably loved the pretentious One Battle After Another, which was basically Invasion USA in reverse. 

Norris starred as former intelligence agent Matt Hunter, who gets called back into action when a communist army from Cuba invades Florida under the leadership of Hunter’s old archenemy – Soviet Union agent Rostov, played by cult actor Richard Lynch.

Matt is among the people fighting back against the communist invaders in escapist, over the top action scenes. Anti-Castro Cubans fight the invaders in alliance with our main character. Red Dawn was too juvenile in my opinion, so I much prefer this Norris flick.

There are lots of Christmas decorations on display since the film is set during Yuletide. Invasion USA was therefore part of my “Very Butt-Kicking Christmas Marathon” years ago alongside Die Hard, Lethal Weapon and Die Hard 2.    Continue reading

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MARCH TWENTY-THIRD NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog is back with a current events roundup.

OVER TWENTY NATIONS ANNOUNCE THEIR READINESS TO HELP PRESIDENT TRUMP OPEN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ.

FIVE MORE PLEAD GUILTY IN MINNESOTA’S FRAUD SCANDALS UNDER TIM WALZ.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN “SANCTUARY CITY” CHICAGO SHOOTS AND KILLS INNOCENT CITIZEN . I will point out yet again that victims have no “sanctuary” in Democrat sanctuary cities – only perpetrators do.   

TWO OF JOE BIDEN’S “CATCH AND RELEASE” ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CHARGED IN METH LAB OPERATION.

SCANDAL-PLAGUED FORMER FBI CHIEF AND CORRUPT PROSECUTOR ROBERT MUELLER DIES IN DISGRACE

DEMOCRAT PARTY

DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET NBC CAUGHT LYING ABOUT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE HEGSETH’S REMARKS TO FAMILIES OF FALLEN SOLDIERS.

OHIO TEACHER PLEADS GUILTY TO SEXUAL MISCONDUCT WITH UNDERAGED STUDENT. Democrats, can you please leave youngsters alone? 

JAPAN’S PRIME MINISTER GETS HUGE LAUGH OUT OF TRUMP’S PICTURE OF AN AUTOPEN AS JOE BIDEN’S WHITE HOUSE PORTRAIT. And well might she laugh!

DEMOCRAT SENATE CANDIDATE HALEY STEVENS CAUGHT PUSHING FAKE ENDORSEMENTS. Unreal. 

SENATE DEMOCRATS AGAIN BLOCK DHS FUNDING – PRESIDENT TRUMP TO DEPLOY ICE TO AIRPORTS INSTEAD OF TSA.  

VIDEO: AND YET ANOTHER FORMER DEMOCRAT LEAVES THE PARTY AND BLASTS WHAT A DISGRACE IT HAS BECOME.

DEMOCRATS ACKNOWLEDGE THE PAIN THEIR SHUTDOWN IS CAUSING, BUT AS USUAL THEY DON’T CARE Continue reading

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FLASHBACK: SOME OF 2018’s EXAMPLES OF ANTI-TRUMP FOOLS LYING ABOUT EVERYTHING THE PRESIDENT SAID AND DID

Last week I took a look at 2017’s lies and hysteria spread by the ignorant, uninformed and emotionally unstable zealots who spend their every waking moment hating President Donald Trump. Whatever the current lies about Trump were, they pretended they were true and predicted “the walls were closing in” or similar hilariously wrong forecasts. Just like today. Here are 2018 flashbacks.

FLASHBACKS

JANUARY 30th, 2018 – TRUMP-HATERS ATTACK THE WHITE HOUSE PHYSICIAN WHO GAVE PRESIDENT TRUMP A GLOWING HEALTH APPRAISAL AFTER HIS PHYSICAL CLAIMING HE WAS A TRUMP SHILL. IT TURNED OUT HE WAS THE SAME DOCTOR WHO GAVE OBAMA HIS PHYSICAL. Especially absurd considering how Democrats would go on to parade the clearly unfit Joe Biden before the cameras as a figurehead while still unknown parties were exercising presidential powers.

JANUARY 25th – ROBERT “MURKY” MUELLER AND HIS CORRUPT ATTEMPT TO PUSH THE RUSSIAN COLLUSION LIES ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP. And since Trump-haters are long on childish snark but short on facts and rational thought, I heard from some of them who said (YAWN) “it’s the end for Trump” and that MAGA really meant “Mueller Ain’t Going Away.” Well, Mueller has gone away and Trump is STILL president.   

FEBRUARY 12th – HOUSE DEMOCRAT ADAM SCHIFF HILARIOUSLY GOT CAUGHT DEALING WITH PEOPLE HE THOUGHT COULD PROVIDE HIM WITH NAKED PICTURES OF PRESIDENT TRUMP BUT IT TURNED OUT THEY WERE RADIO COMEDIANS PRANKING HIM! Schiff is a lowlife. A stupid lowlife at that.  Continue reading

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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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