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JULY TWENTIETH NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog is here with a Monday current events roundup from an America where Democrats are okay with Ukraine’s war with Russia going on forever and threatening oil exports but oppose America’s war with Iran and similar threats to oil exports.

HOMICIDE DETECTIVES INVESTIGATING DEAD BODY FOUND AT DEMOCRAT AYANNA PRESSLEY’S HOME. More HERE.

STATELY MCDANIEL MANOR ON THE LATE VILLAIN JACK SMITH’S ILLEGAL SPYING ON CONGRESS ATROCITY.

NEW BOMBSHELLS ABOUT THEN-FBI AGENT NIKKI FLORIS SECRETLY RUNNING SABOTAGE OPERATIONS AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP IN 2020.

ADDITIONAL REVELATIONS ABOUT JOE BIDEN BEING IN CHINA’S POCKET. As I’ve said countless times over the years, Joe Biden was the best investment China’s government ever made.

TRUMP IS RIGHT ABOUT VOTING MACHINES: OBAMA-APPOINTED JUDGE AMY TOTENBERG (SISTER OF NINA) LAID OUT THE UNRELIABILITY OF VOTING MACHINES. But since the Democrat judge’s written opinion and order helped The Party in one particular electoral race Democrat hypocrites applauded it. I guess to Democrats voting machines are only unreliable if it’s The Party saying so.

DO-NOTHING REPUBLICAN SENATOR THUNE SUBJECTED TO EVEN MORE RIDICULE FOR FAILING ON THE SAVE ACT AS IT IS POINTED OUT THAT EVEN OLIVE GARDEN REQUIRES PHOTO I.D. FOR THEIR “PASTA PASS.” Are Democrats going to claim that somehow prevents people of color from getting Pasta Passes? And never stop reminding Democrats that their idols in Europe require Voter I.D. Plus, always remember that in 2024 Kamala Harris only won states which do NOT require Voter I.D. 

U.K. – MOTHER OF HENRY NOWAK’S MURDERER SENTENCED FOR HER ROLE IN HIDING THE MURDER WEAPON.

SOME REMINDERS ABOUT THE IRREGULARITIES IN THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Like I’ve been saying since back then, the 2020 election was as corrupt and tainted as the ones in 1876 and 2000. Continue reading

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AUD-I-SEE SERIES (1978)

AUD-I-SEE aka AudiSee (1978) – Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at the largely forgotten AudiSee series of audiovisual science fiction stories for adolescents. Each episode is roughly 30 minutes long. The audio element consists of voice actors including a narrator. The visual element consists of an illustrated booklet that came with the AudiSee package.

As the story progressed, the tween could read along while listening to sharpen reading skills. A slight beep would indicate that it was time to turn the page. Here in 2026 there are people who have been kind enough to upload the AudiSee series online. The videos eliminate the need for page-turning as the episodes unfold onscreen with color illustrations of each page of the booklet. 

The series was produced by Russ Tamblyn’s younger brother Lawrence from the 1960s musical group the Standells of Dirty Water fame. Continue reading

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FOOL KILLER PART SEVENTY: APRIL 1914

Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of the many facets of Fool Killer lore. FOR PART ONE, INCLUDING THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT IN THE 1850s, CLICK HERE.

PART 70 – Some of the Fool Killer’s targets on both sides of the aisle in the April 1914 edition of James Larkin Pearson’s version of the folk figure:

*** Politicians who wanted to invade Mexico because of the continuing chaos there, stating it was being considered just to protect the property of American millionaires in Mexico.

*** Civilian Jingoists who talked tough about invading Mexico, claiming that if war actually did break out those same people would try to avoid military service.

*** The scamming Marriage Brokers of the time period.

*** People who opposed North Carolina’s law prohibiting alcohol. Despite Pearson’s usual pro-liberty stances, he and his Fool Killer supported bans on alcohol and tobacco. Continue reading

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NEWS ROUNDUP: JULY SEVENTEENTH

Friday is here with a current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog here in an America where after a few days of frantic hubbub the people who supported President Trump before last night’s speech will still support him and the people who hated him before last night’s speech will still hate him.

DEMOCRATS IN HIGH POSITIONS STILL IRRATIONALLY THINK MEN CAN NATURALLY GET PREGNANT – DR. SAM HAWGOOD OF UC-SAN FRANCISCO WILL ONLY CONCEDE THAT THE MAJORITY OF PREGNANCIES ARE IN WOMEN. More HERE. And HERE. Needless to say, Hawgood then refused to answer if ANY men have ever had a baby. Irrational clowns like Hawgood are educating tomorrow’s doctors. And remember, we have a Democrat imbecile on the Supreme Court (Ketanji) who believes only biologists can define what a woman is.    

SOME DETAILS REGARDING TRUMP’S SPEECH LAST NIGHT EMPHASIZING THE NEED FOR PASSING THE SAVE ACT. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE. And HERE. And especially HERE.

CONGRESSMAN JIM JORDAN STATES THAT IF VOTER ID IS AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO DEMOCRATS WINNING ELECTIONS (AS DEMOCRATS NOW ADMIT) THAT TELLS YOU SOMETHING.

AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT ALIYEV AGAIN PRAISES PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR MAKING PEACE BETWEEN HIS NATION AND ARMENIA.

NATO CHIEF POINTED OUT THE WAR WITH IRAN IS ABOUT PREVENTING THE REGIME FROM CARRYING OUT THEIR DESIRED NUCLEAR ATTACKS. Fighting the current Iranian Regime is AT LEAST as important as fighting rabid War Criminal Vlad Putin. 

MAHDI MOHAMMAD SADEGHI CONVICTED OF ILLEGALLY GIVING U.S. TECHNOLOGY TO IRAN.

PRESIDENT TRUMP GETS IRAN TO FREE DENA KARARI, FEMALE AMERICAN HELD SINCE THE BIDEN REGIME IN 2024

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT JESUS MATOS PEREZ AND HIS DOMINICAN ALLY WILLIAM JOSE ALEJANDRO ARIAS AMADOR SENTENCED FOR STEALING IDENTITIES OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN ORDER TO STEAL MEDICAID, SNAP AND UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS.

FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD OF GOVERNORS ADVISOR SENTENCED TO THIRTY-EIGHT MONTHS IN SCANDAL OVER PROVIDING INTELLIGENCE TO CHINA’S SPY ORGANIZATION. Continue reading

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JULY FIFTEENTH NEWS ROUNDUP

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

AMERICA’S ALLIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST CONSTRUCTING NEW PIPELINES AND A NEW PORT TO BYPASS DESTRUCTIVE IRANIAN REGIME’S GAMES WITH THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ. A long needed move.

BAHRAIN CONDEMNS IRANIAN REGIME FOR TARGETING ITS CITIZENS.

MAYOR “MADMAN” MAMDANI FUNDRAISER TIED TO MEDICAID CHEATING TO THE TUNE OF ONE HUNDRED SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS.

RECENT ICE ARRESTS INCLUDE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CONVICTED OF CHILD SEX CRIMES, RAPE AND RACKETEERING. And the only reason they were still at large was because of Democrat policies aiding illegal immigrants guilty of additional crimes.

RELATED: OTHER RECENT ICE ARRESTS INCLUDE ILLEGALS CONVICTED OF MURDER AND MANSLAUGHTER AND CHILD RAPE.

WELSH VICTIMS SPEAK OUT ON BRITISH GOVERNMENT COVERUP OF MUSLIM RAPE GANGS.

CORRUPT ANTI-TRUMP ZEALOT JACK SMITH REVEALED TO HAVE SPIED ON FORTY-FOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.

DEMOCRAT SENATOR SLOTKIN ADMITS THAT THE PARTY NEEDS VOTE FRAUD TO BE VIABLE NATIONWIDE. But she lied by claiming voter i.d. would prevent married women from voting. Europe and much of the rest of the world require voter i.d. and never encounter this absurd claim.

REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN GILL SMACKS DOWN DEMOCRAT CONGRESSWOMAN AYANNA PRESSLEY OVER HER RACIST POLICY PUSH.

“LET THEM EAT CAKE.”

VIRGINIA’S DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR SPANBERGER CALLED OUT FOR HER LIES REGARDING ENERGY AFFORDABILITY.

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLICIES RESULT IN THE BEST INFLATION REPORT IN MODERN HISTORY. The greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime.

FLASHBACK: PBS NEWS 2013 REPORT ON OBAMA’S RESPONSIBILITY FOR KILLING AMERICANS IN DRONE ATTACKS. Just one of the many, many scandals of the Obama Regime. Continue reading

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SAM NEILL R.I.P. – ROBBERY UNDER ARMS (1985)

ROBBERY UNDER ARMS (1985) – The irreplaceable Sam Neill has passed away. Other sites will be focusing on Neill’s more well-known projects like the Jurassic Park movies, Reilly – Ace of Spies, The Hunt for Red October, Omen III: The Final Conflict, Event Horizon and so many others. In keeping with Balladeer’s Blog’s theme I’m taking a look at Sam’s neglected Bushranger movie Robbery Under Arms.

Before I dive into a review of that Australian production, let me point out two of my previous examinations of lesser-known Sam Neill films like the horror tale Possession (1981) and the Cold War espionage movie Enigma (1982). Plus a review of the better known In the Mouth of Madness (1994).

Thank you to Jason McGathey for reminding me about the 1994 film.

On to Robbery Under Arms, the film is based on the Australian novel of the same name, which was published in serialized form in 1882 before being collected in novel form later in the decade. Robbery Under Arms is a monumental work of fiction Down Under and has been adapted several times since 1907 – a year after Australia’s silent movie The Story of the Kelly Gang.   

For readers who are not aware of this, Australia’s Gold Rushes beginning in the 1850s spawned a tableau like America’s Wild West in terms of outlaws and desert landscapes. Real life Bushrangers (Aussie outlaws of the deserts and bush regions) included Mad Dog Morgan, Ben Hall and of course Ned Kelly and his gang. Any fan of American Westerns would likely enjoy Bushranger flicks.

In Robbery Under Arms, Sam Neill stars as a fictional outlaw leader known by the alias Captain Starlight, the type of flashy name used by real-life Bushrangers like Midnight, Moondyne Joe, Captain Moonlite and others. Continue reading

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NEWS ROUNDUP: JULY THIRTEENTH

Let’s start a new week here at Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

DEMOCRAT HATEMONGERS VICIOUSLY CELEBRATE THE DEATH OF SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM. Democrats show the rest of us who they are on a regular basis. More HERE. And HERE

NEW JERSEY WOMAN CHARGED WITH SEXUALLY ASSAULTING A CHILD “UNDER THIRTEEN YEARS OF AGE“. Her phone’s filmed footage of the assault led to the arrest. Gee, I wonder which political party she belongs to? 

DEMOCRAT JAMES CARVILLE ONCE AGAIN ATTACKS THE MAMDANI-STYLE LOONS WHO HAVE TAKEN OVER THE DEMOCRAT PARTY. Appealing to ignorant, uninformed and emotionally unstable people put the Democrats in this position. More HERE. And HERE.

MINNESOTA’S DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR TIM WALZ IS SAD TO SEE THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHILD RAPIST THAT HE TRIED TO KEEP IN THE COUNTRY GET DEPORTED. More HERE. Of the man who repeatedly raped a ten-year-old child, the loathsome Walz actually said “I can find no reason how Minnesota is safer or better” with the convicted child rapist getting deported.

WALZ STILL OPPOSES ELECTION INTEGRITY, TOO.

MINNESOTA SOMALI “DAYCARE” BOSS EXPOSED BY JOURNALIST NICK SHIRLEY PLEADS GUILTY IN FOUR MILLION SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR FRAUD CASE. BOUGHT REAL ESTATE WITH AN ADDITIONAL EIGHT-HUNDRED FIFTY-THOUSAND DOLLARS IN TAXPAYER MONEY THEY DEFRAUDED FROM THE “FEEDING OUR FUTURE” PROGRAM.   

HEROIC JOURNALIST NICK SHIRLEY EXPOSES ONE HUNDRED NINETY MILLION DOLLAR MEDICARE FRAUD IN DEMOCRAT-RUN NEW YORK. You may recall that Democrat-run California has passed legislation to stop Nick Shirley from exposing that state’s fraud. The Democrats remain nothing but a white-collar criminal organization.   

SCHLICHTER: NO DEMOCRAT HAS THE BRAINS OR COURAGE TO NOT BE CRAZY. It stopped being a case of “both parties are just as bad” several years ago. Continue reading

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ALIEN: EARTH SEASON TWO IS IN THE WORKS

ALIEN: EARTH (2025) is now filming its second season. New cast members include comedienne-singer Tracey Ullman, former Bronn actor Jerome Flynn, Sam Spruell of Fargo and Peter Dinklage, the humorless fool who considers himself the official spokesperson of all people under a certain height. 

Set in the year 2120 – two years before the events of the very first Alien film – Alien: Earth was not my kind of show. Most of what I disliked about the streaming series could have been negated just by instead setting it after the events of Aliens

REASON ONE: Setting the story before Alien (1979) devalues Ellen Ripley and her crew. Alien: Covenant already made it so they are no longer even the first Earthlings to encounter Xenomorphs and find remains of Engineers/ Space Jockeys.

      Alien: Earth compounded that by further cementing it into the canon AND made Ripley and company look like inept losers who couldn’t even handle one Xenomorph years after corporations like Weyland-Yutani had successfully captured MULTIPLE alien species – including Xenomorphs – from around the universe and brought them to Earth.    Continue reading

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JULY TENTH NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog offers an end of week current events roundup from an America where Stephen King, looking nothing like a creep who hangs out at playgrounds, deleted his posts supporting scat fetishist and woman abuser Graham “Nazi Tattoo” Platner, the Democrat cause célèbres recently. 

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CHICAGO TEACHER FACING EIGHT CHARGES OF FILMING STUDENTS THEN USING THE FILM TO MAKE AI CHILD PORN OF THEM. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

IRAN BOMBS NEIGHBORING NATIONS. Democrat encouragement of Iran to keep fighting until after the midterm elections is apparently working.

EVEN CHINA IS PRESSURING IRAN TO ABIDE BY THE CEASEFIRE TERMS.

TRUMP EFFECT: U.S. ECONOMY UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP OUTSHINES OTHER ADVANCED NATIONS.

UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLICIES, THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 2026 SAW THE LOWEST LEVEL OF JOBLESSNESS SINCE 1969. He’s the greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime.

FLASHBACK: PRESIDENT TRUMP LED THE WAY IN DEFEATING CORRUPT POLITICAL FAMILIES LIKE THE BUSHES (R), CLINTONS (D), CHENEYS (R), BIDENS (D) AND MCCAINS (R). Continue reading

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NEWS ROUNDUP FOR JULY EIGHTH

A midweek current events roundup is here from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES THE OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF TRUMP ACCOUNTS FOR THE YOUNG. More HERE. This may be up there with any of Democrat Franklin Roosevelt’s policies on behalf of the working class. 

PRESIDENT TRUMP: “THE AMERICAN DREAM BELONGS TO EVERY CHILD!” No wonder this guy is called the greatest president for the working class and the poor during our lifetimes. More HERE.

DEMOCRAT NEW YORK MAYOR MAMDANI FIRES STAFFER FOR SUGGESTING HE FOCUS ON THE CITY HE PRESIDES OVER AS MAYOR RATHER THAN KEEP FOCUSING ON HIS PRO-HAMAS POSITIONS.

DEMOCRATS FINALLY BACK AWAY FROM THE PARTY’S MENACING SENATE CANDIDATE GRAHAM “NAZI TATTOO” PLATNER. More HERE. And HERE.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHARGED WITH KILLING A SIX-YEAR-OLD CHILD IN NORTH CAROLINA. But Democrats still care nothing for the dead victims, only the illegals.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHILD RAPIST SENTENCED TO THIRTY YEARS FOR RAPING AND FILMING HIMSELF RAPING HIS UNCONSCIOUS VICTIMS. If Democrats had their way this man would still be at large. Or they would pardon him like happened in Minnesota recently. 

ANOTHER BIDEN REGIME ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WANTED – THIS TIME FOR THE SLAYING OF A STATE TROOPER Continue reading

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