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L’INFERNO (1911) SILENT MOVIE

infernoL’INFERNO (1911) – This 71-minute movie was an adaptation of Dante’s epic poem Inferno, one-third of his Divine Comedy along with Purgatorio and Paradiso. It was also Italy’s first feature-length film, beating Cabiria to theaters by three years.   

Three directors collaborated on this production – Francesco Bertolini, Giuseppe de Liguoro and Adolfo Padovan. Obviously, L’Inferno is a very condensed version of Dante’s work but the special effects are impressive for the time period.

Even if I wasn’t a silent film geek aspects of this movie would have stood out to me. First, it was made in Italy toward the end of the Belle Epoch, lending it a certain poignance as the global conflict was approaching an oblivious world. 

dante and virgilSecond, L’Inferno has a certain grandeur from being filmed in Italy itself, the home of Dante Alighieri and his guide through Hell, Virgil. And third, nearly all of the footage set in the realm of the damned was filmed amid extinct and semi-extinct volcanoes in Italy, adding immeasurably to the infernal atmosphere.  Continue reading

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ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS: APRIL 23rd

Time for another current events roundup by Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

biden bloodBIDEN REGIME HANDS OVER ONE HUNDRED TEN MILLION DOLLAR MILITARY BASE TO THE JUNTA IN NIGER – WHICH THEN TURNS IT OVER TO PUTIN’S RUSSIA. Joe Biden is a disaster all day every day and this action further demonstrates the idiocy of people who pretend Trump is pro-Putin.

OBAMA SENIOR POLICY ADVISOR ARRESTED FOR CHILD SEX CRIMES. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

SCATHING PIECE TITLED “ILLEGAL ALIENS UNDERSTAND NONE OF THE RULES APPLY TO THEM“. A better title would have pointed out how none of the LAWS apply to them.

DEMOCRAT STATE SENATOR ARRESTED FOR FIRST-DEGREE BURGLARY. Democrats’ latest innovation – branching out from white-collar crime to a more hands-on approach.

mark zuckerbergBIG TECH FASCIST MARK ZUCKERBERG PROCEEDING WITH ELECTION INTERFERENCE BY BANNING TRUMP FROM SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS.

ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS AT MCKENZIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND WILMETTE PUBLIC LIBRARY HOSTING SEMINAR FOR CHILDREN CONSIDERING SEX-CHANGE SURGERY. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

BIDEN REGIME’S BORDER DISASTER FREES YET ANOTHER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CONVICTED KILLER INTO THE U.S

SUPREME COURT STOPS DEMOCRAT ATTEMPT TO EXPAND THEIR VOTE BY MAIL/ CHEAT BY MAIL SCAM. Wasn’t vote by mail (which is NOT the same as absentee ballots) supposed to go away after covid? Another lie from career politicians.  Continue reading

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JUNE 2021: LOOKING BACK

FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE.

biden the fascistTHE PEOPLE VS JOE BIDEN. And the long list of abuses by this grotesque little man named Biden has grown considerably since this June of 2021 blog post.

JOE BIDEN CLOSES THE OFFICE WHICH TRUMP HAD ESTABLISHED TO HELP THE VICTIMS OF ADDITIONAL CRIMES BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. The early months of the Biden Regime’s policy “Illegal immigrants uber alles!” 

populismESTABLISHMENT FEAR OF POPULISM. From Eugene Debs to Donald Trump, America’s political establishment really hates it when the people push back on their misrule.

democrats vote fraudOVERSEAS READERS REQUESTED CLARIFICATION OF THE ISSUES OVER THE TAINTED AND CORRUPT 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. I went into great detail and also looked at America’s tainted and corrupt 1876 and 2000 presidential elections as well. Joe Biden, George W. Bush and Rutherford B. Hayes were “selected, not elected.” Too many Americans pretend “it can’t happen here.” Input from others HERE. 

… AND YET ANOTHER ITEM THAT TRUMP WAS ACCUSED OF “LYING” ABOUT HAS ENDED WITH HIM BEING PROVEN RIGHT. And this pattern has continued to repeat itself to this very day as the country’s corrupt political establishment continues to persecute him. Continue reading

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APRIL NINETEENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

political persecution of trumpFrom the corporate fascist kleptocracy run by career criminal Joe Biden comes another current events roundup by Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog. And remember, Biden continues to flout a Supreme Court ruling against him.

tim scottSENATOR TIM SCOTT BLASTS THE KANGAROO TRIALS AND COURTROOM TRAVESTIES AGAINST OPPOSITION LEADER DONALD TRUMP. He also cites how the obvious bias of the judges has helped drive people to Trump. More HERE.

JUDGE IN THE LATEST SHAM TRIAL OF TRUMP IN NEW YORK TAGGED AS A JOE BIDEN DONOR. An honest judge would have recused themselves, but this hack prefers to keep Biden’s opponent Trump off the campaign trail and in a courtroom. He refuses to even let Trump attend his son’s graduation.

        As I’ve often mentioned, America’s political establishment is a cesspool of corruption, and its members will not let the voters select their own candidates and they don’t care how blatant they have to be about it.

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND OFFICIAL JOINS THOSE POINTING OUT THAT JOE BIDEN’S OPEN-BORDER POLICY HURTS AMERICAN CITIZENS’ WAGES. But Joe and his fellow one percenters are doing just fine.

the system is evilBIDEN REGIME SURRENDERS TO REASON AND REINSTATES TRUMP’S SANCTIONS. Childishly opposing every action taken by Trump just because it was taken by him has wasted so much time, energy and money. Anti-Trump loons need to grow up.  

HARLEM AUDIENCE CHEERS ON DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP DURING A PERSONAL APPEARANCE. Democrat media outlets will still tell you to ignore the evidence of your own eyes and instead listen to their demonization of Trump.

NEW YORK DEMOCRAT COUNCIL MEMBER ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH FAKING SIGNATURES OF DEAD PEOPLE ON ELECTION PETITION. That’s Democrats – bringing fraud to every aspect of elections, both general and primary!

VOTERS OF COLOR IN PENNSYLVANIA MOCK BIDEN WITH SIGNS SAYING “DONALD TRUMP IS WHO WE WANT.” Video HERE and HERE. “We need Trump back.”

LEGAL SCHOLAR MIKE DAVIS SLAMS UNCONSTITUTIONAL GAG ORDER ON TRUMP. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP: APRIL 15th

FroIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog comes another look at the ongoing disasters here in Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy. 

bloody hands of joe bidenBIDEN OKAYED IRAN’S ASSAULT ON ISRAEL “WITHIN CERTAIN LIMITS.” Remember when Biden said that it would be acceptable if Vlad Putin made a “small incursion” into Ukraine? He and his regime don’t comprehend the forces they unleash when it comes to military actions. More HERE. And HERE.

DENVER’S DEMOCRAT MAYOR DIVERTS MONEY FOR POLICE AND FIRE SERVICES TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. The Democrat slogan remains “Illegal immigrants uber alles!”

SENATOR BILL HAGERTY IS THE LATEST VOICE CALLING OUT HOW DEMOCRATS COUNT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TOWARD CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATION. If only the country had a competent opposition party, but we don’t.

rfk jr at micROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. DISCUSSES THE DERANGED ANTI-TRUMP MENTALITY AT DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS LIKE CNN

BIDEN REGIME’S DISASTER AT THE BORDER HAS BROUGHT MEXICAN DRUG CARTEL SHOOTOUTS TO SAN DIEGO. This was predicted long ago.

UCONN BASKETBALL PLAYER BASHES BIDEN FOR HIS MENTAL UNFITNESS DURING THE TEAM’S VISIT. Continue reading

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MAY 2021: A LOOK BACK

FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE.

steele dossierDEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET THE NEW YORK TIMES FORCED TO ADMIT THE STEELE DOSSIER WAS FABRICATED PROPAGANDA FROM THE START.  

AND YET ANOTHER PIECE OF INFORMATION THAT THE MEDIA CLAIMED WAS “A TRUMP LIE” IS FOUND TO BE THE TRUTH. Their idiotic policy that they HAD to be contrarian regarding everything said by Trump was exposed over and over again. Plus Sharyl Attkisson’s list of the times the media was wrong about Trump as of May, 2021. Obviously the list is much longer now.

educa smallerFACULTY LOUNGE FASCIST ROUNDUP: MAY 22nd. John Sexton’s brilliant piece about the pro-Democrat bias of the “academic world” (LMAO) plus more.

EXPLAINING LIZ CHENEY FOR OVERSEAS READERS. The Republican Cheneys are as disgraceful a political family as the Bushes and Bidens.

biden crime family shirtJOE BIDEN ATROCITY ROUNDUP: MAY 17th. The Biden Regime was always helping its wealthy cronies, not the working class and the poor. The Democrats are no longer what they were under FDR and JFK.

THE REAL DIVIDE IN AMERICA: DEMOCRATS VS EVERYBODY ELSE.

MOTHER JONES ON THE DEMOCRATS: MAY 9th. Continue reading

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APRIL ELEVENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

FroIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog comes another look at the ongoing disasters here in Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy.

case to impeach and imprison joe bidenFORMER OBAMA AIDE: JOE BIDEN SHOULD BE IN PRISON. Tell us something we don’t know. See more HERE

DEMOCRATS PROPOSE FIVE BILLION DOLLAR TAXPAYER-FUNDED BAILOUT FOR MOVIE THEATERS. Democrats have mastered the buying of votes. Meanwhile, most Congressional Republicans brag about not spending money on anything for their own constituents.

ANTI-TRUMP FILM SET TO DEBUT AT CANNES. In an election year. And the filmmaking industry/ theater chain/ Democrat-sponsored tax bailouts “complex” rolls along.

trump praised on hbcu policiesDE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP PRAISED ONCE AGAIN FOR HIS ADMINISTRATION’S POLICIES THAT HELPED HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. “Much better than” Biden. More HERE.

BIDEN REGIME SUES UTAH FOR NOT PROVIDING ENOUGH PRIVILEGES FOR TRANS PRISON INMATE. Among his demands is a transfer to a women’s prison. Well, delusional trans people are sure Democrat voters for life, hence the Regime’s policies making trans people virtual royalty. Democrats are “anti-science” on XX and XY chromosomes.

democrat republican or awakeFORMER NPR EDITOR POINTS OUT HOW NPR HAS LOST THE PUBLIC’S TRUST BY BEING FLAGRANTLY PRO-DEMOCRAT. More HERE. He provides details, too, like how eighty-seven NPR editors in DC are Democrats, but NONE belong to other political parties.

        Meanwhile, the clueless, outdated and utterly useless Congressional Republicans STILL refuse to act against open political bias in the taxpayer-funded NPR. Democrats would not sit still if it was 87 Republican editors to zero Democrat editors. One side wants it more.

ANOTHER DEMOCRAT “SCHOOL TEACHER” (LMAO) ARRESTED FOR CHILD TRAFFICKING AND “COMPELLING PROSTITUTION OF JUVENILES.” Democrats, can you please leave children alone? Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP: APRIL EIGHTH

Another current events roundup froIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

democrats culture of hateSIXTY-FOUR YEAR OLD TRUMP SUPPORTER BEATEN WITH SLEDGEHAMMER IN NEW JERSEY CLINGING TO LIFE. More HERE.  

ADDITIONAL LEGAL MINDS TRASH THE IDIOTIC MANHATTAN FRONT OF THE POLITICAL LAWFARE AGAINST THE OPPOSITION LEADER TRUMP. – Banana Republic America under Biden.

BIDEN GETS CONFUSED AND FRANTICALLY CHEWS OUT REPORTER. Such actions were always called “a war on the Free Press” under the demented Biden’s predecessor.

ROBERT F. KENNEDY CALLS OUT THE WAY JANUARY SIXTH WAS NOT AN “INSURRECTION” (LMAO).

joe biden is aDEMOCRAT ACTRESS HYSTERICALLY CLAIMS TRUMP WILL PUT MINORITIES IN CAMPS. Trump did none of the things that the slobbering psychopaths who hate him claimed he would back when he was in office, yet they still keep churning out imbecilic takes like this. Anti-Trump loons who come up with these weird ideas are the most ignorant, uninformed and emotionally unstable people I have ever encountered.

FEDERAL JUDGE POINTS OUT HOW THE BIDEN REGIME’S DOJ IGNORES SUBPOENAS WITHOUT PENALTIES BUT OPPOSITION FIGURES GET SENT TO PRISON FOR THE SAME ACTIONS. Continue reading

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APRIL 2021: LOOKING BACK

FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE.

brandon tatum picBRANDON TATUM, A MARTIN LUTHER KING MAN OF COURAGE, SETS STRAIGHT A WHITE BBC REPORTER OVER HIS FALSE ASSUMPTIONS – Well done, too. 

AUSTRALIAN NEWS SAYS “JOE BIDEN’S STUPIDITY IS NOW A THREAT TO THE WEST.” Video.

TRUMP VINDICATED AS YET ANOTHER FALSE MEDIA STORY IS EXPOSED – And since April of 2021 several other false narratives against Trump have been exposed as lies, too.

antifa is that youANTIFA HATE GROUP SETS FIRE TO PORTLAND FEDERAL BUILDING WITH EMPLOYEES INSIDE – Animals.

AMERICA’S MEDIA: EVEN LOWER THAN OUR CAREER POLITICIANS? – Yes.

CORPORATE FASCISM – A step by step look.  Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP: APRIL 2nd

From Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy it’s another current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

kangaroo courtDAUGHTER OF JUDGE IN TRUMP CASE INVOLVED IN RAISING NINETY-THREE MILLION DOLLARS FOR DEMOCRAT CANDIDATES BY TOUTING THE LAWFARE AGAINST TRUMP, RAISING NEW CRIES FOR THE JUDGE TO RECUSE HIMSELF. For once it’s not Judge Arthur Engoron, the poster child for why people consider elected judges to be nothing but partisan hacks.   

HILARIOUS ARTICLE BY A PRACTICING LAWYER ABOUT THE CURRENT INSANITY IN U.S. COURTROOMS.

president trumpDE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S TOP ONE HUNDRED ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN OFFICE.

“BIDEN-MART” DEMONSTRATES THE CRUSHING INFLATION CAUSED BY JOE BIDEN’S POLICIES AND HIS WAR ON THE WORKING CLASS & THE POOR. Continue reading

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