President Biden wants to use this week’s NATO summit in Washington to reassert his leadership for the benefit of the Democratic Party and Western allies. The allies are allegedly unsure what to make of the unfolding political crisis. Where have they been? Since Biden has been like this for years, one must consider that they are in a […] The post International Leaders Didn’t Notice Biden’s Craziness appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Actress Sharon Stone said she was left completely broke after having a stroke in 2001 because people “took advantage” of her. The 66-year-old “Basic Instinct” star told The Hollywood Reporter during an interview published Monday that all of the millions she had in savings disappeared following the medical emergency and her lengthy recovery. “…People took advantage of me during that time. I had $18 million saved because of all my success, but when I got back into my bank account, it was all gone. My refrigerator, my phone — everything was in other people’s names,” Stone told the outlet. “I had zero money,” she added.  The actress also discussed how the stroke altered her entire outlook on life.  “A Buddhist monk told me that I had been reincarnated into my same body,” Stone explained. “I had a death experience and then they brought me back. I bled into my brain for nine days, so my brain was shoved to the front of my face. It wasn’t positioned in my head where it was before.” She continued, “And while that was happening, everything changed. My sense of smell, my sight, my touch. I couldn’t read for a couple of years. Things were stretched and I was seeing color patterns. A lot of people thought I was going to die.” The interviewer asked Stone how she managed to survive such an extreme medical event and the subsequent loss of trust in the people around her. “I decided to stay present and let go,” she explained. “I decided not to hang onto being sick or to any bitterness or anger. If you bite into the seed of bitterness, it never leaves you. But if you hold faith, even if that faith is the size of a mustard seed, you will survive. So, I live for joy now. I live for purpose.” The stroke occurred when Stone was 43. The Academy Award nominee noticed her body felt numb, and there was a “terrible pain” in her head. She was diagnosed with a brain bleed and given a 1% chance of survival at the time, per The New York Post.

Former talk show host Ellen DeGeneres told an audience she’s planning to be done with showbiz after her Netflix special. The 66-year-old comedian made the remarks last week during a stop in Santa Rosa, California, on her “Ellen’s Last Stand… Up” comedy tour, per SF Gate. The tour will reportedly be the basis for her upcoming Netflix show. “Let me catch you up on what’s been going on with me since you last saw me,” she said during the set. “I got chickens.” “Oh yeah, and I got kicked out of show business for being mean,” DeGeneres added. “I used to say, ‘I don’t care what people say about me.’ Now I realize I said that during the height of my popularity,” she continued. Her popular daytime talk show ended in 2022 following a Buzzfeed report alleging a toxic workplace and personal character allegations against DeGeneres herself. One X thread went viral after a fellow comedian asked people to share their stories about the talk show host being mean. “I can be demanding and impatient and tough. I am a strong woman,” DeGeneres continued during the recent stand-up set. “I am many things, but I am not mean.” During a Q&A session, one fan asked if the celeb planned to appear on Broadway or in movies in the future. “Um, no,” DeGeneres replied. “This is the last time you’re going to see me. After my Netflix special, I’m done.” Another fan persisted, saying she’d love to see the former talk show host reprise her role as Dory from the animated Pixar film, “Finding Nemo.” “No, I’m going bye-bye, remember,” she said. DeGeneres began this comedy tour in June and recently canceled several stops without giving a reason, according to Entertainment Tonight.  “To answer the questions everyone is asking me — yes, I’m going to talk about it. Yes this is my last special,” DeGeneres said in a statement about the tour.  During a West Hollywood stop, DeGeneres said it was “so hurtful” how her long-running show ended. “I just thought, ‘Well this is not the way I wanted to end my career, but this is the way it’s ending.’ … I just hated the way the show ended,” she said. “I love that show so much and I just hated that the last time people would see me is that way.”

George Clooney has joined a growing number of stars who have started to tell President Joe Biden it’s time to drop out of the race following the president’s disastrous debate. In a lengthy editorial in The New York Times, the 63-year-old actor lists the reasons Biden needs to drop out of the 2024 election and allow someone else to run for the Democratic Party after Biden struggled, rambled, and froze numerous times during the CNN Presidential Debate against former President Donald Trump. “I love Joe Biden,” Clooney, who hosted a star-studded fundraiser in Hollywood for Biden in June,  wrote. “As a senator. As a vice president and as president. I consider him a friend, and I believe in him. Believe in his character. Believe in his morals. In the last four years, he’s won many of the battles he’s faced.” “But the one battle he cannot win is the fight against time. None of us can,” he added.“It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal‘ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.” George Clooney urges Joe Biden to step down as the 2024 Democratic nominee for president in a new op-ed: “We are not going to win in November with this president. On top of that, we won’t win the House, and we’re going to lose the Senate. This isn’t only my opinion; this is the… pic.twitter.com/EArMreTtMk — Variety (@Variety) July 10, 2024 “Was he tired? Yes. A cold? Maybe. But our party leaders need to stop telling us that 51 million people didn’t see what we just saw,” Clooney continued. “We’re all so terrified by the prospect of a second Trump term that we’ve opted to ignore every warning sign,”  The Hollywood star said it is fair to point this out and said it’s “about age. Nothing more. But also nothing that can be reversed.” “We are not going to win in November with this president,” the actor wrote. “On top of that, we won’t win the House, and we’re going to lose the Senate…We love to talk about how the Republican Party has ceded all power, and all of the traits that made it so formidable with Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, to a single person who seeks to hold on to the presidency, and yet most of our members of Congress are opting to wait and see if the dam breaks.” “But the dam has broken,” he added.“We can put our heads in the sand and pray for a miracle in November, or we can speak the truth.” At one point, Clooney also called on top Democrats to “ask this president to voluntarily step aside.” “Would it be messy? Yes. Democracy is messy,” Clooney wrote. “But would it enliven our party and wake up voters who, long before the June debate, had already checked out? It sure would…Biden, is a hero; he saved democracy in 2020. We need him to do it again in 2024.” Rob Reiner, who has called for Biden to step down, posted the Times piece and wrote on X, “My friend George Clooney has clearly expressed what many of us have been saying. We love and respect Joe Biden. We acknowledge all he has done for our country. But Democracy is facing an existential threat. We need someone younger to fight back. Joe Biden must step aside. “

Famed member of the country group The Oak Ridge Boys, Joe Bonsall, has died at the age of 76 — after announcing in January that he was leaving the group due to a neuromuscular disorder. In a heartbreaking post on Tuesday on X from the hugely successful country and gospel group, the band announced that their longtime member had died from complications of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). The degenerative nervous system disease can affect nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, CNN noted. “As a 50-year member of the American music group The Oak Ridge Boys, Joe was a member of the Grand Ole Opry and inducted into the Philadelphia Music Hall of Fame, The Gospel Music Hall of Fame, the Vocal Group Hall of Fame, and the prestigious Country Music Hall of Fame,” the post read. “Joseph is also the author of 11 books including his latest, a memoir titled ‘I See Myself,’ which releases in November,” the post added. “Joe loved to sing. He loved to read. He loved to write. He loved to play banjo. He loved working on the farm. And he loved the Philadelphia Phillies. But Jesus and his family always came first—and we will see him again on the Promised Day.” “For fifty years, Joe Bonsall was the Oak Ridge Boys’ sparkplug. His tenor voice was high and clear, and his jovial spirit always provided a jolt of energy, rousing audiences to come on in and take a load off. He lightened our cares every time he sang.” —Kyle Young, CEO pic.twitter.com/p51kjbYAU8 — Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum (@countrymusichof) July 9, 2024 No funeral is planned and in lieu of “flowers, donations may be made to The ALS Association or to the Vanderbilt Medical Center ALS and Neuroscience Research Center,” the post continued. “The family is requesting privacy.” Kyle Young, CEO of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, said in a statement, “For 50 years, Joe Bonsall was the Oak Ridge Boys’ sparkplug,” Billboard reported.  “He was as exciting a performer as any who ever hit a gospel or country stage,” Young added. “His tenor voice was high and clear, and his jovial spirit always provided a jolt of energy, immediately rousing audiences to come on in and take a load off. He certainly lightened our cares every time he sang.” In January, Bonsall shared the news he was leaving the group and would not be part of the rest of its Farewell Tour that kicked off in 2023, due to his health issues. “Many of you know I have been battling a slow onset (over 4 years now) of a neuromuscular disorder,” he wrote. “I am now to a point that walking is impossible so I have basically retired from the road. It has just gotten too difficult.” “I will never forget and for those of you who have been constantly holding me up in prayer I thank you and ask for you to keep on praying,” he added. “The @oakridgeboys will finish the Farewell Tour without me but rest assured I am good with all of it! God’s Got It!!!” The country group was originally founded in 1943 in Tennessee, with Bonsall joining in 1973. The band is probably best known for such hits as “Elvira” and “American Made,” CNN noted. He is survived by his wife Mary Ann, two daughters, a granddaughter, a grandson, two great grandsons, and a sister, the post on X read.

Chris Whipple, the author of President Joe Biden’s biography, “The Fight of His Life,” told CNN on Wednesday that the White House only allowed him to interview Biden through written questions, a requirement the writer said surprised him. Whipple joined CNN anchor Abby Phillip, Wall Street Journal reporter Emily Glazer, and Vanity Fair correspondent Brian Stelter for a segment on the president’s apparent mental decline and his future as the Democratic Party’s nominee. The discussion on CNN aired as Democrats on hold meetings on Capitol Hill to discuss how the party will move forward in the wake of Biden’s disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump and calls for the president to end his re-election campaign. “The thing to understand here is the DNA of this White House is controlling the narrative,” Whipple said. “And I can tell you having written a book about it that this White House is the most battened-down, buttoned-up, scripted White House in modern history.” “So while I was able to interview in real-time almost all of Joe Biden’s inner circle, when it came to Biden himself, the deal was written answers to written questions,” Whipple added. “I’d never heard of that before.” Phillip asked Whipple if that requirement raised a “red flag” for him. “Well, you can look at it in two ways,” Whipple replied. “This is obviously a White House either with something to hide or just obsessed with controlling the narrative.” “It’s a little bit surprising, a little stunning … you’re writing a biography of the president and he wouldn’t talk to you over the phone, over Zoom, anything like that,” Phillip said. Whipple’s biography of Biden was published in early 2023, well before Democrats and the legacy media began to question the president’s physical and mental capabilities. Whipple’s latest revelation seems to contradict the synopsis of “The Fight of His Life” on Amazon, which states that the author had “remarkable access to both President Biden and his inner circle.” Whipple is also known for his book “The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency,” which detailed the inside baseball of administrations from Reagan to Trump. The author dropped another revelation during his segment on CNN, saying that “one of the president’s closest friends thinks that Joe Biden should go up to Walter Reed [Medical Center], have a complete neurological exam, release the results, and let the chips fall.” “I don’t think that friend has said this out loud to Joe Biden,” Whipple added. “Because that’s a hard thing for a close friend to tell him.”

In a recent development, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested that President Joe Biden might need to rethink his 2024 reelection bid. During an interview on July 2, 2024, Pelosi acknowledged voters' concerns about Biden's age and mental fitness, calling these worries "legitimate" and urging both Biden and former President Donald Trump to undergo mental acuity tests​​. Pelosi's remarks come amid increasing speculation and anxiety within the Democratic Party following Biden's underwhelming performance in the first presidential debate. His struggles during the debate, marked by a hoarse voice and moments of confusion, have fueled doubts about his ability to secure a victory against Trump in the upcoming election. Speaker Pelosi tells me Biden can win She says she won’t make comments in the hallway about “the fate of our nation” When I asked if Biden should run she said “Am I speaking English to you? I’m not going to be making any statements about any of that right now in the hallway..” pic.twitter.com/8R1KsTuTc0 — Rachel Scott (@rachelvscott) July 10, 2024 Pelosi stressed the importance of Biden demonstrating his capabilities through interviews with serious journalists to reassure the public of his competence​​. Despite defending Biden's track record and personal integrity, Pelosi's comments hint at a broader unease among Democrats. The former Speaker emphasized the necessity for transparency and suggested that both presidential candidates should be willing to undergo any necessary tests to prove their fitness for office​​. Whoever took the parlay of AOC being on team "the matter is closed" and Pelosi being on team "the matter is not quite closed" can collect their winnings. https://t.co/IMuZ9FAGx8 — Philip Klein (@philipaklein) July 10, 2024 This debate over Biden's candidacy has been amplified by calls from other prominent Democrats and media outlets for him to consider stepping down. Notably, some Democratic members of Congress and media voices have been vocal about the need for new leadership, fearing that Biden may not be able to effectively challenge Trump in the general election​​. Pelosi's cautious approach reflects a strategic concern within the party. While acknowledging Biden's accomplishments, she also highlighted the need for him to convincingly present his vision, judgment, and knowledge to the American people. Pelosi's remarks are part of a broader narrative pushing for clarity and confidence in Biden's leadership as the election season heats up​. As the political landscape continues to evolve, Pelosi's statements underscore a critical moment for the Democratic Party. The coming months will likely see increased scrutiny on Biden's campaign and potential discussions about alternative candidates if his performance does not improve. This internal debate is a testament to the high stakes and intense pressure facing the Democratic leadership as they prepare for a contentious 2024 election​. The post Pelosi Hints Biden Should Reconsider 2024 Run Amid Growing Concerns appeared first on The Conservative Brief.

This young kid shreds his guitar and has the heart and soul of an eras-past blues artist in this viral video.  TikToker Ahmed The Ears posted a clip of the kid’s guitar solo on July 9th. And in less than 24 hours, it had already gone viral with 7 million views. The post doesn’t say who the musician is or share his backstory, but his performance says enough. In the video, the boy, who looks to be eight or nine, sits outside a restaurant and riffs with pure passion and talent. People on the internet couldn’t believe anyone could be that good—let alone a kid. Kid plays like he just got divorced and she took everything from him pic.twitter.com/isvBvaSw9u— Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod (@big_business_) July 9, 2024 “The definition of an old soul,” someone captioned. “Kids that can play music so soulfully are channeling some otherworldly energy or sumthin’.” “How could you possibly get that good at something at such a young age?” another person asked. “Incredible.” “Ha, I love the passion he plays with,” wrote an impressed commenter. “The guitar seems like an extension of him lol.” “When ‘WOW’ doesn’t even cover,” someone added. Share this story with your friends and family to give this kid the fame he deserves! You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Kid With “Old Soul” Shreds Guitar Like B.B. King appeared first on InspireMore.

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Missouri attorney general Andrew Bailey files a lawsuit against the Biden administration for using taxpayer dollars on transition surgeries.