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These Lemon Bundt Cakes are Egg-free, Butter-free and made in just one bowl with Olive Oil and Greek Yogurt.
Seriously! These Lemon Bundt Cakes are bursting with flavor and I so wish you were there when they were baking in the oven. The combination of yogurt with fresh Meyer lemon juice is intoxicating.
I'm a big fan of olive oil and yogurt baked goods. I like my desserts light, moist and fluffy and Olive Oil and Yogurt get you those results. Most often, I make Olive Oil Date Cakes and Olive Oil Orange Cakes for snacks or tea time cakes and those are always a hit with friends and families.
The best part about these Lemon Yogurt Bundt Cakes is, you can whip up the batter in one bowl. Pour. Bake.
That's all.
Honestly, I can't stop snacking on these beauties. I'm thinking about making another batch soon.
- Rinds of 2 Meyer Lemons grated. Almost 2 TBSP
- 1 and 3/4 Cups (220 grams) Flour
- 2 TBSP freshly squeezed Lemon juice
- 1 TSP baking soda
- 2 TSP Baking powder
- 1/2 Tsp salt
- Olive Oil 1/2 cup + for greasing
- 3/4 cup sugar – or, as per your taste
- 1 1/4 cups Yogurt
- Powdered sugar for dusting
- Pre-Heat oven to 350 degrees F or 180 degrees C
- Prepare a cake tin or individual bundt pans by greasing with oil
- Sieve flour, baking soda, baking powder into a mixing bowl.
- In the same bowl add yogurt, lemon juice, olive oil and sugar, salt, lemon zest.
- Mix until everything is incorporated. Do not over mix
- Transfer the cake batter into the cake tin or bundt pans and bake for 35 to 40 minutes until a cake tester comes out clean when inserted
- Let the cakes cool down completely before dusting with powdered sugar.
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Obama stimulus clears House
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Gingrey apologizes over Limbaugh
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Iran tells U.S. to show change in policy not tactics
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Just Five Red States Left?
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O'Reilly don't know much about (WWII) history
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Stimulus Bill Passes House With 0 Republican Votes
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text: Artist: Mystikal Album: Unpredictable Song: It Yearns* *In case you don't know, 'It's yearn' is the same as 'it's yours' (Intro, some guy talking) Old school niggas. (IT'S YEARN!) True hip hop niggas. Ha, ha. (IT'S YEARN!) This something y'all niggas can dance to. [Verse 1] LIKE THAT! I be a black muthafucka from the 12th ward I want some bullshit niggas (?) hittin em hard I hit em with more (?) I make em run I made a lot of noise with the shit I done I give y'all a chance to roll but y'all niggas can't roll Sit your ass down, let me show you how it go I thought I showed you last time, when will you learn? Watch what you ask for, nigga, IT'S YEARN! [Verse 2] The maniac brotha's back with another dramatic track Crossin my path struck you like you a black cat Maniac, abused, used, and abused Try your luck and bring a pack for the horseshoes You got nothin to lose, it just might help you out a bit Shit, I doubt it You're better off dead, goin head to head with a nigga like M-I-K-E Your best bet's to pack your shit Calm your head, bleedin bitch Sucka tragic you'll never get none You better leave cause you only get one Chance to make a break for it Uh huh, leave now or get the pow Get the fuck out this area, I'ma have to bury ya Mo thug, I draw blood Whip that ass, leave ya face down in the mud Militant, bitch I might be But that's a risk you take when you fuck with me Headlocked, yo I dirt ya like a nacho Shit you go, bigger than G.I.Joe You ain't know? I thought you knew This time you can have it, it's for you IT'S YEARN! X 3 [Verse 3] Come on, come on Well come away sucker fake MCs in the place There's only one Mystikal so make no mistake Comin straight in your face, sucker MCs I hate Rhymes bite you in your ass like a rattlesnake Bout your screamin no way Bitch you won't escape I'm like a boa 'strictor I kill, I suffocate Hittin harder than Hitler, no slidin, no livin, no jivin Got more niggas runnin and hiding than Batman and Robin Takin out adversaries with rhymes I wrote The sucker (?) I'm the antidote I the conductor of shive rhymes (...?....) Stretch like elastic, pure fantastic Lift off and burnin MCs like amino acid Nigga please don't try to battle, it's suicide Those who have time watch me I do survive This is only a suggestion, so ask no questions Try and digest my rhymes bitch you get indigestion Wrote this as a lesson so you will know Comin hard muthafuckas this physical Be pussy bitches in my fans I brought a dime and Understand I'm comin strong nigga harder than He-Man With these hands, nigga laying face down on the curb IT'S YEARN! [Verse 4] Some murderer got the nerve to talk about me Bitch I never heard of ya That's a shame, you got the blame cause you're blind You know my name, the M to the Y, S-T-I, the K-A-L Rebel, ya smell, ya fell, ya tell, ya sell, hotter than hell Soft as hell, I might as well SPELL! I'm a big marine, M-I-K-E, you figure weaker then me I speak uniquely, how in the fuck do you plan to beat me Ruler of hip hop, left ya shell shocked Scare the fuck out ya like Alfred Hitchcock Don't wanna be bothered (..?..) I'm a rough motherfucker from the 12th ward Never left nothin undone, breakin jaws for fun Cocky as Paul Bunyan, have ya cryin like onion Flyin low, a soldier born, ya chicken's choked Explosive, bitch I'm the one that wrote this I scream like rebel with the sword and snake Your boss come to battle, it's not your week I reverse my verse, I love to curse You won't be the first muthafucker in the back of a hearse Stomp, pop, clap, havin the last laugh Then, I step back and grin at your dumb ass Watch me burn, can't miss my turn Like, do you want it? IT'S YEARN! X 2


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Sean Spindrift
Sean Spindrift - Planet Bob's Chai Emporium
December 5, 2021
Starting within the London scene from 1995, promoting AstralPhoenix at Tyssen Street in East London.
DJing Chill-out music in 2004 for Eartheart Cafe and Planet Bob's Chai Emporium, playing at events and festivals including Glade and in the green fields at Glastonbury.
By 2008 he was playing regularly at The Synergy Project @ SE 1. Percussionistof the band 'Orchid Star' after a stint with Native Horizon, performing in the Glade of Glastonbury festival, Boomtown and as far away as Vladivostok.
Now percussionist for the band 'Lemon Tree' headed by Planet Bob's founder Paul Bacon.
By 2009 Sean began playing Progressive Trance becoming a prominent force on the dance floor.
Playing at many events, regular slots include Tribal Village &Cohesion, playing regularly for Freak Bazaar in Brighton and Tribe of Frog in Bristol.
A familiar name on the festival circuit playing at Boomtown, Equinox,Summer Gathering. Triplicity and Beatherder.
His work life entwined with the sea for over 30 years, crossing oceans, his musical roots hark back to halcyon days of Northern Soul in the Mod and Scooter scene of the 80's, the ska and industrial scene of North America in late '87 to the early 90's heavy influences of classical, 80's electronic music, funk, jazz, blue beat, acid house, acid jazz and techno.


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Ah, to be a fly on the studio wall during the making of Kanye West's Yeezus. This is an album that is actively trying to sound imperfect, and yet the number of producers, engineers, songwriters and professional fluffers that went into manufacturing that aesthetic is astounding. We're told that the infinite wisdom of Rick Rubin's beard was drafted in with less than three weeks until deadline, and he claims even at that stage he was given three hours' worth of only partially finished material to work with.
In short, the making of this record sounds utterly chaotic, which was conceivably part of Kanye's plan all along. In what other conditions could he have produced an album as rash, dramatic and hot blooded? Or even, who else operating at this level in popular music could have made something so simultaneously provocative and vital sounding? Only Kanye; barking out orders in his leather skirt, as his crack team of producers scrambles around desperately trying to pull the zeitgeist out of their MacBooks. 'Reverse that snare drum!' he shrieks, 'This synth needs to sound, like, 200 per cent more now.'
It's easy to poke fun at Kanye, but Yeezus is his way of prodding at hip hop's flabby belly, then running behind it and yelling 'Look what I can do!' in its ear. This is an album that's got Daft Punk producing no less than three songs, a sample clearance of 'Strange Fruit', and Chief Keef singing a hook alongside Justin Vernon. He's surprised us before, of course; just look at the dance/rap fusion of Graduation's 'Stronger', the icy sadness of 808s and Heartbreaks, or the sheer enormity of vision on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. But even in a career of left turns, Yeezus is shocking. At times, it's dense to the point that it's rendered intentionally difficult to listen to. Kanye has spent his last few records cuddling up to us with sonics, just so enough people care about him that this one will make an impact.
Make no mistake, Kanye's gravitation towards the brutalist, industrial arrangements of 'Black Skinhead' and 'New Slaves' is him demanding to be listened to. The consumer and race politics tied up in both of these songs are not the radical departure they've been described as, that goes as far back in Kanye's career as The College Dropout ('All Falls Down') and Late Registration ('Crack Music'), and as recent as Watch the Throne ('Murder to Excellence'). But by removing the joyful samples and head-nodding beats of old, Kanye elevates the power of his message. 'New Slaves' is strongest of all; teeming with anger and self-hatred, it says that society's culture of aspiration is rewardless and manipulative - and that's from a man who knows it better than most. Yes, Kanye might be the living embodiment of what he's rallying against, but what better spokesperson could anti-consumerism possibly have?
Kanye's anger and self-loathing doesn't stop there; it's infused in so much of this often extremely ugly record. For starters, he's ejaculating all over Yeezus – on mink fur, naked flesh and Hampton spouses – running desperately away from monogamy and adulthood with his pants around his ankles. Crucially, he's fusing the political with these personal conquests, playing up to racist stereotypes of the animalistic black male by using violent, uncomfortable imagery. He's fucking us in the eyes and he's eating our asses.
To the black girl drinking white wine - "I put my fist in her with the civil rights sign". He invites us to come and ogle at the freak show, just as he described earlier with the vivid King Kong imagery of 'Black Skinhead'.
It wasn't so long ago that he was crying out for the comforts of parenthood and a meaningful relationship, but people have short memories when it comes to Kanye. He's calling us out on our prejudices, and in the process he's deflecting attention away from the woman he loves and his newly born child. Just like he told the New York Times last week, 'I just don't want to talk to America about my family. Like, this is my baby. This isn't America's baby.'
Unfortunately, despite the shock and awe surrounding the SNL performances, the absence of a radio campaign and the bare album art - Yeezus does sag in places. Sure, there are arrangements here to get excited about and that have the potential to move people - but songs like 'Guilt Trip' and the King L-featuring 'Send it Up' just feel severely underwritten. Then there's 'Blood on the Leaves'; a track that mashes up TNGHT, C-Murder and Nina Simone's cover of Billie Holliday's 'Strange Fruit' – and for what? Kanye managed to authorize a sample of one of the most beautiful and sacred gestures in the history of civil rights, and used it so he could take a shot at groupies and alimony payments? That's enough to distract me from however hard this beat bangs. The thing is, Kanye is almost definitely trying to say something else with this sample choice – he's too conscious of the song's weight, re-iterating fragments of it much more appropriately on 'New Slaves' – but whatever point he's trying to make has been garbled.
His other sample choices and guests are much more rewarding. 'Hold My Liquor' plucks Chief Keef out of Chicago's Englewood area – one of the most helplessly fucked up communities in all America – and has him singing on its desperately sombre hook. "I can't control my niggas," he drones through the autotune, "And my niggas they can't control me" – he's singing from a place that has been left to rot by his government, and Kanye is purposefully aligning himself with Keef as a way of telling us he feels that it's not just George Bush that doesn't care about black people. Meanwhile he's cranking up the record's pressure through samples of other traditional forms of black protest music – from Jamaican dancehall to Chicago house.
Funnily enough, the headline grabbing 'I Am A God' feels like light relief by comparison; a hysterical bit of wind-up fun that sees Yeezus meeting with Jesus ("He said whaddup Yeezus?"), and getting impatient over delayed croissants. It might not have any proper rap beat to speak of, but this is the most fun Kanye is having on the record – trolling the public and sitting back to watch the memes being created.
So, where does this leave Yeezus in the pantheon of Kanye West albums? It's certainly his boldest, most provocative record in a career as a bold and provocative musician. Its political backbone will gradually become appreciated and with time and it may even become canonised as Kanye's most important record. A great deal of its power comes from the height of his platform, giving this album a significance that better, more articulate records will never get close to. Under closer scrutiny, a three song lull holds it back from being as powerful as it might have been, but I'm happier listening to this flawed, fumbled and underdeveloped Kanye record than I am a thousand other records that came out this year and didn't even try to change the world.
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Monday, October 1, 2012
F This Movie! - Friday the 13th Part 3 Commentary (in 3-D!)
Start the commentary when "Paramount Pictures Presents" comes on screen (after the Paramount logo).
Download this episode here. (43.6 MB)
Email F This Movie! at fthismoviepodcast(at)gmail.com
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Check out ast year's commentary for Sleepaway Camp, too!
Take part in the Scary Movie Challenge III!!
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I saw the 3-D glasses in your Twitter photo and I KNEW IT! I mean, it was either Friday the 13th Part 3 or Avatar -- but that would have been TOO scary.ReplyDelete
It says it's not available on Netflix Instant... :(ReplyDeleteReplies
As of two days ago, it said it was available until January 2013. Unbelievable.Delete
Argh! This treat turned into a trick...Delete
I'm not too surprised, though. Netflix has a tendency to snatch back its movies like noody's business.Delete
It's INCREDIBLY frustrating, since that was a big part of why we picked the movie. I tried to find it on YouTube (not that I support such things); it's available to rent for $2.99. I'm guessing Amazon Instant Video has an option, too. Sorry about that, everyone.Delete
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why NETFLIX INSTANT SUCKS. 8 bucks a month for whatever Netflix has the rights to (which is a small percentage of what the DVD side offers) which they can dump or pull down whenever they damn feel like? No thanks, I'll stick with my streaming-movies-are-a-cool-side-benefit Amazon Prime subscription; Netflix Instant can go jump on a bat of battery acid and die.Delete
Off to try and get a cheap DVD/BD copy of "Friday the 13th Pt. III" for less than 8 bucks.
Sorry JM, no sympathy here.Delete
In Oz our live streaming service costs $20-$25 a month, so an $8 one sounds like heaven, regardless of their practices.
1) Great commentary as usual.Delete
2) Everyone on here...I love you more than my luggage but...
Netflix Instant isn't streaming this. Wow.
Call a used CD/DVD store - they probably have copies they'd love to get rid of. Try Goodwill/Salvation Army. Borrow it from the library. Ask your friends if they have a copy (and tell them about this commentary). Listen to it without the movie if you've seen it before - I did.
There are kids in this country going to bed hungry tonight. Suck it up.
No apology required here - somehow I own this blu-ray - looking forward to watching again with the commentary.ReplyDelete
So I'm listening to your Music Box Massacre podcast from 2010 and JB mentions something about how it messes with your mind just watching 3 or 4 movies in a row, which made me harken back to the F! This Film Festival, which made me wonder why aren't we doing one of those with horror movies this month? And assuming the world doesn't end per the Mayan Calendar, maybe next year? Seems like a great idea from a very handsome man if I do say so myself.Replies
I second that emotion! A twitter horror festival would be great stuff (possibly including The Stuff, because like Doug it's both delicious and deadly).Delete
I wouldnt mind a Twitter-fest where JB tweets his nuggets of truth-gold along with the Universal Monster Movies.Delete
I for one need that type of education to really appreciate movies like that (ducks the thrown fruit thrown for not being cool enough).
We've kind of stayed away from doing that in October because there's already SO MUCH going on. But if people are really wanting to do it, maybe we can figure something out in the future.Delete
"Nuggets of truth gold" God, I love that.Delete
- Steve GOctober 1, 2012 at 3:02 PM
We've all learned a valuable lesson here. When it comes to the classics, you're better off owning the From Crystal Lake to Manhattan box set.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 1, 2012 at 8:48 PM
You guys, I obviously can't just watch Part 3 without watching the first two, and then once I've watched the first three, OF COURSE I have to watch the rest of the series. You see what you've done to me here?ReplyDeleteReplies
Given you more fodder for the "Scary Movie Month III" challenge? Bow down ! :-)Delete
- AnonymousOctober 1, 2012 at 9:40 PM
I'm a huge podcast junkie, but also broke and cheap. Fthismovie is probably the one podcast of all that I listen to, that I'll have absolutely no problem with spending a few dollars to be able to enjoy. So no worries here, I shall be renting it!ReplyDeleteReplies
That's the spirit!Delete
I listened to this late last night (with earbuds/ipod for the commentary and wireless headphones over those for the actual movie sound - worked surprisingly well!) and it was both a hoot and a holler. I'm fortunate enough (I guess?) to have the 3-D blu-ray so I got the full experience - I watched it a few years back but had forgotten that the 3-D is actually kinda good - not up to today's standards obviously, but some stuff really worked.ReplyDelete
A couple favourite moments:
It didn't seem like anyone else heard him, but at about 22:34 Mike queries, "Is that a dog blowing a man?" about a little statue that may or may not be a dog blowing a guy - that really got me for some reason - makes me laugh just thinking about it.
Towards the end when Doug started voicing over Jason (with a Frankenstein/Terminator accent) with cheesy one-liners, the "He is my new pupil" comment about some guy whose eye he squeezed out, killed me as well. I like the idea of doing that with all of the Friday the 13th movies - Jason, lover of sleeping-bag-bludgeoning and puns!
Hilarious guys - I shall have to track down a copy of Sleepaway Camp and check that commentary out as well.Replies
Thanks, Sol. I think I missed Mike's joke, but I'm laughing just reading it so I'll have to go back and listen again.Delete
Those things are so much fun to do that I wish we could do them all the time, but it would dilute the brand. I almost want to do one for every Ft13th just so I can hear more of Doug's Jason impression.
I wouldn't call it a joke - he sounded genuinely disturbed! And the fact it went unnoticed made it even funnier!Delete
Oh, I can't let this go for some reason, it's the way he says, "A DOG blowing A MAN" that got me - like the idea of cross-species fellatio had never occurred to him before.Delete
Oh, it's occured to me before, Sol. Has it ever.ReplyDelete
This commentary was one of the funniest things in recent memory. And the line "latter day taint" had me making embarrassing choking noises at work and making that noise that kids do when they're really, really crying hard. That high pitched tone that only dogs hear? that "uuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnn" sound? I made that. AT WORK.ReplyDelete
Well done.Replies
Thanks, Hollywood. That's two years in a row in which Doug has made the best joke of the commentary.Delete
Oh shit, I forgot that line - really funny - I thought we were going to lose JB!Delete
Yes, I laughed so hard at that magnificent pun that I choked to death and died, but I CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD just to participate in the F This Movie Scary Movie Challenge!Delete
As wonderful as this commentary is can't help wishing that - when Patrick asks if the bunny is going to be framed for the murders - no one said (with a Scottish accent), "That's no ordinary rabbit! Look at the bones!!!"ReplyDelete
Damn...that should have been "someone"...ReplyDelete
So, we're well into 2015. When does Mothocaust come out?ReplyDelete


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I recently found myself in the deep abyss of Instagram.
In an obscure and bizarre corner of the interwebs that honestly, was so fascinating, I couldn't look away.
Nothing seedy — get your mind out of the gutter. Just straight up strange.
It was Thursday night, 11pm, I was just doing nothing before going to bed. I had read a Buzzfeed article which led me into the deep unknown.
It led me into the world of ASMR.
For those of you, who, like me, thought this was some sort of medical jargon for an upper respiratory breathing machine, let me be the first to inform you — it is most certainly not that.
It stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. Or in other words, the "shivers" or "tingles" you get in your brain when you hear a particularly pleasant sound.
Not everyone gets these said "tingles." — I for one, definitely do not. But apparently, people do, because there is a huge hidden ASMR community online.
And they post videos — with tens of millions of views — of them eating with these suuuuper high quality, expensive microphones, capturing every saliva smack, and satisfying crunch. Or they'll post videos of them tapping different random objects. Or scratching different things. All to create pleasant sounds.
I spent twenty minutes listening to this "ASMR Celebrity" – LifeWithMaK — eat honeycomb. And then I snapped out of it and thought, What the heck am I doing with my life right now?!
And look, I get it – a lot of people find it soothing, and it is said to help reduce anxiety, or help people fall asleep. So look — if that is your cuppa tea…more power to ya!
But as I was sitting there watching this random chick crunch pickles into the microphone, something suddenly became very apparent to me….
Are we afraid of silence?
Are we afraid of being alone with our thoughts? Are we frightened of having time to reflect — on our existence? On our life and our choices? On God?
We fill our minds and our ear buds with so much noise, that we're making it impossible for God's gentle whisper to be heard. And we're doing so willingly! To the point where we're literally choosing to listen to people chew! so as not to be left alone with our own thoughts.
The whole situation left me unsettled, and frankly, a little weirded out.
So I cleared my browser history.
But going about my week, I didn't think about this until Sunday evening, when I was sitting in church.
Because wouldn't you know — the gospel reading was about the miracle of Jesus making the deaf man hear.
It's Mark 7:31-37 in case you want to read it.
But in the passage, Jesus puts His finger in the deaf man's ear and says,
"Ephphatha!"— that is, "Be opened!" —
And immediately the man's ears were opened,
his speech impediment was removed,
And sitting there in the pew, I couldn't help but think about my little run in with those bizarre ASMR videos.
Whenever I hear one of these iconic stories from the bible, I always like to picture myself in the story with Jesus. I mean, that's probably because I'm a raging narcissist and need to work of self-awareness. Too much?? I digress.
I was imagining myself as the deaf man.
And I think that when we hear these stories from the bible, we can fall into the trap of taking them too literally.
You and I aren't deaf. So, great story bro…but how's it relate to me??
Well here's the unpopular truth:
In actuality, we are all deaf.
We all have some sort of "block" in our ears that impede us from hearing God's Voice. We all have so much noise in our lives — be it the media or music we're injesting. Or the fast pace of our lives. Our busyness. Our fears. We've created lives and a society where silence is a scarcity!
This summer, hiking in Utah and walking the 80 miles on the El Camino de Santiago in Spain…I have had more silence in the last three months than I've had in a lifetime!
But it made me realize how rare it is to just be quiet. To put yourself in a situation where God doesn't have to compete with a podcast, or with the TV, or with a person freaking chewing on honeycomb!
God doesn't shout at us, because He want us to want Him. He want us to seek Him out — He'll never be overbearing or aggressive with making His presence known — even though He's always there.
This was honestly one of the biggest parts of my recovery from anorexia.
I had spent those years in my disease absolutely blocking out His voice. My mind was always racing with suffocating, obsessive thoughts about food, or exercise, or keeping the deception going. I never sought Him out…until that one life changing day at Inpatient, that I went into great detail about on the Among the Lilies Podcast last week, and that I share about in my book, Bloom.
But it was that one day that I realized that I absolutely cannot recover without Jesus. And I had to actively — every single day — show up at the foot of the Cross and place my life — place my recovery — in His hands. And to take His hand, and walk with Him along every step of the often terrifying and difficult journey.
I made it, because Jesus was walking me – and oftentimes carrying me – through it.
Maybe that's what I need to pray for tonight — that Jesus literally stick His finger in my ear and clear out all the gunk that can accumulate from time to time — all the negativity or self doubt, anxiety, busyness, and noise — and open my ears.
Because at the end of the day…His voice is the best, most soothing remedy we can get. And it definitely beats a gal chomping on a cruciferous vegetable.
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Enjoy all the benefits of the new Kepler architecture without the price of the GTX 680 or 690. These cards are a mix of GF108, GF119 and GK107, essentially rebrands of previous GT series cards as opposed to new ones like NVIDIA would prefer you believed.
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4.2 Rated
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4.5 Rated
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No. 3/7, 13th Cross, BTS Main Road, Willsion Garden, Bangalore - 560030
4.4 Rated
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Ho. No. 4, Ground Floor, Haramavu Agara Main Road, Raghuvendra Circle, Ramamurthy Nagar, Bangalore - 560016
3.9 Rated
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1409, 20th A Cross Road, 3rd Cross, Rajiv Gandhi Nagar, HSR Layout, Bangalore, Karnataka - 560102
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|Rs 13,000 - 22,000
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|Rs 52,000 - 80,000
|Rs 60,000 - 90,000
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Editor's Note: This article draws heavily from an article Jerome Corsi previously co-authored with Scott Swett, founder of WinterSoldier.com, titled "John Kerry and the VVAW: Hanoi's American Puppets," published May 6, 2007.
NEW YORK – If the subject of Vietnam comes up at the Senate confirmation hearings for Sen. John Kerry's nomination to be secretary of state, it's likely that an attempt will be made to characterize Kerry's participation in the radical group Vietnam Veterans Against the War as nothing more than a respectful disagreement by a loyal citizen concerned about peace and freedom.
What is unlikely to be probed is the extensive public record showing Kerry and his comrades with VVAW were engaged in working directly with the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese government, contrary to U.S. government war policy.
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Kerry, while he was yet a Naval Reserve officer, met without official authorization in Paris with representatives of the Viet Cong and the Vietnamese government during the Paris Peace talks. He subsequently returned to the U.S. to implement specific anti-war protests as instructed by Hanoi in a disinformation plan designed to cause the U.S. government to lose the war in by eroding public support.
In June 1970, Kerry met with leaders of both delegations, the Viet Cong and the Vietnamese government, in Paris, in unauthorized discussions that included Madame Binh, the foreign minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam, also known as the Viet Cong. Publicly released FBI surveillance reports document that Kerry, then acting as a spokesman for the VVAW, returned to Paris to meet with the North Vietnamese delegation in August 1971 and planned a third trip in November 1971.
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Undermining U.S. support for war
A document captured from the Vietnamese communists during the Vietnam War strongly suggests a close link existed between the Hanoi regime and VVAW while Kerry served as the group's leading national spokesman. The document, a 1971 "circular" distributed by the Vietnamese communists within Vietnam, discusses strategies to coordinate a national propaganda effort with the activities in the United States undertaken by anti-war activists.
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The 1971 circular read: "The spontaneous antiwar movement in the United States have received assistance and guidance from the friendly (Viet Cong/National Vietnamese Government) delegations at the Paris Peace talks."
Prior to the discovery of the circular, there was no direct evidence that Hanoi was steering the U.S. anti-war movement's activities by conveying Hanoi's goals and wishes to movement leaders during their frequent visits to Paris, though many investigators had assumed that to be the case.
Further analysis of the document supports the contention that Madame Binh used her Paris meeting with Kerry to instruct him on how he and VVAW might best serve as Hanoi's surrogates in the U.S. In the spring and summer of 1971, a key strategy of Hanoi was to advance what was known as Madame Binh's Seven Point Peace Plan.
The plan was cleverly constructed to force President Nixon to set a date to end the Vietnam War and withdraw American troops.
According to the plan, the only barrier to Hanoi setting a date to release American prisoners of war was President Nixon's unwillingness to set a specific date for military withdrawal.
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Accepting the full terms of the plan would have amounted to a virtual surrender that included the payment of reparations to the Vietnam communists as an admission that America was the wrongful aggressor in an immoral war.
Late in 1970, a defecting Viet Cong organizer described a communist plan to use Viet Cong sympathizers in the U.S. to recruit family members of American POWs held captive in North Vietnam.
On July 22, 1971, John Kerry held a press conference in Washington, D.C., to call on President Nixon to accept Madame Binh's 7-Point Peace Plan.
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Kerry surrounded himself at the press conference with POW wives, parents and sisters who had been recruited to promote his message. The event was reported in the New York Times July 23, 1971, and in the communist newspaper Daily World July 24, 1971. Each article included a photograph of Kerry surrounded by POW family members.
Kerry's use of POW families directly advanced the North Vietnamese communist agenda as described by enemy defectors and in the newly discovered circular, which suggests Madame Binh had recommended the same course of action to anti-war activists meeting with her in Paris.
A number of POW families were contacted by a "liaison" group headed by Cora Weiss, the daughter of Communist Party financier Samuel Rubin, with offers to provide mail and information about their husbands if the families agreed to publicly denounce the war.
Most POW family members refused to cooperate with this extortion, even when promised better treatment for their husbands or sons in Hanoi.
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Four angry POW wives protested at Kerry's July press conference, one of whom accused Kerry of "constantly using our own suffering and grief" to advance his political ambitions.
A puppet of Hanoi?
A second document captured by U.S. military forces in South Vietnam May 12, 1972, is a communist directive designed to motivate discussions within Vietnam about promoting the ongoing antiwar activities in the U.S.
The fifth paragraph of the document makes clear that the Vietnamese communists were utilizing for their propaganda purposes the activities of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
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The protest described as occurring from April 19 through April 22, 1971, coincides directly with the dates of Dewey Canyon III, the Washington, D.C., protest led by Kerry, during which his testimony before Sen. J. William Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee was a televised centerpiece.
The description of the protest activities in the directive even include the "return their medals" ceremony in which Kerry and other VVAW members threw their medals and/or ribbons toward the steps of the U.S. Capitol, with several shouting threats of violence against their government.
The document makes clear the degree to which the Vietnamese communists were working in the U.S. with and through the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice, known as PCPJ.
The House Internal Security Committee in its 1971 Annual Report described the PCPJ as an organization strongly controlled by U.S. communists: "There is no question but what members of the Communist Party have provided a very strong degree of influence, even a guiding influence, in the evolution and formation of policies of the Peoples' Coalition for Peace and Justice."
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Publicly released FBI surveillance reports establish a strong link between Kerry, Al Hubbard, the VVAW, the PCPJ and their trips to Paris to meet with Madame Binh.
Hubbard, the executive secretary of the VVAW and a hard-line radical with ties to the Black Panthers and the PCPJ, had directly recruited Kerry into VVAW's Executive Committee, bypassing the organization's election process.
Hubbard's claim to have been a transport pilot wounded in combat was discredited when the Department of Defense released documents demonstrating that though he had been in the Air Force, he was neither a pilot nor an officer, had never served in Vietnam and had never been in combat.
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Kerry shared the stage with Hubbard during the Dewey Canyon III protest in Washington, D.C., and he appeared together with Hubbard on NBC's "Meet the Press" April 18, 1971.
Hubbard also signed the People's Peace Treaty, a PCPJ document that reiterated the positions of North Vietnam and the Viet Cong on behalf of VVAW.
According to an FBI field surveillance report date-stamped Nov. 11, 1971, the FBI had learned at the Regional VVAW Convention in Norman, Okla., Nov. 5-7, 1971, that Kerry and Hubbard were planning to travel to Paris later that month to engage in talks with the Vietnamese communist peace delegations.
While the document is heavily redacted, other FBI reports make it clear that the Communist Party of the USA was paying for Hubbard's trips to Paris.
A letter written by Hubbard April 20, 1971, leaves no doubt about the strong coordination between the Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice.
Addressed from the offices of the VVAW in Washington, D.C., the letter is an appeal to VVAW members to provide assistance to the PCPJ. The letter authored by Hubbard outlined several ways in which the two organizations have worked closely together:
This is an appeal for help for the Peoples Coalition for Peace and Justice. Over the past months the Peoples Coalition has supported the Vietnam Vets Against the War in many ways. The Coalition has made office space available at no charge, and permitted the use of all necessary office equipment such as mimeograph machines, stencil-making machines, folders and typewriters. They have loaned us cars, bullhorns, and public address equipment. Their staff has taken messages for us and joined fraternally in building our progress. Now we can return this support.
Saturday, April 24, the Coalition needs help collecting money and selling buttons at the great march and rally. Collectors and sellers must be energetic and determined. There will be security problems in taking large amounts of money to banks. The Coalition needs people power, hundreds of workers.
I earnestly hope that you will come forward to support our friends in this emergency.
Two days after the letter was written, Kerry gave his famous testimony to Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee in which he likened the American military in Vietnam to the army of Genghis Khan.
The rally for which Hubbard was recruiting VVAW assistance was the PCPJ's massive April 24 demonstration in Washington, which immediately followed VVAW's week-long Dewey Canyon III protest.
The communist newspaper Daily World reported April 27, 1971, "Tributes were paid to the special role of the Vietnam Veterans" at the PCPJ rally, and went on to quote at length from Kerry's speech at the event.