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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Obama Surrenders U.S. Sovereignty: His INTERPOL Executive Order

December 28th, 2009

Pajamas Media

by Bob Owens
At, Steve Schippert and Clyde Middleton have dug up the bizarre and unsettling issuance of an executive order recently signed by President Barack Obama.

Executive Order — Amending Executive Order 12425, signed December 16 and released a day later, grants the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) rights on American soil that place it beyond the reach of our own law enforcement agencies, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Schippert and Middleton note that Obama’s order removes protections placed upon INTERPOL by President Reagan in 1983. Obama’s order gives the group the authority to avoid Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests — which means this foreign law enforcement organization can operate free of an important safeguard against governmental abuse. “Property and assets,” including the organization’s records, cannot be searched or seized. Their physical locations and records are now immune from U.S. legal or investigative authorities.
If the president of the United States has an aboveboard reason for making a foreign law enforcement agency exempt from American laws on American soil, it wasn’t shared by the White House.
Andy McCarthy, former assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of New York and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, notes at National Review that the limitations that Obama removed are “what prevents law-enforcement and its controlling government authority from becoming tyrannical.”
A paragraph later, McCarthy describes Obama’s actions in the starkest of terms:
This international police force (whose U.S. headquarters is in the Justice Department in Washington) will be unrestrained by the U.S. Constitution and American law while it operates in the United States and affects both Americans and American interests outside the United States.
Some bloggers covering this story are noting that the law enforcement agency to which Obama has extended such extraordinary powers to has had a dismal past.
INTERPOL’s senior leadership was flush with Nazis from the late 1930s all the way into the 1970s. That fact allowed, going Godwin isn’t necessarily relevant to today’s organization. Khoo Boon Hui of Singapore is the current president of the organization, and the current secretary general is American Ronald Noble. Noble is perhaps best known in America for overseeing the Treasury Department’s review of the disastrous 1993 raid and siege of a Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, that left nearly 80 people dead. Noble had cautioned against the initial raid plan as being too dangerous, but the lack of any significant ramifications for federal officials that approved of the raid and allegations of a cover-up have inspired conspiracy theorists to derisively dub Noble “the Enforcer.”
But INTERPOL’s past isn’t what concerns us at this moment. Its current actions and the actions of our president are those that we question.
With the flourish of a pen and no warning at all, Barack Obama surrendered American sovereignty to an international force with a checkered past. To what end?
The consensus opinion among those commenting on this development is that the most radical president in American history seems to be intent on submitting American citizens to the whims of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Previous administrations have been very leery of signing onto agreements that would make citizens susceptible to the ICC, due to the possibility that U.S. servicemen could be dragged into show war crimes trials. Such events are obviously heavily politicized, and demands for war crimes arrests can come from any government, even those that sponsor terrorism or genocide themselves.
No finer point can be made about the endemic problems of the INTERPOL/ICC than that made by a recent diplomatic incident that erupted in Great Britain, where an Israeli government official had to cancel travel plans to England because of an arrest warrant issued by an English judge — because of Iranian charges of Israeli war crimes in Gaza. The brief but intense conflict was one Iran helped instigate, as the Persians supplied the terrorists in Gaza with the rockets they used against Israeli civilians, triggering an inevitable Israeli response.
If President Obama and his radical allies in the Democratic leadership have their way, American soldiers could presumably be brought up on charges as war criminals by enemy nations and marked for arrest and deportation by an international police force on American soil. They would face charges in a foreign land without the constitutional protections they fought and bled to protect. The White House seems to be on the bewildering path of giving al-Qaeda terrorists who murder innocent women and children more legal protection than the very soldiers that risk their lives trying to bring terrorists to justice. The asinine court-martial charges being brought against three Navy SEALs based upon the word of a terrorist they captured suddenly make a sickening kind of sense.
It also stands to reason that Obama’s seeming willingness to put American soldiers’ lives in the hands of a corrupt international community could also be brought to bear against his political enemies. Foreign investigators of dubious intent, and our own left-wing extremists, have long branded officials of the previous administration “war criminals” for actions they’d taken in the war on terror. It is entirely conceivable — perhaps even likely — that these same organizations and enemy governments that went after 25 Israeli government officials through INTERPOL and the ICC would quickly move to indict a wish list of current and former U.S. government officials for alleged “war crimes.” Former President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney would obviously be at the top of such a list of politically motivated suspects, but such a list could just as easily include General David Petraeus, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, congressmen, and senators.
As the Iranian gambit has shown, Obama’s bizarre assault on U.S. sovereignty could have disastrous repercussions. We can only hope that his fetish for weakening this nation can be stopped before American politicians and servicemen are made pawns by our enemies.

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Egypt: Muslim gangs rape Christian girls  - RELIGION OF PEACE????? OR PIECES!!

Wednesday, 30 December 2009 00:48 Acharya S Religion, Spirituality & Atheism - Islam More love and charity from the beautiful and peaceful religion! As Egypt's ancient Christian-Coptic community is genocided, the world idly stands by and repeats the pretense that Islam is a "religion of peace." The latest reported atrocity from the Wonderful World of Islam is the kidnap and gang rape of Christian girls in Egypt, with the rapist-beasts receiving what appears to be total immunity for their crimes. Indeed, it is in keeping with the centuries-long Islamic practice of "rape jihad" that these thugs are to be lauded for their despicable behavior.

Where Are Egypt's Christians?
Christians in America and Europe worry about the secularisation of their holiday.... Egypt's Christians have a far more basic worry....
A serious fear of Egyptian Christian parents is not the assimilation of their children into a Muslim majority but the fear of their daughters being abducted, raped and forced to convert to Islam. So fearful are many Christians that they prefer to live in a garbage choked section of Cairo inhabited exclusively by Christians, who would rather risk serious illness and death by disease than the loss of their daughters to predatory Muslims who kidnap their daughters under cover of active police collaboration....
Assyrian International News Agency reports as follows on cases involving Coptic Christian girls who were kidnapped, raped and forcibly converted to Islam by a Muslim gang that was allowed to act with impunity.
Ingy Adel, now 16, was abducted at the age of 12 on her way to school by being anaesthetized and bundled into a car. "I was taken into a room by a man called Sultan, who tied my hands behind my back and raped me," said Ingy. Four men followed Sultan in raping her, "I felt as each one of them raped me, that I was their enemy. They have beaten me ferociously."

She said that for a whole month she was given drugs and raped, "more than 50 men raped me." After two months and only through the efforts of her father she was found and brought back home. When they reported the crime to the State Security she was beaten by the officer to change her testimony and say that she ran away from her family with her own free will.

"Until today they have done nothing about it and will not do anything, because I am a Christian," sobs Ingy...
The Egyptian government has refused to even extend the minimal protections of dhimmi status to Egypt's Christians. What is done in the name of Islam is simply a rubber stamp for bestial behavior, for the removal of all restraints of human decency....
Forced Islamization of Christian Girls Supported By Egyptian State
The phenomenon of abduction, rape and forced Islamization of Christian girls in Egypt was shown for the first time on the Christian TV channel "Life TV", which broadcasts from outside Egypt and has nearly 60 million Arab-speaking viewers in Egypt and around the world....
...this phenomenon in its present form is nearly 40 years old, and most of these conversion crimes, with a few isolated exceptions, are carried out by organized Islamization gangs or "Islamization Mafia", a termed coined by him, which are fully funded by the state and supported by State Security.
"Those highly organized gangs carry out systematic planning," says Khalil. "Besides violent forced abductions, other devious means include allurement, deception, psychological pressure, financial temptation, emotional relationships ending in rape and photographs taken to blackmail the victims into conversion, and spreading fear in the hearts of their families...."

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Why did Chinese premier Wen Jiabao choose to publicly humiliate Barack Obama at Copenhagen? In their eyes, and those of much of the world, he has lost face, and with it, power and influence. While getting widespread play overseas, this story has been kept very quiet by our disinterested, nonpartisan media (I haven't seen it mentioned in any major U.S. outlet).

After promising to meet the Messiah at 7:00 p.m., Premier Wen stiffed him in favor of a meeting with the leaders of India, South Africa, and Brazil. Rather than wait, a no-doubt infuriated Obama stalked into the room in question and demanded, "Are you ready to see me, Premier Wen?" No word on Wen's reaction, though he did submit to a discussion on the spot that evidently sealed the release of the immortal and glorious Copenhagen Quasi-Agreement on Climate Change.

So with Barack Obama, we've reached the point where leader of record of the most powerful state in history has become a man you can casually stand up. But the question remains, why?

There are a number of reasons why the Chinese might take a cavalier attitude toward an American leader. China is the chief foreign holder of American debt, which may well have created an impression of the U.S. as a beggar nation on the level of a failed African republic. (I strongly suspect that words were exchanged on this topic during Obama's recent visit to China, though we're unlikely ever to learn about them in detail.)

There's also the matter of race. As is true of most Asians, the Chinese sense of racial superiority is cultural and innate. This is a people who refer to Caucasians as "ghost shadows"; what they think of American blacks is probably best not dwelt upon.

Then there's the deep aura of unseriousness that Obama has generated around himself. Though essentially incalculable, this factor is undeniable and will grow in importance and impact as time passes.

But there's one event in particular that very likely played a part -- the fact that, only a few weeks before, Obama publicly and notoriously bowed to the emperor of Japan.

Japan and China have a lengthy history, very little of which can be termed benign. They have always been rivals, often acting at cross purposes and usually at sword's point. But the past century of Sino-Japanese relations has been little short of horrendous.

Japan's militarist government occupied Manchuria in 1931 and proceeded to menace the Republic of China for several years afterward. In June 1937, as a result of a contrived confrontation known as the "Marco Polo Bridge Incident", Japan escalated to open conquest. Occupying Nanking in December of that year, the Japanese army carried out a city-wide massacre that in little more than a month resulted in over 250,000 deaths. So brutal were Japanese actions that they could not, in a pre-Auschwitz world, be referred to directly in news accounts. Sixty years passed before the story was completely told in Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking (Chang, a less than stable personality in the first place, was so deeply affected that she later committed suicide, after telling friends that she could not get the images of the killings out of her mind.)

For nearly a decade Japan occupied vast areas of China, a period marked by further massacres, atrocities, and casual violations of the human spirit. It's safe to say that, but for the even viler activities of the Nazis, the Japanese occupation would stand as one of the peak moments of human cruelty in the modern era. (It's undeniable that Japanese human experiments in their Chinese and Manchurian prison camps were fully as loathsome as those of the Nazis.)

Though the Chinese don't discuss the matter, their attitude toward Japan and the Japanese can easily be imagined. Particularly since Japan, unlike Germany, has only in recent years reached the point of admitting to "irregularities" in its occupation, much less issuing an apology or offering reparations.

So here comes Obama, as ignorant of all this as a little lamb.

Many will recall the uproar that surrounded Ronald Reagan's 1985 visit to a German cemetery at Bitburg, instigated by the existence of SS graves within line of sight of the ceremony. The attitude of the Chinese to Obama's bow must be similar. From that point of view, Wen's behavior should be taken as a rebuke, not to the United States so much as to Obama personally.

Which only goes to underline the reason why diplomatic protocol exists in the first place -- to exclude through ritual actions all possibilities that error, misunderstanding, or personal pique might interfere with matters of state.

Obama has yet to learn this. His insistence on winging it, on reinventing established practice on his own terms, is potentially far more than simply embarrassing. It could be actively dangerous. His refusal to go by the rules may well have cost him the opportunity to pose as Savior of Gaia in Copenhagen. It may cost him -- and OUR country -- far more at some future time.

J.R. Dunn is consulting editor of American Thinker.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Union of Persian Students and

Human Rights Activists in Exile

In the name of freedom

To: Human Rights Watch

Subject: the grave condition of prisoner of conscience in Iran, Mr. Seyed Hossein Kazemeini Boroujerdi

Honorable authorities of Human Rights Watch:

I would like to inform you that Mr. Boroujerdi has been detained since Oct 8, 2006 for more than three years. He is suffering from heart, eye, tooth, respiratory, bone and kidney problems and Parkinson’s disease too. These diseases that are because of deprival of access to necessary medical facilities and the bad and unsuitable condition of health and food in prison, have caused his weakness and losing weight as he hasn’t balance in standing and walking and he has recently fallen down and hurt several times, for example on Oct 12, 2009, and was in coma for minutes.

It is necessary to say; Mr. Boroujerdi has been detained in general sections and solitary confinements of Evin and Yazd Central prisons under various Physical and mental tortures in the period of his detention. He was exiled from Evin prison in Tehran to Central prison in Yazd on Nov 23, 2008, but was transferred to Evin from solitary confinement in Yazd on Aug 19, 2009, because of intensification of his physical gravity. It should be mentioned that Mr. Boroujerdi not only hasn’t been hospitalized in any hospital in these times, but has been deprived of sick leave too.

At the end I would like to remind you that this prisoner of conscience has been deprived of access to an independent lawyer, physician and an open court too and Iranian judicial system has presented no formal explanation on the reason of his detention and using rough actions about him and some of his followers.

We hereby ask Human Rights Watch of the United Nations to follow up his critical condition by passing a special statement.

Yours Sincerely,

Mehdi Hoveizy

Director of Union of Persian Students

Sunday, December 13, 2009

U.S. collapse into Marxism
From "Lynnward"

For some reason, this didn't send. I found it as I was looking fro something else. It doesn't appear that I sent it, and I haven't seen where its been discussed. So, I'm sending it now. (12/09/09)

I received this today and almost choked on my Cranberry juice. Imagine - and from Pravda, the Russian paper. They certainly know what they're talking about. this isn't the first thing of this type I've received, but this one is the worst - and the most honest.

And, the author didn't even deal with the proposed health care system our leaders are trying to shove down our throats. I think what bothers me most of all, is the we are being seen as passive. Which, I suppose we have been.

All the changes that have been going on, and the conservatives have been politely disagreeing, but still allowing things to happen. I can assure you, if the conservatives were in power, and they made such sweeping changes, that impacted not only our lives, but the lives of our children and their children, the liberals would have taken to the streets. Heck, they have taken to the streets for far less. But, one thing we can say about conservatives, is we know how to behave. That we are, for the most part, proper and allow the system, such as it is, to work.

But, can we afford to do that anymore? I wonder.

The recent anger of the people at the Town Hall meetings shows conservatives have about had it. But, I say, I think its time that we "have had it." Otherwise, as the rest of the world can so clearly see, we are on the slippery slope towards socialism, Marxism - whatever you want to call it, and it isn't good. And, it's gaining speed. Obama et al have been very effective, although we can blame the conservatives as well. Both had a hand in what we now see.

And, we appear so cowardly, complacent and meek to the rest of the world. Not only are some laughing at us, they actually feel sorry for us! We're a train wreck and they're all watching as it happens. Fascinated, curious - anxious.

 After all, once Americans have lost their freedoms (which, clearly, the world can see we are, in a number of areas - critical areas), who else is going to help others gain, or regain theirs? the author of the article is correct - what right do we have pushing democracy when we no longer have it? When we sat quietly by while we lost it? How in the world can we tell others to fight for it, when we don't? When we aren't?

Most Americans have blinders on. And, the author is also correct when he states most Americans have no clue what's going on - after all, it wasn't on the nightly news, or in the local paper. The media is, and has been, complicit in what's going on. They are, essentially, a state run media, parroting what our leaders say, and pushing the agenda the liberal government wants pushed.

And, the worse thing is, we were warned. Of course, the conservatives that warned were called conspiracy nuts, and told to put their tin foil hats on, or accused of being chicken little and crying the sky was falling. Well, it's falling now, kiddo. It's falling for sure.

The tea parties have been good - a positive move towards letting our representatives (and I say that word with difficulty - representative. Because the only thing they seem to be representing is their own agenda, or the agenda of who knows who - certainly not the populous. The polls bear that out) But, the Tea parties aren't enough - at least not with their current structure.

And, the media doesn't report on them, or when they do, the reporting is often faulty, not telling how many people were at any given tea party. . We need to do more, and not only save the country we love, but show the world we aren't going to just accept the slide into a Big Brother Nanny state. It's time for people to be angry, to feel strident. The left doesn't like it. Too bad. What they are seeing now is what liberals have been doing to conservatives for years. And, they don't like it. It's difficult to raise much sympathy for them.

Now people are afraid, because the proposed health care bill clearly states there will be diminished services for older and disabled people, as socialized or nationalized health care always does. It has to. Something has to give when there is a finite amount of money. that's what all the other nationalized health care systems do. After all, our government can't continue to keep printing it when they run out.

All I know, is we need to do something, and do something soon. Before its too late, if it isn't already. And, unfortunately, we can't trust our "representatives" because they double talk us and lie to us. Not all of them, but many of them. So, America , its time to take back our country, restore the republic and capitalism. Time to make certain both the young and the old have health care.

Time to show we're ALL valuable. We fought for the Iraqi's freedom while we were losing our own. Time to take it back. There is no more time to waste, no more time to dawdle. We need to bring capitalism back with a bang. Demiocracy must be restored. The time has come for Americans to challenge the system and take back what is ours by right and that which was blessed by God.

There are far more decent American citizens than there are traitors. It only requires a leader to organise them and deal with these traitors.

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Read what the Russians are writing about America 's collapse into marxism fueled by none other than Barack Ocommie..

American capitalism gone with a whimper

27.04.2009 Source: Pravda.Ru URL:

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather than the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonald’s burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America .

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America 's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?

These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament) . Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters.

Then came Barack Obama's command that GM's (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of "pure" free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.

So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a "bold" move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK 's Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our "wise" Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.

Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper...but a "freeman" whimper.

So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set "fair" maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses?

Senator [Congressman] Barney Frank, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort.

He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.

The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.

The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.

Stanislav Mishin

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Rest easy, sleep well my brothers.

Know the line has held, your job is done.

Rest easy, sleep well.

Others have taken up where you fell, the line has held...

Peace, peace, and farewell...

There is one Christmas Carol that has always baffled me.

What in the world do leaping lords, French hens, swimming swans, and especially the partridge who won't come out of the pear tree have to do with Christmas?

This week, I found out.

From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly. Someone during that era wrote this carol as a catechism song for young Catholics.

It has two levels of meaning: the surface meaning plus a hidden meaning known only to members of their church. Each element in the carol has a code word for a religious reality which the children could remember.

-The partridge in a pear tree was Jesus Christ.

-Two turtle doves were the Old and New Testaments.

-Three French hens stood for faith, hope and love.

-The four calling birds were the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke & John.

-The five golden rings recalled the Torah or Law, the first five books of the Old Testament.

-The six geese a-laying stood for the six days of creation.

-Seven swans a-swimming represented the sevenfold gifts of the Holy Spirit--Prophesy, Serving, Teaching, Exhortation, Contribution, Leadership, and Mercy.

-The eight maids a-milking were the eight beatitudes.

-Nine ladies dancing were the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit--Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self Control.

-The ten lords a-leaping were the ten commandments.

-The eleven pipers piping stood for the eleven faithful disciples.

-The twelve drummers drumming symbolized the twelve points of belief in the Apostles' Creed.

So there is your history for today. This knowledge was shared with me and I found it interesting and enlightening and now I know how that strange song became a Christmas pass it on if you wish.'

Merry (Twelve Days of) Christmas Everyone

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Fact Sheet: Copenhagen Consequences: What You Need To Know

The United States may become subject to a new treaty that would result in a massive transfer of wealth from the United States to other nations and undermine our national sovereignty. On December 7, 2009, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will hold its last government-level conference in Copenhagen, Denmark before the Kyoto Protocol is scheduled to expire in 2012.

The Kyoto Protocol, which established the infamous treaty to combat supposed global warming, was signed by President Bill Clinton but never ratified by the U.S. Senate. This time, things could be different. The UNFCCC is putting forth a strong effort to establish a new “Copenhagen Protocol” to replace Kyoto.

....President Obama has made it clear that he intends to pursue the policies, with or without a treaty. He said that the Copenhagen talks should produce an “immediate operational effect,” even if a legally binding treaty isn’t agreed upon.

Obama joins UN conference at crucial moment


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Maxi-Matic EPB-1800

Maxi-Matic EPB-1800
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12 reviews

Aug, 2015

alaTest has collected and analyzed 12 reviews of Maxi-Matic EPB-1800. The average rating for this product is 3.3/5, compared to an average rating of 4.2/5 for other Mixers & Blenders for all reviews.

On average, users rate this product 65/100.

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Consumer review by: carlabunga (

Great blender

This blender is compact, easy to take on trips and lasts a long time. I have had this blender for around 3 years and the motor still works great. I am now looking for replacement cups. I bought a magic bullet and do not see any difference in the power...

The only negative I have is the little plastic nubs on the top of the glass which are required for it to run break off

Apr, 2014

Consumer review by: Odeon (

Fairly robust, disposably-cheap mini blender

I bought this set for my wife on A.M.A.Z.O.N. two Decembers ago for Christmas. It was only $28 but she was quite happy with its abilities and I made sure she was aware of the limitations, which are spelled out in the manual. As it says, this is only...

Six different cups - one small, four medium, one large ; Four travel lids with a drinking opening and locking cap ; Compact size uses little counter space ; Powerful motor for the price ; Two blender types - one for dry blending, one for wet

Pulse blending button can be pushed into the unit, preventing further use ; Two small, two medium, and two large cups would be more convenient ; Travel lids are not water-tight around the drinking opening even with the cap locked in place ; Designed...

Apr, 2013

Consumer review by: N/A (

Basic personal blender

I don't particularly like this blender, but it serves my purposes when I need to blend, and I got it for $20 so I think it was a pretty good deal. I'll live with it until it breaks or until I need something with more capabilities.

It's easy to use. It's like a magic bullet, but differs in a few ways with screw-on lids and coozies. I've never had a real problem with mine with any task I've set it out to do, and that includes crushing ice for smoothies and liquor. The tumblers...

Unless you use the lids and drink through straws, the tumblers aren't good drinking vessels because of the threads at the lip of the cup; the magic bullet uses threadcaps so you can drink from theirs. Drinking from these will have you thinking you have...

Apr, 2013

Consumer review by: N/A (

Cheap and leaks

Opened the box, took out the cups, poured water and capped it with the blade unit, turned it over and water came out. I didn't even get a chance to use it and it already leaked.

Leaked right from the start

Feb, 2013

Consumer review by: N/A (

It works well enough

If you want a quieter unit, wrap a towel around it to suppress the noise, I have a breville juicer and a cuisnart grind and brew coffee maker, and they both register much higher db sound output than this little thing

The unit works and I think it works very well. I have ground coffee in it and make many a smoothies (Twice daily) and it has not failed . Recommendation: these work well with fresh fruits and nuts but not really made for frozen things like ice cubes....

The only thing I noticed is that if you use a scrubbing pad inside the cups, they will dull the inner surface ; My recommendation is to fill it halfway with water when done, slap the blender blade back on and run it for 15 seconds to agitate the fluids...

Nov, 2012

Consumer review by: shawnlei (

not worth the effort

doesn't take up much space, looks nice enough to keep on the counter top

didn't work out of the gate. The pulse button was stuck and was not able to mix anything. Apparently this product is manufactured where no quality control practices are in place. I spent time cleaning it, putting it together and now have to research...

Sep, 2012

Consumer review by: bigmomma3420 (

Fastest Blender/ Processor In The Kitchen

I purchased this product for my brother and his family for Christmas. Upon receipt, his wife opened the package, read the instructions and began using it immedieately. She now depends on this Blender/ processor for preparing her fabulous dishes and...

Consumer review by: livinonfaith (

Love this little machine!

I bought one of these last Christmas and have used it almost every day since. It has certainly held up well for me! It is definitely more of a blender, not a chopper. I use mine for my daily breakfast smoothie, various drinks and salad dressings....

Consumer review by: vsullivan80 (

Great Product!

Great product, I would definitely recommend to others. I received this product very quickly, too!

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Username: kevharris

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Posted on Friday, August 03, 2012 - 3:47 pm:   Edit Post

hi have just joined and am buying my 1st alembic the mark king model can any one help me to check its authentisaty as owner has no papers but has sent pic of serial no on bass
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Hey Kev, congratulaions on your 1st Alembic & welcome to the club! You will find the most friendly & knowledgeable people on the planet here always happy to assist you in any way they can! For serial number lookup go to this page -

It may take Mica a while to find the info on your instrument as she is incredibly busy & the files are not on computer, they are old school actual file cabinets with folders for all the instruments they have info on. So she has to look through all the files by hand until she finds the info you are looking for. If she has a file for your instrument she will be able to tell you when it was built, what types of wood were used, what electronics it has, & in many cases who the original owner was. If you post a picture, many forum members can identify the wood for you before Mica has a chance to find the info. Good luck & enjoy your new bass!
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Hi Kev, I once found an Alembic Spoiler in the most improbable small Music cornerstore in a street of Sao Paulo in Brazil... It was sitting there, quite lonely. I took the number and sent it to Mica. The same evening, I had the whole pedigree of the bass, and accessorily it had been sold first hand to a music shop... In South Korea...!!!! The next day I went back to the shop and bought it just to frame it...!
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Legendary DJ Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC was shot

in the head and killed in a studio in Queens, New York. According to sources,

Jay was shot and killed when men entered the studio he was in and shot him.

Police said that Jay was shot and killed inside

of a studio on Merrick Boulevard around 7:30 PM. A second victim was shot and

killed in the leg, but that person has not been identified. Authorities suspect

that Jay knew his assassin. Police stated that Jay buzzed two men up to the

second-floor studio shortly before shots were fired in the lounge. Police have

made no arrests.

"I had just rapped to Jay," Grouchy

Greg of AllHipHop.com said. "You all have to realize what a huge loss this

is for hip-hop and for music in general. This is such a sad day. He was working

on bringing out new groups and working with the Scratch Academy. This is so

sad. His family members are still paging me using his 2way. I can’t believe

"Run-DMC were the beatles of hip-hop,"

Chuck D said. Rappers and executives gathered in the rain where Jam Master Jay

was slain. Jay’s 15 year old son took solace in the arms of Lyor Cohen, now

the Chairman of Island Def Jam. "I really can’t believe this has happened,"

Cohen said. Cohen helped take Run-DMC to international fame, joining with Rush

Management and later working with Russell Simmons to create Def Jam.

In a statement to AllHipHop.com, hip-hop monthly

The Source said: "The Source is deeply saddened by the tragic death of

Jam Master Jay of the legendary hip-hop group Run-DMC. Jam Master Jay brought

the art form of turntablism to the forefront of hip-hop music. For close to

20 years he along with Run and DMC, helped to inspire fans and artists alike.

Run DMC were scheduled to perform Thursday (Oct.

31) as part of the half-time show at a Washington Wizards home game in Washington,

Jay was preparing to release his latest group,

Rusty Waters. Jay also helped discover Onxy.

Jay, born Jason Mizell, was one of the founders

of a group that broke down the barriers for hip-hop, being the first rap group

to get played on MTV and one of the first black artists that the network gave

airtime to.

All three grew up in Hollis Queens. The group

was managed by Russell Simmons, who formed Rush Management. Under Russell’s

management the group signed a deal with Profile Records and proceeded to make

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  1. Place the cucumbers in a bowl; sprinkle with salt, and refrigerate 24 hours. Rinse and drain the cucumbers, pressing out as much water as possible. Place the cucumbers in a bowl, and stir in the sugar and vinegar. Refrigerate 24 hours more. Place in freezer containers and freeze.
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Jul 11, 2008

Growing up this is how my mom would fix the cukes but she would add sliced onion and green pepper. It is good and refreshing. I also add the onion and green pepper.

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Aug 30, 2010

Do you place the sugar/vinegar mixture in with the cucumbers before freezing or drain it?

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Feb 02, 2009

These cucumbers were a bit too sweet for me, but my family loves them, especially my husband. I did substitute Agave, for the sugar, as we can not eat refined sugar. They were easy to make and came out great. Thanks for a neat way to use up some of the abundance of garden cucumbers.

Jul 15, 2008

Easy to make! Tasty to eat!

May 27, 2012

super easy to make. i cut the amount of vinegar & sugar to 1/2 cup and added dill - tasted great!

Aug 26, 2011

No thank you. I followed the recipe. I just thought they were too sweet. I don't call it a total waste. But it was an extensive wait for uninspiring results. I will search for a better recipe.

Aug 11, 2015

This recipe is for freezer pickles, not for use in salads or other dishes that call for fresh cucumbers. Per another poster's suggestion, I cut the amount of sugar to 1/2 cup and these turned out great! I was confused about whether or not to drain the liquid before freezing, since the instructions are vague, but based on what I read on another site, I discovered that the liquid should be frozen along with the cucumbers. I froze the cucumbers in small batches, so that I could defrost a small amount when needed for snacking or adding to burgers.

Jun 26, 2014

Brings back childhood memories! I also add green pepper, onion, and a little black pepper.

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  2. Remove saucepan from heat and gradually add the water, stirring well. Return to stovetop, raising heat to high. Add the bouillon and potatoes, bring to a boil and then reduce heat to low. Simmer uncovered for about 10 minutes, or until potatoes are tender.
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I make this exact recipe all the time and its really wonderful. The trick to thickening it is to mash some of the potatoes. Using a hand blender or food processor blends the bacon and onion as well, which really helps with the flavour, especially getting that right amount of salt. I usually remove several cups of the potatoes once cooked, blend, and return to the pot. That way there are still some chunks of potatoes left. Also, avoid rinsing your potatoes after cubing them, as the starch will help the soup to thicken as well. Great recipe!

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Mar 01, 2007

Not as good as I expected from the reveiws, although not bad either. Could use more thickening. I found myself adding salt as I ate it. There is a big problem with the cooking instructions -- it says to add the dairy to the soup directly, but if you do so, it will immediately curdle and clump. That can be avoided by simply taking a bit of the hot soup liquid and mixing it with the dairy in a small bowl, and then adding it back to the soup.

Jan 01, 2007

I substituted chicken broth for the water, omitted the bouillon cube, and added a pinch of cayenne pepper and this was delicious. A great quick meal on a cold night.

Nov 09, 2006

GOod, nice flavor. I used 3 onions and 5 potatoes. The recipe calls for perhaps a bit too many onions. Next time I make it I will use 2 or less onions. And use a big pot! Taste overall is very good.

Oct 24, 2005

I LOVED this soup! Husband - who isn't a big potato fan - thought that it was pretty good. The only changes I made were to use canned chickie broth instead of water, and I didn't bother with the egg yolks. I very nearly used heavy cream instead of sour cream, and I am so glad I didn't. It was so delicious! I will definitely be making this again. Thanks, Rita!

Jan 19, 2004

This was an instant hit with the entire family. We all loved it. Even better with a handful of grated cheese sprinkled over each serving.

Oct 29, 2010

Potatoes def need more than 10 minutes to cook. Otherwise good recipe!

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I discovered this recipe about 2 years ago when my husband had oral surgery and could not eat solid foods. I was looking for something really hearty and satisfying and this really delivered. I used an immersion blender to make it smooth enough for him to eat-perfect! I have since shared this recipe with several people who were on liquid diets and it is always well received. I don't always add the eggs, it's good both ways. Tonight I'm going to try substituting leeks for some of the onions. I almost always use more bacon than is called for in the recipe.

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The was the first recipe for a sweet bread that I tried and I really like how it turned out. I didn't add any extra flour like others, but I like moist bread, and I wanted to see how it turned out the first time. I did add 2tsp of cinnamon and 1 1/2 cups of raisins, though. I also added ~1tsp of vanilla to my raisins and let them marinate for about 15 minutes until I added them to the dough. Turned out delicious! My dog ate about 1/2 the loaf after we had a couple slices, so I had to make it again...same great results!

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Still waiting to see the Google Chrome app store? Circle next Tuesday on your calendar: People familiar with the company’s plans tell me Google will open up the store–at least a bit–on December 7.

That jibes with what I’d heard in October, as well as with reporting this week from TechCrunch. And there’s a decent chance that Google will be showing off more than just a store that day. Engadget, for starters, thinks we’ll see a Google-branded netbook designed for Chrome that day as well.

As far as the store goes: My understanding is that the marketplace, designed to showcase Web apps, will be available for anyone who’s using the beta version of the Chrome browser. So the rest of you have a couple of days to upgrade.

UPDATE: There you go: — Google’s Chrome Team just announced a media event to “share some exciting news about Chrome” on Tuesday, Dec. 7.

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Okay, so let me be upfront about this: It’s another mobile photo app.

But Pixplit actually has an interesting spin that makes it more social and interactive — almost like a simple game.

pixplit_3_popularPixplit is an iPhone app that helps users build photo montages together. Basically, the first person contributes a photo and a caption, and the next person (or people) adds their own take.

Each “split” is public and can be “resplit” by anyone who wants to join in.

In a way, each post is like a prompt, asking other people to contribute. So, for example, someone might post a picture of a sunset from where they are, and someone somewhere else might add in their own view. Or someone could post a picture of their hand in the shape of half of a heart, and someone else could complete it. Or, they could take the riff in a totally different direction.

The somewhat awkwardly named app is made by a small team of seed-funded mobile app developers I met on a trip to Israel this week. It has a nicely novel visual aesthetic — though, of course, it resembles Instagram and other mobile social media apps.

“In other apps, the individual takes photos, and then it’s social later,” noted Pixplit co-founder Jay Meydad. “This is social from the start.”

Pixplit users can participate with their friends and with the broader Pixplit audience (which is not very broad — the app only launched a couple months ago, and just became available for users outside of Israel).

Meydad noted that one thing his small company needs to work on is helping match users to each other — because a montage can’t be completed unless someone else finds it.

In a way, it’s like playing a simple game — using a sort of visual hashtag to start a conversation with someone else in the world. Meydad pointed to the potential for working with brands — where Pixplit users might get to co-create montages with Lady Gaga or Nike.

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Pixplit co-founders Adi Binder and Jay Meydad

Pixplit is extremely similar to existing apps, but also perhaps just enough different to attract users of its own — similar to recent breakouts like Cinemagram and Snapchat.

Montages of photos have become popular on Instagram and elsewhere, with users dropping in sets made with tools like Pic Stitch and PicFrame. And Pixplit uers can export their splits to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram — but when they do so, they get flattened out into normal pictures.

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