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Gibson writes: "It is no longer extreme to say we now live in a fascist police state. Thanks to the Patriot Act, the SCOTUS' Citizens United decision, and a complacent electorate, our First Amendment rights of free speech and free assembly now only exist on paper. In Tienanmen Square, the Chinese government also censored the press and violently cracked down on peaceful protesters. All that's missing here are the tanks."
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America Has Become a Fascist Police State
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eorge Orwell's "1984" wasn't meant to be an instruction manual.
One word that emerged from the novel was the word "doublespeak," where truth is deliberately obfuscated through clever wording. In some cases, the meaning of a word is reversed entirely. Oceania, the totalitarian regime in Orwell's book, used doublespeak as a matter of course. The Ministry of Truth specialized in propaganda. The Ministry of Love was a secretive torture complex.
In the early years of public school, or in public addresses by politicians, America is touted as the Land of the Free, or the Land of Opportunity, or the Greatest Country on Earth. We're taught from near-infancy that this country was founded on the right to say what you want, whenever, wherever, to whomever. We're told we have the freedom to assemble peacefully, to petition our leaders for a redress of grievances. We're taught that if you're apprehended by the law, you have the right to a fair trial and legal representation.
Yet, today we live in a country where government aids the corporate takeover of elections. Here, banks who fraudulently took Americans' homes for profit can get bailed out by the taxpayers, and use the money to pay themselves 12-figure bonuses. This is a country where even US citizens can be detained without due process, tortured, and even assassinated overseas.
Today, in the Land of the Free, nonviolent political protesters using their First Amendment rights to speak out against all of the above can be beaten, tasered, and maced by heavily-militarized police forces, using military-grade equipment, without any provocation.
- Students sitting down in the quad at UC Davis were covered with military-grade pepper spray, before cops in riot gear knelt on them and sprayed indiscriminately down student's throats according to Professor Nathan Brown of UC Davis.
- At UC Berkeley, Robert Hass, a former poet laureate, was clubbed by police while nonviolently protesting with students.
- In Seattle, cops clad in riot gear pepper-sprayed an 84-year-old woman and an expectant mother.
- In Oakland, veterans who served overseas to allegedly protect the rights we hold dear come home and get aggressively beaten without warning, and shot in the face with tear-gas canisters. Oakland police even threw a flash-bang grenade at people rushing to give medical attention to the wounded vet.
The recent Black Friday mobs of consumers pitching tents in parking lots and rioting over $2 waffle irons were met with silence from the police. Yet, 10 people speaking out in a Wal-Mart about the company's CEO making $19,000 per hour while his employees are forced to work on a holiday for less than poverty-level wages apparently provokes police to tackle and arrest the citizens nonviolently encouraging shoppers to buy local. In today's America we can Occupy for Capitalism, but not for Democracy.
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan has openly admitted that the recent police crackdowns on Occupy Wall Street solidarity encampments were the result of careful coordination between mayors on a series of conference calls. There are also reports that the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI gave advice on the crackdowns, encouraging municipalities to deploy large numbers of police, equip them with riot gear, and break up encampments when the media were least likely to be present. Reports from New York allege that reporters were asked to raise their hand if they had press credentials, before being penned in an area far from the protests. Those trying to get through were arrested, and told that it was illegal to "take pictures on the sidewalk."
It is no longer extreme to say we now live in a fascist police state. Thanks to the Patriot Act, the SCOTUS' Citizens United decision, and a complacent electorate, our First Amendment rights of free speech and free assembly now only exist on paper. In Tienanmen Square, the Chinese government also censored the press and violently cracked down on peaceful protesters. All that's missing here are the tanks.
Mussolini said, "Fascism should be more accurately called corporatism, because it is a merger of state and corporate power." It is Orwellian doublespeak to call this country "free" while freedom is actively suppressed with aid from a corporate-owned government. The people are not free if their leaders are actively making war with them.
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Look up the definition of "Fascism" and you will then know what is happening here.
Thanks in advance for your lead.
We should clearly see that our system is fatally flawed and move to replace it.
This has been going on FOREVER by the US all over the world. We just got thrown out of the Shamsi air strip for our role in the NATO air strike that killed 25 Pakistani's, unprovoked!
The bigger deal is that the US have been doing this sort of thing here in the face of non-violent disruption recently; we've been a fascist State for a long, long time.
Carl's right: "all that's missing are the tanks" on our soil and I fully expect that to happen.
They don't care about the citizens at all, it's all about the big corps and big money to them. We can die in the streets for all they care.
We tossed King George out in 1776 for the exact same offense.
If the passivity continues, America will be completely overtaken by the worst elements in our country. This has been developing and being implemented by the right since the '70's.
Its construction followed a long, private phone conversation she held outside with someone.
I questioned her after discovering and disassembling it. She assured me it was a "mistake." Clearly, someone prompted her, and I'm rather sure it was to send me a message about some of the things coming from my keyboard the last couple months.
I guess I've graduated.
Check out "Crossing the Rubicon"(had/ha s site called fromthewilderness.com)
I am becoming more cautious, dammit!
We cannot let em pick us off individually, if we can help it.
Best wishes and keep the faith !
Imperial militaristic power destroying the World - hated.
Not an optimistic outlook for young generation.
Excellent and simple analysis - USA IS a Fascist Police State internally - and -
Imperial militaristic power destroying the World - hated.
Not an optimistic outlook for young generation.
It is up to ua, the 99% -- it is our job to bring in the Change we can believe in. We must evolve our consciousness beyond the self-survival 'fight/flight' instinctive level. That is legitimate for the physical survival of animals but it is not appropriate for humans to use as an ezxuse for war on behalf of our 'beliefs'.
the consvioudnrdd of human beings must rise to the level of compassion. Eac one of us must live for the good of the whole.
took population ecology - and most of the animals cooperate for survival. There is NOTHING instinctive to human greed and annihilation of others to make PROFIT.
It is Money Culture/Nationalism/System.
History (if we survive) should judge this period more harshly than the Hitler Nazism.
As far as I know, not a single congressman or congresswoman has spoken out against the pepper spraying of those students at UC Davis. (Correct me, dear readers, if I'm wrong on this.) It just blows my mind and makes me wonder if I'm just having a bad dream.
it would be difficult to imagine that neither Dennis Kucinich nor Barbara Lee have spoken out against this ... they probably have, but the MSM won't tell us so ...
Rep. Barbara Lee: "I shared my outrage and grave concern about the police brutality in Oakland directly with the mayor. My thoughts go out to the injured and especially Scott Olsen . I strongly support the Occupy movement and continue to stand with the peaceful protesters in this struggle for economic justice and equality."
This is a vile country, and the Foxes, in more ways then one, are in the chicken coop. Horrifying!!
You are 11 years behind the times. It was in 2000 (when you were 13) that RSN's buddy Ralph Nader sold this country out to Bush, giving him Florida and New Hampshire. The numbers are readily available and beyond controversy.
You prove just how pervasive ignorance is in this country.
K. Harris, with Jeb (Fla Gov)Bush's knowledge had a "felon" caging list that stopped at least 57,000 black, democratic voters(Broward County)who were legally registered from voting. Because SCOTUS stopped the recount, Bush won Florida by 534 votes...giving him the presidency.
As far as I'm concerned, K. harris, J. Bush, G.W. Bush and 5 members of the U.S. supreme court, along with other miscreants, all committed treason.
Read: The Betrayal of America by Vincent Bugliosi.
I'll say my definition of stupidity once again - it is the self-imposition of ignorance...the greatest threat to democracy and the political health of our country!
This commentary by Carl Gibson says it all. My first reaction was what happened to our country? It has the existential quality of a bad dream that turns out to be true.
Your analogy could not be more apt, mwd870. It happened because most of the country has been asleep since the takeover began in 1980. We are now waking up to a "bad dream that turns out to be true".
Not quite! Banks got bailed out by representatives elected taxpayers who chose to vote on a given day. That's a problem with representative democracy that could in fact be resolved by universal referenda on key issues, which digital technology and telecom have made possible. The one hurdle left thereafter is the software for voting and vote-counting that, for some reason, America can't get right but more primitive democracies, such as India, can. The US need not be allowed to go wholly fascist and getting alarmist might cause more apathy and less participation.
"But there are Public defenders!" you say ? OK - but be aware that most - if not all - of America's condemned prisoners on death rows were defended by overworked, underpaid and understaffed Public Defenders. On the other hand, prosperous well connected, true criminals who can afford top lawyers are rarely questioned seriously and seldom, if ever, indicted.
Everything always comes down to "money" (which is synonymous with "power"). Consequently, through Citizens United and the Too Big To Fail FUBAR, Fat Corporate America - aided dy their cyphers in Congress & the Administration - can - and do - loot the American Treasury and WE THE PEOPLE with naked impunity.
Is this not what OWS is all aout?
Yes, that is what OWS is all about.
"Everything always comes down to "money" (which is synonymous with "power"). Consequently, through Citizens United and the Too Big To Fail FUBAR, Fat Corporate America - aided dy their cyphers in Congress & the Administration - can - and do - loot the American Treasury and WE THE PEOPLE with naked impunity."
This is the status quo that makes me angrier than every other issue threatening the well-being of our country. OWS deserves so much credit.
Actually, there be tanks here, too, Carl. In Tampa http://twitpic.com/7fnsos and Georgia http://www.shtfplan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/policetank2.jpg
Plus LRADs http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/328-121/8476-introducing-the-lrad-sound-cannon
Land of the Fried and Home of the Bruised. Let freedom wring!
YES - it is not our team (Democrats) against the others (Republicans) Sunday game.
This is the present Money Culture System that is destroying the country and the World.
We need to get out of our cubicles into the rain.
I believe that Militarism (1.3 trillion/year)- US killing in the Afghanistan and Middle East, Africa is much more dangerous. We did not learn from 911 what bombing does.
So, let's have a show of hands: Who in America really wants to live under a totalitarian fascist government?
No one? Then why are we trying so hard to achieve it? Remember, we're all working together at this, whether we like it or not. Because we're abiding by laws, that we're electing officials to change. Yet no one wants to claim responsibility for anything that doesn't sound good. While everyone keeps claiming that they're fighting against things that are bad!
So, why is it that the sum total effect of all this goodness is turning out bad? I don't understand, should we be fighting for badness? Would that make things good again? Oh wait, now I see it, it's this imprecise usage of words that is causing the confusion, problems and troubles.
Therefore, what we need is clearer interpretations of what is being said. Once people understand that, the liars can "drop dead"!
Carl Gibson is so far off base... isolated incidents where the police acted to disband those who had pushed the limits by destroying private or public property that was not designated for camping. Furthermore the OWS sites have been given tremendous leeway until the situation got out of hand and lawlessness took over. Isolated incidents of police acting inappropriately often have been taken out of context of a long period where the police have asked repeatedly for the lawbreakers to move or relocate and they refused. Keep it all in perspective. Carl Gibson really needs to get a real job also.
Oh dear, here goes old reactionary shill Eagle again. People like you remind me of Ghandi's statement when asked what he though of western civilization, to which he replied "I think it would be a very good idea!". Just as applicable today as it was then.
More seasonably "Are there no prisons, are there more workhouses?". (Which was turned against Scrooge in re-quoting him by the Ghost of Christmas present later in the story). "Isolated incidents" -bah-humbug!
They'll "come for you" eventually too y'know, no matter how much of a head-in-the-san d conformist you appear and declare yourself to be.
Any more false quotes for us today, as you have trotted out in the past?
I HEREWITH CHALLENGE YOU TO PROVIDE ANY VERIFIABLE REPORT OF LAWLESSNESS AND VANDALISM. POST IT DIRECTLY BELOW AS A REPLY. I'LL TAKE EVEN ONE INSTANCE. I HAVE PERSONALLY SPENT HOURS RESEARCHING EVERY SINGLE REPORT OF SUCH DISTURBANCES THAT HAS APPEARED ON MY COMPUTER SCREEN, AND - UNIFORMLY - THE REPORTS ARE ISOLATED AND ANECDOTAL. ANY TRUE ACT OF CONFIRMED DRUG ABUSE, RAPE, VANDALISM OR VIOLENT ACTIONS COMMITTED BY OWS PROTESTORS WILL HAVE MOST CERTAINLY HAVE BEEN BLOWN OUT OF PROPORTION - TO ALL HELL AND BACK - BY FOX NEWS, LIMP-BAUGH (sic) AND CO.
In your defense, all large cities & towns have their share of homeless, wackos, psychopaths, druggies, etc. These street people are naturally attracted to large gatherings and especially to free food and possible shelter. These people ARE NOT OWS participants, but they have the same right to gather as we do. The problem is, of course, that their antics and crimes are immediately attributed (as a right-wing default) to the peaceful, committed OWS demonstrators.
As for "Isolated incidents" of police brutality: even one case is inexcusable. Unwarranted bullying and brutality by our police is anathema, and refusal to obey illegal or improper police orders instantly is what "Peaceful Demonstration" is all about!
So Robt Eagle, Fox news is not a source for facts.
Insert any names of your choosing for Moses or Aaron. What exactly have the citizens of the U.S. done? Or the citizens of the many countries now suffering punishment?
Citizens must decide where to go from here. Make no mistake, however, the tanks are lurking just outside the firelight.
One easy answer: We went to sleep.
If it be true that the U.S. government and those they truly represent have been building toward this, how would you have proposed it be stopped? Of course, this was coming, and yes, we did warn of it 50 years ago. Folks were doing good in the interim, however, so why would they fight against something they knew nothing of? That is all citizens on this planet want: to live their lives and raise their families and be creative.
Don't blame citizens for being "asleep".
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." -- Wendell Phillips, (1811-1884), abolitionist, orator and columnist for The Liberator, in a speech before the Massachusetts Antislavery Society in 1852,.."
We need to be WIDE awake, not just awake. I don't think the totalitarian takeover of this country was hard to detect.
I wrote a paper years ago recommending U.S. government revision due to increases in population numbers, the geographical size of the country, etc., knowing it was not going to happen. Even then, though, nobody knew just how bad it would get or that the country would become much bigger than a true democracy was meant for.
California, where I live, was THE place to be. Great schools, and wealth all around. I think Reagan was the one who started the decline. To save money he closed the mental hospitals and let the poor sick people out into the street
That man has a lot on his conscience.How interesting that he basically lost his mind. I wonder if it was payback, by whoever is in charge.
My poor state is in so much trouble. The schools are in bad shape and so many people have lost not just their homes but also hope about the future.
I lived in California when Reagan came in and was astounded at the corruption and illegal activities. Changing the welfare system caused thousands of dollars in new stationary, forms, and all the rest, then the feds called Reagan on it and all had to be changed again. Reagan was ruthless in dealing with students, and yes, he ruined the economy and the school system. Also, he was one of the worst presidents this country has ever had.
California was once an amazing place, just as Oregon and Washington. I suppose it was inevitable that a paradise would be corrupted. During the sixties and probably afterward, there were are many as 3,000 people moving into the Bay Area alone. I heard at least two ex-governors of other states warn the country that as California goes, so goes the country. They were right.
In addition, I don't see people as "asleep". The people have been brainwashed to believe the government represents us (the people)and the "my country right or wrong" sort of mentality with the incorrect belief that our government would protect its people.
Face it, less than 50% of the population votes, which means our representation if based on less than 25% of its population. We have grown complacent and we are now suffering from that very same. We have NOT been watchful of what our representatives do and how they act. We have believed the lies, or settled for the "lesser of two evils" in most circumstances.
Someone that is NOT of wealth would have little or no chance for running for a high political office without an enormous financial support of an enormous amount of people.
There are so many things antiquated about our system, that benefit the 1%, that need to be changed for the benefit of the 99%.
instead of the 19th century fear of 'tyranny of the majority', we have moved to 'tyranny of the minority' in the form of the corporations and the tea-baggers; John C. Calhoun is spinning in his grave...
My novel of 2008, my hundreds of letters to editors of regional newspapers and national magazines over the last 20 years have said unequivocally that we are an emerging theofascist corporatocracy, the next flavor of fascism. It's ironic that we fought WWII and subsequent wars against totalitarian governments only to then emulate them. Our comfort and apathy have allowed this. Now we have the ingredients of a revolution if The People will just wake up. It doesn't have to be violent. Was Marx right?
Yes I agree and the Imperial Nixon White House really got it moving. Watergate was a set back...but while dirty politics has been with us since the first election (Note the low number of votes for Adams and how that was worked in private by Hamilton)...thi s move towards a facist state...and then starting with Reagan it has been a movement of the corporate right.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language..
Noun (1972, 1981 editions) Fascism 1. A philosophy or system of government that advocates or exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with an ideology of belligerent nationalism. 4 basic elements occurred right in front of our noses (but but the accompanying stench of fascism went largely undetected by the powers that be:
1) merging of state and business leadership; (2) extreme right wing ideology ruled; (3) attempted dictatorship under the SCOTUS-sanction ed Unitary Executive theory; (4) belligerent nationalism--se lf-evident in the jingoism and warmongering that went on. Okay, we know what it is--stamp it out by handling each point. And that's what OWS in doing, starting with breaking the links between The Corporation and government. More to come..
Class warfare is as old as history; hell, if it were not for Class warfare we would never have become the United States.
Religious and political liars have been spewing hate and discontent from generation to generation, all the time these little devils are seeking wealth; being the biggest benefactors from the crap they spread.
We have the right wing religion teaching that anyone, who gives to their god will get up to 100 X's back; and that is the fastest growing number of worshipers of wealth around.
God's view of wealth:
KJV 1st Timothy 6: 9-11
"But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness."
We The People need to demand that those in Congress roll back the Patriot's Act...
We The People need to demand that Homeland Security be abolished.
We The People need representative that view themselve in the serrvice to America and We The People first and foremost: Not thier party or corporations.
Michael Parenti, Howard Zinn, Chomsky and other's books, broadcasts on "Alternative" media and lectures at more enlightened venues and colleges, have been pointing at this tendency in the U.S.A. (as I perceived after a year or two of living here) for a long time but who in the mainstream will even give them air time or what's left of print space?
This is why only critical mass such as OWS will work; "They" can't kill, torture and intimidate all of us; it now needs to congeal into a tighter, goal-oriented rolling, solid ball!
Agree - aka Fatherland Security and Geheime Staatspolizei, "Secret State Police"
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Since my license was taken from me refusing to blow , providing more evidence and scale to my punishment, I have taken to observing the police activity in Tampa Fla and Hillsborough County and researching what the law enforcement machine is doing here....
The traffic light traps click all day charging motorists 168.00 per click for running yellow or red lights in a split second. The motorcycles and squad cars systematically pull persons over for checks, ticket during rush hour. All over Hillsborough county # 1 in Fla for DUI arrests, and very heavy activity concentrated in the city... I discovered City of Tampa #1 in Florida for seizing automobiles 5 per day, DUI arrests ...I had to pay $1,700.00 "out of court settlement" to get car back for my disabled wife. Non refundable even if charges dropped which my attorney says looks probable given the facts of the case....I have a home inspection biz , now I have to pay a driver/helper.. .I make it work. There is a cost scale too: junkers 500 up to 1,000 to get our ride back...luxury rides 2k and up, negotiable to a point.So, when in Tampa, go to rent a wreck, carry travelers checks, they like cash 2.
Law Enforcement Revenue Rivals Tourist Revenues.."Keep comin back!"
As DUIs are on the decline in Hillsborough Cnty, the judge now distributes NO CONTACT Orders so if you return to the business or victim,they can arrest you, revoke bond, and charge more fines as a replacement for lost DUI income.This little trick born out of domestic violence crime which is rampant in this county.
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As H1N1 continues to make headlines, Penn State is preparing for the highly contagious flu-if and when it arrives. The University is encouraging its employees and students to do what they can to stay healthy and prevent the spread of this strain of flu.
This past June, H1N1 (or swine flu) became a household name as reports of the unusual flu popped up all around the world. Several cases were reported at Penn State over the summer and officials are predicting a rise in cases beginning in September or early October. The virus is most likely to affect individuals between the ages of 6 months and 25 years old, making Penn State a prime location for a high number of cases. Those who contract the illness can still get the seasonal flu, and although a large percentage of Penn State employees are not in the primary target age for the H1N1 virus, this disease is highly contagious and can still be easily transmitted. The spread of this illness also can reach younger children at home or in school, and they will need to be cared for, as well.
Public officials are aiming to reduce the spread of H1N1 so that the effects of the disease on the general population will be lessened. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released recommendations on who should receive the H1N1 flu vaccine this fall based on susceptibility to the virus. The H1N1 vaccine will be distributed by the federal government (FEMA) through state health departments. It is not yet known when the vaccine will be available but it will likely not arrive before mid-October. A listing of those prioritized for vaccination can be found at http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/vaccination/acip.htm.
It is possible to contract both the seasonal flu and H1N1 flu since exposure to one does not result in immunity to the other. Therefore it is very important to get the seasonal flu vaccine.
Fighting both strains of flu (seasonal and H1N1) begins with hand washing, proper cold etiquette (by coughing or sneezing into your sleeve), and/or obtaining a flu shot. It is recommended that ill individuals exclude themselves from the public until after 24 fever-free hours - a process that takes five to seven days. The illness may greatly affect the University at many levels, so it is important that our community stays informed. For University and federal information on H1N1, visit the below web sites:
* Penn State Live: www.live.psu.edu/tag/h1n1
* Center for Disease Control and Prevention: www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/
* University Health Services: www.sa.psu.edu/uhs/index.cfm
* Office of Human Resources: www.ohr.psu.edu/h1n1
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On Saturday night October 26th, Ring of Honor returns to its Windy City home at the Frontier Fieldhouse in Chicago Ridge! That night we present one of our showcase events of the year, "Glory by Honor XII", and it will be taped for "Ring of Honor Wrestling" TV!
In the main event it will be the four ROH Champions (World, TV, & Tag) against four All-Stars in an 8-Man Elimination Tag! This bout will have a two hour time limit AND if anyone on the All-Star team should pin the World Champion then they will receive a future World Title opportunity! The match will be 100% finalized after this weekend's event in Baltimore so stay tuned to ROHWrestling.com for the details.
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Overall Rating 5/5 stars
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Overall Rating 5/5 stars
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Love this bag for all my cosmetic when I travel.
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Overall Rating 5/5 stars
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Overall Rating 5/5 stars
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Overall Rating 5/5 stars
I have the authentic version of this in Damier Ebene and I can see very minor differences. You would have to take my bag and open it and search for the serial number to catch the difference. Great purchase!
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Overall Rating 5/5 stars
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Overall Rating 5/5 stars
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Overall Rating 5/5 stars
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Overall Rating 5/5 stars
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Overall Rating 5/5 stars
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Overall Rating 5/5 stars
This bag looks very authentic. Unless you are a regular Hermes customer or your friends are you couldnt tell the difference. The price for beign a replica is still quite expensive but much economical than the real one. Lets face it woman want the now bag so why pay allot for it when next month you will want another birkin bag.
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Overall Rating 5/5 stars
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Reviewer: kristen knickman
Overall Rating 5/5 stars
Amazing bag! Very similar to the real thing, which I own a few just not this one. I compared my bag to a friend's authentic tote and the only difference we found was that on the Dior there was no stitching on the pull straps other then that everything else matched up quite well.
Reviewer: Hayley Preston
Overall Rating 5/5 stars
I love my palm springs mini! It's such an adorable/fashionable bag. I was a little nervous making this purchase but it was so worth it! The process took about 2 weeks for me. The only thing is on the dust bag I've received there was a slight iron on error but no one is going to be looking at the bag anyways. In all, I'm super impressed with the quality of the leather and zippers. The quality is great for a replica! Will be purchasing again in the future.
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Overall Rating 5/5 stars
I love this bag, as most of my reviews start, and I wear it like crazy! So pretty, simple, and the magnet is super strong. I packed the bag out and turned it upside down, and it didn't open! Great quality!
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Overall Rating 5/5 stars
I have received my orders: Hermes handbag with Hermes wallet and Louis Vuitton wallet. I am very happy and satisfied with quality you put in to it. and if you have the same bag a little larger i will be interested to buy it again. thank you for your honesty and great quality. I am please to tell you I will purchase a lot from you.
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On July 16, 2012, Microsoft made available a preview version of Office 2013. While all the typical parts of the familiar productivity suite are still here, there is a definite change of philosophy – Office 2013 is tablet-ready and Windows 8 friendly.
TechRepublic will be diving headlong into the various parts of Office 2013 until it is released, but I thought you might want to get a quick overview of what's coming.
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The most interesting question surrounding the campaigns of Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer is not whether they can win. Instead, it is whether their candidacies signal a shift in the values and priorities of voters when it comes to political sex scandals.
The main difference between past and current political sex scandals is not the frequency with which they occur, but rather the time it takes to recover from them.
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In the past, once a politician's sex scandal was revealed, it often took him (it's almost always him) many years to regain credibility with the public, if he regained it at all. Today, the interval between revelation and redemption is vanishing.
Mark Sanford won a South Carolina congressional seat just four years after tearfully admitting to a scandal in which, during his second term as that state's governor, he cheated on his wife, lied to the public about his whereabouts, and violated state ethics laws.
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This expedition began when I (perhaps foolishly!) had my mitochondrial DNA tested. To make a long story short, mitochondrial DNA is passed only from mothers to their children. So my mitochondrial DNA results would be the same as my mother's, and her mother's, and her mother's, and so forth. In addition, my sister and my cousins who are the children of my mother's sisters have the same DNA pattern.
In theory, a matrilineal line can be traced back over millennia. Scientists have worked out matrilineal classifications of European ancestry, of which there are roughly seven. These classifications are called haplogroups. I say "roughly" seven haplogroups because it turns out that some haplogroups have many subdivisions, called subclades. Scientists are still working to establish which are the older haplogroups and subclades and which are the newer ones. The older ones are maybe 40,000 - 50,000 years old; the newer ones might be 10,000 - 15,000 years old.
What I understand of mtDNA testing is as follows. There are three types of matrilineal DNA testing one can undergo, depending on how deeply one wants to test. The theory is that when somebody matches your DNA pattern, you share a recent common ancestor. "Recent" has a lot of wiggle room, but the more detail you have that matches another person's DNA pattern, the more recent the ancestor that you and the matching person share.
Assuming one has European ancestral origin, hypervariable region 1 (HVR1) testing will likely result in an assignment to one of the seven major European haplogroups. I am in Haplogroup H. Roughly 40% of native Europeans fall into Haplogroup H, so this is of little help.
Therefore, I went ahead and tested my hypervariable region 2 (HVR2). Now the number of matches I have in Family Tree DNA have plummeted because of the constraint of additional criteria. I am down to only about 27 other matches. So my DNA pattern is rather uncommon.
By the way, my Family Tree DNA kit number is N73108, and my DNA pattern is as follows:
The third type of test is the Coding Region test.
The full genomic sequence (FGS) is assessed when all three tests are completed.
My DNA pattern matches a number of others who have been assigned to subclade H6. So if I were to do the Coding Region test that is what I'd look to confirm (or refute). It turns out that H6 is a big mystery. It is thought to be a very old branch of H. It shows up a little bit in Ireland, is less common in the UK, pops up again in Scandinavia, and has a substantially heavier presence in the Balto-Slavic areas and the middle East. Go figure. Here is a great webpage on the subclades of Haplogroup H.
Seeing what a European misfit I was, it certainly started me thinking about Grandmom. Where did she come from? It was time to start digging into her's and Granddad's family histories.
Here is the information I started with that I was 100% certain of:
- Mom grew up in Bunalun (Bunalunn), Skibbereen, the third oldest child of John and Mary Collins.
- The children were (not sure about the birth order): Margaret (Peg), Humphry, Mary (my mother), Eileen, Denis, Brendan, and Teresa.
- Granddad had been in the IRA prior to the formation of the Irish Free State.
The rest of what I know is with varying degree of uncertainty:
- There was either a stillborn or a child who died shortly after birth named Nora.
- Grandmother was 16 and Granddad was 28 when they married.
- Grandmother and Granddad were cousins. Grandmother's maiden name was also Collins.
- I initially did not know with certainty if both Grandmom or Granddad were originally from Skibbereen.
I confirmed Grandmother's age at marriage in a rather amusing way. During that 1974 visit, I was not yet 16. Grandmother said something to me about 16 being too young to date. "But," I said, "You were 16 when you got married!" I don't remember how Grandmom responded but I do remember Mom smirking.
I started out by getting a copy of Mom's birth certificate. The first thing I learned was that she was born in Bauravilla, up the road from Bunalun. So the family lived in Bauravilla before Bunalun. This was completely new information to me.
The Southern Star is the Skibbereen newspaper. I spent two days querying the Southern Star news archives, searching for everything I could find about any Collins in Bauravilla or in Bunalun. I expanded my search to more Collinses in the Skibbereen area in general, and I extended my search backwards to about 1900. I have a stack of printouts from all these endeavors.
From these searches I was able to determine that the family "materialized" in Bauravilla prior to 1930 and moved to Bunalun roughly around 1940.
I was also able to find obituary notices for not only Mom, but also Grandmom and Granddad. I sent away for Grandmom's death certificate, but the certificate does not provide much background information. It did say she was a "Drinagh worker's wife." I had thought she was 69 when she died, but the death certificate said 71. (The death certificate does not provide a birth date, only the age at death. Aunt Peg was the informant.) Granddad's obituary notice provided details on his military service, but perhaps more importantly gave his middle initial "H." Right now I am assuming that stands for Humphry.
The news archives are a goldmine of information in a number of ways. When a funeral was written up, the newspaper often provided a list of mourners and their relationships to the deceased. This was particularly true 80 years ago, but unfortunately that quality of reporting has deteriorated over time. From funeral information I was able to work out some partial family trees of other Collinses in the Skibbereen area (which I hope to join one day to my own family tree).
Second, if a family relative was in the Roman Catholic clergy, that family got press.
Third, if somebody got ticketed by the police (garda), even for the trivial offense of driving a vehicle with expired tags, that often made it into the newspaper. In my case it was practically a Collins family tradition! I am pretty sure I have found instances of Granddad, Uncle Humphrey, and Uncle Denis all being cited.
Fourth, Granddad and Grandmom were farmers. They turned up in the papers in agriculturally related endeavors. Grandmom entered produce and agricultural products in local agricultural fairs. She and Granddad also posted advertisements for cows, straw, eggs, etc.
At this point I had found out all I could about John and Mary Collins from these information sources. I purchased a genealogy software package and started entering everything I could about my family, as well some of the other Collinses I encountered from the newspaper archives.
I started searching around on the web for further genealogy resources, and started looking at the resources provided by the Mormon church (LDS). The Mormons have incredible resources! But I knew I needed to seek out some blood relatives and get information from them before I started looking around for John and Mary.
Happily, I found cousins over the Internet! It was amazing to talk to them after not seeing them for 35 years.
Cousin Jeanne was able to provide me a crucial clue. Apparently, Granddad had two brothers named Michael and Humphry. This ended up being extremely valuable information.
One of my immediate goals was to search the 1911 census records (courtesy of LDS) in the hopes of finding either Granddad's or Grandmom's household. In order to search the census, one has to know the District Electoral Division (D.E.D.) a townland is in. (D.E.D.'s do not necessarily have the same boundaries as the local civil parishes. They are somewhat like U.S. Congressional districts, which can get shifted over time.) Skibbereen Heritage Center got me started with that information. With listings of townlands in each Skibbereen D.E.D., I was then able to search the LDS 1911 census index and obtain D.E.D. numbers. With the help of the folks at the Orange Family History Center (OFHC) here in Southern California I was able to figure out what other LDS films made sense to look at in order to find my grandparents.
Skibbereen is a big place, and I wanted to improve my odds of searching the right townlands for Collinses, so starting from the Woodfort D.E.D., which includes Bauravilla and Bunalun, I wanted to spread out from there. Another resource I thought would be helpful is the surname frequencies listed by civil parish in the 1851-1853 timeframe, provided by the Irish Times. Enter Bunalunn, and a record comes up for the civil parish Caheragh. Click on Caheragh, scroll to the bottom, and you'll see the most common surnames in that parish back in the 1850's. (I am assuming that the relative proportions of surnames stayed pretty much the same by the time 1911 rolled around.) The Collins surname is #3, so yes I want to spend lots of time poking around in the Caheragh civil parish. Scroll further down and you'll see the civil parishes adjacent to Caheragh. Click on Kilmocomoge, check the surnames, and you'll see that Kilmocomoge, has NO Collinses. I don't want to spend my time looking around in Kilmocomoge.
During my visit to the OHFC I went ahead and ordered census record film for some of the Skibbereen D.E.D.s. I also looked at Irish birth index records. This was quite tedious. Even with an approximate year of birth, there are just too many Johns and too many Marys. The index does not give middle names or initials; it does not say WHERE in Skibbereen somebody was born; it does not give the exact date of birth, only the quarter of the year of birth (three month period); it does not provide any parents' information. Even worse, it turns out that from this source of information, birth record details are just not available between 1881 and 1900. I don't yet know if this means that it is 100% impossible to ever get a birth record from the Ireland civil registration for somebody born in that time period. But this blackout period is a bummer.
And then last night, I got a wonderful piece of news. At this point I have been waiting to get the LDS film of the 1911 census. I found out last night that Ireland has completed putting 1911 census information online, and that now includes County Cork.
I thought I'd give the search a try and entered: Collins, John, Cork, left Townland and D.E.D. blank, age=17, Male. Miraculously, I found a household in the Bredagh D.E.D. in Tooreen with not only a John but a Michael and a Humphry.
Eureka! Even though Granddad is a few years younger than I expected, I think this is him. Knowing the names of some of the brothers helped me identify the household. What really helped is that Humphry is a rare name.
The Bredagh D.E.D. was on some of the films I ordered from LDS, so if these records had not come online, I still would have found the correct census record by looking at the films.
Oddly, there are no parents listed in Granddad's household record. Brother Michael is listed as the head of the household. Were Granddad and his siblings orphans? The only other adult listed is a grandparent, Mary McCarthy. Is Mary McCarthy listed by her maiden name or her married name? If she is listed by her maiden name, she could either be Granddad's paternal or maternal grandmother. If she is listed by her married name (which I think is more likely for Ireland), then she must be his maternal grandmother. Argggh! More unanswered questions!
From the online census you get information not only about the family but even the neighbors. Leave all search fields blank except townland=Tooreen, D.E.D.=Bredagh, and you'll see that there were lots of McCarthys and Hourihanes (two major southern Ireland clans) as well as Kingstons, Lynches, and others. There was a Michael McCarthy next door to Great-great-grandmother, Granddad and his siblings. What was Michael McCarthy's relationship to Granddad's household?
Not having parental information in a household census record is abnormal. So where do I go from here? I want to recheck the birth indexes from the 1890's. While I was busily scanning for John Collins and Mary Collins in Skibbereen, I noticed that there were numerous Collinses named Denis, or Michael, or Jeremiah, or Cornelius, something else, but not Humphry (or Humphrey). So I want to go back and look for a Humphry Collins, born around 1900. He might have been born after that "blackout" period, so I might get lucky. The other avenue I want to pursue is the 1901 census. If I can turn up the 1901 household record surely it will list the parents. I'll start with LDS film #865092, index of townlands for the 1901 census. According the Ireland census office the National Archives are working on putting 1901 records online also. But I am too impatient to wait!
Grandmom was the whole reason I started this trip! The only piece of information I have about her, other than possible birth years, is that she had a brother she called Bob. If Bob was her brother and Bob was a nickname for Robert, this might be helpful. Robert is almost as rare as Humphry in the 1911 online census.
Searching for Robert Collins in Cork turns up five records, three which are of interest. Robert in Wolfe Square, Bantry Urban was apprenticed to a non-family household. Where did he come from? Robert in Canning Place, Monkstown (across from Cobh, I believe) had a younger sister named Mary (about the right age). Robert in Ballynidon (alt: Ballyidon), Kinsale Rural not only had an older sister named Mary Kate (also about the right age), but the father was Denis. If this is indeed Grandmom's family, I find it interesting that Uncle Denis could have been named after the father. The only thing that does not "fit" is that these matches are outside of Skibbereen.
There are plenty of other Marys about the right age in the online database, only there are no Roberts or Bobs in those households.
I hope when I visit in July either Denis or Teresa can provide a few details. In the meantime, what I have constructed so far for Granddad is available on my website.


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If you have been following my last few posts, then you know that I am remodeling my genealogy website.
My old "site" was actually several sites (WordPress, Picasa Web Albums, RootsWeb FreePages and PBWorks) that all linked here at Ruth's Genealogy- The Blog. In the past, I have also had a hosted website, but just didn't have the time to maintain it.
But I happened upon a free ebook a few days ago, and it inspired me to overhaul my site.
This is what I done so far:
- read through the ebook a couple of times
- took a out a piece of paper and scribbled and scratched… and came up with a website plan and overall theme
- following the plan, set up several folders locally for the different areas of the site (database, images, cemeteries)
- created matching new subdirectories at my RootsWeb FreePages site
- uploaded the latest edition of my RootsMagic-created website to the database subdirectory
- suddenly stopped… what to do with all of my images?
I had been using Picasa Web Albums for all of my genealogy images, but weren't happy with that option since my albums couldn't be organized alphabetically or using subfolders.
I needed to find a way to display all of my images on my FreePages site…
Google to the rescue! After a bit of searching, I discovered Web Album Generator. A nifty little program that has been around for some time, it creates image albums that can then be uploaded to my Cemeteries and Images subdirectories. Here is Albert Bennett's album:
Each image is clickable to full size, is captioned and can be arranged in any order. The size of the thumbnail images and albums can be adjusted (I chose medium thumbnails and 5 rows x 4 columns). With Web Album Generator, it is really easy to create simple, nice-looking image albums to display all of my genealogy pics at my FreePages website!
In this series
A plan of action!
Wanted: Tools for home-remodeling
The light's on…somebody is home!
An old toy, now unloved?
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mikey287 wrote:Dallas, it seemed, signed all these veterans to short term deals because they have some many good prospects on the way, especially on the wing...I'm not sure why they want to add more years to the process...Cole brings a little more grit to the table than Ryder, but they had free grit waiting in the wings with Matt Fraser...plus, Cole has fake grit...his beard is probably fake too...
JoseCuervo wrote:Bad deak for Dallas, imo. I really don't understand the trade. Maybe they are adding Cole in anticipation of getting rid of Morrow?
brwi wrote:I would like this deal if I were a MTL fan. They have a roster that is rather weak and are winning a lot of games due to coaching/system, but they have lacked the firepower. Cole goes very hot and very cold rather frequently and he hasn't looked that interested in several games I have seen with the Habs.
The guy is sort of an enigma and while Ryder isn't the hardest competitor, I'd do that deal every day as a GM.
Ryder brings some talent to a roster that could certainly use it and I don't think they will have a problem re-upping him if they want to. Win Habs.
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When and Where
Monday, February 11, 2019Repeats Weekly on Mondays
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- Make sure you are in a mood to have fun & on time
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- Wembley Park (Jubilee, Metropolitan): 2 min walk
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I am no longer an author on Mugglenet Fan Fiction. But please enjoy the stories I wrote a year or so ago anyhow! Thank you to everyone who wrote meaningful, wonderful reviews and supported my writing. If you wish to contact me, please do so by email, at email@example.com. Thank you.
My name is Lindsey, with the penname of Ron x Hermione on both here and the forums. I am a member of the Hufflepuff house and support my house with the utmost respect and endeavour, always going out of my way when possible to receive extra points. This would be one of the reason I have such an extensive library of stories, because most of them are challenge fictions. Some have even won a few awards. For example, Pain Doesn't Cost a Thing won first place in the Summer Challenge in 2007, Unexpected Gifts won second place in a challenge near Christmas 2006, Sacking that Silvery Man . . . won third place in the 'Dolores Umbridge Challenge' in the Spring-Summer of 2007, The Depths of a Darkened Mind won third place in the Gauntlet of Summer 2007, and I'm thinking that that is it. I had taken leave from about August 2007 to October-ish, but I found that I couldn't stay away from here for that long. I hope that my writing has improved at least a bit since last writing a story, and I hope that you, the possible reader, enjoys what you read.
Drop-dead-gorgeous banner by KC/sayiansirius! Go Hufflepuffs!
I am officially in SPEW! (The Society for the Proper Evaluation of Writers.) *coughs or Society for the Protection and Expansion of Weirdness coughs* But I now have a straitjacket! *tries to wave but can't due to restraint*
I now am even in the Susan Bones Book Club, where we analyse different brilliant stories on the forums. It's amazing there. Cute Banner by Noldo.
And though I have blatantly yet to go on a poetry spree of writing, I am in Poetry Anyone, a great little club where poets come together to share their views and thoughts on the metre of a poem. :) Amazing banner by the lovely suzie/crazy_purple_hp_freak!
January 30th, 2008:
The last update I kind of lied a bit. I'm sorry about that. It turned out that while soccer winded down, drama and schoolwork didn't, keeping me away for longer. Now I have a few hours on the computer every once in a while and found that I couldn't stay away from some of the challenges. I just had a new story published Everlasting Friendship and a Green Baseball Cap if it is of any interest to you, dear reader. -grins- I do hope that I continue to write stories and someone continues to read them. Thanks very much for all of the continuous support through reviews and emails. I love you all.
~Lindsey :)
My Favorites:
Books: Harry Potter 1-SEVEN, Where Willows Grow, Rose for Melinda, The Giver, Gathering Blue, The Messenger, Prayer for Owen Meany, Charlottes Web, Bridge to Terabithia, Shiloh, Where the Red Fern Grows, Summer of the Monkeys, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Man on Fire, Anthem, A Rip in Heaven, The Stand, Crank, and Night.
Movies: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Saw 1 and 2 and 3, Domestic Disturbance, Armageddon, Tristan and Isolde, Simon Birch, The Sixth Sense, My Girl, Where the Red Fern Grows, Day After Tomorrow, Holes, Red Eye, Moulin Rouge, The Outsiders, Flight of the Phoenix, High School Musical 2, Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Ladder 49, National Treasure, For the Love of a Child, Click, House of D, Mean Creek, Wild Hogs, Blades of Glory, Disturbia, Spiderman 3, Hairpsray! (the newer version), The Stand (mini series) and Across the Universe (though I was utterly disappointed), but the music was amazing.
TV: My stimulus for Mondays is 'Heroes', where the weekly glimpse of Milo Ventimiglia keeps me going; on Tuesdays I watch 'The Biggest Loser' if I don't have a soccer game; I watch 'Kid Nation, 'Private Practice, and 'CSI: New York'; and on Thursdays I watch 'Grey's Anatomy'. Yes, I have a nice schedule going on.
Music: I have recently become a raging addict for Cartel. Will Pugh is just . . . So amazing. I also really like Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, and Evan Rachel Wood off the Across the Universe movie and soundtrack, I found an old Backstreet Boys CD and have found a newfound love again for them, Family Force 5, John Mayer, Josh Groban, Kelly Clarkson, and all of the cast of High School Musical 2 with the exception of Vanessa Hudgens.
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The historic takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which could come as soon as this weekend, moved to the forefront of the presidential campaign Saturday as candidates and congressional leaders seized on the enormous implications for taxpayers and the economy.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac together hold or back half of the nation's mortgage debt, and have played an increasingly important role in the real estate market since the credit crisis started in August 2007. A government bailout could cost taxpayers around $25 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and two other regulators are working on a plan to put the troubled mortgage finance companies into a conservatorship, and remove Fannie Mae CEO Daniel Mudd and Freddie Mac CEO Richard Syron, according to Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.
The government is expected to control the two companies at least a year as it evaluates and debates whether Fannie and Freddie should remain government-run entities or be restructured in some fashion, Frank said in an interview.
At a rally in Colorado Springs, Col., Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said, "They've gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers. The McCain-Palin administration will make them smaller and smarter and more effective for homeowners who need help."
Democratic nominee Barack Obama, speaking in Terre Haute, Ind., said, "These entities are so big and they're so tied into the housing market that it is probably true that we have to take steps to make sure they don't just collapse, because the housing market, which is already weakened, would be in even worse shape if we didn't take some steps."
News of the likely government takeover Friday followed a report by the Mortgage Bankers Association that more than 4 million American homeowners with a mortgage, a record 9 percent, were either behind on their payments or in foreclosure at the end of June.
That confirmed what investors saw in Fannie and Freddie's recent financial results: trouble in the mortgage market has shifted to homeowners who had solid credit but took out exotic loans with little or no proof of their income and assets.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac lost a combined $3.1 billion between April and June. Half of their credit losses came from these types of risky loans with ballooning monthly payments.
While both companies said they had enough resources to withstand the losses, many investors believe their financial cushions could wither away as defaults and foreclosures mount.
Frank said the companies' financial picture was better than Wall Street investors assumed, but "it just plainly became clear that elements of the market wouldn't' accept that."
The epic decision highlights the size of the threats facing the housing market and the economy. On Friday, Nevada regulators shut down Silver State Bank, the 11th failure this year of a federally insured bank. And earlier this year, the government orchestrated the takeover of investment bank Bear Stearns by JP Morgan Chase .
The crisis surrounding Fannie and Freddie promises to be a major challenge for the next president.
The role the two companies play in the U.S. mortgage market has grown dramatically over the past year as other lenders collapsed under the weight of bad subprime loans. The companies guaranteed about three-quarters of all new mortgages in the second quarter of this year, up from under 40 percent in 2006, according to the trade publication Inside Mortgage Finance.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and James Lockhart, the companies' chief regulator, met Friday afternoon with the top executives from the mortgage companies and informed them of the government's plan to put the companies into a conservatorship as early as this weekend.
In July, Congress passed a plan to provide unlimited government loans to Fannie and Freddie and to purchase stock in the companies if needed. Critics say the open-ended nature of the rescue package could expose taxpayers to billions of dollars of potential losses.
Fannie Mae was created by the government in 1938, and was turned into a public company 30 years later. Freddie Mac was established in 1970 to provide competition for Fannie.