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ORDER OF THE COURT 6/7/10
"It is too late to turn this election into a triumph for the administration"
"Duke Energy said today it might close seven coal-fired units"
"Were Americans misled into the Iraq war? Yes"
"A 19-year-old contract worker was killed on the job Thursday"
"groups charge Duke Energy Ohio is trying to shut Cincinnati ratepayers out of discussions"
"enforcement of coal-ash disposal rules would mean classifying the waste as hazardous"
"the effective rate paid by most companies is...lower than in most developed countries"
"the two Republican commissioners on the five-person board opposed it"
"And where would this $680 billion go? Nearly all of it would go to the richest 1 percent"
"Chin says regulators have discretion on whether to let consumers bypass the costs"
"It’s possible other gas lines are inside sewer lines"
"SBI agents twisted reports and court testimony"
"Cuomo alleged Bank of America executives misled shareholders"
"Three of the defendants in botched cases have been executed"
"Duke had committed to spending up to $35 million on the project"
"Social Security has been running surpluses for the last quarter-century"
"creditors have asked chief executive David Hauser to resign"
"materially inaccurate information being provided to the NRC"
"Coal River Mountain has become something of a symbolic line in the sand"
"Duke said those costs had risen $530 million"
"Lowe's customers will not receive notice of the settlement in the mail"
"There is no justification for what they did"
"a federal judge ruled that the company's 401(k) fees were excessive"
"years of Wall Street gambling and corporate greed...have destroyed the U.S. economy"
"You have to be like the junkyard dog and hang onto their legs all the way to the driveway"
"The August 3rd event was the 27th annual night out against crime"
"The site has been occupied for at least 9,000 years, archaeologists say"
"There is no way to overstate how cautiously we need to proceed along this treacherous road"
"The commission said there were no demonstrable benefits for customers"
"Don't turn Social Security in the scapegoat for the deficit"
"I’ve got five million dollars to spend, and I can spend it for you or against you"
"An estimated 100,000 illegal immigrants have left Arizona in the past two years"
"Solar photovoltaics have joined the ranks of lower-cost alternatives to new nuclear plants"
"employers risk losing employees who had to stomach more work for lower pay"
"we would fare better if worker health and safety were under the Department of Fish and Wildlife"
"has proven to be an engineering and financial challenge"
"BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina has stockpiled a record surplus of $1.4 billion"
"about 30 people were evacuated from their homes"
"Elderly Woman Says Duke Energy Tree Trimmers Left A Mess"
"The commission imposed the requirement this month on Charlotte-based Duke"
"Yet another coal miner was killed on the job this week"
"each person arrested and found eligible for compensation will be awarded $18,000"
"you can't teach stupid"
"The shortnose sturgeon is a prehistoric-looking fish"
"After Enron and California everybody said, 'We’re going to stand down' "
"polls suggest that a majority of Americans support the Arizona law"
"ironing is woman's work"
"a narcissistic despot who will be remembered for his management style of intimidation and fear"
"It increased the project’s estimated cost in April by $530 million to $2.88 billion"
"The US is still trapped in depression a full 18 months into zero interest rates"
"Incredibly, some are even adding to the bureaucratic overhead"
"We are now, I fear, in the early stages of a third depression"
"The accident...involved the use of a man lift"
"Another accident was reported on the Duke Energy power plant work site"
"They did not feel their questions had been adequately addressed"
"Duke's willingness to consider weaning itself from MTR coal is an encouraging sign"
"Invisible-Hand-of-the-Free-Market-Man"
"What we don't want is a massive shift of costs to employees"
"Memorandum and Order preliminarily approving a $350,000,000...settlement"
"Duke Energy has spent more than $10 million to influence energy policy since 2008"
"Swain County imposed a moratorium that halted the project "
"The request...comes amid growing pressure from lawmakers...to stop the practice"
"Tribal and Swain County leaders have protested construction of an electrical station"
"The 2010 Duke Energy Employee Opinion Survey will be available to all workers"
"The apparent violations involved a welder who brought marijuana into the protected area"
"How do wars begin? With a 'master illusion' "
"We are living under de facto corporate rule"
"North Carolina: A Case Study in Neglect?"
"The Toxic 100 Air Polluters ranks corporations based on the chronic human health risk"
"the money would...make the first $35,000 each American earns tax-free"
"They’d traveled out to the oil rig to celebrate a safety milestone"
"Dr. Blackburn has shown that going to 80 percent solar and wind power is...possible"
"The richest 1 percent of Americans now earn more than the bottom 50 percent"
"But the failure of the firm does not mean the fraud fails: the perpetrators often walk away rich"
"And the Duke test uncovered a flaw in the fuel assembly design"
"those who worked 10 to 12 hours a day had a 56 percent increased risk of heart disease"
"Cap and Trade protestors were lined up outside of the shareholder meeting"
"A 22-year-old anti-war activist from The Evergreen State College will get $169,000"
"three of the people...had been convicted of murder and 144 were convicted on assault charges"
"Representative Duncan Hunter wants to deport the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants"
"Newsweek magazine named him one of the world's 50 most powerful people"
"Blue Cross-Blue Shield companies’ disregard for human life to maximize profits"
"The highest return on assets is always a political contribution"
"all markets today are subject to manipulation for private gain"
"Tell me again why we're building coal? Tell me again why coal is cheap?"
"No fine’s enough"
"In October 2001, you could have set up guillotines on the public streets of America"
"The reductions are the largest for Duke since it merged with Cinergy in 2006"
"miners on the picket lines detail the history of labor struggles in the region"
"Massey has faced proposed fines nearing $2 million…and been cited over 1,300 times"
"A coalition of Cherokee and Swain County residents have stepped up the pressure"
"John Paul Stevens was, very quietly, a giant on the court"
"officials demanded the Commission not make further attempts"
"The NRC invites the public to comment on its Open Government Plan"
"In the energy business, Jim Rogers is an anomaly"
"Some organizations have filed legal challenges to those plans"
"shareholders will have real authority to hire and fire directors"
"The program is already operating in 21 N.C. counties"
"Jim Rogers says more employees than expected have offered to accept voluntary buyouts"
"Duke spent more than $10 million in 2008 and 2009 to lobby Congress"
"utilities have been slashing expenses"
"similar to the $1.5 million it spent in the third quarter"
"Former Bush speechwriter…its passage represents major defeat for the Republican Party"
"Only one more hurdle stood between the Indians and the $3.4 billion"
"the utility company said it shut off the electricity for nonpayment Feb. 23"
"It was the execution-style slaying of eight handcuffed students"
"Sen. Burr has shown a disturbing lack of compassion for his fellow citizens"
"layoffs can affect life expectancy"
"The committee charged that Crescent intentionally misrepresented the book value of its assets"
"The error affected both electric and natural gas customers"
"The Consumers' Counsel office says the costs...are actually capital costs"
"Last Friday night my father asked me to kill him"
"Dannon has agreed to create a $35,000,000.00 fund for the settlement"
"Obama assumed that Republicans would act 'rationally' "
"The bottom line here is that the state cannot blithely accept the word of the utilities"
"Who's going to go up against Duke Energy for us?…The reason they flood us is because they can"
"You may be eligible for money or compensation if approved"
"In 2008, about $510 million was spent on virtual goods...last year the amount almost doubled"
"The global warming movement as we have known it is dead,"
"The public, including NRC employees, can use the tool to easily share ideas and comments"
"Duke has already found contaminated groundwater near its ash ponds"
"when you remove accountability for risky behavior you encourage it"
"every EPA publication on the subject was ghostwritten by the American Coal Ash Association"
"The money is the bait; the waiver is the hook"
"Rep. Alan Grayson is trying something new: saying pretty much whatever he feels like"
"dirty coal is not only unsustainable...it is also extremely deadly to human life"
"Americans will be out on the streets fighting for rat meat"
"mountaintop-removal coal mining destroys streams and threatens human health"
"mandatory arbitration is closing the courthouse doors to far more people"
"The cash balance plan lawsuit...will be going to trial"
"Duke will pay a $1.75 million civil penalty"
- Christmas Will Never be the Same -
"It is the responsibility of Congress to reopen the courthouse doors"
"Congress has the power to stop that escalation"
"What if climate change were not real?"
"it wasn’t that the Fed was asleep at the switch; they were actually complicit"
"Strengthens the case for utilities to continue to use coal"
"lobbyist pay the politicians to say these things"
"Duke effectively avoided the requirement to clean up their toxic pollution"
"particularly if they have decent retirement benefits and retire relatively early"
"State Street concealed the fraud by deliberately failing to include time stamp data"
"CEO of CIGNA...brought home a total of $120 million over the past five years"
"They'd been stripped of their...pensions and told to make due with a...'cash balance' plan"
"Duke Energy has spent more than $10 million to lobby Congress since 2008"
"Duke acknowledges that the groundwater...was contaminated above state standards"
"44,000 American die every year due for lack of health coverage"
"The video shows Beck sitting for a still camera, making crying faces"
"a CEO is actually between a doctor and the patient"
"a senator...suggested using a rocket ship to shoot the waste into the sun"
"We won't stand idle while...Halliburtion, Duke, and Enron rape our world for profit"
"Where did he come from and why does he have this job?"
"When she learned about drastic changes in IBM's pension plan…she lost faith in the company"
"2009 Citizen of the Carolinas"
"Republicans seem off balance now that they have lost their talent for hypocrisy"
"There are a lot of unfair, often illegal things going on in the workplace"
"Nothing will change...until the moneylenders are tossed out of the temple"
"The boys running the show at Blue Cross in North Carolina are running scared"
"Our labor law system is broken"
"The money IBM stole went to boost profits and to grease the pockets of...executives"
"corporations...have paid Luntz tens of millions of dollars to craft their messages"
"increased cancer risks from drinking water polluted by coal-ash impoundments"
"The future is clean energy, wind, solar and energy efficiency"
"The utilities are carving out exceptions for coal plants"
"Nearly 44 million workers are at risk of not being paid the benefits they are due"
"Harrison, a former employee of the United Way in Charlotte, pleaded guilty"
"she's the target of a federal criminal probe"
"The result was a horrific stew of pain, degradation and ... suffering"
"With the crowd chanting 'Arrest Jim Rogers' "
"Several hundred people participated in a peaceful protest on Monday"
"Concerned locals are taking a stand against mountaintop removal"
"Please don’t take away my laser plane…it’s all I have left"
"Deregulation benefits the people at the top. They get...rich doing stuff that might otherwise be illegal"
"This type of support shouldn't come as much of a surprise"
"Ever wonder why the South remains the nation’s poorest region...?"
"Don't get the President angry"
"Give us the health benefits we earned and paid for over decades of loyal service"
"a layoff is admitting that its management was incapable of building a working team"
"The real war was never reported to the American public"
"Is he going to do this for four years?"
"What troubles me is that a lot of the company changes came when times were good"
"residents are responsible for making sure they are being charged the correct rate"
"The ruling paves the way for a new trial on most of the charges"
Video
"Duke Energy is the nations's third largest consumer of coal from mountaintop removal"
"Many had repeatedly cycled through the system despite a history of violence"
"McHenry often confuses 'putting our country first' with 'putting our wallets first' "
"Sen. McCain unveils his new strategies on Weekend Update"
"Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin (Fey) address the Nation on QVC"
"McCain has the other guys beat, in years"
"I can't say that she would be a genius in the job"
"McCain approves truth-enhanced negative campaign messages"
"The most cringe-worthy political moment of the day"
"The nastiest, most misleading, negative ad of the campaign"
"The military had used psychiatric evaluations to discredit and stifle whistleblowers before"
"Companies 'dishonestly screw millions of older workers' out of pension monies"
"Lawmakers' retirement benefits start earlier and accrue faster"
"Bush offering an unwanted endorsement for the McCain-Palin ticket"
"I haven't left the Republican Party. It left me"
"McCain was unwise to have her on the ticket...unwise not to veto this appearance"
"Joe the Plumber...his 'imaginary friend' "
"Tina Fey as Sarah Palin in VP Debate"
"A not so subtle reminder about the all too serious issue of voter fraud"
"Tina Fey and Amy Poehler spoof the Palin/Couric interview"
- Animated Cartoon Clip -
"The Pentagon had been withholding significant information from POW families for years"
"From Saturday night's season premiere"
"McCain used his position as a senator to help his wife avoid being searched by customs"
"Benefits consultants have cautioned insiders to keep quiet"
"I’m 70 years old and I’ve lived through being a prisoner of war; I’m going to tell it like it is"
"Carbon fuels industry – big oil and coal – have a 50-year lease on the Republican Party"
"The union says they have documents, including recordings"
"Hear discussions about buying fake ID’s, circumventing ICE, and how many illegals are employed."
"He barely managed to graduate, standing 5th from the bottom of...800"
"Duke Energy is still facing an antitrust lawsuit in U.S. District Court"
"3 million have lost their pension"
"The old reverse Robin Hood -- watch out for your pension fund"
"You can't call it a broken system because it was a bad one from the start"
" 'Simply put, this is theft. This is illegal,' said chairman George Miller"
"The US Supreme Court embraced an expansive view of certain civil rights laws"
"A statistically significant association between autism risk and distance from the mercury source"
"These lawsuits represent the employees' only hopes for restoring...losses caused by the unlawful wearaway"
"What if all the ratepayers used Duke’s methods in paying their obligations?"
"The Court also chose not to hear Saville v. IBM, 06-407, a retaliation case"
"The very next day, Boehner declared that the bill was all but dead"
"Duke Energy employees can now seek pension justice without taking any financial risk."
"It makes me sick as to how the Duke Energy employees are getting shafted"
"I am so angry with Elizabeth Dole I can't see straight"
"The public has no interest in playing bait-and-switch games to try to save a few pennies"
"Who is better qualified to exploit every possible legal maneuver than an ex-judge?"
"An interesting point is that Tom Sun was never fired or suspended from his job."
"S984 is...so bad that it cannot be salvaged."
"Even the insurance, called 'finite risk,' has proven to be controversial."
- The Great Nest Egg Robberies -
"Elizabeth Verdin, 89, froze to death after Duke Power cut off her electricity"
"Ms. Shaw stated that executives feel the Duke criticism personally."
"Winston retired…with…$400,000, compared with the $181,00…cash balance"
"We´re in a death spiral for energy trading"
"Fighting broke out only after an out-of-state worker...pulled a gun"
Harvey Padewer had a one-on-one meeting with the energy secretary.
against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."