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Duke Energy Cash Balance Pension Plan Class Action Lawsuit
"the utility company said it shut off the electricity for nonpayment Feb. 23"
"either the most brazen or the dumbest crook in Charlotte"
"If you have Medicare, the President's plan guarantees that your benefits will not be cut"
" 'I generally wouldn’t take advice about what’s good for Democrats' from a Republican"
"How much higher do premiums have to rise before we do something about it?"
"We have a little bureaucracy that we probably could eliminate"
"American people want to know if it's still possible for Washington to look out for their interests"
"It was the execution-style slaying of eight handcuffed students"
"Sen. Burr has shown a disturbing lack of compassion for his fellow citizens"
"Union members invariably have better pay and benefits than nonunion workers"
"when the going gets ugly, the ugly get going"
"layoffs can affect life expectancy"
"Wait - here comes a bank hugger! He's John Boehner"
"The crime was defacing school property"
"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' "
"Whatever the explanation, it doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in Citi"
"But dependency on government has never been bad for the rich"
"Duke Energy shut down one unit...to investigate an apparent leak"
"N.C. customers would see a 10 percent drop"
"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"
"We need to change financial regulations"
"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"
"The Yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal site is finished"
"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"
"mining companies are looking again to exploit Navajo lands - and their workers"
"mandatory arbitration is closing the courthouse doors to far more people"
"The cash balance plan lawsuit...will be going to trial"
"the greatest obstacle to reducing cancer deaths is lack of health insurance"
"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"
"At issue is how public companies report stock options and stock awards"
"Congress has the power to stop that escalation"
"What if climate change were not real?"
"Last year, Wal-Mart paid $640 million to settle 63...class-action wage-and-hour lawsuits"
"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"
"bound by both the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and the Internal Revenue code"
"The ugly truth, though, is that the 401(k) is a lousy idea, a financial flop, a rotten repository"
"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"
"We do not have the best heath care in the world, only the most expensive"
"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"
"Positively identifying the man was complicated because he had more than one ID on him"
"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"
"There is usually one shareholder to provide comic relief"
"corporations...have paid Luntz tens of millions of dollars to craft their messages"
"In return, the lobbyist wanted the lawmaker to kill a bill that the lawmaker had sponsored"
"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"
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"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"
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"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?"
"Potential to corrupt the criminal justice system in the Western District of North Carolina"
"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."