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Occupy Wall Street - End Human Rights for Corporations - Fahrenheit 911
Welcome to 2012 - Live - Duke Energy Edwardsport Hearing
"Never have journalists, through their reporting, vexed the enemies of freedom so much"
" ‘a watershed event’ the likes of which he had not witnessed in his 30 years in politics"
"The Catawba River basin has landed on another most-endangered-places list"
"They've made a mess of this whole process"
"Dhiaa Jamil, chief generation officer for Duke Energy"
"Utilities produce millions of tons of coal ash each year"
"he doesn't know why Health Canada didn't make the data public"
"the amount of materials from the other two each increased"
"the worst atomic crisis in 25 years"
"All 17 reactors will go offline by the end of March"
"There are far cleaner, cheaper and less-risky ways to get our energy"
"corporate governance experts say most aren't warranted"
"Ed Schultz"
"It appears Progress' smoke screen is working"
"They're kicking the can down the road...There's no doubt about it"
"Floridians have a right to be upset: 'Why are we paying for your mistake?' "
"It’s just another way of trying to break the union"
"Duke Energy must pay the fine...within 10 business days"
"neither the Bush administration nor the Obama administration is willing to do anything"
"Extraordinary renditions began under President Bill Clinton"
"We're dealing with a very strong...industry with its own ideas of what's best for us"
"Cooper doesn't think the settlement treats Duke Energy customers fairly"
"The lawsuit...claims the GSA’s denial is violating its First Amendment rights"
"I just feel so awful for my kids. I feel like I’ve failed as a parent"
"a group from Greensboro, N.C....met with Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan's staff"
"Progress Energy already plans to stick its customers with a $670 million bill"
"serving time in a Nevada prison for kidnapping, armed robbery and other charges"
"federal law has given employees the right to join together...with or without a union"
"we must applaud the efforts of the Occupy Wall Street movement"
"It would have been the first time she had ever seen white men"
"FBI agent Jennifer Dent was a member of a so-called 'dirty' team"
"The plan was put together by a subcommittee of the Nuclear Safety Commission"
"a secure website...where whistleblowers can anonymously leak documents to the public"
"The result would dash the anticorruption restrictions on candidates’ money seeking"
"Making good economic policy isn’t at all like maximizing corporate profits"
"We must also do away with the hundreds of billions in corporate loopholes"
"In December, a consignment of radioactive tires shipped from Japan was seized"
"nuclear isotopes were already moving up the local food chain"
"Storms was later hired by Duke—then fired—after the scandal"
"Justice Center has been pushing for…stronger...powers to combat wage theft"
"voters aren't forgetting what they dislike about Obama and want him out office"
"North Carolina...has a private sector unionization rate of 1.8 percent, the lowest in the nation"
"protects employees’ ability to join together to pursue workplace grievances...litigation"
"Progress comes from the bottom up...not the top down"
Welcome to 2012 "2012 is shaping up to be the year of brain dead employees"
"Late Friday, the Montana Supreme Court defied the Citizens United decision"
"Federal Energy Regulatory Commission twice rejected their proposals"
"By now some of you...know about the typo in today's Observer"
"the juggling act has been particularly dramatic in 2011"
"Daniels eliminated the ability of state employees to bargain collectively in 2005"
"Montana’s 1912 Corrupt Practices Act blocks certain political speech by corporations"
"storing spent nuclear fuel...for as much as 200 years"
"How can corporations deceive, bait-and-switch...and not have to make full restitution?"
"Duke Energy spends millions on lobbying efforts in Washington"
"Progress' attempt to fix the crack resulted in two more cracks"
"Maybe Duke and Progress assumed too much, too soon"
"What is certain is that cost to build the plant is increasing"
"In second place for the third quarter was Duke Energy"
"There are experts who still fear recriticality"
"We believe that we have reached the Brandeis tipping point"
"bags of shrimp…rib-eye steaks, a package of smoked turkey…baby back ribs"
"Federal regulators have rejected the companies' two previous merger proposals"
"safety regulators 40 years ago considered a meltdown impossible"
"IURC is now investigating whether Duke withheld information or committed fraud"
"We support the efforts of the Occupy Wall Street movement across the country"
"The era of the rule of money is nearing its end"
"The N.C. Utilities Commission has yet to rule on the merger"
"deal won't get done this year...questions about whether it can get done at all"
"I think it rises beyond perception now that there have been improper communications"
"other counts involve secret ex parte communication with Duke Energy over cost overruns"
"lobbying federal officials in the third quarter on environmental rules, regulatory costs"
"On that day I lost my fear completely…I was ready for anything, even death"
"accuses Hardy of failing to disclose a secret, ex parte communication with Duke Energy"
"James Turner, the second-highest-paid executive at Duke, resigned in December"
"NRC staff will also consider written comments"
"all they’ve offered up is a pitiful, one-time 'charitable' contribution"
"Progress' attempt to save $28 million will end up costing someone almost 100 times that"
"That parent company is about to be acquired by Duke Energy"
"Duke and Progress have said they expect to eliminate 1,860 total positions"
"when the credit union refused to back down, Goldman took back its $5,000"
"Enron’s shares were trading…at $90 then – by December they were penny stock"
"The states on both lists?...North Carolina...South Carolina"
"Obama now wants to be like Franklin Delano Roosevelt"
"There is an increasing sense of unease in relation to food safety"
"Goldman Sachs was your number one contributor…we have not seen anyone...go to jail"
"two Halliburton employees testified under oath about destroying notes and samples"
"vulnerable to core damage if an accident involving a series of unlikely events occurred"
"removes provisions that would have let Duke raise its S.C. rates...in 2013 and 2014"
"confirmed that the woman applied for food stamps…and was denied"
"One of the protesters landed with a flamboyant somersault on the inflated mattress"
"Herman Cain Cartoons"
"This is an excerpt from Greg Palast’s brand new book Vultures’ Picnic"
"$62,090 in…damages…back wages, interest, benefits…attorney's fees"
"The employee had complained about safety and health hazards"
"A 103-year-old woman and her 83-year-old daughter got a last-minute eviction reprieve"
"The UK is experiencing the worst disruption to services in decades"
"He was sentenced to 24 years, and in prison he remains"
"Duke Energy's last rate increase in 2009 raised power costs by 7 percent"
"Duke Energy has shown itself unworthy of belief"
"Duke Energy's effective federal tax rate for the period between 2008 and 2010: -3.9%"
"as it prepares to merge with Raleigh's Progress Energy"
"Duke agreed to defer recovery of $51 million from a new unit at its Cliffside power plant"
"one of them recommended that i look into buying a bullet-proof vest"
"UC Davis page was actively censoring notification of the upcoming strike"
"Immediately we were blinded. ... He just sprayed us again and again"
"He has never exercised the options and turned them into cash before"
"Progress is on track to merge with Duke Energy"
" 'We've had two more' cracks...'Both of those (cracks) are larger' than the first"
"The cause of the leakage was an improperly fastened reactor lid"
‘Big Man’ with a Pepper Spray Can
"After taking down the tents, the police realized they couldn't clear the crowd "
"Duke’s proposal will not solve any...problems that the merger would create"
"the companies together have spent $52 million on lobbying and political donations"
"officers took a New York Post reporter…and ‘threw him in a choke-hold.’ "
"On Nov. 17th 2011 roughly 200 people packed the Senate Budget Committee room"
"Srey Pov’s family sold her to a brothel when she was 6 years old"
"The companies are encouraging workers to leave for other jobs"
"Duke Energy officials had hoped...legislation would be introduced...this year"
"Duke Energy was forced to cut output at its G.G. Allen and Riverbend coal plants"
"he resigned at 2 a.m., hours before the raid on the Occupy Oakland encampment"
"The second stage…is the unsuccessful attempt by the power elite to quell the unrest"
"I didn’t think it was going to be so bad...I was definitely hoping Obama could do more"
"You decide to do this because, well, you are a complete idiot"
"James Turner, resigned after...he had sent hundreds of compromising emails"
"Duke is shifting the burden of proof on confidentiality to the public"
"Davis said in his revivew of detainee files he saw documented evidence of torture"
"The nuclear crisis caused the worst radiation leak since Chernobyl"
"the genie is out of the bottle and it can’t be put back in"
"I’m a police officer. I’m part of the 99 percent"
"This much is clear from his notebook: This nuclear plant will melt down in an earthquake"
"An angry crowd in Greenville gave state leaders an earful"
"reversed a ruling made by an agency attorney who was later hired by Duke Energy"
"That $86 million is just the start"
"The crowd swelled to more than 60 and spilled out of the...City Council chambers"
"alleging it improperly determined payments owed to holders of contingent value obligations"
"Price tag for the fix: $2.5 billion and rising"
"Sabehgi in intensive care with a lacerated spleen...did not reach hospital until 18 hours later"
"solar is now cost-effective"
"The state Justice Department's consumer protection division is taking part in the rate case"
"hit me in my arm and legs and back with his baton"
"emails between…Jim Turner, and...utility commission chairman cost both their jobs"
"Duke Energy…three-year tax rate was a minus 3.9 percent"
"planting drugs…smuggling guns…false arrest…robbing"
"The city...became a rallying point after police used tear gas to clear an encampment"
"We heard from the public and their opposition was widespread and intense"
"Economic times are simply too hard, and Duke Energy is being too greedy"
"the combined company could manipulate the market price of electricity"
"Rogers was once deputy general counsel for litigation and enforcement for FERC"
"Holding the Constitution and a Veterans for Peace Flag"
"we knew when Occupy happened in AZ it was gonna be slightly different"
"James E. Rogers' compensation package grew by $1.9 million — 27 percent"
"Duke wants...to pass along $2.7 billion in construction costs to consumers"
"Total Receipts $1,468,738"
"Two tours in Iraq with no injuries…shot by the same people he had been protecting"
Video
"Video"
"We're sick of being locked out of a public place, so we made it public again"
"Company officials...found themselves on the defensive Wednesday"
"Thursday, the NC Utilities Commission will hold a public hearing at High Point City Hall"
"Duke also wants to charge rate-payers $300 million in finance charges"
"Duke said the price tag for the first turbine would be $88 million"
"Duke shareholders are potentially looking at eating another $436 million"
"Sorry guys I can’t be any closer this stuff is going to make me sick"
"The Storms scandal proved an embarrassment for both Duke and the IURC"
"The state ruled that Storms violated Indiana ethics laws"
"Turner...was cautious: 'I don't think it's a good idea to put chm mtg in writing' "
"Duke faces growing opposition from customers and consumer groups"
"Much Respect to the Mighty Sha!"
"Young man whose despair gave birth to hope, no one knows what the future holds"
"Separate from the whistleblower settlement, Goodman has paid $550,000 in penalties"
Protests go global "A day of worldwide protests inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement"
"Check out the performance, which — admit it — was funny"
"Nine more hearings will be held through late November"
"I stay awake at night because I hate the unfairness in all this"
"I think it’s simple: Deny it"
"Both Duke and Progress are expected to ask for rate hikes again next year"
"The corrupt are afraid of us; the honest support us; the heroic join us"
"Patrick Howley – the right-wing editor...was one of the first to taunt...police"
"People...are busy trying to find creative ways to cut Social Security and Medicare"
"Will knows danger when he sees it"
"I have held off, Barack Obama, till now"
"the Colorado National Guard used a machine gun to fire randomly into the tent city"
"It’s an entourage of peace makers!"
"Singer's first big vulture attack was on American asbestos victims"
"The settlement includes $100,000 in compensation"
"It's a mess...There's no doubt about that"
"They didn’t know what to do with me...They were really kind of baffled that I had ethics"
"There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own"
"NYPD officer using pepper spray on a group of peaceful protesting women"
"North Carolina's jobless rate is above the national average"
" 'You know what your problem is?…You have to tell the truth.' I said, 'That's a good problem' "
"Again, the applause was thunderous"
"the greatest number of job cuts would occur in the Carolinas"
"for safety violations that contributed to the death of an employee"
"Duke Energy...has been playing both sides of the coming governor's race"
"But No One In Washington or the Media Wants to Hear"
"A number of groups submitted their objections"
"the CIA waterboarded...Mohammed 183 times and Abu Zubaydah 83 times"
"Must the jobless look forward to having a boss their entire lives?"
"as union membership fell...middle class’s share of national income fell"
"The Bush administration also pushed forward Reagan’s policy of deregulation"
"earthquake caused 25 spent-fuel storage casks — each weighing 115 tons — to move"
"Once again – it takes Wikileaks to reveal to the American people the secret horrors"
"including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant"
"experts say it will take at least a couple of decades for some residents to return"
"these companies spend millions lobbying for additional tax breaks and loopholes"
"he was centrally involved in a whole variety not just of war crimes in Iraq"
"Americans aren't inspired by well-meaning weakness"
"Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, N...Carolina, S...Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia"
"Social Security does not contribute to the deficit in any way"
"The estimate was submitted by Prime Minister Naoto Kan's cabinet"
"rule requiring private employers to post notice about employees right to unionize"
Anonymous is calling for a non-violent occupation of Wall Street September 17th
"WikiLeaks made public thousands of US diplomatic cables"
"Patrick McHenry (R-NC) became infamous overnight for berating Elizabeth Warren"
"Due to budget cuts – the quake sensors at the plant were removed back in the 1990’s"
"This quake was like none I ever experienced in the East in my life and I am 76 years old"
"Jim Turner...resigned in December following the release of emails"
"because of the state's harsh anti-union laws"
"The case has raised allegations of incompetence and fraud against Duke"
"Instead of 'No Drama Obama,' he's more like 'No Pulse Obama.' "
"Southern U.S. states...cheapest manufacturing locations in the developed world"
"North Carolina regulators have dealt a blow to Duke Energy's plans"
"Atterholt sent the note to James Turner, then Duke's second-highest-paid executive"
"Duke depended on government to force its customers to save its behind"
"Duke Energy wants to raise rates again to pay for a new coal-fired unit"
"not one single penny from hedge fund managers...or subsidized corporate jets"
"There is nothing responsible about the Cliffside project"
"The charges against Duke Energy continue to pile up"
"John Boehner handed out tobacco PAC money...on the floor of the House"
"the patient had life-threatening injuries"
"unnecessarily cost ratepayers millions of dollars and has set back the public’s trust"
"the man started yelling, prompting morgue workers to run away in fear"
"Patrick McHenry, a Republican from North Carolina...was particularly obnoxious"
"Duke Energy is facing serious charges from the state’s utility consumer agency"
"they said the company over-billed them by over a half-million dollars"
"Power plants are the single largest industrial source of toxic air pollution in 28 states"
"The suits named Duke as a co-defendant"
"Duke Energy Corp. is facing the fight of its life"
"Duke...refused to hire a qualified outside construction manager to build it"
"54% of American blame the bad economy on George W. Bush...27%...Obama"
"hard work went into winning this settlement for the people of North Carolina"
"The agency estimates the new rule will prevent up to 34,000 premature deaths"
"The filings examine whether Duke's action on the project constitute fraud, concealment"
"Duke fired Storms after the scandal broke"
"Ameren, Dominion, Duke, Edison International, Exelon, and American Electric Power"
"The results mark substantial happy-customer slippage for Duke"
"an extremely cozy relationship between Duke and the IURC and especially its chairman"
"Just in time for his 20th anniversary on the Supreme Court"
"her father was the only family member who had not had a thyroid problem"
"the Consumer Counselor's office now says Duke doesn't deserve the extra $530 million"
"the belief in free and unfettered markets – brought the world to the brink of ruin"
"will examine whether Duke's actions...'constitute fraud, concealment...mismanagement' "
"There appears to be a lack of responsibility or accountability"
"there has to be an end to the Bush tax cuts and the tax loopholes"
"faced a rebellion from his own Democrats and the elderly"
"Social Security pays out 39 percent of the average worker’s preretirement earnings"
"patriots...who stood up against the Bush administration’s immoral torture policies"
"an employer's demand for accelerated output without increased pay"
"Duke and other utilities have lobbied to delay the tightening of these rules"
"EIP found levels of groundwater contamination at 33 coal ash landfills"
"We can back off a little bit on the standard and allow the vessels to become more brittle"
"a lot of public outcry seemed to be about that"
"Radioactive cesium was found both times"
"She started screaming after realizing she was about to be buried alive"
"Thomas recused from none of these three cases"
"The government mismanaged these resources on a staggering scale"
"Report: NRC weakened rules to keep aging plants in compliance"
"Justice Clarence Thomas is an ethics problem in a black robe"
"The only time it might be worth $700 is when the gas tank is full"
"The U.S. Supreme Court is expected this month to rule on...a gender bias lawsuit"
"It had planned to compete for municipal and cooperative customers outside its service area"
"North Carolina freshman...Patrick McHenry twice accused her of lying"
"Nuclear Power on the Downward Slope"
"We really want to prevent illegal immigrants from coming to Alabama"
"Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts"
"It is a problem that all the equipment broke down"
"don't lecture us about the deficit crises; we didn't help to cause it"
"If anyone is lying here, it’s Mr. Ryan himself"
"Several states have enacted similar measures penalizing employers for hiring illegal workers"
"I apologize for the rude and disrespectful comments of the chair"
"Think about Three Mile Island"
"There is a very good reason that you do not hear much about power trading anymore"
"A monitoring post…went off at 3:29 p.m., minutes before the…tsunami"
"It's no accident Southern workers earn less and have fewer benefits"
"Rogers has led the creation of an atmosphere of coziness between Duke and government"
"The change allowed Duke to cut its annual contributions to the pension plan"
"Some have received Duke Energy Employee Opinion Survey forms this month"
"Frommert thought he had a pension worth $3,000 a month…it was worth exactly zero"
"Duke said it wanted to eliminate the incentive to retire early"
"A $30 million class action settlement has been reached"
"its acquisition…will make the combined company one of the country's largest polluters"
"The ethics commission also pointed a finger at Duke"
"plant did suffer a nuclear meltdown, Japanese officials admitted for the first time today"
"Duke Energy…SCANA…Dominion Resources…Murray Energy…Koch Industries"
"recent inspections had found serious problems with some emergency equipment"
"It's pretty hard to argue that the NRC should not enforce its own rules"
"James Turner, the second-highest-paid executive at Duke, resigned in December"
"Jim Turner...resigned in December following publication of emails"
"Duke is apparently suffering some setbacks for both its planned nuclear and coal plants"
"But people in Abbottabad seem sceptical about the authenticity of the films"
"free 'Puff-Puff' designer inhalers for kids living within 200 miles of a coal plant"
"Senator Sanders joins Laura from Washington, D.C."
"Rogers had the common sense to realize that this thing stunk to high heaven"
"He announced out of the blue that the country will no longer seek to build 14 new nuclear plants"
"Americans see the Republican plan for the attack on Medicare that it is"
"The neighbor said he thinks Standridge was intoxicated and got confused"
"The policies that got us into this mess weren’t responses to public demand"
"The May 5, 2011 Duke Energy Shareholder Meeting had it all!"
"Rogers was questioned about influence peddling and an ethics scandal"
"The commission issued a 'yellow finding' to Duke, its second-highest category of safety problem"
"Let us see how a WME only postpones economic ills and also enriches the rich"
"the EPA has suspended all heightened radiation monitoring"
"They failed to even attempt to engage him. Their plans of attack were never approved"
"defendants argued that because Brown couldn’t read, he didn’t deserve protection"
"Republicans are happy to cut, as long as they don’t anger the wrong people"
"more than 100 protesters gathered outside"
"The ethics scandal has cost the jobs of three Duke officials, including...Jim Turner"
"We need to move away from coal"
"Will Duke continue to be an accomplice in the genocide?"
"Rogers had Duke Energy provide the DNC with a $10 million line of credit"
"The world is drowning in corporate fraud"
"if Elizabeth Warren wins, we all win"
"The true cost is the cancer death rates of our people"
"such a law would shift the risk of building nuclear plants from shareholders to customers"
"creative in ways to enrich and empower the rich and powerful"
"Its equity must be wiped out and executives must all step down"
- by Tom Tomorrow
"every big corporation should be held responsible"
"Such a change would upend North Carolina's longstanding energy policy"
"The fact is that no one knows for sure what the risks are"
"convince politicians to value empiricism and logic over special interests"
"The cores in reactors 1, 2 and 3 and the spent fuels rods in reactor 4 have been damaged"
"Both parties are captive to the power companies, and they follow what the power companies want to do"
"If there were no debts in our money system, there wouldn't be any money"
"The projection was that 20,000 people might get lethal doses"
"Board members...will take a salary cut of 50 percent"
"cost controls had been viewed as more important than safety"
"who shall fill public stations...freemen, or the feudal serfs of corporate capital"
"the Ryan plan will hugely raise the cost of health care for retirees"
"Lobbyists write the bills…get them passed…employ you when you get out of office"
"the Independent showed BP salivating over an expected windfall of Iraqi oil"
"In many cases, those hiring lobbyists were Tea Party candidates"
"A company doctor...found indications of asbestosis. But no one told Vela"
"Duke contended the Clean Air Act did not apply"
"Americans by a 2-1 margin oppose building more nuclear power plants"
"I just don't think we can breathe life into it"
"Another partner, Tokyo Electric Power Co…faces its own difficulties"
"Would you answer the question? How much money does it save, Governor?"
"Jefferson considered freedom from monopolies to be one of the fundamental human rights"
"Last week BP blocked a woman from entering its annual meeting"
"Americans clearly don't want the government to cut Medicare"
"the nuclear crisis in Japan is shining a light on that nation's safety practices"
"Barack Obama and his parents as chimpanzees"
"A maintenance worker who had just finished his shift at the Oconee Nuclear Station died"
"Storms' salary jumped from $93,000 at the IURC to $135,000 at Duke"
"The Lord of Profit is the Lord of Death"
"bolts…to reinforce a wall…during an earthquake were not connected to anything"
"Must we wait for the Fourth Horseman...a terrorist attack on a nuclear facility"
"U.S. opinion-shapers have obeyed the Three Commandments scrupulously for decades"
"Your future life as a retired person becomes a crapshoot"
"lobbying squads will try to hijack another bill and add the automatic rate hike provisions"
"There is no acceptable standard for strontium under Japanese regulations"
"No Democrats voted to support the legislation"
"Corporations are roaring. Wall Street is rolling in cash. C.E.O. bonuses are going gangbusters"
"GOP strategist...I'm afraid the GOP is walking into a buzz saw"
"A measure to ban use of MTR coal by N.C. utilities is before a N.C. House committee"
"Paul Ryan…voted for two wars…Bush tax cuts…drug bill"
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"Until all corporate influence, lobbying, bribery, and corruption are completely purged…"
"Bride, preacher and money disappear after 'wedding' "
"But even the US has a higher poverty rate than Libya (7.4 percent) and Tunisia (7.4 percent)"
"We turned over our natural resources and our energy to corporations and to agencies"
"the upper-income need Medicare just as much as the poor"
"questions about the delay in acknowledging the severity of the crisis"
"Airborne contamination continues to cross the western states"
"the bar for intellectual coherence is set very low"
"the fuel could produce up to 30 percent more cancer deaths"
"50 former workers have received workers' compensation after developing leukemia"
"Haley has been sued in federal court by a machinists union"
"In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism"
"Current capabilities can only handle a few radiation injuries at any one time"
"Cook concluded that someone had actually stolen his gavel"
"Water leaked out of spent fuel pools...after a strong aftershock"
"Plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,000 years"
"the US ambassador...has actively intervened to push the Phulbari Coal Project forward"
"prosecutors deliberately withheld evidence that would have proved his innocence"
"Nuclear fuel rods inside the reactor are still partially exposed"
"The young fish also contained 447 bequerels of cesium-137"
"claims to have nearly 13,000 signatures on its online petition"
"Obama downplayed nuclear...pledged to tighten nuclear safety regulations"
"However, the NRC is denying this"
"Soviet engineers pronounced it meltdown proof"
"This critical debate is taking place entirely behind closed doors"
"fresh threats that could persist indefinitely"
"There are already active recall petitions for Republican legislators in Wisconsin"
"It followed failed attempts to use concrete to close the crack"
"One expert who designed reactor says race to save reactor two is 'lost' "
"Effort to plug up leak of radioactive water into Pacific Ocean fails"
"median CEO pay jumped 27% in 2010"
"40 lobbyists have been hired as staff members of Congressional committees"
"The man Johnson will replace as Duke CEO, Jim Rogers, earned $8.8 million last year"
"As the water leaks out, you keep on pouring water in, so this leak will go on for ever"
"Plutonium...can remain dangerously radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years"
"Plutonium can be a serious health hazard if inhaled or ingested"
"core...appears to have melted through the bottom of its containment vessel"
"internal exposure to plutonium 'is an extremely serious health hazard' "
"You can’t even shoot"
"an occasional Fukushima is the price we have to pay for...less carbon dioxide"
"according to a report by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s inspector general"
"Some...have been exposed to 10,000 times the normal amount of radiation"
"We do not know the cause"
"the Fukushima Daiichi disaster in Japan 'is the brontosaurus in the room' "
"You just can't make this stuff up"
"The Japanese government has ordered the evacuation of about 200,000 people"
"radiation levels 10,000 times higher than normal cooling water"
"We are not in a position where we can be optimistic"
"regularly falsified repair reports and inspection data concerning its nukes"
"none of the 180 members in the right-to-work state has crossed the line"
"the workers...were hospitalized after being exposed to radiation"
"It's a lot more serious than anybody thought"
"Man upset by price gets in shootout with police"
"The US military has strived to keep the pictures out of the public domain"
"The world’s biggest nuclear power plant had been built on an earthquake fault line"
"Plutonium…is particularly dangerous if released into the environment"
"it is a forced transfer of wealth to the investor class from working-class"
"Mark I failure within the first few hours following core melt would appear rather likely"
"Nuclear safety officials...'pessimistic' about whether engineers could prevent a meltdown"
"radiation levels...could possibly impact the ability to take corrective measures"
"Radiation Levels 300 Times Normal South Of Plant"
"a four-day pep rally for Obama's reelection"
"Oconee 1, 2 and 3, Seneca, S.C.: 1 in 23,256...Increase in risk: 330 percent"
"Duke Energy today will seek state approval to spend up to $459 million on a nuclear plant"
"Representative Dennis Kucinich, attacks Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker"
"One reactor core 'exposed to the atmosphere' through crack in containment wall"
"When asked about the worst-case scenario, Goto said he would 'rather not think about that' "
"I think Rogers needs to explain this contradiction under oath"
"We think Duke hid information from regulators and from the public"
"A meltdown is a catastrophic failure...with a potential for widespread radiation release"
"About 60,000 people turned out for the protest"
"critics have accused...Jim Rogers of also having improper secret meetings with regulators"
"stripping the unions of their rights was never about the budget"
"The last thing the people of Japan need...is a nuclear catastrophe"
"70 percent of the state's voters oppose the super CWIP plan"
"Tonight, 18 Senate Republicans conspired to take government away from the people"
"Olson says Rogers is splitting hairs, trying to limit questions to the settlement"
"this pretty much puts the nail in the coffin"
"Jim Turner…resigned.after a newspaper published friendly messages to and from Hardy"
"Bank of America, Berkshire Hathaway, Duke Energy, Entergy Corporation"
"Border Patrol agents shot beanbags at a group of suspected bandits"
"Edwardsport is an...attempt to increase Duke’s revenues at the expense of ratepayers"
"You crash the economy, get a taxpayer bailout and hand out record bonuses"
"I'm disgusted by the heinous miscalculations of everything"
"Duke...should bear the cost of a plant that he said was built under false pretenses"
"Jim Turner...resigned in December as the ethics probe in Indiana picked up steam"
"Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission will have two hearings this week"
"Edwardsport…include allegations of fraud, concealment and/or gross mismanagement"
"Hearing Tuesday centers on proposed 19 percent electricity rate increase"
"There needs to be an investigation into possible fraud, concealment and gross mismanagement"
"It's especially bad when the heads of Duke and of the commission are having secret meetings"
"unacceptable for...public to support risks that...bankers are unwilling to assume"
"Duke currently has the highest electric rates in Ohio"
"Coal accounts for an estimated $74.6 billion annually in 'public health burdens' "
"In the 1700s, a similar kind of grit won independence for the United States from Britain"
"A Recipe For Revolution: Tax Breaks for the Rich, Budget Cuts for the Poor"
"Their aim is to win a one-year tax amnesty on their foreign earnings"
"His claims...formed part of...Powell's speech to the U.N."
"Duke Energy recognizes there is a certain risk involved in empowering its employees"
"snuffed out by a still unknown senator exercising an anonymous hold"
"Most of Duke Energy's coal ash ponds do not have a protective lining"
"this was being monitored...at the highest levels within the Department of Justice"
"legislators will be nervous about voting for something that will...raise people's energy bills"
"Ratepayers...assume all of the risk...utility companies walk away with all the profit"
"Who lost the Middle East?"
"Human rights advocates said he was killed because he had evidence of police corruption"
"Hardy failed to remove IURC law judge Scott Storms from presiding over Duke...cases"
"If the judge's impartiality might...be questioned, that creates a perception problem"
"Egyptians here tell me that they are willing to sacrifice their lives for democracy"
"North Carolina and Tennessee tied with Pennsylvania for the most"
"Donna Lisenby, the Upper Watauga Riverkeeper...shot a short video in the court room"
"New nuclear projects are being abandoned in several states and foreign countries"
"Storms has since been fired from Duke and accused of ethics violations"
"OSHA conducts an in-depth interview with each complainant"
"Duke Energy Customer Service Ratings and Comments"
"the project has been grossly mismanaged...information has been concealed from the public"
"Cozy ties between Duke Energy and the state agency raised questions"
"Johnson, 57, will make a base salary of $1.1 million"
"The revolution has rippled beyond Tunisia, shaking other authoritarian Arab states"
"Progress shareholders sue, saying they're not getting enough for their stock"
"Daniels fired Hardy...after an ethics scandal involving Duke Energy made headlines"
"I think this is generally an opportunity for us to skew a little younger"
"The new program does not require a 'change in control' at the company to provide benefits"
"asked the Ohio Tax Commissioner to slash $40 million a year off of its...tax bill"
"Dominion...has notified both Duke and Progress that it is willing to buy each of them"
"Duke Energy was looking to pass on $28.4 million in hurricane-related costs to...customers"
"It ends up being a lot like battered wife syndrome. The miners identify with their abusers"
"There were some unusual circumstances"
"heavy metal contamination, which he suspects come from Duke Energy's coal ash ponds"
"Duke...hired a company Malcolm ran for $20,000 a month to try to make similar deals"
"While…participating in…business that…benefited Duke Energy, Malcolm was being paid"
"While he was a commissioner, he was being paid...as a consultant to Duke Energy"
"he'll never have to work a day the rest of his life with the $10 million parting gift"
"Duke Energy refused to pay me $3.75 million not to say anything bad...So here goes"
"construction costs is now estimated at just under $3 billion without...carbon controls"
"Storms faces a civil complaint that he violated state law by taking a job with Duke Energy"
"Before he could get across the trestle, he was struck by a train"
"Those who have nothing to hide want a wide paper trail"
"Republicans have been calling you a coward...they hold you in utter contempt"
"the Obama administration worked...to kill an investigation by Spain into Bush's torture"
"So many shoes are dropping … you'd think there was a centipede involved somewhere"
"The…Commission issued an order…that compels James Turner to appear at a deposition"
"there are at least four unlined...ash ponds on the Catawba River…owned by Duke Energy"
"secret diplomacy almost never represents the public interest"
"retirement and bonus pay bring Turner's total farewell package to more than $10 million"
"Justice Scalia would provide strong reasons to doubt his impartiality"
"Duke Energy Corp. Ohio customers will save $35 million"
"the consumer-advocacy group…challenged the utility's handling of…'Save-a-Watt' "
"Looks like Rogers and Duke have made a habit of picking the wrong horse to bet on"
"If...Duke has overpaid in taxes, then (the company has) also over-collected in rates"
"An ethical breach that...demands more than a review by the agency"
"What's there (besides a textbook man-crush ) are sad signs..."
"A couple of days ago James L. Turner resigned in disgrace"
"James L. Turner...will get a severance and retirement package worth more than $10 million"
"Three Duke Energy executives have lost their jobs...including COO Jim Turner"
"Then Duke's second-highest-paid executive, James Turner, resigned"
"Maher is not the first famous supporter of Obama to turn against him"
"But Storms - and Duke Energy - aren't entirely off the hook"
"Thurber wrote, you might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backwards"
"Turner's compensation in 2009 totaled $4.3 million, a gain of about 27 percent"
"Add to the mix individuals who are the definition of arrogance"
"All Duke Energy does is fight regulations and...remove environmental and health protections"
"The scandal was sparked when...Scott Storms, resigned to take a job with Duke"
"the Star has pulled Duke Energy executive James L. Turner onto the stage"
"David Lott Hardy and James L. Turner had lots of mutual interests to e-mail about"
"Goldman Sachs was under an oxen yoke compared to Duke's play day"
"The transaction benefitted Duke, not Crescent Resources"
"Jim Turner exchanged dozens of e-mails with...chairman of the...Utility Regulator Commission"
"How about calling bribery by its name: bribery"
"the entirety of the evidence prosecutors introduced...convinced them of DeLay's guilt"
"The first charge carries a penalty of up to life in prison"
"Just remember: driving and Oxycontin don't mix"
"Duke and the IURC have been cronies in a grand scheme to rob Duke's customers"
"I can’t wait for the blood bath in April. ... When debt limit time comes"
"presided over...cases this year involving Duke, even as he was talking to Reed about a job"
"Storms had been negotiating for a job with Duke Energy while involved in a...Duke case"
"300,000 American Indians...cheated out of land royalties dating to 1887"
"Hardy had overseen Duke's planning for a coal gasification plant in Edwardsport"
"Duke has concealed evidence...mismanaged the project, possibly committed fraud"
"insurance companies, like UnitedHealth and CIGNA, funneled $86.2 million"
"All the risk was put on the rate payer…Nobody had any reason to worry about cost"
"the price tag is already $1 billion higher than earlier projections"
"As much as $19 billion is stolen from American workers annually"
"George W. Bush...will forever be, the single worst American president in the nation's history"
"No immunity protects Bush from prosecution for acts which violate federal...law"
"The public trust is on trial...the public deserves no less than a thorough...investigation"
"The Duke scandal should send a clear message to state officials and industry executives"
"the wall street lobbyists said they would kill it before it was ever born...they lost"
"coal-fired power plants are the largest source of mercury emissions in the U.S."
"Duke Energy seems to be…undermining access to alternative energy"
"The scandal has placed Duke's new coal-fired Indiana power plant in jeopardy"
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"Ohio...Washington were 'ruled by...bankers, railroads, and public utility corporations.' "
"Duke is a financial backer of the Indiana Economic Development Corp.’s foundation"
"incentives for employees to tell regulators about securities fraud and other wrongdoing"
" 'instability', a 'lack of intellectual curiosity', and trouble with concentrating when reading"
"Duke's customers saw this disaster coming three years ago"
"if prosecutions are not undertaken, then…Mr. Obama's administration has no honor"
"The First Amendment protects the right to buy whatever you want on Amazon.com"
"Duke has been misleading the public and the General Assembly about the true costs"
"we’ve got more high-hazard coal ash ponds in our state than any other"
"A parallel investigation is being handled by the state's inspector general"
"A flurry of ethics investigations involving Duke Energy and state utility regulators"
"There is concern about a history of delusion-inducing substances"
"The newspaper reported that Storms had helped clear the way for Duke to hike rates"
"Many of these e-mails are very concerning to Duke Energy"
"Consumer advocates have urged the state to throw out the coal gasification plant deal"
"this could be the tip of the iceberg of ethical problems in the agency"
"Duke's own witness admitting the cheapest option for ratepayers is to cancel the plant!"
"If people are happy with things, or seem to be, why would anything change?"
"the order authorizing Duke Energy's new power plant is for nearly $3 billion"
"Lewis didn't let go until the officer had to physically pull him off the dog"
"the revolving door between the Commission and Duke Energy recently became too crowded"
"Storms, as an administrative law judge, presided over about 25 Duke cases"
"Storms was communicating with Duke about a job…while…presiding over…hearings"
"North Carolina has the largest offshore wind capacity…more energy than the state needs"
"Who says that Republican congress-critters don't care about minorities in our society?"
"the fact that there has always been a white underclass has become taboo"
"North Carolina is identified by the EPA as having more liquid coal ash than any other state"
"Using other assumptions, it could be much higher"
"Duke was the nation's fourth-biggest spender on corporate lobbying"
"Plant officials says they brought K-9's in from Oconee County Sheriff's Office"
"Chinese scientists have implicated the Zipingpu Dam in the Sichuan earthquake"
"They just want to steal our money"
"It is too late to turn this election into a triumph for the administration"
"Were Americans misled into the Iraq war? Yes"
"And where would this $680 billion go? Nearly all of it would go to the richest 1 percent"
"Coal River Mountain has become something of a symbolic line in the sand"
"There is no way to overstate how cautiously we need to proceed along this treacherous road"
"ironing is woman's work"
"The accident...involved the use of a man lift"
"Another accident was reported on the Duke Energy power plant work site"
"How do wars begin? With a 'master illusion' "
"We are living under de facto corporate rule"
"the money would...make the first $35,000 each American earns tax-free"
"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"
"A 22-year-old anti-war activist from The Evergreen State College will get $169,000"
"Representative Duncan Hunter wants to deport the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants"
"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"
"Massey has faced proposed fines nearing $2 million…and been cited over 1,300 times"
"officials demanded the Commission not make further attempts"
"Sen. Burr has shown a disturbing lack of compassion for his fellow citizens"
"every EPA publication on the subject was ghostwritten by the American Coal Ash Association"
"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"
"mandatory arbitration is closing the courthouse doors to far more people"
"It is the responsibility of Congress to reopen the courthouse doors"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"When she learned about drastic changes in IBM's pension plan…she lost faith in the company"
"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"
"The result was a horrific stew of pain, degradation and ... suffering"
"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"
"Ever wonder why the South remains the nation's poorest region...?"
"Give us the health benefits we earned and paid for over decades of loyal service"
"The real war was never reported to the American public"
"What troubles me is that a lot of the company changes came when times were good"
"The ruling paves the way for a new trial on most of the charges"
"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"
"Companies 'dishonestly screw millions of older workers' out of pension monies"
"Lawmakers' retirement benefits start earlier and accrue faster"
"Benefits consultants have cautioned insiders to keep quiet"
"Hear discussions about buying fake ID’s, circumventing ICE, and how many illegals are employed."
"Duke Energy is still facing an antitrust lawsuit in U.S. District Court"
" '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?"
"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."
"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"
"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."