July 25
2008
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Send Karl Rove to Jail
"Wachovia loves to celebrate its down-home North Carolina local roots"
" 'Simply put, this is theft. This is illegal,' said chairman George Miller"
"Liliana Segura Talks"
"We have got to improve credibility with the employees"
"This Congress will not stand for the gutting of health and safety protections"
"God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure"
"The case for war was based on fraud"
"If the vice president did nothing wrong, what is there to hide?"
"You can't appease these people, so why try?"
"The difference is trust. Before you had it, now you don't"
"This is the first time I’ve ever seen him lie to us"
"McCain said most of the nation’s economic problems are “psychological”"
"A 61-year-old librarian was ejected from an ostensibly public McCain campaign event"
"Duke would turn energy efficiency into a corporate profit center"
"Drifting away from the leadership he promised and into the focus-group-tested calculation"
"The law has been used by employers as a shield against suits"
"The Obama campaign is making a very serious mistake"
"Take that American flag off your lapel and replace it with...the Exxon or Chevron logo"
"Bush made a terrible mistake today"
"Bush will seek to comfort victims of his presidency"
"Paul Anderson and Fred Fowler left Duke Energy with the Spectra spinoff"
"The payments...$22 million a year, are the focus of a federal antitrust lawsuit"
"Why do the controllers want this guy? Because he will be easy to manage."
"An appropriate honor for a truly unique president"
"If I could, I wouldn't even use their energy anymore, I'm so mad"
"We won't stand idle while...Halliburtion, Duke, and Enron rape our world for profit"
"The most infuriating part of the ordeal was the supervisors' cavalier responses"
"Bush’s latest ratings are 24 percent positive and fully 75 percent negative"
"It would be a 'novelty' to have an 'intelligent' person in the White House"
"It has become a cliché to say that we live in a new Gilded Age."
"This is a war you, and the President you support...conned this nation into"
"This president is a liar. A shameless bold-face liar"
"We used to have a better...term for 'message discipline.' We called it "stonewalling"
"Airbus was awarded a contract that will cost American taxpayers jobs and money"
"The nation is on the verge of becoming a full-blown corporate state"
"Never before seen footage of a Young Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama"
"Obama promises his first act will be overturning the abuses of the Bush Administration"
"There is no way that a pilot would give up an airplane to hijackers"
- “Loser” Lieberman Rides Again -
"You are being paid as if you are superhuman...but you are not"
"Anyone owning at least $2,000 of company stock may file a shareholder resolution"
"The US Supreme Court embraced an expansive view of certain civil rights laws"
"To lash out at Obama for being right is demonstrably ridiculous"
"A must-see Monty Python mash-up"
"Bush relied on 'propaganda' to sell the war"
"Hillary is George W. Bush in a pantsuit"
"I would work with our friends in OPEC to convince them to open up the spigot"
"Impeachment alone would be a joke for what Bush did"
"Attorney Joseph Egan fought the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump until his last breath"
"CEOs can't lose, mainly because they take the bulk of their pay in stock"
"Is she the Dead Parrot? Or is she the Black Knight?"
"Most party leaders in Washington are stupid"
"Any Republicans close to the him will suffer"
"Terrorism inside Iraq is your creation, Mr. Bush!"
"The loss has already shaken establishment Republicans in Washington"
"Dozens of protesters were outside the shareholder meeting"
"Cash-balance conversions"
"A statistically significant association between autism risk and distance from the mercury source"
"The recession of 2001 never ended"
"The disapproval sets a new high for any president since Franklin Roosevelt"
"This is your baby. Go do it."
"These lawsuits represent the employees' only hopes for restoring...losses caused by the unlawful wearaway"
"Only 27 percent are happy with his job on the economy"
"An expert report...was recently served on Duke Energy"
"Duke has previously lobbied to legalize its cash balance plan"
"New calculations will reduce lump-sum distributions"
"Bill Clinton napped through the service to honor Martin Luther King"
"Setting up an unregulated subsidiary…to make payments to opponents of a rate increase"
"An all day Duke Energy Cash Balance hearing was held"
"IBM will knowingly steal from their employees...retirees."
"What if all the ratepayers used Duke’s methods in paying their obligations?"
"It may even go down in history as the world’s worst rate increase attempt!"
"Dillon was granted a huge age discrimination award by a Reno jury"
"It’s as if the foxes had been picking other foxes to guard the henhouse."
"Video of a kid doing a funny scene"
"Do you recall N. C. Sen. David Hoyle’s quest to reduce workers compensation benefits?"
"I'm just working to pay a light bill"
"Potential to corrupt the criminal justice system in the Western District of North Carolina"
"On July 12, a motion for partial summary judgment was filed on behalf of employees"
"There is a new spin on the 2007 Employee Opinion Survey:"
"I guess I'll die explaining how the things that they complain about, Are things they could be changin'"
"Drug companies had a deep hand in steering the Medicare prescription drug bill"
"In three of those cases, the cash balance plans were found to be illegal."
"I guess we should be pleased that the Kennedy assassination happened in Dallas!"
"The prosecutor was romantically involved and owned a home with the company’s lobbyist"
"What coal, nuclear and...ethanol all have in common...powerful corporations control them"
"Duke is trying to suit up for both teams"
"The Court also chose not to hear Saville v. IBM, 06-407, a retaliation case"
"Next to be decided will be the motion for class certification."
"He negotiated a $210 million retirement package on his way out!"
"Cash balance plans are not age-neutral."
"All time jerk Jeffery Skilling will begin his 24-year sentence next month"
"Michael Whalen is a former Cinergy, which is now Duke Energy, trader."
"UMass Memorial Medical Center employees rejected a pension freeze and a 401 (k)"
"There is just no money to pay asbestosis claims, now run along and play in traffic"
"Opposition to Defendants’ Motion for Transfer"
"Duke Energy’s motion for a change of venue"
"Duke Energy is once again allowing some employees to volunteer to be laid off"
"The harmful agenda shared by the administration and Duke"
"Ruth Shaw will get $25,000 a month for three years for consulting for two years."
"Yours is the least competent government, in time of crisis, in this country's history!"
"I will be damned if you can get away with calling me the equivalent of a Nazi appeaser"
"Congress is pushing a law that would abandon the Internet's First Amendment"
"Christian leaders…described as ridiculous, out of control, and just plain goofy"
"If you leave, you can't come back"
"He was ‘creeped out by it’…there was a lot of ‘fawning, petting and touching’ "
"I'm very concerned they're trying to shift all the risk to the rate payers"
"Instant Messaging To Victory"
"I guess this is God trying to make up for half of what I lost at BHP"
"Republican leaders put their own political interests ahead of the safety of congressional pages"
"You want to preserve a political party's power. And...you'll sell this country out, to do it."
"Our investigation looks at the collision of political and ethical decision-making in Washington"
"Boehner…said he was informed of the e-mail messages earlier this year"
"This cheating…of older workers was accomplished by…cash balance pension plans"
"The miniscule changes are hardly worth calling an enhancement"
"This will allow tens of thousands of employees potentially to sue...for age discrimination"
"We have many more enemies bent on our destruction than before our invasion of Iraq"
"If the pension plan were to be disqualified, the results would be potentially nuclear"
"Duke Energy...made about $59,000 in political contributions to NC legislators"
"The employees were cleaning coal ash out of a boiler"
"They want us to sell our cars, our houses, go to food banks"
"Sometimes a company's obligation for a single executive's pension approaches $100 million"
"Teresa Ghilarducci, Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame"
"Single-party rule must come to an end"
"Most workers…get lower…benefits when…employers switch…to cash-balance plans"
"Boehner, fought hard for basically lifting the ban, and won"
"Boehner-tried mightily but failed to retroactively legalize cash-balance conversions"
"It even permits sleight-of-hand accounting"
"The defendants have been so resistant to producing these tapes"
"Employees fully understand that their deferred compensation was sacrificed"
"Mr. Lowery taught him the right way to do it: hand over the envelope in the hallway "
"It also contains harmful provisions that allow plans to break pension promises"
"Allows Cuts In Vested Benefits, Undermines Pension Plans"
"Finally, a Duke Power employee shot miner Lawrence Jones in the face"
"It represents a further step in reducing the degree of transparency and democracy"
"We called those people criminals. Here we call them legislators"
"If the corporate lobbyists want it, Dole and Burr try to deliver it"
"We can't vote for this kind of stuff"
"The fallout continues from...trying to become another Enron."
" 'Saving storage space' does have a better ring to it than 'destroying potential evidence.' "
"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."
"Any legal fees will not come out of the pension refunds"
"The corporations were charged in 2004 with issuing false and misleading statements."
- Watch as Bush Explains the Intricacies of Immigration -
"Two corporations in a row have wanted Paul Anderson back."
"It makes me sick as to how the Duke Energy employees are getting shafted"
"Why not convert your own pensions into cash balance schemes?"
"Pensions are not a gift from employers. Workers earn their pensions"
"I am so angry with Elizabeth Dole I can't see straight"
"Xerox owes the employees between $35 million and $50 million."
"Evidently, executives do not like to have their pensions taken away either."
"If they are not raiding the pension fund, they are cooking the books"
"Duke Energy is trying to cripple the Cinergy unions from day one."
"The laid off employees were the replacement vendors!"
"The North Carolina Utilities Commission should block the merger"
"Telephone Number: (919) 733-7300"
"Why has no corporation ever started a cash balance plan from scratch?"
"Securities and Exchange Commission form 8-K"
"Only a fool would choose the cash balance plan."
"Paul Anderson is a pension plunder perpetrator perpetuator"
"Cinergy employees have said that they are blessed with three labor unions"
"The lawsuit...resembles a landmark discrimination and pension suit against IBM"
"$258,000 under the old plan…under the new plan…$129,000"
"Duke Energy committed age discrimination and violated pension laws"
"Duke's cash-balance plan harmed older workers in violation of federal laws"
"I can assure you, it ain't a trivial lawsuit."
"Duke Energy executives tried to pretend that there were no complaints about the...conversion"
"She heads the compensation committee of the Wachovia board"
"John Boehner parrot’s the exact words of corporate pension lobbyists."
"The public has no interest in playing bait-and-switch games to try to save a few pennies"
"The executives at Duke Power should be hijacked by pirates and given shock treatments"
"Duke will keep 84 percent of the total savings"
"Who is better qualified to exploit every possible legal maneuver than an ex-judge?"
"Cash balance age discrimination charges against Duke Energy are still open"
"There were no protections for early retirees."
"An interesting point is that Tom Sun was never fired or suspended from his job."
"I think that I shall never see A power pole lovely as a tree."
"This company has been nonunion for a long time, and they treat these people like dogs"
"Cinergy employees will keep their benefits, at least for a while"
"The IBM cash balance conversion discriminated against older workers."
"S984 is...so bad that it cannot be salvaged."
"How nice it is to have big brothers in high places"
"Why do executives...begrudge employees the pensions...they have already earned?"
"Even the insurance, called 'finite risk,' has proven to be controversial."
"Will he truly be happy if people say 'Duke is not as scandalous as it used to be'?"
"The Bank of America pension plan may have violated the IRS anti-cutback rule"
"The US Supreme Court hinted that it might revive a price-fixing lawsuit"
"She started off with true statements to lure in the gullible and uniformed."
- The Great Nest Egg Robberies -
"PNC reduced my benefit to a lump-sum just slightly in excess of $12,000. I feel cheated."
"Cheaper does not necessarily mean better."
"Elizabeth Verdin, 89, froze to death after Duke Power cut off her electricity"
"Employees need to retain an attorney the very day they start work."
"The law doesn't allow companies to cut benefits retroactively."
"A cash balance plan is like being in the middle of the ocean - in a rubber raft"
"Well, Priory was wrong"
"For many employees, a cash balance conversion effectively terminates their pension"
"A vote for a corporate lapdog is a vote for no pension."
"Cash balance plans are age discriminatory"
"The bin Laden Family Had US Guardians"
"Additional pension benefits of $67 million dollars will be paid."
"Ms. Shaw stated that executives feel the Duke criticism personally."
"But employees at...AT&T and Duke Energy, are still fighting to save their...pensions."
"[T]hey were instructed not to discuss their allegations...faced federal prison if they did"
"Mr. Padewer was always talking about his ´Rules For The Road.´ "
"[E]mployment-at-will relationships have fallen into disfavor"
"[W]orkers expressed concern about the nuclear industry influencing regulations."
"Companies...showing possible Death Star activity included Duke Energy and Williams Cos."
"If the plans were not illegal to start with, why would they need to be legalized now?"
"She calculated that I.B.M.´s pension changes would cost her $400,000."
"Winston retired…with…$400,000, compared with the $181,00…cash balance"
"These defendants conspired with the other defendants…reporting false information"
"We´re in a death spiral for energy trading"
"Coley approved a move…reclassified expenses would not reduce bonus programs"
"Fighting broke out only after an out-of-state worker...pulled a gun"
"American workers should be fighting mad right about now."
"Former convicts say many illusions are broken the first day."
"IG estimated that workers are being underpaid between $85 million and $199 million annually"
"The NRC also is...taking into account for the first time a possible suicide attack by a large aircraft"
Duke Energy, Dynegy, and Reliant Resources Admit to Round -Trip Trading
"State officials say the casks may be vulnerable to terrorist attack."
"Many voters said their votes didn´t count or they were turned away from poll"
"Study ties utilities to future dirty air deaths."
"This is a process and a plan with a lot of questions that need to be answered."
Hot particles from Ohio found in SC, VA, TX, a home, a hotel, and a Duke plant!
Casualties from a worst-case scenario would dwarf those of the WTC.
Harvey Padewer had a one-on-one meeting with the energy secretary.
The industry is hoping the trips to caverns and casinos will help secure Congress´ approval.
"The NRC has admitted that even a crash at the auxiliary electrical or cooling
facilities could trigger a core meltdown." - U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey
against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."