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Washington Water Power, now known as Avista, has been in the Spokane area since the late 1800’s. It has grown a lot since then.
Are you outraged that Washington Water Power, now known as Avista, has been in the Spokane area since the late 1800’s. It has grown a lot since then.
Are you outraged that Avista, which is basically a monopoly, is allowed to pay their executives anywhere near these amounts below. Avista has no risk, run a monopoly, are protected by the state and have little concern with what the rates are doing to a lot of people in their area.
What the heck is wrong with the board of directors?
Why is Avista allowed to be a monopoly!?!?
We have people in Spokane having to make the decision of either paying the Avista bill or food and medicine.
Avista Corp. Chairman and CEO Scott Morris earned $3.25million in total compensation last year.
Executive Salary Compensation
Scott Morris (chairman, CEO) $3,245,967
Mark Thies (senior VP) $854,760
Dennis Vermillion (senior VP) $966,337
Marian Durkin (senior VP) $830,451
Karen Feltes (senior VP) $864,018
We Demand City Hall to un-do the ban on Wind Powered Generators that Avista's monopoly has created. We need freedom of choice and the power to have power!
This is not about the good hard-working people of Avista which is the majority of the working population there what I'm concerned about is how much profit did Avista make last year and how much did they give back to its community directly? this movement is about the greedy corporate CEO in the greedy piggish executives. Not about the hard-working people who are employed by this AND ALL monster monopoly's!
http://youtu.be/XronQdUjsa0Washington Water Power, now known as Avista, has been in the Spokane area since the... more
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"There is definitely a story going untold," says Melissa Boteach, manager of Half in Ten, a national campaign to reduce poverty by 50 percent over the next 10 years. "When you have 1 in 7 Americans living in poverty. 1 in 5 children living in poverty — including 1 in 3 African-American children and Latino children — and it's not on America's radar, something's very wrong."
Indeed it is the shame of our nation that a record 47 million people now live below the poverty line — $22,400 for a family of four — and a stunning 1 in 3 Americans are living at less than twice that threshold. And yet we hear so little about this crisis in the mainstream media and Congress, where it seems off the radar not only for the GOP, but even for some of our progressive allies.
But the grim truth is that many of the same structural problems that are making life a struggle for the middle-class — and resulted in the first "economic recovery" in 2003-2007 where productivity rose, but median income declined and poverty worsened — are also leading to record numbers of poor people. From 1980 to 2005, more than 80 percent of the total increase in American incomes went to the richest 1 percent. Our economy is super-sizing the wealthy, while producing large quantities of low-wage jobs, unemployment and underemployment, and services are eroding. So the work of those who are waging today's war on poverty comes with a very different frame."There is definitely a story going untold," says Melissa Boteach, manager of... more
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Chances are you've never heard of Charles and David Koch. The brothers own Koch Industries, a Kansas-based conglomerate that operates oil refineries in several states and is the company behind brands including Brawny paper towels, Dixie cups, Georgia-Pacific lumber, Lycra fibers and Stainmaster carpet. Forbes ranks Koch Industries as the second-largest privately held company in the U.S. — and the Koch brothers themselves? They're worth billions.
And in the past 30 years, they've funneled more than $100 million into dozens of political organizations, many of which are trying to steer the country in a more libertarian direction. Among the organizations they've backed are the Cato Institute, a Washington think tank that has recently raised questions about climate change, and the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Virginia — which one Democratic strategist called "ground zero for deregulation policy in Washington."
The brothers also have created several neutral-sounding groups like Citizens for a Sound Economy — which staged media events to oppose President Clinton's proposed Btu tax on energy — and Citizens for the Environment, which called many environmental problems, including acid rain, "myths."
David Koch founded the group Americans for Prosperity Foundation, which has been linked to the Tea Party — training hundreds of activists in Texas and hosting talking points for Tea Party activists on its website.
Jane Mayer, a staff writer at The New Yorker, profiles the brothers and their political connections in the Aug. 30 issue of the magazine. Her article "Covert Operations" describes how the brothers' political interests "dovetail with [their] corporate interests."
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer?currentPage=allChances are you've never heard of Charles and David Koch. The brothers own Koch... more
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Halloween is a total nightmare for some and the best night of the year for others. Humorous story about this nutty holiday and brilliant photos! (who the hell subjects their animal to a wedding gown costume...you'll have to visit the site to see it). Happy Halloween!Halloween is a total nightmare for some and the best night of the year for others.... more
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Was it a crime of passion or greed? A Swiss court probes the murder that shocked Europe—a prominent French banker shot by his lover while wearing a latex body suit
His death, like their relationship, was alternately tragic and perverse, titillating and humiliating. Police found the banker’s corpse tied up, in a pool of blood, dressed in S & M-friendly pink latex, from his feet to the balaclava that covered his head. He had been shot four times, twice in the head, and once at point-blank range.Was it a crime of passion or greed? A Swiss court probes the murder that shocked... more
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Turtle Island Project: Wealthy exploit & silence Native Americans, Indigenous cultures, women, children, nature
(Marquette, Michigan) - Native Americans and other Indigenous peoples plus women, children and nature are degraded and silenced by the rich and powerful, said Turtle Island Project Director and Co-founder Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard recently while discussing Author Derrick Jensen's book "A language older than words."
Rev. Hubbard said some Americans - often wealthy white men and some corporations - exploit and ignore the voices of Indigenous peoples like Native Americans and other cultures and the voices of women and children - and ignore the cries of nature because we live in a silent world.
"This silencing is central to the workings of our culture," Hubbard said.
"The staunch refusal to hear the voices of those we exploit is crucial to our domination of them," Hubbard said.
"Religion, science, philosophy, politics, education, psychology, medicine, literature, linguistics and art have all been pressed into service as tools to rationalize the silencing and degradation of women, children, other races, other cultures, the natural world and its members." Hubbard said.
The third in a series, this video was made as Hubbard made two presentations on September 24, 2008 during the third annual UNITED Conference at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan.
Lakota domestic violence activist Tillie Black Bear, co-founder of the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, also spoke at the event as a guest of the Turtle Island Project.
Some of the quotes from talks by Rev. Hubbard and Tillie Black Bear were used in Indian Country Today newspaper in stories written by Greg Peterson, the New York-based paper's Great Lakes correspondent and volunteer media advisor for the nonprofit Turtle Island Project:
Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard - Indian Country Today:
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/33082129.html
Tillie Black Bear - Indian Country Today:
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/health/36061724.html
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/health/37893474.html
Turtle Island Project:
http://www.turtleislandproject.org
Turtle Island TV (blipTV)
http://turtleislandtv.blip.tv
Turtle Island TV (youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/MunisingWhiteHorse
Turtle Island (myspace)
http://www.myspace.com/TurtleIslandProject
TurtleIslandProject@charter.net
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Author Derrick Jensen:
http://www.derrickjensen.org
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Jensen
Derrick Jensen book "A language older than words."
http://www.amazon.com/Language-Older-Than-Words/dp/1931498555
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Language-Older-Than-Words/dp/0285636243
http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/a_language_older_than_words:paperback
Derrick Jensen:
http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/awards12292006/
http://www.blackoakmedia.org/interviews/jensen.html
http://www.nocompromise.org/issues/26jensen.html
Jensen's latest book "endgame"
http://www.endgamethebook.org
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NMU Center for Native American Studies:
http://webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies
Center for Native American Studies
Northern Michigan University
112F Whitman Hall
Marquette, MI
49855
April Lindala, Director
906-227-1397
nasa@nmu.edu
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White Buffalo Calf Woman Society
PO Box 227
Mission, S.D.
57555
http://www.wbcws.org
605-856-2317
Rosebud Sioux Tribe - Sicangu Lakota
http://www.rosebudsiouxtribe-nsn.gov/
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Uniting Neighbors in the Experience of Diversity (UNITED):
Northern Michigan University
September 21-23, 2008
http://www.nmu.edu/UNITED
Dr. Judith Puncochar, NMU Professor
906-227-1366Turtle Island Project: Wealthy exploit & silence Native Americans, Indigenous... more
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A documentary will be shown on Dec. 5, 2008 in Marquette Michigan about a mining giant with deep pockets and its plan to build a sulfide mine in Marquette County.
That mine will open the flood gates for dozens and maybe hundreds of sulfide and uranium mines.
Some brave citizens and groups are in an all-out war to protect the prstine land and the Salmon Trout River - while questions are raised about state officials and their relationship with Kennecott Minerals.
The state guardians of the environment eagerly jumped into the sack while wooed by Kennecott.
The film was financed by the Charles S. Mott Foundation and produced by the National Wildlife federation.A documentary will be shown on Dec. 5, 2008 in Marquette Michigan about a mining giant... more
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A greedy pony drunk after gorging on fermented apples had to be rescued after falling into a swimming pool.
Fat Boy broke into Sarah Penhaligon's garden in Cornwall to get at the fruit trees and ate so many apples he became "punch drunk". A greedy pony drunk after gorging on fermented apples had to be rescued after falling... more
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