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Email I received from the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers: From: Carl Webb [mailto:cwebb@ifpte.org] Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 8:06 AM To: Carl Webb Subject: Legislation would keep kids in FEHBP longer GovExec.com Legislation would keep kids in FEHBP longer By Alex M. Parker October 16, 2009 Democratic leaders announced on Tuesday that the final House health care reform package will include a provision requiring all insurance plans -- including the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program -- to cover dependents up to age 27. FEHBP currently covers unmarried dependent children up to age 22. Colleen Kelley, president of...

The price of crude oil today is not made according to any traditional relation of supply to demand. It’s controlled by an elaborate financial market system as well as by the four major Anglo-American oil companies. As much as 60% of today’s crude oil price is pure speculation driven by large trader banks and hedge funds. It has nothing to do with the convenient myths of Peak Oil. It has to do with control of oil and its price. How? First, the crucial role of the international oil exchanges in London and New York is crucial to the game. Nymex...

LAKE STEVENS, Wash. - A good Samaritan who stopped to help a car accident victim was nearly punished for his good deed when that accident victim tried to run off with his truck. But it turned out, the car thief had picked the wrong guy. Clint Lucas of Lake Stevens was driving in Bothell when he saw a car spin out of control and crash into a ditch. He stopped to see if everyone was OK. But that's when the driver got out and jumped in Clint's new $40,000 Ford truck. In an instant, Lucas decided no one was going...

SEATTLE- In bizarre series of events that have led to multiple arrests, Seattle police say a group of employees at a car dealership in West Seattle stole more than $100,000 from a disabled man. Seattle police spokesman Sean Whitcomb said the bizarre series of events began when the victim, a 60-year-old man with a diminished mental capacity, went to the Huling Brothers dealership in late July. The man was covered in his own urine and feces and asked a salesman about buying a truck. "I think that anyone would look at that individual and at least pause - and think...

10. American manufacturing is obsolete Media myth: All the manufacturing jobs have been shipped overseas, and the only ones left are in the almost empty plants of the Big Three automakers. The media turned to manufacturing layoffs to illustrate worker woes, though The Economist magazine explained in its July 1, 2006, issue that the American manufacturing sector was flourishing – even with the much-publicized problems at General Motors and Ford. “Net profits have risen by nearly 9 percent a year since the recession in 2001 and productivity has been growing even more rapidly than is usual during economic expansions,” stated...

Navy Yard city A Kitsap County Sheriff’s deputy was placed on administrative leave Thursday after shooting a man in the leg while the man was in a tree at the corner of National Avenue South and Arsenal Way. The shooting is under investigation, although preliminary information indicates it was accidental, according to Deputy Scott Wilson, Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office spokesman. The deputy, who has five years on the force, meant to fire a Taser, not the gun, Wilson said. The man, who is believed to be in his 20s, was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he was...

REDMOND - The Redmond Police Department is facing a $1 million lawsuit after a woman says an officer used his Taser on her during a medical emergency. Video from the police car camera shows that something was wrong with Leila Fuchs last July when police pulled her out of her car. For nearly 10 minutes when officers first pulled up, they say she remained unresponsive. "She's just gotten into this collision at Redmond Way and 145th -- small accident," said defense attorney James Egan. But he says it's the decisions an officer made when Fuchs wouldn't unlock her door that...

Johannesburg Summit Petition Put People's Freedom First! We the undersigned call on world leaders and others gathered at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August 2002, to recognise that true sustainable development can only occur when people are free, both economically and politically. For this to occur, the following fundamental human rights must be respected in all nations: o The right to own and exchange property without bureaucratic intervention o The right to associate and to contract freely with others o The right to freedom of speech o The right to legal remedies when harm...