Obama Issues Pro-Labor Executive Orders (tags)
In what may be considered a gift to organized labor, President Obama issued a series of Executive Orders on Friday aimed at undoing Bush-era policies involving federal contractors. Issuing executive orders is a quick way to implement labor policy - and appease unions - without enduring the time and uncertainty inherent in the legislative process. Moreover, reversing the prior administration's executive orders has become a tradition whenever a new party takes over the White House.
Protecting U.S. Oil Interests in Iraq. (tags)
In the short term, through the Development Fund and the Export-Import Bank programs, the Iraqi peoples’ oil will finance U.S. corporate entrees into Iraq. In the long term, Executive Order 13303 protects anything those corporations do.
Israel Defense Forces Order: Seizure of Lands and Other Missing Pieces of News (tags)
100 more acres are expropriated from Mas’ha. Here is a translation of the IDF orders to do so. Mainstream Media is now full of the story of Palestinian terrorists. All month long I read reports from Israel and Palestine about IDF atrocities AND killings of women and children. I saw none of these crimes reported in USA Mainstream Medias nor this:
Court Order to the Seattle IMC (tags)
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR AN ORDER AUTHORIZING THE DISCLOSURE OF RECORDS AND OTHER INFORMATION PERTAINING TO ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION SERVICE PROVIDED BY INDYMEDIA.