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Hensel Phelps Construction Co. in Orlando, FL won a $91.3 million firm-fixed price contract for the design and construction of a building complex to support United States Southern Command and their collaborative partners.

MIAMI — Navy warships held maneuvers Sunday near the Panama Canal in PANAMAX 2007, an exercise being billed as one of the largest multinational military training events of the year.

Besides the U.S. George W. Bush administration's imperial aims and permanent war on the world, add the one at home below the radar. Its weapons include the WTO, NAFTA, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), FBI, CIA, NSA, NORTHCOM, militarized state and local police, National Guard forces, paramilitary mercenaries like Blackwater USA, and all other repressive instruments of state power and control. They target the people of three nations slowly becoming one headquartered in Washington. That's the apparent aim of those in power here wanting one continent, "indivisible" minus old-fashioned ideas like "liberty and justice for all" we used to believe in when, as kids, we recited our "Pledge of Allegiance." They now have a whole new meaning. They're just words drummed into young minds hoping they'll still believe them when they're old enough to know better.

When Adm. James Stavridis takes charge of U.S. military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean in a change-of-command ceremony on Thursday, he becomes the first naval officer ever to run the Pentagon's Southern Command headquarters.