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Infowars received an email from author and publisher Sander Hicks this afternoon indicating that the interview with Ed Asner scheduled for this evening on Showbiz Tonight has been cancelled. Hicks, a published author on the 9/11 cover-up as well as a Green Party senatorial candidate in New York was slated to appear with Asner on the program to discuss 9/11. Infowars confirmed with sources at CNN the segment was cancelled because another guest who had agreed to appear as an opposition voice to Hicks and Asner refused to participate the interview at the last moment. The CNN source further indicated that the opposition guest was none other than a former member of the Keene 9/11 whitewash Commission.

ATLANTA – 20,000 participants are expected to attend Atlanta’s upcoming, first-ever United States Social Forum (USSF) in late June 2007. Atlanta activists are busily planning away for the massive descent of progressive Americans upon their iconic city which is so rich in historical ties to the US Civil Rights Movement.

Limiting Presidential War Powers

March 2006 Update of Bush Pre-emptive War National Security Strategy Targets Iran:
An Interview with Preventive Warriors director Michael Burns

www.preventivewarriors.com

Started from an IM conversation:
check this - i was speaking to my father last night
u know my father lives in Bay St. Louis MS and lost his house right?
they came to clean the rubble off his land. all the bricks and crap that is left of his home.
as they were doing so - he was talking to a guy from the corp of engineers.
my father asked him what they were going to do with all this shit. making small talk
anyway the guy from the corp of enineers told my father that it's $19 per square foot to clean it up and they get 10 per square foot and Ashbritt gets 9 dollars
my father asked him who is this Ashbritt and why are they being paid for something their not even doing
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A cynic (or a realist) might formulate that model like this: Why spend resources to prevent disasters, when there's so much money to be made cleaning up after them?
Consider the trajectory of Shaw Group, a Baton Rouge engineering and construction firm, and one of Allbaugh's biggest clients. On August 15, 2005, with hurricane season getting under way, Joe and Diane's firm, Allbaugh Co., registered as a lobbyist for Shaw, which began advertising for workers to man its rebuilding projects before Katrina even struck. After the levees broke, Shaw, which had not been a FEMA contractor during the Clinton years, received two separate $100 million federal clean-up contracts and saw its stock price shoot up 50 percent in a few weeks. (After Brown departed FEMA, the agency announced that it would re-bid some contracts that were given on a non-competitive basis, including Shaw's.)

Nevertheless, when the D.C. newspaper The Hill asked about the remarkable good fortune of Allbaugh's clients, his spokesperson, Patti Giglio, replied, "The first thing he says when he sits down with a client is, 'Don't hire me if you're looking for a government contract.'

Maybe that's why AshBritt Inc., didn't hire Allbaugh. Instead, the Florida-based environmental services firm hired Barbour Griffith-and was selected by the Army Corps of Engineers to help lead the Katrina clean-up effort. The contract, worth $568 million, was signed before the hurricane hit. Interestingly, back in 2002, when an ice storm hit Allbaugh's native Kay County, Oklahoma, Allbaugh arranged a conference call with county officials, who ended up choosing the Florida-based AshBritt over other firms with much lower competing bids. (AshBritt has been much in the news in recent weeks, with a plethora of pointed local articles raising questions about the company's operations, its candor, and its spectacular growth during the Bush years - all through its lucrative contracts to subcontract to other firms that do most of the actual clean-up work.)

AshBritt's president, Randal R. Perkins, said in an interview that he did not recall the 2002 conference call, and noted that his firm doesn't deal directly with FEMA. "FEMA doesn't contract directly, they just pay the bills," he said. As for Allbaugh, Perkins said, "I know him, but I wouldn't say that we are friends."

Allbaugh's web of self-interest ranges from disasters to energy to real estate. And the self-serving links involve not just him, his wife, Brown, and Barbour but also the vice president and the president. Haley Barbour advised the Bush-Cheney campaign on strategy in 2000 while Joe Allbaugh was campaign manager. During the transition, Allbaugh vetted Cheney's qualifications to be vice president.

After the election, Allbaugh served on Cheney's secretive energy task force while his wife was "of counsel" at the Barbour firm and being paid as a "consultant" by Reliant Energy, Entergy, and Texas Utilities Co. Diane Allbaugh says she did no lobbying. But Barbour, on behalf of an electricity-producing client, successfully pushed Cheney's task force to recommend that the new administration renege on a campaign promise to limit carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants. Bush, citing the task-force findings, complied.

The Allbaughs and Cheneys are literally so at home with each other that, on first arriving in Washington in 2001, the Allbaughs bought Cheney's townhouse in McLean, Virginia, for $690,000. During the house tour, Cheney must have pointed out the revolving doors. One of Allbaugh's biggest clients is Cheney's former employer, Halliburton, whose Kellogg, Brown and Root subsidiary got at least $61 million worth of Katrina business.

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AshBritt Environmental, based in Pompano Beach, Fla.
www.ashbritt.com/about_us.shtml

FEMA'S Brown, Allbaugh & Bush
www.therandirhodesshow.com/live/node/2323
www.dailykos.com/story/2006/2/19/125446/118
breakfornews.com/forum/viewtopic.php

KBR (Kellogg, Brown & Root), which has received a reported $60 million in contracts, is owned by Halliburton (a subsidiary), Vice President Dick Cheney’s former employer.
www.capitaleye.org/inside.asp

Minority firms getting few Katrina contracts
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9590752/

After Katrina: Capitalism Hits the Jackpot
edstrong.blog-city.com/after_katrina_capitalism_hits_the_jackpot.htm

Google search on 'Cheney Ashbritt"
www.google.com/search

Much thanks to GI for creating article.

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FROM MOURNING TO RESISTANCE!

3 YEARS TOO MANY - STOP THE WAR!

And then a perpetrator or bunglar on the side of militaristic over reaction in the Waco tragedy has the nerve to call indymedia free speech supporters and a group 'food not bombs' that gives away vegetarian meals 'terrorists' ! ? Truly when the Bush Regime confines 'free speech' to a cage or 'corral' what more does Mr. Rasner want in his rage to gut the Constitution and the First Amendent ?

30 US House Representatives have signed on as sponsors or co-sponsors of H. Res 635, which would create a Select Committee to look into the grounds for recommending President Bush’s impeachment, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.

Atlanta civil rights leader Vincent Harding remembers Anne Braden, who died this week.