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Khalid Awan a victim of "creative legal theories" and religious profiling.

"I am not a terrorist, I do not know any terrorists," U.S. officials presented incriminating evidences in court. Mr. Awan was caught on tape calling a leader of the Sikh terrorist group in India, from prison. And several modified,Bogus,False Sikh witnesses testified against Mr Awan by FBI, including one he had met in jail .Mr. Awan has filed court documents that assert he falsely confessed to crimes because FBI agents threatened him with lethal injection and said that they would have RCMP officers arrest his sisters in Montreal. "I tried to give answers so they would be pleased and not give me the death penalty," Mr. Awan wrote in court documents ,

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Move into the Light?: Postscript to a turbulent 2007

"Move into the Light?: Postscript to a turbulent 2007"

By Turbulence

At the beginning of 2007, the Turbulence collective commissioned 14 articles from around the global 'movement of movements', asking authors: "What would it mean to win?" We edited their responses into a newspaper and printed 7,000 copies, most of which were distributed at the mobilisation against the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, in June. A few months later, we want to return to the question of winning.

As we resume our search it's no surprise that we keep coming across the problem of visibility. When we think about winning, our eyes are drawn to things that are highly visible or easy-to-measure, such as institutional or legislative change, the opening of a social centre or an increase in membership. That's where the light is. But we also need to assess victories in the less tangible though just as real realm of possibilities. Winning in this realm may involve increased potential, changes in perception or patterns of behaviour. Yet these seem to exist at the very edge of the luminous zone.

This problem leads into another: our experiences create their own luminosity and consequently their own areas of darkness. When we think about winning we are drawn to movements, people and events that are familiar to us; and we have expectations about how things should turn out if they are to constitute a victory.

So how can we overcome our night-blindness once we move beyond the familiar?...

To download the new Turbulence booklet, "Move into the Light?", as a PDF go to:

http://www.turbulence.org.uk/Resources/postscript_1107.pdf

To help distribute the booklet, or to offer a translation, please write to:

editors@turbulence.org.uk

A web-banner linking directly to the article can also be downloaded from:

http://www.turbulence.org.uk/Resources/banner_234x60.jpg

Copies of the booklet can be ordered via our website, www.turbulence.org.uk

And, as ever, we're keen for comments, criticism and feedback on the text.

The Editors

www.turbulence.org.uk

editors@turbulence.org.uk

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Arab States Brand Annapolis Futile Media Event

28-11-2007 16:02 | Anti-militarism | World

The fact that Israel's ruling Extremists have planned massive attacks on Gaza, the W. Bank, and possibly Lebanon to follow the event, they appear to be correct. They, and the media, have made much of the meme that a failure at the meeting will result in violence, while ignoring the warnings from Israel's defense staff that recent measures of Collective Punishment will provoke violence.

It appears they plan to confuse the two, and Frame their planned aggression as a 'response' to this violence, which they will blame on Annapolis.

Iraq Has Only Militants, No Civilians - "Tactical Perception Management" in Iraq

28-11-2007 15:10 | Iraq | Terror War | World

"Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him." -- Colonel Potter, M*A*S*H

Palestine Today 112807

28-11-2007 15:08 | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, November 28th, 2007.

Peak Oil Activists Gather, Plan for Hard Times, Will Lead the Way

28-11-2007 14:49 | Ecology | Social Struggles | Technology | World

YELLOW SPRINGS, OHIO – Former professor and author David Korten told close to 300 applauding peak oil activists that they are not a fringe minority but the leading edge of a super-majority "and it's time we start acting like it."

Korten issued his rallying call in October at the "Fourth U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions" where activists from 30 some states discussed ways to respond to declining oil production and other coming planetary woes. Korten joined a dozen other speakers in "Planning for Hard Times," the theme of the three-day conference sponsored by Community Solution at Antioch College.

"The day of reckoning for our profligate ways has arrived," Korten said. "Peak oil, climate chaos, exhaustion of freshwater, species extinction, financial collapse, and social disintegration are causing a great unraveling." Now is the time, Korten said, for a great turning from a 5000-year history of empire, driven today by a suicidal competition over the earth's remaining resources, to a cooperative earth community which shares resources to maintain healthy communities, families and natural systems.

We’ll Come to Gaza - END 'al Nakba' NOW!

28-11-2007 14:24 | Free Spaces | Palestine | Social Struggles | World

Peace Con kicks off with 6 dead in 24 hours.
Bulldozers, tanks & fighter planes.
Welcome to Gaza

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Gates Foundation Millions to divert popular protest movement, South Africa

28-11-2007 14:22 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Gates Foundation Injects $10 Million into Embedded NGO that Claims to Represent Shack Dwellers. Abahlali, the Durban Shack Dwelllers Movement, an amazing community response to the failure of ANC party politics on the ground, responds with a brilliant critique and a resolution to keep on fighting.

"Today is just another ordinary day in our struggle. The march is not ours. The money is not for us. Our struggle is ours. Our struggle continues. Our struggle is for land and housing in democratic cities" Abahlali

Check

http://www.abahlali.org/
for why this movement is one of the most important struggles we could support today!!

US signs deal for long-term occupation of Iraq

28-11-2007 13:30 | Analysis | Iraq | Terror War | World

President Bush and the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki signed an agreement Monday paving the way for the long-term occupation of the Middle Eastern country and its transformation into a semi-colonial protectorate of the US.

Iraq : Looking Back : 'Internationally Sponsored Genocide'

28-11-2007 13:30 | History | Iraq | Repression | World

Looking through material for the book that has been far too long in the making, I found a copy of a letter which I sent to a prominent (UK) Member of Parliament. It is dated November 1993 and clarifies for ever why the invaders were never going to be greeted with 'sweets and flowers'.

Global Capital Flows to the Rich

28-11-2007 12:53 | Globalisation | World

The global imbalance today seems more dangerous for all other countries than for the US. A fundamental reform of the international monetary system is overdue. The US dollar is no longer the stable anchor of the world monetary system. It would be nice if the US would participate in a cooperative process by tackling the indigenous roots of its double deficit. But the developing countries cannot wait for this.

What next in the Blaired Party donations business?

28-11-2007 05:35 | Analysis | Culture | World

What is going to happen next?
After another day of frantic, new, revelations about the latest North East of England ‘donor’ to the Blaired Party that the UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is lumbered with, is it possible to imagine that anything different will happen to stop this phenomenally predominant feature surrounding what used to be called the Labour Party?

Jahongir Sidikov: Facing Deportation this Evening - Still Time to Stop It

28-11-2007 01:00 | Migration | World

There is an update on Craig Murray's blog, reproduced below, about the case of Jahongir Sidikov who is facing deportation to Uzbekistan on Wednesday 28th November, to face prison, torture and death.

See also:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/11/386602.html and

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/11/386289.html and

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/11/386193.html

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Why Have Enrichment Plants When there are no Reactors?

27-11-2007 23:30 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

At a conference in Paris on Thursday, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Mr. Javier Solana, said Iran’s stated ambitions concerning its enriched uranium output were inconsistent with its acquisition of the civilian nuclear technology that would justify it. He said: “It is a bit like if you were trying to make your own fuel before having purchased a car and learned how to drive,”

Unfortunately, Mr. Solana’s comment is misguided.

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Arson Attacks in France & Austria

27-11-2007 20:56 | World

France - Last weekend an ALF commando targeted a leather store in the city of Chambray-lès-Tours (Indre-et-Loire), throwing several incendiary devices inside. Another store was also tagged

Austria - Unknown arsonists set a hunting cabin near zurndorf in burgenland on
fire, where a big hunt sab with lots of violence from hunters took place.

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The Hidden Holocaust--Our Civilizational Crisis Part 1: The Holocaust in History

Part one of an article by Nafeez Ahmed on the history of imperial genocide follows, the subject of this article was the subject of recent public meeting, The Hidden Holocaust - Our Civilizational Crisis.

HLS's Top Shareholder - TransAmerica after SAC Sell!

27-11-2007 19:14 | Animal Liberation | Cambridge | World

In May 2007, HLS (NYSE:LSR) had the likes of Dresdner Bank owning nearly 600'000 shares in its animal torture. On June 30, 2007 institutional investors held a total of 484,250 shares of LSR. The latest report reveals that institutional investors hold 72, 817 shares.

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Gaza Fears Israeli Attacks

27-11-2007 18:00 | Palestine | World

The media seems to FINALLY be breaking its deafening silence on these reports.

More pics from Paris riot last night

27-11-2007 12:23 | Social Struggles | World

Encore!

Second night of riots in Paris suburb

27-11-2007 12:03 | Social Struggles | World

Paris - More than 60 police officers were injured, five of them seriously, when bands of youths rioted late on Monday for a second consecutive night in the suburbs of Paris after the deaths of two minority teenagers.

World Newswire Archive

Khalid Awan a victim of "creative legal theories" and religious profiling.

Move into the Light?: Postscript to a turbulent 2007

Arab States Brand Annapolis Futile Media Event

Iraq Has Only Militants, No Civilians - "Tactical Perception Management" in Iraq

Palestine Today 112807

Peak Oil Activists Gather, Plan for Hard Times, Will Lead the Way

We’ll Come to Gaza - END 'al Nakba' NOW!

Gates Foundation Millions to divert popular protest movement, South Africa

US signs deal for long-term occupation of Iraq

Iraq : Looking Back : 'Internationally Sponsored Genocide'

Global Capital Flows to the Rich

What next in the Blaired Party donations business?

Jahongir Sidikov: Facing Deportation this Evening - Still Time to Stop It

Why Have Enrichment Plants When there are no Reactors?

Arson Attacks in France & Austria

The Hidden Holocaust--Our Civilizational Crisis Part 1: The Holocaust in History

HLS's Top Shareholder - TransAmerica after SAC Sell!

Gaza Fears Israeli Attacks

More pics from Paris riot last night

Second night of riots in Paris suburb

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