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Free book at Project Gutenberg: Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services

Free eBook digitized and proofread by volunteers.

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Parsnips in chicken soup—highly recommend. They lend a sweet, buttery flavor… Just delicious!
I had to ship 16 banker's boxes worth of records for work, and for various reasons it was impractical to schedule a UPS pickup. Let me tell you, the other customers at the UPS store on the week before Christmas were NOT happy to see me.
Went for a run across the GMU campus this morning, and not a creature was stirring, not even a delivery robot.
Today is pre-baking day for Thanksgiving—time to make the cranberry sauce and pumpkin pies.

“… This state of affairs explains why in such circumstances our attempts to know what ‘the people’ really think are in vain and why, under these circumstances, this question is so irrelevant for the person who is thinking and acting responsibly.”

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, *Ethics*

2/2

“Only an act of liberation, not instruction, can overcome stupidity. Here we must come to terms with the fact that in most cases a genuine internal liberation becomes possible only when external liberation has preceded it. Until then we must abandon all attempts to convince the stupid person. … 1/2

All I have is a voice
To undo the folded lie,
The romantic lie in the brain
Of the sensual man-in-the-street
And the lie of Authority
Whose buildings grope the sky:
There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die.

- W. H. Auden, "September 1, 1939"

“Most of our problems — most of the problems with the world as a whole — come from people who understand and accept that they are important, and unique, and infinitely valuable, but then forget that the same exact thing is just as true of every other person they will ever meet.”

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2024/11/07/back-to-basics/

Back To Basics

The simplest, most basic lesson Mister Rogers taught us -- almost every day, in almost every show -- had two parts to it. Most of our problems come from forgetting that.

slacktivist

10 ways to be prepared and grounded if Trump wins

The key to taking effective action in a Trump world is to avoid perpetuating the autocrat’s goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation.

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-things-to-do-if-trump-wins/

10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won

The key to taking effective action if Trump wins is to avoid perpetuating his goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation.

Waging Nonviolence