In 1944, the US Office of Strategic Services—now the CIA—published the “Simple Sabotage Field Manual,” a top secret guide teaching the average citizen-saboteur how to fuck shit up without specialized tools or equipment or association with an “organized group.”
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— and the first to pass the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold.
Eli Wizevich, writing for Smithsonian Magazine »
Just one year after 2023 made the record books as the hottest year in Earth’s documented history, climate scientists are all but certain that 2024 will take its title.
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The winning word beat out finalists such as “demure,” “pander,” “totality,” “fortnight,” “allision” and “democracy”
Nicole Ireland, writing for The Canadian Press »
Since 988 was launched a year ago by the Public Health Agency of Canada, responders have fielded more than 300,000 calls and texts, CAMH said. The helpline runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and is staffed by more than 2,000 responders.
“We will not turn anybody away,” Bhatti said, noting that having “three simple digits” to remember is invaluable for someone who is struggling or if they’re worried about someone else.
Ya’ara Saks, federal minister of mental health and addictions, said “the numbers speak for themselves.”
“Three hundred thousand calls and texts over the last year, which meant that 300,000 times where a Canadian felt they needed help in a moment of crisis, there was someone on the other end to help them,” she said Wednesday.
Elsewhere » CBC
The essential was not to give in. When you resisted, you were already a victor. You had already won.
— Madeleine Riffaud
Yves Bordenave, writing in Le Monde »
Madeleine Riffaud was 18 in 1942. Involved in the Resistance as part of a Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP) group founded by communists, her alias was Rainer. Riffaud died on the morning of Wednesday, November 6, in her Paris apartment, aged 100, Le Monde learned from her entourage, confirming a report in L’Humanité. Before becoming a journalist, a war correspondent in Vietnam and Algeria and a renowned poet, she was an emblematic figure of the resistance to the Nazi occupiers.
Sam Roberts, writing in The New York Times »
She was propelled into the anti-Nazi guerrilla underground in November 1940 by a literal kick in the backside from a German officer. He sent her packing after he saw Nazi soldiers taunting her at a railway station as she was accompanying her ailing grandfather to visit her father near Amiens, in northern France.
“That moment,” Ms. Riffaud said in a 2006 interview with The Times of London, “decided my whole life.”
“I landed on my face in the gutter,” she told The Guardian in 2004. “I was humiliated. My fear turned into anger.”
She decided then and there to join the French Resistance.
“I remember saying to myself, ‘I don’t know who they are or where they are, but I’ll find the people who are fighting this, and I’ll join them.’ ”
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According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, 2,500 migrants died or went missing in the Mediterranean between January 1 and September 24.
The U.N. refugee agency said Thursday that some 186,000 migrants and refugees arrived in southern Europe so far this year, the vast majority in Italy.
More than 11,600 children crossed to Italy without their parents or legal guardians between January and mid-September. Last year, about 7,200 unaccompanied or separated children made the crossing.