Perhaps the biggest news going on right now is the summit of BRICS attendees in
Russia. This could very well be a major game changer. A civilizational realignment.
Whenever the global majority combine to throw-off the colonizers and act together
to establish a just world, it signals a change is going to come. One way or another.

historical events on this day ~

1819 1st ship sails through the Erie Canal from Rome, New York to Utica, New York
~ (used to live in Rome but not that long ago)

1915 An estimated 25,000 supporters in a women's suffrage march on New York's Fifth Ave,
~ led by Dr. Anna Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt, founder of the League of Women Voters

1942 All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Amongst the victims is composer Ralph Rainger ("Thanks for the Memory")

2019 Google research lab claims it has achieved Quantum Supremacy, performing calculation in 3 mins that wold take a supercomputer 10,000 years (or so they say)

Trying to keep this open to all comers. Speak your piece and add it below the fold.

Credits ~

pasta faucet by Vanessa Mckeown
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/12/vanessa-mckeown-unexpected-photos/