BRICS keeps expanding, adding 9 partner countries in January 2025, plus 4 new members in 2024.

It now makes up half of the global population and 41% of world GDP (PPP).

It’s an economic powerhouse, with top producers of oil, gas, grains, meat, & minerals.

geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/12/25/b...

Fund a kitchen in Gaza www.humantiproject.org/kitchens/?fb...

Today is the first day of the tax holiday on paperback books in Canada.

From December 14 to February 15, no GST/HST will be charged on any paperback book sold in Canada.

Now is the perfect time to support Canadian writers #writingcommunity

U.S. Airdrops Rubble Into Gaza
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According to the criminal complaint, after Luigi Mangione was arrested, an officer who searched the backpack he had on him found "a black 3D-printed pistol and a black silencer," which was also 3D-printed.

Have you noticed that, today, no one is talking about the ongoing genocide in Gaza? This is the greatest gift to Netanyahu and his merry genocide maniacs. Keep talking Palestine people!

Meanwhile, another day another Israeli war crime: 14-year-old Naji al-Baba, the Palestinian boy who wanted to be like Ronaldo, killed by Israeli soldiers. Along with his friends as they played in the woods near Hebron. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

But of course: If Israel has murdered you, you must have been Hamas. Axiomatically. The epitome of the licence to kill that any genocide worth its name cannot do without. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...