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May Great Spirit bless 🙏

Good morning, everyone. I pray that all is well with you, dear readers, and that you are blessed. I pray that each day is better than yesterday, one day at a time 🙏👼

When I do the news, I search for the underlying truth hidden within all the lies and omissions. According to Google Search, we are inundated with global polling showing that over (86\%) of internet users report exposure to false online news. Fake news every day on the news channels and the internet is getting drilled into our minds. It's like real subliminal messaging. The rage of the age back in the 60's. Can subliminal messaging confuse the line between good and bad?

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Question: Subliminal Messaging

🔹AI Overview

Subliminal messages are hidden signals, images, or audio designed to bypass conscious perception and influence behavior. While widely used in self-help media and advertising, scientific consensus shows they have no real power to force actions, though they can temporarily prime moods or reinforce existing biases

There is no confusion if you stop long enough to let the controversial thoughts take a rest for a couple of minutes, then FEEL WHAT IS TRULY IN YOUR HEART. Confusion is being on the edge of the dark, bottomless precipice. Do you turn right or left? If you are an empath, you have that little alarm bell that warns you. Once that little bell goes off, I can feel my way around or away from that precipice, especially after having the past experience of falling into it a few times in my life. You get to listening to your feelings 😉

Below is a beautiful essay about how to deal with this deranged world.

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The Awakened Souls Collective

Judie Lavender

My heart has been so heavy lately, watching what families are facing in this world. In my 58 years of life, I never imagined we would live in a time with so much division, anger, confusion, and disconnection from one another. Everywhere you turn, it feels like there is pressure, fear, agendas, and constant noise pulling at the hearts and minds of our children and grandchildren.

As a grandmother, it cuts deep. You look around and wonder… where did compassion go? Where did respect go? When did simply loving, guiding, protecting, and teaching our children become so complicated? Parents today are carrying worries so heavy it's affecting their health, their peace, and their spirit.

I try so hard to stay grounded. I try to protect my energy, focus on light, love, and the good that still exists in this world. But some days it's hard. Some days my soul aches for the innocence that feels lost. My insides scream and cry for my grandchildren and the world they are growing up in. 💔

But even in my heartbreak, I refuse to stop believing that good people still exist. I refuse to stop being a light, a safe place, and a voice of love and truth for the people around me. Maybe that's where healing begins — in our homes, in our hearts, in how we treat one another every single day.

Hold your families close. Teach kindness. Teach strength. Teach love. The world may feel heavy, but we do not have to become the darkness we see around us. 🙏✨

My Comment:

Cynthia grlx.

It is very hard to stay grounded these days; it's hard to keep from flying off the handle and end up in the maelstrom of confusion with the rest of the Dunce Brigade out there. Empathy, caring, and love are so crucial during these times, but these qualities feel more like whimsical dreams that can never be realized during this darkness. But it is in times like these that I do my best to share my truth.

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BREAKING NEWS:

The war in Iran so far, moment by moment

From catastrophic and deadly strikes to wars of words: CNN's reporters discuss the war’s inflection points as they happen

Since the opening US-Israeli strikes that killed Iran’s supreme leader, the war in Iran has reshaped the Middle East in real time, with brinkmanship over the Strait of Hormuz and a haphazard final push toward ceasefire.

Through reporting from Tehran, Tel Aviv, Washington and beyond, CNN journalists trace the conflict’s defining moments — the military escalations, devastating human toll, market shocks and political reckonings that altered the course of the war, moment by moment...

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The war in Iran so far, moment by moment

From catastrophic and deadly strikes to wars of words: CNN's reporters discuss the war’s inflection points as they happen...

Published May 19, 2026

- CNN -

The parable and paradox of Thomas Massie

Thomas Massie says he represents 40% of the GOP. And without him, he thinks those voters will be disenfranchised. He warns that Republicans may be about to make a big mistake.

I’ve been meaning to write this story — with this exact headline — for at least seven years now. It’s been so long that the entire point of the parable has flipped. I first met Thomas Massie sometime in 2013, when I was just a young congressional reporter writing stories that no one outside the Capitol would read. Massie made an impression on me.

He was inarguably an independent voice. He was principled on spending, and obstinate when Republican leaders wanted to use the same old broken processes lawmakers had used for decades to ram through legislation. As people tend to say about Thomas Massie when they’re trying to be polite: I may not have agreed with everything he said, but I appreciated that he spoke his mind.

Only I wasn’t just being polite. When I interviewed him, I found myself nodding along at his points and chuckling at the jokes coming from a baby-faced congressman who was almost twice my age. We got to know each other better over the years. At some point, a leadership staffer tipped me off that Massie — a proud double graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — was basically the godfather of “dildonics,” which is exactly what you think it is...

• “The Precious” referred to his congressional member’s pin. And just like in The Lord of the Rings, Massie contended that if you keep it on too long, it would start to turn you into a worse version of yourself — like Sméagol transforming into Gollum.

• Massie hasn’t actually run away from Trump.

In many ways, he’s doing something more damaging.

• He suggested that, among the roughly 220 Republicans in the House, there are 30 who are “just bad people.”

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May. 19, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT

- MS NOW -

GEEZ MAN! GO AHEAD AND ROCK THE DAMNED BOAT! SOMEBODY HAS TO ROCK THOAT!

Make big waves and wash the 💩 out of the brown 💩 🛖 house, and make it the White 🏛️ House again. I don't care if you're a Republican from planet Pluto, I only pray that there is a cold place on Pluto as long as you have a fair and JUST heart.

Canada's annual inflation rate rose to 2.8% in April, thanks to soaring energy prices

When energy prices are ignored, however, core inflation measures rose much slower

Canada's annual inflation rate rose to 2.8 per cent in April, Statistics Canada said on Tuesday, in large part due to soaring prices at the pump. Energy prices overall rose a whopping 19.2 per cent year-over-year in April, following a 3.9 per cent increase the month before.

Statistics Canada said the cost of gasoline specifically rose even quicker, and was 28.6 per cent higher year-over-year, thanks to the supply crunch in the Strait of Hormuz and because of the switch to the more expensive summer blend of gasoline.

The U.S. and Israel's war with Iran has shuttered the strait, which has driven prices for energy up worldwide...

CHART | Annual Inflation Rate In Canada

All items, excluding gas

CHART | Annual Inflation Rate In Canada

All Items | Groceries | Shelter

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Posted: May 19, 2026 8:38 AM EDT | Last Updated: 39 minutes ago

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Does Canada have a personal bankruptcy problem? | About That

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsaNS0s1KQI

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Good morning, all! And it's another beautiful, typically sunny springtime morning here at the Tree House. It's forecast to be a bit on the warm side, up to °30 C, that's mid °80's on the F scale. It's hard to believe that kind of heat today, a July temperature, with strong thunderstorms this afternoon. Beware, folks, ya' all know what happens when you get a sudden shift from hot to cold weather. Thunderstorms form high up in the atmosphere, as gusts of warmer air rise, and gusts of cooler air sink, and a twisting behemoth column of air is born. They're called TORNADOES. At this time, according to Accuweather, the red zone is just below the Great Lakes, extending from west to east as far as northern Ohio, Pennsylvania, and possibly New York State.

NOTE: AccuWeather for southern Ontario, Tuesday, May 19, 2026, Niagara Peninsula area: More clouds than sun, windy and humid with a heavy, gusty thunderstorm in the afternoon; thunderstorms can bring localized damaging wind gusts. Let us pause for a moment and pray/meditate that it will not damage anything, anywhere. AMEN!

Also, let us pray 🙏 for all the folks who remain homeless from last year's catastrophes because of the Teenie Orange Penis Erctus in Shitty Diaper lunatic demented cockroach who took the FEMA funds away. May the Great Spirit look after this horse's arse soul and give it the perfect justice it deserves. PLEASE EXPEDITE THIS PRAYER. Great Spirit, thank you. AMEN!🙏

P.S. Great Spirit; I also pray that my little Green Space will also survive coming storms, Thank You.

Think about it, folks! Especially south of the border. No FEMA, no healthcare, no food banks, no shelters for the homeless, just tents, people, garbage, rats, and illness. no care at all for anybody except those at the top. The Tin Can gods. Without laws and regulations or any semblance of order anywhere in the land, chaos. That's not even Nazism;

Even the Nazis had order, and to have order, you need to have laws and regulations, although in a Nazi-run government, the laws and regulations are at the great leader's discretion to change, command, and suit his purpose.

"BEWARE, KEEP OUT! 🔴" Isle of the Pirates; aka USA 🏝️🥷🏴‍☠️

I am not a religious person; I consider myself spiritual, or, as the encyclopedia would probably describe, a spiritual person. To me, I am who I am. Although I will not knock anyone's religious or spiritual beliefs, I am open-minded and curious enough to listen, then compare their insight with my own knowledge, and/or add to my knowledge. Teacher/student relationships are the best.

In quantum mechanics, it is stated that information is never lost. As I see it, everything that is, traces back to "THE THOUGHT!" that conceived this universe BEFORE the Big Bang.

Something had to think this, or how can it exist to be seen, interpreted, and conceived by our own conscious minds, if nothing thought of all this? There would be just... nothing.

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Question: quantum mechanics information is never lost

🔹AI Overview

In quantum mechanics, the fundamental rule of information conservation dictates that the physical information defining the state of a quantum system is never truly lost or destroyed. Because quantum evolution is mathematically unitary, past and future states remain perfectly reversible, meaning the universe retains a record of all its history.

* Why Information Is Never Lost:*

* Unitarity:*

* No-Hiding Theorem:*

• The Conservation of States:

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BREAKING NEWS:

Guns on the television and in Iran’s streets as Trump renews war threats

Tehran — As night falls over Iran’s sprawling capital, and the snowy peaks of the Alborz mountains fade into the darkness, thousands of Iranians have been routinely taking to the streets for state-sponsored rallies aimed at mobilizing supporters against the United States.

Near Tajrish Square, an upscale neighborhood of Tehran, the inevitable chanting of “Death to America” blares out over a sea of Iranian flags, while street vendors hawk tea and souvenirs, like patriotic baseball caps and patches, to the enthusiastic crowd.

“I am so ready to sacrifice my life for my country and for my people,” one young woman named Tiana, wearing glasses in the colors of the Iranian flag, told me above the deafening chants...

One male anchor, Hossein Hosseini, on the state-run Ofogh channel, fired his rifle – on live television – into the studio ceiling after receiving a lesson from a masked member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC.

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Updated May 18, 2026, 9:05 AM ET - 1 hr 19 min ago

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Iran eyes a new source of power deep beneath the Strait of Hormuz

Emboldened by its successful wartime blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is turning to one of the hidden arteries in the global economy: subsea cables beneath the waterway that carry vast internet and financial traffic between Europe, Asia, and the Persian Gulf.

The Islamic Republic wants to charge the world’s largest tech companies for using the subsea internet cables laid under the Strait of Hormuz, and state-linked media outlets have vaguely threatened that traffic could be disrupted if firms don’t pay. Lawmakers in Tehran discussed a plan last week that could target submarine cables linking Arab countries to Europe and Asia.

“We will impose fees on internet cables,” Iranian military spokesperson Ebrahim Zolfaghari declared on X last week. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards-linked media said Tehran’s plan to extract revenue from the strait would require companies like Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon to comply with Iranian law while submarine cable companies would be required to pay licensing fees for cable passage, with repair and maintenance rights given exclusively to Iranian firms...

• ‘Cascading digital catastrophe’:
• Cable warfare isn’t new:
• Emulating the Suez Canal:

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PUBLISHED May 17, 2026, 12:01 AM ET - May 17, 2026

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House Democrats accuse Trump of ‘corruption unparalleled’ over IRS settlement talks

House Democrats filed an amicus brief arguing Trump is working to “undermine the Constitution” by seeking a settlement from the IRS over the leak of his tax returns years ago.

2 VIDEOS | Included:

In a new court filing, House Democrats objected to a potential settlement in the works between President Donald Trump and his own administration, warning it creates the “specter of corruption unparalleled in American history.”

In a new amicus brief filed Monday in the Southern District of Florida — and shared first with MS NOW — the Democrats argue the president is working to “undermine the Constitution” through his months-old lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service and a reported pending deal, which they say amounts to a “slush fund” for the president and his allies.

These Democrats urge Judge Kathleen Williams to dismiss the president’s lawsuit and closely scrutinize any potential deal. “Never in the history of the United States has a sitting President sought a monetary settlement from the government he leads — let alone sought many billions of dollars in taxpayer funds,” the Democrats wrote...

May. 18, 2026, 9:15 AM EDT

- MS NOW -

THE WHITE HOUSE OF PIRATES

As I said yesterday, Trumpo The Typo is too stupid to think of all this stuff. And Congress, if they wish to keep their salary, they keep their mouth shut. What about after the mid-term elections, eh? Even if the Dunce Brigade gets back it, what does Trumpo the Trypo need those useless appendages for? And if the Dems get in, their arses are out.

CANADIAN NEWS:

Trump administration quits Canada-U.S. advisory board on defence

Canada 'failed to make credible progress' on defence spending commitments, says Pentagon official

The Trump administration is walking away from a long-running body that works on Canada-U.S. defence initiatives, claiming Canada has failed to meet its commitments on defence spending.

U.S. Undersecretary of War Eldridge Colby announced Monday the Pentagon is "pausing" participation in the Permanent Joint Board on Defence, an advisory body on North American continental defence established in 1940. "Only by investing in our own defense capabilities will Americans and Canadians be safe, secure, and prosperous," Colby wrote in a series of posts on X ...

"Canceling it is a needless provocation that sends the wrong message to Ottawa and other U.S. allies," Bayoumi told -CBC News

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Posted: May 18, 2026 10:52 AM EDT | Last Updated: 18 minutes ago

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?????? We are spending the 5% requieremnt. LYING 💩 EATING COCKROACH! 🪳

TRUMP FURIOUS as F-35 DATA SCANDAL BLOWS UP— EU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCufUaihPKY

 

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May Great Spirit bless 🙏

Good morning, all! And it is a beautiful, typical, sunny springtime morning here at the Tree House News Central. 🏡📰 It's wonderfully warm out there, as it should be for this time of year. I am looking forward to going out and playing with my plants in my Green Space on the balcony this afternoon. This day is more like it, the kind of weather for walking in the park again🌞🌳🏞️🍃 There is not much new to report from the Newsroom this morning; all is well, so let us move on to the Discussion of the Day.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION

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Question: Who is doing the converting of the American political landscape toward authoritarianism? It's not Trump himself

Trump is too stupid.

🔹AI Overview

The shift toward authoritarianism is driven by a broad coalition of right-wing think tanks, conservative legal organizations, and influential operatives. Rather than originating with the president himself, this conversion is engineered by organizations like The Heritage Foundation, the America First Policy Institute, and key ideologues such as Russell Vought and Stephen Miller.

The primary architects orchestrating this shift include:

• The Heritage Foundation and Project 2025:
• Russell Vought:
• Stephen Miller:
• The Federalist Society:
• Influential Megadonors and Media Figures:

It's a Rich Man's World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETxmCCsMoD0

NOTE: In this little newsblog, Tree House News, I do my best to deliver the facts as closely as possible, using AI for the latest reports. I do my best to point out the possible underlying deceit and lying we see in the news on the airwaves almost daily. Lied to by the rich, THE RICH AND POWERFUL WHO WILL TURN THIS COUNTRY INTO A THIRD WORLD 💩🕳️COUNTRY, unless we, the people, wake the "F. up!" and do all we can do to derail their plans and keep the Constitution alive at all costs.

Even if it means we have to DEFEND AND PROTECT, but without doing it to the same extremes as they do, like mad bulls breaking into a china shop, smashing and trashing everything. The ignorant pea-brained "Dunce Brigade" is what I call them; all who call themselves Republicans are viper snakes in the grass, they are deranged. I do pray that after the elections, they get so badly beaten that they as a party will be DISOLVED INTO THE VACUUM OF NON-EXISTENCE. A bunch of insignificant little specks of dust floating in the ether of the infinite cosmos.

I am 80 years old, and I ain't about to change my ways, beliefs, or what I have learned about what's right or wrong. Both in theology and in quantum physics, the Quanta. I will not and refuse to change unless proven wrong. NOBODY IS GOING TO DICTATE TO ME WHAT'S RIGHT OR WRONG. I consider myself sufficiently intelligent to grapple with the issues we confront. I am largely self-educated, having spent days in libraries researching and seeking the truth about a wide range of topics that directly affect our lives. I have spent much time reading many books in libraries, and now that I have AI and Google Search to help me locate source material much faster, it's easier to get to the bottom of something. AI has its benefits.

Well, that pretty well wraps the discussion of the day. Thank you for dropping by to read the Tree House News.

BREAKING NEWS:

The shooting finally stopped. Then came everything else

Few ever see how a community carries on after a deadly school shooting. Survivors of last year's attack on a Minneapolis Catholic school want you to know: In class and at home, the trauma colors everything

MINNEAPOLIS — Near the end of a hall on the second floor of a red brick schoolhouse, third graders cozy up to read. Some pull on weighted blankets. A few take off their shoes. A handful settle under desks to plow through popular comics "Dog Man" and "Big Nate," or the series "I Survived," in which fictional children narrate their courage through disasters from Pompeii to Pearl Harbor.

After what happened to this school's 300 or so students just three days into this academic year, their teacher considered purging her classroom of almost every book. Nonfiction is nothing if not a buffet of bombs and blood. Even made-up stories feature characters who die, often shot by a gun.

But you can't filter their ordeal for them, Darcie Mullinax learned early from the trauma experts who came to this century-old private school to help everyone learn how to sleep again, how to think again, how to consider what might come next...

• Nobody went to school for weeks after the attack.:
• The Haegs did not have a plan for any of this.:

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Published May 17, 2026

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National Mall prayer event sparks concern about Trump administration eroding the wall between church and state

An all-day prayer event on the National Mall on Sunday — backed by the White House through a mix of taxpayer funds and private donations — is the most recent flashpoint in the Trump administration blurring separation of church and state.

The event, dubbed “Rededicate 250: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving,” is part of a series of celebrations commemorating America’s 250th birthday, and is expected to feature remarks from government officials including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and House Speaker Mike Johnson and video messages from President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The event will bring together faith leaders, public officials and musicians to reflect and worship ahead of the anniversary of the nation’s founding.

Sunday’s event is the latest in a series of faith initiatives and policy moves championed by the White House that have bolstered an emphasis on Christianity in the government’s operations, culture and policy.

Sunday’s event is the latest in a series of faith initiatives and policy moves championed by the White House that have bolstered an emphasis on Christianity in the government’s operations, culture and policy. Freedom 250, a nonprofit subsidiary of the National Park Foundation, which functions as the National Park Service's foundation arm, organized the event...

• Questions over constitutionality:
• A government-wide focus on Christianity:
• Public-private funds used for religious event:

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PUBLISHED May 17, 2026, 5:00 AM ET - 4 hr ago

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Pete Hegseth thinks the lawmakers who know the most about the military should have the least to say

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s new attempt to mute his nemesis Sen. Mark Kelly is part of the Pentagon’s larger effort to muzzle all of us military retirees, especially those with legislative power.

It is ironic as well as troubling that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently went on X to accuse Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., a decorated naval aviator who flew combat missions and served as a NASA astronaut, of improperly sharing privileged military information on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday.

It’s ironic because Hegseth himself revealed classified information and compromised operational security last year by sharing sensitive targeting information with a journalist, as well as his wife and brother, over Signal chats regarding a U.S. bombing raid in Yemen. Kelly, on the other hand, in his “Face the Nation” appearance, merely repeated the general concern that U.S. weapons stores are being depleted due to the Iran war. Not only has that concern been reported in the media for weeks, but it has also been discussed with the defense secretary in open congressional hearings.

• The “Signal Gate” defense secretary should not be insinuating that Kelly’s public comments violated any oath Kelly made,..

It is the latest attempt by the Trump administration to silence its most expert critics.

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May. 17, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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CANADIAN NEWS:

Canadian, U.S. fascist fight clubs joining forces south of the border, CBC investigation finds

CBC ID'd Robert Rundo, founder of 'active club' movement, meeting with Second Sons Canada

Members of Canada's biggest white nationalist group trained this spring with U.S. counterparts south of the border and met with the founder of a global movement of fascist fight clubs, a CBC visual investigation has found. One expert called it a "very significant" signal of closer co-ordination between white supremacist groups on both sides of the border.

A Telegram post with blurred faces shows Second Sons Canada members posing with an individual CBC identified as Robert Rundo, an American neo-Nazi who founded the "active club" movement. Other posts show them training and meeting with active club groups in Texas and South Carolina in late March...

WATCH | Investigating Canadian white nationalist members south of the border:

• 'There's fun in fascism,' says Rundo:
• American Muscle event:

Posted: May 15, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: May 15

- CBC -

WHO declares Ebola outbreak in Congo, Uganda an emergency of international concern

Virus suspected as cause of death for 80 people, UN agency says

An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization, after 80 suspected deaths and nine laboratory-confirmed cases.

On Sunday, WHO said in a statement that 80 suspected deaths, eight laboratory-confirmed cases and 246 suspected cases had been reported as of Saturday in the DRC's Ituri province across at least three health zones, including Bunia, Rwampara and Mongbwalu...

• International spread documented, WHO says:

WATCH | No approved therapies or vaccines for Bundibugyo virus, unlike other Ebola strains:

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Posted: May 16, 2026 8:18 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

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I hope the factories will follow soon and have a Canadian workforce to make China-made cars manufactured in Canada. Is China eating Honda's lunch?

CONFIRMED: BYD’s 2026 Canada Lineup Is Insane (Top 7 Cars)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu4uPrJ0jF0

 

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May Great Spirit bless 🙏

Is religion coming back into fashion in America? If that is so, here are a few logical and maybe not-so-logical reasons for that possibility.

There is no doubt that a wave of change is coming, and I doubt that America will just roll over and say, "We can't wait to be Nazi Americans! And unless the angels really do come down to Earth to save us, I don't think there is any cavalry coming to our rescue this time. We will have to fend for ourselves. It's already too late for the older generation to fix things; they will not survive the harsh environment we are about to confront. We will pass away, and it will be up to the younger generation to arrange, reorganize, and fix their world and their affairs.

*CAN YOU, DESCENDANTS OF THE BABY BOOMERS, FIX AMERICA AND THE WORLD BETTER THAN WE DID?*

_*As fall gets closer, disease, wars, civil wars, unrest, rioting, despair everywhere, and more unemployed people will be on the streets living in tents. It's not going to be a nice change, but a necessary one if you wish to return to a life of sanity and purpose. RIGHT NOW, there is no sanity or rules of law that work. Trump has turned a nation of laws and customary ways of doing business into a subplot of Star Wars in which he is Jabba the Hutt, the Oval Office is the Cantina from which he rules, and America is all that he surveys.*_

Religion is 'back in fashion' in America. Here's why

When the Rev. Fred Robinson saw the small, brick church he was asked to lead in suburban Atlanta, he couldn't help but be excited.

The parking lot had sinkholes; the bathroom flooring had rotted away, and the basement was filled with so much mold that Robinson had to don gloves and goggles just to enter it. The church had only nine members, $450 in the bank, and was on the verge of closing.

Robinson's new church was in such a dire condition because the Covid-19 pandemic had slammed into it like a meteorite. It halted in-person worship, and as members gradually drifted away, the building's condition deteriorated because there were no longer any staff or members to maintain it.

But where some saw a crisis, Robinson saw opportunity. He was looking for a church that was hungry for change. Four years later, the church's membership has surged, its message has been refined, and those sinkholes were filled when the sanctuary was renovated.

"New people came. People started coming back," says Robinson, senior pastor of Mt. Gilead Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia...

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• Sunday's gathering mirrors a national trend:
• How the pandemic forced innovation:
• But many churches still face challenges:

PUBLISHED May 16, 2026, 7:00 AM ET - 2 hr ago

- CNN -

I was a flower child, a hippy, or just plain the shadow in the background; I call that being invisible, until I discovered the internet. Religion, I have nothing against; I'll go to any church that invites me. I just have my own conception of the universal consciousness. Something had to think this up before it could be manifested. Most call this entity G-d. The G ∞ d, thought•<- Big period, that's it.

BREAKING NEWS:

Why deportations don’t tell the whole story of Trump’s crackdown

ICE arrests and deportations often get most of the attention. But another side to the Trump administration’s crackdown is largely flying under the radar.

“They’ve slashed legal immigration for families. They’ve slashed legal immigration for employers. … There’s basically no category you can find that they haven’t targeted for reductions and cuts,” says David Bier of the libertarian Cato Institute, who argues this is a “radical change” – and an underreported story.

In what officials have billed as the largest mass deportation campaign in history, federal agents deployed in cities across the country became a familiar — and controversial — sight over the past year, with immigration authorities’ aggressive arrest tactics fueling fierce debate in Washington about agency funding. And actions by ICE have made frequent headlines since Trump returned to power, most recently this week with the news that a new acting director will soon assume the agency’s top job.

But Bier says there’s another story about immigration in the US that’s harder to tell, but no less significant. “You don’t see the backstory of all that’s leading up to that guy being handcuffed,” he says. Still, Bier says the way the administration handles legal immigration is “intimately connected to the chaos in the streets.”...

• It’s getting harder for immigrants to come to the US legally:
• Things are changing for many legal immigrants, too:
• The courts are poised to play a big role in what happens next:

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PUBLISHED May 16, 2026, 6:00 AM ET - 5 hr ago

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Why Trump’s flip-flop on Iran’s uranium stockpile is a big deal

Trump says that Iran giving up its highly enriched uranium isn’t “necessary.” Wait, what?

VIDEO | Included:

President Donald Trump has long presented himself as a genius negotiator who has mastered the “art of the deal.” But his latest comments about what he hopes to achieve in talks with Iran show how the most basic principles of deal-making elude him.

Fox News anchor Sean Hannity asked the president on Thursday about whether the U.S. was considering the options of seizing Iran’s estimated stockpile of 970 pounds of highly enriched uranium, which can be enriched slightly further to make nuclear bombs, by force or whether the U.S. would try to “entomb it” and make it impossible for Iran to access.

• Trump’s surprise admission is exactly the kind of statement that Iranian negotiators will take note of.

Notably, U.S. intelligence assessments have estimated that the joint U.S.-Israeli bombardment campaign has failed to set back Iran’s nuclear capabilities....

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May. 15, 2026, 5:56 PM EDT

- MS NOW -

CANADIAN NEWS:

Why the U.S. is noticing this Canadian security bill

Bill C-22 proposes to help police investigate online cases

A Liberal government bill that proposes giving police and spies easier access to information during investigations has fallen into the crosshairs of U.S. tech giants and two American congressional committees, threatening to become the latest irritant in the Canada-U.S. relationship.

The bill, this government’s second attempt at passing lawful access legislation, has already garnered intense domestic scrutiny from privacy and civil rights advocates, and is now attracting attention south of the border. Late last week, the heads of two American congressional committees sent a letter to federal Public Safety Minister Anandasangaree calling for changes...

WATCH | Tech giants 'misinterpreting' lawful access safeguards: public safety minister:

"The government will have the power to order the large communications companies to retain information about where you go, who you communicate with, literally for an entire year," said Michael Geist, the University of Ottawa’s Canada Research Chair in internet and e-commerce law, and a vocal critic of the bill.

"This creates essentially a surveillance map," he said.

• A new nuisance?:
• Meta hoping concerns can be addressed:
• Think of crime victims, says OPP commissioner:

CBC News · Posted: May 15, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: May 15

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Hantavirus has no cure. Here's where researchers are at with treatments and vaccines

Infections are rare but can have a 40 percent death rate

A hantavirus outbreak aboard a luxury cruise ship this month has put the spotlight on a deadly disease that has no cure. Hantavirus cases are rare and typically not contagious between humans. When people do catch it, it is usually after touching objects, eating food or inhaling particles contaminated with rodent droppings or urine. People can get it if they are bitten by an infected rodent, but that is also uncommon.

Infections can be deadly, and there is no dedicated treatment for hantavirus. Researchers around the world are working on a hantavirus vaccine, though they say development is in the early stages and rollout could be years away...

• How is hantavirus treated?:
• Is there a vaccine?:

There isn't currently a vaccine for hantavirus, but researchers across the world are working to develop one.

Hantavirus vaccine development has been neglected for decades because there hasn't been commercial interest in the research,

WATCH | Disease doesn't typically *spread between people:*

WATCH | Making it through a *hantavirus infection:*

Posted: May 16, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 hours ago

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JUST IN: U.S. Pressures Canada Again — What Canada Did Next Shocked Washington.

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WANTEN DESTRUCTION OF CBC PROPERTY - LETTERMAN AND COLBERT TOSS STUFF OFF THE ROOF OF THE ED SULIVEN SHOW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBKWKu2Rqxc

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How many hours did that man sit in that chair to entertain us, both American and Canadian audiences? HE SHOULD GET AN AWARD FOR BEST STAND UP COMEDIAN OF THE 21ST CENTURY, in my opinion.

ALL because of an "UGLY!" orange-skinned Jabba the HUTT kink of Nazimerica. DO YOU LOVE YOUR BRAVE SHIT IN DIAPERS DEMENTED COMMANDER IN CHIEF IN CHARGE OF THE BIG RED BUTTON FOR ☢️ DISASTER?

Maybe I'm dumb, but I cried while I was watching this video