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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Good morning to another beautiful sunrise 🌄 here at the Tree House 🏡 I was out early this morning to sit with my first cup of coffee in my Green Space 🌱🌿 🍃 to do a little contemplating before I begin the news. Thank you, Great Spirit, for SATURDAY! No noise. The Earth-eating monsters are silent today, for the WEEKEND, NO NOISY COCKROACHES. 🪳🪳🪳🪏💥🏗🚛🚧🚦🏗️

The silence and peacefulness; 🏞️ Nature at rest, all that can be heard is the tiny songbirds 🦜 chanting in the park across the driveway. It felt so relaxing with the Sun 🌞 shining down on me, I didn't feel much like going back inside. I just lay back, letting my mind drift as it would. I have some crazy ideas that flash through my mind. If I could snag one, like snagging a trout out of a creek, so I could have enough time to examine it. Or what if I had the mathematical formula to prove how the trout came to be? I would already have a space base on Mars, and maybe on a few moons of Jupiter, if I had chosen path #1 instead of 33 and a 1/2, because I couldn't make up my mind which one. I tried on many hats 👒🍮 🧢🧙‍♀️𓉴👒⛑️but they didn't fit 🤣😂

OK, enough of my pet peeve. Thank you for visiting and reading the Tree House Newsroom report for the day. Yez gots this far, you may as well continue to the end while yez is at it, eh?

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

Question: Latest update on the interprovincial tariffs between provinces

🔹AI Overview

Canada does not technically impose formal "interprovincial tariffs", but rather a complex web of regulatory barriers, licensing exceptions, and shipping rules. The latest major development is a landmark agreement announced by nine provincial premiers to permit direct-to-consumer alcohol sales across provincial borders, paired with a new federal freight rebate program to lower the cost of moving Canadian steel interprovincially.

Key Interprovincial Trade Updates

• Direct-to-Consumer Alcohol Sales:

Premiers from nine provinces agreed to lift interprovincial restrictions, allowing local breweries, wineries, and distilleries to ship beer, wine, and spirits directly to consumers in participating provinces.

• Steel and Freight Support:

Ottawa launched a $100 million freight rebate program (providing a 50% rebate on shipping charges) to make it cheaper to transport Canadian steel between provinces, helping domestic industries navigate ongoing international trade pressures.

provinces.

• Mutual Recognition and Labor Mobility:

Ontario remains the first and only province to remove all of its party-specific exceptions under the Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA), implementing "As of Right" rules that let certified professionals from other provinces start working locally within 10 business days. Other provinces like Quebec, Prince Edward Island, and the Yukon have also moved to withdraw targeted exemptions.

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Jamison Greer, the American trade representative, says Canada will have to lift retaliatory measures to avoid new tariffs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72Z46i1IfUs

So now ends another one of my pet peeves, along with FORD THE PIRATE, trying to privatize our healthcare.

WHAT A RAT 🐀

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Sailors on carriers like the USS Abraham Lincoln feel the strain as Navy deployments stretch longer

The USS Abraham Lincoln is in the midst of a record-setting deployment, kept out of port for more than six months as the carrier’s crew faces morale and mental health concerns. The ship may break a record for the longest trip away from its home port for a US carrier since the Vietnam War.

That record was set just months ago by the USS Gerald R. Ford after that ship completed a 326-day deployment that included operations against Iran and Venezuela.

It’s part of a pattern, with the US Navy increasingly asking its aircraft carrier groups to exceed the service’s recommended deployment duration of seven months, according to a CNN analysis of deployment announcements and the USNI News fleet tracker...

• Increasing stress on the fleet:
• Struggles on the Lincoln:

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Updated Aug 15, 2026, 1:08 AM ET

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Five years after the Taliban won, Afghanistan is still losing

In the five years since the chaotic US withdrawal from Kabul and the Taliban’s return to power, Afghanistan has become home to one of the world’s worst human rights and humanitarian emergencies.

Once central to US foreign policy, with American taxpayers footing a $2.3 trillion bill for its 20-year war there, Afghanistan and its people have largely slipped out of much of the world’s view, despite a convergence of man-made and natural crises that have pushed millions of children to starvation and stripped women and girls of their most fundamental rights.

Humanitarian aid to Afghanistan – which is needed by approximately 45% of the population – has been dramatically cut by international donors since the Taliban returned...

Afghan girls take their exams at a primary school in Kabul in July. Girls are unable to study past the sixth grade -- typically around age 12

Children are paying the price alongside their mothers.

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Meanwhile, hunger, preventable disease and legalized violence define daily life for millions.

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PUBLISHED Aug 15, 2026, 12:01 AM ET - 10 hr ago

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SCIENCE:

The peer-reviewed science of finding neutrinos

To catch elusive particles, physicists want to go deep into Canadian waters. Step 1: Risk everything to make sure the machinery is seaworthy

Science Reporter

Photography and video by The Globe and Mail

One day in June, during the height of the competition in Vancouver, a team of physicists gathered at the boatyard on the city's bustling Granville Island.

Like soccer fans flocking to the city, the researchers were motivated by a beautiful game in which genius and chance can sometimes conspire to produce a wondrous result.

But the physics game is more cosmic in nature. And unlike soccer, it's a water sport. That part at least was apparent to the onlookers as they contemplated the mysterious cargo delivered to the boatyard that morning.

When a shroud was pulled back, it revealed an open metal structure the size and shape of a shipping container. Within the rectangular frame stands an elaborately coiled stack of black cable carefully woven around columns of beach ball-sized glass spheres

"This is fascinating," said the boatyard manager, who directed a large boat hoist to be wheeled into position around the strange apparatus. Noticing the puzzled glance from the tourists on their way to whale watching...

Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment

• Wired for light:
• Eyes on the sky:

MARTIN WOLF, ICECUBE/NSF VIA REUTERS

• Testing the water:
• The definite particle: More on physics and space:

VIDEO: A SNOLAB INFORMER

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Published August 15, 2026 - Updated 1 hr. ago

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Homes across B.C. have been decimated by wildfires. Here's what to know about your insurance

As wildfire seasons become more extreme, some B.C. homeowners living in firezones are uninsured

It's been five years since Tricia Thorpe's home was razed to the ground with hundreds of others in the deadly 2021 Lytton wildfire.

"When you come home, and there's nothing left standing, and everything is leveled, you don't know where to start," she said. Thorpe, who has since rebuilt, faced a daunting challenge: her home wasn't insured.

"I was told flat out that fire was an insurable event. And because I had no insurance, not to expect any government help, which was really harsh at the time," she said. "My situation is not unique in this province."

There's still no official tally of how many homes have been lost to wildfire so far this year. But the number of families who have lost everything could number in the hundreds...

• 'Videotaped every room':
• Some costs of evacuating covered:
• 'Nightmare scenario':

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Posted: Aug 15, 2026 9:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

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WILD FIRES STILL BURNING IN NORTH WEST ONTARIO

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Ahhh! Another perfect August morning! Happy Friday the 14, everyone—so I pray! As soon as the coffee was done, I was outside sitting at my patio table in my Green Space, enjoying the warmth of the rising sun and the birds coming to life among the trees somewhere in the park. It is so peaceful and quiet at this time before all that cursed construction crap starts up for the day. Whatever it is they're doing, I am praying it will be done soon, and they will GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!.

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TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

DECISIONS and INTUITION

Having difficulty deciding what is right or wrong?

I will be using the term INTUITION for a lack of a better description.

Enough of that pet peeve for the day, and thank you for still being here. I got HOT STUFF's 🔥👹🦶 foot off my chest 🧛 now. I'm OK. Oh well, someday Hot Stuff's foot will be on someone else's chest. For every action taken in life, there is an equal and opposite reaction: KARMA. That's all I have to say! And good luck keeping a balance on that one; this is where intuition comes in. Feeling or trying to sort your way through the shades of grey only leads you further astray and away from seeing the light. Intuition is feeling from within; in other words, a light that illuminates the way to what is. With no uncertainty, you know INSIDE what's truly right or wrong. (Gut Feeling) I could bet you Elon's trillion dollars on that one.

🔹AI Overview

Decision-making and intuition are closely linked. Intuition acts as a fast, subconscious mental shortcut based on past experience and pattern recognition. While logic uses data and facts, intuition uses feelings to help people make choices quickly, especially when information is incomplete.

How Intuition Works

Subconscious processing: Your brain scans past memories and hidden clues without your active notice.

Pattern matching: It spots familiar setups instantly based on what you have lived through before.

{Body signals:} Physical feelings like a tight chest or a calm stomach often show up as gut reactions}

When to Use Intuition

Time limits: When you must act fast and have no time to study hard data.

High experience areas: When you are an expert in that specific topic.

Tie-breakers:

When to Use Logic

New territory:

High risk:

Bias checks: When stress or strong moods might trick your gut feelings

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BY USING THIS LIGHT, INTUITION, EXAMINE THE EVIDENCE. WHAT KIND OF PICTURE DOES THE EVIDENCE PRESENT?

Can you hide the evidence from yourself? That's what's called LYING TO YOURSELF. If that is so, GO AHEAD AND JOIN THE REST OF THE ORANGE CLOWNS MAGAt Dunce Cadets.

_*I rest my case. Thank you for reading the Tree House News 🏡*_

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BREAKING NEWS RECAP

A new normal

How traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is adapting to war

On February 28, the United States and Israel began strikes on Iran, setting off months-long war in the region.

Very soon after this, Iran announced it was closing the Strait of Hormuz — a key shipping route through which 20% of the world's crude oil and liquefied natural gas traveled.

The strait remained effectively closed, with just a fraction of pre-war traffic passing through, until an agreement between the US and Iran was reached in mid-June, allowing it to reopen, and traffic increased. But just days later, Iranian strikes on vessels using a route Tehran hadn’t authorized led to the collapse of the ceasefire and traffic dropped yet again.

Iran claims sovereignty over the strait, but the US and Gulf Arab countries disagree. This has created a complicated system of competing routes through this critical waterway.

• How are ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz now?:

Before the war, around 100 vessels passed through the strait every day. This has dropped dramatically since the conflict began.

• LARGE 3D MAP | Included:
• Is this the new normal for the Strait of Hormuz?

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Published August 14, 2026

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The biggest issues with Trump’s Air Force One ruse aren’t the decoys

Trump’s plane switch in Turkey illustrates three worrying issues that are bigger than the unsuspecting journalists and Cabinet members.

VIDEO | Included:

I love my media colleagues, but they and others being made decoys in President Donald Trump’s secret, switcheroo plane swap in Turkey last month so the president could avoid a perceived assassination threat is not the top story.

We should focus on the first fact: that there was a perceived international assassination threat against the U.S. president so serious that security officials believed he had to be pulled off Air Force One, put on a separate plane and secreted away from a NATO summit in Ankara, the capital city of a member country.

That shouldn’t happen.

The escapade illustrates three worrying issues: First, whether an actual threat existed or not, there appear to be U.S. intelligence and security gaps. Second, animosity toward Trump has reached a level that such a foreign attempt would seem plausible,..

• The escapade illustrates three worrying issues:
• I can’t imagine landing in Washington to find out we were sent into the air as bait:

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Aug. 14, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

- MS NOW -

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CANADIAN NEWS:

Scientist with Huntington's gene dedicates life to curing fatal disease he'll one day develop

Jeff Carroll's a part of the Brain Health accelerator, a new $400M neurodegenerative research initiative

Scientist Jeff Carroll was told by his colleagues that he didn’t have to devote his life to Huntington’s disease. His grandmother and mother both died from the genetic condition. As a carrier of the gene mutation himself, it was guaranteed that he would one day develop it as well.

Carroll, 48, says he's experienced signs of Huntington’s, but is not yet suffering from the disease. Still, he knows it's only a matter of time. So he decided to dedicate his life to finding a cure ...

LISTEN | Full interview with Huntington's researcher Jeff Carroll:

• Brain disease under the microscope:
• From the living room to the lab:

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CBC Radio · Posted: Jun 05, 2026 5:02 PM EDT | Last Updated: June 5

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Let us pause a moment and pray and meditate for Jeff Carroll's success:

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U.S.-Canada trade reps working on 'options'

August 13, 2026 News

Canadian and U.S. trade officials shared no new details on trade talks on Thursday. Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette urged Canada to hold the line and hold out for a fair deal.

DEAR FELLOW CANADIANS 🍁 DO NOT GIVE IN TO THE ORANGE 🟠💩 JABBA THE HUTT, COMMANDER AND CHIEF OF SHMUKARICA, THE LORD AND MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE, PLEASE BEND DOWN AND KISS (‿ˠ‿)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS_bP-zVzaU

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Good morning from the Tree House. I've been sitting outside in my Green Space, watching the shimmering sun rise above the trees and doing a little contemplating.

So silent and peaceful at this time of the morning before they let the hounds of hell loose to create the din of construction all around us. I'll be glad when they leave and take their noisy monsters with them. Two years in a row is quite enough of this racket. Last year was our own apartment building; what a mucking fess!

There's good reason for it, but two summers spoiled by construction racket, debris, and chaos are too much. Maybe next summer will be quiet again. I love this place when there's no construction crap going on.

The odd chainsaw here and there irritates me a little, concerned that someone is taking trees out of the parkland behind our building. Usually, it's the town's cutting deadfall or preventing a leaning tree from falling on your head 🪾💥👩 Lawn mowers and leaf blowers I don't mind; they are summertime sounds, almost like music, and not to mention the aroma of fresh-cut grass. Or carpentry tools, I don't mind either.

BUT THAT CONSTRUCTION 💩 DRIVES ME UP THE WALL! 🧗

Especially that damned sewer-sucking machine and jackhammers.

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Search: Misophonia

🔹AI Overview

Misophonia (Reaction to Everyday Noises)

If you mean a condition where specific everyday sounds trigger intense emotional and physical reactions (like a fight-or-flight response, anger, or a racing heart), the term is misophonia (literally meaning "hatred of sound")

Mental signs: Sudden anger, panic, rage, or disgust when hearing things like chewing, breathing, or tapping.

"ME" mostly sudden loud noises or a sudden motion or movement, I get the fight-or-flight or jump-out-of-my-skin effect. It's like someone rolled a grenade under the door.

Physical signs: Increased heart rate, high blood pressure, and tight muscles.

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Question: Empath's Reaction to loud sounds and motion.

🔹AI Overview

An empath often experiences sudden loud sounds and fast motion as an intense physical shock. Because their nervous systems process sensory input and emotional energy deeply, a sudden jolt can instantly trigger a fight-or-flight response, causing rapid heart rate, deep anxiety, or sudden irritability.

Nervous System Overdrive

• Exaggerated Startle Response:
• Sensory Overload:
• Energy Drain:

Emotional and Physical Reactions

You don't grow out of this sensitivity with age, nor does the sensitivity get weaker. It gets even more finely tuned with age; you learn how to react and deal with it differently. I still jump at the light bulb on the ceiling, but I have become much quicker at figuring out what the source of the noise is instead of having a panic attack.

Personally, I tend to believe that Empathy is, in part, based more on intuition and instinct.

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Search: Empathy is more part of Intuition and instinct

🔹AI Overview

Empathy shares a deep bond with intuition and instinct, acting as an automatic emotional reflex in some contexts, but it also relies heavily on deliberate, cognitive reasoning to accurately understand others.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Most agree that highly empathic people naturally possess a sharper sense of intuition because they notice subtle emotional cues. *However, scientific research shows that empathy and gut intuition are distinct processes ... YET!

An example: I was napping on the couch yesterday when there was a sudden, loud crash of thunder. I was lying back in the recliner couch, and somehow I managed to leapfrog out while still in the reclined position, standing in the middle of the room in the fight-or-flight stance, wondering what hit! I felt as if someone had just dropped the atomic bomb on the couch.

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Search: PTSD

🔹AI Overview

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that can develop after you experience or witness a very scary, dangerous, or violent event. Symptoms include unwanted flashbacks, nightmares, severe anxiety, and ongoing emotional numbness that last for more than a month and disrupt daily life

Core Symptoms

• Intrusion: Unwanted distressing memories, vivid flashbacks, or recurring nightmares about the event.
• Avoidance: Staying away from places, objects, thoughts, or people that remind you of the trauma.
• Negative shifts in mood:* Feeling detached, losing interest in fun activities, or struggling with persistent fear and guilt, arousal, and reactivity:

AS we notice that this mental disorder is a monster compared to the first two irritating syndromes that can be controlled to a degree. More like annoying horseflies eating your air sandwich 🪰🥪 in comparison to PTSD.

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BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

Trump’s enduring focus: An Iranian assassination plot

The prospect that Iran might try to kill Trump has hung over the president since he had a top Iranian official assassinated more than six years ago.

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The threat appears to loom large on President Donald Trump’s mind. It has prompted missile launchers to surround the president on his golf courses. It led him to hide in an airline catering truck to surreptitiously switch planes as he left Turkey last month.

And it has spurred heightened worries among his protective detail and intelligence agencies already weighing a record number of threats to his life. In public and private, Trump keeps musing about the possibility that Iran might assassinate him.

Depending on the day, the prospect is floated as a simple fact of life, a warning to potential perpetrators and even a point of pride for the world’s most powerful leader. The comments suggest that if Iranian leaders want Trump to be concerned about his safety six months into his war, they are succeeding...

News

• Trump vows U.S. will ‘decimate’ Iran if it attempts to assassinate him:

IRGC had told an Iranian operative to “focus on surveilling, and ultimately, assassinating” Trump and an Iranian dissident in New York,

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Aug. 13, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT

- MS NOW -

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Sell Ukraine 10% of US Patriots and ‘we will destroy all the Russians’ ballistic missiles,’ Zelensky tells CNN

Kyiv — Ukraine has only a tenth of the interceptor missiles it urgently needs from the United States to stop surging Russian ballistic missile attacks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN in an interview, adding his days are spent in “millions” of phone calls, in opaque deal-making with allies for more.

Russian ballistic attacks have risen fast in recent weeks, hitting the capital Kyiv particularly hard, as Moscow exploits Ukraine’s near-zero stocks of Patriot interceptor missiles. Zelensky said a tenth of the US current stockpile would be enough to stop all Russian ballistic missile attacks, but 5% would be enough to get Ukraine through the winter.

“This year we have two and a half times less interceptors than we had in 2025,” he said. “Russia has two times more ballistic missiles per month than they had before.” July was the deadliest month for Ukrainian civilians since April 2022...

US intel assesses Putin could launch attack aimed at testing NATO unity

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Updated Aug 13, 2026, 1:48 AM ET - 9 hr ago

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CANADIAN NEWS:

LeBlanc, U.S. counterpart meeting once again to negotiate deal as tariff deadline looms

U.S. offer would lower some sectoral tariffs, but not enough for Canada: sources

Canadian trade officials are meeting with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer in Washington once again, as both sides hustle to lock down a crucial trade deal ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump's pressing tariff deadline.

Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc's office confirmed to CBC News on Thursday morning that he and chief trade negotiator Janice Charette will meet with Greer this afternoon. It will be the second meeting this week between the Canadian and American trade officials, and the fourth in just three weeks...

WATCH | New pitch for Trump in the works:

Canada, U.S. not yet ready to make tariff deal, Canada unsatisfied with latest U.S. offer: sources

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Posted: Aug 13, 2026 10:22 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago

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Question: Is it true the Government is considering throwing out the US ambassador for Canada

AI Overview

The Canadian government is not considering expelling U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra. Instead, the rumor stems from a public e-petition launched by a Canadian citizen that calls on the federal government to declare the ambassador persona non grata.

Details of the Petition

• Signatures:
• Presentation:
• Grievances:
• Official Stance:

Diplomatic Reality

• Action Required:
• Government Position:

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60,000 Canadians sign petition to expel U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVQjx4wBEBw

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Good morning! I'm starting The Tree House News on time today. My Facebook News Group posting dates were all out of order this morning. It had been a while since I played around with the settings, so it took me a little time to figure out how to get all the post dates back in sequence. My apologies for the confusion.

The weather forecast is for a sunny day. The sun is out, but it's very hazy. I don't know if the haze is wildfire smoke or just moisture from high humidity. Haze is common in August. I just checked, and the air quality report for the area says "Good." No major storms of any kind in the forecast, and the long range shows mostly sunny days through the rest of August, except for a couple of days of rain, with temperatures shuffling from the eighties to the low-to mid-seventies toward the end of the month.

I am thankful that I do not need to leave the comfort of my nest to be on someone else's clock for the next month or so. Or ever.

PET PEEVE: When you're 81, you don't travel as well. For starters, one doesn't notice all the bruises one collects in unfamiliar places, without a clue as to their cause. It looked like my legs had been attacked and pecked by aggressive guineahens from just lifting the darn suitcase to get something out while I was at my sister's place! Or stuff I'm not accustomed to getting in the way has a tendency to leave its mark. More bruises on the shinbones, arms, and hands. What do I have to do when I go out to cover up the black-and-blue marks? Get a NASA spacesuit?

THIS IS MORE A REMINDER THAN THE DISCUSSION OF THE DAY

Just a thought.

Question: Bible: The seven angels holding the seven golden bowls

🔹AI Overview

In the Bible, the seven angels with the seven golden bowls appear in the Book of Revelation (chapters 15 and 16). These bowls are filled with the wrath of God, representing the final plagues that finish God's judgment on the earth before the end of the age.

Setting the Scene

• The Heavenly Temple:
• The Angels' Appearance:
• Receiving the Bowls:

The Seven Bowl Judgments

In Revelation chapter 16, a voice from the temple commands the seven angels to go and pour out the bowls of God's wrath onto the earth:

• Description of the result of the plagues or the seven bowls:

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In view of all the world events that are going on at this time, and from all the history I've read about ancient and present-day wars, it is clear that they were all devices to kill as many people as possible. Of course it's THE ENEMY! But then the enemy will also be from natural disasters. WHY KILL OR TAKE SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE? What does it gain you? IF IT WEREN'T FOR GREED, ANYTHING CAN BE NEGOTIATED ONCE TRUST IS ESTABLISHED. What does mass murder get you? MISERY and SUFFERING! It means that we have lost life's value, and the ruling insanity has no value for life. INSANITY SHOULD NOT BE LOOSE ON THE STREET. Let the Orange Maniac Hitler Wannabe cockroach be an object lesson to that.

Especially pay attention to the last two bowls.

Sixth Bowl: The great river Euphrates dries up to prepare the way for the kings from the East, gathering armies for the battle of Armageddon.

Seventh Bowl: A loud voice declares "It is done!" as a massive earthquake and severe hailstorm strike the earth, ending the sequence of plagues.

I do sincerely pray that I will still be around to hear those words, "IT IS DONE!"

That will be it for today for me. Thank you for visiting and reading the Tree House News 🏡

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BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

Establishment strikes back in Wisconsin and other takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries

The Democratic establishment roared back Tuesday in Wisconsin, as the party coalesced at the last minute behind the last moderate standing against democratic socialist Francesca Hong in the primary for governor.

Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley — who dropped out of the race last month, only to jump back in after another prominent candidate’s exit — will narrowly defeat Hong, CNN’s Decision Desk projects.

Crowley’s victory reflects a primary electorate in a perpetual presidential battleground state that feared Hong might have been a much weaker candidate in the general election against Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany. The outgoing, two-term governor, Tony Evers, hit the campaign trail in the race’s closing days to rally Democrats around Crowley...

• Another underperformance for the left:

So, what might explain this?

Governor: Wisconsin

CHART Included | Projected Winner:

• Progressive wins Minnesota Senate primary:

Senate: Minnesota

CHART Projected winner

• Darline Graham makes runoff, but has her work cut out for her:

Senate: South Carolina:

CHART Included | Advanced to runoff:

Senate: South Carolina

Advanced to runoff

• It’s been a bad week for Trump’s endorsees:

Governor: Minnesota

Projected Winner

Democratic upheaval in Connecticut

House 1: Connecticut

Projected Winner

• Dems stick with establishment’s pick in key Wisconsin district:

House 3: Wisconsin

Projected Winner

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Updated Aug 12, 2026, 3:59 AM ET - 6 hr ago

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s pivot on ‘woke’ politics isn’t unreasonable

What Ocasio-Cortez’s viral “woke one was crazy” remarks reveal about how the left is evolving.

On Sunday, ABC News anchor Jonathan Karl asked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., to weigh in on how Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong — a fellow democratic socialist who was leading the polls ahead of Tuesday’s Democratic primary — might struggle to “get around” some of her past progressive positions on abolishing policing and canceling Thanksgiving.

Ocasio-Cortez’s response was both surprising and opaque. She noted that Hong has moved away from those positions before saying, “I have a local city councilman that has this saying, ‘Woke one was crazy’” — and let out a hearty laugh. Karl followed up, “Did the movement go too far, with some of those positions? ...

"During this time and especially during Covid, there was a huge opening of the Overton window. We were shut down. There was some of the highest unemployment rates that we have seen because of those shutdowns, and I think that the doors were really open in trying to entertain any and every policy that was going to get us to a better place, and I actually think that the discussions that had that were had in that time were quite fruitful. I think that when we talk about crime today, it’s fundamentally different than the way that we talked about crime in bringing crime down, right? And I think that we all share in the goals of having as low a crime rate as possible. I think that you know during lockdown, of course, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today."

• Even at the peak of the criminal justice reform movement’s power in 2020, abolishing police departments was politically toxic.:

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Aug. 12, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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Trump’s Tariffs Force Some Canadian Companies to Consider Moving South

If President Trump moves ahead with 50 percent tariffs on a wide range of Canadian products later this month, some companies may only survive by relocating to the United States.

At Northern Cables, the machinery that churns out steel-clad cable runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The push isn’t driven by a flood of new orders. It’s driven by fear.

The Canadian company is rushing to fill warehouses across the United States. It is one of many businesses making goods in Canada for U.S. customers that now face pressure to move their factories south of the border to avoid President Trump’s 50 percent tariffs, which are scheduled to start next week, on their products.

Mr. Trump’s latest tariff salvo hits particularly close to home for Northern Cables. Its factory, partly housed in a former Coca-Cola bottling plant, sits about 2.5 miles north of the invisible line dividing Ontario and New York State along the St. Lawrence River...

Northern Cables, which has 320 employees, is not alone. A survey of 275 manufacturers conducted by the polling firm Angus Reid for KPMG found that 29 percent had moved some or all of their production to the United States since Mr. Trump started his trade war with Canada. Another 13 percent more were considering it.

Much of the copper used by Northern Cables comes from the United States.

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Updated 8:43 a.m. ET - Aug. 12, 2026

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Question: Trump’s Tariffs Force Some Canadian Companies to Consider Moving South. Is Carney not cutting freight costs for metals to cover the US tariff

🔹AI Overview

No, the federal freight rebate program is designed to lower domestic shipping costs within Canada, not to cover or offset U.S. tariffs.

Freight Cost Reductions vs. U.S. Tariffs

The 50% Freight Rebate: Ottawa launched a rebate program covering 50% of eligible freight costs for shipping domestic steel (and planned lumber) via rail or marine transport between Canadian provinces and territories.

The Purpose: This policy aims to encourage manufacturers to reorient their supply chains and source materials domestically within Canada, rather than serving as an export subsidy for goods sent to the United States.

U.S. Tariff Impact: It does not apply to exports crossing the border into the U.S. and does not offset the 50% American duties on Canadian metals, which is why export-reliant companies still face severe pressures to move operations south.

So now we have it, making the transportation of goods 50% cheaper to deal with within our own country. Great! Good idea. Please also extend this to other crucial goods, such as groceries, medical supplies, and aid, as well as to the development of alternative fuels, building more greenhouses, and becoming less dependent on the US for our food. JUST CUT THE U.S. LOOSE ALTOETHER, Wana know what Canadians are beginning to think of shmuckaricans? Fn NAZIS! Who the F needs a bunch of Nazi Cocroaches making your life miserable?

The way that country is treating us Canadians, whatever s--t befalls them, I believe they deserve it, they deserve it for their aggressive, arrogant, psychotic, demented lunacy, of senseless aggression and hate, "MAY KARMA COME SOON!"

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CANADIAN NEWS:

$100M Steel Rebate: Can Canada Break Its U.S. Dependence?

Canada is making a $100 million bet on its domestic steel industry.

The federal government has introduced a shipping rebate designed to cover up to 50% of eligible costs for moving Canadian steel by rail and water.

The goal is straightforward: make it cheaper for Canadian steel producers to reach customers across the country and strengthen domestic supply chains as U.S. tariffs and global trade uncertainty put pressure on traditional export markets. But can a transportation subsidy actually make Canadian steel more competitive?

In this documentary, we examine Canada's $100 million steel rebate, the impact of U.S. tariffs, Canada's dependence on the American market, railway and marine infrastructure, domestic manufacturing, construction demand, and the long-term battle to build a more resilient Canadian supply chain.

The bigger question is whether this program is simply a temporary safety net — or the beginning of a major shift toward greater Canadian economic independence. Can Canada move more steel at home, protect its industry, and reduce its dependence on the United States? ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DObF8xcbLU