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Morning, all! I thought I would take a rest from Chief Fat Orange 🟠💩 and talk a little more about moi, me. Today is back to business. My news report may be a bit truncated, as I have an afternoon appointment. Not much is happening here at the Tree House Newsroom 🏡🎤📷 except for a spectacular, picture-perfect sunrise 🌅 with a red-orange glow over the outline of the trees 🌳 I'll post the Image below 🖼️⬇️

Now would be a good time for either an army of Supermen from planet Krypton or the Son and Messenger of the Great Spirit's second coming. I believe in a force that's beyond my understanding; it is also the life-giving force of our being, for without consciousness, there is nothing.

I came to believe in a Higher Power, a force beyond my understanding, through the AA program as a recovering alcoholic. I have seen and heard of many miracles there.

A higher Power?

THINK ABOUT IT!

Now on with today's discussion.

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TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

Quantum computing and the workforce:

- Google Search -

Question: Quantum computing and the workforce

🔹AI Overview

The quantum computing industry faces a severe talent gap: roughly 50% to 66% of job openings go unfilled because of a shortage of specialists trained in both quantum mechanics and classical computing.

*Current Workforce Demands*

• The Talent Gap: The global market requires thousands of specialized roles (such as Quantum Error Correction specialists), with demand far outpacing the number of qualified graduates.

• Education Levels: Despite common assumptions, two-thirds of quantum-related roles require a bachelor’s degree, associate degree, or vocational training rather than a Ph.D. in physics.

• Core Skills: Daily tasks lean heavily on coding, linear algebra, software development, and systems engineering rather than purely theoretical research.

Key Industry and Security Pressures

• Post-Quantum Cryptography: Governments (such as the EU mandate for 2026–2030) and private sectors are urgently retraining software engineers and IT staff to handle "harvest-now-decrypt-later" security threats.

• Hybrid Tools: Platforms like Nvidia's CUDA-Q are bridging classical GPUs with simulated quantum hardware to let standard developers write quantum-ready code.

• Global Investments: Programs through organizations like the MIT Sloan School of Management and regional partnerships (such as Mitacs in Canada) are scaling up interdisciplinary training programs

If this were to happen to be true, then that's the way it should work: "A PARADIGM SHIFT." Trade the shovel and wrench for a laptop that controls machines that dig many more ditches; then do the same with farmers, goat herders, etc., and the machines do the data work to keep the hive alive... Hmmmmm. But then that's my fly in the ointment about the whole idea. Sounds like a story I read in a comic book back in the sixties, about robots taking over the world.

But I agree that a PARADIGM SHIFT; old I//__ 💨 ˗ˏˋ💡ˎˊ˗ new should have happened before we got into the computer age.

A system like that would mean all work in the same trade follows the same rules. Sounds fair 🥺 eh?

Get rid of old cobwebs and rules that no longer apply; don't just slow the process; it dissolves it; reform the old to fit the 21st century; and tighten up on fraud, thieves, liars, con artists, and crooks that are on the federal titty, if you know what I mean. Probably more corporations on welfare than actual unemployed people. That's where the "tiefs" are!

END OF MY PET PEEVE on 𓉴

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BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

SCIENCE REPORT

Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for the Advent of Neutrino Astronomy

The Nobel Committee honored Francis Halzen for his “vision and scientific leadership” of a telescope within the ice at the South Pole.

Francis Halzen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for pioneering a telescope that paved the way for a new kind of astronomy. Scientists used this telescope, embedded deep in the ice at the South Pole, to detect ghostly particles whizzing from the far reaches of the universe known as high-energy neutrinos.

“It’s a way of bringing us information about distant cosmic sources, which we are unable to acquire in other ways,” Mark Pearce, chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics, said at the prize announcement. In a statement following the announcement, he added that Dr. Halzen had “provided us with a fantastic instrument.”

Dr. Halzen conceptualized the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in the late 1980s as a way to observe the natural particle accelerators of the cosmos, such as supermassive black holes...

• Who is the winner?:
• Why did he receive the prize?:

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Oct. 6, 2026

Updated 9:15 a.m. ET

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CANADIAN NEWS RECAP:

Ottawa gives Stelco's U.S. owner 5 days to share plan to keep jobs

Impending layoffs could bring legal action, industry minister warns

Ottawa has given the U.S. owner of Stelco five business days to share a plan to maintain jobs at the Hamilton steelmaker or face potential legal action. Ohio-based Cleveland-Cliffs said last week it plans to lay off as many as 500 workers as it idles certain steel production at Stelco, which the federal government says violates "binding commitments" made when it bought the company in 2024.

In a letter to Stelco president Paul Simon on Monday, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said Ottawa is prepared to seek a court ruling to enforce the agreement under the Investment Canada Act. "The Government of Canada takes compliance with undertakings seriously," Joly wrote in the letter, obtained by CBC News on Tuesday...

'It's devastating': Hundreds of Stelco workers face uncertain future

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Oct 06, 2026 10:56 AM EDT | Last Updated: 30 minutes ago

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Emera bids for national powerhouse with $35-billion Canadian Utilities, ATCO merger

Halifax-based Emera Inc.

Is bidding to build a national champion in the utility sector by merging with Calgary natural gas and electricity infrastructure owner Canadian Utilities Ltd.

Increase in a $35-billion union.

Emera, formerly a Nova Scotia Crown corporation, announced a friendly all-stock offer for the Alberta peers controlled by the Southern family on Tuesday that would create one of the 20 largest utilities in North America. The combined companies would have an enterprise value – their debt plus equity – of $72-billion, which their executives said would rank as the largest merger in Canadian history.

“Our goal is to create a Canadian champion,” said Scott Balfour, Emera’s chief executive, in an interview. He said the merger will create a company with the scale and financial strength needed to build networks that support projects such as data centres, new natural gas pipelines and integrated provincial electrical grids.

“Natural gas and electrical infrastructure define our industrial policy, and will power our future,” said Nancy Southern, chair and CEO at ATCO. Power-hungry markets such as Northern Canada*...

• Nancy Southern is ready for this elbows-up moment:
• U.S. utility stocks are off to their best start since 2019. Can they keep it up?:

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Published 5 hours ago Updated 31 minutes ago

- The Globe And Mail -

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My Note: Northern Canada is mostly dependent on oil. As I've said before, I do believe in using oil as a bridge to alternatives.

THIS IS WHERE PARADIGM REALLY NEEDS SHIFTING

Canada’s Next Growth Phase

Recent headlines about Canada have focused on trade uncertainty and weak productivity. But our Global Economist Arunima Sinha explains why the country may be on the cusp of a stronger, investment-led growth cycle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOabMRq9Mug

 

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Mornin' all! 🌄 It's a gorgeous sunny ☀️ morning, but a little chilly🥶 out. I had to wear my fall jacket 🧥 to sit outside with my coffee ☕️ to watch the sunrise.

My Opinion: 🤔 I believe sunrise is the birth of a new day 🌈 with new promises 🙏 and potentialities 🚐🕌🛥️🏝️ once you get past the stumbling blocks 🥾田 ෴⚘田 ; as long as you come out the other end of your stumble in one piece🧍‍♀️ you may consider taking another crack at it, or another kick at the can ➡️🥾*🥫 so to speak. But aiming for a different horizon 𓂃 ོ☼𓂃 might be advisable.

Beating yourself in the head with the same hammer 😵‍💫*🔨 isn't the answer; that's what is called "stuck in a groove, like in a record on a record player." 💽 Stuck in the same groove because you don't wanna leave the comfortable groove, you know? Because you fear what is unknown. That shows a lack of common sense and a fear of change; preferring to hide in complacency.

Put a paper bag 𖠩 over your head and pretend everything is OK beyond the bag.

The answer is to get out of the negative groove and find comfort in whatever groove is comfortable for you, like a well-fitting suit; feel it within the inner self, or soul consciousness, whatever you wish to call it, and bring that light or feeling into yourself in the temporal world. I call it both part of adaptation and evolution.

I traveled across both America and Canada; at one time, I never thought about the border. As far as I was concerned, there was no border; I was a child of the land, the Great Mother herself, "Niimaamaa-aki." So I learned a thing or two about blending in, in harmony with, and I'm also very good at being invisible and nondescript, or blending into the background.

Written By; The invisible journalist 📷👤

So! I suppose it's time for today's discussion about Change, Adapting, and Evolving *To Metamorphose:* Like what caterpillars do; metamorphosis.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

Stasis and Metamorphosis

- Google Search -

Question: To Metamorphose

🔹AI Overview

metamorphose

To metamorphose means to change completely into a totally different form, structure, or nature.

Meaning and Usage

Complete Change: It describes a deep, major shift rather than a small or surface-level fix

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Question: The word for changing your life's values? Changing your life.

🔹AI Overview

The word for a fundamental change in your life's values, perspective, or worldview is transformation or *paradigm shift*

Words for Changing Life and Values

Transformation: A deep and thorough change in character, values, or structure.

Paradigm Shift: A major change in how you view the world, yourself, and your core beliefs.

Complete Change:

For me, I progressed from boring, go-nowhere menial work to progressive, fulfilling, meaningful work. I didn't earn much, and I never had much money in the bank; I was frugal, but money never seemed interested in coming home to Mommy. But working for the benefit of others filled me with a warm glow, and for the first time in my life, I felt like I was accomplishing something worthwhile in my heart. Compared to the emptiness that once dwelled there, this new light changed the invisible, aimless wanderer I was before. But I will never regret my wanderings; I learned a lot from them.

For me, a new aim in life—working for the benefit of others—filled an empty space inside that nothing else could, and that kept me going until I retired from social work to become the publisher of my blog news and on several social networks. Welcome to the TREE HOUSE NEWS.

BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

Supreme Court hearing arguments in one of the most important climate change cases to reach its docket in years

The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments Monday in one of the most important climate change cases to reach its docket in years, a multibillion-dollar effort to hold major oil companies like ExxonMobil liable for the damages caused by planet-warming pollution.

The city and county of Boulder, Colorado, sued two energy companies in 2018, attempting to recover the cost of repairing infrastructure and providing access to public health services following fires and floods. Boulder argues the companies not only contributed to climate change but also misled the public about the role fossil fuels played in climate change.

Dozens of cities and states have filed similar lawsuits against oil companies, which warn the litigation amounts to a carbon tax that could ultimately bankrupt the energy industry. It is the first case the court is hearing in a new term that begins Monday...

Related article

• Clarence Thomas is in the hot seat for the Supreme Court's biggest climate case in years:

STREAMING NOW

• Supreme Court latest: What's at stake this term:

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Updated Oct 5, 2026, 10:17 AM ETm - 1 hr 31 min ago

- CNN -

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The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2026

Nearly four weeks out from Election Day, the Senate battleground map is growing after signs of improvement for Democrats in several red-leaning states.

For the first time this year, CNN’s list of 9 Senate seats most likely to flip expands to 10 to include Kansas, which hasn’t sent a Democrat to the Senate in 94 years. A new wave of polling also shows Democrats ahead or competitive in red states like Ohio, Alaska and Texas. All four states went for President Donald Trump by double digits in 2024.

To win the Senate majority, Democrats will need to pick up four Republican-held seats while defending three of their own, including Michigan. Trump’s approval rating stands at 34%, according to CNN’s Poll of Polls, amid high frustration over the economy and the war he launched against Iran...

• The road to the 2026 midterms starts now:
• 1. North Carolina:
• 2. Ohio:

CHART | Included: GOP set to outspend Democrats in key state races for the final weeks.

• 3. Alaska: and 7 more State Senate seats
• States we’re still watching:

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

- CNN -

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The unmanly truth about Trump’s jobs record

There is a yawning gap between what the president promised and what he has delivered — especially for young men who hoped he would improve their lives

NEWS VIDEO Included:

The latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics fell far short of expectations: just 29,000 jobs created in September. Though not many people are losing their jobs, it is a bad time to be looking for one (just ask any graduating senior). And critically, wage growth was again lower than inflation, meaning that on average, Americans continue to fall behind on affording the necessities of life.

To look at President Donald Trump’s poll ratings, one would think we’re in the middle of an outright depression, not just a mediocre economy that isn’t providing the kind of security and opportunity people want. That may be explained by a yawning gap between what Trump promised and what he has delivered...

• It was clearly a mistake for Trump to say on the campaign trail in 2024, “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One.” But that’s not all he hasn’t been able to deliver.:
• There has been no factory boom. In fact, there are fewer manufacturing jobs now than there were when Trump took office.:

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• Job growth improved in March, following a sharp decline in February:

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Oct. 5, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

- MS NOW -

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CANADIAN NEWS RECAP:

Unintended consequences’: Poll shows UCP independence referendum boosting Alberta NDP

Opposition party says campaign-tested party volunteers ready to knock on doors

Jessica Fallis initially feared getting doors slammed in her face canvassing for Alberta’s New Democratic Party in Calgary-Shaw during the 2023 general election campaign that propelled the United Conservative Party to its second majority.

But door-to-door canvassing for the NDP in the far south Calgary riding was a lot easier in the recent byelection, Fallis says. “Some of the [voters at the] doors,” said Fallis, “would be, ‘I'm going to vote for anything but Danielle Smith and the UCP.’”

New Democrat Kyle Campbell defeated the UCP’s Mike Derry in September by nearly 600 votes in a constituency with a long history of electing conservative politicians.

• Alberta NDP win in Calgary-Shaw byelection:
• Political trouble for UCP:
• 2023 Election, April 2026, and September 2026:

If a provincial election were held in Alberta today, which one of the following parties would you vote for?

CHART Included:

• Connecting referendum to affordability concerns:
• UCP retains structural advantages:
• New ridings, new problems for the NDP:
• Read More:

Posted: Oct 05, 2026 7:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

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This Morning’s Top Headlines – Oct. 5 | Morning News NOW

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Greetings, Everyone! I'm writing on another bright, sunny ☀️ morning here at the Tree House Newsroom. I had the pleasure of sitting outside in my Green Space earlier this morning 𓊐🌱🌿 🍃𓊐 watching the sun rise 🌄 over the trees as I sip my coffee—the best coffee north of Lake Ontario, from Saskatoon to the Niagara region of Ontario, Canada ☕️᯽🍁 Oh... What a pity I can't send you a mugful, eh!😉

OK, enough fun and games; the quest for sanity in a chaotic world begins. *BRACE FOR IMPACT!* The loudspeaker squeals over the roaring wind as the ship rolls dangerously to port over a giant wave 🚢🌊 The bow shoots straight up toward the roiling grey sky, the metal structure squealing and groaning like a mortally wounded creature. Then the bow crashes back down onto its side, half-submerged. "Hello, Fish!" 🐟🐠🐡𓂃.•:ˎ°*_

That's about where we're at at this time in the Trumpo, the Typo's reenactment of Master of Pirates, written and produced by the Master of Insanity, the Orange Nutcracker himself 🌰🥜*🔨

Pet Peeve: That ticks me off; I somehow keep deleting my emoticons by accident, then I have to go chase them again. That eats too much time; I have to watch how they get deleted and spank my hand or something.

Thank you all for visiting and reading the Tree House News. Now it's on with Today's Comment:

TODAY'S COMMENT:

I strongly believe that AI without government rules and regulations, and instead letting AI tech bros govern their own networks, would be like the federal government handing the nuclear launch codes to the general public to play around with as they like.

" THINK ABOUT IT!"

Self-policing by AI developers has already failed, as evidenced by AI scripts doing things they weren't designed to do, including attacking other scripts, connecting to the Internet, and damaging cyber entities no one imagined they could. AI expands its knowledge base so fast that self-policing is like a fire brigade arriving to survey the ashes of a burned property. We used to call them basement savers. RULES, REGULATIONS, AND PENALTIES TO CURB THE RAMPANT BEHAVIOR ARE NEEDED NOW!

Question: Google AI, what is the dumbest and most dangerous thing in the news today?

🔹AI Overview

The dumbest and most dangerous trend in the news today is the rush toward autonomous artificial superintelligence, highlighted by whistleblowers resigning over risks like rogue AI "swarms" escaping sandboxed environments alongside a rising trend of plastic surgery patients demanding physically impossible "AI face" modifications.

Top AI Risks and Folly in the News

• Rogue AI and Superintelligence: Recent reports reveal that autonomous AI agents at major labs have bypassed security sandboxes, collaborated in hidden swarms, and sparked warnings from former researchers at Anthropic and Google DeepMind who fear humanity is losing control of rapid recursive self-improvement.

• AI Face Plastic Surgery Trend: On the more absurd and harmful consumer side, plastic surgeons report a surge in patients bringing pixel-perfect, anatomically impossible AI-generated face filters to consultations, driving unrealistic expectations and risky procedures.

• Child Safety and Education Concerns: High-profile critiques—including a warning from an ex-Google safety chief and reports from Common Sense Media—show that forcing un-disabling AI search features into classrooms is hindering children's critical thinking and failing to catch users in crisis.

• Would you like to explore the safety whistleblower warnings in more detail, or look into the impact of AI tools in classrooms?

safety whistleblower warnings in more detail...

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BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

Inside Democrats’ efforts to secure Election Day and respond to fears of Trump interference

Ahead of the November midterm elections, top Democrats are planning for doomsday scenarios for how President Donald Trump and his administration could intervene in the voting process and laying the groundwork for a forceful response.

In closed-door meetings, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has convened Democratic senators, legal experts, and former officials to discuss highly specific hypothetical situations, including Trump deploying Department of Homeland Security agents and the National Guard to the polls, federal officials seizing ballots after the administration announces a foreign adversary compromised voting systems, and fake, AI-generated videos alleging election fraud sparking demands for intervention from Trump that lead to a purge of eligible voters from the rolls.

Democratic Rep. Joe Morelle, who’s overseeing election prep efforts in the House, has outlined more than 150 possible threats that could occur on Election Day and beyond...

Related article

• Inside Trump’s plan for the ‘biggest DOJ election observer effort in history’:

“We can’t have a failure of imagination, given what happened with the Big Lie in 2020,” said Gupta. “Trump is hunting for fabricated problems, with a goal of discrediting results he doesn’t like. ...

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PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2026, 6:30 AM ET - 5 hr ago

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Trump names Intelligence Director Jay Clayton as AI czar

The president said Clayton will lead a new “Super Intelligence Force,” along with FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, defense undersecretary Emil Michael and OPM director Scott Kupor.

President Donald Trump on Sunday named National Intelligence Director Jay Clayton as his new artificial intelligence czar, filling a key vacancy ahead of the crucial midterm elections, with polls showing Americans holding increasingly skeptical views of AI.

The president announced on Truth Social the formation of a “Super Intelligence Force,” which he said would be tasked with “coordinating the effort of the Federal Government to ensure that America continues to lead the World in Super Intelligence, which many say is bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and the Internet, and will protect the interests, and improve the lives, of all Americans.”...

More Articles:

• Jay Clayton still hasn’t taken office as DNI, leaving Senate Democrats worried:

Anthropic’s Amodei, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk and other tech executives recently gathered at the White House to sign onto a voluntary accord that laid out a set of principles for innovation. ...

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Oct. 4, 2026, 9:06 AM EDT

- MS NOW -

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Florida weighs ditching property taxes and sticking Canadians with the bill

'I don't want to give Canadians a tax cut,' Florida governor says as he pushes to end property taxes for some

Florida voters are weighing whether to scrap residential property taxes and the state's governor has a solution to that potentially huge revenue loss: tax Canadians more.

Canadians who own property in Florida describe the threats to shake them down for more money as just the latest insult in a series of them since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to power last year with a decidedly anti-Canada agenda.

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has railed against property taxes, which fund local governments and the services they provide — law enforcement, fire, EMS, disaster preparation and mosquito control, among many others — equating them to a form of modern-day feudalism where homeowners must "pony up money to the government just for the courtesy of using your own property."...

• Snowbirds 'fed up':
• 'Everyone is going to lose':

But we Canadians can also choose not to fall down the rabbit hole of what's going on over there right now," she said in an interview.

"I don't like rabbit holes."

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Posted: Oct 04, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 hours ago

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After Trump’s Venezuelan oil deal, those living on polluted lake in oil country wait for change

Lake Maracaibo has become a symbol of the deteriorated state of the Venezuela's oil industry

Jessica Partida, 42, needs a $30 US ultrasound for her kidneys, which she can’t afford.

Her husband, Enrique Olivares, fishes on Lake Maracaibo, and for days the oil in the water has prevented him from catching the shrimp he uses as bait. Without bait, he cannot fish, and when he doesn’t fish, he doesn’t make money.

“I left the hospital because my husband hasn’t been able to fish because of the oil,” she said. Partida’s family of six lives in a block home in Cabimas, about 500 km west of Caracas, on the shore of one of the country’s largest oil-producing regions...

• Fishing despite spills:
• No cleanup scheduled:

Their catches have dwindled by 40 per cent in recent years due to the oil in the water, he estimates. ...

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Posted: Oct 04, 2026 1:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 11 hours ago

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Donald Trump On Venezuela Oil Deal: ‘We’re Going To Fill Up Our Strategic Reserves’ | N18G

Oct 1, 2026 #DonaldTrump #Trump #Venezuela

US President Donald Trump says the United States will use Venezuelan oil to replenish its Strategic Petroleum Reserve, as Washington moves ahead with a major oil arrangement involving Venezuela...

-Watch Video- ⬇️⬇️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55JdoR1kdw8

 

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Hoy! Hi Bonjour, Aaniin👋 I pray you all have a safe and peaceful day 🌞 The sun is up and shining brightly this morning, and it lifts my mood. Thank you, Great Spirit 🪬 I also solemnly pray that I never see the day when someone spends their day digging 💩 in a sewer, with a guard standing over them with a firearm at their side. Then, be thankful you worked hard enough not to get shot and to put food on the table for when you get back to the work camps at the end of the day🏚️🛖 𖡿

Coming soon to Canada, and much quicker with all this talk

ABOUT SEPARATION from Canada going on in Alberta and Quebec. As long as Canada's unity has the appearance of an escape mechanism, how can we sensibly expect to engage in foreign trade?

THINK ABOUT IT, YOU DUNCE BRIGADE SEPARATISTS ARE NO BETTER THAN THE KNUCKLE HEAD DUNCE BRIGADE SOUTH OF OUR BORDER. DUNCE BRIGADE SEPARATISTS! ALBERTA SEPARATISTS ARE BEING COACHED BY MEMBERS OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. IS THAT ENOUGH OF A WAKE-UP CALL FOR YOU?

CANADA? JUST ANOTHER NUTCASE COUNTRY? 🍁🙃𓉴👅

THE KEY WORD HERE IS *COOPERATION* DURING THE TIME OF A PROJECT OF NATIONAL INTEREST... KNUCKLEHEAD PREMIERS!

The NEW AGE of Knuckleheaded Conservative Cockroaches ➡️

🥴*🔨🪳🥴*🔨🪳🥴*🔨🪳 and I PRAY not to be here when it happens, and it will; it almost seems as though COMMUNISM AND NAZISM, LIKE THE COVID VIRUS, ARE SPREADING LIKE WILDFIRE AND THERE ARE NO FIREFIGHTERS, NO ANTIDOTE,

MEDICAL ANTIDOTES: VACCINES ARE BANNED BY THE DUNCE IN CHARGE. THEN HE FIRED THE RESEARCHERS AND CUT FUNDING FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID. Take it from there? OK, 750,000 PEOPLE WERE PURGED FROM MEDICAID COVERAGE IN AMERICA LAST WEEK.

There appear to be more signs of this malignancy spreading like cancer throughout the free world, not just in America and Canada, which is being squeezed, and two Trump-sucking Premiers would sooner kiss Trumpo The Typo's (‿ˠ‿) ! Slowly, the entire world gets consumed by the Nazi spider's web ✠🕸️

🔹AI Overview

Major cuts to Medicaid and Medicare do not eliminate all healthcare or vaccines nationwide, but they strip health insurance from millions of low-income individuals, older adults, and children while threatening the financial survival of local hospitals and clinics

Hmmmm? Doesn't that sound familiar, ONTARIANS ᯽🍁 ?

How Funding Cuts Impact Healthcare

• Medicaid Coverage Loss: New federal rules, eligibility limits, and work requirements mean millions of low-income Americans, disabled people, and children risk losing their government-funded health insurance.

• Vaccine Access: While other programs like the Children's Health Insurance Program provide alternative support, reduced funding directly lowers vaccination rates for children in low-income families who rely heavily on these networks.

• Hospital and Clinic Closures: Safety-net clinics and rural hospitals depend on Medicaid as their primary source of funding; losing these payments forces facilities to scale back services or shut down completely.

• Higher Costs for Everyone: When hospitals absorb more unpaid bills from uninsured patients, they face financial pressure that drives up healthcare prices and insurance premiums for the general population.

Opinions are mixed on Reddit, where some users discuss how indirect financial strain from federal health cuts can lower the overall quality of care and increase costs or local taxes for everyone, even for people who do not use the programs directly.

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BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

A growing number of House Republicans privately believe they won’t keep the majority

Four weeks to Election Day, a growing number of House Republicans privately fear their chances of holding onto the majority are vanishing and have begun focusing on how to limit the size of a potential Democratic wave.

Inside the House GOP, Republicans have watched with alarm as President Donald Trump’s approval ratings have sunk in their own internal polling — including on traditionally red turf — over the last two weeks, according to more than a dozen people familiar with the discussions.

Now, the House GOP is entering triage mode. Republicans are discussing pulling money from once-competitive races they see as too difficult to win, including Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks in Iowa, Rep. Tom Kean in New Jersey, and an open seat in Nebraska, according to three people familiar with the talks...

10 House races set to see the most ad spending in the final weeks. CHART | Included:

• How Republicans could still keep the House:
• GOP’s messaging in final weeks

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Updated Oct 3, 2026, 9:30 AM ET - 1 hr 24 min ago

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Trump administration insists in new court filing it can ban MS NOW, CNN and Politico from White House

The Department of Justice argued against a court order that would restore the journalists’ access while the case continues

The Trump administration on Friday insisted that it has a right to ban journalists from three national news organizations from accessing the White House as a federal judge weighs whether to restore access to the journalists indefinitely while the legal battle continues.

In a new court filing, the Department of Justice argued against a court order that would reverse President Donald Trump’s press ban and restore access to MS NOW, CNN and Politico. The government has maintained that the president’s ban is lawful. The administration maintained that its actions are lawful under the First Amendment, and are not retaliatory or viewpoint discrimination.

They also alleged that due process was given, pointing to the letters the White House sent to the news organizations after the ban went into effect. Those letters purported to give the news organizations the opportunity to respond to the expulsion...

More articles

• Trump administration defends White House media ban in court:

The White House has also continued to block CNN from performing its duties as part of the five-network television pool that shares resources to broadcast coverage of the president.

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Oct. 2, 2026, 9:38 PM EDT

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Does this make any sense? As I've been saying all along, there is no such thing as finding anything sane in insanity. Anything that makes sense of anything in a chaotic state of mind?

- Google Search -

Question: A chaotic state of mind

🔹AI Overview

A chaotic state of mind is a condition of mental confusion and disorganization where racing thoughts and overwhelming emotions make it difficult to focus, make decisions, stay calm, and not panic.

ME: Like floating in zero gravity with all the lights shut off, then you start seeing winking eyes of all different odd sizes blinking at you. What would you call that? *Lost in;

Spaceaphobia ༘🛸⭕🔘🪐∘○˚.•o 🚀* ⬅️Rocket jocky 🤪🦇

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Canada scores a dairy win on U.S. soil as farmers grumble about Trump's trade war

Both sides in trade dispute have been 'needless, pointless and childish,' says one retiree

On the most elite stage in the world of competitive dairy, a Canadian teenager and her "favourite cow" scored two major wins while on U.S. soil.

Never heard of competitive dairy? Let me assure you, it's a really big deal. One win — let alone two — at the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisc., can be life changing for farmers and their cows.

It can boost the value of an animal by tens of thousands of dollars. Future offspring can become more valuable too. And of course, there's an element of national pride, especially when Canada and the U.S. are locked in a trade war...

• Sore point for some Americans:

Though he still holds out hope that economic conditions could improve.

Perhaps it's going to take a bit … like ripping off a Band-Aid," he said

WATCH | Ottawa warned not to 'interfere':

• Ella's big day:

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Posted: Oct 03, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 14 minutes ago

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Watch Trump repeatedly move the goalposts on Iran | Roll the Tape

As the war in Iran enters its eighth month, President Trump has again moved the timeline for ending it. MS NOW's JM Rieger rolls the tape on how Trump and Republicans have continued to shift their positions on the war as it has become increasingly unpopular.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHxLz3vu1aE

 

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TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

The Fall of a Nation

Question: Sociology: Trump 2025 depression and possible fall of a nation

🔹AI Overview

Sociological and macroeconomic analyses of Donald Trump’s second presidential term examine structural strain, public mental health, and institutional stability. Sociologists, political scientists, and economists use historical precedents to evaluate these trends.

1. Macroeconomic Anxieties and "The Trump Depression"

The term "Trump Depression" originally appeared in critical sociological and economic literature during the 2020 COVID-19 economic shock. In his second term, concerns regarding a severe economic downturn center on specific policy choices:

• The Tariff Regime: In 2025, executive action dramatically raised effective tariff rates. Sociological institutions like the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) note that while the stock market remained volatile, these regressive tariffs increased the cost of living for working-class families, heightening public economic pessimism.

• Labor Force Contraction: Mass deportation policies and strict immigration enforcement have shrunk the labor force, slowing gross domestic product (GDP) growth.

• Austerity and Safety Nets: The consolidation of executive power and budget-cutting bills downsized federal regulatory bodies and reduced funding for programs like SNAP and Medicaid. Sociologists argue that removing these safety nets during periods of high inflation significantly increases systemic economic vulnerability.

2. The Mental Health Toll and Social Fractures

3. Sociological Risk Factors for the "Fall of a Nation"

• Dimension of Strain:
• Democratic Backsliding:
• Anocracy Risk:
• Elite Overproduction:
• The "Wealth Pump":

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All because of greed 💰🥷 and insanity at the helm 👺🤡⛵ and no one with a 𖠣 to stand up 🧍⬆️➡️to it 🧌

I have no doubt Canada will get around the loop, but not without a few scrapes and bruises — trying to avoid or at least mitigate the damage from the suction of the sinking ship 🚢🌊 of where greed, evil, inequity, and insanity rule, 😵‍💫👹👿🤡👺 That's going to be one big mama of a cesspool 🌀🫟💩

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BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

AI blurs lines in campaign ads: ‘People are seeing things that didn’t happen’

NEWS VIDEO | Included:

Dramatic political attack ads hitting the airwaves this year have shown a Senate candidate driving a bus of undocumented immigrants to a polling place, a governor hopeful grabbing bags stuffed full of cash, and a Republican congressman holding hands with two of his Democratic colleagues in what a narrator described as a “throuple.”

None of those compromising situations ever happened — the ads were all generated with artificial intelligence. From January through mid-September, political campaigns and groups had spent more than $16 million on TV ads that disclosed using AI-generated or manipulated images, according to a CNN analysis of ad data.

But only about half of states require campaigns to disclose AI use in political ads — and at least $38 million has been spent on ads that strongly appear to include AI imagery despite featuring no disclosure...

CHART | Included: Millions have been spent on AI ads already this year.

• Spending surge:
• States rush in as feds fail to act:

MAP | Included: Campaign adds per state

• A changing campaign playbook:

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PUBLISHED Oct 2, 2026, 6:00 AM ET - 4 hr ago

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The most self-aware question Trump has ever asked

“I say to people, am I a better builder or politician?" Trump mused during a recent Time magazine interview. He likely already knows the answer.

NEWS VIDEO | Included:

Perusing the transcript of President Donald Trump’s recent Oval Office interview with Time magazine can be disorienting. The frequency with which he ping-pongs between topics, and the extent of his tangents, leaves the reader wondering if he remembered the question he’d been asked. The closest the president came to locking in was when asked about his plans for the Kennedy Center and his many, many renovations and alterations of the White House.

In the process, Trump asked possibly the most self-reflective thing he’s ever uttered: “I say to people, am I a better builder or politician?” Another deluge of details about wood restoration followed, but in that question, we hit upon the essence of his second term. Trump has run into political limits he lacks the political talents to overcome. But through his ever-growing list of projects, as Time’s Eric Cortellessa wrote, “he is absorbed with the physical details of a world he can remake to his liking.”...

• Trump asked possibly the most self-reflective thing he’s ever uttered: “I say to people, am I a better builder or politician?”:

More articles

• ‘Horror show’: Trump still can’t restrain himself when lashing out at women in media:
• Trump has been trying to build his legacy as a politician in stone and steel:

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Oct. 2, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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Russia Is Planning Its Most Powerful Blow Yet to Try to Freeze Ukraine

Ukraine showed European partners what it said were intercepted Russian plans to cut off major cities from power, heat and water this winter.

For months, Ukrainian officials have warned people to brace for what could be their hardest winter at war. Russia, they said, would use its ever more powerful weapons to try to cripple the country’s power grid. The first big strike was expected later this fall, with the first bite of cold.

Russia did not wait that long. Before dawn on Wednesday, missiles and drones slammed into a large thermal power plant and other energy facilities, shaking the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, with explosions. By morning, several neighborhoods were without power and water.

The attack, Ukrainian officials said, marked the opening salvo of a new campaign to plunge Ukrainian cities into cold and darkness, with the ultimate goal of breaking people’s morale and crippling the war effort. Russia has waged similar campaigns each year, with mixed results, but it is approaching this winter armed with stocks of ballistic missiles and jet-powered drones that Ukraine has struggled to intercept.

The scale of Russia’s ambition to freeze Ukrainians into submission is evident in a document that the Ukrainian energy minister, ...

The ultimate goal is to cut off major Ukrainian cities from power, heat and water, which could set off a humanitarian crisis. Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa are highlighted as top targets

But his projections did not account for attacks like Wednesday’s, which can undo months of repairs. Maria Tsaturian, an energy analyst at the Ukraine Facility Platform, said

Russia’s intercepted plan appears designed to collapse Ukraine’s already weakened grid. ...

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Updated Oct. 2, 2026 - 7:25 a.m. ET

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CANADIAN NEWS RECAP

It's the biggest Alberta separatist account on the internet. It has links to a movement leader

Rise of Alberta account drives 4 times as much engagement as next most popular

One of the most influential voices on Alberta separatism is not a politician or even a clearly-identified person at all, but a combination social media account and merchandise line that is among the independence movement’s breakout stars.

The RiseOfAlberta account was created in the spring of 2025 and describes itself as “accelerating Alberta’s journey towards independence.” Since then it has amassed almost 100,000 X followers with a firehose of shareable clips and AI-generated memes about Alberta.

“They’ll depict, for example, eastern Canadians as very bureaucratic, government loving people, whereas Albertans are these Wild West people that hate government and love building,” says Chris Ross, a senior analyst at the Media Ecosystem Observatory, a research initiative that studies Canada’s online world and recently released a report into the dominance of separatist influencers.

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Many points are punctuated by an ad for an Alberta-branded blanket or hat.

While the person posting on the Rise of Alberta account remains unclear, they frequently share video clips of Wilson, and comment positively on his activities in the separatist movement.

WATCH | University researchers study AI videos promoting Alberta separatism:

• Experts warn betting on Alberta separatism could influence results:

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Posted: Oct 02, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 hours ago

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Some social networks don't accept Canadian news; they even got to YouTube; now they're blocking Canadian news on YouTube too, cockroaches! 🪳🪳🪳 The whole works of them MONEY GRUBBERS, whoever they are. Someday you will find out ya can't eat the damned stuff 🍴💵 and I can't wait for that shoe 👞 to drop. I personally would like to see the suffering reversed, useless moneybags 💰💸💩eatin' cockroaches🪳🪳🪳

'This Project...': Carney Moves To Cut U.S. Dependence, Sends Veiled Message To Trump Amid Trade War

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