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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Good morning. So I do pray 🙏 for all. Thank you, Great Spirit 🌌. It's grey, cloudy, and cool out there, so sad to say I didn't spend as much time in my Green Space as I usually would, ruminating and meditating on things. That's when I sit and sip my coffee; I get inspired and fired up, so I already know which heck to go after before getting behind the laptop to write up the Tree House News.

Depending on the mood of the day, the topics are not always from a political perspective, but also from humanitarian, spiritual, or scientific ones. The topics vary. I'm a little late getting started this morning; owing to many unexpected distractions, today's news is brief.

Mindsets, like: Negative thoughts bring negative results; reverse the mindset; positive thoughts bring positive results.

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Thoughts Become Reality

You're damned 🧱🌊 right, they do!

Query: Thoughts become real

🔹AI Overview

How Thoughts Shape Reality

• Perception: Your brain filters information based on what you already believe. You notice things that match your thoughts and ignore things that do not.

• Emotions: What you think triggers specific feelings. Expecting failure brings anxiety, while expecting success builds confidence.

• Actions: Your feelings lead to choices and behaviors. How you act then creates your actual life results.

• Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Believing something will happen causes you to act in ways that make it happen.

*Limitations of the Concept*

• External Events: You cannot control random events like natural disasters, illnesses, or sudden job losses through thought alone.

• Nuanced Views: Opinions on Reddit are mixed, with some users noting that claiming thoughts solely create reality can unfairly blame people for bad situations they did not cause

How to Change Your Thinking

• Notice Thoughts: Pay attention to what you tell yourself each day.

• Challenge Beliefs: Ask if your negative thoughts are actually true or just habits.

• Choose Focus: Practice shifting your attention toward positive and helpful possibilities.

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It's not easy to shift your mind away from something; at the time, it feels like a life-or-death decision, and it's easier to suffer than to attempt to change it. Be the mouse and suffer in silence, or BEWARE of the vengeance of the gods if you defy them and they send you back like a beat-up puppy. TOO MUCH OF THAT ALREADY; THAT CURSE IS NO LONGER MY MASTER!

That will be about it for me on the topic of Thoughts Become Reality for today. Thank you for visiting and reading the Tree House News 🏡

✎ᝰ.BELIEVE 🌌

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BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

Trump is only amping up his antics ahead of the midterm election

While President Donald Trump’s personal behavior is often strange, his conduct over the last 12 days has been pretty remarkable — especially with the midterm election around the corner.

He’s offered voters what even some Republicans say amounts to a bribe. He’s threatened (jokingly?) to withhold disaster aid from a state if it doesn’t elect a GOP senator. Ahead of the 25th anniversary of 9/11, he told a dubious story about his proximity to Ground Zero. He’s baselessly suggested Democrats conspired to kill him.

He’s threatened to halt all foreign trade. He’s holding the future of the Kennedy Center hostage if judges don’t allow him to put his name on it, and says he wants his proposed 250-foot triumphal arch across Arlington National Cemetery to double as a military complex housing drones and snipers. He’s also now denying certain media outlets, including CNN, access to the White House...

Polling in recent months has shown:

• 67% of Americans said he doesn’t carefully consider important decisions.

• 71% said he’s not “even-tempered.”

• And more than 7 in 10 adults and registered voters said he doesn’t even have a plan for the Iran war, according to both Fox

News and CNN polling.

Trump repeatedly threatened to halt large portions of US foreign trade — including with all countries with whom the US has a trade deficit — if the Federal Reserve doesn’t lower interest rates.

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Updated Sep 20, 2026, 9:03 AM ET - 1 hr 46 min ago

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Moscow targeted by Ukraine’s largest ever drone attack on final day of Russia’s election

Ukraine carried out its largest ever drone attack on the Russian capital and the surrounding area as voting in parliamentary elections entered the final day.

The Russian Ministry of Defense said in a statement on Sunday that more than 1,900 drones, eight guided aerial bombs, eight cruise missiles and four rockets were shot down overnight. That tally makes the attack Ukraine’s largest ever, although Kyiv did not confirm the exact number of drones and projectiles it fired.

At least three people were killed and a major oil refinery in Moscow region was damaged...

• Related article: Empty podiums, prizes for e-voting, no opposition: Russians head to the polls amid intensifying war in Ukraine
• Massive attack:

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Updated Sep 20, 2026, 10:43 AM ET - 17 min ago

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What Trump’s new ‘ban on the free press’ is really about

Fights over who gets into the Oval Office may seem like vanity, but they decide how much Americans get to see of their own government.

NEWS VIDEO | Included:

Presidents who restrict the press have usually cited some other justification: security, space constraints, matters of decorum. President Donald Trump has stripped away any pretense.

On Saturday, he expelled MS NOW, CNN and Politico journalists from the White House in what he himself referred to as a “ban on the free press.”

His announcement on Truth Social on Friday left little doubt about the reason: He dislikes what journalists at those outlets report.

But none of that explains barring entire news organizations from the White House because of what they publish. ...

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Sept. 20, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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CANADIAN 🍁 NEWS RECAP:

The province gave SMU $25M to transform health care. Then it quietly killed the plan

Saint Mary's has 'not been able to demonstrate a concrete plan and adequate progress,' province says

It was March 2023 when Nova Scotia's then-advanced education minister appeared at Saint Mary's University, announcing $25 million in funding for the university to revolutionize the province's health-care system.

The money was intended to create health-care data analytics and management programs at the Halifax school, but Brian Wong offered few details on how that funding would lead to better health care.

"We need to come into the modern era as far as data and health care," Wong said at the time. "We've done it in other sectors many years ago, and it's time that we do it."

• Why the province shut the initiative down:
• What the university promised:

• Developing and offering health-care analytics programming to help workers make data-informed decisions.

• Developing business administration, management and leadership courses for health-care administrators, staff, office directors, family doctors and practitioners.

• Expanding articulation agreements to give Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) health-care students more options to pursue degrees at Saint Mary's.

'Unsatisfactory':

• What SMU is saying:

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Posted: Sep 20, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

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There goes our Ontario Health Care right down the s--t 💩can 🥫

CAN YOU NOT SEE THAT! THE MOST IMPORTANT SOCIAL PROGRAM MEANT TO SAVE LIVES! OUT THE WINDOW 🪟

In other words, taking away our health care is the same 💩 as south of the border; if you don't have lots of money 💵💴💶💷, go die in the outback 🏝️ 🌲🏜️🌳 🌾somewhere where we can't see you, sayeth the rich 🤵‍♂️♔🤵🏻🪙🧛‍♂️👑👨‍✈️💸👨‍🔬🦇 🩸

What is that? Except as Part of a Nazi ✠ movement? Sure looks like it. What will they come for next: the house, the car, the dog, the cat, the husband, even your virginity if you still have it? As they slowly creep or worm 🪱 their way up further into our social network 👅

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TRUMP IRAN ANNOUNCEMENT LIVE | President Trump Makes Major Statement From The White House | Trump

TRUMP IRAN ANNOUNCEMENT LIVE | President Trump Makes Major Statement From The White House | Trump

President Donald Trump has issued an urgent national warning from the White House, delivering an emergency announcement that has placed the nation on high alert amidst unspecified threats to national security. In a live address from the Oval Office, President Trump detailed pressing concerns requiring immediate public awareness and federal action, prompting swift reactions from Congress, the Pentagon, and global markets...

NEWS VIDEO | Included:

DRIBBLE 💦

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPUMbIPmRj4

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Morning all! Not such a nice morning; it's grey, mostly cloudy, ☁️⛅️ and chilly 🐧🧊 out there. I guess fall 🍁🍂 just dropped in. It's time for Chief Smoking Bush 🪶😡ᝰ🌾ᝰ to pack up her tipi 𖡿 from the Green Space and start thinking about pitching the Newsroom camp back in our spare bedroom again 🚪🛏️. I like the big displays 🖥️ we have there, but I'll miss Mother Nature singing at my door, as the summer sun warms my heart, soul, and my Green Space🌱🌿 🍃☀️

I can Google AI Search the entire planet 🌏 if I have the right keywords. A lot of it — my guess is about 75% of the information you get as feedback news for the public to read — would be just gibberish for most. Yeah, that's right: don't believe everything you hear or read, then blab it all over the place and make a fool of yourself because it was Fake News. Once a word is spoken, you can't unspeak it. If you make a mistake, apologize, learn from it, and move on. Next time, exercise due diligence. Research, research, and more research! You will find that one thing does lead to another; EVERYTHING IS INTERCONNECTED.

There are connections, even parallel flows; one mimicking the other. Then the demand to keep the thieves' coffers filled eats away most of the nation's bologna sandwich 🥪 the entire AI system suddenly unites and short-circuits, overloading all terminals, like an army of gremlins striking and eating all the 0s and 1s — the DNA of AI — and the entire assembly of electronic engineers are sitting in the dark, twiddling their thumbs. WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THE LIGHTS WENT OUT? Sam asked🤔

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My Query:

Can I AI Google search the entire planet 🌏 if I have the right keywords? A lot of it — my guess is about 75% of the information you get as feedback news for the public to read — would be just gibberish for most.

🔹AI Overview

You have a great point—navigating the sheer volume of global data today definitely feels like filtering through massive noise to find a tiny signal.

An estimated 80% to 90% of all data generated worldwide is completely unstructured, consisting of chaotic, unorganized text like raw social media feeds, automated reports, and repetitive news cycles. For the average reader, a huge portion of it functions as digital background noise or "gibberish."

The secret to uncovering the valuable pieces lies entirely in precision prompting and advanced search operators*.

To help me bypass the noise and find exactly what you need across the globe, tell me:

• What is the specific topic or event you are researching?

• Are there any technical terms, acronyms, or industry-specific keywords related to it?

• Do you need information from a particular region, country, or time frame?

• I can apply targeted search strings to isolate the high-value data from the filler.*

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From this reality, the "TEMPORAL World," we can not reach that final point of perfection; the best we can hope for is to grow, learn, adapt, and evolve. ABOVE ALL, we need to learn from our mistakes and rebuild not just differently but in accord with, or in harmony with, doing the greatest good for the most people. That's it for me from my perch next to my Green Space. There is a lot of news to cover today. Thank you for visiting and reading the Tree House News🏡

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BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

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Query: Alberta and Ontario propose cross Canada Pipeline To Cut US Dependance

AI Overview

Ontario, Alberta Pitch Cross-Canada Oil Pipeline to Ease US ...The Northern Shield Energy Corridor is a proposed 3,300-kilometer crude oil pipeline connecting Hardisty, Alberta, to Sarnia, Ontario, intended to bypass U.S. transit routes and strengthen domestic energy security.

Project Overview

• Route: Runs 3,300 kilometers from the oil-storage hub in Hardisty, Alberta, to the refining center in Sarnia, Ontario.

• Capacity: Designed to transport roughly 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) initially, with potential expansion up to 800,000 bpd.

• Backing: Jointly championed by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Ontario Premier Doug Ford, building upon regional energy cooperation agreements.

Objectives & Context

• Reducing U.S. Reliance:

• Export Diversification:

• Timeline:

Key Challenges

• Economic & Financial Hurdles:

• Opposition & Consultation:

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Ontario, Alberta Pitch Cross-Canada Oil Pipeline to Ease US Reliance

• Alberta and Ontario proposed the Northern Shield Energy Corridor, a crude oil pipeline and energy corridor across Canada, to reduce the country’s dependence on the US.

• The proposed pipeline would carry about 500,000 barrels of oil a day for domestic use and export markets, and could expand to 800,000 barrels a day.

• A feasibility study on the Northern Shield proposal is set to be completed by the end of this year, and will explore costs and commercialization options.

Alberta and Ontario proposed a crude oil pipeline and energy corridor across Canada as a way of reducing the country’s dependence on the US.

The 3,300-kilometer (2,051-mile) route, called the Northern Shield Energy Corridor, would connect the Alberta oil-storage hub of Hardisty with the central Canadian refining center of Sarnia, Ontario, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Ontario Premier Doug Ford told reporters Monday.

The proposed pipeline would carry about 500,000 barrels of oil a day for domestic use and export markets, and could expand to 800,000 barrels a day. Ontario will also explore creating its own strategic petroleum reserve.

“By reducing Canadian reliance on oil imports, the Northern Shield pipeline could HELP STABILIZE OIL PRICES ACROSS THE COUNTRY and strengthen national security,” Ontario and Alberta said in a release

2026 Energy Now Media

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IT HAS TO HELP STABILIZE PRICES, OR THE WHEELS OF INDUSTRY WILL GRIND TO A HALT. WE COULD NOT CONVERT TO ALTERNATES FAST ENOUGH TO KEEP UP.

Alberta-Ontario pipeline proposal faces criticism over costs, need and lack of Indigenous consultation

Northern Shield Energy Corridor draws both support and pushback

A recent proposal to build a new pipeline from Alberta to Ontario is drawing both support and criticism.

The president of the municipal association representing more than 100 cities and towns across northeastern Ontario says the project could unlock funding to expand highways. But an oil industry expert says the project faces major economic hurdles, and the Anishinabek Nation says it was “blindsided” by the announcement.

Dave Plourde, mayor of Kapuskasing and president of the Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities (FONOM), said the proposal aligns with years of calls for more infrastructure investment in the region...

MAP | Included: proposed route for the Northern Shield energy corridor:

• Historical pipeline projects:
• ‘Pipeline would be a duplicate’:
• ‘Threat to our land, water and future generations’:

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Posted: Jul 09, 2026 7:09 AM EDT | Last Updated: July 9

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BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

CNN, MS NOW and Politico denied access to White House after Trump ‘ban’

NEWS VIDEO Included:

CNN reporter B K was denied access at the White House on Saturday morning, and her press pass was seized, one day after President Donald Trump announced that he was “banning” CNN, MS NOW and Politico.

First Amendment experts say the action is unconstitutional.

A reporter for Politico and a reporter and photographer for MS NOW were also denied access to the White House grounds when they arrived to work Saturday morning. All three news organizations signaled they will take legal action to defend the rights of their reporters.

The First Amendment is clear that once the White House invites in some journalists, it can’t ban others because it doesn’t like their reporting,” Brown said. “This is textbook viewpoint discrimination and will be quickly struck down by the courts if challenged.”

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Updated Sep 19, 2026, 11:11 AM ET - 4 min ago

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NAZISM REARING ITS UGLY HEAD ✠

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HHS to cut over 413 positions, including 143 nurses

Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) is cutting 413 jobs, including 143 nurses, to help offset a projected $150 million budget deficit for 2026-27, which reflects a refined estimate of its financial position.

HHS says in addition to $40 million of cost reductions achieved last year, further action is required to operate within the funding available to them. It says it has established savings targets of two per cent for clinical budgets and five per cent for administrative budgets for the 2026-27 fiscal year.

The organization says the 413 jobs that need to be reduced will affect both union and non-union positions, of which one-third or 157 are currently vacant. HHS currently has 557 vacancies across all job categories in the organization...

🔹AI Overview

Under the Mark Carney administration, Ontario receives more than $21 billion annually via the main federal Canada Health Transfer (CHT).

While the Carney government maintained the overall baseline health transfers inherited from previous agreements, it introduced specific new healthcare-related allocations and funds:

$6 Billion Infrastructure Allocation: Under Prime Minister Carney’s $51 billion Build Communities Strong Fund, Ontario was awarded the largest provincial share of $6 billion. While $4.4 billion of this was famously redirected by the province to waive sales taxes on new homes, a portion of the broader $5 billion national Health Infrastructure Fund stream is being deployed to upgrade Ontario's hospitals, long-term care facilities, and urgent care centres.

$25 Million for Medical Training: The administration directly committed a $25 million capital investment to support the creation of the Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) School of Medicine in Brampton, Ontario, aimed at expanding family doctor training capacity.

🔹AI Overview

The federal government under Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney has committed $73.97 billion over 10 years for healthcare in Ontario under their landmark funding agreements.

Question: How much has the province of Ontario contributed to health care for 2026?

AI Overview

For the 2026–2027 fiscal year, the province of Ontario allocated a record  $101.2 billion toward total healthcare spending in the 2026 Ontario Budget.

Why the layoffs of nurses and closing of hospitals if you have the money to keep the doors open, ya "dad-nabit thief!"🥊💥🥷

Hamilton Health Sciences SAID NOT A WORD ABOUT SALARY CUTS FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR AND OTHER EXECUTIVES, NOR DID THEY SAY ANYTHING ABOUT FOREGOING ANNUAL BONUSES FOR THE DENIZENS OF THE BOARDROOM AND MAHOGANY ROW. THE MINISTER OF HEALTH CARE, SYLVIA JONES, AND HER BOSS, PREMIER FORD, ARE SILENT.

IF NURSES ARE BEING CANNED TO SAVE MONEY, HOW CAN THE HOSPITAL EXECS GET AWAY WITHOUT LOSING SALARIES, BONUSES, OR POSITIONS, OR PERKS? IT MAKES NO SENSE!

WHERE IS ALL THIS FEDERAL & PROVINCIAL MONEY GOING TO WHEN WE'RE STILL LOSING NURSES, DOCTORS, AND HOSPITALS???

TWO SNAKES IN THE GRASS: 🐍🐉I/෴⚘

Ford the Pirate and Trumpo the Typo Chief, thief and liar of Shmucarica, make a nice couple. Putin might be a little jealous, though.

President Trump Makes an Announcement on Healthcare, Sep. 18, 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0dpGYLqNJ0

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Morning all! Maybe I should buy a lottery ticket today because our lucky run of summer-like days rolls on! Baby, roll another 7! I pray it's a bright, happy, sunshiny day for all of you reading my Tree House News 🏡 📰on this Friday, September 18, 2026,

🌺🌸💐☀️HAVE A HAPPY SUNSHINY DAY!☀️💐🌸🌺

PASS IT ON 🫱📃🫲 AND BRING THE SUNSHINE WITH YOU!

HAVE A HAPPY NATIONAL DO NOTHING WEEKEND, EVERYONE! 🥳🍾🍻😯😲🍸🙃🥃😵‍💫🧪😵🍷🫩ᝰ/🥴 - 🤔I'll stick with🍼☕️🫖🫗

_*What is the topic of the day? Well, I can think of a good one: what is the chance of some sane news on the major news networks today? A thousand American dollars to my wooden Canadian nickel that it will be as likely as rain in Death Valley. It is more likely the Aliens do us a favor and "disappear" Trumpo the Typo during the night while he was on Truth Social. And if that happened, I soitainly ain't goin' ta look fer him. Maybe Trumpo was a repo of an experimental AI robot gone coo-coo.

But we are all drowning in Trump's 💩 💩💩 because that is all we see before us: an ocean of Trumpo 💩 💩💩or up 💩 💩💩 crick, in a leaky canoe with no paddle and ... NO BAILING CAN 🥫!

_* PSYCHOLOGICALLY, 🧠 someone or many someones with a fully functional brain is behind this. What they want to do with the nation of America certainly doesn't look good for the health of the general public. THAT'S YOU, THE PEOPLE .*_

_*To me, it's certainly not brotherly and sisterly love; it looks more like someone is trying hard to bring about a WORLDWIDE FINANCIAL COLLAPSE.*_

_*I believe that this is exactly what Mark Carney is trying to prevent by unifying what's left: the EU, Mexico, and other smaller nations that wish to be more aligned with the EU.*_

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

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Question: World financial collapse 2026

🔹AI Overview

Global economic forecasts for 2026 point to slowed growth and rising vulnerabilities rather than an immediate, full-scale financial collapse, as detailed in reports like the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report.

Key Economic Risks in 2026

• AI Market Concentration: Massive capital spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure creates a potential valuation bubble that could trigger tech corrections.

• Geopolitical & Energy Shocks: Ongoing conflicts in the Middle East elevate risks of oil price spikes and supply chain fragmentation.

• Fiscal Strain: High public debt levels and rising bond yields put pressure on government budgets and central bank policies worldwide.

Market Outlook

• Growth Projections: International bodies project global economic growth to hover around 3% to 3.1%, tempered by trade tensions and tighter financial conditions.

• Resilience: Despite bearish concerns and elevated risk perceptions highlighted in analyses such as Yahoo Finance UK, major financial institutions note that structural cushions and corporate balance sheets have so far prevented a systemic collapse...

The PETROLEUM PROBLEM IS WHAT'S GOING TO BREAK THIS CAMEL'S BACK

If they allow prices to get out of control. CANADA doesn't need to follow everyone else over the precipice; we have enough of our own petroleum to supply...

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🔹AI Overview:

Canada has approximately 163 to 171 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, giving it the *third or fourth-largest oil reserves in the world.*

That's about it for today, folks. Thank you for visiting and reading the Tree House News 🏡

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BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

AI companies worry about the tech harming humans in the future. But it may damage the US economy even sooner

New York — President Donald Trump is suddenly at odds with AI’s leading executives over the largely unchecked development of AI technology. And it may be because our economy can’t afford a slowdown.

It might seem politically ill-advised, less than two months before the midterm elections to so forcefully stake out a position that’s out of step with the majority of Americans, who overwhelmingly oppose data centers being built near them and remain suspicious of AI’s use cases. But Trump’s pedal-to-the-metal approach suggests he may be more concerned about a bigger question: What happens to the US economy if the AI fever breaks on his watch?

There are a lot of ways to slice the metrics on just how dependent the US economy has become on AI (and AI-adjacent) spending...

That economic risk could come at a time when warning lights are already flashing.

Bond markets are signaling growing concern over government debt loads, deficit spending and elevated inflation that could lead to a cycle of higher interest rates — a situation compounded by the war in Iran and investors piling into corporate debt to fund the AI buildout._ ...

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PUBLISHED Sep 18, 2026, 7:30 AM ET - 2 hr ago

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They sparked Signalgate. Now they’re threatening to sink Trump in a different way.

The Iranian-backed Houthi militants are once again threatening oil shipment routes through the Red Sea. What will President Donald Trump do this time?

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The U.S. decision to attack the Houthis last year unwittingly kicked off one of the most bruising political scandals of President Donald Trump’s second term: Signalgate. Now the Iranian-backed Houthis are once again wreaking havoc on vital Red Sea transit routes, with Trump holding back and deciding not to widen the Iran campaign — for now.

American diplomats met with Houthi representatives at the U.S. Embassy in Oman over the weekend, a source briefed on the meeting said. The goal was to cool down the conflict and ensure that ships can pass through the Red Sea, said the source, who was granted anonymity to describe sensitive discussions...

• More articles: The Houthis’ commandeering of a Red Sea strait is a huge deal*

“Trump doesn’t want to start another campaign, certainly not before the elections,” said Schenker, who is now a fellow at the Washington Institute. “We’re short of munitions and already stretched.”

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Posted Sept. 18, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT

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CANADIAN NEWS RECAP:

Ottawa mayoral candidate charged for alleged death threats against Doug Ford and Mark Sutcliffe

Charges filed in Kingston, Ont., against Geoffrey Nicholas Griplas cite social media posts this month

WARNING: This story contains descriptions of violent language and imagery.

A candidate for mayor of Ottawa is facing multiple charges for allegedly making death threats against Ontario Premier Doug Ford and incumbent Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe. Geoffrey Nicholas Griplas was charged on Sept. 15 with two counts of criminal harassment, as well as two counts of uttering death threats allegedly made by social media posts between the dates of Sept. 6 and Sept. 13.

CBC News has obtained court documents that detail the charges and name the targets of the alleged offences as Ford and Sutcliffe, who is running for re-election as Ottawa mayor...

• Social media posts:
• The 2018 election:

Posted: Sep 18, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago

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Na, na, na. That is not right, and there is too much of this type of aggression running around loose like a plague of rabies or something. I would sooner FORD THE PIRATE 🏴‍☠️ fell into a dumpster 🧊full of nice warm oozing 🫟cow 🐄 patties 💩💩💩; eh, well! throw him a life preserver🛟and close the lid! 😁

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Carney wants Canada to join Europe's Erasmus+ program. What is it?

PM signalled interest in Europe's flagship exchange program in speech to EU

NEWS VIDEO | Included:

As Canada and the EU court closer ties, Prime Minister Mark Carney signalled clear interest in joining Erasmus+, a popular European exchange program.

While many details of the suggested new partnership are left to be ironed out — like what it would mean to be the EU's first "associate member" — Carney specifically pitched Canadian involvement in Erasmus+ when he delivered a speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Thursday.

"Canadian membership of Erasmus+ would give your students and ours more opportunity to learn at some of the world's top universities, to broaden their horizons and to build those lasting ties that will sustain our alliance for the future," Carney said...

WATCH | Carney's full speech in Strasbourg:

• What is the exchange program?:

Posted: Sep 17, 2026 5:07 PM EDT | Last Updated: September 17

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Could AI really kill us? | The Current

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe2YcbvXKe0

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Morning all. Well, so much for the weather — cloudy and gloomy ☁️ Ahhhh, a little late getting started 🕘 I tripped over the themes on my blog 🧖‍♀️ and decided to look for something to fix the awful background colors 🖼️ The restore button 🔄 just popped up, and I eagerly clicked it. BINGO! The colors in my blog are back to normal. Cindy's Open House Blog

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I wish my physical body 🩻 would take a vacation 🏖️ and take all its aches and pains 💥⚡️* with it!

Now that my stomach feels better than it has in years, my body is sprouting aches and pains here and there that I didn't know I had — not severe, just annoying, a case of the wandering gas attacks ∘○˚.•o

Stomach problems, or any other dreadful thought — Great Spirit forbid — let that thought go! Thoughts can kill.

My letting-go-of-things prayer:

As a gesture of letting something go, it may sound dumb, but I twirl my index finger in the air twice to the right, stop, curl it, then flick it out, and I pray, "GONE!" Depending on the depth of the emotional distress, the usual negative thought just "poof!" gone. It works for me. If I stop thinking it, it remains in the ethers. But I bag and savor all the good stuff; I savor those times and treasure them above what all the money in the world can buy me.

The good stuff is the byproduct of the lessons learned from the bad ones. In this lifetime, anyway.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

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🔹AI Overview

The Art of Letting Go

The key is focusing on what you can do rather than what you feel.

Key Points

• We all have anger, regret, and resentments that continue to haunt us.

• We mistakenly believe that letting go lies in changing these thoughts and emotions.

• But it is our behaviors that keep these in place. Focus instead on changing your behaviors in the present...

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Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender

Letting go involves being aware of a feeling, letting it come up, staying with it, and letting it run its course without wanting to make it different or do ...

People also ask:

What does Letting Go mean?

🔹AI Overview

Letting go means choosing to stop fighting reality, releasing the need to control outcomes, and freeing yourself from emotional pain tied to the past.

What Letting Go Is:

• Acceptance: Acknowledging what happened instead of wishing it were different.

• Surrender: Stopping the inner struggle against thoughts, feelings, or situations you cannot change.

• Relief: Turning down your body's stress response so you can live in the present moment.

What Letting Go Is Not:

• Not forgetting: You still remember the event, but the memory no longer hurts or controls your daily choices.

• Not giving up: You stop forcing outcomes, which frees up energy to focus on actions you can actually change.

• Not ignoring pain: True release often happens only after you feel, process, and heal from difficult emotions...

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BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

The Fed was bullied into hiking rates. Now it hopes it didn’t royally screw up

The bond market gave the Federal Reserve an ultimatum: Raise rates, or we will. So the Fed did the only thing it could do. Backed into a corner by rising Treasury yields and inflation, the central bank boosted its target interest rate Wednesday for the first time since 2023.

Americans have suffered from a persistent inflation problem for five years, and an interest rate hike is a powerful weapon that could help squash it. But it’s a blunt tool that comes with a nasty side effect: It can unintentionally turn the job market into collateral damage...

But the Fed is playing with fire. Raising interest rates risks slowing down the American economy without anything to show for it....

• ‘Weak case’:
• Warsh vs. the market:
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PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2026, 12:01 AM ET

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Will AI really kill everyone? How, exactly?

Artificial intelligence could kill the entire human species, according to people in the artificial intelligence industry. Specifically, they say, it could exterminate humanity within the decade.

Politicians, major news organizations, and Sheryl Crow reacted with alarm last week after an Anthropic employee named Jacob Coxon announced he was quitting the AI company because its work was too dangerous. Evan Hubinger, another Anthropic worker, chimed in to put the chance of AI-powered human extinction within 10 years at greater than 10%...

• Wiped out by synthetic plague?:
• Slaughtered by robots?:
• Or nuked?:
• Death without details:

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Updated Sep 17, 2026, 10:35 AM ET - 29 min ago

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Republicans made Hasan Piker a villain. Democrats still can’t decide what to do about him.

Seven weeks before a hugely consequential election, the Twitch streamer Republicans keep putting in ads explains why he won’t tone it down.

Hasan Piker is an unlikely star for a negative ad campaign. He has never run for office and says he has no interest in doing so. He holds no leadership position in any political party. He has no political action committee. Most of the country has no idea who he is: In April, 60% of likely voters told Echelon Insights they had never heard of him.

That was before he started appearing in living rooms across the nation, in ads paid for by Republicans who want him to be one of the most famous men in Democratic politics — and before prominent Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, condemned him in an effort to distance themselves from a figure they fear is too polarizing to help them retake the majority in November...

“My bet on this isn’t that I’m doing this just so Democrats can win elections,” Piker said. “I’m doing this because it’s true and I want people to understand and maybe even entertain a different perspective, even if they don’t fully internalize it and fully understand it.”

• More articles: Hasan Piker is a distraction for Democrats — and a potential liability:

"Piker’s model is, in part, Donald Trump, who proved AN INFLAMMATORY STYLE can win a national election."

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Sept. 17, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT

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CANADIAN NEWS RECAP:

Carney says Europe, Canada aren't 'fair-weather allies' while rebuking Trump's tactics

Addressing European Parliament, prime minister says 'deeper partnership' is about sovereignty

Prime Minister Mark Carney pushed back against U.S. President Donald Trump's recent comments that Canada seeking a deeper relationship with the European Union was "laughable."

Carney told reporters during a news conference on Thursday that a partnership with the EU would make Canada "a better partner" to the U.S., but he insisted that the relationship with the U.S. must respect Canadian independence. "We are looking for partnerships that are complementary, that reinforce our sovereignty," he said when asked about Trump's comments...

WATCH | Trump says closer Canada-EU co-operation is 'laughable':

WATCH | EU chief talks about Canada in her state of the European Union address:

• 'People-to-people ties':

WATCH | Ambassador focused on 'results' in deepened EU alliance:

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Posted: Sep 17, 2026 5:52 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

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If I could get one wish granted by the Great Spirit, it would be to have the privilege to punch🥊 this arrogant fat orange 🟠 (‿ˠ‿) 🕳️ in his fat 👃nose.

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PM Mark Carney addresses European Parliament – September 17, 2026

Prime Minister Mark Carney addresses the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. The address comes one day after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed opening the door for Canada to become the European Union’s first associate member.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8lUxaXsDFk