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Hi everyone! I wonder how the space race is doing today? 1 and - 1 = 0 for Blue Origin and - 13 as far as really getting one to do one actual orbit. If not! Then those are not spaceships; those are airships. It would be cheaper to use dirigible airships; some can reach almost the same altitude as the Starship did 🚀💥✨˙• *.° And why land them in the water? Are they planning on building an underwater landing pad and base for them? BUT! If they ever succeed in putting that much mass and weight into orbit with just plain rocket propulsion, and bring it back down to EARTH, not into the ocean, that would be a great achievement. I am beginning to think this project is going to end up like that huge Russian Cold War vehicle, called an Ekranoplan, the "Caspian Sea Monster". Look it up on History Channel in Abandoned Inventions, love that show ❤️

I would be more concerned about those strange unidentified ones we see in the night sky. Those sightings began to spread like a wildfire back in the early sixties, even mysteriously shutting down an atomic missile launch installation. Let me see if I can come up with a headline for that one.

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Question: Mysterious lights in the sky shut down an atomic missile launch installation

🔹AI Overview

In March 1967, at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, 10 nuclear-armed Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles suddenly went offline. Former U.S. Air Force personnel reported seeing a glowing red object hovering in the sky just before the shutdown. Declassified military documents confirmed the unexplained failure, though authorities and researchers have debated its cause for decades

The 1967 Malmstrom Incident

• The Sighting:
• The Malfunction:
• The Official Record:

Perspectives and Theories

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This is not an isolated incident. A quick Google search brought up some more hidden hairballs; no wonder the cat hiccups so much.

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Question: Have there been other incidents similar to the Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, 10 nuclear-armed Minuteman missiles?

🔹AI Overview

Yes, similar incidents involving unexplained missile shutdowns or glowing objects near nuclear sites have been reported at other military bases. The most notable parallel occurred just six months prior at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota.

Similar UAP and Nuclear Incidents

• Minot Air Force Base (September 1966):
• Echo Flight, Malmstrom AFB (March 1967):
• Soviet Union Encounters:

Explanations and Investigations

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I do believe there is something watching from out there. I do my best to be more philosophical about things, not fanatical, but I never doubted that there are forces out there greater than us.

To differentiate the actual state of evolution of these unknown energetic sources of intelligence—like the strange lights in the sky and those that appear as angels—and to describe them as angels falls into spiritual symbolism, which would be very difficult to differentiate from these beings, since we do not yet have a science that can analyze these beings in this physical world, see? Unless they have the ability to do so.

Bible: Who are the Watchers?

🔹AI Overview

In the Bible, Daniel 4:13, 17, and 23: watchers are a specific type of heavenly angel or sentinel. The term comes from the Aramaic word `iyr ' (meaning "wakeful one" or "vigilant one"). They appear briefly in the canonical Hebrew Bible as holy beings who observe and execute God's decrees, but they are described in much greater detail in ancient non-canonical Jewish literature, such as the Book of Enoch.

Question: Daniel 4:13, 17, and 23

🔹AI Overview

In Daniel chapter 4, verses 13, 17, and 23 describe a heavenly being (called a "watcher" or "messenger") who descends to announce a divine decree against King Nebuchadnezzar. The verses outline a dream where a great tree is chopped down, leaving only a bound stump, symbolizing the king's upcoming madness and loss of power to humble him before God.

When you have a moment, take a break for yourself and CONTEMPLATE THIS HEAVENLY SCENARIO.

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BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

Trump threatens Oman as US-Iran agreement expires

Meanwhile, US envoy Jared Kushner is meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to revive the president's stalled Gaza peace plan.

Here's The Latest

• Threat to Oman: President Donald Trump threatened to attack Oman if it “gets in the way” of efforts in the Strait of Hormuz, and said his administration has established a direct backchannel with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Trump previously threatened Oman, a US ally, in May.

• Iran agreement expires: The president reiterated today that the top goal in the Iran war is preventing the country from obtaining a nuclear weapon, undercutting advisers who say keeping oil prices low is an important priority. The 60-day deadline for the two sides to reach a deal toward ending the conflict has now passed.

• Kushner meetings: Separately, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today, following talks with Hamas, as mediators seek to revive the stalled Gaza peace plan...

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A look at previous US presidents' dealings with Iran

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Updated 8:52 AM EDT, Mon August 17, 2026

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Trump has handed a gift to Kim Jong Un and deepened concerns over US reliability

President Donald Trump’s sudden announcement the US is scaling back major military drills with South Korea risks renewing concerns US forces are too stretched to support crucial Western allies or maintain deterrence against autocracies that threaten them.

It’s also a gift to North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un at a time when he has ramped up his own nation’s threat to global stability – and offered no concessions in return. Just as the 10-day Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises involving tens of thousands of troops were set to begin, Trump said he had ordered the war games scaled back because North Korea has been “unthreatening and respectful” to his administration.

“These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual!), but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile,” Trump posted on Truth Social over the weekend...

Related article

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un looks around the new nuclear materials production factory on June 3, 2026, according to state media KCNA.

Kim Jong Un inspects new nuclear plant, plans ‘exponential’ weapons production ramp-up

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PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2026, 3:53 AM ET - 6 hr ago

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What Trump’s new obsession with small-dollar fraud reveals

Who gets cracked down on, and who gets off easy?

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President Donald Trump always seems to be cooking up some new scheme to profit off the presidency. And yet his administration is escalating its efforts to crack down on suspected small-scale fraud involving government-funded programs. Trump’s inordinate focus on relatively minor offenses should be understood as a bid to vilify programs meant to help vulnerable people. It also serves as a tool to distract from the misbehavior of him and his cronies.

The New York Times pointed out the Justice Department’s new and unusual focus on small-dollar fraud. A food truck in Santa Ana, California, caught prosecutors’ attention because of a suspiciously large proportion of transactions using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program cards. A cashier at a Los Angeles grocery store was accused of accepting about $10,000 worth of SNAP (food stamps) cards as payment and giving undercover federal immigration officers cash for them.

• Trump himself is exploiting the extraordinary power of the presidency in ways that constitute a defrauding of the public:

More from MS NOW Daily

Aug. 17, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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CANADIAN NEWS:

Where do Canada-U.S. trade negotiations stand? Here's a sector-by-sector breakdown

Canadian and American negotiators remain at impasse with tariff deadline days away

Canada is continuing to negotiate a trade deal with the United States that will allow it to both avoid U.S. President Donald Trump's crippling tariff threat — set to come into effect on Wednesday — and get some additional relief on existing tariffs in key sectors. But after a flurry of meetings between top Canadian and American negotiators over the last three weeks, the two countries remain at an impasse heading into the home stretch.

Sources have told CBC News that Canadian negotiators fear there may be no way to avert Trump's 50 per cent tariffs on hundreds of Canadian goods, as Washington digs in on its demands while Ottawa tries to persuade provinces to lift restrictions on American alcohol. The U.S. claims it's imposing the tariffs because of Canadian discrimination toward its automobile, dairy and alcohol sectors...

WATCH | Canadian negotiators worried U.S. tariffs will be imposed:

• Automobiles:

Negotiators fear U.S. tariffs will be imposed, as provinces and Washington dig in on demands

• Dairy

How Iowans feel about Trump's tariffs, Canada's treatment as Republicans vie for support

• Alcohol:
• Steel and aluminum:
• Softwood lumber:
• Critical minerals, energy and security:

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WHAT CAN I SAY? A BUNCH OF GREEDY FAT PIGS, LUNATICS, WHO THINK WITH THEIR WALLETS BECAUSE THEY AIN'T GOT ANY HEART OR BRAINS, THEY HAVE NO ETHICS, EMPATHY, OR ANY FEELINGS OF ANY KIND LIKE A PET ROCK. AND BEWARE OF THEIR BITE, FOR THEY ARE AS A VENOMOUS SNAKE HIDDEN IN THE TALL GRASS, AWAITING FOR THE UNEXPECTED PASSERBY.

Trump Issues Threat to Oman as US-Iran MOU Expires

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8LWwM25V7k

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Morning, folks! Wow, late morning! I had more things to chase around before I could even get around to making the coffee. I finally got a few moments outside in my Green Space to sit and sip my coffee while contemplating things; for me, that's like praying or meditating.

Contemplating the different potentialities, negative or positive, in any given proposition. Will this idea make the curve or go over the precipice type of stuff? A lot of the time, I end up being correct; they choose the wrong button, and everything falls apart. And that's only because money robs greedy people of brains, and I'll leave that topic right there along with that pile of 💩💩💩

Synchrony, harmony, caring, empathy. To replace Trumpo The Typo's Dunce Cadets, ICE agents, 🧊💩 🧊💩🧊💩with:

THE EARTH ANGEL PATROL 🧚🧚🧚🧚.🧚🧚🧚

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Question: What is an Earth Angel?

AI Overview

An earth angel is a spiritual concept describing a person who is deeply empathetic, highly evolved, and feels a strong calling to help humanity. In everyday language, it also describes an exceptionally kind, selfless person who brings comfort to others. I have been in the business of helping others ever since I sobered up at 47; that was when I found the spiritual and scientific aspects of this material world. I have been doing social work, volunteering or paid, one way or another, since then. It is much like an obsessive-compulsive disorder, but it's one that comes from the heart, from truly caring for someone else rather than just yourself. Just a thought, at least I trust St Peter is keeping score correctly.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

Spiritual and Science

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Spirituality and science can be two sides of the same coin

How studying neuroscience has guided my journey into secular spirituality

By Mashiyat Ahmed — Published February 5, 2024

The first time I was bullied was at religious school. Sitting meekly in the back of the classroom with my legs crossed and my mind disinterested in the piece of Arabic text on my lap, I spotted two girls glancing at me and sheepishly whispering something between themselves. Every other student had someone else to sit with; every other student seemed to grasp the scripture better than me.

I had been attending this class for months now, managing to achieve superficial progress and growing ever more skeptical with each religious history class. Even with my makeshift hijab and improvised Qur’anic accent, I felt foreign among my peers and distant from my teachers...

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• Religion & family: My grandfather:
• The classroom: Where science & spirituality converged:
• Embracing science and spirituality:

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My Story: About discovering why I was different than most, I was mostly a loner because I didn't like what I felt from others at to close quarters. Annoying humanoids are to close around me.

Or I would get the whys, and would I cry over falling leaves in the fall or finding a dead mouse? And taking strays home—sometimes a humanoid, sometimes a dog or cat—I also had a pet raven.

And then there was the light side of things, so bright and cheery, like dancing among the stars, doing a sun dance, as a ballerina, or butterflies flying all around in the sunlight. Shrinks called it M

manic depression or bipolar disorder. I loved and still enjoy the highs. Sometimes I got them months ago, while I was so sick that I thought I was going to die. What would I have done without my sense of humor? That would be really boring.

Well, folks, that will be about it for today. Thank you for visiting and reading the Tree House News 🏡

BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

JD Vance and the Trump team keep moving the goalposts on Iran

One of the Trump administration’s biggest problems in extracting itself from the Iran war is the list of very absolutist goals that President Donald Trump and his team laid out. The goals have included complete Iranian surrender, regime change, Iran never getting a nuclear weapon and ending Tehran’s support for its Middle East proxy groups like Hezbollah.

As the war — now in its sixth month — has dragged on, this list of goals has conspicuously shifted and been pared back. And Vice President JD Vance appears to have pared it back recently in a remarkable way, offering the latest indication that the administration might be preparing to settle for less — maybe even a lot less...

The president even claimed that Iran was already denuclearized.

In other words, Trump sounded a lot like a guy who knew he might not be able to cow Iran into accepting a really restrictive nuclear deal.

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PUBLISHED Aug 16, 2026, 12:01 AM ET - 10 hr ago

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Trump is undermining his biggest accomplishment

The president’s executive order on vaccines is a desperate bid for conspiracy-minded voters.

It’s a remarkable reversal for a president who once treated vaccine development as one of the signature achievements of his first term.

President Donald Trump’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic was riddled with misinformation and chaos. But amid that dysfunction, his administration launched Operation Warp Speed, the public-private partnership that accelerated the development and distribution of Covid vaccines.

Trump called it a “monumental national achievement.” Even Joe Biden, who was running against him at the time, credited the administration when he got the shot. Six years later, Trump is trashing that legacy as he courts the most conspiracy-minded factions of the coalition that put him back in office.

Earlier this week, the president signed an executive order that recommended a reduction in childhood immunizations, down to 11 diseases from 18 previously recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

• It’s a desperate pitch to conspiracy theorists:

He turns idle chatter on the internet into official government records and undermines the serious work of historians, scientists, and prosecutors.

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Aug. 16, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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WELCOME BACK TO 13 and 46: After the lights go out in America. The guillotine returns, death camps, labor camps, duels in the arena, and the black plague, rats and bats and bugs, slugs, maggots, and bacteria galore spreading like wildfire. An invasion of bedbugs and cockroaches everywhere, living in unsanitary conditions, no Johny, just dump your pisspot out the window, piles of horse crap all over the streets, and no medicine! Try that out, kids!

THAT WILL BE THE GREAT AMERICA IN TWO MORE YEARS, AND YOU FN KNOW IT, YET YOU SIT ON YOUR HANDS AND DO NOTHING BUT SQUAWK!

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CANADIAN NEWS:

How Iowans feel about Trump's tariffs, Canada's treatment as Republicans vie for support

Trump dominated Iowa in 2024, but Canada is state's largest export market

This weekend, hundreds of thousands of people are attending the Iowa State Fair — a major attraction featuring several days of entertainment, a rodeo and even a life-size butter cow that's been carved every year since 1911.

Much like the Calgary Stampede in Canada, the Iowa State Fair is a crucial stop for politicians to meet voters, making it a hotbed for political debates — especially when U.S. midterms are coming up.

And this year, one of the topics on Iowans' minds is U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war. "This policy has been very chaotic, and our farmers have struggled to figure out what's going on," said Aaron Lehman, a fifth-generation family farmer and president of the Iowa Farmers Union...

Canada, U.S. far apart on tariff deal as deadline looms: sources

• Trump 'pushed a lot of people away':

WATCH | U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on irritants with Canada:

• Trump official in Iowa defends tariff tactics:
• Where Canada-U.S. talks stand:

Canada prepared to halt booze bans, meet other U.S. demands in exchange for tariff relief: sources

WATCH | Former Conservative leader Erin O'Toole on Canada-U.S. trade talks

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Posted: Aug 16, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

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UPDATE ON: Latest on how Carney is doing about equal trade among provinces?

AI Overview

Prime Minister Mark Carney has pushed to reduce internal trade barriers to build one unified Canadian economy, but progress has largely stalled past federal legislative steps. While Ottawa cleared federal hurdles, provincial cooperation remains uneven due to varying local political wills and regional exceptions.

FN GREEDY LEADERSHIP IN THOSE PROVINCES WHO LOVE MONEY MORE THAN THEIR PEOPLE! THEY WOULD SOONER SEE CANADA BE EATEN UP BY THE FAT, GREEDY CORPORATE COCKROACHES AT THE TOP THAN GIVE THE WORKING CLASS A BREAK.

CBC News: The National | Trade reps to give Trump, Carney 'options' for deal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQM-Y65ryjM

 

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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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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

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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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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‿)

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🧚‍♀️ TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

NEWS AGGREGATOR & COMMENTS

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.

VIDEO | Included:

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

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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