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Good morning! May the Great Spirit bless you 🙏

It's a cloudy ☁️ morning here at the Tree House Newsroom. 📰A little cooler out, not cool, just refreshingly so. I count myself so fortunate to have a space to go out and spend some time among my tree 🌳friends and their hosts, the squirrels, 🐿 birds,🐦 and, of course, my friend the raven. 🐦‍⬛ He perches himself on the tallest tree in the park across the drive and caws at me. Sometimes, he flies right by my green space, 🪴 almost close enough for me to touch him, maybe someday. 😉 The cicadas, 👾 crickets, 🦗 and katydids 🐛 should be starting soon.

Not much else new here except they still have that cussed infernal dull loud, steady huming sound from that dumb arse sewer sucking machine from up the road. Maybe it's a good thing I'm not superwoman; 🦸‍♀️ it would be the first sewer-sucking machine to land on the moon. 🌖 Have at it, Hos. Go suck some vacuum for a while, and don't choke on it! Guess what? No farts either; if you're sucking in vacuum, that resolves the CO2 problem. 😆 😵

Now, it's time to move on to the discussion of the day. Thank you again for dropping by to read the News.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

To Trust or not to Trust?

My opinion: How does trust become skepticism when you have been lied to repeatedly? To the point where even you begin to convince yourself that black is actually white, like playing solitaire with the devil.

If you're a politician, my advice is, don't get a job in a dynamite factory.

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Repeated Lies: can lead to a state of heightened skepticism, where you find it difficult to believe anything at face value, even when presented with truthful information. This can manifest as questioning everything, struggling to trust others, and feeling a general sense of unease or suspicion.

Suspicion and Doubt

suspicion, doubt, you get into the gloomies and begin to think that the crapy world you live in is simply an everyday occurrence, normal.

Slowly Boiling The Frog. To the point that bad is good.

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Suspicion and doubt: both involve uncertainty, but suspicion suggests a belief that something is wrong or untrue, often with a hint of negative feeling or mistrust, while doubt can simply mean uncertainty or a lack of belief. Suspicion implies a stronger feeling that something is amiss, potentially leading to investigation or seeking evidence, whereas doubt can be a more internal state of uncertainty.

Doubt: This refers to uncertainty or lack of belief in something. It can be a general feeling of unease or a specific question about the truth of a statement or the validity of something.

Now On to The News:

BREAKING NEWS:

Local officials facing questions over their actions in the years and hours before deadly Texas floods

First responders carry out search and rescue operations near the Guadalupe River in Ingram, Texas, on Monday after a flash flood swept through the area.

As Central Texas reels from flash floods that killed over 100 people this weekend, questions are sharpening about whether officials could have done more to avert the tragedy – both in the decades leading up to the disaster, and in the moments after the Guadalupe River began cresting its banks. In recent years, multiple efforts in Kerr County to build a more substantial flood warning system have faltered or been abandoned due to budget concerns, leaving the epicenter of this weekend’s floods without emergency sirens that could have warned residents about the rising waters.

And while at least one neighboring county issued evacuation orders in the morning hours of July 4, Kerr County officials don’t appear to have done so. A review of typically off-the-record communications from a real-time messaging system operated by the National Weather Service showed that no emergency manager from Kerr County was sending messages or interacting with NWS staff on the platform, even as emergency officials from other counties were doing so.

CNN was granted permission to report some of the information from this platform...

• Failed plans for warning system:
• Critical hours in Kerr County:
• Camp cabins in a flood zone:

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Updated 7:26 AM EDT, Tue July 8, 2025

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He was born to a US citizen soldier on an army base in Germany. Now he’s been deported to Jamaica, a country he’d never been to

Born on a US military base, the son of a US citizen father serving in the Army, Jermaine Thomas never considered he might not be American.

A month ago, he found himself shackled at the wrists and ankles and forced aboard a flight for Jamaica, his father’s birthplace and a country Thomas had never been to before. “It’s too hard to put in words,” Thomas told CNN. “I just think to myself, this can’t really be happening.”

He is legally stateless, he told CNN. He is not a citizen of the US, although his father was a US citizen; Germany, where he was born at a US military hospital; Jamaica, his father’s homeland; or Kenya, where his mother was born...

• Born abroad, raised in the US:
• An eviction changed everything:
• Battle for citizenship:
• ‘Like a life sentence’:
• Homeless in a foreign country:

The main reason I'm staying on this side of the Canadian border is that Mars is a long way away, and Elon hasn't got a ship ready to deport people to Mars 🔴 yet. 🤣

World’s premier cancer institute faces crippling cuts and chaos

The Trump administration’s broadsides against scientific research have caused unprecedented upheaval at the National Cancer Institute, the storied federal government research hub that has spearheaded advances against the disease for decades.

NCI, which has long benefited from enthusiastic bipartisan support, now faces an exodus of clinicians, scientists, and other staffers, some fired, others leaving in exasperation. After years of accelerating progress that has reduced cancer deaths by a third since the 1990s, the institute has terminated funds nationwide for research to fight the disease, expand care, and train new oncologists. “We use the word ‘drone attack’ now regularly,” one worker said of grant terminations. “It just happens from above.” The assault could well result in a perceptible slowing of progress in the fight against cancer.

Nearly 2 million Americans are diagnosed with malignancies every year. In 2023, cancer killed more than 613,000 people, making it the second leading cause of death after heart disease. But the cancer fight has also made enormous progress. Cancer mortality in the U.S. has fallen by 34% since 1991, according to the American Cancer Society. There are roughly 18 million cancer survivors in the country...

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July 8, 2025 Updated 3 hr ago

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CANADIAN NEWS:

RCMP charges CAF members with trying to create 'anti-government militia' and seize land

3 Quebec men face terrorism-related charges

Three men face a terrorism charge for allegedly planning to create an anti-government militia and seize land in Quebec, according to the RCMP. According to a news release Tuesday morning, the Mounties say the group was involved in an alleged ideologically motivated violent extremism plot "intending to forcibly take possession of land in the Quebec City area" and included active members of the Canadian Armed Forces.

Three men — Marc-Aurèle Chabot, 24, of Québec City; Simon Angers-Audet, 24, of Neuville; and Raphaël Lagacé, 25, of Québec City — have been charged with the serious charge of facilitating terrorist activities. "The three accused were planning to create anti-government militia. To achieve this, they took part in military-style training, as well as shooting, ambush, survival and navigation exercises," said the RCMP.

"They also conducted a scouting operation."...

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Posted: Jul 08, 2025 9:08 AM EDT | Last Updated: 25 minutes ago

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A major defence contract is set to favour U.S. supplier, despite Carney's promise to diversify

Competitor warns criteria for night-vision binoculars dramatically limit who can bid

The federal government is set to proceed with awarding a major defence contract despite industry concerns that its requirements are written in a way that all but assures a single American company is eligible. A tender for night-vision binoculars — worth more than an estimated $100 million — is set to close on Tuesday at 2 p.m.

A competing company says the request includes a technical requirement that favours one American firm, at the exclusion of all others. The request requires a specific signal-to-noise ratio for the image intensifier tubes in the binoculars. The European competitor says the requirement is unique to the Canadian military — not reflecting industry norms, nor the requirements of NATO allies.

Canada signs deal deepening European defence and security partnership:

F-35 program facing skyrocketing costs, pilot shortage and infrastructure deficit: AG report:

_Defence Minister David McGuinty said he would look into the terms of a tender for night-vision binoculars, when asked if they align with the government’s goal of partnering with firms outside the U.S._

_Defence expert Dave Perry says it will take time and intention to uncouple Canada's military procurement from U.S. suppliers._

Posted: Jul 08, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

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