TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

Land of Whispering Pines 🌲

Good morning! May the Great Spirit bless you 🙏

It's not as bright up here in my green space this morning, overcast skies, and a little cool. Just one of those days, thinking if the Sun came out, it would be so much brighter and warmer. But hey, can't complain too much, we need the rain. It did rain some last night. The rest of this week is expected to be much cooler, with temperatures in the mid-sixties to low seventies. A trend towards more seasonal temperatures with sunshine is anticipated for the following week, beginning on Tuesday, September 9th. It appears to be storming up for a good downpour as I sit here.

🙏Let us all pause to pray:🙏

I pray they are getting this rain in the Northwest and East of Ontario, as well as wherever else there are wildfires.

Let us also pray for all the homeless who will be thrown to the elements on the street this coming winter in America.*_ "AMEN!"

_*Well, so much for the local weather for now, how about Ukraine? I haven't monitored their weather before. It's sunny and 79°F in Kyiv, Ukraine. The cold has not set in yet; from my last observations, there is only a discrepancy of an average of 5°F. Kyiv is at least 5 degrees warmer on average than here on the Niagara Peninsula in Southern Ontario.

It's a good reminder for those who are trying to survive in tents in the middle of winter. I fear the same for many Americans this year.

Average lows in Kyiv, Ukraine are 21°F or -6°C

Average lows for Niagara Peninsula, Ontario, Canada: 18°F or -7.8°C

Compare to Simcoe County, where I used to live, in central Ontario.

17°F or -8.3°C. The temperatures, although slightly different by 3 or 4 degrees, they are all well below the freezing mark. Kyiv, Ukraine, being the warmest of the three places mentioned above, is still well below freezing, even with a difference of almost 8 degrees. None is very suitable for tent living in the winter. ❄️🌬💨⛺️

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

SpaceX Dragon Capsule Returns with 6,700 Pounds of Next-Gen Technology!

Join us as we explore the incredible return of SpaceX's Dragon capsule, which brought back 6,700 pounds of advanced technology from the ISS! Discover the groundbreaking MISSE-20 project that tests material durability in space, the revolutionary Astrobee-REACCH robots designed for satellite servicing, and the innovative OPTICA imaging technology. Plus, learn how the Story Time from Space initiative is inspiring the next generation of scientists and explorers. Don't miss out on the future of space exploration and technology!...

View Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUfJVei1a-g

It is so crucial that humanity continue these experiments, and that will be the pathway to overcoming the limitations of space travel. The ADVANCEMENT OF HUMANITY REACHING FOR THE STARS is at stake. As an evolving species, it is essential that we spread out into the cosmos.

This is why it is so crucial that science NOT be mixed with POLITICS. It would be much easier to merge religion, spirituality, and quantum physics as one, with the ∞ Quanta. Science! Not Kink Orange Pus Bag himself and his band of thieves and lying Dunce Brigade that we have today for lawmakers, OUTLAWMAKERS! and the supreme court on their knees kissing KINK ORANGE PUS BAG'S ring.

I'M NOT A RING KISSER, and neither was I ever a flag-waver. I used to feel at home no matter what flag was flying over my head. Now I fly one flag with pride, 🍁

I Rest My Case. 🙇‍♀️🛏💼

BREAKING NEWS:

With no end in sight, National Guard troops deployed to DC grow weary

With each phone call home, the troops describe a mission unlike any other.

One soldier from Tennessee told his father that from 4 p.m. to 4 a.m. every day, his only task is to walk around Chinatown. Another service member from Mississippi told a loved one that she’d been repeatedly cursed at while on patrol. During a call to his wife, a guardsman from Louisiana said there was confusion about what the military was actually doing there. “We haven’t gotten critically low on morale, but we’re falling fast,” said one soldier who, like others quoted in this story, spoke to CNN on the condition of anonymity because they’re not authorized to speak to the media and feared reprisal.

Of the more than 2,200 National Guard soldiers President Donald Trump deployed to Washington, DC, last month, in addition to a wave of federal law enforcement, roughly 1,300 are from out of state. Guard members on the DC mission and their relatives who spoke to CNN said they left behind civilian jobs and children to serve – a sacrifice they understood when they enlisted...

• ‘Yeah, this is crazy’:

Members of the South Carolina National Guard ride a Metro train on August 26.

• A unique mission:
• ‘National gardeners’:

Members of the West Virginia National Guard on patrol at the World War II Memorial on August 27

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PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2025, 5:00 AM ET - 4 hr ago

- CNN -

Trump asks Supreme Court to save his emergency tariffs

President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to step into the fray over his emergency tariffs, putting the centerpiece of his economic agenda in the hands of the justices who have mostly backed his sweeping view of executive power, according to a copy of the appeal obtained by CNN.

Trump is pressing the justices to overturn a lower court ruling that found his administration acted unlawfully by imposing many of his sweeping import taxes, and he has framed the case in existential terms. “The stock market needs the tariffs, they want the tariffs,” Trump said Tuesday in the Oval Office, asserting that an adverse decision would mean “devastation for our country.”

The case once again raises fundamental questions for the court about a president’s power to act unilaterally and without explicit authority from Congress. Trump’s critics note that the last president to raise tariffs under similar circumstances was Richard Nixon, and Congress later pared back the president’s power.

The lower court’s decision, the Trump administration argued to the Supreme Court, “would, in the president’s view, unilaterally disarm the United States and allow other nations to hold America’s economy hostage to their retaliatory trade policies.”

• Trade agreements and tariff revenue at stake:

This story has been updated with additional details.

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Updated Sep 3, 2025, 10:37 PM ET - Updated 11 hr ago

- CNN -

RFK Jr. testifies in hearing about Trump’s health care agenda

What We're Covering:

• NOW:

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is testifying before a Senate committee about the president’s health care agenda. Yesterday, over 1,000 current and former agency employees accused Kennedy of endangering public health and called for his resignation.

• Ukraine call: President Donald Trump is speaking with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this morning as momentum to end Russia’s war in Ukraine stalls.

• Epstein controversy: GOP Rep. Thomas Massie said he and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene “are willing to name names” on any list compiled by survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse. Trump dismissed the furor, even as women who said they’d been abused by Epstein called for action.

40 min ago

Ousted CDC director: There is a "deliberate effort to weaken" the US public health system

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1 hr 2 min ago

First lady Melania Trump will host AI education event at the White House

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Updated 10:19 AM EDT, Thu September 4, 2025

- CNN -

CANADIAN NEWS:

Trade deficit shrinks to $4.9B in July as energy, vehicle exports rise

Canada's trade deficit is shrinking, but still bigger than this time last year, according to Statistics Canada

Canada's trade deficit narrowed in July as overall exports rose, especially driven by outbound shipments of crude oil and passenger cars to its biggest trading partner the United States, Statistics Canada said on Thursday.

Its merchandise trade deficit, or deficit from trading in goods, in July was at $4.94 billion, smaller than last month's $5.98 billion, but much higher than the same period last year, according to Statistics Canada's data. Overall exports rose by 0.9 per cent to $61.86 billion in July while imports slowed 0.7 per cent to $66.8 billion, the agency said...

Merchandise trade with the U.S. Chart:

How Canada's imports and exports have changed since Trump

• More exports of energy, vehicles:

Some Indigenous businesses in Canada halting exports to U.S. amid Trump tariffs regime

Most of Canada's retaliatory tariffs are gone. Now what?

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Posted: Sep 04, 2025 9:49 AM EDT | Last Updated: 44 minutes ago

- CBC -

As hunger grows in Gaza, warnings that starvation hits the most vulnerable first

Choking off food simply dooms Gaza's most vulnerable, experts say

As Israel continues to issue strenuous denials, the daily, ongoing count of people in Gaza either dead or dying from malnutrition suggests the famine in the territory is taking a deeper hold. In the last two weeks since the world's foremost authority on food insecurity declared a famine in Gaza City, 70 people have died of hunger, according to local health authorities.

One of them was 17-year-old Ahmed Ali Al-Batniji...

• Pre-existing condition:
• Starvation sets in:

Famine conditions exist in Gaza City, UN-backed hunger monitor says in report

Planting seeds among rubble — how Palestinians are desperately trying to stave off famine and starvation

• 'Cannot target starvation':
• Tragic end:
• Famine denial and misleading claims:

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Posted: Sep 04, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

- CBC -

"Quit howling about it like a bunch of hound dogs lost in the dark forest! Find the Master Intruder and DO SOMETHING! Especially little chief warlord and his little pile of 💩🦠 maggots, eh!"

♪♫NATURE'S SOUNDS AND MUSIC TO SOOTH THE SOUL♪♫

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