Friday, 3 October 2025

TREE HOUSE NEWS🏡

Land of Whispering Pines🌲

Good morning! May the Great Spirit bless you 🙏

Again, I'm a little later than usual, just doing a bit of cleaning and picking up, that sort of thing, as I made my way to the kitchen to put some coffee on. Then I went out to sit in my Green Space and just let my mind... hmm, space out. I guess that's what we used to call it. Now here I am at the kitchen table with my coffee and laptop, getting ready to begin my preach of the day. Partner is up now, and we're both sitting at the kitchen table with the sun streaming in from the sliding glass doors. I love the brilliance, warmth, silence, and peace of early morning... life and living.*_

_*Just feeling alive, that inner glow is precious. It is even greater than the magic of any bejeweled princess in a lovely gown at a ball in a fantasy movie. Sparkly, crystal castle in the clouds, with a vault the size of Mt. Everest filled with gold and jewels, that type of dream come true? This morning, I feel like I have that inner glow, that part of it, and I pray that I still feel that way by the end of the day, living one day at a time. Didn't you know that one brick at a time, you can build your own castle? Better think about that. Perhaps you have already built that castle, possibly several times over in your lifetime. Sometimes the most significant rewards are all the little ones bagged in one bag, the bricks of your castle.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

You Reap What You Sow

Bible "reap what you sow" Galatians 6:7-9

OH me, Oh my sayeth me! I fear that I did do a little of the Sow - ing part, Jees, if they were Stanfield Long Johns, I would have Sow - n enough of them in one lifetime to suit up the Canadian armed forces. I got my payback for handing out holy bags to my listeners to put their 💩 in. I GOTS PAID BACK IN FULL In Technicolor! _*Along the pathway to recovery and sobriety, I found many bricks along the way, 🧱 one at a time, to put in my knapsack to add to my castle.

Thank you for reading. Now it's onto the LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS REPORTS OF THE DAY.

BREAKING NEWS:

Government shutdown likely to linger as Trump administration warns of layoffs

Where Things Stand Now

• Shutdown, day 3:

The federal government remains shut down as a deadlocked Congress still hasn’t reached a funding deal. Republicans and Democrats are at odds over enhanced Obamacare subsidies.

• How long will it last?:

• Jobs on the chopping block:

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8 min ago

9 min ago

Thousands of federal employees have been furloughed. Here's where they work

Federal employees who are not deemed essential were furloughed as part of the government shutdown.

Here’s how many employees have been affected:

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25 min ago

Analysis: Trump’s curious decision to invoke Project 2025

More To Read:

Updated 9:57 AM EDT, Fri October 3, 2025

- CNN -

Liberal advocacy groups gird for attacks from the Trump administration — and make plans to fight back

Employee messages at a Washington liberal advocacy group no longer linger on the office’s internal chat platform. Instead, they are deleted after seven days, to better protect communications from being subpoenaed as part of a government investigation.

Other groups are mulling shifting some of their operations from nonprofit arms to corporate entities so they can continue their work should the government abruptly revoke their tax-exempt status. And across the progressive philanthropic and nonprofit world, executives are taking new steps to safeguard their security, from monitoring social media for threats to scrubbing their websites of material that could be used to find and target or harass individual employees...

An ‘unnerving’ time:
‘Solidarity works’:

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PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2025, 6:00 AM ET - 4 hr ago

- CNN -

Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to the 4th Reich!

Massive fire breaks out at Chevron refinery near Los Angeles

A large fire broke out Thursday night at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, a city south of Los Angeles, officials said.

The fire turned the night sky orange in the area surrounding the refinery, with towering flames and plumes of smoke visible from afar, images posted on social media showed. Fire crews arrived at 9:30 p.m. and were able to contain the flames to one section of the refinery, El Segundo Fire Department Division Chief Casey Snow told CNN. Hours later, at least one tank at the refinery was still burning, Snow said.

“We’re applying water to it – to the gasoline and diesel fuel that’s burning … We’re working on cooling everything until fuel burns itself out,” Snow said...

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Updated Oct 3, 2025, 5:39 AM ET - Updated 4 hr ago

- CNN -

CANADIAN NEWS:

Carney to return to Washington as Trump's tariffs hit sectors hard

Prime minister facing pressure from opposition to land a win

The prime minister is expected to visit the White House on Tuesday to meet face-to-face with U.S. President Donald Trump after he publicly brought up his 51st state idea again and tariffs continue to pummel some Canadian industries.

Mark Carney's office said he will travel to Washington on Monday ahead of talks.

"The Prime Minister's working visit will focus on shared priorities in a new economic and security relationship between Canada and the U.S.," the prime minister's office said in a statement. t's been more than two months since Canada and the U.S. blew past a deadline they jointly agreed on to reach a trade deal. Carney rescinded a tax on big U.S. technology firms at Trump's request and dropped retaliatory tariffs to try and advance talks.

So far, there's no sign of a deal.

Trump again floats Canada joining the U.S. as the 51st state
Carney's U.S. point person says tariffs deal hasn't hit a 'dead end'

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- CBC -

Sextorters are targeting young boys online — and flaunting how rich the scam is making them

Sextortion has led to 5 suicides in Canada in the past 4 years

For self-proclaimed scammer "John," luring foreigners into sending him money is a full-time job. "We look for them through Facebook or Instagram," he told CBC's Marketplace. "We look through celebrities' accounts, followers' accounts, then we add them."

He's one of Nigeria's "Yahoo Boys," whose scams include coercing teens into sending nude photos of themselves, then using that to blackmail them for money. John, which is not his real name, lives in Lagos, and agreed to speak to Marketplace confidentially so that we could get insight into how these scammers are able to do what they do.

For the full investigation, watch 'The Sextortion Network' on Friday at 8 p.m. (8:30 in N.L.) on YouTube, CBC TV and CBC Gem.

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- CBC -

Meet Costco's newest shoppers — young people on the hunt for deals and trending products

Wholesaler says nearly half of new member signups now come from people under age 40

Karen Kuo started shopping at Costco while studying at Western University. She and her roommates made it a monthly trip — they'd go together, hunting for bulk deals and popular items they'd seen on social media. And they weren't alone. Kuo says the aisles were filled with other students, carts overloaded with stuff. As a content creator, Kuo posts lifestyle content, including some of her trips to Costco, where she says the comments are always flooded with younger people interested in the latest new product or holy grail snack at the wholesale shopping centre.

"Grocery shopping is just a very standard part of a weekly routine, but Costco has the ability to kind of make it fun and make it interesting," Kuo said...

On the hunt for bulk deals;
Costco's cult following:

Costco's ability to stock items consumers want because of online buzz has contributed to the store having a "cult following" of sorts, Patterson says — no small feat, given it comes at a time when retailers like Nordstrom and Hudson's Bay have either pulled out of Canada or closed altogether.

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Reading discouraging, despairing, and sad. Just think of all that human negative thinking is, no wonder Mother Gaia, the environment, is saying that some of its homosapien parasites are DEPLORABLES oozing their poison into Mother Gaia's veins.

Need something cheerful after stirring all that chamber pot stew. 🚽🍲

I'll put on my gumboots and commence a dancin' when The Orange Pus Bag 😡👃🧳 is six feet under, havin' an intelligent conversation with the earthworms 🪱 and centipedes. 🦐

And we'll do a little gumboot cloggin-do a little gumboot cloggin-do a little gumboot cloggin 👢