Thursday, 30 October 2025

TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

Land of Whispering Pines 🌲

Good morning! May the Great Spirit bless you 🙏

You hear about the kid piling blocks one on top of the other, aiming to reach the expected height. The bottom block always kicks out before the kid ever gets near the desired height. So goes life, eh! It's like getting to the top floor of a high-rise. The elevator light comes on, indicating floor ten. You step out of the elevator, then the building collapses.

Lucky, the cement slab you were lying on broke your fall. The only problem is it was kind of a messy job cleaning you out of that perfect form or mold of you in the concrete slab!

Now that's one Far Out! Statue, a good specimen for a museum. Drop by on a Tuesday at 8:28 AM on October 30, 3025, to visit the famous inside-out statue. 😂🤣

Always start the day with a bit of humor—it's like turning on the heat, at least long enough to get rid of the morning chills—then turning on all the lights on, especially on a grey, gloomy day, like today. Wet, damp with a cold north-east wind 😝

We have bright lights in the kitchen, and there are also bright lights from my two growbox gardens; the light from them gives the impression of sunlight.

Note! I will be getting my teeth pulled on Friday, 31, 2025. I have no Idea how long I will be incapacitated. I never got all my teeth removed before, only one tooth when I was 16 years old, a memory I would sooner not remember, and that was one lousy tooth. I'll only know POST-CATASTROPHE—hopefully Saturday or Sunday.

"Good Morning, ya no good for nothing miserable Rotten Fat Orange 💩eatin' Cocroach!" 🪳

TODAY's DISCUSSION:

Sitting On The Fence

I can only pray that the Trumpo Regime begins to crumble the same day I dispatch and bury my 🐎💩 pain 💥 in the arse 🦷teeth, you miserable roten cockroach. May you run out of diapers and mess your pants in public 🏳️💩👖 There is no mercy or respect in my heart for you any more than I do for a virus. But I leave the judging as to which Circle in Hell you get your arse parked in, I leave that decision to the judges of judges, Great Spirit, Creator, G-d

It is TIME NOW! That ✊ ~VIVE LA RESISTANCE,~ ✊ not only in AMERICA but also in CANADA, is needed. Now is the time to RESIST! I've been singing this song since the BEGINING of The Orange Pus Bag's second term. Thank you for reading and listening_

I aim to appeal my case, opinions, and convictions to the best of my ability, primarily aimed at the fence sitters. Ya know, no one has to know you changed your mind —just put your X on the choice of who you believe is the better-qualified to lead, serve, and protect we the people. Otherwise, keep sitting on the fence, it's your *free* choice

- Google Search -

"Sitting on the fence" is an idiom for being undecided or neutral, not taking sides in a dispute or argument. It implies a person is delaying a decision or avoiding committing to one of two opposing viewpoints. The phrase can be used when someone is genuinely unsure, wants to remain on good terms with both sides, or is indifferent.

Good enough description to fit this topic, thank you for reading the Tree House News:

I don't expect to be able to complete this morning's news report until I come back from wasting at least an hour just going there, sitting around waiting, then back eats up at least an hour and a half. Just to go sign a piece of paper. I only have an hour left, and I don't like playing that game, Beat the Clock 💩 , so I will see you all in a bit.

BREAKING NEWS:

Trump heads back to US to face government shutdown after meeting with Xi

What We're Covering

• Shadow negotiation: After 30 days of gridlock, a group of rank-and-file senators believe they may have found a possible path to end the government shutdown. Majority Leader John Thune appeared to suggest that he would have a conversation with those involved in the negotiations.

• Shutdown impacts: Food stamp benefits for millions of Americans could be paused beginning this weekend. Federal workers who are going unpaid are also expressing frustration and fear about making ends meet.

• Meeting with Xi: Donald Trump met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea, with the US president saying they came to an agreement on “almost everything,” including tariffs and rare earth minerals.

• Nuclear tests: Trump also announced that he has instructed the Department of Defense to “immediately” begin testing nuclear weapons on an “equal basis,” in apparent reference to rival countries, including China and Russia. It would be a potentially major shift in decades of US policy...

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4 min ago

Most Americans oppose White House East Wing teardown, according to new poll

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15 min ago

SNAP recipient says she'll be forced to pull from other parts of her budget to feed her kids

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Updated 10:03 AM EDT, Thu October 30, 2025

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Exclusive: Three-star general pushed out amid tensions with Hegseth

A three-star general serving on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff has been pushed out of his position following months of sustained tensions with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, according to people familiar with the matter. The general’s stalled promotion also contributed to his early retirement, the sources said.

Lt. Gen. Joe McGee, the director for Strategy, Plans, and Policy on the Joint Staff, left his position earlier this month, the sources said. They added that McGee had frequently “pushed back” against Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine on issues ranging from Russia and Ukraine to military operations in the Caribbean. The sources noted that McGee was nominated by former President Joe Biden nearly a year ago for a promotion to serve as director of the Joint Staff but was never renominated by the current administration.

McGee’s primary responsibility in the role was to advise Caine on long-term military strategy including weighing the risks of potential actions and planning for crisis contingencies. “He has had a target on his back for a while now,” one of the sources said of McGee. Two other sources said there were discussions internally as far back as the spring about pushing out McGee...

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PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2025, 9:45 PM ET - 12 hr ago

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CANADIAN NEWS:

Carney tours newly completed South Korean sub as Canada weighs multi-billion dollar order

PM got to see what kind of submarine South Korea wants to sell to Canada

South Korea put political weight behind its bold, high-stakes bid to sell submarines to Canada on Thursday as Prime Minister Mark Carney got a look at one of the country’s new boats and toured the shipyard that would do the construction.

South Korea Prime Minister Kim Min-seok accompanied Carney during the visit to the Hanwha Ocean Ltd. facility in Geoje, 96 kilometres from Gyeongju, where the Asia Pacific Co-operation (APEC) summit is being held. Earlier in the day, Carney also met with South Korea’s new president, Lee Jae Myung. Hanwha Ocean and its partner Hyundai Heavy Industries have been fairly aggressive in pitching the KSS-III (Batch 2) submarine to Canada, delivering an unsolicited, detailed proposal to the federal government last winter — just ahead of the last election...

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Aging subs to retire by 2035:
South Korea's competition: Germany:
The cost of underspending:

Posted: Oct 30, 2025 6:44 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago

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O Canada! Summer tourism numbers hit all-time high

Record numbers driven by strong domestic and international travellers

Tourism operators across the country will remember the summer of 2025 fondly, as the amount of money spent by tourists reached an all-time high. Canada’s tourism sector generated a record-breaking amount of revenue of between May and August, reaching $59 billion, a six per cent increase compared to the same period last year.

Most of the revenue was the result of Canadians choosing to spend their travel dollars within the country, as domestic tourism was up seven per cent. Revenue from international travellers remained strong, particularly from overseas markets, which increased by 10 per cent, according to new figures released by Destination Canada on Thursday...

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Posted: Oct 30, 2025 6:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

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