Tuesday, 16 December 2025

TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

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May Great Spirit bless 🙏

I got up this morning feeling a little more energetic than I have been for the past while. I put away all the clean dishes in the dishwasher, then made coffee, and here I am. Is the stomach still OK? Naaaaa, dum-dum stomach is not done picking on me yet. Now that I am sitting, I can still feel the faint background nausea trying to make its entry.

Sometimes I wish I had a big knock-out pill 💊 so I could sleep through this boring nauseated stomach stuff, sometimes wish I could jump out the window, screaming in frustration for the world to kiss my ever-lovin' arse. How would you like to be cursed with a 12 months of the year 24 - 7 hangover? 🤢 🤮

I'm going to take five and be back to finish the news. That was about 15 minutes, and I napped for about ten minutes before I even left the chair. Whatever kind of bug this is, it must be a super bug with fangs and claws, and it's stuck to my back, like in the horror movies. The monkey on my back that just won't let go. HEY THERE, MR. or MRS. MONKEY, what will you do when you don't have my CARCAS to pick on anymore?*_

At least for now, the stomach disturbance is remaining mild, CROSSING MY FINGERS, and making the sign of the cross, and if I had the Bible handy, I would stuff it under the couch cushion, sit on it, and pour a bucket of Holy Water on me if I thought it would work! Jees! I wish I were pregnant; at least I'd be suffering for a reason. Or someone take me to Australia to see The Witch Doctor. 👿🪶

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

TODAY's DISCUSSION:

Nazzi America

The trend to Naziism in America doesn't seem to be abating much, if any; it actually appears to be encouraged, as it would seem, looking from this side of the border with my field glasses. Or at least not much of a struggle by the people that could do something, THE USELESS DUNCE CADET (Gestapo) CONGRESS. About as useful as a bucket of maggots. 🪣 🦠 🐛 🪰 There's going to be a lot of people hurting beginning this winter; if the trend continues, the entire country will be a disaster area COME SPRING. A country can't govern itself without its people governing it; the people are the government, or are supposed to be a government for the people. So, who's running the show? They closed all the gov. services. Trumpo the Typo hasn't a clue what he's doing, probably needs an aide to help him change his diaper.

HOW LONG CAN YOU SURVIVE IN A TENT AT - Even - 15° C, no food or water, no food banks, no shelters, no soup kitchens, I can foresee a massive problem with break and entry. When people get desperate, they will break in for survival. Maybe you haven't watched enough disaster movies to see how quickly that can come down in a disaster. Or how about Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana? Did you follow up on the complete story? I even read the book. Douglas Brinkley's

"The Great Deluge." I believe that the average American has more pride than to be humiliated like that.

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About getting emaciated from eating little because of a constant upset stomach, I guess I'm a good candidate for joining the emaciated. Gee, I could make money on the side by playing metallophone. All I have to do is lift my shirt and let someone play the metallophone on my ribs with those little sticks called mallets. I figured if I have to leave here, I may as well do my best to end it with a BANG! with my poop shooter a blazin. 🔥 💩 👉 💨

Thank you for allowing me to vent a little. Now on to the discussion of the day. Thank you for reading the Tree House News.

BREAKING NEWS:

Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles says president ‘has an alcoholic’s personality’ and much more in candid interviews

The White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, delivered a series of unusually candid and at times unflattering assessments of President Donald Trump, his second-term agenda and some of his closest allies in a series of wide-ranging interviews with Vanity Fair published Tuesday.

Across more than 10 interviews, Wiles spoke frankly about working for Trump, saying the president “has an alcoholic’s personality,” despite being known as a teetotaler. She acknowledged the president’s appetite for revenge, conceding many of his second-term actions were driven by a desire for retribution. Wiles suggested Trump was pursuing regime change in Venezuela through his boat-bombing campaign, contradicting official justifications for the strikes. And she described several controversial areas where the president ignored her advice, including on deportations and pardons.

The comments, made in conversations over the past year with author Chris Whipple, are striking both in candor and topic. Wiles — who claimed Tuesday that her words were taken out of context in a “hit piece” — is known inside the White House as a careful operator with few internal detractors, unlike the men who held the job in Trump’s first term. She has retained Trump’s confidence in part by running a functional West Wing that doesn’t attempt to constrain the president’s impulses.

Trump regularly refers to his top aide as the “most powerful woman in the world,” with the ability to influence global affairs in a single phone call. While she is a near-constant presence during his meetings and public appearances, her public remarks during Trump’s second term in office have been limited to a handful of friendly interviews...

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Updated Dec 16, 2025, 11:52 AM ET - Updated 2 min ago

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America’s job market just got some troubling news

What we're covering here:

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• The US economy lost 105,000 jobs in October and added 64,000 jobs in November, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday. The unemployment rate rose to a four-year high of 4.6% last month.

• Almost all economic reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau have been delayed due to the historically long federal shutdown, which hamstrung data collection.

• The October report now marks the first time in almost eight decades that a monthly snapshot has not included the unemployment rate.

• The Census Bureau also reported October retail sales remained flat, the lowest reading in five months.

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How the shutdown affected Tuesday's jobs data

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Here's what Wall Street is saying about the jobs data

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Updated 12:04 PM EST, Tue December 16, 2025

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Flashbacks and triggers: Epstein survivors wait in the dark for DOJ to release the files

When a cache of photos seized from Jeffrey Epstein’s Gmail account and laptop was made public last week, one in particular stopped Dani Bensky in her tracks. It was a photo of Epstein in his office — a room that held many dark memories for Bensky. She remembered the large mahogany desk and a picture frame — though not the art that was in it. She also found herself looking for signs of a taxidermied tiger that Epstein had kept in that office.

Sharlene Rochard immediately recognized one of the rooms in another batch of photos released earlier this month, taken on Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean. At the same time that Rochard was transported back to the abuse she had suffered on Little Saint James years ago, other more seemingly trivial details stood out to her too, like a table that wasn’t in the same spot as she had remembered.

And for Jess Michaels, seeing Epstein’s infamous 50th birthday book had triggered a disturbing flashback. In it was a drawing of several women massaging various parts of Epstein’s body....

‘There was a phone. I know I called somebody’:
‘We were telling the truth all along’:

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PUBLISHED Dec 16, 2025, 5:00 AM ET - 7 hr ago

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CANADIAN NEWS:

Damaged homes collapsing in Gaza, trapping families under rubble following winter storm

Aid groups, authorities warn of further collapses occurring with no other means for shelter

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Families in Gaza face an agonizing choice following last week's winter storm: endure exposure in tents after floods destroyed encampment shelters along with their possessions, killing one baby due to exposure — or shelter in storm-damaged buildings that could collapse without warning.

A two-storey home in northwest Gaza City was the latest to partially collapse Tuesday, trapping a family underneath the rubble, killing a man and seriously injuring a family of five, local authorities say. The latest collapse comes as authorities warned a day earlier that more weakened buildings are at risk of falling as strong winds and heavy rain persist in Gaza.

Abu Rami Al-Husari, 46, said his brother and nephews were in the Hamid Junction in northwest Gaza City when the top floor of a two-storey home they were sheltering in, which had been damaged by Israeli bombing in the war, caved in on them...

Rescue crews working with basic equipment:
New tents urgently needed:

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Dec 16, 2025 11:49 AM EST | Last Updated: 1 hour ago

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Canadian delegation, including MPs, denied entry into West Bank

Updated8 minutes ago

Group of 30 Canadians was blocked from entering at crossing in Jordan

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A delegation of 30 Canadians, including six members of Parliament, was denied entry into the occupied West Bank early today.
The move came after each delegate was asked to sign a form declaring they acknowledge they are a threat to public safety, which they declined to do, according to a spokesperson for the National Council of Canadian Muslims.
The group was denied for 'security reasons' after it arrived at the crossing 'without prior co-ordination,' said COGAT, the Israeli Defence Ministry agency that oversees civilian affairs in the Palestinian territories.
he group is on a sponsored travel trip organized by a Canadian registered non-profit charity organization, the Canadian Muslim Vote.
The goal of the three-day trip was to meet with displaced Palestinians, with stops in the West Bank and Israel.

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