Sunday, 21 December 2025

TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

NEWS AGGREGATION & COMMENTARY

May Great Spirit bless 🙏

Well, here I am. I got up at 6:30 AM, took out the clean dishes from the dishwasher, and set up the paraphernalia for making coffee later. I sat back on the couch with my laptop for a little while until it's time to get the coffee on. I feel more like whatever normal is this morning, no nausea or dragging my arse around the house all day like a dog with an itchy backside doing the scoots, *in slow motion*.

Well, it felt more like a freeking hangover that wouldn't go away. I lost 14 lbs. from not eating, so I do have a bit of rehabilitating to do. First on the agenda is to teach my stomach to like food again. I pray I never get sick to my stomach ever again for the rest of my life, AMEN! OK, that's it for my health report. I'm not laying any bets on anything anymore. I got hit by too many boomerangs that weren't supposed to come back. I can only pray that the witch doctor runs out of boomerangs. 🪃

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_prtbj4MtDU

TODAY'S DISCUSSION

Key Motivations For Americans To Move 2025

- Google Search -

Most Americans considering leaving the U.S. are driven by a mix of political dissatisfaction, desire for adventure/better quality of life, and concerns over high costs (healthcare, housing, education), seeking better work-life balance and personal growth in more affordable, less polarized countries, with younger generations (Gen Z, Millennials) being the most vocal, though actual emigration remains low compared to aspirations.

MOTIVATION:

Political Division & Stability:
Financial Concerns:
Quality of Life:
Personal Growth & Adventure:
Social Issues:

WHO IS CONSIDERING IT?

Younger Generations:

Women:

WHAT'S THE REALITY?

Despite high interest (spikes in "how to move to X country" searches after elections), most Americans stay put due to family, finances, and the complexities of international relocation, The Conversation reports.

TOP DESTINATIONS (Commonly Searched):

Countries in Europe, Southeast Asia, and Latin America are popular, often offering easier visa requirements or a lower cost of living.

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My Thoughts Only, when things get really screwy south of the border, how many will cross the border into Canada without the papers? The very ones who were pro-ICE suddenly find themselves being illegal immigrants. No? They should drop you off in the Arctic tundra, just wearing your underwear. I like red polka-dot underwear; they remind me of clowns.

I sum this all up by saying I'm with THE YOUNGER GENERATIONS (Gen Z, Millennials), may Great Spirit give them the opportunity we had but lost by replacing the Peace Lily (Spathiphyllum) for the sword. 🗡️ We, the Baby Boomers, 👶 👧 🧒 👦 👩 👩‍🦳 🧑‍🦳 managed to replace the potential for true peace and greatness with tyranny, hate, 😡 🫟 🧳 🤬 👹 ☠️ 🚁 🎇 🧨 💥 ⚔️ and the destruction of one ugly soul that the people so worshiped this demented old man and his psycopathic followers and supporters, we allow old men who have lost their minds, through the course of Alzheimer's or dementia. We also have the associates, the BLOOD SUCKERS 🐛, who are only there to steal everything they can stuff into their bank accounts, old hoarders, felons, pedophiles, thieves, liars, and pirates who reign supreme by theft and destruction.

US seizes another vessel off Venezuela as Trump administration ramps up pressure on Caracas

Personnel from the United States boarded and seized a vessel off the coast of Venezuela on Saturday, according to a US official familiar with the matter, as the Trump administration ramps up pressure on Caracas.

It was the second known instance of the US interdicting a vessel near Venezuela this month and comes after President Donald Trump announced this week a “blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers going in and out of the country. The US seized a large oil tanker called the Skipper, which had been under sanctions for its ties to Iran, on December 10.

While Trump’s directive this week targeted sanctioned tankers, the vessel the US seized Saturday is not under US sanctions, the official said. The seizure wasn’t contested by the tanker’s crew.

The vessel was a Panamanian-flagged tanker carrying Venezuelan oil, according to the official, and was ultimately destined for Asia...

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Updated Dec 20, 2025, 7:25 PM ET - 14 hr ago

- CNN -

~ PIRACY ~

How low will America degrade itself this low as to crawl on its belly in the sours?

At Turning Point’s annual gathering, young conservatives fret about the future

Phoenix

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At 23, Caleb Gasca has checked off several traditional markers of adulthood. He graduated college, found a job in a construction office and got married.

But living with his wife’s parents in San Bernardino County, California, he still feels as though his life has yet to fully begin. “It’s really irritating that in the area I grew up in, that my family lives, that I can’t afford to live there,” he said in between speakers at AmericaFest, Turning Point USA’s annual gathering of young conservatives...

A tougher road to adulthood:
‘Young people are angry’:

Attendees stand and observe the National Anthem during Turning Point USA's AmericaFest 2025 in Phoenix on December 19, 2025

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PUBLISHED Dec 20, 2025, 6:00 AM ET - Dec 20, 2025

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CANADIAN NEWS:

'Too much regulation, not enough action': Carney rebuffs Trudeau's climate policies

Canada needs clean energy and technology investments to meet emission targets: PM

Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada has too much regulation and not enough investments in clean energy and technology — and he's making his most direct repudiation yet of his predecessor's environmental policies.

"Because I care about the issue fundamentally, I care about what gets done," Carney said in a year-end interview with CBC News airing Sunday morning. "Not what is put in regulation, not what is said, not what is prohibited — and then nothing happens. "We have too much regulation, not enough action," the prime minister told CBC News chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton...

*WATCH | PM Mark Carney* discusses his climate policies with -CBC-

Agreement changed for Guilbeault, PM says:
Does Carney want a pipeline?:

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Posted: Dec 21, 2025 4:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

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Liberals at risk in Quebec, appeasing Alberta with 'solution that failed before': Guilbeault

Chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton speaks with Quebec Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault, who resigned from Prime Minister Mark Carney's cabinet last week, about his party’s deal with Alberta for a potential pipeline to the northwest coast of B.C. and why he thinks the federal government is stoking Quebec separatism by walking back its climate commitments.

VIDEO Included:

December 7, 2025 News Duration10:57

- CBC -

Fear, death and hope in a city under the shadows of a Mexican cartel war

In the city of Culiacán, fears a civil war within the Sinaloa cartel could become deadliest ever

A mule grazed on a recent Thursday afternoon at the end of a quiet dirt road near the entrance of a gated and walled ranch house on the outskirts of Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa state in northwestern Mexico.

Notices attached to the gates indicated that the property had been seized and sealed by the Mexican Attorney General’s office. This is where a fratricidal war within one of the world’s most powerful transnational criminal organizations began. Not far from here, down a secondary highway, headed east toward Culiacán...