Monday, 16 March 2026

🧚‍♀️ TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

NEWS AGGREGATOR & COMMENTS

Great Spirit bless 🙏

Good morning, I pray that you are all well, safe, blessed, and guided to make the right choices on this day. I don't know what the weather is going to do this morning, the 16th of March. With this wind, I will be surprised if I don't lose all of the plants and stuff in my Green Space. That possibility saddens my heart. I feel like I can't have anything nice anymore, ya know, the broken doll syndrome. It's like a shadow that's been lingering around since last January, the ghost of last January. Like I was being cursed by that supreme disgusting Orange Slime Ball Blimp floating over and 💩 all over We, The People, who are no more than little pieces of 💩 Orange Slime Ball! "Wanker!"

Poisoning our planet? I guess that will encourage people to build spaceships that can really reach Mars and live on it, which will be less polluted than Earth.

Poluted? Yes, like the ugly stuff that's oozing out of the ground everywhere like F'n crude oil, sewage, radioactive waste, garbage, and then high unemployment rates hit, the market dies, followed by illness from malnutrition, living in tents, starvation, death, and diseases running rampant because of a lack of medical help.

To The Powers That Be, all I have to say is, once We, the People, have all gone, who's going to run your factories and keep the lights on?

I'm sorry to say, but that's how I see the New America within a couple of years, and I am not certain that it isn't already too late to throw a pipe wrench into the gears of this monster. There doesn't appear to be anyone up to bat for that one yet.

That's not to mention all the destruction by tornadoes and hurricanes, which have already begun their havoc. At this rate, Iran won't have to waste time retaliating against Americans; America is already destroying itself.

I would like something cheery to look at in the mornings aside from the prospect of this dreary negativity transpiring all around us. Someone mentioned the antichrist. I would say that we have a manifestation of the antichrist in the Brown 💩 House in Washington.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

Authoritarian America

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Question: Authoritarian America

🔹AI Overview

As of early 2026, concerns about American authoritarianism have intensified, with observers noting significant democratic backsliding. Many experts and reports describe the United States as facing a "no longer... a full democracy" or an electoral autocracy due to the concentration of executive power, efforts to control information, and pressure on democratic institutions.

Executive Power Expansion:
Democratic Decline:
Politicized Tactics:
Resilience and Risk:

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Where is all this insanity going?

How long do we want to keep riding the wild bronco without a saddle?????? "Hello there, Chief Sore Butt!" - 🪶👹

Well, it is now 9:15 AM, and it's still grey, cloudy, and gloomy looking out, but on the bright side, the wind has died down, and my artificial plants in my green space survived with only a few bent branches, thank goodness.

BREAKING NEWS:

Trump’s allies noncommittal despite demand to help secure Strait of Hormuz

Israel launches "limited and targeted" ground operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Here's The Latest:

• Strait of Hormuz: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says his country is working with allies on a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. No countries have committed to sending warships after US President Donald Trump warned NATO faces a “very bad” future if they failed to assist. Iran says Hormuz is “not closed” but operating under “special conditions.”

• On the ground: “Hundreds of thousands” of people have been evacuated from southern Lebanon after Israel said it launched “limited” ground operations. In Iran, smoke billowed over Tehran as state media reported loud booms. Meanwhile, one person was killed in Abu Dhabi after a missile hit a vehicle.

• Oil prices spike: EU energy ministers are meeting today to discuss how to curb rising energy costs. The price of oil yesterday rose to its highest level since July 2022. US gas prices are now at their highest since October 2023, with diesel just shy of $5 a gallon.

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4 min ago

Israel says it has destroyed Iran's space and satellite center

More To Read:

Updated 9:18 AM EDT, Mon March 16, 2026

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Trump’s allies noncommittal despite demand to help secure Strait of Hormuz

Israel launches "limited and targeted" ground operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Here's The Latest:

• Strait of Hormuz: US officials are looking to rally support for a coalition to secure the Strait of Hormuz, according to sources. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says his country is working with allies on a plan to reopen the crucial shipping route. No countries have yet committed to sending warships to the waterway, which Iran claims is operating under “special conditions.”

• On the ground:

• Oil prices spike:

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15 min ago

Israel says it has destroyed Iran's space and satellite center

More To Read:

- Science -

Africa’s great divide: Why the continent’s split is so exciting for science

Time and time again, Hollywood has embraced an imminent apocalypse, as films like “2012” beamed the fictionalized end of the world onto the big screen.

Fortunately, the scientific logic for many such movies has been, to put it lightly, creative. The planet’s crust did not suddenly shift 14 years ago and sweep most of us away in a flurry of earthquakes, eruptions and megatsunamis. And yet, by the time you reach the end of this sentence, Africa will have moved a little closer to splitting apart.

The remote Afar region of Northern Ethiopia sits at the center of a Y-shaped rift system, along which the continent is separating to form a new ocean...

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PUBLISHED Mar 16, 2026, 5:56 AM ET - 3 hr ago

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CANADIAN NEWS:

U.S. allies wary of Trump's pleas for help in Strait of Hormuz amid war in Middle East

U.S. president leaning on NATO allies, warning of consequences

U.S. President Donald Trump may delay his China trip due to the Iran war, but Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday it's not to pressure Beijing on the Strait of Hormuz.

"If the meeting for some reason was rescheduled, it would be rescheduled because of logistics," the secretary said on CNBC. "The president wants to remain in D.C. to co-ordinate the war and travelling abroad at a time like this may not be optimal." Trump has suggested he may delay the trip as he seeks to ramp up pressure on Beijing to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz and calm oil prices, which have soared during the Iran war...

Countries wary over Trump's call:

WATCH | Seeking help in the strait:

Price of oil skyrocketing:

WATCH | Reopening strait won't be simple:

WATCH | Underwater war for the strait?:

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Posted: Mar 16, 2026 4:58 AM EDT | Last Updated: 25 minutes ago

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Carney, Starmer meet amid deepening Middle East crisis

Rising energy prices a major concern for both leaders, PMO says

The war in the Middle East, the fear that it could escalate and the economic consequences were top of mind as Prime Minister Mark Carney met his British counterpart Monday in the United Kingdom at the tail of a whirlwind trip to Europe.

Carney met British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London, where the two leaders discussed the ongoing military operations of the United States, Israel and Iran and the closure of the vital Strait of Hormuz. An official statement from Carney’s office following the meeting said that both Canada and the U.K. condemned Iran's missile and drone attacks, including on civilian and energy infrastructure...

Carney to meet King Charles:

• U.S. allies wary of Trump's pleas for help in Strait of Hormuz amid war in Middle East

• Israel military says it launched 'limited' ground operations in south Lebanon

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Posted: Mar 16, 2026 7:28 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

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Canada's annual inflation rate fell to 1.8% in February, war's impact not yet reflected

High gas prices will almost certainly be felt in next month's inflation report

Canada's annual inflation rate fell to 1.8 per cent in February, Statistics Canada said on Monday, with the end of last year's "tax holiday" reflected in the year-over-year numbers but the Iran war still missing from the picture.

February's inflation rate slowed compared to the same time last year, as prices were driven higher when the GST break ended mid-month, the data agency said, in what economists refer to as a "base effect." Food prices saw the largest slowdown, largely driven by slower price growth for fresh and frozen beef. But StatsCan noted that grocery prices have risen more than 30 per cent since February 2021...