Friday, 10 April 2026

🧚‍♀️ TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

NEWS AGGREGATOR & COMMENTS

Great Spirit bless 🙏

I see the sunrise 🌄, but it's already getting overcast 🌫️ with grey clouds. The forecast today is calling for cloudy and 41° F. That's pathetic, it's still like March weather out there 😖 Tomorrow sounds more promising, 50° F and mostly sunny 🌤️

I wonder how long my gardening apparatus will be sitting on the kitchen table before it's nice enough to go back to puttering around in my balcony garden again, next June? I hope sooner than that, I might die of old age before then, too, you know. I want my seedlings to sprout before THIS coming June.

It's lovely to sit out there when everything is green, but since February, we have had only one nice day when I could sit with my coffee in my Green Space. I keep it cleaned of snow and green with artificial plants all winter for such occasions. This year, I sat out there three times, once in February and twice in March. There was simply too much wind this past winter, especially that infernal freezing wind. Too cold to sit out there much this year so far.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

THE SYSTEM

What will happen if the system breaks down? That's quite a good possibility, given the Orange Snot Ball messing it all up with his TARIFFS and illegal business transactions. What happens to a government that doesn't govern? It can't run by itself. Who's going to want to deal with a government that has no laws, rules, or regulations?

Whose currency will we use to settle international transactions? The Chinese Yuan or cryptocurrency. Personally, I place my bet on the Chinese Yuan. A group of industrialized nations is already pushing for the use of the Yuan instead of the U.S. Dollar. Is America, in the new world order, becoming, "I can see the road sign now!"... floating on a buoy in the ocean? The Port of Pirates? Heck, if I'm going to be a soothsayer, I'm better at tooth-saying: "dumb dentures!" Canada will be China's Western Hemisphere Distributor. I can see it all now, sitting reclined in my office chair, admiring my office door. On the glass panel, in nice, fancy writing, on my office door was: 'Master of Tooth Saying'.

No. I'm not related to Colbert on the late-night show, wish I were, though ☺️

- Google Search -

Question: Symptoms of a falling empire

🔹AI Overview

Symptoms of a falling empire often include severe economic decay (high inflation, debt, and inequality), political dysfunction, loss of territorial control, and declining social cohesion. Key indicators include reliance on foreign troops, declining quality of life for citizens, constant and unprofitable warfare, and an overextended military.

Key Symptoms of Imperial Decay:
Economic Collapse:
Internal Political Decay:
Loss of Social Cohesion:

* Infrastructure Failure:

Constant Warfare:

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Better not waste time putting it off for later to think about it, THERE MAY NOT BE A LATER, and it just might be that if you had been there at the right time, one tiny little act that you needed to do could have changed the course of events on the fabric of time and space as well as in your life. Like writing a story, you don't like how it's going, so you change the events to lead away from the catastrophe. We're at the edge of the precipice, and behind us is The Conflagration.

ONLY WE, WE, THE PEOPLE, CAN STOP THIS CONFLAGRATION!

☮️✊ VIVE LA RESISTANCE ✊☮️

BREAKING NEWS:

US inflation tripled last month on record spike in gas prices

What We're Covering Here:

• The war with Iran drove up monthly US inflation threefold in March, according to the latest Consumer Price Index report, released Friday morning.

• The annual rate of inflation reached 3.3% in March, up from 2.4% in February. The monthly rate measured 0.9%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

• The price spike was overwhelmingly driven by spiraling energy costs from the chokehold that Iran has on global oil supply. Gasoline rose by a record 21.2% last month.

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8 min ago

White House touts egg prices

More To Read:

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Melania Trump tried to sweep the Epstein saga away, but she ended up reviving it

The most plausible explanation for first lady Melania Trump’s out-of-the-blue address on the Jeffrey Epstein drama was that she was trying to make it go away. But her stunning on-camera statement Thursday from the White House Cross Hall — the spot where her husband last week spoke to the nation about the Iran war — will almost certainly have the opposite effect.

“I am not Epstein’s victim. Epstein did not introduce me to Donald Trump,” she said, in a statement that was all the more remarkable since there had been no widespread public speculation about the matter in recent days.

The optics were of a first lady fed up with reports and speculation she believes falsely link her to Epstein.

A new political nightmare for the White House:

Trump is also at odds with some high-profile former supporters who regard his Iran adventure as flouting his campaign pledge of no new foreign wars ...

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PUBLISHED Apr 10, 2026, 12:00 AM ET - 9 hr ago

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The beautiful, violent world awaiting the Artemis II’s return

The view from a quarter million miles away from the planet we call home puts the chaos down below into perspective.

VIDEO | Included:

Shortly before the four-person crew of Artemis II crossed behind the moon Monday and briefly lost contact with NASA’s Mission Control, pilot Victor Glover, quoting the Bible, urged humanity to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. “To all of you down there on Earth and around Earth, we love you, from the moon,” Glover said. Forty minutes later, with its signal restored, the crew made history as it reached nearly 252,760 miles from this planet, the farthest human beings have ever traveled.

Most days, the vastness of space has no appeal to me over the comforts of the Earth. But the following morning, as I stared at my phone in disbelief, I grew jealous of the astronauts who were away from it all on that mission to orbit the moon...

• What a juxtaposition: Trump’s threat to obliterate an ancient land with the awe-inspiring images of Earth being beamed back from the Orion spacecraft.

• The crew of Artemis II reminded us that we must appreciate this fragile oasis we’ve been granted. ...

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Apr. 10, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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CANADIAN NEWS:

A RAY OF HOPE!

Canada's ecoomy adds 14,000 jobs in March after February's whopping losses

Labor force survey from February showed a loss of 84,000 jobs

Canada's economy added a modest 14,000 jobs in March, Statistics Canada said on Friday, clawing back a fraction of the sharp job losses seen during the first two months of the year.

The data agency's previous Labor Force Survey from February showed a loss of 84,000 jobs, a result that was largely a surprise to economists and analysts. Given the earlier losses, "no one is going to mistake this small back-up as a sign of strength," wrote Douglas Porter, chief economist at Bank of Montreal, in a note to clients.

Chart | Included: Monthly in jobs in Canada:

Chart | Included: Unemployment rate in Canada:

Posted: Apr 10, 2026 8:38 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago

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Pentagon denies report of heated meeting with Vatican representative

Cardinal Christophe Pierre 'summoned' by White House in January, according to The Free Press

The Pentagon pushed back late Thursday on a report that suggested a meeting in January between a U.S.-based cardinal and a member of Donald Trump's administration grew heated.

The Pentagon said on social media that Elbridge Colby, the undersecretary of defense for policy, had a "respectful and reasonable discussion" with Cardinal Christophe Pierre on Jan. 22, slamming "grossly false and distorted recent reporting." "We have nothing but the highest regard and welcome continued dialogue with the Holy See," the department said on X.

The digital outlet the Free Press reported on Monday that Pierre was "summoned" by the White House over comments made by U.S.-born Pope Leo XIV two weeks earlier...