Monday, 25 May 2026

🧚‍♀️ TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

NEWS AGGREGATOR & COMMENTS

May Great Spirit bless 🙏

Hi, everyone. I hope you're all having a good Count Dracula 🧛‍♂️ day. Another cool, damp, grey, cloudy, and misty day. 👅🫦 🤢🤮 Good weather if you're a duck 🦆or a fish 🐟 or maybe a vampire.

Let us begin the day on the lighter side of life.

I suppose I shouldn't complain; there are people south of the border who get it a lot worse than we do up here in Ontario. Here on the Niagara Peninsula, we seem to have been lucky to have avoided most of the major storms that have come north in the last couple of years. It seems that the Niagara Peninsula is holding to its claim quite well, about having its own climate. Down below the border, it seems that, as far as hurricanes and tornadoes go, it doesn't matter what season it is anymore.

They can hit anytime, regardless of the season. The winters have been worse than they were back in the 1960's. I remember days when Dad had to climb out the second-floor bedroom window onto the kitchen roof with a shovel to go down a ladder to ground level to shovel out the main door 🚪 which was buried to the top. How tall is a standard outside door? About 7 ft. That's how much snow we got back then.

DAMNED this body of mine, always complaining, if it's not one thing it's another, the stomach part's the worst, like a spoiled child. When I'm ailing with one thing and another, I wonder why I feel so tired, like I've been digging ditches 🪏 all day; all these minor, dodgy dysfunctions take it out of me. I thank G-d that I have improved greatly with the sick stomach, which was my greatest albatross of them all. I think my specialist is getting somewhere with that, thank G-d <- I mean that from the bottom of my heart. I just wish this stupid penguin weather would end so I can start walking again, without having to wear a dumb coat, IN JUNE?

TODAY'S DISCUSSION

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Question: Stock market crash predicted

I don't know much about finance, except that today's stock market looks scarily similar to how it was in 1928 and 1929. From watching TV, I learned that stock prices were driven higher by speculation. The least bit of good news, however fleeting, causes investors to buy and fuels further speculation. AI is the big news. Between AI and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, the market has a Pavlovian response to buy, and prices for stocks rise; and nobody knows why they rise! Prices will fall when investors want to get their cash, and the market will implode.

I believe Trumpo The Typo was doing a very good job of that, with his crypto and bitcoin scams, rescinding the rules for buying stocks on credit, removing the guardrails that were in place to protect investors through the Securities and Exchange Commission, and gutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Trumpo the Typo and his family are looting all they can before the crash. I have no doubt Trump has had a hand in aiding a crash.

🔹AI Overview

Stock market crash predictions generally note that while a severe downturn isn't the confirmed base case, mounting vulnerabilities are prompting extreme market caution. Indicators such as the Buffett Indicator point to extended valuations, and hedge fund managers draw parallels to the late-1999-2000 tech bubble.

Primary Market Risks & Crash Indicators

Current predictions of a market downturn hinge on a few key economic factors:

• Tech and AI Valuations:

• Geopolitical & Economic Shocks:

• Bearish Divergences:

Warning signs often appear when the S&P 500 hits new highs, but economically sensitive sectors fail to confirm those gains, indicating underlying weakness in the broader economy. How to Evaluate and Prepare

Historically, trying to perfectly predict or "time" the stock market is highly inaccurate, and panic selling usually locks in losses. Instead of relying on a single oracle or crash forecast, investors often manage risk by taking the following actions:

• Asset Allocation:

• Maintain Liquidity:

• Track Moving Averages:

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BREAKING NEWS:

Why Trump’s possible Iran deal may be almost as divisive as his decision to wage war

The best hope for ending a poorly planned war, which started with scant consultation with Congress or the American people, may be an unsatisfactory peace that leaves critical issues to be resolved later and deepens Washington strife.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly said a deal to halt the conflict he chose against Iran is imminent and very close. Each time, his predictions turned out to be wishful thinking or a misreading of Iran’s true intentions.

So it’s no surprise his latest claims that a framework agreement with Tehran is near have been met with skepticism and confusion — nor that both conservative hawks and Democrats seem to believe he’s on the cusp of caving to a bad deal...

Republican hawks pressure Trump not to fold:
Two critical questions Trump must answer:

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Updated May 25, 2026, 7:13 AM ET - 3 hr ago

- CNN -

Staggering dip in US tourism is a troubling sign for the future

There’s no sugarcoating it. The complete 2025 data is in, and the message is clear: International visitors stayed away from the US in the first real year-over-year decline since the Covid-19 pandemic. The drop in visitors was larger than during the global recession of 2008.

This time, it wasn’t a pandemic or a collapse of the market — it was human error. Travelers cite presidential rhetoric and policies manifesting in highly public wars — both figurative and literal — as some of the reasons for staying away. Four million fewer foreign visitors came to the US in 2025 compared to 2024, with total spending decreasing by more than $8 billion.

*International tourists to the US dropped in 2025 - Check out chart:*

Canada leads in giving the US the cold shoulder:

Canada led among the countries with declining visitors to the US - Chart Included:

Business owners are feeling the pain:
Travelers are disappointed:
How to come back from this:

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PUBLISHED May 25, 2026, 5:00 AM ET - 5 hr ago

- CNN -

Pope Leo XIV apologizes for Vatican’s role in legitimizing slavery

No pope had ever publicly acknowledged the Vatican’s role in giving European sovereigns explicit authority to subjugate and enslave “infidels.”

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology on Monday for the role the Holy See played in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican’s record a “wound in Christian memory.”

Past popes have apologized for Christians’ involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. But no pope had ever publicly acknowledged, much less apologized for, the role that past popes played in giving European sovereigns explicit authority to subjugate and enslave “infidels.” History’s first U.S.-born pope, whose family history includes both enslaved people and slave owners, delivered the apology in his first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” (Magnificent Humanity), which was released Monday.

The sweeping manifesto is about safeguarding humanity in an era of increasing reliance on artificial intelligence. Leo raised the trans-Atlantic slave trade in relation to what he called the new forms of slavery and colonialism that the digital revolution is fueling, such as the unregulated labor practices in procuring rare minerals needed for AI chips...

Centuries of legitimizing slavery for European colonizers:
Holy See late to condemn slavery, Leo says:
Leo’s own family history and past apologies:

May. 25, 2026, 9:36 AM EDT

- MS NOW -

CANADIAN NEWS:

Alberta separation referendum, pipeline tensions loom over western premiers' meeting

Smith, Eby both say meeting will be awkward amid ongoing tensions

Premiers from across Western Canada are gathering in Alberta for their annual meeting, as that province stews over a monumental question of whether to quit Canada.

Premiers from the western provinces and northern territories are gathering Monday and Tuesday at a hotel in Kananaskis, Alta., about 100 kilometres west of Calgary, to discuss trade, the economy, energy security, defence and nation-building projects, said Sam Blackett, a spokesperson for Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's office.

The meeting comes on the heels of Smith's announcement Thursday that she's planning to put a question on her government's fall referendum ballot that will ask Albertans if they want the province to remain in Canada or if they want a future binding referendum on separation...

• Western premiers to discuss energy, trade at annual meeting:

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Posted: May 25, 2026 10:12 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago

- CBC -

Netanyahu's future uncertain as Israel starts to prepare for national election

Israeli parliament begins process of dissolving itself ahead of vote expected this fall

While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been focussed on "total victory" for Israel since the Hamas-led attack on the country on Oct. 7, 2023, his own victory in a coming national election is far from certain.

This past week, the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, unanimously approved a bill to begin dissolving in preparation for the election that has to be held by the end of October. For some voters, Israel's longest-serving prime minister could be be both the key figure and issue when the election is held...

WATCH | Netanyahu says escalating war on Hamas is fastest path to victory: