Tuesday, 12 May 2026

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NEWS AGGREGATOR & COMMENTS

May Great Spirit bless 🙏

Hi! Not doing so well again this morning, I've been relaxing here on the couch waiting for the last wave of nausea to pass. It comes and goes, and I didn't want to waste the day on that traffic light reaction, the red, green light thing with the nausea; I don't want to make a mess on the floor or my shoes unexpectedly, either.

So I went to the bathroom to allow my stomach to clear itself. Talk about a CURSE, this GERD stuff. I'm beginning to recover now, feeling weak but relieved. I have the laptop out here on the couch so I can do my daily news more comfortably. The news may be much shorter today, depending on how long it takes me to produce the best product I can. Thank you.

I can't do anything on a cellphone, I simply never learned where they hide the controls, like copy and paste and downloading stuff. I use the phone ONLY to RESPOND to CHATS, read stuff, and look at pictures. Don't know how to post a picture in a chatroom, I simply don't know how, never learned. But I do have an image of myself in every group or page I'm in on the Social Networks. Thank you again for visiting and reading the Tree House News.

For the topic of the day, I would like to introduce you to the question of the ages: In the beginning, there was consciousness, or in the Bible, Let There Be Light!

DISCUSSION OF THE DAY:

IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS CONSCIOUSNESS

🔹AI Overview

The assertion that "in the beginning was consciousness" represents a philosophical, metaphysical, or theological perspective—famously argued by thinkers like Seyyed Hossein Nasr—positing that awareness is *fundamental rather than an emergent property of matter.*

🔹AI Overview

"Let there be light" is a famous phrase from Genesis 1:3 in the Bible, marking God's first spoken command in the creation story. Found in the opening chapter of Genesis, this phrase signifies the creation of light on the first day, separating light from darkness.

Thought! This universe is only one thought in all that is, in consciousness without end. Thought or information is never lost. This universe is only one thought out of several thoughts, the galactic Neuronetwork. Multiverses like the ripples of raindrops in a pond, the pond being the fabric of time and space. That's my 2 cents worth 😉

This is only dipping my toe in the galactic pool of consciousness.

Now, let us go on and take a peek at the BREAKING news and world events for the day.

BREAKING NEWS:

‘My life is not affordable. No one cares 😢

76% of Americans call cost-of-living issues their biggest economic problem

“It’s more expensive to exist.” “You’re just staying afloat instead of getting ahead.” “It should not be like this.”

Those responses to a new CNN poll sum up Americans’ feelings about the economy: They just feel stuck.

CNN’s poll, conducted by SSRS, finds a surge in people naming high prices and the cost of living as the top economic problem facing their family. Strong majorities are pessimistic about the economy as a whole — almost 7 in 10 believe a recession is likely in the next year — and about their own ability to cover expenses and make purchases.

Americans feel a prevailing sense of economic uncertainty and precarity:

CHART I Included: Nearly three-quarters of Americans say economic conditions are poor

Cost of living is a major concern across the board:

CHART I Included Percentage who say they could comfortably afford paying $1,000 for an emergency expense

There’s little belief that the economic system works for average Americans:

CHART I Percentage who say most people who want to get ahead can make it if they're willing to work hard

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Updated May 12, 2026, 9:20 AM ET

- CNN -

WELCOME TO THE NEW RUSSIA

Democrats’ first test for taking the House: Win Don Bacon’s seat in Nebraska

A primary for an Omaha-based congressional district has turned fractious for Democrats.

During the last presidential election, a “blue dot” in Nebraska held a glimmer of hope on an otherwise rough night for Democrats. Even as then-Vice President Kamala Harris lost every battleground state around the country, she won Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District, giving Democrats a lone electoral vote in the red state.

Yet that success at the top of the ticket didn’t help Democrats there defeat incumbent Republican Rep. Don Bacon, costing the party control of an Omaha-based district critical to the narrow majority the GOP has relied on during President Donald Trump’s second term in Washington. The seat is one of just a handful that Harris won in 2024 that is currently represented by a Republican.

This fall, as Bacon prepares to retire, Democrats see their best chance in years to win the seat. “The blessing, and now the curse, for Republicans in CD-2 is that Don Bacon was a unicorn ...

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May. 12, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

- MS NOW -

CANADIAN NEWS:

NDP slams Ontario government over hospital funding, hallway medicine data

Ontario’s Official Opposition held a press conference at Queen’s Park on Thursday, alleging that provincial government policies are exacerbating a crisis in hospitals, leading to dangerous patient overcrowding and mounting institutional debt.

New Democrat MPPs France Gélinas and Dr. Robin Lennox, the party’s shadow ministers for health and primary care, warned that chronic underfunding is forcing patients into hallways and other unconventional spaces for care...

“That is what happens when a government knowingly underfunds hospitals year after year.”:
Government to stop publicly tracking hallway medicine:
“The metrics you reference are outdated Key Performance Indicators, most of which were introduced in response to COVID-19, being retired from Ontario Health’s (OH) annual reports – in place of these indicators, Ontario Health has introduced 21 newer, more targeted indicators that will continue to produce the same, and in fact more granular, information to the Ministry.”:
Underfunding leads to hospital debt, staffing crises:
Calls for immediate action:

Updated: February 07, 2026 at 8:17PM EST

- CTV -

🔹AI Overview

As of May 2026, Ontario nurses are launching a constitutional challenge against the provincial government over limitations on their right to strike, aiming to strike down the Hospital Labour Disputes Arbitration Act (HLDAA). The dispute stems from frustration over imposed contracts that did not address mandatory minimum staffing levels and a desire for greater collective bargaining power.