Thursday, 13 August 2026

🧚‍♀️ TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

NEWS AGGREGATOR & COMMENTS

Great Spirit bless 🙏

Good morning from the Tree House. I've been sitting outside in my Green Space, watching the shimmering sun rise above the trees and doing a little contemplating.

So silent and peaceful at this time of the morning before they let the hounds of hell loose to create the din of construction all around us. I'll be glad when they leave and take their noisy monsters with them. Two years in a row is quite enough of this racket. Last year was our own apartment building; what a mucking fess!

There's good reason for it, but two summers spoiled by construction racket, debris, and chaos are too much. Maybe next summer will be quiet again. I love this place when there's no construction crap going on.

The odd chainsaw here and there irritates me a little, concerned that someone is taking trees out of the parkland behind our building. Usually, it's the town's cutting deadfall or preventing a leaning tree from falling on your head 🪾💥👩 Lawn mowers and leaf blowers I don't mind; they are summertime sounds, almost like music, and not to mention the aroma of fresh-cut grass. Or carpentry tools, I don't mind either.

BUT THAT CONSTRUCTION 💩 DRIVES ME UP THE WALL! 🧗

Especially that damned sewer-sucking machine and jackhammers.

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Search: Misophonia

🔹AI Overview

Misophonia (Reaction to Everyday Noises)

If you mean a condition where specific everyday sounds trigger intense emotional and physical reactions (like a fight-or-flight response, anger, or a racing heart), the term is misophonia (literally meaning "hatred of sound")

Mental signs: Sudden anger, panic, rage, or disgust when hearing things like chewing, breathing, or tapping.

"ME" mostly sudden loud noises or a sudden motion or movement, I get the fight-or-flight or jump-out-of-my-skin effect. It's like someone rolled a grenade under the door.

Physical signs: Increased heart rate, high blood pressure, and tight muscles.

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Question: Empath's Reaction to loud sounds and motion.

🔹AI Overview

An empath often experiences sudden loud sounds and fast motion as an intense physical shock. Because their nervous systems process sensory input and emotional energy deeply, a sudden jolt can instantly trigger a fight-or-flight response, causing rapid heart rate, deep anxiety, or sudden irritability.

Nervous System Overdrive

Exaggerated Startle Response:
Sensory Overload:
Energy Drain:

Emotional and Physical Reactions

You don't grow out of this sensitivity with age, nor does the sensitivity get weaker. It gets even more finely tuned with age; you learn how to react and deal with it differently. I still jump at the light bulb on the ceiling, but I have become much quicker at figuring out what the source of the noise is instead of having a panic attack.

Personally, I tend to believe that Empathy is, in part, based more on intuition and instinct.

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Search: Empathy is more part of Intuition and instinct

🔹AI Overview

Empathy shares a deep bond with intuition and instinct, acting as an automatic emotional reflex in some contexts, but it also relies heavily on deliberate, cognitive reasoning to accurately understand others.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Most agree that highly empathic people naturally possess a sharper sense of intuition because they notice subtle emotional cues. *However, scientific research shows that empathy and gut intuition are distinct processes ... YET!

An example: I was napping on the couch yesterday when there was a sudden, loud crash of thunder. I was lying back in the recliner couch, and somehow I managed to leapfrog out while still in the reclined position, standing in the middle of the room in the fight-or-flight stance, wondering what hit! I felt as if someone had just dropped the atomic bomb on the couch.

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Search: PTSD

🔹AI Overview

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that can develop after you experience or witness a very scary, dangerous, or violent event. Symptoms include unwanted flashbacks, nightmares, severe anxiety, and ongoing emotional numbness that last for more than a month and disrupt daily life

Core Symptoms

Intrusion: Unwanted distressing memories, vivid flashbacks, or recurring nightmares about the event.
Avoidance: Staying away from places, objects, thoughts, or people that remind you of the trauma.
Negative shifts in mood:* Feeling detached, losing interest in fun activities, or struggling with persistent fear and guilt, arousal, and reactivity:

AS we notice that this mental disorder is a monster compared to the first two irritating syndromes that can be controlled to a degree. More like annoying horseflies eating your air sandwich 🪰🥪 in comparison to PTSD.

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BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

Trump’s enduring focus: An Iranian assassination plot

The prospect that Iran might try to kill Trump has hung over the president since he had a top Iranian official assassinated more than six years ago.

VIDEO | Included:

The threat appears to loom large on President Donald Trump’s mind. It has prompted missile launchers to surround the president on his golf courses. It led him to hide in an airline catering truck to surreptitiously switch planes as he left Turkey last month.

And it has spurred heightened worries among his protective detail and intelligence agencies already weighing a record number of threats to his life. In public and private, Trump keeps musing about the possibility that Iran might assassinate him.

Depending on the day, the prospect is floated as a simple fact of life, a warning to potential perpetrators and even a point of pride for the world’s most powerful leader. The comments suggest that if Iranian leaders want Trump to be concerned about his safety six months into his war, they are succeeding...

News

Trump vows U.S. will ‘decimate’ Iran if it attempts to assassinate him:

IRGC had told an Iranian operative to “focus on surveilling, and ultimately, assassinating” Trump and an Iranian dissident in New York,

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Aug. 13, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT

- MS NOW -

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Sell Ukraine 10% of US Patriots and ‘we will destroy all the Russians’ ballistic missiles,’ Zelensky tells CNN

Kyiv — Ukraine has only a tenth of the interceptor missiles it urgently needs from the United States to stop surging Russian ballistic missile attacks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN in an interview, adding his days are spent in “millions” of phone calls, in opaque deal-making with allies for more.

Russian ballistic attacks have risen fast in recent weeks, hitting the capital Kyiv particularly hard, as Moscow exploits Ukraine’s near-zero stocks of Patriot interceptor missiles. Zelensky said a tenth of the US current stockpile would be enough to stop all Russian ballistic missile attacks, but 5% would be enough to get Ukraine through the winter.

“This year we have two and a half times less interceptors than we had in 2025,” he said. “Russia has two times more ballistic missiles per month than they had before.” July was the deadliest month for Ukrainian civilians since April 2022...

US intel assesses Putin could launch attack aimed at testing NATO unity

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Updated Aug 13, 2026, 1:48 AM ET - 9 hr ago

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CANADIAN NEWS:

LeBlanc, U.S. counterpart meeting once again to negotiate deal as tariff deadline looms

U.S. offer would lower some sectoral tariffs, but not enough for Canada: sources

Canadian trade officials are meeting with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer in Washington once again, as both sides hustle to lock down a crucial trade deal ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump's pressing tariff deadline.

Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc's office confirmed to CBC News on Thursday morning that he and chief trade negotiator Janice Charette will meet with Greer this afternoon. It will be the second meeting this week between the Canadian and American trade officials, and the fourth in just three weeks...

WATCH | New pitch for Trump in the works:

Canada, U.S. not yet ready to make tariff deal, Canada unsatisfied with latest U.S. offer: sources

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Posted: Aug 13, 2026 10:22 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago

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Question: Is it true the Government is considering throwing out the US ambassador for Canada

AI Overview

The Canadian government is not considering expelling U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra. Instead, the rumor stems from a public e-petition launched by a Canadian citizen that calls on the federal government to declare the ambassador persona non grata.

Details of the Petition