Friday, 28 August 2026

🧚‍♀️ TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

NEWS AGGREGATOR & COMMENTS

Great Spirit bless 🙏

Hi friends, well, it's another pretty, sunny late August day. Kids are going back to school next week, and my goodness! Where did the summer go? Let us pause for a moment for prayer and meditation, that the Great Spirit be with us all. I pray to Great Spirit that it is time to rise!:

(EARTH ANGELS), THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS OF THE WORLD

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IT IS TIME TO RISE!

_*OK, friends, that's about it from the Newsroom today. Have as pleasant a Friday and weekend as you can make it 💝*_

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Question: In a dictatorship, your living standard degenerates

ROB FROM THE POOR 🥷🧟‍♂️💵AND STUFF YOUR POCKETS 🩳AND YOUR SPECIAL CIRCLE OF FRIENDS' POCKETS👖TOO, EH!

🔹AI Overview

While it is a common belief that living standards automatically regress under a dictatorship, the reality is more nuanced: historical data show that authoritarian regimes exhibit extreme volatility, producing both severe economic collapses and periods of rapid, centralized growth.

📉 Why Living Standards Often Degrade In many dictatorships, living standards do face severe, prolonged declines due to systemic flaws inherent to unchecked power:

• Extensive Kleptocracy: Rulers often siphon national wealth into personal offshore accounts or distribute it exclusively to a small circle of loyal elites. This leaves public services like healthcare, infrastructure, and education heavily underfunded.

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Talk about surprises, ya know how this rumor has been going around about the new global currency, the Chinese Yuan? Well read on boys and girls.

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Question: What is a BRICS nation

🔹AI Overview

What is BRICS? - SABC News - Special Report ...BRICS is an intergovernmental organization of major emerging economies and developing nations designed to foster economic, political, and cultural cooperation.

Member Countries

Original Members (BRIC/BRICS): Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

• New Members: Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, and Indonesia.

• Partner Countries: Nations with a more limited, associate role include Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Uganda, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.

Origins and Purpose

• The Name:

• Formalization:

Goals:

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24 July 2018, 20:32 [SAST]

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Question; BRICS Today

🔹AI Overview

On August 28, 2026, India holds the BRICS chairmanship and is preparing to host the upcoming 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi next month.

Current Status

• Chair Country: India leads the group for the 2026 term.

• Main Theme: Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability.

• Upcoming Summit: World leaders will meet at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on September 12–13, 2026.

Ongoing Activities

• Media Registration:

• Member Focus:

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Question: In layman's language, what is BRICS and what is BRICS doing?

🔹AI Overview

Think of BRICS as an exclusive club of major, fast-growing countries outside of the West. The name originally stood for its founders: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa

Lately, the club has expanded significantly. It now includes nations like Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the UAE, and Indonesia. Together, they represent nearly half of the world's population and hold massive economic power.*_

*BRICS is focusing on four major initiatives:*

1. Breaking the US Dollar’s Monopoly 💵

2. Building a Custom "Credit Card Network" 💳

3. Setting Up Their Own "World Bank" 🏦

4. Cornering the Market on Food and Energy 🌾🛢️

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Money is money 💸🪙💴💰💵💳💲It doesn't matter much to me, Yen, yuan, pounds, rubles, or a credit card code number. I'm patriotic to my country, not to the dollar bills or what passes for them, OMG! Just realized something, That'll be like learning the metric system all over again! But as long as it pays my Canadian bills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETxmCCsMoD0

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BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

Mark Carney stuck it to Trump — and could still end up pleasing no one

As the back-up goalie — and often the back-up to the back-up — Carney spent most of each season on the bench. But teammate Mark Benning recalls one critical playoff game sometime in the mid-80s when Carney, sent onto the ice to replace an injured player, stopped all shots from the opposing team.

"one critical playoff game sometime in the mid-80s when Carney, sent onto the ice to replace an injured player, stopped all shots from the opposing team.

“I never saw any time where he cracked under pressure,” said Benning, a venture capital executive still friends with Carney.

Some 40 years later, now as Canada’s prime minister, Carney finds himself back in the rink, this time against the world’s most formidable opposition: President Donald Trump, flanked by the $30 trillion US economy."

“I never saw any time where he cracked under pressure,” said Benning, a venture capital executive still friends with Carney.

‘Calm’ but ‘demanding’:
Costs of confrontation:

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Updated Aug 28, 2 - 1 hr 3 min ago

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In Trump’s Washington, Ballooning National Debt Stirs Little Action

The relative indifference to the news that the U.S. government now owes $40 trillion demonstrates how drastically the politics of deficit spending has changed.

It used to be that a new report of budgetary red ink would touch off a political crisis in Washington. There would be speeches and news conferences and blue-ribbon commissions and legislation and brinkmanship over how to get the nation’s fiscal house in order.

But when the national debt topped $40 trillion last week — that’s trillion with a T — the collective body politic all but shrugged. Never mind that the U.S. government now owes twice as much money as a share of the economy than two decades ago. Republicans and Democrats issued perfunctory, my-we’re-concerned statements and promptly moved on.

The bond markets were not so sanguine, as a sell-off indicated, but the relative indifference in the nation’s capital demonstrated how drastically the politics of deficit spending has changed in recent years. For generations, the nation’s fiscal imbalance was a constant preoccupation of presidents and members of Congress...

During his 2016 campaign, he almost offhandedly boasted that he could eliminate not just the deficit but the entire cumulative national debt in eight years as president. Instead, the debt has doubled since

More on the 2026 Midterm Elections:

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RFK Jr. accusing Shapiro of lying about measles deaths is truly galling*

It’s quite the charge coming from someone who made a career of promoting skepticism of scientific data and spreading misinformation.

There’s a terrible irony baked into Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s latest feud. For the last several days, he’s been engaged in an angry back and forth with Gov. Josh Shapiro over the Pennsylvania Democrat’s announcement Tuesday of two measles-associated deaths in his state. According to the state’s Department of Health, neither of the two individuals were vaccinated against the disease.

After all, here we have a man who has made a literal career out of promoting skepticism toward scientific evidence and spreading misinformation.:
Amazingly, Kennedy even wants credit for the current measles outbreak not being worse.:

Aug. 28, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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CANADIAN NEWS:

Canada's economy grew a strong 3.3% annualized in second quarter, as first quarter revised higher

First quarter GDP revised higher, putting talk of a technical recession in the 'trash bin'

Canada's economy rebounded sharply in the second quarter, thanks to a jump in exports and stronger domestic investment, according to Statistics Canada data.

The economy grew at an annualized rate of 3.3 per cent in the second quarter. For the month of June, GDP was up 0.3 per cent. Exports rose 3.6 per cent according to the data agency, largely because of higher auto exports.

1. CHART: Quarterly change of GDP in Canada

2. CHART: Monthly change in GDP in Canada