Monday, 21 September 2026

🧚‍♀️ TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

NEWS AGGREGATOR & COMMENTS

Great Spirit bless 🙏

I pray it's a good morning and that you all are well and have a productive day. It's grey, cloudy ☁️, gloomy, and cool 🐧out. Yuk! Time for the LED lights💡sunshine again soon. It's beginning to get a little too dark in here for Chief Smoking Bush 🪶ᝰ🪾ᝰ Can't smoke the bush indoors, ya know. Now, if you have the handy dandy portable smokeless campfire ╭-🔥-╮ ... Oops, no Top Secrets allowed 😁 Wanna buy my anti-gravity machine? A sky hook? ✨🪝How about a pahotchaheenie 👾 ya know, ya always need to carry a spare one of those around with you in your pocket book 👜 Keeps the moths 𐦍🦋 𐦍 away.

_*Enough from freeform musings from the Newsroom this morning; thank you for visiting and reading the Tree House News. Comments in the comment boxes are always welcome. I just can't find enough time to spend on the chat facilities. I have an active mind, always did, that never stops, but at 80, the physical parts of me like to take an afternoon nap 😴 Thank you. Signed:

The Fairy Lady 🧚‍♀️👩‍🦳

Topic of the day: well, we have been on the shores of this unexplored continent before, but never really entered it to see what's in there rather than judge from a distance.

How about this: the Ancient Holy Scriptures were warnings and descriptions of what WILL happen if we don't change our minds, hearts, and ways. IT IS WRITTEN IN STONE, BUT WE CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT NOW by paying attention to the warnings.

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Asked Google Search AI:

How about the Ancient Holy Scriptures were warnings and descriptions of what 'WILL' happen if we don't follow the warnings.

🔹AI Overview

Yes, many ancient holy scriptures, including the Bible, explicitly serve as moral frameworks that outline specific negative consequences for ignoring divine warnings and guidance.

The "If-Then" Pattern

Scriptures often use a conditional pattern: if a person or a society rejects wisdom and moral laws, certain hardships or spiritual judgments follow. These texts present moral choices as clear paths with predictable results.

• Cause: Ignoring ethics, harming the vulnerable, or turning to corruption.

• Effect: Societal collapse, personal ruin, exile, or spiritual separation.

Major Biblical Examples

The text is filled with historical and prophetic accounts showing what happens after a warning is ignored:

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They are warnings; We, the People, those who are SANE and have ETHICS, have a CHOICE!

Question: Can catastrophes of biblical proportion be avoided?

🔹AI Overview

Catastrophes of a truly biblical scale—such as global floods or terminal apocalypses depicted in scripture—cannot be managed by human intervention if viewed as direct divine acts, but modern figurative "catastrophes of biblical proportions" like climate collapse, pandemics, or systemic crises can be mitigated or avoided through collective human action.

Perspectives on Avoiding Catastrophes

• Theological View:

• Secular and Environmental View: When modern commentators use the phrase to describe impending environmental or societal collapse (such as climate tipping points or global pandemics), analysts argue that these outcomes are human-driven and therefore human-preventable.

• Mitigation Strategies: Avoiding massive systemic collapses relies on policy shifts, carbon reduction, resource management, and global cooperation to steer clear of irreversible environmental thresholds.

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Just not doing something you feel is wrong within you is mitigating, or maybe you got lucky and brought the cork to plug that hole in the leaky rowboat. Just not doing something that doesn't feel morally right could change the entire outcome of an otherwise bad situation. Another example: if you had been an accomplice or part of the engineering of a bad situation that otherwise could have been avoided and didn't, and got dragged into the fray. If you had not, just by not being part of it, you could turn a warning of doom 💥𖡎 into real small potatoes 🥔🥔🥔🥔that aren't even of your concern. Let them gather their small potatoes and go home 🏚️ That's how to avoid a Biblical Proportion Warning, as I see it. 🌋⚡️💥🌪️💨

I am late publishing this because they shut off the building's power for renovations in the electrical room. I got my own power — solar batteries — but they don't help much when my laptop was being stubborn and wouldn't connect to a hotspot. I had to use my partner's phone to connect.???

BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

State attorneys general agree to settle Paramount merger lawsuit

The state attorneys general suing to block Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN’s parent company, have reached a settlement, clearing the way for the companies to complete the merger.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who led the 12-state coalition that sued to block the merger, announced the settlement at a press conference in Los Angeles on Monday.

“While the timing is not yet fixed, we expect the merger will close no later than early October,” Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav told staffers in a memo. The merger will combine Paramount’s film and television studios, CBS and the Paramount+ streamer with

Warner’s studios, HBO, CNN and other cable networks...

Paramount held a private dinner with Trump in April — and the Middle Eastern financing galvanized opponents who warned that the merger would concentrate too much media power in the hands of the president’s allies.

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Updated Sep 21, 2026, 2:31 PM ET - 21 min ago

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CANADIAN NEWS RECAP

Affordability, Trump and trade feature in rowdy 1st question period of fall sitting

Carney and Poilievre square off as Parliament is back from summer break

The Latest

• Members of Parliament are returning to Ottawa today from across the country for the next sitting in the House of Commons.

• Parliament is back after breaking for the summer, with ongoing tension with the United States expected to dominate the sitting.

• Prime Minister Mark Carney, fresh off an investment summit in Toronto and speech to the European Union, said his Liberal Party this sitting will see "some of the most consequential legislation … in decades."

• Meanwhile, the Conservatives under leader Pierre Poilievre will be searching for a foothold in a national conversation dominated by U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war with Canada

7 minutes ago

Sometimes the heckles are visual

When Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson stood to respond to Ontario Conservative Rhonda Kirkland, he accused the MP of reading a "scripted" question.

The Conservative benches erupted in shouts suggesting it was the minister who was in fact reading from a script.

Poilievre himself held up a sheet of paper and mimicked reading from it aloud.

More To Read:

Updated September 21, 2026 - 3 minutes ago

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