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Monday, 20 October 2025

 

TREE HOUSE NEWS ๐Ÿก


BREAKING:


Giant Russian gas plant suspends intake from Kazakhstan after Ukrainian drone strike

Gazprom-operated facility has an annual processing capacity of 45 billion cubic metres


The Orenburg gas processing plant, the largest facility of its kind in the world, has been forced to suspend its intake of gas from Kazakhstan after a Ukrainian drone attack, Kazakhstan's Ministry of Energy said on Sunday.


Orenburg's regional governor, Yevgeny Solntsev, said earlier on Sunday that the plant had been partially damaged and the drone strike had caused a fire to break out at a workshop at the facility. The fire was later put out, Russian media outlet Kommersant reported, citing the operator.


Ukraine — which confirmed it hit a gas processing plant in the Orenburg region and an oil refinery in the Samara region, both in southwestern Russia — has stepped up its attacks on Russian refineries and other energy facilities since August to try to disrupt gasoline supplies and deprive Moscow of funding.


Ukrainian drones strike one of Russia's top oil refineries, sparking fire


Russia pounds Kyiv, other regions in mass drone and missile attack


U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the White House for high-stakes talks, but questions remain over whether the U.S. will supply Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles.

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Posted: Oct 19, 2025 9:13 AM EDT | Last Updated: October 19

- CBC -



 

TREE HOUSE NEWS ๐Ÿก


Land of Whispering Pines ๐ŸŒฒ


Good morning! May the Great Spirit bless you ๐Ÿ™


Well, it is a fabulous, soggy, grey, chilly, clammy day. Good weather if you're a clammer from Nova Scotia. What can I say, when I don't have any hay, eh?


Well, there isn't much going on here in the Newsroom this morning except for the gloomy greyness. I went around the living room and kitchen and turned on every light and lamp I could turn on to cheer the place up a bit. I've gotten spoiled just stepping out into my Green Space in the morning and watching the sun come over the trees. I'm going to miss that.


Next week, beginning on the weekend, it is supposed to be up in the mid-60s °F and mostly sunny every day, not bad. That is about it from the Newsroom today.


MY POLITICAL PREACHING FOR THE DAY


Let us all go a' dancin' ๐Ÿ’ƒ๐Ÿ•บ๐Ÿ‘ฏ‍♀️๐Ÿ‘ซ in the hay, ๐ŸŒพeh! ๐Ÿ‘ฉ‍๐ŸŒพ๐ŸŒพ says Mrs. McKay whilst a dancin' with the Orange Clown Commander, Chief Bent Feather ๐Ÿชถ from the white ๐Ÿ’ฉ๐Ÿ  wearin' the loaded diaper, ๐Ÿ’ฉ๐Ÿ’ฉ๐Ÿ’ฉ in the merry month of May, June, July, August, and September, ☀️ ๐ŸŒค๐ŸŒฆ and the heck with October, November, December, January, ๐ŸŒจ❄️๐Ÿ’จ I like the bright sunny crispy month of February ☀️❄️ and the melting of the Ice Queen in March, ๐ŸงŠ๐Ÿ’ง and the ๐ŸŒธ ๐ŸŒบ apple blossoms of April.


Donald Trump's little cartoon of him flying a jet over the protesters and dumping ๐Ÿ’ฉ on We the People, is that WHAT THE KINK OF BIZARROMERICA REALLY THINKS OF WHAT USED TO BE AMERICA? . The Orange Pus Head ๐ŸŸ ๐Ÿคฎ says ๐Ÿ–• to the ✨๐ŸŸฐ . "๐Ÿ’ฉ๐Ÿ’ฉ๐Ÿ’ฉ ON YOU ALL!" the little people!.

๐Ÿ‘ฉ‍⚕️๐Ÿ‘จ‍⚕️๐Ÿ‘ฉ‍๐ŸŒพ๐Ÿง‘‍๐Ÿซ๐Ÿง‘‍⚕️๐Ÿ‘จ‍๐Ÿซ๐Ÿ‘จ‍๐Ÿ’ผ๐Ÿ‘ฉ‍๐Ÿ”ง๐Ÿ‘จ‍๐Ÿš’๐Ÿ‘ฉ‍๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ‘ฐ‍♀️๐Ÿคต๐Ÿšถ‍♀️๐Ÿ‘ญ๐Ÿ‘จ‍๐Ÿ‘ฉ‍๐Ÿ‘ง‍๐Ÿ‘ฆ๐Ÿ‘ธ๐Ÿ‘ฉ‍๐Ÿ’ป ...

Like I said yesterday, we are no more than checkers on a checkerboard; ๐ŸŸ ๐Ÿคฎ can move any checker in any direction, any time he wants, when and wherever he wants, and he cheats at checkers.

He took your health insurance, your job, and he loves choking wallets, so people become non-persons. Then you can join the line-up of people without an ID getting deported to Great Spirit knows where?

Or living in a tent this winter. ⛺️ ๐ŸŒจ๐Ÿ’จ❄️ ๐Ÿฅถ


Be honest with your own little inner voice; the imagery doesn't leave much wiggle room for any other expletive or platitudinous scenario, political or not. If you're not looking directly at the item in question, you will trip on what you missed and do the face plant thing into the pile of ๐Ÿ’ฉ.


_*Believe me, I have felt, I mean, I feel the sheer incomprehensible insanity within Trump. This guy, for as many years as I've seen him on TV, has been mercurial and cruel. I never had any good vibes for this swell-headed, narcissistic, sadistic, demented Orange Pus Toad. ๐ŸŸ ⚗️๐Ÿธ I have also been sharp enough to have noticed that anyone who hung around that cockroach got well run over by a bus, and he continues to do so to anyone who disagrees with him. Your life ain't worth a plug Canadian wooden ๐Ÿชต nickel if you cross him, this slime worm. ๐ŸŸ ⚗️๐Ÿ›


So now you went and busted the system, eh?

"Dumb, dumb!"

When all it needed was a little modification and readjusting to be responsive to the fast-changing technological system in electronics, fiber optics, satellite communications, finance, cryptocurrency, and supercomputers that rule the times we are in.


I said that in a chatroom on Yahoo Chatrooms, just before New Year's of 2000, where all the computers were going to be worthless pieces of electronics after the clock rang year 2000. Nobody actually knew? Not even the developing companies of the computer industry. What a joke, but I was not so certain back then what was going to happen. Can you imagine the chaos if all the computers in the world suddenly shut down? I think I remember seeing a movie like that not long ago, something to do with knocking out all the satellites and relay stations


I LOVE A GOOD SCI-FI. ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ˜Ÿ๐Ÿฅบ๐Ÿซจ๐Ÿ˜ฎ


BREAKING NEWS:


Trump’s response to ‘No Kings’ marches only proved the protesters’ point

A president steeped in constitutional lore might have been offended by claims he’s acting as a king.


But Donald Trump and his entourage responded with mockery to weekend “No Kings” protests by millions of Americans — embracing the narrative in a way that explains his growing hubris and belief that he has unchecked power.


The president and Vice President JD Vance this weekend both posted AI memes to social media depicting Trump in a crown. The one Trump shared was a mocked-up vision of the president flying a fighter jet emblazoned with “KING TRUMP” appearing to dump raw sewage on protesters. In Vance’s troll on Bluesky, a site popular with liberals, prominent Democrats knelt as supplicants in a royal court before Trump, the divine and absolute ruler...

  • Trump’s latest monarchical moves:
  • Protesters challenge the administration’s dismissal of demonstrations:

View Images of Demonstrators

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12 hr ago

PUBLISHED Oct 20, 2025, 12:00 AM ET

- CNN -


Trump administration: Shutdown hits 20-day mark as Australia’s PM visits White House

Where Things Stand

• Trump’s meeting with Australian PM:

President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed a key rare minerals agreement at the White House today — a topic that has become a major sticking point between the US and China. Trump, meanwhile, praised his relationship with China’s leader and said he thinks the country “will come to the table” on trade.

• Shutdown standoff:

• Growing impacts:

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16 min ago

Trump and Australia's Albanese strike deal on rare earth minerals

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11 min ago

Colombian ambassador to the US recalled to Bogotรก for consultations amid Trump's back-and-forth with president

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40 min ago

Trump threatens to "eradicate" Hamas if it breaks ceasefire deal

More To Read:

Updated 12:54 PM EDT, Mon October 20, 2025

- CNN -


CANADIAN NEWS:


Liberals announce plan for national financial crime agency targeting online scams

New measures part of Nov. 4 budget, finance minister says


The federal Liberals plan to create a financial crimes agency to tackle online scams, all part of a national anti-fraud strategy, Finance Minister Franรงois-Philippe Champagne announced on Monday. The government will introduce the strategy on Nov. 4 as part of its fall budget, Champagne said at a press conference.


The announcement comes as the minority government looks for a partner in Parliament to help pass its financial agenda...


Financial scams — such as ghost texts, phishing links, and phony bank emails — are growing threat to Canadians, minister said...

$643M in losses:

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Posted: Oct 20, 2025 11:46 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago

- CBC -


Ontario hit NextStar EV battery plant in Windsor with 10 stop work orders over hazards, documents show

'The minister proposed some solutions for consideration by labour,' local MPP says


Workers at a massive, publicly subsidized electric vehicle (EV) battery plant project in southwestern Ontario have faced repeated health and safety hazards, including high levels of carbon monoxide, electrical risks and flooded parking lots, according to government records obtained by CBC News.


The documents show provincial inspectors have visited the site dozens of times since construction broke ground in 2022 and have issued over 100 orders to NextStar Energy, the company behind the project, that were related to health and safety issues. That included 10 stop work orders for certain areas of the site until the company addressed the issues. Failure to comply with orders under the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) could lead to hefty fines and even imprisonment...

  • 110 health, safety orders at NextStar:

‘Workers are getting sick’

Workers had 'accidents' related to washroom access

Electrical safety procedure among the issues

Lot flooding, missing supervisors also flagged

Posted: Oct 20, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 9 hours ago

- CBC -


CAN WE GET OUT FROM DOWN IN THE BOONDOCKS?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Y8ANFHKfY



Sunday, 19 October 2025

 

TREE HOUSE NEWS ๐Ÿก


Land of Whispering Pines ๐ŸŒฒ


Good morning! May the Great Spirit bless you ๐Ÿ™


Well, today is starting mainly sunny and a pleasant 73°F, but it is supposed to turn to rain this afternoon and become much cooler by late evening. I was out in my Green Space for a moment with my coffee to do my morning meditation. I remarked on how nice it was, maybe the last vestige of a mild summer day until April, au revoir l'รฉtรฉ! I noted that there was a lot of yellow and gold among the green in the trees now. It felt nice in the silence of the morning, and the warmth of the sun soon had me drifting on the aromas of this early fall day.


TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

Vision of Suffering


I suddenly felt so sad. I lowered my head into my hands as an image vividly manifested itself in my mind. I could see many children all around me, all suffering from some affliction or another, some from horrible injuries, missing limbs, etc. A lot of starvation, everywhere! Rubble, destruction, like something out of Hell, except that in my vision, there was no doubt as to where these children were. We see them every other night on the nightly news. I woke up, kind of like coming, actually more like swimming my way out of a thick fog or smog.


I was relieved as well as humbled. I know what physical and soul-deep suffering feels like, but this image went deeper; it was soul-deep to the extent it felt like a knife stuck in the back of the Great Spirit Universe herself.


SUFFERING:

And those cockroaches, the leaders who choose to fight instead of negotiating, with no regard to human lives, and behaving like toddlers, fighting in a playpen, whacking each other with their soiled diapers. They send their people to do the boom booms, bang bangs, and fighting ๐Ÿ’ฅ⚔️ for them. We're expendable; these self-proclaimed tin can gods of the universe are not worth a fleet of trucks loaded with pig ๐Ÿท๐Ÿ’ฉ The little people? They see us as bugs; we are just numbers. 1,2,3,...


Here is one theory: Maybe there are too many numbers 1,2,3,...; let's get rid of some to make it easier to handle the survivors. Is that what it is? Some people in white coats, a think tank in an underground command center somewhere, are planning to execute Operation Depopulation 2026. This is only one checker among the many checkers on the checkerboard. There may be other checkers on that board just as sinister, and they will CARRY OUT THEIR INSANE PLANS with NO OPPOSITION because, We, the People, are allowing the sinister people to run the effing show without even showing some serious resistance and opposition until yesterday, October 18, 2025.


~ ✊ VIVE LAS RESISTANCE ✊THE WHOLE WORLD! ๐ŸŒ ~


ELBOWS UP CANADIANS ๐Ÿ’ช ๐Ÿ TO NO TYRANTS DAY 8 TO NO KINGS ๐Ÿซ… DAY IN AMERICA ✨๐ŸŸฐ


Thank you for reading the Tree House News.


BREAKING NEWS:


Millions rally against Trump at ‘No Kings’ protests across the US. Here’s why protesters say they attended


To celebrate her 70th birthday, retired government worker Peggy Cole says she and a friend drove nearly 10 hours from her hometown of Flint, Michigan, to join a protest in Washington, DC, on Saturday.


Cole said she felt compelled to mark the milestone at the large demonstration because it’s a “scary time” for Americans and democracy is at stake. “It seems to me, (Trump is) taking our government, our democracy, and dismantling it piece by piece, slowly, but surely, if we sit by and don’t do anything about it,” Cole said.


The event was one of more than 2,700 “No Kings” rallies held across the country on Saturday, protesting what organizers describe as President Donald Trump’s “authoritarian” agenda. That’s hundreds more events than were planned for the first go-round in June, when about 5 million people across the country took to the streets to protest Trump’s administration as he held a military parade in Washington.


Nearly 7 million people showed up for Saturday’s rallies – including more than 100,000 people in New York, organizers and officials said. Along with larger events in major cities, small pockets of “No Kings” protesters cropped up along busy thoroughfares, in small town squares and at municipal parks in red and blue states alike...

  • ‘We can all save democracy:
  • *‘Our free speech is frightening’:**
  • Immigration raids and National Guard deployment’:
  • Cuts to federal programs:

Updated Oct 19, 2025, 9:49 AM ET - Updated 1 hr 3 min ago

- CNN -


Israel strikes Gaza after accusing Hamas of ‘blatant’ violation of ceasefire in first major test of US-brokered truce

Israel carried out several strikes on Gaza Sunday after saying its troops came under fire from militants in a “blatant” violation of the ceasefire, the first major test of the US-brokered truce.


An Israeli military official said Hamas attacked Israeli forces in Rafah with rocket-propelled grenades and sniper fire, prompting Israel to carry out strikes in the area.


Hamas fired towards Israeli forces beyond the Yellow Line - the line behind which Israeli troops have withdrawn according to the ceasefire deal - in three separate incidents Sunday, according to another military official.


One source familiar with the incident in Rafah said Israeli forces had suffered casualties. The incident occurred behind the Yellow Line...

  • Hamas clashes with rivals*

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Updated Oct 19, 2025, 10:06 AM ET - Updated 53 min ago

- CNN -


CANADIAN NEWS:


Denmark's postal service is dumping letter delivery. Could Canada?

Denmark's mail volume has declined 90 per cent over the past two decades


By the end of 2025, Denmark's postal service will have delivered its last letter. The state-owned PostNord is getting out of the letter delivery business and will focus solely on parcels. It's a move, the Danish postal service said, that was precipitated by the significant decline in letter volumes over the past 20 years, a development due in large part to the digitization of its society.


Canada's postal service, too, has encountered major mail volume decreases — a situation that has prompted the government to propose significant changes, including ending home delivery. But could Canada go even further, and follow Denmark's path of eliminating letter delivery?...

  • ' We are not there yet':
  • 'Digital by default':
  • Canada's 'tech resistance':

Posted: Oct 19, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 hours ago

- CBC -


Canadian snowbirds fingerprinted and photographed at U.S. border as part of new requirement

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says travelers who register at the border will be subjected to such measures


Several Canadian snowbirds reported they were fingerprinted and photographed at the U.S. border this month when registering for their winter stay, which U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) told CBC News is now standard procedure. Jacquie and Steve Ree of Ladysmith, B.C., arrived at the Peace Arch Border Crossing between Surrey, B.C., and Blaine, Wash., on Oct 9.


The snowbirds knew tthey'dhave to comply with a new registration requirement for travelers staying in the United States longer than 29 days. So when a CBP officer said they could complete the process at the border, the couple agreed, unaware of what lay ahead. Jacquie Ree said they were sent to secondary inspection, where their motorhome was searched...

  • Continued confusion:
  • Separate departments causing confusion:

CBC asked CCBP'sTurner about the G-325R form option.

She dismissed it.

‘'Too many questions coming in’'

Posted: Oct 19, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

- CBC -

Then they complain they're losing Canadian tourists, well, what the F, over? I ain't going nowhere where I could disappear and reappear in Tierra del Fuego in a tent next to a hairy cactus for company. Ever see a hairy cactus?


MY COMMENT ON THE NEWS:


Maybe they should start another self-help program to abstain from their addiction to methane gas. I advise Trump's Dunce Cadets to go to Fart Smellers Anonymous immediately.


But this time around, we know who the provocateurs in Gaza are, and it doesn't appear to be the IDF. Butt Hole Hamas, the Arse Bark from the Rag Head Clan. NOTE: Not to be mistaken for those wearing turbans, I at least have respect for what they do to serve others in need.


I think of ragheads as in the cartoons, long pointy mustach with a rag tied around their heads, eyes like a ravaged rat sneaking through your window at half past midnight with a scimitar held in their teeth.


There you go, Stephen King, use that one in one of your scenes. ๐Ÿคฃ

WILL WE EVER SEE AN END TO THE INSANITY?


~ Can We, The People, all sing together? Here We Go Again, One More Time? ♪♫♭ ♪♫~


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



Saturday, 18 October 2025

 

TREE HOUSE NEWS ๐Ÿก


Land of Whispering Pines ๐ŸŒฒ


Good morning! May the Great Spirit bless you ๐Ÿ™


Well, the sun ๐ŸŒ… is returning, and it is reasonably mild out there. I sat in my Green Space with my coffee for a bit, watching the morning sun rise above the trees. I was contemplating this day of October 18, 2025, trying to remember what was important about today. I thought about the dentist, that's 13 days away, Uuuuurg! So it isn't that, then BINGO! It hit me, like I twitched in my clothes instead of jumping off the road and getting run over by a northbound choo choo. ๐Ÿš‚๐Ÿšƒ๐Ÿšƒ๐Ÿš‡๐Ÿ’จ๐Ÿ™ƒ


Today is the SECOND KICK at the bucket for NO KINGS DAY. (X ๐Ÿซ…☀️) All I can say is that this day, October 18, 2025, is going to go down in history.


๐Ÿ™ PRAYER ๐Ÿ™

Let us all pause here and take a moment to meditate and/or pray for all those souls out there protesting the autocrat in the White House. May they be guided by and protected from the forces of those who do not know empathy, or are incapable of feeling any human emotion, except for their own piece of Carrian meat suits with no souls. That's all these beings are worth, their rotten nothing, meat, containers for their bodies. The question should be, where will the first "pop! goes the weasel" come from? Casualty #1: One of The Orange Pus Ball's Dunce cadets or a demonstrator.


To be certain, THIS MAJOR COUNTRY-WIDE DEMONSTRATION will be in the mainstream news and will be posted on the latest update and developments when I do the news. Thank you for reading the Tree House News.


"SO! Eppp! What's up, Doc?" ๐Ÿฐ๐ŸŒถ


TODAY'S DISCUSSION:


FREEDOM OF CHOICE


- Google Search -

Freedom of choice is the ability to make decisions about one's own life and actions without being coerced by external forces like the law or other people. It is a fundamental human right that includes the autonomy to make personal choices regarding finances, healthcare, work, and relationships. While often associated with free will, freedom of choice can also be restricted by certain circumstances or by the need to not violate the freedoms of others...

  • Aspects of freedom of choice:
  • Personal autonomy:
  • Human rights:
  • Democratic principle:
  • Limitations:

RELATED CONCEPTS

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My Opinion:

People, including immigrants, must learn that in the Western world, whatever your faith is, it's your own business, and you keep your business to yourself, your family, and your fellow followers or worshipers. No one is obliged to follow another's spiritual or religious tenets. Everyone on Earth has as many different faiths as there are stars in the heavens. How do you know what is right and what is not? You can only judge by weighing their actions in your own heart, or in an elected legislature representing the people where you live.


Obviously, there is no reason to kill anything unnecessarily without consideration of the value of life. It should be anyone harming another except in self-defense that should be punishable by all and any laws that govern the land


- Google Search -

"Thou shalt not kill" is the sixth of the Ten Commandments, found in Exodus 20:13 and Deuteronomy 5:17. The commandment is interpreted to mean "Do not murder" and prohibits the unlawful taking of human life. It has been expanded by Jesus in the New Testament to include anger and hatred, and it underscores the sanctity of life and the importance of living in peace with others...

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BREAKING NEWS:


Protesters rally against the Trump administration at ‘No Kings’ events across the country

What We Know

• Nationwide demonstrations:

Millions of people are expected to attend more than 2,500 planned protests today against President Donald Trump’s administration. CNN will be on the ground reporting from the “No Kings” rallies in key cities.

• Why they’re protesting:

• Government at a standstill:

Read More:

8 min ago

A band is playing in Atlanta as people gather for today's event

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44 min ago

We'll see some of the day's first major demonstrations begin soon

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1 hr 33 min ago

How DHS is telling local law enforcement to prepare for protests

More To Read:

Updated 10:38 AM EDT, Sat October 18, 2025

- CNN -


Trump meeting brings good news for Zelensky, but Kyiv’s real prize remains out of reach – for now

The relationship between US President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky has unquestionably improved but the real prize Kyiv seeks seems out of its reach, for now.


After nine months of extraordinary diplomatic acrobatics and verbiage, Trump still prefers to give Russian President Vladimir Putin yet another chance to talk him around, over blunt military escalation.


But there were – among the fawning compliments and the conviction an elusive peace was near – bits of good news for Ukraine. Even Trump’s final word on the matter, a Truth Social post delivered as he left for Mar-a-Lago, suggested “They should stop where they are” – a ceasefire along current battle lines, suggesting something Kyiv could very much tolerate. “We have to stop where we are. This is important, to stop where we are, and then to speak,” Zelensky told CNN during a news conference after the meeting...

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PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2025, 11:13 PM ET - 11 hr ago

- CNN -


Canada’s ‘boycott America’ movement is hurting innocent bystanders

New York

—

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off. But then demand crashed as the centuries-long friendship between the United States and Canada broke down amid bruised feelings over tariffs and President Donald Trump’s threat to make Canada the 51st US state.


“We were looking to triple the business. Instead, it collapsed to zero,” Moore told CNN in a phone interview. “It was almost like suddenly the whisky didn’t taste good because of where it’s from.” ...

  • Canadian visitors vanish:
  • ‘We’re hunkering down’:
  • Reluctance to visit the US:

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PUBLISHED Oct 13, 2025, 6:00 AM ET - Oct 13, 2025

- CNN -


CANADIAN NEWS:


These Niagara Region residents want a new amusement park to replace Marineland — without the animals

CBC spoke to residents of the Ontario region about what they'd like done with the sprawling property


It hasn't been determined what will happen to the sprawling property where now-shuttered Marineland sits in Niagara Falls, Ont. After the passing of the amusement park's owners, John Holer in 2018 and his wife and successor Marie Holer in 2024, the estate was placed in a trust. The 323-hectare property is believed to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.


In the meantime, the fate of the 30 remaining beluga whales and other animals at the park on the 323-hectare property is also uncertain, after Marineland's request to the federal government to export the whales to China was turned down in recent weeks...

  • Concerns about local economy without a park:


"Any type of zoo is potential that the animals can be mistreated. I would prefer not to see that, but it’d be nice to just have somewhere to go take our kids."


  • Niagara Falls mayor wants tourist attraction:


"I would love to see someone come back and take the love that we all had for Marineland when I was a kid."

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Posted: Oct 17, 2025 3:22 PM EDT | Last Updated: October 17

- CBC -


AI-related data centres use vast amounts of water. But gauging how much is a murky business

As tech companies spend billions on data centres, citizens around the world are starting to push back


On a dry, hot day this summer, Kathryn Barnwell, a retired English professor, marched up the road from her home in Nanaimo, B.C., to take another crack at the mayor.


Leonard Krog, a longtime friend of Barnwell’s, was standing by the entrance to a parched wooded lot, the proposed site for a data centre Krog has been backing.


“I really, really enjoin you to think about what this [data centre] could mean for your political career,” Barnwell said, barely looking him in the eye...


Krog, who has been mayor since 2018, sees the project as a chance to modernize the city’s economy. “The kind of jobs that would be attracted to this kind of facility are the jobs of the future,” he said...

  • How much water do chatbots drink?:
  • Microsoft builds out in Canada:
  • Resistance grows:
  • 'Hoodwinking the public is not good practice':

Posted: Oct 18, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

- CBC -


The state of free speech in 2025


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EHiP4GpsnY



Friday, 17 October 2025

 

TREE HOUSE NEWS ๐Ÿก


Land of Whispering Pine ๐ŸŒฒ


Good morning! May the Great Spirit bless you ๐Ÿ™


It's mostly cloudy, ๐ŸŒซ like a morning, with the sun trying valiantly to shine through but failing so far. I guess for now it's time for the angels to decide who they're going to wee-wee on. Or like Mom used to say when it was sunny and raining at the same time, the devil was fighting with the angels. Or when it was thundering, she would say it's only the angels bowling. I say it's going to clear up and be cloudy with sunny showers. ๐Ÿค” There you go, if you're a lizard, ๐ŸฆŽ ya better get all the sun ☀️ you can while you can, eh!


Grandma gits frozen toes jest standin' at the door, lookin' out at the snow, and says I ain't a goin' out until half-past April.


Tell me something, especially you people sitting on the fence. Why would a sane person come up with such an idea as Project 25?


They, for one, have no humane values. To them, We, the People, were just numbers in a labor camp or detainees for use as laborers to run their factories. Basically, you would owe your soul to the company store.


That's how it was in America from 1870 to 1920, the last time they tried it. It didn't work. I don't really know where ethics go when people who worship that twisted cross also have twisted minds.


That wasn't enough; it was again tried with the Nazi movement from 1933 to 1945. During both of those, the people suffered terribly! WHATFOR??? WHAT DO THEY GAIN FROM DOING THIS BIZARRO HATRED and blood lust ๐Ÿ’ฉ ???


One twisted mind, as loose as a goose after drinking too much wobbly Kool Aid, staggered his way out of the goose pen but didn't have enough screws to construct the plan that he needed to become The Tin Can god Of The Universe. He found an accomplice with brains, yeah, the one they planted in Frankenstein, who unsuspectedly became the hidden puppet master. Now we find ourselves in a dilemma. What do you do with such a two-headed beast? Beware, the Frankenstein monster has been building its reputation for decades, with each accomplishment being louder and more reprehensible than the last.


I believe that if we ever get a normal, sane society again, we are in dire need of having more psychiatric and mental health centers for mental health consumer programs. More of both rehab and recovery programs. Also for alcohol and drug abuse programs.


We are all born with a blank slate, with only the consciousness of what's around us. As our conscious capability grows, we begin to distinguish between black and white and develop a sense of what's right and wrong. But some psychiatric patients were born without the conscious mind of knowledge of good and evil, like that analytical part of the brain was missing entirely, what psychiatry calls the standard scale of consciousness and sensory development. Therefore, we learn from experience from what we feel inside, not just by observation.


While they, psychopaths, have a vacuum of emotions and feelings inside, that vacuum found in the psychopath's mind may be an empty vessel filled with personal accumulated idealizations.


In comparison, an open mind, or of normal spectrum, seeks the light of the evolving consciousness, like the moth attracted to the lightbulb of potentialities.


The psychopaths' concept of the outside world simply copies someone's concept of what they feel by the expression of how they react to that particular occasion or disclosure.


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Some individuals, like psychopaths, may understand right from wrong but lack the emotional care for consequences.


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Challenges in defining "normal"

It's a spectrum, not a fixed point. Mental health exists on a spectrum, and normalcy is seen as a range of functioning rather than a single, fixed state.


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