HatTip Weaselzippers – Unbelievable pictures starting to come out of Ukraine’s capital, Kiev. Hundreds of thousands of people demanding Ukraine join the EU community.

Protests against #Ukraine president and government who don't want to integrate with EU continue, #Kyiv central square pic.twitter.com/FUNb2hNfWS

— UkraineTrek.com (@ukrainetrek) December 1, 2013

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Riot police in Ukraine’s capital have used tear gas, truncheons and flash grenades to push back protesters who tried to storm the presidential administration building. Dozens of people with what appeared to be head injuries were taken away by ambulance. (more…)

A pragmatic giving of thanks is what went on in farm country – knowing that we had that for which to be thankful (the seasons and the crops) and knowing Who to thank.  Our thanks-giving included an acknowledgement that the Gracious God who oversees  earth and time is also a staple of the foundations of our nation.
Such thanks-giving has taken many forms and found many expressions, but it always rises from thankful hearts who  know their dependence on God. It has molded itself to a variety of liturgies, fractured children’s plays about the pilgrims, and – in farm country – it found a place in the annual Harvest Festival in our country churches.
Near the middle of November an evening was set aside to decorate the church with the harvest.
Sheaves of wheat arranged to spray out just so were attached to the side windows of the sanctuary which in mid-fall were also occasionally covered with thick frost in the morning. They might be attached to the pews like so many decorations for a fall bridal display. (more…)

Reading 1 Is 2:1-5

This is what Isaiah, son of Amoz,
saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
In days to come,
the mountain of the LORD’s house
shall be established as the highest mountain
and raised above the hills.
All nations shall stream toward it;
many peoples shall come and say:
“Come, let us climb the LORD’s mountain,
to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may instruct us in his ways,
and we may walk in his paths.”
For from Zion shall go forth instruction,
and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
He shall judge between the nations,
and impose terms on many peoples.
They shall beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks;
one nation shall not raise the sword against another,
nor shall they train for war again.
O house of Jacob, come,
let us walk in the light of the Lord! (more…)

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

“The Fast and the Furious” movie star Paul Walker, 40, has died in a car accident Saturday afternoon in southern California, reports TMZ.
The accident occurred in Santa Clarita — outside of Los Angeles — when Walker’s Porsche apparently lost control and crashed into a tree, TMZ reported.
The car burst into flames and exploded.
Walker’s Twitter and Facebook account has confirmed the news.  (Via NYDN)

The failure to accept the existence of truth does not protect you from it.

Both Ytz4Me and Myself, as well as just about all CTH Admins, have taken a considerable amount of flack for pointing to the truth behind the Mark O’Mara agenda (RE: Financials n more) in the George Zimmerman case.  A recent Daily Mail article points to some of the truth the O’Marapologists refuse to accept as “real”.
(Via Daily Mail)  George Zimmerman racked up $2.5million in  legal fees defending himself against a murder charge, his defense attorneys have  revealed.
The 30-year-old was acquitted of killing  Trayvon Martin earlier this year, but his freedom has come at a cost.  He received the legal bill from lead  attorneys Mark O’Mara and Don West two months ago.
O’Mara initially took the case on in April  2012 at no charge to Zimmerman.  But he later found out that the Zimmerman  family were raising funds to fight the charge via a website appeal.  {Oh well,  wait a minute, you have money? That changes the whole equation no?  I mean we were doing it pro-bono, but now that bono guy’s dead so we do it pro-me-no?}
More than $400,000 was donated to the fund by  his supporters. (more…)

The full Obama POTUS/FLOTUS interview is below the intro video.  However, you might want to watch the ABC set up.   The fabricated presentation is brutally obvious.
ABC, the home of George Stephanopolous and former home of dispatched reporter, Jake Tapper, is obviously the outlet to run toward when you need comfy and controlled optics.
What strikes the viewer as brutally obvious becomes the fraudulent construct of the entire interview. From the questions, to the framework of optics, you can see the guiding hand of a professionally managed image.
Remember, Barack Obama himself admitted an image re-branding was needed. A rebranding because in a larger sense a more significant portion of the electorate have caught on to the ruse he represents.   Everything about this POTUS is a series of lies.  All ends justify any means – Obamacare is the personification of this awakening.
In the lead-in teaser video Wa-Wa even mentions the Obama’s have nowhere to live when this DC gig is up. Nowhere to return to. Think about that. This is indeed just like a professional gig, a show, a ruse. Not actually real in any aspect. The Obama’s are as real as the construct of Ward and June Cleaver – only their purpose is far more alarming.

Some things just make you scratch your head. In the “exclusive” interview with Barabara Wa-Wa Obama announces he is launching an investigation into why he is so insufferably inept. And apparently Wa-Wa sees no issue with the announcement.
(CNN) – The hits to President Obama’s popularity, prompted by the botched HealthCare.gov rollout, are simply a natural fluctuation every commander-in-chief faces, Obama told interviewer Barbara Walters in an interview aired Friday. […]
Obama has taken responsibility for the website’s flaws, saying he should have been told earlier about the serious issues with HealthCare.gov’s digital infrastructure. He’s also apologized for his vow that people who liked their plans could keep them.
In Friday’s interview, Obama said he was looking for answers soon on why the rollout failed so spectacularly.

“Obviously my most recent concern has been that my website’s not working,” Obama said. “We’re evaluating why it is exactly that I didn’t know soon enough that it wasn’t going to work the way it needed to. But my priority now has been to just make sure that it works.”  (read more)

Perhaps with time permitting a little reflection it is prudent to clarify the intents and purposes of the Treehouse community.
This is a conversation.
Your conversation.
A conversation about what’s happening, but more importantly about ‘why’ it’s happening, whatever the happening appears to be.
If you peel back all the visible layers (amid the storylines) placed by the people and organizations participating in the various happenings you will, eventually, find a single set of ideological truths.
All of the “fundamental change-isms” are about filling voids.   More directly, the layers present as those filling voids from the outside in.
Fillers may take on this type of formula:   If we take from them, and give to them-others, then things will be better.   Or if we take from them, and give to ourselves, we will be better.
But it, all of it, all revolves around the perception of not having something, and the perception of needing something.   (more…)