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The Village Oak Tree
by T Ó Domhnaill
The Village Oak Tree is where the Irish storyteller comes to your digital village to bring you stories from the outside world. Join me every Wednesday as I try my best to find topics that are not plastered all over the main stream news pages everywhere you look. I research news from around the world, that despite not being in all over the front pages, may be important to regular people nonetheless. To wrap things up, I try to add a little imagination to your visit with a short story that might make you think. Sláinte
Episodes
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Trump’s Vision of What the U.S. Should look like
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. I’m going to keep this real short this week, as we’re preparing to go on holiday for a couple of days. Something we haven’t done all year because of the economy, and a bit of fear...
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Who’s the Toughest Guy on Block, Putin or Trump?
The podcast is a bit longer than usual because the reading of this week’s story chapter was a bit longer than usual. I hope everyone enjoys, nonetheless. Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. This week, I have the…
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The U.S.S.R. vs. the U.S. Part 2
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. As promised, I have part 2 of my discussion about the parallels between the old U.S.S.R., and the U.S. in 2026. I left off last week with what happened to the Soviet Union in...
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The Old Soviet Union vs. The Current United States Part 1
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. I’m about two days behind schedule this week because of other more pressing issues, but I have managed to carve out some time to talk about the United States, and how it’s…
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Glaciers and the Future of the Planet in the Next Hundred Years
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I'm your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. As I've said repeatedly here, I do these weekly videos and commentaries because I want to talk to people about what I'm thinking about. These seemingly random topics are largely...
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The Misadventures of AI Tools. Plus, a bit about Israel’s Illegal Settlers.
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. I’m back, after a couple of week layoff. During my online absence, I’ve been very hard at work rebuilding my domain network infrastructure, after having to replace a failed hard...
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Electric Shock Gloves, and the Trouble with the U.S. Navy
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. I’m going to keep this pretty general this week. As always, there are plenty of news stories from around the world to choose from, but I’m finding most of them are all saying the...
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Election Deniers, Organ theft, AI Viruses, Texas Mafia in Greenland and a Story
Warning: Adult Language Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. I normally try to stay away from U.S. politics as a rule, but the events and news stories of late, are making me lean into things again. What I mean by…
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Topic of the Week: VA Health Care or Lack Thereof
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. I have something a little more personal to talk about this week. I want to talk about the declining veterans health care services those of us who gave a portion of our lives are...
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What the Next Recession may Look Like under a Cowardly Congress
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. I’m at a bit of a quandary this week, because there is so much going on in the news that I don’t want to just parrot the main stream media. So, let’s talk about the overall…
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Will China's Advancing Technology Crash the U.S. Economy Soon and More.
First, let me apologize up front for the poor audio. As I mentioned, I’m undergoing some major upgrades in my IT infrastructure this month and apparently StreamYard was affected like so much else in my network. The platform switched microphones on me and I failed to verify the correct one before...
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More U.S. Secret Projects - Rethinking Traveling to Britain - 3C Global Warming in Your Lifetime
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. I want to talk about the U.S. and Britain today, with a couple of news stories I found, and to describe a dystopian future when, and I say when, not if, the global mean…
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The Real United States Stripped Bare for its 250th Anniversary
Warning: There is a small amount of adult language in today’s podcast Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. I’m going to make this a short one because, for one, I’m very tired, and two, the Americans are celebrating...
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Book Review of Collateral Damage and American Exceptionalism Part two
Warning: Adult language Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again. I have another book review for you this week. This time, it’s a short book that means a lot to me and to all veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is a...
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Irish Slavery and the Myth of American Exceptionalism
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. I want talk about a couple of related and likely very controversial topics today that might upset a few people. Especially anyone who still believes in that myth of American...
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Will the American Cultural Divide be the End of the United States Soon?
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I'm your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. To start, I want to try and address an elephant in the room. It's so hard to talk about anything positive these troubled days we find ourselves in without sounding like a podcast...
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A Book Review; Undue Process, ICE and Immigrants
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. Today, I want to offer you a book review, along with a broader picture of what this book is about, and the current military culture behind the Trump-Miller immigration policy…
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The War in Ukraine and Global Food Shortages by 2027?
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. Things are a little bit quieter on the western front this week, but not by much. Trump is still being Trump and the congress is arguing about whether they should pay the Mafia Don...
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A Story of Secret American funded Biolabs and Russia's new Toy
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. Today, I want to talk about biolabs. I found some obscure news articles from Russia about U.S. funded Biolabs and I have an article about air borne viruses from Heated I also want...
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A New World Order? Apartheid for the Southern U.S. States?
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. I’m going to keep on with more doings from around the world this week. Rather than a bunch of news headlines, I have a couple of videos to share this week, not that I’m going to...
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Ukrainian grift, Shadow Oil Tanker Fleets, and a Dystopian Future
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. The United States is at a crossroads in its history. There is a major fight going on for control and its soul. I have a couple of news stories from around the world about…
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Obscure News Roundup from Around the World
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. All around the world this week, there’s some kind of commotion going on to pull our eyes to the next big thing. What they all amount to, is a world coming apart because of one…
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Freedom of the Press? What a Joke!
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I'm your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. G'Day to you all. It's another week of chaos from Trump's United States for the Gulf states as the on again, off again straits of Hormuz issue continues. This week, I'm returning…
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The End of the American Superpower status
Author’s Note: The Priest has adult language so be warned Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. Today, I want to talk about how the United States is quickly becoming a failed empire this week, using some news stories…
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Health Care Systems Around the World
Warning: this week’s chapter of The Priest has very adult language in it. Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. In keeping with my overall theme of economic factors that affect all of us in one fashion or another, as…
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A Glimpse of the planet Earth's possible Dystopian Future in a 3C world
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. I want to conclude my current climate change series with a look at what a dystopian future landscape might look like within the next twenty five years or so. I will offer some...
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Glaciers Disappearing, Flooding, Droughts and Wildfires everywhere. Is this the New Future?
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. I’m staying with the climate change topic some more as I think it’s becoming very important, even though everyone in the world is busy watching the wars in the middle east. As I...
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Climate Change and How War is making Things Worse
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. I’m going to revisit climate change again this week. We talked about it a couple of weeks ago but that was before Trump and Netanyahu decided to start bombing Iran and creating a...
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Religion and War, Why that's a Bad Mix
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. I want to talk about this latest thing in some of the news media from last week about mixing Christian nationalism with warfighting in this war/not war with Iran. There has been a...
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The Almost Forgotten War in Palestine
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. As tempting as it may be, I’m not going to talk very much about the new war between the U.S., Israel and Iran this week, except as it affects the Palestinians in Gaza and the West...
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A Change of Subject Matter from Politics to Things that Matter More
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. It came to my attention last week, that ranting about all of the government corruption taking place every week in the United States is probably going on deaf ears these days. So,...
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Is it Time to Clean out the Oligarchs running the U.S.?
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. Here we go again. More chaos across the world caused by Trump’s United States. This week, I found some more news stories about nearly everything you can imagine and maybe some you...
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The Chaos in the World this week, Centering on the U.S., as Usual
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. This week, I have a wide range of news stories from Gaza, Cuba, Africa, Australia, Canada and the U.S. The central point being the U.S. All of these stories have one common…
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Trump's Kristallnacht
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. In this first week of imolc, the Gaelic celebration of the return of Spring, I want to offer a comparison of sorts, between the U.S. in 2026 and Germany starting from the 1920’s…
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The Myth that the U.S. Military is the best in the World Dispelled.
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. What a week. Between the massive cold and snow/ice storm and the execution style murder last Saturday by ICE in Minneapolis, I picked out some news stories and independent op eds...
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A Small History Lesson to maybe Explain why the U.S. has a Donald Trump Now
Note: There is adult language in this week’s episode of The Priest. Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. This week, I offer up a small bit of American history and a call to action, in order to stop all of the…
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The War Against ICE
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. In the last week, the United States has started to become that pariah state I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. Between publicly coming out and lying about a murdered young woman...
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Cry Havok, Let Loose the Dogs of War
Authors warning: Today’s episode of The Priest has adult language. Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. With all of the drama from Trump’s military operation last weekend going on, let’s talk a little bit about the...
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Super Flu and Covid, Oh My!
A word of warning. Today’s chapter of The Priest has adult language in it. Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. Welcome to the last podcast for 2025 I want to talk about something that’s barely registering in the news these days....
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays with more Mayhem across the Land
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. As we come to the close of another year, according to the Roman calendar, I’m hearing more and more that people are suffering from burnout. A burnout caused by sensationalist news media that…
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West Coast Secession? And the Economies of the U.S. and E.U.
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. This is another one of those weeks when I struggle to find something to talk about with all of you. There is so much flooding the media zone right now, that anything I say will sound like just...
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How Safe are any of us from ICE and CBP anymore?
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. I have so much going on this month, I’m having trouble keeping up, so I’m going to make this a short one this week, sort of. Lately, I’ve been picking up more and more IT gig work from this...
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What Scares you the Most Right Now? The Real Answer Might Surprise You!
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. I’m a bit angry these days as I watch everything collapse around me. I went to a Thanksgiving dinner party last Thursday at the behest of my wife and as usual, there was someone there whom I...
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Are we starting to see Food Shortages in the Grocery Stores?
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. I'm back and still wicked busy right now but I'm taking some time out from all of my projects to, once again, talk about what’s on my mind. The topics I have in mind are also probably on a lot…
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Censorship, Hunger, Eugenics and Mosquitos
A word of caution. The reading of The Priest has adult language so be aware when listening to the podcast. Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. I’m going to make this as short as possible this week as I have a lot of pressing…
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Samhain (Sow-in), updates and a Seasonal Story
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. I’m going to take a break from most of the news this last week of the Celtic new year, what we in the Gaelic world call Oiche Shanhna (Ee-heh How-ná) or Samhain. I want to take this time to...
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Homeland Security and the Economy
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. Over the last couple of weeks. I’ve given you a couple of long winded podcasts so this week, I’m going to give everyone a bit of a break. This one will be much shorter. I’m still going with this...
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Failing Economies and Dystopian Futures
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. Today, I’m going to talk about the failing economy, both here in the U.S. and in Europe, and what that may portend for the future. I am also going to talk about some dystopian fiction novels I’m...
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Rebellions - Past and Future?
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. Today, I want to talk a little about the history of rebellions from around the world, the looming hunger in the United States, the terrorism on display in Chicago, that maybe coming soon to your...
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Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, Again
Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. Where to start. It seems that every week, there is so much going on in the news, especially in the U.S, that I struggle to know where to start. This week, I am going to take us around the world…
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The Village Oak Tree is where the Irish storyteller comes to your digital village to bring you stories from the outside world. Join me every Wednesday as I try my best to find topics that are not plastered all over the main stream news pages everywhere you look. I research news from around the world, that despite not being in all over the front pages, may be important to regular people nonetheless. To wrap things up, I try to add a little imagination to your visit with a short story that might make you think. Sláinte
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