The Village Oak Tree

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI’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 temperature above pre-industrial global temps reaches 3C.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit as I tell you about another sinister side of the United States, how England is turning into a police state, even more than the U.S., and global warming to 3C in the near future.Come visit me at www.crann-na-beatha.com for more

Warning: There is a small amount of adult language in today’s podcastFáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI’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 their 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. And as such, I don’t want to bring too much doom and gloom for them heading into the weekend.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit while I talk a little bit about why I don’t think the United States is so great nor are the people running it so exceptional.Come visit with me at ww.crann-na-beatha.com for more by the author

Warning: Adult languageFáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI’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 good addition to my podcast topic from last week, about how spoiled Americans are, and in this case, it’s young soldiers.Then I found a news story on NPR about how Trump’s minions sent a memo out across the country promoting the institutionalization of disabled people like we used to do before we educated ourselves.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit to tell you about this book about how the American soldiers behaved in Iraq during the war years, and more.For more, come visit me at www.crann-na-beatha.com and see what else I have for you.

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI’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 exceptionalism.I don’t have any news stories to share this week, but I do have a couple of references I will add to the end in the written portion, along with a YouTube video from Lena Petrova. I do have one picture of an antique sign I will share with you that’s hanging on my office wall. It came from a shop in Boston, MA dated 1915 and has been passed down through my family for a couple of generations now.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit while I try to paint a picture of the Americans as they truly are, despite the hype around the world that’s been trying to tell us otherwise for decades.Please visit www.crann-na-beatha.com to learn more about the author and more.

FáilteWelcome 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 about kittens and puppies. Although some people would like that as a way to forget all of the doom and gloom around us everywhere. I'm not a bubbly writer. I don't do hearts and flowers or self-help shows, sorry. What I do talk about are all of the things that I worry about as a normal everyday American citizen. Things that I see and hear are the same things you see and hear. I'm just saying them out loud for all to hear. Right now, we're all worried about whether our grocery bills and the already high cost of living is going to get higher this year, with everything Trump is doing. I don't have any good answers either. What I do know, is that letting the oligarchs keep us divided when we need more than ever to work together, no matter our cultural differences or political beliefs, is a path to nowhere. So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit while I bring you some stories about our economy, ICE, and where we need to get if we're going to save this country from those who would steal it from us.For more content about me, visit www.crann-na-beatha.com

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI’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 taking place everywhere in the country.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit while I try to paint a picture of a military culture in the United States going back decades that few realize has been going on right under your noses.For more, visit www.crann-na-beatha.com

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI’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 the tribute he’s asking for.The war in Iran is looking a little better, for now, but I don’t know for how much longer. It’s a little quiet this week as the diplomats are working things out, so they say. But that may change at a moment’s notice, as we all know by now.What is heating up, is the war in Ukraine. And that’s where I lead off this week and I end with an economic outlook at late 2026 and into 2027. If we think grocery prices are high now, just wait.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit while I bring you more stories from the world outside of your village. News that the western media isn’t talking about very much, if at all.For more, visit www.crann-na-beatha.com to learn about the podcast host and more.

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI’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 to talk about.Illegal biolabs should scare everyone. Add into that, the possibility that with global warming on the increase, any airborne contagion will replicate a lot more in the increased global heat and now we’re talking about an existential threat.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit while I bring you more stories from the world outside of your village. Fair warning, there is some adult language used in today’s podcast just to let you know before I get into things.Visit me at www.crann-na-beatha.com for more about me, and the other side of what I do.

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI’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 play them for you. They would take up far too much time but I will link them in my commentary on Substack and Medium for anyone who wants to watch them. I will show you the headlines though.What they tell us, is how bad things are getting all around the world. The political landscape is rapidly changing everywhere and not for the good. Even in Russia, the political landscape is starting to turn the other way now, regarding the war in Ukraine. Big changes are coming for all of us soon, no matter where we live on this planet.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit while I bring you more stories from the world outside of your village.Visit www.crann-na-beatha.com for more

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI’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 corruption and greed in the highest places, the state of the EU, and some intel from the war in Ukraine. Plus a report on the shadow fleet vexing world leaders as they try to control the flow of oil to their advantage.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit while I bring you more stories from the world outside of your village.Visit authors website at www.crann-na-beatha.com for more interesting things to see.

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI’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 man. Donald J. Trump.I found some more news stories that show us a glimpse of what the rest of the world is doing to get around Trump’s United States so their people can try and live decent lives.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit while I attempt once again, to show how the world is pushing the U.S. aside and carrying on without them more and more.From more, visit www.crann-na-beatha.com

FáilteWelcome 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 to the middle east with some news stories I picked out for just that occasion. I have a lot going on at home myself this week, so I'm going to keep this rather short today. So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit as I try to paint a small picture of what's going on and what affect that's having and going to have on us at home going forward.Visit me at my website at www.crann-na-beatha.com for more

Author’s Note: The Priest has adult language so be warnedFáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI’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 I found from around the world. It seems that the other nations of the world have had enough of Trump and his United States and are taking their business elsewhere.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit as I offer up some more thoughts on current economic world affairs once again.Visit www.crann-na-beatha.com for more about me

Warning: this week’s chapter of The Priest has very adult language in it.FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI’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 I told everyone last week, we’re going to talk about health care systems around the world today. Especially the systems in the U.S.As a U.S. military veteran, I’m also going to talk about the U.S. Veterans Administration’s free health care for veterans as well. It’s free but at a cost for the veterans, and I don’t mean out of pocket monetary expenses.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit and let me tell you about some of my experiences with the VA through the years and I will try and offer some comparison between some of more common health care systems available to people around the world.

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI’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 publicly sourced pictures from the internet and some of my own taken during my travels around the world to show everyone tuning in what to expect once the climate hits 3C mean average global temps.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit while I talk about a very real possible future landscape right out of one of those dystopian future movies some of us have seen in years past.In the YouTube video and written article on Substack and Medium.com, I show some personal photos from my travels in the deserts around the Persian Gulf and a short video clip from an old Mad Maxx movie from the early 1070's. Unfortunately, I can't show them here. What I can offer are links to them for anyone interested in seeing them.

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI’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 said last week, some of that dust and debris from all of those bombs ends up in the upper atmosphere where the winds scatter across continents. But that’s small potatoes compared to all of the emissions from burning fossil fuels over the last couple of centuries. All of which is causing more cataclysmic climate issues than concrete bomb dust will ever do.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit while I talk about rising water levels, wildfires, droughts and so much more.Visit www.crann-na-beatha.com for more.

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI’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 global oil and soon, a global food crisis. The world won’t really see the effects of this until harvest season later this year but it will ripple forward through next winter and into 2027.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit as I lay out what’s coming, as far as the warming climate is concerned, for this year and beyond.Come visit me at www.crann-na-beatha.com for more interesting things

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI’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 lot of pushback from all sides, even from the middle east, as Trump unilaterally declared war on Iran, at the behest of the Israelis a week and a half ago.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit as I tell you a couple of my own personal military stories regarding religion in the ranks and some other related news.For more about me, visit www.crann-na-beatha.com

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI’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 Bank.It’s time I pivot back to Palestine this week, so I want to offer up some new stories from several media sources. The trouble is, there are always so many new stories in the media, and op-ed articles posted in Substack and Medium.com about the genocide in Palestine, it’s hard to choose the right ones talk about.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit as I sort through the lot and try to highlight the stories I eventually chose to present to you.Come visit www.crann-na-beatha.com for more

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI’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, I’ve decided to chase after things that are more important to regular people like you and me. Such as climate change that’s wreaking hell on people around the world. Especially this winter.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit and let’s talk about the extreme weather happening everywhere around the planet for a bit and a couple of other things I discovered in the overseas media.Come visit me at www.crann-na-beatha.com for more about me and other things.

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI’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 haven’t imagined.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit while I make an effort to unpack all of this to show how this will affect those of us struggling to get by every week.For more. come visit me at www.crann-na-beatha.com

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI’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 thread, the United States. Which, as usual, is causing chaos all over the planet, by way of its senile president.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit while I make an attempt to put this all in perspective for everyone.For more https://crann-na-beatha.com

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI’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 to when Hitler decided to start invading other countries.In comparing the U.S. under Trump 2.0 now, to what the Nazis took over a decade to accomplish, Trump is racing to do it all within his current term. I’m not the only one to talk about this over the last year since Trump and his crew started their rampage but the latest events in the news made me want to lay this out. They’re not mirror images exactly, but the parallels are pretty hard to ignore.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit and let me air my thoughts about all of this for you. If I say the things we’re thinking out loud, maybe more of us will be emboldened to speak out more.Join me at www.crann-na-beatha.com for more

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI’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 from around the world this week that I’m going to try and help make some sense out of. At this point, I’ve lost all respect for the U.S. government now and the sooner Trump is gone, the sooner the world can start breathing normally again.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit and let me dispel some of the myth about the great U.S. military, and other news that few are talking about.Come visit with me at www.crann-na-beatha.com for more.

Note: There is adult language in this week’s episode of The Priest.FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI’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 madness. I will try not to sound like a high school history teacher but I think this short lesson is important for people to understand a little bit about how the Americans have arrived at this point in their historySo, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit and let me tell you some stories and ask you to make yourselves a bit uncomfortable with a call to protest against the tyranny that’s threatening our very lives in the U.S.Visit with me at www.crann-na-beartha.com for more.

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI 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 being a domestic terrorist, declaring the ICE agent who shot her immune from prosecution, before the evidence was presented one way or the other, piracy on the high seas, and more aggressive statements to the world about taking over the governments of Greenland, Cuba and Colombia, Trump is making life in the U.S. a lot harder for the rest of us.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit and let’s talk about what this is starting to look like.Visit me at www.crann-na-beatha.com for more.

Authors warning: Today’s episode of The Priest has adult language.FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI 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 repercussions that few are talking about in the main stream media.I also want to offer up a brief look into society in China these days that their media isn’t telling the world about.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit and let’s talk about how all of this is going to affect those of us in the U.S. very soon.For those who may be listening on other podcast platforms, come visit me at https://crann-na-beatha.com for more about me and what I'm about.

A word of warning. Today’s chapter of The Priest has adult language in it.FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.Thank you for joining me.Welcome to the last podcast for 2025I want to talk about something that’s barely registering in the news these days. That’s this current Super Flu, H3N2, that’s now widespread across the country earlier than normal. The nearly defunct CDC is reporting 4.6 million Super Flu cases, 49000 hospitalizations and 1900 deaths, so far, since September. And this is just the stats from the U.S.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit and let’s talk about how this is probably affecting someone you know.

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI 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 hits us every waking moment of our lives nowadays.We’re tired of hearing about economies failing, hearing about thousands of people dying around the world in all manner of ways, and our governments failing us every time we elect someone new to replace the feckless ones that failed us before. Maybe we should take a lesson from Bulgaria where the people just protested large and loudly enough to oust their government.In the U.S., things are starting to reach a fever pitch in a lot of places.Gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit and let’s talk about what’s going on that may not be making any headlines where you are. To close out today’s podcast, I have a satirical seasonal poem to read for you from one of my dearest friends.

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI 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 another repeat of the talking heads on the telly.So, I’m going to talk a little about how the U.S. west coast is looking like they’re making some small moves to slide themselves away from Washington D.C. more and more, and the economy as it’s starting to affect everyone except the morbidly wealthy.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit and let’s talk about what’s going on that may not be making many headlines where you are.

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI 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 company I’ve been working for, for the last five years. They want me to take care of corporate computer refreshes and network printer installs out the wazoo lately and I can’t seem to get ahead on my own work. The worst part is, like all gig work, the pay sucks and there’s no benefits. How many of you can relate?This week, I want to touch on a point again about something near and dear to my heart. I know I’ve said this a few times before that I’m married to a foreign born wife, who has a daughter living in another state, also foreign born and these days, I’m constantly worried for their safety.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit and let’s talk about what Trump’s latest anti-immigrant foreign policies might mean for people like us.

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI 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 hadn’t met before, who just had to ask me about my life, just because I’m different, as in not Chinese. I was the only white guy at this party, and also wearing my signature retired Army ball cap.I’ve learned in the past not to try and hide anything from anyone because people just don’t know how to leave others alone. When in an intimate gathering with strangers, they just seem to have this incessant need to want to know everything about people they don’t know.So, in my usual fashion, I answered this gentleman’s questions about myself, without any censorship, which led us down some rabbit holes later in the evening. For which my dear wife admonished me for after we got home. She said I was scaring people. Well, maybe people should be scared.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit. Let’s talk about the things that scare us the most these days.

FáilteWelcome 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 of other people's minds as well as the country heads into what the retailers call the holiday season. As promised, I'll keep it relatively short. What I want to address today, are the prices and looming shortages in the grocery stores and other retail stores we normally shop in every week just to stay afloat from day to day. So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit. Let's talk about the things that affect regular people the most these days.

A word of caution. The reading of The Priest has adult language so be aware when listening to the podcast.FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI 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 things going on these days.I was contacted today by a IT staffing company that I occasionally do gig work for, to work a couple of days next week, one of which will be Wednesday. So, this will be my last post for a couple of weeks until I have some free time to sit down and write something again.In the meantime, I’m still working on my website to make it more presentable and add in my photography efforts through the years. I’m about half way there to date and I’ll let everyone know when I’ve uploaded all of the changes.Then there is the added time constraint of completing my final photography project for this community college class I’ve been taking this fall.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit. Let’s talk about a couple of things I’ve found in the news. I’m going to be all over the place this week as I have noticed the world is ramping up exponentially.

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI 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 outline the future of this podcast going into my new year ahead. This is the time of year I typically make my big changes in life, much like what Christians tend to do around the first of January. You know, New Years resolutions they call them.Since my annual calendar revolves around the ancient Celtic calendar, my new year starts on November first, using the Roman calendar.I’ve decided to start spending more time writing my novels, and traveling around the United States pursuing photography in the new year ahead. The images I take I will showcase on my soon to be newly renovated website. The website address is shown below or just use the QR code in the upper left.What that also means is that because of all of the stress and distractions from the daily news cycles, I will start fading out my podcast as we know it. My future plan is to make infrequent podcasts about my travels and the people I meet along the way, along with any earth shattering news stories I find. Sort of like photo journalism with lots of landscape and nature photography. I will write more articles than produce videos next year.Will this cause me to lose a lot of Substack subscribers? Probably. But then, my mental health is a lot more important than how many subscribers I can garner from the internet. Life’s too short to be worried about such shallow endeavors. At my age, I’d rather pursue nature than internet followers in the time I have left here in middle earth. So, I’ll be writing more of my particular brand of activism in the blog on my website than for any corporate online platforms. All because of the threats of algorithmic censorship in this age of pro-Israeli lobbies and Trump’s authoritarian takeover. I’ll probably quit writing in Substack altogether sometime in 2026 because of the corporate influence. I’ll continue contributing to Medium.com though because I have quite a few friends there and a much larger fan base.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit. Let’s talk about a couple of things I’ve found in the news, the Celtic New Year, and where Samhain - Hallowe’en comes from to finish out my year.

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI 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 whole business of Trump’s personal militia, that call themselves DOH or Department of Homeland Security. A term George W. Bush coined during his two failed terms. But I’m not here to dredge up past U.S. presidents too much other than to shout to the world about how feckless they’ve been over the last eighty years since FDR died.I’ve also found a couple of news articles from media that’s still not afraid to print the truth about the failing economies in the U.S. and Europe.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit. I’m not going to mince words this week. The western world is in big trouble these days.

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI 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 reading to provide examples of what things could look like when things collapse, and they will soon. Things are reaching the unsustainable point now so it’s only a matter of time.There is some good news with the ceasefire and prisoner exchange between Hamas and Israel. The bad news, As always, Israel violated the ceasefire by committing deliberate Arson in Gaza City as they were pulling out, and killed nine Palestinians yesterday, claiming they had crossed some yellow line in the sand. We all should know this is bullshit but they’ll get away with it once again. As soon as the prisoner exchange is finished, Israel will be right back at it again.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit. We’re going to have a chat about the economies in the U.S. and the EU today, and some dystopian fiction books I’ve been reading lately. Trust me, there’s a reason why I’m bringing this up now.

FáilteWelcome 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 neighborhood, if you live in a democrat led state or city.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit. I've gathered some news stories and articles from around the world that give us a glimpse into the history of rebellions, the near future of the United States and what may be coming for Europe soon.

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI 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 a little bit to try and not talk about Trump so much.Trump just sucks the oxygen out of the air every time he opens his mouth, which he does a lot of these days, and there’s a lot more going on than just himself.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit. I’ve gathered some news stories and articles from around the world that, once again, might surprise you or at least open your eyes a bit.

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.Thank you for joining me.I the wake of the Charlie Kirk murder (I refuse to call it an assassination) and funeral, The United States has started becoming even more unraveled than before, if that’s even possible. It doesn’t help that they have a president who is actively helping to stoke those divisions as much as he can.In a week of blatant media censorship from the white house, and outright lies during a state visit to England, this president is setting up a scenario for further violence. Which may be on purpose.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit. I gathered some news stories and articles that most people won’t normally read to emphasize what’s going on that should concern everyone.

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.Thank you for joining me.The United States and thew world, is at a crossroads and things are starting to get violent everywhere. I've decided to move away from this idea of the U.S. states seceding as it doesn't make economic sense. But changes need to be made if the U.S. is going to survive.The same can be said for Europe and the middle east. The world is on the cusp of another global conflict and unless the economic issues being raised by the people are addressed, a larger war will break out.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit as I take more of a look at what's changing in the U.S. and abroad.

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.Thank you for joining me.This week, we take this internal cultural and political division in the U.S. a little further, with the prospect of a split up of the states in the U.S., what that might look like and why that might not be a good idea.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit as I offer a glimpse of what the U.S. might look like in the near future.

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.Thank you for joining me.This week, We're continuing about the extreme divisions between the different people in the U.S., and Canada, and what the ultimate outcome of what that will look like eventually if things keep going as they are.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit as I talk about the huge cultural divisions in the U.S. and some parts of Canada.Authors Note: Warning, there are some adult sexual references as regard to Donald Trump, and some adult language with regard to republican politicians in general here in Virginia. There is also an off-script monologue at the end about my interaction with a wannabe local state politician who paid me a visit this week, instead of my usual commercial break and reading of another chapter of The Priest by Michael Campi. If you’re from Virginia, I would advise you to listen all the way to the end. Even if you’re not, this may apply to your state as well in the near future.

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. This week, I'm going to continue talking about human nature, with a focus on the current authoritarian crisis in the United States and in Palestine. In this instance, the deliberate extermination of a people out of a sense of extreme tribalism. So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit as I talk about tribalism today and how that's affecting the world at large.

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. This week, I'm continuing what I started last week. I'm going to talk some more about humans and their innate ability to destroy nearly everything they come in contact with. I'm starting off with an expanded version of a blog article I wrote back in late 2022 about tribalism. It didn't get much traction back then, and it may not today but it still needs to be said.In this episode, I talk more about human nature, and what that portends for the future of the United States and its people, and the world at large. So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit as I talk about tribalism and how that plays into empire building.

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. A couple of weeks ago, an online friend from northern California wrote a short blog article wondering what north America might look like if the Europeans had never arrived. There was much online speculation about that, and I got the idea to explore that a little bit more. I had asked my friend to collaborate with me on this but, apparently he became distracted with something else, like survival.So today, I am bringing my take on this, along with some history I dug up from Wikipedia. So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit as I present some history and some thoughts on what the Americas might look like without the Europeans.

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.Thank you for joining me.This week, I want to ask what does a fascist United States looks like under Donald J. Trump? I offer a perspective that no one is talking about, that I think, based on his life so far, fits the narrative we're seeing to a tee. All I ask is that you listen with an open mind and think about this after I'm done today.So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit and let's talk about what Donald Trump's version of fascism looks like.

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. Firstly, I want to let everyone know that the experiment of posting one of my fictional Irish stories was a bust. Only a couple people liked it, and I lost two free subscribers over it so I won't be doing that anymore. I'll just save them for my next book.In the meantime, it's been a busy week across the world. As I promised last week, I'm going to talk about how fresh water across the world is disappearing due to misuse and how this is starting to affect geopolitics. So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit and let's talk about the loss of fresh water across the world.

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your seanchaí, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. As I said last week, and in keeping with my theme of talking about the things that matter most to regular people, I have found some news articles that do have an impact on everyday life for most Americans. Today, I'm going to talk about the U.S. power grid. How it is set up across the country as far as private, public or a co-op, the frailty of it all and what that might mean for the average consumer, depending on the state they live in. So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit and let's talk about the electricity infrastructure in the U.S.

FáilteWelcome to the weekend edition (maybe) of The Village Oak Tree.I decided to see about posting part 1 of a story I wrote a couple of years ago on my substack page, and I recorded an audio file as well. Which I'm adding here. I hope people enjoy it and reach out to me to let me know. If people like my stories well enough, I'll present some more.Thank you. I'll be back next week with my regular schedule. Sláinte