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The Village Oak Tree

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

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All Episodes

31:04

Religion, Education, and the State

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/05/07

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me once again. This week, I'm going to dive into religion and education, and how the separation of church and state is starting to become blurred in the United States, despite what the U.S. constitution says. After I have presented my findings from this week's news feeds, I would ask everyone to stick around through my commercial break to hear another chapter of The Priest by Michael Campi So come,

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48:23

More News Stories from Trumplandia, and Would China...

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/04/30

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.Thank you for joining me once again.This week, I'm going to try and stay away from Trump’s efforts to become a dictator. There’re enough people jumping into that fray so I don't need to join them. Instead, I'm going to talk some more about ICE and their draconian efforts across the country to snatch up undocumented people everywhere, the great American migration of people on the move across the country for a variety of

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44:17

The War in Sudan

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/04/23

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.Thank you for joining me once again.As promised, I have my Canadian friend with me this week to talk about the war in Sudan. I will be bringing you some history as to why this started and where it stands today, and my friend Sam will be talking about the humanitarian crisis all of this has caused. Especially since Trump recently cut out aid money for the NGO's in the area with the closing of USAID.Once we've presented our case

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44:31

The Sad Decline of the United States into...

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/04/16

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me once again. Most of what I want to focus on this week, is about how scary Trump's defiance of the judicial system should be to all of us as this means he could come after any of us now for any reason he can make up. I have a lot of news stories that I found that I hope will wake people up to what's going on in the United States, and why we, as residents of the US. should sit up and take notice

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30:28

It's the Economy Stupid. Trump's war on foreigners,...

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/04/09

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.Thank you for joining me once again.This week I want to talk some more about all of the chaos taking place across the world with all of the tariffs, U.S. detentions of foreigners, Trump's ramping up of his war on climate change and a whole lot more.Once I've finished telling you what I think about the things I've found, I would ask everyone to stick around through my commercial break to hear another chapter of The Priest by

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42:30

More Chaos and a Call to Action

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/04/02

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.Thank you for joining me once again.This week I want to talk some more about all of the chaos taking place across the United States, some positive news (not much but a little), and a call to action for any Americans who still believe in democracy.Once I've finished with my essay, I would ask everyone to stick around through my commercial break to hear another chapter of The Priest by Michael CampiSo come, pull up a chair, and

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43:05

Tourism, the Environment, and OPSEC, or Lack Thereof

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/03/26

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me once again. This week, I continue to talk about immigration, the environment, and this latest deal with these dumbasses working for Trump. There's a lot to unpack once again. Once I've finished talking about the news stories I found for this week, I would ask everyone to stick around through my commercial break to hear another chapter of The Priest by Michael Campi So come, pull up a chair, and let

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44:06

Immigrants, Civil Rights, and The Economy

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/03/19

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me once again. This week, I want to talk about immigration, civil rights and the economy. Once I've finished talking about the news stories I found for this week, I would ask everyone to stick around through my commercial break to hear another chapter of The Priest by Michael Campi So, come sit you down somewhere in a patch of spring sunshine, or a warm cozy spot if you live in the more northern

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82:39

More Chaos from Western Countries. Especially the U.S.

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/03/13

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.Thank you for joining me once again.I found a few news stories this week but as always, there’s just too much chaos going on around the world for me to delve into the front page news. There are plenty of other, more accomplished journalists, who’re taking care of that for us already.What I did find, are a couple of articles about climate change. To which the current U.S. administration has order the removal of this terminology

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113:03

A Conversation about Eugenics and the State of the World

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2025/03/06

FailteWelcome to the Village Oak Tree again this week.This week, I bring you another conversation with my friend Mitch from central Florida.He had recently published an article on Medium.com about eugenics and how a certain group of Americans have been all about this science in order to create a master race right here in the good ‘ole USA.We also talk long and hard about the state of affairs in the U.S., the world and right in our own backyards. It is a lengthy conversation but well worth your time

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37:37

Better Late Than Never. More Chaos Ensues

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/03/02

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.Here we are, entering the Ides of March, as the old saying goes. The sun has been shining a wee bit where I am, along with rising temperatures. And I'm a few days behind on my normal schedule this week.I'm still dealing with home repairs caused by climate change this winter and I'm not done yet. But the work I needed to do to date did cause an interruption in my normal schedule. With everything that's going on in my

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40:33

We Are Starting to Lose the Basics We Took for Granted

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/02/19

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. With the weather outside frightful all across north America again this week, and with all of the chaos Trump and company is still creating all across the world, the average citizens everywhere are starting to feel it. One again, I have discovered new stories from across the spectrum to point a finger at how all of this is going to affect the average citizens here in the U.S, and this week, Europe. Once I have brought you

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27:24

A Focus on a couple of Things that affect the rest of...

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/02/12

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak TreeI am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.With the weather outside frightful all across north America today, and with all of the chaos the new U.S. government is creating all across the world and domestically, mainly Donald Trump and his trusty sidekick, Elon Musk, it's a wonder more people aren't speaking out.But they’re starting to. More and more people across the world are starting to speak out against all of this chaos and that’s a good thing. Even in Ireland,

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27:24

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/02/05

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak Tree once againI am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.More chaos everywhere once again this week.To quote a movie title from 2022, "Everything, Everywhere, All at once"Once I have brought you the stories and commentary for this week, I ask everyone to stick around through my commercial break, so I can read you another chapter of The Priest, from Michael Campi.So, come sit you down next to someplace warm and listen to me tell you a little of what the media isn't telling

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28:29

The Changing World Order

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/01/22

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. It's been about forty-eight hours into the new Trump presidency and the chaos is already getting started. I don't want to get into that too much as every media outlet across the world will be doing that for us. Instead, I want to talk a little about the why's of what we are seeing across the world. I can't even begin to scratch the surface, but I do want to pay particular attention to the United States today and why they've

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121:17

Another Conversation about the Things that Scare Us...

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/01/15

This week, I had another long conversation with my friend Mitch, as you may remember from last year, lives in central Florida. We've talked about these things before but, with Trumps inauguration upon us next week, we're running a little scared of the future and what his already chaotic presidency may bring us over the next two to four years. Come join us as we talk about the future, sometimes, with a little humor, our fears of, as he puts it, the new version of Hitler's infamous Brown Shirts, who

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38:09

Syria, Ukraine, Europe, Central America and King...

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/01/08

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Now that the holiday season is past once again, and the weather outside everywhere is frightful and not just in North America, I bring you more off the mainstream news stories and analysis about what's going on in the world. After my commercial break, I will read you another chapter of The Priest, from Michael Campi. So, come sit you down next to someplace warm and listen to me tell you some tales about the world

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39:55

2025 New Year Stories and Poetry

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/01/01

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak Tree Stories and Poetry I am Terrance Ó Domhnaill, your Irish scéalaí, back with more stories and poems from authors around the world. I know it's been a bit since I read everyone any stories so I have collected several for today, this first day of 2025. For today's show, I have another episode of The Grave Diggers of Orpheus chapter 14. The third part of Liora's story, A story from a Substack writer about a wizard king, a fictional story about a special cat, a

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49:21

Christmas Show

The Village Oak Tree ·

2024/12/25

Nollaig Shona daoibhHappy Christmas from The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. This is my Christmas show, even though I don't typically celebrate Christian holidays. As I said last week, this week's podcast is primarily going to be about this latest Trump tactic of taxing/tariffing the hell out of Canada and Mexico. Canada is running scared as a twenty five percent tariff on all imports from Canada to the U.S. would cripple the Canadian economy. I have several news stories

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41:52

December 18th, Corporations and how they have and...

The Village Oak Tree ·

2024/12/18

This was a relatively unplanned episode because I had originally planned to read stories and poetry this week. Once again, I was caught up in world events and also, I had a little push from a friend to say something about corporate greed. Please watch as I offer a little history on western corporations, the wreckage they have caused across the planet in the last five hundred years, and how the west is starting to wake up to the damage they have and are causing in all of our lives right now. After

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