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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

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

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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

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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...

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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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Wednesday December 11th

The Village Oak Tree ·

2024/12/11

This week, I have another commentary on the breaking and not so breaking news from the past few days. I offer a take on what's going on in Syria, South Korea, Europe and the United States. I save the bit about the failing health care system in the United States for last. After the break, I read another chapter from The Priest, chapter 19, to offer a continuing glimpse of what an economic failure in the Unites States might look like someday soon. Come in next to the warm fire and listen to the things

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The Village Oak Tree Stories and Poems for December 4th

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2024/12/04

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak Tree Stories and Poetry I am Terrance Ó Domhnaill, your scéalaí, back with more stories and poems from authors around the world. For today's show, I have another episode of The Grave Diggers of Orpheus chapter 13. The second part of Liora's story, a new story about a fae garden, a short story about a deer and magic, then a poem about the wind. So gather round once more and let me read to you next to a warm fire.

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35:41

U.S. Openly Stated Greed, the End of the British...

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2024/11/27

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak Tree for November 27th.I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for spending a little time with me once again. We have had another insane week in world news.This week, I bring you some news articles from Europe, U.K. and the U.S. These are stories that on the surface by themselves, might not get a lot of attention in most circles but put together, they could mean a lot to those of us just trying to avoid nuclear annihilation. Or in the new scary world,

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36:46

Stories and Poetry for November 20th, 2024

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2024/11/20

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak Tree Stories and Poetry I am Terrance Ó Domhnaill, your scéalaí, back with more stories and poems from authors around the world. I know it's been a couple of weeks since I have read any stories or poetry but I have been busy lately with other projects outside of media. If you are listening to this on WAA Radio, you know that they have been running older shows while I have been on a break. As I mentioned on my last show a couple of weeks ago, this is how things will

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31:55

Wednesday, November 20th, 2024

The Village Oak Tree ·

2024/11/20

I wasn't planning on doing a commentary show this week as I am still going to read some stories and poetry today. I recorded this last Monday because events in the news over the weekend just put me a little over the top and I needed to talk about some of it for my own sanity. Join me again for another visit with world news as I talk about Donald Trump a little and the latest United States hubris in their thinking that they can take on the Russian military in Ukraine. Even though I recorded this

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News Rundown for Wednesday November 13th, 2024

The Village Oak Tree ·

2024/11/13

I am back again the week after the U.S. elections to offer some insight on the news from around the world. This week, it's mostly about Donald J. Trump, his choices, so far, of cabinet and administration picks. No one truly knows what Trump is going to do but his choices give us a pretty good idea of what's coming for the people of the U.S. and the world. Especially immigrants. Illegal and otherwise. If Trump follows through on his campaign promises, free speech like this may become a thing of the

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49:18

First Episode for the Celtic New Year - Space Faring...

The Village Oak Tree ·

2024/11/01

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak Tree Stories and Poetry I am Terrance Ó Domhnaill, your village scéalaí, back with more stories and poems from authors around the world. In this first show of the Celtic New Year, I have four stories and one poem for everyone. I continue with The Grave Diggers of Orpheus chapter 11, three other space faring stories from Substack writers and a poem about the Fae in Bulgaria from a Medium writer. Some more notes about this show as we head into the new year. Starting

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The Village Oak Tree October 30th, 2024

The Village Oak Tree ·

2024/10/30

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak Tree for October 30th. I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for spending a little time with me again this week. I have more news stories that may get someone's attention a little this week. This week, I have stories from Europe, the U.S. and Iceland.I have a couple of climate change news stories that we should pay attention to, some stories about western Europe with regard to the war in Ukraine, and I want to talk a little bit about the upcoming U.S

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October 23rd, 2024

The Village Oak Tree ·

2024/10/24

This week, I review some more news stories from around the world to highlight more dysfunctional politics and war mongering from the U.S.I have several stories about corruption and how the government isn't helping its people. Sending all of its money overseas instead of helping out the hurricane victims. I have a lot to say about Israel and Ukraine today so come listen to what I have found and then stay tuned while I read a political essay on the state of the U.S. elections and what the people

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28:11

Wednesday, October 16th, 2024

The Village Oak Tree ·

2024/10/16

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree for October 16th. I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. I thank you for joining me. I thought I was going to have an interview with a former Oklahoma politician, but he ghosted me so, it's just me this week. I have a bunch of offbeat new stories that I have collected over the last week from non-mainstream news sources that tell us about a little different take on what the American mainstream news media is telling everyone. The majority of which are about the

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Interview with Steve Brigham - Author of It's Never...

The Village Oak Tree ·

2024/10/09

I bring you my interview with noted author, Steve Brigham, who wrote a book about the systematic racism prevalent throughout American society. He has served as a community engagement consultant with clients across the country, been married to an African American woman and has biracial children. This book is a call to action to address this systematic issue ingrained in North American culture and try to bring about change. I encourage anyone wishing to get involved to read his book and see where you

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25:25

The State of the Planet's Ecosystems

The Village Oak Tree ·

2024/10/07

I have another commentary for listeners. This time, I talk about climate change related large storms, like what is happening around the world right now, and how it is, according to climate scientists, is caused by excessive use of fossil fuels.I relate some history of the fossil fuel industry and how things got started, and delve into how the current war in the middle east could cause the world to shut down if Iran shuts off the Straits of Hormuz.I offer a lot to think about given what is going on

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