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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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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

The Village Oak Tree ·

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...

The Village Oak Tree ·

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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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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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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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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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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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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Interview with Petra Alliance and My Friend ASM Esquire

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2024/10/02

This week for my normal Wednesday broadcast, I have ASM Esquire. whom I interviewed last March about his previous book about debunking the bible and other religious books. Today, we talk about his new book of poems, Love Poems for Men, and segway into politics and how that is affecting his viewpoint and his community. He is of Syrian descent, so his community is part of the Arab diaspora in the U.S. I invite anyone to listen to this and see if anything we talk about resonates with you and your

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The Village Oak Tree Special Edition for Sept. 30th,...

The Village Oak Tree ·

2024/09/30

This is another special edition where I recorded another conversation with my friend Mitch, who lives in Florida. The point of our lengthy conversation is to discuss the things that matter to us on a personal level that effect all of us one way or another. Whether it is climate change (we talk about hurricane Helene that just went through) the wars in the middle east, especially the recent events in Lebanon, and how all of these things affect our daily lives or may impact our immediate future, such

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59:48

Interview with Carla Vergot - The author of the Lily...

The Village Oak Tree ·

2024/09/25

I have this wonderful discussion with Ms. Vergot about her books, her social media presence and some of her troubles with publishing her books.She is from the western part of Virginia in the United States and her books are about a young lass who aspires to be a bit of a detective. They are pretty popular with young adults. Come join us as we talk about her books and a little bit about her life as a writer.

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The Village Oak Tree Special Edition Sept. 23rd, 2024

The Village Oak Tree ·

2024/09/23

Cead FáilteI finally decided to come out of hiding to air my thoughts on the affairs of the world, Or at least the ones that matter the most to existence of the human race as we know it.As usual, I run the gamut of the wars, U.S. politics, and a bit about the ongoing Covid epidemic that seems to garner little to no attention from anywhere anymore.To top things off after describing just how close the U.S is to starting a nuclear war with Russia, I take the second half and read a couple of dystopian

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52:39

Interview with author, Robert Cook

The Village Oak Tree ·

2024/09/18

As mentioned previously, I am currently interviewing published book authors of fictional stories. This week, I have a somewhat short interview with a former Army Major, IT software developer, and author of four books now. His latest, The Mahdi. We talk a little bit about his background but mostly about his books. This is not one of my better interviews as this gentleman needed some assistance with his laptop and the conversation was less than congenial at times. Take a look, if nothing else, his

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Interview with Danielle Orsino

The Village Oak Tree ·

2024/09/11

This week, I interview an award-winning author of The Birth of the Fae series. A fantasy fiction about a whole different world and look at the Fae as we of Irish ancestry see them. She is also a noted martial artist and cosplayer. All of which she talks about in the interview, but our main focus is about the world of traditional publishing and publishing companies. This interview is eye opening for all aspiring writers thinking of writing and publishing a book. I invite you to watch us talk about

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Interview with David Beckemeyer

The Village Oak Tree ·

2024/09/04

Cead Fáilte Welcome back to The Village Oak Tree. In this episode I interview Mr. David Beckemeyer, who produces and hosts The Outrage Overload podcast. He is a retired tech industry professional from Silicon Valley and now interviews political experts about toxic politics in the United States. I invite everyone to listen to the interview and see how you can learn to manage the toxic politics in your community.

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59:24

Interview with Jim Fuhs, Marine Corp. Veteran and...

The Village Oak Tree ·

2024/08/28

My guest this week is a retired Marine Corp. Lieutenant Colonel, who transitioned off active duty into retirement in 2009. He had a good career and now, after a couple of other tries, has found a new calling into teaching people and businesses how to use and navigate social media.He is also very active with his local American Legion post as a Vice Commander of one of the largest and most active American Legion posts in Georgia.We talk about our different transitions from active duty, some of the

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