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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

25:00

Climate Change and How War is making Things Worse

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2026/03/18

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

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24:55

Religion and War, Why that's a Bad Mix

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2026/03/11

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

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28:33

The Almost Forgotten War in Palestine

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2026/03/04

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

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22:52

A Change of Subject Matter from Politics to Things...

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2026/02/25

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

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23:58

Is it Time to Clean out the Oligarchs running the U.S.?

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2026/02/18

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

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20:44

The Chaos in the World this week, Centering on the...

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2026/02/11

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

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24:04

Trump's Kristallnacht

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2026/02/04

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

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26:48

The Myth that the U.S. Military is the best in the...

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2026/01/28

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

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29:47

A Small History Lesson to maybe Explain why the U.S....

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2026/01/21

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,

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26:39

The War Against ICE

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2026/01/14

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

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22:25

Cry Havok, Let Loose the Dogs of War

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2026/01/07

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

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20:45

Super Flu and Covid, Oh My!

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2025/12/31

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,

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23:34

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays with more Mayhem...

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/12/23

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

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19:33

West Coast Secession? And the Economies of the U.S....

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/12/17

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

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21:00

How Safe are any of us from ICE and CBP anymore?

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2025/12/10

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

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25:10

What Scares you the Most Right Now? The Real Answer...

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2025/12/03

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

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22:15

Are we starting to see Food Shortages in the Grocery...

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2025/11/26

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

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16:14

Censorship, Hunger, Eugenics and Mosquitos

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2025/11/12

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

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47:42

Samhain (Sow-in), updates and a Seasonal Story

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2025/10/29

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

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24:26

Homeland Security and the Economy

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2025/10/22

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

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