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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

47:42

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

The Village Oak Tree ·

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

The Village Oak Tree ·

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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42:24

Failing Economies and Dystopian Futures

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/10/15

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

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46:28

Rebellions - Past and Future?

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/10/08

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

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39:46

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, Again

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/10/01

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

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38:35

They're Coming for Everyone and Media Censorship

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/09/24

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

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36:38

Is the U.S. Heading for another Civil War?

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/09/17

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

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29:46

The Thought of the United States Breaking up into 50...

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/09/10

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.

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38:09

The Vast Political and Cultural Divide across North...

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/09/03

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

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41:32

Tribalism and a One Party State

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/08/27

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.

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31:22

Tribalism

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/08/20

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

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32:10

What if the Native Americans had Wiped Out the First...

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/08/13

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

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33:10

What Does a Fascist U.S. Look like Under Donald Trump?

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/08/06

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

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37:21

How Will Lives Change in a Drying World?

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/07/31

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

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32:37

America's Failing Electrical Grid

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/07/23

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

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10:29

The Púka of Log na Coille

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/07/20

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

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39:01

The Scourge of Global Migration

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/07/16

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me once again. In my continuing podcasts to push people into standing up against tyranny, as promised, I will be talking about global migrations today. I have a handful of news stories I've found in the last week, that show us just how cruel governments around the world are becoming with regard to all of these mass migrations that have been taking place for decades now, along with a little history to

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35:43

The Feckless Americans and other Stories that should...

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/07/09

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me once again. In my continuing podcasts to push people into standing up against tyranny, I found a handful of odd news stories from around the U.S. and the world that I thought might peak people's interest this week. A couple of them are downright stupid from the Americans, and I also found some interesting stories about the middle east. Some you may already know about, some you may not. So gather

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28:46

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Government?

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/07/02

FáilteWelcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.Thank you for joining me once again.Once again, the United States is at a historical crossroads. Trump and his loyalists are running roughshod across the country still, and the chaos is consuming everything, every day. The news feeds in the U.S. are full of little else but some kind of new Trump attention grabber, from the new concentration camp in the Florida Everglades to this hugely unpopular bill being battled back and

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30:00

The First in a series about the Real United States...

The Village Oak Tree ·

2025/06/25

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me once again. I'm back from my long vacation out west, to which, if you're interested in learning about our adventures, read my four travel blogs posted on my Substack page. During my long vacation, I thought some about the future of this show and I decided to redirect the show once again. I want to start focusing on the things that really matter to most folks. Poverty, homelessness, tyranny, how the

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