The Village Oak Tree

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. I want to talk about the U.S. and Britain today, with a couple of news stories I found, and to describe a dystopian future when, and I say when, not if, the global mean temperature above pre-industrial global temps reaches 3C. So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable fo...

Warning: There is a small amount of adult language in today’s podcast Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. I’m going to make this a short one because, for one, I’m very tired, and two, the Americans are celebrating their 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. And as such, I don’t want to bring too much...

Warning: Adult language Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again. I have another book review for you this week. This time, it’s a short book that means a lot to me and to all veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is a good addition to my podcast topic from last week, about how spoiled Americans are, and in this case, it...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. I want talk about a couple of related and likely very controversial topics today that might upset a few people. Especially anyone who still believes in that myth of American exceptionalism. I don’t have any news stories to share this week, but I do have a couple of references I wil...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I'm your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. To start, I want to try and address an elephant in the room. It's so hard to talk about anything positive these troubled days we find ourselves in without sounding like a podcast about kittens and puppies. Although some people would like that as a way to forget all of the doom and...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. Today, I want to offer you a book review, along with a broader picture of what this book is about, and the current military culture behind the Trump-Miller immigration policy taking place everywhere in the country. So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit whil...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. Things are a little bit quieter on the western front this week, but not by much. Trump is still being Trump and the congress is arguing about whether they should pay the Mafia Don the tribute he’s asking for. The war in Iran is looking a little better, for now, but I don’t know for...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. Today, I want to talk about biolabs. I found some obscure news articles from Russia about U.S. funded Biolabs and I have an article about air borne viruses from Heated I also want to talk about. Illegal biolabs should scare everyone. Add into that, the possibility that with global...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. I’m going to keep on with more doings from around the world this week. Rather than a bunch of news headlines, I have a couple of videos to share this week, not that I’m going to play them for you. They would take up far too much time but I will link them in my commentary on Substac...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. The United States is at a crossroads in its history. There is a major fight going on for control and its soul. I have a couple of news stories from around the world about corruption and greed in the highest places, the state of the EU, and some intel from the war in Ukraine. Plus a...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. All around the world this week, there’s some kind of commotion going on to pull our eyes to the next big thing. What they all amount to, is a world coming apart because of one man. Donald J. Trump. I found some more news stories that show us a glimpse of what the rest of the world...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I'm your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. G'Day to you all. It's another week of chaos from Trump's United States for the Gulf states as the on again, off again straits of Hormuz issue continues. This week, I'm returning to the middle east with some news stories I picked out for just that occasion. I have a lot going on at...

Author’s Note: The Priest has adult language so be warned Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. Today, I want to talk about how the United States is quickly becoming a failed empire this week, using some news stories I found from around the world. It seems that the other nations of the world have had enough of Trump an...

Warning: this week’s chapter of The Priest has very adult language in it. Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. In keeping with my overall theme of economic factors that affect all of us in one fashion or another, as I told everyone last week, we’re going to talk about health care systems around the world today. Especi...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. I want to conclude my current climate change series with a look at what a dystopian future landscape might look like within the next twenty five years or so. I will offer some publicly sourced pictures from the internet and some of my own taken during my travels around the world to...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. I’m staying with the climate change topic some more as I think it’s becoming very important, even though everyone in the world is busy watching the wars in the middle east. As I said last week, some of that dust and debris from all of those bombs ends up in the upper atmosphere whe...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’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...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’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,...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’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 sever...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’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 c...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’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 effor...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’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 presid...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’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...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’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...

Note: There is adult language in this week’s episode of The Priest. Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I’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...