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The Village Oak Tree

The Village Oak Tree

By: T Ó Domhnaill
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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 you think. Sláinte

Terrance O'Donal 2023
Political Science Politics & Government
Episodes
  • Topic of the Week: VA Health Care or Lack Thereof
    Aug 5 2026

    Fáilte

    Welcome to The Village Oak Tree

    I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.

    Thank you for joining me again this week.

    I have something a little more personal to talk about this week. I want to talk about the declining veterans health care services those of us who gave a portion of our lives are supposed to be receiving from our Veterans hospitals.

    As some of you may remember me saying before, I am a military veteran who gave up close to twenty five years of my life in military service to the United States. In the course of multiple deployments and countless training exercises that kept me from coming home at night, I got pretty banged up along the way, like a lot of us have.

    So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit while I talk about a recent encounter with my local Veterans Administration hospital and the overall picture of a declining empire that still wants our young people to fight for them, but has now decided to not to take care of us like they promised.

    Visit me at www.crann-na-beatha.com for more.

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    30 mins
  • What the Next Recession may Look Like under a Cowardly Congress
    Jul 29 2026

    Fáilte

    Welcome to The Village Oak Tree

    I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.

    Thank you for joining me again this week.

    I’m at a bit of a quandary this week, because there is so much going on in the news that I don’t want to just parrot the main stream media.

    So, let’s talk about the overall decline of the United States under the helm of Trump and his government full of thugs, rapists, domestic abusers and outright nut jobs.

    So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit as I vent a little bit about the United States, as compared to the rest of the world now, and what that is looking like more and more for the average person living in the U.S., and some of it’s, used to be, closest allies.

    Visit me at www.crann-na-beatha.com for more to look at

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    24 mins
  • Will China's Advancing Technology Crash the U.S. Economy Soon and More.
    Jul 22 2026

    First, let me apologize up front for the poor audio. As I mentioned, I’m undergoing some major upgrades in my IT infrastructure this month and apparently StreamYard was affected like so much else in my network. The platform switched microphones on me and I failed to verify the correct one before recording today’s podcast. It’s fixed now but I thought to myself during editing, that I’d rather apologize than make another recording. I’ll do better next week, I promise.

    Fáilte

    Welcome to The Village Oak Tree

    I’m your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.

    Thank you for joining me again this week.

    After taking a week off to manage some pressing IT projects (of which I still have more to do after today), I’m back to talk about the new world of technology we find ourselves in now, and the near future that’s going to bring to the U.S. and the west in general. So much is changing so quickly and not all for the good of all mankind.

    So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit as I tell you about how China is likely going to bring on a major recession in the United States with their rapid advances in cheaper AI models, the massive surveillance state that the U.S. and other western countries are creating, and how these new mega data centers may be the catalyst that brings it all down.

    Visit https://crann-na-beatha.com for more about the author

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    22 mins
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