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The Village Oak Tree

News and Politics for August 14th

Céad Fáilte

A Thousand Welcomes once again

I was supposed to interview someone for today’s show but he came up with an illness and I had to reschedule. So, I quickly wrote up a twenty minute script and recorded this show. As I am writing this, I am watching YouTube to see if it will be censored again like last weekend. I mentioned the word Covid again so I am waiting to see what happens.


My commentary today is about what’s been going on in the news from around the world, gleaned from obscure news stories, and podcasts by independent journalists.

As evidenced by the stories I have found and the analysis by experts in these areas, the United States is not the country it once was. It has always been flawed but not this much. And we can lay most of the blame at the feet of the republicans going back to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.

The democrats are not blameless either but they are the lessor of the two evils.

Today’s topics are about media censorship, how Homeland Security has become the U.S. version of the Russian FSB, the wars in eastern Europe and the middle east, and how all of the key players are trying to figure out their next moves.

Watch the video to get the full spectrum of everything I found in the news outside of mainstream media in the U.S. and the E.U. Some of it may open your eyes to what is going on in the United States by Homeland Security, whom I have dubbed the U.S. version of the Russian FSB.

Welcome to the new United States. A police surveillance state with lots of natural wonders and a FSB like presence everywhere you go. If you dare use any public media to tell the truth about what they are doing to us all, you may be put on a watch list or worse.

If you dare to peacefully protest against government policies, a division of Homeland Security will come after you and do all they can to smear your reputation and your ability to keep or be hired for a good job. Being arrested is the least of your problems.

Thank you for allowing me to vent my anger. Just remember, what ever you do, wherever you go where there is the possibility of technology to see you with in the United States, Big Brother is watching. In the U.S., the name for our secret police is called Homeland Security. They are everywhere.

T. Ó Domhnaill — Gaelic Seanchaí

References:

US Senator Graham calls Ukraine's incursion into Russia 'bold', 'beautiful'

By Reuters

Transcript: Sen. Tom Cotton on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Aug. 4, 2024

American Stasi: Tulsi Gabbard Confirms "Quiet Skies" Nightmare

Placed on a terror watch list, the former Hawaii congresswoman and her husband were tailed by Air Marshals and bomb dogs. "Unconstitutional on every level," she says. "And I'm not the only one."

Matt Taibbi

Poland received German request to arrest Nord Stream suspect but he's left country, prosecutors say

By Rachel More and Anna Wlodarczak-semczuk for Reuters

Ken Klippenstein
War With Iran Imminent?
The media is in panic mode about the prospects of a war with Iran, as Tehran considers what kind of retaliation it should undertake in response to the July 31 assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. Israel’s reported assassination, even inside Iran, …
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US approves sale to Israel of $20 billion weapons package

By Kanishka Singh and Mike Stone for Reuters

Italy pardons U.S. pilot convicted in CIA rendition case

By Reuters

Growing mpox outbreak triggers Africa’s first health emergency — and fears of wider spread

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention issues a historic declaration as several countries see their first cases of the disease caused by the monkeypox virus.

By 

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