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Welcome to The Village Oak Tree for November 27th.
I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for spending a little time with me once again. We have had another insane week in world news.
This week, I bring you some news articles from Europe, U.K. and the U.S. These are stories that on the surface by themselves, might not get a lot of attention in most circles but, put together, they could mean a lot to those of us just trying to avoid nuclear annihilation. Or in the new scary world, deportation enmasse from the global north.
At the end of the video, I read another chapter from The Priest. More of Michael Campi's dystopian future story about what the collapse of the United States would look like from a first person perspective. Warning, there is some adult language in this story so be warned.
I picked up some more news articles from various sources once again that shed more light on the nefarious wrongdoings of world governments.
I found this obscure article on RT News that they got from the Wall Street Journal, about how a Florida millionaire is bidding to buy a European company that is going bust over the Nordstream pipeline that was blown up a couple of years ago. He claims that the pumping company is going out of business and he can buy it for pennies on the dollar.
Now, this ordinarily wouldn't be that big of a deal but that coupled with this other story I found, that is a repeat of one from last year, about American senator Lindsay Graham doing his best to tell the world that the U.S. and western Europe need to push Russia out of Ukraine. Paving the way for American companies, with exclusive contracts granted by Ukraine's president Zelenskyy, can swoop in and start tearing up the country digging out all of those precious metals. Blackrock corporation is supposedly already waiting on the edge of the border, so to speak, ready to start digging.
The way this U.S. senator is touting all of this only means one thing. These western, global corporations are paying him to be their government spokesperson in congress to give them what they want. Just like that millionaire that wants to buy the gas pipeline pumping company to gain control of the Nordstream pipeline in order to control the flow of gas and oil to Europe.
As usual, if you want to know why people do what they do, follow the money. In this case, American based corporations who want to exploit Ukraine for its mineral wealth without sharing with anyone else. Russia is saying Nyet. President Zelenskyy doesn't care who gets the ore as him and his corrupt Ukrainian government buddies get their cut. As I reported last week, himself and his government ministers have been stealing millions of dollars in U.S. aid money so why not make a few more millions after the war by selling contracts to the Americans. The Ukrainian people will not likely see much of that money as it will end up in offshore accounts for the oligarchs in Ukraine. I wonder where they learned how to do that?
As far as the Americans are concerned, as senator Graham is telling everyone who will listen, there are trillions of dollars' worth, of precious minerals just waiting to be cleaned out. He says that this will enrich the United States. We all know that to be a lie. It will only enrich the U.S. oligarchs who are in on the plan. The American public won't see a dime of it. Just like the Ukrainians won't see a dime of the contracts from the Americans.
In other news from Ukraine this last week, a report from RT News about Trumps pick for national security advisor, a retired Army Colonel, and Florida congressman, Mike Walz, who has a plan to bring Ukraine and Russia to the negotiating table once they take office in late January.
Russia, of course, is skeptical. After the Kursk debacle, Russia is grinding on and what's left of the Ukrainian Army who are still alive in Kursk are being mopped up now.
Which brings me to another article I received from an independent English journalist on Substack. He writes about how the British government is pushing Europe and the U.S. to do whatever it takes to push Russia out of Ukraine and I mean Starmer's government is pushing very hard, according to him.
He also writes about how bad the Brits got hit hard, financially, over their weapons deployments to Ukraine. Their Challenger 2 tanks got wiped out quickly after being touted by Britain to be the next best thing to sliced butter. In fairness, the Russians killed a lot of American Abrams tanks as well but you don't hear much about that in the news, especially in the U.S. The same for the German leopard tanks too.
Does anyone remember back in the spring of 2022, when the western news made all the noise about the Ukrainians taking out lots of Russian tanks and armored vehicles in the initial weeks of the war? What was missing in the subsequent months were stories of the Russians taking out all of the Challengers and Leopards that were sent and a large amount of the Abrams that the U.S. sent. This has only become worse, which is why Germany, Britain and the U.S. quit sending tanks to Ukraine. They have sent some other armored vehicles but they got taken out too.
There is a lot of chatter on the indie channels about the Russian hypersonic missile that was sent to Ukraine. It made such a noise (and I don’t mean the explosion of the missile when it hit) that the western governments are now apoplectic and threatening to lob nukes in retaliation.
The latest news as of yesterday, is of how NATO, vis a vi the Americans, want to give Kyiv some nukes to store just in case. Russia is telling the west that this is another red line of course. I mean are these people just that stupid? Do they actually think Russia is bluffing? Russia doesn't play Texas hold em people. They play chess and they are very good at it.
The British military department is in big trouble right now over all of this, including this before mentioned reporter's other story last weekend, about the British government likely getting ready to scrap their two newest aircraft carriers, the HMS Queen Elizabeth and the HMS Prince of Wales.
It turns out that they were made very shoddy and have seen more drydock time than at sea time. The Brits made the mistake of relying their carrier technology on the American made F-35 jets that are also pieces of junk. So, for the Brit carriers, not only can they not keep the ships operational, they don't have enough operational F-35's to put together air squadrons for the carrier strike forces.
Something that was sorely noted off the coast of Yemen recently when the once mighty British Navy couldn't manage any air to ground operations against the Houthis. Not that the Americans were that much better but at least they had some planes to launch from their carrier flight decks.
Between a couple of very expensive to build and maintain aircraft carriers, and ineffective support ships, the British Navy that once ruled the world's oceans has become a beggared fleet. A second rate navy on par with countries like France, Spain and Italy.
The reporter also notes in his article about how the Americans can't afford to keep supporting the British navy. The U.S. used to depend on the Brits to help them police the world's oceans but those days are now gone.
Both countries are also suffering from recruitment issues for their navies, something I noted about the Americans in a previous broadcast. How can these once empires police the world when they don't have the ships or the sailors to man them anymore?
In U.S. news, I have an article from RT News about a survey poll taken recently showing that 57% of Americans want all of the undocumented immigrants removed from the country. This poll was conducted by CBS News so the obvious bias is implied. Mainstream U.S. news is doing everything it can to get on the new mafia don's good side ahead of January to avoid being sanctioned. Trump has said he has a vendetta to settle with the news corporations who have denigrated him in the past.
Before I talk too much about all of this, I want to read you an article published on Medium.com by a friend of mine, whom viewers may remember from earlier this year in a couple of shows we did together. He writes under the name Mitch but he is a naturalized citizen originally from the Caribbean.
Midnight Run.
The night they left
After listening to me read this story, I ask you the audience, is this a true story? Click the link to find out for yourself. Once you open up the web page, Mitch has a link at the top of the page where non-subscribers can read the story so I invite everyone to scratch that curiosity itch that this will bring you. Or some of you anyway.
Trump and his new immigration people are doubling down on rounding up people by the millions who are supposedly in the country illegally. Despite the economists who are saying that deporting that many people from the labor force will crash the economy.
I read another article in the U.S. news about how the state of Texas has made Trump and company an offer of over 1400 acres of land down next to the Mexican border that can be used to erect camps for all of these millions of deportees.
Can you imagine the expense to build camps and staff them for months and months, maybe years, to house all of these people? This is American tax dollars at work. Considering how many people the feds plan on removing from the tax rolls, this could bankrupt an already bankrupted country.
The disruption to the American economy will be huge, not to mention that several state governors, and city mayors are already telling the media that they are planning to fight the federal government over this.
Will this set off a low scale civil war? What if the state governors deploy their state national guard to stop the ICE police and other federal assets deployed to round these people up? It's not hard to imagine this right now given what Trump says he wants to do.
Will the U.S. start seeing mass migrations of undocumented immigrants leaving for these sanctuary states? How will the states manage something like that when Trump threatens to cut off federal funding to those, so called, sanctuary states? He threatened a couple of states with this the last time he was president so you know it will be on the table again.
I foresee a lot of chaos in the United States next year over immigration if they start rounding masses of people up but they aren't the only ones grappling with immigration issues. I read another article from Britain about how approximately 40 percent of the Muslims in England are thinking seriously about leaving because of all of the prejudicial policies and rhetoric from the people and media. Remember the race riots in that London suburb not too long ago? Dublin also had a small race riot as well, not so long ago.
Spain and Italy are enacting laws against excess tourism, along with Greece and other European countries. Ireland is in an uproar over excess migrations over the last twenty years. They allowed in more immigrants that they can reasonably support and their elections coming up this week are largely about this very thing. Simon Harris and the two political parties, Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, that have governed for the last hundred years, are in hot water over this and they may finally lose the majority that gives them the Taoiseach for the first time since the Irish civil war. Sinn Fein is giving them a run for their money for sure.
I mentioned this before but Canada's Prime minister, Justin Trudeau and his liberal party may also lose their majority over excess immigration early next year. Governments across the global north are changing hands over this very controversial issue and it will only continue to get worse as global warming causes more food insecurities and wars. With wars, you have refugees fleeing the devastation and poverty that wars leave behind. We have very good examples of that in Syria, Iraq, Gaza, central Africa and Ukraine.
These war refugees have flooded into western Europe over the last twenty years and are still trying to sail across the Mediterranean on rickety boats from Libya nearly every day. A lot of them are drowning. The ones who do make it ashore somewhere face backlash from governments and peoples who don't want them in their countries. The governments don't have the ability to take care of them.
It is the same but different in the U.S. In America, the white people are scared that the immigrants are going to bankrupt the system, creating food shortages and other social issues affecting them. It is mostly the southern border states that share a border with Mexico that are getting all of the attention but there is a lot of activity on the northern border as well. The U.S. has 'talked' to the Canadians about doing a better job of securing their southern border lately. Give the Canadian issues with lack of manpower and resources, nothing is going to change much, except stopping Americans fleeing Trump's government.
A couple of these states, Texas being the most notable, have gone over the top to keep out immigrants saying they can't take care of them. Texas started bussing them up north and out west to California to get rid of them. Dumping them in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City with nothing but what they had on them when they were caught. These cities are unable to handle all of these people and the feds are not helping the states very much, if at all, with any of that.
The difference between the U.S. and Europe is that the U.S. has the land and there are a lot of rural towns that have room for these people but the whites and some black people are afraid of the possible competition for jobs and resources. Most of this fear has been generated by the right wing political party, the republicans, now the MAGA party, for decades.
Where all of this will lead eventually, is anyone's guess at this point. The media all over the world is full of news stories about illegal and legal immigrants everywhere, taking up resources that the natives are scared to share. In Ireland, they have been dealing with a severe housing shortage for years now. Immigrants have been living in tent cities due to a lack of housing. The current government let in way too many people because they felt sorry for them. The same for Germany, France and England.
Canada let in too many immigrants thinking that they needed more immigrants to help grow their economy. That backfired because there is not enough housing for them all. Some of the provincial citizens have protested hard against taking care of all of these people who showed up and can't find work or secure decent housing. This also stresses the national health care systems to the point of failures, such as in Canada and Ireland.
Europeans in general have also had a lot of issues with too many immigrants showing up and the government's inability to take care of all of them. The stress on these countries native born citizens is starting to create cracks in the democratic governments. Nationalism is on the rise everywhere.
As the global south continues to become unlivable over the rest of this century, we can expect things to only get worse. I will be gone from this middle earth by then but my children and grandchildren will inherit this mess after I am gone and I feel powerless to do anything about it. That is the saddest feeling a parent can have. Knowing that your children and grandchildren will probably have a worse life than the one you had. I always thought it was supposed to be the other way around.
This is the gist of my video commentary this week. If you want to hear all of it, watch the video above. I do appreciate any and all of you who read this and, hopefully, watch the video. I create these little videos to speak about all of the crazy things our elected leaders do to others in our names, without our consent. And they say we live in democracies. Given what a lot of independent journalists are exposing every day, I beg to differ.
If these idiots do take us to a nuclear war over the resources in Ukraine, we have only ourselves to blame for electing these feckless fools in the first place. Unfortunately, there are no do-overs. Once they’re elected, we’re stuck with them for the duration.
We have seen how the English Prime ministers and U.S. presidents have pretty much ruined their countries before they were voted out. In the U.S., they’re stuck with their idiot for another four years, unless he dies or is medically incapacitated by a stroke or heart attack or something. But then, the V.P. may actually be worse, if that is even possible.
Ireland may be making a major change within the next few days and I am a little anxious to see what the voters do there. I wish I could vote with them but, alas, I am not considered a citizen. I wish them all of the luck of the Irish though. Given what I have been watching in the Dáil on Newstalk, things might get a little tense.
I have enough trouble staying out of trouble in the U.S. I guess I should worry more about that than what my brethren are doing in the old sod. I imagine they will sort it all out one way or another.
I don’t know what I will be doing here from week to week these days as I have picked up some part time work of late and they are keeping me fairly busy right up until the Solstice now. They keep adding more work orders to fill nearly every day. Such is the life of a technician. Feast or famine it seems but that’s okay. We will use the extra money for something I’m sure. Maybe stocking up more stuff for the impending apocalypse.
As I said above, click the link and read Mitch’s story. Leave me a comment on whether you think it is true or not. This may be coming to your neighborhood soon no matter where you live in the global north. Sláinte
References:
US investor eyes purchase of sabotaged Russian pipeline – WSJ
Financier Stephen Lynch says ownership of the Nord Stream 2 would give the US control over the EU’s energy supply
From RT News
Ukraine can make America rich – Trump ally
The country has rare earth minerals worth trillions and is ready to make a deal with the US, Senator Lindsey Graham has said
From RT News
Trump’s national security advisor pick reveals Ukraine peace vision
Mike Waltz has outlined plans to push for talks from day one of the new presidency
From RT News
Giving Ukraine nukes would be ‘irresponsible’ – Kremlin
An “extremist flank” of the country’s Western backers has lost touch with reality, Dmitry Peskov has said
From RT News
Majority of Americans support Trump’s mass deportation plans – poll
The incoming president has suggested that he will declare a national emergency to speed up the removal of illegal aliens
From RT News
The Priest
formerly known as Bob (part 18)
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