The Village Oak Tree Update

That and I worked a long day last Tuesday (election day) helping voters vote in this momentous election that has reverberated around the world.

I have picked up some more IT gig work for a company that I have worked for since early 2021 so I will be doing some travelling in my state/province this month as well so my podcasts and blog posts will be sporadic going forward.

I also have a major medical procedure coming up in the beginning of December to deal with so, as I mentioned in the opener, things are changing as I move into the new year (a new year for me and others like me who follow the old Celtic calendar).

I am working on putting together a podcast to talk about the prominent news stories I have dug up from around the world. As anyone knows by now, if you have been paying attention to my previous shows and blog articles, I pick out news stories from media outlets from around the world outside of the U.S.

The reason for this, is because the United States main stream news is biased and censored, which was a major contributor to Donald Trump getting elected again. Now the world will have to endure another four years of inept leadership and a real possibility of the U.S. turning into an openly fascist oligarchy. More so than it already is.

No one is sure what the new president is going to actually do or get away with but some things are already taking shape.

His court cases are being dropped to start with and he is lining up loyalists for his administration already. There is still a lot of speculation going on about who he will eventually pick for his new cabinet and administration people but if his new chief of staff is any indication, his promise to fire everyone and replace them with loyalists may have a lot of truth to it. It has been less than a week as I write this so we will bear witness to what the future of the United States is going to look like in the days and weeks ahead.

One of the biggest nuggets of news from the U.S. was the revelation that, despite all of the promises of mass deportations coming, a large part of the Latino population voted for Trump because of their fear of all of the illegal immigrants coming across the border. Which, under Biden, became a trickle compared to what it was like when Trump was president last time. I am not advocating for Biden or the democrats. I didn't vote for either Trump or Harris. I still think Biden should be sanctioned for war crimes, along with Netanyahu in the world court. But then I said the same thing about George W. Bush and we see how that worked out.

This is what the biased U.S. news media has accomplished. Convincing the Latinos that Donald Trump will protect them from illegal migrants. That is until he starts his roundups.

I have been reading several news stories in the last couple of days about the history of past roundups and even at a much smaller scale, they snared several U.S. citizens in their nets and put them in detention centres. Some were even mistakenly deported.

Imagine this on a grand scale where the government is using inexperienced local police and in some cases, maybe even national guard troops, to round up these supposed eleven million illegal aliens residing in the United States.

Imagine how many valid green card holders and naturalised citizens are going to end up mixed in with these mass roundups and sent to concentration camps on the U.S.-Mexican border. It will be on them to convince the authorities that they are citizens and green card holders in order to be released instead of the other way around. It is the law in the United States that a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty by a court of law.

Well, that law is going up in smoke once the authorities start looking for these eleven million illegal immigrants. There might even be a quota system put in place as an incentive to find all of these migrants.

That is only the tip of the iceberg. There have been countless other stories over the last year about the devastation to the U.S. labour force and the economy this will have once these people are removed from the work force.

Then there are the stories about how the Trump administration wants to do away with the DACA program and the baby program where all babies born in the U.S. are automatically citizens regardless of where their parents came from.

Add to all of that economic upheaval, is the talk from Trump about imposing tariff-taxes on all imports to the U.S. Anywhere from a ten to twenty percent across the board to one hundred percent on certain items like EV cars and batteries. All to protect U.S. manufacturing.

What U.S. manufacturing? That was gutted by previous presidents with their free trade agreements back in the late 1980's and 1990's. Those industries are not coming back to the U.S. no matter how much Trump tries to entice or punish them.

Right now, Mexico and China are still way ahead of the curve for manufacturing with cheaper labour and less taxes. China especially.

Although China is clamping down on foreign, especially U.S., businesses lately. If Trump ramps up the trade war even more than it already is, more U.S. businesses in China may get pushed out and replaced with businesses from other countries such as Russia, India and many others.

Something else that has been in the news as well from Europe. More and more EU bloc nations are embracing trade relations with China and Russia, and moving away from the west to avoid U.S. sanctions along with gaining more robust economies.

The BRICS annual conference in Kazan, Russia was apparently a huge success with many more new economic innovations promised for the future. Russia is participating in more world conferences advocating a future without the west in it.

This is the start of a new world order without the United States and western Europe calling the shots anymore. I expect that it will be a rocky road for the west as they will not accept this willingly. Especially the United States. The U.S. does not like being relegated to a back seat position on the world's stage of global power. This acrimony with regard to China and Russia is a good example.

Everyone across the developed world, and in some cases undeveloped countries as well, are all starting to make plans for what they think Trump will do once he is inaugurated on January 20th, 2025. Europe is starting to make defensive and economic plans in case Trump pulls back on defence spending and troop deployments in Europe, and tariffs imposed on all exports. Russia is working on consolidating its war in Ukraine. Ukraine is starting to run scared that Trump is going to pull out, leaving the EU to pick up the tab for the war. Which they don't have the money to do.

Then there is the issue of the middle east. Trump has stated that he doesn't really care what the Israelis do over there. Given the Muslim bans from his last term in office, he apparently could care less for the Arab world and its people unless there is money to be made, such as deals with the Saudis and other sheikhs again.

Everyone across the world is waiting to hear what his plans are though. Will he continue to send arms and money to Israel or will he pull out and tell Israel to do whatever they want but without U.S. money? Given that Miriam Adelson and other Israel supporting billionaire donors contributed mightily to his campaign, he will probably continue to bankrupt the U.S. treasury by supporting the Israeli government. But that is the thing with Donald Trump. He is so unpredictable and that has everyone worried across the world.

From my perspective, I have already had a couple of talks with my foreign born wife this last week about our future. I warned her about this possible round up and how that might, in a very remote way, affect her and her Chinese friends where we live and across the United States. Not that she has that many friends but I explained about how this could affect our family in a worst case scenario. I told her that if they did try to deport her and her daughter, I would go with her to China.

China is a lot safer to live in these days anyway. Yes, they do have their problems but compared to the west right now, if I were being forced to make a choice of my wife over a failed democracy in the United States, I would make the choice to leave for a better quality of life in China.

I would be leaving my children and grandchildren behind but my kids are grownups now and they have proven that they can take care of themselves and their children. They don't need me. I will place my wife ahead of my children as far as who I will take care of first.

The bottom line is this. We now live in a culture in the west where it has come down to survival as individuals rather than a community anymore. Sure, some of us look after our neighbours a little bit but by and large, we don't so much anymore. This last election showed us that in the United States. It's everyone for themselves now and it is getting worse for those born outside of the U.S. or even some of those born in the U.S. but not of the white Anglo-Saxon-protestant soon to be minority population.

The same can be said for Europe. The recent news from The Netherlands about the Israeli riots during and after a football match shows just how bad things are getting there.

Will there be another global war in my lifetime, such as I have left? It is starting to look more and more like it with the U.S. being the instigator this time instead of the hero who rides in after it starts to save the day like they did in WWII.

Although there are some historians who are questioning that narrative now. Did the U.S. actually ride in to save the world from the bad 'ole Nazis and the Japanese? Or did they see an opportunity to become the world's new superpower from their lofty place between two worlds, Asia and Europe? Think about that for a minute.

I read a story recently about how the U.S. seized the opportunity after WWII to start monopolising trade and the rebuilding of Europe after the war. Loaning money to devastated European countries with the promise of allowing the U.S. to become western Europe's new protector under the NATO umbrella. Of course, this included the UK on a vastly smaller scale. Look what happened to Japan and South Korea?

It kind of looks like a government version of the Mafia protection scam. If you don't pay us to protect you, bad things will happen to your country. See how that has morphed across the world in the last eighty years.

In the United States, big changes are coming for the American people. Canada is already beefing up their border patrols in anticipation of a surge in people trying to escape the purges.

And purges there will be, from illegal migrant roundups and mass deportations, to federal employment purges, to media purges of journalists who may be rounded up for writing things that the Trump government doesn't like. The Canadians are right in assuming that their southern border with the U.S. will see a massive influx of asylum seekers from the U.S. It won't be just the illegal immigrants on the run from Customs and Border Patrol. It will also be U.S. citizens fleeing the new fascist government to avoid arrests for subversion.

I read another story within the last day or so stating that immigration is expecting to see a fifteen hundred percent increase in Americans seeking residence elsewhere in the world. Now this obviously applies to those who can afford to relocate to another country but that is still a staggering prediction. I wonder how accurate that prediction will turn out within the next twelve months?

I will leave everyone with that thought as I finish up this article. Are you one of those Americans who is worried about being rounded up and deported? Are you one of the more affluent Americans contemplating immigration to somewhere not the United States? I wish you the best of luck as you work out what your future plans are under the new fascist Trump government. Sláinte