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Darrell Castle
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Defending Western Civilization

  1. 1d ago

    Doomsday In Europe

    Darrell Castle discusses his belief that the riots, especially in France but now also spreading across Europe, spell doomsday for the economic state that has been building in Europe since World War II. Transcription / Notes DOOMSDAY IN EUROPE Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 30th day of October in the year of our Lord 2026. The title sounds a little alarmist I know but is it true and  I will endeavor to make my case for my belief that the riots especially in France but now also spreading across Europe spell doomsday for the economic state that has been building in Europe since World War II. The end of World War II left a devastated world and only the United States was somewhat exempt from the damage to its infrastructure. Vast sums would have to be spent on rebuilding not just the allied nations but Germany and Japan as well. The victorious nations met at Bretton Woods in the U.S. to discuss the post war economy and they decided that the U.S. dollar would have reserve currency status and all trade would be conducted in dollars. The U.S. as the most powerful surviving nation would provide virtually all defense obligations and Europe would then be able to use its own revenue for rebuilding and caring for their populations. The situation shifted a little with the formation of NATO in 1948 when the Europeans agreed to spend about 3% of GDP on their own defense but almost none of them ever lived up to the agreement. Until August 15th, 1971, the dollar was backed at least partially by gold so it was somewhat stable but after the gold standard ended it was backed by nothing but promises and debt. The U.S. and Europe were unable to provide all they had promised economically, but to stay in power those promises had to be kept and exceeded with each election cycle. The only way to keep them was through the accumulation of massive amounts of unpayable debt until finally interest on the debt became the largest or at least close to the largest item in the budget. In the U.S. it became so bad and so embarrassing the congress and the president decided to stop pretending and just refuse to pass a budget at all. The rest of this background might remind you a little of the Soviet Union in the pre-Gorbachev era. The Soviets had all these Eastern European countries that they conquered at the end of World War ll. They took the countries from Germany at the end of the war but they had no industrial base to pay for it all as the U.S. had. So, they had 16 dependent colonies they could point to and draw military forces from but these colonies produced nothing and were nothing but a drain on the Soviet economy. Reagan and Gorbachev reached an agreement and the Berlin wall came down and with it the Soviet Empire. These countries were suddenly free to join the west or chart their own course. Today, in Europe there exists a similar problem and in some ways it is even worse because there is no Soviet army to suppress the violence. The worst part, though, is that today we are not concerned about dead weight countries that could no longer be afforded but people by the millions who can no longer be afforded. These people who are essentially dead weights upon the tax paying people of all European countries. There is no longer even close to enough money to pay for it all so the governments have attempted to pay by accumulating debt which each politician shifts to the next generation and with each election cycle the situation gets worse. Let me give you an example from France where the riots seem to be the most widespread. My argument is that what the rioters are demanding is the actual cause of their anger and their protests and anger makes the problem much worse because the government does not have the courage to confront them with the truth. According to the Molinari Institute which studies and reports economics in France the highest line item in the budget at a whopping 57% of GDP is government. So, what that means is that 57% of everything produced for sale in France goes to fund the French Government. In fact, it would be fair to say that hardly anything except government id being produced, well, less than 50% anyway. Those who work in France, and obviously most of them work for the government produce nothing, the average Frenchman pays 55.6 % of his wages in tax. So, yes the government certainly does affect the cost of living just not in the way French politicians try to tell us. The French people aren’t buying it though, and they apparently refuse to accept any responsibility for their growing impoverishment. The protests, if that’s what we are supposed to call riots and anarchy ensure the state remains bloated, and in massive unpayable debt. They insist that younger taxpayers shoulder the burden of caring for an aging population. They demand younger retirement and longer vacations each year and the government either provides those things or goes away. No politicians wants to lose their grip on power so the elections go to those who promise the most. Their demands continue to burden the young but the young don’t seem to understand that and instead they demand to jump on the gravy train at an ever-younger age. The French people have virtually stopped having babies so the supply of labor at the early end of the Ponzi Scheme is drying up. The government responds by importing millions of unskilled, third world migrants who have no way to support themselves except government largesse so the burden on the indebted state grows bigger each day. The government, through its captive media constantly reminds all those hostile rioting hordes that whatever jobs they may have had will soon be going away because of AI. Once AI takes all the jobs and leaves the rioters with nothing and a government that has nothing but debt I wonder what will happen to France and virtually every other European country. Even Spain, perhaps the most left-wing country in Europe, is burning and this is a problem without a solution, at least there is no solution that does not involve pain, and military force, and would also require the cooperation of the European people which at this point does not exist. There are indications that the reported economic issues the rioters mention are in reality just excuses to cover the usual left-Islamist alliance. The rioters virtually always have what they say is the Palestinian cause at the forefront. Palestinian flags adorn virtually every march. With each riot and each looting, burning episode the frustration and anger grows. Hundreds of police have been injured and thousands have been arrested but it goes on. The rioters seem to feel nothing but contempt for the country they now live in. According to reporters, the city of Paris braces for new assaults each day. This weekend is Halloween and no one seems to know if that will have any effect. My guess is that it will provide an excuse to increase the violence since the mob thinks the government is afraid of them and  is on the defensive. Business owners in Paris have resorted to hiring mercenary contractors to protect their businesses. The mob burns its way through irreplaceable landmarks and monuments in Paris and the police stand guard but they can’t protect everything at once. The bottom line of the problem is France’s catastrophic financial situation. Government spending accounts for more than half of GDP so all those Frenchmen and migrants produce almost nothing and demand more and more. France spends very little on defense but debt is now 120% of GDP. In other words, everything produced for sale in France for a year would fall short by 20% of paying the debt. So, the French people shovel 55.6% of everything they earn into social programs and they don’t think they are getting their fair share. It doesn’t seem to occur to them that since most of them work for the French Government all they are doing is moving the same pile of money or debt around and the only benefactors are the banks so same song second verse. The economy and the socialist French Government cannot afford what they promise to provide to the people and it all collapses under the weight of trying. The debts they have accumulated cannot be paid so they must borrow more to pay the interest and the only solution—drastic cutbacks is one the people will not accept. For that reason I use the term doomsday because it seems to me to be a terminal problem that cannot be solved and the rioters the French have imported will eventually do what Charles Martel prevented them from doing hundreds of years ago and that is destroy France and put an end to Western Civilization. The problem of government confiscation of wages in the form of taxation and government spending representing most of GDP prevents the private sector from coming to the rescue because it takes up all investment capital and leaves no productive side to the economy. This appears to be a violent rebellion by groups of angry, discontented people most of whom are from immigrant backgrounds who seem persuaded they are all oppressed much more so than in the hell holes they left for France. That is a situation easily coopted by the alliance between the radical leftists and the Islamists with the Palestinian cause as a driver. Finally, folks, Europe is far ahead of the U. S. in terms of secularism and the abandonment of religion. They have no God and when that happens the state becomes the god who failed them. This problem is an unsolvable doomsday loop because their politicians are soulless, nihilists who have no answers except for more of what caused the problem. They know nothing and they demand everything. They tell the world up front and openly they are going to take our civilization by force. Will we surrender or fight. At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.

  2. Oct 23

    Mountains of Violence Across France

    Darrell Castle discusses the riots engulfing France that are spreading across Europe and how that relates, at least partially, to American foreign policy especially the war against Iran. Transcription / Notes MOUNTAINS OF VIOLENCE ACROSS FRANCE Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 23rd day of October in the year of our Lord 2026. My beat is violence, chaos, disorder, and the destruction of the existing world order as I talk about the riots engulfing France and spreading across Europe as well as how that relates at least partially to American foreign policy especially the war against Iran. Yes, it seems that the riots engulfing Paris have spread across Europe to Portugal, Germany, Albania, and the list is growing. The open-borders policy of the last few years explains everything or so we are told and that is a convenient explanation because it puts the blame on others. The French people are not to blame they say, only the immigrants but many of the rioters have been in Europe for years.  When you read or hear the man on the street comments from French people whose businesses are being burned and looted they find it difficult to place any blame despite the tears of losing their life’s work. That is a civilization unable and unwilling to defend itself. It brings to mind Robert Frost’s definition of a liberal as someone who refuses to take his on side in an argument. This association of various communist groups and immigrant groups from across Europe have set out to put the final nail in the coffin of Western Civilization and they are succeeding quite spectacularly. This is the end of an entire world system akin to the fall of Rome. The Romans referred to the land and people they conquered as barbarians and it took 1000 years for the barbarians to breach and destroy Rome but destroy they did. They left nothing behind and civilization took another 1000 years to begin the recovery. I doubt if this one can be rebuilt for I don’t see any Irish Monks willing to copy the great books of the destroyed library in Alexandria by hand to preserve their knowledge and wisdom. In any event I won’t be there to see it so the roughly 40 year long struggle I have witnessed and participated in and that is the battle for Western Civilization continues but it is being lost. So, these rioters in Paris, destroying the ancient monuments of which they are not worthy are doing something that even Adolph Hitler could not accomplish. When Hitler conquered France and occupied Paris the German Army controlled the city for about four years. When the allies invaded France at Normandy on June 6th, 1944, the German occupation of France was doomed but not for a while. Hitler gave direct orders to the Generals he put in charge of the Paris region to plant explosives around the historic monuments in Paris. He told them that if he lost Paris he wanted the city destroyed and he wanted to see it burning. The Generals planted the explosives and were ready to carry out the orders of their Fuhrer but one by one something happened to them. Some fell under suspicion; some were killed or wounded but final command was given to General Deitrich Von Choltitz. He was a general of the historic Prussian tradition and he took his job and his responsibility very seriously. When the allied armies were in sight of Paris the German panzers had to flee up the road to Grenoble and ultimately the long bitter road to Berlin. Hitler gave him a final and direct order to destroy the city. Is Paris burning was Hitler’s famous question to him. General Choltitz stood on the balcony of his suite in the St. George Hotel where he had his headquarters and looked out at the city and he could not obey his orders, so he sent his army up the road and awaited his fate with Eisenhower and De Gaulle. That enemy general became a hero of the French nation although I’ll wager that very few Frenchmen know or care about what he did or refused to do. Well, I suppose that’s enough history for today and we should return to 2026 while the communists of today whose ancestors fought Hitler, are now completing his work for him. The President of the United States chimed in with his advice to France. “Close your borders before its too late.” Pretty good advice it seems to me unless it’s already too late. Russia joined in as well with Russia’s envoy stating it was “Western Civilization’s suicide through migrant chaos.” Once again that sounds like a good analysis. I mention Russia and the U.S. President together because the groundwork is being laid for a renewal of the Russia Gate hoax to be unearthed from its grave after the midterms. When Trump attacked Iran in an unprovoked attack against a country that was not threatening to America and in opposition to the Constitution to which he took an oath, not a peep was heard from congress. Oh, but when he tries to do the right thing for once the screaming from congress is heard around the country. So, the Presidents decides that since prices are escalating due to lack of diesel caused by his attack on Iran and by Zelensky’s continued attacks on Russian refineries maybe those Russians aren’t so bad after all. He agrees to buy 300,000 tons of Russian diesel and to accomplish that he agrees to partially lift the sanctions against Russia. When the deal was announced both sides of the congressional isle started screaming about his abandoning Ukraine and his getting in bed with Putin. What our congress is really saying to us as we agree in a bipartisan way is that we love war and we love violence, killing and dying, and if you do anything to slow that down you will be excoriated. If anyone has the courage to stand in congress and openly opposes war of any kind, he will be a very short-lived member of congress. That’s what is usually called democracy in America today but it’s not democracy, it’s the power of greed, corruption and moral degradation all wrapped up in the illusion of democracy. They now have a similar situation in France thus the French people are denied peace and even leadership. They have Emmanuel Macron as their leader but if polls can be believed his approval rating is below 10% and France is defenseless because he refuses to do anything to protect, to lead, or even to persuade. It is a very similar time to when the barbarians sacked Rome because they weren’t trying to build a democracy either. Every scribe with a pen has written his and her version of what the European riots are and what they mean so I suppose this Report is my version. Just as here in the United States the protests spreading across Europe are not spur of the moment but the result of many years of frustration because of their government’s neglect of their national ethnicities. American and European governments have spent their resources and their energies on matters that not only do not help but actually hurt their native populations. Here in America, for example, several years of open borders have proven destructive of order and have produced mostly chaos. European nations are in a similar boat as they have opened their borders and invited chaos. The governments of Europe and America have spent the people’s capital and their goodwill toward the people in an effort to build a global world. Globalism, they tell us, will bring peace and prosperity but it only brings prosperity to a few global corporations and international bureaucracies at the expense of the people. For example, just look for a moment at Washington’s sanctions against Russia and the cost of complying with them. The sanctions along with President Biden’s destruction of the Nord Stream Pipeline have robbed the European people of a commercial relationship with Russia which was greatly beneficial to both people groups. The result of Washington’s lust for power and empire has been to drive up the cost of heating oil and left Europe facing a cold winter with heating oil at record levels. That all adds to frustration and destroys the standard of living of ordinary Europeans. So, higher costs for everything and at the same time destruction of manufacturing including the once national pride of Germany its auto manufacturing industry. The most terrible result is the destruction of employment opportunities for ethnic European youth especially those in the educated class. They are smart and ambitious as well as educated but employment opportunities outside government charity are very limited. The immigrant minorities get what they came to Europe to get apparently and that is government largesse. Even government provided poverty level existence is better than their own war-torn countries. All European governments currently have extremely low approval ratings from their populations because, I submit, they have failed repeatedly to represent their own European people. As Paul Craig Roberts has pointed out that is most likely why the European governments are once again raising the Russia threat. When you desert your own people and fail them so miserably you must have an outside bogy man to shoulder the blame. This time frighteningly the bogy man has thousands of nuclear missiles. In conclusion folks, If this is not the destruction of Western Civilization it is at least the destruction of the post-World War ll welfare-warfare state which was apparently reaching terminal status anyway. The rioters don’t seek a better form of government they instead seek pillage, to burn, to loot and to destroy in a mindless way. This is about educational opportunities they say. Well yes, I suppose you can find a lot of those in the mom-and-pop businesses along with the Louis Vuitton and Rolex stores. I find this French attitude extremely sad because their ancestors fought Nazis for four years giving their lives and their families lives in defense of France and its status as their homes. I guess the answer is that France isn’t Franc

  3. Oct 12

    Aircraft Carriers Headed in the Wrong Direction

    Darrell Castle discusses the deployment of a 3rd U.S. aircraft carrier as well as a 2nd marine expeditionary unit to the Middle East region. Transcription / Notes AIRCRAFT CARRIERS HEADED IN THE WRONG DIRECTION Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Due to technical difficulties this report is dated Monday, the 12th day of October in the year of our Lord 2026. My beat is war again as I will be discussing the deployment of a 3rd aircraft carrier as well as a 2nd marine expeditionary unit to the Middle East region. From the title you may deduce that my view is that the other two should be heading home rather than sending a 3rd to join them. Yes folks the USS Theodore Roosevelt has departed its home base of San Diego and is on its way to join the George HW Bush and the George Washington in the Middle East conflict zone. Sailing with the Ted as the sailors call the Roosevelt is the USS Makin Island which contains a 2nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MAU). The USS Boxer already on station contains a MAU which brings the total number of Marines to around 11,000 or that’s the number being reported. Since the war against Iran started President Trump has deployed about 120 strike aircraft to the region including F-35 stealth attack fighters, F-22 air superiority fighters along with old standbys the F-16 and F-15 Strike Eagles. These troops currently deployed will be joining the roughly 50,000 already there deployed on ships and on bases across the region. The U.S. maintains 19 bases in the Middle East with eight of them permanently located in Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates. I’m opposed to all this for many reasons as the title to this Castle Report indicates and one of the chief reasons is the U.S. Constitution as the supreme law of the land does not permit it. That supreme law requires an incoming president to take an oath to it or to the law if you will. The oath is not to a country and certainly not to any person. No one is above it including the President. Let me share the very short oath the incoming president takes from Article II, Section 1, Clause 8. “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Just 36 easy to understand words but if the Presidents obeyed that oath what a difference it would make. He’s not the only one violating the oath because virtually every elected official in the country takes a similar oath. When asked by the press if he thinks it’s necessary for him to obey the Constitution he usually refers the questioner to his team of brilliant lawyers who tell him he is legally OK or not. The founders wrote the words as they did to make the document readable and understandable by ordinary people so no team of lawyers is necessary to explain the oath to him or to tell him ways to avoid its words. It seems that he believes that he has the legal authority to take the nation to war without permission from congress or he just doesn’t care what congress thinks. The oath that government officials and military personnel take to the Constitution is what makes America, America. The document grants to Congress, not the President the power to declare war. In other words, before the U.S. military starts shooting and bombing, Congress, acting as the representatives of the people must give permission. This happened before when the U.S. went to war without approval by Congress in Vietnam. Finally, the war was so bad and so many were dying Congress decided to at least look at it. The War Powers Act was passed in 1973 and it said that in the absence of a Congressionally declared war within 48 hours the President must explain to Congress why he has gone to war without a formal declaration. When the war reaches 60 days he cannot continue the war without Congressional approval, and without that approval he must halt the war within 30 days. It appears to me that the President is outside even the requirements of the War Powers Act but still he continues the war. He tells us that it is necessary because Iran has or is developing a nuclear weapon and that is veery dangerous for the world and cannot be allowed to happen. He offers us no proof, no evidence, of the nuclear weapon and even his Director of National Intelligence disputed the claim but still the war continues. American leaders usually seem to think that because of our overwhelming power and technology the wars they start will be short and decisive and absent U.S. casualties. It never seems to work out that way and furthermore the nature of war has changed because of what has happened in Iran and Ukraine. Hypersonic missiles directed by satellite targeting data as well as armed swarms of drones have changed it. Now, those aircraft carriers must stand off at least 600 miles from their targets to give them a chance to avoid incoming missiles. Sometimes war starts with the choice of one person and his team of advisors. In other words, it is a war of choice but then it morphs into something far more deadly and serious and that could be called necessity. The brave warrior has started something that he can’t stop so he must keep going. In the war against Iran U.S. troops are being killed as well as Iranian civilians. U.S. aircraft are being lost and their effective lifetimes are being used up. Most or all of the permanent U.S. bases in the region have been hit and rendered unusable by missile and drone attacks. The war is also having a devastating effect here in the U.S. and in Europe. Diesel is the liquid blood of commerce and diesel is suddenly in short supply and soaring in price. The latest prices I’ve seen are about $6,50 average in the U.S. and over $9.00 in Europe. The effect of those prices is to raise the cost of everything, especially food, thereby lowering the standard of living of ordinary people. Trucking companies are going out of business and farmers are warning that they want survive if diesel remains that high or is unavailable. The President responds by once again drawing down the strategic petroleum reserves and insisting that the Europeans do the same. From the introduction to this Report you can see that the war is getting worse not better. Strange as it must be to the administration we are genuinely surprised to learn that the Iranians and indeed the Muslim world valued the life of their leader and wanted to attend his funeral and that of course has led to more and worse war. The tribal group in Yemen we usually call The Houthis but formerly their name is Ansar Allah sent a delegation to the Ayatollah’s funeral. The Houthis were at peace with Saudi Arabia but when they returned the Saudis bombed the airport in Yemen’s capital to keep them from landing. That resulted in a war the Saudis do not want and do not need and it has caused attacks against Saudi oil infrastructure that have been devastating. Saudi Arabia, once the world’s biggest producer and shipper of oil is virtually shut down. The Houthis now control the coastline all the way to the Red Sea including the chokepoint leading into it. So, the Iranians control the chokepoint at the Strait of Hormuz and the Houthis control the chokepoint into the Red Sea called Bab el-Mandeb. According to the Eurasia Review, the Houthis have attacked U.S. combat vessels 170 times and commercial vessels 145 times and these attacks require constant protection from the U.S. navy to keep shipping lanes as open as possible. Looking at the price of diesel, we can see what the leaders of other countries are warning about. A cold winter is approaching Europe which once had plenty of cheap Russian gas to keep them warm but then President Biden destroyed the Nord stream Pipeline thus severing that supply and now they go begging or use up their emergency supply. President Trump asked Zelensky in Ukraine to stop attacking Russian diesel refineries but Zelensky just ignored him and is still doing it. I’ve seen reports that 60% of Russian refineries are offline. That one is hard to understand because logic tells me that if the U.S. stopped providing targeting data and stopped sending billions in weapons and to fund Ukrainian bureaucracy the war would wind down quickly but he doesn’t. The wars in Iran and Ukraine are accomplishing something, however, at least for our globalist overlords. Remember all those years that we were ordered to give up meat and cars but we just ignored them. It seems that wars are making those things impossible to ignore. In other words, the wars are destroying the standard of living of Westerners across the globe. Along those same lines the U.S. has always refused to provide assistance to the Saudis in their struggles and this time Trump refused them refueling rights for their jets in their war against the Houthis but then he changed his mind and said he would assist them. I guess there is no war the U.S. doesn’t want to be involved in. Finally, folks, what on earth is the right thing and how can we know. The right thing is easy, just always keep this in mind if you are voting. Only vote for candidates who endorse the following policy; Get out of other countries and stay out. At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.

  4. Oct 2

    The Head of the Snake Speaks

    Darrell Castle talks about the September 29, 2026 26-page letter written to the American people by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). The title of this Castle Report comes from the neocon description of the Islamic Republic of Iran as the head of the snake. Transcription / Notes THE HEAD OF THE SNAKE SPEAKS Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 2nd day of October in the year of our Lord 2026. My beat once again is war, more or less because I will be talking about a 26-page letter written to the American people by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and delivered on September 29. The title of this Castle Report comes from the neocon description of the Islamic Republic of Iran as the head of the snake. People have wondered during this entire war if the US is fighting the Mullahs or the Iranian military and those who command it and this letter seems to answer that question. It also is an effort to take the Iranian case to the American people in order to influence the upcoming Mid-Terms. To me this letter is a sign of perceived weakness, division, and disorder. It appeals to logic in an effort to influence an already divided and anti-Israel mood in the American public. I took the time to read the entire 26 pages which is no small task because in reading it one gets the feeling that it is much longer than 26 pages. I don’t mean to imply that the letter is silly or not well written because it certainly is well written and it contains much truth. In an effort to indicate that we are all just people who should be getting along it starts by “Saluting the noble souls of God’s greatest prophets—Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, may His peace and blessings be upon them all.” The real point of the letter could be summed up in one sentence; “Americans can live peacefully with Iran if they separate themselves from the Israeli regime.” When I say the letter appeals to logic and fairness I am thinking as well of the recent Iranian address to the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York City. His remarks were given to the Assembly and the world with the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu sitting there as well. He talked about the American demand that Iran surrender all its nuclear material and give up its desire to be a nuclear armed country and to permit international inspections to ensure compliance. He pointed out that Israel has nuclear weapons, atomic bombs, he called them, and everyone knows that. There are no international discussions of Israel’s nuclear program and no demands that they surrender their nuclear material. International inspections of Israel would never be allowed or even discussed. That statement is so obviously true that I don’t see how anyone can argue with it. Whether you think Iran contains a far more dangerous people than Israelis is another matter. He just presented it as a logical argument of a double standard. Well, let’s take a look at what the letter actually said about what is happening and what is possible. The IRGC in this letter directly addresses American citizens, students, academics and journalists, giving its view of the war, decades of US-Iran hostility and what it advises Americans to do next. In other words, the writer is addressing the people in America he believes to be most likely moved to his view by his words of persuasion. The IRGC claims victory in the war and argues that the U.S. and Israel failed to achieve their objectives despite vastly greater military spending. It directs the reader to Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz, continued weapons production, national unity and damage inflicted on U.S. bases in the region. It’s hard to argue that the statement is anything other than true. Once again, as in Vietnam, the U.S. military finds itself in a war essentially against China and Russia. Those countries supplied virtually all the anti-air missiles and weapons to the Vietnamese and North Korean armies; therefore, we Americans are fighting them and the Iranians supply the cannon fodder for the proxy battle. Same song, second verse or when will we ever learn. That’s unless it’s all part of some diabolical plan of course. I agree with the writer that the Strait of Hormuz is the determining factor in who wins this war. Could this be the Suez moment for the American empire referencing back to 1956 when President Eisenhower ordered the British out of the Sinai and Suez and told them if they did not comply he would destroy their financial system. That was the end of the British Empire and the establishment of America as the dominant force in the world. Then, in 1971 President Nixon cut the dollar loose from any restraint and started a long descent into debt penury. If Iran emerges from this war with the ability to decide who passes through the Gulf, under what conditions, and at what cost, it will be difficult to overstate the long term, worldwide implications of that. One thing that occurs to me is that the U.S., the one country that policed the oceans with its navy since world war ll can no longer guarantee passage through the most important energy chokehold in the world. U.S. military power would obviously be diminished and American credibility would be in doubt. The only way to confidently keep the Strait open against Iranian resistance it seems to me would be a ground invasion or a nuclear attack both catastrophic. Such attacks would be counterproductive in that so much of Iran’s oil production and shipping would be destroyed that it would be pointless. Iran supplies energy to Russia and China and it is not in the interest of those countries to have a pro American regime in power in Iran. I wonder if any of this which seems so obvious now was considered before the attack was launched. Why do the Iranians fight so hard. The writer says that its strength comes not from missiles or drones, but from Quranic principles, national unity and religious leadership. Much of the letter is devoted to the Islamic principle of resisting oppression regardless of the cost. If we look at each of those statements we can see problems. Missiles and drones, especially the technology come primarily from China. National unity really didn’t exist until the attacks came and as for religious leadership, the people seemed primed for revolution until American and Israeli bombs united them. Resistance to oppression is a noble trait that people fighting America from World War ll on have often overlooked. To bear any burden to overcome your oppressors is just about the highest calling of a people. What is meant by the chants of Death to America that we hear all the time and see from the crowds in the streets of Tehran. The slogan targets American political establishment, not ordinary Americans. The writer argues that Iranians and Americans are both victims of the same political elite. I agree that we are both victims of the same ruling elite. The globalist oppressors who seek the destruction of our culture, heritage, way of life, and ultimately our lives. At the same time, I would not welcome the destruction of the American political system as it was designed and was intended to be, not the corrupt thing it is now. Considering Quranic principles, the writer doesn’t address the directive for continual war until the Mahdi comes to make the world as it is promised. What about the principle of Jihad or kill those who refuse to submit. Perhaps, as I have read, only 10% of the world of Islam is truly in the Jihadi way of thinking. The world contains about 1 billion Muslims so that would be 100 million. America should no longer be committed to eternal war than the Jihadis but it has to be on guard. If we kept our distance, perhaps violence would settle down. The letter gives us the history lesson that I have repeated so many times in this Castle Report. 73 years of hostility going back to 1953 when a coup installed the Shah. Sanctions placed on Iran during the Iran-Iraq war which took ten years and at least a million lives. The downing of flight 655, an Iranian airliner apparently shot down by mistake with a missile from a US. guided missile cruiser. The assassination of Qasem Soleimani, general of Iranian armed forces and a national hero. The 2025 war, the unrest in the country for which the writer blames America and finally the current war. All these things are set out in the letter as wounds that simply cannot be healed through negotiation. The writer alleges that the charges that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapon is one of Washington’s biggest lies. U.S. officials have for many years claimed that Iran was only weeks or months away from a nuclear weapon yet there is still no nuclear weapon. That one seems pretty accurate to me and even Tulsi Gabbard the Director of National Intelligence at the time, supported it. The letter argues that U.S. support for Israel has damaged America’s interests, reputation and finances, while American taxpayers continue funding Israeli military action. Of all the points made by the letter that one seems the hardest to argue with and its truth is obvious at least to me. China, according to the writer, continues to advance while Washington spends its enormous resources fighting wars abroad. I will add my own commentary by saying that the wars abroad are almost always, pointless, without any U.S. interests, stupid, bloody, costly misadventures except they further the ultimate plan of reducing the world into a globalized farm for the all wise techno elite who seem to run things now. We are advised by the writer to close the 800 foreign bases and come home. End aid to Israel and redirect that money toward science, advanced manufacturing, and domestic prosperity. I’ll let you folks decide whether that sounds like pretty good advice or not. In conclusion folks, the letter makes its real point by advising Americans to use their votes

  5. Sep 25

    President Trump Speaks to the UN

    Darrell Castle talks about the President’s speech, last Tuesday, to the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York City. He also discusses the administration’s decision to sell advanced F-35 stealth jets to Saudi Arabia. Transcription / Notes PRESIDENT TRUMP SPEAKS TO THE UN Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 25th day of September in the year of our Lord 2026. My beat today is not war although there is some war in it. I will be talking about the President’s speech last Tuesday to the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York City. In addition, I will say a few words about the administration’s decision to sell advanced F-35 stealth jets to Saudi Arabia and the Israeli reaction to that decision. His speech was more of a campaign speech than a statesmanlike address to the world’s diplomats. He listed many of the things he claims to have accomplished during his term and if they we were all true I would be a reasonably happy man at least foreign policy wise. He said that when he left office the first time the country was a peaceful and prosperous place but when he returned he found it to be a mess he had to fix. I’m just giving my own take on what he said but to me he seemed to be pleading his case to them that if they and the other decision makers of the world would just listen to him and do what he demands we would all be happy, peaceful, and prosperous. For example, he spent quite a bit of time explaining to the members that before he was President his company tried to get the contract to remodel the UN building in which he was speaking. He said he told them he would guarantee a first-class job with marble floors and walnut walls for only $500 million guaranteed. They refused his offer and the resulting cost was about $3 billion and for inferior work. The man does know how to build beautiful buildings so that much of his speech is probably true, but as to war, well that’s another thing entirely. He told them that he has stopped 7 wars and two more wars are raging but he is working night and day to stop them. The wars he ended were said to be unendable and would go on forever but he ended them. The war currently raging in Ukraine is really terrible because so many young men are dying but Russia can not be persuaded it seems. Now, an ironic thing he didn’t mention leads me to think that perhaps Russia is not so bad and can be dealt with. Diesel prices are soaring in the US if the fuel is even obtainable so he told Zelensky to stop attacking Russia’s ability to produce diesel. Zelensky promptly attacked the same refineries again and then the day after Trump again asked him to stop he hit Russia’s biggest diesel refinery and bragged about it. So, what is the American president supposed to do with a man who takes our money, begs for more, then snubs his nose when the President needs his help for the mid-terms. I have a suggestion for the President that I submit would end the war very quickly. Not one more dollar, not one more bomb, not one more bullet and most importantly no more targeting information. I at least understand why he attacked Iran but Ukraine is another matter. He attacked Iran because Bibi Netanyahu told him too but Ukraine makes no sense. I don’t see any Israeli interest there and he is certainly no friend of the Europeans. He has continually said that he and Putin are on very good terms so why keep funding Russia’s enemies. Iran is a whole other matter because he campaigned on a promise that he would be known for the wars he didn’t start. I admit that message was music to my ears and it drew me in. If true it would have negated his abrasive personality but just about a year after inauguration he launched an unprovoked attack against Iran and started another costly, unending, unwinnable war. Whatever Bibi Netanyahu has on him is costing US taxpayers billions and costing the lives of a lot of people. So, what is the solution in Iran. The same as in Ukraine except whatever hold Bibi has might be very embarrassing, but it should be made public for the American people to see what they have been buying. Maybe he could end it like he did as he explained to the diplomats in this quote. “Likewise, in a period of just seven months, I have ended seven unendable wars. They said they were unendable. You’re never gonna get them solved. Some were going on for 31 years, two of them, 31, think of it, 31 years. One was 36 years; one was 28 years. I ended seven wars, and in all cases, they were raging with countless, thousands of people, being killed. This includes Cambodia and Thailand; Kosovo and Serbia; the Congo and Rwanda, a vicious violent war that was; Pakistan and India; Israel and Iran; Egypt and Ethiopia; and Armenia and Azerbaijan. It included all of them. No president or prime minister, and for that matter, no other country has ever done anything close to that. And I did it in just seven months. It’s never happened before. There’s never been anything like that. Very honored to have done it.” Back to Ukraine for a moment because the G-20 conference is coming up soon in Miami. The top 20 economies in the world meet and greet and discuss plans for how they can make the world worse. This meeting is being held at the Doral Country Club and Resort and it is owned by Donald Trump. The President has specifically invited Vladimir Putin to the meeting which would obviously not be a neutral site but literally on Trump’s home turf. Putin has not publicly said whether or not he will attend but I hope he does and I hope something can be accomplished. Well, now we switch back to the Middle East in honor of the opening paragraph of this Report. Yes, President Trump has agreed to sell F-35 stealth jets to Saudi Arabia and no one seems to know why. I’m guessing but I like to think of it as logic and not guesswork. The Saudis are under constant attack by Houthi drones and missiles and the attacks have included civilian targets in the Saudi capitol of Riyadh. I don’t remember missile attacks inside the capital before and the new Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salmon is very upset about it. He called on Trump and asked for military aide but apparently Trump said no. Many people seemed to think that decision marked the end of the US/Saudi alliance which has existed since1974 but maybe not. The F-35 is an advanced stealth fighter with the capability of vertical take off and landing. It has problems which have grounded about 50% of the fleet from time to time. Nevertheless, when it is flying it is state of the art so naturally the Israelis are very upset about the deal or so they pretended to be. The Israelis publicly stated that they “demand” compensation for the sale. If you have ever wondered if the US has complete sovereignty when it comes to Israel this demand puts that question to rest. What do they mean by using the word compensation. First of all, the Israelis like to pretend they are enemies with the Saudis but in reality the two countries are allies who have a common enemy at least currently. The Iranians are attacking inside both countries and they share intelligence and cooperate militarily against the common enemy. What they really mean, once again trying to apply logic is more free stuff and they want the stuff the US has refused to give them. They asked Trump for the latest space-based munitions but he declined to provide that material or intelligence. The US Air Force just announced or admitted if you prefer that the US has weapons in orbit around the earth. The justification is that China is doing it too. Well, I hope that Trump does not give in to their demand and provide them with access to US space-based systems. Do you trust them to that degree because I sure don’t. Let me take a moment and talk about how the F-35 program works. The US taxpayers pay to do all the research and development (R&D) of the program then they pay Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics and the others to build the airplanes. They pay for the testing and redesign when, inevitably, there are problems with something so complicated. Once the aircraft is built, tested and certified ready for service the taxpayers buy the airplanes from those companies. When there are crashes or other problems that must be tested and fixed they pay for that. If the US decides to sell the aircraft to the Saudis the government gives permission for the US defense contractors to sell the aircraft. In this particular deal the US has assured the Israelis that the F-35’s the Saudis are getting will not be ready for five years and they will not be the most advanced version the Israelis have. In conclusion folks, If I were in the office of president today, knowing no more that I know currently without access to the 17 US intelligence agencies, I would tell both countries that I would no longer sell them weapons. I would tell them further that they would be well advised to behave with their neighbors as if they no longer have the US military to back stop every bad decision they make with US blood and treasure. Such a decision might get me killed but that risk goes with the job. Finally, folks, President Trump has said that he is the most powerful person who has ever lived but I suspect that Netanyahu, Zelensky, and a few others are showing us that he is mistaken. At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.

  6. Sep 18

    Two Hundred Days of War

    Darrell Castle gives his thoughts on the Iran War and asks the question what has 200 days of war accomplished for the United States. He reminds us that yesterday, September 17th, was the 239th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution. Transcription / Notes TWO HUNDRED DAYS OF WAR Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 18th day of September in the year of our Lord 2026. My beat is war once again as the United States of America passes two milestones this week. Yesterday the 17th was Constitution Day and this week the US passed 200 days in its war against Iran. So, our subject is what has been accomplished in those 200 days. Yes, we are 200 days into the war against Iran and just on a brief inventory I will list a few of the things it has accomplished. It seems to me that war has torn the U.S. and much of the world apart in the last few days. Here’s an excellent quote from the London Times via Bill Bonner. “The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq cost more than 7000 American lives, hundreds of thousands of civilian ones and trillions of dollars, turning that surplus into a debt of more than $40 trillion. Seeing the world’s sole superpower flounder for a decade against roadside bombs and soviet-era rifles wrecked American self-esteem and drained Washington’s international authority. But the deeper damage was to Americans’ faith in their government and in themselves.” That is about as good a summation of what GWB called the war on terror as I could write myself. This reporter, Gerald Baker, is telling us that America has lost its way and we may never find the way again. The US has now spent more than two decades dealing out death and destruction across the world with very little if any to show for it. Now, we are in an even worse situation thanks to the unprovoked attack against Iran about 200 days ago. That attack has in so many ways torn the world apart. Thanks to the empowerment of Iran which was once a backwater country with its own people, especially its women, on the verge of rebellion because of the regime’s harsh treatment, that backwater now controls the world’s economy at least the fuel portion of it. Fuel may not be everything in the economic world but everything depends on it. When it comes to fuel the war seems to be going worse than ever and it has been a catastrophe for the world’s economy. Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz which it made no effort to control before it was attacked. The Houthis are gaining control of the Red Sea and the chokepoints leading to it. Iraqi militia, undoubtedly armed by Iran have devastated the Saudi oil production and shipment facilities to the point that fuel in Europe is drying up. The Saudis built a pipeline from their oil facilities across to the Red Sea to avoid Iranian attacks on shipping in the Gulf but repeated drone attacks have destroyed the pipeline so the Saudis are unable to ship oil right now. There have been so many Iranian missile attacks on US. bases and all the oil producing nations that oil is becoming critically short worldwide. Here in the US, we have developed a system where we don’t stockpile anything as we used to. Instead trucks continually roll to grocery stores and if they miss one day there is no food. Diesel delivers all the stuff we consume and if you’ve driven anywhere lately you know the highways are full of trucks and they all run on diesel. Since the price of diesel is soaring, over $6 in my area, the price of food and everything else is soaring too. The Iranians do not have the same system. They don’t have to take delivery to prevail, they just have to make sure no one else takes delivery. The fuel shortage is growing worse by the day here in America. The emergency petroleum reserve is at a critically low point and even Donald Trump is alarmed so apparently that is why he made the deal with Venezuela for their oil. Will it be too little too late, time will tell I guess. It seems that petroleum is not the only thing in short supply. The Iranians are very clever people and they seem to have figured out that they can run us short of missiles as well as petroleum. The THAAD system, Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System is one of the nation’s most expensive defensive systems costing about $13 million per missile. Consider that it is tasked with shooting down missiles supplied to Iran by China probably in exchange for oil which they have in abundance. If a swarm of missiles is fired at Israel THAAD will be highly effective against one, two, perhaps ten but at what cost. The system is not as effective against the hypersonic missiles the Iranians are currently using so perhaps tens of millions expended for each attack all back to US taxpayers. Military records show that 134 THAADs were fired in June of 2025 well before the current war even started. Now, apparently the supply is critically short and the maximum production capacity is about 8 missiles per month. It’s easy to see the problem. Even if THAAD is completely effective US production capacity cannot keep up. If that were all it would be plenty but as usual it gets worse. According to anonymous, but trusted federal officials as reported by Tucker Carlson, the US has to replenish not only its own weapons expended but Israel’s too. Reportedly the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and BLU-117 bombs to the Israeli government in the coming months. The records reveal that in World War ll all the allied nations combined from 1939 until 1945 dropped 3.4 million tons of bombs on their Axis enemies. The US didn’t even enter the war until late 1941. The bombs I just mentioned being provided to Israel, 40,000 of them each contain 2000 pounds of explosive force or one ton. That means 40,000 tons if the transfer is approved. Some members of congress are starting to take notice however because Thomas Massie has introduced articles of impeachment against Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, and he promised to push it to a vote as one of his last acts before leaving office in November. Yes, Massie has represented Kentucky’s 4th district since 2012 but he was primaried out of congress this year and will be leaving in November. He has always been critical of the Iran war and of the US relationship with Israel and I suppose that was just too much for the proponents of the war to bear. Coincidentally, yesterday, the 17th was Constitution Day which celebrates the 239th anniversary of the document that moved America from the status of a colony ruled by Britain to an independent, self-governing republic. Here are a few words from Massie’s articles of impeachment. “It is appropriate on this day, the 239th anniversary of our Constitution, that Members of the House of Representatives can stand and vote to validate their constitutional oath and to impress upon the self-proclaimed Secretary of War that his days of waging preemptive, aggressive war are over. The current Secretary’s practice of extrajudicial killings, of playing policeman, prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner will be at an end, if the House votes to impeach. Every American should understand the gravity of the conduct of Secretary Hegseth: Unilateral initiation and continuation of war, the taking of life without due process, the abandonment of protections for civilians, the suppression of free speech, the separation of powers and the constitutional authority of Congress” The articles also include charges which I won’t quote but I will attempt to summarize as I am able. The United States conducted a preemptive attack on Iran at the request of Benjamin Netanyahu. Iran’s leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei and members of his family were killed. US and Israeli planes attacked a clearly marked school and killed at least 168 mostly schoolgirls. The school was attacked in three separate raids. He followed illegal orders and continued to accelerate the attacks on Iran. Oil shipments have been cut off and gas prices are soaring. He ordered the deaths of individuals traveling by boat in the Caribbean, alleging they were drug smugglers, arrogating to himself a God-like power over life and death. These are very serious charges and if proven justify impeachment but do they have to be proven. They don’t have to be proven to advance the process from the initial introduction to a full house vote but at some point if they are advanced they will have to be discussed and voted on. Just the fact that Articles of Impeachment have been introduced proclaims to the world that at least one member of congress thinks the war and the way US war policy is being conducted is so objectionable it deserves impeachment. One result of this is that victory or a favorable conclusion to the war is now impossible. It is an act that any enemy would very much like to see because it says they are so divided there is no consensus and therefore they can’t prevail. Finally, folks, these are some of the most embarrassing and frustrating moments that America has had to face in my lifetime. This war has revealed Israeli motives but what it has revealed about the US, its leadership makes no sense to me but I guess even the world’s only super power can get into a mess it can’t seem to get out of. At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.

  7. Sep 11

    9-11 Plus Twenty-five Years

    Darrell Castle shares his thoughts about murder and mayhem as he looks back at the anniversary of 9-11 and the 1st anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Transcription / Notes 9-11 PLUS TWENTY-FIVE YEARS Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 11th day of September in the year of our Lord 2026. My beat is murder and mayhem today as we look back at the anniversary of what the media tells us is the worst terrorist attack in American history. Along with the 25th anniversary of 9-11 we look at the 1st anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Yes, folks I am sorry to have to report to you that in the last 25 years things have gotten worse in America as murder has gone mainstream and more sympathy is often generated for the murderers than for their victims. For example, just look at the trial of Lindsay Clancy, also this month, a trial in which a jury could not convict a woman who admitted to strangling her 3 children. Her daughter was 5 years old and there were two sons aged 3 and two. She strangled them one at a time with her bare hands but she generated a lot more sympathy, especially from mothers than her children were able to generate. I’m afraid that as a society we are sinking further and further into the abyss as cold-blooded murder goes mainstream and simple respect for human life as something created by God in his image disappears. I knew something was desperately wrong and that this nation and its people had changed radically when in December of 2024 a man named Luigi Mangione on a street in Washington D.C. shot and killed United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. He shot Mr. Thompson in the back and the murder was videotaped by security cameras. After his act of pre-meditated murder Mr. Mangione hid out for awhile but he was eventually arrested at which time he became a folk hero for killing this evil capitalist. Perhaps his cult following will eventually diminish as I believe he has pled guilty in return for some consideration in sentencing which probably means no death sentence and no life without parole. This case had an overt ideological motive which captured the sensibilities of a lot of people apparently and it reminded me of the murder of Charlie Kirk in that regard. I’m sure that all of you know who Charlie was. He had a very strong Christian faith which he took to college campuses where he engaged in debate with those who wanted to do so. His message brought condemnation from those who blamed his message as one preaching hate. In other words, to those people if you point out that the bible voices disapproval of their lifestyle or habits then you hate them and you are encouraging others to do so. Charlie was speaking at a college campus in Utah one year ago yesterday when he was gunned down by a lone nut shooter or so we are told. Isn’t it interesting that when anyone who is not in complete lockstep with the prevailing power system existing at the time is gunned down in public it is always a lone nut. JFK, RFK, MLK, Charlie and many others all by lone nuts. Even the apparent assassination attempt on the life of Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania was conducted by a lone nut who was then quickly killed. Donald Trump knew history though and he quickly ordered an end to the investigation so the blame could forever fall on the dead lone nut. I titled this Report to commemorate the anniversary of 9-11 and the death of Charlie Kirk but in reporting to you I went down the rabbit hole of murder because that’s where the evidence led me and that is where those murders have left America. Charlie Kirk’s murder was a message sent and received. The message was the obvious of course and that is don’t tell us the bible says you shouldn’t do that. The not so obvious message was that if you have a problem with America killing Israel’s enemies you just keep that thought to yourself and under no circumstances will you survive if you share those beliefs with the president. In one sense I guess I have buried the lead today but I hope you can see that it is all connected. I don’t claim to have any inside information about 9-11 or Charlie as far as who did it and why he or they did it and I don’t believe in fairy tales. I used to enjoy them when I was a child and I had all the stories in the Golden Books but when I became an adult I put them away. What I would like you to understand is that I believe the version of events we have been presented by the power elite and their handmaidens is the real fairy tale and the truth lies somewhere else. There is a new book on the subject by a man named Curt Weldon who spent 20 years in the U.S. congress but when he refused to drop his 9-11 investigation he was defeated just like Thomas Massie was. His book is entitled Able Danger and it presents an investigation into who in the U.S. government knew before the attacks that they were coming. I highly recommend this book to all of you. It will be available on Amazon on September 22nd but I got a copy through Tucker Carlson’s network. The book talks about a classified U.S. army intelligence program called Able Danger. He asserts that U.S. Intelligence knew that Mohammed Atta and the Al Qaeda network had been operating inside the U.S. for more than a year before the attacks, but the institutional decisions made by those running the program intentionally kept that news from the FBI and others charged with preventing such things. He pressed for years to get answers because he was personally acquainted with many of the roughly 350 firefighters who died that day and he believes he owes them at least an investigation. To sum up the book a little most of the facts he uncovered have been suppressed and the warnings about Able Danger were deliberately silenced. Get the book and read it and you will see why he is so emotional when he talks about that day. The 25 years post 9-11 leads me to ask myself if the nightmare that day was has ever ended. It was a monumental event of epic proportions and similar in historic significance to the fall of Singapore because it spelled the end of a world order and the beginning of what we have come to call the new world order. This July 4th marked the 250th anniversary of the Founding of America which collides head on with the anniversary of 9-11 because that event locked the Bill of Rights in a closet and burned the house down. In fact, we have been in a continuous state of emergency since then and there is always some foreign power that is just about to do us in. You might not know this but until Vietnam America had never fought a war longer than four years, but now they all seem to last forever and cost trillions. Whatever happened on 9-11 and whoever in government knew about it in advance has not been completely proven because there has been no real public investigation. One thing we do know with absolute certainty is that the government which was led at the time by George W. Bush, used the climate of fear generated by the attacks to expand its powers over the American people. The Department of Homeland Security, a German sounding name, combined all the nations intelligence agencies under one director and also created new ones. America was formed, Mr. Jefferson told us, so that we and our posterity would only be governed with the consent of the governed. There would be no king to rule over America whose very words were law, but now we have allowed such an expansion of executive powers that the Constitution is simply ignored in favor of Executive Orders. When those orders are overruled by some Federal Court there is always a higher court or the system just punts and tries in a different direction. Little by little in response to 9-11 or perhaps it was all just part of the plan the government started incrementally at first, then wholesale, to dismantle the fundamental protections enshrined in the Constitution that made America unique from every other country which had existed on this earth. So, for 25 years we have resurrected many of the powers over which our ancestors rebelled and adopted them right here in America all wrapped in the flag. We don’t have peace, we don’t have security, in fact we are told each day that some madman could start a nuclear war at any moment. We are told that right now as I speak AI systems are working on ways to create and launch global biowarfare by creating and releasing heretofore unknown viruses. Digging deeper into the AI threat, and I know that AI does some good things because my dear wife uses it often to solve problems while I remain committed to finding my own solutions through hard work and dogged determination. In investigating what AI can and can’t do I have concluded that its real master, its real creator cannot be overridden. So, who or what is the real master, well, that’s the question isn’t it. Whoever the real master is in my opinion is the greatest enemy of humanity in the history of the world. Aside from AI, my opinion is that due to fear after 9-11 the U.S.A. Patriot Act drove the final nail through the heart of the Bill of Rights and then placed it in that burning house with all our other God given, government protected rights and that is the real legacy of 9-11. With each new administration the abuse of power gets worse as tyrants become bolder and bolder. Finally, folks, much of the abuse of power lies at the feet of the mass media which is supposed to be a watchdog but is instead a lapdog only yapping a little when someone challenges the prevailing power system. The security guarding the gates of our national morality has laid down arms and fled it seems but I pray that we can get it back. At least that’s the way I see it. Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle. Thanks for listening.

  8. Sep 4

    The Science and the CIA

    Darrell Castle talks about the newly revealed evidence linking the science, i.e. Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the CIA and their formal institutional partnership. Transcription / Notes THE SCIENCE AND THE CIA Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 4th of September in the year of our Lord 2026 and I will be talking about the newly revealed evidence linking the science, i.e. Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the CIA and their formal institutional partnership that apparently provided cover for the CIA’s biological threat research. Before the partnership between NIH and the CIA congress moved to ban federal funding for gain-of-function research. The new policy requires enhanced review and reporting requirements for life sciences research including independent, top-down assessments for projects that may increase the harmful consequences of biological agents. So, a reasonable question might be why do you want to make any biological agent more harmful to the human race. The answer to that question is obviously to make the virus more lethal so it can be used to kill more humans. The new safeguards also prevent funding research projects in countries without adequate oversight. So, I guess that means no more NIA funding of bat virus in China. Congress is trying, it seems to me; to indicate its collective shock and to foster the belief that it had no idea the science was using taxpayer money to fund Chinese research into making virus pathogens more deadly to humans, then unleashing them on humanity. The new director of the FDA is taking the approach with this legislation and the new regulations that it was all just a mistake made by well meaning scientists and now with the standard clearly set out they will stop trying to develop new ways to kill off the human race. On the other hand, Dr. Fauci wrote in his diary in August 2022 that he knew the COVID vaccines were not really effective but he didn’t want the public to know that because if they did then people would not take their boosters and would not accept the federal mandates. If that were all it would be plenty, but as usual it gets worse. Newy disclosed documents reveal the NIA and CIA partnership I mentioned. Apparently, now these ties ran and run far deeper than anyone in authority seemed to know about. Apparently only a handful of investigators realized that Dr. Fauci was working with intelligence on their bioweapons research projects. Now, we learn that NIH used its existing research to “augment and compliment” its own research combined with that being conducted by CIA. A Rutgers University chemistry professor named Richard Ebritht who has been researching the matter said; “Vice President Cheney assigned Fauci to head US biodefense research programs in 2002, including bioweapons-agents-development and bioweapons-agents-characterization research programs that approached, and arguably crossed, red lines set by the Biological Weapons Convention. The documents show early steps in the process of transferring funding for and direction of CIA and DOD Biodefense Projects to Fauci’s agency NIAID.” So, the bioscience and intelligence communities have been working closely together for a long time. I wonder why that is the case but I remember now that the CIA is limited by law to only foreign work. Their agents are not to be employed to do clandestine work or gather intelligence on American citizens. That means they have to use the science in foreign countries to accomplish their ends such as making laboratories to develop deadly pathogens. You might remember that the Russians argued that one of the reasons they invaded Ukraine was that the Americans had built about 30 bioweapons labs in Ukraine many of them near the Russian border. Well, I turns out that the real number was 32 approximately and when the Russian forces got near one it had to be very quickly shut down and moved to prevent the Russians from gaining access to the pathogens it contained as well as the evidence of American ownership. I suppose the reasoning is something like this. We can’t legally build these labs to develop horrible infectious diseases to make war against others and we need them because if others know we have them they will not be bold enough to make their own. In reality the opposite is likely true. If others know you are making them they will make their own even worse pathogens so that we can all mutually infect each other. I know it sounds insane because it is but that’s how these people think or don’t think depending on how you look at it. Even though it is illegal to have these labs in the US they have been and are being built. Just the other day one was found in California and I believe it had a lot of Chinese scientists working there. The CIA says that it needs scientists and infectious disease experts to serve as “a living sensor web” to gather information from foreign researchers, universities, and conferences. That sounds like CIA speak for making spies out of scientists. The CIA blames much of this on 911 and it now says that is when it started to get out of control when suspected anthrax was mailed, apparently, to several high-ranking officials. Former Operations OfficerJames Erdman III testifying before a Senate committee said, “the line between public health and national security became increasingly blurred beyond recognition since then.” The CIA has been up to something else lately and perhaps it at least was an attempt to make things better and stave off conflict. I say perhaps because that puts the best spin on it and we don’t know for certain the real reason. Last week the Director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe boarded a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster transport plane at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, stopped in NATO member Latvia, on the Russian border then flew on to one of the four airports serving Moscow. Even though the CIA Director was the passenger this was not a subtle trip because the C-17 is one of the largest, if not the largest, airplanes in the world and it was apparently used to transport only one man. So, the trip was meant to be seen by the world’s press and anyone else who wanted to take notice. The question has been the subject of much speculation or scuttlebutt as they say in the military but no one knows for sure and guesses are all we have. The Director and the staff who accompanied him left the airport in Moscow in a diplomatic motorcade of armored vehicles so maybe the  vehicles were transported I the C-17 for secure communications Mr. Ratcliffe was apparently in Russia to meet with FSB head, Aleksandr Bortnikov, and his counterpart in foreign intelligence, Sergei Naryshkin. There was hope a meeting with Vladimir Putin would happen, but as far as they will admit, it didn’t happen. Why make this unscheduled and last-minute trip especially in such a gigantic airplane which was a grand show for the world’s press. Ratcliffe is a former mayor and congressman from Texas and a lawyer by training. He has no diplomatic experience and his only negotiation skills would have been learned in his legal capacity. He was in Russia for only one day and that was apparently spent in meetings with his Russian counterparts. The meeting was covered in speculation concerning recent reports coming out of Russia that Russia was going to take action against NATO because NATO was supplying drones and missiles for attacks inside Russia. If that speculation is the reason for the trip it probably means that Europe wants to avoid direct war with Russia at all costs and this trip was a last-ditch effort to prevent that. If so, I pray that it was successful. War between Russia and Europe would definitely involve the US because there are US troops all over Europe and very close to the Russian border. It seems to me that Russia, given its struggles in Ukraine would be very reluctant to broaden the conflict to include Europe and the US. Perhaps then, a possible reason for the trip was to warn the Russians that an attack against any NATO member would in evidently be followed by US action against Russia. I have no idea if that is true but it seems like a reasonable guess. You might notice in all this that it is the US which has its troops, about 80,000, right on the Russian border and as far as we know there are no Russian troops on the US border. Maybe Putin is trying to convince NATO that he is being forced into a war that none of them really want. In conclusion, I close this out with a little more on Dr., I am the Science, Fauci. Under his direction most or all of this nightmare happened. This information is now well documented fact, not mere speculation. NIAID, under his direction, funded coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology through a subgrant to EcoHealth Alliance. That research included creating viruses with enhanced ability to infect human respiratory cells. He did it with US tax dollars, yours and mine and then he sought to defend his action by using the Fifth Amendment. Finally, folks, I pray that Mr. Ratcliffe’s trip was successful and I further pray that those who perpetrated the attack we have been trained to call a pandemic are somehow held accountable. At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.

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Defending Western Civilization

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  • Creator
    Darrell Castle
  • Years Active
    2013 - 2026
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    299
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