Podcast – The Castle Report

Darrell Castle talks about efforts to end the war in Ukraine as well as the apparent military buildup in the Middle East for a coming US attack against Iran and its Nuclear Research Facilities.

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PEACE WITH RUSSIA—WAR WITH IRAN

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 4th day of April in the year of our Lord 2025. I will be talking about efforts to end the war in Ukraine as well as a recent New York Times article which attempts to explain the war against Russia. I will also talk a little about the apparent military buildup in the Middle East for a coming US attack against Iran and its Nuclear Research Facilities.

Last Sunday, March 30, 2025, the New York Times published an extensive article by investigative reporter Adam Entous entitled “The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine.” Mr. Entous claims to have interviewed many sources in various countries while working on the report which he says took over a year to complete. His report provides some answers to the question of how Ukraine was able to effectively keep Russia at bay and on the defensive for over three years.

You know my position by now that the Times has become nothing more than a mouthpiece for the Democrat Party so this article which started a year before the presidential election is puzzling. I suppose the idea is that it can’t hurt Biden now so why not publish and reveal what many of us have suspected all along. I certainly suspected it but I admit that I didn’t suspect the extent of US involvement alleged by the Times article. Mr. Entous would have had to talk to and probably clear his article through some very high-ranking individuals and the Russians were certain to see it right at the time when negotiations with Putin are at a critical stage.

The article then, is an admission to Putin of America’s vast involvement in and orchestration of the war conducted by the United States directly against nuclear armed Russia. “The United States was woven into the killing of Russian soldiers on sovereign Russian soil.” The article alleges that the United Staes waged and is still waging an undeclared, unauthorized war against Russia. American officers, some deployed inside Ukraine, have been selecting targets for attack and authorizing individual strikes, making those officers in essence combatants.

The article presents a picture of the war in which the American military, entered into an informal partnership with the Ukrainian Government and the US planned everything Ukraine did. Everything from large scale troop movements to every long-range strike were planned by American officers who even directed Ukraine’s counter-offensives. The Americans decided what Russian troops and civilian targets to attack, transmitted targeting data and launch codes to the Ukrainians for the weapons provided by the taxpayers of the United States.

The intelligence gathering system was vast including satellite surveillance as well as people on the ground, and it allowed for everything from big picture battle strategy down to precise targeting information for individual soldiers on the field. The US command center in Wiesbaden, Germany oversaw and reviewed each long-range HIMARS missile strike against Russians and advised Ukrainians of how to position their launchers and how to most effectively time the strikes.

One European intelligence officer quoted in the article said that the US was so closely involved that it was effectively part of the “kill-chain.” The American effort was known as Task Force Dragon and was far more detailed and involved than I have time to review in this report. The last thing I will say is that the US provided information that allowed for the sinking of the Moskva, the flagship of the Russian Black Sea fleet and also the missile attack against Kerch bridge which runs from the Russian mainland to Crimea.

Well folks, this information and a lot more than I have mentioned including drone and missile attacks inside Russia were documented in the article but now the Russians also have this admission right at the time of peace negotiations. Why is the question and I think the answer is to admit to Putin what the US involvement is and to give him the opportunity to end the war on his terms, not the US terms. Every time the US negotiators stake out a position of agreeing to Russian demands, Zelensky says no, I want everything returned to 2014 positions. The Americans tell him that is not and cannot be our position so I think he is out of the picture now and the negotiations are between Trump and Putin.

One last very interesting thing about the article is that it is a direct contradiction of the New York Times information provided to the American people for over three years. The Times systematically lied to America and deliberately parroted Biden’s denials of American involvement in the war for three years. According to journalist Bob Woodward from his book” War” about the Biden Administration, Biden had to constantly reassure the American people that they would not be dragged into a war with Russia. The problem is that they were not dragged in but entered the war voluntarily and enthusiastically.

Having said all that it is my conclusion that the article is most likely a CIA plant but that doesn’t mean that every word of it is not true. The entry into the war on Ukrainian soil by America reminds one of the famous quote by Henry Kissinger, “it is dangerous to be an enemy of America, but it is fatal to be a friend of America.”

So, Trump and his negotiating team are working feverishly to bring the war to a conclusion as he promised he would. It is clear now that the terms will be Russian, not American, and certainly not Ukrainian. The Europeans, especially Starmer in the UK talk about staying at war and even committing their own troops but that is an obvious bluff. Trump asked Starmer directly, in public when he talked about committing troops, so you think you can defeat Russia by yourself. That is a pretty revealing statement of the American position on Ukraine, however, the American position on Iran is completely different. Part of the Trump-Putin 90-minute phone call back in February was apparently to discuss the idea that if the United States attacked Iran Russia would stay out of it. The massive military buildup of United States strategic forces in the Middle East seems headed toward a strike against Iran. We are constantly told that Iran can’t be allowed to have nuclear weapons but given the attitudes of China and Russia toward their ally, Iran, I would not be surprised if Iran already has nukes. The Iranians apparently believe that buying nukes from a legitimate power does not make you legitimate but being able to make your own does.

The US has reportedly deployed 6 or 7 of its B-2 stealth bombers to Diego Garcia, a joint US-Britain Island air strip in the Indian Ocean. The island lies about 2400 miles due south of Iran so along with the B-2’s their refueling tankers have also been included for the roughly 5000-mile round trip to Iran. The question occurs to me, why can’t Israel fight its own war against Iran if it thinks it’s necessary. The answer we are given is that Israel has no heavy bombers and the only non-nuclear bomb that could penetrate Iran’s hardened nuclear research facilities is the US made 30,000-pound bomb designed to penetrate deep and then explode opening the way for less powerful munitions.

That explanation may not be accurate but it is the one given when that question is asked. Air and Space Forces Magazine has revealed that the US is deploying many assets besides the B-2’s. By the way the US only built 21 of the 150 approximately, that were planned. It is a very expensive airplane and two have already been lost in accidents so 19 are left and about 7 of those are currently in the middle of the Indian Ocean. The other deployed assets include A-10 ground attack aircraft from the Idaho National Guard along with the personnel necessary to operate these aircraft effectively.

Trump has repeatedly threatened the Iranians telling them they have 2 months to dismantle their nuclear facilities and permit inspection or “something very bad will happen to them.” A great deal of confidence is placed in the claim that Israel destroyed Iran’s anti-air defense batteries including the advanced S-300 and S-400 missiles provided by Russia. In response to Trump’s threats, the Iranians threatened a preemptive attack on the American base at Diego along with other US assets but that doesn’t worry me that much because I doubt they are that stupid. The US currently has about 10 minor bases or outposts in the Middle East manned by about 50,000 troops counting those at sea with the navy. Rather than a preemptive attack, Iran has appealed to the UN to intervene in light of Trump’s threat to them.

The Iranians reportedly have massed over 1000 long range missiles to attack US and Israeli positions. They say they will target Israeli nuclear sites first. The range of those missiles puts US bases and naval forces in the Gulf and the MED well within range. I have said many times that anti-air defenses can handle a few missiles as they have done repeatedly in response to Houthi attacks, but a swarming attack by hundreds or thousands of them, some hypersonic, are unstoppable. That all means a great many casualties on both sides along with a great deal of infrastructure destruction and possible radioactive contamination. Large numbers of American casualties will force the apparently lethargic American public to at least look at it.

In Conclusion, last Tuesday Benjamin Netanyahu announced the lifting of all tariffs Israel imposes on American goods. Did you know Israel placed tariffs on American goods because I didn’t. That makes our previous welfare to the nation of Israel even more egregious. America doesn’t seem to gain much from unconditionally backing nuclear armed Israel. Why would this nation let Israel tax American companies while lavishing such aid on them. Tucker Carlson asks a very legitimate question. Do D.C. politicians think bending over backward to please the Israeli government is somehow America’s moral duty? Why?  Quote from Tucker:

“As Donald Trump’s special envoy for hostage affairs said last month, the U.S. government is “not an agent of Israel.” The removal of these tariffs should remind our leaders of that. Otherwise, Washington’s decades long humiliation exercise of forcing Americans to kiss the ground the foreign country walks on will continue to drag on. Eventually, it will be too much for the people to handle.”

Finally, Folks, is this coming war against Iran America first? I think not. Would America stand by while so many civilians were killed by any other nation? Again, I think not.

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for listening.

Darrell Castle talks about the recently released 80,000 files, so far, concerning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the immense power of the deep state.

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JFK’s GRAVE

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday, the 28th day of March in the year of our Lord 2025. I will be talking about the recently declassified and released 80,000 files, so far, concerning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Those files remind us of the immense power of the deep state and how its members tend to close ranks when threatened because they derive great wealth and power from their membership,

I remember that day quite clearly because I was 15 years old and at a high school track meet when the news told the world what supposedly happened. The coach told us the track meet was over and school was closed for the day. It was scary and a sobering time for a 15-year-old trying to make sense of the world anyway, but this Report is not a rehash of the assassination but instead it is a look at what it all means for the world and how its aftermath still resonates in the world today.

That day was an eye opener for some people but for most of us it has taken decades for our eyes to fully open. Polls taken throughout the 1950’s revealed that over 70% of Americans trusted the government and believed that it would do what is right “most of the time.” A follow up question showed that most of the time meant “just about always.” November 22, 1963, began a long decline in the public’s confidence that is greater today than at any other time in our history. That former trust in government is gone and today’s polls show only about 22% still trust in government.

Was the assassin an individual or group of individuals with some ideological difference of opinion that drove the action or was the murder simply an effort to grab the reigns of power. Which of the two explains JFK’s murder. Was Lee Harvey Oswald the assassin. If so, was he a solo actor or part of a greater conspiracy.

We have learned that the government can’t be trusted to tell us the truth about anything and it and its representatives seem quite often to have sinister motives. Those motives, whatever they may be, sometimes prove fatal for those little people, sometimes referred to as the masses. Those people are viewed by the government and its representatives as sheep to be sheared, or as fodder for the cannons of whatever stupid, senseless war government chooses for us the next time. So, if they know we no longer trust them what can they do to ensure support and loyalty from the masses.

Philosophers over the centuries have written of the formula governments use to keep us motivated and committed to their next scheme. The simplest part of the formula is to make sure there is always a sinister bad guy, or government of bad guys that threaten us and our way of life. If we don’t go abroad and fight the bad guys on their home turf we will have to fight them here on our own turf sooner or later. There is never enough time to analyze whether the bad guy is truly bad and truly means to do us harm before the bombing, or other means of war are launched. The end result is usually a lot of dead people and a lot of money added to our future as debt.

JFK’s death and the cover-up of the truth behind it explains what the government and its spokespeople have come to call conspiracy theories. There are few things as bad as wearing that label because it means you are not evil like a racist, just naïve and probably stupid because you don’t believe the government’s obvious lies.  I will admit that it is far easier to just accept whatever cockamamy explanation the government gives us for its crimes.

For example, resisting the government’s COVID policy was very difficult although healthier in the long run. The COVID pandemic was the worst government psyop in our history. Nobel laureates and scientists of the world lined up literally by the hundreds to tell us that this pandemic was extremely dangerous and there was no way to stop it except the vaccine. We know without any doubt now that it was all just a massive global psyop orchestrated by and conducted by the governments of the world and their sycophants in the various bureaucracies.

Even the New York Times, although a day late and a dollar short, now admits that denial of the lab leak theory was wrong and a lie from the beginning. Personally, it seems to me that the lab leak theory is also wrong because the evidence points to a purposeful plot to release the virus so the bioweapon often referred to as a vaccine could be forced on the world’s people.

We Can no longer rely on the decency of those in government when deciding whether or not to believe government because they usually have no decency. Their lack of decency and their utter lack of decorum are no longer shocks. Their foul language and lack of decorum on the very floor of the House and Senate have become commonplace. This is sometimes rather frightening as one stops to consider what kind of people voted to elect such people. I try not to dwell on it for long because when I do the future looks dark indeed.

Skepticism has its problems as well, however, and the costs of never fully buying in should be considered because it will put you at odds with the human tendency to take sides and to take comfort in the side you are on. If you talk to people in your social circle, friends, people at work, people at church, etc. you will find many people who have lost friends or family members because of political differences. When people are afraid they take sides because there is some reassurance of certainty and some comfort that the authority they follow is most likely the correct one, and any other view is just plainly evil.

Using independent analysis is forbidden in the political world because it makes you a denier and may place you outside the comfort zone of approved opinion. In addition, using research and analysis, though very possible in today’s internet world, is emotionally difficult and authority is very hostile to it. For example, the censorship of any dissenting opinion concerning COVID and the vaccine on social media is now admitted even by the social media company owners. Just keep people in the dark by censoring their search for the truth and they will be deprived of useful information. That would include potentially lifesaving information such as effective COVID treatments other than the accepted vaccine.

Let me illustrate my point with a quote from Richard Fernandez of the Belmont Club.

“ Was there really gold in Fort Knox, was Biden truly competent? Our heads started to spin. Dallas dug the grave. Wuhan filled it in. For better or worse, complete certainty is dead in the political domain. What we have now are expectations, probability distributions, and a posteriori Monday morning quarterbacking. We are back in the world before the canon. The good news is that we’ve been here before.

What died on the day JFK was shot in Dallas was the idea that the public could always rely on authority to tell them the truth. It’s a lonely feeling to stand by its graveside and realize that to a greater or lessor extent, we will have to figure it out by ourselves.”

I will once again assume a little poetic license and try to interpret Mr. Fernandez’s  comment. We can no longer rely on the government to tell us the truth about anything. In fact, trust in government was buried in JFK’s grave. Whenever the government or its spokespeople give us an explanation of whatever disaster the government has caused this time that narrows our search for truth a little bit because we know that whatever we have been told by government is a lie, therefore at least that explanation is eliminated.

The difficulty lies in the fact that never before in history have ordinary people had more access to more information than right now. We are told that there is more computing power in the small smartphone we hold in our hands than in the computers NASA used to send Apollo 11 to the moon. In other words, we all have the capability to find out for ourselves if we really want to know. The trouble is that smartphones have replaced education and they are enabling public education’s destruction. Has public education become nothing but government propaganda or even brainwashing for generations of children.

 I’m not talking about the pipeline that sends kids of a certain class to the Ivy Leagues, I’m talking about the untold millions whose kids go to public school and who want desperately for those kids to have a better life than their parents had and better than the life that is clearly visible ahead for them. When the Department of Education was started by President Carter it had the laudatory goals of funding education and making it available to all regardless of means. It has instead ruined education or at least contributed greatly to its downfall by placing it all in the hands of the federal government, which I just said could not be trusted to tell the truth about anything. All it has really accomplished is to act as a go between feeding money into the system to support teacher unions so they will vote for their own largesse and ignoring the needs of the kids.

For example, the average money spent on education per child per year in the United States is $17,000, the highest in the world. In some locations which have the most powerful politicians it is much higher. In New York City the figure is $33,000 per year. The money spent per child does not seem to be accomplishing anything for the kids. Nationwide, upon graduation 70% of our kids are not proficient in reading and more than 70% are not proficient in math. In other words, they are high school graduates but they can’t read or count or do basic math. The good news is that they have smart phones so they don’t have to know how to read or make change.

It is always an easy fix for politicians, just take more tax money from the people and flood it into a failed system. That is a lot easier for politicians than the politically dangerous act of doing something that might help.

In Conclusion: Who killed John F. Kennedy. Can we at least agree that we should know who is killing our leaders. JFK, RFK, MLK, and all the others whose murderers are hidden by the fog of history. In 1963 there was no NSA only the CIA so the government didn’t have the capability of knowing everything about everybody as it does today. The CIA today with its 25,000 employees and its massive worldwide outreach, to whom is it loyal. Certainly not to the American people.

Finally, folks, who killed JFK. Government and all its downstream agencies are uniquely capable of covering their own crimes so I no longer expect the truth to ever come out. What we really know is that the government’s explanation, as usual, is nothing but a pack of lies.

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for listening.

Darrell Castle talks about the wars currently on-going in the world and how they are being used to form a new order of the world.

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THE U.S. AND RUSSIA HAVE COMMON INTERESTS

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday, the 21st day of March in the year of our Lord 2025. I will be talking about the subject I hate the most, and that is war which seems to be almost everywhere. The partial ceasefire in Ukraine, the open fire now in Gaza, and the U.S. war in the Red Sea/Gulf of Aden and Bab-el-Mandab against the Houthis.

War shapes the world order and I guess it always has. For example, the military defeat of Napoleon in 1814 led to the Congress of Vienna which cemented Great Britain as the leader of the new world order instead of France. I suppose since those countries controlled the world it would be OK to call that a world war resulting in the new order which existed until World War One or 1914. The victors in WW l set the order with the formation of the League of Nations which totally collapsed when Germany decided that it would be a better world leader than Britain. The victors in World War ll formed the new order with the United States as its leader and the United Nations to cement the order permanently.

The Soviet Union, which was one of the victors in WW ll didn’t accept the U.S. as world leader and that resulted in a 40 year long world order which became the cold war. The end of the cold war brought an end to the Soviet Union which dissolved into the Russian Federation. The global elite of the world had to find a way to continue the struggle to feed the eternal death machine so the conflict between NATO and Russia continued. We won’t move one inch closer to Russia Reagan told Gorbachev but later presidents reneged on that promise and the struggle continued.

NATO was formed out of the shared belief that the Soviet Union was a direct threat to Western Europe and so an alliance pledging together that if one were attacked it would be considered an attack against all. The colonial possessions of the members were to be excepted from that deal as the French possessed Vietnam or Indochina as it was known then. That agreement didn’t change much over the years and so the world order remained in a post-World War Two state of mind with the United States growing ever stronger militarily and Europe growing ever weaker.

Europe was fine with it because all those countries could let their militaries deteriorate since the U.S. had their backs. The Europeans did not even live up to the paltry, relatively speaking, of 5% on defense that the NATO agreement called for. The U.S. constantly urged them to spend more but why should they because the U.S, nuclear umbrella was there to cover them. Donald Trump appeared on the scene and started his America First rhetoric exposing the obvious that the NATO agreement and the way it was enforced was extremely unfair to the U.S.

The Europeans were stuck and have continued to be stuck in a 1939 mindset which told them the Russians are coming, but the Russians never came. They wanted to constantly poke the bear but they had nothing with which to defend themselves against the bear. The U.S. wanted a unipolar world with the U.S. at the head and the Europeans were fine with that as long as they could spend their tax revenue on their welfare and other social relief programs to pacify the masses. In the meantime, the U.S. and its people languished under the ever-increasing weight of 36 trillion of debt increasing by 2 trillion per year. The weight of constant wars and constantly increasing burdens of wounded veterans to care for, the people becoming ever more impoverished, the middle class driven into poverty and unpayable debt.

Now, I’m taking a little poetic license here folks and speaking for Donald Trump but I think it went something like this. Trump takes office having already looked at the world and seen the order of it. He said this is grossly unfair and must be changed because we are slowly dying. The new world he sought involved Russia and the U.S. exploring their common interests rather than fighting. The Soviet Union broke apart because the Soviets could no longer afford to maintain it. Their people were impoverished with a majority as hopeless alcoholics, and life expectancy plummeting. Reagan and Gorbachev worked it out and the rest you know as history, although many prefer to lie about what the agreement actually was, it was recorded. 

Trump insisted he could work with Russia to find common ground. Total war today, which has always reshaped and redefined world order, is unthinkable, because it would mean Armageddon for the world so something else has to be found to fight about and to jockey for leadership in the world. Trusting the world to fight wars and giving one the power to dictate economic terms works to a degree but only if China, Russia, the U.S., all NATO countries, all Middle East countries, have leadership that is sane and remains that way year after year. Are we willing to bet our lives and the lives of all our prodigy on that assumption.

Why not redefine the world order in economic terms instead. I think that is what Trump is hopeful of doing. I realize that I am not in the White House and so I can’t know fully what is happening outside of my research and study but having said that, I will also say that I disagree with the way the ceasefire negotiations were conducted.

The war is a proxy war between the U.S. and Russia with the U.S. trying to use Ukraine as a battleground to weaken and eventually break up Russia leaving the U.S. unchallenged in a unipolar world. It didn’t work and instead it had the opposite result with Russia growing much stronger and Putin modernizing his army and consolidating his rule.

This war would not and could not have been fought without the full commitment, at least economically, by the U.S., therefore the negotiations should be between the U.S. and Russia, and not between Trump and Zelensky. The Russians certainly see it as a war between them and the U.S. so why not acknowledge that, try to work it out so that Putin can go back to his people and say look at what we gained, all the sacrifice was worth it. The U.S. and its agent Zelensky can say look at what we gained and you will see that Russia got some formerly Ukrainian territory but not nearly as much as it wanted and tried to get, so we won.

This is very reminiscent of the position the United States was in with regard to South and North Vietnam. The end became a foregone conclusion and years of negotiating were conducted over prisoners and over how to explain the inevitable victory of the North. Everybody goes home a victor but out of all the death and destruction comes a new order for the world. It would be a tacit if not overt admission to say that the age of the unipolar world is over. The Project for a New American Century was a complete failure and only accomplished the slaughter of millions and the impoverishment of even more.

The new order of the world will apparently have the U.S., Russia, and China, as multi-polar countries in this world of massive egos and lunatic ambitions. Is there room in this world for all three. Time will tell I guess, but I pray that there is. Now let me mention some of the other wars that are at the disposal of Donald Trump in the second month of his administration.

The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas/Gaza is no more. It was obvious from the beginning that it would not work because neither side wanted it to work. My guess is that if you searched the world over you could not find a place with a higher population of insane lunatics than in the Middle East. Hamas could have allowed the ceasefire to continue by simply releasing the remaining hostages or their bodies. What good are the hostages to Hamas anymore because they obviously have not deterred Israel from its attacks.

So, the Israelis mobilized 400,000 troops and began another attack on the rubble that is now Gaza. Hundreds are already dead and once again most are women and children. To think those civilians in Gaza, deserve what they have gotten or that they have any way to control Hamas is foolish and heartless. Why are the Israelis still bombing Gaza and sending in more soldiers. It can’t be because of the Hostages because that makes no sense.  It must be because they are tired of the constant attacks by Hamas on their civilians and their infrastructure and they intend to put a stop to it once and for all. The other possibility is more sinister and that is the territorial expansion of Israel.

In the same region of the world and in a war based on the war against Gaza the Houthis in Yemen started their attacks against shipping trying to exit or enter the Red Sea. They explained to the world that the attacks were in retaliation for the Israeli attacks in Gaza and the blockade to prevent humanitarian relief efforts from reaching Gaza. They attacked the aircraft carrier Harry Truman and its battle group with 19 missiles and drones. The U.S. Navy swatted them aside with no problem at all, but then Trump ordered a bombing attack inside Yemen to teach them a lesson. Trump criticized Biden during the campaign for relying on bombing when “a telephone could be used more easily.” It’s easier, I guess when you have your own finger on the trigger. I am afraid that some of the neocon, war is the only answer, people have slipped into the foreign policy portion of the administration.

We haven’t exactly had successful foreign [policy people in place during say, the last 50 years and so perhaps we should try something different. Perhaps someone should start communicating with we the people honestly instead of spouting out the same propaganda that most of us have heard our entire lives. Maybe someone could come onboard who is willing to reexamine the foreign policy positions that have been in place no matter which party controlled the oval office.

Finally, folks, if we are able to stop the killing in Ukraine only to continue the killing in Gaza and start new killing in Yemen, what have we accomplished. Politics is not about finding peace it is about finding excuses for war so I suggest we start reexamining the world order and the politics that fuels it as well.

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for listening.

Darrell talks about several things that taken together, in his opinion, represent an attempt by President Trump to reset the global order.

Transcription / Notes

RESETTING THE GLOBAL ORDER

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 14th day of March in the year of our Lord 2025. I will be talking about several things that taken together, in my opinion, represent an attempt by President Trump to reset the global order. Some of those things include a proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine, along with the US and Europe’s special relationship and the attitude of the US toward Russia.

US national security advisor Mike Waltz and Secretary of State Marco Rubio went to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for talks with Ukrainian officials about a proposal for ending the Ukraine/Russia war. It’s a very difficult thing to end a war unless you are able to raise your flag over the enemy capitol. Getting two warring sides to just stop fighting and stand in place is very difficult because one side or the other always has the advantage or momentum and wants to keep it.

This particular peace conference was apparently brokered by the Saudis who had several representatives in attendance. One important party missing from the meeting was Russia which will obviously have to be onboard if the ceasefire has any chance of working.

Ukraine agreed to the discussions and quickly agreed to the deal when Zelensky’s visit to the oval office didn’t go so well and Trump cut off aid and Intelligence information to Ukraine. Without that intelligence including targeting information, Ukraine could not prosecute the war so Zelensky swallowed his pride and accepted the deal. Now, it has to go to Russia for approval and that might be difficult because Russia seems to think it has the advantage. Several Russian missile attacks against Ukraine have occurred since the deal was made but that is probably just trying to appear dominant before Putin talks to Trump or whoever it turns out to be.

This ceasefire proposal is set to last for 30 days as a way to start negotiations to end the war. Again, it’s difficult because both sides think they have won or at least should win and winners expect to dictate terms not to negotiate. Trump’s attitude has been to let Zelensky know that the US billions were going to stop flowing and it is in his best interest to make the best deal possible. That deal will not include NATO membership or a US guarantee of security for Ukraine, hopefully. Why couldn’t Europe just admit Ukraine to NATO on its own? No, it can’t because admitting new members has to be unanimous.

Rubio was quoted as saying that Ukraine has to be ready to do difficult things and Russia would also have to make difficult decisions. When asked what difficult decisions he said that both sides would have to conclude that the conflict could not be resolved by military means. Rubio said that the President wants the war to end and Ukraine has accepted that premise and we hope the Russians will accept it as well. My interpretation of that diplomat speak is that Ukraine will have to permanently concede the eastern Russian speaking provinces along with Crimea to Russia. Who will maintain this proposed ceasefire line, I’m not sure but I hope it’s not the USA just as it does in Korea. No, that would be very unacceptable and I hope that Trump would not go along.

Yesterday, in advance of any US—Russia meeting Putin rejected the ceasefire as proposed without “substantial changes.” He said he wanted the root cause of the conflict eliminated but he did not say what he thinks the root cause is. He wants guarantees that the Ukrainians will not mobilize, train soldiers or receive weapons during the ceasefire. These proposals seem reasonable assuming that Putin would also agree to abide by them although his announcement did not say that he would. He made the announcement just as the American envoy, Steve Witkoff was arriving in Moscow so perhaps Mr. Putin thinks Trump’s eagerness to stop the war and his impatience with Zelensky gives him, Putin that is, an advantage so we wait to see what happens.

In my opinion, Trump wants the war to end as part of resetting the US relationship with Russia. He wants a future relationship based on commerce and business rather than who has the most missiles. This, in effect, is a new world order in the making. The new world, as Trump apparently sees it, includes the US, Russia, and China as equal partners, or in other words a multipolar world. The Ukraine war and war in general, and I presume that includes the Middle East, are the things preventing Trump from doing want he intends and that is to reverse what the World Economic Forum calls the Great Reset.

So, what is the Great Reset or world order that he wants to reverse? The world envisioned by the WEF and certain divisions of the UN is a world without religion except ultimately the worship of the new world government. It is a world without nation, without race, and without even gender. It is a world where we, the inhabitants of planet earth, are just an amorphous blob with no identity and loyal to nothing because nothing matters enough to be loyal. It is a world where we eat what the new overlords allow and we will live on the tiny 15-minute city plot to which we are confined. We will not dislike our new lives because everything our overlords think we need will be provided. We will own nothing and we will like it. We will always feel safe and secure because we do have the safety and security of the slave.

The average person in the US and in Europe might not see the new world exactly as I do but they do see it and they have developed a seething rage at what has been done to them and their world. You could call this new energy MAGA or whatever you want but on both continents a determination to root out and change or destroy the enemies of all that’s honorable and decent is growing in intensity. The elite don’t see it, they don’t get it, and so they continually double down on their policies. They continue to tell us that yes, men can get pregnant, and a man can become a woman just by thinking about it.

All over the world, Mr. and Ms. Average understand that globalist efforts to steer us into their global prison are terrifying but obvious so they are turning to leaders who share their opinions and are not afraid of being hated. The other side, and in America that’s the Democrat side, doesn’t seem to see the change that is coming. If you are an alcoholic or drug addict, you probably know that your actions are going to kill you eventually but you can’t or won’t stop. I guess that analogy makes sense when the woke policies are obviously nonsensical but continue anyway even when rejected by a majority.

In Europe 27 countries pledged to continue the Ukraine war by pouring more money and equipment into the struggle. I suppose they will continue until the last Ukrainian is dead. They say they want Ukraine to continue the war but that country has few men of fighting age left and is now recruiting the older and younger generations to pour into the meat grinder. A tiny few Europeans resist the urge to kill their way into the great reset. Victor Orban of Hungary says no I will not help you kill more people because Trump is right about this struggle. “Strong men make peace and weak men make war.”

Here in America the counter revolution continues. It insists on reciprocal tariffs with friendly nations and hostile nations as well, but those who have imposed tariffs on American manufacturers for many years such as Mexico, Europe and especially Canada are starting to understand that the old ways whereby they can impose tariffs on the US but the US cannot reciprocate are changing.

The counter revolution requires a leader who is not afraid of controversy and Trump seems to embrace controversy rather than run from it. He apparently sees what he is trying to do in the world as similar to building a tower in New York against all the odds. Financing has to be found, incidentally in New York prosecutors try to put you in jail for that, deals have to be made, opponents must be overcome, and eventually a beautiful and superior product is delivered to the public. That’s the business model he has used throughout his career.

Fortunately for President Trump his Democrat opposition is the greatest weapon he has. Sane people would look at the results of the election and the way the world is changing and reflect on what that means for them but these people are not sane. They apparently love war in theory at least. I doubt that any of them would want to fight the wars they favor but nevertheless they seem to like it for others. When asked if they want this to continue for another five years they applaud wildly.

They are foul-mouthed to the point that they can’t separate the floor of the House and Senate from their den or some bar. The F word, once reserved to illustrate very important points and always to indicate you reject all forms of conventional morality is now the first word out of the mouths of Democrat lawmakers. They talk of American exceptionalism and yet their conception of it is vile and profane. They are embarrassingly infantile and exhibitionist, and they don’t seem to understand why others don’t appreciate their juvenile antics. They are so completely out of touch with the American people that Trump’s counterrevolution seems perfectly normal.

The same thing is happening in Europe as the European people try to escape from the great reset. Europe doesn’t have our inconvenient Constitution so they simply disenfranchise their political opponents as they recently did again in Romania. They deprive the people of a voice in who governs them just as they did in ancient times. The European elite try very hard to make their countries a blend of all things on earth by rejecting historic Christianity in favor of Islam and anything that promises to be an enemy of traditional Christianity. I suspect that they know that Islam doesn’t come to assimilate but to conquer but they don’t seem to care.

Here in America, Democrats, rather than agree with the things Trump does such as no boys on girls’ sports teams, they choose to oppose everything he does. They have no policy positions of their own to offer, no direction, no leadership, except the most foul mouthed, incompetent ones, but they just double down on what people have already rejected. If Trump succeeds in saving the world from the Great Reset, we will be able to thank the Democrat Party and its foul mouthed politicians for the victory.

Finally, folks, democracy is not the highest form of government. Individual liberty is what made America special and its what has always separated the US from the “other democracies.” Human nature makes pure democracy impossible and unworkable so it will always be controlled by a tiny elite.

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for listening.

Darrell Castle talks about Europe, Zelensky, and the war in Ukraine as well as the President’s speech to Congress and the Democrat reaction to it.

JEFFERSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT EUROPE

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 7th day of March in the year of our Lord 2025. I will be talking about Europe, Zelensky, and the war in Ukraine as well as the President’s speech to Congress and the Democrat reaction to it.

I will start today’s Report with a disclaimer. When I talk about Democrats and say nasty but always truthful things about them, when I refer to them in some disparaging terms I am talking about the politicians and their useful idiots in the media and not about individual Americans who identify as Democrats many of whom are dear friends or even relatives. So, I have no apology to offer for anything I have said or will say today about Democrat politicians because if I did not believe my position to be true I would certainly change it. In addition, there are some Republican politicians almost as bad as Democrats, almost but not quite because they know better but are simply reacting as the self-serving political hypocrites that they are.

The title of this Castle Report is taken from a quote by Thomas Jefferson offered more than 200 years ago but just as true today as it was then.

“I have deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely distinct from ours. Their mutual jealousies, their balance of power, their complicated alliances, their forms and principles of government, are all foreign toys. They are nations of eternal war.”

Yes, they are nations of eternal war and since the end of World War II we, the United States, have been as well because we have served as the military enforcement arm of European nations, especially NATO members. Some events have recently come to pass that give me reason to hope that situation might be at least starting to change. One of those events was the meltdown in the Oval Office by President Zelensky of Ukraine.

Why would a man with almost no cards in his hand at least no winning ones make such a defiant spectacle of himself in the office of the President of the United States. The New York Post has the answer for us:

“Before meeting Trump, Zelensky met with anti-Trump Democrats who advised him to reject the terms of the mineral deal the president was offering, according to Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn). Just finished a meeting with President Zelensky here in Washington. He confirmed that the Ukrainian people will not support a fake peace agreement where Putin gets everything he wants and there are no security arrangements for Ukraine. He attached a picture of Zelensky at a conference table, with Murphy seated on the opposite side..”

Some people have said that by listening to the democrats Zelensky betrayed his country and its people, but my question is what about the Democrats. Who or what did they betray. They betrayed the American people and hindered the President’s ability to end a war that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives. That could be a violation of the Logan act regarding foreign policy, but it is at least dangerous and reckless uncaring behavior.

Trump offered Zelensky a deal whereby he could express his gratitude to America by ceding the mineral rights to the very valuable rare earth minerals under the Ukrainian soil. You can hear my Castle Report called Ukraine is a Gold Mine by going to the index and finding 6-14-24. In that podcast I explain that neocon Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, tells us that we have to stay in the Ukraine war because it has a lot of valuable minerals under its soil.

Trump knows about the valuable minerals and he therefore proposed that Zelensky sign an agreement ceding the rights to those resources to the US in return for continued military and other economic support. The deal also would expect Zelensky to show gratitude and humility for the roughly $200 billion already provided to Ukraine. Zelensky was not humble and he was not grateful. He was, instead, arrogant and demanding, just as the Democrats advised him to be.

The Democrats, it seems, misread this room just as they misread the election. The American people gave their opinion that they wanted peace and Trump was the only one promising it. Here, with what amounts to an adversary, the Democrats intentionally sabotaged the President’s efforts to end the war, a truly despicable act potentially causing many deaths for partisan political purposes. It comes very close to a political crime resulting potentially in mass loss of life.

Having said all that, I don’t like the deal Trump offered Zelensky and here is why. I don’t think Zelensky should be grateful but neither do I think he should be insulting. It was Zelensky with Democrat encouragement, who wanted this Oval Office meeting. Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained that they wanted to handle the negotiations diplomatically but Zelensky insisted on the meeting. He, with Democrat encouragement, wanted this staged show for the world to embarrass Trump while the war continues.

He, Zelensky, insisted on a US guarantee of security for Ukraine and continued to press for NATO membership, both unobtainable dreams. The reason I don’t think he owes the US gratitude is that the US is at least partially responsible for this war through its actions toward Russia going back to 1990 and especially its involvement in the Ukrainian coup of 2014. Additionally, in the early stages of the war Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin explained to us that the real purpose of US involvement in the war was to weaken Russia. Lindsey Graham helped by telling us how valuable Ukraine was in terms of its natural resources.

In other words, it was about the US and its own political or imperialistic desires and not about Ukraine and its people. The proposal for Ukraine’s rare earth minerals, so valuable in today’s world, I don’t like either, in fact, I completely disagree with it. It is not much different from the European colonial period where the Nations of Britain, France, Germany, and Portugal went about the world acquiring colonies by military conquest. The US had to come along and in a sometimes-vain effort, clean up the mess as we tried to do in Vietnam. So no, I don’t like it at all and I hope the President will take a different approach.

What approach would I recommend to President Trump. I would tell him to understand what has happened so far and why. Ukraine should be free to negotiate deals with private companies of it’s choosing for the minerals it is incapable of mining on its own. We should advise Zelensky that he should make some accommodation with Russia because unless he wants our help in the negotiations we are out immediately. If he does accept our help then we will help him with negotiations with Russia and then we are out because we have decided to finally listen to Mr. Jefferson and follow his advice. I would tell the Europeans that NATO was formed as a defensive alliance but all it has done is provoke war and now it has us on the brink of a nuclear confrontation.

The United States is, therefore withdrawing from NATO and if you Europeans want to continue your destruction of Ukraine you are on your own. If you get yourself involved in a kinetic war with Russia please keep it on your side of the Atlantic and don’t come crying to us as you have so many times before. Zelensky’s demands on their face are absurd, unobtainable, and a waste of breath. The only purpose I can see in them is political show for Trump’s Democrat enemies at home and his European enemies abroad.

Make a deal with Russia, make a deal with China, and start the process by talking to them. Talk to everybody and be a friend of liberty everywhere but guarantee only our own. Ask all those Democrat Senators if they would be willing to send their own sons and daughters into the Ukrainian meat grinder to ensure the independence from Russia of the Russian speaking provinces of Eastern Ukraine and Crimea.

There is so much in this political world that is just for show and simply jostling for power. Unfortunately, that gamesmanship costs lives and in the case of this war hundreds of thousands of lives. Stop all this war and colonial exploitation, come home, mind your own business, and start paying attention to problems here.

We have people here without medical insurance or any way to get medical treatment when they need it. People in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee have no homes due to the hurricane. People in California are the same due to wildfires. Infrastructure is crumbling and needs maintenance in virtually the entire country. I like the instructions to drill baby drill although it sounds trite there are hundreds of thousands perhaps millions of jobs in that industry. Let’s put people back to work actually doing something and not hire them to make our fake numbers look a little better.

No more stimulus and no more giveaways because that just fuels inflation and costs everybody in the long run. It is always a net loss for everyone except the power-seeking politicians. Bill Bonner again:

“The feds hold no bake sales. They sell no cookies, door to door, nor engage in charitable fundraising. They produce few goods and offer few services that people would willingly pay for. When they want money they just take it.

So, it was last year that they took $4.9 trillion in tax revenue. But they spent $6.7 trillion. Whence cometh the difference? From other forms of taxation—inflation, primarily and tariffs.”

If I could accomplish one thing only from these Castle Reports it would be to show people that unless we do something to quickly balance the budget and reduce debt we are headed for disaster. Trump is at least trying to stem the flow of waste and fraud. People, I hope, can understand that Medicare, Medicaid, and especially Social Security are made stronger by eliminating waste and fraud, not weaker. The Democrats choose to alarm people when fraud is found and I suspect it is not because they believe their frightening headlines, but because they profit from the fraud and they want to keep it coming.

Hopefully, the election process will punish those politicians who cannot read the room and continue to act like spoiled children. Didn’t their rout in the recent election teach them anything. Can’t they understand that the man they hate is standing there speaking to them because the American people wanted him there. Yes you can sit on your hands, hold up childish signs, and scroll through your phones while the President is speaking. When the President introduces some poor child with lifetime cancer just sit there and don’t applaud. The people see you and they won’t forget so just keep it up because the midterms are just around the corner.

In conclusion folks, it is past time for the war in Ukraine to be ended. It took an act of criminal insanity for the US to involve itself in a border war between two countries on the other side of the world. Ukraine or the Ukraine means borderland and it was once just a region with shifting borders until Lenin created it as a territory just after World War I ended. Why would the US commit this act of insanity. For one, Ukraine has become a massive black hole swallowing up hundreds of billions and is in effect a giant laundromat. Something like 30% of all weapons delivered were sold on the black market to terrorists and Mexican drug cartels yet we keep sending. For two, the US and the Europeans say they fear that Russia wants to conquer Europe, but I suspect it’s the other way around.

 The Soviet Union could not Conquer Europe, only Eastern Europe and the Russian Federation is far less capable. But if the Europeans are under some delusion that they can defeat Russia in a war someone should enlighten them. Countries with 6000 nuclear missiles do not surrender or accept defeat with missiles still in their silos.

Finally, folks, I pray for Donald Trump and I wish him much success. Since 1971 the dollar has lost 88% of its purchasing power. The top 1% have taken over 50% of all wealth just since 2008. US manufacturing jobs have been cut by nearly half. This was not an accident but by design and now for the first time an administration is at least trying to dismantle the system of fraud and waste. What do Trump’s resisters want more debt, more unchecked spending, more opaque finances. Resistance as they see it really means, keep the checks flowing.

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for listening.

Darrell Castle talks about taking on or contending with the deep state or permanent Washington and how that relates to money, debt, credit and taxes.

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THE THEATER OF TAX AND SPEND

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 28th day of February in the year of our Lord 2025. I will be talking about taking on or contending with the deep state or permanent Washington and how that relates to money, debt, credit and taxes. Many taxpayers feel as if they have been and are being robbed by government officials and bureaucrats and that just might be because they are.

If you are like me then you know a lot of people who live on the edge barely making ends meet from week to week. I meet people literally everyday in my law practice who tell me they are one missed paycheck from the street. It is very distressing for those people when they find that much of the money taken from them as taxes was stolen by some invisible blob operating out of Washington D.C.

We are told during each presidential administration that the country has cast itself into penury by ceaseless efforts to care for its population as well as maintain a global security network to keep them safe and free. That statement is the opposite of truth as is normal for Washington. The recent theft, estimated at 4.7 trillion as is known so far, represents about two thirds of the annual national budget, but it disappears and is apparently impossible to trace. Nobody who should know does know and even fewer care where it goes.

People are starting to wonder how someone comes to Washington with modest net worth and makes a salary of $170,000 per year for say 10 years and suddenly has a net worth of over $100 million. For example, Samatha Power, former head of USAID in four years her net worth went from $6.4 million to $30 million on a salary of $180,000. That net worth represents approximately 100 times her salary so I wonder how she achieved such a miracle. Just a smart lady I guess. I would certainly advise anyone who has a desire to get rich in the stock market to look at the portfolios of Samantha Power and Nancy Pelosi and follow their trades because they are indeed stock picking geniuses.

 The answers to some of those puzzling questions are starting to be found through the efforts of Doge so the next question becomes what can we do about the theft of our labor. Speaking for myself I dread April 15th this year as I have never dreaded it before. I never look forward to Tax Day but my wife and I manage each year to find the money they demand from us and pay it with a good-natured shrug of our shoulders.

 That was before we knew for certain that we were being robbed each year. I have been working and paying federal taxes for about 60 years so that is a lot of money. I normally don’t agree with or support the useless and unconstitutional wars that Washington seems to constantly find its way into but now I know that the Pentagon has an enormous black hole where trillions disappear and remain unaccounted for.

This is how I think people are starting to view the government, its employees and the economy in general. People are skeptical and always have been but now they are turning from just skepticism to downright mistrust and dislike. I know many people are thinking this way because I talk to different people each day primarily about their finances as we try together to find their way out of a debt morass. It appears there are two parallel economies at work. One is for those people slaving away at a real job while trying to make ends meet and feed their families despite being bled dry by the IRS. It’s amazing how closely the debt load of working people matches the money taken from them by the IRS. That doesn’t even include the state income taxes of most states, sales taxes, and most importantly property taxes. The other economy is for those who benefit from and conduct the theft of the labor of normal people.

Here’s something that most people probably don’t know. I conclude that most people don’t understand they are being robbed because I talk to them every day. They are starting to wake up, however, thanks to the work of Doge and despite the best efforts of permanent Washington to keep them in the dark about its theft and enforced debt slavery. Here’s what I mean; the Constitution was ratified in 1789 and most people would say that is when the nation began although the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain was issued and signed in 1774. A war had to be fought and then the politicians had to have their meetings to finally get the nation started. The United States government managed to survive and pay its bills until 1913 when the bankers told us we couldn’t survive another minute without an income tax and that authority over money had to be ceded to an all-powerful central bank.

The tax was small at first and affected mostly extremely high wealth individuals, but the bankers were smart and they played the long game. They tilted the mechanisms of the economy downward toward them so that little by little all money flowed into the banks. Now, those of us who pay taxes on our income and on our real property are slaves in the classic definition of the word. The tax makes the government the owner of part of your labor and that part is whatever the government through its tax code says it is. The property tax establishes ownership of your home by the government. You have government permission to live there only as long as you pay the tax. If you own your home free and clear of the bank you really don’t own it because if you stop paying the government, will take your home and sell it.

The classic and historic definition of a free person is someone who owns his own labor. He is free to earn and profit from his own labor. I find myself in historic debate and discussion about such subjects quite often both in person and online. When I am talking to a person about slavery in the pre-civil war south the person sometimes argues that it wasn’t as bad as it seems because the slaves were not owned, it was their labor that was owned. Well, you can see that as the stupid argument that it is, and easy to refute, but it’s slavery either way because it fits the very definition of the word.

If Trump were able to replace the income tax with a tariff-based economy he would be one of the greatest Americans to live since the founders. To even mention it demonstrates that he recognizes the problem and wants to set the American people free or at least loosen the chains a little bit. The level of theft is now becoming apparent to any of us not living off the spoils of theft and I think that is still most of us.

The revealed theft is simply the icing on the government cake. It has been revealed to any of us who cares to look at the absolute depths of depravity to which our rulers have sunk. They just forced their science on us and deprived many of us of the little we had and that includes for many, their lives. They took away our jobs and businesses, locked us in our homes, forced their death vaccine on us and worse on our unsuspecting children and now we know that if that were not enough they stole what little we managed to keep from the grasp of the bankers.

To close out this tariff section of my report I want to quote my favorite economist Dr. Paul Craig Roberts.

“The information from Doge of the enormous fraud, abuse, and self-dealing that the US budget contains as a slush fund for insiders and for bribing foreign politicians and overthrowing foreign governments indicates that sufficient reductions are possible to establish a tariff at a reasonable rate. To rescue Americans from the slavery of an income tax would be one of the greatest achievements in history. Let’s achieve it.”

The knowledge of the atrocities visited on us by the government is becoming clear to more and more people, for example. A recent article published by the Ron Paul Institute titled “The Most Dramatic Narrative Shift in Modern History was written by Jeffrey A. Tucker. He argues that this dramatic shift he describes was Covid. “Government was not what we thought. It is something else. It does not serve the public. It serves its own interests.” I will add a comment of my own to Mr. Tucker’s words and that is that it virtually never tells us the truth about what its interests actually are.

The governments of the world are made of fallen, corrupt people and the founders understood that, and so they designed a system of checks and balances so meticulous that nothing ever seemed to work efficiently. The men who wrote the Constitution and who designed and debated and ultimately ratified it for all of us and our posterity didn’t even trust each other to run governments. Jefferson and Adams in particular, fought verbally throughout the process. They didn’t resolve their dispute until Adams was on his deathbed. Vice President Burr killed Treasury Secretary Hamilton in a pistol duel. Madison and Hamiliton wrote of these things and explained them in the Federalist Papers. The idea is that no one who seeks political power can be trusted with it, therefore they sought to “bind them with the chains of the Constitution.”

Trump doesn’t seem to understand much political, economic, or military history but I hope he studies some Russian history before he meets face to face with Vladimir Putin. It seems to me that it would be difficult to deal adequately or accurately with Russians unless you understand something of how Russia has spent say the last 1200 years. There are some early but very hopeful signs, however, including his announced 90-minute telephone call with Putin.

“I just had a lengthy and highly productive phone call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. We discussed Ukraine, the Middle East, Energy, Artificial Intelligence, the power of the dollar, and various other subjects. We both reflected on the Great History of our Nations, and the fact that we fought so successfully together in World War II, remembering that Russia lost 10’s of millions of people, and we, likewise lost so many! We each talked about the strengths of our respective nations, and the great benefit that we will someday have in working together. But first, as we both agreed, we want to stop the millions of deaths taking place in the War with Russia/Ukraine. President Putin even used my very strong Campaign motto of, COMMON SENSE.”

In my opinion restoring ties with Russia and negotiating a settlement of the Ukraine war would be very big blows to the deep state or permanent Washington. So big that I fear for his life because opening ties with the two biggest enemies, Russia and China, will cost the deep state or Military Industrial Complex a lot of money and potentially spoil their future. The stocks of the MIC companies have already declined rapidly since his inauguration. For that reason, I fear for his life because there have been at least two attempts that we know of so it would not shock me if some deep state operative had another “lone nut” waiting.

It appears obvious that given the two assassination attempts, the lawfare attacks, the corrupt prosecutors sicced on him by a corrupt Department of Justice and a corrupt President, Donald Trump has decided to adopt a laser focused attack on the deep state using people he trusts who have the right point of view for the positions he entrusted to them.

Tulsi Gabbard at intelligence and Kash Patel at FBI are two of the most important members of the cabinet because the organizations they now head were at the very heart of entrenched deep state corruption. Those organizations led the corrupt fight from Russia gate to the Hunter Laptop cover up that served to undo his first term, and he, therefore, chose people he thinks will not let that happen again. Each of his nominees so far have made it clear that they intend to depart from deep state norms.

Finally, folks, this is a very important period in American history. We, as the American people can reign in the theft, waste, and corruption, or we can let it run and even participate and if so financial collapse is inevitable. I don’t think spending is really going to be cut as is reflected in the newly passed budget deal which envisions $2 trillion deficits into the future. Even among Trump supporters the determination to make cuts in anything other than foreign aid appears to be non-existent and therefore this really is just theater for our entertainment. Tax, spend and rob theater.

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for listening.

Darrell Castle talks about the remarks of Vice President Vance at the annual Munich Security Conference and the European response to those remarks. In addition he discusses DOGE and its examination of the Military Industrial Complex.

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RUDE AMERICAN OFFERS EUROPEAN INDEPENDENCE

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 21st day of February in the year of our Lord 2025. I will be talking about the remarks of Vice President Vance at the annual Munich Security Conference as well as the European response to those remarks. In addition, I will talk a little about DOGE and its examination of the Military Industrial Complex (MIC).

Yes, J.D. Vance spoke to Europeans about their relationship with the U.S. at the annual Munich Security Conference which had as its main emphasis the U.S. role as the guarantor of European Security and the European and American roles in Ukraine. He called the Europeans out for censoring their people and for allowing third world migrants to destroy their communities. He seemed to indicate that these policies were not in the best interest of the European people and they also hinder our fellowship with them. I will point out that those have also been the policies of the United States for at least the past 4 years and in part for all the years since 9/11, but the European elite bought what the Biden administration was selling to them hook, line, and sinker.

I suppose he was telling Europe that that the new sheriff in the U.S. believes in free speech and in preserving the quality of life for the American people. The subjects that Vance discussed in his speech were, in my view, an admission that the empire is in trouble and changes have to be made right now to save a free republic for our children. The debt faced by the country will lead to ultimate collapse and chaos and something must be done to change or at least slow the process of that looming disaster. The content of his speech acknowledged that reality without really saying it out loud.

Taking all the bloated and wasteful departments and all the wasteful people who are supposed to be working for the federal government into account the MIC stands out and presents itself head and shoulders above all the others. It fails every audit and purports to tell us that we don’t even have a right to ask where all the money goes because it’s just none of our business. It spends trillions and has trillions that it admits to having no knowledge of. The federal government with more than 36 trillion as debt seems to have no other choice but to keep feeding the monster. Vance was trying to tell our European allies that this administration understands the problem and is not afraid to confront it.

The money is real isn’t it, and those who receive it know where it comes from and where it goes don’t they. They have used it to buy almost every member of the House and Senate. Once again, they use our money in a never-ending cycle to generate more revenue from the people who create it. The American people, with their labor extracted from them by these corrupt people and organizations, are forced to keep feeding this monster so the cycle continues. It all is apparently just a giant, terrible scam and always has been but we are constantly brainwashed or at least propagandized to accept it as real and necessary.

It’s a myth, but a sacred myth held close to the heart of Americans. U.S. troops, our sons and daughters, are stationed all over the world manning bases in some 700 places around the world but the number is just an approximate guess because nobody seems to know for certain how many there are. They involve themselves in almost every conflict that comes along many of which the federal government creates either deliberately or through stupidity and bumbling. These power brokers, bought and paid for, play the grand game on the grand chessboard at a cost to the American people of an admitted 1 trillion per year. Trillions more go unaccounted for as I previously mentioned.

We are told constantly that it all makes us safe and free and so often the opposite is true. When I was a Marine Corps officer more than 50 years ago we young officers were told in classrooms that we were the enforcement arm of American foreign policy which was determined by our civilian leadership. Ours was not to question orders but to follow them to the letter and carry out the foreign policy decisions of leadership. The troops, on the other hand, were told nothing, but they were expected to fight hard for freedom and for the safety of their loved ones. They were comforted by the knowledge that their sacrifice made the safety and freedom of their parents, wives, girlfriends, possible. It was all a scam created by horrible people who remain insulated from the sacrifice of the battlefield and the carnage they created.

Maybe, just maybe, this administration has seen and understands what has been happening and has decided to put the ravenous beast on a diet. The firepower industry, the MIC seems to be under attack by this new administration. The Doge team has been given the Pentagon, the holy ground of the MIC, as a place to audit and review. In other words, sacred cows are now on the altar if the people can just get past party bickering and the propaganda and support the examination wherever it leads.. The Pentagon has been directed to turn over a list of probationary employees with an expectation that many could be laid off. In case you don’t know probationary employees are those with only one year or less on the job. In other words, they know when hired that they are on probation for a year and could be kept or let go at any time.

Here is a quote from old friend Bill Bonner which illustrates what Musk might say to the Pentagon brass.

“We’re here to root out waste. No useless aircraft? No easily sunk ships? Close unnecessary bases? Stop useless weapons development? Fire some of the 3 million people who get our paychecks?  Tighten our belts? Cancel our beach-house plans? Yeah, that’s right. What about our enemies? What enemies? You know perfectly well that there is no country on earth capable of crossing the ocean with a viable armada. They’d be wiped out by missiles and bombers before even leaving port. Uh, what about Russia, China, terrorists? Are you kidding? Russia has a tiny economy. China’s economy depends on selling stuff to Americans not attacking them. And terrorists have never been anything more than a fake enemy.”

O.K. that might happen but it’s one thing to cut spending by USAID but when you start cutting spending for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, that’s a whole different level of resistance. Folks, I wonder if you know the last time the Pentagon had its budget cut. Well, it was after WWll or about 80 years ago. When the troops came home they were demobilized. General Eisenhower, who I will argue knew more about war and the military in general than any president since cut 30% off the Department of Defense.

That was before the MIC took over the country and became its symbol, its very definition and gained control of both political parties. I wonder if any of this will work out well enough to head off the coming disaster. The president seems to understand the problem and has taken steps to lighten the nation’s burden of political operatives known as 4-star officers. Those generals and admirals gained 4-star rank, in many cases, by playing the game well and feeding the beast who in turn fed them.

So, Vance called the Europeans out for censoring their people and for abandoning their people to criminal migrants. He was right to do so despite the screaming. Things are so bad in Europe regarding its migrant population that its only a slight exaggeration to say that in Sweden not only is the rape of thousands of young Swedish girls by migrants not a crime, but the reporting of rape, and the complaining about rape are considered to be worse crimes than the rapes. I suppose the censoring of speech about reporting and complaining was at least part of Vance’s agenda, at least I hope it was.

The European politicians in attendance stated to reporters after the speech that they now see America as an adversary. So, listening to your own people, the ones you are elected or appointed to serve, instead of censoring their complaints is somehow seen and treated as a threat to democracy. Once again, that is the opposite of the truth and by its very nature, democracy or the will of the people is hindered or extinguished. One reporter said that “a prominent German politician” told him that the speech was a direct attack on European democracy. A senior diplomat told the same reporter “It’s very clear now Europe is alone.”

This is just me folks, but I suspect the European Democracy they are so afraid of criticizing is, in reality, unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. Vance himself when talking later about the speech and the reaction to it said, “The transatlantic elite have created so many institutions to silence their own people and to delegitimize the beliefs of the public. Of course, the Biden administration was the worst offender.”

Yes, Mr. Vice President, I was waiting for you to acknowledge that we in America have done essentially the same thing you are criticizing the Europeans for. I suppose the difference is that the administration you serve has pledged to change that policy. The Munich speech created a firestorm of a different variety. The German Defense Minister can be seen on the video after the speech visibly crying at the podium. The Minister’s name is Boris Pistorius and he quickly let the U.S. know that he was not happy. “This democracy was just called into question by the U.S. Vice President, not just German democracy but that of Europe as a whole. If I understand him correctly he compares the condition of Europe with what prevails in some authoritarian regimes, this is not acceptable. This is not the Europe where I live.”

Well Minister, with all due respect, my guess is that the Europe you live in is not the one the people who are overrun with rampant criminality live in. I doubt very seriously minister, if you go to bed at night terrified that your 12-year-old daughter might be gang raped by criminals invited into your country by the European democracy, but many of your people are terrified of that prospect. The speech, I suspect, hit a little closer to home than anyone imagined. He noted for his audience numerous examples including social media censorship, arresting people for sharing unpopular opinions, and the supporting of overturning election results in Romania based on an alleged on-line Russian spending campaign.

Remember last week I blamed the Romanian election debacle on the U.S. by way of USAID, and I still do but apparently the US used its European proxies to do it. Trump and Vance haven’t done any of this stuff so they are criticizing the Europeans knowing that the Biden administration, whoever the president actually was, did the same and worse. For example, if the Biden administration, and it appears the president personally ordered it, hadn’t destroyed the Nord Stream Pipeline, then Trump would not be able threaten them with tariffs unless they buy more American oil and gas. They would instead have plenty of inexpensive Russian gas and they would have no need to buy ours. There would also be a more peaceful Europe as Europe would have been in a position of cooperation with Russia rather than constantly in military conflict.

That brings up the whole question of Ukraine where this administration has let it be known that acknowledgement of reality is the order of the day. Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged that this is a multipolar world. The belief in a unipolar world run by America has been deep state unquestionable policy since 1990 so that acknowledgment is no small thing. The Secretary of Defense acknowledged publicly that Ukraine cannot enter NATO as Zelensky continues to demand.

When Trump called Putin and talked about standing down from war and reducing military spending it was perhaps the most important international call since JFK spoke to Khruschev. The core demands of Putin’s 2007 speech at the Munich Conference setting out the possibility of peace have now all been met or are ongoing. It has been approximately 35 years since the Soviet Union collapsed and perhaps now we will put aside the grand chessboard and start keeping our word to each other.

Finally, folks, the greatest thing any president has said to us in many years is Trumps words outlining his desire to have a future meeting with the leaders of Russia and China.

“One of the first meetings I want to have is with President Xi of China, President Putin of Russia, and I want to say, Let’s cut our military budget in half. And we can do that.”

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for listening.

Darrell Castle discusses the corruption that only the US taxpayers can provide with $50 billion per year of their hard-earned money, all laundered through an organization called the United States Agency for International Development.

Transcription / Notes

USAID—FINANCIAL LAUNDRYMAT FOR THE CORRUPT ELITE

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday the 14th day of February in the year of our Lord 2025. Yes, this is Valentine’s Day, but I speak not of love today but of corruption and not just any old corruption but the kind that only the US taxpayers can provide with $50 billion per year of their hard-earned money all laundered through an organization called The United States Agency for International Development.

USAID was formed by an Executive Order of President Kennedy in 1961. He looked at the world and concluded that he might be able to spare the world from some of what President Eisenhower had gone through by just spreading some US money around in countries to help their people instead of using that money to destabilize them and start eternal wars. That process has become known over the years as soft power.

It seemed to work too, at least it worked for the few years of his too short life. USAID built schools, hospitals, and roads across much of Africa. JFK became a revered figure, especially in Africa, and you can still find hospitals and schools named Kennedy across Africa. Once Kennedy was assassinated by a lone nut who was, coincidentally, also assassinated by a lone nut, things started to change at USAID. The agency evolved over time into nothing more than a $50 billion slush fund for the politically connected to inflict their ideologies on people across the world. The uncovering and correction of this corruption is being labeled by certain Democrat politicians and their media mouthpieces as a coup, but no it is not a coup. A coup is what your CIA and State Department using USAID money has been conducting against foreign countries for at least the last 50 years.

Audits of USAID by the DOGE team led by Elon Musk, has revealed to the American people some of the previously unexplained but puzzling things they have endured since the death of JFK. The corruption in many departments of the federal government is so deep and so complete that I along with most taxpayers have been shocked and amazed by it. Yes indeed, who would not like to have a $50 billion slush fun to sprinkle across the globe to satisfy any dubious project abroad and at home as well.

For more than 60 years USAID has served as a slush fund for corrupt foreign governments, NGOs with corrupt objectives, and most importantly the charities of the ruling elite. Yes, the corrupt of the world enjoy their lifestyles while lecturing the American people about the vital importance of foreign aid. The revelations coming from DOGE help to explain why Donald Trump is hated like no American has been hated in my memory. Until Trump started to change some things the objective of USAID has apparently always been the same no matter which administration or which party happened to sit in the White House.

The servants of the global elite work hard to get their party elected but they know nothing will really change no matter who wins. The agency’s mission remains the same through each election –move money around the world through all the right hands so that the donor class remains happy. Some of you may have wondered how so many Democrat politicians with little to no credentials come into office with modest net worths and before you know it they are multi-millionaires. You may wonder as well how, despite being abandoned almost completely by the people mainstream media somehow manages to stay afloat and continue spouting out its pro-government propaganda.

Where did Bill and Hillary get $200 million and where did their daughter Chelsea get $84 million. Yes, USAID has buried within it the clues to answer those questions. When confronted with the facts those who feed at the taxpayers’ trough just point to the myriad of cut outs and other in-betweens used to launder the money so they can pretend no one stole it, and they don’t even care anymore how obvious their theft and corruption are. I don’t want to pick on the Clintons because this isn’t just about them, but it is curious how contributions to their global charity dried up as soon as she lost the 2016 election. Yet, we know now thanks to DOGE that the agency funneled money into this “global charity” and called it development.

We shouldn’t forget about Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and the labs at the University of North Carolina. Somehow the foreign aid of the agency found its way into the pockets of Chinese scientists who were conducting gain of function research on an obscure virus. Could the agency’s money, no it was your money, help explain some of the global catastrophe that resulted from the agency’s “development” money.

Have you ever wondered how the nation’s news organizations from the New York Times to Politico to all the networks manage to keep operating the same agenda despite losing hundreds of millions or collectively billions. No consumer feedback and no election change their agenda despite the losses. Well, now thanks to Elon Musk’s’ team, we know that they are funded with your money. It’s like the Soviet promise that they would sell us the rope to hang ourselves, but it didn’t take Russians to do it only our own political greed and lust for power.

Donald Trump’s second term thus far has been dedicated to cleaning up and reforming the bureaucratic state that has confronted and confounded him every step of the way. Permanent Washington hates him like no one else but the feeling seems to be mutual. From trumped up, pardon the pun, charges to baseless lawsuits, to corrupt juries, corrupt prosecutors, corrupt judges to finally at least two assassination attempts nothing has stopped him so far.

The interesting thing is that everything they have done has only made him stronger. With each baseless charge and each lawsuit his poll numbers increased and the assassination attempts sealed the deal. Democrats could not grasp the fact that only their most ardent members believed their lies while the rest of the people respected his courage and determination. Perhaps the Democrats listened to their own bought and paid for, with our money, news that was always so friendly and uplifting for them.

The most interesting thing that I have gotten from the revelations about the agency have been that its global mission, to promote “global development” was a complete and utter failure because it was never the actual agenda. The agency poured trillions into the world’s sewers over the decades but the sewage is still there more violent and chaotic than ever. In fact, I will argue right now that the agency which steals your money and gives it away to its elite favored ones has made the world much worse and the world now is starting to notice.

I could go on all day with talk about what USAID has funded much of it to promote the gay lesbian and transgender agenda around the world but let me just give you a couple of recent examples. When a country or a country’s leader is not behaving according to the state department and its enforcement arm, the CIA, then quite often the decision is made to effect regime change in that country. Normally they would just buy off with USAID billions the good will of the existing leader, but believe it or not, some foreign leaders have the best interests of their people in their minds ahead of money.

You may or may not know but my wife and I started and run a Christian Mission in Romania dedicated to providing a good and safe home to the distressed, homeless children of Bucharest. That mission has done amazing things without a single dollar of government money, but I only mention it to explain why I generally stay up to date on Romanian politics and the state of the Romanian economy. That country has been turned into a giant NATO base as a bulwark against Russia which causes vulnerability for the Romanian people and can in no way serve their best interest. Some Romanians screamed about this and so in their last election a man who opposed continued Romanian support for military aid to Ukraine and the NATO bases in his country won the election.

That man named Georgescu, always described by the media as “far-right” or “Ultra-Nationalist” came from behind and won the first round of voting. The media had him 5th in the polls but surprisingly the media was wrong. When he won, that simply could not be tolerated so a constitutional court overturned the election and left a very unpopular President in power. Now that USAID is out in the open and hopefully no more money is pouring into Romania perhaps in the next upcoming election the people can elect the person they want rather than the person selected by the ruling elite. It has now come to light that the US through USAID was pouring money into state department efforts to get the appropriate leader for Romania. They always termed it “judicial reform” and helping to form a “civil society” but it amounted to CIA regime change funded through USAID.

This is all very disappointing for the Romanian people who suffer under extreme inflation, lack of food, lack of power, rising costs of the essentials of life, but they have their NATO bases which of course put them in harm’s way. They see America as the shining light on a hill so the vile corruption now coming to light about USAID has been difficult for them. Hopefully some real development will happen now instead of just making them a target. Its difficult for people who think they have “democracy” only to learn that a foreign government selects their leaders.

Bangladesh is another recent example of what a little “development” and “civil society” can do. The US once again wanted to put a large military base in that small country to deter the Chinese from the Indian Ocean. Bangladesh is located on the Eastern tip of India and has no visible need for a US military base so their president said no he would not accept it. The CIA, with USAID funding went in, destabilized the country so that he was forced out and a more favorable leader could replace him.

I have toned down what the whistleblower who reported the overthrow of the government of Bangladesh actually said about it. The same thing has happened across the world from Ukraine and its resulting war with many dead and the destruction of that country to many nations across Africa. Countries are seeing what the DOGE team has reported and they are not happy about it. The real damage is that countries who have very unpopular leaders must wonder how much of their unpopularity is funded by USAID.

Many millions have been spent on regime change around the world but also on advancing the LGBTQ agenda. Only those people who are willing to advance that agenda are allowed to receive USAID money and State Department/CIA assistance. I don’t have to remind you of it I know you’ve seen the list like I have with such things as a transgender opera in Columbia, $50 thousand and a transgender comic book in Peru $32 thousand.

The weird thing is that they have been doing the same thing here in America that they were doing around the world. Destabilize the government, fund the media, fund the censorship regime to keep dissenting voices off the internet so only one view was present except by alternate media which they worked hard to silence. Why were the BLM rioters allowed to burn and loot but the J-6 protesters were arrested and imprisoned. You will find the answer in USAID funding. Perhaps the worst use of taxpayer money in history was the $27 million of agency money given to George Sorus for his prosecutor election fund. That’s right folks your money paid for this man’s crimes and your money financed the destruction of your city by violent crime. Incredible and unthinkable but it did happen.

I have often wondered during my roughly 45 years as a lawyer why my professional organization, the American Bar Association, has been so consistently in the Democrat Party pocket, well now thanks to Elon Musk, I know.  The ABA has been voicing strong opposition to cuts in USAID money I suppose to pretend that they think it really is aid. The statement by the ABA against the revelations of DOGE was described as blistering but then so are the numbers of grants for this and that the ABA receives. So, the ABA blasts cuts to USAID, but it, the ABA is the organization that gets millions from USAID.  It might be easier to just make a list of those who do not get agency money and have not been corrupted by its millions.

Maybe we should stop thinking that we can convert the world into California if we just throw enough taxpayer money at it. Why do we continue to fund an agency that sows nothing but corruption around the world. Now that this has come to light people are seeing it and they are outraged by it. Granted $50 billion per year is a drop in the bucket of what the US government takes from us and wastes each year but it is a start on the road to reduction of the two trillion deficit we are now producing.

Finally, folks, this story is evolving and getting worse each day. The Pentagon is just starting to be looked at and as you might expect the view so far is terrible. It’s a very painful thing to see your government as it really is for the first time in a very long time but it has to be done if we are to find our way back.

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for listening.

Darrell Castle continues to share his thoughts on the confirmation hearings of Tulsi Gabbard and RFK, Jr. and shares his thesis that the hearings revealed a lot more about the U.S. government, especially the Senators who questioned them, than it did Tulsi and RFK, Jr.

Transcription / Notes

THE TRIALS OF TULSI AND RFK, JR.

Hello, THIS IS Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 7th day of February in the year of our Lord 2025. I will continue to give you my thoughts on the confirmation hearings of Tulsi Gabbard and RFK, Jr. as well as my thesis that the hearings revealed a lot more about the U.S. government and especially about the Senators who questioned them than they did about Tulsi and RFK, Jr.

Both nominees were passed by the committee and now await a full Senate vote on whether or not they will be able to participate in Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle the shadow government that has run the world for many years. Tulsi was advanced to a senate vote by the intelligence committee on a vote of 9 in favor and 8 opposed. So, 8 senators could not bring themselves to vote yes on Lt. Col. Gabbard who has served her country so faithfully for most of her life.

The senators seemed very concerned because of what they know will happen if these two nominees are confirmed. The deep state of secrecy and shadows will be opened at least in part for the people to see what they have been funding for many years. Since Tulsi is nominated for the office of Director of National Intelligence secrecy is of the most vital concern for the senators. They just can’t bear the thought of someone shining a light on the graft and corruption that permeates Washington. We the people have no right to know where all the money is going and where it all comes from.

I think I understand what all this is about and that is that the U.S. government through its various departments does such horrible things that if we had even a little transparency then people would start to understand that their government contains a lot of very wicked people who do a lot of very wicked things. Tulsi believes that by revealing those things to the world there might just be a chance of stopping them and changing direction.

For example, should we have a right to know who is assassinating our leaders. If the version of the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK that we have been given are accurate then what is wrong with opening the files? Obviously, the files contain a lot of damning information about the agencies Tulsi seeks to lead and that is why secrecy is so important. Most people can understand that if the files reveal that the CIA orchestrated those murders then it is important to reveal those things to us so that the guilty can be punished and presidents and senators and civil rights leaders will not be murdered by our own government in the future.

 If that view is completely false and the government and its agents had nothing to do with the murders then what is fearful about transparency? It seems obvious to me that there is a valid reason for government officials to fear full release because the official versions are just the best lie they could think of at the moment. Speaking of assassinations what about the murder of Seth Rich. He was a young man who worked for DNC and had a key role in the Clinton campaign in 2016. Seth apparently saw things that bothered him because unlike most government bureaucrats he had a conscience and that created fear that he would no longer keep his knowledge to himself.

I suppose Seth did not agree with the philosophy that the moral cause of the Democrat Party and that particular campaign was so just and so sound and so important and so vital to America that it justified any means to achieve victory. He was walking home one night down a busy street in Washington and was shot in the back and left dying on the sidewalk. The FBI investigated and took control because he was a federal employee and their conclusion, officially that is, was that it was just a random street robbery although his wallet, watch, and cell phone were not taken. Since then, people have been trying to get the FBI files released and even a judge ordered the FBI to release the files. In response the FBI appealed and requested that the files remain classified and secret for 66 years.

 Why, and does that make any sense except that it is obvious that Seth was murdered by a government operative and if revealed it would embarrass the entire deep state apparatus of Washington and perhaps even send some to prison. Who did the shooting and more importantly, who ordered the hit on Seth Rich. People concerned about their country want to know who are these people who live in shadows, who have no decency, no dignity, and who lust constantly for more power but the deep state says no to transparency.

Once again, I suppose we are expected to believe that in our democracy we have no need to know who assassinates our leaders. Just accept what the corrupt leaders tell you at face value and move on. If you dispute their version, even if it is illogical and nonsensical, then you are a conspiracy theorist and no longer a serious person. Watching the Tulsi hearings left me with the same sort of feeling. The senate is supposed to advise and consent and provide oversite for the president’s cabinet but it is hard to believe that is the way Tulsi’s exam happened.

She was able to obtain 9 votes in favor of her in the intel committee by essentially stating a lie. It reminded me of the charges against Julian Assange in which the price of his freedom was lying about what happened. We learned from these hearings that the senate, i.e. the deep state is obviously and openly before the world, devoted to protecting state secrecy above all else even when it is abusing its power and that is obvious for anyone to see. She was forced to grovel before the operatives of the national security apparatus if she wanted to be considered for the job for which she has been nominated.

Was Edward Snowden a traitor yes or no. If you say no then by implication I will not vote for you so Tulsi you must lie to get my vote. Tulsi’s answer that he broke the law and should not have revealed to the American people that its government was illegally, and unconstitutionally spying on them was not sufficient. They pressed her time and again to say publicly that Snowden is a traitor. She is bothered by the fact that the American people have no privacy and the government has rendered the 4th amendment a dead letter but the senators are not bothered by it. It has always interested me that the senate doesn’t seem concerned at all about the information that Snowden revealed to us just that he revealed it.

The senators might as well have said to her, Tulsi listen, this is the dark and secret deep state you are dealing with and whatever belief you had that made you join the army after 9/11 was just nonsense. You are obviously a woman of honor and decency and that is simply not welcome in this group. If you are willing to lay your honor aside and start lying to the American people right now so you get numb to lying then we might consider letting you into our dark and secret club. The reason the club is allowed to remain dark and secret is that no one who is unwilling to say those things and dirty himself with their filth is ever allowed in.

She was also willing to make a 180-degree shift in position on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Section 702 which conducts its spying in secrecy and total darkness. That is not just the opinion of pie in the sky libertarian types but it is also now the position of federal courts that such searches must have a warrant. She opposed that law her entire career but they had to make her submit and they did. Tulsi knows such searches are illegal and abusive, and rob the people of privacy, but she was willing to compromise to get approval. The people sitting in judgment of Tulsi are not worthy of her so they have to bring her down into their web of darkness so she will be as filthy as they are.

Tulsi was approved by the committee by a vote of 9-8, so we can move on and talk about RFK, Jr. for a few moments. The people sitting in judgment of Bobby Kennedy remind me of people I met while I was a Marine Corps officer more than 50 years ago. The Marines for whom I had responsibility and control would come to me and say something like, hey lieutenant I want you to meet my hooker. They said that because that was the common language of the day and the vernacular for prostitute was hooker.

Those women were in a very difficult place and had very difficult lives which in many ways were made worse by the war that we young Marines were required to fight in their cities and jungles. They had only one way to survive and that was to sell their bodies but they were far more honest and above board than the senators who questioned Bobby Kennedy. The senators aren’t open about being prostitutes and they would undoubtedly deny that status and that’s why I respect and even admire the poor women we encountered in war zones around the world, and why I disrespect most members of the U.S. Senate. They are prostitutes in that they represent their johns for money, but they have the privilege of lying about it.

The best example of this phenomenon that comes to mind is Senator Elizibeth Warren a Democrat from Massachusetts. She has a reputation for being a consumer advocate and she makes a point of attacking the financial industry on behalf of her constituents. She was disappointing and even disgraceful at the hearings because she turned out to be nothing at all except a shill for the pharmaceutical industry which owns her. Yes, that’s right senator, he who pays the piper calls the tune and in this case you are the piper and big pharma calls the tune.

She was outraged against Kennedy for what she portrayed as his anti-vaccine position. He repeatedly denied it and said that he was not anti-vaccine but he is pro-safety further explaining that all his children are vaccinated. Having all your children vaccinated is not necessarily a badge of honor as far as I’m concerned but it does serve the same purpose as what Tulsi had to go through. Big pharma vaccines have done incalculable harm to the health of children around the world and Kennedy has proven that fact time and again in 40 years of litigation against that industry. They insisted that he pledge to stop suing big pharma if he happened to be confirmed but to his credit he refused to do so.

The two senators who showed the most outrage and who gave Kennedy the hardest time while trying to intimidate him into renouncing his honor were Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Bernie Sanders. Well, it turns out that Senator Warren is not the highest paid senator by big Pharma, no, she is only the second highest at $821,941 per year. The highest paid is Senator Bernie Sanders at $1,417,811. One thing big Pharma has learned over the years is to get a good return on investment. I’ve read calculations from financial people who are supposed to know these things that campaign contributions return about 76 times the investment. So, I guess that means $100 invested in a senator should return $7600 if my calculations are accurate. The fact that these senators are shills and prostitutes for an industry that spent several years killing millions around the world, ruining many lives, destroying jobs and economic security is not the worst. No, the worst is the sanctimonious way they purport to sit in judgment of someone whose purpose in life is to stop the damage these people are causing.

Tulsi is mild and calm compared to the way Kennedy works these people up into a frenzy. The only one they hate more than Bobby Kennedy is Donald Trump, but that is who the people selected so they must console themselves by trying to undermine what the people elected him to do.

Finally, folks, it takes a brave man and a brave woman to take on such forces because this is a spiritual war. Bobby Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard are that man and that woman. They are warriors in a glorious struggle against immense evil forces.

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for listening.

Darrell Castle talks about the Senate confirmation hearings for Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as the two nominees represent the last line of defense against the Pharmaceutical and permanent war parties and therefore, they will pull out all stops to defeat them.

Transcription / Notes

PERMANENT WASHINGTON FEARS AND HATES TULSI AND RFK, JR.

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 31st day of January in the year of our Lord 2025. I will be talking about the Senate confirmation hearings for Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services. These two nominees represent the last line of defense for the Pharmaceutical and permanent war parties and therefore, they will pull out all stops to defeat them.

Once again I will begin this report with a quote from Dennis Kucinich:

“Congresswoman Gabbard is uniquely qualified for this role. As a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, she has served our nation with distinction since 2002, earning Top Secret clearance through the trust of the Department of Defense, her executive officers, and peers. There are few individuals as prepared, as experienced, and as committed to the national interest as Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard. Her leadership has consistently demonstrated sound judgment, ethical standards, and an unwavering commitment to the constitution of the United States.”

Well, that explains the problem for Tulsi. Not many of those who sit in judgment of her share that commitment to ethical standards, and especially the Constitution that Mr. Kucinich tells us that Tulsi has and none of them are worthy of her. This report had to be recorded before the vote but I watched her opening statement and it was epic. She would be one of the best ever if she could just be allowed to serve. I think Bobbie Kennedy will be able to squeak by all those prostitutes the pharmaceutical industry has sent to block his confirmation, but I am very worried about Tulsi and she is the most important name on the list. I wonder why they hate and fear her more than all the other nominees. What fearful thing does she represent to them and their sponsors, but then the answer came to me.

This administration tells us that it is going to be about full transparency and it fulfilled that pledge at least partially by announcing that the classified files on JFK, RFK, and MLK will be declassified and released. In keeping with the idea of transparency, 2025 is the 50th anniversary of what came to be known as the Church Committee. The formal name of the Church Committee was the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities. It was chaired by Senator Frank Church a Democrat from Idaho, thus the name that stuck.

Things started coming to light in the early 1970’s about what the U.S. intelligence apparatus might be doing to its own citizens. These leaks were at a time of growing dissatisfaction with the Vietnam War and Senator Church was an outspoken critic of the war. The New York Times published an article by Seymour Hersh detailing operations conducted by the C.I.A. including assassinations of foreign leaders as well as operations against citizens of the U.S. based on their political views. Senator Church put his committee together to investigate and 1975 became known in media circles as the year of intelligence.

Many things were discovered by the committee and these were things of an extremely embarrassing and disturbing nature. The things that Senator Church and his committee uncovered revealed to the American people that in many ways the elite who ran this country were at least as bad as the elite who ran all the other countries. It would be hard to exaggerate the degree of scum this committee uncovered living in what some have come to refer to as Permanent Washington. They infest the woodwork and live administration after administration doing their destructive work.

The most shocking and disturbing thing uncovered was an operation called MKULTRA which involved the drugging and torture of unknowing U.S. Citizens who were guilty of nothing except being loyal to their country. MKULTRA was part of a vast C.I.A. experiment on human beings using drugs, trauma, and other means to control their minds. Countless people were victims and had their minds destroyed by this evil program, but most importantly, it was proven to work. It proved that it would be easy to control the minds, thoughts, and actions of people who were subjected to years of traumatic torture and mind-altering drugs such as LSD.

The experiments were not directed at anyone individual but were intended as an experiment in control of an entire population. Despite the fact that Senator Frank Church and his committee revealed this to the world many refused to believe that their government could be so evil and that proves at least partially that the experiment worked.

 This part is my own theory I admit, but I believe it is valid. The C.I.A. took control of the American media by allowing and encouraging the consolidation of the various news outlets with the result that some 50 media sources were reduced to a carefully controlled 5 or 6. The New York Times and Washington Post came on board as nothing more than mouth pieces for C.I.A, propaganda.

My theory then, to cut it short, is that MKULTRA was proven to work and is now being conducted against the entirety of the American people. Divide us through race, gender, and class distinctions so that we all hate each other and we hate anyone who represents what we perceive as the “other side” which we often refer to as Fascist or Nazi. In the end the deep state is manipulating all of us because it is far easier to control and manipulate divided people. Our own government and all its intelligence apparatus has joined forces with international globalists led by the World Economic Forum and the United Nations and its various offshoot agencies.

To give credence to my theory another program the Church Committee discovered was called COINTELPRO which involved the surveillance and infiltration of American political and Civil Rights Organizations as well as programs specifically designed to target and assassinate foreign leaders. People of influence who refused to toe the line were eliminated on their way up if possible and if not once they refused the money and were proven to be scandal free the third option was employed. The three most prominent examples were JFK, RFK, and MLK. That’s why the release of the files on those men’s assassinations will most likely contain very damming records about the government as well as those men and their personal lives. The C.I.A. knew all about their personal lives because they followed them incessantly.

This information is not just my fantasy but it is well documented. The Kennedy brothers knew that MLK was being followed, photographed and recorded by J. Edgar Hoover’s F.B.I. but apparently they didn’t know that the same was happening to them. Frank Church worked on this committee for all of 1975 but its findings were not published until 1976. Most of the really damaging information was classified and kept out of the report at C.I.A. request.

The final item that proves my theory is correct was the uncovering of Operation Shamrock in which the telecommunication companies or what we would today call major media companies shared all their traffic and information with NSA from the end of World War Two until the Church Committee. Virtually every important name in Hollywood was on the list of followed and observed people. Some other names on the list were Walter Mondale, Howard Baker, Ralph Abernathy and Frank Church. Yes, Frank Church was under surveillance along with all those Hollywood stars such as Gregory Peck. Senator Church served as an intelligence officer in WWll assigned to the jungles of China and Burma. I guess that’s where his interest in the truth about who did what originated. He ran for the Democrat nomination in 1980 and won a few state primaries but ultimately lost the nomination to Jimmy Carter. In 1984 he suddenly developed a fast-moving cancer and was dead within days. I think Jack Ruby had that same cancer and that is what gave him the courage to shoot Lee Harvey Oswald on national television. He was going to die anyway, it seems.

Are Tulsi Gabbard and Bobby Kennedy the second coming of Frank Church. I don’t know about that, but I do know that permanent Washington and its prostitutes who sit in judgment of them seem to think so. In 2016 Trump was a novice at the political game and didn’t understand how completely evil the people are who play it. His nominees, at least the good ones, were consistently denied confirmation. This time is different because he has learned and because the people put him in charge and gave him a mandate to change the system of unaccountable power in charge of Permanent Washington.

He has warned the Republican senators that they may face consequences if they don’t let him have who he wants in his cabinet. Each of his nominees was specifically chosen as someone who supports what he is trying to do with regard to peace, prosperity, and most of all transparency. He opened the door to let people have a better understanding of the truth about technology, responsibility, and the very nature of the state. His pardon of Ross Ulbricht is illustrative of my point that transparency empowers people.

Ulbricht started an internet site known as Silk Road. From that site people could transact business using Bitcoin and other cryptos in complete privacy. Whatever they wanted to buy or sell whether drugs, guns or anything else was permitted. The government simply could not allow that to happen so he was arrested and charged with running a continuing criminal enterprise among several other charges. Despite being a nonviolent person with no criminal record, he was given a double life sentence without the possibility of parole. The judge implied that his alleged “privilege” added to his sentence. He exhausted his appeals and had no chance of ever being free without a pardon. Trump went to the Libertarian convention that year and said he would pardon him if elected and he fulfilled that promise. Quote from President Trump:

“I just called the mother of Ross William Ulbright to let her know that in honor of her and the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly, it was my pleasure to have just signed a full and unconditional pardon of her son, Ross. The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me. He was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous!”

That was a wonderful statement by the President. The words scum, lunatics, and ridiculous show that Trump truly hates those who have persecuted him and other Libertarian minded people. It leads me to believe that he will seek retribution against those who have done these things. He will try to root out those who have committed such crimes as the crimes against Ross Ulbright, but he will need both Tulsi and Bobby Kennedy to do it and that is at least part of the reason they will be defamed, and vilified. The guilty persecute the innocent in the post world war America.

Unfortunately, the Constitution is a dead letter now so he is attempting to rule by executive order. Congress and the Senate are basically so dysfunctional that nothing can get done of any consequence. They are all or virtually all captive to the various special interest groups who are supposedly regulated by them. Understanding the deep state as it really is gives us at least the chance to hold it in contempt as Donald Trump obviously does. Permanent Washington will resist every step of the way as the American people try to use their second to last resort to take back their country and that step of course is voting.

Finally, Folks, what is at stake with confirmation hearings for Tulsi and Bobby Kennedy could not be more important. They want to unleash the beast that is transparency and that threatens the very people who sit in judgment of them. They are deciding right now as I record this who runs America.

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for listening.