Darrell Castle talks about the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, and how that war still effects us today.

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DOUGHBOYS

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report.  Today is Friday, November 9, 2018, and on this Report I will spend the time I have with you reminding you that tomorrow November 10 is the Marine Corps birthday but more importantly for this week, Sunday, November 11, 2018, is the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One, or what used to be known as "Armistice Day".

I talk about the 100th anniversary in order to honor those who served, and especially those who died in that European struggle.  It was a European struggle for the most part, pitting England, France, Italy, Romania, and Russia against Germany and what was then known as the Austro-Hungarian Empire.  The end of the War brought an end to the Austro-Hungarian Empire as well as the Ottoman Empire. New countries were born and old countries died.  Modern day Turkey, Iraq, Iran (not Persia but Iran), and Saudi Arabia were all created along with the right of Jews to immigrate to Palestine, resulting ultimately in the state of Israel after World War Two.  Communism and Fascism had their start along with Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler.

What caused all this slaughter that was to come from 1914 to 1918?  There are many answers and probably none of them completely or totally accurate, but for one thing, Europe’s old leaders--its nobility, its royalty were all related.  England, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Russia, all had royal families that were intermarried and interrelated.  It was a family squabble with a lot of old scores and old grudges to settle.  None of them could imagine the slaughter to which their people were about to be subject, or the fact that the war would destroy their families and the Royal system itself.

The world was altered in virtually every way by that war, even geographically, as the geography of the continent was changed in several ways.  Six thousand square miles of France was converted into an uninhabitable wilderness and vegetation has still not completely recovered.  Some hills across the continent were lowered by 50 to 100 feet by the shelling.  Not a single living tree stood in Belgium because of the many years of fighting there.  The warring armies both used the tactic of tunneling deep under the trenches of the enemy to plant massive explosive charges and collapse the enemy trenches but the explosions also collapsed the surrounding landscape creating vast lakes that still exist today.

The social order of Europe was changed by the massive number of men under arms and gone for so long.  Women were pressed into service in many occupations previously reserved for men.  The social class structure, which was so rigid before the war with the master-servant class system unshakable, was shaken to the core and destroyed by the war.  The sons of the nobility were expected to lead the movement to fill the ranks and to provide leadership in the officer corps.  So many of the nobility and other upper classes were slaughtered in the trenches there was not enough of them left to maintain the system.  Women refused to go back into servitude and demanded their place in society.  Women were elected to parliament for the first time.  Women in parliament would have been unthinkable before the war, but people suffered so much everything was different.

I said that I wanted to remind you of this anniversary as a way of honoring those who served and especially those who died.  Well, there were certainly a lot of people to honor, and that’s for sure. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 million combatants were slaughtered in the trenches of Europe and around 40 million wounded, many horribly.  Plastic surgery was begun as a way to repair some of the horrible wounds that kept men from being able to lead normal lives.

Vast pandemics of disease spread across the world killing millions.

Darrell Castle talks about the recent election of Jair Bolsonaro as President of Brazil and his campaign's close resemblance to the campaign of Donald Trump.

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TRUMP OF THE TROPICS—JAIR BOLSONARO

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report.  Today is Friday, November 2, 2018, and on today’s Report I thought I would spend the few moments I have with you talking about the new President of Brazil who was elected last Sunday the 28th of October.  Mr. Jair Bolsonaro is 63 years old and he will assume the office of president of Brazil on January 1, 2019.  It’s important to know who our neighbors are and what they are up to and Brazil is one of our most important southern neighbors.

Jair Bolsonaro is a retired military officer from the artillery and parachute divisions of the Brazilian army and has been in government service in one office or another, including six terms in Congress, since his retirement and transfer to the reserves in 1988.  He was born in Brazil but his background is Italian with a little German and Portuguese thrown into the mix.  His grandfather and great grandfather were Italians, as were his maternal grandparents.

The reason he is sometimes compared to Donald Trump and referred to as the Trump of the Tropics will become clearer, but essentially they share some views and they also share the hatred of some of the same people especially the media.  The idea that a fair election could be held in Brazil and then the loser say "OK, we lost fair and square but we are all Brazilians and we will stand together" is no more likely to occur in Brazil than it is in America.

On July 22, 2018, he was officially nominated by his Party as its presidential candidate for the 2018 election.  His coalition was called “God Above All”.  His candidacy was contested by two separate lawsuits but the Superior Electoral Court of Brazil deferred them, and his candidacy was made official on August 6.  Antonio Mourao, a retired army general, was selected as his vice presidential running mate.

Early in the campaign he had an aggressive and confrontational tone, which he used to build quite a comfortable lead in the polls.  The final margin of victory was approximately 55 to 45 percent.  He ran on a platform of fierce opposition to socialism, and communism, as well as a preference of Taiwan over China.  Those views left the supporters of his socialist opponent, Fernando Haddad, with very little that they could relate to, because they could see that if Bolsonaro won, it would no longer be business as usual in Brazil.

He was elected with a strong mandate to do something about corruption, just as Mr. Obrador who was recently elected in Mexico.  Brazil has a reputation of being one of the most corrupt and most violent countries in the Western Hemisphere, and the Brazilian people are finally starting to listen to people who at least say they will address it.  His views are also very nationalist, pro-Brazil or what one could call "Brazil First". He is pro-business, anti-regulation, and pro-privatization of state assets.  At least in Brazil, they actually call them what they are, state assets.  Here in America we would call them public assets.

It remains to be seen how severe the backlash is, and whether that backlash will take over his views and affect his ability to fulfill the mandate given to him by the voters of Brazil.  His appeal to the masses of Brazilians lies in his populist roots.  Just as with Donald Trump, he is seen as an outsider and a populist.  Although very wealthy, Mr. Trump was able to use his wealth to advantage by saying he would fund his own campaign, etc., thus part of his appeal was “I’m not for sale.”

Mr. Bolsonaro emerged from the lower officer ranks of the military to serve in Congress after Brazil’s twenty year long dictatorship.  He is always referred to as radical, far right, fascist, and the like by the press in Brazil and America.  Just as with the Trump campaign,

Darrell Castle talks about the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and what his death means for the American-Saudi Alliance.

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THE DEATH OF ONE JOURNALIST

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report.  Today is Friday, October 26, 2018, and on Today’s Report I will be talking about the death, or at least the apparent death, of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.  I call him journalist because that is what he was and had been since the 1970’s, an internationally prominent journalist.  Let’s take a look today at who else this man Jamal Khashoggi really was.

Mr. Khashoggi fled to the United States and Great Britain after writing articles critical of the Saudi Regime, especially new Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.  He obviously knew that if he ever set foot in Saudi Arabia again he would be killed or spend the rest of his life in a Saudi prison.  The new Crown Prince apparently has no qualms whatsoever about using violence against his political enemies.  However, I’ve heard it said that "love conquers all", and Mr. Khashoggi apparently fell in love because he made an appearance at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul Turkey, in order to divorce his Saudi wife and marry his Turkish girlfriend, and after he walked into the consulate, he was never seen again.

This man wore more hats than just internationally famous journalist and writer for the Washington Post.  He was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and a lifelong friend of Osama bin Laden.  Part of his role as a journalist was to serve as the propagandist and apologist for the terror groups Hamas and al Qaida.  His fiancé waited outside the consulate for him as he was completing the paperwork but he never came to her so she called the police.

The Saudis at the consulate claimed they did not know what happened to him.  Back in Saudi Arabia Crown Prince bin Salman insisted that Khashoggi left shortly after completing his paperwork. President Trump called King Salman and was told that the Crown Prince was in charge of the investigation and the Prince said we had nothing to do with it.  So, the King of Saudi Arabia puts the main suspect in a murder in charge of the investigation of that murder, but that is just one of the bazaar plot twists in this case.

The Saudis have since changed their story back and forth several times but have settled on a version that has him dying during an “interrogation” gone wrong.  The Turks, of course, have a different view of things.  They say that on that same day, October 2, fifteen Saudis arrived in Istanbul in the morning and left on two different flights that same evening.  The Turks produced videotapes of the fifteen Saudis arriving at the airport but close investigation revealed that some of the tapes were five years old.  The Turks say they have proof that he was killed inside the consulate.  Their proof includes tapes, which prove at least by audio that he was killed there.

They say that his voice is clear on the tapes along with the voices of men speaking Arabic.  They say you can hear how he was interrogated, tortured and murdered, at least that is the story given to the Washington Post.  The Turks further claim that his body was dismembered by a bone saw and somehow transported out of the consulate, I suppose by the fifteen Saudis.  Perhaps they put his pieces in diplomatic pouches and took him back to Riyadh.

 Now however, there are reports that his body has been discovered in pieces buried in the garden of the consul general.  The Turks needed Saudi permission to enter the Saudi consulate and search, but the Crown Prince had little choice but to give permission.  It appears that this body parts discovery is true, and if so, the Prince will have difficulty separating himself from it and that makes President Trump’s position even more tenuous.  Surveillance video also shows a Saudi body double leaving in Khashoggi’s clothes after he was killed.  So in this version of the event the Saudis included in ...

Darrell Castle talks about the rise of Western Civilization and the American ideal, and their descent into a New Dark Age.

THE NEW DARK AGES

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report.  Today is Friday, October 19, 2018, and on this Report I will be talking about the rise to greatness of Western Civilization along with the rise of the American Ideal, and their fall from greatness. ,The decline of the West and especially America is on the minds of a lot of people today but what about their origins and their rise to greatness?

Ayn Rand once said “East minus West equals zero.”  That might be a slight exaggeration, but it is essentially correct.  If you look at what other civilizations have contributed to human society over the centuries you will find that it is not very much.  Even the contributions that other civilizations have made either find their origins in the West or they are an effort to imitate Western success.  Western Civilization has dominated many centuries but today we look at why that is the case.

Western Civilizations had its origins in ancient Greece, but it is not Greek or Roman.  It began to develop in earnest about 500 AD out of the chaos of the collapse of Rome.  It remains unique among the world’s civilizations because it put the individual rather than the collective in the central position.  That statement answers the question of why the West has been so dominant.  The individual was unique in that he was created in the very image of God.  The individual bore the image of God within him and, therefore, he had rights that had to be respected because those rights came from God, not government.  It took a while for those rights to achieve that respect of course, but in 1215 the Magna Charta enshrined the rights of Englishmen in the great contract with the Crown, and it made the King himself subject to the rule of law just like the average person.  The American Constitution, ratified after the Revolution, separated America from England, and also made it clear that the rights of the individual could not lawfully be violated by the collective majority even by majority vote.

Western Civilization, I argue now, was an attempt to spread the Christian Gospel to the world as evidenced by the writings of Christopher Columbus from his voyage to the new world, as well as many others.  However, it enshrined logic and rational thought as opposed to mysticism and superstition as the correct way to deal with the world.  Because of the enshrinement of logic and rational thought we have science, technology, great literature, great art, capitalism and personal freedom, progress and a whole lot more.

I was in Los Angeles last week visiting my daughter and she took me to the Getty Museum where we viewed art from some of the great masters of Western Civilization, such as Monet and Van Gogh.  It was there that I started to form this Castle Report in my mind.  I have had the good fortune to travel the great capitols of the world in my 70 years, and in those travels I have seen its art, read its literature, and listened to its music.  Most of it inspired, at least in its inception, by a belief in the Christian God.

In the early days of the American Republic, the Colonies were made up largely of independent minded, self-reliant people who had a strong work ethic.  These qualities were necessary for people to leave their lives in England or Northern Europe and travel across the ocean to an unknown wilderness.  They had the courage, imagination, and desire to create their own destiny.  These were traits the other residents of Europe did not possess and that is also part of what made America unique.  When Great Britain tried to impose more control over them by use of the British Army, and by increased taxation to pay for that army, the colonials rose in rebellion.

First of all, the American ideal was freedom.  They didn’t want government entitlements or government-funded this and that extracted f...

Darrell Castle talks about President Trump's speech to the United Nations General Assembly last week.

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THE TRUMP DOCTRINE AND THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report.  Today is Friday, October 5, 2018, and on today’s report I will be talking about President Donald Trump’s speech to the UN General Assembly last week.  The General Assembly is the only organ of the United Nations in which all nations have equal status and each nation gets one vote.  The Security Council nations such as the United States, China, Russia, Great Britain, and France are largely in the General Assembly for symbolic purposes since the Security Council votes are far more important.

President Trump spoke to that body made up of representatives from every nation in the world.  In the beginning of his speech he noted that “In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country.”  Most presidents get carried away with themselves from time to time but as far as the domestic economy goes I could make a good case for what he said being valid.  $10 trillion in wealth added to the economy, four million new jobs, unemployment at record lows, consumer confidence up, and tax reform putting more of our labor back in our own pockets are all evidence that what he said had truth in it.

Nevertheless, the members of the General Assembly laughed when he said it.  They laughed, not with him but at him.  Those UN bureaucrats laughed at the President of the United States.  Hollywood comedians took the opportunity to laugh with them.  I saw a video where Jimmy Kimmel, that is I think it was Jimmy Kimmel, said that the whole world laughed together at Donald Trump.  When I saw that I thought, no Jimmy not the whole world, just rich, upper class, bourgeois, elitists like you and the delegates of the General Assembly laughed.  You laughed not just at his words but at him and at all of us because you hate us normal Americans just as desperately as you hate him.

I resent the laughter of the General Assembly more than Mr. Trump said he did because I know what that body really is.  It is a bunch of nepotistic half wit brothers of dictators from poop-hole-asian countries whose brothers sent them to New York to get them out of the way for a while.  They are very adept at child slavery and child sex trafficking for sexual exploitation and tolerate, even encourage it, in their hell hole countries.  I could give you a stack of authority three inches thick for that opinion.  If you don’t believe me, just Google UN child sex slavery or any such term.

He cured their laughter with the rest of his speech, however, and later I read where many delegates said they appreciated his honesty, which I’m quite sure they are unaccustomed to hearing from any speaker let alone an American President.  What he did was lay out the Trump Doctrine for them, which turns out to be a new approach to the world by America.  To sum up the Trump Doctrine in one sentence I would say it means live your own lives in your own way under your own terms as long as you respect our desire to do the same.

What he actually said was, “We are standing up for our citizens and for peace loving people everywhere.  We believe that when nations respect the rights of their neighbors and defend the interests of their people, they can better work together to secure the blessings of safety, prosperity, and peace.  Each of us here today is the emissary of a distinct culture, a rich history, and a people bound together by ties of memory, tradition, and the values that make our homelands like nowhere else on earth.  That is why America will always choose independence and cooperation over global governance, and I honor the right of every nation in this room to pursue its own customs, beliefs and traditions.  The United States will not tell you how to live, work, or worship.

Darrell Castle talks about the war against Western Civilization and how there seems to be a slight re-awakening of the desire for freedom, especially in Eastern Europe.

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EUROPEAN RE-AWAKENING

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report.  Today is Friday, September 28, 2018, and on today’s Report I continue my discussion of the war against the founding principles of America, against Western or Christian Civilization, and against the rule of law.  This week we fight the war in Europe where there are scattered pockets of people who appear to be at least starting to awaken from their slumber.

The war in Europe is not being fought in old Europe for unfortunately, old Europe has already surrendered to the demands of the George Soros funded global ruling elite, in other words, they are prisoners of war.  The nations, which a few decades ago resisted and defeated Nazi Germany to protect their homelands and their freedom, today cannot muster even a slight desire for self-defense or self-respect.

For example, recently French President, Emanuel Macron, gave a speech in Sweden to campaign for the political parties which favored continued unlimited immigration from the Middle East and Africa into Sweden., In that speech Mr. Macron told the Swedes that there is no such thing as French culture and no such thing as Swedish culture. ,Perhaps with men like him in charge he’s actually correct or at least soon will be. ,However, in the recent Swedish elections the Swedish National Party, which is the Party that had the courage to advocate for unlimited third world immigration to at least be re-evaluated and possibly even reduced somewhat, that Party gained 18% of the vote which entitled it to some seats in the Swedish Parliament.  Consequently the liberal, unlimited immigration, Swedish Democrats lost a few seats in Parliament.

That is a slight glimpse of what might possibly be the beginning of discontent with what is happening in Sweden.  Perhaps some of the Swedish people are growing tired of their women and children being raped by invaders that are never charged with their crimes.  Sweden has gone from an almost rape free country to one leading the European Union in rapes thanks to its immigration policy.

Other countries are starting to resist as well, especially Hungary and Poland.  Viktor Orban, the Prime Minister of Hungary, continues to resist attack after attack from the European Union for his defense of his own country and its people.  Most recently he was censured by the European Union by a two-thirds vote.  The motion to censure charged him with breaching the founding principles of the Union.  The censure came under Article 7 of the EU Charter, and will now be referred to the 28 member nations to consider.  Ultimately the sanctions imposed on Hungary could include suspension of voting rights but that vote must be unanimous.  Poland has said it will support Hungary and would never vote for such a measure so that doesn’t appear likely.

This Muslim effort to invade Europe is not a new thing at all.  It is, in fact, just the latest battle in a very long war.  For over 1200 years now Islam has been trying to conquer Christian Europe.  This is just the first invasion in which Europe’s own leaders have actually invited the invaders to come.  Christianity is dead in Europe, and with it died the desire to preserve what allowed European civilization to thrive and prosper for so long.

In the year 732, an Islamic army of 200,000 men invaded  Europe out of the Iberian Peninsula, or what is today Spain.  They advanced into France until Charles Martel, with an army of 20,000 Christian knights, defeated them at Tours.  Charles, known as the Hammer, had only 20,000 men and no cavalry but he prevailed against the much larger Islamic army.  The Muslim commander, Abdul Rahman, was killed in the battle and the Muslim advance into Europe was turned back for about 1000 years,

Darrell Castle talks about the war for the survival of America, the rule of law, and Western Civilization that is now being waged with Judge Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court as one of the battle fronts.

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CHARACTER ASSASSINATION IS A TACTIC OF WAR

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report.  Today is Friday, September 21, 2018, and on today’s Report I will be talking about the war that is currently being waged for the control of this nation and its people.  The goals of the combatants in this war are often blurry but the goal of the side that I represent is to preserve as much of the founding principles of this nation as possible, as well as those of Western Civilization and the rule of law.   The goal of the other side but appears to be the destruction of the things I am fighting to preserve.  To this point the war for control of the nation and the future of the nation’s 330 million people is mostly a cold one, although that seems poised to change at any minute.

War normally brings casualties and lots of them, and this one is no different.  One of the casualties is Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court.  Today’s Report will use the battle surrounding Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination as an opportunity to discuss the war itself.  Please keep in mind that the real issue is not how Judge Kavanaugh treated women when he was in high school 36 years ago.  The real issue is Judge Kavanaugh’s conservative view of the Constitution when he is on the bench today.

A war of survival is a war of desperation, and the closer one side comes to losing the more desperate that side will be.  Both sides might respect a set of rules for “civilized warfare”, such as the Geneva Convention, until one starts to prevail and then its gloves off for the other.  Losing means the loss of everything that side holds dear for itself and for future generations, so the rules no longer apply.

The Democrats have tried very hard to destroy freedom in America.  I say that with some doubt but it is true from at least one standpoint; we are no longer free to say or even think whatever we want without suffering the most dire consequences.  That seems to be one of the Democrat goals then, to make only expression and thought that they agree with legally and socially possible.  Despite holding all the high ground in the battlefront, such as the media high ground, the education high ground, the Silicon Valley high ground, and the high ground of Hollywood, they can see that they do not yet control a majority of America and their control of America’s future is weakening.  This slipping of their control came about because of the election of Donald Trump and his unique opportunity to appoint two and possibly more Supreme Court Justices, thus swinging the ideological scale back toward the side that elected Trump to do just that.

Since there is no honest reason to reject Judge Kavanaugh, dishonest ones must be devised. Character assassination is one dishonest tactic that should be expected, after all, in war it’s quite a common tactic to use.  When one has no ammunition to win a debate honestly, then one will usually resort to a personal attack against the opponent.  Should we be surprised then when Judge Kavanaugh has his character assassinated, and his reputation damaged or destroyed by people who have no character but do have a lot to lose.

The headline in my friend Richard Viguerie’s article read, “Democrats Ruthlessly Destroy Bret Kavanaugh”.  Richard then went on to point out that this judge is a man of the highest honor and reputation and all that has been damaged or destroyed by this groundless attack.  All true, and he has also been vetted more than any Supreme Court nominee certainly in recent years.  The FBI has conducted half a dozen background checks without any notice of misconduct, but now the Democrats insist that a new investigation be conducted by the FBI,

Darrell Castle provides commentary on the acquisition and retention of power, and those things necessary for its use to control the human population.

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THE ROOT OF ALL POWER

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report.  Today is Friday, September 14, 2018, and on today’s Report I will be talking about power and its efforts to break the bonds that wise men have put in place to bind it.  For example, we know that James Madison, the father of the Constitution, said “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.”  The reality that we face today is the opposite of Madison’s intent.

 We know from past discussions that power corrupts, and that power is also addictive.  Power is akin to a drug in that the more you have the more you want.  The desire for power and the acquisition of power corrupts both the mind and the morals.  The founders understood that and as a result they created a weak and divided system of government.  They didn’t want government to become too powerful because they didn’t even trust themselves to handle the addiction.  Power seeks to break its bonds and to control the human population, and that is the essence of today’s Report.

Politics is pretty simple when you really analyze it.  Whether we look at examples from history such as the Caesars, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, or many others, politics is simply the acquisition and retention of power.  How can I acquire more power and how can I retain the power I have.  If you look carefully at the political system of today you will see that very little has changed from the days of the Roman Empire, except the technology that allows for the acquisition and retention of power on a much greater scale than ever before.  Today’s power seekers have the ability to do something never before possible, and that is to control the entire human population. In other words, their addiction has gone global.

In order to acquire and retain vast amounts of power two things are needed:

1. The people over whom power is exercised must be divided.  We are now the most divided people in history.  We are certainly divided here in America but the whole world is divided.  I have never before witnessed such a complete demonization by each side in today’s divided country.  Both seek to acquire more power and, as a result, quite often neither seems to care about what’s best for the whole.

 Media pours out a stream of division in the form of propaganda to support its own preferred agenda. The media contributes greatly to the extreme racial division and polarization in the country.  Now, 63 years after the onset of the movement for civil rights for all, and almost everyone has accepted it as a reality, we are far more racially polarized than ever.

The Politically Correct movement divides us by changing our language to control how we think.  Those of us outside the movement resent the efforts at control and, therefore, we become more and more divided.  Orwell warned us about efforts to change and control the way we think by changing our language.  His creation was “Newspeak”, a new version of the English language that used all kinds of new words with opposite meanings in order to change the way people think.

2. The people over whom we exercise power must fear some outside threat.  The people must be made to fear a common enemy, a common threat.  For much of my lifetime, the outside threat was nuclear war with the Soviet Union.  We were under constant threat of destruction from a nuclear exchange, so vast sums had to be expended on defense.  When the Soviet Union dissolved we all breathed a sigh of relief because we were finally safe, but then along came Muslim terrorism as an excuse for constant fear and war.  The war in Syria was cooling off, at least for America, but now the side of the Civil War backed by Russia in fav...

Darrell Castle talks about the new trade agreement negotiated between President Trump and newly elected President Lopez Obrador of Mexico.

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NAFTA REPLACED—AT LEAST WITH MEXICO

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report.  Today is Friday, September 7, 2018.  Having just celebrated Labor Day with a three day weekend, we here at the Castle Report find ourselves in a contemplative mood.  We continue week by week to bring all our vast resources of engineers, technicians, videographers, sound technicians and those who advise us on language, punctuation, etc., to bear in the war in which we find ourselves.  The war to save our Republic and the war to save civilization is our war, our beat if you will, and we endeavor to report from as close to the front lines of that war as possible.

Moderation in war is an absurdity as Von Clausewitz said, and Corporate America in its hatred and utter disdain for traditional, especially middle class, Americans must believe Clausewitz’s statement because Corporate America continually spits in their faces then rubs their noses in it, and says, buy our products anyway because we believe that you traditional Americans living in flyover country are the most ignorant, stupid and totally brainwashed people on earth.  So despite our best efforts we are losing the war, and consequently the Republic and Western Civilization will soon be gone and a new civilization, once unthinkable, will have replaced it.

We have much evidence for such pessimism but, as I said earlier, we are contemplative today.  Perhaps very soon the ideal desired by all smart, educated, woke people will be realized and then all races, genders, and other pronouns will not only be equal but identical.  Everyone will be aesthetically the same with an understanding that no difficult questions may be asked because that would be, well, difficult, and intolerant, and intolerance will not be tolerated.  We ask ourselves, what is the real problem here in America and we answer; the real problem is that the body politic is infected with a disease of the heart which will be very difficult to cure and may prove to be fatal.

For these reasons and many more we here at the Castle Report sometimes wonder what it would be like to impose upon ourselves the sentence supposedly given by Pope Benedict to Cardinal Mc Carrick and that was to retire to a life of penance and prayer.  That is not our sentence, however, so we soldier on and continue the fight.

 With that in mind we turn our attention today back toward our friends south of the border, and take a brief look at the trade deal recently worked out between the incoming Mexican president, Lopez Obrador, and the American President Donald Trump.

President Trump said repeatedly during his campaign that he thought NAFTA was a bad deal for the United States so when the opportunity arose he withdrew the United States from the formal NAFTA.  When the new President, Lopez Obrador was elected, President Trump seized on the chance to make progress and sent a delegation to meet with him.  Out of that conference evolved bilateral talks about how trade could be made better for both countries.  Bilateral, obviously means between two parties and in this case it means no Canada.

Canada has opted not to participate, or the United States and Mexico have opted not to include them, or it’s just a tactic to squeeze the Canadians, or Donald Trump and Canada’s Trudeau have a personal spat, but somewhere in there lies the reason that Canada has not been included to this point.  The new deal, now called The U.S.-Mexico Trade Agreement, is centered on the auto industry and the labor laws surrounding that industry.

Under the terms of the agreement, 75% of a car would have to be manufactured in North America, up from 62.5% under current rules. In addition, the new rules would impose a minimum wage of $16 per hour to qualify for zero tariffs.

Darrell Castle talks about the murder of 20 year old Mollie Tibbetts and asks the question, who else besides her alleged murderer is  responsible for her death.

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THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MOLLIE TIBBETTS

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report.  Today is Friday, August 31, 2018, and on today’s Report, I will be talking about Mollie Tibbetts’ life and death.  Mollie was a 20 year old sophomore at the University of Iowa who went out for a jog on July 18 of this year, and was never seen alive again.  Local authorities, aided by the concern of local Iowa people, searched high and low for her with nothing to show for it.  A reward of almost $400,000 was raised and offered for information about where she might be.

Finally, authorities located a farmer with a farm about an hour from the small community of Brooklyn, Iowa where Mollie lived.  For some reason he had set up surveillance video cameras around his farm amid the thousands of acres of cornfields and along the roads.  It didn’t take long to spot Mollie on camera running down an Iowa road with a strange car following her.  The driver stopped and forced her into the trunk of his car.  Her body was found in a field a short time later, so she was kidnapped and murdered and who knows what else.  A preliminary autopsy revealed that she was stabbed to death.

Cristhian Bahena-Rivera, an illegal alien from Mexico, has been charged with her murder.  Mr. Rivera confessed to the murder and took authorities to Mollie’s body but he said he “blacked out” and didn’t remember anything about it.  We know then who stabbed Mollie, but is anyone else responsible for her death?

Richard Viguerie, in his publication Conservative HQ, said it best.  “The brutal murder of Brooklyn, Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts casts a harsh and inescapable light on exactly who is responsible for this senseless killing, and from our perspective Cristhian Bahena-Rivera, whom the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation has named as her alleged murderer, as the means of her death, the real killers are the politicians who keep our borders open and who continue protecting illegal aliens, especially those with criminal histories.

Mollie Tibbetts was killed so that somebody in Iowa could have cheap labor, and she was killed so that the Business Roundtable, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the rest of Washington—Wall Street—Silicon Valley Axis, could hit this quarter’s earnings target, and most shamefully, she was killed so that virtue-signaling liberal politicians could get re-elected, and because their bootlickers in the media and their urban elite supporters in the gated communities and the security-doored co-ops and condos feel superior to her, and the other victims like her, and don’t think their lives are worth protecting.”

Whatever the reason, Mollie is still dead, and her death gives us a chance to look at several aspects of the immigration system that passes laws against illegal entry into the United States and then welcomes the violators with open arms.

 Mollie’s town of Brooklyn, Iowa was surrounded by sanctuary cities and counties, but on July 1st, just two weeks before her disappearance, the Iowa state legislature passed a law revoking state funding for sanctuary cities and counties in the state.  Two weeks too late and too little for Mollie Tibbetts.

Mr. Rivera apparently used a fake or stolen photo ID and a fraudulent Social Security card to get a job at a local dairy farm.  The dairy farm owner admits he did not use E-Verify to check Mr. Rivera’s eligibility for employment.  Mr. Rivera, illegally in the United States for 7 years, actually fathered his own anchor baby by one of Mollie’s former classmates.  Since the baby was born in the U.S., according to our current bizarre interpretation of the 14th amendment, the baby is a U.S. citizen.

The arrest of Mr. Rivera caused him to be separated from his child, and if convicted he will be separated from the c...