Darrell Castle talks about how the pillars that make modern civilization possible are under attack from those who say they want to save the planet from climate change.

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ATTACKING THE PILLARS OF CIVILIZATION

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 15th day of December in the year of our Lord 2023. I will be talking about how the pillars that make modern civilization possible are under attack from those who say they want to save the planet from climate change. To save the earth they tell us we must dismantle the very building blocks of civilization.

Before I start, I remind you that next Friday and the one after that are the Fridays before Christmas and New Years Day so I will be in a festive and hectic holiday mindset as I suspect will you so I will talk to you again, God willing on Friday, January 5th, 2024.

This is December, the holiday season for most Americans and the festive atmosphere is well underway. We get ready for Christmas with our families, especially our children as we love to enjoy the excitement of Christmas with them. Family gatherings, office parties, shopping for presents, and attending holiday festivities occupy our time and make December, a time of vacation for many, one of the busiest and most hectic months of the year for many others.

At the same time, another group of people on the other side of the world, many of them Americans, have been meeting to discuss how they can continue the destruction of the very things that make civilization possible. The ideas and policies being espoused by the thousands of global leaders in attendance at COP 28, if enacted, will cause irreparable harm to billions of people, and will literally dismantle modern civilization.

For example, at the beginning of the conference, the secretary general of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, told the attendees and the people of the world that, “we must ultimately stop burning all fossil fuels.” He didn’t say we should reduce or slow down, he said we must stop burning fossil fuels. When a climate change official says we, then he of course means you. The billionaire class is not bothered by any climate change goals or directives, because only the rest of us in the peasant class will feel their effects.

Fossil fuels including coal, oil, and natural gas, have been powering economies of the world for well over 150 years.  They currently supply about 80% of the world’s energy and cheap energy is the lifeblood of modern civilization. It is the literal lubricant that allowed peasants to escape feudal life and enter what was once the middle class here in America. In the absence of cheap energy supplied by fossil fuels the machinery of economic progress grinds to a halt.

I compare those who seek to destroy fossil fuels and deprive the people of the world of their use to the actions of an enemy nation in a war for survival. They represent the enemy and they seek control of oil supplies to deprive us, as their enemy, of their use. In other words, protecting humanity’s access to and use of fossil fuels is a matter of survival. Cheap energy powers our homes and allows us to live in relative comfort. We can live in the Arizona desert or the north of Alaska because of access to cheap energy. Without it, life in much of the country would quickly become untenable.

Economic growth and technological advances are so dependent on cheap energy that its use directly correlates with the quality of life for the people who reside in America. The leaders of this nation apparently do not have the best interests of the nation’s people at heart. They follow the wishes of the billionaire class and shun cheap energy use for us, but not for them. Cheap political points, but not cheap energy seems to be their concern as they seek favor from the ruling class rather than from us. We should act to correct their thinking while we still have at least some capacity to do so.

Darrell Castle talks about examples of madness occurring in America and around the world that he never thought he would live to see.

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WORLD GONE MAD

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is the 8th day of December in the year of our Lord 2023. I will be talking about madness occurring in America and around the world that I never thought I would live to see. The continuation and funding of pointless wars by the United States around the world along with continuing and intensifying attacks on Jews in America and around the Western world are just two of the many examples of madness.

Before I start with the madness Report, I remind you that yesterday, December 7th was the 82nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor or the day of infamy as FDR put it. Today is the beginning of Hanukkah for our Jewish friends as they suffer the brunt of much of the madness that I will be talking about. Tomorrow December 9th is my dear wife’s birthday so happy birthday Joan. In a couple of weeks, we will celebrate our 46th anniversary, and that is no small achievement today.

War is my subject and my beat today, and the war in Gaza seems to have taken the war in Ukraine off the front pages at least for a while, but that doesn’t mean the U.S. has stopped fighting Russia. The German Corporation, Rheinmetall, has been given a large contract by some unnamed NATO country that has been a large financial supporter of the Ukraine war effort. Well, I scratch my head and I wonder which country that could be. Who could afford to give a German Company 142 million Euros to build 155MM howitzer shells for Ukraine. How many rounds of 155 shells, tens of thousands is all they will say.

The shells from Rheinmetall are not expected to be ready until 2025 so a long war perhaps. There is an existing Rheinmetall order from October 2023 of 150,000 rounds of 155 which will be delivered sooner. Rheinmetall is a historic German company that supplied Keyser Wilhelm with ammunition in World War l, and it supplied ammunition, tracked vehicles, and other armored vehicles to Hitler in World War ll. That’s a lot of madness, I know folks, but stay with me because it gets worse.

The U.S. has more for the arms industry than just German companies because it has given $522 million in contracts to U.S. arms companies to produce 155 howitzer shells. Most of the money will go to Northrop Grumman and Global Military Products, Inc. but there is enough to spread among various ammunition plants around the country. The estimate is about 50,000 rounds per month next year accelerating to 85,000 per month by 2028. Will we really need 85,000 155MM howitzer rounds per month in 2028? I guess so folks, and I suppose we are expected to accept it as all part of the new madness in which we live. Not to put too fine a point on it but that is approximately 1,800,000 rounds before the big numbers kick in 2028, and not counting Rheinmetall’s contribution.

Both sides in Ukraine continue to respond to tactical changes dictated by new weapons and tactics supplied to Ukrainian forces by the U.S. In other words, the supplies make the conflict worse because they must and will be countered. For example, reports by the ISW, or the Institute for the Study of War, indicate that the Ukrainian air defense system especially along the border with Russia is becoming more and more effective against Russian aircraft. To counter that the Russians have gone to more frequent use of long-range glide bombs and cruise missiles as well as swarms of what are being called suicide or kamikaze drones.

My point is that both sides seem to be settling in for a long war. Putin just directed that the Russian military be increased in personnel by 170,000. In its efforts to “weaken Russia” as Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin put it, Russia has been made much stronger. This madness is great news for arms makers here and around the world,

Darrell Castle talks about examples which indicate that the deplorables are starting to revolt against the global ruling elite.

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THE MASSES REVOLT AGAINST THE GLOBAL ORDER

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 1st day of December in the year of our Lord 2023. I will be talking about three or four examples coming simultaneously, or at least back-to-back which indicate that the deplorables are starting to revolt against the global order. They have apparently reached the end of their patience with the neoliberal world order that has been forced on them for decades.

What is this neoliberal global order that the masses are starting to revolt against. Mass immigration floods Western countries with immigrants who compete for jobs and drive wages down. They don’t compete with the elite because the elite own the factories, they don’t work in them. They also compete for housing, not in elite neighborhoods, but in the margins. When they are permitted, they vote for people who promise to allow more immigration.

Immigration on a mass scale is a problem but not by any means the only problem. The world created by today’s global ruling elite is difficult and perhaps unsustainable for millions of working people. The governments produce invisible, printing press money like there is going to be no limit or end to it, but they are all on their way to having such unpayable debt that not only can it not be paid, but it also cannot even be serviced. Something is starting to occur to today’s young and today’s poor and that is that when one generation gets something for nothing the next gets nothing for something. The foreign policies of the elites who run our world have set the rest of the world against them. Military policies and attitudes against other nations have them constantly, perpetually at war. Green energy policies virtually guarantee that the offspring of today’s working people will not have the same freedom and prosperity as older generations.

The elites, since World War ll, have always been depended on to do good for the masses and run the world responsibly. Well, they have done good, very good, for themselves at the expense of many. Now, the many are growing tired of it all and are starting to revolt and that is the subject of our report today.

Let’s start with Ireland which has been a popular destination for immigrants especially those from North Africa. For many decades Ireland was a country that sent immigrants around the world especially to America, Australia, and New Zealand. The Irish filled the under classes of many cities along the East Coast especially Boston and New York, but now it’s all different. Currently about 20% of the Irish population is foreign born, thanks to the policies of the elite at the European Union which controls the Irish Government as it does all European governments.

The city of Dublin erupted in flames on Thanksgiving Day when an immigrant from North Africa stabbed a women and three children outside an elementary school in the inner city of Dublin. The woman and a five-year-old girl are in serious condition and the other children have less serious wounds. The people took to the streets and set the city on fire burning an immigrant hotel to the ground. The usual looting and burning has occurred throughout the city. The attacker was restrained, ironically, by another immigrant and serval bystanders. The Irish police seem to be at a loss as to whether he is a hater or just mentally ill.

Many people have been arrested for participating in the riots, but many also view the immigration policies as the real culprit. The pace of immigration seems to be the match that lit the fuse that has been burning for many years. There have been ongoing protests during the last five years in which immigration has intensified under the direction of the EU bureaucrats. Many hotels and guest houses have been converted to asylum accommod...

Darrell Castle talks about the ongoing war in Gaza and looks at the different views of the war by different people who have different perspectives on the same series of events.

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THREE VIEWS OF THE SAME WAR

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 17th day of November in the year of our Lord 2023. I will be talking about war, especially the ongoing war in Gaza. I will be looking at the different views of the war by different people who have different perspectives on the same series of events and I will argue that neither of the first two perspectives is completely accurate but the third perspective explains not only Gaza but war in general.

I will begin by reminding you that next Thursday is Thanksgiving Day and I plan to spend some time with my family having a good meal and giving thanks so no Castle Report next week. Have a good holiday with family and don’t forget to give thanks.

What do we know for certain about the war in Gaza? I don’t mean what the news media tells us or what we hear through rumors but what do we know for certain. There are so many conflicting opinions of the war that we don’t know much beyond what is happening on the ground with the movement of troops, etc. We can have at least a little confidence in what the reporters on the ground monitoring and reporting on the fighting tell us, but even then, their work is filtered through their networks, newspaper editors, etc.

It seems that Israeli forces are moving through Gaza destroying tunnels and Hamas fighters where they can find them. This is urban warfare and that is the most casualty intense war especially for civilians. For example, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights as of September 2023 a total of 9,614 civilians died during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to that date. That low number is because very little of the fighting is urban and in urban warfare often 90% of the casualties are noncombatants.

According to Reuter’s wire more than 11000 people have been killed during the start of the Israeli operation in Gaza, most of them civilians. The civilian casualties are undoubtably higher because Hamas is embedded in the civilian population. The Israelis report that they discovered a headquarters unit of Hamas under a large hospital. I saw video of an Israeli military spokesmen showing the tunnel entrances, weapons recovered etc. Can that video be believed or is it fabricated. That’s the difficult thing about our propagandized technological world. Almost anything is possible so almost nothing is certain and almost nothing can be believed.

Hamas seems to be conducting a delaying operation, withdrawing a little at a time to delay the inevitable and inflict maximum casualties while at the same time waiting for media coverage to take its toll. The war is spreading with attacks in the West Bank and out of Lebanon. The delaying action gives Hamas more time to rally support from its Middle East partners and from news propaganda around the world. The longer the fight, the higher the casualties and the more international sympathy is generated.

So, we sit here in America and we watch television, listen to the radio, or perhaps even read the New York Times or Washington Post. If you read your local paper, it is just a reflection of the opinion of those two papers and is editorially virtually identical. Can we have any confidence that what we are being told is accurate. Not in my opinion because it’s all lying propaganda and nothing can be believed without further investigation. Getting to the truth these days is very hard work and no matter how hard you work you can never be totally confidant. I am, therefore, confident of only one part of the mass media reporting and that is that it is all lying propaganda designed to reinforce the existing regime’s power structure.

The regime’s power structure is in turn,

Darrell Castle talks about war, especially the ongoing war in Gaza and looks at the different views of the war by different people who have different perspectives on the same series of events. Transcription / Notes THREE VIEWS OF THE SAME WAR Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 17th day of November in the year of our Lord 2023. I will be talking about war, especially the ongoing war in Gaza. I will be looking at the different views of the war by different people who have different perspectives on the same series of events and I will argue that neither of the first two perspectives is completely accurate but the third perspective explains not only Gaza but war in general. I will begin by reminding you that next Thursday is Thanksgiving Day and I plan to spend some time with my family having a good meal and giving thanks so no Castle Report next week. Have a good holiday with family and don’t forget to give thanks. What do we know for certain about the war in Gaza? I don’t mean what the news media tells us or what we hear through rumors but what do we know for certain. There are so many conflicting opinions of the war that we don’t know much beyond what is happening on the ground with the movement of troops, etc. We can have at least a little confidence in what the reporters on the ground monitoring and reporting on the fighting tell us, but even then, their work is filtered through their networks, newspaper editors, etc. It seems that Israeli forces are moving through Gaza destroying tunnels and Hamas fighters where they can find them. This is urban warfare and that is the most casualty intense war especially for civilians. For example, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights as of September 2023 a total of 9,614 civilians died during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to that date. That low number is because very little of the fighting is urban and in urban warfare often 90% of the casualties are noncombatants. According to Reuter’s wire more than 11000 people have been killed during the start of the Israeli operation in Gaza, most of them civilians. The civilian casualties are undoubtably higher because Hamas is embedded in the civilian population. The Israelis report that they discovered a headquarters unit of Hamas under a large hospital. I saw video of an Israeli military spokesmen showing the tunnel entrances, weapons recovered etc. Can that video be believed or is it fabricated. That’s the difficult thing about our propagandized technological world. Almost anything is possible so almost nothing is certain and almost nothing can be believed. Hamas seems to be conducting a delaying operation, withdrawing a little at a time to delay the inevitable and inflict maximum casualties while at the same time waiting for media coverage to take its toll. The war is spreading with attacks in the West Bank and out of Lebanon. The delaying action gives Hamas more time to rally support from its Middle East partners and from news propaganda around the world. The longer the fight, the higher the casualties and the more international sympathy is generated. So, we sit here in America and we watch television, listen to the radio, or perhaps even read the New York Times or Washington Post. If you read your local paper, it is just a reflection of the opinion of those two papers and is editorially virtually identical. Can we have any confidence that what we are being told is accurate. Not in my opinion because it’s all lying propaganda and nothing can be believed without further investigation. Getting to the truth these days is very hard work and no matter how hard you work you can never be totally confidant. I am, therefore, confident of only one part of the mass media reporting and that is that it is all lying propaganda designed to reinforce the existing regime’s power structure. The regime’s power structure is in turn,

Darrell Castle talks about the war in Gaza and explores the hatred being expressed against Jews around the world. It seems that the hatred expressed is not just against Israel, but Jews in general.

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HATRED OF ISRAEL OR HATRED OF ALL JEWS

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 10th day of November in the year of our Lord 2023. I will be talking once again about the war in Gaza and exploring the hatred being expressed against Jews around the world. It seems that the hatred expressed is not just against Israel, but Jews in general and that said hatred is coming primarily from the very far left rather than the very far right.

I cannot begin this report without noting that today is the Marine Corps’ 248th birthday so happy birthday Marines. Tomorrow is Veterans’ Day, and how appropriate that days are set aside to honor those who have fought the nation’s wars over the centuries because once again we find the world at war and threatened with annihilation. Our current war is on the other side of the world, but as usual the United States is right in the middle of it as a willing participant.

My subject today is not so much war as it is hatred being expressed around the world against Jews.  Here in America, last Saturday 10’s of thousands of people marched on the White House screaming Allahu Akbar which means God is Great. Along with God is Great they screamed various vile profanities which seemed to be directed personally at President Joe Biden. They attempted to breach the White House security cordon but were denied access by armed and uniformed Secret Service and other White House Security. They defaced government property by committing acts of vandalism including spray painting and throwing blood on various monuments.

To my knowledge the government did not label this an insurrection and thousands of people were not arrested and held in solitary confinement. To my knowledge the FBI has not run face recognition software to identify others who may have been in Washington that day with the intent of arresting them as well. I don’t know for sure whether there were more FBI informants and instigators in the protest than protestors.

I’m getting a little carried away I know because this report is about hatred of Jews not the government’s hatred of all who object to its world view. The crowd screamed “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”. That chant is growing in popularity despite the deadly attacks by Hamas on Israeli civilians last month. The phrase means the destruction of the Jewish state of Israel and is therefore anti-Jew, I will argue. Long live the Intifada they chanted which is an Arabic word referring to a Palestinian uprising.

The demonstration, protest, riot, or whatever you choose to call it is not even what I’m talking about because it is easily explainable. The people in Washington last Saturday came from across the country to express support for Palestinians because they are Palestinians or at least Middle Easterners for the most part. They are part of the massive immigration or invasion policies orchestrated by the Obama and Biden administrations made necessary by the wars of the two Bush administrations. They also represent very clearly why other Middle East countries like Egypt for example, refuse to admit Palestinian refugees and why they were expelled from Kuwait. They are often trouble for the regime and other countries know it from experience.

The type of hatred those people expressed is explainable and understandable. The kind of hatred I am really talking about today is hatred expressed by people who have no dog in this Gaza fight, and who seem to have only a sketchy understanding of history and what is happening currently. The Hamas assault on Israel of October 7th has provoked a surge in acts of antisemitism around the world and has awakened a repressed fear or horror in Jewish populations worldwide.

Darrell Castle talks about the war between Israel and Hamas and the terrifying potential for it to escalate.

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THIS WAR SMELLS A LITTLE LIKE ARMAGEDDON

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 3rd day of November in the year of our Lord 2023. I will be talking about the war between Israel and Hamas and trying to make sense of it as I am able at this time. What is the war about right now, and what does it have the terrifying potential to escalate into soon.

I can’t use a title with the word Armageddon in it without talking a little about what the word means. It is a word coming from the Christian Holy Bible in the book of Revelation chapter 16 verse 16. “Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon. “The battle of Armageddon is basically predicted to be the final battle between good and evil or God’s forces against the kings of the earth. Do I think this war is the actual battle of Armageddon, no I don’t but what I am trying to say is that unless cooler heads prevail it could morph into something at least resembling it.

The war has been ongoing since October 7th so it has been only about two months. The thing that strikes me about it other than the killing and dying which is what war is, has been the propaganda. Real events are used to inflame the populations of both sides as well as the populations of interested countries. Israel is portrayed as the persecutor of the Palestinian people having kept them imprisoned in an open-air concentration camp for 15 years. Hamas is portrayed as bloodthirsty savages. How much of the propaganda is truth and how much is fiction is anyone’s guess right now. We in the West sometimes think we know but often our assurances are just guesswork based on our own innate prejudice.

As usual in the best propaganda there is at least a little truth on both sides. The attacks out of Gaza into Israel were savage and barbaric with no military objective. I mean that the objective was terror by killing, raping, and torturing and it is hard to understand sympathy with the nature of it. Other than the rockets and missiles used, the attack itself was very low tech designed to defeat the high-tech Israeli security systems with simple means. Communication between Hamas leadership and soldiers was always written messages hand delivered, never by email or text. They used paragliders that can be found in most beach resorts. Bulldozers were used to breach the walls and fences and then soldiers on motorcycles and in pickup trucks poured through.

The simple nature of the plan made it much harder for the Israelis to uncover. Thus explaining at least in part how it could have escaped Israeli defenses. The leadership of Hamas who live luxurious lives in Qatar, by the way, while their people suffer in Gaza, but nevertheless they must have known that the brutal savagery of the attack would inflame the Israelis and incite a desire for revenge. The stories of rape and murder complete with photos of burned babies, I at first thought were exaggerated for propaganda purposes, but apparently, they are accurate.

 Most recently the story of a young woman named Shani Louk hit the international press. She was a beautiful 24-year-old woman attending a music festival until she was captured. Pictures emerged of her paraded naked through the streets of Gaza and just this week her body was found with her head in a different place. O.K. if one wants to refer to people who do that as barbaric savages perhaps there is truth there. It’s the same type of mentality we’ve seen before with Hitler’s forces and the Jews he portrayed as sub-human. Acts of barbarism are justified because your enemy is sub-human.

Does the average man, woman, or child on the streets of Gaza City see all Jews as sub-human? It really doesn’t matter anymore because that is the story, they are presented by their leadership who apparently do it ...

Darrell Castle talks about the classic mistake of war and how the United States seems hellbent on making it as the country rushes toward an out-of-control catastrophe.

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THE CLASSIC MISTAKE OF WAR

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 27th day of October in the year of our Lord 2023 and today I return to the Castle Report after three weeks away and I find the world in danger with the United States right in the middle of it of course. I will be talking about the classic mistake of war and how the United States seems hellbent on making it as the country rushes toward an out-of-control catastrophe.

The classic mistake of war is opening two fronts without the resources to fight them. That was the mistake of Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany whose name is almost synonymous with the mistake. The Kaiser went to war against Russia and a French and English alliance at the same time and the result of his mistake was the destruction of Germany leading eventually to a second world war.

It is World War I that I am talking about but as a wise man once said, if you don’t learn from history you are doomed to repeat it. The Kaiser’s war could possibly have been contained until England mobilized and declared war, but once that happened it became a World War resulting in the deaths of over 70 million people. The United States today is on the verge of making the classic mistake of the Kaiser. The war in the Middle East might be contained unless the United States enters actual combat, but then the chances of it spinning out of control and going global are too great to contemplate.

In the example of the United States today, President Biden is perhaps on the verge of exceeding the Kaiser in hubris and dumb reasoning. He went to Israel last week to meet with their Prime Minister and war cabinet and afterward he made a speech which was carried on television around the world. The speech contained a lot of untrue things, but it revealed a plan that indicated that someone up there in Washington is frightfully ignorant or worse, homicidal.

President Biden seems to think that the United States can and will fight and fund three wars on different corners of the planet at the same time. The war against Russia in Ukraine, the war of Israel against God only knows how many others, and the United States against China over Taiwan, all at the same time. It is an insane plan, if only from an economic standpoint. Washington is currently approaching 34 trillion in debt the long-term consequences of which not many seem to be thinking about.

The business shows on television, or what passes for television, now have many people they present to us as experts, who are saying repeatedly that the Fed is losing or has lost control of the economy, especially regarding inflation. I have already talked about the many economic troubles of the American working people and how no one seems to care even a little about them. The President goes to congress and asks for more than 100 billion additional dollars to fund wars on two fronts in Ukraine and Gaza. He makes promises as if he thinks there is no end to the largesse with which he can fund the world’s death machines.

I realize that when he says he is going to give two billion to Israel or Ukraine, for example, he is really giving it to the American arms manufacturers who then use part of it to fund politicians who will give them more money. That is how cynical it has all become, but this time it seems to be far more dangerous than simply using Ukraine as a proxy to fight Russia. My point is that even if the United States had the military capability to fulfill his promises which is doubtful, the money has failed as it did in the time of Joseph as recorded in Genisis 47:15.

American weapons stockpiles are dangerously low due to the constant supply of Ukraine in the effort to defeat the Russian Army. The effort in Ukraine has taken about 500,

Darrell Castle talks about the refusal of Joe Biden to provide Secret Service protection to his rival for the Democrat nomination for the office of President of the United States, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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DESPICABLE DENIAL

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 29th day of September in the year of our Lord 2023. I will be talking about the refusal of Joe Biden to provide Secret Service protection to his rival for the Democrat nomination for the office of President of the United States, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. That denial is unprecedented and considering the family history of Mr. Kennedy I call it despicable.

Before I get started, I need to tell you that the 11th of next month is my 75th birthday and my wife has two weeks of parties planned to celebrate my life with her and then I have the Constitution Party National Committee Meeting to attend so I will not be able to continue this effort for the next three weeks.

I have investigated the rules of the Secret Service as I have been able because it is after all Secret. The secrecy of the Secret Service is understandable given the job of protecting the highest value targets for every terrorist and political nut job in this world. I was able to determine some basic rules or policies as far as who gets the protection and who doesn’t. It seems that a general rule is that if a candidate requests protection he or she gets it.

My understanding is that within 120 days of a presidential election each candidate with 15% of the vote is entitled to protection. Outside the 120-day deadline it is at the pleasure of the president of the United States through the person we now refer to as the secretary of Homeland Security. I’ve never liked that name, by the way, “Homeland Security” because it sounds so German, or Russian, but no one asked me when the name was chosen.

In the present case of RFK, Jr., my understanding is that he has three times gone to the Secret Service and has three times been refused. The most recent time he requested protection was after he had a very credible death threat from a credible and armed intruder. So, an armed intruder threatened him but the Secretary of Homeland Security said that he had determined that the candidate had not demonstrated a need for protection.

My understanding is that the Secretary works directly for the president and the president makes the decision so President Biden decided that Robert Kennedy would not get the protection. It is hard for me to find a reason for the denial that is not despicable. Terms like petty, and vindictive come to mind but the best term is despicable. How many despicable acts does a person have to commit before we are willing to call him a despicable person? I don’t have to remind you that his uncle and father were each assassinated and that his name alone makes him a target.

He has hired private security and in the video interview I saw of him explaining who and why he hired the firm he chose; he said that the firm is headed by the most respected name in Washington private protection. I’m told that he now spends 30% of his campaign budget on private security which of course is another reason President Biden has chosen not to allow protection. His only current challenger for the nomination is forced to spend 30% of his budget to protect his life making it more difficult to speak and make people aware of his views.

Kennedy has the audacity to challenge a sitting president so in his most petty and despicable way the president denies the challenger the protection that might possibly save his life. Said another way the President of the United States doesn’t really care if Robert Kennedy is murdered in his efforts to gain the presidency. That’s the man holding the office of president and the leader of the free world. Who would want such a petty, vindictive man in the smallest office let alone the largest?

Darrell Castle talks about the troubling dissatisfaction that is present in American life today caused by the economic reality of the middle class and the indifferent attitude of America's politicians.

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DISPIRITED PEOPLE

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 22nd day of September in the year of our Lord 2023. I will be talking about the troubling dissatisfaction that is present in American life today and I argue that much of it is caused by the economic reality of life in Middle Class America, and by the indifferent, let them eat cake, attitude of America’s politicians.

Polling data indicate that my theory is valid and that the middle class is disappearing because it is being incinerated by the economic reality it faces. For example, the President spoke to the UN General Assembly earlier this week and he told them that he supports delivering the health care of Americans into the hands of the globalists at the UN World Health Organization. In the choice between freedom and enslavement he clearly comes down on the side favoring enslavement. Mr. Middle Class sees all this and he doesn’t know what to make of it but he is very suspicious. Not suspicious enough to go to the barricades, not yet anyway, but a report coming from the Census Bureau this week might help him on his way.

Yes, while the President was telling the UN that we just have to persevere in Ukraine the Census Bureau was telling Mr. Middle Class that he was descending into poverty as if he didn’t already know that. Yes, it seems that the poverty rate increased last year for the first time in 13 years. So, the President goes to the UN or he takes another 10-day vacation and the working people of America slip into poverty. That’s more than likely going to cause some unease among Americans, even Democrats. I suppose the President’s usual answer of Trump did it will have to suffice at least for a while.

Instead of the usual political clap trap, let’s look at some things that might really be causing it. Recent polls indicate that something is wrong out there in Middle America. Democrats and Republicans alike understand that the problems are eating away at their lives and their standard of living. Whether Democrat or Republican or whether they are ashamed to be publicly identified with either of those groups, and therefore identify themselves as independent, they know something is wrong. They may blame each other as their masters at the heads of the two political parties have trained them to do, but there seems to be a growing unease as business-as-usual fails to provide answers.

The disease is economic although it may exhibit many symptoms, it is economic. When James Carvelle advised Bill Clinton in 1992, “it’s the economy stupid” he was right and it’s still the economy today. A recent poll indicated that 61% say they lack confidence in what has come to be called Bidenomics to manage economic problems. 54% said Congressional Republicans gave them more confidence that they could successfully deal with the issues facing the country while 45% said they had more confidence in Biden, so they are confused and that is no accident either.

Americans are not happy and clearly the driver of their unhappiness is the economy. These polls I have been reading can be confusing but significantly only 37% approve of the way Biden has handled the economy. 70% disapprove of how he has addressed inflation while 75% say they think economic conditions are poor for them. By a large margin the economy is far and away the most important issue facing the country and people in the Middle know that economic reality is stacked against them.

Freeing the dollar from the restraints that held it and which forced politicians to be at least a little bit accountable for what they did to the rest of us, has caused a stagnant economy and declining standard of living and worse result for the Middle Class than for others...