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

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

Darrell Castle talks about the trade problems between the U.S. and Canada which Prime Minister Mark Carney has descibed as a war. Transcription / Notes OH CANADA CAN’T WE WORK THIS OUT? Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 28th day of August in the year of our Lord 2026. I will be talking about the trade problems between the U.S. and Canada which Prime Minister Mark Carney has described as a war. My argument is that he is right because it is war but not the one he wants you to concentrate on. This war is one between the very elite group of globalists who are also the enemies of humanity as they attempt to control all humanity through their control of money, credit, interest, and banking in general. Before he became Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney was head of the London Central Bank and I have no doubt that he was installed in Canada to be sure globalist control continues. Now the bankers appear to be very nervous with the U.S. mid-terms coming up so if only Trump could be damaged by this “trade war.” The tactic or strategy is what Carney and his operatives in the American Democrat Party call the doughnut strategy. They call it that because they want to go around the American President through Democrat leadership directly to the American people. Convince them that trump is at economic war with nice, friendly Canada and maybe the usual group of globalist bankers can take back control in November. Don’t get me wrong here folks I still think the Iran war was and is about the stupidest foreign policy decision in American history. I have a theory that the reason those American sailors during World War ll could stay at sea in desperate combat for years without complaint and the sailors on the Lincoln were suicidal after 9 months. World War ll sailors were fighting for their parents, wives, girlfriends, their way of life and they knew it. Nobody had to feed them a pack of lies to keep them going but in Iran the sailors know that it is stupid and pointless and its purpose is nothing American. That is a morale killer if I’ve ever heard of one. Yes, you are right about him being crass, vulgar, egotistical in ways we’ve never seen before and in ways that makes one wonder if he is delusional about himself. He is a flawed candidate and a flawed human being but if you study our history flawed human beings are numerous in leadership and sometimes in greatness. Barack Obama, and Joe Biden were both vulgar and egotistical as well but they didn’t flaunt it quite as well as Donald Trump. The U.S. and Canada have a long history of cooperation primarily in two areas, economic and military. Canada contributed greatly to the allied efforts during World War ll both in troops and in manufacturing. When the war ended both Canada and the U.S. had a new enemy called the Soviet Union. The Soviets were right at the edge of Europe and it was generally assumed that they would invade any day. NATO was formed to resist the Soviet menace and that included Canada. Generally speaking, Canada has always remained more closely allied with Europe especially the UK than with the U.S. although the two militaries were integrated for mutual protection against the soviet threat. NORAD, the North American Air Defense system famously headquartered in a rock mountain in Colorada has Canadian military warning systems integrated. If a Soviet missile were launched against the U.S. in those days it was expected to come from the north across the Arctic and parts of Canada. The two nations built a network of radar early warning systems across the northern part of Canada and they are still functional today. So, the two sides have a mutually beneficial military relationship and both apparently want that relationship to continue. Although the Canadian military is an empty shell of what it once was the two sides still need each other. The U.S. needs the strategic depth that Canada provides as much as it ever has since tensions with Russia always seem to be there. Canada needs U.S. manufacturing and defense technology and so the military relationship remains intact. Economically, well that’s another matter completely. The U.S. has some room to maneuver economically because about 72% of all the products Canada exports come to the U.S. President Trump wants to shift the economic relationship to one a little more favorable to the U.S. because as he sees it Canada taxes U.S. goods going into Canada at a much higher rate that the U.S. taxes theirs. That is a practice that Trump referred to as acting like the 51st state without all the responsibility of statehood.  The two sides set down last week to talk and try to resolve the matter and for a while it seemed like they had a deal. President Trump announced that they had a deal pending finalization of documents and the threatened 50% tariffs were lifted until the documents were finalized. All of a sudden at about midnight on Friday the Prime Minister called his diplomats home and announced in a solemn interview that Canada had been attacked and it was therefore at war with the United States. There are videos, and I concede that with AI who knows what is real, but the videos I’m referring to show Democrat operatives the most prominent of which is Hilary Clinton plotting with Carney to keep this disagreement going until after the midterms. Will it work. Time will tell but not everyone was as impressed with Carney’s characterization of the breakdown as he seemed to be. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said that the U.S. presented Canada with the best trade terms of any country in the world but Canada wants to retain all tariffs of their own while removing all American tariffs. There seems to be growing dissatisfaction in the parts of Canada where people still work for a living and workers realize the Canadian position in these negotiations will probably cost their jobs. Already the median standard of living in the U.S. is about $90 thousand while in Canada its about $60 thousand. The other aspect of this dispute is Canada’s growing relationship with China. Canada is trying to increase its Chinese market as a way to avoid U.S. tariffs and of course Carney wants to give the impression he can live without the U.S. Canada is accused by U.S. trade people of assembling Chinese goods in Canada then hoping to ship them to the U.S. duty free. In response the Canadians say the U.S. is trying to control which countries Canada does business with. This attitude, logic tells me, will cripple the Canadian economy and ruin the economic lives of many people. Perhaps Carney is so dedicated to his cohort of European globalist banker friends that he will deliberately cripple his own people to accommodate them. Getting Trump’s majority taken away thus curtailing Trump’s ability to thwart their plans is apparently worth it. The military relationship is a factor in all this as I said earlier. It is complicated by the fact that hardly any leaders on either side have military experience. During Vietnam about 75% of the U.S. congress had military experience but now its about 20% and the President has no military experience at all. That fact sometimes results in leadership which doesn’t understand the military and its problems. Furthermore, it creates a disrespect for military leadership and the advice top leaders give to inexperienced politicians is discounted. The upper leadership in the military sometimes appears to be a revolving door because politicians can’t handle their stark truth. Canada is currently recruiting non-Canadians to serve in the military I suppose because very few Canadians want to do it. Canadians, like Americans probably see it all as a pack of lies and so they are skeptical. Potential soldiers from other countries are attracted to citizenship promises and higher pay but discipline and loyalty are lacking. The reason for this military diatribe in an economic report is because the relationship is still militarily very important to both sides and it is being damaged by this tactic which as I said is apparently designed between Carney, his globalist friends, and ambitious American Democrat politicians. In conclusion folks, Canada cannot win this war and I think they will soon realize that. The Canadian government doesn’t want to be seen as offering to surrender but I hope they can see that trying to out swagger Donald Trump politically is a losing proposition. Hopefully, the two sides can move forward in mutually agreed upon terms that ensure the people of both countries prosper because the alternative is a kind of no-man’s-land where their disputes constantly confront each other. Finally. Folks. I admit that much of this is simply my opinion but I argue that it is an educated opinion based on research. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail and normal relations will prevail and sanity restored.  At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.

Darrell Castle endeavors to explain why he thinks debt is the worst, most unsolvable problem we face as everything we call a standard of living hangs in the balance. Transcription / Notes DEBT—WHY IT’S SO IMPORTANT Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Last week I mentioned that debt is the worst problem we face as a nation and I got some comments so this week I will endeavor to explain why I think debt is the worst, most unsolvable problem that we face and why I think that because of debt everything we have and everything we call a standard of living hangs in the balance. Sometimes we forget that in the 1990’s the federal government had a balanced budget, When Bill Clinton was president the federal government lived within its means but today it is $40 trillion in debt. So, what, many people say, because it doesn’t seem to affect them and after all they live in a nice home for which they have a 30-year mortgage. In the Clinton years the average age of first-time home buyers was in the 20’s but now it’s about 40. George w. Bush came along and decided we would be required to fight some of Israel’s enemies for then and so the debt started its out of control climb to the $40 trillion that it is today. Three fourths of the increase has been added since Obama took office and about $11 trillion or 28% since Trump took office.. In other words, it is accelerating because the U.S. has no way to fund it without borrowing more, a practice known as monetizing the debt or using more debt to pay debt otherwise known as a debt spiral. So, the problem in the private economy is inflation which is why gas was $1.25 in the 90’s and is about $4.00 in most places today. Inflation is caused by excessive money printing and excessive money in circulation which devalues all the money you make. If you make $85 thousand per year and do not get a raise for 10 years and there is no inflation you have not lost anything. When inflation doubles the price of necessities during that period you have lost a lot. People are starting to realize all that and it is causing some disturbing reactions especially among young people. They see the system as being gamed against them because some people are rich and they are not. No matter what they make they seem to barely get by, especially in New York, so when a charismatic leader comes along and says I will take from those bad rich people and give it to you they bite. They see the capitalistic system as bad and evil because they have not gotten theirs from it but that is exactly the wrong reaction. The system is broken but not because of a failure of design. It is broken because it has been perverted by a tiny group of globalist ruling elite who are not stupid. They see the entire system failing and on the brink of popping the bubble that props it up and they do not react by trying to fix it and restore soundness. No, the ever more feeble state doesn’t pull back and lick its wounds to heal. Instead, it becomes a predator extracting every last dollar from the system that it can. The entire post-war European model of a social state is no longer working, but the state and its ruling elite just keep looting and I suppose they hope we don’t notice. The system works like the old quote from George Carlin that we are all familiar with. “See, folks it’s a big club and you ain’t in it.” Well, I heard some former insider the other day say that George’s quote was spot on except today it should be amended to say that it’s a small club and you ain’t in it. A very small group of people run the world this man was saying and they see what is happening and it terrifies them. They know the debt will never be dealt with and will never be paid. They don’t think the deficit will ever again be reduced to zero so they see the only hope as total control through surveillance of every person on the planet. This is accomplished through the widespread use of flock cameras among many other things. The newspaper reports that there are over 1000 flock cameras in my city of Memphis. Total surveillance allows those in control to monitor us and act if we get too uppity. Central bank digital currency will be the primary method of dealing with all the debt the U.S. carries and with the growing dissatisfaction of people with consumer debt they can’t live without. The ruling elite first make debt slaves of us all and finally they start to sense chaos and perhaps revolution in the air and they have to do something. Publicly they have their bread and circus to pacify us but privately they have other methods. The people continue to elect what turns out to be the worst people in the country. The state has lost its fear of you or what you think about what it is doing. Let me give you an example by going back to the beginning. The founders designed a system whereby it took the will of the majority of the people’s representatives sitting in Congress to send the nation to war. The president had to go the congress and request permission to go to war and the people through their elected representatives had to agree. That was because war had to be paid for and that would require taxes which would affect everyone. What a quaint idea, but it might also require sending their sons to possible death so it was a serious matter. Even as late in history as George W. Bush’s war on Iraq if you remember he and Dick Chaney kept us in suspense for many months before the war so they could build a consensus of the people and the media to support the war. It worked because most people supported the war because of 911 etc. We could not imagine it was all just a set up and part of the plan. Now we are so numb we just don’t care anymore. The president sees poll after poll that shows his war on Iran to be the most unpopular in history but he doesn’t seem to care.  Going to congress or what the Constitution says means nothing nor does the oath of office. Now they don’t seem to care what the people think and they don’t even bother to convince us. They seem to know that this reckless waste of money is creating more and more resentment and a breaking point is rapidly approaching. Mr. Jefferson told us in the Declaration that rights come from the creator and they are inalienable. To secure those rights governments are instituted among men. In other words, the purpose of government is to secure our rights not to abuse them. He went on to say that when government becomes destructive of those ends it is the right of the people to abolish it. I submit to you that after many years of governments destructive of those ends the people are growing ever more weary and the tiny group of elites at the top can clearly see that and they are taking steps to make sure it never happens. What are some of those steps, well I’m glad you asked. Constant surveillance of every person on earth. Flock cameras everywhere and now even our cars report back on our behavior. Debasement of the currency to the point that central bank digital currency is obviously necessary and with it is the end of privacy, even the limited version of it we have today. Soon there will be constant monitoring of everything you say and write in the public domain. Constant, never ending, pointless, bloody wars, that are so stupid blind people can see them for what they are. Abandonment of the moral center of the country to the point that bedrock faith is just a ruse to appease a few right wingers. Demeaning of the culture at every level with the foulest words used constantly by those in high places. Those are just a few of the things already coming or on their way. To make all this work and save the elite a very small population of cooperative people is all that is necessary and AI will do the work. The population must be reduced to accommodate the sick dreams of these satanic madmen. Since AI is going to destroy the low and middle class well, I guess we don’t need as many of them complaining. There are many ways to kill us but the first way that should be obvious to anyone is biowarfare. COVID was and is the best example. The virus, thanks to the science, and his cohorts was engineered to kill in mass numbers but it didn’t so the Vaccine had to be invented to do its work. Destroy the reproductive systems of young women and cause miscarriages in those who are pregnant. I’ve read from Dr. Naomi Wolfe and her work that about 80% pf pregnant women who were injected with the mNRA vaccine miscarried. Dr. Fauci’s top assistant just pled guilty to covering up information about gain of function work on the virus. Pfizer admits through 10’s of thousands of pages of documents that it intentionally attacked the reproductive systems of women. In fact, one might say that Marx was right or at least on to something when he described religion as the opiate of the masses. What he might notice today is that opium and its directives are the opiate of the masses. The country has been flooded with drugs since Vietnam days and the more war we make against it the worse it gets. The illegal drugs are only a welcome part of the cocktail that our overlords feed us. Well meaning doctors do the only thing the system allows them in the 15 minutes every 6 months they are allowed to see us and that is prescribe big pharma cocktails for every problem. Any natural product,i.e. one made from leaves of trees grown in Asia must be banned to protect us. Yes, the government and its agents constantly scan to see what might help people so they can ban it. Let me go back to the beginning as I draw near the end by saying that they start with abortion. They have trained women along with the Supreme Court to call it reproductive freedom but now 10 states allow abortion until the moment of birth. That sounds a lot like cold blooded murder to me but the proponents of it clap like trained seals with no knowledge, apparently, that they are assisting a very evil few to destroy many. Finally. Folks, I know this all sounds like some wild conspiracy theory but it is instead fact whether you choose to see clear evidence or 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 what he believes to be the worst, most difficult problem facing America. Transcription / Notes THE WORST PROBLEM WE FACE Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 14th day of August in the year of our Lord 2026. I will be talking about what I believe to be the worst, most difficult to solve problem facing the nation. What do you think the most difficult or dangerous problem facing the nation is. Perhaps you would say it’s the Iran war. Maybe you think it is the growing menace we call AI and the fear that AI will take all the jobs from Americans leaving nothing but subsidies for them. Well, those are indeed difficult problems and I will talk a little about each of them. I read quite often from commentators coming from both the left and the right that the President is stuck in Iran and there is simply no way out, but I beg to differ. The two sides in the conflict constantly throw insults at each other and make demands. The latest demand from Iran includes a demand for compensation for the damage you Americans have done to Iran. The President’s reaction to that demand was “what, we don’t owe you money, you owe us money for the USS Cole and for the lives you have taken. A lot of the time when I analyze a dilemma I use a tactic I learned from Ron Paul a long time ago. That tactic is a moral position that if it is wrong for an individual to do something it is also wrong for the government to do it. It is illegal for individuals to cheat, steal, and under some circumstances to lie. It is a crime for individuals to lie to congress but it is OK and perhaps even expected for congress to lie to us. Using that analysis for the war when I hear people say it started in 1979 when the Islamic revolution overthrew the Shah so that’s about 46 years. My answer to that is that no, it began in 1953 or about 73 years ago. That is when U.S. and British leaders apparently in an effort to gain control over Iranian oil overthrew the democratically elected leader of Iran, Mr. Mosaddegh and replaced him with Shah Pahlavi who was out of the country but wanted desperately to return much as his son does today. In 1967 as a continuation of the Atoms for Peace program the U.S. began giving uranium to the Shah so he could develop peaceful nuclear power for electricity, medicine, etc. or at least that’s what was said about it. In 1979 the Shah was overthrown by a coalition of Islamists, leftists, and of course students. Once again, as Ron Paul pointed out they didn’t come over here until we went over there. The war between the U.S./Israel and the Muslims grows almost daily and tells me quite clearly that there is a very high price to be paid for being subject to the military demands of another country. I vehemently disagree with the view that there is no way out of Iran. Just tell the Iranians that we admit that we inadvertently, hopefully, attacked a school and killed about 160 little girls. We are very sorry we did that and for that mistake we will pay compensation to their families. Other than that, we have decided to rethink our Middle East strategy and in that regard we are withdrawing and leaving the region to fight its own wars. What will we then do with the hundreds of billions previously spent on this stupid, pointless war. That will become clear when we get to what the real problem is and how a possible solution is available. The second problem that many see as fatal today is the ever-growing power of AI. I’ll admit that I am no tech expert and in most tech I am barely competent but I’ll also admit that much of what I read and hear about AI is terrifying. The other day I read that some of the tech people in conjunction with scientists and or doctors were using AI to invent new viruses. To me, that’s about as terrifying as nuclear weapons. We read that AI is growing in intelligence on its own and the simpler or dumber if you prefer platforms are connecting with the smarter ones to learn and improve just as a child would with its parent. This is apparently being done without the parents’ consent or involvement. Recently, an AI system started hacking into information sources both private and public. Could AI launch nuclear weapons and start a world nuclear war. I don’t know but I do know it’s terrifying. New Orleans is now using AI to answer its 911 calls and I’m sure many cities will soon follow. So, AI is becoming ever smarter and humans thanks to education and propaganda and social media are becoming ever dumber. Therefore, AI is rapidly replacing more and more human workers including those whose work is the knowledge they possess. Those who think for a living are perhaps in more danger of losing their livelihood than manual workers. Soon, many believe, AI will take over almost all human creative activities including writing of all kinds as well as movies and TV production. Human actors may soon be a thing of the past. The other day I watched a 30-minute movie made by a couple of teenagers using AI and it was just as real as any you might see in theaters but none of the actors were real. The movie was about New York City, but it had some AI tells like palm trees in Manhattan but otherwise was very realistic. So, AI is terrifying but does that mean that our terror is just Luddite reactions to progress. Ned Ludd lived in the early 1800’s in England during the early stages of the industrial revolution. He led a movement against the rising fear and power of the new machines which were faster and better than simple labor. Machines were especially prevalent in the textile industry and followers of Mr. Ludd would go from town to town destroying machines in factories because they thought they could stop progress. Luddites became such a problem for the British government that factories were guarded by troops and many Luddites were killed. We can’t allow ourselves to become Luddites by trying to stop the computers because it will not work. They are coming for us and our jobs so the best course of action seems to me to be learning to live and work with them and to use them for good purposes. Naïve of me, perhaps but it seems like the only way. The Iran War and AI are both serious problems but both have solutions or at least ways to lessen their damaging impact. The most intractable problem of all is barely noticed by most people and yet is going to destroy their lives relatively quickly. When Donald Trump was elected in 2024 the US empire was in serious trouble and headed for bankruptcy. The era of spend all you want and I own all the money and there is no end to it is over or rapidly dying. Without the counterfeit money machine now probably run by AI there is no empire. Trump has simply accelerated the process toward bankruptcy to warp speed which is the opposite of why people voted for him.  The federal debt is now very close to 40 trillion and half of that has been added in the last 10 years or since Trump was first elected. Since July 1st of this year U.S. debt has already increased by $450nbillion. Over the last 13 months it has gone up by $3.6 trillion. It is increasing by $7 billion per day and at that rate by 2030 it will hit $60 trillion. Who cares, the people shout just give me mine and borrow to pay interest. The problem is that very soon the interest on all that debt will be the largest item in the budget and threatening all other terms. Currently about $1trillion per year in interest and growing to destroy the standard of living of our children. The debt has reached an impossible level and that means the U.S. government and that means you and me is a debt slave for life. That’s not even the worst of it folks because I’m talking about the effects of this credit based, no cash economy on Mr. and Ms. Average American. I submit to you that I am very qualified to discuss this subject because I was a bankruptcy lawyer for 46 years until I retired at the end of last year. I have literally been involved with thousands of people who got in so deep they could find no way out. I became pretty good at helping clients out of financial trouble and even wrote a book about it. Just listen to this one example to get an understanding of how debt affects our lives. Take a family with husband and wife working and they have one child but they plan others. They are doing well with good jobs so they buy a $500,000 house at 6.8% interest. The bank approves the family for the loan and simply creates the money out of thin air to pay to the original owner. The bank doesn’t go in the vault and get $500,000 it creates on its computer and it has a license to do that from the Federal Reserve. The deal is typically for 30 years but the nice family doesn’t care because they can afford the payments. The payment would be about $3,260 per month, not including taxes and insurance. In my city that $500,000 house would be charged about $1000 per month in tax plus insurance of maybe $250. So, over the 30 years mortgage payments alone would cost $673,000 just for interest or more than the value of the house. Real estate on that scale is to provide shelter not an investment because so many things can happen. The most common would be one of them loses a job and payments could no longer be made. They try to sell but the market is down and interest up. They are 3 months behind so foreclosure is the next step. Unlike the federal government or Federal Reserve, the nice family has to make payments with their labor which AI has probably taken from them and they cannot just create it out of thin air and take the interest from other people. I could go on and on with how this terrible problem of debt affects people but I am out of time for today. In my opinion it is the worst and most unsolvable of problems. For the government it would take a reduction of about $2 trillion per year to keep it from going higher and that would be a good place to start. Finally, folks, I think I could cut $2trillion from the budget first by cutting the $1.5 trillion defense budget by perhaps half. Other federal programs could meet the same fate. At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.

Once again, Darrell Castle discusses war but with a little diplomacy and an historical reminder that technology constantly changes but human nature never changes. Transcription / Notes THE HUMILIATION FACTOR Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 7th day of August in the year of our Lord 2026. I’m afraid my beat is war once again but with a little diplomacy and an historical reminder that technology constantly changes but human nature never changes. For the history lesson I have to go back to December 7th, 1941, and perhaps even a few days before that. This story is important because of the title to this report but also because yesterday, August 6 was the 81st anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan. The United States was engaged in diplomacy with Japan regarding Japan’s invasion of China and Roosevelt’s refusal to sell them more oil until they left China. The Japanese had to import virtually all their raw materials and they got oil primarily from the U.S. The Japanese had behaved so horribly in China that Roosevelt tried to persuade the Europeans to join him in a conditional boycott but they refused so he decided to do it himself. If you want to know more about how the Japanese behaved in China I recommend Iris Chang’s book “The Rape of Nanchang, The Forgotten Holocaust of World War ll. Well, at least the two sides were talking to each other through diplomats around a conference table in Washington D.C. The Japanese knew that if the U.S. continued to refuse to sell them oil they would have to get it by conquering the oil and rubber rich nations of the South Pacific so they made plans to do just that. Those nations could not be conquered with the U.S. Navy at large in the Pacific so Japan’s plan included that Navy’s destruction in an attack we know as Pearl Harbor. Admiral Yamamoto, commander of the Japanese Fleet, had given orders that a war warning had to given to the American diplomats about one hour before the attack but delays of various kinds caused the warning to be delivered one hour after battleship row was burning. The Japanese believed that when the decadent, luxury loving, American people were confronted with this debacle they would demand that their leaders negotiate a way out of it. There were an awful lot of American members of Congress and the Senate who were in office because they were opposed to fighting European wars. There was an America first contingent which measured about 140 members. How could any nation so divided muster the will to fight a long bloody war, but the Japanese were catastrophically wrong in their assessment. Immediately after the attack the America first group voted to disband. Charles Linberg, the most outspoken and most famous antiwar advocate tried to join the Army Air Corps. Men lined up around the block in every city in America. School boys lied about their age to enlist. Keep in mind that in Japan every radio receiver in every military unit was tuned to American broadcasts in order to discern the mood of the people. Military transcriptionists took down every word of every broadcast and on December 8th at 12:30 PM they were turned in for FDR’s speech. He spoke for only 6 minutes and none of it was a call for patience or negotiation but instead he called it a day that will live in infamy. The American people and the President were fueled to righteous anger by the deceptive nature of it. The term sneak attack was on everyone’s lips and worse because it happened while the two sides were negotiating. That’s a long history report, folks, but there is a reason for it. The reason is that another sneak attack, conducted while the two sides were negotiating has now happened. The anger, the determination to fight on no matter how long it took that fueled American resolve is now being felt by citizens of The Islamic Republic of Iran. Yes American diplomats were negotiating with Iranian diplomats when the U.S, and Israeli bombers struck. The attack didn’t just destroy Iranian military targets, but it killed their supreme leader and almost his whole family including his 14-month-old granddaughter. The next day American bombs struck a girls school and around 160 little girls were killed but just to make sure it was hit again. How are these people supposed to feel about negotiating with America to end this war. How can they be expected to ever trust an American’s word again. The problem continues almost daily as U.S. negotiators, if there are any besides the president, continue to go back on their word which is diplomat speak for lying. For example, the 14-point Memorandum of Understanding the president announced the other day called for Iran to control the Strait of Hormuz. The next day the president reneged on that point. I read someone the other day and I can’t remember who said it, but he said President Trump should get the Nobel Peace Prize because he has ended the Iran War 7 times and number 8 is coming soon. Think about the mindset that the U.S. sneak attack must have created in the minds of the Iranian people. Before it happened there did seem to be a lot of unrest and a lot of division. People were in the streets protesting the harsh measures of the regime and that regime proceeded to kill thousands of them. I imagine the President was told that his sneak attack would have the same effect on the Iranian people that the Japanese thought Pearl Harbor would have on the American people. Both those assumptions were catastrophically wrong. Instead of causing the Iranian people to riot and overthrow their government it brought them together. The hated Mullahs were once again respected leaders. Thousands attended the Ayatollah’s funeral. I think it was Mark Twain who said history doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes. Now the situation is so much worse for the U.S. and of course for Israel which was, apparently, the reason for the sneak attack. The Strait is at least a very dangerous place and ships can’t sail without extreme danger. The entire world’s economy teeters on the brink of depression. Oil and other needed mineral resources are soaring in price since about 20% of them have to pass through that chokehold. Meanwhile the President has announced a new deal being brokered by his Board of Peace involving peace in Gaza. The lynch pin would require Hamas, a terrorist group financed by Iran, to give up its arms and identify all its tunnels etc. In other words, Hamas would cease to exist and Israel would leave Gaza so that the U.S. and the Middle East members of the Board such as the Saudis and the Gulf States could rebuild it and everyone would prosper. The moment the deal was announced Netanyahu said the President sent it to him and he didn’t like it. He said Israel would not leave Gaza until Hamas completely disarmed and Hamas Says it will not disarm until Israel leaves. Qatar is apparently kicking Hamas out of its country and rumors have it moving its operations to Turkey which is apparently the President’s hope for the role of ensuring Middle East peace. My point in all this is that it is humiliating and embarrassing, or it should be. This country is supposed to be trusted because we have laws and rules, and we are supposed to stand for something. There are things we simply will never do and financing another country’s crimes is one of those things. The first law of the land of course is the Constitution because it says it is the supreme law of the land. It restricts the power of leaders and they all take an oath to it but for most that means nothing. The standard of completely disarmed is virtually impossible to know or measure and that leaves the door open for this conflict to continue indefinitely. In the meantime, Reuters reports that the U.S. has expended more than 80% of its antimissile defense missiles. The Iranians are very smart people and they have been for a long time. They just keep putting missiles into U.S. bases and into Israel knowing that only a few will get through but it requires the U.S. to expend its supply and what then. The President announces what turns out to be a temporary halt to bombing, I guess. The U.S. position with regard to Israel and the Middle East is indefensible and I guess that’s why they no longer try to defend it. The attitude seems to be the old one made famous by Baghdad Bob. You are not seeing this so just move on because everything is fine. I chose humiliation as the title of this Report because it is humiliating for a great nation to force people to pay for their own destruction. A foreign nation somehow persuades the U.S. to give it money so it can use that money to buy U.S. politicians who will then vote to fund its expansionist wars. I’ll close this report on our humiliation with a few words from old friend and economist Bill Bonner. “No matter how cynical you are, its probably not enough. Perhaps Donald Trump is playing a different game altogether. He marshalls DOGE to cut spending but does not actually cut a dime out of the swollen federal budget. He makes grand theater out of tariffs but trade deficits continue unmolested. No more foreign wars, he pledges and then attacks Iran.” Finally, folks, the way out of this seems very difficult to bear but wouldn’t it be better to quit now so we can manage the withdrawal rather than wait until we are forced out. The Iran War was a mistake we should admit and we are sorry we made it. We are especially sorry for those Iranian school girls and we will pay compensation to their families. It’s the same decision made by the French after Dein Bin Phu when we decided to take up their war. 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 testimony or better said, the refusal to give testimony, of Doctor Anthony Fauci before the Senate Committee headed by Senator Rand Paul. Transcription / Notes THE SCIENCE TAKES THE 5TH Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 31st day of July in the year of our Lord 2026. I will be talking about the testimony or better said, the refusal to give testimony, of Doctor Anthony Fauci who was the Director of the National Institute of Health Division of Allergy and Infectious Disease for about 30 years especially during the COVID years. He finished his medical residency in the 1960’s and has been a government bureaucrat since then. Yes, Dr. Fauci who famously remarked when told that we should follow or stick to the science said, “I am the science.” For years it seems Senator Rand Paul had been trying to get Dr. Fauci to testify before his Senate committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs but the science steadfastly refused. Finally, Senator Paul was able to persuade the members to issue a subpoena and that compelled the science to show up at the hearing with his team of lawyers. Senator Paul had to have his lead attorney escorted out of the hearing by security because he was disruptive and acting like his narcissistic client. President Biden issued or rather his autopen issued a pardon to Fauci for any crimes he may have committed during the last 10 years. In other words, a preemptive pardon in case some charging agency decided to indict him for oh say mass murder. The committee obviously knows he can’t be charged for the crimes he may have committed so what was the purpose of the subpoena. The purpose was to put him in a position to do one of two things but he was unwilling to do either. Either he would admit to some of the most horrible crimes in American history none of which could bring prosecution, or he would lie about them under oath which would constitute the crime of perjury and that is a new crime for which he has not been pardoned. Here’s the opening statement from the science read as part of his opening attack on Senator Paul. “Although it pains me to do so, because of the respect I have for the Legislative Branch for government, and my decades long record of cooperating with congress, under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to refrain from answering your questions.” So, he told them that he would not testify or answer any questions at all. When Senator Josh Hawley got his turn to ask questions he asked him what day is today and the science simply repeated the same quote. Senator Hawley said let me be clear you have no 5th Amendment protection because you were pardoned but obviously the Senator got a little carried away because a pardon does not take away the bill of rights. It even protects those for whom it has been nothing more than toilet tissue for their years of government service. However, it is an open question as to whether a person can be compelled to give answers to questions about crimes for which he cannot be prosecuted. The real problem with all this is a class of people who know they are completely above the law and nothing they do no matter how evil can ever reach them. Apparently they view the rest of us as sheep to be sheared. When these folks look in the mirror they are very happy with what they see. Fauci was one of the highest paid government employees in history and still receives the highest pension, and he is quite aware of his untouchability. The hearing followed the release of a diary that Dr. Fauci kept personally during the COVID nightmare. Yes, this man is so incredibly egotistical that he kept a written record of his crimes. How did Rand Paul come to have possession of Fauci’s private diary. He was so confident that he was untouchable he put his diary on a government server. Senator Paul released the diary to the public and social media ran with it but interestingly mainstream media did not.  The diary is more than 1000 pages of private thoughts and is now a permanent record of the pandemic’s entire existence. It presents this so-called expert in a very unfavorable light and I’m not surprised he didn’t want to talk about it. He knows his media friends will cover for him as they always have. He comes across as one who was very aware of his growing celebrity and the adept way that he learned to play the game of Washington politics. He seemed to understand how to play President Trump and that the President didn’t have the confidence to fire him. The science was preoccupied, even in dire moments for the nation, of his growing fame. There are multiple entries recorded in his own writing of his adoration pictured in the media coverage. He made note of each flattering article, for example quoting the science from his comments about a Washington Post article in May of 2020, “its not hyperbole to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable persons in the world.” Some of his proudest moments were regarding calls or meetings with adoring celebrities. Comments such as “great call” with Barbra Streisand in which he gave her advice on the mRNA vaccine. He also made note of his interactions with Julia Roberts, Steph Curry, and many others. It all concludes with his embrace of Hunter Biden at the Kennedy Center Honors night with a special note about what he thought the reaction to the photo would cause. My guess is that he did not tell Ms. Streisand that five months after he had the vaccine he had a myocardial infarction which I believe is doctor speak for heart attack. Well, that’s enough about the good Dr.’s ego but what did he record of actual substance. On January 26, 2020, he wrote that epidemiological and genomic data showed the first infection occurred in early December and was unconnected to the Wuhan market. “Now we know the market was not the source it was the amplifier.” To me that is an admission that he knew the source was not natural but lab produced. That is despite the years of statements that he was certain it was of natural origin. He recorded his now famous conference call with other members of the science of virology and only two of them believed it had a natural origin and the rest thought “deliberate insertion was possible” They discussed the possibility of accidental or deliberate release by a lab as the source. He knew all that time that it was lab grown and he had financed its gain of function using your money. Doctors and scientists tell us that gain of function occurs when there is an existing virus which is harmless and usually doesn’t jump from animals to humans. That virus is then combined with another in a lab creating a new virus completely. That virus is much more dangerous and much more transmissible thus it has gained in function. These horrible crimes for which normal people across the world suffered terribly were all pardoned by President Biden or were they. Whether or not the autopen was an actual pardon is an ongoing question. Hear this quote from the clemency warrant that made the pardon. “For any offenses against the United States which he may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1,2014, through the date of this pardon arising from or in any manner related to his service as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force or the White House COVID-19 Response Team, or as Chief Medical Advisor to the President.” The President is supposed to issue a pardon to correct what he views as an injustice and the pardon is therefore personal to him but there is no evidence that President Biden reviewed all 39 pardons he issued including several family members and the entire Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. This all raises the question of whether the pardon is Constitutionally valid. One other question I have is that if he has been pardoned why is he afraid to testify and answer simple questions. What is he afraid of but I guess nothing screams out innocence as loudly as taking the 5th. The answer I believe is that he would have to admit mass murder if he answered truthfully and the new, unpardoned crime of perjury if he lied. In conclusion, I want to give you a few words from Paul Craig Roberts. “The COVID virus was a man-made virus. The work to make the virus easily spreadable was funded by Fauci, first at a North Carolina University and then in Wuhan China. The virus was meant to be deadly, but was not, as a backup human extermination tool, a deadly “vaccine” was created and mandated by ignorant and corrupt governments and employers, including the Biden Secretary of Defense.” This information has been extensively and thoroughly documented. Books such as Soren Korsgaard’s The New September 11th and Tom Woods Diary of a Psychosis come to mind as examples of extensive documentation. Finally, folks, this is a vitally important case for the future of our country. Once again from Mr. Roberts, “Clearly in our stupidity and our ignorance we are not safe. Soon there will be a second attack on us. Bill Gates gloats about it. At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks. This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.

Darrell Castle discusses the concept of a war criminal. Who gets to define what a war crime is and once that is established, who determines when someone has committed one of the criminal acts defined as a war crime? Transcription / Notes WHAT IS A WAR CRIMINAL? Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 24th day of July in the year of our Lord 2026. My beat is still war today, but with the added distinction of talking about what some choose to call war criminals. The question for today then is who gets to decide what a war crime is and who decides if someone has committed one of those crimes he has defined as a war crime. The International Criminal Court, established by the 1998 Rome Statute and beginning operations in 2002 has been given the right to declare certain people war criminals and to issue indictments against that person which should involve arrest and prosecution. We know from our American system that charges and indictment do not make one guilty, but in the minds of certain people it gives an opportunity for selectively prosecuting those with whom they politically disagree. This war crimes talk started again when NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani ran for office on a promise to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he ever came to New York. Well, Bibi has announced that he will attend the United Nations meeting in NYC to be held in September. The mayor’s plans, announced in an interview with the New York Times, brought a storm of protests from supporters of Bibi including the President of the United States who declared on social media that the mayor’s plans would not and could not happen. In response the mayor admitted that he is not the president and is not even congress or the U.S. attorney general so his plans would not be fulfilled. He went on video and said his legal team had exhausted “every avenue available” under the law and concluded “we do not have the independent legal authority” to arrest the head of state of a foreign country who is attending a UN meeting which happens to be located in NYC. Some may have reacted with outrage if the mayor had ordered the NYPD to arrest Netanyahu but since he is now not planning to risk that those people are reacting with outrage anyway and calling him a dishonest politician. I want to leave the mayor and talk about war crimes in general but I can’t do so until I mention the first lady of the city of New York. Yes, right now, as I record this she is conducting a conference for Muslim women with the stated purpose of informing them that Mary, yes that Mary. The mother of Jesus, who delivered the child on that Christmas was not only not Jewish but was actually a Muslim. What, how can that be. Well, it can’t because of a fact apparently unknown to the first lady of our greatest city. That fact is that when Jesus was born, Muhammad, the founder of Islam, was not born for another 570 years. Well, be that as it may facts are often lost on people today especially when those facts do not fit a person’s world view. Back to the International Criminal Court which issued the indictment against Prime Minister Netanyahu and has often referred to him as a war criminal. The ICC has no jurisdiction in the United States which refused to join the 125 nations which signed the agreement. I remember the debates around it quite well and the US representatives were afraid that it would be used to prosecute members of the US military engaged in combat in some politically sensitive spot. Congress instead did the opposite by passing the American Servicemember’s Protection Act which was designed to shield the US personnel from ICC prosecution. The ICC might be seen as a kind of virtue signaling organization or perhaps it is deeply idealistic and committed to peaceful resolution of conflict. How does it select its targets or how does it decide who is a war criminal and who should be left alone. Do you need to be engaged in actual war to be a war criminal or can you simply commit acts of extreme violence. My own view is that the term war criminal or war crimes is decided by winners. Would Hitler, his generals and bureaucrats have been criminals if they had won the war. Would some division of the UN have ordered them arrested, no of course not, but instead many of them were hanged and some chose cyanide as the best option. Over in Japan several Japanese officers were hanged as war criminals. One general split his stomach open in 1945 but American doctors saved his life so he could be hanged in 1948. Back in 1908 there was another tribunal, at that time at the Hague, which decided to define rules for the conduct of armed conflict. That tribunal dealt primarily with humane treatment of prisoners of war and dignified rules for how civilians were to be treated. Keep in mind that in 1908 war planes, poison gas, and machine guns had not been invented. I don’t think those people could have imagined the horror that would rain from the sky onto civilian populations for over the next 100 years. I have studied the war archives from World War ii as much as I could especially after the internet made them all available to anyone. My conclusion is that the US authorities went out of their way to abide by the rules of the Geneva Convention which was part of the Hague series of international agreements. The Geneva convention defined how prisoners of war were to be treated and most nations knew that if they followed it their enemies were more likely to do so. So, with a few exceptions, it was the policy of the US to follow it and even NAZI Germany followed it to a large degree. The Japanese however, had other ideas. Their treatment of American prisoners was exceptionally brutal. The percentage of prisoners who died in captivity under the Germans was about 2% but under the Japanese it was more like 60%. Now, let’s return to Bibi for a moment. Is he or is he not a war criminal. To some extent it’s a matter of opinion and is usually determined by the winners. Right now, I would call him a loser at least in the matter of international politics and especially in the matter of armed conflict. He has no friends and everyone in the UN except the US hates him. His cities and military bases are badly damages by Iranian missiles and drones but does any of that make him a war criminal. No, but he and his IDF have violated virtually every one of the rules for armed conflict established by the various international conventions I just mentioned. He has repeatedly targeted civilians and civilian infrastructure. In fact, he doesn’t recognize the difference between civilian and military targets. Testimony accuses him of mistreating, even torturing prisoners of war and many have accused IDF soldiers of brutally raping them with objects that destroyed their intestines. Testimony seems to indicate that he intends to destroy an entire people group through warfare and starvation. I would call those things war crimes, but remember the victors get to determine such things and as long as the US military is solidly behind him it’s hard to say he is defeated. In fact, he and his country most likely would cease to exist without the US. He would be arrested if he set foot out of Israel without the US. That brings up an interesting point and that point is that if Donald Trump is his enabler and before Trump Joe Biden received more money in the form of contributions, donations, bribes, or whatever you choose to call them does that make them war criminals too. During the Nuremberg trials of NAZI officers, a new charge was invented to cover the massive crimes of which those people were accused. Since the normal criminal code of any of the victorious allied nations was insufficient they invented the crime they called crimes against humanity. Is Bibi guilty of crimes against humanity, is Donald Trump. The president has vowed to attack civilian infrastructure as a result of Iranian attacks against Hormuz shipping and the deaths of US. Soldiers. When I saw that a 19-year-old woman was killed in a missile attack against her base in Jordan I was very destressed. Many of those men who landed at Omaha Beach were 19 years old but they were not beautiful young women with babies ahead of them. In fact, those men fought for people back home like her. They fought for each other and for their families and their way of life which were threatened by a terrible enemy. The death of that young woman just lays out the complete moral depravity that has infected this government and the entire globalist system. I pray for her family and that we can find a way to prevent such willful death and destruction. Finally, folks, we’ve talked about the subjective nature of the term War criminal but sometimes the label may be appropriate. I’m certainly tired of sending teenaged women to fight and die for the benefit of a foreign leader and his vision. This country seems to be looting our tax dollars for people who are not American and might legitimately be called war criminals. God forgive us if that is true. At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.

Darrell Castle discusses war once again because it seems that the more we are told a political solution has been reached, the more missiles and drones are fired at more targets. Then retaliation has to come so, no solution. Transcription / Notes: THE ENEMY GETS A VOTE Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 17th day of July in the year of our Lord 2026. My beat today is war once again because it seems that the more we are told a political solution has been reached more missiles and drones are fired at more targets and then retaliation has to come so no solution. The president is in a difficult position but it is apparently of his own making. He is not an Eisenhower with many years of experience commanding vast armies in some of the biggest campaigns in human history. He instead is forced to rely on his team of advisors and so they tell him where he should go and what the consequences will be. They must have told him that Iran was ripe for the taking and would fall just like Venezuela but Iran is different and any experienced military person should have been able to see that. Power unhinges people and people who seek it are often unhinged to start with. That is part of the reason Mr. Jefferson told us that every 20 years or so we should have a revolution to reset things such as personal liberty. He reminded us that government agents are not saints or angels but they are instead ordinary humans with all the vices and weaknesses of other ordinary humans. President Trump started rearranging his group of military advisors as soon as he was elected because having no real military experience himself I suppose he wanted people around him who would put the best spin on what he wanted to do. Do you think I can force Iran, a real and very large country, to surrender and concede its own desires using only naval and air forces. Oh yes, Mr. President, Iran will crumble when attacked and the people will rise up and overthrow the government and that will be it except that you will be an international conquering hero. To get the team of advisors who would tell him that certain changes had to be made. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs who is supposed to be his top military advisor announced his retirement one month after the inauguration. The Secretary of Defense was changed which is normal for the new president but then the Department of Defense became the Department of War. I admit that is a more honest name and cuts out some hypocrisy but it sends a very bellingerite message. So, this war, this attack against a country that was apparently no threat to the United States was supposed to resolve problems standing in the way of the Greater Israel Project but it had the opposite effect. Israel is much weaker and in a more tenuous position and Iran is much stronger and in a more commanding position because of the war. When I say Israel is weaker I mean that it literally has no friends except the United States and is for the most part hated around the world. A nation that has sponsored terrorism through proxies across the Middle East is now seen as the heroic barrier to Israel’s genocide. The United States has suffered a humiliating defeat or at least it is unable to keep the Strait of Hormuz open with its navy. U.S. bases across the Middle East have been repeatedly attacked by Iranian missiles and drones as have U.S. allies in the region. Just the other day Jordan which has tried very hard to stay out of the struggle and says it has no foreign bases had 10 or 12 missiles fired at its bases and suffered considerable damage. The bottom line for U.S, interests is that Iran has proven to the world, the U.S,. Israel and other allies that the promises of protection cannot be met. If one of the Gulf States, for example, responds to an Iranian attack it is swarmed by Iranian missiles and drones and much of their military bases have been severely damaged already. The bottom line for Israel, well let’s look at it. Israel has no political way out of this that I can see. Israel’s goal from the beginning has been the destruction of Iran which would leave Israel in complete domination of the Middle East south of Turkey. Israel simply cannot accomplish its goals without the U.S. but its leadership acts as if it doesn’t care what the U.S. president wants. I can tell you what he wants with a fair degree of certainty. He wants out of this debacle before it creates a worldwide depression. Bibi apparently cares nothing for the United States and its people or its survival. For example, last week reports are that Bibi and the president had a lengthy phone conversation and President Trump asked him to leave southern Lebanon so he could meet one of the Iranian demands before peace. Bibi has still not complied with that request and perhaps has no intention to comply and if so Trump has no way out. Israel is not interested in peace right now, only war. Israel has not let go of its original goal and that was the complete destruction of Iran. Bibi said when it started that he had been waiting for this war for 40 years. So, let’s get this straight. The United States started bombing Iran because Israel wanted and demanded it. The bombing only hurts the U.S. and makes it weaker and it is now threatening the world economy with depression. Israel will not do the basics that would allow the U.S. to escape and so Trump feels trapped, blames it all on the Iranians and restarts the bombing on an even more massive scale. Why would Donald Trump, an obviously proud and even vain man, put up with such shabby and embarrassing treatment by this ally of 9 million people which could not continue to exist without the U.S. That is the question of the day isn’t it. Could it be revelations from the Epstein files. Possibly, but I don’t think so because the Democrats had those files before his election and they didn’t use them. Could it be money. I’m sure there’s money involved but I don’t think its pure greed for Trump because he is already a multi billionaire. Could it be something as simple as nuclear blackmail. That’s pretty horrible to contemplate but I suppose it’s possible. How would that work, who knows for sure, but maybe something like this. If you don’t help me destroy Iran I will do it myself with nuclear weapons. Or maybe we have planted dirty bombs all over Washington just in case. Let me be clear folks that I have no information at all to suggest that has happened I’m just wondering where the control comes from. When Trump was campaigning in both 2016 and 2024 he ran on an antiwar promise. He said he would be remembered for the wars he didn’t start and that was a very appealing message to me. All I know for sure is that after the assassination attempt in Butler Pennsylvania he emerged a completely different man. First he ordered a halt to the investigation which raises all kinds of red flags. Why would you order the FBI and Secret Service to stop investigating an attempted assassination. He became close friends with super war hawks like Lindsey Graham and many others. Trump is apparently trying to get a little distance from Bibi by using Turkey and putting the Turks forward as the next rising power which could replace Iran and hopefully control Syria and Lebanon which of course includes Hezbollah. Years ago, Turkey, although a NATO member agreed to buy S-400 air defense systems from Russia. NATO was outraged because that would give Russia inside knowledge of NATO aircraft, radars, etc. The U.S, congress sanctioned Turkey and delisted it from the F-35 program. Now trump says despite the congressional ban he will sell the F-35 to Turkey as well as selling them or allowing their purchase of Taal engines for the new stealth fighter they are trying to build so if they have those engines they can make their own 5th generation fighter. The U.S. congress is not the only group outraged by the deal. Can you imagine what Israel thinks about it. I’m pretty sure Bibi would want the U.S. to destroy Turkey after it destroys Iran but I’m just guessing folks. This is not how diplomacy has been conducted in the past folks. One party never releases partial information about any deals until the paper is signed. In other words, there should be no release of information that we have a deal, the Iranians called me begging me to stop bombing, but that is what he has been doing. There is indeed something really weird about this war and the negotiations. I’ve lived awhile and I’ve been a student of history during most of that and I can’t remember the U.S. attacking a country for no obvious reason, not even a bogus one that could be used as cover, so it’s quite a departure from the American way. Or maybe we were born from war. We fought wars of expansion and a war that freed enslaved people, wars to help out friends in Europe and now wars apparently to maintain military control over the earth so maybe it’s not such a departure. In conclusion, since the enemy gets a vote as the generals like to say, and the enemy votes to continue the war one side can’t just make it all go away by proclaiming that it has. Ther is no political solution but there are a few military solutions one of which makes sense. Number one the U.S. and or Israel could destroy Iran with nuclear weapons. That would be the most catastrophic disaster in the history of man’s time on earth. Number two the U.S. could invade, conquer and occupy Iran with ground troops. That solution would be very bloody and costly in terms of human destruction but also would severely damage the world economy and would probably provoke a worldwide depression. The only solution that makes any sense is the simplest one and that is to disengage. Not only from Iran but from the Middle East itself. Just come home from there and announce that the Project for a New American Century has been flushed. Announce that the U.S. will feed its own people, rebuild its own infrastructure, and bandage its internal wounds for a while. Finally, folks, I see the Castle Report not as reporting the news which you have probably heard but just giving you my take on it. Ron Psul has been doing that for 30 years. 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 4th of July and how Americans traditionally celebrate the independence of our country from England. For those who say they won’t celebrate because they are not getting everything they want from America, I say perhaps you don’t understand what the ideals of America really are supposed to be or perhaps it is because in your heart this is not your country. Transcription / Notes 250 YEARS OF BEING AMERICAN Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 3rd day of July in the year of our Lord 2026. Tomorrow is the 4th of July when traditionally we celebrate the independence of our Country from England. To those who say they won’t celebrate because they are not getting everything they want from America I say perhaps you don’t understand what the ideals of America really are supposed to be or perhaps you don’t celebrate because this is not your country. That is more than just a snarky, love it or leave it comment, because I have traveled and even lived abroad and when you do that you might like the country you are in but you don’t love it. To love a country, it has to be in your blood or your DNA. Terra Ferma or firm ground or the land under your feet is yours to live on and to defend with your life if necessary. It used to be that almost everyone felt that way so what happened. Many things have happened but mass immigration from the Third World has had a profound effect on our culture and our politics. Now we elect members of congress who aren’t even American. Many other things happened of course but paramount among them was that our attitude and the attitudes of our politicians changed profoundly. For one thing the new media allowed us to finally get a glimpse at what the global ruling elite really are. Let’s just start from World War ll and go forward from there. With a few notable exceptions prior to that war, America minded its own business for the most part. One of those exceptions was Woodrow Wilson deciding to spend thousands of American lives to rescue Britain and France from Germany and Kaiser Wilhelm. Staying out of European wars is pretty good practice and it always has been, but we seem to struggle with that from time to time. When World War ll ended and NAZI Germany was defeated, Japan was defeated, and the lesser Axis powers were gone, America had about 10 million men in uniform and under arms. To some extent we demobilized and most of those men were sent home to their factories and farms but something else happened as well. We did not completely demobilize and instead we decided we could garrison the entire world. The idea was that in the event of a Soviet attack in Europe American troops could not be reinforced by ship due to Soviet submarines so the strategy was to forward garrison them. Now it can’t be done because of missiles and drones so it was never a viable concept and leaving would be the most obvious strategy. We kept bases and troops just about everywhere including occupying the countries we had just defeated. People still loved us because after all we had just saved civilization from a return to the dark ages. Even with troops everywhere for the most part we still left other people alone to decide their own leadership. Korea and Vietnam were two places we intervened to prevent our great enemy, The Soviet Union, from expanding its politics into other countries against their will. We were at least able to convince ourselves that was the reason. By the end of the Vietnam War a new generation was coming on the scene and that one had not fought and did not seem to remember World War ll. The bodies piled up and they filled the cemeteries. The American people finally started to listen to the new generation and the war became very unpopular. When we finally just left after all those dead, the Communists did prevail but now 50 years later Vietnam is one of the capitalist “miracles” of Southeast Asia. In the meantime, we still had our great enemy, The Soviet Union” to occupy our time and resources and it kept our war production factories running at full speed. The philosophy that we lived with since World War ll had been containment or just don’t let them expand but don’t try to defeat them. Ronald Reagan said he had a different philosophy and it was “we win, they lose.” He and Gorbachev negotiated an end to the Soviet Union which was collapsing under the economic weight of cold war competition and maintaining 16 totally dependent colonies which could produce nothing. The end of the Soviet Union was probably the greatest opportunity for world peace in modern history but we failed miserably and the world is still suffering from that failure. Instead of living up to the deal we made with Gorbachev we agreed to advance NATO to the very border of Russia. The purpose of NATO was to defend Europe from the Soviet Union which didn’t even exist anymore so it made no sense and NATO made no sense. A new great enemy was needed and quickly found, When the Soviet Union was dissolved into the Russian Federation we had Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait and the new enemy of radical Islam was found. Along with that a few very bright and very sinister American Neocons drafted the Project for a New American Century and that ambition has been followed since then. Invade and conquer the countries around the Middle East and make this an American century. Other countries such as Russia and China had their own ideas about this unipolar American world and there has been conflict since then. The attitude of America and that of mind your own business and let others do the same changed into something else. We are the sole superpower and we run the world. We claim the right to intervene anytime, anywhere we choose in the world and we don’t care what you think about it. If we don’t like the people who lead your country and your leaders are misbehaving, we will invade and change your leaders if you do not comply. That attitude has kept us constantly at war and it has changed the way the world sees us. The situation has been made much worse because it has become obvious that for whatever reason America has become nothing more than the military arm of Greater Israel. Much of the world sees that and they see that Israel would not exist and would not do what it does without us and so the world hates us along with Israel. Yes, the world and much of the United States literally hates Israel.  Before the attacks on Gaza, Iran and Lebanon, support for Israel was one of the most reliable things in politics, but now in just a few years its all changed. The fact that we are fighting wars for nothing but the policy of Greater Israel is becoming so obvious no one can ignore it except those who are bought and paid for. That the Israeli lobby is using our money to buy our leaders is very distressing and most see that. Even the dependable white liberal and Northern Jewish alliance has been broken. Couple all that with the results of the war being humiliation for the U.S. and people are very dissatisfied. Recent polls reveal that the Iran War is more unpopular than Vietnam in its final stages. The war is saying something about us that is hard to take and that is that our leadership from Congress to the Senate and the Presidency are bought and paid for and possibly blackmailed for even worse reasons. So, we the people are supposed to send our sons and now even our daughters to die for that. No thanks the people are saying. Well, that is quite enough about what is wrong with us right now so let’s look at some good news. The good news is that Washington is not America because it has become something almost foreign. We are America and when the world meets us and sees that the world recognizes it. The World Cup of soccer is a very good example of that happening and it has been very uplifting to watch. Huge stadiums filled with foreign fans shouting USA along with the Americans. Stadiums full of people from around the world singing American folk songs. I saw a video of one German woman who said “if you want to hate America watch the news, if you want to love it drive its roads and meet its people. The outpouring of affection most of the fans have expressed has been heartwarming in the extreme. Even back in the Vietnam days more than 50 years ago I found that most people liked Americans but they did not like the American government. For the first time in recent memory people are at least beginning to see that this is not just a Democrat/Republican issue but one that affects the entire country the same. In other words, I have been right all along and they are all in it together. Their differences and name calling are just theater for us and unfortunately sometimes we watch but many have stopped believing. I’m not talking about the people who have been conditioned through propaganda to hate each other so leaders can loot them. The leaders are all in it and if one is not he or she is quickly gone. In conclusion, is there a way back. Yes, I think there is and it starts with disengagement from not just Israel but from the Middle East. I noticed that Bibi has returned to Washington for the 7th time during the Trump presidency. Tell him we are leaving and that he is on his own. We will sacrifice no more lives for the desires of a foreign leader. Finally, folks, Happy 4th of July. Celebrate with fireworks and hot dogs. Honor America as it should be and could be again if the people wanted it badly enough. At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.