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Darrell Castle talks about recent actions of the U.S. in Ukraine which causes him to question whether the current administration is try to provoke direct war with Russia.

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DOES THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION WANT DIRECT WAR WITH RUSSIA?

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 13^th day of May in the year of our Lord 2022. I will be looking at some recent actions of the U.S. in Ukraine which cause me to question whether the Administration is trying to provoke direct war with Russia in place of the proxy war it is now waging with Ukrainian blood and American treasure.

A second name for this Castle Report might be mind your own business. That is a concept that is completely lost on American politicians today because minding our own business is the one thing they will not do. They want to stick our collective fingers in every rattlesnakes nest they find in this world, but do anything to protect our border, not on your life. Will they do anything about rising food and fuel costs, not likely. Reports indicate that food and fuel will cost the average American family an extra $3000 this year, but pay increases are hard to come by. In other words, we are getting poorer each day, but at least Ukraine gets its weapons. How about the coming food shortage that threatens every American, no time for that, but war on the other side of the planet, we can’t wait.

The U.S. seems to be pursuing a course of action in Ukraine which puts it in direct conflict with Russia. By direct I mean outside the obvious proxy war that Washington loves so much. It is a dangerous gamble, but one the administration is obviously willing to make with our lives. Once again, I ask myself if the shoe were on the other foot what would the U.S. do? These proxy wars have been fought between the powers surviving World War ll since that war ended. For example, In Korea the U.N. army led by the U.S. was opposed by Communist China and Russia with direct intervention by China, and proxy intervention by Russia.

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Darrell Castle talks about the truth and the extraordinary efforts the Biden Administration is taking to keep us from finding it, specifically the government’s new Disinformation Governance Board formed under the Department of Homeland Security.

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 6^th day of May in the year of our Lord 2022. I will be talking about the truth and the extraordinary efforts the Biden Administration is taking to keep us from finding it. Specifically, I will address the government’s new Disinformation Governance Board formed under the Department of Homeland Security to ferret out all the disinformation and misinformation floating around and restrict us simpletons to the truth as the Federal Government defines it.

When George W. Bush consolidated several government agencies under the title of Homeland Security, I knew it was a frightening idea. The name just sounds scary, like it belongs in the history of despotic regimes with a title like Gestapo, or at least not in America. My fears about that agency have proven to be correct as mission creep has expanded it from one mission to the next. The primary mission of Homeland Security is to secure the homeland, but that is the one thing it refuses to do.

Securing the homeland starts with securing the border, but this administration refuses to perform even that simple task. The border no longer exists under the current Department of Homeland Security which repeatedly sends its head, Alejandro Mayorkas, before congress to give lip service to the Administration’s lies about the border. Now, Secretary Mayorkas has a new task and that is finding and eliminating disinformation or misinformation from our minds.

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Darrell Castle talks about the U.S. decision to give another $800 million in weapons to Ukraine and whether this continued escalation is necessary. He also asks the question “Whose hands end up using them and, how do we know where the weapons go.”

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ANOTHER WEEK ANOTHER $800 MILLION

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 29^th day of April in the year of our Lord 2022 and I will be talking about the U.S. decision to give another $800 million in weapons to Ukraine which now seems to be a weekly thing. Is this continued escalation necessary and where do these weapons go? Whose hands end up using them and, how do we know?

Last week Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin were in Ukraine for talks with President Zelensky. This was an unusual visit for the U.S. since no official delegation has visited that country since the Russian invasion began. It was not unusual, however, for the U.S. to promise $800 million more in weapons since that seems to be an almost weekly thing now. This new package was termed foreign military assistance and was part of a new $713 million which came after two successive weeks of $800 million each. This week President Biden asked congress for $33 billion of taxpayer debt to pour into the Ukrainian black hole of war and despair.

The new weapons also reflect a continuing trend of escalation in lethality including heavy artillery, armored personnel carriers, and helicopters, and tanks. The heavy artillery included 18 towed 175mm howitzers and 40,000 rounds for them. In an interesting twist of fate, the U.S. and other NATO members are also delivering ammunition and weapons from the Soviet Union remaining in European stockpiles. Poland will send several T-72 Soviet era tanks and Germany will provide self-propelled anti-air armored tanks. Those are essentially a flak gun mounted on a tank chassis. These old Soviet weapons systems will then be replaced by U.S. state of the art systems so sweet deal.

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Darrell Castle talks about food and what is causing the supply chain disruptions around the world. He asks if the world’s food supply really is approaching crisis conditions.

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IS FAMINE IN OUR FUTURE?

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 22^nd day of April in the year of our Lord 2022 and my discussion today will be about something none of us can live long without and that is food. What is causing the supply chain disruptions around the world and is the world’s food supply really approaching crisis conditions.

Governments across the Western World are starting to sound the alarm about a crisis in the supply chain especially in food. They blame the war in Ukraine for most of the problem just as they blamed COVID for the collateral damage that it caused. It is obvious, however, that the real culprit, is not so much the war as it is the reaction to the war. Just as the COVID lockdowns caused the economic devastation, severe economic sanctions placed on Russia are causing much of the supply chain problems the world is facing.

American politicians seem to be incapable of facing the fact that they have overplayed their hand with the sanctions imposed on Russia. Instead of deterring Russia, the sanctions have accelerated Russian and Chinese efforts away from the dollar as reserve currency for the world. For that and other reasons I contend that the U.S. sanctions policy is doing more harm to the U.S. and Europe than it is to Russia.

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Darrell Castle talks about the economic warfare being waged across the full economic spectrum by the Western World against Russia, against Vladimir Putin, and against anyone who will not comply.

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ECONOMIC WORLD WAR

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Good Friday, or the Friday before Easter Sunday and this is the 15^th day of April in the year of our Lord 2022. I will be talking about the economic warfare being waged across the full economic spectrum by the Western World against Russia, against Vladimir Putin, and against anyone who will not comply.

Last Tuesday, April 12^th was the 77^th anniversary of the death of Franklin Roosevelt. FDR conducted a world war, but he did not quite live long enough to see the end of it. Here we are 77 years later once again engaged in a worldwide struggle, but for now our participation is primarily economic and the control of all information.

NATO and the United States confront Russia and challenge Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, but it is the economic model set in place at Bretton Woods after World War Two and solidified by the disconnection from gold or anything of value in 1971 that enabled the West to defeat the Soviet Union in the cold war. It is what caused Vladimir Putin to inherit a broken nation and it is what caused the Eastern European nations to want to follow the West instead of Russia.

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Darrell Castle discusses the law recently passed by the Florida legislature and signed by Governor DeSantis entitled Parental Rights in Education and how this law provoked the Disney Corporation to risk its reputation as family friendly in defiance of the law.

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PARENTAL RIGHTS IN FLORIDA AND EVERYWHERE ELSE

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 8^th day of April in this the year of our Lord 2022. I will be discussing the law recently passed by the Florida legislature and signed by Governor DeSantis entitled Parental Rights in Education but often defamed with the lie Don’t Say Gay. How did this law provoke the Disney Corporation to risk its reputation as a family place, a kid friendly place, a happy place, a safe place for vacation, in defiance of the law?

A secondary title for this Report could be, Does the State Own Your Children? Perhaps when you deliver your kids into the hands of the state system of education or indoctrination, they are yours no longer, but wholly owned by the all-knowing state. In Florida, the governor and the legislature have decided to oppose state ownership of children.

 When Governor DeSantis signed the bill, he announced it as a parental rights bill that bans teachers from giving classroom instruction on “sexual orientation” or “gender identity” in kindergarten through third grade. He said in Florida, we not only know that parents have a right to be involved we insist that parents have a right to be involved.

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Darrell Castle talks about Hunter Biden’s missing laptop and it’s content, which now the FBI says it has no idea where it is, and asks the questions why is it important, is it a major global issue and if so, then why.

WHY IS HUNTER’S LAPTOP SCANDAL A SCANDAL?

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 1^st of April in the year of our Lord 2022. I will be talking about Hunter Biden’s missing laptop, and its contents, which now the FBI says it has no idea where it is, and asking the question why is it important? Is it a major global issue and if so, then Why?

It would be tempting to start this April Fools Day story with a line like this; Hunter Biden disgraced son of President Joe Biden, while in a crack induced hangover state, took his laptop computer to a repair shop somewhere in Delaware and then forgot or decided not to pick it up. The owner of the shop, after attempts to contact Hunter, looked at what was on the laptop and one look was enough. He took the computer to the FBI which now says it has no idea where it is.

The jokes just write themselves, but the problem with that storyline is the word disgraced. Can Hunter Biden really be disgraced. When you have done what his own computer reveals him to have done and you feel no shame about it all being public for the world to see, friends and enemies alike and you are not embarrassed, is it even possible for the word disgraced to apply?

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Darrell Castle talks about how the United States has demonstrated in the Ukraine/Russia war that it can wage very effective economic warfare against other non-complying nations and what this portends for the United States and the world.

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THE WEAPONIZED DOLLAR AND THE COMING CASHLESS WORLD

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday, the 25^th day of March in this the year of our Lord 2022. I will be talking about how the United States has demonstrated in the Ukraine/Russia war that it can wage very effective economic warfare against other non-complying nations and what this portends for the United States and the world.

There are lessons to be drawn from conflict and plans made for fighting the next war. It is a concept like a football coach studying film of his past games to learn his team’s strengths and weaknesses. Generals and Presidents learn from past wars and develop ways to prevent the same losses and to preserve the same victories. That at least partially explains why generals always seem to fight the last war as the Russians seem to be doing now in Ukraine.

We can take more than one lesson from Ukraine right now such as the lesson that nuclear deterrence works as a powerful defense. I have little doubt that except for Russia’s nuclear arsenal, the U.S. and NATO would be actively involved in the air and on the ground in Ukraine. The realization that Russia’s nuclear missiles have prevented NATO’s active involvement has provoked Europe to re-arm and the U.S. is currently conducting seminars about modernizing the U.S. nuclear arsenal. In other words, another nuclear arms race. The U.S. arsenal, especially in space, has apparently been allowed to degrade since the Reagan years, and suddenly U.S. planners are confronted with two powerful nuclear armed enemies.

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Darrell Castle talks about the accusation of treason levied against Tulsi Gabbard by U.S. Senator Mitt Romney

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TRUTH IS NOW TREASON IN AMERICA

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 18^th day of March 2022 and I will be talking about the accusation of treason levied against Tulsi Gabbard by U.S. Senator Mitt Romney. A different title to this Report could be The War for Your Mind as we look at some of the propaganda surrounding the war in Ukraine as well as what is propaganda and how do you separate it from truth.

For many years there have been rumors that the U.S. was offshoring its biological weapons programs to other countries, but who knew that work was being conducted right on the border of Russia. A lot of people knew apparently, but it was not until a few days ago that the cat escaped from the bag. You have other cliches to use, of course, such as the toothpaste is out of the tube and cannot be stuffed back in no matter how much we want it back in.

Victoria Nuland, Under Secretary of State and the author of Russian policy for several presidents was questioned under oath in a public senate hearing. Senator Marco Rubio asked her directly if there are U.S. supported bioweapons labs in Ukraine and she answered him. She seemed to not only acknowledge the existence of the labs but was concerned that their contents might fall into the hands of the invading Russians. Her shocking statement seemed to confirm the Russian claims over many years routinely explained as Russian propaganda or conspiracy theories by the U.S. and its captive media.

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Darrell Castle talks about sanctions and their effects on Russia, Europe, and the United States. He will also try to share some version of truth and reality in this war even though one side of the struggle has total and complete control of information.

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THE EFFECTS OF SANCTIONS

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 11^th day of March 2022. I will be talking about sanctions and their effects on Russia, Europe, and the United States, but also, I will be trying my best to discover some version of truth and reality in this war. Winston Churchill once said that in time of war truth is such a precious commodity that it must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies. It is hard to discover truth considering that one side in the struggle has total and complete control of information, but I keep trying.

How then goes the war? It is hard to tell since much of what we see, hear, and read is nothing but propaganda, but we are here to talk about a tactic today and that tactic is sanctions. Sanction is an aspect of warfare by different means. It is economic warfare, and it is propaganda. The dictionary definition of propaganda is “ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one’s cause or to damage an opposing cause.” It is the noble lie as Plato called it more than a thousand years ago: it may be necessary to inspire people to fling themselves upon distant battlefields to fight some devil. They must, therefore, be convinced that their enemy is the devil.

The war dominates the news in the present, but it will eventually cease. The economic sanctions, however, will affect the world for many years to come. We look now at just some of those effects that occur to me. The economic sanctions imposed on Russia by the U.S., the UK, the EU, and other nations are the most severe ever imposed, and they are having a drastic effect on the Russian economy and the Russian people. The U.S. alone announced 15 sanction programs with more on the way as soon as Washington can think of more. Russian banks, stocks, bonds, corporations, shipping companies, even individual Russians with money abroad have been sanctioned economically.