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

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THE THEATER OF TAX AND SPEND

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for listening.

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

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RUDE AMERICAN OFFERS EUROPEAN INDEPENDENCE

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

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

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

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

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USAID—FINANCIAL LAUNDRYMAT FOR THE CORRUPT ELITE

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

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

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

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

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THE TRIALS OF TULSI AND RFK, JR.

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

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

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

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

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PERMANENT WASHINGTON FEARS AND HATES TULSI AND RFK, JR.

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

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

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

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Darrell Castle talks about the preemptive pardons of many of the Biden Family and Dr. Anthony Fauci along with the pardons by President Trump of many of their victims.

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PREEMPTIVE PROTECTION FROM TRUMP

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday, the 24^th day of January in the year of our Lord 2025. I will be talking about pardons including the preemptive pardon of many members of the Biden family along with the pardon of many of their victims. The list of those preemptively pardoned by former President Biden included I am the science also known as Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Yes, with his final act as President, Joe Biden preemptively pardoned many members of his own family none of whom had been charged with a crime. Those pardoned included brother James B. Biden, sister-in-law, Sara Jones Biden; sister, Valerie Biden Owens; brother-in-law, John T. Owens; and brother, Francis W. Biden. These family members joined first son Hunter who was pardoned in December after he was convicted of felonies and pled guilty to others.

President Biden’s statement included the words, “pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that they engaged in any wrongdoing.” I’m sure Joe Biden knows that acceptance of a pardon is an admission of guilt. The Supreme Court has ruled that an offer of pardon doesn’t have to be accepted but if it is that is an implied admission of guilt. If it is not accepted then it is of no effect. All Biden family members accepted their pardons therefore all have admitted guilt of something.

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Darrell Castle shares his take on the wildfires that have and continue to devastate much of Los Angeles California.

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L.A. APOCALYPSE

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 17^th day of January in the year of our Lord 2025. I will be talking about the wildfires that have devastated much of Los Angeles, California killing many, leaving many homeless without shelter, and ruining the lives of 10’s of thousands and also rendering the once beautiful entertainment capitol of the world a burned-out wasteland.

I want to begin this report with a quote from one of the few remaining real journalists in America, Bari Weiss, formerly of the New York Times.

“Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass, and other Democrat leaders bend over backwards to focus on left wing social justice issues that have absolutely nothing to do with the role of government. Yet when it comes to the most basic functions of government, such as keeping buildings from burning down, they have failed completely.”

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Darrell Castle talks about debt and the Trump administration’s effort to control it.

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DOWNSIZING TO STARVE THE BEAST

Hello, this is Darell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday, the 10^th day of January in the year of our Lord 2025. I will be talking about debt and the potential for disaster if it isn’t somehow tamed. Donald Trump is at least paying lip service to it with his creation of DOGE or the Department of Government Efficiency.

Donald Trump has appointed Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to head a new department of government which he calls the Department of Government Efficiency. That is an attractive name but if flies in the face of the political trend  that has existed for at least 50 years. Before that time, the government had some accountability since its wars, its tax cuts, etc. had to be paid for and it had to have enough gold deposits to cover all of it.

Once the dollar’s ties to gold were removed in 1971, the government no longer had any restraints on its spending. A government of the people and by the people needs some restraints because without them human nature will control the politicians elected to serve the people. When a politician discovers that he can achieve reelection thus retaining power by spending the resources of others or promising to do so he will do it or at least that has been the trend since 1971.

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Darrell Castle discusses what the legacy of Joe Biden looks like.

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BIDEN’S LEGACY

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 3^rd day of January in the year of our Lord 2025. The first Friday of a new year and only three weeks from the end of the administration of Joe Biden. What is the legacy of Joe Biden?

 Is his legacy the obvious and now admitted years long coverup of his declining mental ability. Is it the debate with Donald Trump which the Democrats finally allowed to expose his status to the whole world, or could it be his empowering the Department of Justice to conduct warfare attacks against his political opponent while pretending he had nothing to do with it. Perhaps his legacy was his repeated assurances that he would not pardon his son Hunter then finally doing so while in an act of supreme hypocrisy pretending it was because Hunter was the victim of political persecution considering he, Joe Biden, was the worst political persecutor in American presidential history. Surely one or all of these things will be his legacy. If not, then it must be his policy of inviting millions of unvetted illegals into the country many of whom were murderers, rapists, torturers, killers of children and of course terrorists and agents of adversarial foreign powers.

The legacy of Joe Biden as president of the United States is one of cognitive decline which it now seems was present when he was elected and it also seems true that those close to him knew it. His famous campaign from the basement was supposed to be a new sort of campaign whereby the candidate just holed up in his home and had very little interaction with the people who were supposed to vote for him.

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Darrell Castle tries to make sense of the Syrian Civil War which has been raging sometimes hot and sometimes cold for many years.

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THE NEO-OTTOMAN EMPIRE

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 13^th day of December in the year of our Lord 2024. I will be talking about the Syrian Civil War which has been raging sometimes hot and sometimes cold for many years. It’s very difficult to make sense out of something that makes no sense, but I will try to do so.

This is the Christmas season here in the Castle household and therefore it is the last Friday that I will be able to bring the Castle Report this year. I will join you again, God willing, on Friday, January 3, 2025. Enjoy the holidays with those you love and by all means celebrate Christmas.

The title of this report indicates that I am taking the position that Turkey won the Syrian Civil War because the fall and removal of strong man Bashar al Assad paves the way for strong man Recep Tayyip Erdogan to emerge and reap the benefits of the demise of the Assad family’s hold over Syria which has lasted for some 60 years. Erdogan came to power in Turkey in 2014 and my position is that he imagines himself to be the return of Suleiman the Magnificent who ruled the Ottoman Empire in the 1500’s when it was at the peak of its power. The Ottoman Empire served as the connection between the Middle east and Europe for some 600 years.