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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.”

“Los Angeles is being governed and the state of California is being governed by people who have lost sight of the basics of governing. They have lost sight of the idea that we pay you a tax so that you take care of basics for us. And nothing could be more basic than preventing the burning down of, as you just said in your introduction, an area twice the size of Manhattan, right? It’s hard to conceive of how big this is.”

Yes, the once beautiful Golden State with its sunshine and surfing lifestyle has been turned into a veritable living hell. The fires rage on with over 25,000 acres still ablaze as I record this with a couple still out of control. So far, more than 250,000 people have been evacuated and have no shelter, and the last count I have is 25 deaths but that will obviously climb because no one knows what lies in the rubble of the thousands of burned to the ground homes and businesses.

This was and is a total collapse of the new green-woke style of government whereby the posture of those we elect, the color of their skin, their gender, and their sexuality are all more important than whether they have the background and skills necessary to perform the basics of government. So, who’s to blame for this disaster, the politicians of course but also the people of California who elected them. In the case of California, there is no one else to blame, not Donald Trump, not Republicans, and certainly not climate change. Those are all just excuses for the complete failure and arrogant incompetence and total disdain for the people the politicians are elected to serve.

California is a state in which Republicans have zero political power. The days of Ronald Reagan are over and even Pat Brown and his son Jerry didn’t let the state burn down around them. Not just the politicians, but all the state media, the newspapers, the online news sites all the high-tech monopolies like Apple, Google, and Facebook just echo the same mindset. Anything left from the old California that still works predates the year 2000 so the destruction has been ongoing for at least 25 years. Right now, the state has a congressional delegation of 52 seats and only 17 Are Republicans. The Los Angeles city council has 15 members and not a single one is Republican so blame is fairly easy to assess.

The city’s new mayor, Karen Bass, boasts of the city’s $50 billion budget along with adding 451 positions especially in the department of youth development. Justice, Care, and Operations Departments have been added for which the mayor seems quite proud. I would wager that she is less than proud that she recently cut more than $17 million from the fire department budget. She campaigned on a pledge to not travel internationally while in office but she was in the African nation of Ghana when the fire started. True, she went before the fires started and returned when she learned that her city was on fire, but she had been repeatedly warned that the dry hillsides of chaparral were a tinderbox when the annual Santa Ana winds returned. Instead of addressing the danger she went to Ghana to attend the inauguration of that nation’s new president. The scenes of her drinking champagne at the party were not a good look for her.

The mayor of Los Angeles is now a very toxic individual. The fire chief, and she is another story, has repeatedly blamed the mayor for the failure of the LAFD to control the fires before they burned whole cities like they have Pacific Palisades and Malibu. Well then, how toxic is she? So, toxic that even the owner of the LA Times said that he endorsed her and now he is sorry that he did. When the LA Times runs from a Democrat mayor she is indeed in trouble. He went on to say, “perhaps we need to look better at those running for office regarding competence and if they’ve ever run things.”

Wow, what a revolutionary concept to actually look at whether or not those running for office have competence or whether they can successfully run anything. You get this type of approach where competence is not even considered when you have one party rule. It’s a very similar system the soviets used to have, i.e. these are the candidates choose which Democrat socialist you prefer. Except this time the people did have a choice and they chose Karen Bass anyway. Afterall she was the only black Democrat in the race because her opponent, Rick Caruso, was a white businessman with extensive experience running things and building things.

What if Mayor Bass resigned, surely her replacement would be better and surely he was able to cover for her until she returned from Ghana. No, I’m afraid that the man she appointed deputy mayor for the city’s safety, Brian Williams, is under FBI investigation for suspicion of calling in a bomb threat to Los Angeles City Hall. What about the Mayor’s hire of Janisse Quinones, the new Chief Executive Officer and Chief Engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power or LADWP. Fortunately for LA she is the first Latina woman to head the department and she received a salary double that of her predecessor or $750,000 per year. That’s pretty good work if you can get it, but at least she got right to work fixing things, right.

No, folks, I’m afraid not because you see it takes a while to fix things that have deteriorated as far as Los Angeles. The water quickly ran out and the hydrants didn’t work. The 117-million-gallon reservoir atop Pacific Palisades built for the purpose of quenching fires was dry and had been for over a year. The reservoir, it seems, had been taken off-line and emptied over a year ago so that its cover could be repaired. Now, remember that California is not some third world backward economy, not at all. In fact, if California were a separate country, it would be the 4^th largest economy in the world and yet it could not repair the cover of a reservoir in over a year.

The people of California, not just LA, are suddenly outraged by the performance of the politicians they elected. The fire chief of LA and her two top assistants are all Lesbians named Kristine. Before you label me homophobic, I’m not afraid of homosexuals nor do I hate them. It’s just that I would like the people who head the fire department of a great city to know how to put out fires and not be hired for gender or sexuality reasons. There are currently, recall petitions against Mayor Bass and Governor Gavin Newsome but it has all happened before and the Governor is confident the media will cover for him.

Maybe not this time, however, because many of those multi-millionaire movie stars and celebrities are pondering the end of their utopian dream just as they ponder the ashes of their once beautiful mansions. For example, here is a quote from actor Michael Rapaport about the Governor of California.

“Gavin with the good hair Newsome, get the F** out of here. You don’t get any more mistakes. There’s no more mistakes for you! You’re done, you’re done, you’re done. There’s no more mistakes for you. You’re fired. Grease your hair back, slick it back and get the F** outta here. You wanna Trump proof California? How about fireproofing California.”

Yes indeed, there might be nothing like losing a multi-million-dollar mansion and all its surrounding infrastructure to generate outrage. The quip about Trump proofing California was in reference to members of the California Democrat legislature and the Governor asking for $50 million to resist Trump’s deportation efforts etc. Well, at least the Governor was able to proudly announce earlier this month that the state has finally begun laying track for the high-speed rail system between LA and San Francisco, a distance of about 200 miles. The plan to build this railway is years overdue and it is millions, no billions over budget.

It was proposed in 2008 at a projected cost of 9 billion but now 16 years later the cost has skyrocketed to 100 billion. The weird thing about it is that California already has a high-speed transportation system called air travel. It is much faster than high-speed rail or so logic tells me. The point is that the governor is into wasting the money paid into the state by taxpayers instead of keeping those taxpayers safe. The governor committed over 24 billion to fight homelessness but homelessness got worse and nobody seems to know what happened to all that money. Before LA was negligently burned, California had an estimated 71% of all the homeless in the nation.

The Governor and the Mayor failed the people of California at the time of their greatest need. They failed this disaster spectacularly and the result of their failure is catastrophic. It is now estimated to cost $300 billion to rebuild but that is today’s money not 10 years from now money. LA cannot be rebuilt like it was or even close to what it was like. I have many fond memories of LA and especially the beaches, restaurants and bars of Malibu. One could walk into a small cigar lounge in Malibu and meet movie stars behaving as normal people. That cannot be rebuilt like it was because it took maybe a century to get the way it was before Democrat politicians negligently allowed it to burn to the ground.

The fires that burned and are still burning in LA County seemed to me to be super-hot. I know you have watched the videos of the fires as I have and you’ve seen the pictures and videos of burned to the ground mansions.  I spent about 30 minutes the other day just reviewing videos of the mansions of celebrities and movie stars. These homes were worth upwards of 20 million and they were completely gone without a trace. Have you ever seen a house fire because it doesn’t burn completely to the dirt. This fire was super-hot for some reason and that makes my suspicious nature activate and think conspiracy.

In nearing the end of this Castle Report I want to tell you that comparatively speaking not many of the 250,000 left without shelter, without clothing, without food, and certainly without water are movie stars or celebrities. Most of them are ordinary people just going about their lives, working to give their children a better life. They have nothing after the fire since the Democrat politicians drove the insurance industry out of the state. The president of the United States said he would give $770 to each affected person. Wow, that is incredibly generous isn’t it $770 per person. Before you start I know that promise is unconstitutional and I know there is nothing constitutionally that requires the people of Tennessee to be forced to support this disaster in perpetuity. The money, whatever is spent, is debt so the interest must be paid until the inevitable collapse. This story, ultimately, is not about celebrities fleeing their mansions, it is about workers who no longer have jobs assuming they still have their lives, and it is about burned homes, businesses, churches, and lives.

The end result is that all the green/woke environmentalism meant to make California a utopian paradise ended being exceptionally cruel to the very people it was supposed to serve. 13.5% state income tax and 7.5% sales tax all wasted on pie in the sky woke projects that led nowhere and accomplished nothing. So, can anything good come from this catastrophe? It’s really hard to see how except that along with Los Angeles perhaps the entire woke movement burned as well.

Actor Mel Gibson said the intent is to empty California and I suppose he was referencing the WEF and UN plans to move us into what they call 15-minute cities. In that world LA will be rebuilt not with homes but with high rises that some might call projects. Dr. Naomi Wolf believes the fire is part of a war against humanity. Are they right? I don’t know folks, but I suspect a lot.

Finally, folks, with some 25 known dead at this time I’m thinking this might qualify as negligent homicide. But if Gibson and Dr. Wolf are right it is not negligent homicide but mass murder akin to COVID.

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 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.

A responsible government recognizes its limits and it spends only what it can raise in taxes. If the federal government were responsible the United States would not have the 36 trillion of debt that it has today. People are alarmed at the size of the debt but not many want their pet projects or their own largesse to be reduced so I wonder if DOGE will have an opportunity to succeed. It seems that the goals of Elon Musk and Donald Trump are headed on a collision course.

If Musk gets his way, at least the way as he has described it, then we should get some positive results. There could be lower deficits which should bring lower inflation, lower interest rates and a far less expensive and less powerful government. We might even expect a business revival with the return of manufacturing to the U.S. Mr. Homan’s efforts on the border would ensure the departure of many murderers, rapists, torturers, child molesters, terrorists and assorted lunatics who now reside here illegally at government expense.

The Republican elite, and now that includes Donald Trump, may just have a different agenda. Trump has just spent 9 years and a lot of money to gain power including a Republican majority in both houses. Those majorities will not want to become less powerful but instead they will want to use that power to take more power and wealth from the American people who are supposed to hold it. That is human nature and the prevailing political trend. The hearts of mankind are black and desperately wicked the bible tells us and when power and money are unrestrained the humans who have it will use and abuse it.

Right now, Donald Trump is the most powerful man in the world and he seems to be enjoying it immensely. My guess is that he will not want to share the power with a billionaire from South Africa for very long, but I could easily be wrong and if so it wouldn’t be the first time. The President-Elect seems to enjoy conducting foreign policy even before he is inaugurated, but I suppose power abhors a vacuum and so somebody will execute foreign policy or at least that is the way he seems to see it.

He is a businessman and a negotiator and right now he has the power and he is trying to establish with friend and foe alike that business will be conducted differently in the future. Bloomberg tells us that he warned the European Union that its exports will get hit with US tariffs if European Union countries don’t buy more American oil and gas. He posted on Truth Social about that statement:

“I told the European Union that they must make up their tremendous deficit with the United States by the large-scale purchase of our oil and gas. Otherwise, it is TARIFFs all the way.”

So, he is trying to represent the United States on the world stage in the most, big man who carries the big stick, way that he can. His seemingly idiotic comments have reasons as well such as his comments about buying Greenland. What could Greenland do for the US were it available for purchase. It would serve as a giant military base for US navy and Airforce assets to act as a deterrent to Russia in the Atlantic and especially in the Arctic. Comments about America buying anything are humorous because of the 36 trillion current debt, but they also indicate a lack of understanding of just how ravenous the debt beast is.

The real purpose of the comment was quickly achieved when Denmark announced in response that it would spend whatever it takes to properly garrison its bases there. The comments about Canada becoming the 51^st state and Trudeau becoming governor also achieved their intended purpose because Trudeau is gone. Renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America is basically the same. Mexico understands now who the leader is economically, and it understands that it must cooperate with the US in controlling the border.

Big Man politics requires a big military to back it up and that is expensive. Should we then expect bigger deficits not smaller ones. He is telling Musk to seek out and destroy waste, but if that saves any money will he just spend it somewhere else thus continuing to pile debt higher and higher. Perhaps he is being advised that growth will make up the difference and perhaps that is so but it still worries me because the political trend for 50 plus years has been more debt, more power, more waste, and much bigger deficits.

The world, especially the non-western world, is responding to all this by organizing into opposing economic blocks we have come to call BRICS. That block was originally Brazil, Russia, India, and China with South Africa joining two years later. It was formed for strictly economic reasons but has evolved into many other things including mutual security agreements. Last year it expanded to include Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates as full members. Belarus, Bolivia, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Cuba, Uganda, Malaysia and Uzbekistan are expected to join soon.

Now, Indonesia, the fourth most populous country in the world, with about 300 million people has joined. The Indonesian leaders apparently see an alliance with China as more beneficial than an alliance with the US. I suppose that is the path for development and out of poverty for them. Countries in Asia who ally with the US do profit and become G-20 economies as have Japan and South Korea but that requires a very strong military presence by the US on the soil of their countries. To me, this indicates a lack of confidence and trust in the US economy and in the US as a trading partner so we will see how that plays out with Trump’s Big Man politics.

There is an important name missing from this list and that is Argentina. It has now been one year since Javier Milei took office in that country but what a difference a year can make. Before he took office in December 2023 the Argentine economy was in shambles and had been for decades. The stock market had been flat to descending for ten years as foreign investment in the country dried up. Since he took over stock prices have doubled and the market is booming with foreign investment flowing into the country.

Most importantly, Milei set out to restore the notion that the government exists to serve the people not the other way around. The Trump transition team is taking notice of Argentina because Trump invited Milei to Mar a Lago for discussions about how he turned his country around in one year. It seems that he operated with a chainsaw and not a scalpel. Quote from Javier Milei:

“Today, with pride and hope, I can tell you that we have passed the test of fire. We are leaving the desert, the recession is over, and the country has finally begun to grow.”

Argentina, once one of the world’s 10 richest countries, stayed in the desert for a long time, defaulted on its sovereign debt three times since 2001 and was on track for a fourth. Its annual inflation rate was nearly 200% and the poverty rate was above 40%. Incredibly, it had negative growth of 1.6% so what did mister Milei do to reverse the decline of his country. One thing he did for Argentina and the whole world was prove that it could be done, but for Argentina here are just some of the reforms he accomplished.

He closed 10 government agencies, fired 34,000 government employees and cut spending by 30%. The number of government ministries was cut in half from 18 to 9. All state funding of media was ended and so was media propaganda. All public infrastructure projects not yet underway were halted. Entire divisions of the administrative state were abolished. All fuel and energy subsidies were canceled. Import/export regulations were examined and those not helpful were canceled. He did all those things within 48 hours of taking office and that folks is how an economic chainsaw works.

The world watched to see if he would be successful or end up a casualty as have all other Argentine leaders for decades. To lead his movement away from government control of everything including government control of business and the corporate world he adopted the slogan “Viva la Libertad” Long Live Freedom. When he started, the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom Index rated Argentina 159^th out of 165 countries or just between Iran and Burma in economic freedom so he certainly had his work cut out for him.

Milei promised the Argentine people that if they elected him and allowed him to employ his libertarian philosophy he would take drastic and immediate remedial action with regard to the nation’s economy. The result has been fairly astounding as a brief glimpse will tell us. In November 2024 Argentina announced its ninth consecutive month of budget surpluses. Inflation was below 3% per month and the central bank of Argentina cut interest rates from more than 100% to 36%. The rate of wage growth at 4.7% exceeded the inflation rate for the first time in many years. The World Bank projects Argentina’s growth at 5% for 2025 a remarkable achievement.

Not everything has been a bed of roses during this changeover, however. In Argentina, as in the US government spending is one of the prime movers of GDP so when government spending contracts growth numbers will contract until the economy starts to catch up with the new private economy or one not fueled by government debt and inflation. The poverty rate went up from an average of 40% to 53% year over year, but now it has started declining. Once again when government spending is curtailed the private economy takes a little time to take up the slack.

Peter Earle, an economist with the American Institute for Economic Research gave his thoughts on the most important part of the Milei revolution in Argentina:

“Perhaps most important of all, and beyond economics, Mr. Milei has jump-started a cultural shift away from socialist ideals.”

When Mr. Milei spoke at the WEF last year he told the assembled Davos men and women that the socialist proposals he was hearing from them at Davos would lead to nowhere but poverty. Liberty and a free economy are a form of rebellion against the world system as it currently exists. Hopefully Donald Trump and his transition team are studying Argentina because both he and Milei campaigned on eliminating government waste and revitalizing their economies.

If Trump and his DOGE team follow through on cutting government spending and eliminating waste then a similar path of pain followed by gain should be expected. The price seems to me to be one worth paying but there remain some serious questions.

Finally, folks, what is the first thing Trump should do with the American economy. The answer to that question is stop spreading counterfeit money all over the world and its corrupting influence will decline. Can the US Government oversee its own downsizing because upon the answer to that question depends the future of economic success for us and our posterity.

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 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.

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Darrell Castle talks about the decision of President Joe Biden to issue a blanket, all-encompassing pardon for his son Hunter despite repeatedly promising he would not do so.

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TAINTED LEGACY?

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 6^th of December in the year of our Lord 2024. I will be talking about the decision of President Joe Biden to issue a blanket, all-encompassing pardon for his son Hunter. The pardon covers all acts known and unknown including the crimes for which he was convicted and the crimes for which he pled guilty as well as any crimes from murder to treason which are currently unproven but which may have occurred between January 1^st 2014 and December 1^st 2024.

So, the pardon is now a done deal. The most surprising thing about it is that it was not surprising and many, including me, thought the president was lying when he repeatedly said he would never pardon his son. Hunter was convicted of crimes and pled guilty to others but none of those addressed what might be in that laptop portrayed to us by the media as Russian disinformation. It doesn’t matter anymore does it? There is no longer a reason to wonder if the laptop contained any secrets about influence peddling by Hunter’s father, the big guy. Whether or not that last statement is completely true or whether there is wiggle room to some extent is up to congress.

The President said repeatedly that he would not pardon his son but in true Biden fashion, he did. Pardons reside with presidents and governors who are supposed to use them to correct an injustice, but sometimes they are used for other purposes such as rewarding a political donor or to avoid hostile testimony from the one pardoned. That brings me to why this is up to congress to some extent at least. If congress wanted to conduct hearings into influence peddling by then former president Biden it could call Hunter to testify.

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Darrell Castle talks about the decision of President Biden to authorize Ukraine to fire U.S. made ATACMS missles deep into Russia putting The United States and NATO on a path of nuclear confrontation with Russia.

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ONLY 60 DAYS LEFT TO DESTROY THE WORLD

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday, the 22^nd day of November in the year of our Lord 2024. I will be talking about the decision of President Biden or whatever cabal that runs this country, to authorize Ukraine to fire U.S. made ATACMS missiles deep into Russia. With only about 60 days left to serve the President has to work fast to get the United States into a nuclear confrontation with Russia. That will be his legacy I predict.

Please remember that next week is Thanksgiving week so no Castle Report. I plan to spend some time with family just catching up and giving thanks for another year and I hope you will do something similar as well.

I will start by giving you a quote from Dennis Kucinich who Had the best take on this decision:

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Darrell Castle talks about some of the nominees President elect, Donald Trump, has made for his cabinet should he be allowed to assume the office to which the American people have elected him.

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DISRUPTIVE FORCE AT THE PENTAGON

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 15^th day of November in the year of our Lord 2024. I will be talking about some of the nominees President elect Donald Trump has made for his cabinet should he be allowed to assume the office to which the American people have elected him. Since I have a strong interest in the U.S. military and the best interests of its service members, I will therefore emphasize the nomination of Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense.

I was hoping for Tulsi Gabbard to come out of the turmoil as Defense Secretary but as Trump so often says, hope is not a strategy. She just seemed like she would be the perfect way to give the middle finger to the deep state but it seems that Trump has come up with a different way that even I had not thought of. I say even I had not thought of because I spend a lot of time thinking of ways the deep state could get the middle finger.

The way that Trump chose was the nomination of Pete Hegseth who for the last 8 years has worked for Fox news. I will confess to being a little embarrassed because until his nomination was announced, I had not even heard of Pete Hegseth. I had to do a deep dive into who this man is and very quickly so the first thing I did was read his book “The War on Warriors” to learn something about him. Thank goodness for Amazon and especially for Kindle. I probably shouldn’t be too embarrassed though because since I don’t watch TV news or anything else on TV for that matter it’s not surprising that I had not heard of him.

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Darrell Castle talks about the results of the presidential election. What does Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris and the entire woke agenda mean or at least what does it mean to me?

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DOOMSDAY AVERTED—FOR NOW

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 8^th day of November in the year of our Lord 2024. I will be talking about the most obvious topic in the world today and that is the presidential election. What does the overwhelming Trump victory over Kamala Harris and the entire woke agenda mean or at least what does it mean to me.

Doomsday averted—for now, what does that mean. It means that certain burdens the nation had been bearing for many years can now perhaps be lifted. There is at least hope they can be lifted. This election was about those burdens and the American people just do not want them anymore. Completely open borders with nations such as El Salvador, Venezuela, and Mexico emptying their prisons and insane asylums onto our border.  Murderers and rapists invited into the country to prey on Americans with no accountability for their crimes.

 Little boys and little girls sexually mutilated because of the parents’ mental illness or their school’s mental illness. Despite decades of legal effort to ensure girls have equal opportunity for school sports, they were totally disregarded while men who said they were women were invited into their locker rooms. Costly wars that threaten our future with no benefit to the American people at all. Crime rampant and out of control in our once beautiful cities. Businesses closing because in many places shoplifting and car theft are no longer even crimes. I could go on but those are at least some of the things that a large majority of voters rejected, but many on the left wail and ask why don’t the people want these things as we do.

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Darrell Castle talks about the wars currently ongoing on the border of Russia and Ukraine as well as the wars in the Middle East between Israel and other countries and various terrorist groups all supported and supplied by the various state enemies of Israel. The question is, do these wars have anything to do with our national interests and if not, why are we involved in them.

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FIGHTING THE WARS OF OTHERS

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 25^th day of October in the year of our Lord 2024. I will be talking primarily about the wars currently ongoing on the border of Russia and Ukraine as well as the wars in the Middle East between Israel and other countries and various terrorist groups all supported and supplied by the various state enemies of Israel. The question for this Report is, do these wars have anything to do with our national interests and if not  why are we fighting them and why are we even involved in them.

Next week I will be involved in some personal issues near week’s end and so I will not be with you next Friday. This is, therefore, my pre-election Castle Report but God willing I will join you again on Friday the 8^th of November.

I suppose Ron Paul had the best line I’ve heard about the US commitment to fighting wars that have nothing much to do with American interests. “When you take on the role of the world’s policeman, don’t be surprised when countries who cannot fight their own wars call 911.” Yes indeed, that is what is happening now and it continues to threaten America and the future of our people by bankrupting them, by abusing and stealing their labor, and by threatening to drag them into another World War.

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Darrell Castle talks about a new Department of Defense directive 5240.01 which allows the US military to use lethal force against American citizens when assisting police authorities in domestic disturbances.

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MILITARY USE OF LETHAL FORCE IN AMERICA

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle report. This is Friday the 18^th day of October in the year of our Lord 2024. I will be talking about a new Department of Defense directive 5240.01 which allows the US military to use lethal force against American citizens when assisting police authorities in domestic disturbances. This Directive changes the relationship between the American people and their military and coming this close to the election might indicate civil disturbances, otherwise known as a coup, are expected in case of a Trump win.

Yes, it seems that politicians on the Democrat side of the political spectrum, apparently unable to articulate any position on any issue that might be of vital importance to the electorate or the American people in general, are unleashing their inner demons to fuel the fantasies of a few prominent people on the left. The DOD directive allowing the use of lethal force by the US military inside the US is particularly frightening to me for many reasons.

It seems to be a clear violation of the Posse Comitatus Act and the intent of that act which prohibits use of US military in a law enforcement capacity. Posse Comitatus originally passed in 1878, limited the power of the federal government in a law enforcement capacity. It was originally intended to get the military out of law enforcement in the south post-civil war. It has been expanded and reinforced many times, the last being the Defense Authorization Act in 2022. The act has some grey areas for politicians to wriggle through such as the fact that it doesn’t apply to the various state guards or even to the Coast Guard which has law enforcement responsibility offshore.