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Darrell Castle discusses the riots engulfing France that are spreading across Europe and how that relates, at least partially, to American foreign policy especially the war against Iran.

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MOUNTAINS OF VIOLENCE ACROSS FRANCE

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 23^rd day of October in the year of our Lord 2026. My beat is violence, chaos, disorder, and the destruction of the existing world order as I talk about the riots engulfing France and spreading across Europe as well as how that relates at least partially to American foreign policy especially the war against Iran.

Yes, it seems that the riots engulfing Paris have spread across Europe to Portugal, Germany, Albania, and the list is growing. The open-borders policy of the last few years explains everything or so we are told and that is a convenient explanation because it puts the blame on others. The French people are not to blame they say, only the immigrants but many of the rioters have been in Europe for years.

 When you read or hear the man on the street comments from French people whose businesses are being burned and looted they find it difficult to place any blame despite the tears of losing their life’s work. That is a civilization unable and unwilling to defend itself. It brings to mind Robert Frost’s definition of a liberal as someone who refuses to take his on side in an argument.

This association of various communist groups and immigrant groups from across Europe have set out to put the final nail in the coffin of Western Civilization and they are succeeding quite spectacularly. This is the end of an entire world system akin to the fall of Rome. The Romans referred to the land and people they conquered as barbarians and it took 1000 years for the barbarians to breach and destroy Rome but destroy they did. They left nothing behind and civilization took another 1000 years to begin the recovery.

I doubt if this one can be rebuilt for I don’t see any Irish Monks willing to copy the great books of the destroyed library in Alexandria by hand to preserve their knowledge and wisdom. In any event I won’t be there to see it so the roughly 40 year long struggle I have witnessed and participated in and that is the battle for Western Civilization continues but it is being lost. So, these rioters in Paris, destroying the ancient monuments of which they are not worthy are doing something that even Adolph Hitler could not accomplish.

When Hitler conquered France and occupied Paris the German Army controlled the city for about four years. When the allies invaded France at Normandy on June 6^th, 1944, the German occupation of France was doomed but not for a while. Hitler gave direct orders to the Generals he put in charge of the Paris region to plant explosives around the historic monuments in Paris. He told them that if he lost Paris he wanted the city destroyed and he wanted to see it burning.

The Generals planted the explosives and were ready to carry out the orders of their Fuhrer but one by one something happened to them. Some fell under suspicion; some were killed or wounded but final command was given to General Deitrich Von Choltitz. He was a general of the historic Prussian tradition and he took his job and his responsibility very seriously. When the allied armies were in sight of Paris the German panzers had to flee up the road to Grenoble and ultimately the long bitter road to Berlin.

Hitler gave him a final and direct order to destroy the city. Is Paris burning was Hitler’s famous question to him. General Choltitz stood on the balcony of his suite in the St. George Hotel where he had his headquarters and looked out at the city and he could not obey his orders, so he sent his army up the road and awaited his fate with Eisenhower and De Gaulle. That enemy general became a hero of the French nation although I’ll wager that very few Frenchmen know or care about what he did or refused to do.

Well, I suppose that’s enough history for today and we should return to 2026 while the communists of today whose ancestors fought Hitler, are now completing his work for him. The President of the United States chimed in with his advice to France. “Close your borders before its too late.” Pretty good advice it seems to me unless it’s already too late. Russia joined in as well with Russia’s envoy stating it was “Western Civilization’s suicide through migrant chaos.” Once again that sounds like a good analysis.

I mention Russia and the U.S. President together because the groundwork is being laid for a renewal of the Russia Gate hoax to be unearthed from its grave after the midterms. When Trump attacked Iran in an unprovoked attack against a country that was not threatening to America and in opposition to the Constitution to which he took an oath, not a peep was heard from congress. Oh, but when he tries to do the right thing for once the screaming from congress is heard around the country.

So, the Presidents decides that since prices are escalating due to lack of diesel caused by his attack on Iran and by Zelensky’s continued attacks on Russian refineries maybe those Russians aren’t so bad after all. He agrees to buy 300,000 tons of Russian diesel and to accomplish that he agrees to partially lift the sanctions against Russia. When the deal was announced both sides of the congressional isle started screaming about his abandoning Ukraine and his getting in bed with Putin. What our congress is really saying to us as we agree in a bipartisan way is that we love war and we love violence, killing and dying, and if you do anything to slow that down you will be excoriated.

If anyone has the courage to stand in congress and openly opposes war of any kind, he will be a very short-lived member of congress. That’s what is usually called democracy in America today but it’s not democracy, it’s the power of greed, corruption and moral degradation all wrapped up in the illusion of democracy. They now have a similar situation in France thus the French people are denied peace and even leadership. They have Emmanuel Macron as their leader but if polls can be believed his approval rating is below 10% and France is defenseless because he refuses to do anything to protect, to lead, or even to persuade. It is a very similar time to when the barbarians sacked Rome because they weren’t trying to build a democracy either.

Every scribe with a pen has written his and her version of what the European riots are and what they mean so I suppose this Report is my version. Just as here in the United States the protests spreading across Europe are not spur of the moment but the result of many years of frustration because of their government’s neglect of their national ethnicities. American and European governments have spent their resources and their energies on matters that not only do not help but actually hurt their native populations.

Here in America, for example, several years of open borders have proven destructive of order and have produced mostly chaos. European nations are in a similar boat as they have opened their borders and invited chaos. The governments of Europe and America have spent the people’s capital and their goodwill toward the people in an effort to build a global world. Globalism, they tell us, will bring peace and prosperity but it only brings prosperity to a few global corporations and international bureaucracies at the expense of the people.

For example, just look for a moment at Washington’s sanctions against Russia and the cost of complying with them. The sanctions along with President Biden’s destruction of the Nord Stream Pipeline have robbed the European people of a commercial relationship with Russia which was greatly beneficial to both people groups. The result of Washington’s lust for power and empire has been to drive up the cost of heating oil and left Europe facing a cold winter with heating oil at record levels. That all adds to frustration and destroys the standard of living of ordinary Europeans.

So, higher costs for everything and at the same time destruction of manufacturing including the once national pride of Germany its auto manufacturing industry. The most terrible result is the destruction of employment opportunities for ethnic European youth especially those in the educated class. They are smart and ambitious as well as educated but employment opportunities outside government charity are very limited. The immigrant minorities get what they came to Europe to get apparently and that is government largesse. Even government provided poverty level existence is better than their own war-torn countries.

All European governments currently have extremely low approval ratings from their populations because, I submit, they have failed repeatedly to represent their own European people. As Paul Craig Roberts has pointed out that is most likely why the European governments are once again raising the Russia threat. When you desert your own people and fail them so miserably you must have an outside bogy man to shoulder the blame. This time frighteningly the bogy man has thousands of nuclear missiles.

In conclusion folks, If this is not the destruction of Western Civilization it is at least the destruction of the post-World War ll welfare-warfare state which was apparently reaching terminal status anyway. The rioters don’t seek a better form of government they instead seek pillage, to burn, to loot and to destroy in a mindless way. This is about educational opportunities they say. Well yes, I suppose you can find a lot of those in the mom-and-pop businesses along with the Louis Vuitton and Rolex stores.

I find this French attitude extremely sad because their ancestors fought Nazis for four years giving their lives and their families lives in defense of France and its status as their homes. I guess the answer is that France isn’t France anymore because it has been voluntarily surrendered by soulless, niellist politicians. Too bad, Bridget must be terribly sad.

Finally, folks, there is nothing noble or admirable about these rioters. They are simply the result of not resisting but inviting into your country and ultimately your homes those who seek your destruction and everything that makes the modern world livable. The European politicians realize that they will never conquer the world despite centuries of effort so I suppose they have decided to clutch their pearls and just bring the whole thing down around them.

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 the deployment of a 3rd U.S. aircraft carrier as well as a 2nd marine expeditionary unit to the Middle East region.

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AIRCRAFT CARRIERS HEADED IN THE WRONG DIRECTION

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Due to technical difficulties this report is dated Monday, the 12th day of October in the year of our Lord 2026. My beat is war again as I will be discussing the deployment of a 3^rd aircraft carrier as well as a 2^nd marine expeditionary unit to the Middle East region. From the title you may deduce that my view is that the other two should be heading home rather than sending a 3^rd to join them.

Yes folks the USS Theodore Roosevelt has departed its home base of San Diego and is on its way to join the George HW Bush and the George Washington in the Middle East conflict zone. Sailing with the Ted as the sailors call the Roosevelt is the USS Makin Island which contains a 2^nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MAU). The USS Boxer already on station contains a MAU which brings the total number of Marines to around 11,000 or that’s the number being reported.

Since the war against Iran started President Trump has deployed about 120 strike aircraft to the region including F-35 stealth attack fighters, F-22 air superiority fighters along with old standbys the F-16 and F-15 Strike Eagles. These troops currently deployed will be joining the roughly 50,000 already there deployed on ships and on bases across the region. The U.S. maintains 19 bases in the Middle East with eight of them permanently located in Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates.

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Darrell Castle talks about the September 29, 2026 26-page letter written to the American people by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). The title of this Castle Report comes from the neocon description of the Islamic Republic of Iran as the head of the snake.

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THE HEAD OF THE SNAKE SPEAKS

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 2^nd day of October in the year of our Lord 2026. My beat once again is war, more or less because I will be talking about a 26-page letter written to the American people by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and delivered on September 29. The title of this Castle Report comes from the neocon description of the Islamic Republic of Iran as the head of the snake.

People have wondered during this entire war if the US is fighting the Mullahs or the Iranian military and those who command it and this letter seems to answer that question. It also is an effort to take the Iranian case to the American people in order to influence the upcoming Mid-Terms. To me this letter is a sign of perceived weakness, division, and disorder. It appeals to logic in an effort to influence an already divided and anti-Israel mood in the American public.

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Darrell Castle talks about the President’s speech, last Tuesday, to the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York City. He also discusses the administration’s decision to sell advanced F-35 stealth jets to Saudi Arabia.

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PRESIDENT TRUMP SPEAKS TO THE UN

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 25^th day of September in the year of our Lord 2026. My beat today is not war although there is some war in it. I will be talking about the President’s speech last Tuesday to the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York City. In addition, I will say a few words about the administration’s decision to sell advanced F-35 stealth jets to Saudi Arabia and the Israeli reaction to that decision.

His speech was more of a campaign speech than a statesmanlike address to the world’s diplomats. He listed many of the things he claims to have accomplished during his term and if they we were all true I would be a reasonably happy man at least foreign policy wise. He said that when he left office the first time the country was a peaceful and prosperous place but when he returned he found it to be a mess he had to fix.

I’m just giving my own take on what he said but to me he seemed to be pleading his case to them that if they and the other decision makers of the world would just listen to him and do what he demands we would all be happy, peaceful, and prosperous. For example, he spent quite a bit of time explaining to the members that before he was President his company tried to get the contract to remodel the UN building in which he was speaking.

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Darrell Castle gives his thoughts on the Iran War and asks the question what has 200 days of war accomplished for the United States. He reminds us that yesterday, September 17th, was the 239th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution.

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TWO HUNDRED DAYS OF WAR

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 18^th day of September in the year of our Lord 2026. My beat is war once again as the United States of America passes two milestones this week. Yesterday the 17^th was Constitution Day and this week the US passed 200 days in its war against Iran. So, our subject is what has been accomplished in those 200 days.

Yes, we are 200 days into the war against Iran and just on a brief inventory I will list a few of the things it has accomplished. It seems to me that war has torn the U.S. and much of the world apart in the last few days. Here’s an excellent quote from the London Times via Bill Bonner.

“The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq cost more than 7000 American lives, hundreds of thousands of civilian ones and trillions of dollars, turning that surplus into a debt of more than $40 trillion. Seeing the world’s sole superpower flounder for a decade against roadside bombs and soviet-era rifles wrecked American self-esteem and drained Washington’s international authority. But the deeper damage was to Americans’ faith in their government and in themselves.”

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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.

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9-11 PLUS TWENTY-FIVE YEARS

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 11^th 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 25^th anniversary of 9-11 we look at the 1^st 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.

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Darrell Castle talks about the newly revealed evidence linking the science, i.e. Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the CIA and their formal institutional partnership.

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THE SCIENCE AND THE CIA

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 4^th 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.

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Darrell Castle talks about the trade problems between the U.S. and Canada which Prime Minister Mark Carney has descibed as a war.

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OH CANADA CAN’T WE WORK THIS OUT?

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 28^th 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.

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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.

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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.