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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.”

That is about as good a summation of what GWB called the war on terror as I could write myself. This reporter, Gerald Baker, is telling us that America has lost its way and we may never find the way again. The US has now spent more than two decades dealing out death and destruction across the world with very little if any to show for it. Now, we are in an even worse situation thanks to the unprovoked attack against Iran about 200 days ago.

That attack has in so many ways torn the world apart. Thanks to the empowerment of Iran which was once a backwater country with its own people, especially its women, on the verge of rebellion because of the regime’s harsh treatment, that backwater now controls the world’s economy at least the fuel portion of it. Fuel may not be everything in the economic world but everything depends on it.

When it comes to fuel the war seems to be going worse than ever and it has been a catastrophe for the world’s economy. Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz which it made no effort to control before it was attacked. The Houthis are gaining control of the Red Sea and the chokepoints leading to it. Iraqi militia, undoubtedly armed by Iran have devastated the Saudi oil production and shipment facilities to the point that fuel in Europe is drying up.

The Saudis built a pipeline from their oil facilities across to the Red Sea to avoid Iranian attacks on shipping in the Gulf but repeated drone attacks have destroyed the pipeline so the Saudis are unable to ship oil right now. There have been so many Iranian missile attacks on US. bases and all the oil producing nations that oil is becoming critically short worldwide. Here in the US, we have developed a system where we don’t stockpile anything as we used to. Instead trucks continually roll to grocery stores and if they miss one day there is no food. Diesel delivers all the stuff we consume and if you’ve driven anywhere lately you know the highways are full of trucks and they all run on diesel. Since the price of diesel is soaring, over $6 in my area, the price of food and everything else is soaring too.

The Iranians do not have the same system. They don’t have to take delivery to prevail, they just have to make sure no one else takes delivery. The fuel shortage is growing worse by the day here in America. The emergency petroleum reserve is at a critically low point and even Donald Trump is alarmed so apparently that is why he made the deal with Venezuela for their oil. Will it be too little too late, time will tell I guess.

It seems that petroleum is not the only thing in short supply. The Iranians are very clever people and they seem to have figured out that they can run us short of missiles as well as petroleum. The THAAD system, Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System is one of the nation’s most expensive defensive systems costing about $13 million per missile. Consider that it is tasked with shooting down missiles supplied to Iran by China probably in exchange for oil which they have in abundance.

If a swarm of missiles is fired at Israel THAAD will be highly effective against one, two, perhaps ten but at what cost. The system is not as effective against the hypersonic missiles the Iranians are currently using so perhaps tens of millions expended for each attack all back to US taxpayers. Military records show that 134 THAADs were fired in June of 2025 well before the current war even started. Now, apparently the supply is critically short and the maximum production capacity is about 8 missiles per month. It’s easy to see the problem. Even if THAAD is completely effective US production capacity cannot keep up.

If that were all it would be plenty but as usual it gets worse. According to anonymous, but trusted federal officials as reported by Tucker Carlson, the US has to replenish not only its own weapons expended but Israel’s too. Reportedly the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and BLU-117 bombs to the Israeli government in the coming months.

The records reveal that in World War ll all the allied nations combined from 1939 until 1945 dropped 3.4 million tons of bombs on their Axis enemies. The US didn’t even enter the war until late 1941. The bombs I just mentioned being provided to Israel, 40,000 of them each contain 2000 pounds of explosive force or one ton. That means 40,000 tons if the transfer is approved.

Some members of congress are starting to take notice however because Thomas Massie has introduced articles of impeachment against Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, and he promised to push it to a vote as one of his last acts before leaving office in November. Yes, Massie has represented Kentucky’s 4^th district since 2012 but he was primaried out of congress this year and will be leaving in November. He has always been critical of the Iran war and of the US relationship with Israel and I suppose that was just too much for the proponents of the war to bear.

Coincidentally, yesterday, the 17^th was Constitution Day which celebrates the 239^th anniversary of the document that moved America from the status of a colony ruled by Britain to an independent, self-governing republic. Here are a few words from Massie’s articles of impeachment.

“It is appropriate on this day, the 239^th anniversary of our Constitution, that Members of the House of Representatives can stand and vote to validate their constitutional oath and to impress upon the self-proclaimed Secretary of War that his days of waging preemptive, aggressive war are over. The current Secretary’s practice of extrajudicial killings, of playing policeman, prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner will be at an end, if the House votes to impeach.

Every American should understand the gravity of the conduct of Secretary Hegseth: Unilateral initiation and continuation of war, the taking of life without due process, the abandonment of protections for civilians, the suppression of free speech, the separation of powers and the constitutional authority of Congress”

The articles also include charges which I won’t quote but I will attempt to summarize as I am able. The United States conducted a preemptive attack on Iran at the request of Benjamin Netanyahu. Iran’s leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei and members of his family were killed. US and Israeli planes attacked a clearly marked school and killed at least 168 mostly schoolgirls. The school was attacked in three separate raids.

He followed illegal orders and continued to accelerate the attacks on Iran. Oil shipments have been cut off and gas prices are soaring. He ordered the deaths of individuals traveling by boat in the Caribbean, alleging they were drug smugglers, arrogating to himself a God-like power over life and death.

These are very serious charges and if proven justify impeachment but do they have to be proven. They don’t have to be proven to advance the process from the initial introduction to a full house vote but at some point if they are advanced they will have to be discussed and voted on.

Just the fact that Articles of Impeachment have been introduced proclaims to the world that at least one member of congress thinks the war and the way US war policy is being conducted is so objectionable it deserves impeachment. One result of this is that victory or a favorable conclusion to the war is now impossible. It is an act that any enemy would very much like to see because it says they are so divided there is no consensus and therefore they can’t prevail.

Finally, folks, these are some of the most embarrassing and frustrating moments that America has had to face in my lifetime. This war has revealed Israeli motives but what it has revealed about the US, its leadership makes no sense to me but I guess even the world’s only super power can get into a mess it can’t seem to get out of.

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

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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.

After his act of pre-meditated murder Mr. Mangione hid out for awhile but he was eventually arrested at which time he became a folk hero for killing this evil capitalist. Perhaps his cult following will eventually diminish as I believe he has pled guilty in return for some consideration in sentencing which probably means no death sentence and no life without parole. This case had an overt ideological motive which captured the sensibilities of a lot of people apparently and it reminded me of the murder of Charlie Kirk in that regard.

I’m sure that all of you know who Charlie was. He had a very strong Christian faith which he took to college campuses where he engaged in debate with those who wanted to do so. His message brought condemnation from those who blamed his message as one preaching hate. In other words, to those people if you point out that the bible voices disapproval of their lifestyle or habits then you hate them and you are encouraging others to do so.

Charlie was speaking at a college campus in Utah one year ago yesterday when he was gunned down by a lone nut shooter or so we are told. Isn’t it interesting that when anyone who is not in complete lockstep with the prevailing power system existing at the time is gunned down in public it is always a lone nut. JFK, RFK, MLK, Charlie and many others all by lone nuts. Even the apparent assassination attempt on the life of Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania was conducted by a lone nut who was then quickly killed. Donald Trump knew history though and he quickly ordered an end to the investigation so the blame could forever fall on the dead lone nut. I titled this Report to commemorate the anniversary of 9-11 and the death of Charlie Kirk but in reporting to you I went down the rabbit hole of murder because that’s where the evidence led me and that is where those murders have left America.

Charlie Kirk’s murder was a message sent and received. The message was the obvious of course and that is don’t tell us the bible says you shouldn’t do that. The not so obvious message was that if you have a problem with America killing Israel’s enemies you just keep that thought to yourself and under no circumstances will you survive if you share those beliefs with the president.

In one sense I guess I have buried the lead today but I hope you can see that it is all connected. I don’t claim to have any inside information about 9-11 or Charlie as far as who did it and why he or they did it and I don’t believe in fairy tales. I used to enjoy them when I was a child and I had all the stories in the Golden Books but when I became an adult I put them away.

What I would like you to understand is that I believe the version of events we have been presented by the power elite and their handmaidens is the real fairy tale and the truth lies somewhere else. There is a new book on the subject by a man named Curt Weldon who spent 20 years in the U.S. congress but when he refused to drop his 9-11 investigation he was defeated just like Thomas Massie was.

His book is entitled Able Danger and it presents an investigation into who in the U.S. government knew before the attacks that they were coming. I highly recommend this book to all of you. It will be available on Amazon on September 22^nd but I got a copy through Tucker Carlson’s network. The book talks about a classified U.S. army intelligence program called Able Danger. He asserts that U.S. Intelligence knew that Mohammed Atta and the Al Qaeda network had been operating inside the U.S. for more than a year before the attacks, but the institutional decisions made by those running the program intentionally kept that news from the FBI and others charged with preventing such things.

He pressed for years to get answers because he was personally acquainted with many of the roughly 350 firefighters who died that day and he believes he owes them at least an investigation. To sum up the book a little most of the facts he uncovered have been suppressed and the warnings about Able Danger were deliberately silenced. Get the book and read it and you will see why he is so emotional when he talks about that day.

The 25 years post 9-11 leads me to ask myself if the nightmare that day was has ever ended. It was a monumental event of epic proportions and similar in historic significance to the fall of Singapore because it spelled the end of a world order and the beginning of what we have come to call the new world order. This July 4^th marked the 250^th anniversary of the Founding of America which collides head on with the anniversary of 9-11 because that event locked the Bill of Rights in a closet and burned the house down.

In fact, we have been in a continuous state of emergency since then and there is always some foreign power that is just about to do us in. You might not know this but until Vietnam America had never fought a war longer than four years, but now they all seem to last forever and cost trillions. Whatever happened on 9-11 and whoever in government knew about it in advance has not been completely proven because there has been no real public investigation.

One thing we do know with absolute certainty is that the government which was led at the time by George W. Bush, used the climate of fear generated by the attacks to expand its powers over the American people. The Department of Homeland Security, a German sounding name, combined all the nations intelligence agencies under one director and also created new ones. America was formed, Mr. Jefferson told us, so that we and our posterity would only be governed with the consent of the governed.

There would be no king to rule over America whose very words were law, but now we have allowed such an expansion of executive powers that the Constitution is simply ignored in favor of Executive Orders. When those orders are overruled by some Federal Court there is always a higher court or the system just punts and tries in a different direction. Little by little in response to 9-11 or perhaps it was all just part of the plan the government started incrementally at first, then wholesale, to dismantle the fundamental protections enshrined in the Constitution that made America unique from every other country which had existed on this earth.

So, for 25 years we have resurrected many of the powers over which our ancestors rebelled and adopted them right here in America all wrapped in the flag. We don’t have peace, we don’t have security, in fact we are told each day that some madman could start a nuclear war at any moment. We are told that right now as I speak AI systems are working on ways to create and launch global biowarfare by creating and releasing heretofore unknown viruses.

Digging deeper into the AI threat, and I know that AI does some good things because my dear wife uses it often to solve problems while I remain committed to finding my own solutions through hard work and dogged determination. In investigating what AI can and can’t do I have concluded that its real master, its real creator cannot be overridden. So, who or what is the real master, well, that’s the question isn’t it. Whoever the real master is in my opinion is the greatest enemy of humanity in the history of the world.

Aside from AI, my opinion is that due to fear after 9-11 the U.S.A. Patriot Act drove the final nail through the heart of the Bill of Rights and then placed it in that burning house with all our other God given, government protected rights and that is the real legacy of 9-11. With each new administration the abuse of power gets worse as tyrants become bolder and bolder.

Finally, folks, much of the abuse of power lies at the feet of the mass media which is supposed to be a watchdog but is instead a lapdog only yapping a little when someone challenges the prevailing power system.

The security guarding the gates of our national morality has laid down arms and fled it seems but I pray that we can get it back.

At least that’s the way I see it.

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle.

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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.

The new director of the FDA is taking the approach with this legislation and the new regulations that it was all just a mistake made by well meaning scientists and now with the standard clearly set out they will stop trying to develop new ways to kill off the human race. On the other hand, Dr. Fauci wrote in his diary in August 2022 that he knew the COVID vaccines were not really effective but he didn’t want the public to know that because if they did then people would not take their boosters and would not accept the federal mandates.

If that were all it would be plenty, but as usual it gets worse. Newy disclosed documents reveal the NIA and CIA partnership I mentioned. Apparently, now these ties ran and run far deeper than anyone in authority seemed to know about. Apparently only a handful of investigators realized that Dr. Fauci was working with intelligence on their bioweapons research projects. Now, we learn that NIH used its existing research to “augment and compliment” its own research combined with that being conducted by CIA.

A Rutgers University chemistry professor named Richard Ebritht who has been researching the matter said;

“Vice President Cheney assigned Fauci to head US biodefense research programs in 2002, including bioweapons-agents-development and bioweapons-agents-characterization research programs that approached, and arguably crossed, red lines set by the Biological Weapons Convention. The documents show early steps in the process of transferring funding for and direction of CIA and DOD Biodefense Projects to Fauci’s agency NIAID.”

So, the bioscience and intelligence communities have been working closely together for a long time. I wonder why that is the case but I remember now that the CIA is limited by law to only foreign work. Their agents are not to be employed to do clandestine work or gather intelligence on American citizens. That means they have to use the science in foreign countries to accomplish their ends such as making laboratories to develop deadly pathogens.

You might remember that the Russians argued that one of the reasons they invaded Ukraine was that the Americans had built about 30 bioweapons labs in Ukraine many of them near the Russian border. Well, I turns out that the real number was 32 approximately and when the Russian forces got near one it had to be very quickly shut down and moved to prevent the Russians from gaining access to the pathogens it contained as well as the evidence of American ownership.

I suppose the reasoning is something like this. We can’t legally build these labs to develop horrible infectious diseases to make war against others and we need them because if others know we have them they will not be bold enough to make their own. In reality the opposite is likely true. If others know you are making them they will make their own even worse pathogens so that we can all mutually infect each other. I know it sounds insane because it is but that’s how these people think or don’t think depending on how you look at it.

Even though it is illegal to have these labs in the US they have been and are being built. Just the other day one was found in California and I believe it had a lot of Chinese scientists working there. The CIA says that it needs scientists and infectious disease experts to serve as “a living sensor web” to gather information from foreign researchers, universities, and conferences. That sounds like CIA speak for making spies out of scientists.

The CIA blames much of this on 911 and it now says that is when it started to get out of control when suspected anthrax was mailed, apparently, to several high-ranking officials. Former Operations OfficerJames Erdman III testifying before a Senate committee said, “the line between public health and national security became increasingly blurred beyond recognition since then.”

The CIA has been up to something else lately and perhaps it at least was an attempt to make things better and stave off conflict. I say perhaps because that puts the best spin on it and we don’t know for certain the real reason. Last week the Director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe boarded a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster transport plane at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, stopped in NATO member Latvia, on the Russian border then flew on to one of the four airports serving Moscow.

Even though the CIA Director was the passenger this was not a subtle trip because the C-17 is one of the largest, if not the largest, airplanes in the world and it was apparently used to transport only one man. So, the trip was meant to be seen by the world’s press and anyone else who wanted to take notice. The question has been the subject of much speculation or scuttlebutt as they say in the military but no one knows for sure and guesses are all we have.

The Director and the staff who accompanied him left the airport in Moscow in a diplomatic motorcade of armored vehicles so maybe the  vehicles were transported I the C-17 for secure communications

Mr. Ratcliffe was apparently in Russia to meet with FSB head, Aleksandr Bortnikov, and his counterpart in foreign intelligence, Sergei Naryshkin. There was hope a meeting with Vladimir Putin would happen, but as far as they will admit, it didn’t happen. Why make this unscheduled and last-minute trip especially in such a gigantic airplane which was a grand show for the world’s press.

Ratcliffe is a former mayor and congressman from Texas and a lawyer by training. He has no diplomatic experience and his only negotiation skills would have been learned in his legal capacity. He was in Russia for only one day and that was apparently spent in meetings with his Russian counterparts. The meeting was covered in speculation concerning recent reports coming out of Russia that Russia was going to take action against NATO because NATO was supplying drones and missiles for attacks inside Russia.

If that speculation is the reason for the trip it probably means that Europe wants to avoid direct war with Russia at all costs and this trip was a last-ditch effort to prevent that. If so, I pray that it was successful. War between Russia and Europe would definitely involve the US because there are US troops all over Europe and very close to the Russian border. It seems to me that Russia, given its struggles in Ukraine would be very reluctant to broaden the conflict to include Europe and the US.

Perhaps then, a possible reason for the trip was to warn the Russians that an attack against any NATO member would in evidently be followed by US action against Russia. I have no idea if that is true but it seems like a reasonable guess. You might notice in all this that it is the US which has its troops, about 80,000, right on the Russian border and as far as we know there are no Russian troops on the US border. Maybe Putin is trying to convince NATO that he is being forced into a war that none of them really want.

In conclusion, I close this out with a little more on Dr., I am the Science, Fauci. Under his direction most or all of this nightmare happened. This information is now well documented fact, not mere speculation. NIAID, under his direction, funded coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology through a subgrant to EcoHealth Alliance. That research included creating viruses with enhanced ability to infect human respiratory cells. He did it with US tax dollars, yours and mine and then he sought to defend his action by using the Fifth Amendment.

Finally, folks, I pray that Mr. Ratcliffe’s trip was successful and I further pray that those who perpetrated the attack we have been trained to call a pandemic are somehow held accountable.

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for listening.

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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.

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Darrell Castle talks about what he believes to be the worst, most difficult problem facing America.

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THE WORST PROBLEM WE FACE

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 14^th day of August in the year of our Lord 2026. I will be talking about what I believe to be the worst, most difficult to solve problem facing the nation.

What do you think the most difficult or dangerous problem facing the nation is. Perhaps you would say it’s the Iran war. Maybe you think it is the growing menace we call AI and the fear that AI will take all the jobs from Americans leaving nothing but subsidies for them. Well, those are indeed difficult problems and I will talk a little about each of them.

I read quite often from commentators coming from both the left and the right that the President is stuck in Iran and there is simply no way out, but I beg to differ. The two sides in the conflict constantly throw insults at each other and make demands. The latest demand from Iran includes a demand for compensation for the damage you Americans have done to Iran.

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Once again, Darrell Castle discusses war but with a little diplomacy and an historical reminder that technology constantly changes but human nature never changes.

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THE HUMILIATION FACTOR

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 7^th day of August in the year of our Lord 2026. I’m afraid my beat is war once again but with a little diplomacy and an historical reminder that technology constantly changes but human nature never changes.

For the history lesson I have to go back to December 7^th, 1941, and perhaps even a few days before that. This story is important because of the title to this report but also because yesterday, August 6 was the 81^st anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan. The United States was engaged in diplomacy with Japan regarding Japan’s invasion of China and Roosevelt’s refusal to sell them more oil until they left China. The Japanese had to import virtually all their raw materials and they got oil primarily from the U.S.

The Japanese had behaved so horribly in China that Roosevelt tried to persuade the Europeans to join him in a conditional boycott but they refused so he decided to do it himself. If you want to know more about how the Japanese behaved in China I recommend Iris Chang’s book “The Rape of Nanchang, The Forgotten Holocaust of World War ll.

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Darrell Castle talks about the testimony or better said, the refusal to give testimony, of Doctor Anthony Fauci before the Senate Committee headed by Senator Rand Paul.

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THE SCIENCE TAKES THE 5TH

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 31^st day of July in the year of our Lord 2026. I will be talking about the testimony or better said, the refusal to give testimony, of Doctor Anthony Fauci who was the Director of the National Institute of Health Division of Allergy and Infectious Disease for about 30 years especially during the COVID years. He finished his medical residency in the 1960’s and has been a government bureaucrat since then.

Yes, Dr. Fauci who famously remarked when told that we should follow or stick to the science said, “I am the science.” For years it seems Senator Rand Paul had been trying to get Dr. Fauci to testify before his Senate committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs but the science steadfastly refused. Finally, Senator Paul was able to persuade the members to issue a subpoena and that compelled the science to show up at the hearing with his team of lawyers. Senator Paul had to have his lead attorney escorted out of the hearing by security because he was disruptive and acting like his narcissistic client.

President Biden issued or rather his autopen issued a pardon to Fauci for any crimes he may have committed during the last 10 years. In other words, a preemptive pardon in case some charging agency decided to indict him for oh say mass murder. The committee obviously knows he can’t be charged for the crimes he may have committed so what was the purpose of the subpoena.

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Darrell Castle discusses the concept of a war criminal. Who gets to define what a war crime is and once that is established, who determines when someone has committed one of the criminal acts defined as a war crime?

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WHAT IS A WAR CRIMINAL?

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 24^th day of July in the year of our Lord 2026. My beat is still war today, but with the added distinction of talking about what some choose to call war criminals. The question for today then is who gets to decide what a war crime is and who decides if someone has committed one of those crimes he has defined as a war crime.

The International Criminal Court, established by the 1998 Rome Statute and beginning operations in 2002 has been given the right to declare certain people war criminals and to issue indictments against that person which should involve arrest and prosecution. We know from our American system that charges and indictment do not make one guilty, but in the minds of certain people it gives an opportunity for selectively prosecuting those with whom they politically disagree.

This war crimes talk started again when NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani ran for office on a promise to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he ever came to New York. Well, Bibi has announced that he will attend the United Nations meeting in NYC to be held in September. The mayor’s plans, announced in an interview with the New York Times, brought a storm of protests from supporters of Bibi including the President of the United States who declared on social media that the mayor’s plans would not and could not happen.

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Darrell Castle discusses war once again because it seems that the more we are told a political solution has been reached, the more missiles and drones are fired at more targets. Then retaliation has to come so, no solution.

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THE ENEMY GETS A VOTE

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 17^th day of July in the year of our Lord 2026. My beat today is war once again because it seems that the more we are told a political solution has been reached more missiles and drones are fired at more targets and then retaliation has to come so no solution.

The president is in a difficult position but it is apparently of his own making. He is not an Eisenhower with many years of experience commanding vast armies in some of the biggest campaigns in human history. He instead is forced to rely on his team of advisors and so they tell him where he should go and what the consequences will be. They must have told him that Iran was ripe for the taking and would fall just like Venezuela but Iran is different and any experienced military person should have been able to see that.

Power unhinges people and people who seek it are often unhinged to start with. That is part of the reason Mr. Jefferson told us that every 20 years or so we should have a revolution to reset things such as personal liberty. He reminded us that government agents are not saints or angels but they are instead ordinary humans with all the vices and weaknesses of other ordinary humans.