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The Castle Report

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13 minutes | Jul 2, 2021
Our Whispering Commander-in-Chief
Darrell Castle talks about the Commander-in-Chief of the United States armed forces who at least once recently relayed vital information about the American economy to a group of reporters by leaning over the podium and whispering or at least pretending to whisper to them. Transcription / Notes: OUR WHISPERING COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday the 2nd day of July in the year of our Lord 2021 and on this Report, I will be talking about the Commander-In-Chief of the United States armed forces who at least once recently relayed vital information about the American economy to a group of reporters by leaning over the podium and whispering or at least pretending to whisper to them. This is also the 4th of July weekend so we will be talking a little about independence and what that concept means to Joe Biden and his Democrat Party. Here in the Castle family, we are all looking forward to three days off work to celebrate the 4th of July this Sunday. We will take Monday off work from our law practice as part of the Holiday. Independence Day has its patriotic meaning that we are all familiar with and we celebrate that of course, but we celebrate in special ways for this mid-summer holiday. The Castle family normally has hot dogs for what is usually the first and only time of the year. I’m not yet sure what the family daughter will be doing in the City of Angels, but I’m sure she will tell me soon. The President of the United States who is also Constitutionally the Commander-In-Chief of the United States armed forces recently held an informal question and answer session with a group of reporters who had been pre-selected from the White House press corps. The questions he was to respond to were also pre-selected as were his notes for the answers, but something unusual happened at that meeting. He accidentally, negligently, intentionally, or through mental decline, told the truth about a vitally important subject. When the conference was almost over one of the reporters went off script and asked him for a response to the issue of millions of jobs available, but workers refusing to fill them. President Biden leaned way over the podium toward the reporter and replied in a very creepy whisper, it’s because I gave them 1.9 trillion. Now there the President admitted that he was paying people not to work, but then it got worse. Continuing his whisper, he told the reporters that he gave them the money so employers would have to pay more for labor. I want to reserve comment on the whisper for a moment, but no, on second thought I’ll go ahead and address it. The whole thing was indeed very creepy and appeared to be the result of cognitive deficit to the point that he was unable to control himself. The whisperer has gotten a lot of airtime on Russian TV and I’m certain the Kremlin was amused by it. I wonder what Mr. Putin and Mr. Xi think about the video of the President doing such a weird thing, but I have a fairly good idea. The whisper did call more than normal attention to his remarks, but because of the whisper no one pays attention to the merits of what he said.  Now let’s address what he actually whispered rather than the whisper itself. He said “I” gave them 1.9 trillion and money is continuing to be sent and that is not insignificant. He made it sound as if he was using his own money but instead, he was using yours and mine. That is a slight exaggeration because he was only adding to the debt, but the debt service must be paid by those who pay taxes. The concept of using taxpayer money to drive up the cost of labor thus bankrupting thousands of small businesses is perverse and non-sensible to me, but I wonder if others understand what he is doing. Was anybody besides me listening to his words or were you too creeped out by the whisper. It is hard to exaggerate the importance of his words to the US economy right now. First, there are Millions of jobs, but no workers and yet millions are on unemployment. This week the jobs report reflected 3.5 million on unemployment despite millions of jobs available. We used to deny unemployment compensation when there were jobs being offered to out of work people, but I guess that is just not the Biden way. If you raise the question of whether he was right about raising the cost of labor, then yes, he certainly has done that. Even McDonalds in Memphis is advertising $15 per hour plus a bonus to take the job. Restaurants cannot open because they have no workers but what about jobs with no benefits. Would it not be better to just stay home until the President’s plan worked? The problem with that is that even top-notch companies like FedEx, by far the most sought-after job in my city of Memphis, is advertising for people. Good pay, great benefits, paid time off, free medical insurance, profit sharing, and retirement but no takers. The outdoors company, Bass Pro Shop, is also running similar ads to Fed Ex but not enough takers. I thank God that the people who work in my law firm have stayed with me through this. So not enough workers, but what are some other effects of the Whisperer’s plan? Massive inflation which hurts everyone and is rightfully seen as extremely dangerous and on the verge of spinning out of control. Inflation in the cost of labor is only one aspect of it. Everything the consumer needs is rising in cost including the most important items like food and fuel. Just take a visit to any supermarket and you will see the results of rising costs. I talked about this last week I know, but the subject is important enough to mention again. Inflation destroys our standard of living, and therefore that is what the President is doing, destroying our standard of living. Rising fuel and food costs cannot be pushed immediately into the labor market so the standard of living of people of normal means continues to fall. In addition, the future economic standing of the nation is threatened by increasing debt service which must be covered through taxes. Taxes increase, as has my property, sewage, etc. taxes this year, but there is no corresponding increase in the work to pay them. In fact, business is so stagnant, thanks to the whisperer, that one must keep tightening the belt with each passing month. There is another aspect to paying people not to work that perhaps you have not considered and that is that work has a freedom and dignity that seems to be lost on Democrat politicians, especially President Biden. Apparently, he wants people to become dependent on him and people like him, and to never rise above their dependent status. Independence of the people is a perpetual advantage for a nation, and it fosters the ideals that made us great. It seems that more that 240 years of those ideals and the resultant success they produce are completely lost on this man or on whoever is running this country. Protecting and nurturing independence of people to ensure a perpetual advantage for those people apparently does not buy many votes, but I suppose giving money to those who refuse to work does buy a great many of them. Creating and fostering a nation of dependent people pays better in terms of votes than protecting independence. I just hope and pray that on this Independence Day even Democrat voters will see what this man from Dementia is doing to the nation. OK now, I admit that man from Dementia is pretty harsh, and I normally would not make such a mockery of the president, but this President mocks himself and the jokes write themselves. Who is running this country? Does it worry anyone besides me, that the president’s powers including the power to launch nuclear weapons, or to make undeclared war anywhere on earth or in space anytime he wants to give the order is in the hands of people whose names we don’t even know. Maybe Jill runs the country because she certainly controls the President in his appearances and his movements in public. I still remember the photo of her behind the desk provided for him, and her stating “I am preparing for the G7 meeting.” She has also been given a diplomatic assignment to be conducted during the summer Olympics in Japan. I have read that the real power is in chief of staff Ron Klain. He was also Biden’s Chief of Staff when he was Vice President. Mr. Klain got an undergraduate degree from Georgetown and of course, his law degree from Harvard. He came into government service under President Obama where he held the title of Ebola Coordinator. He was then appointed chief of staff to the Vice President. He has apparently been taking calls from foreign governments intended for the President.  If President Biden did indeed choose Kamala Harris because he knew her to be weak and therefore no threat to him, he got at least one thing right. However, I perceive her to be the scapegoat to take media heat instead of Biden who is off limits for the media. She is certainly weak, and one wonders how she was elected to the US Senate even in California, but the way she became Attorney General of the State of California is obvious according to Democratic power broker Willie Brown. She gives me the impression that she has nothing to offer except that silly or insane, depending on your point of view, cackle when she is asked a tough question. She was probably assigned responsibility for the border to take the heat for Biden on an issue that is unsolvable by any Democrat.   The border is hers now, and she is certainly keeping the heat off the President by coming across as totally incompetent and uncaring about anything. She is so obviously unqualified and cannot make even a reasonable guess at what to do that she might be scarier than the Man from Dementia. What a team these two make and they are supposed to be running the US Government. Again, I ask, who has the launch codes and the nuclear football. We the American people should have a right to know who holds the power to start another World War. I used to wonder how long before the Democrat Deep State Machine removed him as medically unable to continue and placed the Vice President as the new figurehead of power but after seeing her in Guatemala and on the border that is no longer my fear. Can you imagine Kamala Harris taking a call from Vladimir Putin with a warning about US warships in the Black Sea or President Xi with a warning that US Carrier Battle Groups were too close to China? The two of them represent the Democrat consensus to destroy Western Civilization, in which they apparently find nothing of value. The only things they see are racism, sexism, homophobia, colonialism and inequality and they intend to put an end of those things as long as that end doesn’t inconvenience them or cost them any money. If their end costs the rest of us freedom and the ability to live a normal life, well too bad. With what will they replace Western Civilization, 2000 years in the making, give or take 500 years? Perhaps socialism in the tradition of Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot, and Castro or perhaps Islamism in the Mullah tradition or just plain totalitarianism as we see in China today. Maybe some form of tribalism with Somalia or the Central African Republic as prime examples, but I think chaos is the most likely result. Finally, folks, I know the Democrats are hellbent on destroying my country and my way of life, but what are all those elected Republicans doing about it. Just give us one more year and then you’ll be happy they say. Just one more year and you’ll be happy we promise. Yes, those Republicans are brave warriors. I’ll bet if they had been in the lead landing craft at Omaha Beach the Germans would have surrendered in a week. At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.
14 minutes | Jun 25, 2021
Serious Questions For the FBI about the 1-6 Riots
Darrell Castle explores the question of whether the FBI infiltrated the so-called militia groups the Federal Government labeled responsible for the “insurrection” at the Capitol to the extent that the FBI not only investigated the events of January 6th, but actually caused them. Transcription / Notes: SERIOUS QUESTIONS FOR THE FBI ABOUT THE 1-6 RIOTS Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday the 25th of June in the year 2021 and on this Report, I will be exploring the question of whether the FBI infiltrated the so-called militia groups the Federal Government labeled responsible for the “insurrection “at the Capitol to the extent that the FBI not only investigated the events of 1/6, but actually caused them. The Castle family is doing fine this week despite some of the problems that go along with living in this age. Our humble garden consisting of potted vegetables on our deck is starting to ripen which is cause for excitement since we in this family take excitement from the simple things. I can’t tell you the family daughter is perfectly fine in Los Angeles this week, but she is hanging in there all things considered. The three so-called “militia groups” the federal government has named as responsible for the riots are Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, and the three percenters. I have personally met the founder of Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, and I have heard his presentation a few times. The premise of the organization is that it recruits those who have taken an oath to defend the Constitution and it believes that oath remains in effect. I have no personal experience with either of the other two. Just to cut right to the chase the FBI not only instigated the 1/6 events at the capitol, but conducted a test run in late 2020 with almost exactly, the same set of facts. The head of the FBI field office in the district where the trial run was conducted was promoted to head of the Washington DC field office and given charge of the 1/6 investigation. There are many questions to be considered but the chief one is the statement made by Stewart Rhodes. “Yep, this Whitmer Plot was a trial run for the FBI’s January 6 Insurrection Day at Capitol Hill. What happened on that day was the Reichstag Fire of the Democrat-Deep State Nazis who run the federal government today.” Should Mr. Rhodes’ statement prove to be true then it is one of the most important events in American history, a watershed event and comparison to the Reichstag Fire is not an exaggeration. Let’s take a brief look at the trial run better known as the Governor Whitmer kidnapping plot. Most of the investigations of these two events, the Whitmer kidnapping and the 1/6 events have been conducted by Revolver News, a very respected news sources and then reported by Tucker Carlson. I read Revolver’s very long and detailed report of their investigation and from that report we learn what really happened in the Whitmer plot and what probably happened on 1/6. The questions to be answered by the FBI, DOJ, Pentagon, and Network News are 1. In the year leading up to 1/6 and during 1/6 itself, to what extent did those government organizations infiltrate the three organizations labeled most responsible for planning and executing a Capitol attack. 2. What roles did they play, merely passive informants or active instigators. 3. The unindicted co-conspirators referenced in the charging documents on 1/6, how many worked as confidential informants or as undercover agents for the Federal Government. It will take persistence to get answers to those questions, but upon correct answers depends the future of this country and our way of life as Americans. The American people deserve to know the truth about what kind of country they are living in. The premise of the FBI, DOJ, and their friends in the media is that the events of 1/6 were the fault of Trump-supporting QAnon-infused “domestic terrorists”, but secondarily it was due to intelligence failures of the government organizations. That is the explanation they gave to congress, and they continue to give it to the American people. If the answer is that the government agencies at the senior level orchestrated the entire episode and over 400 people are currently incarcerated, many of them in solitary confinement, the implications would be hard to exaggerate. Each charging document of those incarcerated people has a list of unindicted co-conspirators who, in each case, were much more aggressive and egregious in their participation than the persons being charged. Who are all these co-conspirators that the government listed? Well, that’s the interesting part because they will not tell us, and those people cannot be prosecuted for what they did. This whole thing stinks like the pile of excrement that it increasingly resembles. It seems that the participants in the events of 1/6 were either ordinary MAGA Moms just walking around DC as tourists and went into the Capitol as would any other tourists; or they were those who were violent and destructive and belonged to some “militia group. “That many of the first group are being held in confinement for months without bail is a terrible miscarriage of justice and an abuse of basic human rights. What if the Federal Government had undercover agents of the FBI, and/or army counterintelligence who orchestrated and instigated the entire thing for the purpose of bolstering their domestic terrorists are the nation’s worst enemy narrative. The Reichstag Fire comparison seems a lot more reasonable as does the Gestapo arresting innocent people and blaming the fire on them. This would be much worse than the government knowing about the possibility of violence and doing nothing.  The federal government would be an instigator of the worst violence and of a massive entrapment/false charges scheme. That scheme would then have made the government and its agents guilty of many crimes, but also of framing the entire Maga movement as domestic terrorists. To understand the story, we must look at the background and that means, going back to what is commonly known as the Whitmer kidnapping plot. Three months before 1/6 the FBI arrested 14 people for planning to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and overthrow the Michigan State government including storming the state capitol. At least 5 of the 14 people were agents of the FBI. There could be more but the 5 are proven facts. Many of the 14 including the 5 belonged to a so-called militia group, the three percenters. The head of that FBI field office knew about the infiltration and the plot because he had to personally approve under cover field work. He did such a good job of framing the folks in Michigan that he was later promoted to head of the Washington DC field office where he was given charge of the 1/6 investigation to frame those people as well. Question, if the FBI decided to stop the plot they agency itself planned and launched, and arrest people why could the FBI not do the same in DC on 1/6 or before? This all sounds crazy, and it is, but it is also true. The FBI apparently ran a dress rehearsal of the 1/6 events three months before in Michigan. The FBI supplied weapons, explosives, and other material to the Michigan group. The person listed as the leader was a down on his luck young man literally living in the storage basement of a used vacuum store. He also happened to be of low enough intelligence to allow himself to be induced into such insanity. The FBI provided intelligence, weapons, encouragement, and logistical support to the group, and it is obvious it could not have happened without FBI involvement. Even the media was bothered by the Michigan plot line. Media reports stated that the plot itself may have been the result of entrapment of vulnerable, cognitively deficient, and mentally unstable individuals by FBI informants. The man the FBI identified as leader of the group of plotters fit the same pattern the FBI has used in the past against various Muslim groups. On the brink of homelessness, a friend let him stay in the storage basement of his vacuum store. It was there among broken vacuum parts that he allegedly called a meeting to discuss kidnapping the governor of Michigan. The obvious parallels between the Whitmer plot and the events of 1/6 are impossible to miss. The damage done to innocents who were arrested, held without bail, often in harsh conditions, is egregious, but the damage to the country and our way of life is much worse. Apparently, the Michigan plot did not start out as a kidnapping, but as a storm the capitol rally. The plan was to “amp up” about 200 men who were attending a peaceful protest rally at the state capitol. That rally was in favor of the 2nd Amendment, nothing about insurrection was planned until the FBI became involved. They were going to agitate and persuade rally goers to run inside and occupy the building. The FBI set up a meeting in Ohio to discuss the plan and even paid for the participants transportation and hotel rooms. The weird thing is that the FBI acknowledges or admits that it used informants and agents undercover to infiltrate these groups and escalate their plot. The original plotters had zero chance of carrying out such a plot without FBI planning, equipment, including weapons, money, logistics, and above all motivation and brain power. Yes, this Michigan plot did not take the FBI by surprise since at least 26% of the participants were FBI agents, not informants, agents. The indictments indicate that at every level of the plot, the FBI participants played the key leadership role. The plotters explosives expert they were accused of planning to buy explosives from, was an FBI agent. The indictments themselves are problematic. It is strange that given the actions of so many co-conspirators they all remain unindicted. The DOJ launched one of the most aggressive prosecutions in American history by announcing it as a shock and awe package. They wanted to indict as many MAGA Moms as possible while leaving out agents of the FBI and other federal government operatives. This is about sending a message and even those playing bit parts got maximum treatment. The DOJ was proud of the fact, so proud they bragged about it publicly, that the dragnet made people afraid to come back to DC. The most violent actions on 1/6, according to the indictments, and charging instruments, involved planted agents of the federal government and yet they are willing to send people to prison for it. That’ll teach them to think twice before they disagree with us. The Reichstag Fire was based on a lie, but it did send a message that still rings down the passing decades for almost a century. The German people could not report the truth, but we can. We know what the truth is, so it is not too late to hold the government accountable. The director of the FBI should be forced to answer the questions about his agents and informants and exactly what role they played. News reporters such as Revolver can read the indictments and investigate and Tucker Carlson can report, but they have no subpoena power. Congress does have such power and only congress can bring this plot, hatched in darkness to light. I suggest the first place to look for all those domestic terrorists the President keeps talking about, is in the FBI. Finally, folks, is the government of this, the land of the free, wicked enough to hatch a plot so vile and then punish the innocent to cover it up and to send their message? It sure looks that way. At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.
12 minutes | Jun 18, 2021
Caught on the Horns of a Dilemma
Darrell Castle talks about the growing threat of inflation. Is it really something terrible or just a transitory phase of the economy? Transcription / Notes CAUGHT ON THE HORNS OF A DILEMMA Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday the 18th day of June in the year 2021 and on this Report, I will be talking about the growing threat of inflation. Is inflation really happening and if so, is it really something terrible, something to be feared or is it what the FED and the treasury department say that it is, just a transitory phase of the economy. This is Father’s Day weekend for the Castle family as it is for everyone else. Husband and father are the two greatest roles that a man can have as far as I’m concerned, and I thank God for the opportunity to have those roles in my own life. I’m sure Joan has something wonderful planned for me this weekend, and the family daughter will call from wherever she is in this world. What is going on in this economy right now. Are prices really out of control? Has the FED (the Federal Reserve) lost control of inflation and the economy in general or is it all just a transitory phase as we are often told? When we visit the grocery store or gas station it seems certain that inflation is a reality and not an illusion. It may be transitory, but its effect on our lifestyle and our ability to care for our families is very real. Our standard of living is being diminished every day as prices, especially for commodities we use every day are increasing. It is easy to raise prices on consumer products. All the grocer has to do is change his sign for hamburger from $3.99 per pound to $5.99 per pound and you pay a third more for the simplest American meal. When the gas station changes its sign almost daily and always upward, it costs more to drive to work or to the grocery store or to take the kids to school. When prices for such commodities increase your standard of living falls because your wages do not keep pace. Most working people in America are employed by small business and those businesses are struggling to keep their heads above water right now. I’m not talking about Google, Microsoft, or some Wall Street bank that has billions in assets and should trouble arise for them, the federal government is there ready to use your money to bail them out. No, the person who runs the small business is losing his standard of living just as you are. Wages always lag behind prices because if an increase comes it is probably yearly while price increases happen almost daily. What exactly is inflation anyway? The traditional definition is an increase in the money supply, but recently the FED and treasury departments started referring to it as an upward trend in pricing, whatever that means. The government likes to tell us that the CPI (consumer price index) is the proper measurement of inflation. The CPI is just a bundle or basket of industries or companies that the government looks at to measure pricing. On that basket depends the COLA (cost of living adjustment) for Social Security recipients as well as all federal pensions. COLA is supposed to keep those people on “fixed incomes” from losing ground to inflation, so it is to the advantage of the government to hold COLA to a minimum and that is done through adjustments to the CPI. If you want to show that there is little or no inflation, make sure to have a lot of high-tech companies in the basket. Prices on certain electronics such as TV’s have actually fallen as knowledge increases. To prevent problems on the upside just take volatile industries such as timber, meat and other foods from the basket and CPI can appear to be under control. People see the prices of things they use continuing to rise, but most do not understand what is happening and if they do understand, what can they do about it? The FED has been good in recent years at keeping inflation from their constant money pump limited to Wall Street. In recent months, for example, the Fed has pumped $120 billion per month into the economy through buying assets, primarily bonds. They don’t let debt pile up to unpayable levels for the big banks, instead they just pay the banks to buy their own debt. That appears to be quite a scam I know, and that’s because it is. The FED gives our money to the banks so that the banks can buy government debt or, in effect, lend the money back to the government. Even worse they use it to buy back their own stock making them appear profitable and increasing the director bonuses. The government is projected to spend $3.7 trillion more than it takes in this fiscal year, and over the next 10 years it is projected to spend $20 trillion more than it takes in. The constant flow of money with nothing being produced and nothing productive happening has, until now, been able to limit increases to the stock market which made people think everything was just fine. The stock market was booming and much of that FED $120 billion per month was going right into US equities. Not many people ever questioned that phenomenon by asking how that could happen when these companies were not making anything people wanted to buy. It was all just an illusion designed to keep enough plates in the air to prevent total failure, but the recent massive amounts of money created to pay people and businesses, for Covid losses changed all that. Inflation has finally broken out in the general economy and the FED seems at a loss to curtail it. The last time it happened on such a scale was in the 1970’s and like now the government at first had no answer. When Ronald Reagan was elected, he brought in Paul Volker to run the FED and Volker knew that he had to inflict pain to prevent even more pain in the future. He raised rates to above 15% at one point and the once red-hot housing market collapsed, but inflation receded, and the economy was booming all through the 1980’s. The difference between then and now is that the solution of such a drastic increase in rates is no longer a realistic option for the FED. Paul Volker had less than $1 trillion of government debt to deal with and to fund the debt service for and today the FED has $28 trillion and rising. The monthly debt service today is almost half what the entire debt was in Volker’s day so a drastic increase in rates would leave the government unable to fund its debt. This all leaves the FED on the horns of a dilemma. Raise rates enough to control inflation and use the government’s entire revenue just to pay debt service or let inflation rage out of control. Either way it is not a pretty picture so the FED will probably try some type of modest stop-gap solution such as raising rates just a little in hopes that the increase sends a negative message to slow the economy. The other thing is to continue under-reporting of CPI numbers to make it appear that inflation is under control. Then finally, hope that it holds together long enough to get through one more administration, then hand the problem off to the next one. Looking for reasons for an inflationary cycle should remind the government that it is not omnipotent, and there are limits no matter how much the government wants to believe otherwise. There are limits to how much money the FED can create without anything productive behind it and with nothing to anchor it. Those limits are the reasons why governments hate gold. The government does not want to be reminded and the gold price is right there in front of us all the time as a reminder. When gold prices are rising, so is inflation, and that is why the government distorts even that limit by buying up gold futures. Leaving the gold standard in 1971 allowed the FED and the treasury to become completely financialized. In other words, we no longer had to make anything people wanted to buy because they wanted dollars and the dollar, by the pallet became our chief export. Computers ended the pallets of dollars and replaced them with blips on the FED computer screens, but the principle was still the same. Even military weapons were often purchased from foreign countries. When the 1911 model .45 automatic was replaced as the side arm for Marine Officers it was replaced by a foreign pistol. So, America was deindustrialized, and industry was moved offshore to cheap labor countries. American retailers rushed to switch to foreign purchases of merchandise. Large importers such as Walmart, Sam’s Club, Costco, began to dominate the American market and consumer prices fell. Everyone was happy about that until they learned that American labor had lost its bargaining power. Why would a manufacturer like Ford or General Motors listen to a bunch of unreasonable union demands? It would be far easier and far cheaper to relocate the factory to a low wage country so work for what we offer, or we will relocate. In less technical industries American labor competed with imported labor from cheap labor countries as well as imported goods. Every segment of American society lost its standard of living except perhaps the top 10%. Even the low-priced foreign merchandise was not affordable because of increasing prices and decreasing wages. That problem was solved through credit which increased the power of the banks. The 20% or so between what they earned and what they needed that had been lost to Americans was made up through liberal credit until even the debt service could no longer be afforded. The people were forced to either ask for bankruptcy protection or live a much lower standard. In conclusion the fate of the American worker is sealed by inflation and by the irresponsible policies of the FED and the treasury. The FED board of governors knows how many people will be impoverished by their decisions. They know how many divorces will occur and how many children will be fatherless. They know how much drug addiction will result and how many suicides, but those people are just numbers on a computer screen. Finally, folks, when I use the expression the deep state or the swamp, I am talking about those who perpetuate this system. They are so embedded in the woodwork of Washington that no one can dig them out. What can be done about it, absolutely nothing? At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.
13 minutes | Jun 11, 2021
Do You Wear a Mask if You Have Been Vaccinated?
Darrell Castle talks about the question — Why would a person choose to wear a mask indoors or outdoors, but especially outdoors, if that person has been “fully vaccinated”. Transcription / Notes DO YOU WEAR A MASK OUTDOORS IF YOU HAVE BEEN VACCINATED? Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday the 11th day of June in this the year of our Lord 2021. This Report will ask the question, why would a person choose to wear a mask indoors or outdoors, but especially outdoors, if that person has been “fully vaccinated.” Is the person relying on and following the directives of science or the directives of those experts who speak for science? The Castle family is certainly doing well this rainy week in the river city of Memphis. We are celebrating my sister’s birthday since she is a year older as of yesterday the 10th.She and I are the survivors of 8 siblings, so we celebrate another year. We have often disagreed over the years as siblings do, but we do agree that neither of us wants to live in a high-tech version of East Germany. The family daughter is happily getting back into her career out in the city of angels, trying to rediscover normal in California. The other day I had a business meeting with a businesswoman in a building here in Memphis and when I got to the meeting, she was wearing a mask, but I was not. I try to be respectful of the wishes of others especially in their place of business, and if she had mentioned it, I would have put one on, but she did not. I asked her if she preferred that I wear one and she said “no, I am fully vaccinated”.  I said oh, then you are completely immune from the virus and could not possibly contract it from me and since you could not possibly be infected you could not possibly transmit it to me. Yes, she said, that’s what they tell me. If all that is true, then why do you wear a mask? For that question she had no answer because there is no answer that makes any logical sense, and she was not a stupid woman. She seemed open to discussing the matter, so I asked her if she really trusted the vaccine to be what she was told. She said “they” told her that if she got the virus after being fully vaccinated, meaning two vaccinations, she would not die or become seriously ill. I asked if she had any adverse reaction to the vaccination and she said just a little soreness. That conversation started me thinking about how even the experts at CDC now say that masks outdoors are no longer necessary. The recent email dump of 3200 emails from chief expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, revealed that he has known for over a year that masks are ineffective at stopping or preventing the virus and that the chances of contracting the virus outdoors are virtually zero. Despite all that, I still see many people wearing masks outdoors, so I wonder why. Stuck to the front door of a business I visited recently was a sign that said no one is to enter these premises without a mask. The choice there is simple, put on a mask or go someplace else but outdoors makes me wonder. Searching for answers to my questions, I found that I was not the only one with such questions. Filmmaker Ami Horowitz does a you tube show called Ami on the loose and the show I watched was him walking around New York City interviewing people wearing masks. His first question after getting their agreement to talk to him was normally, have you been vaccinated. Virtually every person seemed happy to talk to him and almost all of them said they had been vaccinated. His next question was why are you wearing a mask outdoors if you have been vaccinated? He tried to set them free by telling them the CDC said you no longer have to wear it outdoors. When he said that a few took their mask off and thanked him. Most did not, however, and they had different but similar reasons. Some typical answers: I just like it!  I got used to it. I don’t mind wearing it. Most people seemed to have adjusted to the mask as a way of life and were simply unwilling to change. In other words, they were psychologically addicted to the mask. The answers that interested me the most were the ones that revealed some type of guilt the wearer felt compelled to answer for by wearing a mask. It served as a kind of punishment for social sin that allowed the wearer to escape the guilt that was rightfully his. He said he didn’t think he had the right from a social justice standpoint to not wear the mask. Now, you can try to figure that one out using logic and reason if you wish, but to me it would be hard to imagine a more perfect example of how a totalitarian government gains control of a once free people. In other words, it is a perfect example of mass brainwashing. Keep in mind that the scene is New York City, and the people he interviewed are all of the political left to extreme left and they are mostly young, affluent types. None of them gave any thought to the fact that they were confessing to being psychological slaves to the experts provided by the leaders of a certain political ideology. One man said he did not feel like he should have the privilege of not wearing a mask. That was the scary one because it illustrated how easy it is to convince free people that freedom is a privilege they must somehow earn. That man was white, young, and educated probably at one of the fine New York private universities. He has totally accepted the totalitarian philosophy of the left, that being, if you are white and educated you somehow owe reparations to someone for that “privilege”. Years and years of psychological conditioning and indoctrination commonly known as education has produced the desired effect. The result of that effect is that we must consider freedom a privilege to be granted to us by our rulers. Large numbers of people in our society now exhibit such behavior. They have converted themselves to simple cogs in a machine much more vast than they are. A well cared for cog, but a cog nonetheless as evidenced by the unquestioning embrace of the servitude of wearing a mask especially when it is proven to be unnecessary. It reminds me of the experiments where the bug climbs the side of the jar and encounters the lid. then. Finally, he gives up even when there is no lid on the jar, he just sits at the bottom until he dies. Fear has reached the point where people are literally afraid of the air they breathe. Those who continue to wear a mask when they have had the vaccine are demonstrating that they do not trust the vaccine. They were afraid, or they were intimidated so they got the vaccine, but they do not trust it. They trust the expert managers who said you must have the vaccine, but they know it does not convey immunity, so they continue to act as they did before they had it. I read one gentleman who pointed out that the stigma and social stigmatism attached to not wearing a mask, or even to refusing vaccination is akin to the stigma women in Muslim countries face with the way they dress. They must completely cover their bodies including their eyes while their husbands are free to wear shorts if they choose. This may not be herd immunity, but it is certainly herd mentality. Some people are still hesitant, however. The new rulers, the experts, those at WHO, CDC, and of course, Dr. Fauci, have a term for it, vaccine hesitancy. Since this is the rush month to meet the president’s goal of 70% vaccinated by Independence Day, ironic date, I know, the first lady has been going into vaccine hesitant communities to lead the hesitant to vaccine safety. I wonder about all those who insist that control of their own bodies is paramount, but not when it comes to the virus. Doing as we please with our own bodies used to be an accepted and agreed upon right, but not so much now. Cigarette laws, seatbelt laws, drinking laws, drug laws have all challenged that assumption. The social pressure surrounding the necessity to get vaccinated is like none of those. How would you like to be told that if you smoke unless you quit you can never again fly on an airplane? If your only child lives 2000 miles away well that’s just too bad. There is a strong movement to treat the unvaccinated as second-class citizens, and even label them as such. This social pressure is applied even when the experts who support the same political agenda as the one to whom the pressure is applied are proven to be wrong at best and corrupt at worst. For example, the National Pulse has uncovered a video clip where Peter Daszak, colleague of Dr. Fauci, who collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology on research funded by Dr. Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease appears to boast about the manipulation of killer SARS-like coronaviruses carried out by his “colleagues” in China. “Then when you get a sequence of a virus, and it looks like a relative of a known nasty pathogen, just like we did with SARS. We found other coronaviruses in bats, a whole host of them, some of them looked very similar to SARS. So, we sequenced the spike protein: the protein that attaches to cells. Then we, well I didn’t do this work, but my colleagues in China did the work. You create pseudo particles, you insert the spike proteins from those viruses, see if they bind to human cells. At each step of this you move closer and closer to this virus, that could really become pathogenic in people.” He then adds that “you end up with a small number of viruses that really do look like killers.” So there appears to be at least a growing body of evidence that Fauci’s NSID has financial and personal ties to the Wuhan lab that created these “killers.” The Wuhan lab also lists the National Institutes of Health as one of its partners. With all this growing body of evidence that this killer virus was created in the Wuhan lab with full knowledge, assistance, and funding of the US Health bureaucracy, then what separates these people from the mass killers of the past. Why should anyone continue to believe them about anything they tell us. This is all very scary stuff as scientists explore the unknowns of the unseen world. Some believe that the gain of function and gene drive technology research being conducted at the Wuhan lab, represent the possibility of a larger change in our species than has been seen before.  Not being a scientist leaves me at the mercy of those who are, but I can read their words and discern that they are experimenting with the genetic makeup of humanity itself and who knows what that will do to future generations. In conclusion, this idea of forced quarantine of the once free American people seems to have begun under George W. Bush when the rules were changed to allow forced quarantine or forced confinement of innocent and free people as a response to terrorism. The rules were already there for Biden and Fauci to use. Dr. Fauci’s email dump revealed that the lockdown was not about flattening the curve, so everyone did not get sick at once nor was it about stopping the virus. It was just an experiment that Fauci was running to see if keeping people apart would cause the virus to go away on its own. He stated in the emails that at first, he thought that would work and a vaccine would not be necessary. He didn’t realize the system could produce in only 10 months. Finally, Folks, I follow, and I recommend that you do as well, the George Carlin philosophy of government.  Don’t believe anything the government says about anything, ever, nothing whatsoever. At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.
13 minutes | Jun 4, 2021
All Roads Lead to the Vaccine
Darrell Castle talks about how most of the original illogic and unanswered questions about the COVID virus have now been answered and those answers lead us toward the vaccine. Transcription / Notes ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE VACCINE Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 4th day of June 2021 and today this report will talk about how most of the original illogic and unanswered questions about the COVID virus have now been answered and those answers lead us toward the vaccine. Why all the unnecessary fearmongering in the beginning, apparently to herd the world toward the vaccine, and that is the subject of this report. Here in Memphis Tennessee the Castle family is getting along just fine enjoying the spring weather and the beauty of nature. Most people would hardly notice the virus still lingers around just waiting for us to relax our guard. The family daughter is even starting the road back to normal or what passes for normal in California. I often used to ask myself why. That is in the beginning of the virus when everyone was very afraid, and no one seemed to know exactly what was going to happen. Why did countries all over the world suddenly adopt the same lockdown policies when those policies had never been tried before. Why were certain medications and supplements attested by many doctors as life saving suppressed and never really tested? Why were physicians at the top of the virology pyramid canceled by big tech and big media? Why did the big media companies put out the same hysteria that almost scared us all to death? Maybe there was and is more to this story than meets the eye. Maybe the reason for all these things was to steer the world to the vaccine. Is it fair to say the virus seems to have its own political agenda and its agenda always points to the vaccine? Those who manage the virus protocols for the world have been quite open in their goal of vaccinating every human on earth. That would seem to be illogical and completely unnecessary but still our managers are taking extraordinary steps to make sure it happens. For example, June is national action month to motivate us to get vaccinated by the 4th of July. I suppose the reason some are refusing is simple laziness. Maybe if the government paid us we would comply. Would it not be fair to say then, that much of the unnecessary hysteria was to help achieve that goal. It would work like the old western movies about the cattle drive. Something panics the herd, and they all start running often with fatal consequences. For us the end of the panicked running was the vaccine. Just as the cattle were too dumb to know that running was not good for them and they acted out of instinctive panic we are told to just get in line for the shot. When you ask the doctor, who insists that you get the vaccine, if it confers immunity from the virus all he can say is there’s a lot we don’t know. Well, that was a truthful answer in the vaccine beginning but there is a lot we do know right now. Let me take a moment to quote Dr. Peter McCullough, board certified cardiologist and internal medicine physician thanks to the website of Dr. Mercola. “I think this whole pandemic, from the beginning, was about the vaccine. All roads lead to the vaccine. There are plenty of places in southeast Asia and Europe where they are laying the groundwork for compulsory vaccination. Compulsory! That means someone pins you to the ground and puts a needle in you. That’s how bad the stakeholders want vaccination.” So, according to Dr. McCullough it’s all about the vaccine. The mask mandates, the lockdowns, the social distancing, the closed schools, the ruined businesses the closed churches, the daily death count on virtually all media, as well as the scenes of brave physicians and nurses clad head to foot in hazmat suits caring for rooms full of dying patients was conceived with on goal in mind: to prepare the entire earth for vaccination on an industrial scale never before seen with an experimental drug, not fully tested or approved, with no long term trials and no study of adverse effects. Could that all be true? If so, could we not conclude that the situation is very weird and more than a little bit creepy. Children, yes, even children, who are at virtually zero risk must be vaccinated. Even populations of remote people who have no cases and no exposure must be vaccinated. We must ask ourselves why governments, corporations, schools, and media are so desperate they will push, bribe and even force people to accept this untested and relatively unknown drug. The origins lead us back to China and the funding of the mysterious Wuhan Virology Lab where the virus possibly originated. No, we were told quite adamantly at first and for an entire year that the virus in a lab was just a conspiracy theory without any evidence. The virus originated in bats or other wild creatures which were sold to the public at a Wuhan China meat market and then consumed thus allowing the virus to jump the animal—human barrier. The other thing we have been told for 15 months is trust the science, and even trust Dr. Fauci. Those admonitions always seemed a little insulting and more than a little condescending to me. Certain people, such Senator Rand Paul, just kept chipping away at the story until finally 3200 emails of Dr. Fauci were released through the Freedom of Information act and those emails have shed some light on what has been happening. For one thing the emails revealed that all the time Dr. Fauci was telling us that the virus came from bats he knew it was engineered. He had been in contact with the Chinese and had told them, “don’t worry we’ll get through this together.” While he was telling us about bats, he was spending his time working on damage control and shaping the narrative to prevent suspicion from falling on the Chinese Communist Party. According to Tucker Carlson we learned that: “the man in charge of protecting the US from Covid must be rational and impressive. We also assumed he must be honest. But we were wrong.” “It soon became clear that Toni Fauci was just another sleazy federal bureaucrat—deeply political and often dishonest. More shocking than that we then learned that Fauci himself was implicated in the very pandemic he’d been charged with fighting.” “Fauci supported the grotesque and dangerous experiments that appeared to have made Covid possible.” The emails show that from the very beginning Fauci’s real worry was that the public might conclude Covid had originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Why would that be a worry of Dr. Fauci? Possibly because Tony Fauci knew that he had funded gain-of-function experiments at that very same laboratory. Carlson went on to say, “the emails prove that Fauci lied about this under oath, citing an email where Fauci states that he and his fellow scientists felt the virus looked potentially engineered and that members of the team all find the genome inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory.” I take that to mean that the virus could not have developed naturally or evolved but had to have been engineered in a lab. He knew all this while he was telling the American people and the world the opposite. Carlson said that looks a lot like perjury. Yes, indeed, it does Tucker and that is a serious crime. Will Toni Fauci be charged or even looked at by a grand jury, I don’t think so. Many people have suffered because of Dr. Fauci’s deceit. Many websites, writers, and others such as Zero Hedge had their stories cancelled and their reputations damaged because they dared to investigate and report the truth. Just to let you know one other interesting tidbit from the emails, Dr. Fauci stated to Biden’s staff that he knew from the beginning that masks were ineffective against the virus. This is very important for other reasons than the serious crime of perjury. To properly investigate a virus and make a vaccine or treatment it is vital to know its origins and Dr. Fauci knew that virus was engineered in a Chinese lab partially assisted by him and partially funded by the National Institute of Health at least for $3.7 million. Drs., often brave enough to risk their careers, considered truth to be worth the risk. Two imminent virologists claim they found “unique fingerprints” on COVID samples, Fingerprints such as those a police detective might look for at the scene of a murder. These fingerprints could only have arisen from laboratory manipulation the doctors tell us. British professor Angus Dalgleish, best known for creating the world’s first HIV vaccine, and Norwegian virologist Dr. Birger Sorensen, chair of the pharmaceutical company immunor, wrote that while analyzing virus samples last year, they discovered “unique fingerprints” in the form of six inserts created through gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. It has no ancestor, and it is beyond reasonable doubt that the virus was created via laboratory manipulation. Sorensen told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that COVID-19 has properties which have never been detected in nature, and that the United States has collaborated for many years on coronavirus research through gain of function studies with china. They pieced together how Chinese scientists, some working in concert with American universities, allegedly built the tools to create the virus. They took a natural Coronavirus backbone found in Chinese cave bats and spliced onto it a new spike, turning it into a deadly and highly transmissible SARS COVID-2. Should these two scientists receive the Nobel Prize for their work? Possibly, but keep in mind that when they released their findings such reporting was punishable by social media banishment, demonetization, hit pieces published by those wishing to make Chinese Communist Party propaganda. One question I have often pondered is that if the Chinese are so smart, having on average 7 points higher on the IQ scale than Americans, then why do they have to cheat, lie, and steal from us. It must have something to do with free minds, capitalism, the spirit of innovation, etc. In conclusion, people at the highest levels knew all along that the virus was purposely created in a Chinese lab at least partially assisted and funded by US health bureaucracy. Dr. Fauci knew from day one where the virus came from, and that masks and lockdowns would be ineffective and yet he insisted that the whole world wear masks and lockdown. Why? Why would he do that except to stampede the herd toward the vaccine. To further stimulate the herd the government in conjunction with private industry is preparing a list of incentives or bribes for the reluctant to get the vaccine. Budweiser is giving away free beer, and others are giving cards with a prepaid amount on them. There is a $1 million federal raffle and all you have to do to get a ticket is get vaccinated. California has set aside $116 million to pay people to get the vaccine. Why? Why go to so much trouble and exhibit so much desperation especially given what the emails reveal. Finally, folks, if the information contained in the emails is true, and if we couple it to what the two scientists concluded, and we look at the deaths, sickness, and economic costs of it all, we might conclude that this is without a doubt one of the worst crimes in human history. I pray that all this will be revealed for the people of the world to see and draw their own conclusions. At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.
13 minutes | May 28, 2021
Our Post Covid World
Darrell Castle talks about the world post Covid, in term of the most prominent things happening in the world today — what has been gained and what has been lost in the past 15 months. Transcription / Notes OUR POST COVID WORLD Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday, May 28th in the year 2021. This is also Memorial Day Weekend. Those of us fortunate enough to have jobs in this post COVID world will get a 3-day weekend. This Castle Report will talk about the world post COVID, known here after as simply the virus. What are the most prominent things happening in the world today and what has changed in the world post virus? What have we gained and what have we lost? The Castle family is doing well this Memorial Day Weekend. Despite the virus, we are looking forward to 3-days off work. Joan and I will pause to remember on Monday as we usually attend a ceremony at the local Veterans Cemetery to pay our respects. The family daughter is doing well with her husband in California as she told me by video just a couple of days ago. This Memorial Day Report is a good chance to also pause and remember or at least review what is happening in this country and in the world since the advent of the virus protocols some 15 months ago. Yes, approximately 15 months ago we were told to just shelter in place for 2 weeks to flatten the curve. Two weeks became 15 months and counting as the virus protocols have caused what will probably be irreparable damage to the American and world economies. The world is different now and today I want to take a brief look at some of those differences. The most obvious difference that I see is the atmosphere of fear that seems to pervade the country. Fear seems to have subsided a little, however, at least among those low-risk people who just needed an excuse not to be afraid. Here in the River City of Memphis Tennessee we are fortunate to have good leadership at both the state and local level, so we were kept well informed, and fear stayed at a minimum. When the mayor sought to comply with federal and state guidelines, he did not simply order churches to close as did Gavin Newsome in California. Instead, he gathered as many pastors as he could on a conference call, explained the situation, and asked for their permission and cooperation. I know of no harassment or threats against pastors as occurred in California. The situation in California became so bad that pastors were threatened with arrest, but some did not back down to the intimidation and sued the Governor for what they alleged to be discrimination in the way he determined what business was “essential” and what was not. Just a few days ago the court ruled in favor of the churches and ordered the governor to pay $1.35 million in attorney fees. Basically, the court ruled that a state cannot arbitrarily rule churches non-essential, while ruling other favored businesses essential. So many were upset with the Governor of California’s heavy-handed tactics which he demanded ordinary people obey while he did not have to obey, that a recall petition was circulated against him. The last count I saw had the signature totals at about 3 times the number needed to put the measure on the ballot so a recall election will be held pursuant to California law. California was not the only state to reject their governor’s actions. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, had his emergency powers taken away and given in part to the legislature by referendum vote. The primary thing that came out of the lockdown protocols as far as I am concerned is that they did more harm than good, and apparently, they did not stop the spread of the virus. The states that did not lockdown, such as South Dakota, and Florida, fared  no worse and in many respects much better than those who locked down for the entire year. Some states are still not fully open despite CDC guidelines stating that they can be. The fear continues to inflict itself on those who internalize it. The mandates are finally being relaxed by state and federal authorities as more and more people believe the vaccines are effective. There are many competing opinions, even among doctors, regarding the effectiveness of the vaccines in preventing the virus. Some doctors even deny that what is being injected into the arms of the world are vaccines at all if you use the classic definition of vaccine because they do not seem to convey immunity as is required by the definition. Nevertheless, vast numbers of people around the world are being vaccinated and that is enough to make the politicians of the world breath a sigh of relief. Vaccinating the entire world of roughly 8 billion people has turned out to be quite a task even for Bill Gates and the pharmaceutical companies he controls. Here in America, there are apparently much more vaccine doses than are needed as the 50% who have not been vaccinated do not intend to change that status. It’s just not happening the way the media, the tech companies, the pharmaceutical companies, the politicians, and other vaccine supporters envisioned. The poor people of the world, and I mean the really, desperately poor who have literally nothing are not buying all the propaganda. Those people are expected to just line up and let the smart people stick the needle in their arms, but they are apparently running to hide in the mountains and deserts from those who say they are there to help. The Wall Street Journal May 26 edition tells us that the shipments of vaccines were not arriving as scheduled, although that explanation does not appear to hold water. I have seen video interviews with people from India to Africa and other places and the people are just not buying into the World Economic Forum’s plan for the world. I have been hoping and praying that the poor of the world would someday grow tired of being used as guinea pigs and some billionaire’s depopulation plans and rebel so maybe this is it. May God make it so. The global plan obviously calls for vaccinating everyone not just the adults. Since the risk for children is very close to zero that plan makes little or no sense. An organization called America’s Frontline Doctors, and a collection of parents filed a lawsuit with a motion for a temporary restraining order in the Northern district of Alabama to prevent vaccination of children. I quote from the lawsuit, “every plaintiff with children or patients in the target age group stands to be immediately and irreparably harmed by the extension.” The word extension involves extending the demands that all be vaccinated to children under 16. I continue now with a quote from the Wall Street Journal: “We’ve never seen this level of side effects for any vaccine without the FDA taking action, Dr. Angelina Farella, pediatric medical director for America’s Frontline Doctors, said in a statement. The Rotavirus vaccine was pulled for 15 cases of non-lethal side effects and the Swine Flu vaccine was pulled for 25 deaths. But now, by the CDC’s own data, we are seeing a 12,000% increase in deaths with these vaccines and they’re still talking about giving this to our kids.” Dr. Farella went on to say that children are at zero risk for COVID-19. The data shows that the survivability rate for COVID-19 patients under the age of 20 is 99.997%. According to the CDC’s own medical and scientific data, in the last four months, more than 4000 deaths tied to COVID-19 vaccines were reported as opposed to 1500 deaths total in the previous ten years for all vaccines. I will add to that statement on my own initiative that some of those deaths linked to the vaccine have been of Olympic athletes in other countries, in other words, young healthy people. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, people are starting to look for answers about where the virus came from. We were told for a year that it came from bats in a Wuhan, China meat market and anyone who challenged that view was cancelled by Facebook, You Tube and the other tech giants. Now, suddenly even Tony Fauci is admitting maybe I was wrong about the origins of the virus. Maybe the virus did escape or was released from a Chinese bio-warfare lab after all. Dr. Fauci, in his statement, failed to add that Wuhan is a lab that he personally funded and worked with. President Biden canceled the investigation begun under Donald Trump which former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo was leading, but he ordered US intelligence agencies to redouble their efforts to determine the cause of the virus. I’m sure those agencies will be remarkedly successful in their investigation. Senator Rand Paul has been the leader of the movement in the senate to stop funding the Chinese virus research labs and is apparently having some success as his numerous death threats would indicate. Just speculating, but I suspect that the origin of the virus is the last thing Washington wants us little people to know. Our post virus world includes more than just news about the virus as anyone can see. A presidential election was held, and the virus even affected that. Joe Biden is now president and is, therefore, running the virus protocols. In addition to attempts at vaccinating everyone on planet earth, Mr. Biden’s more modest goal was to vaccinate 70% of Americans by the 4th of July. I predict that he will fall about 20% short of that goal, but I know there are incentives coming to get vaccinated. I predict a payment system for getting the vaccine will soon be instituted. If you have not had the vaccine, there must be a reason. Would $1000 make your fears of being vaccinated go away? California has set aside several million for such incentives. One other thing that has happened during the last 15 months is that crime, especially violent crime, has skyrocketed. Murder especially is off the charts due to the defund the police movement started in reaction to the death of George Floyd. Defunding the police, of course, was the exact opposite of what should have been done in order to give people in our cities maximum protection. Often people act against their own bet interests. There is a lot of new blood being spilled on the streets of our cities that is hard to explain any other way. In Chicago, for example, which as usual is the gold standard of murder, so far this year 1400 people have been shot and 261 are dead. Just this month with Memorial Day Weekend still to go 353 shot and 62 dead. This weekend should add at least another 10 to 15 bodies to the total. So, I suppose I should say congratulations to the defund the police movement and especially to Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago who apparently signals virtue to Black Lives Matter while her city dies, literally. In Minneapolis, where Mr. Floyd died, a large memorial was built to honor and remember him. I have not seen it but from pictures it appears to be a very large display. On the anniversary of his death many people gathered to celebrate the anniversary and apparently many of them decided to celebrate the occasion by shooting each other. In Portland, Antifa commemorated the anniversary of Mr. Floyd’s death by rioting, attacking police officers, vandalizing businesses, and burning much of the city. There was no one with the authority, or courage to stop them so why not. They tried to burn down the justice center as a reminder of last year when they tried the same thing, but again firefighters managed to extinguish the blaze before the building was totally ashes. Finally, folks. What is the greatest or most lamentable casualty of the virus? I suggest that it is the permanent presence of big brother in our lives. In other words, our freedom as Americans is at least partially gone. To replace them we have Big Brother, he is here for us perhaps permanently. At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.
14 minutes | May 21, 2021
The First 100 Days of Joe Biden
Darrell Castle talks about the first 100 days of the Biden Administration from the perspective of how things are going and what has been accomplished. Transcription/Notes THE FIRST 100 DAYS OF JOE BIDEN Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 21st of May 2021 and, on this Report, I will be talking about the first 100 days of the Biden Administration. These are the halcyon days for the administration, at least traditionally, and we should therefore take a look at how things are going and what has been accomplished. Things are going well for the Castle family as we start the transition away from a masked society to an unmasked one. So far so good for us here in the River City, but in California, the family daughter continues under the reign of Governor Gavin Newsome, but all things said we are all doing well. The first 100 days are traditionally a time of idyllic peace and goodwill for an incoming new president. The press does not question him too forcefully and he is allowed time to get his bearings and adapt to being emperor of the world. However, when a President signs 33 executive orders within one week of taking office, most on the first day, he has in my opinion, waived any right to favorable treatment he might otherwise have had. He has, essentially, converted himself from executive leader to chief legislator in one week. His actions were in violation of the Constitution so his first action after taking office was to violate his oath of office. I saw a meme the other day that sums up the Biden Presidency to date, “From energy independence for the first time in 50 years to gas shortages in 4 months. Quite an accomplishment.” Now, let’s let former President Trump put his two cents worth in: “I see everybody is comparing Joe Biden to Jimmy Carter. It would seem to me that is very unfair to Jimmy Carter. Jimmy mishandled crisis after crisis, but Biden has created crisis after crisis. First there was the Biden Border Crisis (that he refuses to call a crisis), then the Biden Economic Crisis, then the Biden Israel Crisis, and now the Biden Gas Crisis. Joe Biden has had the worst start of any President in United states history, and someday, they will compare future disasters to the Biden Administration—but no, Jimmy was better!” My guess is that a lot of Democrat politicians secretly see that quote and say that they hate him more when he is right. There is a lot of correct information in that quote if you leave out the references to Jimmy Carter, and the worst in history which is impossible to know or judge. Let’s look at some of the allegations one at a time and see if we can find any truth in any of them. The Biden Border Crisis seems to be virtually all Joe Biden’s fault or at least the fault of those puppet masters who manipulate the strings. Estimates are that more than 100,000 have crossed the border in the first 100 days. I would like to say they crossed illegally but the truth is that they were invited. I believe the first executive order that the new president signed was one completely opening the borders to anyone. That means to anyone from anywhere not matter what their intentions were upon entering this country. No one was permitted to inquire about those things. Tens of thousands of children without parents have crossed the border and thousands were being held in cages at the border until the Federal Government could find employees from the departments of Interior and Agriculture among others who would agree to take care of these children. Twenty state governors have told the administration that their states cannot take any more illegal immigrant children. What kind of country allows parents to send small children across a desert without any escort to try to find someone to take them into America. What kind of leader would allow that? I wonder if it has occurred to anyone besides me that the entire border disaster gives the lie to the idea that America is systematically racist and cannot be reformed because it is in white DNA, i.e., Critical Race Theory. A lot of Mexican people don’t seem to see that or at least they don’t mind. They are willing to cross deserts, endure hardships for months or years just for the opportunity to get here. The border invasion, invited by the Biden Administration, is a catastrophe of epic dimensions. How can you have a country if you are unable to decide for yourself who crosses your border and who doesn’t? If I want to be open and inviting to people in my home, I at least reserve the right to decide for myself who sleeps there.  Other than diluting Republican voters and adding more Democrat voters I don’t see why a man would so callously devalue his own country. Last Sunday, May 16th the New York Times reported that people from 160 different countries have been seen crossing the border from Mexico into the United States. It’s so irresponsible and uncaring it would be hard to overstate it. During the time when this crisis at the border has been happening the administration has refused to acknowledge it or refer to it as a crisis. Oh, the President did appoint Vice President Harris to handle it, but she has refused to even visit the place. I guess it might be a little rough and nasty for her sensibilities. Once again, the Democrats insist on being protected from the damage their policies cause. In fairness the Vice President agreed to “look into” what was causing all these people to want to leave Mexico as if poverty low wages, no opportunity versus a wonderful country with tremendous piles of free money was not obvious. Results from the border crisis, there is no border. The second crisis that we listed was the economic crisis. Here our President is caught on the horns of a dilemma. He is squarely in the middle of what the press during the Carter years referred to as the misery index. By that I mean the big three, interest rates, inflation, and unemployment all in double digits at the same time. Interest rates need to go up to chill inflation especially on critical items such as food and fuel, but the Federal Reserve cannot raise rates right now. Biden is doomed if he does and doomed if he doesn’t so the prospects look rather difficult and very bleak. Inflation is raging right now, and anyone can see it. Food and fuel are skyrocketing due to supply chain problems, energy production problems, and transport problems, but primarily to flooding the country with excess money. Also, to factors such as the virus and to insane environmental policies and Democrat grandstanding on pipelines. Inflation of fuel and food prices cannot be allowed to accelerate until food stamps will not buy enough to feed a family or the administration is risking violence and chaos. The way to kill inflation when it is running away is the way Paul Volker did it when he was Fed Chairman under Reagan. When he took office in 1981 inflation was at about 15% and by 1983, he had it down to 3%. He was able to accomplish that because he had the backing of Reagan and he was not afraid to be hated. He was hated by those who knew that it was going to cause pain to cure the disease caused by others, but to not endure the pain meant the death of the patient. He raised interest rates to 20% so that the housing industry dried up and unemployment ran above 10% for awhile and the economy sunk into temporary recession. The plan took about 3 years, but it worked, and it launched an economic boom that resulted in Reagan being reelected in a landslide. Right now, if the Fed, at the urging of the administration, raised interest rates to counter inflation it would put the government on shaky ground regarding debt service. According to the Office of Management and budget, this fiscal year’s spending is projected at $4.829 trillion of which $378 billion is debt service or 7.8% of the budget. That is without the trillions in new spending authorized by the administration and with interest rates at current near zero levels. To halt inflation as Paul Volker did by raising rates the rates would have to go up significantly until debt service ate most of or at least half of the budget. Instead, the administration will try to accomplish it by raising taxes at the same time they are pumping new money into the economy. The administration is on a dangerous knife edge balancing act that will be very difficult to come out of without disaster. The gas crisis takes us back to the meme about the transition from energy independence to gas lines. President Biden canceled the Keystone Pipeline with an executive order on his first day which was obviously to send a symbolic message. I suppose the message both symbolic and real was that we would reject energy independence in favor of foreign purchases. Never mind that the foreign purchases involve alliances with the Saudis and a constant military involvement in the ethnic Middle East Wars. Canceling the pipeline dooms the US to foreign dependence unless, of course, the utopian dreams of green energy materialize to save us. For the government officials elected to represent us to tell us that we must completely alter our way of life so that in 10 to 15 years we will all be electric hopefully falls on deaf ears. The recent ransomware attack on the Pipeline that services the East Coast sent much of the Eastern US into gas lines. The recent freighter that bottomed in the Suez Canal disrupted 12% of the world’s shipping. The lesson in all this is that energy and food supplies are fragile right now and bureaucratic blocks are what we don’t need. The bridge that spans the Mississippi River from my city of Memphis to the Arkansas side with Interstate 40 has been discovered to have a crack or fault in it, so it is closed. All cross-river traffic is diverted to the old bridge which causes massive traffic jams, and this will continue for months at least. Barge traffic was temporarily halted upriver and more than 1000 barges carrying materials from all over the world into the nation’s heartland stopped. The result is that people are becoming aware of rapidly increasing prices and panic is being seen just around the edges. In addition to disruptions in the supply chain, and the necessity to send troops into other peoples’ ethnic disputes the efforts to shut down American production costs 10’s of thousands of jobs. When told that those high paying jobs in the oil fields are being lost the new climate czar, John Kerry, reportedly said that they could work in the solar fields. An honest answer would have been that we don’t really care what happens to them, but we will create some computer blips and give them away so that everyone will vote Democrat because we are generous not like those tight-fisted Republicans. What about the end of the internal combustion engine the President keeps talking about? Are you in favor of that and do you own a Tesla or some other electric car? Well, neither do I and from what I understand those cars are of rather limited range which would serve to limit the mobility of Americans. First you tell us that we can’t fly but if we do, we have only limited destinations then you tell us not to drive but if we do the trip must be very short. In the meantime, you have your armored limousines, and your air force jets all funded by the labor of hard-working Americans. I hope that someday enough of us get sick of it to stop putting up with it. In conclusion, propaganda, Critical Race Theory, cancel culture, woke culture and other such idiocies are all subjects for another day. The issue of the deep divisions within American society so that we no longer are one people with a common purpose is all on the Obama Biden Administrations. They have not been content just to divide us, no, they could not rest until we all hated each other. My assessment of the first 100 days is a disaster of epic proportions. The legacies of Barack Obama and Joe Biden will be that they made the American people hate each other. With regard to President Biden he did it in only 100 days. Finally, folks, how could President Biden, make things worse than he already has? It would be a tough task, but I’ll wager he is up to it. He could start a war with Russia or China. That would certainly make things worse. At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.
12 minutes | May 14, 2021
Let’s Pay People Not to Work While Defunding the Police
Darrell Castle talks about a new report which seems to indicate that paying people not to work makes people not want to work and he makes the case that the entire philosophy of the Democrat economic plan and approach to government is flawed, leading to chaos and violence. Transcription/Notes: LET’S PAY PEOPLE NOT TO WORK WHILE DEFUNDING THE POLICE Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday, May 14th in the year of our Lord 2021 and I will be talking about, among other things related to the world according to woke, a new report which seems to indicate that paying people not to work makes people not want to work. This report will make the case that the entire philosophy of the Democrat economic plan is flawed and the entire Democrat approach to government is based on lies and will lead inevitably to chaos and violence. The Castle Family is doing just great this weekend as the state of Tennessee is scheduled to come off the mask mandate. Most people seem convinced that when the masks come off tomorrow the virus will be less infectious than it is today, so I sure hope that is the case. The family daughter has her husband back in Southern California and he seems to be adjusting quite well to his return to civilization. Not much seems to be going well for the President right now. He has been pushing his spending bills through Congress which hands him not billions but trillions to give away as relief for voters and to supposedly stimulate the nation’s economy, but it does not seem to be working. Let’s take a look at some of the reasons why it isn’t working and most likely will never work. There are basically two economic theories or philosophies if government intervention is accepted as the only way and right now that seems to be the case. The first is what Joe Biden’s administration is trying to use and that is to create massive amounts of new or fake money and force it into the economy by giving it away to those favored by the regime. Ordinarily that would create massive inflation because nothing is created with all that money except debt, so you have a lot of money in circulation but no new goods to buy with it. It works out to be the freshman economics formula for inflation, i.e., too many dollars chasing too few goods. To prevent the inflation from happening the government taxes the labor of those working to take money out of circulation. They make it and put it in, then take the people’s labor through tax. The second theory or philosophy of economics is virtually the opposite of the first. Money is not created and infused into the economy through various means. Instead, taxes are lowered on working people thereby putting more money in circulation. Taxes are also reduced on business allowing production to increase so that goods that people want to buy are made. It would take courage and a little faith to decrease taxes in the face of rising debt and deficits, but history has shown that doing so actually increases government revenue and lowers the deficit. Why does the government have to intervene in the economy at all? Shouldn’t the government just let the free market solve the various ups and downs through its relentless destruction and replacement? Yes, that is the correct answer, but it is far too late for that. Government insists that it is in control of everything and will solve every problem. The people, therefore, hold the government accountable for every problem that occurs. Why doesn’t the government do something to fix this is the common refrain.  I suppose we can blame 100 years of government schools for the ignorance of what government is constitutionally empowered to do. So, in that regard, the April jobs report shows some very troublesome signs. There were 266,000 jobs created but it takes 275,000 to break even. In addition, the President predicted that one million new jobs would be created in April, so his program is not working as he predicted. There were 473,000 new applications for unemployment benefits in April increasing the total of about 7 million unemployed but qualified to work meaning in good health and of working age, etc. Those people have more than likely discovered that when the government pays you more not to work than you would make working there is something very wrong, but you take advantage of it anyway. These economic numbers indicate problems of a fundamental nature, but they also tend to run together and cause one’s head to spin after awhile so let’s take a look at the second part of this failing Democrat program for America. I’ll start by asking the question how do you deal with crime if you are a Democrat politician? The kind and gentle way of course, by defunding the police. The result of defunding movements in the cities across America has been soaring rates of violent crime. Even in cities not defunding, the police and the criminals have the internet, so word gets around. Since it was until recently one of the world’s greatest cities, I will use my former favorite city of New York as an example.  Last weekend there was a shooting in Times Square in which three innocent bystanders were wounded including a 4-year-old girl. Since it was New York, and Times Square that news traveled around the world like a virus. International visits to the city stopped and finally politicians were forced to take a look at what their policies have caused. The New York Post has the story: “Unless New York has completely lost its mind, the shooting in Times Square that wounded three innocent bystanders, including a 4-year-old girl, will galvanize the mayoral race. The candidates, realizing the terrifying incident is going global because of the location, already are sharpening their language and promising more public safety. Even Mayor Putz, after denying the Saturday gunplay would hurt tourism, ordered a beefed-up-police presence. Those are encouraging signs, but they will not be enough to make the incident a lasting turning point. For that to happen, all New Yorkers must make their voices heard and turn up the heat on City Hall. If enough voters say Enough, and show they are mad as hell over the rising tide of crime and violence, then and only then will tough action follow the tough words. Otherwise, de Blasio and the candidates will soon give their attention to another shiny object. After all, remnants to the defund the police movement are still pressuring the mayor, city council and prosecutors to further handcuff cops and coddle criminals. If they succeed, the city would be doomed to further crime and decline. We can’t let that happen. Everyone who cares about New York needs to grasp the significance of how far the city has fallen so far and how close it is coming to a tipping point of reverting to the worst days of the early 1990’s.” Just keep voting for those Democrats folks, because only they can bring social justice to your city. By the way, what changed in 1993 that turned the city around and made it safe, Rudy Giuliani was elected mayor. Let’s look for a moment at some of the figures the Post reporter was talking about. Overall index crime in New York City rose 30.4% in April compared with April 2020, driven by a 66% increase in grand larceny and a 35.6% increase in felony assault. Robbery saw a 28.6% increase compared to April 2020 and shooting incidents increased 166.1%. Murder is up 17% this year and 32% over 2019, The Post says that if this isn’t an emergency then what would be? The Post continues with its devastating report. “Coming on top of the pandemic, the crime wave is adding to the belief the city is ungovernable and unlivable. It doesn’t have to be that way. Not if enough people seize the moment to demand common sense policy changes. This must be the time when public safety once again becomes the top priority of city and state government.” The Post Report continues but I will let it sit there. The same situation is occurring in Democrat cities across the country from New York to Chicago to Minneapolis, to New Orleans public safety is not the priority. If public safety is not the priority for public officials as their sworn duty requires, then what is the priority. That question brings us to the answer of why everything touched by Democrats in this country and by their ilk in other Western countries is irreparably broken. They are in rebellion against all things Western and all things that have traditionally been a part of Western Civilization including mathematics. Western Civilization teaches that the universe is governed by a set of fundamental beliefs or laws. If I said the laws of economics will prove the Democrat economic theories wrong, they would say no everything is just a matter of opinion and there are no fundamental laws. The rebellion is a lot more than simple opposition, however, because they want to destroy everything Western starting with our religion. In order to totally control people, take away their identity and destroy their commonality, first, you must destroy their religion. That’s right, these people are in rebellion against nature and nature’s God. They want us to believe that a man can be a woman just by thinking he is a woman. At the same time, they denigrate motherhood and females in general through refusing to acknowledge any difference between genders. They tell us that mothers should be referred to as birthing persons. Can you believe that or even read it without laughing? Maybe laughing at them is what we should do instead of electing them to public office. Thanks to Democrat politicians there is no more common purpose in America and there is no more common good. The only things that matter is what is good for my race, my gender, etc. They know that only violence can stop them and take back our cities, but they also know that state violence is reserved for Trump supporters. Their world believes that it has conquered, but it has yet to reign supreme through a mopping up campaign. When that is accomplished, an enlightened elite will manage the world using state power and violence to end poverty, war, and especially racial disparity, and we will live in a brave new world. Finally, folks, our enemies, do not seek knowledge or consensus through debate. They seek compliance by ending debate. You will comply and be absorbed, or you will be rendered a non-person by the tech giants, but the historic American nation is in resistance and fighting to survive. Grassroots people and state officials across Red State America are rejecting Critical Race Theory and struggling to regain their children. Perhaps a mainline political party should step up and endeavor to help them. At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.
13 minutes | May 7, 2021
Could We Be Reaching Peak Woke?
Darrell Castle talks about whether America is approaching peak woke and whether the pendulum is swinging back the other direction — could this be as bad as it gets or will we continue down the same road to our ultimate cultural and national destruction? Transcription / Notes: COULD WE BE REACHING PEAK WOKE? Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday the 7th day of May in this the year of our Lord 2021, and today I will be looking at the question of whether we are approaching peak woke. Could the pendulum be swinging back the other direction or said another way, could this be as bad as it gets or will we continue down the same road to our ultimate cultural and national destruction. This is Mothers’ Day weekend and in the Castle Family I celebrate my wife Joan who is the mother of the family daughter. Both Joan and I lost our mothers many years ago, so we celebrate her and the family daughter whose husband returns from over a year’s exile at the bottom of the world due to the virus, so a glorious weekend of celebration for the Castle Family. What do I mean by the word woke? A good example of woke for Mothers’ Day is that the woke term for mother is birthing person. That’s right folks I wish I were kidding but I’m afraid not. Woke is an ideology of race and identity which holds basically that American white people are all racist because it is imbedded in their DNA.  Often, they may not even be aware of it but that racism is the reason for the lack of success of non-whites when and if there is lack of success.  I defer to Paul Craig Roberts, “The Democrats, the media, the woke intellectuals, the universities, and the public schools are hard at work preparing our doom. The United States are now the Disunited States. The blue states believe in white guilt, critical race theory, systemic racism, identity politics, and that all products of Western Civilization, even mathematics, are symbols and devices of white supremacy. The red states do not have an understanding of the ideological assault that has been mounted against them.” Dr. Roberts has given us a very good definition of the problem that the word woke, and its proponents present to us. My theory today is that we may have turned the corner, or we are at least at the edge of the corner. I want to give you a couple of examples of how things were in a different time and how they have changed today. I recently read an article from a faculty member of one our finer universities and this professor said that it was common for university faculty to live in fear that they would say something that offended one of their students. When I was in college and later graduate school in the mid 70’s debate was encouraged not feared. The graduate classes were small, and students worked in classes of 7 or 8 students with the professor, sometimes even smaller. There was no punishment for disagreeing with and debating a professor, and the professor did not get fired if he challenged our beliefs. The idea was to challenge us intellectually in order that we might consider other views and ideas. I can remember one incident in a political science class that was more philosophy than politics the professor announced that he was a socialist. Today that would be normal and expected, but back then in East Tennessee, it was shocking. He told us that socialism was the best way and the only fair system. Since debate was encouraged, I said to him that since socialism was the best system, he could probably give us 8 or 10 places where it had been tried successfully. No, well then how about just 2 0r 3 places? OK then just give us one place, just one example of how it was tried successfully and where it made the lives of ordinary people better. Well, he said, the people who have tried it just didn’t do it correctly or else the CIA ruined their efforts. The point is that debate between professor and students was seen as a teaching method and a good thing rather than something to get a professor fired or a student banned from class. Maybe people are starting to rebel just a little against the domineering efforts of our woke leaders. Here in my state of Tennessee the House just passed a bill banning the teaching of critical race theory in the public schools. The bill doesn’t mention CRT directly, but it bans the key elements of the theory from being taught. The governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, lifted the state’s remaining COVID restrictions, freeing the Florida economy and the day-to-day activities of Florida citizens from government regulations that shut down most economies. Governor DeSantis has become a national spokesperson among conservatives who have seen the results of his policies. I remember a headline from the New York Post a couple of weeks ago, “New York is alive and doing well—in Palm Beach Florida.” People in New York grew tired of their Governor Andrew Cuomo and voted with their feet and their money. Governor Cuomo does not seem to grasp his own culpability in the nursing home deaths or the many accusations of sexual harassment and sexual assault against him, but he has heard the bankrupt business owners and the fleeing citizens. He has scheduled the 19th of May for the state to begin complete reopening, with Broadway at full capacity by September 14. Here in Tennessee, the governor has lifted the authority of mayors to order lockdowns and mask mandates and ordered the state to begin complete reopening May 15th. The Memphis Commercial Appeal, our very woke newspaper editorialized that the Governor’s order should not apply here. The legislatures in certain red states sense both overreach and weakness from the Biden/Harris administration and are moving to get out in front of his wave of executive orders and regulations. Georgia is not the only state to put voter ID in place and now many other states have joined Georgia with the very simple principle of voter I.D. It makes logical sense to most people that if you need an I.D. to buy a drink or fly on an airplane, it is not egregious to require it for voting. The New York Times, and the Washington Post do not see it that way and still call voter ID a restriction on voting. The Arizona legislature is currently conducting an audit of the 2020 election with many states to follow. The “victors” seem alarmed at the challenge of an election audit, but it has been commonplace in the past. More than a dozen states currently have nullified federal gun laws, or they are in the process of doing so. Those states are telling the federal government that they will not allow the overturning of the constitution by executive order. Time will tell us what the response of the federal officials will be to all this resistance, but the point is that resistance exists and it is growing. Where elections have been held people voted overwhelmingly to end woke socialist experiments in their communities. Even in Austin, the Berkeley of Texas, the measures were resoundingly defeated. Teaching of critical race theory was defeated 70% to 30% in Southlake Texas. The school officials referred to it as the school diversity plan, but voters saw it for what it really was. Southlake is an affluent suburb 30 miles from Dallas and voters from both sides referred to the vote as a fork in the road or a watershed moment for the divisions in Texas. In Austin, on May 1st, voters overruled the mayor and city council and approved proposition B which reinstates a public camping ban that was reversed by the council in July 2019. The vote was 57% to 43%. The lifting of the public camping ban resulted in homeless people camping in public parks, on sidewalks and in downtown areas. If you want to see the results of such policies just visit LA or San Francisco. The people of Austin decided that their city could still be saved from the violent crime, public drug abuse, public defecation etc. that have plagued California’s cities, and they revoked the permission to legally do those things. The group sponsoring the reinstating of the camping ban was called Save Austin Now and that group refused to give up until they managed to get the matter on the ballot, so some dedicated people do still care about their communities. Texas seems to be a hotspot as a result of the impact woke Democrat policies have had on that state. A dozen counties in Texas have declared states of emergency because of the worsening border crises. Arizona has similar conditions, and the governor is taking similar actions. The border states are under invasion from foreign nationals from who knows what countries, all invited by the Biden Administration. People are becoming alarmed but what can the states do to protect them?  The governors are the commanders of the state national guards and do not need federal permission to send them to the border. The real questions involve the rules of engagement for the guard and anyone else defending the border. If I were an officer in the Guard, I would want a written order including the rules of engagement for my unit. If the rules do not permit lethal force, then sending the guard is a meaningless gesture. The states could also form state militias as permitted by the constitution to defend their borders since the federal authorities will do nothing to defend them but then the same rules of engagement problem exist. The administration has started to experience a little pushback on things that obviously do not make logical sense. For example, to tell people there is no crises at the border is too ridiculous even for Democrat politicians to accept and even they have started demanding answers. Unfortunately, there is apparently no one in the Administration with enough intelligence to even make up a believable lie about what they are doing. That leaves them in the role of Bagdad Bob who famously responded to the American tanks by saying on American TV, you are not seeing this. There is a feeling in the air that the virus and its problems are over and done with. I see it each day on the faces of people in the gym and people as they pass through my office. We are still required to wear masks to enter any place of business in Memphis, but that is supposed to be lifted a week from tomorrow. Will the virus be any less contagious then than now? When I raise questions about the virus and the response to it no one can answer or at least no one will answer because the answers do not make logical sense. In conclusion, we are a nation with a history of freedom where people are free to think whatever they want to think, but suddenly that concept is doubted. Virtually all the people I talk to say they want it that way but in some areas of the country many people believe that those who do not think as they do should be held accountable. That means you will comply, or you will not work, and you will be banished from the public eye. Perhaps that is why people are fleeing from those areas, but some people seem too distracted to notice. Finally, folks. Are we at peak woke? Certainly not everywhere because the vision of the Biden Administration however sinister plays well in the highly populated cities of both coasts, but just step one foot into RedState America and you will see that people are starting to figure it out, and it has probably reached its peak with them. At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.
14 minutes | Apr 30, 2021
I Live in An Occupied Country
Darrell Castle talks about his perception right now that he lives in a country occupied by a foreign and hostile force — not a foreign nation, but a foreign ideology that is foreign to everything he holds dear and everything he has believed all his life; a foreign and hostile ideology that occupies the halls of power, of education, of business and of entertainment. Transcript/Notes: I LIVE IN AN OCCUPIED COUNTRY Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday the 30th day of April in the year of our Lord 2021. I will be talking about how my perception right now is as if I live in a country occupied by a foreign and hostile force. I don’t mean a foreign nation but a foreign ideology that is foreign to everything I hold dear and everything I have believed in throughout my life. Yes, a foreign and hostile ideology occupies the halls of power, of education, of business, and of entertainment. Today is the last Friday and the last day of April and temperatures are starting to heat up here in the River City. Yesterday the temperature was in the mid 80’s and the Castle family roses are responding with their beauty coming out for our enjoyment. We are fine and in good health now just rolling with the punches as is the family daughter out in the land of California. Speaking of living in an occupied country, many people in 1940 thought that the French army was superior to the Germans because of the vast numbers of men and tanks, but all those people turned out to be wrong. It took the Germans about four weeks to conquer France and occupy Paris. The older French people who had sacrificed so much in the previous war cried, the young men were in uniform or in the resistance, as were many of the young women. They all had a common hope, however, and that hope rested in the hundreds of thousands of young men willing to risk their lives to rescue them and their nation. We have no such hope today and that is the sad part of this story. There are no American and British soldiers coming to our rescue. That is why the resistance to our occupiers is so important just as the French Resistance was important to the Allied war effort. To have a proper understanding of the world especially the technologically advanced world of today, a nation must have an educated class of people. For example, when Otto von Bismarck led Germany in its defeat of France in the Franco Prussian war of 1870, he thanked the German schoolteachers. The Nazis took control of the schools to make sure that only Nazi propaganda was taught to the young French Children. Today, in America, a foreign ideology has complete control of education, or what is left of it, from kindergarten through university. They have left in their wake a human catastrophe of lost potential and societal destruction. Young people who endure even 12 years of stultifying politically correct propaganda are handicapped for life by the decisions of the new occupying ideology that now runs American education. Many people say that American education is a failure since it ranks near the bottom of the industrialized world, but my view is that it is a spectacular success. The schools in America are doing and doing well the job they are intended to do and that is to turn out more grist for the mill that is the godless, atheistic new world ideology that has won the war for the soul of America. The enemy responds by saying that all the problems that it has created are easily explained by systemic racism. The way that works is to attempt to convince normal that they carry some type of original racism sin in their DNA. Since normal people are systemically racist without knowing it, the system must be gamed to counter that unknown gene. The result of it all is a hostile, divided nation that can accomplish nothing except to march along to the drumbeat of the new pied piper taking us nearer the falls each day. The people who control all this are so incredibly despicable that it would be hard to overstate it. They, and their educational system are destroying generations of people who are the future for all of us. The primary educational major for millions of inner-city kids right now is prison and welfare. Those two things are obviously the standard that our conquerors have convinced us to accept while blaming it all on the uncontrollable systemic racism of normal people. What answer does our occupying army require of us when we see the prisons full of their educational efforts? Open the doors of course because they must be there because of systemic racism. First you go around the country in all the major cities and you elect, with George Soros money, district attorneys who will refuse to prosecute certain crimes and who will open the prison doors for the others. The result is a horror show of murder and violent crime in every major city in America. When our overlords see the results of their policies they don’t care. They see hundreds of young black men killing each other in the streets of our cities and if there is no policing to stop it, they don’t care. They know they are sacrificing the lives of hundreds perhaps thousands of their own people and they don’t care. I suppose they look at it as collateral damage in their war effort. They fight a war not to improve and make life better, but to destroy civilization itself. What will replace the civilization they, through their self-induced chaos, violence, bloodshed, and hatred, destroyed? I suppose we will have to wait and see although they show us glimpses of it from time to time. Even the best, most elite prep schools where the children of the occupiers are sent for Marxist indoctrination often send them into the world ignorant but indoctrinated. If they have the politically correct opinions about everything important that is enough because after all, the intelligence is in the machine, not in the head. Political correctness is the lever used to pry open the lock box that once held our civilization. Cancel culture is one result but it is just the tip of the iceberg. The lie that everything is based on systemic racism is being used to destroy this civilization. No one will dare speak out and no one will dare resist because the army of occupation has total power and control. They have even managed to destroy and divide the once sacrosanct American family, like the old Civil War brother against brother theme. That is enough about the ruination and destruction of a once proud educational system. I speak for a moment now about something far less important but still an integral part of American life and that is entertainment. I would suspect that very few of the French people went to see the Nazi propaganda films showing in Paris theaters.  Did you watch the Oscars last Sunday night? Neither did I and neither did anyone else relatively speaking. The ratings were down 58% over last year with less than 10 million worldwide watching. That was the lowest rating in history. I guess the attitude is, we know you control everything, but that doesn’t mean we have to assist you. Piers Morgan wrote about it for me: “The tragic truth is that the Oscars as we know it died last night—woked to death by a craven collective desire from those involved to preach not entertain, to lecture rather than make us laugh, and to virtue-signal instead of perform.” John Nolte of Brietbart News put it like this: “The woketard stink is all over everything related to Hollywood and an overall entertainment industry that has made it stridently clear that its long history of entertaining the masses is over. It is no longer about putting on a good show. Instead, we will be lectured and shamed by elite a–holes who think they are too important to sing, dance and make us laugh.” Who would want to watch these people? Those who live and work in Los Angeles must stumble over thousands of homeless sleeping in the streets, pay outrageous state taxes, and unaffordable housing, as a direct result of the insane policies of the occupying army that controls California. People finally get a day off from the stress of work and that is what you roll out to entertain them, no thanks. Mr. Nolte again: “The unearned arrogance is bad enough, but you can also sense just how much Woke Hollywood hates its own audience, how much they hate everyday people. This hate just pours out of them, every word and look. These idiots might not have much talent, charisma, or smarts, but they do carry an awful lot of hostility.” Professional sports are no less pontificating and arrogant. Gone are the days when the high school kid you went to class with grew up to be a big-league ball player. Now we are faced with multi billionaire owners and deca millionaire players who seem to feel the same way about normal people that the Hollywood celebrities do. People are turning them off by the millions as ratings plumet. Speaking for myself as a lifelong sports fan I don’t care how players vote or how they think, I just don’t want it rubbed in my face every time I watch so I no longer watch. I am not going to pay to be insulted anymore and my guess is that many feel the same way. I consider my nonattendance and non-viewing as the voice of resistance. So, an occupying force has destroyed education and entertainment, what about politics. I’m glad you asked. Most people can see that with $28 trillion of debt and climbing there is a day of reckoning coming. The philosophy in Washington seems to be grab, buy, steal, and spend as much as you possibly can before the whole thing collapses. When it does collapse, we favored ones, we occupiers, will be just fine. The Biden $1.8 trillion tax grab bill being presently presented includes $511 billion for education including universal preschool for 3- and 4-year old’s and free community college. I am sorry for the families too ignorant or too poor to keep from delivering their 3 and 4 four years into enemy hands. I could go on and on about this bill which will only serve to take a once great nation faster down the road to ruin. Let us now provide $511 billion more for the further destruction of our children. This occupying army, this alien ideology, that I have been talking about is very clever in its methods. It acquires millions if not billions of fake federal reserve computer blips courtesy of the Biden administration, but it also solicits and accepts foreign donations from hostile governments and from hostile individuals such as George Soros, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and the like. The clever part comes in their ability to capture the involuntary hostile rage that lives within people due primarily to the conditions under which they live, conditions caused by the very people who seek to control and use them. That involuntary rage, when collectively harnessed is a very powerful force and when met with no resistance will expand into destructive chaos very quickly. That force is being used to convince a lot of black people that they are the victims of a system that will not let them achieve and which hunts and kills them on the streets. Black Lives Matter and Antifa both perpetuate that myth. The leaders of those groups know it is a myth. It is mythical and as evidence I point to the hypocrisy of the BLM leader purchasing more than one multimillion-dollar home in  LA in a neighborhood less than 2% black and spending $26,000 at a Malibu Night Club. For self-confessed Marxists they seem to enjoy the benefits of capitalism. They must know that with their anti-police attitude and ghetto warrior, don’t come into my hood attitude, they will be a destructive force in black communities. That destructive force will do far more harm than good and is costing the lives of thousands of mostly young, mostly black people. The leadership of those groups does not care nor do the white politicians who egg them on. Why don’t they care? How could they possibly not care about the obvious destruction they are causing. Their cause is not to help or to heal, but to destroy and that is why they don’t care. They are out to destroy the very civilization that made it all possible. They are aided by foreign enemies but primarily it is all driven by a foreign occupying force. That force does not care about this country or its people, and in fact it hates them. None of this would be possible if the occupied still had the Christian faith along with Christian morality so that was destroyed a long time ago. The people groan under the weight of oppression and they don’t even know what is causing it. Finally, folks. How does totalitarianism gain control of a free people? Lie by lie, give in by give in, acceptance by acceptance, before you know it you are in it and everything you know is part of it. Imperceptively, it becomes your reality so that others are deviants, deniers, anti-vaxxers, super spreaders, and Nazis. Many are prisoners inside their minds, but will they ever be free? Time will tell. At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.
12 minutes | Apr 23, 2021
Americans Are Seeing Two Different Movies
Darrell Castle has been an attorney for over 40 years and talks today about the trial and verdict of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd. He does not question the verdict but rather the reaching of the verdict in advance of the trial as the American legal system is based on the idea that one is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. AMERICANS ARE SEEING TWO DIFFERENT MOVIES Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday the 23rd day of April in this the year of our Lord 2021. I will be talking about the trial and verdict of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd. I do not question the verdict, but I question the deciding of the verdict in advance of the trial. In America, the system is based on the idea that one is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Why bother with a trial if we already know the verdict? The Castle family is doing well health wise on this Friday as we continue to enjoy spring. It has been a little chilly this week in the river city with lows in the 30’s but as a famous Russian once said, how can you enjoy summer without winter to give it sweetness. The family daughter is holding up as best one can in the city of angels. The system that I have spent my life believing in and trusting in now seems to be getting more irrational and delusional each day. Throughout my educational life I was taught that the criminal justice system was a search for truth and therein justice would be found, and when found, justice was blind. It was to operate by a system of rules that were sacrosanct and was to be as free of outside bias as it is possible to make it. The process is to be protected as more important than the outcome. The questions for the Minneapolis jury to decide were basically did Chauvin actually cause George Floyd’s death or was there some other cause, and if he did cause it, did he do it while committing a felony offense with force. The media, however, had a far different agenda which was unfortunately joined by various politicians up to and including the President of the United States, more than one member of congress, the Governor of Minnesota, and the Minnesota Attorney General. The motives of those people are personal to each of them, but the result was to take the final result out of the hands of the jury. I guess they do not trust the jury system, so they had to help it decide. The interjection of those people into what would normally be a local case as well as the media’s determination to turn it into a national one caused a great deal of damage in the case but more importantly damage to the system of justice itself. We are now left with questions such as, was the verdict just, given the facts or was the jury influenced by the threat of cities burning across America, and by politicians calls for violent confrontation, etc. The headlines of the Memphis Commercial Appeal yesterday read “Justice Prevailed.” That implies that if the jury had reached a different verdict, then justice would not have prevailed which means that the verdict was already decided in advance because no other verdict would be justice. That is a very dangerous way to treat the criminal justice system. Today you may have the media and politicians on your side so you can intimidate the results in your favor, but tomorrow it might be a different majority and a different result. What the politicians did was leave open a clear avenue of appeal which probably should have resulted in a mistrial or dismissal. To say during trial with a non-sequestered jury, that Floyd’s death was murder in the full light of day, and it ripped the blinders off our society, is influencing and intimidating a jury. When Maxine Waters came to town and urged more violent confrontation and a guilty verdict, the judge should have declared a mistrial or dismissed the charges. Instead, he admonished her for “abhorrent” calls to violence in...
13 minutes | Apr 16, 2021
MISJUDGING RUSSIA AGAIN
Darrell Castle talks about foreign policy especially Russia, since Washington is once again rattling the sabers, threatening, and bullying those abroad. Transcription / Notes: MISJUDGING RUSSIA AGAIN Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday, the 16th day of April in the year of our Lord 2021 and in this report, I will focus on foreign policy especially Russia, since Washington is once again rattling the sabers, threatening, and bullying those abroad. China and Iran are also problems, but I will save those problems for another day. I recommend my Castle Report of August 23, 2015 entitled The Mind of Russia, as a good background for this Report. You can find that by going to castlereport.us Index. The Castle Family is doing just fine right now living the good life here in the southern spring far from the virus. There is no illness in this family that we know of not even in Los Angeles. I will admit to encouraging my family to be careful and proceed with caution during this time since both Joan and I are past the age of 65. Overly cautious perhaps, but as family leader I thought it best and so far, so good. Joan and I were riding to work in her car on Wednesday of this week when I asked her why logic and truth did not seem to matter anymore. She was stumped by my question, but we continued to debate it with me giving her one example after another of how illogical the premise of this society seems to be. Just from a foreign policy standpoint I question whether anyone in government cares about what is best for America and the American people. Whether the subject is virus or Russia, the decisions lack logic, truth, and even common sense. The leaders of other countries appear to act in their own best interest, so why can’t our leaders do that for us? I suppose it makes more sense to them to concentrate on how diverse the cabinet is than to worry about destruction of the currency, offshoring of manufacturing jobs, and such mundane things. Why isn’t the United States working with the Russians to create an alliance to contain Chinese Communist expansion, instead of stupidly placing sanctions on virtually all Russian production? Maybe because Washington developed an attitude after the fall of the Soviet Union that Russia is no longer a great nation to be respected. So, Russia and Russians get sanctioned because when you control the world’s financial system you can do that, but it is just a passive act of war. It also allows the Chinese Communists to paint us with moral equivalence which is a lie that Biden apparently doesn’t have the ability to refute. The United States no longer honors the Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia and so it feels free to move rather short-range missiles to the borders of Russia. What difference does it make where the missiles are located since the US submarine launched ICBMs could hit any target in Russia within about 15 minutes? The answer is that the intermediate range missiles do not give 15 minutes of warning and in theory could annihilate Russian nuclear capability before they could retaliate. That makes Russians nervous and constantly on guard.  The Biden Administration seems to be courting disaster around the world, and does not appear to be concerned about a military confrontation in Russia’s backyard. That attitude is stupid, and reckless, especially since the ability to back it up is questionable. Would Joe Biden or whoever runs that administration be willing to take the United States to the edge of war with nuclear armed Russia over Ukraine? The answer appears to be yes although when Russia threatened to close the Black Sea the two American warships patrolling there were withdrawn. It is better to pick your battles and stand firm than to bluster then back down. The United States is reportedly considering membership in NATO for Ukraine. That would be the stupidest foreign policy decision since Hitler invaded Russia.
14 minutes | Apr 9, 2021
Big Tech + Big Media + Big Government = A Society Destroyed By Experts
Darrell Castle talks about the shocking levels of lies upon which almost everything presently seems to be based. The government seems to be using private companies to outsource its lies so that it’s hard to tell the difference. Transcription / Notes: Big Tech + Big Media +Big Government = A Society Destroyed By Experts Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is the 9th day of April in this the year of our Lord 2021. Today I will be talking about the shocking levels of lies upon which almost everything presently seems to be based. Previously only the government was the brunt of jokes about liars such as how do you know they are lying; their lips are moving. Now the government seems to be using private companies to outsource its lies so that it’s hard to tell the difference anymore. The Castle Family is doing fine and enjoying this beautiful spring weather with its flowers and everything green. No virus in this family that we know of and for that we are grateful. I suppose its spring in Los Angeles as well or so the family daughter tells us. In my opening paragraph I mentioned that the government seems to be outsourcing its lies to private liars, but that doesn’t tell the whole story. My theory is that this government, in conjunction with big tech and big media, wants to take actions against the American people that are so egregious and unconstitutional that even Americans might wake up and object. To avoid such objection and to hide behind a corporate veil government gets through persuasion or profit, corporations to do its dirty work. They always cite their experts as reasons why us peons are supposed to just shut up and listen to the science. For example, earlier this week Dr. Fauci announced that the federal government would not require or mandate vaccine passports. That statement is disingenuous and a good example of outsourcing because we know that President Biden is working privately with tech companies to develop a vaccine passport via a  cell phone app. The government would not have to unconstitutionally order it because private business would do it for them. You want to get on this airplane, where’s your app. You want to shop here, rent a car here, or get medical treatment here, where’s your app. Sometimes the federal government even uses private business to attack state laws it considers unacceptable, Georgia for example. It seems that down in Georgia the legislature looked at their election laws and decided they could do better. The new law requires voter identification which seems like a very good idea to me. We need an ID for almost everything these days to prove that we are who we say we are, and we haven’t stolen someone’s identity. The new Georgia law is far less restrictive than the election laws in both New York and Delaware which is President Biden’s home state. Georgia has longer early voting, absentee voting without requiring an excuse etc. but the other states do not have such liberal provisions. Nevertheless, the President and many others chose to use it to make partisan political points. To put it bluntly, they lied through their teeth to advance their own political ideology unfazed by the damage their lies caused. The President can’t be given a pass because of his dementia since his lying about Georgia continues unabated even in his lucid moments. He recommended that Major League Baseball move its all-star game out of Atlanta which it did, moving it to Denver. That move cost the state of Georgia an estimated $100 million. Given that Atlanta is more than 50% black and Denver is only about 9.5% black that move had a disproportionate impact on black people. He also at least implied that the Masters Golf Tournament should be moved out of Augusta where it has been played for 87 years, but the tournament said no thanks. Apparently to President Biden requiring people to submit some form of ID with an absentee ballot instead of just a signature is so evil its worse that the Jim Crow laws. He compared it to apartheid which I suppose reflects the Democrat view that black people are incapable of obtaining an ID. They are incapable of showing an ID to get an absentee ballot just as they do when voting in person. Florida Senator Marco Rubio wrote a letter to the Commissioner of baseball, Rob Manfred concerning his decision to move the game which I must share with you in its entirety. “I write to ask you whether you intend to maintain your membership at Augusta National Golf Club. As you are well aware, the exclusive members-only club is located in the State of Georgia. Last week, you “decided that the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport is by relocating this year’s All-Stare Game” from Atlanta because of Georgia’s revised election law. It is a decision that will have a bigger impact on countless small and minority owned business in and around Atlanta, than the new election law ever will. And one that reeks of hypocrisy. Will Major League Baseball now end its engagement with nations that do not hold elections at all like China and Cuba? Will you end your lucrative financial relationship with Tencent, a company with deep ties to the Communist Party and actively helps the Chinese Government hunt down and silence political dissidents? Since Major League Baseball now appears eager to use its platform to demonstrate unwavering support for fundamental human rights, will you cease your relationship with the Chinese Government, which at this very moment is committing genocide against the Uyghurs Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR)? I am of course, under no expectation any of this will happen. Taking the All-Star Game out of Georgia is an easy way to signal virtues without significant financial fallout. But speaking out against the Chinese Communist Party would involve a significant loss of revenue and being closed out of a lucrative market. In the end, as a citizen of a free nation, you, and Major League Baseball, have the right to speak out against laws in the U.S. you disagree with, even if it is on the basis of false information. What would be truly bold, however, is if you would speak out on behalf of the voiceless who face arbitrary imprisonment, forced sterilization, coerced abortions, rape, and other horrific acts at the hands of one of your business partners. I am under no illusion that Major League Baseball will sacrifice business revenue on behalf of its alleged corporate values. Similarly, I am under no illusion you intend to resign as a member from Augusta National Golf Club. To do so would require a personal sacrifice, as opposed to the woke corporate virtue signaling of moving the All-Star Game from Atlanta.” Well, thank you Senator Rubio for that eloquent put down of this lying corporate Schlll. It is indeed uplifting to see someone in a position of leadership who has the courage to point out the obvious to those too blind to see. You may say, who cares what Major League Baseball does, but this game and the lying propaganda surrounding it are symbols of one of the primary wrongs in modern society. The wrong that must be corrected is not who gets the All-Star Game, but whether truth still has meaning. I continue to hear many sports announcers following the lying script for their listeners as if the story were true. The truth seems to be, however, that they don’t care if the story is true or not as long as it advances the political agenda one more notch. When I mentioned earlier that the federal government is outsourcing its lies to private industry that is especially true for today’s corporate media. The refusal to cover the story of Hunter Biden’s laptop which contained emails revealing the cosey and very lucrative relationship between the Communist Chinese and the Biden family is but one example. The media is very selective in which stories it chooses to cover but if one can’t be found to support the preferred narrative that particular network, publication, etc. will simply create one that fits. The best example of this is the interview of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis by 60 minutes on CBS News. It seems that 60 Minutes was so anxious to present a scenario in which the Florida, no lockdown, no mask requirement was dangerous and since the Governor did not give it any credence, they simply edited his words to make him say only what they preferred that he say. He was not amused and held a press conference to explain what happened. “They cut out everything that showed that their narrative was a piece of horse manure. And it shows you how dishonest—these are smear merchants. That’s why no one trusts corporate media. They are a disaster in what they are doing. They knew what they were doing was a lie. They know that we know they are lying, and yet they continue to lie. And they lied, and they lied, and they lied. We offered them the information and they declined to interview the key people they didn’t want to let go of the narrative. Well, guess what? There’s gonna be consequences for that. I know corporate media thinks that they can just run over people. You ain’t running over this governor. I’m punching back.” Thank you, governor well said and thank, you for having the guts and determination to stand for truth. Why don’t we look at New York City by comparison to anywhere in Florida? The headline of the New York Post of April 7, 2021 reads Bell Tolls For NYC. The article points out that this time it is different for New York in that the decline might be permanent because of many factors. Not the least of those factors is the abominable leadership of Governor Cuomo and Mayor Bill DeBlasio. In New York the budget for this year is $212 billion with $4 billion in new taxes while businesses and residents are fleeing the state and the city in droves. By contrast Florida has 2 million more people but will get by on $97 billion this year. Due to excessive taxation, lockdowns, and generally treating any business or resident as a farmer treats his milk cattle, many in Florida are in favor of awarding Cuomo and DeBlasio dual employees of the month for Florida. People in New York are afraid, the article points out. Murder up 45% last year and is up 13.5% over that this year. The Post asks the question, what business would want to come here now? Why would existing ones want to stay and pay this horrendous tax rate? The answer is no, no, no, and hell no we have given up on New York. Albany’s answer to the crime wave, put more handcuffs on cops. Turn just about every criminal suspect loose, empty the prisons and raise taxes, and let’s give $2.1 billion to illegal immigrants. That information was from an article in last Wednesday’s New York Post which unlike the Times is still willing to occasionally tell the truth and doesn’t seem interested in serving as an outsource for federal lies and unconstitutional actions. The Post article went on to say that quality of life is plummeting in New York while taxes are rocketing upward. The city faces a devasting future. Well not so in Florida folks. That state is doing just fine coming back from the virus and resisting attempts to turn it into New York despite the lies of CBS News. New York is a sad story though, because it was the greatest city in the world just a couple of years ago. Finally, folks Major League Baseball, a once great American institution and tradition, and New York City a once great American City have now fallen to cowardly corporate, media, government, wokeness. What’s the difference between the three? One of them has people with guns who can lock you away in a hole for a long time, and of course, they have their experts to explain it all. At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.  Reply  Reply All  Forward
12 minutes | Apr 2, 2021
Vaccine Passports – Keeping Us Safe or the End of Human Liberty?
Darrell Castle talks about the ever-growing likelihood of nationwide internal passports being imposed on the once free American People. Transcription / Notes: Vaccine Passports – Keeping Us Safe or the End of Human Liberty? Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday, Good Friday as a matter of fact, April 2nd in the year of our Lord 2021. Since this is Good Friday, then this Sunday is Easter, the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Today, I will be talking about the ever-growing likelihood of nationwide internal passports being imposed on the once free American People. The Castle Family is doing fine this Easter weekend as Joan and I will attend the sunrise service at our church Sunday morning. He lives, we believe, and since he does, we can face tomorrow and the growing Stalinist threat of the new government commonly known as the Biden administration. The family daughter will celebrate Easter in her own fashion in her adopted home of Los Angeles, California. Technological innovation is evident everywhere today, but sometimes progress goes in reverse. When that happens, we forget things like what made us free and prosperous. Sometimes technology inhibits progress and then we become willing to trade our birthright of liberty for a mess of porridge. For example, the New York Governor is implementing the hated cold war, Stalinist, internal passport that prevents freedom of movement within the state of New York. The Biden Administration is contracting with private companies to create a nationwide internal passport system. What do I mean by internal passport? You will need a form of passport like a passport to visit foreign countries, just to travel within the United States. Private firms are obviously being used to distance the administration from the publicity and to avoid constitutional issues.  Just as government has long used the tech companies as fronts for the denial of free speech and to enact their censorship and propaganda programs it now will use private firms to prevent freedom of movement within the United States. This is not a theory because it is happening right now. I was introduced to a very simple version yesterday when I received via email, instructions for attending the New York Yankees home opener at Yankee stadium. Arrive early because there will be long lines the email read and no one without proof of both vaccinations or a negative test within the proscribed time period will be admitted. That kind of thing is just the beginning. But it must be stopped and resisted with everything we have. It doesn’t matter what you think about the vaccines because that is not the issue. The issue is the acclimatizing of people to the idea that to participate in society they need to comply with government mandates, and obtain government permission. That will create a caste system which we are required to welcome here in America. Naomi Wolf, interviewed on “The Next Revolution” with Steve Hilton puts it like this: “I am not overstating this. I can’t say it forcefully enough. This is literally the end of human liberty in the West if this plan unfolds as planned. Vaccine passports sound like a fine thing if you don’t understand what these platforms can do…It’s not about the vaccine. It’s not about the virus. It’s about your data. And once this rolls out you don’t have a choice about being part of the system. What people have to understand is that any other functionality can be loaded onto that platform with no problem at all. What that means is that it can be merged with your PayPal account. With your digital currency, Microsoft is already talking about merging it with payment plans. Your networks can be sucked up. It geolocates you wherever you go. Your credit history can be included. All your medical history can be included.” Naomi is not the only prominent person sounding the alarm about what is being installed. Marjorie Taylor Greene Republican from Georgia, speaking from the House floor on Wednesday afternoon said, “Perhaps more troubling than the ruling class telling Americans they must receive a vaccine in order to participate in normal life is the prospect of government colluding with monopolistic corporations to accrue private health data from American citizens and restrict their lives accordingly.” She went on to say that a vaccine passport is “Biden’s Mark of the Beast” and that any company that requires one is engaging in “corporate communism.” Vaccine passports would mandate your ability to be able to travel, your ability to be able to go to events, your ability to be able to buy and sell, under the guise to trying to keep everyone safe. I would say that the better term is fascism whereby government controls and taxes corporations which then do government’s will. Benito Mussolini put it like this, “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” The Washington Post intending to serve as the government’s representative reports that, “the White House is moving to soothe privacy and equity concerns about the development and deployment of so-called Vaccine passports that would enable the bearer to prove they’ve been inoculated against the Coronavirus.” The way the Post describes the government’s intentions is that they want to strike a balance by declaring the private sector will lead the effort to design the certificates while promising federal oversight to ensure that citizens are treated fairly. A White House advisor says that he knows it’s a tricky subject, but he is certain that people who have been vaccinated will want to demonstrate that vaccination in various forms. My personal view and my opinion of the Post’s and the advisor’s comments is that their words are gobbledygook at best and complete horse manure at worst. The government is joining with the corporate world because it wants to hide behind the corporate veil while it savages the constitution at will. The Silicon Valley tech giants are used to this approach because they have been helping the government savage the constitution for a couple of decades now. These companies, with the full cooperation of each succeeding administration, operate as the authoritarian gatekeepers of information and communication. They entwine themselves into our lives to such an extent that we come to believe that we can’t exist without them. They suppress information that doesn’t assist their preferred political candidate or political ideology. They de-platform all voices that do not compliantly accept the ruling elite position on each issue of the day. At least its not the government, people will say, so private companies can do what they want. That’s nonsense as well because authoritarian rule by gigantic companies controlled by government is a definite threat to the liberty of all and it must be stopped. Remember that right now the government is handing over the reigns of your liberty to selected private corporations.  We are now in the earliest stages of this or in Doug Casey’s words we are in the eye of the hurricane. If we allow this project to go forward uncontested, then we will have surrendered control over our own private lives forever. The privacy concerns cannot be overstated. You will be required to have a cell phone app, which will be provided free by the federal government which of course is just corporate welfare by another name, You will be required to have that app available for inspection wherever you go. Every time you are scanned it will create a digital record of your presence. It will allow the downloading of all information about you from what sites you visit to the most intimate details of your life. You will no longer be a sovereign individual, instead you will have allowed yourself to be converted into a wholly owned subsidiary of the all-powerful state. Mask-mandates and lockdowns on the local level for the most part are just local politicians trying to use best efforts and follow their leaders’ instructions to serve their people. On the highest level they are, at their core, about government expanding power and giving the most control=obsessed, power mad, lying hypocrites among the human population the self-righteous ability to dictate the behavior of everyone else. Fortunately, there are some resistors to the idea of vaccine passports. Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis held a press conference to announce that he would be taking executive action to prohibit vaccine passports in the state of Florida. “We are not supporting doing any vaccine passports in the state of Florida. We want it available for all but mandated for none. We will not have COVID vaccines mandatory in Florida.” DeSantis has resisted federal mandates in Florida since the virus protocols began. Now, he resists the Orwellian concept of internal passport concocted by what passes for the Biden Administration. The governor said “It’s completely unacceptable, you want to go to a movie theater, should you have to show that? No. You want to go to a game or a theme park? No, we’re not supportive of that.” Earlier this week I watched a video interview with Edward Snowden from his hideout in Russia. Mr. Snowden talked about how easy it would be for hackers both government and private to hack into cell phones and gather information or plant information. There are companies protected by the governments of the world, designed to gather information on or from any person or group that government sees as problematic Mr. Snowden said. Remember what Orwell told us about politics back in 1948, Politics is simple. The acquisition and retention of power. How can I acquire more power and how can I retain the power I have? For the politician to gain more power two conditions are needed. The people over whom we exercise power must be divided. The second condition is that the people must fear some outside threat. If these two conditions exist, people will give their leaders latitude in how they are governed and controlled. I will add to Mr. Orwell’s words that governments constantly work to make sure those two conditions always exist. People must be focused by their leaders on something other than the fact that their leaders are stealing their property and their liberty. The few spread fear, anxiety, and terror to the many. The many believe them and offer their blood and treasure in exchange for leadership and guidance out of the fear and into some promised land at which they never arrive. Finally, folks, governments are made up of some of the most despicable people on this earth. Not just our government but all of them, but this is Easter, and it is about Jesus not the government. Happy Easter folks, I hope you can enjoy it with your families. At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.
12 minutes | Mar 26, 2021
Geopolitical Disaster
Darrell Castle talks about how the foreign policy of the Biden administration, in its first two months, has been a geopolitical disaster. Transcription / Notes GEOPOLITICAL DISASTER Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday the 26th day of March in this the year of our Lord 2021, and on this Report, I will be talking about how a few foreign policy blunders have exposed what passes for the Biden Administration to the whole world as the aged dementia patient with old, unrealistic expectations that it is. Another possible title for this report might be America as laughingstock for the world especially Russia and China. For the Castle Family we look up at the sky from the deck of our Germantown home and we can see nothing wrong, but we feel down in our very soul that there is something wrong. However, it is officially spring now and the weather is beautiful on most days. We are all healthy including the family daughter in her California seclusion. I will start this report by saying that under normal circumstances Joe Biden’s handlers, having learned their lesson, do not let him talk to foreign leaders and certainly not alone, so most of the conversations   he was referring to with Vladimir Putin occurred while he was Vice President, that is, if they occurred at all. His recollection of them was on March 16, however, and therein lies the rub. Joe Biden was a braggart and a blowhard long before he became President of the United States. For evidence I will reference his corn pop story whereby he was supposed to have bested a street thug named corn pop.    Since that side of him is well known, his recent interview on ABC News was disingenuous in that the interviewer must have known of his disability as well as his penchant for bragging. His tendency to glorify himself was egged on by interviewer George Stephanopoulos who should have known better. He knew or should have known that President Biden suffers from dementia and can’t at times remember that he is president and not Kamala Harris. When the interview started Biden could not seem to help himself. The report of the Democrat National Committee that accused Russia of interfering in the election to help Trump was raised by Stephanopoulos as a backdrop to the questions. Biden responded that he told Putin there would be serious consequences, etc. Then he went on to say that while alone in Putin’s office he recalled President Bush’s words that he looked into Putin’s soul. President Bush was trying to indicate that the two leaders saw eye to eye on things and he considered him trustworthy. Biden, on the other hand, supposedly said directly to Putin, “I looked in your eyes, and I don’t think you have a soul.” Biden, who is reported to be a devout catholic, should know what an idiotic and unchristian thing that is, and to say it about the leader of Russia is just so unthinking, so unprofessional that I can’t see any leader saying it to another. That statement is bad enough, but then it got worse. In a discussion about various Russians Putin supposedly assassinated abroad, Stephanopoulos asked Biden if he thinks Putin is a killer. Biden replied, I do. So, he said he told the Premier of Russia that he had no soul and then said on national television that the Russian Premier is a killer. Putin reacted in his usual calm way and just smiled when he was told about the interview. He later said when asked about it that as for his American colleague he wishes him good health. I can imagine that Putin remembers other insults and slights by Biden over the years such as his referring to Putin as the KGB thug in charge of Russia. These are things one does not say to foreign leaders especially Russians who have exceptionally long memories. These people both have thousands of nuclear missiles at their disposal so it is shocking to think that the President of the United States would stoke his own ego at the risk of danger to the United States. Especially since he is so obviously cognitively impaired. Biden, when he is lucid, obviously believes that he has the upper hand with Russia and that Russia is without options. I would think that Putin probably sees Biden as the demented unfortunate that he appears to be, but the Russian people fueled by their press were outraged. A Russian diplomatic minister said, “this is the first time in history that an American leader has allowed himself a rude and unsubstantiated statement about Russia. Even in Soviet times, when the confrontation between the powers was at its peak not a single American President allowed himself to speak out in this way against a Soviet leader. These statements offend not only the president, but the entire country, all our citizens.” This incident marks one of the low points in American diplomatic history. This man who is supposed to be the leader of the free world can’t even speak in coherent sentences except to insult one of the most heavily armed nations on earth. One can easily see why Biden’s handlers will not let him talk to foreign leaders but instead Kamala Harris gets those calls. It’s hard to overstate the importance of this incident because wars have started over lesser statements. Donald Trump with all his bluster and narcissism never allowed himself to slip into public insults against Vladimir Putin. What about Biden’s killer statement on the merits? Suppose he did have Russian defectors killed on foreign soil. Isn’t that what countries do, i.e., act in their best interest? I guess Biden forgot about President Obama’s kill list where he met in the oval office each Tuesday and watched on video as over 100 names were presented for him to decide who would live and who would die. What about the death by drone of Anwar al Awlaki, an American citizen in Yemen or many other deaths too numerous to count? I suppose that as the indispensable nation American presidents are not accountable for such things. Such obvious hypocrisy is so very unbecoming and unprofessional it is shameful. He will never be able to sit with Putin again, or attend joint meetings. How then can differences between us ever be resolved? Putin, it seems, decided to have a little sport at Biden’s expense and rub American noses in their mess at the same time. “I’ve just thought of this now. I want to propose to President Biden to continue our discussion, but on the condition that we do it basically live, as it’s called. Without any delays and directly in an open, direct discussion. It seems to me that would be interesting for the people of Russia and for the people of the United States. I don’t want to put this off for long. I want to go to the taiga this weekend to relax a little, so we could do it tomorrow or Monday. We are ready at any time convenient for the American side.” Well, nice try Vlad and thanks for making our humiliation obvious to the whole world. I’m sure you know that our president can’t answer a simple question or speak to congress let alone debate you live with no prep time. I suppose I should be grateful that Putin has chosen to laugh openly at Biden and hold the more typical Russian response for later. This incident damaged, perhaps irreparably, the U.S. relationship with Russia. Now as Putin said, the United States only wants a hegemonic relationship with Russia, and to Russians, that is unacceptable. If that were not enough to call Biden’s foreign policy a geopolitical disaster, his secretary of state conducted a disastrous first meeting with the Chinese. The U.S. secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and the national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, a holdover from the Hillary Clinton state department, decided to meet with their Chinese counterparts in Alaska, a location convenient for both groups. The meeting in Anchorage was billed as a free and frank exchange of views. It appears that Blinken and Sullivan intended to read the Chinese the riot act about the way the Biden Administration expected them to behave in this world. Blinken used phrases such as “deeply concerned” over Chinese actions regarding Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other contested areas, and especially its cyber attacks against the United States. This behavior, Blinken said, threatens the rules-based order that maintains global security. He might as well have added that these are rules you are required to follow but we are not required to follow because we control world opinion. Whatever he meant by the statement, it did not go well. Yang, the Chinese diplomat, speaking through an interpreter, replied “the United States does not have the qualifications to address China from a position of strength.” There is a very impolite translation of what that phrase means but it is not suitable for this Report. Yang went on to lecture the Americans for 20 minutes about how the U.S. capitulation to Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and other radical, revolutionary groups puts the U.S, in no position to lecture China. Whichever nation is most at fault and which has the least morality , it was nevertheless a diplomatic disaster for the United States. You don’t have the qualifications any more with no response means I have called your bluff Mr. Blinken and unless you want to talk as equals this meeting is over. The Chinese have now passed the United States in total number of naval ships. They are developing through genetic manipulation, AI, and robotics a high-tech army, and they are a force to be reckoned with. The United States, on the other hand, continues to concentrate its military resources on finding generals who are down with the cause more than preparing to fight a conventional war against the Chinese. Women in combat and transexuals in uniform, and purging so called extremists, are all far more important to this administration than warfighting. The safety of the nation sometimes depends on the military and I therefore argue that warfighting ability and preparation should be job number one and whatever is second should be way behind. Internationally, an attitude of contempt for America and its leaders seems to be forming. Who are the peers of the President of the United States? Congress or the Senate, cabinet members or bureaucrats no, his peers are the leaders of other nations. What do they think of this man and the image he presents to the world? Suffering from obvious dementia, at least China knows that he is corrupt and can be bought, the U.S. economy is over $28 trillion in debt and running an almost $4 trillion deficit. Millions are unemployed, businesses failing in record numbers, U.S. troops still in Afghanistan, and migrants overrunning our borders by the tens of thousands. The leaders of other nations know we have surrendered our moral authority. Finally, Folks, Mr. Yang’s response that the United States does not have the qualifications to address China from a position of strength was referring to moral strength more than military. We do not have enough moral standing to address the Communist Chinese from a moral standpoint. A very sad moment and a geopolitical disaster. At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks,
14 minutes | Mar 19, 2021
Is Failure Part of the Plan?
Darrell Castle looks at some of the recent actions of our federal government and asks the following question: Is someone up there really stupid or is failure part of a designed and very sinister plan, or both? Transcription / Notes IS FAILURE PART OF THE PLAN? Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday the 19th day of March in the year of our Lord 2021, and on this report, I will be looking at some of the recent actions of our federal government and asking the following question: is someone up there really stupid or is failure part of a designed and very sinister plan, or both. The Castle family is adjusting well to the switch to daylight savings time with its extra hour of daylight each day. The plants will grow faster with the extra light so spring will accelerate its arrival. In Los Angeles the family daughter seems to be doing well at least virtually. I have often wondered why the government repeatedly does such stupid things. Sometimes hindsight is 20-20 but sometimes it seems as though officials in our government see the wise choice and then do the opposite. For example, the federal government acts as if economics is not something the best and brightest in each succeeding administration can understand. The last president who acted as if he understood it was Bill Clinton. Remember his slogan; it’s the economy stupid. George W. Bush certainly did not understand it. His Middle East invasion, his 20 plus year war with its thousands of American lives, hundreds of thousands of Middle Eastern lives and 7 or 8 trillion in expenditures that could not be covered with taxes are all evidence of that. Barack Obama did not understand it. His trillions given to casino like banks serve as evidence. Trump did not understand it and his lock downs and trillions of deficit spending also serve as evidence. That brings us to Joe Biden, and he raises many unanswered questions. How could a candidate who had developed virtually no support in the primaries suddenly end up with the nomination in a landslide. Why would he pick a Vice Presidential running mate who was the first candidate rejected by fellow Democrats? How did a candidate who traveled very little, whose rallies were unattended, who stuttered and stammered over almost everything he said, who was involved in scandals from China to Ukraine, end up winning the election? Did the Democrat Party know during the election process, that he would not be able to function in the office of President and therefore the American people were deceived or defrauded by the entire election. Well, nevertheless, here he is at least pretending to be President and doing things that are either very dumb or else just part of a broader plan. If the Democrats did defraud the American people, then the Biden administration is the result of that fraud. If so, then what is the Biden Administration or who is it? Who or what do I sue for my damages from the fraud? The economic devastation caused by the weaponization of the Covid molecule including millions unemployed, hundreds of thousands of small businesses ruined, many large corporations in bankruptcy, airlines, all travel and hospitality business, all retail in a state of near collapse, is obvious to anyone. It was obvious and predictable that those things would occur. Government apparently realizes that its mistakes or deliberate decisions caused the devastation so government must at least pretend to bring relief to its dependents. Keep in mind that the federal government was already running a $3.3 trillion deficit for fiscal year 2021 so it had no money to give. The entire stimulus had to be funded with debt which can and will never be repaid so the interest will exist forever. Roughly $550 billion went directly to the individuals deemed worthy to receive $1400 each and the other $1.4 trillion went to fulfill Democrat ideology and make a lot of rich people and rich corporations a lot richer. Absent a sinister agenda for these decisions, we are left with stupidity, but perhaps I am just Monday morning quarterbacking. If so, I still have some questions. Why waste 10%of U.S. yearly GDP and ½ of annual tax collections in one reckless moment of stupidity? The more one tries to explain it the more unexplainable it seems. We know that most of the money went to special interests and the extremely wealthy, so one could conclude that the $1400 is just slight of hand, or a distraction. Why use this giveaway to bail out failures from their own excesses, such as union pension funds, Amtrak, and planned parenthood? After all, its not a new or bigger screen TV or a new lap top that kids need. What they need are stable honest intact families with real jobs not government handouts. What happens to the ones who receive the money when the money stops? Will another handout be required? Isn’t spending ½ of annual tax revenue a little like taking your monthly check to Vegas and blowing it all in one weekend. Maybe fun, but I don’t think Joan would like it. I thought a long-held principle of economics was saving, i.e., Spend less than you earn and do it for a long time. What if I earn $50,000 per year but I spend $100,000 would that be what the government is doing? For me that formula equals bankruptcy and fast, but for the government their computers will allow them to bulldoze this massive pile of excrement on into the future. The concept of unlimited spending is based on some strange economics known as Modern Monetary Theory. That theory holds that the government should spend whatever it wants, to accomplish whatever it wants, because it is free to create money in unlimited amounts since it holds the world’s reserve currency and therefore foreign nations cannot simply refuse to accept any more dollars for their production. There are many reasons why MMT is not a valid theory, but I will only mention that countries, especially China, are working night and day to circumvent the dollar system and avoid its restrictions, either using gold or more likely their own crypto currency. The MMT economics will be short lived I predict. Don’t worry though, the economic geniuses in the Biden Administration have it all figured out. They are planning to remove all that money just spent into the economy by raising taxes substantially on many different areas of the economy. Marginal rates up from 37% to 39.6%; corporate rate from 21% to 28%; Long term capital gains to an unknown number but Biden mentioned 39.6 % in his campaign; the estate tax burden would come down to some number rumored to be $3 million estates. None of this is about reducing the deficit or repaying debt. It is instead designed to raise approximately $2.1 to $4 trillion over 10 years or about $210 to $310 billion per year. The government gives and the government takes away, but the new taxes represent real money as opposed the government’s computer blips. The money, in part, will help save the climate from another dangerous molecule called carbon dioxide. That molecule is necessary for life, you say. Yes, I know, but this is the government and whether sinister or stupid or both we are currently debating. Climate change must be fought and defeated, our government experts tell us, and we must sacrifice our labor, our future labor, and that of our children in the battle, or planet earth is doomed. Infrastructure is also crumbling across the country. Water systems in many places are up to 100 years old. The water mains here in Memphis froze last winter. The electric grid is vulnerable to attack and failure and as more and more electricity is needed; it must be updated. These systems, referred to as infrastructure, are badly in need of repair and modernizing. The country seems committed to electric vehicles in the future and that will require a lot more electricity. Where will it come from, oil, coal, nuclear? None of those seems likely, so where? No one in government seems able or willing to commit to an answer.  So, two to four $trillion in new taxes is the prediction. How is that for a recipe in putting a damper on a stimulus. Raising the corporate rate from 21% to 28%; cutting advantages for pass through business such as limited liability companies; raising income tax marginal rates; raising the estate tax; raising the capital gains tax rate, are some of the things being considered as previously noted but what results from those increases. Taking money from an already rapidly slowing economy makes no sense to normal people. Higher tax equals slower growth which then equals lost jobs and lost production. We have somehow created a new way to separate the creation of wealth from production. Don’t we have to produce things that people want to buy in order to generate wealth. No, I suppose its all just a financial formula now. Some economists on the left seem to believe that the proposed infrastructure plan will be so pro-growth that it will outweigh the hit to corporate revenue so we will see. Why should we care if corporations or high-income individuals pay more in taxes? 1. Because when companies do well there is job security and higher wages and 2. Because theft is immoral even when the victim can afford to replace the stolen goods. I believe it was H.L. Mencken who said, “an election is sort of an advance auction of stolen goods.” Anyway, I don’t get it, if modern monetary theory is correct and 50% to 80% of spending is borrowed and deficits do not matter, why bother collecting taxes at all.  If debt doesn’t matter, and interest doesn’t matter, and we are free to borrow and spend whatever we want, why not just fund all the boondoggles with unpayable debt? I can promise you that an end to the income, property, and sales taxes would stimulate the economy. Why $1400 per individual, why not $14000 or $14 million.  Maybe there is more to all this economic mumbo jumbo than meets the eye. Couple this monetary madness with immigration madness including tens of thousands of illegals per month, many with covid who are shipped around the country by bus. Consider a militarized capitol policed by armed military amid a growing sense of paranoia exhibited by political leaders, and one might well conclude hostile intent by our ruling class of elites. They are rapidly transforming America into an authoritarian state with a single ideology and a single ruling class kept in power by total control of the asymmetric nature of the war they wage against us. Could the military state of Washington D.C. indicate a fear of coming collapse rather than a fear of Trump voters? I suppose it could, maybe it is possible.  Like the Borg in the original Star Trek TV show, they tell us resistance is futile you will be assimilated.  Remember though, that the Borg were ultimately overcome by the courage and genius of the Star Trek Enterprise, its crew and especially its captain. Where is our Captain Kirk today? Some thought it was Donald Trump, but if not him then who? My own belief is that it will take a change of heart in the American people and a return to the old ways. That doesn’t seem very likely right now but sometimes the pendulum swings the other direction. Finally, folks, is it some sinister agenda or just plain stupidity or both. Like Junior Samples from Hee Haw, I don’t know much, but I suspect a lot. At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks, Thanks for listening.
13 minutes | Mar 12, 2021
The Disintegration of the American Nation
Darrell Castle talks about the disintegration of what has historically been America, its culture, its founding ethnicity, its language, its religion, and virtually everything that once bound the country together as a nation. Transcription / Notes THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE AMERICAN NATION Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday the 12th day of March in the year of our Lord 2021, and on today’s Report, I will be talking about the disintegration of what has historically been America, its culture, its founding ethnicity, its language, its religion, and virtually everything that once bound the country together as a nation. The Castle Family anxiously watches the flowers as they rise this spring, to see if any will bloom but most appear to have had their buds frozen. One week of severe cold and snow out of an entire winter seems rather unfair, but there is no mercy in nature, only brutality. We are fine otherwise and enjoying the spring weather as is the family daughter in her stronghold out in southern California. I almost titled this Report the disintegration of western civilization, but I have hit that subject so often I wondered if it would turn off my faithful listeners. This is about my own country, however, at least what is left of it. Oh, I know that America is still here if you want to define it as the physical space, the land under our feet, but I am referring to the ideal that made us the greatest country, the greatest opportunity for success in the history of the world. That once great America is disintegrating before our eyes, and its course appears set and irreversible. I decided to return to the topic I have taken up many times because of a recent book and the way the author addressed the subject. The book is by Andrei Martyanov entitled “Disintegration, the Coming American Collapse so I quote from the book.  “Today, the United States is not a nation, certainly not in the traditional sense of having a dominant ethnic nationality, while the foundational American meme and myth of a “Melting Pot” has turned out to be exactly that—a myth. America’s many ethnicities have not been assimilated to form a single nation, but rather are more aptly regarded as a salad bowl of divergent interests. America is a tower of Babel standing on the shaky ground of Identity Politics. Such a multicultural diverse country does not have a national interest because unity is absent. A house divided cannot stand.” So, there is no single American Identity anymore. The foundational ethnicity and ideas embodied in the Constitution are not only under attack but opposed as racist and exploitative. This attack manifests itself most prominently in the educational system to which our children are subjected, bullied, and indoctrinated. The Democrat Party has institutionalized this attack on America through its primary focus of racial politics. In fact, history itself is under attack and is systematically being cleansed and abolished. It is only a small stretch to say that what is happening in America is a form of ethnic cleansing with a purpose designed to cleanse society of all its founding, historic principles as well as its historic ethnic majority. Symbolic high tech book burnings remind us of the Nazi book burnings when students raided libraries to get the books, then pile them in the streets and burn them in massive bonfires. The Nazis told the people that anything that did not advance the cause of National Socialism should be destroyed and that is not very far away from the view that anything that does not advance the ideology of the current intelligentsia in charge of this country should be destroyed. Perhaps the best example would be the 1951 science fiction classic by Ray Bradbury entitled, “Fahrenheit 451” which was also filmed as a successful movie. The book is set in a dystopian future world in which books are outlawed as dangerous and the authorities order all of them destroyed. Groups known as firemen are appointed to hunt down and burn all books. As an aside, the term Fahrenheit 451 supposedly refers to the exact temperature at which books burst into flame. It seems that today in America Dr. Seuss is a very bad, and very dangerous man. Firemen have been appointed to hunt down and destroy books written by this man who stands opposed to today’s woke culture. Well, he doesn’t stand anymore because Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, died exactly 30 years ago at the age of 87. The good doctor wrote books to promote childhood literacy sometimes using the words of a talking cat who spoke in simple words to children. A normal, rational person would probably say that sounds like good children’s fun as well as a benefit to society, but the people in charge of this culture today are neither normal nor rational. He has been found out, Dr. Seuss that is, by whoever runs what is commonly known as the Biden administration, and its cabal of inquisitors and Dr. Seuss books were scrubbed from the annual White House proclamation declaring Read Across America Day. Most libraries will not circulate them, and Amazon will not sell them. Soon, perhaps our new book burners will decide that read across America should be abandoned because reading itself is a racist, concept of white supremacy. The woke world has decided that mathematics is racist so there is precedent. I suppose it is better in the woke world to remain ignorant and just let social media and the woke self-appointed leaders dictate reality to you. Other Dr. Seuss books such as “And to Think That I saw it on Mulberry Street” which was a classic and one of my favorites are cancelled or blacklisted as well. That book was about the ability of children to create and imagine grand and glorious things in their minds, concepts sorely lacking today. Alas, it seems that according to someone in the woke culture whose job it is to search every book, every word and deed of every historic figure, to find examples of racist undertones or misogynistic undertones or other unknown undertones that offend the woke inquisitor and cancel or blacklist that book, that writer, or that figure. What does that even mean; it appears to mean that every reference to the offender is removed so no woke person can be offended and no person might possibly be encouraged to consider different views. Dr. Suess is not the only one, but only the most prominent so far. Cartoon characters are going away as well, such as Mr. and Ms. Potato Head. Yes, the laughable and fun spuds our children played with have been peeled and fried. Why, well it seems that they offended the woke inquisitors by appearing as male and female. There are no more genders you see, since those things are just social concepts and reflect the transphobia of normal people. What could possibly be offensive about a French-Canadian cartoon skunk. Some of you older folks, like me, might remember Pepe LePew, the lovable skunk of black and white Saturday morning fame. Pepe has not existed except in reruns for many years, but the inquisitors, just doing their jobs, found him anyway. He was an amorous skunk as you may remember, and he tried seduction using the classic French voice that was apparently very appealing to female skunks of a past generation. Today he is just a misogynist and an ex-skunk. What is all this cancel culture blacklisting about and why is it happening. First, I would say that the people running the inquisition are not normal and are more in the nature of insane than normal and rational. It is also part of the great disintegration of the American nation that I mentioned in the opening of this report. America is disintegrating in front of our eyes and our institutions and political parties are either part of the disintegration or unwilling to do anything about it or even to address it. Jumping into the middle of a fight for the future and that’s what this is, would be dangerous and frightening. To oppose blacklisting might paint one with a brush that is unbearable for some. It could cost the loss of employment, of a business, of a political position, or of social standing and maybe even standing within one’s own family. These are all serious considerations and therefore there is very little courage for the fight and no sense of standing together against a common enemy. The success of the inquisitors and their campaign of cultural eradication has left America with no single sense of identity. There is not even a unifying language to bind us as one people. Paul Craig Roberts puts it like this, “In the US the state-founding people are demonized and turned into second-class citizens who must be suppressed because of the systemic racism in their DNA. White Americans are denounced as “Trump deplorables, Maga fascists, and enemies of democracy. They are not even permitted to protest a stolen election.” To reinforce what Dr. Roberts said a recent poll by the well-respected polling service Echelon Insights, taken of Republican and Democrat voters from across the country revealed the issues considered most important or most dangerous to the nation. Republican voters by a majority of 81% said that the number one issue is illegal immigration. The Democrat voters by a majority of 82% said the number one issue is Trump voters. Republicans seemed most concerned about substantive issues while Democrats seemed most concerned about the evil of their ideological and political opponents. The top 10 issues for each revealed no crossing or common views whatsoever. Unfortunately for the present, Joe Biden’s administration is filled with hard left people who are going about the process of imbedding their own kind into the woodwork of American government and bureaucracy. That process is all about controlling the future. Erasing the past and even current events is more about controlling the future than the past, starting now. In a few short years our children and grand children will no longer know who the founders were except that they were evil. Hatred is the order of the day and the demand is that the founding ethnicity acknowledge its evil and accept its overthrow by a coalition of racially oppressed minorities. Hispanics have been somehow convinced to join this coalition and identify themselves as a separate race. For most of my life I viewed Hispanic people as white and except for the woke reminders I still do. The interesting and sad fact is that those making these demands are themselves members of the founding ethnicity. The white liberals are driving it all and are clearly and completely in charge of the great disintegration. In conclusion, no great empire in the history of the world has ever gone into decline, and disintegration, and then regained its former glory. This is especially true when the disintegration was intentional destruction from within rather than conquest from without. Will America be the first to achieve its former glory? It doesn’t look good right now, but we will see. Is there any way the disintegration could be reversed? Sure, there is if God’s people who are called by his name would humble themselves and pray, he would heal their land. Finally, folks, these are people who would send your children home from school with a note directing them to no longer refer to you as parents, but to say guardians. They may no longer say the words mom and dad or girl and boy. That is not a normal thing and normal people do not do such things. No, one who does those things is insane or despicably evil. At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.
12 minutes | Mar 5, 2021
Who Is Minding The Launch Codes?
Darrell Castle talks about whether the President of the United States is physically and mentally capable of doing the job he holds which includes the retaliatory launch of nuclear missiles when an enemy launch is detected. Transcription / Notes WHO IS MINDING THE LAUNCH CODES? Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday the 5th day of March in the year of our Lord 2021. Today I will be talking about whether the President of the United States is physically and mentally capable of doing the job he holds. That job includes the retaliatory launch of nuclear missiles when an enemy launch is detected, a concept known as launch on warning. First though, the Castle family is enjoying the sudden spring like weather that has returned following our weeklong bout with freezing artic winter. Spring temperatures are here, and the ducks and geese are returning from their migration to escape the frozen lakes. The family daughter has no geese in Los Angeles, but she is doing well in the almost perfect, at least for now, weather of Southern California. Since the use of nuclear weapons brought an end to World War ll, and a beginning to the nuclear age the authority to launch nuclear missiles has resided in the President of the United States. A military officer follows the President everywhere he goes day and night with a briefcase that contains the launch codes and the launch sequence for the nation’s nuclear arsenal. The reasoning is that a launch anywhere in the world can be detected instantly and the president would have literally seconds to launch before our own strike capability was destroyed by an incoming enemy attack. American missiles must be out of their launch silos before the enemy missiles hit. As I said in my opening paragraph that concept is known as launch on warning. We are now capable of retaliation even if every launch silo were destroyed because we have nuclear missile submarines prowling 1000 feet beneath the oceans each with 24 nuclear Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles each of those with up to 10 warheads capable of hitting 10 different targets anywhere in the world. If that all sounds like madness that’s because it is. Its madness but it is also reality and for the entire nuclear age that madness has been in the hands and the mind of the President. What happens if the President loses his mind or has no mind to begin with? That is a nightmare scenario that Hollywood movies portray, but it is also unfortunately a realistic possibility. If not the President, then who? What person can be trusted what group of people can be consulted within the seconds that are available before disaster happens. The President doesn’t have to be unhinged or mad, he just has to be mentally incapable of thought or rationality to generate a nightmare scenario. President Biden is President, in part because the COVID virus allowed his handlers and his Party to keep him locked away so the American people could not see that he could not complete a coherent sentence or keep a thought in his head for a full sentence. When does he exhibit this failure today? Constantly, all the time, every single time he speaks without exception. The man simply cannot complete a sentence in a coherent understandable fashion. Most of the time when he speaks one is left wondering what he said, and if he knows where he is. I’m not trying to be unduly harsh toward President Biden or to say something that might damage him. Politically, I disagree with him totally and completely, but he is still the President and if there is a hostile launch, I would like to know that he can respond, but it is obvious to me that he cannot. If you don’t believe me just listen to him anytime he speaks in public to anyone. The other day I heard him speaking from script to a group of reporters about some policy matter and his wife Jill was right there as she always is and in the middle of one of his incoherent sentences, Jill took over and explained the President’s policy to the reporters. Rumors fly in Washington, but it is obvious to anyone who will look and listen, whether left or right, Democrat or Republican or anything else that President Biden is not competent to launch or refrain from launching nuclear missiles. One rumor that I have heard is that he is only capable of getting out in public for about 2-3 hours per day, and that Kamala Harris takes all calls from foreign governments intended for the President. I just hope that if there is a Chinese or Russian launch, it is during one of his coherent hours. I said before that his condition is obvious to anyone who looks and apparently members of congress have been looking. The Representatives cleverly couch their concerns in their fear of Donald Trump, but anyone who reads their letter knows exactly what their real fear is.31 Democratic members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to the President and the nuclear command structure asking for “My colleagues and I are requesting a straightforward review of our nation’s nuclear command-and-control structure to determine how we can have a safer nuclear weapons launch authority, not to jeopardize but to enhance and bolster our national security.” The letter sent to the White House last Monday proposes several alternatives to “investing the president with the sole, unchecked and final authority to order the use of nuclear weapons. “Keep in mind that no such letter was sent during the administration of the hated and feared Donald Trump. Now that nice old grandfather Joe Biden is in charge, they express fear in the handling of nuclear launch protocol. If not the president, then who should have authority to launch. The suggestion in the letter is that no launch would be authorized unless the President, the Vice President, and the Speaker of the House all concurred. So here is apparently their plan; a launch is detected somewhere in China against the United States and it is a massive nuclear annihilation event perhaps a joint effort from China and Russia. The current policy would be for the launch officer to hand the nuclear launch case to the President, he would enter the codes and American missiles would leave their silos before the enemy missiles destroyed them. I doubt if the President is capable of understanding what was happening clearly enough to make a rational decision especially one that involved only seconds. Under the plan of the 31 Democrat members of Congress, the launch officer would have to get the permission of Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi as well as the President. A decision that must be made in seconds would stretch into minutes, more than likely several minutes. I suppose their plan is to just absorb the first strike and hope that the survivors could order a submarine retaliatory attack. One of the authors of the letter, Representative Jimmy Panetta of California, said “the old argument was that it was safe to give the president this power because the election was the ultimate safeguard. Trump’s election shows that an unfit, amoral and dangerous person can, in fact, gain power in the United States.” Well Mr. Panetta, who just described virtually every Democrat President going back to John Kennedy, but they were all trusted with the launch codes as was your hated enemy, Donald Trump. However, your current President, Joe Biden, is mentally incompetent to make that or any other decision and you know it. By the way, Congressman your comments about the election and the will of the American people does not reflect well on your supposed love for democracy. To you, the American people are not capable of making a decision that is pleasing to you, so you must make it for them. Maybe you should have the codes Congressman, so why don’t we tell the launch officer to call you if an enemy launch is detected. I will take the liberty and say because it is not the job you were elected to do. It is the job Joe Biden currently holds so why not just be honest if you are capable of such a thing and tell the truth. The President is disabled, not abled, incompetent to make the decision and that is terrifying, but it is the fault of you and people like you. I don’t like it one little bit and it should not be allowed to happen. If the President is not capable, then the Vice President must act. Should such a terrible event become a reality, there will be no time to call Nancy Pelosi and have a committee meeting. The lawmakers of the President’s own party are asking him to voluntarily surrender his nuclear authority. The sad thing is that he probably can’t even understand what the letter says but maybe Jill can explain it to him. The President could address the letter and the problem it presents in his state of the union message, but unfortunately, that is very unlikely to happen because there will most likely be no state of the union message. Why no glorious speech to a joint session? The speech would be very problematic because the President cannot speak coherently. Would whoever makes decisions for this administration want to put him on display to the whole world. The Biden administration can’t be bothered to tell congress and the American people what the state of the union is. It must be really embarrassing for them to make up one lying excuse after another. Nancy Pelosi suggested that the reason was that they were all terrified of Trump supporters. Yes, they are terrified even with 25000 troops surrounding them. Their excuses are very tiring, but I suppose for their base excuses are better than admitting the truth. There is some truth to the administration’s witch hunt for Trump supporters though. A headline in the Washington Post a few days ago quoted the director of the FBI as saying there are 2000 cases of domestic terrorism in America every single day. Now if we do the math on that we can see that with 50 states we have 40 cases in each state per day. Some state must be getting 80 because in Tennessee there are none. This continuing Trump hatred is just more grist from the mill of the ministry of propaganda. It keeps us distracted and keeps Democrat voters from asking why we bombed Syria. Why, did we bomb Syria Mr. President I would like to know so perhaps a non-scripted press conference might help. No, I remember now that you don’t do those because you can’t even answer a simple question from a fawning, adoring media. Finally, folks, every good puppet needs a puppet master so the show can go own. I just wonder how many puppet masters we have and how many of them have the launch codes. At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.
12 minutes | Feb 26, 2021
Should Governor Cuomo Be Impeached?
Darrell Castle talks about the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, from the standpoint of whether he should be impeached and not allowed to serve out his term that expires in 2022. If the answer to whether he should be impeached is yes, then why it is yes. Transcription / Notes SHOULD GOVENOR CUOMO BE IMPEACHED? Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday the 26th day of February in the year 2021. Today, I will be talking about the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo from the standpoint of whether he should be impeached and not allowed to serve until his term expires in 2022. If the answer to whether he should be impeached is yes, then why is it yes. The Castle family is warm and cozy once again as the temperatures have returned to the 60’s and high 50’s. This is an amazing place to live when you can have 12 inches of snow one week and 3-degree temperatures when even the city’s water lines froze, and 70 degrees one week later. It is good to be back in the office full time. The family daughter remains just fine in 75-degree Los Angeles. What in the world is going on with Governor Cuomo? The image he has tried very hard to cultivate for himself as a model of propriety, a paragon of virtue, highly competent, great leader is in serious doubt today. Attacks are coming at him on several fronts with new accusations an almost daily occurrence. It’s almost as if his fellow New York Democrats are sharks with blood in the water. The first attack came when his top aide and secretary to the Governor, Melissa DeRosa revealed during a video conference call with state Democratic leaders that the Governor had ordered his staff to coverup the actual number of nursing home deaths in New York due to the virus. He rebuffed a legislative request in August for the information then she said, President Trump turned it into a giant political football. I suppose that almost 15000 deaths because of the Governor’s actions does make a pretty good football. Interestingly, Ms. DeRosa’s regret in her revelation was not because of what the Governor did but that the information could be used by Republicans. In addition to going after everybody, Trump directs the Department of Justice “to do an investigation into us. “We froze she said. We weren’t sure what we were going to give the Department of Justice or the New York Legislature. So, the thought that maybe the Governor had an obligation to tell the truth never occurred to them. The only thought was to find a lie that the most people would believe. The Governor had issued orders to the Health Department to issue a directive that nursing homes admit infected patients. Then he ordered New York hospitals to discharge infected elderly patients to nursing homes thus spreading the disease among the most vulnerable resulting in the unnecessary deaths of thousands. Ms. DeRosa asked the legislators to keep what happened in context. She apologized on behalf of the Governor for what she termed the inconvenience it caused them. She said she was sorry the Republicans would be able to use the information against them. No apology to the grieving families and no promises to do whatever they could to make amends. No, it was just a cold, calculated political decision. When you read or listen on video to her apology you can see that she is not apologizing for the act but for the political damage it might cause her fellow Democrats. “So, we do apologize, she said. I do understand the position that you were put in. I do know that it is not fair. It was not our intention to put you in that political position with the Republicans.” Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried rejected her apology. “I don’t have enough time to explain all the reasons why I don’t give that any credit at all.” Mr. Gottfried is one of the lawmakers who demanded the death data from the Governor in August. Several lawmakers expressed dismay at the callous nature of the Governor’s actions, and that it fostered mistrust of the health system during a pandemic when everyone in the system is clamoring to get the people to trust them and the system. Well, yes, I suppose it does foster distrust when the state’s highest official causes thousands of unnecessary deaths and then lies about it. No apologies to the families of the dead, at least none that I have been able to find. It seems to me as if the Governor does not understand what happens when a strong man appears to be weak. Hyenas circle the wounded lion and probe for a fatal weakness which is almost always there. The first attack came from New York Assemblyman Ron Kim, a Democrat from Queens. He said that it sounded like the administration was trying to dodge having to reveal any information that might appear criminal to the Department of Justice. Yes, Mr. Kim to your statement I would add that charges could include negligent homicide and reckless indifference to human life. Mr. Kim’s uncle died in a New York nursing home in April 2020, so he was not inclined to accept Ms. DeRosa’s apology either. He pointed out that although they had been contrite with the Democrat legislators, they had not been so with the public or the families. I will add to that statement that they were only contrite about withholding information that may have caused political embarrassment, not for unnecessarily killing people. The administration also withheld the death numbers from the press despite freedom of information requests. When the actual data finally was uncovered it turns out that the death numbers were underreported by 50%. The people in the New York Governor’s office do not seem to understand that killing a person is worse than falsifying the information about the killing. Mr. Kim refused to be dissuaded and pressed ahead with his attacks on the Governor. He told the New York Post that the Governor personally called him on his cell phone while he was bathing his kids at home. The Governor threatened him and said he would destroy him politically. Mr. Kim went to the legislature and the press with the information so once again we find that the cover-up is often more damaging than the crime. A report by the New York Attorney General’s office was damning to the Governor and gave the numbers the investigation had revealed. That led to a press conference in which the Governor callously dismissed the matter of where the fatalities took place. What difference does it make where they died anyway? What the Governor did not say was that the real question was how many non-infected people died because he introduced thousands of sick people into their midst. He literally said who cares where they died. Each time the Governor speaks with his callous and condescending attitude his political position becomes weaker. He just can’t seem to grasp that he might not be the most powerful person in New York anymore and that some people actually do care who lives and who dies. Sometimes, however, when people start ripping the seams or pulling on the threads the entire garment starts to unravel as we will see. I will introduce the next attack by saying that when Christine Blasey Ford accused Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, Governor Cuomo insisted everyone believe her, and that Kavanaugh take a lie detector test. His hypocrisy is obvious then, in light of  the charge from his former deputy secretary for economic development, Lindsey Boylan, who is now running for Manhattan borough president. She wrote a 1700-word essay setting out the details of how Cuomo eyed her from early on: went out of his way to touch her on her lower back, arms, and legs; asked her to play strip poker while flying home on his taxpayer funded jet; and blocked her exit from his office and kissed her on the lips without warning. She provided e-mail and text messages to support her claims which she first made in December when no one was willing to listen. His boorish and abusive behavior was not shocking, just par for the course Ms. Boylan said. The Governor created a culture within his administration where sexual harassment and bullying is so pervasive, its expected. She added that the Governor used intimidation to silence his critics. She said another woman told her that she was too scared of what might happen to her if she rejected the Governor’s advances. MS. Boylan also said that when she first went public someone leaked parts of her confidential personnel file to smear her. When Mr. Kim, the assemblyman who said the Governor threatened to destroy, made the call from the Governor public, the Governor began to lodge public attacks against him which fits the pattern of intimidation and bullying. Others are now coming forward as they apparently sense some protection from the intimidation. Reporter Morgan Pehme disclosed how Cuomo “terrorized” him in a bid to suppress a story he wrote. Karen Hinton, another ex-Cuomo aide, blasts Cuomo’s “penis politics”. New York mayor de Blasio calls Mr. Kim’s account “classic Cuomo” adding that he knows a lot of people who have suffered similar abuse. My thanks to the New York Post for its courage to cover the story presented by Lindsey Boylan and the others. The Post has been on top of the story from the beginning but the Times, not so much. I guess the Times doesn’t consider the behavior of the New York Governor and state’s most powerful person’s gross hypocrisy, lying and his causing unnecessary deaths by the thousands part of all the news that’s fit to print. In conclusion, the New York Post has called for the impeachment of Governor Cuomo. Unlike California, New York does not have a statute whereby the voters can recall him, he must be impeached by the legislature to be removed. He is serving his third term as Governor which term ends in 2022. I suspect that his plans were to win election to the fourth term that eluded his father, Mario. That would give him a base of power and two years to campaign for the Democrat nomination in 2024. I suppose a funny thing happened on the way to the White House. Finally, folks, I know that there has been a systemic breakdown of morality in this country but politicians, especially Democrat ones, seem to have no morality at all unless you believe that an ally cat or billy goat has morals. The Post takes the view that even if all the sexual intimidation reports are untrue, the nursing home scandal is enough to impeach and I agree. At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.
12 minutes | Feb 12, 2021
An Outward Sign of an Inner Rot
Darrell Castle talks about freedom of speech and why that concept is no longer held in high esteem by the new culture. Transcription / Notes AN OUTWARD SIGN OF AN INNER ROT Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday February 12, in the year 2021 and today I will be talking about freedom of speech, and why that concept is no longer held in high esteem by the new culture. The title of this Report comes from an interview with Doug Casey concerning the First Amendment. Doug believes that the devaluing of freedom of speech is a sign of the inner rot of our culture. In part, this Report will also delve into the mindset behind America’s growing trend toward cancel culture or blacklisting. The Castle Family is frozen into an Arctic prison today. This is probably mild compared to what some parts of the country are going through but for us it is very unusual and very unwelcome. It started raining ice two days ago but today it is just cold.  We had to work from home yesterday but today we are back at the office in good health and good spirits. The freedom of speech clause in the First Amendment was intended to be absolute as was the entire Bill of Rights and that view was upheld in past days by the Supreme Court. Today, however, thanks to the changing nature of our culture, and especially the oligarchs from Silicon Valley, the Freedom of Speech Clause and the entire Bill of Rights are no more than the symbols of a bygone, pretechnological age. The oligarchs are private companies and can ban anyone they want, but when they de-platform the president and many thousands of others it gets scary. Now even congress is in on the game by trying to ban former Trump staffers and even voters from writing or telling their story. The fact that 73 million people that we know of voted for Trump, but he isn’t allowed to communicate with them is a sign that something is seriously wrong, an inner rot as Doug Casey put it. Even before Trump was elected when it started to look like he might be nominated, the progressive world did not look at what was happening in America to determine what factors, what trends, what actions of theirs might have caused the American people to reject the establishment. No, for people who once argued that no absolute truth existed, they sure found some in a hurry. Absolute truth is contained within their paradigm, their word view and no other truth exists absolute or partial. Those people who voted for Trump, I suppose, were the deplorables of that great dissatisfied middle of America and just too ignorant to be considered. By the admission of its own editors the New York Times is published for coastal liberals and no one else so I suppose I appreciate their selling it to me. That gives me the benefit of all the news that’s fit to print. Its that news that the Times deems unfit to print that I must search for in other places. The Times’ version of the truth supports a conclusion that we have undergone a welding together of the ruling elites from the corporate and political worlds to the point where they are one and the same. Benito Mussolini was the first to spell out what he called fascism explicitly. He said that fascism would better be called corporatism or the uniting of the political and corporate worlds to work as one. Mussolini was not a Socialist so he didn’t believe the state should own the means of production just control and tax them just as we do in America today.  The fascism of the fusion between the state and business world is essentially the same today, but without the uniforms and slogans. The vast sums created by the corporations and the power of the politicians work together as one and together they understand and define absolute truth and will tolerate no other. Truth to them is whatever advances their own interests because that is the true intent of the fascist state. When the corporations of Silicon Valley collude with the politicians of Washington to de-platform opposing views, it is a more effective version of Fascism than Mussolini ever had. The New York Times is very cognizant of its position as spokesperson for the entire world. I suppose that is why it is so introspective and is constantly examining itself about what its writers may have said years ago. The latest is science reporter Donald McNeil who last week was fired for something that he said while leading a group of students to Peru two years ago. It seems that a student asked Mr. McNeil if a student should be suspended for using the N word and in his answer and in the context of his answer, he used the forbidden word himself. An internet site reported the incident, and an internal investigation was begun by the Times management board. Finally, they issued the following statement, “We do not tolerate racist language regardless of intent.” So, intent doesn’t matter if the banned word is uttered you are fired. That is the conundrum the Times finds itself in right now. How to satisfy the demands for ideological purity of the 30 and under woke left as well as the demands of the 40 and older liberals. You are probably very sympathetic to the Times’ dilemma but there is no need to worry because they have it all figured out. In an article published February 2, 2021 the Times gave us the answer. Since both the Times and the Biden government know that absolute truth exists and they are the preservers of it, then a Ministry of Truth must be appointed to identify it to the public and prevent any dissension from it. I know this all sounds like some Hollywood movie but unfortunately it is reality. The Times article suggests that this new appointee in charge of truth be called the Reality Czar. I reiterate my suggestion for Biden to name himself the actual Czar and that would solve the problem, but I suppose a ministry of truth would still be necessary. Here is a quote from the article, “The muddled, chaotic information ecosystem that produces these misguided beliefs doesn’t just jeopardize some lofty ideal of national unity. It actively exacerbates our biggest national problems and creates more work for those trying to solve them. And it raises an important question for the Biden administration: How do you unite a country in which millions of people have chosen to create their own version of reality?” The arrogance of that view is at least most of the problem for those millions of people who, according to the Times, have created a false reality. All reality except that of the New York Times staff is false and therefore we can’t have unity because everyone will not agree with that view except by force. Well, if it takes force to gain agreement the Times has that covered as well. “Several experts I spoke with recommended that the Biden administration put together a cross-agency task force to tackle disinformation and domestic extremism, which would be led by something like a reality czar.” Yes, they always have their experts don’t they, and we are supposed to be enthralled because they say they are experts. How would you like to have that job folks, reality czar? You would be responsible for investigating and determining reality. What is truth, the reality czar has the answer. The things most concerning to the experts the Times talked to were misinformation about Covid-19 and misinformation about election fraud. I suppose some doctors believe that lockdowns don’t work, and masks are ineffective, and vaccines are untested or at least not tested enough. Well, we can’t have misinformation like that floating around now can we. The reality czar, working with the tech oligarchs could simply ban those opinions down the memory hole. They are also very concerned about what conservative groups are permitted to say on social media. What they are proposing if you read between the lines, is that the tech companies be subject to censure and to lawsuits if they don’t de-platform conservative groups. The other tactic is to threaten the tech companies with breakup under the monopoly statues. So, the poor tech giants are getting it from both sides. Conservatives want to speak, and the Times and its followers want to ban them from speaking and in the middle are the oligarchs who want to make their billions in peace. The oligarchs will be disappointed because they thought they were the arbiter of truth and now they must deal with a truth czar. One more quote; “The experts I spoke with warned that tech platforms alone couldn’t bring back the millions of already radicalized Americans, nor is teaching media literacy a silver bullet to prevent dangerous ideas from taking hold. After all, many people are drawn to extremist groups like the Proud Boys and conspiracy theories like QAnon not because they’re convinced by the facts, but because the beliefs give them a sense of community or purpose or fills a void in their lives.” Well thanks to the experts at the New York Times because they have given me a reason for why I feel they way I do about them and their entire ministry of truth. It gives me a sense of community and fills a void in my life. I wonder if the people who write this dribble ever venture out of New York or Los Angeles. I wonder if they have ever in their lives met any normal people. It makes me angry and at the same time sad at what has happened to America. There is one place left that will permit the servers of conservative groups to operate, Russia. Yes, it is indeed sad when we must call on Russia as did Edward Snowden to find the freedom to speak our minds. In conclusion, there are a few, no just one that I know of, people with a left view who are willing to tell the truth as it is, not as they want it to be. That man is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. In a recent article Mr. Kennedy points out that Bill Gates who owns at least partially the companies making the Covid vaccine is also moving quickly to control the world’s food production. Mr. Kennedy’s article is being quickly banned from social media. I recommend you look for it under the title “Bill Gates and Neo-Feudalism: A Closer Look at Farmer Bill”. The article will open your eyes about Gates but also the broader picture of how it all fits into an overall plan. Finally, folks, my dear wife Joan admonished me about my hatred of these people and as usual she was right. I have come to realize that they are just useful idiots and agents in the implementation of a much larger plan of which they may be unaware. The plan is, however, diabolical and comes from the dark side. However, we don’t have much time left before the gates, no pun intended, are closed. At least that’s the way I see it, Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.
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