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Darrell Castle talks about the riots in Los Angeles currently ongoing as well as attempts to put them down with National Guard troops and even U.S. Marines. The question, what does that portend for America and our future?

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ANARCHY AND TRUE CHAOS

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday, the 13^th day of June in the year of our Lord 2025. I will be talking about the riots in LA currently ongoing as well as attempts to put them down with National Guard troops and even US Marines and what that portends for America and our future.

I am recording this Castle Report as the chaos and anarchy rages on in the once great and beautiful city of Los Angeles California. Those words, chaos and anarchy, were the words chosen by Senator John Fetterman (D-PA). “I unapologetically stand for free speech, peaceful demonstrations, and immigration—but this is not that. This is anarchy and true chaos. My party loses the moral high ground when we refuse to condemn setting cars on fire, destroying buildings, and assaulting law enforcement.”

Senator Fetterman’s party, the Democrat Party, at least the California branch of it, is apparently convinced that they are gaining a political advantage from the pain they have inflicted on their city and state. Governor Gavin Newsom is treating the event as a campaign launch for the 2028 Democrat nomination for the office of President. He makes tearful speeches and he blusters like a tough guy saying go ahead and arrest me and get it over with. I guess he thinks we are all on pins and needles awaiting his martyrdom.

The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, is at least presently in the state, unlike when she allowed two of the most beautiful cities in America Pacific Palisades and Malibu to burn to the ground just a few weeks ago. She and Governor Newsom turned in mutually disgraceful performances by allowing the city to burn and now, well they seem to have some weird affinity for fire. Newsom and Bass together have only one answer to the problems of Los Angeles and that is Trump did it. They have no answers, no policy solutions, just Trump must be responsible.

The recent presidential election and even current polling data seem lost on them. Never mind the reverse morality of letting your city be overrun by people crossing the border illegally. They don’t see the effect that thousands of people flying Mexican flags while burning cars, attacking police, looting etc. has on the rest of the country. The optics are very bad but they just don’t get it. They say the protests are peaceful and just over exuberance, while in the background fires are burning. It’s like that scene from the movie Police Story where Leslie Neilson’s character says nothing to see here folks please move along while the background has a view of Warsaw after the German invasion.

Bass and Newsom are representative of many politicians who focus on power plays of jurisdictional dispute and efforts to appeal to emotions for people who don’t want to go back to where they came from while Mr. and Ms. Average American are focused on the need for law and order. It’s pretty easy for a person living in my city of Memphis to see those videos and conclude, thank God I don’t live in LA where the politicians don’t seem to care anything about the people who elect them except as political talking points and numbers.

For a few days after the presidential election, it appeared that Newsom was pretending to move closer to the center because he noticed the results of pretending to be on the extreme left. Perhaps he noticed that illegal immigration was the number one issue to normal Americans so these riots were a perfect chance for him to appear sane. Just say a few words that might lead someone to think you care about law and order. Just give the appearance that you care about the lives and property of the people of California, but no, you just can’t seem to read the handwriting clearly on the wall.

Instead of law and order you say this; “He’s exacerbated the conditions. He’s lit the proverbial match. He’s putting fuel on this fire. Donald Trump needs to pull back. He needs to stand down. Donald Trump is inflaming these conditions. This is Donald Trump’s problem right now, and if he can’t solve it we will.” This man, Newsom, is pitifully out of touch with the reality of the situation. His regrets are not of the people whose property is being destroyed and certainly not for ICE agents and other law enforcement who are targeted for doing their jobs. People across the country could see the slick politician for what he really is.

If you want to talk about a bad look just look at the videos of people burning cars, throwing rocks, and now looting wrecked businesses all while waving Mexican flags. As the Babylon Bee paraphrasing George Bush put it, they do the rioting Americans just won’t do. These people obviously had difficult or unhappy circumstances in their own country and so they came here without the legal necessity of applying for entry. They riot and write death to America on the buildings they burn so one has to ask, why are you here. If you hate America, why are you here and why do you resist going back to the place that you obviously prefer. Why do you resist with violence the efforts of law enforcement to give you an all expenses paid trip back to where you came from.

Normal people must wonder, how could you choose foreign rioters over your own people. Isn’t your first obligation to your own. Your own would be your family first that is your wife or husband and your children who should come first, then those around you similarly situated. If someone kicked in your door and invaded your home would you mind. If someone kicked in your door, set fire to your car and home, would you mind. If someone burned your business and destroyed your financial way of life would you mind. If someone raped your wife or children would you mind.

Saying all that leaves me with a question and that is how you could choose people who do that over us normal people. I just don’t get it folks because many people repeatedly vote for politicians who pledge to do just that and I mean by that choose the perpetrators of violence and chaos over normal people. This situation is going down a very scary path and we might never be able to recover as people. The scary path is that Steve Bannon just might be right and we are at war. We are obviously constantly at war abroad as in Ukraine and the never-ending struggle for dominance in the Middle East but the war against Western Civilization is being fought in our streets right now.

War is a terrible thing and total war i.e. with fully committed resources is designed to kill and destroy and it doesn’t particularly care who gets killed. For example, the last total war was World War Two and in that struggle the allies sent 1000 bombers in a single raid over German cities with incendiaries and high explosives which killed hundreds of thousands. Were those civilians on the ground under the bombs innocent. That depends on how you look at it I guess because the people at home knew that if their own people were to be spared the war had to be won. They had an advantage over the normals of today and that was almost universal agreement on who should win. Now, after decades of propaganda in schools, under Marxist professors and with almost total media ownership by the left it is different.

Even with all that I still don’t get it. The people burning cars throwing rocks, destroying a once great city all while waving the flag of a foreign nation, I don’t get the attraction. My first reaction to anarchy and true chaos is apparently different from that of almost 50% of the population. My first thought is if they are illegal send them back and if they are criminals put them in prison then send them back unless you can work out a deal as was done with El Salvador to imprison them there.

This Castle Report, then, is not so much a report on what is happening but is instead my opinion of what that means. For example, this weekend the U.S. Army will celebrate 250 years of its existence. That is 250 years of sacrifice for our freedom and way of life in order to preserve it for future generations. I know what you must be thinking is that many of those wars were unnecessary but I’m not talking about the politicians I’m talking about the soldiers. They believed they were fighting for freedom and our way of life when they fought the enemies assigned to them by their civilian leadership.

This same weekend that we celebrate the army the revolutionary forces burning LA have announced a nationwide series of street protests which have a chance of morphing into LA in your neighborhood. Right now, in LA we have a kinetic battlefront in the ongoing war against the United States of America itself. This war is an effort designed to destroy this country so that it can fit nicely into the Great Reset of the World Economic Forum and the Agenda 2030 of the United Nations as well as whatever exists in the satanic minds of George Soros and Bill Gates.

This appears to me to be a well-organized resistance movement against the United States as a country. I’ve seen many videos of tactical gear of the kind the military uses being delivered to the rioters new and still in the original boxes. It has been planned alright and so the question is how we resist. I suggest it should not be by electing more Gavin Newsoms. His reaction is to file a lawsuit against President Trump. I have a copy of it on my desk but I decided not to spend my time on it today.

In conclusion folks, the effort to rip America apart from the inside out by tearing apart the very souls of our people must be resisted. I haven’t even mentioned the deployment of thousands of National Guard as well as 700 Marines from the 1^st Division. The president said the Marines are there to protect federal property and I’m certain they can do that. I have some experience with the Marine Corps and I know that in my day we were offensive troops and you didn’t send us unless you wanted people to be dead. Deploying active-duty military inside the U.S. is problematic, granted, unless this really is looked at as war.

Finally, folks, do we have the right to have our own country. Do we have the right to exist as people who live in freedom and leave others alone. I submit that we do and I recommend that we get to work preserving that right now.

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for listening.

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Darrell Castle talks about the recent attack on one leg of Russia’s nuclear triad and what that means for the United States, for Europe, and of course for Russia.

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ATTACKING THE NUCLEAR DETERRENT

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 6^th of June in the year of our Lord 2025. I will be talking about a recent attack on one leg of Russia’s nuclear triad and what that means for the United States, for Europe, and of course for Russia. This, I suppose, is the second part of my Castle Report which focused on the changing face of war and my conclusion that it means the end of the aircraft carrier as the dominant force of naval warfare, and the end of the tank as the dominant force of land warfare.

Yes, the blitzkrieg of Heinz Guderian and the great carrier battles are most likely relics of past wars now but the future of war looks even more terrifying to me. Why, well because death now comes from an unmanned robot controlled by some technician perhaps thousands of miles away in a Quonset hut, with little to no human interaction.

 Today  the attack by Ukraine deep inside Russia severely damaged Russia’s strategic nuclear delivery system. The three great nuclear powers, the U.S., Russia, and China all have what is normally referred as a nuclear triad which prevents any leg of the three-legged stool from keeping that nation from responding to a nuclear attack.

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Darrell Castle discusses the war between India and Pakistan which began over an apparent terrorist attack in the disputed territory of Kashmir a few weeks ago. He alleges that the real winner in the war so far has been China.

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WHO WON THE INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 30^th day of May in the year of our Lord 2025. I will be talking about the war between India and Pakistan which began over an apparent terrorist attack in the disputed territory of Kashmir a few weeks ago.

Yes, rather than hide or delay the lead I will tell you right away that there is no real winer as yet but in the initial battle the winner was China and in this report I will attempt to defend that view. First, to set up my argument it will be necessary to review a little history. It is often said that generals fight the last war and in many respects I believe that to be an accurate assessment.

For example, coming out of WWl the navies of the world viewed the battleship as the future of naval warfare because it had proven so decisive in the naval battles of that war. The air arm of the navy didn’t begin until the 1920’s and that was just a primitive experiment. In the 1930’s seagoing nations started to develop aircraft and aircraft carriers and to experiment with them but the battleship was still expected to dominate the next naval war. Even the Japanese put their effort into battleships including the Yamato, the world’s largest.

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Darrell Castle discusses how thoroughly, completely, and totally the American people have been lied to and how Joe Biden’s diagnosis of metastasized cancer is evidence of those lies.

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THE OPPOSITE OF DEMOCRACY

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 23^rd day of May in the year of our Lord 2025. This is Memorial Day weekend which is a time we are supposed to pause and remember those who fell in battle throughout the 250 years of America’s existence. Just a three-day weekend for most people but for some a sad time and a reminder of lives that could have been. The purpose of this report today is not to discuss Memorial Day but to discuss how thoroughly, completely, and totally we have been lied to and how Joe Biden’s diagnosis of metastasized cancer is evidence of those lies.

The lies I just mentioned are of such profound importance because they go to the very heart of this Constitutional Republic or what the Democrat Politicians often refer to as “our democracy.” The lies were not just the usual wink of a politician’s eye as if to say you know what I mean, right. No, these lies were not subtle and they were designed to systemically and ruthlessly mislead us as to the condition of Joe Biden and to deceive us in order to place an unelected cohort in the office of president of the United States.

Every institution and every person that vouched for him and told us that he was sharp as a tack and that he ran rings around everybody should lose all credibility and should never be believed or trusted again. When he was a non-campaigning candidate in 2020 apparently just sitting at home while others did the work and spoke for him most of us knew something was wrong. He was elected anyway or was he.

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Darrell Castle talks about Present Trump’s trip to the Middle East and how it reflects Trump’s vision of the world — how it can be more peaceful and prosperous for everyone.

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WHY NEO-CONS HATE TRUMP

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 16^th day of May in the year of our Lord 2025. I will be talking about President Trump’s trip to the Middle East which should be finishing just about as I record this report. The trip reflects Trump’s vision of the world and how it can be more peaceful, and prosperous for everyone, in other words the anti-neo-con view of the world.

President Trump is currently on a Presidential trip to several Middle East countries including Saudi Arabia, his first stop, and then several of the Gulf Arab States including Qatar, the second stop. While he was in Riyadh, he spoke to the new leader of Syria which is interesting because until the fall of Assad that man was listed as a wanted international terrorist. Apparently Mr. Erdogan of Turkey joined in the conversation by phone and lobbied Trump to lift the sanctions on Syria which Trump agreed to do. His reception by the Middle East countries has been phenomenal and met with similar joy as his election was met with joy by his supporters. That joy is in reality hope for what could be and hopefully will be with the Trump Presidency.

When Air Force One entered Saudi air space six Saudi jet fighters came out and flew escort for the descent into Riyadh. The Crown Prince, Bin Salman came out to personally greet his arrival something he publicly did not do when President Biden visited. A long purple carpet stretched from the airplane steps to the waiting limousines while American music played from loudspeakers. The Saudis even rigged up a mobile McDonalds restaurant on the trailer of a large truck in reference to the President’s legendary fondness for McDonalds cheeseburgers.

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Darrell Castle talks about the use of politics to address the world’s problems and how that use or lack of use, specifically regarding the disputes in the Middle East and in Ukraine, makes good political campaigning but fails to actually solve the problem.

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WHEN POLITICS FAILS

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday, the 9^th day of May in the year of our Lord 2025. I will be talking about the use of politics to address the world’s problems and how that use repeatedly fails. Specifically, how the use or lack of use of politics to solve the disputes in the Middle East and in Ukraine make good political campaigning but when push comes to shove politics fails to solve the problems.

The dictionary defines politics as: “the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power.”

We might be able to glean something from that definition, but it really means that normally politics is a precursor to war rather than preventing war. This Report then is not really about politics but about war. Yes, I suppose you might be able to conclude that the Castle Report is a report on war and my opposition to it. Here is an analogy, your kid sister is waiting on the school bus to bring her home from school and some bully slaps her and runs away. When confronted the bully denies having anything to do with it but you know and everyone knows that he did it. Retaliation is therefore a must. That bully has to be shown that he cannot insult you and yours with impunity so you attack him when he is on the way home just as he did your sister.

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Today, Darrell Castle talks about remembering two anniversaries that are very significant in the history of the United States and the entire world. He shares how he believes they affect us today many years past those anniversaries, some of which he has personally experienced.

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ANNIVERSARIES TO REMEMBER

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 2^nd day of May in the year of our Lord 2025. I pause today to remember some anniversaries that are very significant in the history of the United States of America and of the entire world for that matter. In addition, I will endeavor to talk about the world as it appears to me today many years past those anniversaries some of which I have personally experienced.

Next week the 8^th of May is the 80^th anniversary of the German surrender in WWll. I talk of that surrender today because it will happen before my next Castle Report. In Russia they remember what is called Victory in Europe Day on May 9^th instead of the 8^th. Russia usually has a military parade before the Kremlin in Moscow to memorialize the Great Patriotic War as they call it. However, they don’t memorialize what happened for 40 years after the war. The Stalinist show trials and millions of dead are nothing to celebrate I guess. From my American viewpoint I talk about the anniversary to honor those who served and especially those who died. This year, 11 world leaders have announced that they will attend the celebrations in Moscow including the Chinese Premier Xi but I haven’t heard of any Americans in attendance. If I were president I would be there or at least send a high-ranking representative.

When General Eisenhower visited the airborne divisions on the night they were to jump into occupied France for the D-Day Invasion he said we may never see their like again and at this point I will say that he was right, at least I don’t see their like right now. Long before D-Day the Americans had some catching up to do because Germany had been fighting in Europe for two years and only Britain held them at bay across the Channel for two years alone.

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Darrell Castle talks about the war in which Europe currently finds itself as well as the seemingly inevitable war against Iran and its affiliates.

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WAR LASTS FOREVER

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 25^th day of April in the year of our Lord 2025. I talk of war today as we are about two weeks away from May 8^th which is the 80^th anniversary of the German surrender in WWll or what became known as victory in Europe Day. I speak today not of the German surrender but of the war in which Europe still finds itself as well as the seemingly inevitable war against Iran and its affiliates.

It is very easy to get into a war and so very hard to get out of one. The efforts to resolve the conflict between Ukraine and Russia have become more difficult because neither side has been defeated. They have killed each other and invented new technological methods of warfare but neither is in a position of absolute defeat. Many seem disappointed that the war might end and they look for ways to make it continue. The only way it can continue is if the United States and Europe remain committed by supplying the money and hardware the Ukrainians need to continue the struggle.

Even if the U.S. decided to continue the supply chain the Ukrainians are running out of bodies. Even U.S. money and weapons might not be enough and so some are urging the use of U.S. and European troops to continue the fight against Russia. France seems to be seriously considering the idea. I have read that the usual argument in favor of U.S. commitment is that China is supplying Russia and some Chinese officers have been captured inside Ukraine where they were apparently learning about the incredible drone warfare campaign Ukraine has developed. I guess you don’t need so many bodies if you can fight each other with robots.

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Darrell Castle discusses the Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community just issued and signed off on by the office of the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.

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THREAT ASSESSMENT

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Good Friday on the 18^th day of April 2025. I will be talking about the Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community just issued and signed off on by the office of the Director of National Intelligence who at this moment is Tulsi Gabbard. This report gives the assessment of threats the U.S. faces from each country in the world where a threat is perceived to exist and is the combined assessment of the 17 intelligence agencies that are under the authority of the national director.

This report, which is published annually, is hot off the presses, but I don’t recommend that you read all 33 pages as I have unless you have a high tolerance for being terrified. Yes, once you have read this report you will wonder how the people who deal with this information every day manage to sleep at night. I will take this opportunity to share the highlights of the threat assessment as determined by U.S, Intelligence with you so you don’t have to read it and risk being terrorized.

The forward to the report introduces us to what is about to be presented. Terrorist and transnational criminal organizations, and I suppose that means drug cartels and their national supporters directly threaten our citizens and are directly responsible for more than 55,000 U.S. deaths from synthetic opioids in the last year, a 33% increase over the previous year.. It is amazing to me just how destructive the scourge of drugs has been to America. Those who are addicted seem to have an uncontrollable desire for the drug which enslaves them. I suppose the drugs at first, promise a good time or relief from bad times, but deliver, instead, misery and death.

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Darrell Castle endeavors to give his opinion on the subject of tariffs and what they mean for the United States.

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RESETTING THE ORDER

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 11^th day of April in the year of our Lord 2025. It’s difficult to leave the subject of war and talk about tariffs but I have been waiting for the wars to pause long enough for me to do it. The wars haven’t cooperated, but I have to pause them for this week since the subject of tariffs can no longer be ignored.

I don’t claim to be an economist but I do know something about economic history so, I will, therefore, endeavor to give an opinion on the subject of tariffs and what they mean for us. I used to study the marketing theory of one of the great marketers in the world today, Dan Kennedy. People would pay handsomely for Dan’s advice and they would often ask him, so what should I do, this or that, and his answer was, yes. In other words, he would advise them to implement all those ideas at the same time. President Trump seems to have adopted that shotgun approach to how he deals with the US economy and its relationship with the world.

The tariff seems to be the base of Trump’s economic program and he has announced the implementation of 10% baseline tariffs on all imports but he has now temporarily paused them for 90 days. My understanding is that all reciprocal tariffs are paused except China which stands at 125%. He said that “yippy” globalists and “queasy” skeptics fueled his decision. I guess that means people were getting nervous and that made him nervous.