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Darrell Castle discusses his belief that the riots, especially in France but now also spreading across Europe, spell doomsday for the economic state that has been building in Europe since World War II.

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DOOMSDAY IN EUROPE

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 30^th day of October in the year of our Lord 2026. The title sounds a little alarmist I know but is it true and  I will endeavor to make my case for my belief that the riots especially in France but now also spreading across Europe spell doomsday for the economic state that has been building in Europe since World War II.

The end of World War II left a devastated world and only the United States was somewhat exempt from the damage to its infrastructure. Vast sums would have to be spent on rebuilding not just the allied nations but Germany and Japan as well. The victorious nations met at Bretton Woods in the U.S. to discuss the post war economy and they decided that the U.S. dollar would have reserve currency status and all trade would be conducted in dollars.

The U.S. as the most powerful surviving nation would provide virtually all defense obligations and Europe would then be able to use its own revenue for rebuilding and caring for their populations. The situation shifted a little with the formation of NATO in 1948 when the Europeans agreed to spend about 3% of GDP on their own defense but almost none of them ever lived up to the agreement.

Until August 15^th, 1971, the dollar was backed at least partially by gold so it was somewhat stable but after the gold standard ended it was backed by nothing but promises and debt. The U.S. and Europe were unable to provide all they had promised economically, but to stay in power those promises had to be kept and exceeded with each election cycle. The only way to keep them was through the accumulation of massive amounts of unpayable debt until finally interest on the debt became the largest or at least close to the largest item in the budget. In the U.S. it became so bad and so embarrassing the congress and the president decided to stop pretending and just refuse to pass a budget at all.

The rest of this background might remind you a little of the Soviet Union in the pre-Gorbachev era. The Soviets had all these Eastern European countries that they conquered at the end of World War ll. They took the countries from Germany at the end of the war but they had no industrial base to pay for it all as the U.S. had. So, they had 16 dependent colonies they could point to and draw military forces from but these colonies produced nothing and were nothing but a drain on the Soviet economy.

Reagan and Gorbachev reached an agreement and the Berlin wall came down and with it the Soviet Empire. These countries were suddenly free to join the west or chart their own course. Today, in Europe there exists a similar problem and in some ways it is even worse because there is no Soviet army to suppress the violence. The worst part, though, is that today we are not concerned about dead weight countries that could no longer be afforded but people by the millions who can no longer be afforded. These people who are essentially dead weights upon the tax paying people of all European countries. There is no longer even close to enough money to pay for it all so the governments have attempted to pay by accumulating debt which each politician shifts to the next generation and with each election cycle the situation gets worse.

Let me give you an example from France where the riots seem to be the most widespread. My argument is that what the rioters are demanding is the actual cause of their anger and their protests and anger makes the problem much worse because the government does not have the courage to confront them with the truth. According to the Molinari Institute which studies and reports economics in France the highest line item in the budget at a whopping 57% of GDP is government.

So, what that means is that 57% of everything produced for sale in France goes to fund the French Government. In fact, it would be fair to say that hardly anything except government id being produced, well, less than 50% anyway. Those who work in France, and obviously most of them work for the government produce nothing, the average Frenchman pays 55.6 % of his wages in tax. So, yes the government certainly does affect the cost of living just not in the way French politicians try to tell us.

The French people aren’t buying it though, and they apparently refuse to accept any responsibility for their growing impoverishment. The protests, if that’s what we are supposed to call riots and anarchy ensure the state remains bloated, and in massive unpayable debt. They insist that younger taxpayers shoulder the burden of caring for an aging population. They demand younger retirement and longer vacations each year and the government either provides those things or goes away. No politicians wants to lose their grip on power so the elections go to those who promise the most.

Their demands continue to burden the young but the young don’t seem to understand that and instead they demand to jump on the gravy train at an ever-younger age. The French people have virtually stopped having babies so the supply of labor at the early end of the Ponzi Scheme is drying up. The government responds by importing millions of unskilled, third world migrants who have no way to support themselves except government largesse so the burden on the indebted state grows bigger each day.

The government, through its captive media constantly reminds all those hostile rioting hordes that whatever jobs they may have had will soon be going away because of AI. Once AI takes all the jobs and leaves the rioters with nothing and a government that has nothing but debt I wonder what will happen to France and virtually every other European country. Even Spain, perhaps the most left-wing country in Europe, is burning and this is a problem without a solution, at least there is no solution that does not involve pain, and military force, and would also require the cooperation of the European people which at this point does not exist.

There are indications that the reported economic issues the rioters mention are in reality just excuses to cover the usual left-Islamist alliance. The rioters virtually always have what they say is the Palestinian cause at the forefront. Palestinian flags adorn virtually every march. With each riot and each looting, burning episode the frustration and anger grows. Hundreds of police have been injured and thousands have been arrested but it goes on.

The rioters seem to feel nothing but contempt for the country they now live in. According to reporters, the city of Paris braces for new assaults each day. This weekend is Halloween and no one seems to know if that will have any effect. My guess is that it will provide an excuse to increase the violence since the mob thinks the government is afraid of them and  is on the defensive. Business owners in Paris have resorted to hiring mercenary contractors to protect their businesses.

The mob burns its way through irreplaceable landmarks and monuments in Paris and the police stand guard but they can’t protect everything at once. The bottom line of the problem is France’s catastrophic financial situation. Government spending accounts for more than half of GDP so all those Frenchmen and migrants produce almost nothing and demand more and more. France spends very little on defense but debt is now 120% of GDP. In other words, everything produced for sale in France for a year would fall short by 20% of paying the debt.

So, the French people shovel 55.6% of everything they earn into social programs and they don’t think they are getting their fair share. It doesn’t seem to occur to them that since most of them work for the French Government all they are doing is moving the same pile of money or debt around and the only benefactors are the banks so same song second verse. The economy and the socialist French Government cannot afford what they promise to provide to the people and it all collapses under the weight of trying.

The debts they have accumulated cannot be paid so they must borrow more to pay the interest and the only solution—drastic cutbacks is one the people will not accept. For that reason I use the term doomsday because it seems to me to be a terminal problem that cannot be solved and the rioters the French have imported will eventually do what Charles Martel prevented them from doing hundreds of years ago and that is destroy France and put an end to Western Civilization.

The problem of government confiscation of wages in the form of taxation and government spending representing most of GDP prevents the private sector from coming to the rescue because it takes up all investment capital and leaves no productive side to the economy.

This appears to be a violent rebellion by groups of angry, discontented people most of whom are from immigrant backgrounds who seem persuaded they are all oppressed much more so than in the hell holes they left for France. That is a situation easily coopted by the alliance between the radical leftists and the Islamists with the Palestinian cause as a driver.

Finally, folks, Europe is far ahead of the U. S. in terms of secularism and the abandonment of religion. They have no God and when that happens the state becomes the god who failed them. This problem is an unsolvable doomsday loop because their politicians are soulless, nihilists who have no answers except for more of what caused the problem. They know nothing and they demand everything. They tell the world up front and openly they are going to take our civilization by force. Will we surrender or fight.

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for listening.

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

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MOUNTAINS OF VIOLENCE ACROSS FRANCE

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

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

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

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

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AIRCRAFT CARRIERS HEADED IN THE WRONG DIRECTION

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

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

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

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

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THE HEAD OF THE SNAKE SPEAKS

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

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

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

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PRESIDENT TRUMP SPEAKS TO THE UN

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

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

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

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

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TWO HUNDRED DAYS OF WAR

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

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

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

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Darrell Castle shares his thoughts about murder and mayhem as he looks back at the anniversary of 9-11 and the 1st anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

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9-11 PLUS TWENTY-FIVE YEARS

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 11^th day of September in the year of our Lord 2026. My beat is murder and mayhem today as we look back at the anniversary of what the media tells us is the worst terrorist attack in American history. Along with the 25^th anniversary of 9-11 we look at the 1^st anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Yes, folks I am sorry to have to report to you that in the last 25 years things have gotten worse in America as murder has gone mainstream and more sympathy is often generated for the murderers than for their victims. For example, just look at the trial of Lindsay Clancy, also this month, a trial in which a jury could not convict a woman who admitted to strangling her 3 children. Her daughter was 5 years old and there were two sons aged 3 and two. She strangled them one at a time with her bare hands but she generated a lot more sympathy, especially from mothers than her children were able to generate.

I’m afraid that as a society we are sinking further and further into the abyss as cold-blooded murder goes mainstream and simple respect for human life as something created by God in his image disappears. I knew something was desperately wrong and that this nation and its people had changed radically when in December of 2024 a man named Luigi Mangione on a street in Washington D.C. shot and killed United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. He shot Mr. Thompson in the back and the murder was videotaped by security cameras.

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

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THE SCIENCE AND THE CIA

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 4^th of September in the year of our Lord 2026 and I will be talking about the newly revealed evidence linking the science, i.e. Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the CIA and their formal institutional partnership that apparently provided cover for the CIA’s biological threat research.

Before the partnership between NIH and the CIA congress moved to ban federal funding for gain-of-function research. The new policy requires enhanced review and reporting requirements for life sciences research including independent, top-down assessments for projects that may increase the harmful consequences of biological agents. So, a reasonable question might be why do you want to make any biological agent more harmful to the human race.

The answer to that question is obviously to make the virus more lethal so it can be used to kill more humans. The new safeguards also prevent funding research projects in countries without adequate oversight. So, I guess that means no more NIA funding of bat virus in China. Congress is trying, it seems to me; to indicate its collective shock and to foster the belief that it had no idea the science was using taxpayer money to fund Chinese research into making virus pathogens more deadly to humans, then unleashing them on humanity.

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

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OH CANADA CAN’T WE WORK THIS OUT?

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 28^th day of August in the year of our Lord 2026. I will be talking about the trade problems between the U.S. and Canada which Prime Minister Mark Carney has described as a war. My argument is that he is right because it is war but not the one he wants you to concentrate on.

This war is one between the very elite group of globalists who are also the enemies of humanity as they attempt to control all humanity through their control of money, credit, interest, and banking in general. Before he became Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney was head of the London Central Bank and I have no doubt that he was installed in Canada to be sure globalist control continues.

Now the bankers appear to be very nervous with the U.S. mid-terms coming up so if only Trump could be damaged by this “trade war.” The tactic or strategy is what Carney and his operatives in the American Democrat Party call the doughnut strategy. They call it that because they want to go around the American President through Democrat leadership directly to the American people. Convince them that trump is at economic war with nice, friendly Canada and maybe the usual group of globalist bankers can take back control in November.