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Darrell Castle talks about how the United States has demonstrated in the Ukraine/Russia war that it can wage very effective economic warfare against other non-complying nations and what this portends for the United States and the world.

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THE WEAPONIZED DOLLAR AND THE COMING CASHLESS WORLD

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday, the 25^th day of March in this the year of our Lord 2022. I will be talking about how the United States has demonstrated in the Ukraine/Russia war that it can wage very effective economic warfare against other non-complying nations and what this portends for the United States and the world.

There are lessons to be drawn from conflict and plans made for fighting the next war. It is a concept like a football coach studying film of his past games to learn his team’s strengths and weaknesses. Generals and Presidents learn from past wars and develop ways to prevent the same losses and to preserve the same victories. That at least partially explains why generals always seem to fight the last war as the Russians seem to be doing now in Ukraine.

We can take more than one lesson from Ukraine right now such as the lesson that nuclear deterrence works as a powerful defense. I have little doubt that except for Russia’s nuclear arsenal, the U.S. and NATO would be actively involved in the air and on the ground in Ukraine. The realization that Russia’s nuclear missiles have prevented NATO’s active involvement has provoked Europe to re-arm and the U.S. is currently conducting seminars about modernizing the U.S. nuclear arsenal. In other words, another nuclear arms race. The U.S. arsenal, especially in space, has apparently been allowed to degrade since the Reagan years, and suddenly U.S. planners are confronted with two powerful nuclear armed enemies.

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Darrell Castle talks about the accusation of treason levied against Tulsi Gabbard by U.S. Senator Mitt Romney

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TRUTH IS NOW TREASON IN AMERICA

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 18^th day of March 2022 and I will be talking about the accusation of treason levied against Tulsi Gabbard by U.S. Senator Mitt Romney. A different title to this Report could be The War for Your Mind as we look at some of the propaganda surrounding the war in Ukraine as well as what is propaganda and how do you separate it from truth.

For many years there have been rumors that the U.S. was offshoring its biological weapons programs to other countries, but who knew that work was being conducted right on the border of Russia. A lot of people knew apparently, but it was not until a few days ago that the cat escaped from the bag. You have other cliches to use, of course, such as the toothpaste is out of the tube and cannot be stuffed back in no matter how much we want it back in.

Victoria Nuland, Under Secretary of State and the author of Russian policy for several presidents was questioned under oath in a public senate hearing. Senator Marco Rubio asked her directly if there are U.S. supported bioweapons labs in Ukraine and she answered him. She seemed to not only acknowledge the existence of the labs but was concerned that their contents might fall into the hands of the invading Russians. Her shocking statement seemed to confirm the Russian claims over many years routinely explained as Russian propaganda or conspiracy theories by the U.S. and its captive media.

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Darrell Castle talks about sanctions and their effects on Russia, Europe, and the United States. He will also try to share some version of truth and reality in this war even though one side of the struggle has total and complete control of information.

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THE EFFECTS OF SANCTIONS

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 11^th day of March 2022. I will be talking about sanctions and their effects on Russia, Europe, and the United States, but also, I will be trying my best to discover some version of truth and reality in this war. Winston Churchill once said that in time of war truth is such a precious commodity that it must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies. It is hard to discover truth considering that one side in the struggle has total and complete control of information, but I keep trying.

How then goes the war? It is hard to tell since much of what we see, hear, and read is nothing but propaganda, but we are here to talk about a tactic today and that tactic is sanctions. Sanction is an aspect of warfare by different means. It is economic warfare, and it is propaganda. The dictionary definition of propaganda is “ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one’s cause or to damage an opposing cause.” It is the noble lie as Plato called it more than a thousand years ago: it may be necessary to inspire people to fling themselves upon distant battlefields to fight some devil. They must, therefore, be convinced that their enemy is the devil.

The war dominates the news in the present, but it will eventually cease. The economic sanctions, however, will affect the world for many years to come. We look now at just some of those effects that occur to me. The economic sanctions imposed on Russia by the U.S., the UK, the EU, and other nations are the most severe ever imposed, and they are having a drastic effect on the Russian economy and the Russian people. The U.S. alone announced 15 sanction programs with more on the way as soon as Washington can think of more. Russian banks, stocks, bonds, corporations, shipping companies, even individual Russians with money abroad have been sanctioned economically.

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Darrell Castle talks about the war in Ukraine from a Russian perspective. This is possible because one can see the other’s point of view in a conflict without agreeing with the other’s tactics. He does not support the Russian invasion in any way, but wants to be free to examine evidence and draw his own conclusions without being told by opinion makers what to think.

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THE RUSSIAN POINT OF VIEW

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday March 4, 2022, and I will be talking about the war in Ukraine from a Russian perspective. This is possible, I believe, because one can see the other’s point of view in a conflict without agreeing with the other’s tactics. I Would not wish to be seen as supporting the Russian invasion in any way because I don’t, but I want to be free to examine evidence and draw my own conclusions without being told by opinion makers what to think.

This is the 10^th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, so a little history is in order. Thirty-one years ago, the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, and the Premier or leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, met to discuss a possible deal to allow the Soviet Union, which was financially broke and desperate, to end peacefully, and with dignity. The deal was that the 16 Soviet satellites or colonies would become separate independent countries. East Germany would remain divided, but the wall would come down and then the two countries would be completely integrated.

Reagan agreed that NATO would not expand beyond its present boundaries at that time. In other words, the Soviet colonies, now freed, would not become part of NATO. No NATO or U.S. troops would be stationed in the Russian borderland countries, and both sides would keep those countries free of offensive missiles. That part of the agreement was later formalized in a treaty to ban intermediate range missiles from that part of Europe. American presidents have denied the authenticity or even existence of the agreement, but Secretary of State James Baker was there, and he took notes, so denial of the deal only adds to the hypocrisy.

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In this report, Darrell Castle acknowledges that there are subjects of vital importance today, like the war in Ukraine for example, but he has decided to turn his attention back to Canada and discuss what the actions of Prime Minister Trudeau mean for us and the rest of the world.

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COURAGE IS CONTAGIOUS

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 25^th day of February in the year of our Lord 2022. I know there are subjects of vital importance today, like the war in Ukraine for example, but I have decided to turn my attention back to Canada and discuss what the actions of Prime Minister Trudeau mean for us and the rest of the world.

I want to begin my discussion of Canada with a discussion of a Canadian pastor named Artur Pawlowski who is the inspiration for the title of this Castle Report. Pastor Pawlowski is also a kind if poster child for the entire incident of Canadian martial law, or as Prime Minister Trudeau calls it, the state of emergency.

The good pastor was ministering to the Canadian truckers in Ottawa by conducting church services for them each Sunday. He was ordered to stop doing so by the Canadian government and he refused to comply. I invite you to watch the you tube video of his arrest if you have any doubts about what I am telling you. Surrounded by a dozen armed officers he is ordered to come along, but he does not comply. Like the Gandhi protesters in India and the followers of Martin Luther King, he drops to his knees with his hands behind his head.

Evil calls to us and tells us to comply, but we are expected to refuse compliance as Pastor Pawlowski did. He did not resist he just refused to assist and forced the officers to drag him to their arrest van. The officers did not hesitate and seemed very willing to carry out their orders. The Pastor had been in trouble with the Prime Minister before since he was once ordered to stop saying negative things about the vaccine. Once again, he refused to comply, so he was ordered to put a warning label on anything he wrote or said about the vaccine. He again refused to comply.

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Darrell Castle talks about the threatened war between Russia and Ukraine with the possible involvement of NATO including the United States.

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ANOTHER WAR OF INTELLIGENCE

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is the 18^th day of February in the year 2022 and I will be talking with you about the threatened war between Russia and Ukraine with the possible involvement of NATO including the United States.

There are, as usual, a lot of hills to die on this week including Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau invoking the Emergency Act to put down with force a peaceful act of civil disobedience. We also have rising inflation with 7.5% in January the worst in 42 years resulting in Americans getting poorer each day as their wages are stolen by inflation, and soaring rates of violent crime. I have decided, however, to turn my attention to the plains of Russia and Ukraine which have been fought over for centuries and are threatening the world again.

The world is tired of war, and it collectively groans at the thought of yet more blood and treasure expended for no good reason. If we have war, it will again be a war of intelligence because the brave leader must rally the people to sacrifice to defeat yet another blood thirsty dictator. Last week I told you that intelligence is provided to the president or leader from a variety of sources. Those sources know what the President wants to do, and their intelligence has a way of reaffirming and bolstering that decision. They gather it for him, and he briefs Congressional leadership to get them on board and then the people are rallied.

Even the New York Times is aware of this tendency, so allow me to quote from the Sunday February 13 edition. “Intelligence agencies prodded by the White House, have declassified information, which in turn has been briefed to Congress, shared with reporters and discussed by Pentagon and State Department spokesman. But the disclosures are complicated by history. Before the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Bush Administration released intelligence that officials said justified pre-emptive action, including purported intercepts of Iraqi military conversations, photos of mobile biological weapons labs and statements accusing Baghdad of building a fleet of drones to launch a chemical attack on the United States. The material was all wrong, reliant on sources who lied, incorrect interpretations of Iraq’s actions and senior officials who looked at raw intelligence and saw what they wanted to see.”

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Darrell Castle talks about the Canadian Truckers Protest, specifically from the standpoint of how the leadership of Canada reacts to people who disagree. It reminds him of what George Carlin once said, “Knowing how to sing the blues is fine, but what’s really important is knowing why the blues need to be sung.”

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UNACCEPTABLE VIEWS

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 11^th day of February in the year of our Lord 2022 and today I will be talking about the Canadian Truckers Protest, specifically from the standpoint of how the leadership of Canada reacts to people who disagree. I realize that I am late to this party, but I still would like to put in my two cents worth on the topic.

The Castle Report was off the air last Friday because of Joan’s illness, so I appreciate all the prayers and well wishes you sent my way. She is doing much better now that she is two weeks into the Covid symptoms. She is basically just very tired, but she hopes to return to work next Monday and after 44 years of marriage I am very grateful for the old girl and what she has meant to my life.

You probably all know the story of the Canadian Truckers by now, and I’m sure you have seen the videos of thousands of trucks lining the highway for 50 miles all rolling into the capitol city of Ottawa. The truckers decided to protest vaccine mandates that were affecting their ability to work and feed their families. The mandates were also imposed by the United States, not just the Canadian government, The difference is that the US mandates, imposed by the Biden administration, restricted the Canadiens from crossing into the US and the Canadian mandate restricted their ability to work at all.

Joan has Covid and I have been taking care of her all week. She is doing much better, so I will talk to you again next Friday!

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Darrell Castle talks about the failure and complete collapse of the Democrat/Joe Biden agenda and the replacement of the Covid crisis with a nuclear crisis.

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WAR MAKES A GOOD SCAPEGOAT

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 28^th day of January in the year 2022. I will be talking about the failure and complete collapse of the Democrat/Joe Biden agenda. The COVID Virus was the convenient or planned vehicle to carry the agenda forward as a never-ending crisis allowing a complete totalitarian revamping of the power of government. The end of the COVID crises demands another to take our minds off the failing poll numbers and to augment government power and that crises is conflict with Russia. Everything is driven by money today, and nothing by truth and public interest or public health. It is an agenda, I will submit, that deserves rejection by all decent Americans.

This quote from the recent Rally Against Mandates held in Washington lays out the destruction that is possible from the agenda’s vaccine mandates. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “We love the United States Constitution. And we have witnessed over the past 20 months a coup d’état against democracy and the demolition, the controlled demolition of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights, and starting with the censorship, James Madison, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson all said the same thing; we put freedom of speech in the first amendment because all of the other rights that we were trying to protect relied on that right. If you give government the license to silence its critics, you have given them the capacity to commit any atrocity they want, and to obliterate all the amendments and rights in the constitution.”

Whether you believe the COVID Virus is a man-made bioweapon accidentally or intentionally released on humanity, or you believe it to be a naturally occurring mutation of nature, as Mr. Kennedy points out, it has been and is being used to obliterate the bill of rights, thus opening the door to totalitarian rule by government. It also illustrates how easy it is to generate world-wide lock-step action by governments and their health organizations egged on by compliant media. In other words, global conspiracy is possible obviously.

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Darrell Castle talks about the first year of President Biden’s term from the perspective of Mr. Biden’s first press conference of the new year.

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JOE BIDEN’S GREATEST ASSET

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 21^st day of January in this the year of our Lord 2022. This is a great opportunity to review one year of Joe Biden since this is exactly one year and one day since his inauguration and coincidently this week was his first press conference of the new year. I confess I did not watch the Presser live as I was at work, but I did see the replay and it left me a little depressed that the President appears to be delusional. That is if he actually believes what he said he believes. What about his first year? Did he have any successes that we can talk about?

The question of what is his greatest asset, is an easy one to answer because his greatest asset for the last year and even for the year of his campaign has been that he is not Donald Trump.  That’s not an asset for the 74 million Trump voters, obviously, but for all those in the extreme left of the Democrat base it is an asset. The harder question to answer is whether it is still an asset. My answer based mostly on gut feeling or instinct is no it is not. Joe is doing well though in his eyes at least as he expressed in last Wednesday’s press conference. Everything is just fine according to the President.

Everything’s changing. It’s getting better the president said. If you take a look at what we’ve been able to do, we made enormous progress. If you don’t see it that way its probably because there are a lot of things you just don’t understand. The polls confirm that the American people overwhelming agree with his policies and all those polls that show otherwise, well he doesn’t believe them. I won’t call those answers delusional because politicians commonly are so narcissistic, they simply cannot come to grips with their own failure, but the polls this morning are dangerously close to the 20’s.