December 6, 2024 - SOCIAL MEDIA CENSORSHIP

Due to recent issues with YouTube and Facebook, I am moving more of my podcast storage to my private account cloud storage as opposed to the more popular "we don't like what you have to say" sites. YouTube recently gave me a strike for "medical misinformation" despite the fact that I was quoting RFK Jr., and DISAGREEING with his statement. Facebook recently removed posts claiming it was spam, despite the fact that I was not linking to any sites that required payments, any of your data, or any other requirement... other than viewing/listening to my podcast. Is this a Trump retaliation? I am not a Trump supporter and I never had issues before.

Till these matters are fixed to my satisfaction, I will simply provide a link to my website, via my FB page, whenever I put out a new podcast audio/video. Both links can be found on the main page. You may want to save newsfolder19.com in your browser.

November 26, 2024 - ENVIRO-WACKOS VS. ENVIRO-WACKOS

HOYT LAKES, Minn. (Northern News Now) - The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is delaying a decision on NewRange’s (formerly PolyMet), NorthMet facility permit to mine until next summer.

The company has been pushing to mine copper and nickel just south of Babbitt for nearly 20 years.

In 2018, the DNR gave the company the green light to issue a permit to mine. However, after pushback from environmental groups, the Minnesota Supreme Court reversed the permit in August 2023, once again dashing miners’ hopes.

As a result, what you have on one hand, is a group of environmentalists who oppose mining operations - supposedly because mining can be detrimental to the land - while on the other hand, you have a group of environmentalists who want to eliminate fossil fuels in favor of electric vehicles, which, of course, need the mined minerals for battery storage capacity.

Isn’t environmentalism suppose to be so easy for all of us to switch to? Shouldn’t “save the planet” be a goal that’s easy to attain? Apparently, the answer is NO!

Thanks to legal wrangling, the decision is now back in the DNR’s hands. The agency is mulling whether to reissue NewRange’s permit to mine in light of the company considering changes to its original mine plan. However, the DNR announced it will delay a decision until August. With that said, it will be at least 2026 until mining operations could begin.

One group of environmentalists, Friends of the Boundary Waters. are celebrating the decision to delay. “The people of Minnesota should be thrilled by DNR’s decision to pause the proceedings on PolyMet’s permit to mine./.... /We hope that DNR will take additional steps to put Minnesota’s water first and throw out this dangerous mining proposal that, time and time again, has been shown to not meet legal or environmental standards.” Apparently the Friends of the Boundary Waters representative isn’t up-to-date. It’s no longer PolyMet, it’s New Range.

If you listen to my podcast, you may recall a recent story on how many of northeast Minnesota’s voters have switched from Democrat to Republican. Northeast Minnesota is mining country, something Democrats seemingly object to. However, that attitude is in opposition to the same party’s attitude of needing to switch from fossil fuels to electric vehicles.

So here’s my question for all the enviro-wackos out there: What’s more important? Saving the air with no limits on how much it costs… or saving the land and waters with no limits on how much it costs? I’m all in for not polluting neither air nor land any more than necessary, but until the nut jobs can get their own act together, let’s use all sources of energy available. AI, Crypto, and the full electrification of the energy grid (which is idiotic) require it.

November 22, 2004 - TRUMP AND RFK JR APPOINTMENT

The announcement that Donald Trump has appointed Robert F Kennedy as the US Secretary of Health and Human Services, has sent shock waves through the health and scientific community.

Good! It’s about time we have someone, who hopefully, will start going after Big Pharma, and show more support for natural health solutions rather than drugs, more drugs, and even more drugs. I’ve stated many times on this podcast, Big Pharma won’t be happy until every human is taking a drug that lines Big Pharma’s profits.

I don’t know if Kennedy is the best person for Health and Human Services, but… at 70 years old, he’s probably in better shape than the mind-numb robots brought in to endorse the drug industry.

When it comes to vaccines, here’s my question: Is he an anti-vaxxer in the form of, “You should not get vaccinated” (which I am not), or… is he an anti-vaxxer in the form of, “You should be able to make your own decision” (which is what I am).

If vaccines have a proven record, I encourage them... for those who want them. However, for new vaccines, there is no way in H.E.double-hockey sticks, that they should be mandated (aka, Covid). No vaccine should ever be mandated… even if it is 100% effective.

Yes, I know the argument. Your unvaxxed child will make my vaxxed child sick… uh, no! Not if vaccines actually work. That’s like saying me not eating a hamburger will make you fat.

Kennedy has claimed vaccines can cause autism, and also stated “there’s no vaccine that is safe and effective”. He called the Covid-19 vaccine the “deadliest vaccine ever made”. Barring the rare exception, I would say the first two are just plain wrong. On the other hand, I’d say the jury is still out on the Covid vaccine. I know several people who were negatively affected by the Covid stab and jab. Did some people die from fighting off those effects? If you have an open mind… probably.

To me, a real vaccine prevents someone from getting the disease or illness. The polio vaccine, after its initial debacle, kept people from getting polio. It didn’t just make polio less debilitating. A lot of people who got the Covid jab… still got Covid. It’s not a real vaccine in my opinion.

Kennedy’s opinions on other health issues, I’m sure, will make for more podcast topics. Just ask yourself one question. Why are we the least healthy of all the advanced nations? Follow the money!

(November 21, 2024) - TRUMP AND THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

This story appeared on apnews.com - I have edited it down, and included my comments (in italics).

Throughout his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump heaped scorn on the federal Department of Education, describing it as being infiltrated by “ radicals, zealots and Marxists.” In my opinion, this is probably true, at least to some extent, in every government department.

Supposedly, he, and definitely I, would like to have the department cease to exist. So why does it exist, anyway? The agency’s main role is financial. So there you have it. It’s main purpose is to steal money through taxation and hand it out to someone who isn’t you.

Annually, it distributes billions in federal money to colleges and schools and manages the federal student loan portfolio. And we all know how that whole student loan portfolio is going. It’s not. Many have not paid back, and Biden has been forgiving their debt, via the sweat of your brow (taxation). Trump’s plan for student debt is uncertain. Here’s an idea for a plan. Make them pay it back. Whether it’s a car loan, a home loan, or an lemon-cart loan, sound financial responsibility requires all loans be paid back, including education. Forgiveness in one industry only encourages other industries to beg for the same forgiveness. Eventually it becomes a financial time-bomb, destroying economies.

Closing the department would mean redistributing numerous duties to another agency. Or… many of those duties could just be eliminated. Trump has vowed to cut off federal money for schools and colleges that push “critical race theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content” and I completely agree. Education should be about learning facts and teaching critical thinking skills that benefit the economy, not social engineering.

Federal funding makes up a relatively small portion of public school budgets — roughly 14%. So if such aid did end, schools would still have 86% of their budgets. Considering fraud and inefficiencies exist everywhere in taxpayer funded entities, I’d say a few good audits (actually a lot of audits) could make the education industry far more frugal with your tax dollars.

As for civil rights issues in education, Trump in his campaign platform, said he would pursue civil rights cases to “stop schools from discriminating on the basis of race.” He has described diversity and equity policies in education as “explicit unlawful discrimination” and said colleges that use them will pay fines and have their endowments taxed.

While the Education Department does not directly accredit colleges and universities, it oversees the system by reviewing all federally recognized accrediting agencies. So, for all intents and purposes, it does accredit such schools. Institutions of higher education must be accredited to gain access to federal money for student financial aid. Herein, lies a problem. Without federal money for accrediting agencies, many of them might disappear, meaning… there will be lobbyists in the way.

My answer is this: Like abortion rights, let’s move education back to local and state authorities. What works in one state may not be what works in another. An agricultural state has different needs than a high-tech state, or a manufacturing state. During his campaign, Trump called for shifting those functions to the states. As of yet, he has not offered details on how the agency’s core functions of sending federal money to local districts and schools would be handled. Again, it shouldn’t be handled. It should be eliminated. Workplaces need to take on the tasks of training its workers. That’s how it was done prior to government bloat getting involved on a large scale.