KRISTI NOEM MINING SCHEME EXPOSED

Hey there Midas Canada viewers, resistors from all over the world.Christy Noem.The decision by Nova Red Mining to bring Christy Noem onto a board as a strategic advisor about developing a possible copper property in British Columbia has rightfully outraged people across Canada and angered people around the world.What kind of corporate responsibility is there?When someone like Kristi Noem's background, with her horrific human rights abuses, her defiance of the federal courts, her complete disdain for Canada's sovereignty and her relentless provocations against us, is brought on to try and develop critical minerals in Canada?What the hell is up with that?

Well, on today's episode, we talked to someone who was on the NOVA Red Mining Board, someone who's speaking up, someone who is not going along with this scheme, and someone who shows us what was going on in the back rooms when they came up with the idea of bringing Kristi Noem and then followed up with Katie Zachariah, another self -proclaimed trumpet, onto the board to try and exploit Canadian minerals.So I want to share with you this interview that I did with Phil Ayer, formerly of the Nova Red Board, who has quit.And Phil Air is also running to replace Republicans in Florida.So this is a really important interview.Please check this out.

Hey there Midas viewers and resistors from all over the globe.

Charlie Angus here.Well, the controversy of Kristi Noem being involved in Nobelmining in a mining play in the Similacanine Valley in British Columbia has certainly, certainly caused all manner of outrage given Christie Noem's toxic relationship to Canada.And you know, here at Midas, we've been trying to figure out exactly what's going on.So we're really, really pleased today to be able to invite on Phil Ayer, who was on the board of Nova Red Mining, who's resigned, who came on and gave us his time to explain his point of view and give us a sense of what's actually happening here.Now, Phil, welcome to Midas Canada.

You are 26 years in the Navy, am I correct?

That's right, and thank you, Charlie, for having me on.It's a great honor, and yes, I'm a former member of the Board of Advisors.I wasn't a director of Nova Red, but I have resigned because Kristi Noem is also in the company, and it's just untenable for the she and I to be serving in the same vicinity.But yes, I served 26 years in the United States Navy and very proudly in some capacities with Canadian forces.

Well, absolutely.My father -in -law did four years in the Navy, but that was enough.But then that was on the North Atlantic convoys back in the day.You've also done humanitarian work in Ukraine.Am I correct in that as well?

Yes.Well, yes.After the full scale invasion, I found myself being challenged by my family to say, hey, it'd be really cool if you provided some support to the refugees in Poland that are coming from Ukraine.So I went over there with a van load of uh, blankets and dog food and cat food and other things that were specifically requested, uh, to a mutual friend who had taken her business and her family away from, excuse me, from Nikolayev in, uh, southern Ukraine.And the next thing I know, she was taking me across the border and delivering, um,aid to her personal and professional network.

And I ended up self -deploying multiple times into Ukraine.Charities wanted to donate lots of goods, needed goods, and drove across the continent.And I was very fortunate to be able to be plugged into a network, a pickup network ad hoc of people that just wanted to help.And so, yes, I've been to Ukraine several times and it's grown from purely humanitarian to also some support for the troops.

Well, that's excellent.I mean, certainly Canada has a very, very close relationship with people of Ukraine.We have a lot of familial connections, so we appreciate that work.I want to get into how you got involved in Nova Red mining.What was, how did, how did that come about?

Well, that came about through connections here in Miami, Florida.That's where I'm speaking to you now, specifically Homestead, which is in Miami -Dade County.I'm a candidate for public office and in that capacity, Yeah, I meet a lot of people.And one of the people I met was an entrepreneur who looked at my background and looked at what he was doing and said, hey, you know, what would help our mining company would be for you to come on and explain the importance of copper.to national security, to economic security.And it was thought from him to be fairly kind of a different kind of a role of a public explanation or public selling of the idea, the importance of copper.

Well, my professional background is in strategic planning and in operations in the United States Navy for, you know, for more than a quarter century in aviation and surface and space and land forces.So it just sung to me is inherently true, that we need to electrify more of our warfighting capability, and we are doing that.We need to electrify that.lot of our economy.The electric grid here in the United States is hopefully in need of upgrading.An electric vehicle needs about three times the amount of copper as an internal combustion vehicle.

So all these things combined together on their request to me to join their board to help explain the importance of copper to provide their more public support for their activities.I saw their pitch of Nova Red's pitch of using artificial intelligence in the analysis portion of the exploration function.And that was intriguing to me and I looked into it a bit and it just rang again true as AI is coming out and helping with a lot of tasks.The big data sets that come from exploiting you know, the electromagnetic and the sound, uh, technologies that have been traditionally used in mining exploration for, you know, for, for decades, for a very long time are brought out and being, being made, being made faster by, by looking at that data from an AI perspective, my presence on as an advisor and as a spokesperson for this activity was that's what that was my role with the company.

Well, I mean, that makes sense.You know, I grew up around mining.I live in a mining town, prospectors, penny stocks.I've seen 10 ,000 mining plays.And so someone like you coming on the board is good news.They put up the, you know, the advertisement, letting it out in the press.

They're trying to raise capital in order to get out in the field.sort of floored me was the decision to bring on Christy Noem because this copper property is in British Columbia.It's on indigenous territory.You couldn't find a person I think right now in the world who was more inflammatory to Canada than Christy Noem.Besides her horrific human rights record, she continually attacked our country, attacked our sovereignty.There was multiple provocations.

So the decision to bringher on as a strategic advisor just, I think, flabbergasted us and outraged us.So when did you learn that Kristi Noem was being brought on as a strategic advisor?

I learned about it from a phone call from Politico, a reporter from Politico who said, hey, how do you feel about serving with, with Kristi Noem?That was the first opportunity, first time I've heard.The company, My interaction with the rest of the company is very limited and very controlled.I have one point of contact and I'm busy doing other activities.I'll tell you what, it just floored me that she brought on and had no consultation.So it was basically a question from the press is what I learned.

And I immediately got with my point of contact and I said, you know, what's up with this?Don't want anything to do with, you know, the former secretary of Homeland Security.And it's very problematic for me.You know, I believe in the rightness of exploring and mining responsibly up in British Columbia from a U .S.perspective.

We're friends, long -term friends.We're having a huge fight right now because of the Trump administration.But in the long expanse of history and our shared values and our shared culture, you know, we consider Canada a safe jurisdiction.We have copper and other critical minerals being taken out of the ground from places outside of North America.and refining and smelting outside of North America, we need to bring a lot of those supply chains back into reliable, make those chains more reliable in safe jurisdictions as a term.So I learned about it first from Politico.

You know, I'm surprised by that because, you know, there's all these issues of corporate governance, particularly if you're going to be mining in the 21st century.We reached out to Brian Goss, the CEO.We called him, we emailed him.Many people in the Midas world did.The phones didn't work.The emails bounced back.

So, you know, to me, that's kind of a red flag.But he did do one interview where he talked about how pleased they were to have Kristi Noem, despite all the anger that is generated.He said, when someone who is held a prominent political office, joins a private sector organization, strong opinions are inevitable.I guess my concern is we're not talking about strong opinions here.We're talking about multiple allegations, Amnesty International's study of what happened on her watch of torture, rendition of people, defying the federal courts.Again, her constant attacks on Canada and our sovereignty.

He said that it was encouraging that many of our shareholders have been thrilled by her appointment.I don't know.I'm watching a stock fall before my eyes here.Well, how do you feel in terms of this notion that it's just, you know, that she's got strong opinions as opposed to what her record was at Homeland Security?

You've hit right on the core problem here, because it is not just a question of Republicans and Democrats.I'm registered as a Democrat.I'm running for public office.I'm a prominent figure, at least in my in my neighborhood.that role.And it is just, it is horrific, the type of damage that the Department of Homeland Security has done in my country, in my region, where I'm running for office in Minnesota.

Look, we had two murders by DHS officials, Rene Good and Alex Preddy up in Minnesota.We've had just today in the news, we're talking about another ICE shooting in, I think it was Houston, Texas, a guy named Lorenzo Salgado, I'm still pronouncing his last name, but Araujo, this man from all indicationsso far, was nowhere near doing anything that would warrant a shooting or the use of force by an ICE agent, yet he was killed.And right here in my congressional district, we've had the man named Isidro Perez perish because of lack of medical attention at one of the federal detention centers here in Chrome.Just yesterday or the last couple of days, we've had a group of detainees transferred from Chrome into another federal detention center in downtown Miami, and they are complaining of lack of medical attention.And we've gotten some news publicly you know, public attention on that problem.

I am part of that.And I'm trying to prevent yet another death by the culture that Christy Noem was responsible personally as a, you know, as a as a cabinet secretary with independent responsibilities to the United States.people through her, through her confirmation process that she needs to still answer for.I'm going to be part of these, the people of the new Congress to hold her and other folks accountable for the lack of professionalism and the brutality on the streets here in our country in that role.And that's, you know, that's separate and apart from her, her disrespect of the sovereignty of Canada.So I've got my own gripes with her.

I've got my, my empathy and my alliance with you on the Canadian aspects of her rhetoric.So I'm going to hold her politically accountable and we'll see if any legal issues follow from that as well.But, um, hey, Charlie, I'm, I'm, I'm with you.You know, you don't just talk about an ally as, you know, a 51st state.It is, uh, That's you don't talk about Greenland as something to be, you know, acquired or taken by force.No, you don't do any of that stuff.

And it's more than that.problematic.It's just, it's a lack, you know, and the company brought her on shows a terrible lack of judgment.And you brought up governance.I'm an advisor, I'm not a director, so it sounds like I'm backpedaling, but the red flags of not having a sense of a group decision or stakeholders being consulted, that is a red flag for any organization.So it's best that we parted ways.

Yeah, I think so.I thank you for that.And I just want to also, for all our viewers in Minnesota who sent us with so much solidarity right now and the people who really were deeply offended that the murder of Alex Preddy and Rene Good, that Kristi Noem tried to tarnish their reputation, claimed that they were domestic terrorists.I mean, this is deeply offensive stuff.So again, on corporate governance, one of the key elements that is needed to get a mine operating in Canada.And there are many good projects that are going to go ahead and they're done with respect.

They're done with the environmental rules, but they're done with indigenous consultation.And, and Kristi Noem's reputation with the indigenous communities in South Dakota is well known.And, you know, in first nation communities, they know, uh, how abusive she was.So this Similacan Lake, the Upper Similacan Lake Indian Band has responded to this decision to bring her on board saying that the hiring Christy Noem does not reflect the level of respect, understanding or relationship building expected of companies with interests connected with our territory.So I guess I'm looking at this.I'm looking that they brought Katie Zachariah on, who's a self -described Trumpette after the Christy Noem thing.

Is this a serious mining play or is this some kind of political play for to appease or to get the support of Donald Trump?I mean, how do you mine in Canada if you're offending the First Nations?communities?It's I don't I'm trying to figure out what the play is here.

Right.Right.And let me get to that in a second.But first, I want to say, you know, on on the First Nations, I don't blame him.Like, really?You're going to bring on this person?

Christine Ohm, come on.And her colleague.who had a completely different take on cultural respect, on respect, you know, beyond culture, just human to human.that was very troubling and counter to what I had understood to be Novared's philosophy.So there again, another another disconnect in my understanding of where that company was going and the appointment of Kristi Noem.

And did they explain why they were bringing Katie Zachariah on?I mean, I'm looking at, again, coming out of growing up around mining, you're bringing on people who know how to bring mines to, you know, from from the mines.from the planning board, getting it through, people who know how to do financing.I mean, I'm looking at Katie Zachariah.She's like a self -described trumpet, who's an advisor to Trump's rant page, True Social.And they do this after Kristi Noem.

Did they explain why she was being brought on board, like what she brings to the table?Not at all.

And my, and again, my, you know, my discussions or my participation as an advisor in the company was nothing like anything that I've ever experienced as far as a group goes.And I was very, one, you know, task oriented.Okay, Phil, can you take this interview?Absolutely.Yes, I can.And here's what's going on in the company in a written briefing format.

So I take that and digest it, do my own little checks about it and get on, get on, you know, whatever news media was being discussed.So no, there was no explanation.Um, and I would just, you know, I think as you look at, uh, as you examine what's going on with Nova Red, take a look at their titles.I think you'll, you'll still find that, uh, there's aof use of the word advisor.And on that same page about who's in the company, there's very few directors of the company.

I was asked to be a director early on and I declined because I just am not competent in the in the industry and don't have, frankly, do not have time.I'm running for public office.This is my first priority.And it's very consistent.You know, why would I spend any minute with a mining company in Canada when I'm running for Congress?Well, the answer is to broaden my appeal, my portfolio, my assistance to things that are important, such as national security, such as electrification of our economy.

So I think, you know, my advisory role was consistent with my with my priorities.and the priorities of my constituents, future constituents here in South Florida.Oh, there was an explanation.And it does look like the double appointments of Kristi Noem and Zachariah, you know, it shows that they, I don't know, you know, I'm not going to read their minds, but you're, you know, you're coming to very reasonable conclusions from what you're seeing in the facts.

Well, there's one other element I wanted to ask you about in terms of this.And again, you know, Canadians are usually pretty chill.We don't tend to read too much into things, but the whole notion of Kristi Noem, She gets basically fired for her debacle at Homeland Security, and then she's appointed as Trump's envoy on the shield of America's.Canada is not part of the shield of America's, neither is Mexico, neither many of our allies in the hemisphere.There's real concern in Canada is what role is she playing?Because copper, as you pointed out, is absolutely critical and it's critical for Canada, whether we are dealing with the United States, which now Donald Trump has said that our copper is a national security threat or something.

uh, or with the Europeans or with the Asians.

Donald Trump, let me get this right.Donald Trump said that copper from Canada is a threat to the United States?A national security threat.Yeah.Like narco gangs.The guy is, uh, not thinking straight, of course.

I know, but I, I mentioned that because she was appointed as envoy of the shield of America.And so is that, is there a possibility that she's working for, for Donald Trump on this?Like what?Like we're trying to figure out if what role she has in the shield of America is it's not very clear, but we are finding constant pressure and copper is a is a key mineral or is a key driver for our economy.So have is there been any discussion?Are you aware at all of her role on as the envoy on shield of Americas?

Well, I am aware of that role and I see in the news, but that's the extent of my role there.And the company has not discussed any of this with me.But I would offer the following.If you look at the pattern of Donald Trump, people in Donald Trump's world who've been lost favor, been shut out.Well, there's always, almost always, a hook.You know, you see that from Steve Bannon to Lewandowski, who is in, you know, Christie Noem's orbit.

And even, you know, this guy Michael Cohen.Michael Cohen just recently made up with Trump, according to the news.He was Trump's personal lawyer and then fell out, was a big critic of Trump and appeared on uh, old MSNBC and, and CNN as a, as a critic over and over again.And now he's made up like, what's up with that?Christy Noem going to the shield of America's.Oh, that's just kind of, I think normal.

She was fired as a Homeland Security, uh, secretary, and then she's given a minor job.You know, if, if I was in that position of being fired, I, I don't think I'd want to go represent, uh, you know, the boss that just fired me in another role, but okay.That's, that's, that's a difference in.in her motivation.and in many of the motivations of the people surrounding Mr. Trump.They are after power.

They are after personal prestige.And there appears to be a very lack of personal integrity.Looking at my own opponent, I see the same type of behavior in a guy named Carlos Gimenez, who's a sitting Republican.Republican congressman here that I intend to replace.That guy has compromised at least the appearance of principles that he has held in previous years and previous jobs.And people around here recognize the change in that man because he's been associated so closely with Donald Trump and he's set aside the interests of our constituents.

So with Kristi Noem, How do we explain what she's doing with, um, with the shield of America as well?I think it's just a, you know, use the phrase, a booby prize, you know, she's got, you know, some kind of, just another grift, just another grift.And, you know, I don't know.I do think that, uh, that, uh, the Trump world is very, uh, uh, oriented on business and on profit.So I don't know if she's being, uh, you know, paid or if it's just speculative in her remuneration, remuneration, but I can tell you, I was not paid by, uh, by, by Novared at all.I was paid by one of their, uh, one of their contractors, you know, a modest some, like $2 ,500 in total for my, you know, few months of service.

But that's it.

Well, they don't seem to have raised the money that they need even to do their field work, but enough about Nova Red.So you were running in, is it the 28th congressional district?Yes.And where exactly is that?Because we've got lots of Midas viewers in Florida.So where are you in Miami?

Well, yeah, it's the southernmost in the state of Florida.And let me tell you, we're not seeing the Ontario license tags down here as much as we'd like to.You're not seeing any?

No.

Uh, in Southwest, my district is, uh, you know, in South Florida, uh, which is the Florida, Florida Keys, Key West to Key Largo and Southwest Miami -Dade County.So if your viewers know where Homestead is or where Florida City and all the way up to the Florida International University campus at Sweetwater.My northern boundary of the district is the Tamiami Trail.It's the southernmost east -west roadway and all points south of that to include a lot of the Everglades, a lot of alligators, a lot of, you know, sensitive land and swamps and this river of grass, you know, that feeds the Florida Bay and the economy of the Florida Keys, that's my district.Things that happen over in southwest Florida, in Naples area, north of those on that coastline, that's where a lot of Canadians come down for, you know, for the summer or for the winter, sorry, and they go back, but we're not seeing them.

No, I mean, well, that's what I guess I would like to sort of move towards.You know, the boycott here is people are very, very determined.People who've always gone to Florida, always gone to Arizona, always gone to New Mexico.They're either staying in Canada or they're going to Mexico.They're going to Europe.There's a real sense of anger.

And so we're looking, is there a relationship in the future?How do we, how do we go forward from here with the constant threats that we've seen with the, with the, the Washington now that is very hostile to us.You're running.What do you see in terms of a future relationship between Canada and the United States?

Well, I think it's this period of Trumpism is going to fade and go away, but the hurt and the disconnect is not.The potential will always be there.the darker angels in America to rise over the better angels of our nature, is the phrase that Abraham Lincoln used.It does my heart really good to see the Canadian prime minister and the Finnish leader coming out of the NATO summit and having their own bilateral discussions.on Arctic capabilities, on building something that is going to be not needed of the United States.You know, I've been in, I served in the NATO command structure and in the policy, political, military realm for a long time.

There's always been a, you know, a tension of the U .S.saying, hey, we're contributing too much to our defense, and we're not seeing our allies contributing enough to their own defense in what should be, you know, a real, you know, we're all in this together type of economic decisions.So some of that is good, and I'm, you know, that they've chosen, the NATO leaders have chosen 5 % of GDP to invest in defense is, you know, it's ambitious.And I understand there is a big domestic concern in Canada, and I'm sure you worked that through.But again, the independence of the other NATO allies in Europe and Canada, is good, is good for the long -term future of rebooting or just fortifying the alliance.

You can look at it kind of as a stress test right now, ultimate stress test, because Mr. Trump, you know, has in some case, in some ways, has already destroyed NATO, because if you don't believe he's going to act in an Article 5 situation, and it's a very big question mark in my mind, if he will, that's the core of it.That's the essence of it.So, um, uh, we get a new administration and new, uh, leaders here, or if the, if the Congress is.able to exert pressure on the executive branch to start following the law and start following the will of the people in national security, then we're going to see, you know, the beginnings of, uh, of a repair that is not going to be based back to the old ways of, uh, United States dominates in defense acquisition and weapons systems.Yeah, we're going to, we're going to have a, we're going to be competing and we're going to have lots of good stuff.But, uh, as you know, as the world advances, you know, the advantage that the United States has had, you know, since World War II and beyond is less in comparison with other powers, be they friendly or hostile powers like China and Russia.

And Iran, of all places, you know, they've kicked our butt tactically.

And something to behold.

And tactically, both tactically and strategically, that war in Iran that our country started unilaterally, our commander in chief started without the congressional support or international support.berating Canada and the other allies for not, you know, stepping up to help with our war, as it turns out.Well, that type of dynamic is, you know, it can happen again unless we have real reform in the United States.That's what I'm intending to do as a member of Congress, to be part of that reform, to shore up checks and balances that have kept us, you know, as a responsible leader in the world, I think for since World War II, you know, with some aberrations here and there, but by and large, a world leader acting responsibly for democracy, for freedom, for people's prosperity and pursuit of happiness.And now that is seriously under threat.So as far as, you know, future of Canadian -U .

S.relations, I'm looking forward toa day of continuing to be more proud of this horizontal boundary that we have between our two countries that is unguarded. notnot militarized, and it doesn't need to be because we are friends.

Well, listen, I really thank you for this.And so for all the Midas viewers in Florida, you know what's coming up.You've got to get out and vote.Everyone in Canada is watching and saying, get out and vote.So we really appreciate you taking the time and sharing your thoughts.And no more reds done here as far as Canadians are concerned.

It's a disaster.

Fair call.I just want to make a plug for my campaign.could, uh, airforcongress .us.My last name is spelled with three letters, that's Echo Hotel Romeo, the word for, if it were, then congress .us.

I'm all over social media, so if you ever want to have a quick snapshot, okay, what is Phil saying or doing on the campaign trail, what do you think of this or that, uh, I think it's, uh, your, your viewers can go straight to Instagram or Twitter or whatever, and you'll see pretty rapidly what I'm up to and what our values are here.

Absolutely.So thanks so much.And folks, keep kicking at the darkness.It is going to bleed daylight.We can already see the light on the horizon.Thank you.

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