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Posted on 06/21/2018 1:45:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Their billion dollar poppy crop is much easier to deal with than having foreigners in there w/ equipment tearing-up everything for REEs.
Whether this is true or not, I don’t know. But I know there is a difference between President Trump and the career politicians we’ve had to live with up until now. When most politicians look at such a scenario, they start calculating based on how they can line their own pockets, how they can keep power or gain more of it, and how they can punish their political opponents. And last but not least they think of how they can make it sound like their efforts have something related to an American interest at heart. Almost none actually seem to care about the impact on us, and a large percentage seem to want to be sure any impact on us is detrimental rather than beneficial.
Thank God for President Trump.
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This seemed like the right spot to drop this in
Rare Earth - Get Ready!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyAwY2Q96Ps
China will be some sort of partners in any deal. The other side has to get something out of it. USA has some big issues with China and has incentive to shut China off from the American Market which is what the tariffs on Canadian metal are all about. That metal is transshipped from China. China’s takeover of the major nexus of sea trade in the South China Sea is a very big deal. My thought would be that we should designate a Fleet for that zone and and put its Asian side home port at Cam Ranh but Trump will probably fix things withoug something that close to a war.
iirc we have plenty here in the USA but it was deemed off limits or the rights were sold either by zero or the clintoons
Elk Creek NE, Niobium, Scandium, Titanium.
dint zero or clintoon lock up some farther west?
There was a deposit of rare earths in, I think, Mountain Pass CA that was mined by Molycorp. Something to do with NP stopped it I think. I think that the Chinese...of course...have the operation now. (of course....)
https://www.marketplace.org/2017/06/26/business/big-book/why-us-buys-all-its-rare-earth-metals-china
Standard oil and Rockerfeller..
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“However, the real problem is that more and more mineral imports are coming from China, Russia, and third-world dictatorships. The nation’s vulnerability to a mineral embargo has become sufficiently serious that President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) on December 20, 2017, to ensure secure and reliable supplies of critical minerals for the nation.
For the first time, a presidential EO puts forth an official government definition of what a “critical mineral” is, along with its role in the economy: “a non-fuel mineral material essential to the economic and national security of the U.S.; the supply chain of which is vulnerable to disruption; and that serves an essential function in the manufacturing of a product, the absence of which would have significant consequences for our economy or our national security.”
This new definition enables federal agencies and others to focus on how serious the issue of critical mineral imports has become from an economic, geological, technological, and manufacturing standpoint.
In response to the president’s EO, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) last week published a list of 35 “critical minerals” that are important for American economic health and military readiness. The draft list includes aluminum, platinum, rare-earth elements, tin, titanium, and over two dozen other critical minerals and metals. These are the minerals that will be required to sustain our standard of living and begin rebuilding the American infrastructure, as proposed by the president.”
good stuff
Or any other place you can name.
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