Posted on 01/12/2018 5:26:30 AM PST by cba123
“There is NOTHING we need from Red China that we cannot produce ourselves.”
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Actually, there is. Rare earth minerals are not found in abundance in the U.S. No rare earth, no super-magnets, leds, oled TVs.
Remember the days when only American made was allowed in government facilities?
I did not say we ARE manufacturing the equipment here, I said I think we SHOULD be making it here.
My only question is
Why are military IP cameras connected to the internet?
Remove that, and Russia, China, kid next door, doesn’t have access.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Pass_rare_earth_mine
http://www.mining.com/canada-identifies-top-rare-earth-projects-48319/
This is a good read.
I call bogus on that for a couple reasons
First most hardware is really older HP/IBM/Compaq/DEC stuff, it isn’t even connected to the Internet
Second, any military contractor or builder of new systems better be buying genuine CPUs and related components, and not knock offs off of Alibaba, Amazon or where ever. If the US Government is buying s 100 Million dollar weapons system, Raytheon, Lockheed or whomever better not be having some guy in procurement surfing Alibaba buying these gray market or counterfeit parts trying to shave 10 bucks off the proect.
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