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China's Rare Earth Elements Ban Turns into a Disaster
Business Basics YouTube ^ | October 11, 2025

Posted on 10/11/2025 2:04:31 PM PDT by tired&retired

This video on Rare Earth Minerals explains a lot of what is unfolding with China.

China was blackmailing other countries to stop them from shipping rare eart elements to the US.


TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: china

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This is an eye opener.
1 posted on 10/11/2025 2:04:31 PM PDT by tired&retired
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To: tired&retired

Its treasonous what environmentalists and Wall Street have done to US national security.

The US has plenty of rare earths in the ground. Libs just don’t like the energy-intensive processing needed to mine and make rare earth magnets.

Short term capital was happy to send production to China, which now dominates production and new technology in rare earths


2 posted on 10/11/2025 2:08:57 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: tired&retired

I’m super excited about what’s happening in the REE arena in the US. I LOVE that we’re taking this back from China. Although it could be bumpy for the next year or so, ultimately this is great for the US

I love the Colosseum mine in CA $DTREF if interested in a great opportunity to invest


3 posted on 10/11/2025 2:13:20 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: spacejunkie2001

We have rare earths waiting to be mined in Alaska and Wyoming. What we need is a new Manhattan Project to get production moving.


4 posted on 10/11/2025 2:15:11 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Bookshelf

I dunno. Cost me $15k alone just yesterday.


5 posted on 10/11/2025 2:38:30 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: tired&retired
--- "This is an eye opener."

Don't think so. The opening line is idiotic hyperbole:

"China had a very sinister plan in motion to kill every single business in the USA, but it was spoiled last night."

Who is Business Basics? Do you know, or are you trusting an anonymous "content creator" on YouTube?
6 posted on 10/11/2025 2:40:22 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Bookshelf
What we need is a new Manhattan Project to get production moving.

And a few bulldozers to deal with the watermelons blocking the projects. Rachel Corrie style.

7 posted on 10/11/2025 2:40:49 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: tired&retired
Turns out "BusinessBasicsYT" is quite anonymous, and its business is to collect subscribers to increase its AdSense income through Google/YouTube.

Income estimate for clicks on videos:

BusinessBasicsYT

Its other media -- Facebook and the like -- serve to drive traffic to the You Tube site --- which is related to not only get views and subscribers for income, but also to collect names and email addresses for its related "FREE Geopolitics Newsletter."

Turns out behind the curtain is some individual in Texas, and a company -- beehiiv Inc. / 228 Park Avenue # 2329976 / New York, New York 10003.

BusinessBasicsYT is a business and "Joined Nov 18, 2018" so this have been a decades-long channel building game. Using exciting titles to generate clicks.

"(Restrcited) China's Banks are Failing, Protests Everywhere. China's financial crisis is approaching" -- Jul 22, 2022

"China's Economic crisis, GDP is Crashing, Protests everywhere. China's financial crisis is Here..." -- Aug 5, 2022 -- a "Members only" video -- the graphic on this video stated "CCP FALL IN 47 DAYS" in caps for effect

"China's Debt Bubble, $1T Fraud, Banks are Failing. China's financial Collapse" -- Aug 23, 2022 -- with the graphic reading "BANKRUPT IN 6 MONTH"

"China's Population Crisis Is About To Explode, Demographics Collapse is Here. End of China?" -- Nov 4, 2022 -- the graphic on this video link began "NO BIRTHs IN 3 MONTHS"

All that from three and more years ago. Clicks. Subscribe. Donate through Patreon. It's a business, and eye opening business. In Texas.
8 posted on 10/11/2025 3:07:04 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: tired&retired
Very important especially for those who know nothing about this. But this is why I stood firm, and still stand firm, that ateering Russia into a conflice with Ukraine was perhaps the worse geoplolitica, blunder, or perhaps a calculated effort to destroy this nation.

Either way, it was stupid for us to get inlvolved, let alone staart the conflit in the first place.

Mybe those calling those of us who were against this conflict from the beginning, Putinistas might understand whay we were against our involvement, and that we wanted the conflict to find a quick pacedeful solution. Not the escaltion into a far more deadly affair that might still escalate even further.

9 posted on 10/11/2025 3:27:10 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: tired&retired

We have all of the rare earth’s that we need in this country, but the environmentalist have delayed mining for years (probably financed by China).


10 posted on 10/11/2025 3:34:28 PM PDT by Eli Kopter (ביחד ננצח הלב שלנו שבוי בעזה Together we will win, our heart is captive in Gaza.)
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To: spacejunkie2001

Ping


11 posted on 10/11/2025 3:38:49 PM PDT by SomeCallMeTim
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To: Robert DeLong
--- "...those calling those of us who were against this conflict from the beginning, Putinistas....."

Over these last years, I have been called an amplifier of "Soviet propaganda," of course a "Putin stooge" and "putinista," as well as "evil" and more. Sometimes, for only documenting the cottage industry of the BS YouTube videos purveyed as "TRUTH."

The massive growth in our national debt -- and now a trillion a year debt service on it -- is a problem growing by the day. The alarm over other nations and their behaviors is one thing. But the rift that forms between potential trade partners and trade competitors will not likely result in what all the hyperbole tries to scream in our ears. There are conflicts which are resolved with pacts and business relationships, and there are conflicts which should not be resolved with "nuke 'em." Because in the end, we will be part of 'em.

12 posted on 10/11/2025 3:43:02 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Bookshelf

We have the minerals
We lack the processing facilities as I understand


13 posted on 10/11/2025 3:55:42 PM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time
Oh yeah, I can name most of the ususal suspects.

Most people do not realize that China has been at war with the U.S.for 25 years,and perhaps even longer. But for the last 25 years it has become more obvious, at least to me. Russia stopped being the threat when the Soviet Union imploded from their debt accumulation, while China had become increasingly more wealthy, by strealing intellectual property, as well as, jobs from this nation. It was an increasingly dangerous nation that was just as ruthless, and perhaps even more ruthles,than the Soviet Union because it recognized that the elites in America would sell thieir souls to the devil for more wealth, so China took on the role of the devil. They allowed the rich to become richer, while declining this nation into the consuming addicts we were, as they moved us into wasteful spending, though they really didn't have to move us forcibly, because our politicians were more than happy for the CCP to enrich them as well, and damned be the nation & her citizens.

Didn't need to make it a kinetic war either, as we played right into their hands with the asymetrical tactics they employed. They were even able to kill 100K of us ever year with our drug consumption tendencies. which provided another path for enrichment of out elites & politicians as well.

I am not happy at all with the announcement that Qatar will have a military base in Idaho?

But that is a topic for another day.

14 posted on 10/11/2025 4:23:22 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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---- "....it recognized that the elites in America would sell thieir souls to the devil for more wealth, so China took on the role of the devil. They allowed the rich to become richer, while declining this nation into the consuming addicts we were, as they moved us into wasteful spending, though they really didn't have to move us forcibly, because our politicians were more than happy for the CCP to enrich them as well, and damned be the nation & her citizens."

Tally in most of the major Democrats -- the Clintons forward -- and then factor in the willing accomplices of major media and academia, not to mention "think tanks" here and there along the way.


15 posted on 10/11/2025 4:44:08 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: tired&retired

Don’t we have these elements? Anywhere? Alaska? Rockies? We moved heaven and earth to build the atom bomb. Why aren’t we doing the same to make the U.S. independent of foreign sources of rare earths?


16 posted on 10/11/2025 5:48:32 PM PDT by montag813
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To: tired&retired

Bkmk


17 posted on 10/11/2025 7:35:58 PM PDT by sauropod
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