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Posted on 04/21/2006 7:20:13 AM PDT by FerdieMurphy
Misleading headline.
Darn spell checker.
Kind of dated. Shut down currently. Isn't it interesting how China tried to snag control of UNOCAL...which owns these mines?
China also just snapped up a Canadian oil company...wonder if they also didn't manage their rare earths resources.
I gave a stick of jeweler's rouge to my son this year that I have had for over 40 years, at the time my dad bought it, that stick was the smallest size for sale; he is likely to use maybe one-sixteenth of an inch of the five inches left on the stick which was six inches long when new.
My guess is that the Pentagon has a few tons of these critical materials stashed somewhere.
It isn't exactly like we use several hundred cruise missles every day.
In theory. In practice look at how ridiculously difficult it has been to get a slight expansion of the existing oil pumping operations to include the 2000 acres in the adjacent little corner of the ANWR in Alaska. Clinton renamed it from, what Alaska National Petroleum Reserve... to Alaska National Wildlife Reserve...and Presto! For all practical purposes, the communists in the Sierra Club have a veto over National Security.
Maybe we need to buy all china has, so they don't have any.
I wonder if that isn't the defacto strategy in not doing ANWR and the other major oil deposits we know about...such as the Shale Oil deposits in the Western Rockies.
Lavoisier was well on his way to determining the atomic table of weights when his funding dried up and he was forced to take a government position as a tax collector, unfortunately for him, shortly after the guillotine was invented the revolution broke out and tax collectors were among the first to experience its remarkable efficacy.
Some substitutes are as rare as these minerals you so blithely propose to displace.
Welcome aboard, we need reasonable minds here.
Scientists aren't always writers, which is the reason for his post, I would guess.
Funny, I read it as though it were coercivity just because it should have been, where's that thread that shows one can make out the meaning as long as the necessary letters are included, regardless of their mixed order?
In fairness, FR's spell check flags coercivity but accepts coercively.
You have that 100% correct brownsfan!
For every dollar in my pocket (after taxes) there are at least 20 people trying to take it. There are people transferring jobs out of the country so I cannot even earn another dollar to replace the one I have.
Both political parties have become nothing but a ruling class and so long as they get elected in significant numbers we will be at the bottom of the food chain.
You have people, many conservatives I am ashamed to say, that think a company's sole purpose is to the stock holders. Well like absolutely everything else in life when taken to the extreme it becomes a bad thing. Keep downsizing, keep shifting production overseas, only worry about the next quarterly report and not the 2-5 year long term implications of your cutting. Eventually you will remove so much of the economic fuel (USA workers) that you will have leveled that playing field by lowering the standard of living in the USA to match the 3rd world scum.
A real titan of industry can grow a company with a good product, reasonable (not cheap) price, and high quality service. There are very few people left that can grow a company and I would say in that group you would not find many MBAs.
Any MBA idiot can make the bottom line look good for about 3 years after that the bottom falls out. The last 3 firms I worked for did that exact same thing. Cut, focus on the quarterly report to keep the stock up, get their bonus, after 3 years bankrupt.
Have you seen this...?
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They did a segment in China. I was amazed at the thousands of American's working and owning business's right there in China! Disco's and restaurants. You name it. We have thousands of our own making huge bucks and living in China.
I am still pinching myself.
the U.S. now remains totally dependent upon China for key rare earth metals and their production necessary in the manufacture of the most crucial of U.S. military warfare.Rare Earth metals are mined, not manufactured.
Our enemies in total disarray? You don't have to look any farther than FR to find a whole bunch of FReepers in total disarray over this!!
This is ridiculous! What IF we have a war with China? What a bunch of dumbasses we have running this country! We are so doomed, it's REALLY pathetic! We are in a race to the bottom!!!
Frankly, when things get this bad, it's way past time for an uprising.
I just love it - outsourcing our national security, only klinton could have thought of it!
LOL. Yes. ...Your 'Tree of Liberty' getting a little dry, is it?
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson
As those of us know who use Astroflight brushed electric motors.
With the things that are taking place today, I would have to say yes. Very dry indeed...
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