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2010-10-17 China-Japan-Koreas

Dealing with China's Rare-Earth Monopoly

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-10-17 05:51|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 We WERE happy to let China take over rare-earth mining, until we weren't.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-10-17 09:52|| 2010-10-17 09:52|| Front Page Top

#2 The Lone Ranger and Tonto are out riding. Suddenly, a band of hostile comanches rides into view over the ridgeline in front of them. They turn around and another band rides into view behind them. They try a third direction and they're surrounded.

"Well, Tonto, it looks like we're in trouble now."

"What's this 'we' shit, white man?"

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-10-17 10:45|| 2010-10-17 10:45|| Front Page Top

#3 The Bureaucratic Caste was happy to see Yet Another Industry Deported From The Country, until it wasn't.

The rest of us, who were unhappy about the situation, were just yentzed, with no party to vote for who's going to take away the bureaucratic caste's power.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-10-17 10:48|| 2010-10-17 10:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Wow - China is exploiting a hole in the market, and we think it's for strategic gain. I'm sure it's caused by global warming, oops, climate change, and we need to pass cap and trade to remedy this.

Good thing there's an election handy to deal with this.

Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-10-17 12:26|| 2010-10-17 12:26|| Front Page Top

#5 The two big American rare earth mines are located in California, which is being put back into production, and under a lake in Texas, which as of now, isn't.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-10-17 18:43|| 2010-10-17 18:43|| Front Page Top

#6 No mention of china activity in africa? I assumed their efforts their were related to rare-earths.

Posted by flash91 2010-10-17 22:19|| 2010-10-17 22:19|| Front Page Top

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