America's Fast Track to the Third World

The Department of Defense has sounded an alarm about our access to a strategically vital group of metals called the rare earth elements. A report on the problem prepared by the GAO is not pretty. It concludes the Chinese now control the production, processing and manufacture of final products of these vital metals and now own the patents for many of these processes.

The worries of the DoD are well justified; missile guidance systems, smart bombs, night vision gear, unmanned aircraft and much more are dependent on the rare earth elements in some way. Without these metals, our weapons technology would be approximately that of the Korean War. Battery powered tools, hybrid vehicles, the environmentalists' precious windmills and almost everything else electric cannot get by without them.

Rare earth elements have been described as the vitamins of modern technology. It took Beijing approximately twenty years to strip this technology from its birthplace in the United States and move it to China.

China's success in capturing the entire production and manufacturing cycle for the rare earth elements is only the beginning. Their long term strategy seems to be to repeat their rare earth coup in other sectors of mining and manufacturing. Awash in cash, they are on a gigantic worldwide shopping trip for resources of all kinds. Copper, lead, zinc and iron are on their list to name a few. Their reserves of US dollars are being converted to hard assets. Anyone with experience with the Chinese knows that they are in the game to win. Their objective is world domination by whatever means necessary. Aided by our intellectually and morally challenged elites, they stand a good chance of accomplishing it without firing a shot.

When a country is on a social and economic course that is so suicidal the Russians are warning us about it, some introspection is called for. Post-racial, post-industrial, postmodern, post-fossil fuel, post-common sense America has very little time left to straighten out its priorities and reverse its slide into what Leon Trotsky called "the dustbin of history."

Do All Roads lead to China?

WAKE UP AMERICA

Decline is a Choice

Of the seventeen rare earths, most are found in the United States and Canada (where the Chinese have bought into Canadian operations). The state of Nevada is home to many deposits; however, they are not touched as the EPA has made new mining ventures in the USA both expensive and rare.

The ruling class has determined that the middle class is unmanageable and needs to go. A peasant society is more peaceful and easier to manage.

The Left would probably take that as a simplistic radical statement, but there is more to it. It is not necessarily a conscious Saturday Night compact, but rather in some cases a sinister innate bias of the mind.

GWB is the example for me. My age, my generation, my level of education and training, and no one close enough and honest enough would declare GWB as personally malicious or sinister. But he is a patrician. Flooding America with twenty or more million impoverished immigrants (who should be getting their attention in their resident nation) doesn't have bearing on his personal circumstances, just like George Soros, Bloomberg, the CEO's of various corporations, etc.

It is as you imply a modern extension of feudalism - the elitist exploitation of other people's resources; and that can be either consciously imposed, as in Maddoff's or Soros' case, or otherwise, as in GWB's. Thus the FR concept of the political class or the elites.

It can be argued the original forefathers, Jefferson, Madison, et.al. were also of such stature; but it certainly can't be argued that the US Constitution wasn't written to prevent such domination. It was their integrity. Now it really is a matter of the citizens waking up to that, as in the Tea Party.

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