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True_Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-30-10 01:36 AM Original message |
Pentagon Losing Control of Bombs to China’s Monopoly |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-30-10 03:11 AM Response to Original message |
1. What exactly are the rare earth elements. Why does China control that market? |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-30-10 04:00 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Probably lab creations |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-30-10 11:54 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. If they are lab creations, why do we buy them from China? |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-30-10 05:11 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. They're not easy to create |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 12:49 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Thanks. We would have to do the research and find our own substitutes |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 01:12 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. This is about as incorrect as is possible. (nt) |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 01:07 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Reply #2 is wrong |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 02:12 AM Response to Original message |
8. It's worse that that--we've actually shipped related manufacturing plants from here to China |
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AdHocSolver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 09:25 PM Response to Original message |
9. The corporations are selling out U.S. national security to China and this got only 3 recs. |
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