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China Now Halting Shipments of Rare Earth Minerals To US
blackraven14250 writes with news that China, after putting at least a temporary stop to rare earth exports to Japan, is now doing the same with exports to the US; according to the linked article, this is in response to recent US promises to investigate certain Chinese trade practices.
China doing what US did for years, with a lot more countries and products, for political reasons? No! War! Ban them! Maybe we can get all our allies to invade them for terrorism too.
Yes, the top 1% of income tripled from 1980 to 2006
Funny how you stopped counting in 2006. Right before the stock market started to plunge. I wanna know what happened to the rich people between 2006 and 2009...
Isn't it great when you can pick and choose the statistics to support your arguments? You wouldn't happen to work in the global warming research field, would you?
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
How many Afghanis were among the 9/11 perps?
That's right, none.
Free Manning, jail Obama.
Maybe this is a good time to re-arm Japan.
American Third Position
Finally, a real choice!
Ok, this should be amusing: explain what you believe those two figures prove.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."