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The Rare Earth Crisis Of The Second Decade Of The Twenty-First Century: A Threat Or An Opportunity?

by Jack Lifton January 16, 2010

Allow me to pose a question: with regard to the rare earths, is there a global threat of supply interruption by China – or is any threat really due to a failure of the American way of doing business?
America was actually self-sufficient in its supply of rare earth metals until 2002. In that year, due [...]

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China Versus The Rest Of The World

by Admin November 19, 2009

by CYRUS S DARABSHAW – RARE EARTH INVESTING NEWS – Published: Nov 19, 2009
Increasingly (at the risk of using a bad pun), rare earth metals are becoming not so rare in the rarified world of geo-politics. The sector, sooner than later, is likely to spark off a new global policy issue.
United States President Barack Obama [...]

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The Rare Earth Crisis of 2009 – Part 2: The Green Wind Blows From China

by Jack Lifton November 8, 2009

The immediate consequences of total import reliance
DETROIT, Nov 8, 2009 — U.S. Senator Charles (Chuck) Schumer (D-NY) is up in arms about the fact that a wind power “farm” to be erected in Texas, would be made up of components entirely constructed in China, and would create in the USA only the temporary jobs needed [...]

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A Proposal For The President And Congress Of The United States

by Jack Lifton April 30, 2009

I have an idea for an item to be placed on the President’s agenda to promote the security, self-sufficiency, economic well being and energy independence of the United States. I have written out the idea in the form of a specific first “bill” of its type to be introduced into the U.S. Congress. Although I [...]

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Thorium Energy Inc.: An Economic Overview Of A Pioneering Company

by Jack Lifton March 31, 2009

A low-key but growing and deliberate (re)turn to the development of thorium-based nuclear reactor fuel is underway globally. The legislative branch of the United States government has now joined in promoting this project, as it begins to look like the development and implementation of the use of thorium-based nuclear reactor fuels may well turn out [...]

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Congress Directs The Navy To Look At Thorium Fueled Reactors For Naval Propulsion Power Needs

by Jack Lifton March 24, 2009

Although thorium is not today mined in the USA commercially, the US House of Representatives had placed before it on March 16 of this year, last week, a bill sponsored by Mr Joe Sestak (D-Pa) directing the US Navy to study all aspects of utilizing thorium in reactor fuel for shipboard propulsion. Rear Admiral Sestak [...]

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Is This The Dawning Of The Age Of Thorium?

by Jack Lifton February 4, 2009

There’s great rejoicing tonight in Salmon, Idaho, because Salmon is the closest town to the Lemhi Pass, and the Lemhi Pass is the location of America’s largest and possibly the world’s richest high-grade thorium oxide deposits.
“So what?” Well, here’s what’s what.
On October 2, 2008, Senator Hatch (R-UT) and Senator Reid (D-NV), then as now the [...]

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Advanced Nonsense: The Politics Of Alternative Energy

by Jack Lifton January 14, 2009

On Sunday, January 11, 2009, the London Times published an essay by one of its most prominent regular economics columnists, the American Irwin Stelzer. He is a conservative on the value of public vs. private ownership and control of the means of production, and I generally agree with his analyses. I couldn’t possibly agree with [...]

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