Obama, China, Rare Earths - Can WTO save manufacturing jobs? Why no USA REE? THORIUM.

On 2012-03-13 President Obama announced filing a new WTO filing against China's REE export quotas. China successfully leverages their REE monopoly to capture high-tech manufacturing jobs, and is part of the reason companies like Apple construct consumer products in China... REEs are found in all manner of phones, GPS, wind turbines, solar panels, hybrid cars and military hardware. REE are NOT rare. REE used to be produced in USA. If REEs are so important, why aren't they produced in USA today? THORIUM REGULATION.

Jim Kennedy & John Kutch explain: Thorium is NOT dangerous. It is key to unlocking "green" jobs, bountiful energy and high-tech manufacturing jobs. The clock is ticking on this. Pursuing China via WTO is fine, but that can NOT be our only response! We need to produce our own REE. ASAP.

http://ThoriumPetition.com/ - http://wh.gov/5OX

http://threeconsulting.com/what.html

http://thoriumremix.com/

Longer coverage of the SME conference can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyqYP6...

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[MMORPGAL]

so apparently this is the premise of black ops 2 :/

[radioactivsmurf]

do America sell any of their resources? or do they keep it all to themselves? if not then there fucking hypocrites.

[seanincali1]

china has been engaged in this type of covert economic warfare for years. they steal all the technology without any IP concerns. they manipulate their currencies to drive out the competitions. they outbid based on slave labor. they put tariffs on foreign goods. they ignore environmental regulations. they only allow foreigners to own companies in china if they hand over the technology.

now they want IP over our technology. question is how much time do we have? china WILL end humanity.

[bogorov1]

Anyway, that’s not what I meant. By saying that it’s a communist country, I meant that China still has one – party system with secret police, concentration camps and all the other attributes of a totalitarian state. The regime may be relaxed now, but the totalitarian structures are intact. It Americans would skip some of the popcorn or happy meals and gave the saved money for development of the thorium cycle, they would not only be healthier, but would hinder China's dominance.

[bogorov1]

SpykerSpeed, I agree, China economically in many respects is more libertarian than US. There’s less socialism in China, people don’t get free food stamps or free anything and there are less regulations. On the other hand, there’s mixing between politics and economy. The exchange rate of their currency is not left to the market forces for example, the party’s bosses have economic power, they decide which cities are to be developed and so on.

[totoritko]

It's not a single factor that caused this. Politicians are afraid of opening any nuclear-related topic for debate because it will result in immediate public backlash. The public is all warm&fuzzy for green tech like wind mills and solar, not realizing that they come with huge scaling problems and issues with sustainability. In addition, if you did open the debate, your political opponents would jump on this and use it against you. There's also the interests of big oil. In short: it's complicated

[Wurge3]

GG, since the images are the slides being shown on the projector behind the speakers.

[Daniel O'Connor]

I cannot digest the material being shown me when the dialogue over top of it is unrelated. I can either listen to this video or watch it, but not both. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Worthy subject matter, but I find that visuals work best when they're supporting what you're hearing.

[SpykerSpeed]

Bogorov, China is not actually communist, in fact it's more free-market in many ways than most Western nations. The Western regulatory democracies are currently going through a collapse (brought about by government debt saturation and fiat currencies). If the West is less authoritarian post-collapse, we could see some major progress. If not, and governments clamp down, we'll see the East rise as the new free world.

[SpykerSpeed]

So it's not China's fault, it's our own Federal government's fault for regulating this industry out of existence.