History Matters and Little Facts

While President Trump was in office, he was alerted to the fact that China had control of refining almost all the necessary chemicals for modern technology. He acted by issuing an executive order to combat this problem, but the Biden administration has ignored these concerns. This is a way that China is currently waging economic warfare and they are winning. TikTok is barely a concern, nor is the uranium situation. The major need for any nation in the modern world is for rare earths and similar minerals. Needed Minerals Few people are aware of rare earths , but they are in everything from cell phones to needed military systems, which means all of this is currently reliant on China . While China does have the largest minable reserves, it also holds the biggest capabilities for refining the minerals into a useful form. They could cripple entire nations just by their refusing to sell the necessary minerals. On top of this, they are working hard to gain control of access to these minerals...

  There is a government publication known as Issues that covers scientific discussions on various topics within the scientific community. One of the more recent articles by Dr. Leigh Turner seems to put forth an interesting supposition that people should not trust the research from private institutions, but completely trust what comes from the government. On top of that, he is more than willing to go after those who do not go with the government mandated story on issues like climate change and stem cell research. He is not a scientist without a voice, so it is disturbing that he wants to shut up others with his platform. Doctor Turner Dr. Leigh Turner is the Executive Director of the University of California at Irvine Bioethics Program and a professor in the Department of Health, Society, and Behavior at UCI. He has a doctorate in Religion and Social Ethics from USC. He has worked at other institutions as a visiting and associate professor while researching ethics in various area...

  The US and the world's dependence on China for medicine not only makes no sense, it is killing people. Penicillin is well known for saving lives, but many companies decided that since they made little profit, they would stop making it. During the pandemic, this was found to be stupid, even though it should have been considered that long before then. China is well known for sending toxic products to other nations that kill the citizens of those nations. One company has started to fix this issue, but it leads to far more questions. World Problem Let’s start with the fact that very few within the American press are covering this story, which makes you wonder how much any of them care as they claim. I literally only found Al Jazeera covering this issue, which they did an excellent job of in 2017. The shortage was causing people to lose their lives around the world at that time, though the US would not truly feel the impact of the shortages of penicillin until the pandemic. Children...