The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. – Theodore Roosevelt
Interesting. China is going to be holding the keys, wonder how far the EU is willing to bend over?
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." -Thomas Jefferson
"There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide." - Ayn Rand ________________________________________________
Lenin: Class-based International Socialism Hitler: Race-based National Socialism Obama: Class- and Race-based Post-National Socialism
"The European Union is facing shortages of 14 “critical” raw materials needed for ... emerging technologies like solar panels and synthetic fuels."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but these "emerging technologies" are only emerging on the scene because of the sort of government spending/subsidy that got the EU into this crisis in the first place.
Governments have simply run out of other countries to borrow money from in order to artificially reduce the price of alternative energy sources so that citizens will buy them.
"The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master." -- Ayn Rand