Why is the United States allowing OPEC cartels to have a monopoly on 79% of the world’s oil? Co-director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, Anne Korin opens today’s Secure Freedom Radio overviewing the mission of the United States Energy Council. The Energy Council is comprised of former cabinet members and CEOs of Fortune 500 companies who wish to reduce the strategic importance of oil in the world. The Council must talk more about the US’s dependence on foreign oil and t...
Why is the United States allowing OPEC cartels to have a monopoly on 79% of the world’s oil? Co-director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, Anne Korin opens today’s Secure Freedom Radio overviewing the mission of the United States Energy Council. The Energy Council is comprised of former cabinet members and CEOs of Fortune 500 companies who wish to reduce the strategic importance of oil in the world. The Council must talk more about the US’s dependence on foreign oil and the need for us to design a proper program that would reduce our vulnerability to oil supply disruption. Furthermore, the United States needs to knock oil off the “strategic pedestal” on which we have put it. Korin explains how salt, as the only means of meat preservation, once held the same sway over the economy that oil now does. She expresses the need for natural gas to come into competition with oil. Currently, 98% of transportation is oil based, whereas it only costs $100 more per car to enable vehicles to run on natural gas. If so, why hasn’t the United States invested in natural gas?
Next, Supervisory Special Agent Jeffrey Scott of the Drug Enforcement Administration brings Frank up to date on the recent DEA missions to stop the drug cartels that run rampant south of the border with Mexico. In July, the DEA announced the result of their Project Delirium, in which they conducted a series of investigations into the La Familia Michoacana (LFM) drug cartel. During these investigations, US and Mexican law enforcement found $62 million in US currency, 2,800 pounds of meth and cocaine, 1,000 pounds of heroin, and made over 2,000 arrests of drug traffickers. Agent Scott discusses how Project Delirium is an umbrella operation under which several smaller operations are running. The purpose of umbrella operations such as Project Delirium are used to decrease duplication of investigations, as well as used to target and disrupt the largest cartels in one stroke. Project Delirium, says Agent Scott, showed the commitment at the political and law enforcement level of the Mexican leadership and police force, as well as successfully showed increased cooperation between US and Mexican law enforcement agencies. These investigations proved to weaken both the leadership and drug trafficking structure of LFM.
What does China’s monopoly on rare earth minerals mean for US national security and foreign policy? Representative Donald Manzullo of the 16th district of Illinois and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific joins Frank to give us his take on the Congressional hearings that he organized on the issue. Currently, 97% of the world’s ores are controlled by China. While controlling 97% of the world’s ores, China is also capable of mining 35% of the world’s rare earth minerals. According to Rep. Manzullo, it is not that there is a limited supply of raw rare earth minerals, but rather that the difficulty lies in transforming the minerals from this raw form into a usable product. These minerals are used in both low end and high-end magnet capabilities. The high-end magnets created from these minerals can also be used for the guidance systems of military drones. Thus, due to China’s monopoly on the minerals, they have the capability to have a monopoly on the future of high-end efficiency commodities and military equipment.
In a rare treat here at Secure Freedom Radio, Vice President for Department of Defense Business Operations for Point Blank Solutions, Inc, Pat Stallings, concludes today’s show enlightening us on his company and the body armor it produces to protect our men and women in law enforcement and the US military. Although the company has been making body armor for 37 years, it was not until after 9/11 that there was a huge demand for body armor to protect our soldiers. The body armor business itself did not really develop until the late 90s when the Department of Defense invested in armor due to the threats to US military men and women in Bosnia and Kosovo. According to Stallings, it is the wish of any body armor company to make a product that is as mission capable as possible, while also protecting the quality of the armor itself. The new armor designed by Point Blank holds 100% performance record in combat. His company is also in the processing of finding new materials that will reduce the weight of the armor by 20%, or 1-½ pounds.
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