lanthanum. it's lanthanum, i think. it's an element, number 57 on the periodic table.he enviable abbreviation l.a. it comes out of the ground looking like a silver lump. it's soft. you can cut it with a knife. you may have some of this in your pocket already. they use this to make the flint that sharks the flame. you can find it in russia, nigh china and afghanistan. they have a ton of it in the ground. afghanistan is believed to have billions of tons of unmined elements and minerals. unmined, unexploited, unmonetized. and our new president has now said that basically he'd like to make a little money off of those minerals. we've been hearing rumblings about this for a few weeks that the president wants to use the fact that the president continues to be at war in afghanistan for the justification of the united states making a grab for the untapped mineral resources of that country for ourselves. that was the rumor that had been reported as a subject of discussion in white house meetings as of a few weeks ago. but then we got this monday in the president's speech. >> as

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