A study in France followed more than 3,000 people and the amount of water they drank over a nine year period.
Over the nine years it was discovered that people who drank at least 1 liter (34 ounces) of water per day, had 21% less blood sugar, than those who drank less water.
Researchers admit there are other factors that could account for the results, and they want to do more studies.
Denmark announced that starting July 5, no more open borders. They blame drug trafficking and illegal immigrants.
Since the U.S. led invasion of Afghanistan drug trafficking has skyrocketed across Central Asia and into Europe. Many of the drugs come from U.S. occupied Afghanistan.
The NATO attacks on Libya have greatly increased what European governments are calling illegal immigration (most of whom are actually war refugees, no thanks to the European/U.S./NATO war on Libya).
Denmark is not the first EU member to close its borders. France and Italy closed their borders with each other, for the same reasons as Denmark. In the case of France and Italy, French officials discovered that Italy was giving refugees (I mean illegal immigrants), mainly from Tunis and Libya, EU visas then putting them on trains bound for France.
Other EU members are complaining about the violation of the European Union’s “open borders” policy, but Denmark claims their border closure will not affect commerce.
A British newspaper reports that a secret meeting was held between NATO and Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal. The subject was nuclear weapons, and how Saudi Arabia could get some.
The Guardian quoted an unnamed Saudi official as saying: “We cannot live in a situation where Iran has nuclear weapons and we don’t.”
The meeting concerned Saudi fears that Iran will develop nuclear weapons.
Saudi Arabia is a Semitic country. Iran is technically Aryan (Aryans originate in Central Asia, and spread from India to Europe, the politically correct term in the West is Indo-European). Also, most of the Saudi royal family are Wahhabi (aka Salafi) Muslims (the main stream western media incorrectly says most Saudis are Sunni Muslim). Most Iranians are Shia Muslims. Al Qaeda, also made up of mainly Wahhabis, declared jihad against Shia Muslims. The dominating tribe of Saudi Arabia (the royal family) considers Iran a mortal enemy.
One analysts says what’s really happening is that Saudi Arabia is trying to push the United States closer to going to war with Iran: “I think the point is less that Saudi Arabia is really planning to make nuclear weapons, it’s about impressing on the U.S. how urgent it is to react to Iran’s nuclear program.”-Guido Steinberg, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
The German Parliament is investigating the sale of 200 of the latest version of Germany’s Leopard 2 tank to Saudi Arabia. It was an unnamed Saudi source that revealed the sale.
German law bans the sale of major weapons systems to countries in crisis hit regions: “Selling 200 Leopard tanks to Saudi Arabia is far from ethical foreign policy. The country is in the middle of a regional powder keg. You shouldn’t be giving out matches there.”-Andrea Nahles, SPD General Secretary
Der Spiegel revealed that it was Chancellor Merkel’s security council that approved the sale.
What makes this even more controversial is that Germany already gave Saudi Arabia a $93 billion ‘stimulus’ package, specifically for military/security use. It’s rumored that Saudi Arabia needs the military help after invading the tiny island country of Bahrain, and after constant military action on their border with Yemen.
Makes you wonder where all their oil money went?
German car makers are scrambling to keep up with international orders. They expect that by the end of the year they will have exported 4.15 million German made cars. But the majority of those cars are not going to the U.S., they’re going to China, and to some extent India.
“We are seeing international markets pick up much more rapidly than many had expected. The drivers of growth are above all Asian markets.”-Matthias Wissmann, German Car Industry Association
Audi alone saw a 64% increase in their sales to China and Hong Kong, in 2010. But BMW is turning out to be the big money maker, just in the first six months of 2011, their sales in China exploded by 101%!
Executives for German car makers admitted they are scrambling to rethink their corporate strategy, because they never expected such high sales in China, so soon.
Germany, not the United States, is becoming China’s most important business partner.
In fact the latest deal puts to shame the recent deal signed between China and the United Kingdom, by several hundred billion dollars. At the end of June Germany and China signed a $290+ billion deal.
The deal includes not just the purchase of products, but investments into anything from universities to medical research to environmental services. Sounds like everything President Obama promised the people of the United States.
Currently Germany has invested $20 billion into Chinese industries, with China investing only $600 million into Germany. This new deal greatly increases Chinese investment into Germany.
According to Rainer Gehnen, managing director of the German-Chinese Business Council, China, not the United States, is now Germany’s most important market, and will be for the long run.
Almost four months after the world’s worst nuclear accident, is the Japanese government finally taking serious action in Fukushima Prefecture?
On 04 July 2011, the Japanese government announced they will take over all radiation monitoring in Fukushima, including the monitoring being done by Tokyo Electric Power Company.
This comes after growing complaints by residents of Fukushima Prefecture, that the government wasn’t doing enough. Already several cities have begun their own decontamination efforts. One city, Date, said they were going to bill the government and TEPCo.
Residents are also upset about the government’s targeted evacuations. They’re based on radiation levels, however there are different groups taking those readings, and it’s confusing residents.
Before the government decision to take over radiation monitoring, testing was being done by local governments, independent groups, universities and Tokyo Electric. Residents felt it was about time for some standardization.
The Japanese central government will use their monitoring data to determine future evacuations.
A group of residents of the city of Moriya say they will begin monitoring radiation levels, because the central government can not.
Moriya is 200 kilometers (124 miles) from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, yet it is showing some of the highest radiation levels in the area.
Residents say when they approached the central Japanese government with their concerns, they were told their government was being overwhelmed by the nuclear crisis, and did not have the man power to conduct the radiation monitoring in their area!
Rare earth minerals will become the ‘oil’ of the 21st century. That’s because they’re used in high tech electronics, and the more the world becomes reliant on electronics, the more valuable rare earth minerals become.
In fact, some analysts say some of the current wars raging on the African continent are all about control of rare earth minerals.
Here are some examples of rare earth minerals: Dysprosium is used in electric motors for vehicles, and Terbium for the latest televisions.
Who’re the biggest controllers of rare earths? Why they’re the same major players of the Cold War in the 20th century: Russia (the boss of the Soviet Union during the Cold War), China and the United States.
However, China actually controls 90% of the production/refining of rare earths. This is where their true power comes in.
Rare earth minerals are so important that the Japanese University of Tokyo spent a lot of money conducting a search for other sources of rare earths. Their target search area was the Pacific Ocean. International law would prevent any monopolization by any country, of rare earths found in the Pacific Ocean.
They found plenty. From 2000 samples taken at 78 locations, Associate Professor Yasuhiro Kato estimates there is 800 times the rare earths at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, than there is on land.
They targeted volcanic vents on the Pacific Ocean floor. Hawaii has a lot. The problem is that most of the high concentrations are at depths of 3,000 to 6,000 meters (9,842 to 19,685 feet). So there are technical limits to getting at the Pacific Ocean rare earths.
The city of Date, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, will undergo intensive decontamination. This announcement comes after the central Japanese government announced the evacuation of 113 more households.
City officials, and residents, are not happy with the central government’s targeted evacuations. Many residents want a mass evacuation, because radiation levels are on the increase all over the city.
To try and alleviate the concerns of the people living in Date, city officials have decided to undertake decontamination efforts, on their own. They claim they will decontaminate every building and home in the city. They also claim they will decontaminate the surrounding mountain sides.
How are they going to pay for it? No worries, they plan on sending Tokyo Electric Power Company, and the central Japanese government, a huge bill.