Researchers from around the world have been looking for the source yeast used in Lager beers. They found it, in Argentina!
Germany has laid claim as the creator of lager beers, more than 600 years ago. But scientists realized that the yeast used, Saccharomyces Pastorianus, is not native to Bavaria.
Scientists combed five continents, and found only one source of origin: Patagonia, Argentina.
Now the question is how did Europeans get the yeast? After all the first German Lagers were created decades before Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Could it be those daring Vikings who got to North America 400 years before Columbus, made it all the way to South America, then back to Europe?
“I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.”-Steve Jobs
Co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, has been fighting cancer, and now he has resigned. No confirmation if it’s due to his health.
Tim Cook has already been picked to replace Jobs, and the board of Apple is rushing to get Cook into the CEO position.
“Some people have said, you know, we should go on forever. Some people have said change is good … there will always be dissension. And the papers will make a big deal of it.”-Michael Bloomberg, Mayor New York City
Fox News reporting that New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, might forgo what had become tradition at the 9/11 Anniversary Ceremonies; the reading of the victims’ names.
“It’s becoming more and more clear to me that Mayor Bloomberg is becoming the dictator of 9/11 and how we should think about it and what the narrative should be.”-Tim Brown, 9/11 firefighter
“They were the spiritual and emotional backbone, and when you have a situation where people are trying to find meaning, where something is bigger than them, when you have a crisis of this level, they often look to the clergy.”-Fernando Cabrera, New York City council
The Wall Street Journal reporting that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, will not allow representatives from religious groups to take part in the 9/11 anniversary ceremonies.
One of the victims of the 9/11/2001 attacks, was the chaplain of the New York Fire Department. The New York Magazine even named Mychal Judge the most famous victim of 9/11.
Rabbi Joseph Potasnik said the problem is that ceremony organizers overbooked the event: “I don’t know how to make it possible for everyone to have a place at the table.”
The U.S. Congressional Budget Office projects slow growth and high unemployment for years to come.
GDP will remain stagnant for several years. The CBO predicts 2.3% for 2011, 2.7% for 2012. Official unemployment numbers will remain above 8% until 2014!
Pakistan has given the U.S. embassy 40 days to remove 250 U.S. officials.
Pakistan says the U.S. officials are involved in high-level espionage and anti-state activities.
U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, Cameron Munter, cut short his vacation to deal with the situation. The situation has gotten worse in Pakistan, because the United States has greatly increased the number of drone attacks. Pakistani officials, and independent observers, say the majority of people killed in the U.S. drone attacks are civilians. In some cases the target of the attack is totally missed, and dozens of bystanders are killed. U.S. officials have dismissed independent investigations that show that several hundreds of children have been killed.
The United States, Europe and other countries are pushing for the United Nations to unfreeze billions in Libyan assets. This is on top of what the U.S. is unfreezing.
A Libyan rebel official admitted in a press conference they needed the money “…for supplies…to pay salaries.”
From the beginning the African Union has been oppossed to the NATO action in Libya. Libya is a member of the African Union, and the AU wasn’t even consulted by the the United States and Europe, before the United Nations was tricked into approving military action against Libya.
South Africa, one of the most powerful members of the AU says it will vote no on unfreezing Libyan assets.
Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda announced that a U.S.$100 billion fund is being created, to help Japanese companies to use yen to buy foreign money, and take over foreign companies.
Noda says the fund is a response to the crashing U.S. dollar, which is forcing up the value of the Japanese yen. The more the yen is worth, the more expensive it makes Japanese exports. Already Japan has seen the effect, reduced sales to other countries.
The fund will loan money to Japanese companies, and investors, who will then use it to buy foreign money, and foreign companies. It’s hoped that action will bring down the value of the yen.
The Japanese government will counter speculators from abusing the fund, by requiring daily reports of financial transactions.
The Chinese government has expanded the use of the yuan in international trade deals.
Originally China restricted the use of the yuan to just five cities, for trade with Southeast Asian nations. Later it was expanded so 20 provinces could use the yuan in all their international payments. Now, the People’s Bank of China gave permission to all businesses in China, to use the yuan for international trade payments.
Chinese officials say the decision was influenced by the crashing U.S. dollar.
President Obama is giving Libyan rebels $1.5 million in frozen Libyan funds. At the same time Germany is demanding that the United Nations give the rebels funds that were frozen under the UN sanctions.
Germany is also going to issue rebels a huge $140 million loan, within days.
What this means is the fragile Libyan rebel alliance (aka Transitional National Council) has run out of money to pay for military operations, which include mercenaries. A BBC report said the rebel alliance is so fragile that it could fall apart as soon as the war is over. It’s more likely it’ll fall apart if it runs out of cash.