This is where the European unity part comes in, I guess (and the electricity still has to come out of the Dose/wall socket somehow, doesn’t it?).
Ever since the nuclear power plant moratorium has kicked in, Germany has begun importing more foreign energy than it exports, most of this having been generated at French nuclear power plants. This is where the ideological wheels hit the road, people. Are we having Realpolitik yet?
It’s typically German somehow: Loudly wash your hands of the matter while letting someone else do the dirty work for you.
And speaking of Realpolitik, I can’t wait until the “paying for all of this” part kicks in. There won’t be a moratorium on that one. It won’t be too long until the next wave of hysteria hits the fan again, in other words.
Davon profitieren vor allem französische AKW.
Observing Hermann 
Hermann Beobachter,
Hey, Andrew over at German Joys weighs in on the recent hyperventilating of the German media (Nuclear Power: Still Safest by Far. It’s funny to read the responses by the Germans wandering by. One commenter writes:
I for myself am happy that the German media is drawing an apocalyptic picture out of this tragedy. It puts pressure on politicians and the power industry to speed up renewable energy generation projects. Being “not a final solution” for generations did not do much to push this forward.
Um, Germans should probably stay away from using the phrase “final solution,” no matter what the context. No?
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It’s a Zwang (compulsion), Jeffrey. I don’t know what it is with these phrases and comparisons to you-know-what/you-know-who all the time, it’s just what they do (especially if they’re politicians, of all people).
As for the nuclear power hysteria, I could watch this stuff all day long
http://www.stern.de/wissen/natur/angst-vor-strahlung-aus-japan-deutsche-messen-besonders-gruendlich-1671534.html
(“Germans particularly thorough with their radiation controls” – oh really?)
but sooner or later even the Germans are going to get tired of it. Unfortunately, there are a few indications out there that suggest they may have even peaked out already.
PS: I feel that this particular fit of hysteria, so political/ideological/big medicine as it is, is also related to you-know-what/you-know-who in some particularly bizarre way (that might explain the intensity), but I haven’t figured that one out yet.
Well – they’re paying ransom again. That’s like, so eighties, if you know what I’m sayin’….
Those wacky Germans.
HLN is a low-grade retread of CNN’s former “CNN Headline News,” Nancy Grace is particularly grating and fare more stupid than her usual perspective-less outrage could ever justify.
Her persona and outlook is that of an uneducated, spoiled, kept woman who doesn’t sem to know where resources come from.