They are also puzzled about the increased number of “mini-blackouts” taking place across the land.
And no one can properly explain these mysterious phenomena, although the Internet portal Verivox gave it a halfhearted try: The increased share in the costs for renewable energy and the ten percent wholesale energy price increase which resulted after the shutdown of eight nuclear power plants this sommer are responsible.
To be fair, electricity prices rise here very year. To be unfair, most German media and the poltical elite refuse to admit that the price increases now taking place are a direct result of their hysterical nuclear phase-out Aktionismus (politicking).
Als Grund gab Verivox die gestiegene Umlage für die erneuerbaren Energien sowie die Erhöhung der Großhandelspreise an, die für rund 15 Euro Mehrkosten im Jahr verantwortlich sein werden. Die Großhandelspreise waren nach der Abschaltung von acht deutschen Atomkraftwerken im Sommer um rund zehn Prozent nach oben geschossen.
Observing Hermann 
To wit:
“German companies have ceased to make cells in Germany because you can’t afford to do it in Germany anymore; the process is rather energy-intensive so you better do it in a place where electricity is cheap.”
http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2011/10/facepalm.html
This structural death-spiral, from a society famed for actually being broadly economically literate.
In other news, Johnny Depp has been located:
http://twitter.com/#!/nopasa/status/127035679984193536
Watch it with that Schadenfreude about Gaddafi, Joe. I feel sorry for the Libyans already. You can bet that they’re about to get a real lecturing by Germany now that they’re celebrating in the streets after his death like that (remember those awful Americans celebrating after bin Laden’s death?).
http://www.focus.de/politik/videos/meldung-vom-tod-gaddafis-freudenschuessen-autokorsos-und-jubel-in-libyen_vid_27651.html
Yes, vividly. They were mostly GW and Georgetown students – the kind of people who can get away with partying in the streets on a week night.
What those critics also forgot to mention that at their age, it’s largely their war, and they’re entitled to celebrate. All too many of them walked up the ramp of a C-130 to go play in the sandbox.