Posted on 06/05/2011 6:17:16 AM PDT by radioone
I avoid conspiracy theories, but the economic decisions of western governments appear to be adjusting for a significantly reduced population in the near future.
It’s as though they are readying for the planned sustenance of a mere remnant.
I sense a War coming on. When the economic devistation of the failure of the Euro happens..and the EU fails..plus continues Islamic takeover...the people of europe are going to start blaming each other......
The Germans should just withdraw from Germany and all move to France and Italy.
Why is everything going backwards? Humanity seems to be devolving on every front.
There are Lions, and there are Lemmings. The Lemmings vote, and in Germany, they vote to run off the cliff. The Democrats are ecstatic.
I don’t know if I would call it “suicide.” It’s sort of like suicide by smoking cigarettes. It’s a very long time before it will reach fruition, and in the meantime, they can change their minds. Right now, though, they are headed in a direction that will ultimately cause them economic pain, if not death.
The last time I was in Paris, there were an awful lot of Germans there and they didn’t have to invade it.
And so darkness descends on Europe (again).
Christianity moved across the world like a wave. People are not perfect, and bad things came with and behind it.
Europe is post-Christian (Socialism replaces God with government, it is patient Communism). The US is pretty much there, thanks to the media and education system being corrupted.
The is a false god of this world uniting Islam for the theists and statism for the atheists. The doomed plan is to stop the Kingdom of the One True Living God.
What is going backwards are battles the Enemy is winning.
Jesus Christ has already won the war.
The government of Germany in an astonishing about face has decided to phase out all nuclear energy by 2022, shuttering many plants (up to 17) this year. It was only in September of 2010 that the same government headed by Angela Merkel came to the conclusion to extend the operating lives of Germany's 17 nuclear power plants, which had been scheduled to go off line by 2021 as a means of helping the country meet its ambitious goal of reducing CO 2 emissions.And now it should be obvious that the so-called green movement, like political candidates of both US party affiliations (notice my choice of phrasing that), works for foreign economic interests -- OPEC.
I’m glad the author has written this article about nuclear power in Germany. I was afraid no one was going to say anything about this incredibly stupid decision. The Japanese, who have more reason to be concerned, did not make a similar blunder. Nor the Chinese. Nor the French. The Germans have been so good a policy in this hideous Great Recession. Now they’re going to blow it all?
Well, there probably aren’t many Jews in Germany this time, maybe they’re going to decrease their Muslim population.
This analysis fars fall below what I’ve come to expect from writers in the American Thinker.
To compare Merkel to Obama on any meaningful level is just plain stupid.
Moreover, this author is writing in complete ignorance of the sociological “meaning” of nukes in Germany, in particular, and Europe, in general. There is a long-standing, entrenched, powerful FEAR of all-things-nuclear that absolutely pervades the German public.
Yes, the German public did consent to nuclear power plants, but their relationship with nuclear has never been anywhere near comfortable.
This is a relatively small country, with a lot of people crowded into its regions. Nuclear power plants are never really in “someone else’s backyard” as far as Germans are concerned.
Further, like all of Europe, the German public in general leans more toward the radical environmentalist view of all energy sources. Again, this makes for a highly reluctant relationship with nuclear from the get-go.
The bottom line is that, while the German government may have acted too quickly, and, indeed, overreacted, under all the circumstances, there’s no way this author’s essential charge of political pandering and cowardice is well-founded.
Merkel is one of the grown-ups on the world stage. Those that write about her political decisions should have some understanding of the domestic zeitgeist she has to deal with.
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Brillant: I don’t know if I would call it “suicide.” It’s sort of like suicide by smoking cigarettes. It’s a very long time before it will reach fruition, and in the meantime, they can change their minds. Right now, though, they are headed in a direction that will ultimately cause them economic pain, if not death.
I've already posted my thoughts on the author's take (first quote). But I do want to emphasize again that to understand this decision, one has to be familiar with exactly how much Germans are willing to sacrifice to be freer of the fear they have of nuclear energy/weapons.
And on that point, you've hit the nail on the head, really. They are going to take their time to figure this out and they are willing to pay the price for that. That is all.
I find nothing about this that fits the charge of political pandering, much less political pandering that is even in the same league with the dangerous bumbler in the White House.
I was thinking this same thing yesterday, although for much more mundane reasons.
I was driving around and it occurred to me that it was like our society is headed back to the Middle Ages, as if we are entering at least the Age of Monty Python.
Believe it or not, what got me musing on that was seeing store sign after store sign with misspelled words and grammatical mistakes. Seems dumb, but it isn't. When a business can't post a billboard without sounding like an uneducated, literally illiterate, beer-brained adolescent, we're going backwards.
For example, there was a time, not that long ago, when there was not a standard spelling for most words. People just wrote phonetically and everybody else had to figure it out. Even by this scale, we're going backwards.
I agree with you that it wasn’t a great decision. But I strongly disagree with the author that it was a decision made purely of crass political pandering on the part of Merkel and for her re-election bid.
Plus, as Brilliant, pointed out this decision is not irreversible.
I think the Turk connection is going to come alive. Shades of the Orient Express, Europe is going to be turned into one heck of a gay and drugs loving old population camp of death, all well managed by muslims and Turks and their making the hapless sheeple caught with a baggy beg them mercy through death by “umba kumba”.
Corruption and plying people before a judge to beg mercy for crimes they did not comit, or making them sign, is a great art of the kingpin. Now even their idiot leaders are falling for it.
Democracy shmemocracy, this is moronic.
... oh, and yes, false messiahs, power hunger and wars... what a great high too. All those peace and love protestors... tsk tsk tsk... it’s real inadequate...
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