German Nuclear Opposition Collapsing Over Energy Prices; Green Party Leader Resigns to Protest...

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...anti-nuke policies of her party.

Skyrocketing fuel prices are leading more and more Germans -- including one prominent member of the Green Party -- to challenge the country's cherished plan of mothballing its 17 nuclear power plants.

A few years ago, it would have been unthinkable for a Green party member to resign over the party's inflexibility about decommissioning atomic power plants.

But that's exactly what happened on Monday, July 13, when Margareta Wolf, a former member of parliament and deputy party spokeswoman, announced she had severed her ties with Germany's Green Party.

In an official statement, Wolf said she was quitting because of the Greens' intransigience by insisting on simultaneously phasing out nuclear power and freezing the construction of new coal-burning plants.

"My party has maneuvered itself into a strategic dead-end on this issue, from which it will only emerge if it returns to an objective, non-romanticized debate and starts an open dialogue that doesn't defame every thing that gets voiced," Wolf wrote.

She also accused the party of "losing relevance" and pursuing policies that "bordered on the dumbing-down of the public."

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Um?

"Dumbing down?"

I think it's time we get down to more serious matters in this forum, like say Matthew Mc-What's-His-Name's placenta burying and the People Magazine poll on nuclear energy, and of course, Carla Bruni's bod...

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1. Can we talk about how the US stuffed France in the 400m swim relay?

That was pretty cool.

Apropos of nothing.

Oh, and it seems that the EU has a fossil fuel problem, which The Sovi--excuse me, the Russians may be in a position to exploit.

[NNadir]

2. It must be a rough day to wake up in Germany and recognize that one depends on Pooty Poot's

straw for breakfast.