European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 3 March | 70 comments (70 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Living off the Planet (none / 1)

Greens have forgotten how to fight, so drunk on finding the path to the government.

why there is no opposition whatever Die Linke excepted.

There are three stories about the euro crisis: the Republican story, the German story, and the truth. -- Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Mar 3rd, 2012 at 08:37:38 AM EST
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Re: Living off the Planet (none / 0)

Not if it comes to energy, where the Left Party endorses renewables as an idea without details but in practice fully supports brown coal (owed to the same union-support-turned-company-support as in the case of the SPD).

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by DoDo on Sat Mar 3rd, 2012 at 09:24:34 AM EST
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Re: Living off the Planet (none / 0)

On the other hand, for the record, their homepage is currently headlined by an article on the anti-solar-cuts protest, too. (As for the SPD, they don't even mention it on a sub-page.)

_{*Lunatic*, n.

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by DoDo on Sat Mar 3rd, 2012 at 09:42:29 AM EST
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Re: Living off the Planet (none / 0)

According to the solar industry, however, the SPD will participate from the top. Speakers for the parties will be:

SPD: federal chairman Sigmar Gabriel (he was a pro-renewables but also pro-coal federal environment minister in Merkel's first, Grand Coalition cabinet)
Greens: federal parliamentary faction co-leader Jürgen Trittin (he was the federal environment minister in Schröder's cabinets who got the "EEG" feed-in law rolling)
Left Party: federal federal parliamentary faction leader Gregor Gysi

No Pirate listed; but the Pirates don't have the issue on their homepage either.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sat Mar 3rd, 2012 at 09:56:31 AM EST
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Re: Living off the Planet (none / 1)

DoDo:

No Pirate listed; but the Pirates don't have the issue on their homepage either.

Neither does there appear to be any discussion in the liquid feedback on the topic. Or at least I think so, assuming that such a topic would show up here: Umwelt, Verkehr, Energie - Themenbereich - LiquidFeedback (Piratenpartei Deutschland)

Sweden's finest (and perhaps only) collaborative, leftist e-newspaper Synapze.se

by A swedish kind of death on Sat Mar 3rd, 2012 at 10:12:03 AM EST
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The link goes to a limited list of initiatives with maximum potential supporters. The full list of 76 initiatives contains several on energy, but none on the planned solar cuts. (BTW, I find an intitiative for more competition on rail, with a call for total grid separation, found support... sigh.)

Searching the news, I found a single Pirate party communique on the solar cuts: back on 24 February, Thuringia's pirates voiced their opposition.

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by DoDo on Sat Mar 3rd, 2012 at 11:00:35 AM EST
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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 3 March | 70 comments (70 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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