French Greens have anti-Nuclear field day
Greens, climate-warmers, and assorted protest groups across France and indeed much of the globe, have rushed to use the terrible Japanese tsunami tragedy as a big radiated stick with which to beat up nuclear energy. Media reports, shriller than radiation warning sirens, filled airwaves and digital highways with trigger terror words like ‘Chernobyl’ while [...]
Escargot and the Price of Pension Unrest
With escargot at the top of the menu it has been an expensive meal of unrest for the French since the end of summer — 3.2 billion euros lost so far to the economy and rising. Two days after the senate overcame a socialist-led filibuster and approved a widely-contested pension reform bill, Finance Minister Christine [...]
