Eiffel and I Can Get Up

Greenpeacers climb Eiffel Tower in anti-nuclear protest

Posted at 10:33 AM on 14 Jul 2008

About 15 Greenpeace activists scaled the Eiffel Tower Sunday and unveiled a banner to protest France's nuclear-energy policies. France uses more nuclear power than any other E.U. nation. "Since he was elected, President Nicolas Sarkozy has done everything he could to sell nuclear energy," Greenpeace said in a statement. "At the U.N., as head of the European council, or just recently at the G8, he has behaved like a traveling salesman for [French nuclear-power producer] Areva and has used political platforms to promote French nuclear power." France, which will have the European Union's rotating presidency for the next six months, was during the protest hosting some 40 heads of state from E.U. and Mediterranean countries. Paris was also the site of a separate anti-nuclear protest on Saturday, wherein thousands of protesters marched through the city carrying signs with slogans including, "Stay inactive today and you'll be radioactive tomorrow."

source: Reuters

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nice timing

Yesterday, the 14th, was of course Bastille Day, when many of the French (one hopes) were thinking more seriously than usual about what France's mission civilisatrice should be nowadays, in Europe, the Mediterranean and around the world.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

by caniscandida at 10:18 PM on 14 Jul 2008

Greenpeace Merde-heads

Leave it to Greenpeace to punish the one company that has cut its greenhouse gases to nil!

by jabailo at 8:32 AM on 15 Jul 2008

Company?

Which company has cut its GHGs to zero? Or were you confusing "company" with "country," which is easy to do nowadays since governments are now just lackeys and enforcers for corporations.

As to Greenpeace, not only do they have more credibility and integrity in their merde than you do in your entire existence, but there are a lot more environmental concerns than greenhouse gas emissions, nuclear problems being one of them.

by Wolverine at 5:47 PM on 15 Jul 2008

Right to wrath...

Leave it to Greenpeace to punish the one company that has cut its greenhouse gases to nil!

Leave it to Greenpeace to get upset with the one country that, some years prior, killed several of their members on foreign soil in a terroristic and illegal act.

Ever wonder why New Zealand declared itself a nuclear-free country?

Go look it up.

by Tasermons Partner at 6:16 PM on 15 Jul 2008

I'll Tell You Why

No, I know why. Because back in the Cold War, if you looked at the targeting of nuclear warheads, and based on ballistics, if there had been all out war between the U.S.S.R and U.S.A., NZ would be one of the few places that would not be affect. No cost...no benefit to being nuke...it's simple self interest...so NZ was behaving like a good Conservative.

by jabailo at 12:26 PM on 16 Jul 2008
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Need to do more research...

...the waters of NZ were used as nuclear testin' grounds by the French. The Greenpeace incident not only stopped that, but it also had NZ forbid all nuclear-powered ships and submarines from docking in it's ports. Australia, bound by ANZAC, followed suit.

Nuclear-free doesn't just refer to weapons. It refers to virtually all nuclear technology. It's also why Australia, despite havin' some of the world's largest nuclear fuel resources, doesn't have any nuclear power plants.

On another note, please explain what ya meant by "company that has cut it greenhouse gasses to nil".

Last I checked France was a country, not a company. Also, considerin' it has several million fossil-fueled cars, not to mention planes, boats, and factories, I wouldn't call it's greenhouse emissions nil.

Do we haveta go over the definition of what a greenhouse gas is again? Seriously, if you'd just do some like 3-grade research efforts, you'd know what this is all is by now.

by Tasermons Partner at 11:06 AM on 19 Jul 2008

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