@ErelSegal-Halevi, is fasting something that occupies people? I would have thought that fasting is not only associated with a reduction of activity, but also with hunger potentially causing a nangy mood.

@EikePierstorff, it may be technically slightly different from the RTGs, but my point is that we're almost certainly talking about something closer in size to a suitcase and which requires no cooling water, than to a traditional civil nuclear power station.

Russia actually has a long history of so-called RTGs: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generato‌​r. I assume it is this style of nuclear reactor they are planning to put on the moon, rather than the ones made of millions of tonnes of concrete and requiring an ocean worth of water to be pumped.

@NoDataDumpNoContribution, indeed but the fact that Russia has paused in a particular place suggests it doesn't have the resources to keep any larger offensive going than it is already doing. And if you've only just started to push forward and breach the opponent's defences in one place, you wouldn't suddenly reallocate those resources elsewhere - usually you do the opposite, concentrate all the forces you can spare at the breach, and push through the gap so that you get a volume of your forces behind the opponent's existing defensive line.

@Dolphin613Motorboat, to be honest I don't know exactly where Russia's dug-in defensive lines are, but I assume both sides will dig in along any line where they are stationary for a while. I assume Russia has a defensive line in the North currently, at the front of the territory it has seized, not at the front of its pre-war border

@Qwertie, well the OP asked "what explains the correlation", and my answer explains that potentially environmentalists are being labelled as left-wingers because they opposed a broad pro-nuclear consensus that existed in the near past, and not because they necessarily have politics associated with others who might also be labelled as left-wingers. I'm not sure why you think that "isn't an answer".

@Joshua, the same essential point is true of Israelis, except most of them are not even traceable to anyone living in Jerusalem in 1948. The real problem though is that the Gazans are part of the de facto population that Israel administers because it has conquered the territory, both that on which the Gazans live now and that on which they previously lived. The problem is that Israel has no formula for their absorbtion and pacification, only fantasies that a pan-Arabic nation might help them redistribute their brutalised foes, or that extermination might be possible if redistribution isn't.

@Joshua, and at various times European nations have also "pushed Jews out" or required conversion. It doesn't legitimise your idea that the Arabs are a single bloc that can be negotiated with as a whole or all their territory treated as fungible. If you seize half of France, you're not attacking "Europe", you're simply attacking France, and you merely worry the other nations that you might do the same to them or otherwise do them harm. Israel as a geopolitical tool of the West, is also significant in unifying opposition from a crew of Arab nations that are otherwise not necessarily bedfellows.

@Joshua, such a "fundamental problem" is a political claim of Zionists. Their treatment of "Arabs" as a bloc is also as ludicrous as saying that the Europeans have plenty of space so they won't mind if Zionists occupy half of France. Not only would the French mind, but there would be considerable solidarity from other nations not because they all particularly love the French, but because they don't like the idea of Zionists arrogantly thinking they can just seize land anywhere they like at any time they like.

@gerrit, what you call "conservatives" are in fact radical right-wing liberals. Pinochet was a right-wing liberal - and so was Thatcher who backed him, and she called herself a liberal. This idea that liberals are a benign, pro-worker, or pro-democratic political force is nonsense. You ask any liberal about democracy, and they'll immediately start talking about how it must be constrained by unelected judges, mustn't interfere with markets or private property, mustn't interfere with the press and propaganda organs owned by the rich, and so on. (1/2)

@gerrit, source - my regular experience, as reinforced by the OPs own account of his friend's words. Liberals aren't opposed to dictatorship - they love dictatorship of the rich over the poor, that's why they love markets and fawn over billionaires. As for "independent courts" that is another case of liberals thinking that unelected judges should dictate to the electorate. "Spanish practices" are how the liberal media used to describe the results of trade union activity, when it was stopping the bosses imposing extreme and unconventional conditions on workers.