for a long time now...
Posted on 10/13/2006 8:19:10 PM PDT by voletti
An anti-poverty campaigner and a bank in Bangladesh have won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. The purpose of the prize has become muddled. It may be better to withhold it next time.
BRAVERY is a characteristic shared by most winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. On Friday October 13th, the Norwegian part of the Nobel Institute (a Swedish body that dishes out the other coveted prizes, for science and literature) named the recipient of the 2006 peace award. An unofficial shortlist included a pair of Irish rock stars who have received a lot of attention for trying to promote development in Africa, a Finnish diplomat who works at the UN and who has lobbied for peace in Indonesia and a Vietnamese Buddhist. In fact the award was given to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen bank in Bangladesh, which promotes lending to the poorest, especially women.
But the Nobel committee could have made a braver, more difficult, choice by declaring that there would be no recipient at all. That might ruin a good party—each year the lucky winner (who also gets a cash prize of $1.3m or so) is honoured with a lavish award ceremony in Oslo, Norway's capital, given a commemorative medal, and attention is shone on his particular good cause. Some recent examples include a campaign to ban landmines; the promotion of peace in Northern Ireland; efforts to bring democracy to Myanmar (which used to be called Burma).
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I'd rather have that Bangladeshi banker win it than You,sir Are-a-fat.
It is a crock these days.
Jimmy Carter.
I remember when a Mercedes Benz was a rare sight.
YEP
Worst
President
Ever.
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Cindy Sheehan reported she had won it. Bogus claim.
This award is a lefty tool.
Actually this year's prize seems like a return to the good old days when folks like Albert Schweitzer and George Marshall won it.
It's always been a bit silly, usually going to useless folk like Briand and Kellogg.
The only person who got it for something that really contributed to peace in the usual usage of the word was Theodore Roosevelt for negotiating the end of the Russo-Japanese War.
This year they actually gave it to someone who did something useful. Previous years: not so much.
I dunno...what'll a pawn shop give you for it? It looks like a decent paper weight.
And let us not forget about KOFI ANNAN, United Nations Secretary General (2001 winner) - barf...
The Vice President could probably use them for skeet practise...we would just need to find someone willing to throw them up for him.
The Clinton peace prize was given a bit premature. An honorable man would return the prise.
Kerplunk.
Whaaaaat?
Harris Faulkner, Fox newsbabe, announced the name of the man who won "the Nobel Peace Prize for Physics." It's become all one bowl of tepid soup.
Jimmy Carter.
..and ole fish breath..you know, the pali terrorist that died of AIDs.
This man began with his own money. Slick willie always liked to be a hero with other people's money.
for a long time now...
The freaky part is them giving it to someone who has capitalism as the underlying basis of his most famous work. I thought that was a no-no, that the poor are supposed to get rich by us giving money to them.
...and last year's african environmentalist wacko.
I've yet to see who it is - so, WHO is it???
The Nobel prizes are becoming more like a theater of the absurd..a macabre cabaret playing while the world is melting down..
Back in the 70's it was shared one year by Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho for the VN "Peace agreement." To his credit, Le Duc Tho declined the cash, knowing he was about to launch an invasion from North Vietnam the very next year.
I thought she reported that she was nominated. Anyone can be nominated, it is not an achievement.
When was it not junk?
1994 Laurate.
Trick question, right?
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Today in History - On Oct. 14, 1964, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
So?
A broken clock is also right twice a day, eh?
Merely FYI, Snarkmeister Grumpy Grump. ;>)
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