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Snowden Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize After ‘Disrepute Incurred’ for Picking Obama
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Posted on 07/15/2013 9:15:26 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Snowden Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize After ‘Disrepute Incurred’ for Picking Obama By Andrew Johnson July 15, 2013 11:49 AM

A Swedish professor has nominated NSA leaker Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize for his revelations of the surveillance program, but also to redeem the award’s prestige after it was awarded to President Obama in 2009.

In his letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Umea University’s Stefan Svallfors argues that Snowden, who would be the award’s youngest winner at 30, exemplified that “individuals can stand up for fundamental rights and freedoms.” Svallfors lauded Snowden’s “heroic effort at great personal cost.”

In 2009, President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize after less than a year in office, drawing criticism for the committee’s prematurity, including from Svallfors. The professor says that picking Snowden would “help to save the Nobel Peace Prize from the disrepute incurred by the hasty and ill-conceived decision to award US President Barack Obama the 2009 award.”

According to the Daily Mail’s translation of his statement, Svallfords believes Snowden to be a “highly affordable candidate.” Similiar past nominees include Wikileaks’ Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, who did not win.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benghazi; bradleymanning; edwardsnowden; fastandfurious; ignobleimpeachprize; impeachnow; irs; julianassange; nobelpeaceprize; snowden; snowdenasylum; stefansvallfors; temporaryasylum; wikileaks
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To: sickoflibs

LMAO!!!


81 posted on 07/15/2013 11:30:42 PM PDT by Impy (Bring back the spoils system.)
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To: IrishPennant

Three rights makes a left.

Or,

“If two wrongs do not make a right, try a third”


82 posted on 07/16/2013 2:47:32 AM PDT by Andy from Chapel Hill
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To: Andy from Chapel Hill
Three rights makes a left.

Ahhhhh....I see you drive in the city.

83 posted on 07/16/2013 4:39:31 AM PDT by IrishPennant (Excuse me...Here's your nose. I found it in my business....agian!)
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To: editor-surveyor

I do!


84 posted on 07/16/2013 6:58:10 AM PDT by Borges
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To: txhurl

We do have a choice on who we engage, with comment, in that discussion and or refrain with comment.


85 posted on 07/16/2013 8:25:24 AM PDT by caww
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To: sickoflibs

BUMP : )


86 posted on 07/16/2013 10:03:49 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (K I L L T H E B I L L !!)
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To: Sub-Driver

What can America do to overcome its disrepute for picking Obama (a White African bastard child spawned from an out of control white hippie teenager) as Presdident?


87 posted on 07/16/2013 1:12:11 PM PDT by Gabrial (The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the Whitehouse.)
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To: caww
It can take authorities up to three months to consider his request for temporary asylum.... In the meantime, Snowden may be transferred...... 'To A Refugee Center'........ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said President Putin is aware of Snowden’s application, although he will NOT have any influence on the asylum process. “If we are talking about temporary asylum, then this issue is NOT for the President, but the FMS, where it is not even reviewed on a chief’s level,” Peskov said. Snowden had 'a choice' to either request 'political' or 'temporary asylum' in Russia, Kucherena explained. The whistleblower chose the latter because it entails a shorter review time and....... “he is tired of living in the airport’s transit zone.” ....... Snowden has been staying 'in the transit zone' of Sheremetyevo airport for the past 23 days. Transit Zone


Snowdens handwritten request for Asylum.

88 posted on 07/16/2013 10:32:40 PM PDT by caww
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To: alancarp

It would not at all surprise me if Trayvon gets a posthumous Nobel Peace Prize. It was only whoop ass. It wasn’t dynamite or something.


89 posted on 07/17/2013 12:39:47 PM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be what you might have been.)
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To: PGR88

“The Nobel Prize has become a joke - a highly politicized, leftist fashion show.”

A real shame too. Today’s world is nuts - even the Queen is calling the likes of elton john ‘Sir’. Nothing seems to have honor anymore.


90 posted on 07/17/2013 8:17:33 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: alancarp

Lol


91 posted on 07/18/2013 3:36:41 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Sub-Driver

O M G!


92 posted on 07/18/2013 3:51:25 AM PDT by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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