Posted on 02/02/2016 4:56:19 PM PST by drewh
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump is reportedly in the running to receive the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize.
Despite the billionaireâs controversial call to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, which drew international backlash, Trump earned the nomination for the award because of his tough stance on terrorism and other security threats, according to Nobel watcher Kristian Berg Harpviken, director of the Peace Research Institute of Oslo.
Harpviken said the nominating letter he received outlined why Trump deserved the award. Supporters wrote that the real estate mogul deserved the prize because of âhis vigorous peace through strength ideology, used as a threat weapon of deterrence against radical Islam, ISIS, nuclear Iran and Communist China,â according to the Agence France-Presse.
Thousands of people around the world are allowed to make nominations for the award, including parliamentary ministers, government members, former prize winners and some university professors. The Nobel Institute accepts all valid nominations, which must be submitted by Feb. 1, but the names of nominees remain confidential.
Other potential nominees for the prestigious prize include German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was Timeâs person of the year in 2015, and Pope Francis, according to the AFP.
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Exactly. I do not care if the guy is a crass obnoxious blowhard, this is a country founded by rebels with guns. We are being overtaken by pussies with cellphones and NOBODY is confronting them head on except Trump. Hillary for example committed a blatant act of voter fraud yesterday. Anyone do anything about it? Hell no. Wait till she pulls that crap with Trump, he’ll stick that Mao suit of hers right up her fat corrupt cankle supported ass.
Merkel?
Was she nominated for peace through laying down on the tracks in front of a speeding train of invaders?
Can you believe Rush saying Rubio is a full throated conservative today?
I couldn’t believe my ears.
Last time I listen to Rush. Done.
Well “peace through strength” is a better reason than why they gave Obama one. Why did they give Obama one?
[Can you believe Rush saying Rubio is a full throated conservative today?]
I’m not surprised.
Maybe on foreign policy but otherwise he’s nothing like snarling nasty McCain, who btw has always been like that since I saw him om 60 minutes when, must have been the early 80s.
He’s McStains’s padawan. Never seen a war he hasn’t liked.
He's been nominated; him and a hundred other people. There is no way he's in the running.
I’m about done with him. How do I change my screen name?
World Bulletin / News Desk
Authorities in France have demolished a makeshift mosque and a church that has been used by refugees in the north of the country.
The demolition took place on Monday at the northern port city of Calais at the Calais Camp, which is also known as the “Jungle,” where thousands of asylum seekers from Syria, Sudan and other countries have taken refuge.
French authorities have said the move was part of a plan to clear a 100m security zone around the camp’s perimeter and a nearby motorway.
Refugees and activists have been stunned by the action. Observers say that the places of worship had not been included in initial demolition plans earlier revealed to them by government authorities.
Reverend Teferi Shuremo, the head of the church that was destroyed, told local media that authorities had told him the church was “safe” from demolition. “They are trying to destroy peace,” he said, and pledged to build another church.
The Calais Camp is used by about 5,000 asylum seekers, who say they would want to reach the UK in their quest for a better life. Unattended to by the French authorities, they have built their own shops, schools, and places of worship.
I don’t listen to him much , only when I am in the car, but for him to say that stunned me.
“Rubio wants us to go to war for the Turks.”
And if not there, then against Russia for Ukraine.
Eisenhower by contrast managed to keep us out of several hot wars during his administration.
It's a site that many of us FReepers refuse to click on. Other than that, I can't help you much. Sorry.
Maybe on social issues Rush does not care as he hardly mentions them and for the illegals maybe he hires them down in S FL.
That is where Rubio and him seem to be right now.
Why post this dreck ?
Maybe the Nobel committee is so fed up with Obama, and what he’s done since being awarded the prize (I won’t say ‘won’ because he did nothing to deserve it) that they’ll give it to Trump as a countermeasure to Obama’s award.
snicker
Nah, he should reject it. Trump doesn’t want meaningless awards.
Create a new account.
Stupid is as stupid does.
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