http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nobelpeaceprize/ en-us Sun, 6 Jul 2008 20:47:57 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041560/posts Two members of the U.S. Congress are spearheading an effort to nominate the president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbaev, for a Nobel Peace Prize, in recognition of Kazakhstan’s decision in the early 1990s to give up nuclear weapons it inherited upon gaining independence from the Soviet Union. The two chief sponsors are Darrell Issa, a Republican from California, and Charlie Melancon, a Democrat from Louisiana. In late June, they circulated a letter to other members of Congress seeking their support for Nazarbaev’s nomination. The letter also nominates Senator Richard Lugar and former Senator Sam Nunn, who created a U.S. program offering... TOL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041560/posts#comment Sun, 6 Jul 2008 20:47:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017243/posts I am ashamed to admit that I had never heard of Irena Sendler, whose obituary appeared in this morning’s paper. Hers is an awesomely humbling story, even by the standards of her heroic generation. A Polish Catholic, she spirited some 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto, displaying casual and extraordinary courage. She kept a list of the children she had saved, hoping one day to reunite them with their parents – although, in the event, almost all lost their families in Treblinka. In 1943, she was arrested by the Gestapo and tortured. Her legs and feet were broken,... Telegraph of London http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017243/posts#comment Sat, 17 May 2008 05:12:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910471/posts FRIDAY'S GREGALOGUE: IRENA SENDLER The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded this morning, and I'd like to congratulate Irena Sendler. Sendler was a former history teacher who rescued 2,500 children during the Holocaust and was a top contender for the wondrous prize. Back during the early 1940's, Sendler was a Catholic social worker who had gone into the Warsaw ghetto to rescue Jewish kids who were destined either to starve there, or die in death camps. She would sneak the kids past Nazi guards, sometimes hiding them in body bags, or would provide them with false documents - inevitably getting them... Greg Gutfeld http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910471/posts#comment Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:58:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1938007/posts Yahoo! News Photos http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1938007/posts#comment Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:59:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930411/posts U.S. Diplomat Is Residing in North Korean Capital, Chosun Says By Heejin Koo Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- A U.S. diplomat has been residing in North Korea since mid-November, acting as a liaison between the governments of Washington and Pyongyang, South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper said, citing an unidentified official in Washington.The presence of the unidentified U.S. envoy, who is staying at the Koryo Hotel in Pyongyang, is an indication of improved relations between the two nations since North Korea pledged to disable its Yongbyon nuclear plant by the end of this year, the Seoul-based daily said. The U.S. plans... Chosun Ilbo (Conservative Daily in Korea) in English http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930411/posts#comment Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:59:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929823/posts As irrefutable evidence mounts that Nobel Laureate Al Gore's climate alarmism is about nothing other than lining his supposedly green pockets with green currency, manmade global warming skeptics around the world wonder when the former vice president's house of cards will collapse. Without question, if Gore were to lose the support of almost universally adoring Hollywoodans, the scam would implode quicker than a Democrat demanding a recount after losing a close election. As such, the following comments by actor and environmentalist Robert Redford, reported by the New Statesman last week, should bring hope to folks not buying the snake oil... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929823/posts#comment Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:44:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924620/posts This week, the United Nations' climate scientists will release a major report synthesising the world's best global warming research. It will be the first time we've heard from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since its scientists won the Nobel Peace Prize with former US vice-president Al Gore. The IPCC's Assessment Report will tell policy-makers what to expect from man-made climate change. It is the result of rigorous and painstaking labour: more than can be said for the other Nobel Prize winner. The difference between Gore's claims and IPCC research is instructive. While Gore was creating alarm with his... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924620/posts#comment Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:04:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1922658/posts The Nobel Prize comittee has awarded the year's Peace Prize to Nancy Leider. "We were unanimous in our selection of Ms. Leider for this prize;" said one member of the selection panel. "She has saved the population of the Earth from inestimable harm." Nancy Leider operates the Zetatalk and Troubled Times web sites, and has tirelessly warned the public of impending disasters, such as the narrowly missed Planet X flyby. "That a middle aged woman with a high school degree, who does not even know which end of a telescope to look into, could pinpoint the RA and Dec of... StaggerOn.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1922658/posts#comment Thu, 8 Nov 2007 07:23:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1919858/posts I've had a lot of fun recently with my tiny (and unofficial) slice of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But, though I was one of thousands of IPCC participants, I don't think I will add "0.0001 Nobel Laureate" to my resume. The other half of the prize was awarded to former Vice President Al Gore, whose carbon footprint would stomp my neighborhood flat. But that's another story. Both halves of the award honor promoting the message that Earth's temperature is rising due to human-based emissions of greenhouse gases. The Nobel committee... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1919858/posts#comment Fri, 2 Nov 2007 02:35:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1913877/posts Speech was given on October 12, 2007 in Newport Beach. You have extended me a very dangerous invitation tonight – to speak to a gathering of political conservatives on the day that Al Gore has received the Nobel Peace Prize for discovering that the earth’s climate is changing. I’ve heard that he’s going to contribute half of his prize money to environmental causes and use the other half to pay his electricity bill. And anything left over will come in handy to help pay for the fleet of private jets that allow him to travel around the world to tell... Citizens for the California Republic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1913877/posts#comment Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:03:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1913920/posts KING HARALD V OF NORWAY HAS BEEN EXPOSED AS A RELATIVE OF DEMLIB FLIP-FLOPPER JOHN KERRY!!!!!!: The Democrat’s president candidate John Kerry is related to King Harald of Norway…. Not only did Kerry live a couple of years in Oslo during his youth, he is also related with the Norwegian King, according to Harold Brooks-Baker, director of Burke’s Peerage, the "bible" of the European royal families….. THIS PUTS THE ENTIRE NOBEL AWARDS PROCESS INTO QUESTION!!!!! WHAT PRESSURE DID THE DEMLIBS PUT ON THE NOBEL COMMITTEE THROUGH JOHN KERRY’S COUSIN ON THE NORWEGIAN THRONE!!!!! HOW CAN THE KING IN GOOD CONSCIENCE... NORWAY PUBLIC TV2 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1913920/posts#comment Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:39:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911302/posts THERE is a beautiful congruency about Al Gore receiving the Nobel Peace Prize 24 hours after a High Court judge had declared it illegal to screen his 'man-made' climate change propaganda film An Inconvenient Truth in schools, unless accompanied by contradictory information to correct its scientific falsehoods. The judge identified nine scientific errors that would mislead pupils. It takes more than nine inconvenient untruths, however, to deflect the Nobel Peace Prize committee from its political purpose. For aficionados of irony, last week was a deeply satisfying experience. To see the humbugs of the Nobel committee embracing the charlatan Gore to... scotland on sunday http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911302/posts#comment Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:10:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910957/posts The value of the Nobel Peace Prize yet again has been affirmed: It's worth nothing. So, too, has the integrity of the Norwegian Nobel Committee: It has none. For his "work" on global warming, former Vice President Al Gore on Friday was named the 2007 co-winner of the now thoroughly discredited prize along with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It might as well have been the Pulitzer Prize for fiction (bad fiction at that, filled with historical inaccuracies) or the Wurlitzer Prize for Organic Circular Illogic given the dung both have been peddling as seasoned cordwood. The... Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910957/posts#comment Sun, 14 Oct 2007 04:23:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910896/posts They just don't make Nobel Prizes the way they used to. That's the feeling we get after hearing that Al Gore was named co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for his global warming alarmism. The other co-winner was the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations group of scientists. It was easy enough to understand how Hollywood awarded Gore an Oscar for his climate movie ''An Inconvenient Truth.'' The Academy Award judges live in the land of make-believe. But the Nobel is a serious prize and its judges are supposed to do better work than the movie crowd.... The Morning Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910896/posts#comment Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:13:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910838/posts The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and the UN’s top climate panel on Friday has prompted a fresh chorus of criticism from global warming skeptics—with one dubbing the award “a political gimmick”. The former vice-president has an Oscar for his film on climate change, An Inconvenient Truth, and the Nobel prize proved a laurel too far for some of his detractors. Czech President Vaclav Klaus cast doubt on Gore’s contribution to the cause of peace, the ostensible purpose of the Norwegian prize. In a statement, the climate change sceptic said he was “a bit surprised that... Icecap - Icing the Hype http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910838/posts#comment Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:27:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910236/posts Today we will learn whether Al Gore has won the Nobel peace prize. As someone who cares passionately about climate change, I'll be saying a little prayer. That he doesn't win, of course. The former US Vice-President has already taken over from Michael Moore as the most sanctimonious lardbutt Yank on the planet. Can you imagine what he'll be like if the Norwegian Nobel committee gives him the prize? More to the point, can you imagine how enormous his already massive carbon footprint will become once he starts jetting around the world bragging about his new title? Just after Gore... The London Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910236/posts#comment Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:52:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909806/posts Al Gore Called Away Unexpectedly for 'Exciting and Urgent Mission' Thursday , October 11, 2007 A simple phone call by Al Gore to Sen. Barbara Boxer's office has touched off widespread speculation that the former vice president is getting ready to make an even bigger splash — perhaps as a Nobel Peace Prize winner. The politician-turned-environmental-crusader contacted the California Democrat to beg out of a Thursday fundraising event for her, where he was to headline alongside musicians Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne, the political blog SFGate.com reported. Click here to read the SFGate.com blog. In a note sent to event... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909806/posts#comment Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:11:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897693/posts /begin my translation 'Roh Moo-hyun, Kim Jong-il, and Putin are after 2007 Nobel Peace Prize' Anatoli Lee, former Presidential Adviser on Far East Affairs for Gorbachev and Yeltsin, reveals (the plan) (2nd) inter-Korean summit scheduled between Oct. 2nd and 4th is hatched from the project to secure Nobel Peace Prize for leaders of both Koreas and Russia, according to a rather detailed testimony (we obtained.) The October issue of "Wolgan Joongang"(a major S. Korean news magazine) due to be out in Sept. 18 reports, "The summit is the result of 'N-project' in which high-level figures from three countries participated,... Wolgan JoongAng http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897693/posts#comment Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:05:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1851784/posts (STOCKHØLM) The Nobel Peace Prize Committee has acted to rescind Yasser Arafat's Peace Prize effective immediately, and to give it to Hamas, the Palestinian Sunni Islamist organization currently governing the people of the Palestinian National Authority. "They have it anyway," said Jander Skølfin, Third Executive Director to the Vice Chairman of the Nobel Prize Committee. Skølfin was referring to Hamas's acquisition yesterday of Arafat's 1994 Peace Prize during Hamas's exploratory sortee of Arafat's premises. Although the Committee had heard undocumented charges that Arafat had siphoned billions of dollars of humanitarian aide meant for the Palestinian people, that fact "came home,"... Fit To Print News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1851784/posts#comment Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:47:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1777913/posts Landmark Legal Foundation Nominates Limbaugh Nobel Peace PrizeLandmark Legal Foundation has nominated syndicated radio Talk host Rush Limbaugh for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Limbaugh was nominated for the award for his "nearly two decades of tireless efforts to promote liberty, equality and opportunity for all humankind, regardless of race, creed, economic stratum or national origin. These are the only real cornerstones of just and lasting peace throughout the world," said Landmark President Mark R. Levin. “Rush Limbaugh is the foremost advocate for freedom and democracy in the world today," explained Levin. "Everyday he gives voice to the values of... Radio Ink http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1777913/posts#comment Fri, 2 Feb 2007 13:20:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1719329/posts Walking alongside rice paddies and water buffalo on the outskirts of Dhaka with Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus was like walking down the red carpet with a Hollywood movie star. Women in saris grabbed at the handsome man with thick gray hair, flirting and addressing him with ease. I was surprised, given we were in a conservative Muslim country where rural women typically take a backseat to men. But this man, who won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, had taught them to stand up to their husbands by giving them small loans that now put them in the driver's seat.... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1719329/posts#comment Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:39:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1719312/posts DHAKA, Bangladesh - The simple yet revolutionary idea of loaning tiny sums to poor people looking to escape poverty by starting businesses won Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank he founded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Yunus' notion - today, known as microcredit - has spread around the globe in the past three decades and is said to have helped more than 100 million people take their first steps to rise out of poverty. Some bought diary cows, others egg-laying hens. In recent years, money for a single cell phone has been enough to start thriving enterprises... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1719312/posts#comment Sat, 14 Oct 2006 13:49:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1719180/posts 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... The Economist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1719180/posts#comment Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:19:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1718629/posts The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday, Oct 13 to Muhammad Yanus and Grameen Bank for developing micro-credit as an instrument in the struggle against poverty. This must come as a shock to "Peace Mom", Cindy Sheehan, who announced at a recent book signing in Texas that she was a finalist for said prize. RightBias http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1718629/posts#comment Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:35:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1718612/posts Excerpt - The Nobel Peace Prize goes to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank "for their efforts to create economic and social development from below". nobelprize.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1718612/posts#comment Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:23:11 GMT