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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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

/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,...

(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,"...

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...

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....

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...

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 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.

Excerpt - The Nobel Peace Prize goes to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank "for their efforts to create economic and social development from below".

BEYOND NORTH KOREACLINTON DELUSIONS, DECEPTIONS + THE BOMBTHE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA GET US KILLED by Mia T, 10.10.06 "We actually drew up plans to attack North Korea and to destroy their reactors." --bill clinton "I remember exactly what happened. Bruce Lindsey said to me on the phone, 'My God, a second plane has hit the tower.' And I said, 'Bin Laden did this.' that's the first thing I said. He said, 'How can you be sure?' I said 'Because only bin Laden and the Iranians could set up the network to do this and they [the Iranians] wouldn't do...

Nobel Peace Prize Winners Take Aim at U.S. By CHASE SQUIRES, AP DENVER (Sept. 17) - Ten Nobel Peace Prize laureates chbishop called for world peace and took aim at U.S. policy makers, asking an enthusiastic crowd of 7,000 youth to demand that the United States pull back its military, spread its wealth and offer aid to developing countries. The Archbishop Desmond Tutu had stern words for the Bush administration. "Then how can you commit Guantanamo Bay? Take back your country," he said. Only the Dalai Lama, whose speech at the three-day PeaceJam convention at the University of Denver was...

HEAR 'THE PATH TO 9/11' SCREENWRITER: CLINTON WILLFULLY FAILED TO NAIL BIN LADEN AS MANY AS A DOZEN TIMES: CIA "I have heard from other CIA people that there was as many as a dozen incidents, missions, etc. where the will was not there to green-light the operation. And everybody was in place, whether it was a missile attack, a bomb run, an ambush of bin Laden by tribals on the ground, or that they had pinpointed him at Tarnak Farm or his hunting lodge. There were numerous opportunities. We only focused on one. We used it as sort...

'The Path to 9/11' Annotated: CLIPS, SYNOPSIS, THE CLINTON-9/11 NEXUS, THE CLINTON JACKBOOT annotated by Mia T, 9.10.06 (clips, synopses from Redstate.org) he islamofascist terrorists declared war on America and committed acts of war against America when BILL CLINTON was president of America. But bill clinton IGNORED the declarations and acts of war because he is a coward and because crushing the muslim terrorists didn't comport with his personal goals. This self-absorbed postmodern blight on America thought he could perform his usual deconstructionist sleight of hand, fool the people and define away the threat ("It all depends on what...

'The Path to 9/11'CLINTON FAILURE TO ORDER 'PURE KILL' CUT CHANCES OF GETTING BIN LADEN IN HALF 8(WHICH TIPPING HIM OFF QUICKLY REDUCED TO ZERO) 9 'WHY THE CLINTONS FAILED "TO CAPTURE OR KILL THE TALLEST MAN IN AFGHANISTAN"(DID THEY REALLY WANT TO TAKE HIM OUT ANYWAY?) Part Two:   by Mia t, 9.8.06     9/11 Commission: Clinton Refused to Let CIA Kill Bin Laden Announcing some of its preliminary findings on Wednesday, the 9/11 Commission has confirmed that President Clinton ordered the CIA to take Osama bin Laden alive or not at all - a directive that...

Republican-voting, Hollywood-dwelling, Bill-Maher-writing Master of Tongue-in-Cheek, Paladin of Truth, Reviews 'United 93' AND Bill Clinton 'United 93' Defames Islam, Bill Clinton Equally by Ned Rice, (ANNOTATED by Mia T) Posted Apr 28, 2006   Mr. Rice is believed to be the only person in Hollywood to have both written for Bill Maher and voted Republican. Ned is currently a staff writer at the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. His other staff writing credits include The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Politically Incorrect, and many other fine television programs. He can be reached at egrice@comcast.net. United 93 is a...

  HEAR CLINTON! 'Can we kill 'em tomorrow?'('MY 9/11 LOSER DEAL IS FULBRIGHT'S FAULT... AND I DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' NOBEL.*)*If a loser like Carter can get one, where's mine already?' by Mia T, 4.24.06 LISTEN CAREFULLY TO THE AUDIO: Fulbrighters' gasps of horror follow clinton's "I always asked the same question for eight years, 'Can we kill 'em tomorrow?'  I don't think we can bring 'em back tomorrow, but can we kill 'em tomorrow?  If we can kill them tomorrow, then we're not weak...." I suspect the horror was provoked not by the (proven) fecklessness and recklessness and...

Controversial U.N. Ambassador John R. Bolton , who got a recess appointment in August after the Senate wouldn't confirm him, has been on something of a roll -- topped off last week with news of his nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. Bolton, who had been undersecretary for arms control and international security, was nominated by Sweden's former deputy prime minister, who lauded Bolton for his efforts to thwart proliferation of nuclear and other weapons, leading to the breakup of Pakistan nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan 's nefarious nuclear weapons dealings. Back in April, Sen. George V. Voinovich (R-Ohio), a member...

John Bolton Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize By Susan Jones CNSNews.com Senior Editor February 08, 2006 (CNSNews.com) - John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is one of two Americans who have been nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Last year, Democrats and a few Republicans refused to confirm Bolton to the U.N. post, forcing President Bush to resort to a recess appointment. Bolton and Kenneth R. Timmerman were formally nominated by Sweden's former deputy prime minister Per Ahlmark, for playing a major role in exposing Iran's secret plans to develop nuclear weapons.

John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is one of two Americans who have been nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Last year, Democrats and a few Republicans refused to confirm Bolton to the U.N. post, forcing President Bush to resort to a recess appointment. Bolton and Kenneth R. Timmerman were formally nominated by Sweden's former deputy prime minister Per Ahlmark, for playing a major role in exposing Iran's secret plans to develop nuclear weapons. They documented Iran's secret nuclear buildup and revealed Iran's "repeated lying" and false reports to the International Atomic Energy Agency, a press...

MIDI - VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR - scroll down to the bottom to the Buggles I awoke to KFI and heard Bill Handel It seems someone named Ali had lost his sandal Oh, my goodness, has he caused another scandal Ooh ah ooh He made fun of Muslims who had been stampeding Helicopters in the sky they might be needing Perhaps radio decorum he's exceeding Ooh ah ooh...it drove them crazy Ooh ah ooh...just freaking crazy CAIR wants to get the radio star...CAIR wants to get the radio star This time he had gone too far....and they were...

CHRIS MATTHEWS: 'BUSH BELONGS ON MOUNT RUSHMORE'IF HE WINS 'GREATEST GAMBLE SINCE ROOSEVELT BACKED BRITAIN BEFORE WWII' (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) WHY DID BILL CLINTON IGNORE TERRORISM?Was it simply the constraints of his liberal mindset, or was it something even more threatening to our national security?by Mia T, 8.18.05 (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) thanx to jla and Wolverine for the audio "Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in '91 and he went to the Sudan. We'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its director general Mohamed El Baradei received the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo on Saturday for their efforts to halt the spread of nuclear weapons. Just over 60 years after the world's first atomic attack, Mr El Baradei and the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency, represented by the chairman of its board of governors, Yukiya Amano, were honoured for "their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes". They received the prestigious prize, consisting of a Nobel diploma, a gold medal and 10 million Swedish kronor...

D U B Y A vs. B U B B A the truman factor by Mia T, 11.19.05 TRUMAN & BUSH Give 'em hell, Dubya? by Jay Ambrose New York Post (print edition) 11.19.05 George W. Bush's approval ratings are at an all-time low for his presidency--37 percent--and his politiial opponents, seeing that he is down, have begun kicking him especially hard, even to the point of doing their best to make us lose the war in Iraq. For comfort, the president might reflect that approval ratings are sometimes directly contradicted by later, more reflective judgment. He might think...

In 2002, the United States, Britain and Israel strongly suspected the new Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Dr. Mohamed ElBaradai, of employing secret delaying tactics to help three Muslim nations get their nuclear weapons programs off the ground. The nations were Libya, Iran and Egypt. Intelligence data showed those programs as being nourished by the technology, experience and expertise of Pakistan and North Korea, both motivated by their dire cash shortage. The assumption therefore in Washington, Jerusalem and London – later proved correct – was that the necessary funding was put up by Tehran, Tripoli and Cairo. Iraq’s Saddam Hussein was...

PARIS, 8 Oct. (IPS) Iran reacted with a quasi indifference, if not anger, at the nomination of the United Nations International nuclear watchdog and it’s General Director as the winner of the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize for 2005. The Egyptian diplomat Mohamed ElBarade’i and his International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) won the award on Friday, strengthening him and his Vienna-based organisation in efforts of diplomacy rather than confrontation to settle complicated problems concerning nuclear non proliferation. “The West has awarded Mohammad ElBaradade’i and his Agency for the good services he has offered it by taking the Iranian nuclear issue as...

PARIS, Oct 7: Green activists voiced outrage after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, saying the UN watchdog had unwittingly helped the spread of atomic arms by promoting civilian nuclear power. A French group, Sortir du Nucleaire (Get Out of Nuclear) said the IAEA should be scrapped because, by ‘promoting’ civilian nuclear power, it had given countries the means to build atomic bombs. “The IAEA is hoodwinking the public by claiming that its inspections are preventing access to nuclear weapons by countries that have signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty,” Sortir du Nucleaire said in a...

In 2002, the United States, Britain and Israel strongly suspected the new Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Dr. Mohamed ElBaradai, of employing secret delaying tactics to help three Muslim nations get their nuclear weapons programs off the ground. The nations were Libya, Iran and Egypt. Intelligence data showed those programs as being nourished by the technology, experience and expertise of Pakistan and North Korea, both motivated by their dire cash shortage. The assumption therefore in Washington, Jerusalem and London – later proved correct – was that the necessary funding was put up by Tehran, Tripoli and Cairo. Iraq’s Saddam Hussein was...

IAEA, ElBaradei win peace prize Friday, October 7, 2005 Posted: 1644 GMT (0044 HKT) ElBaradei said the award would "strengthen the resolve" of the IAEA. WATCH Browse/Search The U.N. nuclear watchdog and its head win the Nobel peace prize. (2:02) RELATED Gallery: Nobel Peace Prize • IAEA, ElBaradei win peace prize • Q&A: CNN speaks with ElBaradei • 2005 Nobel Peace Prize citation • Reactions to Nobel Peace Prize • Five facts about the IAEA • Former peace prize winners • Previous U.N. Nobel winners • Australians win medicine Nobel • 'Green chemistry' work wins • U.S., German physicists win...

OSLO, Norway The International Atomic Energy Agency and its chief, Mohamed ElBaradei, have won the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize and will share the world's most prestigious prize. The prize, announced Friday, went to the two "for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way." ElBaradei, an Egyptian lawyer, has headed the U.N. nuclear agency as it grappled with the crises in Iraq and North Korea and now Iran. ElBaradei has led the International Atomic Energy Agency as it rose in...

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The annual sport of Nobel Peace Prize predicting has begun, though the selection committee remains as mute as ever, with the mystery to be revealed on Friday, Only two of the many global wars and conflicts have neared a solution in the past year, but clear candidates have not emerged from the work done to bring peace to Sudan or Indonesia's Aceh province. Director Stein Tønneson at the International Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) said that Finland's former president Martti Ahtisaari's peace-brokering role in Aceh must make him a prize favorite, though this is complicated by the fact that the...

VHeadline commentarist Carlos Herrera writes: The Nobel Commission for the Peace Prize has received 199 nominations including Colin Powell, the U2 singer Bono and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.In the final highly-secret list, there are 163 individuals and 36 organizations, which is an all time record according to the commission secretary Geir Lundestad.“The increase in nominations proves that the prize continues to create great interest,” Lundstad said.An article published in VHeadline.com on November 26 last year, headlined “Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez Frias proposed for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize” aroused great interest ... some of it very negative.  The author received...

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroederhas been nominated for the 2005 Nobel peace prize, the German press agency (DPA) reported on Tuesday. Guenter Grass, Germany's 1999 Nobel literature laureate, told DPA Monday that he considered Schroeder a candidate for the peace award because of his strong opposition to the US-led war against Iraq. Other names mentioned included former US Secretary of State Colin Powell, Indian musician Ravi Shankar, and former Czech president Vaclav Havel.

OSLO (Reuters) - Sixty years after the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, guardians of the Nobel Peace Prize could confirm a once-a-decade trend in 2005 by honoring work to prevent nuclear Armageddon. The five-member awards committee, which will hold several meetings before announcing the winner of what many see as the world's top accolade in October from a field of 199 candidates, declines even to give out names on its short-list. Yet if history is a guide, the anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and of Nagasaki on Aug. 9 may help decide the winner. About 200,000...

OSLO, Norway (Reuters) -- A Norwegian member of parliament nominated Irish rocker and charity champion Bob Geldof on Wednesday for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his work to help poor nations.