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Putin’s Peace Prize
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There are days when it seems that the Nobel Peace Prize should just go home and put their feet up, ask the home-help to make them a cuppa and to bath them and then they can be put to bed and tucked in. The Nobel Peace Prize Committee has done some daft things in the past, like giving the European Union the 2012 prize when in actual fact it should never have had it since it cannot be given in to an entity or a group, but only to one individual and anyhow: since when did the EU actually stop (it starts, doesn’t it?) wars? Europe has based its peace on waging wars and maintains peace through simple sheer military force and nothing else in the past decades since World War II. Now, we discover that Vladimir Putin has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Admittedly, it was before they actually knew he was officially going (had gone?) into Ukraine, guns ablazing in true Yanky fashion to ‘blast the brains out of the baskets’.
Candidates
There have never been so many candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize. Either that means they are having a hard time choosing who should be the winner of the SEK 8 million ($1.24 million) prize money or they are spoilt for choice in a peaceful world. There are 278 candidates and to boot there are 47 organizations for the 2014 prize. Having said that, they decided to meet on Tuesday this week to confirm the candidates. Do they read the newspapers, watch television even or do they know what is happening on their very doorstep? Did they see that Putin has been in Ukraine officially since the start of this week gung-hoing it? Putin did actually enter the Crimean region on February 22nd 2014 straight after President Viktor Yanukovich was ousted from power like a bad smell. Forgive me for saying, but the West and the East are currently hotting up and having a war of words for the moment on whether or not Putin can actually do something or not. Although, the Russian leader was actually very right when he said that it wasn’t the West that should be giving lessons to anybody about invasion and least of all the USA (the last bit was thought so loud you could hear it).
The Nobel Prize Committee stated that the reason they met on Tuesday was as follows: “Part of the purpose of the committee's first meeting is to take into account recent events, and committee members try to anticipate what could be the potential developments in political hotspots”. Obviously the Siberian wind has been blowing over that hotspot for them to miss it. It’s not so much that Putin might have been nominated as a candidate as the reason why we allow the deceit, the imposture, the farcical waste of time at the Oslo Committee to continue dictating who they believe to be the best example of peace. The final list selected on Tuesday was narrowed down to between 25 and 40 candidates.
USA
Anyhow, the National Security Agency also got nominated. Wow! They really did accept that? Still, we could say that they gave President Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize too back in 2009. At the time he stated that he was 'surprised'. We can confirm that we were too. Did a man really deserve to get given a prize, apparently for having done nothing, in the hope that it would encourage him to act peacefully? I'll do almost anything if yougive me the prize first. So would most people. Would you want the National Security Agencygetting the Nobel Peace Prize? What for? Pray do tell!
Europe
The Nobel Peace Prize has been handed out since 1901. There are sad times when it is done for political reasons (are there any other sorts of times?). There are times when it is downright ridiculous, such as the 2012 prize for the European Union. We all know that most of the wars in the world have either been started for geopolitical, commercial, exploitation or colonization reasons by either the five permanent members of theSecurity Council of the United Nations or by the leading countries in the European Union. Europe never maintained peace in the world. It has participated in every single war and conflict that has ever taken place since the wonderful founding of the machinery that was meant to maintain peace.
The Committee
The five members of the Nobel Prize Committee are appointed by the Norwegian Parliament, the Storting. It’s impossible for it not to be political. But, at least make us think that it is! One of those members is the Secretary General of the Council of Europe. Another is a Public Affairs Advisor. The third is a lawyer and President of the Norwegian Bar Association. The fourth is the Senior Political Advisor to the Progress Party’s Parliamentary Group. The Last is a University Professor.
So, we have a whole array of what is absolutely impartial. Politics, Law, Public Advisory Sector and Academia. We certainly have every chance of gaining in impartiality.
Can you name a war in the world that hasn’t be started by one of the countries in the western world or that was actively participated in by them? So, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee could be just about as daft as they have always been and actually give Putin what they want. What’s more worrying is that Putin, wasn’t exactly Mr. Peace before he went into Ukraine!
But, maybe they should change the name. It’s not a Nobel Prize, but a NOVEL one. Very novel indeed.
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Putin shows how invasions should be done -peaceably, with no bloodshed and with the consent of the people. Of course we do it with foreign mercenary Al Quada types. Someone has to use and test our overpriced weapons from arms dealers -If not, where are the profits to come from? Smith & Wesson shows a model that will not work-stocking up gun and ammo sales for quick short term profits is a bubble waiting to burst. Using the ammo for target practice is not enough. All it does is piss off the neighbors and provide work for ATF and local police who now have an excuse to harass gun owners. You need real wars and real killing to really juice up the profits.
I hate to break it to you but AQ uses, almost exclusively, Russian weapons from AKs to RPGs. By all means you should down vote me for the truth. That happens a lot on this site.
Another truth is that .Gov has been buying Russian arms in pretty big quantities.
Like a high school diploma and, increasingly, a college degree, the Nobel Peace Prize has become hollowed out entity.
'Bout time for Hillary to get hers, ain't it?
"There are times when it is downright ridiculous, such as the 2012 prize for the European Union. We all know that most of the wars in the world have either been started for geopolitical, commercial, exploitation or colonization reasons by either the five permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations or by the leading countries in the European Union. Europe never maintained peace in the world. It has participated in every single war and conflict that has ever taken place since the wonderful founding of the machinery that was meant to maintain peace."
ah, the classic extra-european misunderstanding. the peace price to the EU was for it's promotion - as an org - of Peace in Europe
when you are a citizen of a EU country and you are talking about the European Union, you are nearly never talking about the sum of the EU countries
you are talking about an organization beside the sovereign and armed nations that are members, with it's HQs, the Council, the parliament and it's 30'000 employees
and this organization has no army. and does promote peace inside the EU. for example by forcing every important national minister to regularly meet his peers in Council, and so shape what is then EU policy, to be drafted by the Commission and approved by the EU parliament
which again is relevant, then our ministers and prime ministers are normally the political expression of coalitions in our elected national parliaments, which are way more important than in other political systems.
and in our experience, wars start easily when ministers start to refuse to meet each other. just note that the Russian Foreign Minister is currently refusing to meet the Ukrainian Foreign Minister. or just imagine how politically expedient it would be for PM Cameron if he could refuse to convene in Council with his peers without, by this very act, breaking a couple of treaties of which his country is signatory
of course this is a euro-centric view, and fully neglects the point that EU members like France, UK, Germany etc. have their troops in Afghanistan and other countries
yet again, the european price was given by europeans for recognition of the work of this organization, the way europeans (though increasingly less Southern Englishmen) view and understand this org
A tip o` the hat and a pat on the back for you, Sir.
:-) , oh .. and don`t give up fighting.
Know what? ...FUCK the stupid prize - other than the loot, it's worthless...
Kissinger's ALONE makes this so - and that was DECADES ago....and soooooo many others.....
Only if he shows up to accept stark naked excepting a bear skin coat, a Ukranian girl named Svletna, and a midget carrying a large caliber pistol.
I have visions of Putin and Obama sharing a peace pipe, rolling on the floor with tears of laughter.
Snowden. Edward Snowden.
PETITION TO NORWEGIAN NOBEL COMMITTEE: Put US whistleblower Edward Snowden on your shortlist for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.
http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/4244?n=59510189.kVcybQ
They've given the Prize to neo-con warmongers, terrorists and progressive warmongers (notably Barack Obama, who tricked the committee by accepting the Prize and then giving his acceptance speech extolling the virtues of violent aggression and war).
What's wrong with a Russian State gangster?
If this prize wasnt so tarnished by the previous winners, and was worth a crap - then I think Putin is the best candidate - of course, its a piece of crap and he should reject it if they decide he is the winner - on the basis that its been worn out as a propaganda tool.
It would be interesting if he won actually.
I'm trying to imagine the speach...and those "in attendance."
In any case..."back in the real"...never once has the USA and Russia been in a declared war with one another. It would be nice if the folks stumbling and bumbling in the USA here would a: ask the question if we are a road to war here and b: is there any "exit ramp" for us if so?
Or is this just too much to ask "so soon after the Oscars."?
Forget "taking this issue seriously"...I mean "are we at war" seems like a pretty straightforward question...and one that needs answering.
If so...perhaps we should have a vote on that "before the first Nimitz Class Carrier goes to the bottom."
The fighter jets and refueling tankers have already been deployed. Has this been "authorized"? Why is the President giving speeches? Shouldn't he be asking for legislation here?
Clearly "We the People" have taken sides. I'd like to know how and why!
Do we have staging areas too? Are there "goals"? Clearly WE are escalating are we not?
I suggest that Nobel Peace Prize is only given to historical figures minimum 50 years later after their death. It should not go to the winner's family but instead it can be used to establish a memorial or museum of the winner.
The Nobel Peace Prize money should be distributed amongst the thousands or millions of victims of the Nobel Peace Prize winner.
anusocracy may have the thread winner ^^
I also suggest that the Peace Prize should not go to anyone who received any political or monetary benefit during life, who killed or ordered to kill a single person.
The Nobel Prize terminally jumped the shark awarding Obama the Peace Prize.
another interesting choice was menachem begin, arguably the inventor of modern terrorism at the king david hotel in 1946, for his removal from battle of egypt, israel's most dangerous conventional enemy, for the pauper's price of the sinai peninsula and without making peace on any of israel's other borders.
for zionists, arafat seems equally incongruous.
The Nobel prize is an award from one set of lefty libtards to another. Who gives a rat's behind? Get real.
looks like you gave enough of a rat's behind to actually post a reply so it can't be that UN interesting...otherwose it wouldn't deserve even an answer
do you feel smart now?