In a shocking and very disturbing precedent, today the Norwegian Nobel Committee gave the 2009 Nobel Prize to “US. President/Global Messiah” Barak Obama. With this move the committee have utterly destroyed the prize’s credibility, honesty and objectiveness.
The Committee explained it’s decision as being taken “under a wider interpretation of Nobel’s guidelines, expanding the prize beyond peace mediation to include efforts to combat poverty, disease and climate change… a decision that is designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism.”
So what did Mr. Obama do so far to deserve the Prize, after less than a year in office?
So far, Obama has only continued Bush policies in Iraq, intensifying aggression and terror in the region, deploying more troops in Afghanistan, supporting Israeli terror against the Palestinians, bailing out numerous banks and… basically continued Bush’s major policies while even becoming more hawkish in some respects. The only difference is that he is doing it with different rhetoric, eloquent speeches and a confident smile.
It’s true that he is “talking” about peace and cooperation, reducing the world stock of nuclear arms, easing American conflicts with Muslim nations and strengthening the U.S. role in combating climate change.
But it’s all talk so far!
Still, the U.S. remains at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. Congress has yet to pass a law reducing carbon emissions and there has been little significant reduction in global nuclear stockpiles since Obama took office.
Obama has also attempted to restart stalled talks between the Israelis and Palestinians, but just a day after Obama hosted the Israeli and Palestinian leaders in New York, Israeli officials boasted that they had fended off U.S. pressure to halt settlement construction. Moderate Palestinians said they felt undermined by Obama’s failure to back up his demand for a freeze.
Meanwhile last week, Obama refused to meet with the Tibetan Dalai Lama in Washington in a move to “designed” to carry favor with the Chinese.
Mr Obama will became the first president not to welcome the acclaimed Nobel peace prize winner to the White House since the Dalai Lama began visiting Washington in 1991.
This is very ironic considering that by the end of the same week Obama received his very own Nobel Prize, and is considering a name change to “The Dalai-Bama”.
Former Polish President Lech Walesa, a 1983 Nobel Peace laureate commented on the choice of Obama saying: “So soon? Too early. He has no contribution so far. He is still at an early stage. He is only beginning to act…This is probably an encouragement for him to act. Let’s see if he perseveres. Let’s give him time to act,” Walesa said.
-Is the Noble now give out as some kind of an encouragement? an incentive? a quarterly bonus? I wasn’t notified about that!!!-
“You have to remember that the world has been in a pretty dangerous phase,” committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland said. “And anybody who can contribute to getting the world out of this situation deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.”
Well, I don’t know if Mr. Jagland have noticed, but the world reached this really dangerous phase because of the actions of the United States to start with!! So, when an American President, sensible enough, starts to “talk” about ending these very practices, he deserves a Nobel?
Yahoo! wrote: “The award appeared to be a slap at Bush from a committee that harshly criticized Obama’s predecessor for his largely unilateral military action in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
“The Nobel committee chairman said after awarding the 2002 prize to former Democratic President Jimmy Carter, for his mediation in international conflicts, that it should be seen as a “kick in the leg” to the Bush administration’s hard line in the buildup to the Iraq war.
“Five years later, the committee honored Bush’s adversary in the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore, for his campaign to raise awareness about global warming.”
So now they are giving out Vengeance Prizes? How does that work?
Or are the Nobels being Preemptively given to people who may do good (and then again may not), as a motivation for them to live up to their promises and responsibilities!
I wonder how they do it now, do they have an Oracle on the committee, who predicts who might possibly do something that benefits the world… so as to give them the Nobel beforehand?
Since when did talking about doing something, qualify as doing it? Did it become the “Noble Prize of good intentions”?
The choice of Barak Obama for this year’s Peace Prize, violates the very rules and regulations that the Nobel Prize system is built upon!!!
“The capital shall be invested by my executors in safe securities and shall constitute a fund, the interest on which shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind. The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts…. one part to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity among nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies”
An exempt from Alfred Nobel’s will.
For the peace prize, inquiries are sent to such people as governments of states, members of international courts, professors and rectors at university level, former Peace Prize laureates, current or former members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, among others. The Norwegian Nobel Committee then bases its assessment on nominations sent in before 3 February. (in fact, the nominations closed on February 1, about 11 days after Obama took office)
What kind of crap is this?!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How is this legal or even possible?! This is worse than the Oscars!
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