MBVD: Does the Nobel Peace Prize REALLY Mean a Damn Thing Anymore?

Friday, October 12, 2007

Does the Nobel Peace Prize REALLY Mean a Damn Thing Anymore?

Any of the six international prizes awarded annually by the Nobel Foundation for outstanding achievements in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and economics and for the promotion of world peace. [Emphasis mine]

And:

Nobel Prize

Any of the prizes awarded annually by four institutions (three Swedish and one Norwegian) from a fund established under the will of Alfred B. Nobel. The will specified that awards should be given "to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind." Since 1901, prizes have been awarded for physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace; since 1969, a sixth prize, established by the Bank of Sweden, has been awarded in economic sciences. The Nobel Prizes are regarded as the most prestigious prizes in the world.

After Al Gore won his Academy award for his schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth" and the buzzing first started about the possibility of him winning the Nobel, anyone with any brains knew it was a foregone conclusion. That's NOT meant as a compliment.

Then he won the Emmy.

And, of course, now the Nobel.

The man is a whiner of the first order--first with his bawling about the 2000 elections and his ORDERING a Florida official to BREAK THE RULES in the vote counting, rules well established in that state's constitution. It took the Supreme 9 to shut him the hell up and we're still hearing how Bush "stole" the election.

Then his quavery voice on his latest Chicken Little "The Sky is Falling" crusade.

Trouble is, his film is not scientifically credible. Global warming is not the catastrophic, impending doom he would like us to believe and what he has scare-mongered the weak minded into thinking, including Hollywood and anyone on the left. Of course, he has stooped to the "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" when any credible scientist has questioned his disaster of a movie, screaming the right has "bought them off".

Too bad he couldn't buy off the British government and court system. A british court ruled his movie represents "partisan political views" and requires a school disclaimer before being shown in schools.

From PRNewswire:

"Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth, represents 'partisan political views' and must be treated as such by teachers in British schools, a British High Court judge has indicated.

"The British court was swayed by numerous factual inaccuraciesportrayed in the movie.

Read the rest of the article here.

So, this year we have a whining loser from a presidential election
resorting to scare tactics to get some attention who has won an
Oscar, an Emmy and now the Nobel. Which leads to my question--
keeping in mind the definitions that led off this post and
looking at past Laureates, does this prize really mean a damn
anymore or has it become simply a political popularity contest?

Let's look at some of the previous winners
(from Nobel Peace Prize Winners 2007-1901):
1901:
Jean Henri Dunan (Founder of the International Committee of
the Red Cross, Geneva; Initiator of the Geneva Convention
(Convention de Genève)
Frederic Pass (Founder and President of the first French peace
society)

1906:
Theodore Roosevel  (President of the United States of America.
Drew up the 1905 peace treaty between Russia and Japan)

1912:
Elihu Root  (Former Secretary of State. Initiator of several
arbitration agreements)

1917:
International Committee of the Red Cross.

1919:
Thomas Woodrow Wilson  (President of the United States of America.
Founder of the Société des Nations (League of Nations)

1925:
Sir Austen Chamberlain  (Foreign Minister. Negotiator of the
Locarno Treaty)
Charles Gates Dawes  (Vice-President of the United States of America.
Chairman of the Allied Reparation Commission. Originator of
the Dawes Plan.)

1952:
Albert Schweitzer  (Missionary surgeon, Founder Lambaréné
Hospital in République du Gabon.)

1953:
George Catlett Marshall  (General, President American Red Cross,
ex-Secretary of State and of Defense, Delegate to the U.N.,
Originator of the Marshall Plan.)

1958:
Georges Henri Pire  (Belgium, Father of the Dominican Order,
Leader of the relief organization for refugees, l'Europe du Coeur
au Service du Monde.)

1962:
Linus Carl Pauling  (California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA. Campaigner especially for an end to nuclear weapons
tests.)

1964:
Martin Luther King, Jr  (leader of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, campaigner for civil rights.)

1975:
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov  (Soviet nuclear physicist.
Campaigner for human rights.)

1979:
Mother Teresa  (India, Leader of the Order of the Missionaries of
Charity.)

1983:
Lech Walesa  (Poland. Founder of Solidarity, campaigner for
human rights.)

1986:
Elie Wiesel  (U.S.A., Chairman of 'The President's Commission on the
Holocaust'. Author, humanitarian.)

EVERY ONE OF THE ABOVE WINNERS HAD SOMETHING TO
OFFER THE WORLD. EVERY ONE of the above were true examples of
the definition of the Nobel Prize Laureates.

It becomes more political here:
1973:
HENRY A. KISSINGER , Secretary of State, State Department,
Washington.
LE DUC THO , Democratic Republic of Viet Nam.
(Declined the prize.)
for jointly negotiating the Vietnam peace accord in 1973.

1977:
Amnesty International (London, Great Britain. A worldwide
organization for the protection of the rights of prisoners
of conscience.

1978:
Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat  (President of the Arab Republic of
Egypt.)
Menachem Begin  (Prime Minister of Israel.)
for jointly negotiating peace between Egypt and Israel.

1990:
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbechev  (President of the USSR, helped to
bring the Cold War to an end.) What about Reagan, Pope John
Paul II and Margaret Thatcher???

1994:
Yasser Arafat  (Chairman of the Executive Committee of the
PLO, President of the Palestinian National Authority.)
Shimon Peres  (Foreign Minister of Israel.)
Yitzhak Rabin  (Prime Minister of Israel.)
for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East.

2001:
United Nations  (New York, NY, USA)
Kofi Anna (United Nations Secretary General)

2002:
James Earl Carter, Jr. (former President of the United States
of America, for his decades of untiring effort to find
peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance
democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social
development)

These "laureates" are a rogue's gallery of simple political panderers.
Arafat? Gorbachev? Carter? Now, Gore.

Sadly, the Nobel is nothing more than a politically partisan,
completely anti-American popularity contest.

Gore no more deserves the Nobel for his scaremongering
pseudo-science than Arafat (terrorism), Kofi Annan and
Carter did.

Sad commentary on what was once a very "Nobel" idea.

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My Favorite Speeches and Other Items of Interest

George Bush's March 28, 2007 Discusses Economy, War on Terror During Remarks to the National Cattlemen's Beef Association;http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/03/20070328-2.html
Mitch McConnell's March 15, 2007 Funding For Troops, Not Timelines for Retreat; http://mcconnell.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=270747&start=1
Ronald Reagan's June 12, 1987 Tear Down This Wall Speech; http://www.reaganfoundation.org/reagan/speeches/wall.asp
Vice President Cheney's March 12, 2007 Remarks at the AIPAC 2007 Policy Conference; http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/03/20070312.html

Winston Churchill Quotes

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
I like a man who grins when he fights.
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack.
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Never, never, never give up.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Ronald Reagan Quotes

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so."
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources
Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause.
Facts are stupid things.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
How can a president not be an actor?
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.
In Israel, free men and women are every day demonstrating the power of courage and faith. Back in 1948 when Israel was founded, pundits claimed the new country could never survive. Today, no one questions that. Israel is a land of stability and democracy in a region of tryanny and unrest.
Let us ask ourselves; "What kind of people do we think we are?".
Man is not free unless government is limited.
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.
The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas - a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.
The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.
There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.
Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.