Posted on 10/05/2007 3:45:12 PM PDT by RightWingConspirator
OSLO (Reuters) - Former Vice President Al Gore and other campaigners against climate change lead experts' choices for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, an award once reserved for statesmen, peacemakers and human rights activists.
If a campaigner against global warming carries off the high world accolade later this month, it will accentuate a shift to reward work outside traditional peacekeeping and reinforce the link between peace and the environment.
The winner, who will take $1.5 million in prize money, will be announced in the Norwegian capital on October 12 from a field of 181 nominees.
Gore, who has raised awareness with his book and Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," and Canadian Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier, who has shed light on how global warming affects Arctic peoples, were nominated to share the prize by two Norwegian parliamentarians.
"I think they are likely winners this year," said Stein Toennesson, director of Oslo's International Peace Research Institute (PRIO) and a long-time Nobel Peace Prize watcher.
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I think that if I could figure out how to kill billions of people, and do it, I too could be win the Peace Prize.
it will serve as another demonstration that the moonbats have total control of the selection process.
Wasn’t Rush Limbaugh nominated? Wonder what his chances are?
Shocked I tell you, shocked — That the Noebel peace prize would go to the person who either wins the bash Bush, bash America competition or does the most furthering world socialisms, that’s a real shock. What Jimmuh ‘the dumb’ Carter is unavailable this year?
How is this peace anything?
Nobel Peace Prize — Just another lefty socialist hack agenda driven outfit.
Somewhere between slim and none. Which is why we need a new prize. A few years ago, I proposed a Ronald Wilson Reagan Peace Through Strength Prize. Rest assured, a terrorist like Arafat wouldn’t have a prayer at it.
Zero. Given that Arafat and Carter won, the selection process has all the objectivity of the Academy Awards for Best Documentary, e.g. Bowling for Columbine.
Anyone wonder if promises were made to the Goracle to stay out of this race? It occurs to me from time to time.
What constitutes eligibility for a “Peace” prize? Are there no rules? Or do they just pick the most outrageous personality on the planet at the time?
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Ping me if you find one I've missed.
Other winners....if Gore wins he’ll be in great company
2005
The prize was awarded jointly to:
INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY and MOHAMED ELBARADEI
2002
The prize was awarded to:
JIMMY CARTER JR., former President of the United States of America,
2001
The prize was awarded to:
UNITED NATIONS, New York, NY, USA
KOFI ANNAN, United Nations Secretary General
1994
The prize was awarded joinly to:
YASSER ARAFAT , Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO, President of the Palestinian National Authority.
1988
THE UNITED NATIONS PEACE-KEEPING FORCES New York, NY, U.S.A.
1981
OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES Geneva, Switzerland.
That's funny. Would he feel the need to one-up AlGore? Maybe become King of the World or something? And then AlGore could be vice King of the World?
He's scheduled to get HIS right before the "08 election
So, they need to change the name from Peace Prize to Liberal Hack Award. Since it has nothing to do with peace any longer. It has become a liberal prize.
And making millions selling phony “carbon offsets” to suckers contributes to world peace how, exactly?
And making millions selling phony “carbon offsets” to suckers contributes to world peace how, exactly?
Actually, in a sick sense it does. Just by bringing it up he gets the Gore 2000 voters. Then he gets the dimwits ( current percentage around 60% in the U.S.) Then he rallies the tree-huggers and enviro-nazis. I would not want to leave out the Katie Couric-like Hate America crowd.
Actually, in a sick sense it does. Just by bringing it up he gets the Gore 2000 voters. Then he gets the dimwits ( current percentage around 60% in the U.S.) Then he rallies the tree-huggers and enviro-nazis. I would not want to leave out the Katie Couric-like Hate America crowd.
Then the all sit around a campfire..no burning trees..around a lake..no someone will have to urinate or defecate which will harm the fish..oh hell, let’s just go to one of Al Gore’s houses and talk about it in the heated sauna!
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