Posted on 03/01/2021 7:34:37 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
OSLO - Some 329 nominations have been received for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, likely reflecting the profusion of pressing human rights issues around the world, the secretary of the committee which awards the prize said on Monday.
Russia’s Alexei Navalny, the World Health Organization and Sweden’s Greta Thunberg are among those nominated for this year’s award.
The COVAX programme to secure fair access to COVID-19 vaccines for poor countries is also named, as is U.S. rights activist Stacey Abrams and Belarusian dissidents Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Maria Kolesnikova and Veronika Tsepkalo.
Reporters without Borders, the International Fact-Checking Network and the Committee to Protect Journalists are nominated too.
Also on the list are former U.S. president Donald Trump, his son-in-law Jared Kushner and Kushner’s White House deputy, Avi Berkowitz, for their roles in brokering deals normalising relations between Israel and several Arab nations.
The five-strong committee held its first meeting on Friday, Njoelstad said. They will meet roughly once a month to discuss candidates before the 2021 laureate is announced in October.
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” U.S. rights activist Stacey Abrams”
They love to put labels on people, especially labels they don’t deserve.
Alas, the Nobel Peace prize has become a useless, political joke. Might as well call it the Nobel Piss Prize.
She rigged an election. That makes Stacey Abrams a “U.S. Rights Activist”?
Nobel’s Joke of a Peace Prize
Joe Biden. It’s their only option.
Thanks to idiots like Dorkbama and the always naive Nobel Committee, the Peace Prize is worth about as much as a discarded beer can tab.
No wait, even less.
I nominate Joseph C. Gayetty for the lifetime Nobel Peace Prize. He invented the commercial roll of toilet paper in 1857 and the Nobel Peace Prize has been nothing but toilet paper for decades now.
Greta and Stacey, huh? Well that clarifies things for me . . .
I think they get hundreds of nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize every year.
I stopped following the Peace Prize in 2007 when Al Gore beat out Irena Sendler for the award.
Al got it for making a movie. What did Irena Sendler do? How could she overcome Al?
All Irena did with save hundreds of Jewish children during World War II, was tortured, and almost killed. /Sarc ...
It was said because of the backlash that the Committee was going to award her the prize for the next year. However, she died before the 2008 award was announced. Only living people can win a Nobel Prize.
“Also on the list are former U.S. president Donald Trump, his son-in-law Jared Kushner and Kushner’s White House deputy, Avi Berkowitz, for their roles in brokering deals normalising relations between Israel and several Arab nations.”
Each one received a separate Nobel nomination. In the end, it will go to the black woman.
The Nobel Peace Prize means absolutely nothing after it was given to Barack Obama for doing nothing, absolutely nothing! I used to think of it as a badge of honor. It all stopped that day. I realized it was a farce.
They may have a hard time picking between Black Lives Matter and the World Health Organization.
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