Posted on 10/12/2014 2:54:23 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
Since 1901, Alfred Nobel has decreed the Peace Prize should be adjudged by a committee of five, selected by the Norwegian Parliament. This still holds true and The Local looks at who will decide one of the world's most prestigious awards.
The members of the Nobel committee are chosen by the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) for a six year tenure, with the possibility of re-election. Every third year respectively two and three members are elected.
The members of the Nobel Committee currently are:
Thorbjørn Jagland (born 1950). Head of the committee. Member of the committee since 2009. Represents the Labour Party. His place in the committee is up for election this year.
Kaci Kullmann Five (1951). Deputy head of the committee. Member of the committee since 2009. Represents the Conservative Party. Her place is up for election.
Berit Reiss-Andersen (1954). Member of the committee since 2012. Represents the Labour Party. Not up for election.
Inger-Marie Ytterhorn (1941). Member of the committee from 2000. Represents the Progress Party. Not up for election.
Gunnar Stålsett (1935). Regularly meeting deputy member from 2012. Represents Centre Party.
Gunnar Stålsett replaces Ågot Valle (1945), who is on sickness leave. Valle has been a member of the committee since 2009. Represents the Social Left Party. Her place in the committee is up for election this year.
The secretary of the committee is the director of the Nobel Institute, Geir Lundestad. He is not part of the Nobel committee himself. Lundestad, who has held the post since 1990 steps down from 2015 and will be replaced by Olav Njølstad.
Moonbats giving awards to moonbats.
Total idiot with something to prove after his lackluster term as PM.
He was the driving force behind giving the NPP to Obama. Basically because he wanted to be on stage with BHO.
It’s hard to take these people seriously. They give an award to Obama for no reason, no actual accomplishment. And people such as Al Gore and Yasser Arafat, who hardly contributed to world peace, find themselves receiving the award.
“... This still holds true and The Local looks at who will decide one of the world’s most prestigious awards....”
Sorry, but the Nobel Peace Prize is equivalent to finding a t*rd in your cracker jacks.
It’s that worthless.
The committee tried to resurrect their prestige this year by nominating the young woman, but after Obama, their prize ain’t worth shi...er...Obamastuff.
Even reinstated the misspelling in the title?
The Least Deserved, But Most Appreciated Awards Ever Made In the History of Mankind
1. Obama’s Nobel peace prize.
2. LBJ’s—and JFrikken’s—Silver Stars.
3. The Hope diamond jammed in a billy goat’s a$$.
Not going to research it but I bet they all hate Jews.
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