A Nobel For........WHAT?

[Twitchin Kitten]

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He won for "hopes and dreams" basically.

The video I saw on his win had the committee saying he won on his 'extraordinary efforts to bring world peace through a nuclear free world." Bah.

The prize has been cheapened to the extent it is rendered a joke. They used to select the recipient through this Nobel committee based on what he/she has actually accomplished to gain peace, not on HOPES of what will come. Now the committee for peace (only peace) is headed by a party of 5 politicians picked by the Kind of Norway.

You don't elect someone on what you hope they might accomplish. 14 days in office is HARDLY any time to get ANY kind of peace effort started never-mind accomplished. He's got plenty more years that they could have let him be before they decided he needed to win this award.

Well, what do you expect? Al Gore got it for his insane calculations on global warming - all which have been debunked by scientists. Kofi Annon was awarded it for his "peace" efforts at the UN when he headed it up. Yeah, can you say Oil for Food scandal? Rape enmasse by UN peace keeping troops in the Sudan and Somalia? And the list goes on there! Arafat! Oh My God he got a peace prize too.

Here's a list of all past and present winners: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace...index.html

Through my search for this years' nominees, I couldn't find the comprehensive list (some links said the list of nominees for this year won't be out until 2059- I'll be long dead!) but I found this article:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...01350.html

In my opinion, the most deserving would have been:

Greg Mortenson: Mountaineer fighting Islamic extremism with education

It was a failed attempt to climb K2 in Pakistan in 1993 that set Greg Mortenson on a path that would take him almost to the humanitarian summit of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Exhausted from the climb, recovering in a remote village Mr Mortenson, left, met a group of children sitting in the dirt and writing with sticks in the sand. He promised to build them a school. It seemed, he says, a "rash" promise.

The story of what happened next is told in Mr Mortenson's book, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time, a bestseller that is now required reading for military leaders as well as for humanitarians. In the mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan, many say, his work has been transformative. His Central Asia Institute has built 84 schools in the region, educating mainly girls, and Mr Mortenson, 51, has become a tireless advocate of the need to build human relationships with the Muslim world. His mantra: politics won't bring peace, people will bring peace.

"These are secular schools that will bring a new generation of kids that will have a broader view of the world," he says. "We focus on areas where there is no education. Religious extremism flourishes in areas of isolation and conflict."

Born to two American humanitarian workers, during his own humanitarian career he has been kidnapped, shot at, and forced to deal with two fatwas issued against him by local clerics opposed to female education. In 2009 alone, he has been awarded Pakistan's highest civilian award, the Star of Pakistan, and a half dozen other humanitarian gongs but, for this year at least, he failed to land the biggest one of all.

Stephen Foley