WORDS OF PEACE: Selections from the Speeches of the Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize 1901-2007 (Newmarket Words Of...)
- Are You Riled Up? - (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
The Grand, which opened in 1874, is also the venue for the official Nobel Peace Prize banquet every year. They even have special Nobel tableware and Nobel menus for dinners. If you’re a fan of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner aka …Continued
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In all honesty, I don’t like politics, but, nonetheless, I was confused and slightly ticked off when I heard that Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize . What has he done? Since the day he announced his ambitions for president , he stated that …Read More…
Per Crucem ad Lucem (Free subscription) | yesterday
‘The Nobel Peace Prize committee might well have made truly worthy choices, prominent among them the remarkable Afghan activist Malalai Joya. This brave woman survived the Russians, and then the radical Islamists whose brutality was so extreme that the population welcomed the Taliban. Joya has withstood the Taliban and now the return of the warlords [...]
AterSlash (Free subscription) | yesterday
I’m as much of a Linux fanboy as anyone else, but I’ve never thought of anything in computing as being worth a Nobel Peace Prize. Apparently, there are those who take global collaboration seriously, though…” The suggestion has been bouncing around the Portland Linux community, where Torvalds lives.
Wired: Underwire (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The internet has clearly been a boon for news junkies, LOLcats and the makers of goofball videos. But it’s also proven to be a powerful international force for peace. That’s the message of Internet for Peace, a campaign launched this week by Wired Italy to nominate the net for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010. “The [...]
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He’s a best-selling author and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. And as the President of the United States, he’s the most powerful man in the world. But what seems to impress women the most about President Barack Obama is his idea of date …Read More
Got Shares? (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
If you want to learn more about Iran and nuclear weapons, you have to listen to Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei. Charlie Rose recently interviewed him. See here .
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Merkel, Sarkozy back Danes in last-minute climate diplomacy Sources in Washington point out that Obama could go to Copenhagen after having picked up his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on 10 December. "I'm not sure there's anything you get out of it," said a senior Senate Democratic aide. " With nothing to report, inaction and gridlock in the Senate, it seems like a wiser move to stay home...
FREEDOM EDEN (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Al Gore appeared twice on Saturday Night Live to promote his new book. Gore first played himself in a skit. He was a guest hawking his new book, Our Choice , on the talk show, "What Up With That?" Gore's acting was not good. Gore appeared again just a few minutes later on "Weekend Update," talking to Seth Meyers. In honor of NBC's Green Week, Gore was there to discuss issues facing...
Playground Politics (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
And it seems that Terri McCormick can't fathom the distinction. McCormick has posted a copy of her 1977 certificate from the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation on her campaign website , perhaps in response to my last post or another media inquiry. Conveniently, it's linked to the words "Wisconsin Truman Scholar." An image of the certificate is below. Notice anything interesting while...
Say Anything (Free subscription) | yesterday
So says the Heartland Institute in their summary of the scandal now rocking the “green” movement: Emails exchanged by Phil Jones (director of the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit) and other leading scientists who edit and control the content of the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reveal a conspiracy to falsify the actual temperature record...
Berman Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Obama gets a Tae Kwon Do black belt? I think that makes even less sense then Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize . Pictures embedded below . " And out of the Seoul sky, President Lee Myung-bak hands over to the American leader a tae kwon do outfit. And then Lee, who practices tae kwon do himself, presents Obama with a coveted black belt. After zero long years of study. "
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America did not win the war there, but over time it has won the peace . … American war veterans publicly made peace with their old adversaries … A program [to exchange graduate students and professors] could ensure that the next …. The other two Presidents who received Nobel Peace Prize while waging wars [...]
- Are You Riled Up? - (Free subscription) | yesterday
Obama’s star status itself most certainly did not hurt the American case on the world stage; he was recently awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for…having, apparently, the disposition to do the things that you’re supposed to do to get a Nobel …Click Here
The Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Andrew Malcolm wrote this up yesterday , news from the last stop of Obama's Asia trip: Even President Obama himself during his just-concluded trip to Asia admitted that he was surprised to receive the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this year without actually producing any peace. In fact, the rookie American president ordered his own troop surge, boosting U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan to 68,000. Now,...
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