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EU to win 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, says Norway public radio

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This sort of says it all.

"I expect that there will be some debate, we hope there will be," Jagland told broadcaster TV2.

Should the nobel peace prize be awarded on the basis of fanning a correlation vs. causation debate about the role of EU in post-WW2 peace on the continent?

Personally I think it should educate the public about otherwise unknown people who work for the betterment of mankind, and those who may just need that prize money. A lengthy run of Maggie Gobran type winners may be less controversial, but this isn't supposed to be Pop Idol.
 
It is unclear to my why the President didn't win again.
 
It is unclear to my why the President didn't win again.

Probably has something to do with:
- Not providing what he promised the first time he won the medal.
- He has a kill list
- He authorizes drone strikes in countries we're not at war with.

Do any of these things sound like a real Ghandi type deserving of a nobel peace prize?
 
Outside of scholarly applications, does anyone really pay attention to who "wins" this prize anymore? Think the laureate should just eliminate this prize altogether. Its appallingly clear its become utterly irrelevant.
 
E.U. Wins Nobel Peace Prize.....

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Reuters) - The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for promoting peace, democracy and human rights over six decades in an award seen as a morale boost as the bloc struggles to resolve its economic crisis.

The EU has transformed most of Europe "from a continent of wars to a continent of peace," Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland said in announcing the award in Oslo.
The prize, worth $1.2 million (747 thousand pounds), will be presented in Oslo on December 10. The decision by the five-member panel, led by Jagland who is also Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, was unanimous.

The EU won from a field of 231 candidates including Russian dissidents and religious leaders working for Muslim-Christian reconciliation.....snip~

EU wins 2012 Nobel Peace Prize | Reuters


I can't believe these dip-sticks gave themselves the award. What a bunch of Morons!
 
Re: E.U. Wins Nobel Peace Prize.....

:roll: Somehow this doesn't surprise me.
 
Re: E.U. Wins Nobel Peace Prize.....

it makes me laugh
 
Re: E.U. Wins Nobel Peace Prize.....

What are they going to do with the prize money?:thinking:thinking
 
Re: E.U. Wins Nobel Peace Prize.....

I read this earlier. So the Europeans decided to give themselves a prize.

How audaciously tacky.

I LOL'd.
 
Re: E.U. Wins Nobel Peace Prize.....

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Reuters) - The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for promoting peace, democracy and human rights over six decades in an award seen as a morale boost as the bloc struggles to resolve its economic crisis.

The EU has transformed most of Europe "from a continent of wars to a continent of peace," Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland said in announcing the award in Oslo.
The prize, worth $1.2 million (747 thousand pounds), will be presented in Oslo on December 10. The decision by the five-member panel, led by Jagland who is also Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, was unanimous.

The EU won from a field of 231 candidates including Russian dissidents and religious leaders working for Muslim-Christian reconciliation.....snip~

EU wins 2012 Nobel Peace Prize | Reuters


I can't believe these dip-sticks gave themselves the award. What a bunch of Morons!


1.) The Nobel Peace Prize comes from Norway.
2.) Norway is NOT PART OF THE EU!

I know most Americans hate Europe and Europeans, but for the love of god get your facts straight before you attack us.
 
Re: E.U. Wins Nobel Peace Prize.....

1.) The Nobel Peace Prize comes from Norway.
2.) Norway is NOT PART OF THE EU!

I know most Americans hate Europe and Europeans, but for the love of god get your facts straight before you attack us.


Didn't ABBA come from Norway?
 
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Norway, huh? That makes it not Euro-centric at all. <-- (sarcasm) :lamo

I'm going to make myself an award for being awesome.

"And the award goes to...... ME! Shucks, I shouldn't have!"


1.) The Nobel Peace Prize comes from Norway.
2.) Norway is NOT PART OF THE EU!

I know most Americans hate Europe and Europeans, but for the love of god get your facts straight before you attack us.
 
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Didn't ABBA come from Norway?

I had written a big rant ... but its Friday so /shrug

No ABBA came from Sweden.

And for the record, the Nobel Peace Prize comes from Oslo, Norway, BUT the rest of them come from Stockholm, Sweden, because Alfred Nobel was a Swede, but the links to Norway for Sweden and the Nobel family was always quite big.
 
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Norway, huh? That makes it not Euro-centric at all. <-- (sarcasm) :lamo

I'm going to make myself an award for being awesome.

"And the award goes to...... ME! Shucks, I shouldn't have!"

Dont worry, the US does that every year in Baseball, American football and other sports.. so why stop there.
 
Re: E.U. Wins Nobel Peace Prize.....

Since President Obama won a mystery Nobel Prize, anyone can win one.
 
Re: E.U. Wins Nobel Peace Prize.....

I had written a big rant ... but its Friday so /shrug

No ABBA came from Sweden.

And for the record, the Nobel Peace Prize comes from Oslo, Norway, BUT the rest of them come from Stockholm, Sweden, because Alfred Nobel was a Swede, but the links to Norway for Sweden and the Nobel family was always quite big.


Saw a documentary on Nobel recently. The guy was lucky he didn't blow himself up. Interesting character though.
 
Re: E.U. Wins Nobel Peace Prize.....

1.) The Nobel Peace Prize comes from Norway.
2.) Norway is NOT PART OF THE EU!

I know most Americans hate Europe and Europeans, but for the love of god get your facts straight before you attack us.



All that it matters is Norway, is in Europe. The Europeans gave themselves an award. So what does being so specific about whether if Norway was in the EU matter or not. Did the retards give the EU the Nobel Peace Prize? Do think that all these so called Prima Donna's even have a clue as to what is really going on in the World.

Let see they Give Obama a Nobel Prize for being the Peace President, despite him droppin a bomb on sombody somewhere at all times. Now they give the award to a bunch of Countries for promoting peace? Did they forget the French and Brits play with Libya? What about the French in the Ivory Coast with the Brits? Have they actually forgotten history...............................................AGAIN!
 
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