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Trump glows in Nobel Peace Prize chatter
By Rebecca Kheel - 05/01/18 05:12 PM EDT
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/385735-trump-glows-in-nobel-peace-prize-chatter
By Rebecca Kheel - 05/01/18 05:12 PM EDT
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/385735-trump-glows-in-nobel-peace-prize-chatter
Over the years, I posted messages critical of the history of Nobel Peace Prizes. Calling it a Peace Prize is a misnomer to begin with because the PP is often awarded for salesmanship rather than achievement. To put it more succinctly it is based on selling the absence of war rather than predicated on preventing governments from engaging in institutional murder.
Remember that Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize for his touchy-feely rhetoric. The things he did, namely getting New START ratified, is more than the rhetoric of a demagogue. His betrayals justify his Nobel to the International community if not to Americans.
Nobel Peace Prizes now favor environmental hustlers. Gorbachev founded Green Cross International. The best Gorby joke is that he got his PP for getting booted out on his rear end by his own people.
Wangari Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, and top global warming hustler Al Gore shared his 2007 prize with the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. A couple more environmental winners and they can name a new category: Nobel Prize for Environmental Bullcrap?
When Ronald Reagan led the fight that defeated the Soviet Union it was a bold stroke for peace, yet no Peace Prize was forthcoming.
Since the end of WWI people with a connection to the League of Nations and its successor, the U.N., have probably won more Nobel Peace Prizes than the New York Yankees won pennants. Maybe that is the reason the world is far from peaceful!
There is no doubt that global government advocates have always had the inside track to Nobel Peace Prizes going all the way back to the early nineteen-hundreds; Socialism’s early years in the U.S. as well as awarding the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901. I doubt very much if anyone who believed in a world of sovereign nations ever had a chance of winning a Nobel Peace Prize.
The PP is clearly a political trophy. No one denies it. The Nobel Peace Prize, awarded by the NORWEGIAN parliament, has always been recognized as a political award:
The commonly held view is that Alfred Nobel feared that the highly political nature of the Peace Prize would make it a tool in power politics and thereby reduce its significance as an instrument for peace; so he willed his PP to the Norwegian parliament.
Peace Prize winners should never be held in the same high esteem as those who get theirs for actually doing something useful in the exact sciences. I have the utmost respect for the men and women who win a Nobel Prize for physics, chemistry, physiology, or medicine
I refuse to give literature and economics the same respect the exact sciences deserve. Literature is especially troubling. Toni Morrison, black American woman and Nobel Prize Winner for literature (1993) was the first person to see through Bill Clinton’s white epidermis. “Clinton is the first black American president” was a Morrison epiphany. (Obama ran under false pretenses if Morrison is correct about Clinton.) The troubling thing about Nobel prizes for literature is that people who think like Morrison write books.
If the prize for literature is a political joke the prize for economics is five acts of vaudeville.
The first Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded in 1969. In other words it was invented. Alfred Nobel never heard of it. The joke is that the award for the Nobel Prize in Economics is paid by the Sveriges Riksbank.
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences - Wikipedia
The Sveriges Riksbank pays the Nobel Foundation for the use of the name. The reason is obvious. Nobel Prize for Economics sounds better than Sveriges Riksbank Prize for Economics. It is like Betty Crocker paying a fee to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences so they can call a baking award an Oscar. A prize awarded by a European bank is more obscene than the propaganda prizes for “peace” and literature.
If President Trump actually gets the prize he should tell the Nobel Committee “I accept. Send the check and forget the rest.”
Finally, President Trump is in trouble when Nutso is pulling for him:
Even Pelosi Admits Trump Could Qualify for Nobel Peace Prize: ‘Let’s See How It Goes’
TRE GOINS-PHILLIPS
APR 30, 2018 | 12:59 PM
https://ijr.com/ijr-red/2018/04/1090042-nancy-pelosi-trump-nobel-peace-prize/
TRE GOINS-PHILLIPS
APR 30, 2018 | 12:59 PM
https://ijr.com/ijr-red/2018/04/1090042-nancy-pelosi-trump-nobel-peace-prize/