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Al Gore wins Nobel Peace prize. How 'bout that!
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Al Gore invented the Nobel Peace Prize... -
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I remember when you actually had to do real work to get one of those...he did not make the movie he just talked it up and now what?Comment
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OK Folks, He is a politician and he has won (sharing) the Nobel Peace Prize.
Please keep comments to the Peace Prize aspect, which is the topic of this post. No political comments, hints or allusions please.Hank Lee
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"The former veep is now in the company of Yasser Arafat. Nuff said."
Not yet, Yasser is dead. But we can hope.
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<aside>Good grief. Here we go again. Just because the prize was won by someone who used to be a politician doesn't mean that this must be a political discussion.</aside>
Actually I didn't even hear about this... Why did he win it? Was it because of all the global warming stuff he's been doing?online at http://www.theFrankes.com
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This thread was not intended to stir a political discussion. From the Nobel Prize website:
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
This is just "news of the day". The choice of recipients can be agreed with or not. Maybe suggestions of who would have been more deserving considering their contributions, might be more interesting.Comment
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I don't give a rat's patootee (could be misspelleded) who wins the Nobel Peace Prize but what the heck does educating people about global warming have to do with Peace? I heard Rush Limbaugh was up for that prestigious award. How could anyone else have beat him out? Go figure!
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Shocking.
Forget the politics, this really does put a dent in the 'Nobel Peace Prize' aura. Think about it - it's awarded to somebody who's talking about an issue. How can that be worth awarding such a prestigious prize? And that issue is not land-mines; not ethnic cleansings; not murderous regimes; not even death-dealing diseases (sorry, that last should be eligible only for a medical nobel) !!!
No argument about it, of all the prizes awarded by the Nobel institution, the Peace prize is the most revered (I say that with utmost regard and respect for all the scientists and laureates out there). I have always held that it was for fostering 'peace' somewhere in the world. FWIW, for all the controversy, Arafat and Rabin and Peres and Carter were awarded it for their efforts towards peace in the middle east, which was then a real dangerous place. That it still is (or is more so) may or may not negate that prize. But when it was awarded, there was a lot of hope, and the US administration did go out of it's way to push and prod both parties to the table (despite a lot of opposition domestically). Similarly for Begin / Sadat.
So now a documentary-film-maker gets it for - what? For talking up something that has 'war' in the word
? Gimme a break! Really, gimme a break from the news for a few days, maybe weeks now. I am gonna see just this everywhere 
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When I am calmer I could come up with a handful of names that would have been really deserving of such a prize, but I am too outraged right now. People who leave their normal lives behind to work in war torn areas; NGOs; heck, even teachers in many inner-cities of the US - and that's not a joke .
And before somebody asks, I would have cast a vote for a Democrat in 2000 if I had it. But like I said in the beginning - forget the politics; this is nuts.It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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If the effects of global warming are what people like Al Gore claim, then one of the consequences would be political instability such as wars and "failed states" that become breeding grounds for terrorists. I'm tempted to write more, but it would necessarily be of a political nature, since these days it has become politically incorrect to even question whether Al Gore's claims are supported--or contradicted--by careful measurement and unbiased scientific reasoning.
I'm sure it wasn't. However, it can't be denied that the Nobel committe has a political agenda that unfortunately eclipses the question of "who has done the most for world peace?" Here's a quotation from 2002, when the peace prize was awarded to President Jimmy Carter:
"It (the award) should be interpreted as a criticism of the line that the current administration has taken," said Gunnar Berge, the Nobel committee chairman. "It's a kick in the leg to all that follow the same line as the United States."
The source of that quotation is here:
http://foi.missouri.edu/civilliberties/jcwinsnobel.html
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There really is a huge buzz around global warming lately. I never saw Gore's movie or read any of this books, but he has seemed to be pushing the topic quite a bit. I think his popularity probably lends a lot to this effort.
But what does global warming awarness have to do with peace? (EDIT: Whoops -- that's what I get for waiting a half hour to click "Post"!
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So the Goracle has won. This award is bound to swell his head as large as his butt.
The real problem I have with the global warming theory is that rational scientic research has been replaced with new age fanatics who jump on anybody who should dare to question their precieved wisdom.Sometimes the old man passed out and left the am radio on so I got to hear the oldie songs and current event kind of thingsComment
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