Putin nominated for Peace Nobel Prize!?

[Skybird]

For his "mediation in the Syrian conflict".

German Focus magazine reports this, with reference to Reuters, Russian media and the Norwegians.

http://www.focus.de/politik/ausland/trotz-krim-krise-kremlchef-putin-fuer-friedensnobelpreis-vorgeschlagen_id_3665133.html

Well, why not. There have been so many hilarious, absurd decisions in the past 15 or 20 years, that one joke more does not make a difference.

:har: Peace Nobel Prize. :har:

[Oberon]

In before Obama

[the_tyrant]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/vladimir-putin-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/

Obama won one for not doing anything. Kissinger and Ho Chi Min won one for pretending to do something.

I truly hope Putin wins one for doing the opposite.

[Ducimus]

In before Obama

Well, he was given the Nobel peace prize for simply not being Bush. So Putin? Why the hell not.

[Wolferz]

Why not? They'd probably give the prize to Quasimodo if he were alive today.:O:

[nikimcbee]

In before Obama

Dammit.:O:

[Jimbuna]

Nothing surprises me these days :)

[Dread Knot]

Why not?

http://www.thepeoplescube.com/images/NobelPrize_Free_with_Tacos.jpg

[AVGWarhawk]

Can he share it with Obama?

[Tchocky]

Anyone can be nominated.

These stories pop up every year.

[STEED]

Pigs do fly you know. :rolleyes:

[Aktungbby]

In before Obama

Actually been done before: Teddy Roosevelt got his for mediating the Russo-Japanese war in 1904 after arranging the defeat of the Spanish at Manila Bay as defacto Secretary of the Navy,1898, and charging up San Juan Hill with his Rough Riders over the pretext of the Maine blowing up in Cuba...now more likely determined to be from a spontaneous coal bunker fire next to an ammo magazine. http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/spanishamerican/section3.rhtml (http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/spanishamerican/section3.rhtml)

[Wolferz]

Pigs do fly you know. :rolleyes:

They just don't fly very far or for very long.:haha:

[Jimbuna]

They just don't fly very far or for very long.:haha:

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[Skybird]

I heard that German McDonalds plans to give away free peace Nobel prizes next Monday and Tuesday with every order costing more than 6 Euros.

[nikimcbee]

Why not?

http://www.thepeoplescube.com/images/NobelPrize_Free_with_Tacos.jpg

:har:

Can I super size that?

[Dread Knot]

:har:

Can I super size that?

I'd give a Noble Prize in a heartbeat to anyone who can come up with a decent Bacon Taco. :yep:

[nikimcbee]

I'd give a Noble Prize in a heartbeat to anyone who can come up with a decent Bacon Taco. :yep:

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[Cybermat47]

What next? A Noble Peace Prize for Hitler, in recognition of his mediation in the Spanish Civil War?!

[nikimcbee]

I'd give a Noble Prize in a heartbeat to anyone who can come up with a decent Bacon Taco. :yep:

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[TarJak]

Every thing is better with bacon!

Especially Nobel Peace Prizes.

[nikimcbee]

Every thing is better with bacon!
I nomi...nom...nom..nom...nominate Tarjak for the Nobel bacon award.

[Ducimus]

Every thing is better with bacon!

Especially Nobel Peace Prizes.

So rub some bacon on it! (http://youtu.be/wSReSGe200A)

[TarJak]

I nomi...nom...nom..nom...nominate Tarjak for the Nobel bacon award.

Seconded. :D


So rub some bacon on it! (http://youtu.be/wSReSGe200A)
I'm up for that

[Biggles]

There's one helluva leap between nomination to that award and actually getting it. Not gonna happen, no-way, no-how. There's always those that deserve it better, even them Norweigans at the helm of that particular prize know this :P

[vienna]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F02I9vkOvrg


<O>

[Skybird]

There's one helluva leap between nomination to that award and actually getting it. Not gonna happen, no-way, no-how. There's always those that deserve it better, even them Norweigans at the helm of that particular prize know this :P
Considering that the founder of the prize has defined it to be rewarded for already accomplished extraordinary achievements on behalf of military arms reduction - this and nothing else! -, you will not find many winners who deserve it.

Even worse, quite some winners not only deserve not this prize, but also not any other.

In my view, the respectability of the Peace Nobel prize is nill. If I would be given it, I would refuse, but keep the money of course (self-made stupidity should be exploited, I believe), and then maybe file a legal complaint about getting offended by this attempted character assassination. Too many names on that award's list that I do not wish to get mentioned with in one breath.

I think the UN should decide on the the prize. The two would truly deserve each other.

[Admiral Halsey]

Considering that the founder of the prize has defined it to be rewarded for already accomplished extraordinary achievements on behalf of military arms reduction - this and nothing else! -, you will not find many winners who deserve it.

Even worse, quite some winners not only deserve not this prize, but also not any other.

In my view, the respectability of the Peace Nobel prize is nill. If I would be given it, I would refuse, but keep the money of course (self-made stupidity should be exploited, I believe), and then maybe file a legal complaint about getting offended by this attempted character assassination. Too many names on that award's list that I do not wish to get mentioned with in one breath.

I think the UN should decide on the the prize. The two would truly deserve each other.

Plus we should not forget the Alfred Nobel himself invented Dynamite, Gelignite and Ballistite.

[Oberon]

What next? A Noble Peace Prize for Hitler, in recognition of his mediation in the Spanish Civil War?!

Yes

http://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/nomination.php?action=show&showid=2609

Adolf Hitler was nominated once in 1939. Incredulous though it may seem today, the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939, by a member of the Swedish parliament, an E.G.C. Brandt. Apparently though, Brandt never intended the nomination to be taken seriously. Brandt was to all intents and purposes a dedicated antifascist, and had intended this nomination more as a satiric criticism of the current political debate in Sweden. (At the time, a number of Swedish parliamentarians had nominated then British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlin for the Nobel Peace Prize, a nomination which Brandt viewed with great skepticism. ) However, Brandt's satirical intentions were not well received at all and the nomination was swiftly withdrawn in a letter dated 1 February 1939.


And not forgetting everyones other favourite peace loving freedom bringer:

Joseph Stalin, the Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922-1953), was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 and 1948 for his efforts to end World War II.

[Tchocky]

Nominations. Are. Meaningless.

[Oberon]

Nominations. Are. Meaningless.

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[Jimbuna]

Could be joint winners this time round :O:

http://s2.postimg.org/6mgxfg2ih/Putin_Hitler.jpg (http://postimage.org/)

[Skybird]

Plus we should not forget the Alfred Nobel himself invented Dynamite, Gelignite and Ballistite.

As a matter of fact he was looking for a way to make transport and usage of nitroglycerine - a highly unstable agent that caused many accidents - more safe.

His family however delivered ammunitions to the armed forces.

Alfred Nobel himself was strongly anti-war, and reasoned that a strong and dangerous mega-weapon would intimidate mankind so much that it would stop waging wars (in principle the equivalent to the logic behind MAD during the cold war).

The Nobel prizes he founded short before his death when he had to decide what should be done with his wealth after his death. A foundation should manage his wealth, and the yearly profits should be given to those who won the prize, in several categories that he described.

The problem is that the scientific Nobel prizes get decided on by scientific institutions, but the peace prize gets decided on by a commission controlled by the ordinary political parliament of Norway. Which of course must cause according results.

Bring in politicians, and you're done.

[STEED]

Could be joint winners this time round :O:

http://s2.postimg.org/6mgxfg2ih/Putin_Hitler.jpg (http://postimage.org/)

Putin's new look?...Mmm any plans to invade Poland?

[Oberon]

Putin's new look?...Mmm any plans to invade Poland?

Poland must think so, they've managed to persuade the US to send some more F-16s over. :doh:

[Jimbuna]

Now those Russians really are in trouble!!
http://s22.postimg.org/gselc2boh/image.jpg (http://postimage.org/)

[Platapus]

I don't know why people get spun up over the Nobel Peace Prize. It is a private organization's award. They can give it to anyone they like.

The Nobel Peace Prize has never meant that the recipient is a good person, only that the committee chose them according to the organizations criteria.

Where is it written that anyone else has to agree or even understand what this organization uses for criteria?

Their organization, their rules, their award. :yep:

Besides this is just a nomination

[Ducimus]

I think there's a certain assumption that goes with the name of the award.

Nobel peace price

I'll wager most don't even look up the particulars (I know I don't, and could hardly care), and only run with the general assumption that it is a prestigious international recognition for humanitarian work of legendary proportions. When your average joe thinks of the Nobel Peace prize, they think Martin Luther King, or Mother Teresa. Names like Obama are nowhere near this league, so it cheapens the perception of what the award is about. So, Obama, Putin? Sure whatever, why not.

In military terms, it's like getting awarded a purple heart of sitting on your cot with a finger up your nose, when an explosion went off somewhere else on the base, and you just happen to get a tiny sliver of steel stuck in your ass (literally), so the powers that be in charge, decided to give the award even though the recipient was nowhere near any real combat. (I've seen that happen actually)

[Skybird]

I don't know why people get spun up over the Nobel Peace Prize. It is a private organization's award. They can give it to anyone they like.

The Nobel Peace Prize has never meant that the recipient is a good person, only that the committee chose them according to the organizations criteria.

Where is it written that anyone else has to agree or even understand what this organization uses for criteria?

Their organization, their rules, their award. :yep:

Besides this is just a nomination
No.

Nobel's Last Will.

Nobel's criterions.

Nobel's financial heritage.

Their political hijack. Their fat cat abuse. Their political instrumentalization and ignorance of Nobel's Last Will.

[Skybird]

I'll wager most don't even look up the particulars (I know I don't, and could hardly care), and only run with the general assumption that it is a prestigious international recognition for humanitarian work of legendary proportions.

It is formulated in his Last Will. The criterion for the peace prize is this line: it should be rewarded

" to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses ."

That'S it.

Protecting the environment? Social justice? Women's rights? Plans and hopes for a peaceful world? Idealistic promises? Socially revolutionary economic changes like micro credit banks (now under heavy fire, btw)? Forming a continental economic union? Fighting poverty? All this the peace nobel prize is NOT for.

[Ducimus]

So basically, what was once a prestigious award, now has no more significance then a bumper sticker.

[Sailor Steve]

But by that standard Putin should win the prize. After all, he is trying to reduce the armies of the Ukraine and Crimea and bring peace to the region.

Again, much as Hitler did. :D

[MH]

I don't know why people get spun up over the Nobel Peace Prize. It is a private organization's award. They can give it to anyone they like.

The Nobel Peace Prize has never meant that the recipient is a good person, only that the committee chose them according to the organizations criteria.

Where is it written that anyone else has to agree or even understand what this organization uses for criteria?

Their organization, their rules, their award. :yep:

Besides this is just a nomination

:roll:

Conquer the world and there will be peace and harmony.
Any takes ?:haha:

[Dan D]

:roll:

Conquer the world and there will be peace and harmony.
Any takes ?:haha:

Was not the EU awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012? Take it away, Skybird.:O:

[Alex]

Putin nominated for Peace Nobel Prize for his "mediation in the Syrian conflict".

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http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/on-abby-martin-freedom-and-tolerance.html#entry34677043 :hmm2:
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There is something that must be highlighted about the Russian operation in Crimea. Though, it looks like a military invasion, so far it hasn’t involved any violence on the part of the Russians. I guess that the situation is volatile and this can change any second. But we also have to remember that unlike the Zionised West that is quick to use vast and lethal fire power that leaves countries in a state of carnage for decades, the Russians are operating in Crimea under a heavy smoke screen, they are supported by local militias and so far, they have achieved their military and political goals without fatalities.http://b8.eu.icdn.ru/c/compdrag/7/36487357VEM.jpg

Putin. :Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:

[MH]

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http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/on-a...#entry34677043 (http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/on-abby-martin-freedom-and-tolerance.html#entry34677043) :hmm2:

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There is something that must be highlighted about the Russian operation in Crimea. Though, it looks like a military invasion, so far it hasn’t involved any violence on the part of the Russians. I guess that the situation is volatile and this can change any second. But we also have to remember that unlike the Zionised West that is quick to use vast and lethal fire power that leaves countries in a state of carnage for decades, the Russians are operating in Crimea under a heavy smoke screen, they are supported by local militias and so far, they have achieved their military and political goals without fatalities.
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Putin. :Kaleun_Thumbs_Up: https://lh3.ggpht.com/0rvEupYhF-aF0wUNPX3U9I_cJAHZc9-rX0sZj8m-SArfBz5gQUOPENPxWffP9QnY8g=h900