WikiLeaks among nominees for Nobel Peace Prize

[Lars77]

Source: Reuters

Anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks has been nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian politician behind the proposal said on Wednesday, a day after the deadline for nominations expired.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee accepts nominations for what many consider as the world's top accolade until February 1, although the five panel members have until the end of the month to make their own proposals.

Norwegian parliamentarian Snorre Valen said WikiLeaks was "one of the most important contributors to freedom of speech and transparency" in the 21st century.

"By disclosing information about corruption, human rights abuses and war crimes, WikiLeaks is a natural contender for the Nobel Peace Prize," Valen said.

Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/02/02/us-nobel-wikileaks-idUKTRE7115QP20110202

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Snorre Valen is in the Socialist Left party (who are democratic socialists) in the ruling red-green coalition.

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[barbiegeek]

23. Boo!!!! Want a list of all he's done.

[bemildred]

2. Oh good.

:popcorn::popcorn:
With butter, and salt.

[xchrom]

3. Awesome. nt

[snagglepuss]

4. Bravo. It certainly sends a message to Washington. I hope WL wins it.

I'd love to hear Obama's reaction.

[Fuddnik]

5. Certainly more deserving than some recipients.

Such as Henry Kissinger.

[Matariki]

27. Henry Kissinger received a Nobel PEACE prize?

That is/would be quite a joke.

[gauguin57]

33. Kissinger shared the 1973 Peace Prize with Le Duc Tho.

Should be in Ripley's Believe it or Not! Museum.

Le Duc Tho, BTW, declined the prize, since, he said, there was no peace in Vietnam at the time.

Kissinger SHOULD have declined ... from SHAME.

[swilton]

37. So Did Obama

[Shining Jack]

56. +1 n/t

[RufusTFirefly]

42. When Kissinger won, musical satirist Tom Lehrer threw in the towel

When Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, the distinguished musical satirist Tom Lehrer decided that he could no longer perform. "It was at that moment that satire died," says Lehrer, "There was nothing more to say after that."

Source: BBC Four

[Matilda]

45. He did, too.

I remember that.

A sad day all round.

[Enthusiast]

52. But but

Barbara Wa Wa thinks both Henry Kissinger and Rush Limbaugh are fascinating men.

[proud2BlibKansan]

55. I agree with Barbara. They are fascinating.

They're also assholes but I'll bet she never mentioned that. :)

[tavalon]

6. As it should be

[Leithan]

7. K&R to da max!

[Shining Jack]

8. K&R

I doubt that WikiLeaks will get the Peace Prize, because of political reasons, but I'm all for it.

[backtomn]

14. The Peace Prizes are ALL political....

......it is the only prize given by 5 members of the Norwegian Parliament (Storting). The other prizes are given by literary and scientific organizations in SWEDEN. I won't be terribly surprised to see WL get this year's award.

[Lars77]

35. Former members of parliament.

The reason Norway has this award while the rest is given out in Sweden by the way, is that when Alfred Nobel was alive Norway was a vassal state of Sweden with no foreign policy of its own. So the idea was that they would be completely independent of any current political events.

[dipsydoodle]

9. Good to see them nominated for what they've actually done

as opposed to a previous winner's intent. :sarcasm:

[decidedlyso]

18. lol

[emilyg]

22. The road to hell..................

[grahamhgreen]

10. This would balance the Obama error.

[Lars77]

12. The Peace prize has often been given to people who has work ahead of them

Obama's was more about putting pressure on him to deliver on his promises.

Didn't really work though.

[Uncle Joe]

11. Good, I hope they win it.

Thanks for the thread, Lars.

[femrap]

13. K and r....

hope the organization wins this....well deserved.

[nyy1998]

15. Eh, I'm not convinced they deserve it, I'd probably give to a more deserving activist nt

[BlueMTexpat]

28. Such as ...? nt

[greiner3]

32. Bush, Rumsfeld?

The US armament companies? Fox News? The Pope? Rush?

[nyy1998]

53. Wtf? I didn't mean a RW politician/enabler

It's a bit annoying that when someone might disagree with a few DUers he's suddenly considered a RWer.

[avaistheone1]

16. k&r

I believe the transparency in governments that wikileaks promotes supports the cause of peace and justice throughout the world.

:kick:

[Jefferson23]

17. Ha ha, that will put a cork in some. Good news! n/t

[decidedlyso]

19. Most excellent. Let's see if Wikileaks can come up with a secret

email showing white house communications to Norway with the single message: NO way!

[Iliyah]

25. The gop/tea brats'

minds are imploding! What a world - LOL

[decidedlyso]

26. I usually post from my bomb shelter. I've got plenty of Krud Kutter

in case they make too big a mess.

[gauguin57]

34. This'll make them forget all about Obama's Peace Prize! LOL!

Heads exploding, indeed.

[earcandle]

21. Go Julian... nothing like a good paradox to pick you up in the morning!

Love that man and all that he does!

Census

[judesedit]

24. I'm anxious for the truth to come out whatever it is. There is no justice without truth.

After all wl's been put through, I hope they win the prize. The alleged participants have to be hiding something pretty embarrassing and pretty revealing to go to so much trouble to stop it from being known. Integrity? What's that? Something the majority of politicians running the world know nothing about. And care nothing about. Something the poor suckers they screw everyday have to teach them about some way some how. The wl plan seems like the best method lately.

[go west young man]

29. Hell yes.

[Bragi]

30. WL and transparency support peace!

[Swampguana]

31. K&R

[geckosfeet]

36. Oh yeah. That Nobel committee seems to be fairly radical with peace prize.

[defendandprotect]

38. Thank you, Assange -- and when those who EXPOSE corruption are in office and those

who enable and foster corruption are out of office, we may begin to get somewhere!!

[Gman]

39. Then again, Rush Limbaugh has been nominated in past years

if not every year.

[Lars77]

47. That's because there's a LOT of people who can nominate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize#Nomination

George W. Bush is nominated every year too.

[lovuian]

40. He is a hero and I hope this shines on Manning's

conditions in his cell

[LiberalLovinLug]

41. Beck's Chalkboard

Wikileaks gets nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize

Wikileaks is a terrorist, anti-American, dangerous group of thugs




Obama nominated (and won) for Nobel Peace Prize

Obama is ....well folks you can do the math

[humbled_opinion]

43. Oh my

If they win and we still hold PVT Manning in military detention will that make us China light?

[stockholmer]

49. +1

[Shining Jack]

57. China light?

U.S. prison population dwarfs that of other nations
By Adam Liptak
Published: Wednesday, April 23, 2008

The United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population. But it has almost a quarter of the world's prisoners.

...

The United States has, for instance, 2.3 million criminals behind bars, more than any other nation, according to data maintained by the International Center for Prison Studies at King's College London.

China, which is four times more populous than the United States, is a distant second, with 1.6 million people in prison.

San Marino, with a population of about 30,000, is at the end of the long list of 218 countries compiled by the center. It has a single prisoner.

Oops, forgot the link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/world/americas/23iht-23prison.12253738.html

[inna]

44. K&R; it would be SO GREAT is WL wins. Unfortunately, it's not very likely.

[NorthCarolina]

46. K&R. Keeping my fingers crossed for this one. nt

[Flagrante]

48. WL smells like a tool in a war between spy agencies

nt

[RetroLounge]

50. Speaking of tools

:puke:

RL

[RoccoR5955]

51. K & R If anyone could help get peace in the world

It would be Wikileaks, by revealing the secrets that governments keep from people.

[proud2BlibKansan]

54. Anyone else hear Joe Scar this morning?

I was flipping by and stopped when I heard someone on his show mention WikiLeaks and the nobel nomination. Joe was upset. And that's always a thing of beauty. LOL

[yurbud]

58. kick