Nobel peace Prize

biko · 07-10-2005 1:33am #1

Tomorrow the Peace Prize is being announced. Who do you feel should win it this year and why? I puy up some of the favs of the candidates. Google 'em if ya'll don't know 'em.

lostexpectation · 07-10-2005 1:46am

it says they don't put out a llist the nomimnees, so...how do we guess

biko · 07-10-2005 1:55am

There is about 200 people to choose from but these are hot at the bookies....

lostexpectation · 07-10-2005 2:57am

i couldn't argue with any anti-nuke peeps getting it aslong as they mean everybody's nukes

Raphael · 07-10-2005 7:25am

If Bush gets it I'm going to punch someone in the face. Hard.

Tazz T · 07-10-2005 9:00am

I don't think anyone on that list deserves it. I can't think of anyone who deserves it this year actuallly.

lostexpectation · 07-10-2005 9:02am

and the international automatic energy agency...

the clock is at seven minutes to midnight

http://www.thebulletin.org/doomsday_clock/current_time.htm

meditraitor · 07-10-2005 9:05am

Whats the world coming to when this is the best of the nominee's for the Nobel Peace prize..Senji Yamaguchi is the only one with a right to be on that list and I hope he wins

biko · 07-10-2005 10:54am

Yeah, that's it. IAEA won.
At least it wasn't Bush...

JungleBunny · 07-10-2005 11:34am

Heard Bono was on the list of 199 possible candidates for this.
Anyone think that he deserves it?

JackKelly · 07-10-2005 12:02pm

wtf.....bush and blair were up for the peace prize?how the hell does that work?

biko · 07-10-2005 1:26pm

Bush & Blair has apparently made the world more safe with their terrorism war on the talibans, iraqies and stuff. Ameeerica, f@ck yeah!

Ann Elk · 07-10-2005 3:01pm

Wasn't this year the 60th anniversary of the bomb being dropped - I think that's why the winner was picked.

adonis · 07-10-2005 4:06pm

why in gods name is geldof being nominated? he aint done jack for world peace this year!

biko · 07-10-2005 5:04pm

adonis wrote:

why in gods name is geldof being nominated? he aint done jack for world peace this year!

Maybe you missed this? :rolleyes:

sceptre · 07-10-2005 10:18pm

TimAy wrote:

wtf.....bush and blair were up for the peace prize?how the hell does that work?

Almost anyone of any note can nominate someone for it. Former winners, members of national parliaments, university professors, anyone appointed as a special advisor to the Norwegian judging committee. Hitler was nominated, Stalin was nominated twice, Mussolini got one, Bush has had a few. To be fair, the guy who nominated Hitler withdrew the nomination, though the fact that he invaded Poland after the nomination went in might have had something to do with it. I wiouldn't pay any attention to the nominees from any year (they're officially kept secret for fifty years so we only know for certain about the ones prior to 1946, any more recent ones come from the nominator opening his/her gob about it) as there's no control or standards of any kind on nominating someone.

Screw getting confused about why people might be nominated: Henry Kissinger actually won the damn thing.

JackKelly · 07-10-2005 10:25pm

adonis wrote:

why in gods name is geldof being nominated? he aint done jack for world peace this year!

god, i hope that was sarcasm

Piste · 07-10-2005 10:29pm

Live8 dealt with poverty not peace.

biko · 07-10-2005 10:55pm

Here is a list of all laureates http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/
Not all have been directly involved in peace, per se. Most obvious one Mother Teresa.

rugbug86 · 08-10-2005 9:35am

US congratulates Elbaradei on Nobel Peace Prize

http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2005/s1477728.htm

Nobel peace Prize

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