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2015 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet (nobelprize.org)
Dave Knott writes: A Tunisian democracy group won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its contributions to the first and most successful Arab Spring movement. The Norwegian Nobel Committee cited the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet "for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy" in the North African country following its 2011 revolution. Tunisian protesters sparked uprisings across the Arab world in 2011 that overthrew dictators and upset the status quo. Tunisia is the only country in the region to painstakingly build a democracy, involving a range of political and social forces in dialogue to create a constitution, legislature and democratic institutions. The National Dialogue Quartet is made up of four key organizations in Tunisian civil society: the Tunisian General Labour Union; the Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts; the Tunisian Human Rights League; and the Tunisian Order of Lawyers.
When is this world going to come to understand the tremendous service he did to all of us, not just those in the States? Sometimes I think Putin stands a better chance of getting a Nobel than Snowden ever will. I guess if they're handing them out to rookie US presidents, they're selection criteria is a little nuts anyway.
The Pope and Edward Snowden are believed to have been prospective candidates for this year's Peace Prize.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
Can't have that.
It's too politically motivated and devalues the other prize categories.
Let me kick it off:
"Friggin' SJWs, the lot of 'em. They should just stop the UN from giving these stupid Nobel prizes, because they always go to feminazis anyway, like that Chemistry Nobel last week that they gave to Youyou Tu just because she was a woman. I mean, who even gets malaria anymore?"
You are welcome on my lawn.
If you want to see how peaceful an American is, it's easier: just burn their flag and most of them want to throw you in jail. Or become an abortion doctor (safer in Tunisia).
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First Obama, and this year there was word on the streets Merkel is being considered.
That's 5 organizations
You are hereby awarded the Nobel TWAT OF THE YEAR award
Religion? Peace? These words really don't belong near each other. Don't give me that crap where you accuse dead people from centuries ago, and don't give me the crap that religious people today are any more enlightened than they were 4000 years ago.
Can't have that.
Well, Obama does have the distinction of being the first Nobel Peace Prize winner to bomb another Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
This one in Tunusia was the first and most successful. Egypt tried demoracy for one year and returned to a military dictatorship. Libyia, Yemen and Syria are war zones.
Since they filmed parts of Star Wars there. Just think of the Annual Nerd Pilgrimage tourism dollars pouring into Tunisia.
A name for this mass migration / convention? Not 'SciFi Con' or 'Force Con'... Call it, The "Ultimate Con".
Pretending this is my office full of bitter coworkers..
You can burn the U.S. flag and nobody can throw you in jail. The "speech" is protected, even it means you're an asshole.
You can also become an abortion doctor. Still legal everywhere in the U.S. And always will be.
That anecdote is super compelling, but after reading it I don't understand.
1) Who is the other Nobel Peace Prize winner you are referring to? The article mentions Joanne Liu, but she isn't a nobel winner. So who is it?
2) Obama didn't order that strike anyway. But I'll let that slide since he is commander-in-chief.
Let me answer my own question:
I didn't realize that entire organizations could get the prize. I thought it was just individuals. Doctor's without borders received the Nobel Peace Prize. Now I feel dumb.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ali-mohammed-al-nimr-crucifixion-defiant-saudi-arabia-rejects-international-interference-1522958
Yeah I think I'll try my luck in the US instead of an Arabic country.
You can burn the U.S. flag and nobody can throw you in jail. The "speech" is protected, even it means you're an asshole.
You just called the US Marines and the Army assholes. Nice going.
From the Marine Corps Flag Manual, MCO P10520.3B,: "Flags determined not to have historical value will be destroyed by the parent organization, privately by burning,"
Army Regulation is AR840-10. Section 2-12, paragraph c, states that if the flag has no historic value, "it should be destroyed privately, preferably by burning,"
Ideology: A tool used primarily to avoid the bother of thinking.
To be fair, Obama never won the prize personally. When "not George Bush" won in 2009, Obama just happened to walk by when they handed it out.
You just called the US Marines and the Army assholes. Nice going.
Firstly, assholes isn't the phrase I would choose, I think war criminals is a better fit, or expendable human garbage.
Secondly, nobody on slashdot could possibly care less about your useless fucking knowledge of army law.
You can burn the U.S. flag and nobody can throw you in jail. The "speech" is protected, even it means you're an asshole.
You just called the US Marines and the Army assholes. Nice going.
From the Marine Corps Flag Manual, MCO P10520.3B,: "Flags determined not to have historical value will be destroyed by the parent organization, privately by burning,"
Army Regulation is AR840-10. Section 2-12, paragraph c, states that if the flag has no historic value, "it should be destroyed privately, preferably by burning,"
You do realize that burning is the proper way to dispose of a US flag, right? The flag must be folded in the traditional triangle shape and placed on the fire. If burning the flag is somehow not possible then it is permitted to bury the flag, again in the triangle fold. You can also shred the flag before burial. This actually is not limited to US flags, other nations have been known to shred and bury flags, particularly in tomes of war to avoid capture of the intact flag.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Maybe the dialog quartet can start singing so we can call them a barber shop quartet.
I do have to say that yes, what they overthrew were no angels. By no stretch of the word (maybe if you add "hell's" before it). But these dictators did one thing: Keep shit quiet. Yes, with force and oppression. But there was PEACE.
Let's take a look at the whole shit now, shall we? North Africa is less stable than ever and the "spring'ed" countries of the Middle East are being overrun by ISIS. That's peace?
And here I was thinking after Obama and "the EU", you couldn't get any more off. But you sure outdid yourself again, committee. Well? Next year maybe ISIS gets a chance to get one.
It's only the logical extension of the practice so far.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Malaria?
Okay, I did chuckle at that.
I like it. Shes really a pain in the ass [or a mosquito bite].
. Now I feel dumb.
But don't feel. The joke's on the Nobel committee, whatever it may be.
He also has the distinction of a few mere days after accepting the award, being the first ever leader to detonate a bomb on another celestial body - the moon.
If you want to see how peaceful an American is, it's easier: just burn their flag and most of them want to throw you in jail. Or become an abortion doctor (safer in Tunisia).
Even better, you can send Christians into a murderous rage by submerging a crucifix of Jesus Christ in urine.
Oh, wait. No you wouldn't.
That would be send MUSLIMS into a murderous rage for daring to draw Mohammad the Pederast.
Or maybe that would be send MUSLIMS into a murderous rage for flushing a Koran down a shitter (where it belongs).
Then again, it could be send MUSLIMS into a murderous rage for daring to make a film critical of Islam.
And if you think it's safe to perform abortions in the Muslim world, you live on a planet that does not have a blue sky.
But that was obvious anyway.
Even better, you can send Christians into a murderous rage by submerging a crucifix of Jesus Christ in urine.
Oh, wait. No you wouldn't.
he work was vandalized at the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, and gallery officials reported receiving death threats in response to Piss Christ.[15]
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