Wikileaks Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize!

arty:

 

Far out, that's pretty cool


It's also a big "fuck you" to all the governments that were pissed off with what wikileaks was doing. If it does get the Peace Prize I think a lot of people might turn on and finally see things differently once they take note.

 

that prize has been getting irrelevant in the past years, its interesting to see some (even tho minor) changes coming about ...particularly with the voices of people on the street getting stronger, shaking establishments and provoking thoughts

 

How does a person or organisation go about getting nominated for a nobel prize?

 

I think manning is the one who needs it.

 

Wikileaks should definitely get one, unlike Obama. Honestly, he didn't deserve his at all, and it was just for show, really.

 

Yep Wikileaks should get one. Brad Manning should to, I think that would help him out a lot. What did Obama do anyway to get his??

 

He became the first partially black man to become president of the US.

 

Obama.

 

I agree.

 

When I was back in school, I vaguely remember my history teacher saying that it was due to Obama doing some negotiations between countries or something like that and others hadn't. Lame excuse, really. And Obama's a puppet, anyway.

No doubt.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8298580.stm

Obama's Nobel win: Full citation


The following is the text of the official announcement that US President Barack Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize:
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples.
The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.
Obama has as president created a new climate in international politics.
Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play.
Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts.
The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations.
Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting.
Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened.
Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future.
His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population.
For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman.
The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges".

 

Yawn, as I said lame excuse. Way overwritten. The human rights thing is a joke. So is "the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population".

 

Fair enough. How has BMs deeds helped with world peace?

Yeah.

 

The year is still young.

 

after reading this, i'd say it shouldve been jointly awarded to Bush-Obama as this is an example of one fuckin everything up, and someone (having a good speech-writer) speaking words about how it was wrong

 

oh the irony of it all...!!!