FREEDOM EDEN (Free subscription) | yesterday
Al Gore appeared twice on Saturday Night Live to promote his new book. Gore first played himself in a skit. He was a guest hawking his new book, Our Choice , on the talk show, "What Up With That?" Gore's acting was not good. Gore appeared again just a few minutes later on "Weekend Update," talking to Seth Meyers. In honor of NBC's Green Week, Gore was there to discuss issues facing...
Playground Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
And it seems that Terri McCormick can't fathom the distinction. McCormick has posted a copy of her 1977 certificate from the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation on her campaign website , perhaps in response to my last post or another media inquiry. Conveniently, it's linked to the words "Wisconsin Truman Scholar." An image of the certificate is below. Notice anything interesting while...
- Are You Riled Up? - (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Grand, which opened in 1874, is also the venue for the official Nobel Peace Prize banquet every year. They even have special Nobel tableware and Nobel menus for dinners. If you’re a fan of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner aka …Continued
Say Anything (Free subscription) | yesterday
So says the Heartland Institute in their summary of the scandal now rocking the “green” movement: Emails exchanged by Phil Jones (director of the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit) and other leading scientists who edit and control the content of the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reveal a conspiracy to falsify the actual temperature record...
- Are You Riled Up? - (Free subscription) | yesterday
America did not win the war there, but over time it has won the peace . … American war veterans publicly made peace with their old adversaries … A program [to exchange graduate students and professors] could ensure that the next …. The other two Presidents who received Nobel Peace Prize while waging wars [...]
Per Crucem ad Lucem (Free subscription) | yesterday
‘The Nobel Peace Prize committee might well have made truly worthy choices, prominent among them the remarkable Afghan activist Malalai Joya. This brave woman survived the Russians, and then the radical Islamists whose brutality was so extreme that the population welcomed the Taliban. Joya has withstood the Taliban and now the return of the warlords [...]
AterSlash (Free subscription) | yesterday
I’m as much of a Linux fanboy as anyone else, but I’ve never thought of anything in computing as being worth a Nobel Peace Prize. Apparently, there are those who take global collaboration seriously, though…” The suggestion has been bouncing around the Portland Linux community, where Torvalds lives.
The Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Andrew Malcolm wrote this up yesterday , news from the last stop of Obama's Asia trip: Even President Obama himself during his just-concluded trip to Asia admitted that he was surprised to receive the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this year without actually producing any peace. In fact, the rookie American president ordered his own troop surge, boosting U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan to 68,000. Now,...
Wirearchy (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
. Lovely concept … Via Twitter … Join @wired in nominating the internet for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize as “the first weapon of mass construction.” http://bit.ly/5Th6w5 . Go … nominate … vote when it’s possible. It’s pretty much all we’ve got left, besides you and me and the rest of ourselves. .
Wired: Underwire (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The internet has clearly been a boon for news junkies, LOLcats and the makers of goofball videos. But it’s also proven to be a powerful international force for peace. That’s the message of Internet for Peace, a campaign launched this week by Wired Italy to nominate the net for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010. “The [...]
- Are You Riled Up? - (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
It was really a surprise to hear that President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize . Just as he said, I did not even know that he was nominated. And I think the way that he has dealt with winning the Prize has been incredible. …More
- Are You Riled Up? - (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
And lately, a fierce new argument has been engaged in the fragile household of the international community: should Barack Obama have won the Nobel Peace Prize ? The President of the United States being rewarded for “his extraordinary …Click Here
baithak (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Writing About Pakistan, but ‘No Beards, No Bombs’ - As announcers urged the crowd at the National Book Awards party to take their dinner seats, Daniyal Mueenuddin , the Pakistani-American author of “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders,” hung back to chat briefly about his work and the wonder of being nominated for a prestigious literary award. “What it feels is a little premature,”...
- Are You Riled Up? - (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Percentage of independents who approve of President Barack Obama , who made history, is sort of God according to one Newsweek editor, won the Nobel Peace Prize , and continuing efforts to heal the sick and prevent the oceans from rising: …This Post
HolyCoast.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Yet another unmerited award for Obama (from Top of the Ticket): Even President Obama himself during his just-concluded trip to Asia admitted that he was surprised to receive the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this year without actually producing any peace. In fact, the rookie American president ordered his own troop surge, boosting U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan to 68,000. Now, the Democrat may be...
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dineshktl | 10/10/2009
The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday, October 9, 2009, "For his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." This Award announced by Thorbjorn Jagland, the leader of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. According to CNN report, President Barack Obama said Friday that he was humbled by the decision of the Norwegian
rahman | 10/10/2009
Obama Nobel Peace Prize wins 2009 A beaming President Barack Obama says he's honored to win the Nobel Peace Prize, but says he isn't sure he's done enough to earn it.(Oct. 9)
rahman | 10/10/2009
Nobel Prize Peace Winner Muhammad Yunus latest video. Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus, gives a talk at UCSD about the microfinance revolution around the world,the Nobel Prize, and the launch of Grameen America,which will bring microcredit to the U.S
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