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Nobel Peace Prize: Al Gore
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This is another stellar example of just how insignificant the Nobel Peace Prize has become. It used to mean something. It used to be given to actual people who did something good. That stopped years ago. Al Gore is just another in a long line of pandering jerks who are awarded a prize which has become synonymous with “useless” and “stupid”.
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The 1960 Peace Prize, awarded in 1961, was a ground breaking one. The peace laureate Albert John Luthuli, formerly President of the African National Congress, had long engaged in a peaceful struggle against apartheid. Abrams makes the important point that "it was noteworthy that the Committee had finally found a laureate outside the limits of western civilization."80 Perhaps it was this Eurocentrism, the pre-war Norwegian international bias or, the interpretation preferred by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Gandhi's untimely death, more than any British political pressure, that defeated the honouring of the Mahatma. As Sverdrup comments:
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By coincidence, the Nobel Prize will be handed out in a ceremony in Oslo on December 10 -- and so gives both Gore and Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC, a new stage to urge action. Both Pachauri and Gore were already due to visit Bali.
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According to the process posted on the Nobel Prize website, the Nobel Assembly sends out invitations to approximately 3,000 people who are allowed to propose candidates. The 3,000 are "mainly members of the Nobel Assembly, previous prize winners, and a selection of professors at universities around the world." In providing detailed information about those who can submit nominations, the site states:
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The Nobel prize givers may well have wanted to jab the foot-dragging policies of the White House on this subject. No problem with that. But that motivation takes nothing away from the tireless work Gore and the United Nations have given to a profoundly important issue.
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In addition to his veterans' documentary, he has ... created commissioned portraits for President Gerald R. Ford, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia , Nobel Peace Prize recipient F.W. deKlerk, Edsel B. Ford II, Dr. Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright. DeJonge has been Gingrich's portrait photographer since 1998 creating his last two official portraits. DeJonge also completed a documentary on the diversity of Lou Gehrig's disease, traveling the entire length of Route 66 and photographing PALS (People with ALS)at landmarks from Chicago to Los Angeles .
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