[LINK] Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Jan Whitaker
jwhit at internode.on.net
Thu Jan 30 14:41:05 AEDT 2014
At 02:22 PM 30/01/2014, Frank O'Connor wrote:
>That said, I'm not holding my breath until its awarded. The Nobel
>Committee has a distressing history of supporting the 'powers that
>be' for a body that's supposed to recognise individual achievements,
>and in the case of this award, recipients who actually make a
>difference in the pursuit of peace.
They were also badly burnt by giving it to Obama before he'd had a
record to deserve it, and hasn't exactly shown he was deserving
afterwards either. I'll bet they're a bit more careful now. And I was
and sort of still am an Obama supporter versus the choices on the
other side of the ledger.
Jan
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
jwhit at janwhitaker.com
Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how
do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space.
~Margaret Atwood, writer
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