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Is the Nobel Peace Prize becoming valueless

10/09/2009 1:21 PM

What is becoming of the value of the Nobel prize for some people to win by bringing awareness or making speeches to make you feel better but has no substance or actions.

Now I realize that some of the past winners truly deserves this honor but it seems the value of this once prestigious award is being devalued. Is it for political reasons, or did this last recipient do something spectacular that I do not know about. Good intentions do not count.

Is this world really digging at the bottom of the barrel. Or are there people that are making a difference but do not carry the political strength to be reconized?

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10/09/2009 1:43 PM

Becoming valueless? It seems to have been valueless for quite a long while (unless you are part of the semi-powerful/powerful gliteratti in the Nobel Peace Prize mutual admiration society). Of the past 35 winners (arbitrarily cutting off at 1975), 4 actually did something.

1999 - Doctors without Borders - these folks and similar groups actually provide health care to those who are REALLY in need.

1997 - The ICBL actually drives work to clear out old landmines that do real damage to those unfortunate enough to find them the hard way.

1990 - Gorbachev really did have a hand in the Berlin Wall coming down (though many would say Reagan, Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II had a bigger hand in the historic event).

1979 - Mother Theresa did more than anyone since Gandhi to improve the life of millions in India through her work with the Untouchables.

That's about 11% of the prizes going to something other than "efforts" and actually being given for accomplishments. That makes the Nobel Peace Prize nearly 90% valueless if it is really meant to acknowledge an increase in peace or the betterment of the lives of those who are truly oppressed.

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10/09/2009 1:54 PM

You have pick the ones I have put value on, for those have done it not for there own good but the good of others. and it would have been an insult to have included them in the ones that had no legitimacy to the prize.

Point making is this prize too much of a political agenda.

But one thing is, is that President Obama is on the same plane as Al Gore and Yasser Arafat.

This I am sure will get political.....oh oh atleast 40 years too late.

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10/09/2009 7:38 PM

It's already too political for me.

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10/09/2009 8:00 PM

I suspect that if a guy named Bjorn Burkledorf had won, the news would have been on page 23, right under the "Garage Sales" ads and nobody would have even commented on it, let alone known who the guy was.

Seriously, stop for a minute. Without looking, what was this year's Medicine prize awarded for? It was extraordinarily significant - literally life-changing for millions - and I'll bet not one in ten can talk about it. Everybody focuses on the petty stuff to the exclusion of the really big stuff.

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10/09/2009 9:34 PM

Ageing genetics wasn't it? Was this the research about telomeres? They don't give the prize out until twenxxx(insert long number) years later, so it doesn't seem like news....

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10/10/2009 8:16 AM

Yep. You pay attention to such things; you must not get your news from Fox-TV.

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