Cindy Sheehan up for a Nobel Peace Prize?

[ballz2wallz]

According to her own blog, Cindy has a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Since we began Camp Casey last August, I have traveled thousands of miles all over the world. I have been to 11 countries and over one half of our states. I have met with heads of states and other parliamentarians and I have given hundreds of speeches and marched with hundreds of thousands of peaceniks all over the world. I have received keys to cities, awards, Congressional Commendations, and a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Now, what exactly has the "Peace Mom" done to earn such a coveted award? Has she done what Alfred Nobel had originally intended the award be given?

According to Nobel's Living will, the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".

Sure, I guess one could argue that she was 'for the abolition or reduction of standing armies', but we all know whose army she wants to reduce or abolish. Her seething hatred for the US and its military operations, fueled (and encouraged) by the death of her military son, has completely overtaken (and ruined if you ask me) her life.

If she wins this award, it will only solidify my opinion that Nobel Peace laureates need only to strongly criticize the US to win the award.

[kinggovernor]

who does the nominating for that award

[ballz2wallz]

Originally Posted by kinggovernor

who does the nominating for that award

Who can nominate:

Nominations for the Prize may be made by a broad array of qualified individuals, including former recipients, members of national assemblies and congresses, university professors, international judges, and special advisors to the Prize Committee. In some years as many as 199 nominations have been received. The Committee keeps the nominations secret and asks that nominators do the same. Over time many individuals have become known as "Nobel Peace Prize Nominees", but this designation has no official standing. Nominations from 1901 to 1951, however, have been released in a database. When the past nominations were released it was discovered that Adolf Hitler was nominated in 1939, though the nomination was retracted in February of the same year. Other infamous nominees included Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini.

[kinggovernor]

if she was nominated, no big deal

[RMNIXON]

The Nominations are often political. She will be in good company:

[ballz2wallz]

It's finally reaching the media outlets...

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[ballz2wallz]

And to think, I had this out before Drudge and Allah..

Hot Air » Blog Archive » St. Cindy says she’s a finalist for Nobel Peace Prize

[JaJae]

If any American wins it will be Sheehan or Michael Moore. That said, I don't think an American will win it this year... Maybe Chavez for his antics recently.

[ballz2wallz]

Originally Posted by JaJae

If any American wins it will be Sheehan or Michael Moore. That said, I don't think an American will win it this year... Maybe Chavez for his antics recently.

There are 191 people that have been nominated. Sheehan has a 16-1 chance of winning according to some.

When is Oprah gonna win?

[garbagemanlb]

Originally Posted by ballz2wallz

There are 191 people that have been nominated. Sheehan has a 16-1 chance of winning according to some.

When is Oprah gonna win?

Right after Bush gets his.

[7960]

sheehan may win the "crazy bitch can suck my cock" award but she's not winning any peace prizes, rest assured.

[ballz2wallz]

Originally Posted by garbagemanlb

Right after Bush gets his.

Bush never criticized the US; he'll never get one.

[WickedLou9]

Nominations are meaningless. It's the winning thats the big deal

[kinggovernor]

Yunus, Grameen Bank win Peace Prize By DOUG MELLGREN, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 17 minutes ago



Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their pioneering use of tiny, seemingly insignificant loans — microcredit — to lift millions out of poverty.

Through Yunus's efforts and those of the bank he founded, poor people around the world, especially women, have been able to buy cows, a few chickens or the cell phone they desperately needed to get ahead.

"Lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty," the Nobel Committee said in its citation. "Microcredit is one such means. Development from below also serves to advance democracy and human rights."

Yunus, 65, is the first Noble Prize winner from Bangladesh, a poverty-stricken nation of about 141 million people located on the Bay on Bengal.

"I am so so happy, it's really a great news for the whole nation," Yunus told The Associated Press shortly after the prize was announced. He was reached by telephone at his home in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka.

Grameen Bank was the first lender to hand out microcredit, giving very small loans to poor Bangladeshis who did not qualify for loans from conventional banks. No collateral is needed and repayment is based on an honor system.

Anyone can qualify for a loan — the average is about $200 — but recipients are put in groups of five and once two members of the group have borrowed money, the other three must wait for the funds to be repaid before they get a loan.

Grameen, which means rural in the Bengali language, says the method encourages social responsibility. The results are hard to argue with — the bank says it has a 99 percent repayment rate.

Since Yunus gave out his first loans in 1974, microcredit schemes have spread throughout the developing world and are now considered a key approach to alleviating poverty and spurring development.

Yunus's told The Associated Press in a 2004 interview that his "eureka moment" came while chatting to a shy woman weaving bamboo stools with calloused fingers.

Sufia Begum was a 21-year-old villager and a mother of three when the economics professor met her in 1974 and asked her how much she earned. She replied that she borrowed about 5 taka (nine cents) from a middleman for the bamboo for each stool.

All but two cents of that went back to the lender.

"I thought to myself, my God, for five takas she has become a slave," Yunus said in the interview.

"I couldn't understand how she could be so poor when she was making such beautiful things," he said.

The following day, he and his students did a survey in the woman's village, Jobra, and discovered that 43 of the villagers owed a total of 856 taka (about $27).

"I couldn't take it anymore. I put the $27 out there and told them they could liberate themselves," he said, and pay him back whenever they could. The idea was to buy their own materials and cut out the middleman.

They all paid him back, day by day, over a year, and his spur-of-the-moment generosity grew into a full-fledged business concept that came to fruition with the founding of Grameen Bank in 1983.

In the years since, the bank says it has lent $5.72 billion to more than six million Bangladeshis.

Worldwide, microcredit financing is estimated to have helped some 17 million people.

"Yunus and Grameen Bank have shown that even the poorest of the poor can work to bring about their own development," the Nobel citation said.

Today the bank claims to have 6.6 million borrowers, 97 percent of whom are women, and provides services in more than 70,000 villages in Bangladesh. Its model of micro-financing has inspired similar efforts around the world.

The success has allowed Grameen Bank to expand its credit to include housing loans, financing for irrigation and fisheries as well as traditional savings accounts.

One of Yunus' aides, Dipal Barua, said the award was an "honor for millions of poor women who have made this possible."

Yunus and the bank will share in the $1.4 million prize as well as a gold medal and diploma.

The peace prize was the sixth and last Nobel prize announced this year. The others, for physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and economics, were announced in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Associated Press writers Julhas Alam and Matt Moore contributed to this report.

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she didn't win, and this guy is fucking awesome. Economics for Peace ftmfw

[ballz2wallz]

“One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.” — quoted in "The Independent", 5 May 1996

Worst economist ever! Poverty will always be around.

[7960]

Originally Posted by ballz2wallz

“One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.” — quoted in "The Independent", 5 May 1996

Worst economist ever! Poverty will always be around.

no

"What used to be science fiction is now science fact," said Richard Gale, a postal worker from St. Louis. "Now, all we need to have is the transporter and replicator and then we can eliminate poverty and war."

reviewjournal.com -- News: 'Star Trek' fans descend on Las Vegas

[hsmith]

Originally Posted by ballz2wallz

“One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.” — quoted in "The Independent", 5 May 1996

Worst economist ever! Poverty will always be around.

Not necessarly.

[7960]

Originally Posted by hsmith

Not necessarly.

oh, do tell...........how is it possible to eliminate poverty? (well, until the 24th century)

[Scrum]

She didn't win.

You guys can stop crying now.

Bangladesh microbanker Yunus wins Nobel Peace Prize

[ethyl]

Originally Posted by 7960

oh, do tell...........how is it possible to eliminate poverty? (well, until the 24th century)

matter replicators?