Nobel Peace Prize 2005: Venezuelan Pres. Hugo Chavez makes the final list

[Barad Simith]

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=46184

Nobel Peace Prize 2005: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez makes the final list
VHeadline.com Venezuela
Friday, September 30, 2005
Carlos Herrera


The Nobel Commission for the Peace Prize has received 199 nominations including Colin Powell, the U2 singer Bono and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

In the final highly-secret list, there are 163 individuals and 36 organizations, which is an all time record according to the commission secretary Geir Lundestad.

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Other accomplishments, which have been pushed by Chavez’ personal leadership in Venezuela are the Social Missions, all grouped under the humanitarian banner of Mision Cristo (Christ's Mission). The most important of these, Mision Robinson has taught 1.4 million Venezuelans to read and write; Mision Barrio Adentro (Neighborhood Within) offers free primary healthcare in the poor areas and is now reaching 14 million Venezuelans out of a population of approximately 25 million; Mision Mercal sells cheap staple foods and has impacted more than half the population at the time of writing.

Chavez, however, is up against some very stiff competition including Colin Powell (for his efforts to end the 21-year civil war in Sudan); the ex-governor of Illinois, George Ryan (for his campaign to abolish the death sentence in the US); Israeli Mordechai Vanunu (for denouncing the existence of nuclear weapons in his country); the Japanese Hidankyo group (survivors of the US' atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki).

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[AtomicKitten]

1. wooooooo ... snap

This will get the fascists howling!!

[katinmn]

20. Yes, it is a grand gesture!

:)

We'll see how tired the world really is of GWB. If Chavez wins, it is a wonderful thing because he deserves it, but also it would be a well-deserved slap on the face for BushCo!

[Kipling]

2. He's a decent ruler, but what has he done for peace?

His humanitarian work has been admirable, but I can't think of anything he's done to stop wars. He did ask the US and Britain not to invade Iraq, but so did a lot of people.

[LeighAnn]

3. Yeah, but he keeps calling them on it n/t

[Laughing Mirror]

7. He's been trying to stop the predatory war-mad US from overthrowing him

and turning his country into a war zone. Rule number one is protect your own home country from imperial war. I think his efforts in that direction should count.

A Nobel Peace prize with liar and warmonger Colin Powell as one of the contenders should tell you something about that vaunted prize.

[Barad Simith]

14. Coincidentally, I happened to pick up Chomsky's "Understanding Power" ...

... soon after I posted this thread, and happened to open it to a page where he was referring to the Nobel Peace Prize:

Among sort of middle-class organizers, there are three or four people I know who would get the Nobel Peace Prize if it meant anything, which of course it doesn't, in fact it's kind of an insult to get it - take a look at who it goes to. (Chapter 3)

Then there's an endnote, which is posted at www.understandingpower.com:

66. Chomsky notes that the honor is shared by a collection of monsters which includes Henry Kissinger, F.W. de Klerk, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, Theodore Roosevelt, and many others -- although obviously not everyone who has received it fits this category.

[Missy M]

8. What does George Ryan trying to abolish the death penalty in the US

have to do with peace. I am behind Ryan 100% but it is a humanitarian issue. What Chavez is accomplishing is pretty impressive and deserves recognition. Colin Powell and the Peace prize is an oxymoron.

[elehhhhna]

24. you make one helluva point, missy.

[Orangepeel]

10. the Nobel Peace Prize has seemed to morph into a Humanitarian Prize

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Didn't an environmental activist win last year? (or maybe it has morphed into a "doing good things for the planet" prize). And, when Jimmy Carter won, it was more in recognition of his post-presidency work advancing democracy and helping the poor than it was for his peace efforts (for which he didn't win when Sadat and Begin won). Oh! and didn't Mother Theresa win?

[1932]

16. Even Colin Powell says that helping the poor is the key to a safe future.

I just read that in the foreward to Jeff Sach's last book which was written by Bono.

[Blaq Dem]

4. He has my vote!!!

[sarcasmo]

5. Nominated, Hugo teaching his people how to read and write.

Our Dictator teaching us that his Government no longer cares for the poor.

[Kindigger]

6. George Ryan?

Geez...he's getting ready to go to prison!

[elehhhhna]

23. True, so he's out, but don't discount the message: the rest of the

civilized world was VERY impressed with a Gov putting his foot down on our B.S. death penalty system.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

9. Colin Powell is Mr. Peace.

:wtf:

[tainowarrior]

11. how can war-pimp Powell be on the Nobel Peace Prize

either the award means something or no.

If you lied to the world to push a war, you're not a peaceful person.

Powell shouldn't even be considered.

[katinmn]

12. I agree. Colin Powell just recently admitted his lying before

the UN about WMD was a black mark on his record.

Liars that lead us into elective, illegal war cannot ever be considered for the peace prize.

[Barkley]

18. Cullin' Powell's name from the list

He still agrees that the war in Iraq is just; the data was bad but the idea of killing thousands of innocent civilians to get rid of one man is a good idea.

That is not about peace.

[leesa]

13. Ooooh...this would chap Bush"s hide!

Colin Powell is a war criminal. Time to write the Nobel Peace Prize board to notify them of his crimes.

[meganmonkey]

15. Congrats, Hugo!

That's cool, that would really be a smack in the face to the US, although apparently peace isn't a valued thing for some in the US.

[Jack Rabbit]

17. Excellent

It's a good nomination.

If he gets the prize, that will make the neocons chew the carpet.

[Barkley]

19. What about Britain's Robin Cooke (Posthumus)?

[TankLV]

21. O-oh Boss!

Now Rochester!

Viva Chavez!

[geckosfeet]

22. I bet that burns Bushies a$$. I can see him sitting in the WH

wondering "Why did I not win a peace prize - I captured Saddam"?

[NeoConsSuck]

25. I would have loved to see a trifecta..

and the final three choices are:

George Galloway
Cindy Sheehan
Hugo Chavez

Now that is a list that would give the neocons and freeptards a tummyache!

[daleo]

26. Cindy Sheehan would be great.

Someone should nominate her for next year.

[buzzsaw_23]

27. Winners of the Alternative Nobel Prize this year

Activists win alternative Nobel prizes

Thursday 29 September 2005, 13:22 Makka Time, 10:22 GMT  

The awards will be presented by the Swedish king in December

Two Canadians, a Malaysian and a man from Botswana have been named winners of the $256,660 Right Livelihood Awards, known as the alternative Nobels for work in arts, trade and human rights.

Canadians Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke were cited on Thursday for "their exemplary and longstanding work in for trade justice and the recognition of the fundamental human right to water".

Irene Fernandez of Malaysia was honoured for her work to stop violence against women and migrant workers.

They share the prize with the organisation First People of the Kalahari, and its founder Roy Sesana, who were recognised for "resolute resistance against eviction from their ancestral lands".

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/58F01BA1-904D-4EFA-BEBB-5ABD759C58B1.htm

[Zhade]

28. Viva Chavez!

NT!