Prize For Boyz? Or Obama's Peace Bribe?

I really had to slap myself in the face for this one, because I most definitely did not see this coming! Barack Obama's surprise Nobel Peace Prize win asks a whole lot of questions about the Norwegian Nobel Peace Committee, who ultimately awarded it to the US president. Are they trying to coax him into building stronger bridges amongst the bickering international community? Well, the international politicians that is, because the general public seem to get on ok. Or is this just part of some carefully stage-managed international soap opera which is supposed to make us believe that there is a real wind of change sweeping our world? With the nominations for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize being closed before Obama was even in the White House for a full two weeks, this surely points to the latter being the case.

October.14.2009 - George Valentine Corr, Blatant News Editor
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CREDIBILITY PROBLEM
Before last Friday's shock Peace award, any hope of Obama's 'change' having any decent substance was pretty much gone already, and we are not even a year into his possible almost decade-long residency in Washington. This award will not help. Infact it seems that this has drove the biggest nail into his already fragile coffin over here in Europe, as it seems disingenuous at the very least. It also shows that there is major collusion - to pacify and dis-inform the masses - even within formerly credible and humane organisations. Apart from some departments in the United Nations, nowadays more than ever that organisation seems to indulge exclusively the needs of the White House and the other global powerbrokers, and now we can rule out the Nobel Peace Prize as something which we can call on to make a real statement against bad leaders, in support of oppressed people around the globe.

WHERE HAVE ALL THE GOOD ONES GONE?
In real terms, we don't have any strong high-profile international organisations who really do speak for the people. OK, there are some new 'humanitarian' and 'civil rights/liberties' groups popping up every few years, but what about an organisation which all the governments are signed up to? or which can actually influence cruel leaders by applying strong moral pressure? And Obama does actually fall into that 'cruel leader' category, as he remains the jailer of many innocent and mentally and physically tortured people in Guantanamo. And it was his own staff who committed these crimes against humanity. So why would he be getting a Nobel Peace Prize? Considering he was only in the White House eleven days when the closing date for nominations for the Nobel Medals passed, the Nobel Peace Committee must have believed Barack's promise to free or try those who were still in his care, in the Guantanamo concentration camp, within 100 days of taking office.

I WILL DO IT, I WILL DO IT
He hasn't done that yet within 200 days, and on top of that inhumane crime, he intends to keep tens of thousands of troops in Iraq, aswell as adding tens of thousands of new troops to the mountains of Afghanistan. The committee also claimed that this award was for his dedication to ridding the World of nuclear weapons, but as we reported in July, his latest seven year deal with Russia will not reduce the number of US-held nuclear weapons by more than a couple of percent, so don't expect any big moves in this department by the time he is out of office. This man is by no means a 'Peace President', so either the Norwegian Nobel folks have got it terribly wrong, or this is just another chapter in the dishonest soap opera that is international politics. And I suspect that to be the case. What a waste of a good prize, and an opportunity to highlight a real cause. We, the people feel let down again, and we have found yet another reason to loose trust in those whom we elect to run our World.

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