'He Should Respect the Monarchy'

Boy, do those Norwegians need a wake-up call. Sure, they give some meaningless peace prize to Barack Obama. So what do they expect? Some reciprocity? Some thanks? Hah! Don't they realize they don't matter? They've served their role as useful idiots, so just shut up and bow down to The Obama. Besides, he's getting a bit self-conscious over bowing to royalty, in case you haven't heard.

Barack Obama's trip to Oslo to pick up his Nobel peace award is in danger of being overshadowed by a row over cancellation of a series of events normally attended by the prize-winner.

Norwegians are incensed over what they view as his shabby response to the prize by cutting short his visit.

The White House has cancelled many of the events peace prize laureates traditionally submit to, including a dinner with the Norwegian Nobel Committee, a press conference, a television interview, appearances at a children's event promoting peace, a music concert, as well as a visit to an exhibition in his honour at the Nobel Peace Centre.

What has also annoyed them is that Obama is snubbing a lunch invitation from the King of Norway. According to a poll published today by the daily VG, 44% of Norwegians believe it was rude of Obama to cancel his scheduled lunch with King Harald, with only 34% saying they believe it was acceptable.

"Of all the things he is cancelling, I think the worst is cancelling the lunch with the King," said Siv Jensen, the leader of the largest party in opposition, the populist Progress party. "This is a central part of our government system. He should respect the monarchy," she told VG.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the peace prize, dismissed the criticism. "We always knew that there were too many events in the programme. Obama has to govern the US and we were told early on that he could not commit to all of them," said Geir Lundestad, the secretary of the committee.

Although Obama will not lunch with King Harald, he will see him on a visit to the Royal Palace. Peace activists opposed to the Afghanistan war are planning a 5,000-strong protest in Oslo and have put up posters round the capital, reprising his famous campaign poster but altered to "Change?"

The visit will test Obama's rhetorical skills. He will seek to reconcile acceptance of the Nobel peace prize with sending an extra 30,000 US troops to Afghanistan. Obama, intent on minimising any embarrassment, is cutting short his trip, a move viewed as a snub by many Norwegians.

How can it test his rhetorical skills? TOTUS accompanies Obama everywhere, so have no fear, his soaring oratory will be on display and just for that alone the Norwegians should be thankful.

That king of theirs should get over it. Maybe Obama will give him an iPod with The Best of Obama loaded on it.

Meanwhile, other "peace activists" are descending on Oslo to protest, not that Obama will pay them any mind.

More Post-Racial Harmony: Even Nobel Prize Reveals Racial Divide

So glad Barack Obama is bringing us all together by driving us further apart.

Gallup has added another bit of data to its poll finding that most Americans (61%) don't believe President Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize: There's a huge divide between white and black America.

There's nearly a 50 percentage point split, with just 27% of whites saying Obama deserved the accolade, while 76% of blacks believe he should have gotten it.

OK, so who's raaaaacist here? Can you racial bean-counters out there let me know? Is it the 76% of blacks saying he deserved it or the 73% of whites who believe he doesn't?

The gap narrows a bit among Americans who are glad he won. While overall the split was 46% glad and 47% not, among whites, it was 42% on the glad side and 80% among blacks.

This seems like more than simple identity politics to us. In the earlier analysis that Gallup released, even many of the people who like Obama did not think he deserved the prize. That suggested to the pollsters feelings were more nuanced than usual with political polls, and rather than a "knee-jerk" reaction, people were wondering if the winner shouldn't have a greater body of work before garnering such acclaim.

Considering the racial divide, it may be a positive thing that whites are looking at Obama not as a black President, but as any politician, and weighing whether he deserves something on the merits, not just reacting.

Yes, yet when we dare to disagree with Obama as a politician, we're accused of having some sinister racial motive behind a simple criticism.

Ironic, isn't it, that for two solid weeks after he received a peace prize, Obama has escalated his assault on Fox News into a full-blown declaration of war?

What a peacemaker.

Meanwhile, Mr. Peace has already established himself far above President Bush in at least one regard. He's played more golf than Bush did in his eight years.

President Obama, accused of running a fratboy White House by some women's advocates, went golfing Sunday with a woman for the first time since he took the oath of office.

Melody Barnes, 45, Obama's chief domestic policy advisor, accompanied the nation's commander in chief to a golf outing at the U.S. Army's Fort Belvoir golf course in Virginia.

At first, a White House spokesman denied that Barnes was the first woman to go golfing with Obama since he became president. But when pressed by a reporter, the aide confirmed Barnes was, indeed, the first.

The golf game was also notable for being Obama's 24th, tying it with Bush's total number of golf games played - during his entire adminstration. It took Bush 2 years and 10 months to reach that tally, according to Mark Knoller of CBS News. Obama has reached it in 11 months.

I'm sure some of the President Approved Pundits won't have any problem with this. It's worth noting Bush stopped playing golf (at least publicly) altogether after the Iraq War commenced or shortly thereafter. Glad to see Obama able to juggle three major conflicts without it distracting him from his important time on the links.

Who Nominated Obama For the Nobel Peace Prize?

The nomination deadline for the Nobel Peace Prize was February 1. What had Barack Obama accomplished by that date? Who nominated him? Himself?

The deadline for nominations is February 1, meaning Obama would've been nominated after being in office for just 11 days.

Geir Lundestad, director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, told "Good Morning America" the decision was unanimous.

I realize this is a bad joke, but seriously, 11 days in office?

You Cannot Be Serious: Obama Receives Nobel Peace Prize

Yes, I know Grunt has already mentioned this but I must weigh in. I realize this is all political and the Nobel Peace Prize is a joke considering the likes of Al Gore, Jimmy Carter and Yasser Arafat have received it, but seriously, don't you have to at least accomplish something to win this?

U.S. President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for giving the world "hope for a better future" and striving for nuclear disarmament, in a surprise award that drew criticism as well as praise.

The decision to bestow one of the world's top accolades on a president less than nine months into his first term, who has yet to score a major foreign policy success, provoked gasps of surprise from journalists at the announcement in Oslo.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Obama for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."

The first African-American to hold his country's highest office, Obama has called for disarmament and worked to restart the stalled Middle East peace process since taking office in January.

"Very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future," the committee said in a citation.

Hope for a better future? How about telling that to the folks in Afghanistan.

I'm not the only one scoffing at this absurdity.

"Obama has a long way to go still and lots of work to do before he can deserve a reward," said Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri. "Obama only made promises and did not contribute any substance to world peace. And he has not done anything to ensure justice for the sake of Arab and Muslim causes."

Issam al-Khazraji, a day laborer in Baghdad, said: "He doesn't deserve this prize. All these problems -- Iraq, Afghanistan -- have not been solved...The man of 'change' hasn't changed anything yet."

Liaqat Baluch, a senior leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a conservative religious party in Pakistan, called the award an embarrassing "joke."

Indeed, it is. Why not just award this esteemed prize to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? He's done as much to accomplish "peace" as Obama.

It's all about the Hopenchange, I guess.

I wonder what Neda Agha Sultan's family thinks about about this?

She should be the one getting this prize:

WTF!!! Obama Awarded Nobel Peace Prize???

I guess this makes it official, Barack Obama is now the Jimmy Carter of this generation albeit with a better tan.

Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize, for what is still unclear since the nominations for this years awards were closed on the 1st of February which means the Messiah had a total of about 2 weeks in office and even now 9 months into his administration he has accomplished nothing.

I guess if I was Gen McChrystal I wouldn't hold my breath waiting on any more troops and Poland and the Ukraine better brush back up on their Russian. I think they are going to need it.

A helluva of way to get your morning started. I heard this right after I got and was going to get ready for work.

Let's go ahead and give the Detroit Lions the Super Bowl trophy since they really do try hard, even if they don't accomplish much.

UPDATE: Reaction is coming in from Europe. Not a lot of love for the Nobel Committee.

How about those Muslims he was reaching out to?

Afghanistan's Taliban mocked the award, saying Obama should get a Nobel prize for violence instead.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said it was absurd to give a peace award to a man who had sent 21,000 extra troops to Afghanistan to escalate a war.
In Pakistan, Liaqat Baluch, a senior leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a conservative religious party, said: "It's a joke. How embarrassing for those who awarded it to him because he's done nothing for peace. What change has he brought in Iraq, the Middle East or Afghanistan?"

al-Goracle: An Inconvenient Truth

A truth conveniently overlooked by the Nobel committee?

Creators of carbon credit scheme cashing in on it
Judi McLeod -- There's an elephant in global warming's living room that few in the mainstream media want to talk about: the creators of the carbon credit scheme are the ones cashing in on it.

The two cherub like choirboys singing loudest in the Holier Than Thou Global Warming Cathedral are Maurice Strong and Al Gore.

This duo has done more than anyone else to advance the alarmism of man-made global warming.

With little media monitoring, both Strong and Gore are cashing in on the lucrative cottage industry known as man-made global warming.

Strong is on the board of directors of the Chicago Climate Exchange, Wikipedia-described as "the world's first and North America's only legally binding greenhouse gas emission registry reduction system for emission sources and offset projects in North America and Brazil."

Gore buys his carbon off-sets from himself--the Generation Investment Management LLP, "an independent, private, owner-managed partnership established in 2004 with offices in London and Washington, D.C." of which he is both chairman and founding partner.

To hear the saving-the-earth singsong of this dynamic duo, even the feather light petals of cherry blossoms in Washington leave a bigger carbon footprint.

It's a strange global warming partnership that Strong and Gore have, but it's one that's working.

Strong is the silent partner, a man whose name often draws a blank in the Washington cocktail circuit. Even though a former Secretary General of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the much hyped Rio Earth Summit) and Under-Secretary General of the United Nations in the days of a beleaguered Kofi Annan, the Canadian born Strong is little known in the Unites States. That's because he spends most of his time in China where he works to make the communist country the world's next superpower. The nondescript Strong, nonetheless is big cheese in the world of climate change, and is one of the main architects of the coming-your-way-soon Kyoto Protocol.

Gore is the glitzy, media approved front man in the partnership, the flashing neon lights on the global stage warning the masses of the end of Earth, as we know it, and Hollywood's poster boy for greening the silver screen.

The skeptics of man-made global warming believe that Gore and Strong have made climate change "the new religion". Climate change is not the first religion both parties have tried to make stick. Along with former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Strong, currently president of the Earth Council, has been boasting of replacing the Ten Commandments with the Earth Charter, a golden rule guide for how the masses should treat the environment.

Gore, who has given sermons at the United Nations sponsored Cathedral of St. John the Divine Church in New York City, is a promoter of the religion known as Gaia.

The two environmental gurus also share a belief in radical Malthusian population reduction. According to them, too many people, particularly in the U.S. are polluting the planet, emitting excessive Freon through their refrigerators and jacking up the air conditioning.

But the conduct of Al Gore and Maurice Strong in the capitalist world is one for the books. It's a side of them that may have remained unknown had it not been for the investigative talent of the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR).

The tawdry tale of the top two global warming gurus in the business world goes all the way back to Earth Day, April 17, 1995 when the future author of An Inconvenient Truth traveled to Fall River, Massachusetts, to deliver a green sermon at the headquarters of Molten Metal Technology Inc. (MMTI). MMTI was a firm that proclaimed to have invented a process for recycling metals from waste.Gore praised the Molten Metal firm as a pioneer in the kind of innovative technology that can save the environment, and make money for investors at the same time.

"Gore left a few facts out of his speech that day. First, the firm was run by Strong and a group of Gore intimates, including Peter Knight, the firm's registered lobbyist, and Gore's former top Senate aide," wrote EIR.

"Second, the company had received more than $25 million in U.S. Department of energy (DOE) research and development grants, but had failed to prove that the technology worked on a commercial scale. The company would go on to receive another $8 million in federal taxpayers' cash, at that point, its only source of revenue.

"With Al Gore's Earth Day as a Wall Street calling card, Molten Metal's stock value soared to $35 a share, a range it maintained through October 1996. But along the way, DOE scientists had balked at further funding. When, in March 1996, corporate officers concluded that the federal cash cow was about to run dry, they took action: Between that date and October 1996, seven corporate officers--including Maurice Strong--sold off $15.3 million in personal shares in the company, at top market value. On Oct. 20, 1996--a Sunday--the company issued a press release, announcing for the first time, that DOE funding would be vastly scaled back, and reported the bad news on a conference call with stockbrokers.

"On Monday, the stock plunged by 49%, soon landing at $5 a share.By early 1997, furious stockholders had filed a class action suit against the company and its directors. Ironically, one of the class action lawyers had tangled with Maurice Strong in another insider trading case, involving a Swiss company called AZL Resources, chaired by Strong, who was also a lead shareholder. The AZL case closely mirrored Molten Metal, and in the end, Strong and the other AZL partners agreed to pay $5 million to dodge a jury verdict, when eyewitness evidence surfaced of Strong's role in scamming the value of the company stock up into the stratosphere, before selling it off.

In 1997, Strong went on to accept from Tongsun Park, the Korean man found guilty of illegally acting as an Iraqi agent, $1 million from Saddam Hussein, which was invested in Cordex Petroleum Inc., a company he owned with his son, Fred.

In that year, Gore, still U.S. vice president, was making news for "taking the initiative in creating the Internet."

The leaders of the man-made global warming movement, you might say, get around.

Meanwhile Jumbo's still in global warming's living room, but the duo with the tiniest carbon footprints on earth continue to just tiptoe past him.

And that's the way it is.

Via Canada Free Press

Previously Irena Sendler & Nicholas Winton

Bloated Laughingstock Wins Meaningless Prize

It's just the natural progression. From Yasser Arafat to Jimmy Carter to The Goracle. The Nobel committee should be ashamed, but these leftwing nincompoops are incapable of shame.

Considering his propaganda film has been exposed as a fraud, will he ever be called on to give back his prize money when it can no longer can withstand scrutiny?

I won't be holding my breath.

On the eve of Al Gore's expected win of the Nobel Peace Prize, a British judge said his global-warming documentary is riddled with nine glaring errors and should be accompanied by a warning about its "alarmist" and "exaggerated" claims.

The Rightwing Nuthouse sends in the clowns.

Much more reaction here.

UPDATE: Ouch.

So Al Gore is the joint winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Admittedly, he has to share it with the United Nations’ climate change panel - but, even so, I think we need to declare an international smugness alert.

The former US Vice-President has already taken over from Michael Moore as the most sanctimonious lardbutt Yank on the planet. Can you imagine what he'll be like now that the Norwegian Nobel committee has given him the prize?

More to the point, can you imagine how enormous his already massive carbon footprint will become once he starts jetting around the world bragging about his new title?

Meanwhile, I detect a bit of sarcasm from Allahpundit.

UPDATE II: We've found the most nauseatingly fawning item today about the serial fabricator. Jesus Christ himself apparently is dwarfed by comparison.

The news that Al Gore has won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize has added fuel to speculations that the political superstar and climate change icon will run again for the White House. But Gore is too big for the grubby intrigues of electioneering -- now more so than ever.

It's now or never. His fans, who still brood on the election debacle of 2000, have been waiting and hoping for this day for months. "It's like waiting for Grateful Dead tickets to go on sale, back in the day," Eric Schiller, an activist with the California arm of America for Gore, one of several groups urging him to run for president, told the San Francisco Chronicle.

If Gore gets any bigger, he'll have to let his pants out again.

Funny how this superstar couldn't even win his home state in 2000.

T-minus 12 Hours And Counting

As the countdown to the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize announcement (11AM CET/5AM EDT) proceeds, the following re-posts are a reminder of what's really important. And it damn sure ain't al-Gore.


Irena Sendler is 97-years young.

During World War Two, she risked her life in an heroic effort to save Jewish kids from the German death factories. "She is the last surviving person from the group she worked with that ran an underground network to save these children ...."

Nicholas Winton is 98-years young. He too, rescued Jewish children from the grasp of the Master Race.

On Friday, October 12, 2007, will the Nobel Committee honor a true heroine? How about a true hero?

Or, will they play politics join the 'global warming' alarmists and 'honor' al-Gore - the leader of the cult - his motives notwithstanding?

We report. You decide.

Irena Sendler for Nobel Peace Prize

Irena Sendler is a Polish heroine who risked her life to save lives of Jewish children from Gestapo and Nazi death camps during World War II.

In German-occupied Poland, a Pole assisting Jews would get a death sentence.

Irena worked as senior administrator in the Warsaw Social Welfare Department that ran the canteens of the city, when Germany invaded the country in 1939. The canteens not only provided food, financial aid and other services for orphans, elderly, and poor but also clothing, medicine and money for Jewish families. To avoid inspections, they were registered under fictitious Catholic names and they were reported as patients suffering highly contagious diseases such as typhus or tuberculosis.

In 1942, with the designation of a closed area to herd Jews, known as the Warsaw Ghetto, the Jewish families could only wait for a certain death. In October 1942, when the Council for Aid to Jews - codename Zegota - was organized by the Polish Underground, Sendler was one of its first recruits.

Irena managed to get a pass from the Warsaw Epidemic Control Department to be able to enter the ghetto legally. She and her co-conspirator, Irena Schultz, visited ghetto daily with the aim of reestablishing contacts, bringing food, medicines and clothes. However, given the terrible conditions in the Ghetto, where 5,000 people were dying a month from starvation and disease, the two decided to help people, particularly children, to get out of the Ghetto.

Persuading parents to separate from their children was a horrible task for Irena, a young mother herself. Finding families on the Christian - so called Aryan side - willing to shelter the children, and thereby willing to risk being executed if the Germans ever found out, was also not easy.

She started to smuggle children in an ambulance as victims of typhus, but also in gunnysacks, garbage cans, toolboxes, loads of goods, potato sacks, coffins. Other methods included a church with two entrances, one opened into the ghetto and the other opened into the Aryan side of Warsaw. Children entered the Church Jews and exited as Christians. Irena could recruit at least one person from each of the ten Centers of the Social Welfare Department. With their help, she issued hundreds of false documents with forged signatures, giving the Jewish children temporary identities.

It was easier to escape the ghetto than to survive the Aryan side. The rescue of a child required help of at least ten people.

As a rule, the children were first placed in a temporary shelter, then to a foster home after they had somewhat recovered from their period of destitution. There was also a need to wait for them to receive from the Polish Underground false identity papers that were good enough to pass German muster. Each child had to be provided with a factitious birth and baptismal certificate and a family history of parents, siblings, aunts and uncles, etc. which the children, if old enough, had to commit to memory. "I sent most of the children to religious establishments," she recalled. "I knew that I could count on the Sisters." Irena kept record, in coded form, of the children and their true identities.

The only record of their true identities was kept in jars buried beneath an apple tree in the neighbor’s back yard, across the street from the German barracks. She hoped she could someday locate the children and inform them of their past.

In all, the jars contained the names of 2,500 children...

On October 20, 1943 Sendler was arrested by the Gestapo. Although subjected to beatings and torture during which both of her feet and legs were broken, but not her spirit: she revealed nothing. Never again would she be able to walk without crutches. Irena spent three months in the Pawiak prison where she was sentenced to death.

She was rescued by Zegota which, fearful that she would break down and reveal the location of the children, managed to bribe a guard to check off her name on a list of those already executed. As a result, she was listed on public bulletin boards as among those on whom a sentence of death had been carried out.

Rescued, she had to assume a completely new identity and live an entirely new life. She could not visit her dying mother, nor attend her funeral. But she did again become deeply involved in the work of Zegota.

At the end of the war, Irena dug up the jars and used the notes to find the 2.500 children she had given to adoptive families. She reunited them with their relatives scattered across Europe, but most of them had lost their families in Nazi concentration camps.

After the war she worked for Social Welfare; she helped create houses for elderly people, orphanages and an emergency service for children.

In 1965 the Yad Vashem organization in Jerusalem awarded her with the title Righteous Among the Nations and in 1991 she was made an honorary citizen of Israel.

"If Sendler actually wins, this will be the first time a Nobel prize would have been awarded in connection to the Holocaust." (haaretz.com)

Via Polonia News
Also at abcnews.com

Klaus meets Winton who saved children from Nazis

Prague - Czech President Vaclav Klaus appreciated the heroic act of Briton Nicholas Winton who saved over 600 Czechoslovak children before World War Two during their meeting at Prague Castle, the presidential seat.

"You are not and will not be forgotten," Klaus told Winton at the begining of the meeting.

On this occasion, Klaus also recalled that his predecessor Vaclav Havel presented Winton with a high Czech state decoration, the Order of Tomas Garrigue Masaryk in 1998.

Winton, 98, who is on a one-week visit to the Czech Republic, met Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, students, diplomats from several countries as well as some of those whose lives he saved on Tuesday.

Schwarzenberg supported the initiative of Czech students who have collected more than 30,000 signatures under a petition for Winton being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the salvation of Jewish children.

Schwarzenberg has already written a letter to the Stockholm-based Nobel Prize committee in this respect.

Defence Minister Vlasta Parkanova presented Winton with the ministry's highest award, the defence cross of merit, 1st class, on Tuesday.

Winton saved 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia before the war when he organised train transports from Prague to Britain. He had to secure permits for the departure for all children from Germans and entry permits from British authorities and admission to British families.

The saved children have some 5000 ascendants.

Queen Elizabeth II promoted Winton to knighthood.

During his stay to the Czech Republic, Winton will also visit south Bohemia where Czech astronomers at the Klet observatory named an asteroid after him.

Via CeskeNoviny.cz
Also at Radio Praha.

Previously The Fix Is In: Goracle Likely to Get 'Peace' Prize

Another Worthy Nobel Candidate

Klaus meets Winton who saved children from Nazis

Prague - Czech President Vaclav Klaus appreciated the heroic act of Briton Nicholas Winton who saved over 600 Czechoslovak children before World War Two during their meeting at Prague Castle, the presidential seat.

"You are not and will not be forgotten," Klaus told Winton at the begining of the meeting.

On this occasion, Klaus also recalled that his predecessor Vaclav Havel presented Winton with a high Czech state decoration, the Order of Tomas Garrigue Masaryk in 1998.

Winton, 98, who is on a one-week visit to the Czech Republic, met Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, students, diplomats from several countries as well as some of those whose lives he saved on Tuesday.

Schwarzenberg supported the initiative of Czech students who have collected more than 30,000 signatures under a petition for Winton being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the salvation of Jewish children.

Schwarzenberg has already written a letter to the Stockholm-based Nobel Prize committee in this respect.

Defence Minister Vlasta Parkanova presented Winton with the ministry's highest award, the defence cross of merit, 1st class, on Tuesday.

Winton saved 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia before the war when he organised train transports from Prague to Britain. He had to secure permits for the departure for all children from Germans and entry permits from British authorities and admission to British families.

The saved children have some 5000 ascendants.

Queen Elizabeth II promoted Winton to knighthood.

During his stay to the Czech Republic, Winton will also visit south Bohemia where Czech astronomers at the Klet observatory named an asteroid after him.

Via CeskeNoviny.cz

Also at Radio Praha.

Previously Will The Nobel Go To A Heroine Or Huckster? and The Fix Is In: Goracle Likely to Get 'Peace' Prize

Photo/Hynek Moravec

The Fix Is In: Goracle Likely to Get 'Peace' Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize was rendered meaningless when terrorist Yasser Arafat was awarded it back in the 1990's, and it became an absolute joke when the blithering idiot Jimmy Carter "earned" it for enabling North Korea to go nuclear.

Now the pinheads on the committee appear ready to give it to gasbag Al Gore for his endless promulgation of propaganda.

As RadicalRon noted, there are far more deserving candidates, but why would the committee honor a Holocaust survivor when they can perpetuate the myth of global warming?

Former Vice President Al Gore and other campaigners against climate change lead experts' choices for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, an award once reserved for statesmen, peacemakers and human rights activists.

If a campaigner against global warming carries off the high world accolade later this month, it will accentuate a shift to reward work outside traditional peacekeeping and reinforce the link between peace and the environment.

The winner, who will take $1.5 million in prize money, will be announced in the Norwegian capital on October 12 from a field of 181 nominees.

Gore, who has raised awareness with his book and Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth", and Canadian Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier, who has shed light on how global warming affects Arctic peoples, were nominated to share the prize by two Norwegian parliamentarians.

"I think they are likely winners this year," said Stein Toennesson, director of Oslo's International Peace Research Institute (PRIO) and a long-time Nobel Peace Prize watcher.

"It will certainly be tempting to the (Nobel) committee to have two North Americans -- one the activist that personifies the struggle against climate change, raising awareness, and the other who represents some of the victims of climate change."

Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, agreed the award committee could establish the link between peace and the environment.

"I think the whole issue of climate change and the environment will come at some point and reflect in the prize," Egeland told reporters last week.


"There are already climate wars unfolding ... And the worst area for that is the Sahel belt in Africa."

There has been a shift to reward work away from the realm of conventional peacemaking and human rights work.

In 2004, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai won for her campaign to get women to plant trees across Africa. Last year's prize went to Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank for their efforts to lift millions out of poverty through a system of tiny loans.

Egeland, of course, is the idiot who suggested we talk to al Qaeda, is an anti-Semitic creep who loves Hamas, hates Israel, and called Americans stingy after we opened our wallets to support tsunami relief.

No doubt Gore would be happy to accept this "honor" from a schmuck like Egeland.

Still, there's a chance the blowhard may not get it, but it would still go to some U.N. hacks anyway.

Toennesson said by giving the award to those fighting climate change, the committee would thrust itself into the public debate ahead of a key U.N. climate conference in Bali, Indonesia, in December.

If Gore is seen as too political, the committee could opt instead for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) -- the scientists who advise the United Nations and produce key reports on the climate problem, Toennesson said.

Nothing like receiving awards for junk science.

Will The Nobel Go To A Heroine Or Huckster?

Irena Sendler is 97-years young.

During World War Two, she risked her life in an heroic effort to save Jewish kids from the German death factories. "She is the last surviving person from the group she worked with that ran an underground network to save these children ...."

On October 12, 2007, will the Nobel Committee honor a true heroine?

Or, will they play politics join the 'global warming' alarmists and honor al-Gore - the leader of the cult - his motives notwithstanding?

We report. You decide.

Irena Sendler for Nobel Peace Prize

Irena Sendler is a Polish heroine who risked her life to save lives of Jewish children from Gestapo and Nazi death camps during World War II.

In German-occupied Poland, a Pole assisting Jews would get a death sentence.

Irena worked as senior administrator in the Warsaw Social Welfare Department that ran the canteens of the city, when Germany invaded the country in 1939. The canteens not only provided food, financial aid and other services for orphans, elderly, and poor but also clothing, medicine and money for Jewish families. To avoid inspections, they were registered under fictitious Catholic names and they were reported as patients suffering highly contagious diseases such as typhus or tuberculosis.

In 1942, with the designation of a closed area to herd Jews, known as the Warsaw Ghetto, the Jewish families could only wait for a certain death. In October 1942, when the Council for Aid to Jews - codename Zegota - was organized by the Polish Underground, Sendler was one of its first recruits.

Irena managed to get a pass from the Warsaw Epidemic Control Department to be able to enter the ghetto legally. She and her co-conspirator, Irena Schultz, visited ghetto daily with the aim of reestablishing contacts, bringing food, medicines and clothes. However, given the terrible conditions in the Ghetto, where 5,000 people were dying a month from starvation and disease, the two decided to help people, particularly children, to get out of the Ghetto.

Persuading parents to separate from their children was a horrible task for Irena, a young mother herself. Finding families on the Christian - so called Aryan side - willing to shelter the children, and thereby willing to risk being executed if the Germans ever found out, was also not easy.

She started to smuggle children in an ambulance as victims of typhus, but also in gunnysacks, garbage cans, toolboxes, loads of goods, potato sacks, coffins. Other methods included a church with two entrances, one opened into the ghetto and the other opened into the Aryan side of Warsaw. Children entered the Church Jews and exited as Christians. Irena could recruit at least one person from each of the ten Centers of the Social Welfare Department. With their help, she issued hundreds of false documents with forged signatures, giving the Jewish children temporary identities.

It was easier to escape the ghetto than to survive the Aryan side. The rescue of a child required help of at least ten people.

As a rule, the children were first placed in a temporary shelter, then to a foster home after they had somewhat recovered from their period of destitution. There was also a need to wait for them to receive from the Polish Underground false identity papers that were good enough to pass German muster. Each child had to be provided with a factitious birth and baptismal certificate and a family history of parents, siblings, aunts and uncles, etc. which the children, if old enough, had to commit to memory. "I sent most of the children to religious establishments," she recalled. "I knew that I could count on the Sisters." Irena kept record, in coded form, of the children and their true identities.

The only record of their true identities was kept in jars buried beneath an apple tree in the neighbor’s back yard, across the street from the German barracks. She hoped she could someday locate the children and inform them of their past.

In all, the jars contained the names of 2,500 children...

On October 20, 1943 Sendler was arrested by the Gestapo. Although subjected to beatings and torture during which both of her feet and legs were broken, but not her spirit: she revealed nothing. Never again would she be able to walk without crutches. Irena spent three months in the Pawiak prison where she was sentenced to death.

She was rescued by Zegota which, fearful that she would break down and reveal the location of the children, managed to bribe a guard to check off her name on a list of those already executed. As a result, she was listed on public bulletin boards as among those on whom a sentence of death had been carried out.

Rescued, she had to assume a completely new identity and live an entirely new life. She could not visit her dying mother, nor attend her funeral. But she did again become deeply involved in the work of Zegota.

At the end of the war, Irena dug up the jars and used the notes to find the 2.500 children she had given to adoptive families. She reunited them with their relatives scattered across Europe, but most of them had lost their families in Nazi concentration camps.

After the war she worked for Social Welfare; she helped create houses for elderly people, orphanages and an emergency service for children.

In 1965 the Yad Vashem organization in Jerusalem awarded her with the title Righteous Among the Nations and in 1991 she was made an honorary citizen of Israel.

"If Sendler actually wins, this will be the first time a Nobel prize would have been awarded in connection to the Holocaust." (haaretz.com)

Via Polonia News

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