Al Gore tipped to win Nobel

[kster]

Sarah Baxter
From The Sunday TimesOctober 7, 2007

THE environmental campaigner Al Gore is being tipped as a favourite to win the Nobel peace prize in Oslo this Friday in a controversial move that could place saving the planet above saving people from war and conflict.

Gore, a former American vice-president and failed presidential candidate, has reinvented himself as the “Goracle” with a rock star following after presenting last year’s Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, about the dangers of climate change.

He was nominated for the Nobel prize jointly with Sheila Watt-Cloutier, a Canadian Inuit activist who has campaigned about the effect of climate change on Arctic peoples.

“A prerequisite for winning the Nobel peace prize is making a difference and Al Gore has made a difference,” said Boerge Brende, a former Norwegian environment minister who nominated Gore and Watt-Cloutier

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2603982.ece

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Ok the times on line writer should rewrite this

global warming will lead to resource wars

Hence taking care of the environment will reduce conflict

[gateley]

2. It's just SO right that he should win. And in the big picture, bringing together

the people of the worlds to work together towards healing our planet could qualify as 'saving people from war and conflict'.

[JI7]

3. saving the environment and war/conflict are NOT unrelated

just look at Iraq and other problems in the middle east. how about Myanmar where nations like China refuse to get tough because they want access to the oil there.

[Guaranteed]

12. Global warming and those conflicts are the result of the same problem.

Lack of alternative energies.

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. Cool! Then draft him, so we can have a president with an Oscar, Emmy, and Nobel

:7

[minnesota_liberal]

5. Failed presidential candidate? 'Robbed' is more like it.

It's an OK article, but the writer chose simplicity over accuracy with regard to Gore's 2000 bid for president.

[kster]

7. Al Gore knows

"This is a time to respect every voter and every vote. This is a time to honor the true will of the people. So our goal must be what is right for America. There is a simple reason that Florida law and the law in many other states calls for a careful check by real people of the machine results in elections like this one. The reason? Machines can sometimes misread or fail to detect the way ballots are cast, and when there are serious doubts, checking the machine count with a careful hand count is accepted far and wide as the best way to know the true intentions of the voters".


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=469812&mesg_id=469812

[Cha]

8. Exactly, she phoned it in..

Nice work baxter. :sarcasm:

[LiberalFighter]

6. Someone should had nominated the idiot (bush) for saving the world from Saddam

[Tesha]

18. He was nominated. He's probably always been nominated since he stole the election. (NT)

[autorank]

9. K*R He deserves the prize and the presidency too K*R

[Bitwit1234]

10. After Gore was nominated a republicans spurred by limbaugh

did nominate bush for the Nobel Peace Prize, because any group can nominate anybody. And I am adding this....if we don't save the planet it won't matter if we have a war or not.

[Mike03]

11. That would be awesome

Almost too much to hope for. I hope this is not another jerkoff fantasy.

[RevCheesehead]

13. Saving the planet vs. saving people from war?

Can't we have both? :shrug:

If you have to prioritize, it's a no-brainer.

[Dora]

14. Goracle?

:rofl:

[Lugnut]

15. K&R n/t

[mogster]

16. I cross my fingers for Gore

:-)

[feminazi]

17. I just posted this is a separate thread...sorry, didn't see this one first.

Could this have something to do with the Nobel committee?

I just received the following email from Sen Boxer:


I just got a call from Vice President Al Gore. He told me that he needs to travel abroad tomorrow for an exciting and urgent mission that could result in a major breakthrough in the fight against global warming.

Unfortunately, this means that we must postpone our Thursday, October 11th event with him until Friday, November 9th. I wanted to be sure to email you tonight in case you were planning on attending.

While I am really disappointed that we won't see Al Gore until next month, I am thrilled that he is continuing to provide critical leadership to address one of the most pressing issues of our time. You should know that only the most urgent global warming mission has called him out of the country.

I look forward to seeing you on November 9th so we can all hear first-hand about Al Gore's latest exciting initiatives. We will be back in touch in the coming days with more details about the rescheduled event.

Thank you so much for your continued friendship and support!

[sarcasmo]

19. Run Al Run.

[eileen fleming]

20. 21 Times Nominated: 0 Win's

For the last 21 years Mordechai Vanunu, the whistle blower of Israel's WMD Program has been nominated for the Nobel.

Bishop Desmond Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his courageous and fearless opposition against the South African apartheid system.

This year, Bishop Tutu nominated Mordechai Vanunu for the Nobel.

Recently a peace and justice group at St. Thomas University in St. Paul, Minnesota had been forced by the university president to cancel an appearance by Archbishop Desmond Tutu after consulting one representative from the local Jewish Community Relations Council and several rabbis affiliated with the university due to the erroneous charge of Tutu's "anti-Semitism" based entirely on a propaganda campaign waged by the extremist group, the Zionist Organization of America. Tutu has never displayed anything other than deep concern for all peoples and his sympathy for Palestinians suffering under the yoke of occupation.

Yesterday the University changed its mind and re-invited Tutu after receiving over 2,700 emails from concerned citizens for freedom of speech!


On April 30, 2007, in Jerusalem, Vanunu was convicted on 14 counts of violating a court order which denied his right to speak to foreign journalists in 2004 after his release from 18 years in jail for telling the world the truth that Israel was already nuclear in 1986. Vanunu was also convicted for traveling the few miles from Jerusalem to Bethlehem when he hoped to attend Christmas Eve mass at the Church of the Nativity, his first Christmas after being released from 18 years in jail on April 21, 2004.

His appeal against a six month sentence in jail begins November 13, 2007.

Has anyone heard a word about it from the USA LSM/limp stream media?

During my conversation with Vanunu in 2006, which became "30 Minutes with Vanunu" and is freely streaming on WAWA, he stated,

"Not only is the West Bank occupied, so is the American media."


Eileen Fleming,
Reporter and Editor WAWA:
http://www.wearewideawake.org/

Author "Keep Hope Alive" and "Memoirs of a Nice Irish American Girl's' Life in Occupied Territory"

Producer "30 Minutes With Vanunu."

[tex-wyo-dem]

21. I will reiterate what others have said up-thread...

Saving the environment is the same as "saving people from war and conflict." It is quite likely that global warming and other forms of environmental destruction will lead to resource wars as well as mass migration and starvation, which will also lead to conflict.