1. Piece Prize?
“Obama’s Nobel Prize Stuns War Victims
The Afghan man is puzzled how Obama was chosen to the Nobel Prize, even though he ordered more troops to the war-torn country.
“The number of US Army [troops] has increased here, the number of terrorist attacks increased here,” he said.
He said that the extra US troops Obama has ordered are adding more fuel to the raging conflict.
“I’m kind of confused whether that Nobel Award [is] for all those things.”
Obama has recently sent more than 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan and is mulling requests for thousands more.
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Of course Mr Obama deserves the peace prize. He is a man of peace – a bigger piece of Irag, a huge piece of Afghanistan, a little piece of Pakistan and he is willing to spread the peace also – another piece of West Bank for Israel etc etc.
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Cyril Almeida, the assistant editor of Dawn, a leading English daily, says that the decision is likely to fuel cynicism, even among moderates. “The real point is that when somebody is given a Nobel Peace Prize, you shouldn’t have to think hard about why they have it,” he says. “It should be obvious. This decision will be met at the least by a collective scratching of heads, if not genuine disbelief.”
2. “Israel’s Nobel prize winner urges release of all Palestinian prisoners
Israel should release all Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails regardless of whether it would be part of a deal to secure the release of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, Israel’s Nobel Prize winner Ada Yonath said on Saturday.
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Keeping Palestinians in jail for extended periods of time would not help Israeli security, but rather exacerbate the threats, said Yonath.”
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/10/content_12208694.htm
3. “Simon Johnson confirmed what William K. Black has said about fraud by the financial sector, booms and busts.
In other words, the companies intentionally make loans to people who will not be able to repay them, because – during an expanding bubble phase – they’ll make huge sums of money. The top executives of these companies will make massive salaries and bonuses during the bubble (enough to live like kings even even if the companies go belly up after the bubble phase).
Johnson confirmed that a high housing default rate was part of the banks’ models. The financial giants knew they would make huge sums during the boom, and then transfer their losses to the American people during the bust.
Johnson and Moyers also pointed out that the American people are still paying off the S&L bailouts. Specifically, the last payment of the $140 billion dollar bailout will be made in 2013.”
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/10/simon-johnson-confirms-william-k-blacks.html
4. Now we know why Obama got the Peace Prize:
“This is a war against the truth. When war becomes peace, the world is turned upside down. Conceptualization is no longer possible. An inquisitorial social system emerges.
An understanding of fundamental social and political events is replaced by a World of sheer fantasy, where “evil folks” are lurking. The objective of the “Global War on Terrorism” which has been fully endorsed by Obama administration has been to galvanize public support for a Worldwide campaign against heresy.
In the eyes of public opinion, possessing a “just cause” for waging war is central. A war is said to be Just if it is waged on moral, religious or ethical grounds. The consensus is to wage war. People can longer think for themselves. They accept the authority and wisdom of the established social order.
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The granting of the Nobel “peace prize” to president Barack Obama has become an integral part of the Pentagon’s propaganda machine. It provides a human face to the invaders, it upholds the demonization of those who oppose US military intervention.
The decision to grant Obama the Nobel Peace Prize was no doubt carefully negotiated with the Norwegian Committee at the highest levels of the US government. It has far reaching implications.
It unequivocally upholds the US led war as a “Just Cause”. It erases the war crimes committed both by the Bush and Obama administrations.”
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The ultimate objective is to subdue the citizens, totally depoliticize social life in America, prevent people from thinking and conceptualizing, from analyzing facts and challenging the legitimacy of the US NATO led war.
War becomes peace, a worthwhile “humanitarian undertaking”, Peaceful dissent becomes heresy.”
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15622
5. “The book — Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics — examines newly available empirical evidence to contend that America’s political culture is more stratified than ever before. It makes the case that higher levels of authoritarian behavior — such as all-consuming tribalistic loyalties and rage over group blasphemy (i.e., criticism of the group and its leaders from within or without) — is the primary culprit, particularly (though not exclusively) among right-wing movements. “
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/
6. Be wary of MITRE:
“Who’s In Big Brother’s Database?
Just how much information will be stored in these windowless cybertemples? A clue comes from a recent report prepared by the MITRE Corporation, a Pentagon think tank. “As the sensors associated with the various surveillance missions improve,” says the report, referring to a variety of technical collection methods, “the data volumes are increasing with a projection that sensor data volume could potentially increase to the level of Yottabytes (1024 Bytes) by 2015.”[1] Roughly equal to about a septillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text, numbers beyond Yottabytes haven’t yet been named. Once vacuumed up and stored in these near-infinite “libraries,” the data are then analyzed by powerful infoweapons, supercomputers running complex algorithmic programs, to determine who among us may be—or may one day become—a terrorist. In the NSA’s world of automated surveillance on steroids, every bit has a history and every keystroke tells a story.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23694.htm
