'AL GORE WINS THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE'

Bush: 'Ahh …why all the commotion? I win

the War Prize every year …

                                                                   [O Dia, Brazil]

Las Jornada, Mexico

Prize for Al Gore Greatly

Discredits Nobel Committee

"This isn't the first time that warmongering people have received the highest 'NATO-centric' prize for pacifism."

By Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Translated By Douglas Myles Rasmussen

October 14, 2007

Mexico - La Jornada - Original Article (Spanish)

The immeasurably sage Confucius used to say that one of a characteristics of decay is semantic confusion. The Norwegian Committee has reached such a semantic impasse (truly a conceptual aporia) by jointly awarding the Nobel Price for “Peace” (sic!) to the exalted Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - a pleasantly laudable act - and the hyper-bellicose and super-polluting Albert Arnold Gore Jr., which is highly disturbing and calls into question the awarding nation (Norway, a member of NATO) its awards (not infrequently denied to developing nations and concealing a hidden agenda), and the controversial laureates that they pull from their sleeves.

This isn't the first time that warmongering people have received the highest “NATO-centric” prize for pacifism. It was also awarded to the genocidal Henry Kissinger, former [Israeli] terrorist Menachem Begin, the father of Israel's atomic bomb Shimon Peres and even Palestinian Yasser Arafat, who the misleading “Western” media insulted as a “terrorist,” etc.

The issue of “climate change” is transcendental, but the person selected in this case has not - as he should be - as pristine in his soul as is the agenda that he seeks to defend on behalf of the human race. It would have been better to have chosen the U.N. Panel on Climate Change exclusively and not to have contaminated the prize with Al Gore. 

Not counting his blessing of the 1991 war against Iraq, and beyond his disturbing dark side that deserves special treatment - he's the instigator of the nefarious NAFTA, which has done nothing to improve the Mexican borderlands; His links to the “Russian Mafia” and former Soviet Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin [see below]; his racist dispute with Islamic Asian countries to the benefit of speculator George Soros against Mahathir Mohamed, the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, etc. It's worth remembering that as the 45th Vice President of the United States, the pompous and fundamentalist “born again Christian” Al Gore participated in several wars that were hardly free of pollution, first among them NATO's war against Serbia, where his army scattered several tons of depleted uranium generously, according to the BBC (May 7, 1999) and the excellent Web site Common Dreams (January 31, 2001 ).   

[Editor's Note: In June 1995, Gore reached a confidential deal with Russian prime minister Viktor S. Chernomyrdin to exempt Russia from sanctions for selling weapons to Iran in exchange, for Moscow's pledge that it would end all deliveries of sophisticated conventional arms to Tehran by Dec. 31, 1999].

Perhaps the Norwegian Committee has ignored this, but nothing is more deliberately polluting than war, to say nothing of “depleted uranium.” This simple act disqualifies both the awarding Committee and the recipient of the prize, who collaborated at the highest levels on the environmental and medical calamities that will confront the Balkans for hundreds of years to come. What a serious contradiction and hypocrisy on the part of the Norwegian Parliament!

Giving the Nobel “Peace” Prize to Al Gore is tantamount to awarding the “Human Rights Award” to the ethnocidal neo-liberal monetarist Zedillo (whom Israeli-Anglo Saxon bankers shelter in the “Center for Globalization” at Yale university, and God only knows what he does and publishes there), for his feats in Acteal and Aguas Blancas, which the Anglo-Saxon media Pharisees obscure while they exaggerate Myanmar's saffron revolution, in both cases to capture foreign oil.

[Editor's Note: Acteal and Aguas Blancas were massacres involving top officers of Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo's cabinet in 1995 and 1997. No one was ever indicted].

Giving Gore the award has provoked intense controversy. The readers’ corner of the Daily Telegraph (October 12, 2007) asked if Al Gore “deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.” This isn't just an issue for vulgar pollsters: a warmongering man cannot under any circumstances deserve that prize. He is digging his own grave because we citizens of the planet will reject him whenever he stands to collect juicy fees (he has just raised $170,000 in a country as miserably poor as Mexico, the world’s eleventh largest polluter).

The Times (October 13, 2007) considers that awarding Al Gore “raised many eyebrows” and “is a reprimand to Bush” for the electoral fraud in Florida and his conduct of environmental depredation in his capacity as the Kyoto Protocol's gravedigger. 

It is a serious error in judgment for the Norwegian Parliament to abandon its universal calling and engage in degrading vengeance and village quarrels when it comes to giving the highest pacifist prize, which is now in danger of dying. 

There is little difference between the “Republican” Baby Bush and “Democrat” Al Gore, where the latter shared the reins of power for eight years in the White House and it went unnoticed that his nation, the number one polluter in the world, should reduce its indecent levels of domestic pollution. 

To balance the biased “NATO-centric” awards of the Norwegian Parliament, it will be imperative that the Shanghai Group [Shanghai Cooperation Organization? ] grant alternate prizes to compete creatively for world public opinion, rather than depend exclusively on the politically contaminated Nobel “Peace” Prize, the most relevant of all, which was born under the sign of dynamite and seems discredited under the weight of its own internal demolition 106 years later.

Meanwhile the Nobel “Peace” Prize, rather than creating valuable universal recognition, has become like a stigma - like an albatross around a sailor's neck. The developing countries on the periphery must create a multilateral counter-offensive and launch an alternate prize that might be called the Prize for Dialogue Between Civilizations - similar to the Avicena  and Samarkand Prizes, to demonstrate their scientific, humanist and bioethical excellence - and which would run the gamut of awards that the two Scandinavian countries (the Nobel “Peace” Prize by the Norwegian Parliament, and the remaining prizes awarded by Sweden).

The selection of these new prizes should include the participation of the Parliaments and “people power” of the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and other emerging powers (Iran, Venezuela, Malaysia, South Africa, etc., but no more than 10) that reflect the plurality and biodiversity of all living species in creation and, above all, express their inalienable proclivity to “create dialogue between civilizations.” Specific awards for “Environmental Preservation” - which could be baptized the Vernadsky Biosphere Aware in homage to the 20th century Ukrainian geochemical genius , as well as other awards for “human rights,” “building democracy” and “fighting poverty,” which should all be added to the already well-known prizes.

Even that would double the financial sums offered to encourage the world's scientists and humanists on the periphery of “Euro-NATO-centrism” - including those who participate in the still of the multimedia night - to enhance the greatness and prosperity of their nations. 

The world is broader, richer and more civilized than NATO, which has imposed its global agenda through its spurious prizes, especially when it comes to contaminating and mining “peace,” which it hypocritically applies to its environment in a flagrant, warlike ultra-predatory unilateralism, culminating in the unhappy selection of Al Gore: one of the worst warmongers and super-polluters on the planet. 

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