Basil Venitis reminds us that in 1926, Johannes Fibiger won a Nobel Prize in medicine for his pseudodiscovery that worms cause cancer! Only stupid people could ever believe that nonsense! In 2007, scaremonger Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize in peace, for convincing hoi polloi that climate changes are due to human activity, even though they are entirely due to Sun cycles. The Nobel committees frequently make such amusing blunders, endorsing ideas that are useless, incorrect, socialistic, stupid, and dangerous.
Venitis points out the decision to award the 2009 year’s Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama was greeted around the world with varying degrees of surprise, disapproval, annoyance, and jokes. Awarding Obama the Nobel Prize now is like giving a medal to a marathon runner who has just managed the first few kilometers. It did not pay tribute to concrete results, but to fruitless diplomatic efforts. The Nobel Committee adds insult to injury by treating all Earthians as those gullible people who listened to The War of the Worlds radio broadcast in 1938 and thought Martians really were attacking the United States! The announcement date every year for Nobel Prizes must be moved to April 1!
Cogressman Ron Paul, the wisest politician on Earth, reacted as follows to the Nobel fiasco:
* Ron Paul wasn’t totally shocked that it happened
* the prize represents not peace, but internationalism, world government and a UN/NATO-type approach to global affairs
* Obama’s tone is better, but he isn’t pro-peace
* Obama totally neutralized the anti-war left, which is very sad
* the same happens when conservatives are elected: they promise less government, but give us more, and there is no resistance from the conservative base
* the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will continue, the front of the war will be Pakistan
* did they believe that giving Obama the peace prize would promote peace? Comparison to Woodrow Wilson… no credibility…
* to promote peace, we have to build a coalition of constitutional conservatives, libertarians, and the anti-war left
* we have to stand up for what is right and not be so narrow-minded in our partisanship.
The Nobel Committee always tries to promote the United Nations. Basil Venitis asserts that the United Nations(UN), aka Universal Nudnik, is a very corrupt organization, headed by the Secretary General, aka Civil Pope. Allons enfants de la Patrie! The Oil-for-Food Program was established by the Unversal Nudnik Security Council in 1995 and began operation at the end of 1996. The Program was intended to allow Iraq to sell oil to pay for food, medicine and other humanitarian needs of Iraqi citizens, in order to ease the impact of Unversal Nudnik sanctions. Some 3.4 billion barrels of Iraqi oil valued at about $65 billion were exported under the Program between December 1996 and March 2003.
Venitis points out there was an Independent Inquiry into the Universal Nudnik Oil-for-Food Program. 3,000 companies from 70 countries paid bribes totalling about two billion dollars in exchange for contracts for delivery of goods to meet humanitarian needs. There were another 150 companies from 40 countries that reportedly paid illicit surcharges on oil purchases from Iraq. Civil Pope Kofi Anan, a Nobel winner, himself got kickbacks!
Venitis notes that Ban Ki-moon, the former South Korean foreign minister, has been Universal Nudnik secretary general, aka Civil Pope, for the past three years. At Turtle Bay and elsewhere, the Civil Pope is seen as a disappointment, and as the wrong man to assume a prominent role and lead the global community at a time when the world’s political axis is shifting from America to Europe. Ban is more secretary than general. Many global organizations suffer from the fact that they are run by uncharismatic bureaucrats. In most cases, this is the fault of the kleptocrats who prefer to elevate weak figures, who won’t meddle too much.
The Universal Nudnik is only as relevant as the member states wish it to be. In areas of common concern, the desire to cooperate and compromise may temporarily trump concerns over protecting state sovereignty and preserving freedom of action to deal with urgent security threats. In most cases, however, we can expect the member states, with the United States in the lead, to pursue policies that they believe (not always correctly, as we learned in Iraq) will advance their security. And if the Universal Nudnik weakly sanctions such actions after the fact, or refuses to do so, that will only reveal its irrelevance.