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 Liu’s Peace Prize Goes to an Empty ChairPosted on Dec 10, 2010
Liu Xiaobo’s empty chair spoke volumes at Friday’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo. The Chinese dissident is serving out an 11-year prison term in his homeland, and no family members were permitted to travel to accept his award—the first peace laureate not formally represented in 75 years. —JCL
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By curmudgeon in chief, December 11, 2010 at 2:28 pm Link to this comment
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Well, Obama’s peace prize considerably cheapens this one. And the next, and the
next, and the next. That said, deserving awardees such as Rigoberta Menchú and
now Liu Xiaobo are beacons in a pea fog of quite sardonic politicking over there in
Norwegianland. Assange is most definitely deserving, as is Manning and any other
soldier who has bucked the war machine to bring light upon the festering evil
pesthe that has been the ridiculous *ridiculous* war on “terrizm.”
Until the Peace Prize is NEVER awarded to warmongers such as KISSINGER, and
Report thisnow Obama, the peace prize is severely tainted.
By Leo, December 11, 2010 at 3:22 am Link to this comment
I am nominating Julien Assange and Bradley Manning for the Nobel peace price for
Report this2011. And let’s not forget the antiwar protesters who had their doors kicked in by
the FBI in the middle of the night, or was it early in the morning?
By gerard, December 10, 2010 at 5:56 pm Link to this comment
Before we get all lathered up here, we had better make the odious comparison between China and the U.S. as to “freedom of speech” and such efforts to obtain and keep the rights of citizens vis a vis the persecution of overpowering governments. There Liu Xiaobo, and there’s Julian Assange and Bradley Manning.
Report thisBy fearnotruth, December 10, 2010 at 2:50 pm Link to this comment
another point of view: http://tinyurl.com/28xpd8j
Report thisThe Geopolitical Agenda behind the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize
By F. William Engdahl, October 2010
With almost flawless political timing, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee of the
Norwegian Parliament announced the giving of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to
Chinese critic, political activist Liu Xiaobo. The announcement came just as US
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geither was upping the pressure on the
government of China to agree to a substantial revaluation of the Yuan, a move
that would do little for the embattled dollar but cause great harm to China’s
economy. The Nobel Prize theater is part of an escalating long-term pressure
strategy of Washington against China.