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House Republicans nominate Donald Trump for Nobel peace prize
Eighteen lawmakers write to Nobel committee to say president should receive 2019 prize ‘in recognition of his work to end the Korean war’ Ben Jacobs in Washington @Bencjacobs Wed 2 May 2018 16.23 EDT Last modified on Wed 2 May 2018 19.03 EDT In a letter spearheaded by the Indiana Republican Luke Messer and sent to the Norwegian Nobel committee, the lawmakers claim that Trump should “receive the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his work to end the Korean War, denuclearize the Korean peninsula and bring peace to the region”. The rules for a Nobel prize nomination are relatively loose. Nominations can only be made by people who belong to a handful of categories, including members of a national legislation body, university professors and former winners of the prize – but there are no other restrictions. In 2018, there were 330 nominees to win the award, which will be announced in December. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons was the 2017 winner. The Nobel committee operates under aegis of the government of Norway, but a 2009 justice department memo says the prize and accompanying $1.4m award does not qualify as a “emolument” from a foreign power, as the committee is independent from the government. Trump has previously faced criticism over foreign government spending at his hotels, which scholars have argued is an emolument. The Trump Organization has said that it has given all profits from foreign governments to the US treasury. Although the letter copiously praises Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign and says there is “no one more deserving of the Committee’s recognition in 2019 than President Trump for his tireless work to bring peace to our world”, there may be political motivations at play as well. Messer, a three-term incumbent from south-eastern Indiana, is in a ferocious three-way primary next week for the Republican nomination for the US Senate. One of the main bones of contention between him and his two main opponents, the congressman Todd Rokita and the businessman Mike Braun, is over which candidate is most dedicated to supporting Trump. The winner faces the Democratic incumbent, Joe Donnelly, in a state that Trump won by 19 points in 2016. Four other Republican Senate hopefuls have signed the letter. Neither Kevin Cramer of North Dakota nor Marsha Blackburn faces competitive primaries in their fight to win competitive Senate seats in red states, but two others do. Evan Jenkins of West Virginia signed the letter, as did Jim Renacci of Ohio. Both face competitive primaries next week in state won by Trump with incumbent Democrats. Other signatories include Mark Meadows of North Carolina, who leads the hard-right Freedom Caucus, and Steve King of Iowa, who has long praised far-right anti-immigration figures in European politics, such as Geert Wilders. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...el-peace-prize
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How strange does it feel to be witness to this type of thing? I mean, other fascist dictators (Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Rudolf Hess ) were nominated for The Nobel Peace Prize, but none of them ever received that prize, thank goodness. Your news article Anya reminds me of back in 2007, the rise of neo-nazi activities in Germany. In fact I found an article online by German news media giant, Spiegel OnLine, which talked about the leader of the far-right National Democratic Party (NDP) being charged with inciting race hate because he nominated Rudolph Hess. Very scary times, for people in Germany. Here's what happened back then (thankfully Hess was never given the Nobel Peace Prize): LINK: http://m.spiegel.de/international/ge...-a-501910.html Thanks for posting that article Anya! |
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By Brian Ries, Veronica Rocha and Meg Wagner, CNN Updated less than 1 min ago 3:12 p.m. ET, May 18, 2018 >> What happened: Ten people were killed and 10 others wounded in a shooting Friday morning at a high school in the southeastern Texas city of Santa Fe. >> The aftermath: Authorities later found explosive devices -- including pipe bombs and pressure cookers -- in and near the school, law enforcement officials said. >> The suspect: Dimitrios Pagourtzis is suspected of conducting the shooting today at a Texas high school. He is in custody. Texas mayor slams Congress: "Spare us your thoughts and prayers and do your job" The Democratic mayor of Dallas has strong words in the wake of the shooting at a high school outside Houston. In it, Mayor Mike Rawlings called on members of Congress to take “substantive action” to stop mass shootings and said “history will not look kindly upon those elected officials who failed to act in the face of repeated mass murders of our children.” He added: “Spare us your thoughts and prayers and do your job.” https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/san...ing/index.html
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Thank you Anya for posting this. If anyone is interested in writing the Nobel peace prize committee regarding the nomination of Trump...
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It has been interesting because i listen to the local top 40 station in my office and the morning show jocks sounded like they were getting radicalized live and on the air as events unfolded. "Something has to be done! This cannot go on!" I was sitting here thinking "i wonder how Texas will react now that it is happening to US" and then i realized the Sutherland Springs Church shooting killed 26 people and only happened six months ago and i hadn't thought about it at all since that week. There was a student they were interviewing on TV and her attitude was just like "well, it can happen anywhere" and she was grieving but she was not outraged or furious or indignant. That was hard to watch. I was crying in the bathroom bc the staff member who brings me my mail every morning has kids at that school. You always feel for the parents who have to wait in agony to hear if their kids are alive, but when it's someone you see every day going through it...
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I don't think knight was suggesting you support the nomination.
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I didn't think I would have to say that I was kidding, too. I don't generally "fuss or fume" at anyone's post. Yours bothered me here.
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I honestly thought I'd come across an April Fool's posting when I saw that about Trump and Nobel Peace Prize, just now (I'd been blissfully unaware of it previously). I very much doubt the Nobel committee would be stupid enough to consider such a nomination for a moment. Trump, like Putin, is so clearly a force for making the world a more dangerous and violent place, rather than a more peaceful one.
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Texan football player, our beloved J.J. Watt, will be paying for all the victims of yesterday's shooting. He continues to be the best person one can be.
I'm in awe of his concern of his community.
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NYT Senior Editor & Journalist Dana Canedy is Pulitzer Prize Admin.
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Last summer, in August, Dana Canedy was the first woman, the youngest too, and the first person of color, to be chosen as Administrator of Pulitzer Prizes. Canedy's husband was killed in the Iraq war. Her husband's war time journal for their only son is being turned into an true story film by Sony. Sony hired Virgil Williams (author/writer of Mudbound fame) to write an adaptation of the journal and Denzel Washington is directing and producing this film. Wikipedia gives bare essential details of Dana Canedy, but I'd say that she's an Marcel Proust scholar based on her statement that "out of her grief over losing her husband Charles, she needed to do something productive" (source: Wikipedia; see link below). LINK to facts about Dana Canedy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Canedy?wprov=sfla1 ETA: Canedy has stated that the next PP awarded will hopefully go to an nominee based on excellence of Journalism. |
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Weinstein has been charged with rape
Harvey Weinstein turned himself in to New York City detectives and appeared in court today on charges that he raped one woman and forced another to perform oral sex, a watershed in a month's long sex crimes investigation and in the #MeToo movement.
He has posted $1 million bail, and will be wearing one of those monitoring devices. He is still under investigation for other crimes, elsewhere! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! |
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Wasn't it good to see Weinstein in handcuffs? And the books he took with him into the police station didn't go with him when the police transported him to court. It's not a doctor's office visit, Harvey!
In general, I hate seeing people in cuffs even when they deserve it. It's just so sad. But I didn't feel that way this time. I started humming, "Oh Happy Day." Perhaps a little blasphemous, but it suited my mood. Now, the day I watch Trump in handcuffs, I will proclaim my joy from the rooftops. Mr. Mueller, please, PLEASE . . . .
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Religious bias? Say goodbye to separation of church and state. This is only the beginning.
Supreme Court rules narrowly for baker who refused to make cake for same-sex couple
By DAVID G. SAVAGE JUN 04, 2018 | WASHINGTON The Supreme Court ruled narrowly Monday for a Christian baker who refused to make a same-sex wedding cake, deciding that he was a victim of religious bias on the part of the state’s civil rights commission. But the 7-2 ruling, written by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, made no judgment over whether the baker had a religious-freedom right to refuse service to the same-sex couple, and it stressed the importance of maintaining equal rights for gays and lesbians. “The exercise of their freedoms on terms equal to others must be given great weight and respect by the courts,” wrote Kennedy, who has penned several decisions upholding the rights of gays and lesbians. He cautioned that law does “not allow business owners and other actors in the economy and in society to deny protected persons equal access to goods and services under a neutral and generally applicable public accommodations law.” http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-n...604-story.html
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Miss America is scrapping its swimsuit competition, will no longer judge based on physical appearance
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Miss America is scrapping its swimsuit competition and will no longer judge contestants based on physical appearance, the organization announced Tuesday. "We are no longer a pageant," Gretchen Carlson, the first former Miss America to be named chair of the Board of Trustees of the Miss America Organization, said on "GMA." "We are a competition.” In place of the swimsuit portion of the competition, Miss America contestants will now take part in a live interactive session with the judges, according to the organization. The 2018 Miss America Competition at Atlantic City's Boardwalk Hall, Sept. 10, 2017, in New Jersey. The contestants from all 50 states and the District of Columbia will be asked to demonstrate their passion, intelligence and overall understanding of the job of Miss America. The organization is also getting rid of the evening gown portion of the competition and instead asking contestants to wear attire that makes them feel confident, expresses their personal style and shows how they hope to advance the role of Miss America. "We’ve heard from a lot of young women who say, ‘We’d love to be a part of your program but we don’t want to be out there in high heels and a swimsuit,’ so guess what, you don’t have to do that anymore," Carlson said. "Who doesn’t want to be empowered, learn leadership skills and pay for college and be able to show the world who you are as a person from the inside of your soul." She continued, "That’s what we’re judging them on now." In addition to being crowned Miss America in 1989, Carlson has more recently been an outspoken advocate for victims of sexual harassment and a champion of the #MeToo movement. In 2016, she settled a lawsuit against former Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes, who stepped down from his role after mounting pressure from additional employees with similar accusations. "I could have never expected what would happen when I sued my former employer at Fox News for sexual harassment 22 months ago, but look what has happened," she said. "Thousands of women have been inspired to know that they can stand up and speak up and their voices will be heard." Carlson added, "If I’ve been a beacon of hope to any woman in that process, it has been worth it." The sweeping changes to Miss America aim to help the organization be more inclusive and empowering for all women. Carlson also said that she hopes the revamped competition will resonate more with young people. "We are now open, inclusive and transparent and I want to inspire thousands of young people across this country to come and be a part of our program," she said. "We want you and we want to celebrate your accomplishments and your talents and then we want to hand you scholarships." The Miss America organization courted controversy earlier this year when internal emails were released from the group's former CEO Sam Haskell. In the leaked emails, Haskell, who later resigned, and others were insulting the appearance, intellect and personal lives of former pageant winners, including Carlson. Carlson is now part of an all-female leadership team at Miss America. "This is a new beginning and change can sometimes be difficult but I know a lot about change," she said. "My life has worked in mysterious ways. I never thought I’d be the chairwoman of the Miss America Organization, but here I am and we’re moving it forward and we’re evolving in this cultural revolution." The 2019 Miss America Competition airs live on ABC on Sunday, Sept. 9, at 9 p.m. EST. |
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