Vladimir Putin nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

[alp227]

Source: UK Independent

Vladimir Putin has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Despite Russia’s role as the main supplier of weapons to Bashar al-Assad’s regime, an advocacy group has put the president’s name forward because the former KGB agent “actively promotes settlement of all conflicts arising on the planet.”

The International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of Peoples of the World made no mention of Putin’s ruthless and violent campaign against the separatists in Chechnya or the war he waged on Georgia, but instead points to his efforts to prevent a US air strike on the Syrian regime following a chemical gas attack in August.

The activist group is on the list of those approved to make Nobel Peace Prize nominations and according to the vice president of the organisation, Beslan Kobakhiya, this letter of recommendation was received by the committee on 16 September, he announced on Tuesday.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/vladimir-putin-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize-8853349.html

[sakabatou]

1. *facepalm*

[awoke_in_2003]

3. Really makes you wonder...

at the value of the Peace Prize.

[sakabatou]

10. Yup

[irisblue]

2. wow.....just wow

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facepalm...but if he wins it.....

[SummerSnow]

4. O....kay

[mahannah]

5. Given the questionable list of recipients, this is no surprise.

[Cali_Democrat]

6. ROFL. What a joke.

[dipsydoodle]

7. Good - aside from which news is from yeserday.

Independent only just got round to posting it.

See original from yesterday morning here : http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131001/183881606/Public-Figures-Nominate-Putin-for-2014-Nobel-Peace-Prize.html

As an example of the lameness of that award :

11th September 1973 Kissenger was instrumental in removing the democratically elected President of Chile and three months later Kissenger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

[Art_from_Ark]

19. Actually, Kissinger got the award just a little more than one month

after the Chilean coup:

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1973/press.html

[William769]

8. Biggest fucking farce there is right now besides republicans holding Americans hostage.

Hey why not give them the Nobel Peace Prize also? They are just as deserving as Putin.

[Jack Rabbit]

9. Life imitates satire

We don't know how the dialectic between Obama and Putin over Syria really worked out, we're just glad it worked out. However, as the OP implies, there's Checnya and Georgia, and it doesn't even mention the laws against "gay propaganda", the jailing of rock artists, the rigging of elections or the murder of journalists.

This is like giving a broken clock an award for being right twice a day.

[totodeinhere]

11. If Kissinger can get it why not Putin? There is already a precedent for awarding the

prize to a war criminal.

[kjones]

12. Maybe it's hipsters passing out awards based on irony. nt

[tavernier]

14. Anyone can be nominated

Dubya was nominated one year if I remember correctly

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

15. Did the Family Research Council nominate him? nt

[blkmusclmachine]

16. Nobel ain't worth much anymore, no?

[Pterodactyl]

18. Nope. The peace prize is essentially meaningless for the past five years or so.

[Frank Cannon]

21. Longer than that.

See the posts above regarding Henry Kissinger, perhaps the first WTF recipient.

[Pterodactyl]

25. Yeah, and Arafat.

[karynnj]

17. He was recommended by an advocacy group

The International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of Peoples of the World . Yet half the posts react as if he got it.

[Behind the Aegis]

20. ....

[jessie04]

22. That has to be a joke..

[Arkana]

23. He won't win, but seeing his name in the running

is the most absurd thing I think I've ever heard since "President George W. Bush".

[Beacool]

24. Now I've heard it all.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

26. Alternative reality...

...strikes again!

[Posteritatis]

27. Meh. Anyone can nominate anyone. NPP nominations are complete non-stories. (nt)