[Peace-discuss] the Peace Prize goes to whom?

[Stuart Levy]

At the recent Syria teach-in on campus, I think it was the international 
law person who quoted John Kerry: 'You wouldn't believe how precise our 
surgical strikes can be.'   "That's right," she said, "I don't believe it."

Rohn, thanks for the https://vimeo.com/70783945 link.   It's grim 
listening to a drone drone on about suffering.

On 10/12/13 2:28 AM, "E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森" wrote:
> Is Surgical Precision an oxymoron?
>
> Measure it with a Micrometer.
>
> Mark it with Chalk.
>
> Cut it with an Ax.
>
>
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> On 10/12/13 12:07, Karen Medina wrote:
>> Thanks. I love how it strikes the oxymoron with surgical precision.
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Rohn Koester<rohnkoester at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> Thanks, Karen -- I agree with you.
>>>
>>> Speaking of U.S. exceptionalism, just came across this sound design
>>> experiment:
>>>
>>> https://vimeo.com/70783945
>>>
>>> It's Obama's 2009 Nobel Peace Prize speech, re-voiced through the 
>>> engine
>>> noise of MQ-1 and MQ-9 Predator Drones. (The sound mutates by 
>>> degrees as it
>>> goes along.)
>>>
>>> rk
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Karen Medina<kmedina67 at gmail.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>>> The Nobel PEACE PRIZE goes to OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition
>>>> of Chemical Weapons), and I disagree with the Nobel Committee yet
>>>> again!
>>>>
>>>> In my opinion, the prize would be better administrated if it were to
>>>> go to the people who wrote the treaty about chemical weapons: the
>>>> "Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production,
>>>> Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction"
>>>> rather than the enforcers of the treaty.
>>>>
>>>> There were so many better nominees! people who save lives, people who
>>>> speak for the silenced and against the power that silences.
>>>>
>>>> I kind of think that the OPCW does not change whether people die but
>>>> how they die. And they don't challenge the United States' use of
>>>> chemical weapons. It seems they enforce the treaty when the US wants
>>>> it enforced.
>>>>
>>>> Hey, if they wanted to award the prize to people who sacrifice their
>>>> lives for the good of the world, then give the prize to the people who
>>>> worked to control the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster!
>>>>
>>>> -karen medina
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> -- karen medina
>>>> "The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - 
>>>> Mark
>>>> Twain
>>>>
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