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

[Rohn Koester]

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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