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

[Karen Medina]

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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-- karen medina
"The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain