Canada

arikara

(5,562 posts) Sun Oct 25, 2015, 11:57 PM Oct 2015

This is not even a joke. Harper... OMFG

I don't know whether to laugh or barf
maybe both.

Canada's PM to be Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

B’nai Brith Canada to nominate Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a staunch Israel supporter, for the Nobel Peace prize.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/184621

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This is not even a joke. Harper... OMFG (Original Post) arikara Oct 2015 OP

Doesn't mean 2naSalit Oct 2015 #1

I know arikara Oct 2015 #2

It does have 2naSalit Oct 2015 #3

Except that it can't... TreasonousBastard Oct 2015 #4

The Nobel Peace prize was awarded to Henry Kissinger. delrem Oct 2015 #5

Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize - then bombed SEVEN different countries!!! (eom) RedSock Nov 2015 #6

2naSalit

(93,569 posts)

1. Doesn't mean

Reply to arikara (Original post)

Mon Oct 26, 2015, 12:09 AM

Oct 2015

he'll be selected.

arikara

(5,562 posts)

2. I know

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 26, 2015, 12:27 AM

Oct 2015

I seem to remember Bush getting nominated too. It's just so bizarre to have our most chicken hawk PM ever get one.

2naSalit

(93,569 posts)

3. It does have

Reply to arikara (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 26, 2015, 12:29 AM

Oct 2015

a rather unsettling effect, I'll give you that.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)

4. Except that it can't...

Reply to arikara (Original post)

Mon Oct 26, 2015, 12:57 AM

Oct 2015

Anyone can throw a name out, and many often do, but actual nominees (there are 278 this year) are kept secret for 50 years. Except for the winner, of course.

Actual nominees, according to the Nobel Foundation, must come from these sources:

http://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/

Qualified Nominators

According to the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, a nomination is considered valid if it is submitted by a person who falls within one of the following categories:

• Members of national assemblies and governments of states
• Members of international courts
• University rectors; professors of social sciences, history, philosophy, law and theology; directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institutes
• Persons who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
• Board members of organizations that have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
• Active and former members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee; (proposals by members of the Committee to be submitted no later than at the first meeting of the Committee after February 1)
• Former advisers to the Norwegian Nobel Committee

Anyone else is claiming to "nominate" just BS PR.