Sadly I have not made that headline up. The EU has indeed been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. I had thought it wasn’t possible to devalue this “Prize” any further than is had been by the award to Barack Obama, but I was wrong.
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12 October 2012
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I've just read
- The National Debt and Federal Budget Deficit Deconstructed - Tony Robbins
- Why do smart people still choose Keynes over Hayek?
- The real reasons why UK is in trouble
- James Delingpole's blog post on climate change
- Youtube - Senator Marco Rubio
- Douglas Carswell's Blog
- Climate models go cold
- There haven't been any net public spending cuts – but try to say so and you'll be howled down as a liar
- Borrowers have had their time in the sun, this is the year of the Bank Rate rise
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Where was the EU, or even major nations like Germany, when Muslims were suffering genocide in the former Yogoslavia? It was the Americans (not even their own continent) and the British who were defending Muslims from being killed. Now that's truly principled altruism.
I'm trying to think how the EU (which does not even have an army) has brought about Peace somewhere in the world, doing so in such a distinctive way as to be "the best of the best" and therefore deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize.
Posted by: Adrian Fisher | 12 October 2012 at 12:32 PM
EU bringing peace ? Total garbage. As Mr Smith says it was difficult to take the award seriously before..... I see a lot of peace on the streets of Greece and Spain at the moment. Utter tripe.
Posted by: Paul | 12 October 2012 at 07:44 PM
Adrian: Quite. I’ve always liked an RAF recruitment advert which shows two of our Harriers flying top cover for Hercules transports dropping emergency supplies to refugees in the former Yugoslavia which ends with the slogan “Their country needs you”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqDwM023CR4
Posted by: Terry Smith | 15 October 2012 at 11:32 AM