Nobel Peace Prize Chairman Demoted For Awarding Obama Peace Prize

Nobel Peace Prize Chairman Demoted For Awarding Obama Peace Prize

Nobel Peace Prize Committee’s chairman, Thorbjoern Jagland, has been demoted to a mere ‘member’ of the committee for awarding Barack Obama the Peace Prize in 2009 for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”

This is the first time a chairman has been removed from his position in the award’s 114-year history.

In the years following this premature ‘gift’, the world would witness our President engage in a great many actions contrary to the nature of his prize; everything from putting the world at grave risk by restarting the cold war, to killing thousands of civilians with drones, to engaging our troops in multiple hostile actions across the globe, it´’s only fitting that Jagland be demoted.

One Russian lawmaker has even asked the committee to strip Obama of his Peace Prize, that would seem to be an appropriate follow-up action.

At the time the White House, and the fawning media, was delighted by this crowning, if premature, achievement of the progressive president.

Which is why don’t expect much coverage of the inevitable aftermath: earlier today, in what France24 dubbed an “in an unprecedented move“, the controversial head of Norway’s Nobel Peace Prize committee was removed Tuesday and demoted to the rank of mere member.

Thorbjoern Jagland, a former Norwegian premier, drew criticism after becoming committee chairman in 2009 for awarding the prestigious Nobel to newly elected US President Barack Obama. He will be replaced by current Deputy Chair Kaci Kullmann Five.

More from AP:

The Nobel Peace Prize awarding Norwegian Nobel Committee on Tuesday elected a new chairman to replace Thorbjoern Jagland, whose six-year tenure has been lined with controversies.

 

Jagland will remain a member of the voting panel but was a contentious leader, attracting criticism for his dual role as committee chairman and head of the European Council when the prize was awarded to the European Union in 2012. His leadership also was clouded by the decision to give the prize to Barack Obama in 2009 after he had just been elected president, and the 2010 prize to the jailed dissident Liu Xiabo drew fury from China.

 

The former labor politician was replaced by the panel’s deputy chairman, Kaci Kullmann Five, a former conservative party leader. She denied that Jagland’s ousting had anything to do with pressure from China, which froze diplomatic ties to Norway after the 2010 award.

She did not deny that his ousting had anything to do with Obama who has since the aware become a neo-con warhawk, who has put some of the most bloodthirsty republicans to shame, and whose actions (and lack thereof) have led to not only global conflict intensity spiking To a 7-year high, but have generated untold riches to the shareholders of the military industrial complex.

Source: zerohedge.com
Photo: AFP Photo / Olivier Morin


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