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2014-01-31 Europe

Norwegian lawmakers nominate Edward Snowden for Nobel Peace Prize

[CNN] Two Norwegian politicians have jointly nominated National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize, they said Wednesday on their party website.

Snowden has "revealed the nature and technological prowess of modern surveillance," and by doing so has contributed to peace, said a joint statement by Bard Vegar Solhjell and Snorre Valen of the Socialist Left Party.

Nominations for this year's Nobel Peace Prize -- whose previous winners include such figures as the late South African President Nelson Mandela, Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and President Barack Obama
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-- close on Saturday, with the winner announced in October.

According to the Norwegian Nobel Committee's rules, Solhjell and Valen are qualified, as national politicians, to make a nomination. The names of each year's nominees are not revealed until 50 years later.

Posted by Fred 2014-01-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 Absolutely outrageous! What about the committee's nominating standards? Snowden has never drone zapped or bombed anybody.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-31 04:37|| 2014-01-31 04:37|| Front Page Top

#2 ~~Badges~~ Standards? We ain't got no ~~badges~~ standards. We don't need no ~~badges~~ standards. I don't have to show you any stinking ~~badges~~ standards. Treasure of Sierra of the Madre, 1948. Champ and Arafat paved the way.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-01-31 07:16|| 2014-01-31 07:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Norwegian lawmakers nominate Edward Snowden for Nobel ~~Peace Prize~~ Pizza Pies.

...easier on my blood pressure...

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-01-31 19:46|| 2014-01-31 19:46|| Front Page Top

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