[Vision2020] Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

[Dave]

And you except CNN to cover this?  Why?

Dave

On 7/15/2013 5:20 PM, Paul Rumelhart wrote:
> I looked for this story on CNN's site, but couldn't find it.
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> Here is the URL: 
> http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/edward-snowden-nobel-peace-prize-94158.html
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>   Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
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> A Swedish sociology professor has nominated Edward Snowden for the 
> Nobel Peace Prize, saying that awarding the former NSA employee would 
> correct Nobel Committee's mistake in giving the award to President 
> Barack Obama in 2009.
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> According to a translation of the letter published by the Daily Mail 
> and RT.com, Umeå University professor Stefan Svallfors wrote the 
> committee that Snowden has made the world safer in releasing 
> information about United States surveillance.
> Continue Reading
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> "Edward Snowden has - in a heroic effort at great personal cost - 
> revealed the existence and extent of the surveillance, the U.S. 
> government devotes electronic communications worldwide. By putting 
> light on this monitoring program - conducted in contravention of 
> national laws and international agreements - Edward Snowden has helped 
> to make the world a little bit better and safer," Svallfors wrote.
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> Referencing the Nuremberg trials of Nazis, Svallfors says following 
> orders is not an excuse for acting against human rights and freedom, 
> and he praised Snowden's courage in leaking the information.
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> Svallfors also noted that Obama was a past recipient of the Nobel 
> Peace Prize, which he called a correctable mistake.
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> "The decision to award the 2013 prize to Edward Snowden would - in 
> addition to being well justified in itself - also help to save the 
> Nobel Peace Prize from the disrepute that incurred by the hasty and 
> ill-conceived decision to award U.S. President Barack Obama 2009 
> award," Svallfors said.
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> Because of Svallfors's professorship at Umeå, he is one of the people 
> who can submit a nomination to the Nobel organization. However, 
> nominations for 2013 were required to be postmarked by Feb. 1.
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> It was unclear if the committee would consider Snowden's nomination 
> for 2013 anyway. The Nobel Peace Prize website says the committee may 
> sometimes add nominations to the list accrued by Feb. 1, but once 
> names are whittled down into a shortlist, the nomination process is 
> closed. Nominations after the deadline are usually considered the 
> following year.
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> The committee received a record 259 nominations this year, it said. 
> Prizes are announced in October.
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> On Monday, WikiLeaks noted that Snowden joins WikiLeaks founder Julian 
> Assange and leaker Army Pfc. Bradley Manning in having been nominated 
> for Nobels, but the organization in a series of tweets decried the 
> committee as a "corrupt" tool of foreign policy.
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>     Now Manning, Assange and Snowden have all been formally nominated 
> for the Nobel. --- WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 15, 2013
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>     The Nobel Peace prize however, is corrupt. Overseen by Norwegian 
> and Swedish establishments, it has become an instrument of foreign 
> policy. --- WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 15, 2013
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>     That's why former winners have denounced the institution as 
> corrupted and it is being sued for corrupting its constitution.--- 
> WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 15, 2013
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