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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Al Gore wins Nobel Prize in the wake of An Inconvenient Truth – 2007
On this day in 2007, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to increase public knowledge about man-made climate change. In 2006, Gore had starred in the Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which was credited with raising international awareness about the global warming crisis.
RON PAUL SUMS UP OBAMA
Barack Obama started with a Nobel Peace Prize and is ending his presidency with the Pentagon’s Distinguished Public Service Medal.
Sounds about right for a president who bombed 7 nations and became the first in U.S. history to be at war every single day of his eight year administration.
THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN’
If The Negroid Race Is So Intelligent …
…. and 800+ people have received a Nobel Prize since 1901, then why are only 14 of them black? Maybe my maff is off, but that doesn’t seem very representative to me. Why are NONE of them in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology, or Medicine? Why are only 4 from the United States? It must be raacisss! I’m sure Tucci has a reasonable seven thousand word explanation.
Ralph Bunche … 1950 … United States … PEACE
Albert John Luthuli … 1960 … South Africa … PEACE
Martin Luther King … 1964 … United States … PEACE
Sir William Arthur Lewis … 1979 … St. Lucia … ECONOMICS
Desmond Tutu … 1984 … South Africa … PEACE
Wole Soyinka … 1986 … Nigeria … LITERATURE
Derek Walcott … 1992 … St. Lucia … LITERATURE
Toni Morrison … 1993 … United States … LITERATURE
Nelson Mandela … 1993 … South Africa … PEACE
Kofi Annan … 2001 … Ghana … PEACE
Wangari Maathai … 2004 … Kenya … PEACE
HNIC … 2009 … United States … PEACE
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf … 2011 … Liberia … PEACE
Leymah Gbowee … 2011 … Liberia … PEACE
Politicians Exploit School Shooting While Ignoring Bombing Victims
Following the recent Oregon school shooting, many politicians rushed to the microphones to call for new gun control laws. President Obama even called on gun control supporters to “politicize” the shooting, while some members of Congress worked to establish a special commission on gun violence.
The reaction to the shooting stands in stark contrast to the reaction to the US military’s bombing of an Afghanistan hospital run by the international humanitarian (and Nobel Peace Prize winning) group Doctors Without Borders.
Our Nobel Peace Prize winning president did apologize to his fellow Nobel laureate for the bombing. However, President Obama has not “politicized” this tragedy by using it to justify ending military involvement in Afghanistan. No one in Congress is pushing for a special commission to examine the human costs of US militarism, and the mainstream media has largely ignored Doctors Without Borders’ accusation that the bombing constitutes a war crime.
The reason for the different reactions to these two events is that politicians prefer to focus on events they can “politicize” to increase government power. In contrast, politicians ignore incidents that raise uncomfortable questions about US foreign policy.
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Professor Krugman Nails It Again: VA “Is Huge Policy Success Story Which Offers Important Lessons For Future Health Reform”
Somebody give this guy another Nobel. His brilliance is breathtaking to behold.
From David Stockman
Presented without comment because Krugman speaks best for himself!
Here is Paul Krugman, writing in 2006:
American health care is desperately in need of reform. But what form should change take? Are there any useful examples we can turn to for guidance?
Well, I know about a health care system that has been highly successful in containing costs, yet provides excellent care. And the story of this system’s success provides a helpful corrective to anti-government ideology. For the government doesn’t just pay the bills in this system — it runs the hospitals and clinics.
No, I’m not talking about some faraway country. The system in question is our very own Veterans Health Administration, whose success story is one of the best-kept secrets in the American policy debate.
Here is Krugman again, in 2011:
What Mr. Romney and everyone else should know is that the [Veterans Health Administration] is a huge policy success story, which offers important lessons for future health reform. And yes, this is “socialized medicine” — although some private systems, like Kaiser Permanente, share many of the V.H.A.’s virtues. But it works — and suggests what it will take to solve the troubles of U.S. health care more broadly.
This argument has been fairly popular in liberal circles for years. Phillip Longman has written extensively about how great the VA healthcare system is and why it should serve as a model for broader healthcare reform.