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In a letter to Norway’s prime minister over the weekend, Donald Trump admitted his threats to acquire Greenland are motivated, in part, by what he perceives as being ‘snubbed’ for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, PBS News reports. Continue reading “Trump Admits Greenland Threats Due To Nobel Peace Prize ‘Snub’”
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado gifted her medal for the Nobel Peace Prize to Donald Trump during a private White House meeting today.
This comes after Trump has repeatedly questioned her credibility to take over her country after the U.S. ousted then-President Nicolás Maduro. Continue reading “Machado: ‘I Presented The President The Nobel Peace Prize’”
Following remarks by Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado suggesting she might give her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Donald Trump, the Norwegian Nobel Institute issued a statement saying the award cannot be transferred.
Continue reading “Nobel Committee: Nobel Peace Prize Cannot Be Transferred”
Some news stories I thought worth your time:
• OUT: Heated Rivalry’s Hudson Williams (“Shane Hollander”) will make his late-night debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon this week on Wednesday, January 7.
• LGBTQ Nation: Months after denouncing trans students using city public school bathrooms, outgoing New York City Mayor Eric Adams allocated $2 million in emergency funds to trans organizations suffering in the wake of sweeping federal aid cuts. Continue reading “‘Heated Rivalry’ Star To Make Late-Night Debut + More News”
María Corina Machado, the leader of a powerful social movement in Venezuela challenging the country’s authoritarian president, has been award the Nobel Peace Prize today. Continue reading “Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Venezuelan Activist María Corina Machado”
Donald Trump took to his failing Truth Social platform to complain about all the Nobel Peace Prizes he never got. Continue reading “Trump Complains About All The Nobel Peace Prizes He Didn’t Get”
Former Vice President Joe Biden (image via Instagram)
Mr Bryant, a member of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee and chair of the Standards and Privileges Committee, said Mr Biden deserved to be nominated for his dedication to argument and political debate during a turbulent time in American politics.
He added: “When American cities have been in flames and citizen has been pitched against citizen, Joe has been a calming influence to bear.
“When others have resorted to violent solutions, he has argued that the best force is the force of argument because guns can stop a heart but well-placed words can change many hearts and many hearts can change the world.”
Peace prize nominations can be made by members of governments and international courts of law, university chancellors, professors of social science, history, philosophy, law and theology; leaders of peace research institutes and institutes of foreign affairs.
The honor, decided by a committee, will be announced on October 9. Expect Donald Trump’s head to explode in 3, 2, 1…
Joe Biden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Labour MP https://t.co/21q9KBm59G
— Sky News Politics (@SkyNewsPolitics) September 28, 2020
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Some news items you might have missed:
• InstaHunks: LGBTQ ally Ben Cohen is inviting supporters of his anti-bullying foundation to come out and join him for cross-training. I’ll go, but only if I can follow Ben 🙂
• New York Times: A federal judge on Thursday denied bail for Jeffrey Epstein, the financier facing sex-trafficking charges in Manhattan, rejecting his request to await trial under home detention at his Upper East Side mansion.
• NPR: Some of Puerto Rico’s biggest stars rallied a crowd of many thousands in San Juan on Wednesday, calling on the island’s governor, Ricardo Rosselló, to resign. It was the fifth day in a row of protests in the U.S. territory, following a leak of hundreds of pages of misogynistic and homophobic texts between the governor and his main advisers.
• Washington Post: The House passed a bill by a vote of 231-199 that would raise the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade. However, don’t expect the legislation to be taken up in the Republican-controlled Senate.
• AFP News: Donald Trump asked Nobel laureate Nadia Murad how she won the Nobel Peace Prize after she explained how she won the Nobel Prize. Murad survived in the aftermath of her mother and six brothers being killed by ISIS and that 3,000 Yazidis remained missing. Trump asked, “And you had the Nobel Prize? That’s incredible. They gave it to you for what reason?” Murad paused, then repeated her story.
• The Lion King: Check out Beyoncé’s musical contribution to the upcoming live-action remake of Disney’s The Lion King.
Titled “Spirit,” I find the video gorgeous. I’m on the fence about the melody. Let me know what you think.
Donald Trump was asked by a reporter today at the White House if he felt he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to bring peace to North and South Korea – even though nothing’s happened yet.
Trump’s response? “Everyone thinks so, but I would never say it.”
“I want victory for the world because that’s what we’re talking about. So that’s the only prize I want,” he added.
Trump has famously harbored competitive feelings towards former President Barack Obama.
In 2009, Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
Watch the Trumpster humble-brag below.
Does Pres. Trump deserve the Nobel Prize? “Everyone thinks so, but I would never say it,” Pres. Trump says.“The prize I want is victory for the world.” https://t.co/CFdzczE0fE pic.twitter.com/uqMlsth1UY
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) May 9, 2018
On some strange, other-worldly plane, a group of people think President Putin is making the world a better place for someone.
Yesterday in Russia, based on his work in getting Syria to give up its chemical weapons stockpile, Members of the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of Peoples of the World nominated President Vladimir Putin for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.
While the Russian president has played a large role in what may solve chemical weapons use in Syria, Putin is hardly an “angel” in terms of humanity and peace.
From the Advocate:
As the New York Times reports, however, Putin has been involved in other nefarious acts, including waging war against Chechen people, approving an attack against Georgia over a border dispute, and continuing to allegedly sell weapons to the Syrian government.
He also has approved multiple antigay laws across Russia this year, garnering international attention. The laws condemn so-called LGBT propaganda, and bar foreign and Russian same-sex couples from adopting Russian children.