Afghan Resistance Statement
Nobel Prize for Obama
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
Thursday, 15 October 2009
According to reports in media, the Nobel peace prize has been given to Barrack Obama, President of the United State of America, ostensibly for his work for peace and stability in the world!
The fact of the matter is that, that flames of war have not been put out with the assumption of power by Obama, nor the intensity of wars has reduced. Contrarily, the wars have intensified and the tempo of mass murder of humankind increased with the wars taking a more sanguinary shape.
Obama had promised, during his election campaign, to put an end to the war in Iraq and work for a real peace in the Middle East and close the Guantanamo jail. He had also promised to hammer out excellent strategy for Afghanistan and take positive and practical steps as regards the economic recovery from financial meltdown, which is the result of the wrong policies of USA. But now we see all these pledges by Obama were only empty words and slogans aimed at pulling a fast one on people.
The flames of the war in Iraq are raising with more intensity. The siege of Gaza and the mass murder of the Palestinians have been continuing unabated. The torture in Guanatano jail has not been ended. The war in Afghanistan and insecurity in the region are spiraling up. The economic meltdown is deepening while the belligerent policy of American Administration and Obama has not changed as yet.
Despite all the shortcomings, violations and other anti-peace activities, if still he is given Nobel peace prize, then it means that the colonialism does not intend to change its path and let the people to live in peace and stability. Understandably, one could not expect the panel of the Nobel Prize Committee to show unbiased judgment as regards those who have, in a way, installed them. While the Nobel Prize Awarding Committee, considers the perpetrators of all these violations and infringements to deserve the Nobel peace prize – the usurpation of freedom of the oppressed people of the world and the murder of innocent men continue unfalteringly . Still more, these perpetrators of crimes are bent on continuing their wicked and unjust activities in the time to come. In light of these realities, the Nobel Prize Allotment Committee ironically granted the Nobel Prize to whom who is ahead in anti-human activities and has in his hands, a sword stained with the blood of the people.
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan considers the peace Nobel prize to Obama to be an addition to the collections of the unjust decisions of the world. The IEA calls on statesmen, writers and lawyers of the world to raise their voice against this unfair decision so that those who are murderers of the people of the world and violators of peace would not be able to throw dust into the eyes of the people by obtaining the Nobel peace prize and thus cover up their unforgivable crimes for some times.
An Open Letter to Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan
9 years ago
President Obama should donate his Nobel Peace Prize funds to the U.S. government to pay for his two Scandanavian trips: 1. Copenhagen for his failing bid to push the Olympic games there and 2. To pick up Nobel Peace Prize funds. Each trip cost the U.S. taxpayer about $ 920,000 for Air Force One, security etc.
ReplyDeleteAnd there is the issue of how the Nobel foundation funds invested in Swedish armament industry and in weapons of mass destruction. Although the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by a committee of five Norwegians from the Norway Storting (Parliment), they Nobel funds are kept in Sweden, where Alfred Nobel was from. Sweden is the worlds largest exporter of arms (per capita), followed by Israel.
1. Originally the directive from Alfred Nobel was to place the funds in real estate or similar safe investments, however since 1953 the foundation was allowed by the Swedish government to invest in shares, which stopped the hither to depletion of the funds.
2. The funds are at the moment approx US$ 500 million in total (it shrunk approx 20% last year).
3. The management is not done by the foundation itself, it is split across several (about ten) portfolios managed by different asset managers in Sweden and other countri es, the spread across countries and by asset type can be found here: http://nobelprize.org/nobelfoundation/finan-manag.html
4. As late as 2005, there is an explicit admission from the foundation that there are NO ethical guidelines issued to the asset managers:
www.dagsavisen.no/innenriks/article256458.ece?service=articlePrint - in Norwegian)
5.There have been several 'scandals' surrounding the asset management, presumably deriving from the lack of ethical guidelines from the Nobel foundation
- In 1998, the Observer made an investigation into the investments and found that many of the world largest arms manufactureres (including Boeing, British Aerospace, GKN och Smiths Industries) were in the Nobel foundation portfolios
- in 2005, a Norwegian organization 'Norwatch' looked specifically into the portfolio handled by a US firm group called T Rowe Price who in their general portfolios have manufacturers of both cluster bombs and atomic bombs (Lockheed Martin). The Nobel foundation did not exclude the possibility that their funds were invested in such shares
6. it is probable that such investments are held in the the Bofor group, which has a high level chemical plant in Ifshahan, Iran, which manufactures TNT, and quite likely sophisticated chemical precursors used to help create nuclear enriched uranium.
However, dynamite and related products was the original invention and=2 0business which gave Alfred Nobel the means to set up the prize in the first place, and he was the owner of Bofors from 1894-96, during which he "had the key role in reshaping the iron manufacturer to a modern cannon manufacturer (...)" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bofors
No doubt the prestige of the prize to a large degree derives from the large sums involved, but is therefore also stained by the way the money was and is procured.
But the prestige also derives from Alfred Nobels testamentary wish to promote peace and international understanding.
The paradox the funds for the Nobel Prize are invested and retained in funds related to armament productions and weapons of mass destruction and many people are unaware of this situation.