Quote: "Knut Hamsun (Literature Prize 1920): In 1943, the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun travelled to Germany and met with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. After returning to Norway, he sent his Nobel medal to Goebbels as a gesture of thanks for the meeting. Goebbels was honoured by the gift. The present whereabouts of the medal are unknown."
The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable
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Re: The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable
#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not to help you with your sleeping patterns but: a toddler that could overnight decide to instruct US hosting providers and other infrastructure companies that they can no longer serve EU customers, that the .COM registry domains can only be registered by US entities, that any country owes the US any part of its territory 'or else'. The Nobel Prize is a footnote, it should have never happened, but there are much wors…
The "or else" is actually on rather shaky grounds considering the national debt. For the sake of argument if certain countries decided to stop buying US treasury bonds the federal state would be insolvent about 5s later. Certainly a default of that size would destroy the economy in every single country pretty much except maybe Cuba and North Korea. The EU (and Europe) will have to lean East until Germany remilitarize…
Everything he does is on shaky ground. The whole idea is to confuse and destabilize so none of them can get contested in time.
Re: The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable
#183As a reminder, Machado:
1. promised to privatize various companies, particularly in the oil extraction business to the benefit of, primarily, American oil companies [1]; and
2. is very pro-israel and thinks it's important that Venezuela moves their embassy to Jerusalem [2].
Either Machado is a CIA-backed puppet or wants to be. Trump has now joined a club with Joesph Goebbels of being gifted a Nobel prize [3] (also in article).
It makes a complete mockery of the Peace prize to hand it someone who is either an American puppet or a grifter and the Nobel committe should rightly be lambasted for this.
[1]: https://fortune.com/2026/01/03/maria-corina-machado-nobel-pr...
[2]: https://en.royanews.tv/news/66321
[3]: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/from-giving-it-to-nazis-to-s...
Re: The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not to help you with your sleeping patterns but: a toddler that could overnight decide to instruct US hosting providers and other infrastructure companies that they can no longer serve EU customers, that the .COM registry domains can only be registered by US entities, that any country owes the US any part of its territory 'or else'. The Nobel Prize is a footnote, it should have never happened, but there are much wors…
They did mention the toddler in question is leader of a major power, so I don't think what you're saying is going to surprise GP.
Most leaders of major powers are reasonably sane. This one may wake up in the middle of the night with a bad case of indigestion and order it so.
I'm pretty sure that if any one of those three comes to pass a lot of people will be surprised and caught flat footed.
And there will be nobody that stops it.
Re: The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable
#185Written in such a civilized manner that one would wish them to be in the White House. Enough to be qualified nowadays.
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#186Many in Norway and Sweden distanced themselves from the Nobel Peace Prize at the time it was awarded to Machado because it was obvious it was such a bad decision. Julian Assange even filed a criminal complaint in Sweden last month to try to stop the Swedish Nobel Foundation paying out over $1 million dollars to her, arguing it's going against Alfred Nobel's will, and they have a responsibility to respect his will. He…
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Re: The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable
#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
Considering his approval rating is still in low 40s, and not 0, tells you volumes about the average American mind.
That was my main learning from the last election: The difference between Americans and Europeans truly is much greater than I'd ever expect. I really thought that it was impossible for Trump to get elected again. Everyone was warned, yet they wanted him back.
The pendulum swings. It was less than a 100 years ago that the roles were quite literally reversed.
Re: The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable
#188what instigated this blog post ? This ?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/15/maria-corina-m...
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#189We have to do better to protect our government from religious groups. And I mean ALL religious groups. That’s really the root of the political problems right now. Ironic considering that the country was founded by people who fled similar malaise plaguing the Old World. Clearly separation of church and state is not explicit enough in our laws.
I am not even sure if this country can survive the next three years and come out of it unscathed. One group basically trojan horsed their way to top and destroyed global order indefinitely.
Re: The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable
#190Many in Norway and Sweden distanced themselves from the Nobel Peace Prize at the time it was awarded to Machado because it was obvious it was such a bad decision. Julian Assange even filed a criminal complaint in Sweden last month to try to stop the Swedish Nobel Foundation paying out over $1 million dollars to her, arguing it's going against Alfred Nobel's will, and they have a responsibility to respect his will. He…
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The peace prize has lost all credibility.