Ponce
24th September 2014, 08:42 AM
To me the Nobel Prize will once again be real once again when they take away Obama's Nobel Peace Prize.
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Great honor for Edward Snowden: Because he has uncovered with “courage and skill” to monitor the US-Secret NSA, he gets the Alternative Nobel Prize – along with “Guardian” Publisher Alan Rusbridger.
Stockholm – The whistleblower Edward Snowden is awarded jointly with the editor of the British newspaper “Guardian”, Alan Rusbridger, with the honorary title of the Alternative Nobel Prize. This gave the committee in Stockholm said Wednesday .
Snowden have earned the distinction, “because he with courage and competence the unprecedented scale of statesurveillance has revealed violates the fundamental democratic processes and constitutional rights, “it said in the opinion of the jury.
The former agent had with his revelations in the summer of 2013, the monitoring methods of the U.S. Secret Service NSAmade ??public and triggered a global debate. The FBIinvestigated Snowden since an arrest warrant. The 31-year-old holds currently in Moscow, Russia has granted him asylum.
Alternative Nobel Prize has been awarded since 1980
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/snowden-erhaelt-alternativen-nobelpreis-a-993479.html
PRESS RELEASE, Stockholm 24 September 2014
2014 Awards honour courageous and effective work for human rights,
freedom of the press, civil liberties and combatting climate change
The 2014 Right Livelihood Honorary Award goes to
EDWARD SNOWDEN (USA) “for his courage and skill in revealing the
unprecedented extent of state surveillance violating basic democratic processes and
constitutional rights”.
and to
ALAN RUSBRIDGER (UK) “for building a global media organisation dedicated to
responsible journalism in the public interest, undaunted by the challenges of exposing
corporate and government malpractices”.
Three Laureates will equally share the cash award of SEK 1,5 million:
http://www.rightlivelihood.org/fileadmin/Files/PDF/Press_releases/2014/English/PRESS_RELEASE_EN.pdf
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Great honor for Edward Snowden: Because he has uncovered with “courage and skill” to monitor the US-Secret NSA, he gets the Alternative Nobel Prize – along with “Guardian” Publisher Alan Rusbridger.
Stockholm – The whistleblower Edward Snowden is awarded jointly with the editor of the British newspaper “Guardian”, Alan Rusbridger, with the honorary title of the Alternative Nobel Prize. This gave the committee in Stockholm said Wednesday .
Snowden have earned the distinction, “because he with courage and competence the unprecedented scale of statesurveillance has revealed violates the fundamental democratic processes and constitutional rights, “it said in the opinion of the jury.
The former agent had with his revelations in the summer of 2013, the monitoring methods of the U.S. Secret Service NSAmade ??public and triggered a global debate. The FBIinvestigated Snowden since an arrest warrant. The 31-year-old holds currently in Moscow, Russia has granted him asylum.
Alternative Nobel Prize has been awarded since 1980
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/snowden-erhaelt-alternativen-nobelpreis-a-993479.html
PRESS RELEASE, Stockholm 24 September 2014
2014 Awards honour courageous and effective work for human rights,
freedom of the press, civil liberties and combatting climate change
The 2014 Right Livelihood Honorary Award goes to
EDWARD SNOWDEN (USA) “for his courage and skill in revealing the
unprecedented extent of state surveillance violating basic democratic processes and
constitutional rights”.
and to
ALAN RUSBRIDGER (UK) “for building a global media organisation dedicated to
responsible journalism in the public interest, undaunted by the challenges of exposing
corporate and government malpractices”.
Three Laureates will equally share the cash award of SEK 1,5 million:
http://www.rightlivelihood.org/fileadmin/Files/PDF/Press_releases/2014/English/PRESS_RELEASE_EN.pdf