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    Default Julian Assange should be awarded Nobel peace prize

    Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010...el-peace-prize

    Julian Assange should be awarded Nobel peace prize, suggests Russia

    Russia has suggested that Julian Assange should be awarded the Nobel peace prize, in an unexpected show of support from Moscow for the jailed WikiLeaks founder.

    In what appears to be a calculated dig at the US, the Kremlin urged non-governmental organisations to think seriously about "nominating Assange as a Nobel Prize laureate".

    "Public and non-governmental organisations should think of how to help him," the source from inside president Dmitry Medvedev's office told Russian news agencies. Speaking in Brussels, where Medvedev was attending a Russia-EU summit yesterday , the source went on: "Maybe, nominate him as a Nobel Prize laureate."

    Russia's reflexively suspicious leadership appears to have come round to WikiLeaks, having decided that the ongoing torrent of disclosures are ultimately far more damaging and disastrous to America's long-term geopolitical interests than they are to Russia's.

    The Kremlin's initial reaction to stories dubbing Russia a corrupt "mafia state" and kleptocracy was, predictably, negative. Last week Medvedev's spokesman dubbed the revelations "not worthy of comment" while Putin raged that a US diplomatic cable comparing him to Batman and Medvedev to Robin was "arrogant" and "unethical". State TV ignored the claims.

    Subsequent disclosures, however, that Nato had secretly prepared a plan in case Russia invaded its Baltic neighbours have left the Kremlin smarting. Today Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said Nato had to explain why it privately considered Russia an enemy while publicly describing it warmly as a "strategic partner" and ally.

    Nato should make clear its position on WikiLeaks cables published by the Guardian alleging that the alliance had devised plans to defend Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia against Russia, Lavrov said.

    "With one hand, Nato seeks agreement with us on joint partnership, and with the other, it makes a decision that it needs to defend. So when is Nato more sincere?" Lavrov asked today. "We have asked these questions and are expecting answers to them. We think we are entitled to that."

    Lavrov said his attitude towards the leaked US state department cables was "philosophical". "It is interesting to read, including what ambassadors write to provide a stream of information to their capitals," he admitted.

    Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's hardline ultra-nationalist ambassador to Nato, also today voiced his support for the embattled Assange. He tweeted that Assange's arrest and incarceration on Monday at the City of Westminster magistrates' court demonstrated that there was "no media freedom" in the west. Assange's "fate" amounted to "political persecution" and a lack of human rights, the ambassador said.

    In London, meanwhile, Russia's chargé d'affaires and acting ambassador in the UK, Alexander Sternik, said relations with Britain had improved since the coalition came to power. He complained, however, about the hostile reaction in the British media after Fifa's executive committee voted that Russia – and not England – should host the 2018 World Cup.

    In a briefing to journalists this morning, Sternik said: "While the English bid was technically a strong one, the Russian bid was in line with the well-known Fifa philosophy of opening new frontiers for world football. The vote result was therefore quite logical, and while the disappointment of many in England is understandable, the media outrage was a step too far. It's not cricket, as the English say."

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    Default Re: Julian Assange should be awarded Nobel peace prize

    Hmmm dont know about the "peace" prize , but he should get something..


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    Good morning Celine, the Earth says hello!

    I disagree with the cartoonist who created the above ... but I absolutely love his sense of humour! LOL!


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    Default Re: Julian Assange should be awarded Nobel peace prize

    Hmm yes nothing is ever that clear cut

    but it say to me that he (and all the anonymous people supporting him) have had enough watching the big dogs ****ing with justice.


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    Default Re: Julian Assange should be awarded Nobel peace prize

    Yes, he should get a Nobel Peace Prize.

    If they are running short, they can take Obama's and give it to Assange.

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    Default Re: Julian Assange should be awarded Nobel peace prize

    I found this very intresting- From ATS

    Wikileaks wallpapers HINT of what to come ??!,

    http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread638762/pg1

    I was thinking maybe the reason 9-11 is of little importance Jullian Assage is because that is so obviously a inside job. We have the stuff proving 9-11 already. Maybe the stuff Julian has been reading no one knows about or has not the same weight behind it.... We have figured 9-11 out. We have the evidents that prove what it was. That why is not so important compared to other points in history where we dont have the same information... Just a thought.

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    Quote Posted by Céline (here)
    Hmmm dont know about the "peace" prize , but he should get something..

    Hi Celine - Don't take offense but maybe given the content of the poster, he should be awarded the "PIECE Prize"?! (oops I know how sensitive you are about these things but I just couldn't resist since you posted this!) Ahk

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    Quote Posted by DawgBone (here)
    Yes, he should get a Nobel Peace Prize.
    If they are running short, they can take Obama's and give it to Assange.
    Or Henry Kissinger's.

    Shame, too ... I'd just finished reading The Little Soul and The Sun (by Neale Donald Walsch). You'd think I woulda learned something about forgiveness. Hey, it's a struggle being a human unit in the third density. Anybody telling you it ain't ... is foolin' ya!



    ps: Mewonders ... if I forgive the one fool, will I have experienced the forgiveness of all fools?
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