Donald Trump has said it would be “an honor” take Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize if she offered it to him, as he prepares to meet the exiled politician next week.
Machado has been in hiding due to persistent threats on her life, emerging only briefly in Oslo after a three-day mission in which she was smuggled out of the country with the help of the U.S. military for the Nobel ceremony.
The Nobel committee announce that the “Peace Prize” cannot be transferred or shared.
“Oil industry’s chosen candidate happy to swap worthless bauble for entire country”
The first Nobel peace prize that was fairly conquered in war
Ivan Gorchev, sailor on the freight ship ‘Rangoon’, was not yet twenty-one when he won the Nobel Prize in physics. To win a scientific award at such a romantically young age is unprecedented, though some people might consider the means by which it was achieved a flaw. For Ivan Gorchev won the Nobel Prize in physics in a card game, called macao, from a Professor Bertinus, on whom the honour had been bestowed in Stockholm by the King of Sweden a few days earlier. But those who are always finding fault don’t like to face facts, and the fact of the matter is that Ivan Gorchev did win the Nobel Prize at the age of twenty-one.
Opening lines from the novel “The Fourteen-Carat Roadster” by Jenő Rejtő (P. Howard)
Is it a good read? I’m intrigued.
From what I remember, it is. I read it very long ago as a kid, and I found it quite funny. Sort of a parody of popular adventure novels at that time (1930s), making fun of the usual tropes. Lot of things inspired by the writer’s own extensive travels in Western Europe and North Africa. It’s probably avaiable for pennies or free now.
That’s not how prizes work though…
This is some Michael Scott move
It’s fair to say that if that happens, the whole Nobel Peace Prize thing will become worthless.
It became worthless in 1973 when they awarded it to Henry Kissinger
Kissinger was a war mongering piece of shit. Untold number of people died horribly violent deaths because of him. Small pox is more deserving of a peace prize than Kissinger, because at least it kills everyone equally. Kissinger targeted the poorest and most vulnerable
I look forward to someday pissing on his grave
How’s did the horrible person even win this? What a fucken joke
that’s not how it works, lol… he wants a nobel peace prize with the name Machado on it?
She better hand it over, or she’s gonnaa get peace’d right into prison.
Sounds like a threat to me…
Imagine what could happen if she wouldn’t give it to himMan, I hope she’s fucking with him…
