Alfred Nobel: controversial man, controversial awards

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Alfred Nobel: controversial man, controversial awards
By Ivan Simic

The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. The Prize was established from Alfred Bernhard Nobel's will on 27 November 1895.

Every year, since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been awarded for outstanding contributions in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize.

All prizes are presented on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death. Each prize consists of a medal, personal diploma, and cash award (over 1 million Euros). For the past few decades, the Nobel Prize is considered to be the most prestigious prize in the world.

Alfred Nobel was the Swedish inventor of dynamite, also, founder of the Nobel Prize, chemist, scientist, inventor, engineer, entrepreneur, author, weapons manufacturer, and pacifist. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866 in Krummel,

Germany, and patented it later in 1876. After his death he left 31 million Swedish Kronor (103,931,888.00 USD in 2007) to fund the prizes.

Alfred Nobel was a pacifist, which is highly contradictory, since he invented dynamite which had enormous use in many wars, but also in industry. Furthermore, he owned a company named Bofos, which was a major weapons manufacturer. Bofos was founded in 1873, but it originates from the iron and steel mill called Boofors, established in 1646.

From the first Nobel Prize awarding in 1901, this prize had many criticisms and controversies in the proceedings, nominations, awardees and exclusions. Many individuals who really had conferred the greatest benefit on mankind did not win the Prize, for Instance:

Thomas Edison, American inventor and businessmen who developed many devices such as the phonograph and light bulb. He was the first one to apply principles of mass production to the process of invention.

Nikola Tesla, Serbian inventor, physicist, electrical and mechanical engineer. He invented things that marked the modern era; he is called "the man who invented the 20th century" and "the man out of his time". He is most known for alternating current (AC), induction motor, rotating magnetic field, wireless technology, among many others.

Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev, Russian chemist and inventor. He was the originator of the periodic table of the elements.

Oswald Theodore Avery, an American physicist who is known for the discovery (along with his co-workers) that DNA is the material of which genes and chromosomes are made.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian Independence Movement. He is well-known to the world for non-violence and truth advocacy. His birthday October 2 is a national holiday in India and is the International Day of Non-Violence. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize, but never got it.

Here are a few individuals who won the Nobel Prize that many believe to be controversial:

Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard, Hungarian-German physicist. He is the winner of the Prize in physics for his research on cathode rays. Later he was adviser to Adolf Hitler, Chief of Aryan Physics and active proponent of Nazi ideology.

Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. He is the winner of the Prize (shared prize) in medicine for his discovery of penicillin. Many oppose the fact that he was the first to discover penicillin.

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. American President and the first American who received the Nobel Prize. He is the winner of the Peace Prize in 1905. During his presidency he played an important role in the suppression of a revolt in the Philippines.

Henry Alfred Kissinger (Heinz Alfred Kissinger), the US Secretary of State and National Security Adviser. He is the winner of the Peace Prize along with Le Duc Tho, however, Tho declined the award. There is evidence that he was involved in the secret campaign of bombing against infiltrating NVA in Cambodia and Operation Condor. He also supported the invasion of Cyprus. Kissinger is wanted for questioning by officials in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, France and Spain for war crimes that he might have committed.

Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (Yasser Arafat), Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin are winners of the Peace Prize for the negotiations in Oslo. Arafat was accused of being associated with many violent acts. On the other hand, Rabin was an Israeli Military General who ordered the expulsion of Arabs from areas captured by Israel during the war in 1948.

Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr., Vice President of the United States from 1993-2001. He is the winner of the Peace Prize (shared) "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change". During his service in the office under President Clinton, the US was involved in many military operations. Operations in which many people lost their lives and which had great impact on climate change, pollution, illness, among others. For instance: NATO bombing of Bosnian Serbs, US led bombing of Iraq, US led bombing of Serbia. Al Gore is a fine actor, in fact, Academy awarded actor, and for his role in "The Inconvenient Truth" he won the Oscar.

There are people among us who dedicated their lives to make a valuable contribution to mankind in areas of physics, economics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace, and it is expected for these individuals to win the Prize, however, many never got it, nor will get it. On the other side, many of those with suspicious backgrounds, and those who gave just a few months of their lives for some cause won the Prize.

If this trend continues, then in the next five years we will see George W. Bush (present US President) as a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his noble efforts to bring peace to all mankind by creating new wars in order to prevent wars and terrorism. And maybe as a winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, for his efforts in making the highest ever oil price per barrel in history, and making war industry wealthier than ever, and for his contribution in creating a devastating financial situation in the United States, and promising recessions.

Ivan Simic
Belgrade, Serbia

Ebola: Manufactured disease by U.S. Federal Government.

Ebola: Manufactured disease by U.S. Federal Government
08.10.2014

By Lord Howard Hurts 

Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation if Islam wrote this a few days ago, "Another method is disease infection through bio-weapons such as Ebola and AIDS, which are race targeting weapons. There is a weapon that can be put in a room where there are Black and White people, and it will kill only the Black and spare the White, because it is a genotype weapon that is designed for your genes, for your race, for your kind." In essence Mr. Farrakhan said that the U.S. Federal Government is behind the Ebola virus outbreak. Mr. Farrakhan is incorrect, as his usual, in many respects dealing with the issue of the Ebola virus, but he is correct about Ebola being a 'manufactured' disease by the U.S. Federal Government. Here is the true story about the Ebola virus.

 There are three types of internal hemorrhaging viruses in the world today. The main one, and it impacts more than 500,000 African's in Central, and sub-Sahara Africa, is the Lassa fever virus. This virus is responsible for death in about 20% of those who are infected, and it was 'discovered in 1969 when two missionary nurses died from this disease. This disease had been around for many years, but it was not defined as a specific type of virus as the world did not care about 'fever deaths' in the African population. This virus, Lassa, is transmitted by way of rat urine or feces, and once in the human body it can be further be transmitted by bodily fluids which also complicates the situation because then it can become an air born disease (so far it seems that it can not be transmitted by insect bites, but this is not confirmed).

The second internal hemorrhaging virus is called the Marburg virus. It was first recognized in 1967, when strangely enough there were simultaneously outbreaks at research laboratories in Marburg, and Frankfurt, Germany. This virus was thought to be brought to these laboratories by way of monkeys from Uganda. This outbreak of the virus was contained and not heard about again until sometime in 1974.

Strangely enough, that is if you believe that the world is flat, in 1976, and after the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) build a bio weapons laboratory in Kenema, Sierra Leona, Africa, the Ebola virus suddenly came into being. This 'newly discovered' internal hemorrhaging virus was the 'bomb'. It was developed with the covert aid of Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. The USAMRIID is always looking for some type of weaponry with which to inflict death and destruction on an enemy, and this new Ebola virus seemed the perfect weapon of war. Then as often happens with that type of research, and development, the virus 'escaped' and suddenly was a threat to an unsuspecting African population, and ultimately to the populations of the world.

The world is now told that this Ebola virus is a 'natural mutation' when in fact it is a completely manufactured mutation of the Lassa fever virus. The world is also told that there is no current cure for this virus when in fact there is a quite inexpensive treatment available, but it is not some patented drug owned by a big pharmaceutical company. And because this treatment is not something that a big pharmaceutical company can use to 'rake in' excessive profits, this cure is relegated to the 'back pages' of the Internet. So let me give you the information that you might need should this Ebola virus outbreak not be controlled and you become infected.

Vitamin C is a proven killer of all known viruses. Vitamin C is cheap and makes little money for big pharmaceutical companies. Thus these companies do no research on this lowly vitamin. Now please do not misunderstand me. If one is inflicted by the Ebola virus taking a few vitamin C tablets at home will not help. It takes massive doses of this vitamin, and it must be administered and watched by professional health providers. The dose must be so large as to be on the edge of giving the patient diarrhea.... a condition that would make the patient worse. The amount of vitamin C must be closely regulated and this takes responsible professional health providers. All of the internal hemorrhaging viruses, Lassa fever, Marburg, and Ebola are  mutations of the common disease named Scurvy.

Scurvy is something that plagued sailors in times past as they traveled on long voyages without foods that provided the body with vitamin C. Scurvy 'works' by devouring the bodies vitamin C supply, and vitamin C is needed for blood clotting. Scurvy and these hemorrhaging diseases are effective killers because vitamin C is water soluble and must be replaced in the human body each day. And this is the reason Scurvy and these internal hemorrhaging viruses need massive amounts of vitamin C for the patient to make a recovery. It must also be noted that only humans and non human primates need a daily intake of vitamin C because almost all other mammals produce their own supply of vitamin C internally. And it was physician James Lind who discovered the relationship between citrus fruits, vitamin C, and brought the demise of this common sailors disease, Scurvy, in 1747 while a surgeon aboard a British naval ship (thus the reason that even today British sailors are refereed to as Limeys).

Vitamin C has been proved to kill every virus known to man. It does this by way of the formation of hydrogen peroxide in the body that not only arrests viruses, but kills them along with any bacteria found in the blood. Now this being said it seems to me that a more direct route for recovery from an internal hemorrhaging disease would be intravenous injections of Food Grade hydrogen peroxide into the plagued body. Of course such an inexpensive solution is not something that big pharmaceuticals are interested in, and our Federal Government is so corrupted that such an inexpensive solution would curtail their bribes and bull shit, and lessen their gaining monetary handouts from big pharmaceutical companies for their next election to public office.

So now, unfortunately, the worlds populations must suffer from a disease that was created to kill and sicken in time of war by the USAMRIID (Fort Detrick, Maryland), and Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, when there is no declared war, or need for this wanton death and destruction.

Lord Howard Hurts
http://english.pravda.ru/society/stories/08-10-2014/128746-ebola_virus-0/

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'Hayat' NGO: Main donor is the government!

A soft approach to returning British fighters
ISIL combatants seeking an 'exit strategy' from Mideast conflict need positive reinforcement back home, analysts say.

Samira Shackle Last updated: 12 Oct 2014 13:40 AJ

London, United Kingdom - What do you do when you don't want to be an extremist anymore? This is a question many foreign fighters in Syria - and their home governments - are wrangling with.

About 500 British citizens are thought to have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join the group calling itself Islamic State (ISIL) and other rebel groups since the Syrian civil war began in 2011. The figure increased drastically after ISIL declared a new caliphate on land it controls along the Iraq-Syria border.

But some British fighters are losing faith and want to come back and reintegrate in Britain.

In recent months, Prime Minister David Cameron gave police additional powers to confiscate passports and place travel restrictions on those suspected of planning to join the fight. He has also announced moves to ban British citizens who pose a threat to national security from returning to the United Kingdom.

London's Mayor Boris Johnson has suggested that returnees from Iraq and Syria should be presumed guilty of terrorism offences unless they can prove their innocence.

We know that there are people in Syria right now who are not happy to be there and who regret having become involved in the first place. - Peter Neumann, King's College London


It appears that public opinion is behind such punitive measures. A recent poll by YouGov found that three quarters of Londoners believe anyone who has fought with groups in Iraq or Syria should be banned from returning to the UK. But analysts warn that focusing only on crackdowns is an over-simplistic strategy that could exacerbate the problem.

"Foreign fighters are not a monolithic group," says Peter Neumann, director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at King's College London.

"We know that there are people in Syria right now who are not happy to be there and who regret having become involved in the first place. If you don't give people an option to return, the idea of these fighters in Syria becoming dangerous international terrorists becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy."

(Part of the AJ Article) (FULL)

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Interactive: Countries countering ISIL - Interactive - Al Jazeera English

Interactive: Countries countering ISIL - Interactive - Al Jazeera English

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நன்றி:நிலவன்

Modi: Pakistan has been taught befitting lesson, Imran: Resolve Kashmir dispute

Pakistan has been taught befitting lesson: Modi
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Dhamangaon (Maharashtra), Oct 10: As firing from across the border declined, Prime Minister NarendraModi Friday said Pakistan has been taught a "befitting lesson" with the Army "shutting their mouth".
"Pakistan has got a befitting lesson. They will not dare to repeat it again. Our jawans have shut their mouth," he said addressing an election rally here on Friday.
The Prime Minister said those living close to the border with Pakistan who had to leave their homes following nine days of heavy mortar shelling and firing will be adequately compensated by the Centre.
"I assure you, the government of India will act promptly to provide adequate compensation to those who had to leave their homes due to shelling and migrate elsewhere," he said.
Modi also slammed Congress for targeting him over his government's response.
"Congress is busy issuing statements over what is happening on the Pakistan border. This is not the time for empty 'boli' (talk) by them, but for 'goli' (bullet) by our jawans," he said.

Imran Khan asks Modi to use his mandate to resolve Kashmir dispute
Last update at : Sat, 11 Oct 2014 11:15:58 IST


Lahore, Oct 11: Opposition leader and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Party chairman Imran Khan Friday asked Prime Minster Narendra Modi to use his mandate to resolve Kashmir issue.

"Modi! I give you a free suggestion. The Indian people have given you mandate. You should show a big heart and act like a statesman on Kashmir issue," Khan said today while addressing a big public rally.

The cricketer-turned-politician further said: "There has been extreme poverty in the sub-continent. Instead of fighting a war and wasting money on weapons, Pakistan and India should do something to end poverty."

He said both the countries should take measures for lasting peace besides increasing the trade volume between them.

Castigating Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for not condemning "Indian aggression" on the LoC, Imran Khan said: "There has been not a word from Nawaz Sharif on Indian aggression at the LoC that resulted killing of many Pakistanis.

"I on behalf of Nawaz Sharif tell Modi that Pakistan is not afraid of its aggression. If you think Pakistanis will be intimidated by Indian firing at the LoC then you are seriously mistaken. Pakistan is united to face any aggression." PTI 

ENB-Documents: Full text of Alfred Nobel's Will

ENB-Documents: Full text of Alfred Nobel's Will: Full text of Alfred Nobel's Will I, the undersigned, Alfred Bernhard Nobel, do hereby, after mature deliberation, declare the follo...

Growth worries slam stocks, oil, emerging markets

A pedestrian looks at an electronic board showing the stock market indices of various countries outside a brokerage in Tokyo August 8, 2014. Reuters/Yuya Shino

Growth worries slam stocks, oil, emerging marketsBY YASMEEN ABUTALEB

NEW YORK Fri Oct 10, 2014 5:37pm EDT

(Reuters) - Stocks in major global markets closed out one of their worst weeks of the year on Friday, with an index of global equities hitting an eight-month low, and oil slumping to a four-year low as worries about slowing global economic growth darkened the investment outlook.

Major Wall Street stock indexes fell for the third straight week, with the S&P 500 suffering its worst week since mid-2012, as selling accelerating late in the day.

Investors fled to the safety of government debt, with the 30-year Treasury bond's yield nearing the 3.0 percent level for the first time since May 2013.

Money managers have scrambled to reduce big bets in stocks and other risky assets as expectations for world economic growth have shifted in recent days. A raft of weak indicators from Europe and China in particular have collided with concerns about the U.S. Federal Reserve's plans to reduce monetary stimulus.

"In a vacuum of policy response, investors are selling first and asking questions later," said Jim McDonald, chief investment strategist at Chicago-based Northern Trust Asset Management, which has about $924 billion in assets under management.

"It smells like there is a high degree of involvement from systematic traders, rather than fundamental traders. The magnitude of the move has been disproportionate to the change in the fundamentals," he said.

The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI fell 115.15 points, or 0.69 percent, to 16,544.1, the S&P 500 .SPX lost 22.08 points, or 1.15 percent, to 1,906.13 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 102.10 points, or 2.33 percent, to 4,276.24.

The MSCI all-country world index .MIWD00000PUS ended down 1.6 percent to hit its lowest level since February, while the pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 .FTEU3 index ended down more than 1.5 percent. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index .MSCIEF fell 1.8 percent.

In a sign of increased volatility, the CBOE Volatility Index .VIX, or VIX, the market's favored gauge of Wall Street anxiety closed at 21.24, its highest level since December 2012, as more investors paid up for protection against further declines. More than 27 million contracts traded in the U.S. options market Friday, according to Trade Alert data, the busiest day of the year.

Concerns about global growth and rising oil production hit oil prices hard. Brent crude oil LCOc1 fell to $89.62 a barrel, after seeing its lowest level since December 2010 at $88.11. U.S. November crude CLc1 fell to $85.32 a barrel.

The risk aversion has boosted buying in safe-haven government debt. Lipper data shows U.S.-based taxable bond funds attracted $12.7 billion in inflows for the week ended Wednesday, a one-week record, while U.S. equity funds saw $6.7 billion in outflows, with most coming from exchange-traded funds.

The yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury note US10YT=RR fell to 2.2910 percent on Friday, the lowest level since June, and was up 10/32 in price.

Later this month, the Federal Reserve is set to end its asset purchase program that has been credited with boosting stock and bond markets over the past two years. Many observers doubt the recent stimulus measures unveiled by the European Central Bank will make up for the Fed program that some believe has masked underlying issues with demand.

"To some level, people forget how markets trade back and forth - it's not an ever-rising move with shallow pullbacks," said Michael O’Rourke, chief market strategist at JonesTrading in Greenwich, Connecticut.

A string of dismal data from Germany and other large euro zone economies in recent weeks has fed anxiety over a possible return to recession in the region, and the jury is still out on the ECB's proposed policy response.

Some investors have been speculating that the ECB will be forced to launch a sovereign bond-buying program, styled on the Fed's quantitative easing.

China's shares ended down on Friday as investors remained cautious ahead of September economic data due next week. Economists expect the Chinese economy to have grown at its weakest pace in more than five years, according to a Reuters poll.

The U.S. dollar index .DXY, which tracks the greenback against six major currencies, was up 0.44 percent at 85.902. Against the euro EUR=, the dollar was up 0.61 percent at $1.2613. The dollar fell 0.1 percent against the yen to 107.71 yen JPY=.

Euro zone bond yields bounced off record lows after top Federal Reserve officials hinted at an interest rate rise in the middle of next year, reversing some bets for a longer period of near-zero rates.

(Editing by Meredith Mazzilli and Leslie Adler)

மலையகக் கட்சிகளுடனும் பேச்சுவார்த்தை நடத்த எதிர்பார்க்கிறோம் - கூட்டமைப்பு

மலையகக் கட்சிகளுடனும் பேச்சுவார்த்தை நடத்த எதிர்பார்க்கிறோம் - கூட்டமைப்பு

மலையக தமிழ் மக்களை பிரதிநிதித்துவப் படுத்தும் அரசியல் கட்சிகளுடன் பேச்சுவார்த்தை நடத்த எதிர்பார்ப்பதாக, தமிழ் தேசிய கூட்டமைப்பு தெரிவித்துள்ளது.

கூட்டமைப்பின் நாடாளுமன்ற உறுப்பினர் சுரேஷ் பிரேமசந்திரன், இதனை உள்நாட்டு ஊடகம் ஒன்றுக்கு கூறியுள்ளார்.

அண்மையில் தமிழ் தேசிய கூட்டமைப்பு இந்தியா சென்றிருந்தது.

இதன் போது தமிழ் தேசிய கூட்டமைப்பை வலுப்படுத்தும் வகையில், ஏனைய தமிழ் சமூகங்களுடனும் இணைந்து புதிய சக்தியை உருவாக்க வேண்டும் என்று இந்திய பிரதமர் கோரி இருந்தார்.

இதன் அடிப்படையில் தமிழ் தேசிய கூட்டமைப்பு விரைவில் சிறிலங்கா முஸ்லிம் காங்கிரஸை சந்திக்கிறது.

இதன் தொடர்ச்சியாக மலையகத்தை பிரதிநிதித்துவப் படுத்துகின்ற கட்சிகளையும் கூட்டமைப்பு சந்திக்கவிருப்பதாக அவர் கூறியுள்ளார்.