Nobel Peace Prize

Sorry, but the Nobel Peace Prize has become a transparent fraud. Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite but later regretted doing so, endowed the prize and instructed that it go "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses". This year's winner, former VP Al Gore, has done exactly NONE of those things. He became the second environmental activist to win the prize in the last four years. Wangari Muta Maathal won it in 2004 for planting trees. It can be argued that the peace prize became meaningless in 1992 when it was awarded to literary fraud Rigoberta Menchu whose autobiography was found to be largely fabricated, or in 1994 when Yasser Arafat, that notorious murdering terrorist, was chosen. And don't forget another winner, Kofi Annan, the corrupt UN mastermind behind the Oil-For-Food debacle with Iraq. Sorry, but the Nobel Peace Prize is no longer any more serious an international award than a Miss Universe tiara. If alive to see the fraud it has become, Alfred would no doubt use his dynamite to blow up this now-useless medal.