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Nobel Peace Prize for 2012: European Union Wins For Uniting Continent.

In the midst of major economic, political and psychological crises, the EU won a peace prize for having promoted democracy and peace!?!

Thorbjoern Jagland, the Nobel Committee Chairman  announced the following, ” The stabilizing part played by the European Union had helped to transform a once-torn Europe from a continent of war to a continent of peace”.

  Well, as far as I am concerned,  that statement pretty much summarizes a narrative replete with lies, distortions and arrogance.
  Let us remember that this same committee awarded President Barack Obama in 2009 the Peace Prize for basically being ‘nice to muslims’ and ‘improving the atmosphere for international diplomacy’.  For those of you who remember this particular Peace Prize, then please recall that literally the next day, Obama declared an unnecessary war against ‘Al Qaeda ‘ in Afghanistan. And he certainly demonstrated his proclivity for peace when he, and then DCI Panetta,  spewed forth dozens upon dozens of drones over the penumbra of ‘so-called terrorist areas’ in Pakistan, Afghanistan , Yemen, and the Sudan. These drones killed thousands of innocent men, women and children.  Obama and Panetta called the deaths of these innocent people ‘collateral damage’ and the military  used the ludicrous term ---‘unintended consequences’.  The covert operatives loved Obama despite their public protestations that this President did not understand the DDO.  Nonsense!  Obama has been by proclivity and heritage [mother, maternal grandmother, maternal grandfather—all CIA officers], one of the favorite Presidents of the CIA and our SOF. 

Clearly, Obama loves covert actions and ‘collateral damage ‘ more than he loves the Peace Prize.  But Obama’s award of the Peace Prize belies the incredible lies that underlie this fatuous, if not, completely cynical, award. 

Let us start with the Alfred Noble,  the Swedish chemist, engineer and armaments manufacturer who donated the money for this award.  Basically he was the Swede who discovered dynamite and manufactured armaments for war. His family and he were in the  armaments  manufacturing business for centuries. The Nobel Family [remember not ‘noble’] produced the major armaments for the Crimean War [1853-1856]. Not satisfied with producing the ineffectiveness of their ‘killing machines’ Nobel and his family went into the business of manufacturing ‘nitroglycerin ‘ and ‘dynamite’, ostensibly for mining purposes.  However,   these  chemicals are still important today in the present day Nobel Companies called Dynamit Nobel and Akzo Nobel in Norway.

So now you have some idea of how the origins of the so-called Peace Prize started---from the manufacturers of ‘killing machines and deadly chemicals’.  No apologies here from the Norwegians or the equally hypocritical Swedes [but this issue of the nefarious Wallenbergs we will discuss at another time] who still remain ‘merchants of death’. 

Now why do I call the Norwegians ‘merchants of death’?  First, despite their hypocritical  recognition of the importance of the EU,   every Norwegian refused to enter the EU for fear that their economy would be harmed by interference from Brussels [already a disaster]. Unlike the financially strapped EU countries, Norway is blessed with unlimited oil reserves from the North Sea and, oh yes, it’s a monolithic ethnic group of nine million people with no government debt.  How patronizing of the Nobel committee to praise the EU countries composed of 27 nations and five hundred million people, most of whom can barely make a day’s wages. 

But this Norwegian hypocrisy does not stop here, Conveniently,  as times goes by, the Norwegians would like the world to forget the name of their most infamous Vidkun Quisling who seized power in  a Nazi-backed coup d’etat and served as Minister-President from 1942-1945 . The collaborationist government participated willingly or unwillingly in Germany’s Final Solution of the Extermination of six million jews, gentiles, gypsies, homosexuals, Catholics, muslims, and many others. 

Thus the Nobel Prize becomes a clear counter point to Norway’s nefarious past and continuing hypocrisy.

 But there is unfortunately one more variable that is present in the presentation of the award to the EU and that is Norway’s deliberate distortion of French /German history [remember Norway was Germany’s axis ally] or simple ignorance.

  The EU was created by the French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman who had proposed on May 9, 1950 [five years after France had lost WWII] that  France and the Federal Republic Of Germany pool their collective coal and steel resources in a new organization that other European countries could join.

Contrary to Mr Jagland’s disingenuous comments that this was a ‘peace initiative’.  In fact, this French initiative, like all other attempts by France, to control Germany had nothing to do with peace- but everything to do with France trying to reinsert  it’s political and economic pre-eminence in Europe after WWII.  What is important to understand is that France was not very effective in fighting the Germans and had, like Norway,  more collaborators than they had Resistance Fighters.  Unfortunately,  I knew this from firsthand experience after my father having fought in the so –called French Army for six weeks was told to leave and  ‘save  your life’. 

  So the point to remember is that Schulman wanted to have France as the pre-eminent power that would control the most valuable asset ---the Ruhr Valley coal and steel resources that was the basis of several wars between France in Germany.  A little known fact is that both the Polish and French Armies ‘invaded’ Germany’s Ruhr Valley in 1926-27 in order to seize the resources in a Germany that had been defeated in WWI –again not by France—but by US forces.  So what we had here,  was clear power play on the part of France to grab the German resources in what was then a fragmented Germany.  At that time, Germany had been defeated by the Allies and split up in so many pieces between the allies and Soviets  that the ‘brave French Politicians’ thought they could make pre-emptive move against a future Germany and once again- claim their imaginary grandeur and prowess that General Charles DeGaulle falsely claimed on their behalf while in exile in England. 

  Forty years later, I was privy to witness a phenomenon that few people would have imagined back in the 1950’s.  Under the leadership of Secretary of State James Baker and Robert Zoellick , the two statesmen unified East and West Germany and in the process tried to make certain that Germany would not present an economic threat to France.  But thanks to French arrogance under President Mitterand  and a citizenry that had very little desire to work, France had found itself not as the economic leader of the EU but as the ‘financial hostage’ of Frankfurt, Germany. The central bank of Germany had effectively outmaneuvered the failed attempts by the French Ministry to contain German industrial might and economic superiority.  And now , all of Europe has to depend on the generosity of one person---Chancellor Angela Merkel,  a PHD physicist from East Germany whose father , a Lutheran Minister,  had enough courage and conviction to move to East Germany in order to dedicate his life to ‘taking down ‘ the Stasi Regime.

  In conclusion,  it’s clear to see that Norway should cease from making any awards other than to explain to the world it’s nefarious past as well as the ‘merchants of death’--  Alfred Nobel and his Swedish progeny along with the Wallenberg family. 

  As for the story of France and it’s attempt to take over EU power, it’s time that France admit to itself what DeGaulle had once said about his countrymen: ”It’s a pity that France belongs to the Frenchmen”. 

Remember Lord Acton’s warning: ”Power corrupts. And Absolute Power corrupts Absolutely” .

The Europe Union had nothing to do with preserving peace or maintaining cordial harmony, it was a bold, naked grab for power which failed and became the very destructive instrument of worldwide financial chaos. Thank you Norway!