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Re:Let's get Salman Khan (khanacademy.org) on the TED stage by Untitled on Monday October 04, 2010 @11:11AM (#1755872)
The majority of people who received the Nobel Peace Prize did fuck-all for world peace (e.g. Yassar Arrafat - a terrorist, Henry Kissinger, Barrack Obama - fighting two wars and starting a new one in Pakistan, Al Gore - he made a movie, etc...).

Al Gore and Barrack Obama received their prizes for "not being George Bush". That is about it. The Nobel Peace Prize is useless bullshit (as is the Nobel Prize in Literature).

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Re:Let's get Salman Khan (khanacademy.org) on the TED stage by henrikschroder on Monday October 04, 2010 @01:04PM (#1756388)
The majority of laureates did quite a lot for peace. You're picking the controversial outliers and passing them off as the general case.
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