Today's dose of NIF - News, Interesting & Funny ... Finally blogging again Monday

Guess who's been awarded the Nobel Orwellian Peace Prize? Mohammed Elbaradei, head honcho of the International Atomic Energy Agency, a very notorious anti-Americanist (and I wouldn't be surprised if he were also an anti-Israelist).

Both the Nobel Commission and the IAEA were cringing with embarassment today as it was revealed that a new nuclear power has emerged: the IAEA. Shortly after the Nobel Commission announced that the IAEA would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their ...

Why doesn't the Stockholm-based Nobel Foundation just change the name of its annual Peace Prize to the Bush Bash? Read the rest

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei and the agency have won the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize, despite ongoing nuclear proliferation. OSLO, Norway (AP) - Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Age...

And the Nobel Peace Prize goes to...

Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency. CNN reports:
The U.N. nuclear wat...

I would bet that you don't remember to much about the Korean war. Had you been born yet?
I would also bet that you don't know much about the Iranian hostage crisis. If you were born then, how old were you at that time?

I remember both of those times well, and I have seen how these countries lie, cheat and steal until the get their way.

You can beleive me when I tell you that Military Force is the only thing those dictators of their countries know. Both of these countries are long overdue for a swift kick in the rear end by the military

Mohamed ElBaredi has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Washington Post has the story. The Post reports:Mohamed ElBaradei and International Atomic Energy Agency, the nuclear watchdog agency he heads, won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Peace today. The N...

They would have to call it the Nobel Peace Prize... Far from promoting peace, ElBaradei and his agency's incompetence actually make a violent resolution much more likely.

The International Atomic Energy Agency and its head, Egyptian Mohammed ElBaradei, have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2005:
OSLO, Norway (AP) - Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency won the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize on Fri...

I'm sure we disagree about this in general, but it seems to me that there is a very good case to be made that the IAEA has been on target, and that many of the disagreements of fact that the IAEA has with hardliners in the Bush administration are partly a question of evidence, but also partly due to internal administration pressures to read things a certain way.

And however that may be, the IAEA is an important organization for the ways in which it provides cover for local elites to pressure administrations to give up their nuclear ambitions. Unilateral military force (or, more precisely, the now somewhat hollow threat of unilateral military force from the US) isn't going to do that alone.

Mohamed ElBaradei and the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency have been awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Of course, neither ElBaradei or the IAEA have done a single thing to prevent nuclear weapons proliferation, but at least they tried. Wh...