Comments on: How NOT to Win the Nobel Peace Prize

By: Whitney

Whitney — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:39:20 +0000

And this is the reason I read http://www.fr33agents.com. Killer posts.

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By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:11:53 +0000

Brilliantly written post about something very inspiring.

As a side note, some of us who don’t believe in altruism still believe in the greatness of doing good works. We just think good works are done for different reasons: feeling good about one’s self is an excellent selfish motive for doing good works.

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:42:54 +0000

Well, it turns out that the Central Asia Institute will be getting $100K of the prize money after all as it is one of the charities Obama will be donating the award money to: Obama picks charities to which he’ll donate Nobel prize cash award

By: Temujin

Temujin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:13:33 +0000

Thank you for spreading the news about this man.

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:47:42 +0000

Yes, that school is the Lalander School in Afghanistan.

By: vroman

vroman — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:56:08 +0000

I saw this guy speak at my sister’s college graduation this year. I was expecting a lefty-indulgent speech, but was very pleasantly surprised. Mortensen is doing good work, and his book is on my list. It gets easier and easier to make common cause with anti-Imperialists in general.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:16:29 +0000

Hey, I’m right in the middle of reading his book. My daughter gave it to me and said “I bet you’re going to like this guy.” I guess the photo at the top is one of the schools he helped build?

By: Ken’s Weblog » Blog Archive » More news that makes the Nobel Peace Prize look bad

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:50:16 +0000

[...] How NOT to Win the Nobel Peace Prize. Enough has been said of this year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. I’m not going to talk about him. Instead, I want to publicly acknowledge someone who did not win but who I think deserves to be on voluntaryists’ and other pro-freedom folks’ radar. Ostensibly, Peace Prize nominees’ names are kept secret for 50 years after they are nominated. However, we have teh Intarwebs now, and it’s a little tougher to keep a lid on information like that. Word has been out for a while now that Greg Mortenson was one of the nominees for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. [...]

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Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:05:52 +0000

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By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:12:28 +0000

Apparently it turned ginger-colored from a form of malnutrition called kwashiorkor which is basically due to a lack of protein.