Can we just retire the friggin' Nobel Peace Prize Already?

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15. Many people may actually believe that

"I mean, seriously, it HAS NO MEANING ANYMORE. And Hasn't for a long time..."

Many people may actually believe that. However, many people may believe otherwise, regardless of the whether both the nominees and the winners stack up 100% with our own political beliefs, or whether we're aware of the meaning it has for its recipients or not.

Although I do realize that you, like The right-leaning Telegraph and the authoritarian Chinese government may have quite a few problems with, it takes nothing in fact, away from anyone.

One wonders if the critics of the EU's receiving a prize actually read the nominating notes: two of the EU's named principal features – the devolution of power (or "plus jamais la guerre&quot , and the solid social alliance and trust between Great Britain, Germany and France - would have been unthinkable merely one hundred years ago, seems to me be worthy in and of itself.