"This year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is a notorious scandal-ridden organization, guilty of heinous crimes for many years. ...[UPDATE: Trump's Nobel nomination is for the 2021 prize, so he was not slighted this year. That does not change the thrust of this article, which is that the Nobel Prize is a joke.]
Here is the official notice of the prizewinner:
The Nobel Peace Prize 2020 was awarded to World Food Programme (WFP) "for its efforts to combat hunger...
The UN Food Programme has long been notorious for “rampant corruption.” From Newsweek, not exactly a conservative outlet, 10 years ago:
A U.N. report released last week paints a damning portrait of the World Food Programme's operations there: an estimated 50 percent of food delivered by the U.N. agency is essentially being stolen—not only by the WFP's own personnel and contractors, but also Somalia's armed militias, some of whom are radical Islamists...
That is far from the worst of it. Trading food for sex has long been a feature of the program’s staff. From 2 years ago, in the New York Post...
And from last year, via Code Blue:
Yet another United Nations entity—this time the World Food Programme (WFP)—is engulfed in a sexual abuse scandal.A total of 28 respondents to an independent survey of WFP staff members said they “had experienced an act of ‘rape, attempted rape or other sexual assault or rape’ while working at the food agency,” according to an article published yesterday in Foreign Policy....
When Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 before he had taken any significant actions as POTUS, conservatives recognized that it was a joke. This year’s prize to an organization that has a long track record of horrendous abuse takes the cake, though.
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