Analysis of Obama speech: Take that, Cheney

- Every good speechmaker has an audience in mind. In President Barack Obama’s case, his Nobel Peace Prize lecture was a message to several audiences. Among them: supporters at home and abroad who cheered his election and the hope for racial and global reconciliation he represents, and critics who think he hasn’t done enough yet to warrant such an historic honor.

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Willow Smith, the daughter of actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, made a splash in Norway on Friday when she participated in Nobel Peace Prize festivities with her parents.

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War-maker Peace Laureate Obama gave a speech at the award banquet , due to fly home today - no press conference, no staying around for the gala concert in his honour, and no attending a dinner with the King of Norway.

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US president on his way to Oslo to receive Nobel Prize for Peace just as he issues orders to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. In meantime, majority of American public does not think Obama deserves prize. Neither do most Norwegians

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Baluch hunger strike in front of Norway embassy in Washington DC

WASHINGTON DC, Nov.

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French military defeat and the mass flight of French settlers after 132 years of French rule in North Africa is the way the Algerian war of liberation ended.

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How did this happen? What was the Oslo Committee's motive?

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"About the only thing more comical than Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize was the reaction of those who deemed the award "premature," as if the brilliance of Obama's foreign policy is so self-evident and its success so assured that if only the Norway Five had waited a few years, h …

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"The committee said it chose Barack Obama for his "vision of . . . a world without nuclear weapons" and for "meeting the great climactic challenges the world is confronting." I'd say that completes the argument over old and new Europe. This is a Nobel of decadence."

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The Nobel committee did President Obama no favors by prematurely awarding him its peace prize.

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The Nobel Prize is really Obama's payback for disciplining the unruly United States and taming it to be a member of the European family of nations.

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Gosh, it's been so long ago ... what "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy" did Obama make in the first 12 days?

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From Gideon Levy to Barack Obama, from Yariv Oppenheimer to Ismail Haniyeh, from Zahava Gal-On to Tzipi Livni - they all recite the same phrase: It's time to put an end to the "occupation." Once the "occupation" ends, peace will be sealed.

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There must have been something in the air last month: Two prominent Israeli leftists publicly acknowledged fundamental problems in the "peace process" that will make a deal unachievable if not resolved.

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In the conventional politically correct narrative, terrorism is a kind of desperate activism taken in reaction to oppression or some form of action taken against it. So for example, Osama bin Laden carried out 9/11 in reaction to US foreign policy.

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"Irshad Manji debated Tariq Ramadan for the first time in Oslo on Friday. It turned into a very interesting exchange. Ramadan was from the start exasperated with Manji. And when she asked him what on earth was wrong, he blurted out: Woman!

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A joint mock exercise by both UK and Norway, but kept as realistic as possible, of how to disarm a nuclear bomb or verify in the dismantlement of another country's nuclear weapon. A BBC correspondent finds out.

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After sweeping the streets of Norway's capital Oslo clean of prostitutes last year, city police were a bit shocked to discover that the pros are back and their numbers are just as high as they were before the clean-up effort.

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"For some weeks now, commentators have been telling us that if only Israel agrees to accept the US position regarding the two-state solution, it would be possible to progress quickly and secure a final-status agreement.

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When capitalism seemed on the verge of collapse last fall, Kristin Halvorsen, Norway's Socialist finance minister and a longtime free market skeptic, did more than crow.

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Norway opened a 560 kilometre "hydrogen highway" on Monday with more than a dozen hydrogen-powered cars rallying along a scenic route between its capital city Oslo and North Sea oil hub Stavanger.

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A gunman has opened fire near Oslo, killing several people, reports from Norway say.

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The Israeli left is increasingly waking up to the disturbing reality that their country is surrounded by people with genocidal intent, and historian Benny Morris is a case in point: Running out of Solutions.

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This is an extremely funny 3d animated gay commercial about the Oslo Festival. It shows a bunch of sperm trying to win the race to get into an egg. One of them succeeds in outracing the others, however, it feels lost after not finding the egg.

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