{"id":217,"date":"2012-12-12T10:35:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T10:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/?p=117"},"modified":"2012-12-12T10:35:11","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T10:35:11","slug":"concealed-freemason-member-barack-obama-awarded-nobel-peace-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/12\/concealed-freemason-member-barack-obama-awarded-nobel-peace-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Concealed Freemason Member Barack Obama awarded Nobel Peace Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<!-- Post Body Copy -->\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<p>Voice of America<\/p>\n<p>Obama Peace Prize Award Elicits Praise, Criticism<\/p>\n<p>By Michael Bowman<br \/>\nWashington<\/p>\n<p>09 October 2009<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Bro. Obama Freemason Gesture Signal\" src=\"http:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/pics\/obama.masonic.handpump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"370\" \/><br \/>\nGlobal reaction to U.S. President Barack Obama being awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize ranges from hearty congratulations to expressions of disbelief and derision.<\/p>\n<p>The Norwegian Nobel Committee recognized the president for his work to strengthen international diplomacy, citing in particular efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons. The peace prize appears to have caught everyone, including Mr. Obama himself, by surprise.<\/p>\n<p>At American College in Cairo, political scientist Saiid Sadek found Mr. Obama&#8217;s selection odd and undeserved. &#8220;There is no peace in Iraq, nor in Afghanistan. The Arab-Israeli conflict is still at a standstill. As usual, nothing happened. And Guantanamo Bay jail is still open. So what for is he getting that prize?,&#8221; he said<\/p>\n<p>U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described the peace prize as &#8220;great news&#8221;. &#8220;President Obama embodies the new spirit of dialogue and engagement on the world&#8217;s biggest problems: climate change, nuclear disarmament and a wide range of peace and security challenges,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Two other sitting U.S. presidents have become Nobel laureates: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20101114220134\/http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/english\/2009-10-09-voa58.cfm\">Full Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"pinterest\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Concealed%20Freemason%20Member%20Barack%20Obama%20awarded%20Nobel%20Peace%20Prize\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voice of America Obama Peace Prize Award Elicits Praise, Criticism By Michael Bowman Washington 09 October 2009 Global reaction to U.S. President Barack Obama being awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize ranges from hearty congratulations to expressions of disbelief and derision. The Norwegian Nobel Committee recognized the president for his<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"pinterest\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Concealed%20Freemason%20Member%20Barack%20Obama%20awarded%20Nobel%20Peace%20Prize\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,30,7,57,18,22,39,19],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-afghanistan","category-barack-obama","category-freemasons","category-iraq","category-islam","category-israel","category-masonic-gestures","category-u-n","tag-nobel-peace-prize",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}