Nobel Winner Urges Defeat Of Poverty

Six Americans, Turkish Writer Join Bangladeshi Peace Prize Winner In 2006 Nobel Ceremonies

(AP)  John C. Mather and George F. Smoot won the physics prize for work that helped cement the big-bang theory of how the universe was created.

Nobel physics committee chairman Per Carlson said that with their findings, "the first step toward understanding the development of structures in the universe had been taken."

Roger D. Kornberg won the prize in chemistry for his studies of how cells take information from genes to produce proteins, a process that could provide insight into defeating cancer and advancing stem cell research. His 88-year-old father, Arthur, who won the 1959 Nobel Prize in medicine, was attending the ceremony.

Economics winner Edmund S. Phelps was cited for research into the relationship between inflation and unemployment, giving governments better tools to formulate economic policy. The economics award is not an original Nobel Prize, but was created by the Bank of Sweden in 1968.

The award ceremonies were followed by lavish banquets in Oslo and Stockholm, where some 1,300 guests including Sweden's royal family were to attend a white-tie gala dinner.

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In Bangladesh, thousands of people set aside their nation's latest political crisis on Sunday to watch live television coverage of their receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway.

Many residents, who stayed glued to their TVs throughout the day to get the latest news on the deployment of army troops to contain a growing political chaos, ended up watching the ceremony, which was broadcast live from Oslo on state-run Bangladesh Television and most private channels.

In Yunus's home district of Chittagong, several thousand citizens squatted or stood around a large screen put up at a stadium.

People clapped and shouted, "Long live Bangladesh" when Yunus spoke a few words in Bangla, the national language, during his Nobel speech.

Abdul Salam, 35, who owns a sports shop near the stadium, said, "He is a son of Chittagong. We are so proud of him, he has brightened our country's image worldwide," said Salam.

Villagers, many of whom have benefited from Grameen Bank's small-loan programs, also watched in groups at local shops.

They were thrilled when one of their own, Taslima Begum, a Grameen borrower from northern Rajshahi district, accepted the prize on their behalf at the Oslo City Hall.

"We are so happy, wish we could all have gone there," said Samida Begum, talking by telephone from Kelia village near Dhaka. Begum runs a phone call shop started with a Grameen Bank loan almost 18 years ago. Her family also owns a poultry shop started with a loan from Grameen.

[agnim]

""We must address the root causes of terrorism to end it for all time to come. I believe that putting resources into improving the lives of the poor people is a better strategy than spending it on guns."
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus."

Well isn't that a curious statement coming from a guy who is taking the blood money 'prize' of a terror-creating guy who didn't just build guns; he built BIG GUNS, cannons to be exact to blow away people in large quantities! LOL

[grazinggoat]

'However, Yunus does his cause a disfavor in accepting the blood money of a devilish pyromaniac whose name the world shouldn't want to remember or keep alive!'
Posted by Agnim


Not so sure Agnim about that. This has to be known to curious people who are looking forward to relief the pain and poverty of other communities elsewhere in the world. Give them the tools to make it happen but not do the same way some religion-based fostering (brainwashing-conditioning-converting) do.

[grazinggoat]

"We must address the root causes of terrorism to end it for all time to come. I believe that putting resources into improving the lives of the poor people is a better strategy than spending it on guns."
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus.

This is a great way of putting it.

This is not a communist before you GOP and neo-cons right-wingers throw stones at him and he happens to be a MUSLIM...

Walking-Liar and Wax-Face what do they think of this? Takes too long to make changes? Too eager to get richer, faster. With guns and depleated-Uranium bombs.

Way to go Yunus. Proud of humans like you.

[agnim]

"Hookay, dig up Alexander Bell and Thomas Edison while you're at it to crucify them also.

Posted by OlGreyGhost at 05:24 PM : Dec 10, 2006"

So the telephone and the light bulb are created for a similar purpose as cannon of mass murder? Tsk-tsk.

[olgreyghost]

Hookay, dig up Alexander Bell and Thomas Edison while you're at it to crucify them also. Their inventions have also been used to the detriment of mankind. Geez, we're bound to find the Neanderthal who discovered how to use fire one day...:)

[agnim]

Goodness, Agnim, can't you let the man rest in peace.

Posted by OlGreyGhost at 01:08 PM : Dec 10, 2006

He was the one who chose to leave his bloody name in the lime light; so that he will have no peace along with those who continue to suffer on account of his devilish inventions.

No one should be taking his blood money; and in this way that pyromaniac's name could be relegated to the garbage heap of history where it belongs.

"Bofors' most famous owner was Alfred Nobel who owned the company from 1894 until his death in December of 1896. He had the key role in reshaping the iron manufacturer to a modern cannon manufacturer and chemical industry."

[olgreyghost]

Goodness, Agnim, can't you let the man rest in peace. Nobel felt enough guilt for the way his otherwise useful invention had been turned into a weapon by other men so he developed the Peace Prize to encourage people to seek peace instead of war as a means to solving all of Man's collective problems.

[agnim]

Yunus has done a great job towards the destruction of MAN-MADE POVERTY!


However, Yunus does his cause a disfavor in accepting the blood money of a devilish pyromaniac whose name the world shouldn't want to remember or keep alive!

[linfinster]

What a beautiful thing that is! I am so very happy for all those impoverished people out who can make something for themselves because of this concept.
Double the award!