“My message is: ‘You have to get back to playing your serious role as a leader, playing a liberatory role for the rest of the world’,” Pillay, 85, told Reuters in The Hague, where she is currently a judge at the United Nations’ highest legal body, the International Court of Justice.
He invented dynamite and then felt bad and now every dynamite inventor invents more dynamite so they can be like, “Look, look, here is peace!”
“He invented dynamite -> Saw his obituary and it said he caused deaths -> Nobel prize to launder his reputation” is the story the Nobel family wants you to hear. And it’s not wrong that the Nobel prizes are for reputation laundering, and it is remarkable that they just out and admit that.
But the Nobels were prolific weapons dealers, their name is still on an arms manufacturer. He ran Bofors, nobel dynamite and a Scottish explosive company. His dad made his fortune selling sea mines to the Russian empire.
I’m mostly dead and still learning something new everyday
They were also prolific oligarchs (That’s what we call rich people from that part of the world) in the late Russian empire. For instance they all but had a monopoly on oil in the country through their company Branobel. They sold their part in that company in 1920 (Yes)
Personal opinion on the Nobel prize shifting from dismissive to antipathy
Who’s that in your avatar?
Kjeld. A character from the old Danish(/Norwegian) film series “Olsen Banden”. I am also named after him ,but I forgor about the silent J
See also: Pulitzer, namesake of the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism.
Bofors deez mass murder devices