IT SAYS IT ALL: Nobel Da Paz?

I came across this terrific cartoon today which effectively and tellingly lampoons the ludicrous recent decision by the Nobel committee to award the Nobel Prize for Peace to the European Union:


Cartoon courtesy of Antero (Portugal), as cited at keeptalkinggreece.com

"Nobel da Paz?" is "Nobel for Peace" in Portuguese, and the bruised nations of Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece are depicted. 

As the blog www.keeptalkingreece.com scathingly commented:

"This must be the joke in the history of Nobel Prize. Crisis-torn European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2012,  ‘for its historic role in uniting the continent’. Unless the Nobel Prize committee members had a sudden attack of a cynicism, KTG would say that Barroso, Van Rompuy & Co deserve to win the prize for a single reason: Living peacefully in their bubbles while many European Citizens, especially those in the South, live in conditions that violate the EU human rights standards and conventions.

In Greece and Portugal, in Spain and Ireland in the North, where social cohesion is breaking apart, the social welfare is collapsing, the needy cannot cover basic needs and the poor with less than 6,000 euro annual income get taxed. But that’s history on the making and ‘social peace’ has nothing to do with the Nobel Prize standards."

Again, it has taken me this many days to finally summon the anger I have with this outrageous award to the EU.

For cartoon and commentary alike, it's a case of enough said.