Tourist board responds with toilet humour after US president’s ‘shithouse country’ jibe over failure to win Nobel peace prize

Some might find it decidedly incommodious to be dumped on by Donald Trump as a “shithouse country”. Not the Norwegian tourist board, which chose instead to lift the lid on some of the nation’s loveliest lavatories.

“Are these the world’s best shit houses?” asked Visit Norway on its website, days after the US president vented his fury once more over failing to win the Nobel peace prize by describing Norway as a “shithouse country” at a rally on Sunday.

Continue reading...

© Photograph: Visit Norway

© Photograph: Visit Norway

© Photograph: Visit Norway

Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a warning to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado on Monday, without explicitly naming her after the exiled Nobel Peace Prize winner returned to her home country. “You’re not going to street-protest your way into a democracy,” Rubio told reporters, according to Axios. He also praised her return, saying…

The United States is not simply declining to uphold international law; it is imposing costs on others for attempting to uphold it.

Foreign Ministry says ‘Goebbels is applauding from Hell' over Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to jurist who chaired a UN commission that concluded Israel had committed genocide in Gaza

Netanyahu on the hook for at least 24 hostage deaths, possible "treason" ■ Netanyahu administration have strong words about Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay ■ More

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to a South African judge who led the UN panel that accused Israel of genocide, leading Israel to brand the judge a "frontrunner" in "lies, hatred and blood libels".

The post Nobel Hands Peace Prize to Judge Who Declared Israel Guilty of “Genocide” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

The committee said Pillay's award was a message to those seeking to undermine 'the international rules-based system and the institutions.'

The committee said Pillay's award was a message to those seeking to undermine 'the international rules-based system and the institutions.'