Nobel Peace Prize - Honorable Mention

Another year goes by without a single lumberjack being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Never mind, it's good to know that there were some amazing contenders. For example, Lida Yusupova:

Nobel candidacy spurred threat
Lida Yusupova, the Chechen lawyer who's been working for years to document human rights abuses, has received death threats over the telephone that were clearly linked to her candidacy for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Lida Yusupova keeps working on behalf of victims of the war in Chechnya from her cramped apartment on the outskirts of Russia.

"So you're a candidate for the Peace Prize?" asked a male voice on the phone to Yusupova recently. "But in order to receive it, you also have to survive.

"It will be best for you if you halt your work, and that you don't win the prize. If you even live that long."

The thinly veiled death threat came after a Russian newspaper published an article that the Chechen lawyer was one of the leading candidates to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

It's comical to think that one of the other contenders for the Peace Prize said, "the United States needed to take Afghanistan first to provide access to land to build a pipeline for Iraq’s oil." Takes all kinds I suppose.