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this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2026
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anyone remember how Assange and his Russian handlers tried to file a criminal complaint against the Nobel Foundation for their lack of prescience regarding Trump's attacks on Venezuala?
The complaint was dismissed 2 days later.
Writeup in Swedish here by yours truly:
https://gerikson.com/m/2026/01/index.html#d21p01_wed
Update I went through the trouble of reading the will itself (short and sweet), and the statutes of the foundation
Para 10:
https://www.nobelprize.org/about/statutes-of-the-nobel-foundation/#par10
Also short and sweet. There's simply no legal way to hold the foundation itself responsible for the decisions of the prize-awarning committees.
Worldwide hinge shortage continues
while it's obviously stupid and misguided to try to hold the nobel foundation criminally liable for making yet another bad selection for a prize that has been given to egregious war criminals (kissinger), it is a very funny joke.