{"id":7455,"date":"2010-09-27T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T22:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=7455"},"modified":"2015-03-09T08:34:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T08:34:40","slug":"no-bull-prize-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/09\/no-bull-prize-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"No Bull Prize Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is a contribution to efforts to put the No Bull Prize Award on an appropriate footing in global society.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Agriculture<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monsanto\" > Monsanto Company<\/a>, notably for avoiding any need for insemination in the production of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Terminator_seeds\" >Terminator seeds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Anarchism<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/No%EF%BF%BDl_Godin\" >No\u00ebl Godin<\/a>, for his activist opposition to pomposity and authoritarianism in all their forms, as instigator of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.entartistes.ca\/\" >Internationale des Anarchos-P\u00e2tissiers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Business<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Naomi_Klein\" >Naomi Klein<\/a>, for telling it as it is, and most notably for <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/No_Logo\" title=\"No Logo\" >No Logo<\/a>: no space, no choice, no jobs<\/em> (2000)<em>, <\/em> <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fences_and_Windows\" title=\"Fences and Windows\" >Fences and Windows<\/a>: dispatches from the front lines of the globalization debate<\/em> (2002), and <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Shock_Doctrine\" title=\"The Shock Doctrine\" >The Shock Doctrine<\/a>: the rise of disaster capitalism<\/em> (2007)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Care<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hospicecare.com\/\" >International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Chemistry<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Union_carbide\" >Union Carbide<\/a>, for its uncompromising policy with regard to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bhopal_disaster\" >Bhopal disaster<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Crisis Anticipation<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jared_M._Diamond\" >Jared M. Diamond<\/a>, notably for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Collapse:_How_Societies_Choose_to_Fail_or_Succeed\" ><em>Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed<\/em><\/a> (2005)<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Homer-Dixon\" >Thomas Homer-Dixon<\/a>, notably for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Upside_of_Down\" ><em>The Upside of Down: catastrophe, creativity, and the renewal of civilization<\/em><\/a> (2006)<\/li>\n<li>Karen Cerullo, notably for <em>Never Saw It Coming: cultural challenges to envisioning the worst<\/em> (2006)<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nassim_taleb\" >Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a>, notably for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Black_Swan_%28book%29\" ><em>The Black Swan: the impact of the highly improbable<\/em><\/a> (2007)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Development<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dambisa_Moyo\" >Dambisa Moyo<\/a>, notably for <em>Dead Aid: why aid is not working and how there is a better way for Africa <\/em>(2009) and for <em>How the West Was Lost: fifty years of economic folly &#8211; and the stark choices that lie ahead<\/em> (2011)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Economics<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stiglitz\" >Joseph Stiglitz<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hazel_Henderson\" >Hazel Henderson<\/a>, for telling it as it is<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herman_Daly\" >Herman Daly<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paulo_Freire\" >Paulo Freire<\/a>, notably for <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pedagogy_of_the_Oppressed\" title=\"Pedagogy of the Oppressed\" >Pedagogy of the Oppressed<\/a><\/em> (1970)<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ivan_Illich\" >Ivan Illich<\/a>, notably for <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deschooling_Society\" >Deschooling Society<\/a><\/em> (1971)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greenpeace\" >Greenpeace<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Earth_First\" >Earth First<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Lovelock\" >James Lovelock<\/a>, notably for <em>The Vanishing Face of Gaia: a final warning &#8212; enjoy it while you can<\/em> (2009)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Euthanasia<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dignitas_%28euthanasia_group%29\" >Dignitas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exit_International\" >Exit International<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Finance<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Soros\" >George Soros<\/a>, most notably for <em>The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: the credit crisis of 2008 and what it means<\/em> (2008) and <em>The Age of Fallibility: consequences of the war on terror<\/em> (2006)<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacques_Attali\" >Jacques Attali<\/a>, for telling it like it is, but notably for <em>La crise, et apr\u00e8s\u00a0?<\/em> (2008)<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_Lietaer\" >Bernard Lietaer<\/a>, most notably for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Future_of_Money\" title=\"The Future of Money\" ><em>The Future of Money: beyond greed and scarcity<\/em><\/a> (2001) and <em>Of Human Wealth<\/em> (2007)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Food <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ivu.org\/\" >International Vegetarian Union<\/a>, notably for its promotion of a no-bull diet<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Union_carbide\" > No-Bull Food News<\/a>, for supporting a healthy food system, from family farms and ranches to dinner tables<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Genetic Engineering<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tamu.edu\/\" >Texas A&amp;M University<\/a>, for the first successful <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceagogo.com\/news\/19990809213243data_trunc_sys.shtml\" >cloning of a calf from an adult bull<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Governance<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tony_blair\" >Tony Blair<\/a>, for rendering invisible the bull justifying the invasion of Iraq<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Health Care <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Medicins_Sans_Frontieres\" >M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Humour <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jon_Stewart\" > Jon Stewart<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamie_Uys\" title=\"Jamie Uys\" >Jamie Uys<\/a>, notably for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gods_must_be_crazy\" ><em>The Gods Must Be Crazy<\/em><\/a> (1980)<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Ustinov\" >Peter Ustinov<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Information <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Julian_Assange\" title=\"Julian Assange\" > WikiLeaks<\/a>, for courageous release of documents otherwise withheld from the public<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsnews.net\/\" >Inter-Press Service<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Journalism <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Pilger\" >John Pilger<\/a>, for telling it as it is<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Fisk\" >Robert Fisk<\/a>, for telling it as it is<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacques_Derrida\" >Jacques Derrida<\/a>, for the deconstruction of text communication<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Sokal\" >Alan Sokal<\/a>, for the deconstruction of deconstructionism through <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.nyu.edu\/faculty\/sokal\/transgress_v2\/transgress_v2_singlefile.html\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Transgressing the Boundaries: towards a transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity<\/em><\/a> (1996)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Marketing<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iaaglobal.org\/\" >International Advertising Association<\/a>, for its systematic denial of bull.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Mathematics<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grigori_Perelman\" >Grigori Perelman<\/a>, for his avoidance of conventional rewards and recognition in the advancement of knowledge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Mechanized Agriculture<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>??? for ensuring the systematic replacement of any bull by machinery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Medicine<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_pharma\" >Big Pharma<\/a>, for its diligent, uncompromising attitude towards the dangers of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Complementary_medicine\" >complementary therapies<\/a> undermining its profitability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Morality<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Ratzinger\" >Joseph Ratzinger<\/a>, for avoiding emission of any <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Papal_bull\" >papal bull<\/a> regarding systemic sexual abuse by clergy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Music<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ang%C3%A9lique_Kidjo\" >Ang\u00e9lique Kidjo<\/a>, for her activism in Africa<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Susan_boyle\" >Susan Boyle<\/a>, for singing her song in the face of all the odds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Peace Prize<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johan_Galtung\" >Johan Galtung<\/a>, for telling it as it is<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nonviolent_Peaceforce\" >Nonviolent Peaceforce<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Philosophy<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Feyerabend\" >Paul Feyerabend<\/a>, notably for <em>Against Method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge<\/em> (1975) and for <em>Conquest of Abundance: a tale of abstraction versus the richness of being<\/em> (1999)<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nicholas_Rescher\" >Nicholas Rescher<\/a>, notably for <em>The Strife of Systems: an essay on the grounds and implications of philosophical diversity<\/em> (1988) and for <em>Pluralism: against the demand for consensus <\/em>(1993).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Physics<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pugwash_Conferences_on_Science_and_World_Affairs\" >Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Planning <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/openlibrary.org\/authors\/OL535618A\/Donald_N._Michael\" >Donald N. Michael<\/a>, notably for his &#8220;requirement to embrace error&#8221;, articulated in <em>On Learning to Plan and Planning to Learn<\/em> (1973) and for <em>The Unprepared Society<\/em> (1968)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Noam_Chomsky\" >Noam Chomsky<\/a>, for telling it as it is, and notably for <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manufacturing_Consent:_The_Political_Economy_of_the_Mass_Media\" title=\"Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media\" >Manufacturing Consent: the political economy of the mass media<\/a><\/em> (1988), <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hegemony_or_Survival\" title=\"Hegemony or Survival\" >Hegemony or Survival: America&#8217;s Quest for Global Dominance<\/a><\/em> (2003), <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Failed_States:_The_Abuse_of_Power_and_the_Assault_on_Democracy\" title=\"Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy\" >Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy<\/a><\/em> (2006), <em>Making the Future: the unipolar imperial moment<\/em> (2010)<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gayatri_Chakravorty_Spivak\" >Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak<\/a>, for telling it as it is, and notably for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/findarticles.com\/p\/articles\/mi_m2220\/is_1_42\/ai_63819094\/\" ><em>A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: toward a history of the vanishing present<\/em><\/a> (1999) and <em>The Post-Colonial Critic<\/em> (1990).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Psychotherapy<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Hillman\" >James Hillman<\/a>, notably for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/We%27ve_Had_a_Hundred_Years_of_Psychotherapy_-_And_the_World%27s_Getting_Worse\" ><em>We&#8217;ve Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy &#8212; And the World&#8217;s Getting Worse<\/em><\/a> (1993)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Public Relations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ipra.org\/\" >International Public Relations Association<\/a>, for the professional transmogrification of bull into news management, image management and spin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/questioncenter.html\" >World Question Center<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Reason<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carlo_Strenger\" >Carlo Strenger<\/a>, notably for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carlo_Strenger#Critique_of_Global_Unreason\" ><em>Critique of Global Unreason individuality and meaning in the Global Era<\/em><\/a> (2010)<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Wolin\" >Richard Wolin<\/a>, The Seduction of Unreason: the intellectual romance with fascism from Nietzsche to postmodernism, 2004<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isaiah_Berlin\" >Isaiah Berlin<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/xtf.lib.virginia.edu\/xtf\/view?docId=DicHist\/uvaGenText\/tei\/DicHist2.xml;chunk.id=dv2-11;toc.depth=1;toc.id=dv2-11;brand=default\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><em>The Counter-Enlightenment<\/em><\/a>, in <em>Dictionary of the History of Ideas<\/em> (1973)<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Handy\" >Charles Handy<\/a>, notably for <em>The Age of Unreason<\/em> (1989)<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kurt_Godel\" >Kurt G\u00f6del<\/a>, for his two <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems\" title=\"G\u00f6del's incompleteness theorems\" >incompleteness theorems<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Religion<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jiddu_Krishnamurti\" title=\"Jiddu Krishnamurti\" >Jiddu Krishnamurti<\/a>, notably for rejection of leadership of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Order_of_the_Star_in_the_East\" >Order of the Star in the East<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_dawkins\" >Richard Dawkins<\/a>, for rendering transparent the bull obscuring subtler insight through <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/God_delusion\" ><em>The God Delusion<\/em><\/a> (2006)<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Judaism\" >Judaism<\/a>, for taking the lead in supplanting a long tradition of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bull_%28mythology%29\" >bull worship<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Resource Assessment<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Worldwatch_Institute\" >Worldwatch Institute<\/a>, for its annual production of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_State_of_the_World\" title=\"The State of the World\" ><em>The State of the World<\/em><\/a> report<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/dieoff.org\/\" >DieOff<\/a>, for disseminating unpopular information regarding peak oil and other resource constraints<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Security<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blackwater_Worldwide\" >Xe Services<\/a> (Blackwater Worldwide), for faithful execution of contractual obligations<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NATO\" >NATO<\/a> \/ <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Security_Assistance_Force\" >ISAF<\/a>, for extreme discernment with regard to Afghan weddings, funerals and suspect turban wearing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Sex Work<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iusw.org\/\" >International Union of Sex Workers<\/a>, for taking the bull by the horns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Social Activism<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mahatma_Gandhi\" >Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Social Responsibility <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Al_Qaida\" >Al Qaida<\/a>, for accepting responsibility for every terrifying threat faced by civilization<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Global_Compact\" >Global Compact<\/a>, for encouraging businesses worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies, and to report on their implementation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Spirituality<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zen\" >Zen Buddhism<\/a>, for its careful cultivation, through a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ten_Bulls\" >Ten Bull<\/a> discipline, of total bull-elimination and transcendence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Sport<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eddy_the_Eagle\" >Eddie the Eagle<\/a>, for taking the spirit of competition to new heights<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iwab.org\/campaign.html\" >International Movement against Bullfights<\/a>, for the elimination of bulls from cruel sports<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principalvoices.com\/voices\/ashok-khosla-bio.html\" >Ashok Khosla<\/a>, for deployment of concrete innovations inspired by the motto: <em>Our Name is Mud<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/laptop.org\/en\/\" >One Laptop per Child<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/practicalaction.smartchange.org\/\" >Practical Action<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Thinking<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_de_Bono\" >Edward de Bono<\/a>, notably for<em> New Thinking for the New Millennium<\/em> (1999), <em>Think! Before It&#8217;s Too Late<\/em> (2009) and <em>Po: Beyond Yes and No<\/em> (1973)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Truth Elucidation <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_for_Security_Cooperation\" >Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation<\/a>, for assiduously training security personnel to overcome resistance to truthful declarations regarding the threat of terrorism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No Bull Prize for Weapons Research<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Pentagon\" >The Pentagon<\/a>, for dedication to development of means of destroying all bulls everywhere<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This nomination process is dedicated to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.promotingpeace.org\/wfp\/john_edwin_fobes.html\" >John E Fobes<\/a> (1919-2005), former Deputy Director-General of UNESCO and co-founder, with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Art_Buchwald\" >Art Buchwald<\/a>, of the Association for the Promotion of Humour in International Affairs (APHIA). Their initiative was the inspiration for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.laetusinpraesens.org\/musings\/humour.php\" ><em>Humour and Play-Fullness: essential integrative processes in governance, religion and transdisciplinarity<\/em><\/a> (2005). The process is consistent with the recommendations of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.laetusinpraesens.org\/musings\/provoc.php\" ><em>Liberating Provocations: use of negative and paradoxical strategies<\/em><\/a> (2005) and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.laetusinpraesens.org\/docs00s\/bull2.php\" ><em>Transformation of Global Governance through Bullfighting<\/em><\/a> (2009). It is appropriate to note that the No Bull Prize is reported to have been one of the synonyms of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jir.com\/history.html\" ><em>Journal of Irreproducible Results<\/em><\/a>. The organization <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/improbable.com\/about\/\" >Improbable Research<\/a> publishes a magazine entitled the <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/improbable.com\/magazine\/\" >Annals of Improbable Research<\/a><\/em>, and administers the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/improbable.com\/ig\/\" >Ig Nobel Prizes<\/a> &#8212; focusing on research that makes people laugh and then think.<\/p>\n<p>____________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Anthony Judge is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"  http:\/\/www.laetusinpraesens.org\/musings\/nobull.php\" >Go to Original \u2013 Laetus in Praesens<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a contribution to efforts to put the No Bull Prize Award on an appropriate footing in global society.<br \/>\nNo Bull Prize for Business<br \/>\n    * Naomi Klein, for telling it as it is, and most notably for No Logo: no space, no choice, no jobs (2000), Fences and Windows: dispatches from the front lines of the globalization debate (2002), and The Shock Doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism (2007)<br \/>\nNo Bull Prize for Information<br \/>\n    * WikiLeaks, for courageous release of documents otherwise withheld from the public<br \/>\n    * Inter-Press Service<br \/>\nNo Bull Prize for Journalism<br \/>\n    * John Pilger, for telling it as it is<br \/>\n    * Robert Fisk, for telling it as it is<br \/>\nNo Bull Peace Prize<br \/>\n    * Johan Galtung, for telling it as it is<br \/>\n    * Nonviolent Peaceforce<br \/>\nMore&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-members","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}