2011年6月22日 星期三
Twenty Million dináros support Thurzó Louis schools
The Senta City Hall ceremony yesterday afternoon, signed the grant agreement, under which Turkey, the Turkish Cooperation and Development Agency (MENT), over twenty million in funding towards the Senta dináros Thurzó Louis Elementary School building renovation. The signing of the contract after dr.Gökçen Kalkan, the MENT Belgrade office of the head of the warm welcome thank explained the project consists of two parts will be: in the first classrooms establish and out of the special courses for students and the second external renovation works carried out. Tombstone Aniko, Zenta mayor thanked the support of the agency representatives, and played an important role in implementation of the project staff and the institution's leaders also thanked for their work so far. The school renovation will begin in a few weeks, and scheduled the first of September, the start of the new school year will be finished.
2011年6月20日 星期一
We can't ignore
Dr Zuroff arrived in Perth yesterday as part of a whirlwind tour of the country promoting his latest book, Operation Last Chance: One Man's Quest to bring Nazi Criminals to Justice.
He is the man responsible for tracking down Mr Zentai, a Hungarian-born man now residing in Perth, and overseeing charges against him over the alleged murder of a Jewish man in Hungary in 1944.
Zentai allegedly spotted the man, Peter Balazs on a train in Hungary, not wearing his identifiable yellow star, a crime punishable by death. He allegedly then took the 18-year-old to his army barracks where he beat him to death before dumping his body in the Danube River.
Dr Zuroff said Zentai's identity was revealed in a Hungarian war crimes trial in 1947, however he had already fled to an American-occupied zone in Germany.
Zentai was arrested by the Australian Federal Police in July 2005, and at the age of 89 is continuing to fight the extradition case through Australia's legal system.
Dr Zuroff said the large amount of publicity this case had been given in Perth, especially given Zentai's age and poor health, only further justified his cause.
"There are some people that are sceptical about its validity, because the people are 89, or 92, or 94," he said. "This is the reality of the world we live in.
"We're trying to pick up the pieces and bring closure, and send the message that these crimes cannot be ignored, they should not be ignored.
"This is nothing personal against Mr Zentai himself or his family. I'm an advocate for the victims."
He said it would be impossible to ignore the fact that crimes had been committed, and those responsible had to be held accountable.
"It's a tragedy in the sense that all of a sudden the family finds itself facing accusations they had no idea about," he said.
"In that respect, I certainly have a degree of empathy for the family. Having said that, this is not an uncommon occurrence.
"Ninety-nine per cent of the people who committed the crimes of Holocaust are normative people. They did not commit murder before the Holocaust, before World War II, they didn't commit murder after WWII.
"But during the geopolitical circumstances created by the Third Reich, they did some pretty horrible things.
"We can't ignore that just because they're not psychopaths. If someone reaches the age of 90, it doesn't turn the mass murderer into a righteous gentile."
Dr Zuroff last night addressed a crowd at the Jewish Community Centre in Dianella, updating the Jewish community and other interested people about the current state of "Nazi hunting" around the world.
"What I will be doing [while in Perth] is meeting with members of the Jewish community to explain what is going on, meeting with the media to talk about the [Zentai] case, and quite frankly I think it is a really outrageous that this thing has lasted so long without justice being achieved," he said.
"If anything, I think Mr Zentai's behaviour and the behaviour of the people that are helping him increases our suspicions of his role during the war, and only increases our motivation to see to it that he is finally held accountable.
He is the man responsible for tracking down Mr Zentai, a Hungarian-born man now residing in Perth, and overseeing charges against him over the alleged murder of a Jewish man in Hungary in 1944.
Zentai allegedly spotted the man, Peter Balazs on a train in Hungary, not wearing his identifiable yellow star, a crime punishable by death. He allegedly then took the 18-year-old to his army barracks where he beat him to death before dumping his body in the Danube River.
Dr Zuroff said Zentai's identity was revealed in a Hungarian war crimes trial in 1947, however he had already fled to an American-occupied zone in Germany.
Zentai was arrested by the Australian Federal Police in July 2005, and at the age of 89 is continuing to fight the extradition case through Australia's legal system.
Dr Zuroff said the large amount of publicity this case had been given in Perth, especially given Zentai's age and poor health, only further justified his cause.
"There are some people that are sceptical about its validity, because the people are 89, or 92, or 94," he said. "This is the reality of the world we live in.
"We're trying to pick up the pieces and bring closure, and send the message that these crimes cannot be ignored, they should not be ignored.
"This is nothing personal against Mr Zentai himself or his family. I'm an advocate for the victims."
He said it would be impossible to ignore the fact that crimes had been committed, and those responsible had to be held accountable.
"It's a tragedy in the sense that all of a sudden the family finds itself facing accusations they had no idea about," he said.
"In that respect, I certainly have a degree of empathy for the family. Having said that, this is not an uncommon occurrence.
"Ninety-nine per cent of the people who committed the crimes of Holocaust are normative people. They did not commit murder before the Holocaust, before World War II, they didn't commit murder after WWII.
"But during the geopolitical circumstances created by the Third Reich, they did some pretty horrible things.
"We can't ignore that just because they're not psychopaths. If someone reaches the age of 90, it doesn't turn the mass murderer into a righteous gentile."
Dr Zuroff last night addressed a crowd at the Jewish Community Centre in Dianella, updating the Jewish community and other interested people about the current state of "Nazi hunting" around the world.
"What I will be doing [while in Perth] is meeting with members of the Jewish community to explain what is going on, meeting with the media to talk about the [Zentai] case, and quite frankly I think it is a really outrageous that this thing has lasted so long without justice being achieved," he said.
"If anything, I think Mr Zentai's behaviour and the behaviour of the people that are helping him increases our suspicions of his role during the war, and only increases our motivation to see to it that he is finally held accountable.
2011年3月22日 星期二
America has oil; we should tap into it
Why can't we start drilling for the oil in Alaska we know is there? Why are we restricted as to where we can drill for oil in certain areas because the environmentalists want to save certain endangered species of wildlife? People are vastly more important than wildlife, I would think. Additionally, why can't we start using our oil reserves?
The price of gasoline keeps going up. It gets to a point where the companies that deliver goods of all kinds have to raise rates to pay for the rising cost of gasoline. So the companies that they deliver on behalf of have to follow suit and raise their rates, whether they are factories, stores or whoever receives these products. The buying public, in turn, has to face the rising costs. How? With a dwindling paycheck or no paycheck at all.
We know there are thousands of people unemployed all over the country; some people are losing their houses, living with friends if they are lucky; families are breaking up; and people are living in shelters. True, there are charities helping out. But having a job, holding your head high, keeping your house and feeding your family do mean everything.
Just think about it. Why do we have this terrible spiral crippling us when we have our own oil? We are one of the biggest users of foreign oil in the world. If we cut down on our dependency on foreign oil, those countries would have to eventually lower their price for a barrel of crude and we wouldn't have to be solely dependent on them. Think about that spiral.
The price of gasoline keeps going up. It gets to a point where the companies that deliver goods of all kinds have to raise rates to pay for the rising cost of gasoline. So the companies that they deliver on behalf of have to follow suit and raise their rates, whether they are factories, stores or whoever receives these products. The buying public, in turn, has to face the rising costs. How? With a dwindling paycheck or no paycheck at all.
We know there are thousands of people unemployed all over the country; some people are losing their houses, living with friends if they are lucky; families are breaking up; and people are living in shelters. True, there are charities helping out. But having a job, holding your head high, keeping your house and feeding your family do mean everything.
Just think about it. Why do we have this terrible spiral crippling us when we have our own oil? We are one of the biggest users of foreign oil in the world. If we cut down on our dependency on foreign oil, those countries would have to eventually lower their price for a barrel of crude and we wouldn't have to be solely dependent on them. Think about that spiral.
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