Stel, u heet Internet-bezoeker Rockefeller, of u heet Internet-bezoeker Rothschild. Op een dag leest u op tal van sites: “De Rockefellers en de Rothschilds zijn erbij betrokken om genocide te plegen met een virus of vaccin op de wereldbevolking.” Wat denkt u?
Wat denk u: “Er is niet veel veranderd, sinds de Middeleeuwen? Er is niet veel veranderd, sinds de jaren '30 en '40 van de vorige eeuw?”
En dan wordt dit beweerd onder het mom van: "Deze sites zijn andersdenkend."
Mijn hoela, zou ik zeggen. Smerig tuig is het, dat dit vulgaire antisemitisme de wereld in helpt.
Zie ook:
Ban Ki-moon: “Holocaust leert belangrijke lessen voor vandaag”
zondag 16 augustus 2009
vrijdag 7 augustus 2009
Droom van kernwapenvrije wereld kan worden gerealiseerd
Ondanks de aanwezigheid van duizenden kernwapens in opslagplaatsen is het mogelijk om het doel te bereiken dat de wereld van deze dodelijke plaag verlost wordt.
Dat heeft VN-secretaris-generaal Ban Ki-moon gezegd tijdens een bijeenkomst in de Japanse stad Nagasaki.
“Een wereld zonder kernwapens kan ver weg zijn, maar het is niet langer slechts een droom, zo zei Ban tijdens de Zevende Algemene Conferentie van Burgemeesters voor Vrede.
Ban Ki-moon zei ernaar uit te kijken om verder samen te werken “met regeringen en burgers in de wereld om deze gedeelde mening te verwezenlijken”.
In de aanloop naar de jaarlijkse Internationale Dag van de Vrede op 21 september zullen Ban en anderen dagelijks de noodzaak om atoomwapens uit te banden onder de aandacht brengen via Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, email, radio en daarbij de wereld aansporen om te ontwapenen.
De VN-chef legde zijn verklaring af ter nagedachtenis van de atoomaanvallen op de Japanse steden Hiroshima en Nagasaki 64 jaar geleden.
De atoomaanval op Nagasaki kostte aan zeker 39.000 mensen het leven en er vielen 25.000 gewonden.
Bij de aanval op Hiroshima kwamen 78.000 mensen in een fractie van een seconde om. Als gevolg van de radioactieve straling liep het dodental uiteindelijk op tot ongeveer 140.000 eind 1945.
Nog jaren later eiste de ioniserende straling die vrijkwam uit de bommen nog veel slachtoffers
Vandaag de dag bevinden zich nog duizenden kernwapens op de wereld in wapenopslagplaatsen.
De verklaring uitgegeven door de Verenigde Naties:
DREAM OF NUCLEAR-WEAPON-FREE WORLD CAN BE REALIZED, SAYS BAN
Despite the continued presence of thousands of nuclear weapons in global arsenals, it is possible to achieve the goal of ridding the world of this deadly scourge, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told a gathering in the Japanese city of Nagasaki.
“A world without nuclear weapons may be distant, but it is no longer just a dream,” Mr. Ban said in a message to the Seventh General Conference of Mayors for Peace. “I look forward to continuing to work with governments and global citizens to realize this shared vision.”
Mr. Ban lauded the important work done by Mayors for Peace, which has helped to inform millions of people around the world about the catastrophic effects of the 1945 nuclear attacks. The initiative has also raised public awareness about the dangers that cities, in particular, would face if these destructive weapons were ever used again.
“I am grateful for your advocacy because I share your vision of a world free of nuclear weapons,” stated the Secretary-General. “While we remain far from this goal, that is no reason to despair.”
He recalled the five-point plan he launched last October containing “practical and realistic” steps the international community can take to make the vision of a nuclear-weapon-free world a reality.
The plan begins with a call for the parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to pursue negotiations on nuclear disarmament, either through a new convention or through a series of mutually reinforcing instruments backed by a credible system of verification.
More recently, on 13 June, the Secretary-General launched the “WMD-WeMustDisarm” multimedia campaign, kicking off a 100-day countdown to next month’s observance of the International Day of Peace, which this year focuses on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.
In the lead-up to the International Day, observed annually on 21 September, Mr. Ban and others will raise awareness of the need to eliminate nuclear weapons by issuing a daily message, via Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, email and radio, urging the world to disarm.
In a message for the WMD campaign, the UN chief noted that despite the carnage wrought when atomic bombs rained down on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 64 years ago, thousands of nuclear weapons remain in global arsenals.
“We must disarm to save lives,” he said. “We must disarm so that we can redirect precious resources to health, education and development.”
(VN: Aug 7, 2009)
Dat heeft VN-secretaris-generaal Ban Ki-moon gezegd tijdens een bijeenkomst in de Japanse stad Nagasaki.
“Een wereld zonder kernwapens kan ver weg zijn, maar het is niet langer slechts een droom, zo zei Ban tijdens de Zevende Algemene Conferentie van Burgemeesters voor Vrede.
Ban Ki-moon zei ernaar uit te kijken om verder samen te werken “met regeringen en burgers in de wereld om deze gedeelde mening te verwezenlijken”.
In de aanloop naar de jaarlijkse Internationale Dag van de Vrede op 21 september zullen Ban en anderen dagelijks de noodzaak om atoomwapens uit te banden onder de aandacht brengen via Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, email, radio en daarbij de wereld aansporen om te ontwapenen.
De VN-chef legde zijn verklaring af ter nagedachtenis van de atoomaanvallen op de Japanse steden Hiroshima en Nagasaki 64 jaar geleden.
De atoomaanval op Nagasaki kostte aan zeker 39.000 mensen het leven en er vielen 25.000 gewonden.
Bij de aanval op Hiroshima kwamen 78.000 mensen in een fractie van een seconde om. Als gevolg van de radioactieve straling liep het dodental uiteindelijk op tot ongeveer 140.000 eind 1945.
Nog jaren later eiste de ioniserende straling die vrijkwam uit de bommen nog veel slachtoffers
Vandaag de dag bevinden zich nog duizenden kernwapens op de wereld in wapenopslagplaatsen.
De verklaring uitgegeven door de Verenigde Naties:
DREAM OF NUCLEAR-WEAPON-FREE WORLD CAN BE REALIZED, SAYS BAN
Despite the continued presence of thousands of nuclear weapons in global arsenals, it is possible to achieve the goal of ridding the world of this deadly scourge, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told a gathering in the Japanese city of Nagasaki.
“A world without nuclear weapons may be distant, but it is no longer just a dream,” Mr. Ban said in a message to the Seventh General Conference of Mayors for Peace. “I look forward to continuing to work with governments and global citizens to realize this shared vision.”
Mr. Ban lauded the important work done by Mayors for Peace, which has helped to inform millions of people around the world about the catastrophic effects of the 1945 nuclear attacks. The initiative has also raised public awareness about the dangers that cities, in particular, would face if these destructive weapons were ever used again.
“I am grateful for your advocacy because I share your vision of a world free of nuclear weapons,” stated the Secretary-General. “While we remain far from this goal, that is no reason to despair.”
He recalled the five-point plan he launched last October containing “practical and realistic” steps the international community can take to make the vision of a nuclear-weapon-free world a reality.
The plan begins with a call for the parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to pursue negotiations on nuclear disarmament, either through a new convention or through a series of mutually reinforcing instruments backed by a credible system of verification.
More recently, on 13 June, the Secretary-General launched the “WMD-WeMustDisarm” multimedia campaign, kicking off a 100-day countdown to next month’s observance of the International Day of Peace, which this year focuses on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.
In the lead-up to the International Day, observed annually on 21 September, Mr. Ban and others will raise awareness of the need to eliminate nuclear weapons by issuing a daily message, via Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, email and radio, urging the world to disarm.
In a message for the WMD campaign, the UN chief noted that despite the carnage wrought when atomic bombs rained down on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 64 years ago, thousands of nuclear weapons remain in global arsenals.
“We must disarm to save lives,” he said. “We must disarm so that we can redirect precious resources to health, education and development.”
(VN: Aug 7, 2009)
dinsdag 27 januari 2009
Ban Ki-moon roept op tegen ontkenning van Holocaust, antisemitisme en intolerantie
Meer dan 6 decennia nadat 6 miljoen joden, bijna een derde van het totaal, en talloos veel andere minderheden werden afgeslacht in de nazi-Duitse Holocaust, is het meer vitaal dan ooit om te leren van deze tragedie om verdere gruwelijkheden te voorkomen.
De verklaring van de secretaris-generaal van de VN
Ban calls on world to fight Holocaust denial, anti-semitism and bigotry
Over six decades after 6 million Jews, nearly a third of the total, and countless other minorities were butchered in the Nazi German Holocaust, it is more vital than ever to learn from the tragedy to prevent further atrocities, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned today.
“We must continue to examine why the world failed to prevent the Holocaust and other atrocities since. That way, we will be better armed to defeat anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance,” he said in a message marking the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
“We must continue to teach our children the lessons of history's darkest chapters. That will help them do a better job than their elders in building a world of peaceful coexistence. We must combat Holocaust denial, and speak out in the face of bigotry and hatred.”
Mr. Ban noted that new initiatives in Holocaust remembrance and education have given an authentic basis for hope, which is the theme of this year’s observance, the fourth since the General Assembly instituted the annual commemoration.
“But we can and must do more if we are to make that hope a reality,” he stressed. “We must uphold the standards and laws that the United Nations has put in place to protect people and fight impunity for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Our world continues to be plagued by ruthless violence, utter disregard for human rights, and the targeting of people solely for who they are.”
The UN marked the day with a ceremony at its New York Headquarters, panel discussions and other events, including an initiative by the UN Department of Public Information (DPI) called the “Footprints of Hope,” which brings the global network of the UN Information Centres together with local schools to further youngsters’ understanding of the Holocaust and their respect for human rights through documentary and film resources.
General Assembly President Miguel d’Escoto echoed Mr. Ban’s call to the world to learn the lesson of the Holocaust. “We need to move beyond our statements of grief and memory, however powerfully felt, and work to develop new ways of thinking about the Holocaust, about genocide, about the apparently bottomless capacity for peoples’ cruelty to each other,” he said in a message.
“That capacity is shared by all of us. At their core, all genocides, all holocausts, start with the alienation, demonization and the marginalization of the “Other” – those citizens of another religion, another race, ethnicity, another set of political ideas, or another sexual orientation than our own,” he added, calling for a struggle against intolerance and for relationships that replace “us and them” with “we and ours.”
(VN: 27 januari 2009)
Zie ook:
Ban Ki-moon: “Holocaust leert belangrijke lessen voor vandaag”
De verklaring van de secretaris-generaal van de VN
Ban calls on world to fight Holocaust denial, anti-semitism and bigotry
Over six decades after 6 million Jews, nearly a third of the total, and countless other minorities were butchered in the Nazi German Holocaust, it is more vital than ever to learn from the tragedy to prevent further atrocities, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned today.
“We must continue to examine why the world failed to prevent the Holocaust and other atrocities since. That way, we will be better armed to defeat anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance,” he said in a message marking the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
“We must continue to teach our children the lessons of history's darkest chapters. That will help them do a better job than their elders in building a world of peaceful coexistence. We must combat Holocaust denial, and speak out in the face of bigotry and hatred.”
Mr. Ban noted that new initiatives in Holocaust remembrance and education have given an authentic basis for hope, which is the theme of this year’s observance, the fourth since the General Assembly instituted the annual commemoration.
“But we can and must do more if we are to make that hope a reality,” he stressed. “We must uphold the standards and laws that the United Nations has put in place to protect people and fight impunity for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Our world continues to be plagued by ruthless violence, utter disregard for human rights, and the targeting of people solely for who they are.”
The UN marked the day with a ceremony at its New York Headquarters, panel discussions and other events, including an initiative by the UN Department of Public Information (DPI) called the “Footprints of Hope,” which brings the global network of the UN Information Centres together with local schools to further youngsters’ understanding of the Holocaust and their respect for human rights through documentary and film resources.
General Assembly President Miguel d’Escoto echoed Mr. Ban’s call to the world to learn the lesson of the Holocaust. “We need to move beyond our statements of grief and memory, however powerfully felt, and work to develop new ways of thinking about the Holocaust, about genocide, about the apparently bottomless capacity for peoples’ cruelty to each other,” he said in a message.
“That capacity is shared by all of us. At their core, all genocides, all holocausts, start with the alienation, demonization and the marginalization of the “Other” – those citizens of another religion, another race, ethnicity, another set of political ideas, or another sexual orientation than our own,” he added, calling for a struggle against intolerance and for relationships that replace “us and them” with “we and ours.”
(VN: 27 januari 2009)
Zie ook:
Ban Ki-moon: “Holocaust leert belangrijke lessen voor vandaag”
zondag 25 januari 2009
Ban Ki-moon: “Holocaust leert belangrijke lessen voor vandaag”
Voor de herdenkingsdag voor de slachtoffers van de Holocaust heeft secretaris-generaal Ban Ki-moon van de VN opgeroepen tot vertrouwen in de waardigheid van de mensheid en geloof in morele kracht tussen de zwarte hoofdstukken in de geschiedenis.
De Holocaust was een systematische vervolging van joden door de nazi’s en hun bondgenoten tijdens het Duitse bewind van Hitler. Er werden ongeveer 6 miljoen Europese joden vermoord.
Ook andere groepen werden om het leven gebracht, zoals homoseksuelen, zigeuners, “economisch onwaardigen”, Polen, gehandicapten, Jehova’s getuigen, politieke tegenstanders, vrijmetselaars, communisten, Spaanse republikeinen, etnische Polen en Serven en mensen die zich verzetten tegen de nazi’s.
In 2005 riep de Algemene Vergadering van de VN 27 januari uit als gedenkdag voor de Holocaust. Op 27 januari 1945 werd het vernietigingskamp Auschwitz bevrijd. Dit was een van de concentratiekampen waar de nazi’s mensen om het leven brachten.
De verklaring van Ban Ki-moon:
Holocaust has vital lessons for today, says Ban
The Holocaust provides important lessons for the present, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, stressing the necessity to bolster the forces of harmony and dialogue.
In an address to mark the International Day of Commemoration honoring victims of the Holocaust at the Park East Synagogue in New York, Mr. Ban said that during a recent visit to the Middle East, he saw first-hand the suffering of both Israelis and Gazans.
"I said to all I met, on both sides: This must stop," he stated.
"I left the region more determined than ever to work toward a world where two States , Israel and Palestine , live side by side in peace and security. War can never be an answer," the Secretary-General added, stressing that "we need to strengthen the forces of peaceful coexistence and dialogue."
Mr. Ban stressed the need for frankness and for the recognition of the limits of power and goodwill.
"We here know that we can never entirely rid the world of its tyrants and its intolerance. We cannot turn all extremists to the path of reason and light," he said. "We can only stand against them and raise our voices in the name of our common humanity."
Paying tribute to the synagogue's Senior Rabbi Arthur Schneier and the late United States Congressman Tom Lantos, both of whom are Holocaust survivors, the Secretary-General called for the reaffirmation of "our faith in the dignity of humankind and our extraordinary resilience ? our moral strength ? even amid history's darkest chapters."
In 2005, the General Assembly designated 27 January, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, as the International Day.
Next week, the United Nations will commemorate the fourth Day through panel discussions, exhibits and plays.
(VN: 24 januari 2009)
donderdag 22 januari 2009
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