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Blue eyes of innocence

September 4, 2008 - 9:02 pm - Posted by Galina

Alfred Gusenbauer

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Minister Erwin Buchinger

September 2, 2008 - 8:06 pm - Posted by Galina

Erwin Buchinger

I would like to know what is going on in the head of such a man.

Erwin was born in 1955 in Mauthausen (Upper Austria). After taking a first degree in law and economics at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Buchinger was awarded a doctorate in law in 1981. He then worked for ten years as a legal specialist at the Provincial Employment Office in Upper Austria until 1991.
From that time onwards, Buchinger was responsible for the active labour market policy in the province of Salzburg. After the establishment of the Austrian Public Employment Service (AMS), he was the Provincial Director of AMS Salzburg.
From 2004 to 2007, Mr Buchinger was member of the regional government responsible for Social Affairs, Labour and Civil Servants in Salzburg.
Since 11 January 2007, Dr. Erwin Buchinger has been the Minister of Social Affairs and Consumer Protection of the Republic of Austria.

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Abschied von Hansi Lang

August 31, 2008 - 10:13 pm - Posted by Galina

Hansi Lang Begräbnis, Friedhof Hernals

Rund 250 Angehörige, Freunde, prominente Kollegen und Wegbegleiter haben am Samstag Abschied genommen von Austropoplegende Hansi Lang. Zu seinem Lied “Keine Angst!” wurde er im weißen Sarg auf dem Friedhof Hernals zu Grabe getragen.

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Glance of Alfred Gusenbauer

August 29, 2008 - 10:57 pm - Posted by Galina

Alfred Gusenbauer looking at legs of Doris Bures

It was election campaign event in Vienna Stadthalle, which attracted thousands of people who expressed their support for social democrats prime candidate Werner Faymann.
I talked to a few ordinary persons who enjoyed themselves in buffet of concert hall during the speech of Werner Faymann looking at the screen of big monitor with his face, and all of them described Faymann as nice lad, at the same time all of them aware of the fact that nobody must take election promises of social democrats at earnest. My confidants also noticed that a lot of money was invested in this election campaign for rivers of beer, wine, sandwiches and souvenirs with expectations that Austrians would give their voices for those who once generously let them to become drunk.
All photographers were seized with mass psychosis of depicting and pursuing Werner Faymann. At the same time many others not less interesting figures of Austrian social democracy didn’t get sufficient attention they deserved.
Those who stay out of the circle of crowd’s blind admiration often look much more interesting without their usual protecting mask.
Personally for me, Gusenbauer presents more inner power, than Werner Faymann. Perhaps because he has much more experience.

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Zerstört Jörg Haider das Kärntner Gesundheitssystem?

August 27, 2008 - 10:54 pm - Posted by Galina

Jörg Haider

Streit und gegenseitige Schuldzuweisungen gehören mittlerweile zum politischen Alltag in Kärnten.
Seit einigen Tagen hat der SPÖ Klubobmann von Kärnten, Herwig Seiser, ein neues und ertragreiches Terrain an fruchtbaren Kritikmöglichkeiten entdeckt. Es handelt sich hierbei um das Gesundheitssystem in Kärnten.

Dieses wäre in Österreich vorbildhaft, und würde nun von Haiders Leuten völlig ruiniert werden, so der Sozialdemokrat. Ausserdem bezeichnet er die Regierungspartei als rülpsende Ahnungslose, die durch lautes Gebrüll ihre Inkompetenz verstecken wollten. Continue reading Zerstört Jörg Haider das Kärntner Gesundheitssystem?

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Russian girls dream about Werner Faymann

August 25, 2008 - 6:01 pm - Posted by Galina

Russian girl in her bedroom with portraits of Pushkin and Werner Faymann

Austria’s xenophobia

Alarm bells are sure to be ringing in Austria’s corridors of power following pressure from the United Nations for the country to improve its stand on the rights of immigrants and asylum seekers.
The committee criticises the “frequently xenophobic” handling of refugees and immigrants by parties. Speeches of some politicians are “hateful”, declared the UN.

The association also stated that the discrimination of minorities in daily life such as discrimination in the job market and with rental accommodation “are worrying”.

Thomas Hochwarter, Austrian Times

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Werner Faymann and my plate of spagetti

August 15, 2008 - 6:30 pm - Posted by Galina

SPÖ Styria boss is for coalition with ÖVP

Styrian SPÖ Governor Franz Voves has spoken up in support of governing coalition with the ÖVP.

Voves said: “I was and I am a supporter of this coalition. I think that it is the best solution for the next five-ten years.”

Franz Voves - former ice-hockey national team player refused to comment on whether the SPÖ should continue such cooperation in case it fails to receive the most votes in the 28 September election. Voves dismissed talk about possible election outcomes as mere speculation at the moment.

In contrast to some other SPÖ leaders, the 55-year-old Voves stressed the point that he would not exclude any party from talks about a possible coalition.

Voves expects that the SPÖ will be number one on 28 September due to new SPÖ leader Werner Faymann, which has beén “fantastic” in Styria.

Thomas Hochwarter, Austrian Times, 12.08.08.

Съёмка Вернера Файмана
(shooting with social-democrats leader Werner Faymann)
Вначале я ринулась на пресс-конференцию „зелёных“, где оказалась единственным фотографом. Все репортёры караулили у дверей штаб-квартиры социалистов, когда появится Файман.
Лидер „зелёных“ – симпатичный пожилой дяденька в красной кофточке. Рядом восседает его соратник и партийный активист, которого я видела на манифестации „голубых“. Continue reading Werner Faymann and my plate of spagetti

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Prime candidate

August 12, 2008 - 6:36 pm - Posted by Galina

Poem from Herman Hesse

Stufen

Wie jede Blüte welkt
und jede Jugend dem Alter weicht,
blüht jede Lebensstufe,
blüht jede Weisheit auch und jede Tugend
zu ihrer Zeit und darf nicht ewig dauern.
Es muss das Herz bei jedem Lebensrufe
bereit zum Abschied sein und Neubeginne,
um sich in Tapferkeit und ohne Trauern
in and’re, neue Bindungen zu geben.
Und jedem Anfang wohnt ein Zauber inne,
der uns beschützt und der uns hilft zu leben.
Wir sollen heiter Raum um Raum durchschreiten,
an keinem wie an einer Heimat hängen,
der Weltgeist will nicht fesseln uns und engen,
er will uns Stuf’ um Stufe heben, weiten! Continue reading Prime candidate

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Austrian singles

August 10, 2008 - 6:34 pm - Posted by Galina

(I managed to make photo of this busy couple at my balcony with 50-150mm Sigma lens)

A poll by online partner agency “Parship” shows that most single Austrians do not want to get married.

Some ninety-two per cent of respondents said that they preferred to remain single.

Another 64 per cent said that they wanted to find a partner rather than a spouse. Among qualities most-prized in a potential partner are honesty (98 per cent), charisma (96 per cent) and faithfulness (91 per cent).

The poll also found that Austrians like to flirt more than other Europeans, with 33 per cent saying that they regularly did so.

Austrian Times

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Illusion of freedom

August 9, 2008 - 12:41 am - Posted by Galina

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Tanks and children

August 8, 2008 - 9:31 pm - Posted by Galina

‘Clear Intrusion’, BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7549594.stm

Georgia’s president said 150 Russian tanks and other vehicles had entered South Ossetia.

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili told CNN: “Russia is fighting a war with us in our own territory.”

Kids

INTERFAX.RU, 08 Aug
As a result of military operations in South Ossetia more than 1400 persons are dead
“Rescue us!”
People leaving South Ossetia tell about horrors of bombardment, and those who remain in town Tskhinvali, send SOS messages. Flow of Tskhinvali refugees, that begun several days ago, has reached now its apogee. As correspondent of agency informs, the considerable quantity of refugees gathered now on the Georgian-Russian frontier. Many women and children cry. “We had never seen such fire and never heard such a roar”, - said one of the women.” All this is terrible. The Georgian military men, opening fire on our villages, do not think that they fire on ordinary defenseless people including children and women.

Translated by Galina

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Ist Jörg Haider schwul?

August 6, 2008 - 9:47 pm - Posted by Galina

Paar

Wien (OTS) - Zur aktuellen blau-braun-orange-rosa Schlammschlacht
und neuerlich aufgeflammten Debatte darüber, ob Jörg Haider schwul
ist, ruft die Homosexuelle Initiative (HOSI) Wien das Outing Haiders
durch Jochen Herdickerhoff auf ihre Website-Abteilung
http://www.hosiwien.at/haiderouting. Dort
finden sich viele interessante Beiträge von damals zum Nachlesen.
www.ots.at

Is Jörg Haider gay?
In course of recent political blau-braun-orange-rose battle and corresponding debates on whether Jörg Haider is gay the homosexual initiative (HOSI) Vienna reffers to some past gone facts and offers to visit their website
http://www.hosiwien.at/haiderouting, where one can find some materials on this topic
www.ots.at, 05.08.08

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