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S/M Games with Employment Office, or Benefits of Forced Education

О пользе принудительного образования

Процесс глобализации идёт вперёд, но различия между Европой и Азией пока ещё существуют. Я имею в виду жизненные условия на территории бывшего Союза и в Австрии. Здесь, конечно, заметно больше порядка и продвинутости.
Но когда имеешь дело с такой организацией как бюро по трудоустройству и его эквивалентом- австрийским AMS, различия сходят на нет. Особенно если говорить о курсах, на которые это бюро гонит всех зарегестрированных под угрозой смертной казни. Лишение пособия для людей, не имеющих дохода, и означает буквально смертную казнь.
Чему можно научить человека, который приезжает в учебный центр, объятый страхом потерять последний кусок хлеба? Можно ли вообще чему-то научить человека, если он сам этого не захочет?
Давно следовало бы нашим гражданам, рвущимся в Европу за лёгкой жизнью избавиться от мифов, что судьбоносные колёса смазаны на Западе для всех маслом. Может быть, с точки зрения физического выживания, жизнь здесь и легче. Но с точки зрения удовлетворения духовных нужд - первые десять лет эмиграции в симпатичную, бюрократическую Австрию - это тернистый путь, где каждый новый шаг приносит страдания, где тонкие формы дискриминации по языковому признаку, изоляция и нужда - ваш жизненный удел.
Возвращаясь мыслями к моей жизни в Бишкеке, Москве и Зеленограде, я вижу теперь что та жизнь была слишком легка, тысячи возможностей были доступны, что в моих стремлениях покинуть Россию, я часто была поражена слепотой идеализации Запада.
Самое главное, что я приобрела за эти годы – это опыт и знание, что на самом деле, под слоями поверхностных коммуникаций, в своей сердцевине мы ни к одной национальности мира не принадлежим.
Что пол, национальность и социальный статус – это только ярлыки и средства возвышения одних людей над другими.

Эмиграция часто означает добровольное пожизненное соглашение выступать в качестве пьедестала для представителей национального большинства, которые будут всегда единолично претендовать на высшие формы деятельности за ваш счёт.

Галина Токталиева

Alexander Van der Bellen, leader of the Greens, during final event of election campaign in Wien Museum at Karlsplatz

Considering technical aspects of photo, it is one of my lucky ones, as it was very pleasing white light in the conference hall, and being in topboots with high heels, I equipped myself only with lightest 50mm lens

Reporter work definitely does not add much to woman’s good looks and dignity, sometimes it is necessary in literal sense to crawl on the floor on your knees or even worse in front of big audience

I put on short skirt and stockings, and being in great hurry this morning, after taking shower I had put on not black, but red underwear, and when I squat in front of Van der Bellen I demonstrated perhaps too boldly to him today my political color favors.

Whenever I am looking at leader of Greens, expression of his face reminds me somebody, whom I knew very well in past times

Mafia unsterblich ist

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This is my melancholic respond to Austrian media election campaign hysteria. Today coming back from my courses, I saw three young drug-users in the secluded carriage of the tube. They unpacked small container with white staff and sniffed it one after the other- two girls and one young man- using smooth glossy cover of election leaflet as plate for happiness powder.

As it always was, politicians make politics for themselves - to gain more power and its monetary equivalent; others are mostly passive and skeptical spectators of the show.

And now Jörg haider is dead! I feel terrible thinking that I may be invested in bringing his catastrophic end in metaphisical sense, when I exposed this photo! But what is done is done.

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Strache, who by education is a dental technician, has been active in local politics in Vienna since 1991.
Snapshots taken from a video in the late 80s were published in January 2007 showing a uniformed Strache participating in paramilitary training activities. Other people on the pictures were claimed to be known neo-nazis. Strache has denied that, claiming the pictures are of him playing Gotcha.
At the end of January, further pictures were published, showing Strache performing a Nazi salute (the Kühnen salute). Strache denied the allegations prior to publication of the pictures. After publication, Strache argued that the picture showed him ordering three beers and was not a Nazi salute.
Wikipedia

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Nationale Definition

Im Jahr 2007 waren laut AMS rund 222.000 Personen von Arbeitslosigkeit betroffen, 124.000 Männer und 98.000 Frauen. Die Arbeitslosenquote betrug 6,2%, bei den Frauen 6,0%, bei den Männern 6,5%. Die Arbeitslosenquote der Ausländer und Ausländerinnen lag mit 8,8% deutlich über dem Durchschnitt.

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I saw an African woman sitting at secluded bus stop bench and talking to herself. There was nobody around.

Apparently woman was delirious and argued with voices in her head. Perhaps, her problems were imaginary, but her fierce emotions, her rage were quite real.

If she spoke German, I would not slow my pace to listen to her.

But she spoke African English.

I came up to her and asked whom she was talking to.

She instantly looked at me with eyes, red from suppressed anger, but unclouded, and replied:

- I am talking to God.

Österreich-Umfrage: 28% - SPÖ

Russian brides

Quotes about politics

Don’t fall in love with politicians, they’re all a disappointment. They can’t help it, they just are.

Peggy Noonan

It has now become the doctrine of a large class of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary and incompatible with quick onward movement.

Anthony Trollope

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards. If you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.

Ronald Reagan

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Today I visited press-conference with BZOe leaders Joerg Haider and Peter Westenthaler in Dorotheergasse.

Standing in the small conference hall of orange party together with the bunch of young reporters I tried to imagine, what Joerg Haider was thinking about.

One of foreign journalists asked him about monitoring the borders of Carinthia, where Haider is governor.

That monitoring after international entertainments events terminated, is still going on.

I imagined myself to be one of refugees or asylum seekers, who could be at the mercy of local Carinthia immigration laws and who could visit office of governor applying to his humanity and kindness.

And then looking in his eyes, I knew for sure there would be no compromises and no salvation for me,

as for any other intruder, does not matter how hard situation was.

This toughness I sensed in the posture of his head and in the way he pressed his lips, after making every next declaration.

He also gives hints to be very intelligent and shrewd.