Im Wein liegt die Wahrheit, und im Wasser die Bazillen

Volksmund
WIEN-Galinas Candid Photo Sammlung

Former Vienna Mayor Helmut Zilk, who lost part of his hand to a letter bomb in 1993, died. He was 81.
In December 1993, Zilk’s was severely injured when he opened a letter bomb sent to his home in Vienna by terrorist Franz Fuchs.

Franz Fuchs (1949-2000) was a xenophobic Austrian terrorist. Between 1993 and 1997 he killed four people and injured 15, using improvised explosive devices  and mailbombs. His targets were people he either considered to be foreigners, or individuals “friendly to foreigners.”
Franz Fuchs claimed responsibility for his attacks and tried to give the impression of a larger organization.
In 1995, four Roma were killed with an explosive device which was attached to a sign that read “Roma zurück nach Indien”
At this stage Fuchs had obviously become paranoid. On October 1, 1997 he followed two women whom he believed were observing him. When police attempted to question him, he produced another explosive device which he had kept in his car, and detonated it in front of the policemen. His suicide attempt failed, but he lost both hands, and also injured a police officer. Fuchs was sentenced to life in prison. On February 26, 2000, Fuchs was found hanged with the cable of his electric razor in his prison cell in Graz.
Doubts remained whether Fuchs had actually committed his actions without any support from sympathizers.
Even more doubts remain concerning Fuchs’ death. How exactly a man without hands and under almost constant video survey could accomplish the manipulations with cable. Moreover, no prisoner is supposed to be in possession of anything (including belts and shoestrings) that could serve this purpose – most certainly not an electric cable.

Михаил Хойпль – австрийский политик от социал-демократической партии. Начиная с 1994 года является бургомистром Вены.
Будучи школьником, Михаил, также как и его младший брат, являлся членом национал-освободительного юношеского движения (Pennalen Burschenschaft)
В Кремсе. После окончания гимназии, он изучал биологию и зоологию в Венском университете.
Хойпль стал бургомистром Вены 7 ноября 1994 года.
Со времени своего назначения на пост бургомистра, он выиграл три избирательные компании с возрастающим преобладанием голосов за социал-демократическую партию.

Ныне он состоит во втором браке с Хельгой Хойпль-Сайтц, с которой они живут раздельно и с которой он имеет общего сына, у него также есть дочь от первого брака. Скрытый лидер и мощная фигура в стане австрийской социал-демократии.

Yesterday website “Disclosure” had 650 pageviews and 350 unique visitors. For me it was sad and minute popularity, as I was thinking about Jörg Haider and that he looked unhappy during the last months before this accident. Photo of Michael Häupl was made by me yesterday at Rathausplatz

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.

Die Arbeitslosigkeit in Österreich ist im Februar dramatisch angestiegen. Gegenüber Februar 2008 stieg die Zahl der Jobsuchenden um 57.842 Personen oder 23,7 Prozent auf insgesamt 301.695 Betroffene an, teilte das Arbeitsmarktservice (AMS) mit. Rechnet man die in Schulung befindlichen Personen dazu, waren Ende des Monats 359.678 Personen arbeitslos. Gegenüber Jänner nahm die Arbeitslosigkeit um 166 Betroffene zu. Besonders stark betroffen waren Jugendliche. Und die Arbeitslosigkeit wird weiter steigen, erklären Experten. News.at

There are many sex shops in Vienna, one of the biggest is situated in Mariahilferstrasse. One who feels curious about things human nature is capable of, ought to visit such places sometimes. There one can see different tools of pleasure, including those for submissive and domineering roles in intimate game, for example,  whips, which dominas may use for punishing their slaves- with soft or hard leather endings, chains and bonds, and also- what is especially interesting for me- costumes for women and men, presenting themselves in this or that role.

Österreich-Umfrage: 28% – SPÖ

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

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.

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.

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.
Das sind natürlich schwere Anschuldigungen, die dem neutralen politischen Beobachter das Blut in den Adern gefrieren lässt. Doch wer denkt Klubobmann Seiser würde sich mit dieser Kritik zufrieden geben, der liegt falsch.
Denn der Sozialdemokrat legt noch einmal nach, und beschimpft seinen politischen Gegner als machtbesessen, der die Wünsche und Bedürfnisse der Bürger sträflich vernachlässigen würde.
Doch der kritische Sozialdemokrat wäre kein engagierter Politiker, hätte er nicht eine Lösung aus der Krise in Gepäck. “Die SPÖ soll wieder die Macht in Kärnten übernehmen, denn nur wir Sozialdemokraten nehmen die Wünsche und Ängste der Bürger ernst, und stellen immer den Menschen an die erste Stelle”, so Herwig Seiser.
Da können die Kärntner also noch einmal erleichtert aufatmen. Sowas Nachrichten