Auch nach dem Ende der schweren Rezession in der Euro-Zone steigt die Arbeitslosigkeit.
Im November kletterte die Arbeitslosenquote in den 16 Euro-Ländern auf zehn Prozent, wie die Statistikbehörde Eurostat mitteilte. Das ist der höchste Stand seit August 1998. Von Reuters befragte Analysten hatten mit einem etwas schwächeren Anstieg gerechnet. Insgesamt hatten 15,7 Millionen Männer und Frauen in der Euro-Zone keinen Arbeitsplatz – gut drei Millionen mehr als vor einem Jahr. In den 27 Staaten der Europäischen Union wuchs die Wirtschaftsleistung um 0,3 Prozent.

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JETZT mit DEUTSCHE ÜBERSETZUNG!
Reading through “Gulag Archipelago” by Nobel prize author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, I ponder again why elimination of millions took place and how such mass eradication was possible to maintain at all, not only in Soviet Union, but also in other countries of the world, including fascist Germany.
Author writes, that organs used to hire so-called informers among ordinary people, whose secret occupation was to make a report on commonplace events and talks of their neighbors, colleagues and acquaintances, and on the base of such flimsy information people were arrested afterward, send to prisons and camps, tortured and killed.
Some of informers did such work from fear of possible arrest, some – from pure enthusiasm.
Coming back to now, I contemplate, what motivates people to advance in certain professions, joining military troops in Iraq, becoming policemen, subordinate in penitentiary or executing controlling functions in unemployment institution. What drives them, what are their moral rewards?
We often read and talk about violation of human rights somewhere – on the other side of globe, about murders of journalists and activists, who dared to reveal the truth, about wars, corruption and overall decrease of life value there. (more…)

In breaks we were eating together in dim canteen of education center in routine of our unemployment compulsory course. Dining hall was full of people.

Social control in form of compulsory education

It was steaming stewed cabbage, which melted in the mouth and reminded me of hearty soviet meals, which were but 200 times cheaper. My companion treated cabbage with great appetite. She was attractive woman of forty, with trim figure and regular face features, which together with her lively way, made her looking more of brown-eyed Gallic type, than woman from Vorarlberg. Like many others in my surroundings, Martha was very talkative and exploded now and then with distinctly articulated passages of eloquence. Relative longevity of German lexical units and typically loud manner of speaking with low, throat voice always increased my impression of Austrian vocalizations affluence.
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S/M Games with Employment Office, or Benefits of Forced Education

О пользе принудительного образования -Читайте об этом также в русском разделе газеты

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. (more…)

Life can be hard, but it gives miraculous presents sometimes. Once during my extreme conditions survival in Graz I wrote petition to Bundesministerium für Arbeit without particular hope to get reply, as many of my appeals stayed unanswered before. However, some months later thick letter with blue stamp of ministry arrived, and using it as flag during my next visit to immigration bureau, I unexpectedly reached wonderful results: that very middle-aged lady in Landesregierung, who for a few years aroused deep fear in my soul, unwillingly issued normal time-long visa with access to work market for me. I literally trembled as a leaf when was to see her before. She demonstrated signs of satisfaction with her unnatural powers over pleading emigrants and always made me to believe there was no escape. Probably local regulation system she represented wanted to avoid possible complications with upper system representatives. Bureaucratic machine cracked and big wheel of destiny moved forward in my favor. (more…)

Wanderlust, after two years of mood zigzags and transfers from one universe to the other I start again writing in my diary. Why people write diaries at all? Who reads them on Internet? When you write your blog you must write it first of all for yourself, because as author you would never be understood or rewarded by special attention. Bust writing helps to realize many things.
Where I go? Why life can be so hard? What is satisfying relationship? And if we create our world ourselves, why we cannot make it be better?
Why I photograph, to start with, and what is good photography? How one can photograph people and get satisfaction from this activity? How to advance in this business, how to earn your living with photography? How to earn it in big city where you are stranger and don’t know anybody? How to earn your living with photography in big city where you are stranger and when you have no regular work and income? And when you are female?
And many other questions that till now stay without answers. Don’t exclaim: it is impossible! Come with me and look.