The Austrian Broadcasting Coperation’s (ORF) website has gained a reputation for making funny mistakes. But this one beats them all. After federal elections in Belgium the ORF titled “Verheugen acknowledges defeat”. Then the ORF continues with liberal Guy Verhofstadt (prime minister) explaining why and how the defeat came to be. Why Germany’s Günther Verheugen, vice-president…
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austrian politician jörg haider a couple of days ago proposed a vote on weither austria should stay or leave the european union. well, haider has done weirder things like that, but even better: no austrian newspaper (including the kleine zeitung) really cared. there were small articles, mostly 5- or 10-liners about it. nothing else. in…
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austria will be electing a new government in november. november right. well heinz-christian strache’s right-wing national party has entered the battle already with “battle for austria” posterlights. to understand the situation better: the former austrian freedom party (fpö) split into the now “old” fpö in jörg haider’s “alliance for the future of austria” (bzö): so…
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Today is another sad day for Australian politics and consequently Australia overall. In the early hours of this morning the government took full advantage of its absolute majority position to push through the full sale of Telstra that so many Australians absolutely opposed. While I am one of the lucky majority of Australians living in…
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“Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation” – Nelson Mandela
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it’s making me angry and sad at the same time. while most of us are celebrating the 60th anniversary of the end of world war II, nazi-germany and the liberation of its concentration camps some are unable to open their eyes – the result: 3000 neo-nazis meet in berlin to protest against the “lies about…
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Siegfried Kampl – member of the BZÖ and former Bundesrat today resigned from his office under public pressure. Kampl called deserters of the German Wehrmacht “murderers of their comrades” and criticized how Ex-Nazis “were hunted down” after the end of World War II. BZÖ-Spokesman Uwe Scheuch called Kampl “flawless” even after public pressure started to…
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