Monday, July 19, 2010

Salzburgs children don’t want to make sport

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Doctors of the state hospital criticize that the children of the province of Salzburg are not so much interested in sport anymore. 20 years ago their predecessors were much more sporty and healthier.

The blame for the worrying development got the playstation. But also parents are not that innocent. They are too anxious and fear that children can sustain injuries during their physical exercises. 15 percent of all the children in Salzburg never do sport. The number of overweight children has doubled in the last 20 years.


Doctors explain that todays offspring of Salzburg has no power and no stamina.

Friday, July 16, 2010

Emotional discussions about summer break in Austrian parliament

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Freedom party leader Heinz Christian Strache was criticized by the orange party “BZÖ”, which is also known as the “Alliance For The Future Of Austria”, because he is going to spend a two weeks holiday with his children instead of joining “inflationary extraordinary meetings in parliament” during summer time.

Strache declared in his latest press release that “this shows the attitude of the orange party “BZÖ” in an impressively way which is very inimical to the family.”

Josef Bucher, the chairman of the orange party “BZÖ”, wanted to have a series of extraordinary meetings to force the government to a

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Feldkirch: 2 1/2 years prison for 3 Euro robbery

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A 22-year-old man from Vorarlbergs metropolis of Lustenau was sentenced to an imprisonment of 2 1/2 years because he has captured a wallet with 3 Euro inside.

The height of the loot was irrelevant for the court. The offender commited his misdeed with a lot of violence. Victim was a 53-year-old man. The law range of sentences was 10 years prison. The 22-year-old wanted to have thinking time. The verdict is not legally binding.


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Source: Austria News

Monday, July 12, 2010

Austrias minister of defence wants to save money

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Socialdemocrat and minister of defence Norbert Darabos declared during an interview with the daily newspaper called “Österreich” that his biggest dream would be to save some money for his native country.

Darabos wants to economize more than 300 spies in the Austrian secret service. He also explained a professional army would cost the double if there would be an abolition of a compulsory military service. That’s the main reason of his violent aversion against a professional army.

Green politican Peter Pilz don’t want to hear such ideas. He plans a petition for a referendum against the compulsory military service in

Friday, July 9, 2010

Not enough prison officers in Lower Austria

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The Lower Austrian guard of justice moans about a signally manpower shortage. The numbers of prisoners increases dramatically. The number of prison officers only slowly. Since 2007 there was an increase of prison officers of only 3 percent.

Extra hours are already part of the everyday life and a heavy burden for the employees in the prison. Even the federal manager of the Socialist unionists has worry lines on his forehead and talks about an “unsustainable situation”.

The result of this can be seen in the high numbers of sick leaves. Experts are sure that there is a call for

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Internet fraud: Lower Austrian man lost 64.000 Euro

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A 42-year-old man from the Northern part of Lower Austria lost 64.000 Euro in the internet. He was seduced to buy not existing options on the gold rate. When he wanted to have his deposit payed out, nobody of the company was there anymore and the website was deleted.

The virtual company had its headquaters in China. A short look in several internet forums shows that there are also many victims in other European countries. The company sold the options on the gold rate under following two urls: www.xr-group.com and www.bofx.org.

The Austrian police requests all internet users to be

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Swimmer Dinko Jukic becomes politican of the Peoples Party

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The highly gifted swimmer and brother of the famous Mirna Jukic decided to become a politican of the Peoples Party. He wants to run for a post as a prime candidate in the Meidling district in the next communal elections.

Viennas Peoples Party boss Christine Marek is very excited about such a reenforcement in her election campaign, and talks about a “conscious declaration of war against the ruling Socialdemocrats.” The successful swimmer explained that he is used to jump in cold water. This time he wants to jump into the “cold water of politics.” Marek labels Dinko Jukic as born