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Guillaume Herbaut: Saturday Evening in Chernobyl

In 1986 when the Chernobyl nuclear station exploded, the Soviet and Ukrainian authorities decided to designate a forbidden zone around the contaminated area. The range is 30 kilometers around and out from the nuclear site, where villages and cities were evacuated. This abandoned area became a wild region, now a peaceful home to wolves and boars.
Just on the outreaches of this forbidden zone lie a few scattered villages and cities. The law impedes any new economic activity or growth, needless to say, these places are suffering greatly. The robust farms that existed during the Soviet period, bringing in food, economic growth and stability have disappeared. The young people growing up in these towns have no choice but to work in Kiev or the Chernobyl nuclear station, for there is no work for them in their own villages and towns.
Every weekend, the youth of Ivankov, the main city in the third contaminated zone, meet at the Antalys discotheque. Some are only there for the weekend, some are students in Kiev, and for others, they are simply looking for a way to forget their situation in the contaminated zone, where they can’t find a job and don’t see a real future. The mixture of despondence, alcohol, and violence, can be a lethal combination.
Guillaume Herbaut
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Kevin Rowland Interview (BBC Culture Show)

Dexys Midnight Runners have announced full details of their new album 'One Day I'm Going To Soar', their first studio album for over 27 years.
'One Day I'm Going To Soar' will be released on June 4 and is the band's first studio album since 1985's 'Don't Stand Me Down'. It will be released under the name Dexys and features the band's members Kevin Rowland, Mick Talbot, Pete Williams and Jim Paterson as well as new recruits Neil Hubbard, Tim Cansfield, Madeleine Hyland, Lucy Morgan and Ben Trigg.
Speaking about the album, the band's frontman Kevin Rowland said: "I couldn't have made this record five years ago. Or 10 years ago. Everything seemed to fall into place. I already had many of the songs around for a while written with Jim Paterson and others but was struggling to take them forward. Then I realised I needed heavyweight help and ran into Mick Talbot. Soon it became obvious that Pete Williams should play the bass."
He continued: "It seems like the stars were aligned. Everything seemed to work, whereas previously, it hadn't. It seemed there were so many people willing this to happen and keen to put in as much time and effort as was needed to make it live up to its potential. This is a Dexys record, not a Kevin Rowland record."
You can hear the first two minutes of the album's opener 'Now' by scrolling down to the bottom of the page and clicking.
The tracklisting for 'One Day I'm Going To Soar' is as follows:
'Now'
'Lost'
'Me'
'She Got A Wiggle'
'You'
'Thinking Of You'
'I'm Always Going To Love You'
'Incapable Of Love'
'Nowhere Is Home'
'Free'
'It's OK John Joe'
The band will also play two UK live dates to celebrate album's release. They will headline Glasgow's Cottiers Theatre on May 6 and London's O2 Shepherds Bush Empire on May 8. Tickets go onsale on Friday at 12pm.

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Piece of human garbage Lynndie England not sorry for Abu Ghraib torture/abuses "Their lives are better" http://ht.ly/9JZjR

Obama: The Road We've Travelled

Sign o' the Times

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Belarus Censured for Executing 2 in Subway Bombing

Ginsberg on NAMBLA

Time magazine, following the FBI disinformation campaign, attacked NAMBLA as a group involved in the "systematic exploitation of the weak and immature by the powerful and disturbed." That struck me as a fitting description of Time magazine itself. NAMBLA's a forum for reform of those laws on youthful sexuality which members deem oppressive, a discussion society not a sex club. I joined NAMBLA in defence of free speech.

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