Sunday, June 5, 2016

#Ukraine - Exploring Ukraine's Underground Rave Revolution: i-D

i-D
Published on 31 May 2016
The 2014 revolution brought Kiev nightlife to a complete standstill. As protests turned into riots, and government security forces opened fire on protestors, the country fell into crisis. But out of the ashes of revolution has risen a new generation. Slava Lepsheev, who’d lost his job because of the financial crisis triggered by the war, had had enough, and started Cxema, a raw, hard and hypnotic techno rave that he took to whatever semi-legal venue he could set a soundsystem up in. So together with Slava, and the city’s brightest young lights, we followed young Kiev as they prepared for a night at Cxema, from building the venue to watching the sunrise break.

Director Tom Ivin

Producer Kate Villevoye
Local Fixer Lyuba Knorozok

Director of Photography Jack Reynolds
Sound Denys Ryskal, Andrii Vaskovski, Viktor Savin
Lighting Stanislav Bezpechnyi
Production Assistant Andrii Bezliudnyi

Editor Paul Frankl, Rebecca Gin
Colourist Oisín O’Driscoll at The Mill
Sound Mix Guy Chase

Narrator Leala-Rain Shonaiya
Script Clive Martin, Matthew Whitehouse
Translations Yelena Kensborn

Music
Voin Uruwu feat. Valta - Hunters and Gatherers
Voin Uruwu - Forest Theme
Stanislav Tolkachev - Sometimes Everything Is Wrong
Lollibou - Crimson Tune
Wulffius - In the Pines’ Crowns (Wicked Bass Records 2016)
Stanislav Tolkachev - Right Angle
Voin Oruwu - A-mplification

#Ukraine - New Weapon Against Russian Propaganda: Wall Street Journal

Published on 26 May 2016
Two years into a conflict with Russian-backed separatists, Ukrainian soldiers have a new weapon against Russian propaganda: Army FM. Photo: Arthur Bondar for The Wall Street Journal

#Ukraine - More Militant Attacks: Government troops under shelling in eastern regions UKRAINE TODAY

Published on 3 Jun 2016
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 49 times in the past 24 hours. This is according to the ATO HQ.

More than 30 cases of the use of weapons by the enemy against the Ukrainian defenders were recorded from Thursday evening to midnight.

#USA - Obama: Increase Social Security Benefits: The Young Turks

Published on 4 Jun 2016
Earlier in Obama’s presidency, he offered to cut social security. Now, in a dramatic reversal, he’s saying we should expand the program. Why? Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

"PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA endorsed an expansion of Social Security for the first time on Wednesday.

“We can’t afford to weaken Social Security,” he said during a speech on economic policy in Elkhart, Indiana. “We should be strengthening Social Security. And not only do we need to strengthen its long-term health, it’s time we finally made Social Security more generous, and increased its benefits so that today’s retirees and future generations get the dignified retirement that they’ve earned.”

The increased benefits, he said, could be paid for “by asking the wealthiest Americans to contribute a little bit more. They can afford it. I can afford it.”

This was a far cry from Obama’s position on the program in late 2012, when his administration argued for reducing Social Security benefits by recalculating the way cost of living adjustments are made.”*

Read more here: https://theintercept.com/2016/06/02/o...

Hosts: Cenk Uygur

#Ukraine - 'Normandy Quartet' agrees on OSCE mission, says Poroshenko: euronews (in English

Published on 4 Jun 2016
Ukraine's president Petro Poroshenko said on Friday the leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine -- the "Normandy Quartet" -- have agreed on deploying an OSCE police mission to Ukraine's eastern region of Donbass.

He was speaking in Kyiv a day after Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there had been no such agreement.

"Today, we have made a big diplomatic breakthrough. A common agreement on the OSCE police mission deployment was made not only at the highest level of the ‘Normandy Quar…

#Syria - regime strikes kill 35 in Aleppo: Al Jazeera English

Published on 4 Jun 2016
As Syrian forces battle ISIL fighters in Raqqa, in Aleppo province, the government continues to bomb civilians. At least 35 people were killed in government airstrikes in rebel-held areas of the province, as Zein Basravi reports.

Allergy Therapeutics (LON:AGY) boss excited by PQBirch204 Phase II data: ProactiveInvestors Stocktube

Published on 9 May 2016
Manuel Llobet, chief executive of Allergy Therapeutics plc (LON:AGY) says the latest data from its Phase II trial of its PQBirch204 treatment for hay fever caused by birch pollen is “exciting for our company”.

Allergy released the results from the latest clinical study, which assessed the response from 371 patients.
The phase II trial revealed a statistically significant dose-response relationship from the groups receiving the medication, with Llobet noting the company has received “very strong top –line data”.
It means the company is still on track to start the Phase III study in early 2017, and Llobet 
says the data is “another step towards our clinical goal to get Polinex Quattro Birch registered in Europe as soon as possible”.

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Allergy Therapeutics

www.allergytherapeutics.com/
Welcome to Allergy Therapeutics, a European-based pharmaceutical company dedicated to continued allergy prevention.
 

#Germany - Lightning Strikes at Rock am Ring 2016 Festival is interrupted: Viraal Vandaag

Published on 3 Jun 2016
Fans injured by lightning strike at Rock Am Ring
Blitzeinschläge bei Rock am Ring 2016 Festival wird unterbrochen

At least 42 people taken to hospital as lightning strikes Germany’s Rock Am Ring festival for 2nd successive year

At least 42 people were taken to hospital on Friday night after lightning struck Germany’s Rock Am Ring festival.

Eight music fans are said to have suffered serious injuries.

It’s the second straight year that lightning has caused injuries to music fans at the event, which is held near Mendig in the country. In 2015, 33 people were hurt when lightning hit the festival site twice.

The official festival website reports that police, firefighters and the Red Cross were in attendance, and one person had to be resuscitated.

Rock Am Ring have set up an information hotline for those worried about loved ones and relatives on 0261 1032345.

Bands including Of Mice & Men, Tenacious D, Amon Amarth, Breaking Benjamin, Disturbed, Puscifer, Volbeat, Tesseract, Issues and Panic! At The Disco were on the Friday bill, which was resumed after the thunderstorm had passed.

More lightning is forecast on Saturday and Sunday near the festival site, according to Rock Am Ring's