Map View. Speed of light broken? | Video | Reuters.com. Video transcript ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) STORY: Ugly scenes showing injured people being attacked in Kharkiv following clashes on Sunday between pro-Ukraine supporters and pro-Russian opponents have been released by the pro-Ukrainian Euromaidan movement. Police said 50 people were hurt, 10 of whom received hospital treatment, in the fighting in the eastern Ukrainian city.
The incident could not be independently verified and further details were not immediately available. The images show three injured people, all bleeding from head wounds, being abused, dragged and kicked by people wearing St. George's ribbons, emblems adopted by pro-Russian separatists. The incident apparently took place in the entrance to the University underground station.
Ukraine's Interfax news agency said pro-Ukrainian supporters were attacked near a monument in the city by pro-Russian supporters after a pro-Ukraine rally. The happiness conspiracy -- New Internationalist. ‘The trouble with normal is it always gets worse,’ sang the Canadian guitarist Bruce Cockburn back in 1983. Seems he was on to something. Normal doesn’t seem to be working any longer. The new Holy Grail is happiness. At every turn are ‘how-to’ happiness books, articles, TV and radio programmes, videos and websites. There are happiness institutes, camps, clubs, classes, cruises, workshops, and retreats. Universities are adding courses in Happiness Studies. Fast-growing professions include happiness counselling, happiness coaching, ‘life-lift’ coaching, ‘joyology’ and happiness science. But a society of ‘happichondriacs’ isn’t necessarily a healthy sign. ‘Happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim,’ said Einstein. If we’ve become pigs at the happiness trough, it’s understandable.
Other happiness blockers include materialism, perpetual discontent, over-complication, hyper-competition, stress, rage, boredom, loneliness and existential confusion. Informed Comment: Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion. Guardian UK. Al Jazeera English.
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