Friday, July 30, 2010

Russian Mob Attacks Gov. Building Over Highway Plan

An angry mob outraged by a plan to build a highway in the middle of a Russian forest attacked the mayor's office in the Moscow suburb of Khimki, smashing windows with stones and smoke grenades, France 24 reports. YouTube user Berillii gave this account of his video to the French network's Observers program, confirming a report in Kommersant newspaper that the incident was the work of anarchists rather than environmental activists:

"At 6pm a big group of young people were gathered at Trubnaya Square in Moscow: there were anarchists, punks, young communists and regular students. Many of them looked like they'd just come to listen to a concert and didn't know that the music was a just a cover for a planned riot. At about 7pm, a singer from one of the bands climbed up on a statue overlooking the square and declared that police, private security guards and Nazi thugs were attacking the environmental protesters in Khimki, and that we should take revenge. He called everyone to go to Petrovsko-Razumovskaya train station, and we set off from there to Khimki in 10 minutes.

I think there were at least 200 people participating in the protest and ensuing riots: I saw several train wagons full. I recall seeing one guy pick up a metal rod from the rail track, and I was thinking that things could get ugly. The crowd marched down Moskovskaya street up to the administrative building. The column of people stretched all the way down the street. When the start of the protest reached the building and started shooting from traumatic pistols (Russian rubber-bullet self-defense guns), people at end of the procession thought that a clash had broken out between protesters and security. (In fact, security guards were completely taken by surprise, and quickly fled the scene.)

I ran to the front of the procession and started filming. My video shows what happened from then on: the shooting, the stone-throwing, the graffiti, then the retreat, the march back to the train station. Everything went very fast."



User name: Berillii
Location: Khimki, Russia
Date uploaded: July 28
Views: 69,469
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Monsoonal Floods Strand Thousands in Pakistan

The AP reports flooding from three days of monsoonal rains in northwest Pakistan has killed 430 people, making it the region's deadliest disaster since 1929. The wire service also reported 400,000 people are stranded. These videos show flood waters covering the streets of Mardan, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.



User name: realfun784
Location: Mardan, Pakistan
Date uploaded: July 30
Event date: July 29
Views: 370
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User name: asimjan016
Location: Mardan, Pakistan
Date uploaded: July 30
Views: 1
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Woman Rescued from NYC Subway Track

Video uploaded to YouTube earlier this month shows a woman lying on subway tracks inside a New York MTA station and arguing with a group of people on the platform. As a crowd gathers on the edge of the platform to watch, a man gets onto the tracks at 0:55 and pulls her to safety.



User name: CrystalKlear15
Location: New York, New York
Date uploaded: July 17
Views: 19,090
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Arrests at Phoenix Immigration Rally

At least 50 people were arrested in Phoenix during protests against a tough new Arizona immigration law on Thursday, the day the law took effect. The videos below show SWAT officers and sheriff's deputies arresting demonstrators.



User name: Barriozona
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Date uploaded: July 29
Event date: July 29
Views: 19
User notes: On the day Arizona immigration law SB 1070 was implemented, around 200 demonstrators carried acts of civil disobedience by blocking Washington Street between Central Avenue and 1st Avenue. Phoenix Police arrested several protesters who refused to clear the street. Video produced by Eduardo Barraza | Barriozona Magazine
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User name: puenteaz
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Date uploaded: July 29
Event date: July 29
Views: 173
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Brake Fails, Bus Slides into Seine River

A tour bus parked near the Eiffel Tower rolled down a slope and ended up in Paris' Seine River on Thursday. A tourist, Michael Ambrosia, shot video of the bus as it sank. Le Figaro reports the bus was transporting Austrian tourists, but no one was aboard at the time of the accident.



User name: michaelambrosia
Location: Paris, France
Date uploaded: July 29
Event date: July 29
Views: 325
User notes: I was standing next to the Seine River and heard a sound. It was the sound of a large tour bus jumping a two step curb onto a sidewalk. The bus kept going and rolled right into the river. By this time I was pulling my camera out and running. I got bumped on the side by a guy and took a fall, sliding right on my camera. Got up, ran to the scene and started the video in the process. This happened around 8:00pm July 29, 2010.
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Wildfire Burns 6,000 Acres in Los Angeles

The Crown fire in northern Los Angeles county has burned 6,000 acres, according to California's firefighting agency, CAL FIRE. The blaze lit up the skies above Palmdale and Leona Valley, as seen in these videos from Thursday night.



User name: NullTie
Location: Palmdale, California
Date uploaded: July 29
Event date: July 29
Views: 91
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User name: Espeelover
Location: Palmdale, California
Date uploaded: July 29
Event date: July 29
Views: 136
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User name: jkpalmdaleca
Location: Palmdale, California
Date uploaded: July 29
Event date: July 29
Views: 7
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User name: danielrpotter
Location: Antelope Valley, California
Date uploaded: July 30
Event date: July 30
Views: 87
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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Train Ploughs Into Dutch City Center

Dutch officials say communication problems may have caused a train to crash into the village square in Stavoren, Netherlands on Sunday. The train reportedly drove through the end of the line, striking a diesel truck which ended up in a sporting goods shop. The Telegraaf reports the train driver spoke no Dutch, and the train engineer in charge of safety was a temporary worker.



User name: Veluwebeeld
Location: Stavoren, Netherlands
Date uploaded: July 26
Event date: July 25
Views: 22
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User name: king12qwaszx12
Location: Stavoren, Netherlands
Date uploaded: July 26
Event date: July 25
Views: 33
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User name: 12vi15973
Location: Stavoren, Netherlands
Date uploaded: July 28
Views: 33
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NASCAR Owner Survives Plane Crash

Jack Roush, the owner of NASCAR team Roush Fenway Racing, survived a plane crash at Wittman Field in Oshkosh, Wisconsin on Tuesday. Roush was attending the Experimental Aircraft Association's annual AirVenture, according to the AP. Videos posted to YouTube show a broken, twin-engine Beechcraft on the ground, and Roush walking off of the plane.



User name: hhonickm
Location: Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Date uploaded: July 27
Event date: July 27
Views: 80,074
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User name: djsmartx
Location: Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Date uploaded: July 27
Event date: July 27
Views: 767
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Explosion Rocks Cheyenne, Wy. Oil Refinery

A fire erupted in a crude oil processing unit at Frontier Refining in Cheyenne, Wyoming on Wednesday. Neighbors reported hearing a big bang, and some said their houses shook, although no injuries were reported.



User name: varelavillezcas
Location: Cheyenne, Wyoming
Date uploaded: July 28
Event date: July 28
Views: 6
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French City Evacuates Neighborhood for Demolition

1,600 residents of Amiens, France were evacuated from their homes on Thursday while a building, La Tour Bleue, was demolished. The government promised a free breakfast and entertainment to those temporarily forced out of their homes.



User name: mak6bis
Location: Amiens, France
Date uploaded: July 29
Event date: July 29
Views: 197
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User name: mrdawsfromfrance
Location: Amiens, France
Date uploaded: July 29
Event date: July 29
Views: 103
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Car Crash Sets Gas Station on Fire

A Tampa, Florida driver reportedly lost control of her vehicle and slammed into a gas pump at a Mobil station, which erupted in flames. The Tampa Tribune reports there were no injuries. A witness recorded this video of the fire from across the street.



User name: Helton566
Location: Tampa, Florida
Date uploaded: July 28
Event date: July 28
Views: 279
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User name: Helton566
Location: Tampa, Florida
Date uploaded: July 28
Event date: July 28
Views: 141
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Factory Explosion Kills 12, Injures 300 in China

An explosion at a chemical factory in eastern China reportedly killed 12 people, injured hundreds others and knocked out windows as far as 1 km away. Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said workers apparently breached a propylene pipeline beneath the factory in downtown Nanjing.



User name: erping888
Location: Nanjing, China
Date uploaded: July 28
Event date: July 28
Views: 1
User notes: On July 28, 2010, a huge explosion occurred in Nanjing, China, and it was censored by the authorities---here is a video recording of its aftermaths by a local Nanjing resident who risked his life to tape this.
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User name: erping888
Location: Nanjing, China
Date uploaded: July 28
Event date: July 28
Views: 4
User notes: On July 28, 2010, a huge explosion occurred in Nanjing, China, and it was censored by the authorities---here is a video recording of its aftermaths by a local Nanjing resident who risked his life to tape this.
Click here to watch this video on YouTube.

UPDATE: 152 Killed in Pakistan Plane Crash

Video from the scene of today's Airblue plane crash near Islamabad, Pakistan, taken by Muhammad Saqib Sultan, a computer engineer who works in the Margalla Hills, the site of the accident.

He writes in an email:

"[This] morning when I reach in my office and turn on the t.v. there is a news of plane crash. So I just lift up to roof and found heavy smoke with fire in front of me on the hills. I just start my bike and pick my [colleague] and reach at margilla road below hills, the last limit. Then from there we start follows the rescue teams, climbing on the hills. There was heavy rain and the path from ground to crash site in very dangerous and far away. About 1 and half hour. At last we reach at the site of crash. And that's the way I was able to make the videos and images."

The Airbus A321 had reportedly left Karachi en route to the capital when it came down in heavy rain.



User name: sakijanexxx
Location: Islamabad, Pakistan
Date uploaded: July 28
Event date: July 28
Views: 3
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This video was posted by 2048adil.


User name: 2048adil
Location: Islamabad, Pakistan
Date uploaded: July 28
Event date: July 28
Views: 30
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California Wildfires Destroy 30 Homes, Gov. Declares Emergency

The governor of California has declared a state of emergency for Kern County, where two wildfires have destroyed 30 homes and are threatening 150 more.



User name: oalonso1
Location: Mountain Valley Airport, Tehachapi, California
Date uploaded: July 27
Views: 60
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User name: airlandseatv
Location: Kernville, California
Date uploaded: July 26
Event date: July 26
Views: 336
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

UPDATE: Nearly 1M Gallons of Oil Spilled in Michigan Creek

A broken pipe spilled an estimated 877,000 gallons of oil into Battle Creek, Michigan on Monday, making it one of the largest oil spills in the Midwest, according to the Detroit Free Press. The pipeline is reportedly owned by Enbridge Liquid Pipelines and transports oil from Indiana to Ontario. A YouTube user has recorded aerial images showing oil in the creek, which feeds into the Kalamazoo River.



User name: corrive9
Location: Marshall Township, Michigan
Date uploaded: July 27
Views: 22
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User name: 420stardustglitter
Location: Marshall Township, Michigan
Date uploaded: July 27
Views: 10
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User name: PictureTakinDiva
Location: Marshall Township, Michigan
Date uploaded: July 26
Views: 318
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Greenpeace Shuts Down 46 BP Gas Stations

Activists with Greenpeace UK said they shut down 46 BP gas stations in London today to protest the company's environmental record. Video uploaded to Greenpeace's YouTube channel shows activists flipping pump on/off switches and even erecting fences around stations to prevent drivers from entering. A BP spokesperson tells MSNBC the protest was "an irresponsible and childish act."



User name: GreenpeaceUK
Location: London
Date uploaded: July 27
Event date: July 27
Views: 315
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Riot Police Dispatched to China Protests

The Chinese government has dispatched paramilitary troops to the city of Suzhou, in Jiangsu province, to control protesters demanding compensation for land that was razed to make way for factories, according to the AP, which writes: "Such disputes are common in China as swaths of farmland are razed to make way for factories, office parks, golf courses and other urban sprawl."

Videos uploaded to YouTube show protestors clashing with police, and hundreds of security agents streaming into the city.



User name: canyureport
Location: Suzhou, China
Date uploaded: July 21
Views: 1,518
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User name: canyureport
Location: Suzhou, China
Date uploaded: July 22
Views: 322
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User name: shpzw
Date uploaded: July 23
Views: 96
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Rare Alligator Feeding Frenzy Caught on Tape

A Georgia fisherman recorded hundreds of alligators gathering in a canal in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, in what biologists believe may be a strange feeding ritual. Ray Cason witnessed the gator gathering on two consecutive mornings this month, and says it lasted only about 30 minutes each time. He provided his video to the Clinch County News of Homerville, Georgia, which has a full report of the encounter.



User name: clinchcountynews
Location: Stephen C. Foster State Park, Georgia
Date uploaded: July 21
Event date: July 11
Views: 49,238
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User name: clinchcountynews
Location: Stephen C. Foster State Park, Georgia
Date uploaded: July 21
Event date: July 11
Views: 18,144
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Saudi Arabia: Lufthansa Cargo Plane Accident

A Lufthansa cargo plane split split in two and caught fire while landing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia today, according to the AP. Videos posted to YouTube show the smoking plane at King Khalid International Airport.



User name: coffeemate777
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Date uploaded: July 27
Event date: July 27
Views: 50
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User name: 3mo0od
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Date uploaded: July 27
Event date: July 27
Views: 16
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User name: 3mo0od
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Date uploaded: July 27
Event date: July 27
Views: 76
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Monday, July 26, 2010

Tennessee Lt. Governor: Islam Arguably a Cult, God Controls Global Warming

Tennessee Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey, while campaigning for governor in Chattanooga, responded to a question about "a threat that's invading our country from the Muslims" by saying Islam is arguably a cult.

Ramsey's complete response begins at 3:35 in the clip below, and includes this:
"Now, you could even argue whether being a Muslim is actually a religion, or is it a nationality, way of life, cult, whatever you want to call it. Now certainly we do protect our religions, but at the same time this is something we are going to have to face."

Ramsey later told Talking Points Memo he's concerned "far too much of Islam has come to resemble a violent political philosophy more than peace-loving religion."



User name: bdjennings55
Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee
Date uploaded: July 15
Event date: July 14
Views: 970
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The day after that campaign appearance, Ramsey told a crowd of Tea Party supporters this about global warming: "Maybe the world is getting warmer, I don't know. But if it is, it's arrogant of us as human beings to say we're the ones that's cause of it ... God is in control of that, period, period." (6:00)



User name: gibsoncountypatriots
Location: Paris, Tennessee
Date uploaded: July 17
Event date: July 15
Views: 21
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Smoke Obscures Moscow Skyline

An estimated 60 wildfires are burning in peat bogs and forests on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia, raising the level of toxic particles in the air up to eight times normal levels. Officials in Moscow have advised residents to remain indoors, as the city endures its most intense heat wave since 1981.



User name: Nobody1313131313
Location: Moscow, Russia
Date uploaded: July 25
Views: 317
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User name: glhome
Location: Moscow, Russia
Date uploaded: July 23
Event date: July 22
Views: 318
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Bear Takes Car for Joyride, Trashes Interior

A hungry black bear broke into an unlocked car in Larkspur, Colorado on Friday, where 17-year old Ben Story had left behind a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Story says the bear got trapped inside when the door closed behind it. As the Denver Post reports: "The Storys believe that as the bear shuffled around the car looking for a way out, he bumped into the gear shift and put the automatic transmission into neutral, sending the car rolling 125 feet back down a hill." The bear trashed the interior of the car before sheriff's deputies let him out about two hours later.



User name: 21bstory
Location: Larkspur, Colorado
Date uploaded: July 23
Views: 4,902
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Videos Show Deadly Chaos at Love Parade

New videos posted to YouTube show the panic leading to a stampede that killed 21 people and injured 500 others at the Love Parade music festival in Germany on Saturday. Concert organizers said today Love Parade would be permanently canceled because of the tragedy.



User name: smokingsucker
Location: Duisburg, Germany
Date uploaded: July 25
Event date: July 24
Views: 1,151
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User name: IslandSuperMonkey
Location: Duisburg, Germany
Date uploaded: July 25
Event date: July 24
Views: 1,470
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User name: vriend1
Location: Duisburg, Germany
Date uploaded: July 25
Event date: July 24
Views: 1,974
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Iowa Lake Disappears After Dam Failure

The nine-mile long Lake Delhi drained on Saturday when a dam broke. Videos posted to YouTube show the water ripping boats away from their docks and sending them over the failed dam. The Chicago Tribune reports that millions of dollars in property values also disappeared, because 900 vacation homes lost their lakefront views.



User name: theschneiders5
Location: Delhi, Iowa
Date uploaded: July 25
Event date: July 24
Views: 47
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User name: barkerl2737
Location: Delhi, Iowa
Date uploaded: July 25
Event date: July 24
Views: 1,291
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User name: bsmahoney
Location: Delhi, Iowa
Date uploaded: July 24
Event date: July 24
Views: 1,744
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Saturday, July 24, 2010

Germany's Love Parade Turns Into Fatal Stampede

A stampede killed as many as 15 and injured nearly 100 injured today in Duisburg, Germany, at Love Parade, an annual techno-music festival, according to The Guardian. The article states panic set in when a crowd attempted to take a shortcut through a narrow tunnel.


Several YouTube users witnessed the event:


Friday, July 23, 2010

Wisconsin Street Turns to Raging River

Torrential downpours and flooding damaged more than 6,000 homes in the Milwaukee area. This video shows the whitewater conditions on a street in Shorewood.



User name: skaterape115
Location: Shorewood, Wisconsin
Date uploaded: July 23
Event date: July 22
Views: 16,923
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Three Corpse Flowers to Bloom This Weekend

Three Amorphophallus titanum plants, better known as "corpse flowers," are set to bloom this weekend: one at a Houston museum, and two others in Minnesota. "Lois," at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences, could disrupt a wedding taking place in a butterfly room next door on Saturday. (The plant's common name describes the putrid odor given off by its flower, one of the world's largest.) The specimen at Gustavus Adolphus College, "Perry," is expected to blossom this weekend, while "Bob," a plant at Orchids Unlimited in Plymouth, Minnesota, opened yesterday.

Crowds gather to see Lois, which was starting to smelly like "dirty socks," according to springrealty.



User name: springrealty
Location: Houston, Texas
Date uploaded: July 22
Event date: July 22
Views: 20
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Time-lapse video of Perry.



User name: gustavusvideo
Location: Saint Peter, Minnesota
Date uploaded: July 21
Views: 450
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Bob, which smells like "rotting fish and roadkill."



User name: Drorchid67
Location: Plymouth, Minnesota
Date uploaded: July 22
Event date: July 22
Views: 72
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Russians Seek Relief from Heat Wave

In Moscow this week temperatures hit 95 degrees for the first time since 1981. Parts of Russia have been enduring a heat wave since late June, which Reuters reports has caused some of the worst crop failures in 130 years. It's also taking a toll on residents, most of whom do not have air conditioning: over 2,000 Russians have drowned since June 1, according to NBC. Many of the victims were trying to swim while drunk.

These videos show Muscovites taking to city fountains to escape the heat.



User name: dup80
Location: Moscow, Russia
Date uploaded: July 18
Event date: July 17
Views: 5,956
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User name: castiel0410
Date uploaded: July 23
Views: 2
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Typhoon Chanthu Lashes Hong Kong

Typhoon Chanthu, reported to be one of the worst storms to strike Hong Kong in 30 years, flooded 3,000 homes yesterday and is now moving across southeast China. At least one person was killed in the flooding.




User name: sharonapocalypse
Location: Hong Kong
Date uploaded: July 22
Event date: July 22
Views: 10
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User name: 216ck216
Location: Hong Kong
Date uploaded: July 22
Event date: July 22
Views: 93
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User name: tim57hk
Location: Hong Kong
Date uploaded: July 22
Event date: July 22
Views: 10,883
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152 Arrested in SF Hotel Demonstration

152 hotel workers and labor supporters were arrested in San Francisco on Thursday outside the Grand Hyatt hotel, part of a nationwide demonstration for higher wages and better working conditions in hotels. The AP reports the San Francisco demonstrators were arrested for refusing to obey police orders to leave. Scenes of the protest begin around 1:40 in the clip below.



User name: eodiv1
Location: San Francisco, California
Date uploaded: July 22
Event date: July 22
Views: 26
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User name: raqcoonmammal
Location: San Francisco, California
Date uploaded: July 23
Event date: July 22
Views: 5
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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Louisianians Rally in Support of Oil Industry

Thousands of Louisiana residents attended a "Rally for Economic Survival" on Wednesday in Lafayette, the center of the state's oil and gas industry, to protest a planned federal moratorium on offshore drilling operations. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal told the crowd (at 2:28), "The fact that the federal government can't do its job shouldn't cost thousands of Louisianians our jobs."



User name: brianbns01
Location: Lafayette, Louisiana
Date uploaded: July 21
Event date: July 21
Views:79
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

CO Senate Candidate: "Vote for Me Because I Don't Wear High Heels"

Ken Buck, a Republican candidate for the US Senate, appears in a video posted to YouTube today telling an audience, "Why should you vote for me? Because I do not wear high heels.

"She has questioned my manhood," he continues, referring to GOP primary challenger Jane Norton, "and I think it's fair to respond."

The Washington Post notes the video clip is edited to ninety seconds and was not posted by Buck's campaign.

Buck recently invited former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo to speak at a campaign event, where Tancredo called President Barack Obama "the greatest threat to the United States" and to the Constitution.



User name: wayne2br
Date uploaded: July 21
Views: 310
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Dam Breaks, Millions of Gallons of Water Escape Arizona Lake

Part of a dam broke on Tempe Town Lake in Arizona on Tuesday night, allowing millions of gallons of water to escape the man-made lake and flow into a dry riverbed. City officials tell the Arizona Republic it will cost up to $400,000 to refill the lake. The video below was taken around 10:45 pm, about one hour after the accident, according to the user, mwcolman.



User name: mwcolman
Location: Tempe, Arizona
Date uploaded: July 20
Event date: July 20
Views: 234
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This is what the lake looks like today.



User name: srslyfkd
Location: Tempe, Arizona
Date uploaded: July 21
Event date: July 21
Views: 105
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Texas Team Rescues Horse from Flood

Video uploaded to YouTube today shows an Urban Search & Rescue team save a horse from rising flood waters in Rio Grande City, Texas. Firefighter volunteers with Texas Task Force 1 were dispatched to south Texas in the wake of Hurricane Alex, and were called upon to rescue this 17-year old mare, named Irish Painted Lady. The horse's owner tells the Fort Worth Star-Telegram the horse was entangled in a mesquite tree and unable to move.



User name: teexreviewer
Location: Rio Grande City, Texas
Date uploaded: July 21
Event date: July 11
Views: 3
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Star Wars: Shooting Down Aircraft with a Laser

The US Navy and weapons maker Raytheon have reported successfully shooting down four unmanned aerial drones with a laser. The video below purportedly shows a test of the laser weapon system in May.
The UK's Sky News reports the weapon, which shoots an invisible beam, was unveiled Monday at Farnborough International Air Show.



User name: knightskross
Date uploaded: July 19
Views: 190,839
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NAACP Releases Full Shirley Sherrod Video

The NAACP has released a 43:15 clip of Shirley Sherrod's speech at a local chapter banquet. A description of the video says: "The video of Shirley Sherrod released by Andrew Brietbart's Big Government Blog on July 19 didn't tell the full story. It was selectively edited to cast her in a negative light. Here is the video, shot by the local NAACP unit that hosted Ms. Sherrod. Watch the video, and judge for yourself."



User name: NAACPvideos
Date uploaded: July 20
Views: 17,510
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Brown Beret to AZ Immigration Supporters' Rally: 'Go Back to Europe!'

A conservative cameraman captured a member of the Brown Berets, a Mexican American organization, shouting "Go Back To Europe" (at 3:10) at a rally to support Arizona's immigration regulations outside Angel's Anaheim Stadium. At 2:45, the cameraman tells the woman that she's like "the Latino version of the KKK."


The video, uploaded by Americans for Legal Immigration, is being discussed on blogs like the Huffington Post and on television.



User name:
ALIPAC1
Location: Anaheim, Calif.
Date uploaded: July 18
Views: 32,180
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Hundreds of Dead Penguins Arrive on Brazil's Beaches

Scientists are investigating why nearly 500 starved penguins have washed up dead on the shores of Brazil within the last 10 days, according to the Associated Press. Peruibe, Praia Grande and Itanhaem beaches in Sao Paulo state are collecting the most of the black-and-white birds, says the report.


In Mongagua, Brazil, a few beach-goers filmed their discovery of one of the penguins:



User name:
vitorberno
Location: Mongagua, Brazil
Date uploaded: July 19
Views: 7
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Vietnamese Singer Attacked at California Concert

A popular Vietnamese singer was attacked while performing in Santa Clara, California by a local activist on Sunday. This video clip purportedly shows the activist Ly Tong, disguised as a woman, approaching the stage at 1:48 and offering a flower to pop singer Dam Vinh Hung. As Hung reaches out for the flower, he is sprayed in the face with pepper spray. Tong's attorney tells KGO-TV it was an act of political protest against Hung's Communist agenda. The BBC reports hundreds of demonstrators, including Louisiana congressman Anh Cao, protested outside the concert.



User name: klad200
Location: Santa Clara, California
Date uploaded: July 19
Event date: July 18
Views: 26,727
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Russians Investigating Flying Donkey Stunt

Police in Russia are investigating a group of entrepreneurs behind a marketing stunt in a beachside town involving a parasailing donkey. The businessmen were trying to attract attention to the resort of Golubitskaya, the BBC reports, and are likely to face criminal charges.



User name: MrChirok
Location: Golubitskaya, Russia
Date uploaded: July 12
Views: 134
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Mass. Fisherman Catches Mutant Lobster

A lobster dealer in Gloucester, Massachusetts shows off a rare find: a lobster with three pinchers.



User name: captjoe06
Location: Gloucester, Massachusetts
Date uploaded: July 17
Event date: July 17
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Monday, July 19, 2010

Citizens Capture Deadly Drug Trafficker-Mexican Army Shootouts at U.S. Border

Several videos of deadly shootouts between members of the Mexican Army and drug trafficking organizations in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, last Friday were uploaded to YouTube over the weekend.


The violence left at least a dozen people dead and 21 people injured, according to Pro 8 News, an NBC affiliate in Laredo, TX. Following the violence, the mayor shut the Texas border town down, reports the station.

Caution -- The following video contains graphic images of the shootout's aftermath:


User name: federal129
Location: Nuevo Laredo, Mexico
Date uploaded: July 18
Views: 560

Others took video as the battles took place: