Orange Marches Lead to Trouble in Northern Ireland

Police in Northern Ireland have clashed with nationalist protestors over the past two days in Belfast, where Protestant Orangemen staged their annual July 12 parades. 27 police officers were reportedly injured when crowds threw bricks, Molotov cocktails and other makeshift weapons.

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Location: East Belfast

Date uploaded: July 11

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User notes: An impromptu (?) march down the Beersbridge Road in East Belfast on the 12th July 2010 (just)

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User name: overthebridgeni
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Date uploaded: July 11
Event date: July 11
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User name: ltps
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Date uploaded: July 11
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User name: R8YourPolitician
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Date uploaded: July 12
Event date: July 11
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UK Labour Party learns by Boone Oakley's example

In our "Secrets to Nonprofit Video Success" post below, one tip offered was to emulate videos that have already proven themselves to be extremely successful on YouTube. That wasn't just a successful tip for nonprofits, as demonstrated by the United Kingdom Labour Party's latest effort, which bears a striking resemblance to the wildly creative and popular Boone Oakley video. Here are the two videos back to back:





Both videos leverage YouTube's Annotations feature, which allow users to insert interactive commentary into content and link to more information about a specific topic. You can add customized annotations to your next video by selecting "Edit Video" after it is uploaded.

Millions Watch Gordon Brown Scolded in Parliament

Daniel Hannan, a Conservative member of the European Parliament from South East England, posted a video to YouTube, in which he chastises UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown at a meeting of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday. Hannan attacked Brown for how he's handled the economy crisis, and told the Prime Minster that he was "the devalued Prime Minister of a devalued government," among other strongly-worded statements.

The impassioned speech, uploaded to Hannan's own YouTube account, has nearly 1.3 million views and almost 9,000 comments at the time of this post.