A cell-phone video clip captured an exchange between Sarah Palin and a protester who hung a sign reading "PALIN WORST GOVERNOR EVER" at a business at the Homer, Alaska harbor dock. A transcript of the conversation can be found here.
User name: MOOREUPNORTH
Location: Homer, Alaska
Date uploaded: August 8
Views: 433,689
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Flood victims in Pakistan who have lost their homes apparently are relocating to tents set up along highways. The tents can be seen along a stretch of road between Islamabad and Peshawar in a video uploaded to YouTube by DELTApak, whose other videos document the destruction caused by the flooding outside Peshawar.
User name: DELTApak
Location: northwest Pakistan
Date uploaded: August 6
Views: 2
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User name: DELTApak
Location: Nowshera, Pakistan
Date uploaded: August 6
Views: 13
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The AP reports an elephant hospital in Thailand is treating a new patient today: a 22-year old female elephant whose foot was severely injured when she stepped on a landmine. The hospital, called Friends of Asian Elephant, has reportedly treated at least 12 other elephants wounded by landmines buried along Thailand's northern frontier, where the Myanmar government is battling ethnic minority rebels. Some of FAE's patients can be seen in videos uploaded to YouTube.
User name: soraidasalwala
Location: Lampang, Thailand
Date uploaded: July 21
Views: 12
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User name: WindyBorman
Location: Lampang, Thailand
Date uploaded: April 2
Views: 442
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Fourteen-year old sailor Laura Dekker left her home in the Netherlands today in an attempt to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world. As the BBC reports, Dekker, who was born on a yacht, plans to spend the next two years circumnavigating the world on her 26-foot boat, Guppy.
User name: omima23a
Location: Den Osse, Netherlands
Date uploaded: August 4
Event date: August 4
Views: 363
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A storm on the surface of the sun known as a "coronal mass ejection" pushed billions of tons of superheated gas into the solar system, which is now appearing over some parts of the northern hemisphere in the form of aurora borealis. The Telegraph reports: "Dramatic auroras were seen in Denmark, Norway, Greenland, Germany and across the northern United States and Canada" Tuesday night.
User name: rostern
Location: Bergen/Levanger, Norway
Date uploaded: August 4
Event date: August 4
Views: 102
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User name: Gaustatrollet
Location: Telemark, Norway
Date uploaded: August 4
Event date: August 4
Views: 8
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User name: shauttra
Location: Latvia
Date uploaded: August 4
Event date: August 4
Views: 315
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User name: technofranki
Location: Risør, Norway
Date uploaded: August 4
Event date: August 4
Views: 336
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Hundreds of Red Shirt protesters defied a state of emergency and gathered for a demonstration in Bangkok, Thailand on Sunday, where they called for early elections. At least ninety demonstrators linked to the Red Shirt movement were killed in two months of clashes with security forces that ended in April.
User name: RevengeoftheRedShirt
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Date uploaded: August 2
Event date: August 1
Views: 20
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User name: RevengeoftheRedShirt
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Date uploaded: August 1
Event date: August 1
Views: 472
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Residents of the Faroe Islands, an autonomous part of Denmark, took part in a communal hunt for pilot whales on July 23. The New York Times' Dot Earth blog uncovered this explanation from Faroes' Ministry of Fisheries:
"The pilot whale hunt in the Faroes is, by its very nature, a dramatic and bloody sight. Entire schools of whales are killed on the shore and in the shallows of bays with knives which are used to sever the major blood supply to the brain. This is the most efficient and humane means of killing these animals under the circumstances, but it naturally results in a lot of blood in the water. It is also understandable that there have been many strong reactions to media reports and pictures of the hunt in other countries, especially in urban communities, where most people have never actually been witness to the slaughtering processes from which their own meat derives."
User name: mincewhale
Location: Torshavn, Faroe Islands, Denmark
Date uploaded: July 27
Event date: July 23
Views: 11,387
User notes: I posted the video clip for mainly two reasons.
Whale slaughter is a spectacular event with much blood. Many of the pictures shown in the media are vivid, graphic and provoking, giving much to an imagination to work with. Not always intended to inform people, but to impress. And sometimes even used to play on emotions to provoke and gain support for a cause. Killing animals is and should be horrible, or at least unpleasant.
I wanted the full story to be told and watched, by giving a real time overview of the event, so that the graphic images can be understood in the context of the event.
I wanted the performance of the people making the whale drive to be seen, and also how the killing was done. Knowing it was exemplary compared to some botched slaughter in Klaksvik that was portrayed as such in the media, and evoked outrage internationally and also amongst the Faroese.
The number of pilot whales killed in this video was said to be 108, and they were a splinter group of a larger drove passing by the Faroe Islands. The whale killing itself was said to last somewhere between 5-7 minutes. That means that a whale died every third second after the stranding.
Soon after the stranding of the pilot whales, report of another whale drove was reported. When that drove was discovered to consist of white beaked dolphins, that whale drive was aborted.
Much has been done to improve on the whale killing procedures and in the use of tools. To lessen the pain and stress inflicted on the animals, and to hasten the process. This video demonstrates that improvements are successful. One example is the hook used to draw the whales to the shore. It used to be line with a sharp edged hook that was stabbed into the flesh of the whale, so that the men on the beach holding the line, could pull it in. This hook has now been replaced with a blunt hook designed to be pushed into the blowhole of the whale, and it is being used successfully.
Each year has on average 10 whale drives with a mean total of 800 whales. A number that accounts for about 0.1% of the estimated population of pilot whales.
I have eaten some of the whale, and am thankful for it, I have seen the cost.
The video is unedited, except that it only contains the first 5 eventful minutes.
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User name: koyrilararin
Location: Torshavn, Faroe Islands, Denmark
Date uploaded: July 27
Event date: July 23
Views: 46
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In a video posted to YouTube, the leader of a Chechen rebel group branded a terrorist by Russia and the United States has apparently announced his resignation as head of the self-proclaimed Caucusus Emirate. The AP reports: "A man recognizable as Doku Umarov says in the grainy footage posted late Sunday that he is handing over command of the group of fighters ... which seeks to establish an Islamic state in the region." Umarov claimed responsibility for 2 suicide bombings in Moscow subway stations that killed 40 people in March and an attack in November 2009 that killed 26.
User name: B0RJGALI
Date uploaded: August 1
Views: 566
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A fire and explosion at Iran's largest oil terminal earlier this month reportedly killed 4 people. Iranian news agency IRNA said high pressure in a central boiler may have triggered the blast at a petrochemical plant on Khark Island. The fire was apparently caught on video in this clip, which also shows an explosion at 2:12 that sent workers running for their lives.
User name: 20071305
Location: Kharg Island, Iran
Date uploaded: August 1
Event date: July 25
Views: 312
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2.5 million people have ben affected by Pakistan's worst flooding in 80 years, according to the BBC, which reports that officials are worried about outbreaks of diarrhea and cholera. Videos posted to YouTube show flooded streets and damage in cities surrounding Peshawar. imranahmad131 describes the scene in his video from Garhi Baloch village, noting "thousands of homes were partially broken as most of the houses are not of concrete."
User name: SAMINUNOCHA
Location: Behrain, Pakistan
Date uploaded: August 2
Views: 27
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User name: Innocent143Beauti
Location: Nowshera Cantt, Pakistan
Date uploaded: August 1
Views: 466
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User name: imranahmad131
Location: Garhi Baloch, Pakistan
Date uploaded: July 30
Event date: July 28-July 29
Views: 1,028
User notes: This video was taken on 28 and 29th July 2010 when the flood strike the Village Garhi Baloch, Peshawar (5 KM North from the downtown). Half of the residents of Garhi Baloch were badly affected by the Budni Nala (canal). This flood caused damage of billions of rupees. The video shows the walls of the houses fallen due to heavy rain on 28th July and then the flood on 29th July. The flood came to be a blessing for some self-seeking and cold-hearted people when they started catching the valuables of the damaged houses.
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User name: TheRomeo117
Location: Nowshera Cantt, Pakistan
Date uploaded: July 31
Views: 1,097
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New Jersey's Seaside Park beach was briefly closed on Sunday when a 5-foot blue shark swam onto the shore. WNBC-TV reports lifeguards have closed the beach three times this summer because of shark sightings. Jennifer Abbondanza uploaded this footage of the shark to YouTube.
User name: jmabbondanza
Location: Seaside Park, New Jersey
Date uploaded: August 1
Event date: August 1
Views: 20,335
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Hundreds of wildfires are burning in Russia, where one of the worst heat waves in decades refuses to ease. A YouTube user who uploaded this video says he and his friends were en route to Tamboles, Russia, when flames surrounded the car.
User name: vykza
Location: Tamboles, Russia
Date uploaded: July 29
Views: 248,293
User notes [translated]:
We arrived in the village of Tamboles as volunteers to help local people protect homes and got into the epicenter of the fire. In the video we're going back to the city from the burning village. The asphalt road is virtually the only exit from the village (there are bypass through Shimorskoe). For half an hour before we came along this road, there was not even a hint of the fire.
Car - Mitsubishi Outlander XL 2007
Camera - Canon 5D Mark II + 24-105
Operator - Ivan Malyshev
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