Showing posts with label YouTube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label YouTube. Show all posts

05 May 2011

OFF TOPIC BUT FUNNY: Obama's Correspondents Dinner Video Nears 7 Million Views.

USA TODAY/ with 18:54 YOUTUBE LINK

   President Obama's 30 April Washington correspondents dinner speech with two mock videos...recorded by CSPAN...has been viewed more than 6.7 million times on YouTube, surpassing his well respected 2008 speech about race relations in Philadelphia.
  "Where are Biggie...and Tupac?"

20 April 2011

ESTONIA: 7 Kidnapped Estonian Tourists Beg For Help On YouTube.

BBC/
   Seven Estonian tourists, kidnapped while cycling in Lebanon over three weeks ago, appear on YouTube  begging for help.
   The men plead for Lebanese, Saudi, Jordanian and French leaders to free them.

18 January 2011

MEXICO: 2 Girls Scale U.S. Border Fence... In Under 18 Seconds.

YOUTUBE/ :51 /

   A clip from the documentary "The Other Side of Immigration" shows 2 girls climbing to the top of a section of border fence... in about 18 seconds.
   The fence is like others that stretch across the long U.S./Mexico border.

04 November 2010

MEXICO: Mass Grave Found Near Acapulco; May Be Abducted Michoacan Tourists.

GUARDIAN/
     The relatives of 20 men who disappeared while visiting Acapulco on 30 September will help determine if 18 bodies found in a mass grave are those of the abducted tourists.
    Police were tipped about the fosa clandestina after a video appeared on YouTube where two men admitted killing and burying the men from Michoancan.
    One relative said : "We have been asked to identify whether the bodies are our relatives. We have faith that this is not true and that they are still alive."

20 September 2010

BRASIL: Parana Stadium Collapses, Injuring At Least 110, 22 Seriously.

BBC/      Stadium seating collapsed injuring 110, some 22 seriously, during a car race in southern Parana state. The severely injured were hospitalized after the accident at the Quatro Pontes stadium.
 FOR  1:04 AP VIDEO, SEE :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_tVDH2ZNWo

28 October 2009

MEXICO: The Case Of The "Tepic 5" And Calls For Vigilante Justice.

GLOBAL POST/
The "Tepic 5," the five teenagers abducted after they allegedly robbed a house in the town of Tepic in the state of Nayarit, has Mexico talking.
But their "torture" video, posted on YouTube under the title “Little Rats of Tepic,” has been removed, called unsuitable.

27 October 2009

MEXICO: Abuzz Over Video Of Young Thieves Being Abused By Vigilantes.

LATIMES/
The YouTube video of the slapping and sexual abuse of five young alleged thieves in Tepic,in the state of Nayarit by vigilantes is causing outrage in Mexico. But also some approval.
The video shows the teenage boys being slapped in the face and forced to French kiss one another. Each is then forced to say that they are about to be raped as punishment for robbing houses.

28 September 2009

Ukrainian Sand Artist Wins Country's Talent Show And YouTube Attention.

BBC/ With Video/
Kseniya Simonova, a Ukrainian artist who draws pictures in sand, won that country's TV talent with her depictions of the nation's painful wartime past. Her performance has more than three million hits on YouTube.