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Singer Susan Boyle, More Popular Than Obama

Scot singer Susan Boyle, 47 years, has become a media phenomenon thanks to her amazing voice, and is now more popular than president Obama on Youtube, her video having already received more than 100 million visits.

The interpretation of Boyle in the Britain's got talent, which captivated the audience with the song I dreamed a dream from the musical Les Miserables, is almost five times more popular than Obama, according to the newspaper 'The Sun'.

The video posted on the site a few days ago has already been seen by 100 million people around the world, while the investiture ceremony of Obama in January has received 18.5 million hits.

Too bad: video integration has been blocked due to skyroketing demand. You can still watch the original on the Youtube site, just click on the title of this article or on "read".

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I Started Out With Nothin’ and I Still Got Most of it Left

"I Started Out With Nothin' and i Still Got Most of it Left" is the third album by Seasick Steve.

Released on the 29 September 2008, it entered the UK album chart at number 9 on 6 October 2008.

The album is his first on the record label Warner Bros. Records, but the vinyl releases are still on his old label, Bronzerat Records.

The record features guest musicians Ruby Turner, Grinderman and KT Tunstall. Ruby Turner's vocals were originally performed by KT Tunstall, although she later backed out of this role, but is still featured on the album playing flute, guitar and singing backing vocals.

The album was released in two ways: the standard edition (with only 11 tracks on one disc), and the Die Cut limited edition, which includes 3 bonus tracks on disc one and also a bonus disc with 6 tracks (2 songs, 4 spoken word).

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Chinese Repression In Tibet

Google said Tuesday that its YouTube video-sharing Web site had been blocked in China.

Google said it did not know why the site had been blocked, but a report by the official Xinhua news agency of China on Tuesday said that supporters of the Dalai Lama had fabricated a video that appeared to show Chinese police officers brutally beating Tibetans after riots last year in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital.

Xinhua did not identify the video, but based on the description it appears to match a video available on YouTube that was recently released by the Tibetan government in exile.

It purports to show police officers storming a monastery after riots in Lhasa last March, kicking and beating protesters. It includes other instances of brutality and graphic images of a protester’s wounds. According to the video, the protester later died.

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YouTube Says China Blocks Site

By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO and GEOFFREY A. FOWLER

Access to GoogleInc.'s YouTube service was blocked by Chinese authorities, as the video-sharing site continues to wrestle with governments offended by some of its content.

A YouTube spokesman said as of Tuesday evening it hadn't been contacted by the Chinese government and was working to restore the service, which had been disrupted for more than 24 hours.

The site has been temporarily censored in at least a dozen countries, according to YouTube, including Turkey, where a ban remains in effect. Such incidents are buffeting YouTube's attempts to expand into new markets, particularly China, home to the world's largest number of Internet users—nearly 300 million, according to the government.

YouTube faces stiff competition in China from domestic video-sharing sites such as Tudou.com, which are less likely to get blocked in their entirety because they restrict political or racy content that might draw fire from the government.

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SuperBowl Video

The Pittsburgh Steelers have won over the Arizona Cardinals (27-23)

This 5'34" video shows the record breaking 100 Yards interception return for a touchdown by James Harrison. Watch the video and decide if he really made it, as it seems that the Cardinals stopped him an inch or two before the goal line.

Anyway, the game is over, and whether or not the touchdown should have been count, it is still an amazing play.

The previous record for the longest interception was 76 yards (Kelly Herndon for Seattle against....Pittsburgh, in Detroit three years ago).

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