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Emma Watson to Fans: Happy Christmas!

Emma Watson has taken a few moments away from her Horcrux search to send a message to Harry Potter fans around the world. The actress, who attends Brown University and seems as grounded as any child star could possibly be, has recorded the following video and sent out a stream of holiday wishes to fans. Watch it now and then chime in: What did you think of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ? Merry Christmas from Emma Watson (2010 Version)

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Breaking: Heath Ledger Won’t Appear in The Dark Knight Rises

Or anything else for that matter. According to THR , a rumor that Christopher Nolan was going to use footage of Heath Ledger’s performance from The Dark Knight in the film’s sequel is total bunk. “We’re not doing that,” said Nolan’s wife and producing partner Emma Thomas. Phew ! Good thing that’s settled. [ THR /Heat Vision ]

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DJ Scoob Doo Taking Break From Lil Wayne To Travel To Africa

‘Nino Brown’ director tells Mixtape Daily he’ll shoot Wayne’s ‘Bill Gates’ video when he gets back. By Jayson Rodriguez, with reporting by Rahman Dukes Lil Wayne Photo: Leon Prime Celebrity Favorites: DJ Scoob Doo Scoob Doo might be best known for directing Lil Wayne music videos and as the man behind the “Nino Brown” DVD series featuring Tunechi, but the New Jersey native got his start behind the wheels of steel. Now, as a result of his growing popularity, Scoob’s taking his talents overseas. “I’m going to South Africa,” he told us over the phone on Tuesday. Scoob will be out there for the rest of the week and is scheduled to host and DJ a few parties while he’s in town. The breakthrough journey (he’s never visited the continent before) almost didn’t happen, though. Since Lil Wayne was sprung from Rikers Island last month, the MC has been back at work, recording music, shooting material for the next “Nino Brown” DVD and readying a video for the next track from I Am Not a Human Being. And that means Scoob has been busy documenting the process — around the clock. “We’ve been working nonstop on our personal endeavors and projects, and it’s a situation where it’s bigger than life right now as far as my work goes,” Scoob explained. “I was at a crossroads deciding if I was gonna go to Africa or was I gonna stay. So I had a conversation with Tunechi, and Tunechi understood that I’m going away for a couple of days, but when I get back we’re gonna be full up and running, picking up wherever we left off. And when I get back, just to put things in perspective, when I get back, we’re gonna shoot a professional video for ‘Bill Gates’ and it’s gonna be historic.” During his trip, Scoob plans turn the camera around on himself and shoot scenes from the events. “I always wanted to go and it’s one of those places you always wanna go,” he said. “But it’s so, and excuse my language, it’s so f—ing awesome that I get to go and I am getting paid to go and I’m doing what I love to do. So it’s like it’s a bonus. And I’m kind of scoping the scene ’cause a lot of people that I work with always wanted to go but were scared to take that trip. So I’m actually gonna scope it out and make sure that it’s good and everything. It’s going to be a frequent opportunity for all of my clients and partners as far as this business goes.” For other artists featured in Mixtape Daily, check out Mixtape Daily Headlines . Related Artists Lil Wayne

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Celebrities in Coffins: Digitally Dead (PHOTOS) World Aids Day 2010

To mark World Aids Day 2010 and raise $1 million, a host of Hollywood celebrities have taken to their coffins prematurely to demonstrate that they will not update their Facebook or Twitter pages until the fund-raising goal is achieved — they are declaing themselves Digitally Dead. RIP added by: gmc1

Report: Jason Trawick Beat Up Pregnant Britney Spears, Cheated on Her With Teenager

An explosive tabloid report this morning claims that Britney Spears was assaulted by her boyfriend Jason Trawick, and that she was pregnant at the time. He also cheated on the pop star with a teenager, supposedly. A main source cited in this Star Magazine cover story is Jason Alexander, Brit’s former husband (albeit for less than three days) way back in the day … STARTLING ALLEGATION : Was Britney Spears attacked by Jason Trawick? Doctored or not, the cover does show a photo of Britney’s black eye, which Jason Trawick allegedly provided after she accused him of straying. Perhaps most shockingly, on top of the beatdown, the magazine claims Britney Spears was pregnant with his baby at the time … and no longer is? While it’s impossible to believe much that Star says, this is unusually inflammatory, borderline libelous stuff to concoct and run for no reason. What do you think? Could there be any truth to this whatsoever? Spears’ official site hasn’t denied it on its “BS Alert” … yet. Stay tuned .

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Angelina Jolie Focus Of Complaint By Bosnia Rape Victims

Rumored plot of Jolie’s directorial debut coming under fire from women’s group. By Eric Ditzian Angelina Jolie on the set of her untitled Bosnian film Photo: AFP Despite pointed criticism from a women’s group and production-permit issues with the Bosnian government, shooting on Angelina Jolie’s directorial debut has been proceeding swiftly enough that two versions of the movie have reportedly been filmed: one in English and one in the actors’ native language. But that achievement doesn’t mean Jolie’s problems in Bosnia are over. Rape victims from the 1992 Bosnian War plan to file a complaint to the United Nations refugee agency, according to the Associated Press . The Women Victims of War association has been voicing concerns about Jolie’s film since last month, citing rumors of a potential plot involving a rape victim falling in love with her captor. Jolie herself responded to those concerns in a statement in October, saying, “There are many twists in the plot that address the sensitive nature of the relationship between the main characters, and that will be revealed once the film is released … My hope is that people will hold judgment until they have seen the film.” The Women Victims of War’s head, Bakira Hasecic, however, is not waiting until the movie is finished. Her group plans to send a letter to the UN complaining about Jolie — who is a goodwill ambassador for the agency — and her refusal to divulge plot details about the still-untitled movie. A rep for Jolie has already denied that the film contains any such inflammatory storyline, while Jolie herself has acknowledged the difficulty of making a movie based on real-life events. “Obviously, any dramatic interpretation will always fail those who have had a real experience,” she said in her statement.

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Ultra Elitist Environmental Group: Halt Economic Growth, Institute Rationing

Ultra elitist environmental group The Royal Society has published a series of papers to coincide with the latest round of UN climate talks, in which influential scientists suggest that politicians should force the population of the developed world to adhere to a system of rationing in order to stave off rising global temperatures. The papers suggest that 1930s and 40s style crisis rationing should be implemented by Western governments in order to reduce carbon emissions. Such a move would see “limits on electricity so people are forced to turn the heating down, turn off the lights and replace old electrical goods like huge fridges with more efficient models. Food that has travelled from abroad may be limited and goods that require a lot of energy to manufacture.” the London Telegraph Reports. “The Second World War and the concept of rationing is something we need to seriously consider if we are to address the scale of the problem we face,” one Royal Society affiliated professor states. Professor Kevin Anderson, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, added that in his view, economic growth in the developed world should be completely halted within the next two decades if the planet is to avoid mass upheaval in the form of rising sea levels, floods, droughts and mass migration. “I am not saying we have to go back to living in caves,” he said. “Our emissions were a lot less ten years ago and we got by ok then.” Ironically, Anderson’s point here reveals a fundamental flaw in the theory of anthropogenic warming, namely that CO2 emissions have increased, yet temperature rise is slowing. By all accounts, the warming trend observed predominantly throughout the 1980s and 90s stopped just over a decade ago. Even the Royal Society itself was forced to admit this fact in a recently published guide, titled ‘Climate change: a summary of the science’ which was altered following multiple complaints from 43 of the Royal Society’s own members that “knowledgeable people” were seeing through brazenly alarmist climate change rhetoric. The Met office concurs that global warming has been slowing for some time, and the admission was also recently noted by Professor Phil Jones, the figure at the head of the Climategate scandal. It is hardly surprising to see the Royal Society still pushing a de-industrialization agenda, however, given it’s history and cadre of members and patrons. The Royal Society, a 350 year old establishment outfit, has traditionally been the most vocal proponent for the hypothesis of AGW. It was the former president of The Royal Society, Lord May, who made the infamous statement “The debate on climate change is over.” When he was head of the Society, May told government advisors: “On one hand, you have the entire scientific community and on the other you have a handful of people, half of them crackpots.” The Royal Society has thrown its full weight behind the global warming movement, lending its absolute support for legislation aimed at reducing carbon emissions by 80%, a process that will devastate the global economy and drastically reduce living standards everywhere. It has been even more vehement than national governments in its advocacy of the man-made cause of global warming, calling for such drastic CO2 cuts to be made in the short term, not even by the usual target date of 2050. Not surprising then that The Royal Society was also intimately tied to efforts to Whitewash the Climategate emails scandal. The society has also conducted extensive research into geoengineering the planet, and continually lobbies the government to divert funding into it. A recently published lengthy UK Government report drew heavily upon the Society’s research and concluded that a global body such as the UN should be appointed to exclusively regulate world wide geoengineering of the planet in order to stave off man made global warming. This information becomes even more disturbing when you consider the mindset of those who make up the membership of the Society. It is riddled with renowned eco-fascists, open eugenicists and depopulation fanatics. One notable member is James Lovelock, an eco-fascist who advocates ending democracy and instituting an authoritative elite to oversee global climate management and a radical stemming of the human population in order to combat climate change. He is also a patron of the Optimum Population Trust, a notorious UK-based public policy group that campaigns for a gradual decline in the global human population, which it refers to as “primates” or “animals”, to what it sees as a “sustainable” level. Lovelock is also an ardent advocate of geoengineering. In 2007 Lovelock proposed laying vast swathes of pipes under the world’s oceans in order to pump water from the bottom of the seas – rich in nutrients, but mostly dead – to the top. The idea being that the action would encourage algae to breed, absorb more carbon and release more dimethyl sulphide into the atmosphere, a chemical known to seed sunlight reflecting clouds. Such methods are also covered in the Commons report. Another member is Jonathon Porritt, former chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission, one of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s leading green advisers, who has stated that Britain’s population must be cut in half from around 60 million to 30 million if it is to build a sustainable society. Porritt, also a member of the Optimum Population Trust, a connection that caused raised eyebrows when it was announced that Porritt was to be a part of a forthcoming Royal Society“Objective” Global Population Study. Also on the Royal Society’s working group for their global population study is another of their patrons, and another OPT member, BBC darling wildlife broadcaster and film-maker Sir David Attenborough. Attenborough has called for a one child policy like that of Communist China to be implemented in Britain. The proposal is one of the OPT’s main initiatives. Again, how is this man’s influence going to result in an “objective” study on population? Another member of that working group is Cambridge economist Sir Partha Dasgupta, also a fellow of the OPT. Professor Malcolm Potts, another member of the working group was the first male doctor at the Marie Stopes Abortion Clinic in London, he also advised on the UK’s 1967 Abortion Act. Marie Stopes was a prominent campaigner for the implementation of eugenicspolicies. In Radiant Motherhood (1920) she called for the “sterilisation of those totally unfit for parenthood [to] be made an immediate possibility, indeed made compulsory.” That group, according to her, included non-whites and the poor. Stopes, an anti-Semite Nazi sympathizer, campaigned for selective breeding to achieve racial purity, a passion she shared with Adolf Hitler in adoring letters and poems that she sent the leader of the Third Reich. Stopes also attended the Nazi congress on population science in Berlin in 1935, while calling for the “compulsory sterilization of the diseased, drunkards, or simply those of bad character.” Stopes acted on her appalling theories by concentrating her abortion clinics in poor areas so as to reduce the birth rate of the lower classes. Stopes left most of her estate to the Eugenics Society, an organization that shared her passion for racial purity and still exists today under the new name The Galton Institute. The society has included members such as Charles Galton Darwin (grandson of the evolutionist), Julian Huxley and Margaret Sanger. Read More: http://globalpoliticalawakening.blogspot.com/2010/11/ultra-elitist-environmental… added by: GLOBALPOLITICAL

Swizz Beatz, Diddy-Dirty Money Get Their ‘Ass On The Floor’

Swizzy drops Monster Monday track days after previewing new Haute Living cuts on Ustream. By Mawuse Ziegbe Swizz Beatz Photo: Johnny Nunez/ WireImage Following in the tradition of fellow production star Kanye West, Swizz Beatz has conjured up Monster Mondays to dole out free joints on the Web featuring some of his celebrity pals. His latest offering, “Ass on the Floor,” corrals Diddy-Dirty Money into the mix for a slickly atmospheric dance-floor-filler. Reinvigorating the rapid-fire drums made famous by Major Lazer’s 2009 party must-have “Pon De Floor,” Swizzy adds the spacey sheen of synth chords as the Dirty Money ladies croon about drowning their sorrows over a frustratingly volatile relationship. “You’re the love of my life/ But you hurt my heart twice/ Now I’m drunker than a motherf—– / Trying to find my way back to your heart you motherf—–,” Kalenna sings. Production duties aside, Swizzy plays hypeman, commanding the lovelorn souls to forget the drama and “get ya ass on the floor/ Them haters can’t tell you nothing!” The track’s amped-up rhythm is somewhat at odds with the melancholy lyrics, as Diddy also laments potent heartbreak in his verse. “That love’s gon’ get ya, motherf—– / Smoke weed, listening to Sade/ I left my pain in Paris/ Why can’t you see sh– my way?” Diddy spits. The vibe of the song definitely stays on track with the naked emotion the Bad Boy mogul promised on the trio’s long-delayed effort, Last Train to Paris. “One of the things we’re trying to represent is emotion,” Diddy told MTV News last year. “Not being afraid to show emotion on record. A lot of records out right now — no disrespect to them, but they’re all surface. It’s about what people have or a dance. All our records are gonna be about love, feelings and emotion. Last Train to Paris is a love story and the most vulnerable album I’ve ever been involved in. It’s raw emotion — you get a feeling, a vibe.” In addition to his Monster Mondays series, Swizzy has been staying busy in the studio and recently previewed some joints from his upcoming Haute Living album on Ustream. Tracks included a thumping midtempo banger featuring Chris Brown, and another song boasting the breathy vocals of his new wife Alicia Keys . What do you think of Swizz Beatz and Dirty Money’s “Ass on the Floor”? Let us know in the comments! Related Artists Swizz Beatz Diddy-Dirty Money

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Eternal Youth Potion Discovered

Harvard University researcher Ronald A. DePinho has discovered a way to reverse age degeneration for the first time. His experiments on mice have demonstrated that you can return individuals to a younger state, with new growth on brain and improved fertility. While scientists knew about the role of telomerase—an enzyme that adds DNA sequence repeats at the end of chromosomes—in body decadence and experiments were made with extremely simple organisms, this is the first time that this breakthrough has been achieved in complex mammals. While it's not human testing, this discovery could be an amazing weapon to fight Alzheimer and other degenerative diseases. According to DePinho: We wanted to know: If you could flip the telomerase switch on and restore telomeres in animals with entrenched age-related disease, what would happen? Would it slow down aging, stabilize it, or even reverse it? It was akin to a Ponce de Le

‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows’ At The Box Office: How High Will It Go?

‘This has a very real shot at hitting $1 billion worldwide,’ says Boxoffice.com editor Phil Contrino. By Eric Ditzian Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1” Photo: Warner Bros. After opening to $102.7 million in ticket sales the weekend before Thanksgiving 2005, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” swept through to the post-holiday weekend and picked up another $54.7 million — just a 47-percent drop from its opening numbers. Five years later, in a return to a November release, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1” succeeded in notching the franchise’s highest 10-day launch ever. But that hefty total (an estimated $220.4 million domestically) is less impressive considering the latest boy wizard flick is only the third-largest installment in terms of actual attendance, according to Box Office Mojo . Still, it would be enormously impressive if “Deathly Hallows, Part 1” could sustain that 10-day head start and become the highest-grossing movie in the series. Unfortunately, many observers believe that just isn’t going to happen. “I don’t think ‘Deathly Hallows’ will be the top-grossing ‘Potter’ film, or even the second biggest, despite the higher ticket prices,” Gitesh Pandya of Box Office Guru said, noting the film’s 61 percent drop from its opening weekend. “It’s running 9 percent ahead of ‘Goblet of Fire’ over the same release span and its lead is shrinking.” At an $895 million worldwide total, “Goblet of Fire” stands as the fourth-highest-grossing film in the series, well behind “Sorcerer’s Stone” with $974.7 (#8 on the all-time list). “Deathly Hallows, Part 1” should have little trouble eclipsing that “Goblet of Fire” sum, and some box-office experts even suggest it could zip past “Sorcerer’s Stone” to become the first franchise installment to break the $1 billion mark. “This has a very real shot at hitting $1 billion worldwide since it already has more than $600 million in the bank,” Phil Contrino, editor of Boxoffice.com , said. “I could see it breaking into the top five all-time worldwide earners.” While opinions differ on where “Deathly Hallows, Part 1” will end up, one thing is certain: Warner Bros. is awfully happy about the film’s performance. And when you add in home video and merchandise sales, the financial picture gets even rosier. It’ll be rosier still come next year when “Deathly Hallows, Part 2″ arrives — quite possibly with an inflated 3-D ticket price. ” ‘Part 2’ will certainly out-gross ‘Part 1’ and has a chance of becoming the top-grossing ‘Potter’ in the eight-film series,” Pandya said. “New fans aren’t joining the party, but the base is large enough to keep the series going.” Check out everything we’ve got on “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Videos ‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – Part 1’ Clips ‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – Part 1’ Premiere MTV Rough Cut: Daniel Radcliffe Related Photos ‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows’ Premieres In NYC Behind The Scenes With The Cast Of ‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows’

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