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Taylor Swift Announces World Tour, Gets Serenaded by Dane Cook

Taylor Swift will soon be coming to an arena near you. The artist has announced a whirlwind 2011 tour that will take her to 87 cities in 19 countries, beginning February 9 in Singapore. What the heck is going on in this photo? Find out NOW ! “I’m so excited to go back out on tour again in 2011!” Swift said. “The Fearless tour was so much fun and even more unforgettable than I ever imagined, and I can’t wait to get back out and play my new music from Speak Now!” We’ve listed all the tour dates and locations below. February 9 Singapore February 11 Seoul, South Korea February 13 Osaka, Japan February 16 & 17 Tokyo, Japan February 19 Manila, Philippines February 21 Hong Kong March 6 Brussels, Belgium March 7 Rotterdam, Holland March 9 Oslo, Norway March 12 Oberhausen, Germany March 15 Milan, Italy March 17 Paris, France March 19 Madrid, Spain March 22 Birmingham, UK March 25 Belfast, Northern Ireland March 27 Dublin, Ireland March 29 Manchester, UK March 30 London, UK May 27 & 28 Omaha, Nebraska May 29 Des Moines, Iowa June 2 & 3 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida June 4 Orlando, Florida June 7 Columbus, Ohio June 8 Milwaukee, Wisconsin June 11 Detroit, Michigan June 14 & 15 St. Paul, Minnesota June 18 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania June 21 Buffalo, New York June 22 Hartford, Connecticut June 25 Foxborough, Massachusetts June 30 Greensboro, North Carolina July 1 Knoxville, Tennessee July 2 Louisville, Kentucky July 8 Charlotte, North Carolina July 9 & 10 Atlanta, Georgia July 14 Montreal, Quebec July 15 & 16 Toronto, Ontario July 19 & 20 New York, New York July 28 Grand Rapids, Michigan July 29 Indianapolis, Indiana July 30 Cleveland, Ohio August 2 & 3 Washington, DC August 6 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania August 9 & 10 Chicago, Illinois August 13 Lexington, Kentucky August 14 St. Louis, Missouri August 18 & 19 Edmonton, Alberta August 23 & 24 Los Angeles, California September 1 & 2 San Jose, California September 3 Sacramento, California September 6 Portland, Oregon September 7 Seattle, Washington September 10 & 11 Vancouver, British Columbia September 16 & 17 Nashville, Tennessee September 21 Tulsa, Oklahoma September 24 Kansas City, Missouri September 27 Denver, Colorado September 28 Salt Lake City, Utah October 4 Little Rock, Arkansas October 5 New Orleans, Louisiana October 8 Dallas, Texas

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Taylor Swift Announces Speak Now World Tour Dates

Outing kicks off in Singapore in February and wraps up in Dallas in October. By Jocelyn Vena Taylor Swift Photo: Dave Hogan/ Getty Images Taylor Swift is ready to take Speak Now on the road. The singer will kick off her world tour February 19 in Singapore. She’ll bring the show Stateside on May 27 in Omaha, Nebraska. Before the tour wraps October 8 in Dallas, Swift will have played 87 shows in 19 countries. Swift also has plans to add additional dates in Australia and New Zealand. Ticket prices will start at $25.

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David Arquette Parties in Miami, Denies Flipping of Any Lids

Yes, David Arquette partied in Miami all weekend, living it up at the Fontainebleau, dancing the night away at LIV nightclub and being “surrounded by women” all evening, a witness reports. And, yes, the recently-separated actor Tweeted photos of himself in Florida, including one of him with a male friend that reads “Enjoying a little gay dance [party].” And, okay, Jasmine Waltz went on record last week with a less-than-flattering description of her time in bed with Arquette. Still, the actor has a message for everyone: CHILL . “I know people think I’ve flipped my lid but I haven’t,” Arquette Tweeted Saturday. “I’m cool. Listen to Bob Marley’s “Soul Rebel” you’ll know where I’m comin’ from.” Or just look at the pictures above. The guy looks like he’s doing okay to us, doesn’t he?

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John F. Kennedy’s Secret Service Agents Re-Live the Tragic Loss of the President on November 22 1963 | Video

JFK's Secret Service agents reflect on loss of a president From Dugald McConnell and Brian Todd, CNN November 22, 2010 2:33 a.m. EST JFK and the Secret Service STORY HIGHLIGHTS * President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 * The Secret Service agents who were in Dallas that day have said little since then * Some of them are now offering their personal recollections of those tragic moments Arlington, Virginia (CNN) — After mostly avoiding the spotlight for decades, many of the former U.S. Secret Service agents who were assigned to protect President John F. Kennedy are now offering their accounts of the day he was assassinated, 47 years ago Monday. After the first shot hit the president, former agent Clint Hill says, “I saw him grab at his throat and lean to his left. So I jumped and ran.” Hill is the man seen running toward the limousine in the famous film of the shooting, captured by a bystander named Abraham Zapruder. Hill jumped onto the back of the presidential car, in a desperate attempt to protect the president. “Just before I got to the car, the third shot hit him in the head.” Hill says.”It was too late.” First lady Jackie Kennedy had climbed onto the back hood of the car, but Hill moved her back into her seat, and attempted to shield the two of them from any further bullets, as the car sped to the hospital. As the president's head lay in her lap, Hill heard Mrs. Kennedy say, “Oh, Jack, what have they done to you?” We couldn't help, but we felt like we failed. It was a terrible feeling. –Jerry Blaine, former Secret Service agent A newly detailed account of the assassination is laid out in the new book “The Kennedy Detail,” by former agent Jerry Blaine, written with journalist Lisa McCubbin, based on interviews with many of the agents who covered Kennedy. Former agent Hill, who has rarely granted interviews about the shooting, wrote a foreword. Blaine and Hill say they are still burdened by the knowledge that they were unable to keep the president safe that day in Dallas, Texas. “We couldn't help, but we felt like we failed,” says Blaine. “It was a terrible feeling.” Hill was commended for the bravery he showed under fire, but even so, he says he holed up for years in his basement with alcohol and cigarettes, feeling guilty that he did not reach the limousine in time to take a bullet for the president. “I felt that there was something I should have been able to do,” he says. “Moved faster, reacted quicker, gotten there just moments quicker, could have made all the difference in the world.” Hill suffered nightmares, but post-traumatic counseling was not yet a common practice. Only with the passing of many years did he gradually recover, telling himself he did the best he could. “You just have to accept it and live with it, the best you can,” he says. Just days before the assassination, Blaine writes, Kennedy chafed at the close proximity of his protective detail. During a motorcade in Tampa, Florida, he asked them not to ride on his limousine. “Have the Ivy League charlatans drop back to the follow-up car,” the president told one of the agents. “We've got an election coming up. The whole point is for me to be accessible to the people.” But Hill and Blaine dismiss the notion that Kennedy's instructions in Tampa jeopardized his security in Dallas. Photos of the motorcade show, regardless of what the president said, Hill was riding on the back of the car during an earlier part of the route. By the time the motorcade reached the stretch of roadway where the assassination occurred, however, agents could no longer ride on the fenders, Blaine says. “We were going into a freeway, and that's where you take the speeds up to 60 and 70 miles an hour. So we would not have had any agents there anyway,” he said. Some of the agents see the book as a chance to counter some of the conspiracy theorists who have never accepted that it was Lee Harvey Oswald who shot the president, and that he acted alone. “There's no question in my mind he was the assassin,” Hill says. “I was there. I know what happened.” Blaine reveals for the first time that on the very same day that Kennedy was killed, newly sworn in President Lyndon Johnson was almost shot as well — accidentally. Just hours after Johnson was sworn in aboard Air Force One, Blaine was guarding his home, after going 40 hours without sleep. “It was about 2:15 in the morning at The Elms, which was Johnson's residence before he became president. I heard all of a sudden a person approaching,” Blaine says. He raised his gun and put his finger on the trigger — only to see Johnson round the corner. “He turned white, he turned around and walked in, and that was the last that was ever said of it,” Blaine says. added by: EthicalVegan

TSA now needs false flag security incident to convince Americans to accept obscene pat-downs

With the grassroots backlash over the TSA's obscene pat-downs growing by the day, it's becoming fairly obvious that the only way the U.S. government is going to get the public to accept these Fourth Amendment violations is if there is another “terrorist incident” that's stopped by the TSA and its naked body scanners. So far, the TSA is molesting children, teens and grannies without being able to demonstrate that this gross violation of Americans' Fourth Amendment rights is having any effect whatsoever on improving air travel safety. But if there's anything to be learned from 9/11, it's that the sheeple are always willing to give up their rights if they can be scared into doing so. ( http://www.naturalnews.com/030452_R…) “After 9/11 people were scared and when people are scared they'll do anything for someone who will make them less scared,” said Bruce Schneier, a Minneapolis security technology expert, in an AP story ( http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101121…) . “But [this TSA] is particularly invasive. It's strip-searching. It's body groping. As abhorrent goes, this pegs it.” TSA is fighting for its survival The TSA is being threatened right now in a big way: One airport in Florida is already planning to ditch the agency and hire private contractors to run security. A NYC lawmaker has called for the “dismantling” of the TSA, and Rep Ron Paul has introduced legislationthat would result in TSA agents being arrested for felony crimes if they touched peoples' junk. The TSA, in other words, is fighting for its very survival right now. What it desperately needs is some new terrorist incident to remind the American people how much they need to give up their freedoms in exchange for security. Now, I'm not saying the TSA is going to plot to blow up an airplane or anything, but if there's anybody who has the access to sneak something past airport security, it's the TSA. How false flag operations achieve government goals The United States government has a long and detailed history of “staging” events in order to sway public opinion. The Gulf of Tonkin event in the Vietnam War era was deliberately staged by U.S. government officials in order to justify an escalation of military attacks on the North Vietnamese. Documents that were finally declassified just this year prove beyond any doubt that the U.S. government conspired to stage this “false flag” event. ( http://www.prisonplanet.com/de-clas…) Operation Northwoods was a similar plot. As Wikipedia relates: The planned 1962 Operation Northwoods plot by the U.S. Department of Defense for a war with Cuba involved scenarios such as hijacking or shooting down passenger and military planes, sinking a U.S. ship in the vicinity of Cuba, burning crops, sinking a boat filled with Cuban refugees, attacks by alleged Cuban infiltrators inside the United States, and harassment of U.S. aircraft and shipping and the destruction of aerial drones by aircraft disguised as Cuban MiGs. These actions would be blamed on Cuba, and would be a pretext for an invasion of Cuba and the overthrow of Fidel Castro's communist government. It was authored by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, nixed by John F. Kennedy, came to light through the Freedom of Information Act and was publicized by James Bamford.( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_…) On the conspiracy theory front, there have long been accusations that the 9/11 attacks were an “inside job” staged as a pretext to clamp down on Americans' freedoms and roll out the Patriot Act — the very law that coincidentally gives TSA agents the right to have anybody arrested and detained for 48 hours without cause, without a warrant and without legal representation. The evidence surrounding the collapse of the WTC 7 building now has literally thousands of engineers, scientists and citizens realizing the building was obviously brought down by demolition explosions ( http://buildingwhat.org ) and not an “office fire” as was the official explanation. The point of all this is that when governments are cornered but don't want to give in, they will sometimes resort to falsifying events in order to continue moving their agendas forward. As David Icke explains, it's the old “problem-reaction-solution” approach. First, create the problem, then wait for the public reaction that allows you to enact the government solution. The formula works like a charm for everything from pushing flu vaccines to justifying a war. In fact, there is evidence that U.S. agents may already be working on this plan. The fake bomb recently found on board a German passenger jet, we now know, was manufactured by a U.S. company ( http://www.prisonplanet.com/fake-bo…) . How government agencies keep themselves alive (and get more funding) Is the TSA at that point of desperation yet? I'm not sure, but it would certainly be easy for high-level TSA operatives to find some patsy who hates the government, convince him that he should carry some liquid explosives onto an airplane, and then “catch” him at a TSA security checkpoint, thereby proving that we need to keep giving up our freedoms in the name of security. The mainstream media would have a field day with that story, and for the next two weeks on the news, we'd all hear how important the TSA is and what a great job they're doing, and how this “terrorist” was caught by the naked body scanner machine, and so on. Don't be surprised to see such a scenario unfold. It's not that I personally distrust the TSA in particular, because there are some good people who work there and who are not to blame for all this, but at the same time I've been around long enough and studied enough true history to know that government organizations will do practically anything to stay in power. The DEA, for example, is desperately fighting against marijuana legalization not because marijuana is some highly dangerous drug (it isn't), but because it's job security for DEA agents. The CDC, likewise, went completely out of its way last year to spread fear about the H1N1 Swine Flu for the same reasons: Job security. There's nothing quite like declaring a stage-six pandemic to keep the Congressional funding flowing your way, huh? The CDC also has a fascinating history of completely distorting the AIDS epidemic in order to boost its own funding, by the way. Watch this eye-opening video from House of Numbersto learn more: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=4FE73… Every government agency — the TSA, CDC, FDA, USDA, FTC and so on — fights for its survival every year. That's because in an era of budget cuts, every agency knows it could potentially be on the chopping block for severe cuts. And funding cuts translate into job losses. So the unspoken rule at all government agencies is to “make ourselves important” in order to keep the money flowing. Read More: http://globalpoliticalawakening.blogspot.com/2010/11/tsa-now-needs-false-flag-se… added by: GLOBALPOLITICAL

Flo Rida, Alison Sweeney, Melissa Joan Hart Reminisce On ‘When I Was 17’

Stars remember huge ragers and making out with their hands on latest episode. By Mawuse Ziegbe Flo Rida Photo: MTV Flo Rida didn’t waste any time getting on his hip-hop grind as a teen, starting his career as a member of the rap crew the Groundhoggz. In addition to picking up some practice in the rap game, the “Elevator” rapper also developed an important part of his persona: his moniker. “When I was 17, to be a part of a group like the Groundhoggz, you definitely have to come up with a name,” the MC recalled on the latest episode of “When I Was 17.” “At first, I was going by the name of Ruckus Pimp. I just thought that was like a little bit out there, so I went to over to my boy’s house. He’s just like, ‘Man, we got to come up with a name today.’ ” The MC explained that he and his homie put their heads together to come up with a tag. The rapper eventually thought of a handle inspired by his southern roots. “So, OK, I sat up there for about an hour and finally, it hit me,” he says. “Take Florida, break it in half and there you go: Flo Rida.” While Flo Rida was laying the groundwork for his future, Melissa Joan Hart’s career was in full swing. The star of Nickelodeon’s “Clarissa Explains It All” often spent long stretches of time away from loved ones, so she once threw a huge rager when she had a break from shooting. “One time [Melissa] called and said, ‘Listen, Nicole, I want to have a few people over my dad’s house. Can you organize something?’ ” her friend Nicole remembered. “It’s a small town, not too much happening, so if Melissa was coming home and said she wanted to have a party, everybody was going to show up.” Hart’s sister Trisha remembered that the bash got a wee bit out of hand. “All these people started coming through the door,” she said. “It was unstoppable.” Hart agreed the soiree got pretty raucous. “Pretty much the whole town showed up,” she recalled. “It was probably a few hundred people in and out all night. You couldn’t shut it down. It became chaos.” Like Hart, Alison Sweeney was already a working actress as a teen, starring on the long-running soap “Days of our Lives.” However, when work and school collided is when the drama really began. Sweeney remembered a moment when some of her on-set antics caused a problem in the classroom. “I had a scene with the girl who plays my sister, and Carrie was teaching Sami how to French kiss and Carrie said, ‘Well, you can practice on your hand.’ So we had a whole scene where we’re literally making out with our hands. Making kissing noises, like actually kissing our hands,” she recalled. “Six weeks later, I’m in my U.S. history class and the teacher had a VCR that was broken so he had to go get another one. And while we were waiting for him to come back, the kids are like, ‘Let’s watch ‘Days of our Lives.’ ” And just like some loopy daytime-TV plot twist, the embarrassing make-out scene Sweeney had taped earlier was playing, much to the amusement of her fellow high-schoolers. “It was so horrifying and I didn’t know what to do. I thought about breaking the TV but I sat there at my desk and I just put my hands in my desk and covered my face,” she said. “I was so mortified.” “When I Was 17” airs Saturdays at 11 a.m. on MTV Related Videos When I Was 17 (Season 2) | Ep. 4 | Melissa Joan Heart, Flo Rida, Alison Sweeney Related Photos When I Was 17 (Season 2) | Ep. 4 | Melissa Joan Hart, Flo Rida, Alison Sweeney

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Man with Half a Head Arrested in Miami.

This mugshot of inmate #100087196 looks like a fake but a guard at a Florida criminal booking facility swears it's for real. “Yeah, I saw him,” a woman who answered the telephone at the Miami-Dade County Pre-Trial Detention Center said. “I just looked at him. I see a lot of stuff. It didn't really bother me.” The woman, who didn't identify herself, said the man who appears to be missing the top of his head “seemed fine” when she saw him about a week ago. The man's picture was no longer on the Miami-Dade County website because he has been released, she said, adding that she didn't know his name. But the mugshot could still be found at http://miami.whosarrested.com , a database of Florida arrests. The website identifies the man as Carlos Rodriguez, 25, and says he was picked up on a charge of allegedly soliciting prostitution on Nov. 9. Other websites were identifying him as Carlos Sosa. The police report, posted on the Miami New Times website, shows that cops wrote “half a head” in the form's “unique physical features” box. His name isn't legible on the form. added by: UtopianSky

NFL Star Mike Williams Arrested for DUI

Filed under: Mike Williams , TMZ Sports , Celebrity Justice Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Williams was arrested for DUI last night — but cops don’t think the rookie superstar was drunk. As ProFootballTalk first reported, Williams was pulled over in Hillsborough County, Florida around 2:48 AM after… Read more

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George W. Bush Confronted on 9/11 & war crimes in Florida!

George W. Bush Confronted on 9/11 & war crimes in Florida! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3ZmJvmsdXs&feature=player_embedded added by: TomTucker

Nicki Minaj Hints Lil’ Kim Is ‘Roman’s Revenge’ Target

‘My fans know who I’m talking about,’ MC tells Wendy Williams. By Hillary Crosley Nicki Minaj on “The Wendy Williams Show” Photo: FOX Nicki Minaj stopped by “The Wendy Williams Show” on Wednesday (November 17) to talk about her debut LP Pink Friday , but ultimately hinted at the target of the song “Roman’s Revenge.” “When you put out records, only the guilty ones feel like you’re talking about them,” Minaj said. “If you have nothing to worry about, if you never came out saying stuff, if you never came out saying your ungrateful bullsh–, then you wouldn’t worry about it.” On “Roman’s Revenge,” featuring a rowdy verse from Eminem as Slim Shady, Nicki embodies her Brit character, Roman Zolanski. “Word that bitch mad ’cause I took the spot/ Well, bitch, if you ain’t sh—ing, then get off the pot/ Got some n—az out in Brooklyn that’ll off your top,” Minaj rhymes on the track. Many hip-hop fans assumed Barbie was talking about Lil’ Kim , even the Brooklyn MC herself. While Nicki initially said that she was “talking about everyone who has been in interviews talking,” her chat with Williams hinted that she was aiming for a certain Queen Bee. Still, Nick seemed like she was tired of the topic. “I don’t get into that. … I feel like my music, my fans know everything that’s going on,” she told the talk-show host. “Every time I talk, every time I spit raps, my fans know who I’m talking about, what I’m talking about. I don’t have to sit up here and detail it. No. For what?” Also during the interview, Nicki got personal, admitting that her father burned down her family’s house when she was a child. “He did burn the house down. … And my mother was in the house, and she had to run out the last minute,” Nicki revealed. “But she had a dream the night before that the house was gonna be burned down, so me and my brother weren’t in the house. She had us sleep at a friend’s house. At like 3:00 that morning, they were like, ‘You gotta go down to your house, ’cause something’s happening.’ We were young, so … we ran four or five blocks, and we just saw smoke.” Nicki also added that her parents are still together, before acknowledging that her crazy characters evolved naturally. “When I first started rapping, I felt like I had to be someone,” she admitted. “Everybody was telling me, ‘Be this way. You’re from Queens, be hard.’ But, that wasn’t really me, that’s not who I wanted to be. When I changed the people who were around me, I just started being free, and I was like, you know what, I’ve always been animated, I’ve always been crazy.” Did you see Nicki’s interview on “The Wendy Williams Show”? Tell us in the comments below. Don’t miss the documentary “Nicki Minaj: My Time Now,” premiering Sunday, November 28, at 10 p.m. ET/PT on MTV! Related Videos ‘Nicki Minaj: My Time Now’ Sneak Peek Related Artists Nicki Minaj Lil’ Kim

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