Angelina Jolie Talks Beowulf, Motherhood and More

People Magazine just doesn’t want to be asociated with the likes of USweekly and all the other crap magazines like that.

926 appetizing : 11/15/2007 at 10:37 am

There was never even any question but thanks anyway. I wonder if that tabloid that raised the question sill now go out of business? I read they were.

Speaking of which I wonder what happened to The Donald and his book that he was trying to use Angie to pimp. hmmmm.

926 appetizing : 11/15/2007 at 10:37 am

Ethiopian adoption agency backs Angelina Jolie
Thu 15 Nov 2007, 15:09 GMT

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ADDIS ABABA, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Angelina Jolie’s adoption of an Ethiopian baby was legal, the agency involved said on Thursday, rejecting reports that the child’s relatives want her back.
Newspapers have reported this week that relatives of two-year-old Zahara, including a woman who says she is her birth mother, want the child returned to Ethiopia. Jolie adopted Zahara in July, 2005.
“The court in Addis Ababa approved the adoption after studying the document her grandmother wrote … saying her daughter, the mother of Zahara, had died and she was too poor to bring her up,” Tsegaye Berhe, the head of Wide Horizons for Children, which conducted the adoption, told Reuters.
“The grandmother brought three witnesses to court who testified that Zahara’s mother had died and that her father was unknown … The court also investigated the social status of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt before approving the adoption.”
Tsegaye said the adoption was “legal and irrevocable”, and he blamed reporters who he said had paid the relatives to raise the dispute.
“The controversy is media hype by unethical journalists exploiting the poverty of the grandmother,” he said. (Reporting by Tsegaye Tadesse; Editing by Daniel Wallis and Michael Winfrey)
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL15904597.html
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Thank you. I KNEW ALL WE HAD TO DO WAS WAIT FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS TO APPEAR. Poor OutofTouch, they’ve tried everything they can to mess up Angie’s family, what they haven’t counted on is that where legalities are concerned, those legal channels will support Angie.

Intouch people/workers if you are here shame on you, REALLY i mean it! Why do you pay people to do such disgusting things?? It’s a childs life you want to put in danger, you have brains pliz use them!

Shame on you intouch :(

it’s a fact

IA, they are really crossing the line.

934 It’s a fact : 11/15/2007 at 11:28 am

I think it’s obvious what in touch magazine vile intentions were. Do you honestly think these two women called in touch from their home. They don’t even know what in touch is. This magazine sought out this story and those two women on purpose. I don’t know what angie did to piss in touch off but they are really crossing the line on this one.
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ITA. I was telling my mom about this yesterday and she agreed that what OutofTouch did was so vile and cruel.

Sorry, ignore my post 938.

shhhhhhhhhhhhh………

Credit JJB.

A year for accountability

From The World in 2008 print edition

Angelina Jolie, goodwill ambassador to the UNHCR, hopes for progress in bringing war criminals to justice

On a recent mission for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, I had the opportunity to visit a refugee camp in Chad just across the border with Sudan. Sitting with a group of refugees, I asked them what they needed. These were people who had seen family members killed, neighbours raped, their villages burned and looted, their entire communities driven from their land. So it was no surprise when people began listing the things that could improve their lives just a little bit. Better tents, said one; better access to medical facilities, said another. But then a teenage boy raised his hand and said, with powerful simplicity, “Nous voulons un procès.” We want a trial.

A trial might seem a distant and abstract notion to a young man for whom the inside of a courtroom is worlds away from the inside of a refugee camp. But his statement showed a recognition of something elemental: that accountability is perhaps the only force powerful enough to break the cycle of violence and retribution that marks so many conflicts.

I believe 2008 can be the year in which we begin seeking true accountability and demanding justice for the victims in Darfur and elsewhere. Through accountability we can begin the process of righting past wrongs, and even change the behaviour of some of the world’s worst criminals.

The international tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda have shown the way in convicting heads of state and generals for genocide and crimes against humanity. The UN-backed special court for Sierra Leone has already sentenced three former leaders of a pro-government militia to jail for war crimes committed during the country’s civil war in the 1990s.

In Cambodia, the joint UN-Cambodian court to try top former Khmer Rouge leaders with war crimes and crimes against humanity has begun calling witnesses. It has taken a long time to get even this far, but a trial is likely in 2008. In The Hague, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has begun trials of two of the Congolese leaders charged with fomenting killings and rapes amid the violence that has raged there for over a decade.

Make no mistake, the existence of these trials alone changes behaviour

Make no mistake, the existence of these trials alone changes behaviour. Seeing the indictment of Thomas Lubanga and the detention of Germain Katanga by the ICC brought to mind a trip I had taken to Congo five years ago. In the Ituri region, where Mr Katanga’s reign of terror had been most intense, our group attended a meeting of rebel leaders. They had gathered in a field to discuss the prospects for a peace agreement-which were not looking very good. The conversation turned hostile and the situation grew extremely tense. At that point, one of my colleagues asked for the name of one of the rebels, announcing, perhaps a bit recklessly, that he was going to pass it along to the ICC.

It was remarkable: this rebel leader’s whole posture changed from aggression to conciliation. The ICC had been around for only five months. It had tried no one. Yet its very existence was enough to intimidate a man who had been terrorising the population for years.

Ending the cycle of violence

This is not an isolated example. Accountability has the potential to change behaviour, to check aggression by those who are used to acting with impunity. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the prosecutor of the ICC, has said that even genocide is not a crime of passion; it is a calculated decision. He is right. Common sense tells us that when risks are weighed, decisions are made differently. When crimes against humanity are punished consistently and severely, the killers’ calculus will change.

My hope is that these examples of justice in the name of accountability will be just a few of the many to come. I hope that the Sudanese government will hand over the government minister and the janjaweed militia leader who have been indicted for war crimes by the ICC, and that the teenager I met in Chad will get to see the trial he seeks. I hope that those responsible for the atrocities in Darfur will be held to account, not only for that young man’s sake, but for the world’s.

Only through justice will we achieve peace. And only when there is peace will the world’s nearly 39m displaced persons and refugees be able to return home.

The strong preying upon the weak and the weak, upon achieving strength, extracting retribution: this is the nature of so many of the world’s conflicts. The role of aggressor and victim may alternate over time, the tools of destruction may become more sophisticated, but little else changes.

Despite the horror I have seen in my travels, the hopeful lesson I take is that we can begin to put an end to the cycle of violence and retribution that gives rise to war criminals and sets forth floods of refugees. Let 2008 be the year in which we see the principle of accountability put into action.

http://www.economist.com/theworldin/international/displayStory.cfm?story_id=10120144&d=2008

Wow… what a way to bookend a year.

The first few months were spent constructing stories about an emotional chasm between Angelina and Shiloh; now, they are writing stories designed to create a physical one between Angelina and Zahara.

Although I doubt that Outta Touch hauled their @$$es to Ethiopia, the fact that they seemed to have initiated this story speak volumes. Like someone so eloquently pointed out, it’s doubtful that these alleged relatives of Zahara called up In Touch. As if they got the number from a billboard, bumper sticker- no wait - the alleged relatives had a secret Tab phone because tabloids are the only ones on G*d’s green graciousness that can reverse an adoption, even if the family lied through their socks.

Personally, if I was truly Zahara’s relative and I was desperately poor in Ethiopia, the last thing I would want is to be portrayed as someone who had time to play on the phone with American tabloids, participate in photo-ops, etc. That sort of lackasdaisical approach to life seems like a Western thing.

lets all email intouch