Angelina Jolie Talks Beowulf, Motherhood and More

In today’s age no one really should be reading tabloids. They are obsolete.

843 Jill : 11/14/2007 at 11:51 pm

Guys, you know I put about as much faith in Star magazine as I do in a two-headed giraffe, but if even one-tenth of their cover story this week is true, this is some funny shít.
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Hypocrite

RICA

I want more mad, brad and angie!

Beowulf opens Friday 11/16

Beowulf opens Friday 11/16

Beowulf opens Friday 11/16

Beowulf opens Friday 11/16

Beowulf opens Friday 11/16

Beowulf opens Friday 11/16

Tomorrow Friday, the movie will be in theatre

trying to post again…..

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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I don’t have the words to describe how I feel about the editors at IT Mag. Other than to say there is a true ugliness in their hearts and souls. And, that I truly believe they will get what’s coming to them, may not be when we think it should happen, but it will happen.

I am happy that IT got a mega beat down. I just hope more people open their eyes and hearts to see how vile these so-called journalists truly are. There are no boundaries they won’t cross and they could care less they are using an innocent child or people that are trying to survive in a cruel world.

Good morning, BAMPZS fans!

Hey, Yes, good morning, sweetie! How are you?

I am so excited, tomorrow I am going to haul my be-hind and go watch Beowulf at the Navy Pier Imax theater. I normally hate the 3-D glasses (they make me feel so nauseated because of my astigmatism) but I read that the 3-D effects here are much better and no longer make you feel a little sick. So hopefully I will enjoy the experience. (Too bad my partner and my son don’t want to go, but I will go by myself if I have to).

When the haters/trolls/tabs learn? Pant split has been debunked. Not true. Brad and tall blond. Not true. Zahara leaving her loving and happy home. Not only not true, but it will never happen.

Some people fans?, haters? are fond of saying that Brad doesn’t protect Angie against the tabs and their lies. We don’t know that he doesn’t. But one thing is for certain he doesn’t have to because the truth always comes out. There are people around the world that will support them, and not allow a lie to smear their good names. This couple whether some what to believe it or not have done, or are trying to do things the right way. From Brad’s split with the x to adopting their children, to their humanitarian work someone is helping and guiding them. So much has been hurled at them. But very little, if any has stuck. And still haters come to spew vile and negative rants. How much more proof do you need to see that they are not the monsters you so badly need them to be. Please it is time for you and your hate to move on. I can only hope and pray that the next revelation is the x telling the truth and apologizing for all of her lies. Now that will be a glorious and happy day for all BAMPZS fans around the world. Peace

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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I have sent the above article to tmz.com.

You can do the same. Go to tmz.com, on the right screen, under the heading contact tmz, click and paste this article.

926 appetizing : 11/15/2007 at 10:37 am
Ethiopian adoption agency backs Angelina Jolie
Thu 15 Nov 2007, 15:09 GMT

[-] Text [+]
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)
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I don’t have the words to describe how I feel about the editors or the owners at IT Mag. Other than to say there is a true ugliness in their hearts and souls. And, that I truly believe they will get what’s coming to them, may not be when we think it should happen, but it will happen.

I am happy that IT got a mega beat down. I just hope more people open their eyes and hearts to see how vile these so-called journalists truly are. There are no boundaries they won’t cross and they could care less they are using an innocent child or people that are trying to survive in a cruel world.

Thanks for bringing the article over. I am sure the soul-less individuals that penned that vile piece is trolling Jared’s as we post.

Hi to all BAMPZS fans! I’m finally good and awake. Ok, first off, to #926, thank you so much for the info. We all knew In Touch is just sh.t personified, but I can’t believe how cruel and immoral they are, picking on a 2-year-old!
Second, Access Hollywood had a piece on Matt Damon SMA yesterday. It cracked me up so I thought I’d post it since I’m inept as far as links are concerned. Here it is:

It starts with old footage of Nancy O’Dell sitting sandwiched between Brad and George. George appeals, semi-serious, “Vote for Matt Damon, sexiest man alive!”. Nancy cracks up as Brad pushes her with his shoulder against George. Brad has this goofy look on his face. LOL
NANCY: The Sexiesr Man Alive campaign for Matt Damon started right here with George’s appeal. Well, George’s wish is People Magazine’s command. But what does Matt have to say about being the sexiest?
SAMPLE OF MATT’S LETTER TO PEOPLE- “You gave an aging suburban dad the ego boost of a lifetime…”
NANCY’S VOICE: We knew it was coming, Matt! At 37 years old, proud papa Matt is People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive!
GALINA ESPINOZA: We’ve actually been eyeing Matt for quite some time. He had a HUGE hit with The Bourne Supremacy, and Forbes named him “the most bankable star in Hollywood”.
NANCY’S VOICE: According to People’s Senior Editor Galina Espinoza, Matt even wrote a letter to the magazine, saying, “I guess all the campaigning finally paid off. Ditching Clooney as a campaign manager and going with Brad for the final push was an emotional decision, but I knew it was going to be tight…”
Footage of Brad and George’s covers.
NANCY’S VOICE: Two-time former Sexiest Man Alive George weighed in, saying, “What you really want is this sash and this tiara, and he’s got it now and he can retire.”
That’s it, enjoy!

OT- These three are hilarious together. Angie must have a great time at home! Their household must be so fun!

945 Lady G : 11/15/2007 at 11:54 am
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

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Thank you lady G for bringing this over. Gotta love our Angie.

Hey BAMPZS fans, aint life grand?!!:D
The harder detractors try to beat down this woman, the higher she continues to rise. Loves it!

I have JJ to thank for putting more money in my pocket. :-) I stopped buying tabs since I found his blog and found out about the lies and intrigue that they spin, just to sell their junk. I am here checking news about the BAMPZS’ family everyday!! And fit to be tied most times (hehe), cause I just want to strangle those evil trolls! So how was ya’ll day so far. :-)

This is off topic, so cute and dedicated to all the wonderful romantics on this site

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/825711/rare_kissing_cip_from_atamil_film/