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This video interview is awesome. Angelina Jolie speaks in an interview about Beowulf, as well as everyone’s favorite topic lately, her life as a mother to her and Brad Pitt’s awesome kids. I’m so excited about the release of Beowulf that I need videos like this to tide me over until I can see it!
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Don’t fret, Mary Ann. Tab rag In Touch published it, so you know what that means. Below is the reliable report.
ADOPTION LEGAL, TABLOID SHENANIGANS
Ethiopian adoption agency backs Angelina Jolie
(Reuters)
(The article is under moderation.)
Don’t fret, Mary Ann. Tab rag In Touch published it, so you know what that means. Below is the reliable report.
ADOPTION LEGAL, TABLOID SHENANIGANS
Ethiopian adoption agency backs Angelina Jolie
Thu Nov 15, 12:40 PM ET
ADDIS ABABA (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)
this was posted on JJ’s site:
In other news, Angelina Jolie’s adoption of daughter Zahara in July 2005 was completely legal, the agency involved said on Thursday.
Tabloids reported earlier 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.
“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 adoption agency 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. [The adoption was] legal and irrevocable. The controversy is media hype by unethical journalists exploiting the poverty of the grandmother.”
In other words, reporters paid the relatives to raise the dispute.
On Souliejolie there is an article that came out today on Reuters from the adoption agency in Ethiopia that backs up Angie and Brad and says that the adoption was completely legal and irrevocable. It also says that the grandmother already testified at the time of the adoption and brought witnesses to concur that Zahara’s mother was deceased and her father was unknown. The adoption agency rep goes on to say that these magazines are despicable because they offered large sums of money to get people to say these things, and the mags are exploiting the poverty of others to make money.
I would like to discuss this terrible rumor about Zahara. I heard it on the radio this morning again and this time it implied that Angelina knew that Zahara’s mother hadn’t signed any papers. I know that Brad and Angelina do not pay attention to the gossip magazines, but this they should pay attention to. If untrue this is damaging to their reputations and they should consult their attorney’s. They both do alot of important good works. I for one do not think that she would proceed with something knowing that it was not legal.
Hi Irma, I also looked up pancit to see what it is. My husband was born in Puerto Rico and I make alot of their foods, even though I am not Puerto Rican I do pretty good. They make guisado with different types of meats and serve over rice. Your receipe would interest me also.
Yes, let’s ALL contemplate and ask for accountability – in this country as well as in the areas that she speaks of in the article. Here in this country we have CEOS and heads of state that also need to be held accountable. VOTE in 2008 for change!!!
Did anyone else notice that all of Veteran’s Day weekend Angelina wore a red paper poppy pinned to her ? Those poppies used to be sold on every street corner for Veteran’s Day. I was impressed and moved that she wore one.
A Year of Accountability
From The World in 2008 print edition
http://www.economist.com/theworldin/international/displayStory.cfm?story_id=10120144&d=2008
Sherry, here’s Angie’s A Year of Accountability
From The World in 2008 print edition
http://www.economist.com/theworldin/international/displayStory.cfm?story_id=10120144&d=2008
Sherry, later I will give you the recipe after work, just running late for work but I promised I will. Thanks for the updates of the Jolie-Pitt’s.
oops, my comment is awaiting moderation…i wonder why.
thanks for posting the economist essay, ligaya. i’ve been trying to get access to it and not succeeding. good for angie. she’s always been very articulate, so i really don’t believe the stuff she’s written are ghostwritten.
and sherry, yep, pancit is delicious and there are actually several types of pancit. and might i add, it’s nice to see so many pinays posting here. i’m assuming most of you are in the states so hello from the philippines.
Irma, I’ve never had Filipino food so I looked up what Pancit is and it sounds delicious!
Lili May, the pancit is good, my future daughter in law (An American) is here with us for a visit & she likes it. I was surprised, she never tasted any Filipino foods, this is her first.
Okay fans, maybe there will be another sightings of Brangelina tomorrow.
Saturday, My husband & I will watch Beowulf at Imax, I can’t wait.
K – Many comments get flagged for moderation for no visible reason, based on IP address or key words that are frequently linked to spam. Some of my most common commenters get moderated for no good reason sometimes just because of one word. People often leave complimentary comments that get flagged because they use the word “sexy” but it has to be that way because otherwise you would not believe how many spam comments you would see on this blog – I know because I have to delete them all manually.
I try to put moderated comments through as quickly as I can but I’m always busy doing a lot of different things and sometimes I can’t get to it immediately.
Also, for what it’s worth, I don’t think it’s that uncommon for a forehead to appear bigger if the hair is brushed straight back from it.
Thank you for the video Sherry! I love it! Thanks to Ligaya, too for the excerpts from the Economist article! Angie wrote an op-ed piece on the same topic for the Washington Post a few months ago. It was very well written and the author was identified as Angelina Jolie, a Goodwill Ambassador to the UNHCR. To Irma, your pancit guisado is starting to make me feel hungry!
awaiting moderation? why, because I voiced an opinion and it doesn’t agree with yours? Geez, so many people forgot what our country stands for : FREEDOM … which includes freedom of speech. Look it up.
She does look like she’s gaining some weight, you can see it in her face. She looks healthier, however, why does her forehead look gigantic? Or has it always been that big? Kinda looks like her hair is receding. Maybe it’s the flat hair. Also, didn’t hear her talk about her family in this video. Not sure what you all listened to.
I meant on the movie “Changeling” that Angie reminds me of Susan.