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Angelina Jolie Gets Cambodian Passport
Breitbart ^
| 11/22/2005
Posted on 11/22/2005 11:52:21 PM PST by Panerai
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has received a Cambodian passport after being made a citizen of the impoverished Southeast Asian country, an associate said Tuesday.
The Hollywood star can use it when she visits the native land of her adopted son, Maddox, said Stephan Bognar, executive director of the Maddox Jolie project in Cambodia.
The project, managed by San Francisco-based WildAid, promotes wildlife conservation and community development in a former Khmer Rouge guerrilla stronghold in northwestern Cambodia.
Bognar said the actress was "ecstatic and thrilled" last month when he handed her the passport and an official copy of a royal decree giving her Cambodian citizenship.
"Maddox was there and she showed him" the passport, he said.
"It gives her a closer link, a stronger bond" with her adopted son's native country. she said.
Jolie has donated $1.5 million for the project in the past three years.
The project trains villagers in sustainable economic activities in the hope that they will conserve natural resources. It also aims to provide supplemental income for government rangers to protect wildlife and forests in the former war zone, Bognar said.
Parts of Jolie's adventure movie "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" were filmed at Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temple.
The actress adopted Maddox three years ago, and has recently adopted an orphaned baby girl from Ethiopia.
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KEYWORDS: angelinajolie; cambodia; hollywoodpinglist; laracroft; tombraider
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posted on
11/22/2005 11:52:22 PM PST
by
Panerai
To: Panerai
Cambodia could do worse....expect the average height to go up.
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posted on
11/22/2005 11:53:48 PM PST
by
wardaddy
(Captain Spaulding .....the perfect dinner guest)
To: Panerai
Jolie is worthy of respect.
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posted on
11/23/2005 12:05:45 AM PST
by
mym
(Russia - motherland of elephants)
To: mym
Jolie is worthy of respect. For getting a passport???
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posted on
11/23/2005 12:18:05 AM PST
by
Triggerhippie
(Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.)
To: Triggerhippie
"For getting a passport???"
For doing a hell of a lot more than your typical Hollywood liberal who shows up for third would fundraisers long enough for photo ops. She's done a lot to get poorer people in real hellholes working toward self-reliance and self-sustainability. That means getting them off IMF welfare and on the road to productivity. She's grown up a lot since the Billy Bob Thorton days.
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posted on
11/23/2005 12:22:21 AM PST
by
NJ_gent
(Modernman should not have been banned.)
To: Triggerhippie
====Jolie is worthy of respect.====
==For getting a passport???==
For helping poor Cambodians.
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posted on
11/23/2005 12:23:50 AM PST
by
mym
(Russia - motherland of elephants)
To: Triggerhippie
Have you ever tried to get a passport!?
To: Panerai
I have trouble finding anything about Angelina not to applaud. I particularly like the way she's seemingly not allowed herself to be associated with Hollywood propoganda.
I also have no trouble watching her movies - for a couple of reasons. :)
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posted on
11/23/2005 12:54:28 AM PST
by
The Duke
To: NJ_gent
What in particular has she done?
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posted on
11/23/2005 2:48:26 AM PST
by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: mym
Again, what in particular has she done, other than to adopt?
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posted on
11/23/2005 2:49:56 AM PST
by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: NJ_gent
She's done a lot to get poorer people in real hellholes working toward self-reliance and self-sustainability. The WildAid Project in Cambodia is an effort to stop the starving peasants from eating endangered critters and fouling up the "habitat." Their "community building" consists mainly of training and arming park rangers.
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posted on
11/23/2005 2:55:35 AM PST
by
Grim
To: Triggerhippie
For getting a passport??? It was tough work getting a passport. The first ten times the cameraman tried to take her picture the camera failed and the picture was a foot too low.
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posted on
11/23/2005 5:09:58 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(We were promised someone in the Scalia/Thomas mold. Let's keep it going with future nominees.)
To: mym
there are American children in need of a loving home. Why didn't she adopt them?
Maybe she plans on going to live there.
To: Panerai
Why is there no mention of her renouncing her "other" citizenship? Or like Peter Jennings, does she claim dual citizenship?
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posted on
11/23/2005 6:24:08 AM PST
by
weegee
(Christmas - the holiday that dare not speak its name.)
To: bill1952; Grim
"What in particular has she done?"
Starting with the fact that she went to the UN on her own to ask what she could do to help after seeing just a glimpse of the conditions people lived in in Cambodia while filming a movie, she's since traveled around the world to hotspots, warzones, and places that still look like they're warzones. There, she's actually rolled up her sleeves, helped with things like food distribution and such, and donated millions on the spot to organizations that work on bringing people to self-sufficiency. In one trip to Cambodia where people still lose limbs regularly to long buried landmines (much like in Afghanistan), she helped detonate some herself. Much of her work these days mirrors what Princess Diana had been doing prior to her unfortunate death. They've each marked a stark difference from the usual Hollywood get-together to drain some pocket change to ship overseas in that they've rolled up their sleeves, gone themselves, and given out of their own pockets to help better conditions in the worst areas of the world.
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posted on
11/23/2005 7:59:52 AM PST
by
NJ_gent
(Modernman should not have been banned.)
To: wardaddy
Cambodia could do worse....expect the average height to go up.At least it isn't Gary Glitter.
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posted on
11/23/2005 8:00:48 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: NJ_gent
Jolie has grown significantly since her Billybob days.
She is actually trying to help out and has eschewed the mindless pap of Hollywood liberalism. This is not to say that she hasn't led the chequered, sexually active lifestyle of the A-list Hollyweird actress. But she has, apparently, turned a corner in her life.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
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posted on
11/23/2005 8:06:00 AM PST
by
section9
(Major Motoko Kusanagi says, "Jesus is Coming. Everybody look busy...")
To: mym
For helping poor Cambodians.Is this to say that she,unlike 99.999% of this country's obscenely wealthy liberals,actually puts her money where her mouth is?
If so,then this suggests that's she is,in fact,worthy of respect.
To: Panerai
Anybody got any updates on the Jolie-Pitt pregnancy?
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posted on
01/11/2006 7:26:45 AM PST
by
sarasota
To: weegee
Why is there no mention of her renouncing her "other" citizenship? Or like Peter Jennings, does she claim dual citizenship? You don't always need to renounce anything. I'm not sure if it's still true, but in the 80's and 90's you could get an Irish or in some cases a British passport if you had one grandparent from there.
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posted on
01/11/2006 7:36:06 AM PST
by
HoustonCurmudgeon
(Justice and "The Law" are not always the same thing.)
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