Posted on 02/25/2007 8:16:49 AM PST by COUNTrecount
Edited on 02/25/2007 9:31:44 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
The prestigious Council on Foreign Relations is about to get a jolt of sex appeal.
The exclusive, Manhattan-based foreign-policy group has decided to admit actress Angelina Jolie, a U.N. goodwill ambassador who has taken more than 30 trips worldwide to advocate for refugees, AIDS orphans and disaster victims.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
What is the "golden calf" celebrity syndrome? I'm not into celebrities.
I wouild hit that like Thor's Hammer..
You're right. If she's happy, I'm happy. We've been married for 14 years and change, and I've never regretted it once.
Thanks for the kind words.
Every word of that post is true and has been documented in newspapers and interviews.
Her own father said she was mentally ill and needed to be institutionalized (not that Voight is any saint, but he must know his daughter better than most.)
It is not legal for an unmarried couple to adopt from Vietnam. Either the media is misreporting this (and Angelina is adopting as a single parent) or Vietnamese law is somehow being circumvented.
In that interview she said she respects her adopted children more and feels closer to them.
She is a black widow spider.
OMG!! She sounds DEMENTED!!
Her whitewash is one of the stranger things to have occurred in Hollywood.
From Satanist to Saint in a few short years.
If we believe this one, we'll believe anything.
Sounds like a TON of people have bought this clap-trap....I don't know pop culture very well so I had NO idea of what a hideous person she is.
"Trophy chldren."
Exactly. If she wants to adopt children, there are plenty of orphans in this country. And if she wants to stop AIDS, she can cough up the mega-millions she's gotten from walking through movies and donate them to African relief agencies.
She's an agenda.
> This great "humanitarian" has been a role model for
> millions of young girls around the world, and really,
> what has she done? Went to Haiti last year for a U.N.
> photo op.
You can violently dislike and rag on Angelina's sex life, taste in body art and political leanings with good cause.
When you flatly lie about the good she's done in the world, though, you do nothing for your cause:
Jolie first became personally aware of worldwide humanitarian crises while filming Tomb Raider in poverty-stricken and widely mined Cambodia. According to Jolie, "I discovered things about what's happening in the world... Cambodia was really eye opening for me."[38] Deeply affected by these experiences, she eventually turned to UNHCR for more information on international trouble spots. In the following months she agreed to visit different refugee camps around the world to learn more about the situation and the conditions in these areas. In February 2001, Jolie went on her first field visit, an 18-day mission to Sierra Leone and Tanzania; she later expressed her shock at what she had witnessed.[39] In the coming months she returned to Cambodia for two weeks and later visited Afghan refugees in Pakistan where she donated $1 million for Afghan refugees in response to an international UNHCR emergency appeal.[40] She insisted on covering all costs related to her missions and shared the same rudimentary working and living conditions as UNHCR field staff on all of her visits.[39] Impressed by her interest and devotion in the subject, UNHCR named her a Goodwill Ambassador on August 27, 2001 at UNHCR headquarters in Geneva, despite her warning that her controversial public image might shed a negative light on the U.N.[41] In a press conference Jolie explained her motives for joining the refugee agency:
“ We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning. All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us.[39] ”
Jolie talking to displaced children in Ardamata camp, West Darfur.During her first three years as Goodwill Ambassador Jolie concentrated her efforts on field missions, visiting refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) all around the world. Asked what she hoped to accomplish, she stated, “Awareness of the plight of these people. I think they should be commended for what they have survived, not looked down upon.”[42] In 2002, Jolie visited Tham Hin refugee camp in Thailand and Colombian refugees in Ecuador to take a closer look at the “Western Hemisphere's most severe humanitarian crisis”.[43] She and US Secretary of State Colin Powell opened events to celebrate World Refugee Day 2002 on June 20 in Washington, D.C.[44] Jolie then went to various UNHCR facilities in Kosovo and paid a visit to Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya with refugees mainly from Sudan. UNHCR's Representative to Kenya, George Okoth-Obbo, praised her “presence, just to bring some joy into what is undoubtedly a hard life for many of the people here”.[45] She also visited Angolan refugees while she was filming Beyond Borders in Namibia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelina_Jolie
She's spent millions of dollars and spent more time with actual poor people and refugees than many people whose job it is to help the downtrodden.
Here is what has been reported for nearly two weeks, and is being denied as of today.
http://adoptionblogs.typepad.com/adoption/2007/02/angelina_and_br.html
This is the one about the crooked Seattle adoption
http://celebritymound.com/?p=3321
Thank you for your post.
I am willing to wager that Angelina Jolie has done more tangible good for this world than the entirety of this forum.
It's called "P.R."
It's Hollywood. It's make-believe. It's pretend.
The actors do not make up the words as they act out the script.
The volcanoes and sinking ships and gorillas are CGI.
IT'S NOT REAL.
Go sleep in a nipa hut in tropical conditions complete with malaria bearing mosquitos for the same amount of time Angelina Jolie has, dealing with typical 3rd world sanitation every morning.
When you get back, I'll listen to your opinion on 'reality'.
Angelina Jolie is an ugly weirdo. In a beauty contest against some Freeperettes I know, she'd come in around 7,439th place. LOL.
Did she also break up Brad and Jennifer's marriage? or did it "just happen" and aren't they a delightful couple?
Oh well, they aren't as far as I know professing Christians, but some other type of religion.
I sometimes think we are at the juncture where the scripture refers to as "if anyone is filthy, let him be filthy still" (I take that as leave him alone in his filth if he is determined to be filthy.)
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