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02:05 am - 'Wounded Angel'

'Pretend that you are my only guardian angel, for you are.'




By O Andarilho - and at 'Sellath', DeviantART
04:30 pm - Scandal of China's stolen kids
Sunday Life
3 August 2008

  • It is estimated that there are up to 20,000 victims each year. Some estimates put the number of children kidnapped or sold on the black market closer to 70,000

    Behind the glitz of the Beijing Olympics which begins this week China hides a shameful secret — up to 20,000 children are being sold on the black market each year.

    The secret trade is booming due to China's controversial one-baby rule introduced in 1979 to curb a population explosion.

    Chen Jie's parents

    Parents must have a birth permit to have a child. If they don't and they are discovered, they are fined. If couples have a second child, they have to pay a fine.

    Many poor families can't afford to raise a child, pay the fees and feed themselves, so they feel selling their child is the only way to survive, but even more children are kidnapped.

    While China tries to focus the world’s attention on the Olympics, thousands of families are still desperately trying to trace their children who have been sold to strangers.

    The Chen family’s son, five-year-old Chen Jie, disappeared after helping his grandmother on her vegetable stall. He was being taken home by a neighbour, Zhang, who is believed to have sold him. The going price for a boy on the black market is around £650 — six months' wages for an average Chinese worker. ( >>Continued )
    • 07:55 pm - For those of you in school or who like to read and write
    Shona and I were discussing getting her writing published, and she asked me about a site, and after I went looking for a free download of Writer's Market, I found this page just full of wonderful links for almost everything to do with English. It is put out by the Coe College writing center. I will add it to my links list:

    Writing resources
    08:33 pm - Ugh! I can't believe I ate the whole thing!
    'Tis me
    Name: ÐØRÇHÁ =^..^=
    'I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death' --Robert Fulgham
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    27 years on
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    --Bobby Sands
    1954 - 1981
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    Words to live by
    Mahatma Gandhi said: 'Be the change you want to see in the world.'
    'Mother Erin'
    Two divine persons in one. A mother lamenting her children in bondage. A girl ravished by the Saxon, who weeps over her stringless harp. But her young champions keep watch in the mountains, awaiting the dawn of the bright sun of Freedom. They will gather around her with pikes and swords.

    --James Plunkett
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    from 'The Stolen Child'
    Come away, O human child!

    To the waters and the wild

    With a faery, hand in hand,

    For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

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    from the review of 'The Informer'
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